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How to configure Spring Security to allow Swagger URL to be accessed without authentication

Adding this to your WebSecurityConfiguration class should do the trick.

@Configuration
public class WebSecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void configure(WebSecurity web) throws Exception {
        web.ignoring().antMatchers("/v2/api-docs",
                                   "/configuration/ui",
                                   "/swagger-resources/**",
                                   "/configuration/security",
                                   "/swagger-ui.html",
                                   "/webjars/**");
    }

}

How to use a client certificate to authenticate and authorize in a Web API

Make sure HttpClient has access to the full client certificate (including the private key).

You are calling GetCert with a file "ClientCertificate.cer" which leads to the assumption that there is no private key contained - should rather be a pfx file within windows. It may be even better to access the certificate from the windows cert store and search it using the fingerprint.

Be careful when copying the fingerprint: There are some non-printable characters when viewing in cert management (copy the string over to notepad++ and check the length of the displayed string).

IIS Config Error - This configuration section cannot be used at this path

Most IIS sections are locked by default but you can "unlock" them by setting the attribute overrideModeDefault from "Deny" to "Allow" for the relevant section group by modifying the ApplicationHost.config file located in %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config in Administrator mode

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Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel, despite setting ServerCertificateValidationCallback

move this line: ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

Before this line: HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);

Original post: KB4344167 security update breaks TLS Code

Spring Boot: Cannot access REST Controller on localhost (404)

It also works if we use as follows:

@SpringBootApplication(scanBasePackages = { "<class ItemInventoryController package >.*" })

Asp.Net WebApi2 Enable CORS not working with AspNet.WebApi.Cors 5.2.3

Hope this helps someone in the future. My problem was that I was following the same tutorial as the OP to enable global CORS. However, I also set an Action specific CORS rule in my AccountController.cs file:

[EnableCors(origins: "", headers: "*", methods: "*")]

and was getting errors about the origin cannot be null or empty string. BUT the error was happening in the Global.asax.cs file of all places. Solution is to change it to:

[EnableCors(origins: "*", headers: "*", methods: "*")]

notice the * in the origins? Missing that was what was causing the error in the Global.asax.cs file.

Hope this helps someone.

Spring Boot application.properties value not populating

The way you are performing the injection of the property will not work, because the injection is done after the constructor is called.

You need to do one of the following:

Better solution

@Component
public class MyBean {

    private final String prop;

    @Autowired
    public MyBean(@Value("${some.prop}") String prop) {
        this.prop = prop;
        System.out.println("================== " + prop + "================== ");
    }
}

Solution that will work but is less testable and slightly less readable

@Component
public class MyBean {

    @Value("${some.prop}")
    private String prop;

    public MyBean() {

    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        System.out.println("================== " + prop + "================== ");
    }
}

Also note that is not Spring Boot specific but applies to any Spring application

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error When serving a file

This problem is usually caused by writing to a connection that had already been closed by the peer. In this case it could indicate that the user cancelled the download for example.

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

Your problems have nothing to do with POST/GET but only with how you specify parameters in RouteAttribute. To ensure this, I added support for both verbs in my samples.

Let's go back to two very simple working examples.

[Route("api/deliveryitems/{anyString}")]
[HttpGet, HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage GetDeliveryItemsOne(string anyString)
{
    return Request.CreateResponse<string>(HttpStatusCode.OK, anyString);
}

And

[Route("api/deliveryitems")]
[HttpGet, HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage GetDeliveryItemsTwo(string anyString = "default")
{
    return Request.CreateResponse<string>(HttpStatusCode.OK, anyString);
}

The first sample says that the "anyString" is a path segment parameter (part of the URL).

First sample example URL is:

  • localhost:xxx/api/deliveryItems/dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop
    • returns "dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop"

The second sample says that the "anyString" is a query string parameter (optional here since a default value has been provided, but you can make it non-optional by simply removing the default value).

Second sample examples URL are:

  • localhost:xxx/api/deliveryItems?anyString=dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop
    • returns "dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop"
  • localhost:xxx/api/deliveryItems
    • returns "default"

Of course, you can make it even more complex, like with this third sample:

[Route("api/deliveryitems")]
[HttpGet, HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage GetDeliveryItemsThree(string anyString, string anotherString = "anotherDefault")
{
    return Request.CreateResponse<string>(HttpStatusCode.OK, anyString + "||" + anotherString);
}

Third sample examples URL are:

  • localhost:xxx/api/deliveryItems?anyString=dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop
    • returns "dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop||anotherDefault"
  • localhost:xxx/api/deliveryItems
    • returns "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI ..." (parameter anyString is mandatory)
  • localhost:xxx/api/deliveryItems?anotherString=bluberb&anyString=dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop
    • returns "dkjd;dslkf;dfk;kkklm;oeop||bluberb"
    • note that the parameters have been reversed, which does not matter, this is not possible with "URL-style" of first example

When should you use path segment or query parameters? Some advice has already been given here: REST API Best practices: Where to put parameters?

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'MyController':

Change from @Controller to @Service to CompteController and add @Service annotation to CompteDAOHib. Let me know if you still face this issue.

Launching Spring application Address already in use

This only worked for me by setting additional properties and using available arbitrary port numbers, like this:

  • YML

/src/main/resources/application.yml

server:
  port: 18181
management:
  port: 9191
tomcat:
  jvmroute: 5478
  ajp:
    port: 4512
    redirectPort: 1236
  • Properties

/src/main/resources/application.properties

server.port=18181
management.port=9191
tomcat.jvmroute=5478
tomcat.ajp.port=4512
tomcat.ajp.redirectPort=1236     

Could not load file or assembly System.Web.Http.WebHost after published to Azure web site

I removed the following entry from web.config and it worked for me.

<dependentAssembly>
                <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Http.WebHost" culture="neutral" publicKeyToken="31BF3856AD364E35" />
                <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-65535.65535.65535.65535" newVersion="5.2.6.0" />
            </dependentAssembly>

The type initializer for 'System.Data.Entity.Internal.AppConfig' threw an exception

I solved this problem removing DbproviderFactory in the section system.data of the file machine.config, there was some dirty data when I installed fbclient.dll.

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config

  <system.data>
    <!-- <DbProviderFactories><add name="FirebirdClient Data Provider" invariant="FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient" description=".NET Framework Data Provider for Firebird" type="FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.FirebirdClientFactory, FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient, Version=4.10.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3750abcc3150b00c"/><add name="FirebirdClient Data Provider" invariant="FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient" description=".NET Framework Data Provider for Firebird" type="FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.FirebirdClientFactory, FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient, Version=6.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3750abcc3150b00c"/> -->
  </system.data>

java.io.IOException: Broken pipe

I agree with @arcy, the problem is on client side, on my case it was because of nginx, let me elaborate I am using nginx as the frontend (so I can distribute load, ssl, etc ...) and using proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080 to forward the appropiate requests to tomcat.

There is a default value for the nginx variable proxy_read_timeout of 60s that should be enough, but on some peak moments my setup would error with the java.io.IOException: Broken pipe changing the value will help until the root cause (60s should be enough) can be fixed.

NOTE: I made a new answer so I could expand a bit more with my case (it was the only mention I found about this error on internet after looking quite a lot)

javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: Class *** nor any of its super class is known to this context

I had a similar issue using the JAXB reference implementation and JBoss AS 7.1. I was able to write an integration test that confirmed JAXB worked outside of the JBoss environment (suggesting the problem might be the class loader in JBoss).

This is the code that was giving the error (i.e. not working):

private static final JAXBContext JC;

static {
    try {
        JC = JAXBContext.newInstance("org.foo.bar");
    } catch (Exception exp) {
        throw new RuntimeException(exp);
    }
}

and this is the code that worked (ValueSet is one of the classes marshaled from my XML).

private static final JAXBContext JC;

static {
    try {
        ClassLoader classLoader = ValueSet.class.getClassLoader();
        JC = JAXBContext.newInstance("org.foo.bar", classLoader);
    } catch (Exception exp) {
        throw new RuntimeException(exp);
    }
}

In some cases I got the Class nor any of its super class is known to this context. In other cases I also got an exception of org.foo.bar.ValueSet cannot be cast to org.foo.bar.ValueSet (similar to the issue described here: ClassCastException when casting to the same class).

How to prevent errno 32 broken pipe?

Your server process has received a SIGPIPE writing to a socket. This usually happens when you write to a socket fully closed on the other (client) side. This might be happening when a client program doesn't wait till all the data from the server is received and simply closes a socket (using close function).

In a C program you would normally try setting to ignore SIGPIPE signal or setting a dummy signal handler for it. In this case a simple error will be returned when writing to a closed socket. In your case a python seems to throw an exception that can be handled as a premature disconnect of the client.

MIME types missing in IIS 7 for ASP.NET - 404.17

There are two reasons you might get this message:

  1. ASP.Net is not configured. For this run from Administrator command %FrameworkDir%\%FrameworkVersion%\aspnet_regiis -i. Read the message carefully. On Windows8/IIS8 it may say that this is no longer supported and you may have to use Turn Windows Features On/Off dialog in Install/Uninstall a Program in Control Panel.
  2. Another reason this may happen is because your App Pool is not configured correctly. For example, you created website for WordPress and you also want to throw in few aspx files in there, WordPress creates app pool that says don't run CLR stuff. To fix this just open up App Pool and enable CLR.

What does the 'u' symbol mean in front of string values?

This is a feature, not a bug.

See http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html, specifically the 'unicode type' section.

Tomcat 7 "SEVERE: A child container failed during start"

I have same problem but in my case By mistake I added a context in server.xml ($Tomcat_Install_Dir/conf/) and doesn't deployed corresponing war in webapps($Tomcat_Install_Dir/webapps). As I removed that context and restarted tomcat it working fine.

Error creating bean with name

I think it comes from this line in your XML file:

<context:component-scan base-package="org.assessme.com.controller." />

Replace it by:

<context:component-scan base-package="org.assessme.com." />

It is because your Autowired service is not scanned by Spring since it is not in the right package.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/client/HttpClient

I solved this issue for myself, I found there's was two files of http-client with different version of other dependent jar files. So there may version were collapsing between libraries files so remove all old/previous libraries files and re-add are jar files from lib folder of this zip file:

Donwload Zip file from here

Node JS Error: ENOENT

use "temp" in lieu of "tmp"

"/temp/test.png"

it worked for me after i realized the tmp is a temporary folder that didn't exist on my computer, but my temp was my temporary folder

///

EDIT:

I also created a new folder "tmp" in my C: drive and everything worked perfectly. The book may have missed mentioning that small step

check out http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=node.js to chat with some of the node.js community

Unable to instantiate default tuplizer [org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer]

Set the "long" type of id instead of java.lang.Integer. And add getters and setters to your fields.

Setting Remote Webdriver to run tests in a remote computer using Java

By Default the InternetExplorerDriver listens on port "5555". Change your huburl to match that. you can look on the cmd box window to confirm.

How to get active user's UserDetails

@Controller
public abstract class AbstractController {
    @ModelAttribute("loggedUser")
    public User getLoggedUser() {
        return (User)SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal();
    }
}

Problem in running .net framework 4.0 website on iis 7.0

If you are running Delphi, or other native compiled CGI, this solution will work:

  1. As other pointed, go to IIS manager and click on the server name. Then click on the "ISAPI and CGI Restrictions" icon under the IIS header.

  2. If you have everything allowed, it will still not work. You need to click on "Edit Feature Settings" in Actions (on the right side), and check "Allow unspecified CGI modules", or "Allow unspecified ISAPI modules" respectively.

  3. Click OK

White spaces are required between publicId and systemId

The error message is actually correct if not obvious. It says that your DOCTYPE must have a SYSTEM identifier. I assume yours only has a public identifier.

You'll get the error with (for instance):

<!DOCTYPE persistence PUBLIC
    "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">

You won't with:

<!DOCTYPE persistence PUBLIC
    "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd" "">

Notice "" at the end in the second one -- that's the system identifier. The error message is confusing: it should say that you need a system identifier, not that you need a space between the publicId and the (non-existent) systemId.

By the way, an empty system identifier might not be ideal, but it might be enough to get you moving.

Routing HTTP Error 404.0 0x80070002

The problem for me was a new server that System.Web.Routing was of version 3.5 while web.config requested version 4.0.0.0. The resolution was

%WINDIR%\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis -i

%WINDIR%\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis -i

socket.error: [Errno 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions

Try to run the server at a different port. Worked for me:

python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:7000

Explanation:

as mentioned on Django documentation:

If you run this script as a user with normal privileges (recommended), you might not have access to start a port on a low port number. Low port numbers are reserved for the superuser (root).

This server uses the WSGI application object specified by the WSGI_APPLICATION setting.

DO NOT USE THIS SERVER IN A PRODUCTION SETTING. It has not gone through security audits or performance tests. (And that’s how it’s gonna stay. We’re in the business of making Web frameworks, not Web servers, so improving this server to be able to handle a production environment is outside the scope of Django.)

ASP.NET MVC on IIS 7.5

I had another problem that led to this issue.

  • I had ensured my app pool was running .net 4 in integrated mode
  • I had run aspnet_regiis.exe -i
  • I had checked folder permissions were set correctly for the account running my app pool

None of these things worked. It turned out that in my web.config under system.webserver > modules I had the following:

<remove name="WindowsAuthentication" />

Obviously this removed the windows authentication module which seemed to somehow knock everything off kilter.

I hope this helps someone, as this cost me most of an evening!

ASP.NET IIS Web.config [Internal Server Error]

I had the same problem.

Solution:

  1. Click the right button in your site folder in "iis"
  2. "Convert to Application".

Python socket receive - incoming packets always have a different size

You could try always sending the first 4 bytes of your data as data size and then read complete data in one shot. Use the below functions on both client and server-side to send and receive data.

def send_data(conn, data):
    serialized_data = pickle.dumps(data)
    conn.sendall(struct.pack('>I', len(serialized_data)))
    conn.sendall(serialized_data)


def receive_data(conn):
    data_size = struct.unpack('>I', conn.recv(4))[0]
    received_payload = b""
    reamining_payload_size = data_size
    while reamining_payload_size != 0:
        received_payload += conn.recv(reamining_payload_size)
        reamining_payload_size = data_size - len(received_payload)
    data = pickle.loads(received_payload)

    return data

you could find sample program at https://github.com/vijendra1125/Python-Socket-Programming.git

HttpContext.Current.Session is null when routing requests

Just add attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" to system.webServer\modules in web.config.

This attribute is enabled by default in MVC and Dynamic Data projects.

redirect COPY of stdout to log file from within bash script itself

Can't say I'm comfortable with any of the solutions based on exec. I prefer to use tee directly, so I make the script call itself with tee when requested:

# my script: 

check_tee_output()
{
    # copy (append) stdout and stderr to log file if TEE is unset or true
    if [[ -z $TEE || "$TEE" == true ]]; then 
        echo '-------------------------------------------' >> log.txt
        echo '***' $(date) $0 $@ >> log.txt
        TEE=false $0 $@ 2>&1 | tee --append log.txt
        exit $?
    fi 
}

check_tee_output $@

rest of my script

This allows you to do this:

your_script.sh args           # tee 
TEE=true your_script.sh args  # tee 
TEE=false your_script.sh args # don't tee
export TEE=false
your_script.sh args           # tee

You can customize this, e.g. make tee=false the default instead, make TEE hold the log file instead, etc. I guess this solution is similar to jbarlow's, but simpler, maybe mine has limitations that I have not come across yet.

How do I perform an insert and return inserted identity with Dapper?

I was using .net core 3.1 with postgres 12.3. Building on the answer from Tadija Bagaric I ended up with:

using (var connection = new NpgsqlConnection(AppConfig.CommentFilesConnection))
        {

            string insertUserSql = @"INSERT INTO mytable(comment_id,filename,content)
                    VALUES( @commentId, @filename, @content) returning id;";

            int newUserId = connection.QuerySingle<int>(
                                            insertUserSql,
                                            new
                                            {
                                                commentId = 1,
                                                filename = "foobar!",
                                                content = "content"
                                            }
                                            );

          


        }

where AppConfig is my own class which simply gets a string set for my connection details. This is set within the Startup.cs ConfigureServices method.

How to run a program without an operating system?

Runnable examples

Let's create and run some minuscule bare metal hello world programs that run without an OS on:

We will also try them out on the QEMU emulator as much as possible, as that is safer and more convenient for development. The QEMU tests have been on an Ubuntu 18.04 host with the pre-packaged QEMU 2.11.1.

The code of all x86 examples below and more is present on this GitHub repo.

How to run the examples on x86 real hardware

Remember that running examples on real hardware can be dangerous, e.g. you could wipe your disk or brick the hardware by mistake: only do this on old machines that don't contain critical data! Or even better, use cheap semi-disposable devboards such as the Raspberry Pi, see the ARM example below.

For a typical x86 laptop, you have to do something like:

  1. Burn the image to an USB stick (will destroy your data!):

    sudo dd if=main.img of=/dev/sdX
    
  2. plug the USB on a computer

  3. turn it on

  4. tell it to boot from the USB.

    This means making the firmware pick USB before hard disk.

    If that is not the default behavior of your machine, keep hitting Enter, F12, ESC or other such weird keys after power-on until you get a boot menu where you can select to boot from the USB.

    It is often possible to configure the search order in those menus.

For example, on my T430 I see the following.

After turning on, this is when I have to press Enter to enter the boot menu:

enter image description here

Then, here I have to press F12 to select the USB as the boot device:

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From there, I can select the USB as the boot device like this:

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Alternatively, to change the boot order and choose the USB to have higher precedence so I don't have to manually select it every time, I would hit F1 on the "Startup Interrupt Menu" screen, and then navigate to:

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Boot sector

On x86, the simplest and lowest level thing you can do is to create a Master Boot Sector (MBR), which is a type of boot sector, and then install it to a disk.

Here we create one with a single printf call:

printf '\364%509s\125\252' > main.img
sudo apt-get install qemu-system-x86
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda main.img

Outcome:

enter image description here

Note that even without doing anything, a few characters are already printed on the screen. Those are printed by the firmware, and serve to identify the system.

And on the T430 we just get a blank screen with a blinking cursor:

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main.img contains the following:

  • \364 in octal == 0xf4 in hex: the encoding for a hlt instruction, which tells the CPU to stop working.

    Therefore our program will not do anything: only start and stop.

    We use octal because \x hex numbers are not specified by POSIX.

    We could obtain this encoding easily with:

    echo hlt > a.S
    as -o a.o a.S
    objdump -S a.o
    

    which outputs:

    a.o:     file format elf64-x86-64
    
    
    Disassembly of section .text:
    
    0000000000000000 <.text>:
       0:   f4                      hlt
    

    but it is also documented in the Intel manual of course.

  • %509s produce 509 spaces. Needed to fill in the file until byte 510.

  • \125\252 in octal == 0x55 followed by 0xaa.

    These are 2 required magic bytes which must be bytes 511 and 512.

    The BIOS goes through all our disks looking for bootable ones, and it only considers bootable those that have those two magic bytes.

    If not present, the hardware will not treat this as a bootable disk.

If you are not a printf master, you can confirm the contents of main.img with:

hd main.img

which shows the expected:

00000000  f4 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |.               |
00000010  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
*
000001f0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 55 aa  |              U.|
00000200

where 20 is a space in ASCII.

The BIOS firmware reads those 512 bytes from the disk, puts them into memory, and sets the PC to the first byte to start executing them.

Hello world boot sector

Now that we have made a minimal program, let's move to a hello world.

The obvious question is: how to do IO? A few options:

  • ask the firmware, e.g. BIOS or UEFI, to do it for us

  • VGA: special memory region that gets printed to the screen if written to. Can be used in Protected Mode.

  • write a driver and talk directly to the display hardware. This is the "proper" way to do it: more powerful, but more complex.

  • serial port. This is a very simple standardized protocol that sends and receives characters from a host terminal.

    On desktops, it looks like this:

    enter image description here

    Source.

    It is unfortunately not exposed on most modern laptops, but is the common way to go for development boards, see the ARM examples below.

    This is really a shame, since such interfaces are really useful to debug the Linux kernel for example.

  • use debug features of chips. ARM calls theirs semihosting for example. On real hardware, it requires some extra hardware and software support, but on emulators it can be a free convenient option. Example.

Here we will do a BIOS example as it is simpler on x86. But note that it is not the most robust method.

main.S

.code16
    mov $msg, %si
    mov $0x0e, %ah
loop:
    lodsb
    or %al, %al
    jz halt
    int $0x10
    jmp loop
halt:
    hlt
msg:
    .asciz "hello world"

GitHub upstream.

link.ld

SECTIONS
{
    /* The BIOS loads the code from the disk to this location.
     * We must tell that to the linker so that it can properly
     * calculate the addresses of symbols we might jump to.
     */
    . = 0x7c00;
    .text :
    {
        __start = .;
        *(.text)
        /* Place the magic boot bytes at the end of the first 512 sector. */
        . = 0x1FE;
        SHORT(0xAA55)
    }
}

Assemble and link with:

as -g -o main.o main.S
ld --oformat binary -o main.img -T link.ld main.o
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda main.img

Outcome:

enter image description here

And on the T430:

enter image description here

Tested on: Lenovo Thinkpad T430, UEFI BIOS 1.16. Disk generated on an Ubuntu 18.04 host.

Besides the standard userland assembly instructions, we have:

  • .code16: tells GAS to output 16-bit code

  • cli: disable software interrupts. Those could make the processor start running again after the hlt

  • int $0x10: does a BIOS call. This is what prints the characters one by one.

The important link flags are:

  • --oformat binary: output raw binary assembly code, don't wrap it inside an ELF file as is the case for regular userland executables.

To better understand the linker script part, familiarize yourself with the relocation step of linking: What do linkers do?

Cooler x86 bare metal programs

Here are a few more complex bare metal setups that I've achieved:

Use C instead of assembly

Summary: use GRUB multiboot, which will solve a lot of annoying problems you never thought about. See the section below.

The main difficulty on x86 is that the BIOS only loads 512 bytes from the disk to memory, and you are likely to blow up those 512 bytes when using C!

To solve that, we can use a two-stage bootloader. This makes further BIOS calls, which load more bytes from the disk into memory. Here is a minimal stage 2 assembly example from scratch using the int 0x13 BIOS calls:

Alternatively:

  • if you only need it to work in QEMU but not real hardware, use the -kernel option, which loads an entire ELF file into memory. Here is an ARM example I've created with that method.
  • for the Raspberry Pi, the default firmware takes care of the image loading for us from an ELF file named kernel7.img, much like QEMU -kernel does.

For educational purposes only, here is a one stage minimal C example:

main.c

void main(void) {
    int i;
    char s[] = {'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd'};
    for (i = 0; i < sizeof(s); ++i) {
        __asm__ (
            "int $0x10" : : "a" ((0x0e << 8) | s[i])
        );
    }
    while (1) {
        __asm__ ("hlt");
    };
}

entry.S

.code16
.text
.global mystart
mystart:
    ljmp $0, $.setcs
.setcs:
    xor %ax, %ax
    mov %ax, %ds
    mov %ax, %es
    mov %ax, %ss
    mov $__stack_top, %esp
    cld
    call main

linker.ld

ENTRY(mystart)
SECTIONS
{
  . = 0x7c00;
  .text : {
    entry.o(.text)
    *(.text)
    *(.data)
    *(.rodata)
    __bss_start = .;
    /* COMMON vs BSS: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16835716/bss-vs-common-what-goes-where */
    *(.bss)
    *(COMMON)
    __bss_end = .;
  }
  /* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53584666/why-does-gnu-ld-include-a-section-that-does-not-appear-in-the-linker-script */
  .sig : AT(ADDR(.text) + 512 - 2)
  {
      SHORT(0xaa55);
  }
  /DISCARD/ : {
    *(.eh_frame)
  }
  __stack_bottom = .;
  . = . + 0x1000;
  __stack_top = .;
}

run

set -eux
as -ggdb3 --32 -o entry.o entry.S
gcc -c -ggdb3 -m16 -ffreestanding -fno-PIE -nostartfiles -nostdlib -o main.o -std=c99 main.c
ld -m elf_i386 -o main.elf -T linker.ld entry.o main.o
objcopy -O binary main.elf main.img
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=main.img,format=raw

C standard library

Things get more fun if you also want to use the C standard library however, since we don't have the Linux kernel, which implements much of the C standard library functionality through POSIX.

A few possibilities, without going to a full-blown OS like Linux, include:

  • Write your own. It's just a bunch of headers and C files in the end, right? Right??

  • Newlib

    Detailed example at: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/223929/c-standard-libraries-on-bare-metal/223931

    Newlib implements all the boring non-OS specific things for you, e.g. memcmp, memcpy, etc.

    Then, it provides some stubs for you to implement the syscalls that you need yourself.

    For example, we can implement exit() on ARM through semihosting with:

    void _exit(int status) {
        __asm__ __volatile__ ("mov r0, #0x18; ldr r1, =#0x20026; svc 0x00123456");
    }
    

    as shown at in this example.

    For example, you could redirect printf to the UART or ARM systems, or implement exit() with semihosting.

  • embedded operating systems like FreeRTOS and Zephyr.

    Such operating systems typically allow you to turn off pre-emptive scheduling, therefore giving you full control over the runtime of the program.

    They can be seen as a sort of pre-implemented Newlib.

GNU GRUB Multiboot

Boot sectors are simple, but they are not very convenient:

  • you can only have one OS per disk
  • the load code has to be really small and fit into 512 bytes
  • you have to do a lot of startup yourself, like moving into protected mode

It is for those reasons that GNU GRUB created a more convenient file format called multiboot.

Minimal working example: https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples/tree/d217b180be4220a0b4a453f31275d38e697a99e0/multiboot/hello-world

I also use it on my GitHub examples repo to be able to easily run all examples on real hardware without burning the USB a million times.

QEMU outcome:

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T430:

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If you prepare your OS as a multiboot file, GRUB is then able to find it inside a regular filesystem.

This is what most distros do, putting OS images under /boot.

Multiboot files are basically an ELF file with a special header. They are specified by GRUB at: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html

You can turn a multiboot file into a bootable disk with grub-mkrescue.

Firmware

In truth, your boot sector is not the first software that runs on the system's CPU.

What actually runs first is the so-called firmware, which is a software:

  • made by the hardware manufacturers
  • typically closed source but likely C-based
  • stored in read-only memory, and therefore harder / impossible to modify without the vendor's consent.

Well known firmwares include:

  • BIOS: old all-present x86 firmware. SeaBIOS is the default open source implementation used by QEMU.
  • UEFI: BIOS successor, better standardized, but more capable, and incredibly bloated.
  • Coreboot: the noble cross arch open source attempt

The firmware does things like:

  • loop over each hard disk, USB, network, etc. until you find something bootable.

    When we run QEMU, -hda says that main.img is a hard disk connected to the hardware, and hda is the first one to be tried, and it is used.

  • load the first 512 bytes to RAM memory address 0x7c00, put the CPU's RIP there, and let it run

  • show things like the boot menu or BIOS print calls on the display

Firmware offers OS-like functionality on which most OS-es depend. E.g. a Python subset has been ported to run on BIOS / UEFI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQ_lq5dcvM

It can be argued that firmwares are indistinguishable from OSes, and that firmware is the only "true" bare metal programming one can do.

As this CoreOS dev puts it:

The hard part

When you power up a PC, the chips that make up the chipset (northbridge, southbridge and SuperIO) are not yet initialized properly. Even though the BIOS ROM is as far removed from the CPU as it could be, this is accessible by the CPU, because it has to be, otherwise the CPU would have no instructions to execute. This does not mean that BIOS ROM is completely mapped, usually not. But just enough is mapped to get the boot process going. Any other devices, just forget it.

When you run Coreboot under QEMU, you can experiment with the higher layers of Coreboot and with payloads, but QEMU offers little opportunity to experiment with the low level startup code. For one thing, RAM just works right from the start.

Post BIOS initial state

Like many things in hardware, standardization is weak, and one of the things you should not rely on is the initial state of registers when your code starts running after BIOS.

So do yourself a favor and use some initialization code like the following: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32509555/895245

Registers like %ds and %es have important side effects, so you should zero them out even if you are not using them explicitly.

Note that some emulators are nicer than real hardware and give you a nice initial state. Then when you go run on real hardware, everything breaks.

El Torito

Format that can be burnt to CDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Torito_%28CD-ROM_standard%29

It is also possible to produce a hybrid image that works on either ISO or USB. This is can be done with grub-mkrescue (example), and is also done by the Linux kernel on make isoimage using isohybrid.

ARM

In ARM, the general ideas are the same.

There is no widely available semi-standardized pre-installed firmware like BIOS for us to use for the IO, so the two simplest types of IO that we can do are:

  • serial, which is widely available on devboards
  • blink the LED

I have uploaded:

Some differences from x86 include:

  • IO is done by writing to magic addresses directly, there is no in and out instructions.

    This is called memory mapped IO.

  • for some real hardware, like the Raspberry Pi, you can add the firmware (BIOS) yourself to the disk image.

    That is a good thing, as it makes updating that firmware more transparent.

Resources

Concatenating two std::vectors

Add this one to your header file:

template <typename T> vector<T> concat(vector<T> &a, vector<T> &b) {
    vector<T> ret = vector<T>();
    copy(a.begin(), a.end(), back_inserter(ret));
    copy(b.begin(), b.end(), back_inserter(ret));
    return ret;
}

and use it this way:

vector<int> a = vector<int>();
vector<int> b = vector<int>();

a.push_back(1);
a.push_back(2);
b.push_back(62);

vector<int> r = concat(a, b);

r will contain [1,2,62]

How to parse SOAP XML?

$xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
                <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
                  <soap:Body>
                    <PaymentNotification xmlns="http://apilistener.envoyservices.com">
                      <payment>
                        <uniqueReference>ESDEUR11039872</uniqueReference>
                        <epacsReference>74348dc0-cbf0-df11-b725-001ec9e61285</epacsReference>
                        <postingDate>2010-11-15T15:19:45</postingDate>
                        <bankCurrency>EUR</bankCurrency>
                        <bankAmount>1.00</bankAmount>
                        <appliedCurrency>EUR</appliedCurrency>
                        <appliedAmount>1.00</appliedAmount>
                        <countryCode>ES</countryCode>
                        <bankInformation>Sean Wood</bankInformation>
                  <merchantReference>ESDEUR11039872</merchantReference>
                   </payment>
                    </PaymentNotification>
                  </soap:Body>
                </soap:Envelope>';
        $doc = new DOMDocument();
        $doc->loadXML($xml);
        echo $doc->getElementsByTagName('postingDate')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        die;

Result is:

2010-11-15T15:19:45

Set Response Status Code

Why not using Cakes Response Class? You can set the status code of the response simply by this:

$this->response->statusCode(200);

Then just render a file with the error message, which suits best with JSON.

How to take keyboard input in JavaScript?

Since event.keyCode is deprecated, I found the event.key useful in javascript. Below is an example for getting the names of the keyboard keys pressed (using an input element). They are given as a KeyboardEvent key text property:

_x000D_
_x000D_
function setMyKeyDownListener() {_x000D_
    window.addEventListener(_x000D_
      "keydown",_x000D_
      function(event) {MyFunction(event.key)}_x000D_
    )_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function MyFunction (the_Key) {_x000D_
    alert("Key pressed is: "+the_Key);_x000D_
}
_x000D_
html { font-size: 4vw; background-color: green; color: white; padding: 1em; }
_x000D_
<body onload="setMyKeyDownListener()">_x000D_
    <div>_x000D_
        <input id="MyInputId">_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
</body>_x000D_
</html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to insert the current timestamp into MySQL database using a PHP insert query

Don't like any of those solutions.

this is how i do it:

$update_query = "UPDATE db.tablename SET insert_time=now() WHERE username='" 
            . sqlEsc($somename) . "' ;";

then i use my own sqlEsc function:

function sqlEsc($val) 
{
    global $mysqli;
    return mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $val);
}

In CSS what is the difference between "." and "#" when declaring a set of styles?

Like pretty much everyone has stated already:

A period (.) indicates a class, and a hash (#) indicates an ID.

The fundamental difference between is that you can reuse a class on your page over and over, whereas an ID can be used once. That is, of course, if you are sticking to WC3 standards.

A page will still render if you have multiple elements with the same ID, but you will run into problems if/when you try to dynamically update said elements by calling them with their ID, since they are not unique.

It is also useful to note that ID properties will supersede class properties.

Try-catch-finally-return clarification

If the return in the try block is reached, it transfers control to the finally block, and the function eventually returns normally (not a throw).

If an exception occurs, but then the code reaches a return from the catch block, control is transferred to the finally block and the function eventually returns normally (not a throw).

In your example, you have a return in the finally, and so regardless of what happens, the function will return 34, because finally has the final (if you will) word.

Although not covered in your example, this would be true even if you didn't have the catch and if an exception were thrown in the try block and not caught. By doing a return from the finally block, you suppress the exception entirely. Consider:

public class FinallyReturn {
  public static final void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(foo(args));
  }

  private static int foo(String[] args) {
    try {
      int n = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
      return n;
    }
    finally {
      return 42;
    }
  }
}

If you run that without supplying any arguments:

$ java FinallyReturn

...the code in foo throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. But because the finally block does a return, that exception gets suppressed.

This is one reason why it's best to avoid using return in finally.

RSA: Get exponent and modulus given a public key

It depends on the tools you can use. I doubt there is a JavaScript too that could do it directly within the browser. It also depends if it's a one-off (always the same key) or whether you need to script it.

Command-line / OpenSSL

If you want to use something like OpenSSL on a unix command line, you can do something as follows. I'm assuming you public.key file contains something like this:

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAmBAjFv+29CaiQqYZIw4P
J0q5Qz2gS7kbGleS3ai8Xbhu5n8PLomldxbRz0RpdCuxqd1yvaicqpDKe/TT09sR
mL1h8Sx3Qa3EQmqI0TcEEqk27Ak0DTFxuVrq7c5hHB5fbJ4o7iEq5MYfdSl4pZax
UxdNv4jRElymdap8/iOo3SU1RsaK6y7kox1/tm2cfWZZhMlRFYJnpoXpyNYrp+Yo
CNKxmZJnMsS698kaFjDlyznLlihwMroY0mQvdD7dCeBoVlfPUGPAlamwWyqtIU+9
5xVkSp3kxcNcNb/mePSKQIPafQ1sAmBKPwycA/1I5nLzDVuQa95ZWMn0JkphtFIh
HQIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

Then, the commands would be:

PUBKEY=`grep -v -- ----- public.key | tr -d '\n'`

Then, you can look into the ASN.1 structure:

echo $PUBKEY | base64 -d | openssl asn1parse -inform DER -i

This should give you something like this:

    0:d=0  hl=4 l= 290 cons: SEQUENCE          
    4:d=1  hl=2 l=  13 cons:  SEQUENCE          
    6:d=2  hl=2 l=   9 prim:   OBJECT            :rsaEncryption
   17:d=2  hl=2 l=   0 prim:   NULL              
   19:d=1  hl=4 l= 271 prim:  BIT STRING 

The modulus and public exponent are in the last BIT STRING, offset 19, so use -strparse:

 echo $PUBKEY | base64 -d | openssl asn1parse -inform DER -i -strparse 19

This will give you the modulus and the public exponent, in hexadecimal (the two INTEGERs):

    0:d=0  hl=4 l= 266 cons: SEQUENCE          
    4:d=1  hl=4 l= 257 prim:  INTEGER           :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
  265:d=1  hl=2 l=   3 prim:  INTEGER           :010001

That's probably fine if it's always the same key, but this is probably not very convenient to put in a script.

Alternatively (and this might be easier to put into a script),

openssl rsa -pubin -inform PEM -text -noout < public.key

will return this:

Modulus (2048 bit):
    00:98:10:23:16:ff:b6:f4:26:a2:42:a6:19:23:0e:
    0f:27:4a:b9:43:3d:a0:4b:b9:1b:1a:57:92:dd:a8:
    bc:5d:b8:6e:e6:7f:0f:2e:89:a5:77:16:d1:cf:44:
    69:74:2b:b1:a9:dd:72:bd:a8:9c:aa:90:ca:7b:f4:
    d3:d3:db:11:98:bd:61:f1:2c:77:41:ad:c4:42:6a:
    88:d1:37:04:12:a9:36:ec:09:34:0d:31:71:b9:5a:
    ea:ed:ce:61:1c:1e:5f:6c:9e:28:ee:21:2a:e4:c6:
    1f:75:29:78:a5:96:b1:53:17:4d:bf:88:d1:12:5c:
    a6:75:aa:7c:fe:23:a8:dd:25:35:46:c6:8a:eb:2e:
    e4:a3:1d:7f:b6:6d:9c:7d:66:59:84:c9:51:15:82:
    67:a6:85:e9:c8:d6:2b:a7:e6:28:08:d2:b1:99:92:
    67:32:c4:ba:f7:c9:1a:16:30:e5:cb:39:cb:96:28:
    70:32:ba:18:d2:64:2f:74:3e:dd:09:e0:68:56:57:
    cf:50:63:c0:95:a9:b0:5b:2a:ad:21:4f:bd:e7:15:
    64:4a:9d:e4:c5:c3:5c:35:bf:e6:78:f4:8a:40:83:
    da:7d:0d:6c:02:60:4a:3f:0c:9c:03:fd:48:e6:72:
    f3:0d:5b:90:6b:de:59:58:c9:f4:26:4a:61:b4:52:
    21:1d
Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)

Java

It depends on the input format. If it's an X.509 certificate in a keystore, use (RSAPublicKey)cert.getPublicKey(): this object has two getters for the modulus and the exponent.

If it's in the format as above, you might want to use BouncyCastle and its PEMReader to read it. I haven't tried the following code, but this would look more or less like this:

PEMReader pemReader = new PEMReader(new FileReader("file.pem"));
Object obj = pemReader.readObject();
pemReader.close();
if (obj instanceof X509Certificate) {
   // Just in case your file contains in fact an X.509 certificate,
   // useless otherwise.
   obj = ((X509Certificate)obj).getPublicKey();
}
if (obj instanceof RSAPublicKey) {
   // ... use the getters to get the BigIntegers.
}

(You can use BouncyCastle similarly in C# too.)

Auto-refreshing div with jQuery - setTimeout or another method?

function update() {
  $("#notice_div").html('Loading..'); 
  $.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: 'jbede.php',
    timeout: 2000,
    success: function(data) {
      $("#some_div").html(data);
      $("#notice_div").html(''); 
      window.setTimeout(update, 10000);
    },
    error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
      $("#notice_div").html('Timeout contacting server..');
      window.setTimeout(update, 60000);
    }
});
}
$(document).ready(function() {
    update();
});

This is Better Code

How can I remove file extension from a website address?

Actually, the simplest way to manipulate this is to

  1. Open a new folder on your server, e.g. "Data"
  2. Put index.php (or index.html) in it

And then the URL www.yoursite.com/data will read that index.php file. If you want to take it further, open a subfolder (e.g. "List") in it, put another index.php in that folder and you can have www.yoursite.com/data/list run that PHP file.

This way you can have full control over this, very useful for SEO.

HTTP Get with 204 No Content: Is that normal

The POST/GET with 204 seems fine in the first sight and will also work.

Documentation says, 2xx -- This class of status codes indicates the action requested by the client was received, understood, accepted, and processed successfully. whereas 4xx -- The 4xx class of status code is intended for situations in which the client seems to have erred.

Since, the request was successfully received, understood and processed on server. The result was that the resource was not found. So, in this case this was not an error on the client side or the client has not erred.

Hence this should be a series 2xx code and not 4xx. Sending 204 (No Content) in this case will be better than a 404 or 410 response.

href="javascript:" vs. href="javascript:void(0)"

This method seems ok in all browsers, if you set the onclick with a jQuery event:

<a href="javascript:;">Click me!</a>

As said before, href="#" with change the url hash and can trigger data re/load if you use a History (or ba-bbq) JS plugin.

How to turn off caching on Firefox?

If you're working with server side code you could generate a random number and append it to the end of the src in the following manner....

src="yourJavascriptFile.js?randomNumber=434534"

with the randomNumber being randomly generated each time.

How to predict input image using trained model in Keras?

That's because you're getting the numeric value associated with the class. For example if you have two classes cats and dogs, Keras will associate them numeric values 0 and 1. To get the mapping between your classes and their associated numeric value, you can use

>>> classes = train_generator.class_indices    
>>> print(classes)
    {'cats': 0, 'dogs': 1}

Now you know the mapping between your classes and indices. So now what you can do is

if classes[0][0] == 1: prediction = 'dog' else: prediction = 'cat'

How to set the initial zoom/width for a webview

The following code loads the desktop version of the Google homepage fully zoomed out to fit within the webview for me in Android 2.2 on an 854x480 pixel screen. When I reorient the device and it reloads in portrait or landscape, the page width fits entirely within the view each time.

BrowserLayout.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

     <WebView android:id="@+id/webview"
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

Browser.java:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class Browser extends Activity {

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.BrowserLayout);

        String loadUrl = "http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&output=html";

        // initialize the browser object
        WebView browser = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);

        browser.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
        browser.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

        try {
            // load the url
            browser.loadUrl(loadUrl);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Removing items from a ListBox in VB.net

Here's the code I came up with to remove items selected by a user from a listbox It seems to work ok in a multiselect listbox (selectionmode prop is set to multiextended).:

Private Sub cmdRemoveList_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdRemoveList.Click
    Dim knt As Integer = lstwhatever.SelectedIndices.Count
    Dim i As Integer
    For i = 0 To knt - 1
        lstwhatever.Items.RemoveAt(lstwhatever.SelectedIndex)
    Next
End Sub

Click to call html

tl;dr What to do in modern (2018) times? Assume tel: is supported, use it and forget about anything else.


The tel: URI scheme RFC5431 (as well as sms: but also feed:, maps:, youtube: and others) is handled by protocol handlers (as mailto: and http: are).

They're unrelated to HTML5 specification (it has been out there from 90s and documented first time back in 2k with RFC2806) then you can't check for their support using tools as modernizr. A protocol handler may be installed by an application (for example Skype installs a callto: protocol handler with same meaning and behaviour of tel: but it's not a standard), natively supported by browser or installed (with some limitations) by website itself.

What HTML5 added is support for installing custom web based protocol handlers (with registerProtocolHandler() and related functions) simplifying also the check for their support through isProtocolHandlerRegistered() function.

There is some easy ways to determine if there is an handler or not:" How to detect browser's protocol handlers?).

In general what I suggest is:

  1. If you're running on a mobile device then you can safely assume tel: is supported (yes, it's not true for very old devices but IMO you can ignore them).
  2. If JS isn't active then do nothing.
  3. If you're running on desktop browsers then you can use one of the techniques in the linked post to determine if it's supported.
  4. If tel: isn't supported then change links to use callto: and repeat check desctibed in 3.
  5. If tel: and callto: aren't supported (or - in a desktop browser - you can't detect their support) then simply remove that link replacing URL in href with javascript:void(0) and (if number isn't repeated in text span) putting, telephone number in title. Here HTML5 microdata won't help users (just search engines). Note that newer versions of Skype handle both callto: and tel:.

Please note that (at least on latest Windows versions) there is always a - fake - registered protocol handler called App Picker (that annoying window that let you choose with which application you want to open an unknown file). This may vanish your tests so if you don't want to handle Windows environment as a special case you can simplify this process as:

  1. If you're running on a mobile device then assume tel: is supported.
  2. If you're running on desktop then replace tel: with callto:. then drop tel: or leave it as is (assuming there are good chances Skype is installed).

Create a simple HTTP server with Java?

I'm suprised this example is'nt here:

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/examples/org/apache/http/examples/ElementalHttpServer.java

EDIT >> The above link is not reachable. Here is an excerpt from the POST example followed by the link to the HTTP examples.

 if (!conn.isOpen()) {
        Socket socket = new Socket(host.getHostName(), host.getPort());
        conn.bind(socket);
    }
    BasicHttpEntityEnclosingRequest request = new
    BasicHttpEntityEnclosingRequest("POST",
    "/servlets-examples/servlet/RequestInfoExample");
    request.setEntity(requestBodies[i]);
    System.out.println(">> Request URI: " + request.getRequestLine().getUri());
    httpexecutor.preProcess(request, httpproc, coreContext);
    HttpResponse response = httpexecutor.execute(request, conn, coreContext);
    httpexecutor.postProcess(response, httpproc, coreContext);
    System.out.println("<< Response: " + response.getStatusLine());
    System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()));
    System.out.println("==============");
    if (!connStrategy.keepAlive(response, coreContext)) {
    conn.close();
    } else {
    System.out.println("Connection kept alive...");
    }

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/examples/org/apache/http/examples/

Why Does OAuth v2 Have Both Access and Refresh Tokens?

First, the client authenticates with the authorization server by giving the authorization grant.

Then, the client requests the resource server for the protected resource by giving the access token.

The resource server validates the access token and provides the protected resource.

The client makes the protected resource request to the resource server by granting the access token, where the resource server validates it and serves the request, if valid. This step keeps on repeating until the access token expires.

If the access token expires, the client authenticates with the authorization server and requests for a new access token by providing refresh token. If the access token is invalid, the resource server sends back the invalid token error response to the client.

The client authenticates with the authorization server by granting the refresh token.

The authorization server then validates the refresh token by authenticating the client and issues a new access token, if it is valid.

Link to "pin it" on pinterest without generating a button

So you want the code to the pin it button without installing the button? If so just paste this code in the place of the url of the page you're pinning from. It should function as a pin it button without the button.

javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());

CSS hexadecimal RGBA?

The CSS Color Module Level 4 will probably support 4 and 8-digit hexadecimal RGBA notation!

Three weeks ago (18th of December 2014) the CSS Color Module Level 4 editor's draft was submitted to the CSS W3C Working Group. Though in a state which is heavily susceptible to change, the current version of the document implies that in the somewhat near future CSS will support both the 4 and 8-digit hexadecimal RGBA notation.

Note: the following quote has irrelevant chunks cut out and the source may have been heavily modified by the time you read this (as mentioned above, it's an editor's draft and not a finalised document).
If things have heavily changed, please leave a comment letting me know so I can update this answer!

§ 4.2. The RGB hexadecimal notations: #RRGGBB

The syntax of a <hex-color> is a <hash-token> token whose value consists of 3, 4, 6, or 8 hexadecimal digits. In other words, a hex color is written as a hash character, "#", followed by some number of digits 0-9 or letters a-f (the case of the letters doesn’t matter - #00ff00 is identical to #00FF00).

8 digits

The first 6 digits are interpreted identically to the 6-digit notation. The last pair of digits, interpreted as a hexadecimal number, specifies the alpha channel of the color, where 00 represents a fully transparent color and ff represent a fully opaque color.

Example 3
In other words, #0000ffcc represents the same color as rgba(0, 0, 100%, 80%) (a slightly-transparent blue).

4 digits

This is a shorter variant of the 8-digit notation, "expanded" in the same way as the 3-digit notation is. The first digit, interpreted as a hexadecimal number, specifies the red channel of the color, where 0 represents the minimum value and f represents the maximum. The next three digits represent the green, blue, and alpha channels, respectively.

What does this mean for the future of CSS colours?

This means that assuming this isn't completely removed from the Level 4 document, we'll soon be able to define our RGBA colours (or HSLA colours, if you're one of those guys) in hexadecimal format in browsers which support the Color Module Level 4's syntax.

Example

elem {
    background: rgb(0, 0, 0);           /* RGB notation (no alpha). */
    background: #000;                   /* 3-digit hexadecimal notation (no alpha). */
    background: #000000;                /* 6-digit hexadecimal notation (no alpha). */
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);     /* RGBA notation. */

    /* The new 4 and 8-digit hexadecimal notation. */
    background: #0000;                  /* 4-digit hexadecimal notation. */
    background: #00000000;              /* 8-digit hexadecimal notation. */
}

When will I be able to use this in my client-facing products?

Tumble weed is the only real response...

All jokes aside: it's currently only the start of 2015, so these will not be supported in any browser for quite some time yet - even if your product is only designed to work on the most up-to-date of browsers you'll probably not be seeing this in action in a production browser any time soon.

View current browser support for #RRGGBBAA color notation

However, that said, the way CSS works means that we can actually start using these today! If you really want to start using them right now, as long as you add a fall back any non-supporting browsers will simply ignore the new properties until they are deemed valid:

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  margin: 0;_x000D_
  padding: 4px;_x000D_
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  /* Fall back (...to browsers which don't support alpha transparency). */_x000D_
  background: #FEFE7F;_x000D_
  color: #3F3FFE;_x000D_
  _x000D_
  /* Current 'modern' browser support. */_x000D_
  background: rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.5);_x000D_
  color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.75);_x000D_
  _x000D_
  /* Fall... foward? */_x000D_
  background: #ffff007F; /* Or, less accurately, #ff08 */_x000D_
  color: #0000ffbe;      /* Or #00fc */_x000D_
}
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<figure>Hello, world!</figure>
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As long as you're viewing this answer on a browser which supports the background and color properties in CSS, the <figure> element in result of the above snippet will look very similar to this:

Code Snippet Result Image

Using the most recent version of Chrome on Windows (v39.0.2171) to inspect our <figure> element, we'll see the following:

Element Inspector Example

The 6-digit hexadecimal fall back is overridden by the rgba() values, and our 8-digit hexadecimal values are ignored as they are currently deemed invalid by Chrome's CSS parser. As soon as our browser supports these 8-digit values, these will override the rgba() ones.

UPDATE 2018-07-04: Firefox, Chrome and Safari are support this notation now, Edge still missing but will probably follow (https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-rrggbbaa).

Chrome ignores autocomplete="off"

I call this the sledgehammer approach, but it seems to work for me where all other approaches I tried have failed:

<input autocomplete="off" data-autocomplete-ninja="true" name="fa" id="fa" />

Note: the input name and id attributes should not contain anything that would give the browser a hint as to what the data is, or this solution will not work. For instance, I'm using "fa" instead of "FullAddress".

And the following script on page load (this script uses JQuery):

$("[data-autocomplete-ninja]").each(function () {
    $(this).focus(function () {
        $(this).data("ninja-name", $(this).attr("name")).attr("name", "");
    }).blur(function () {
        $(this).attr("name", $(this).data("ninja-name"));
    });
});

The above solution should prevent the browser from autofilling data gathered from other forms, or from previous submits on the same form.

Basically, I'm removing the name attribute while the input is in focus. As long as you're not doing anything requiring the name attribute while the element is in focus, such as using selectors by element name, this solution should be innocuous.

dropzone.js - how to do something after ALL files are uploaded

I up-voted you as your method is simple. I did make only a couple of slight amends as sometimes the event fires even though there are no bytes to send - On my machine it did it when I clicked the remove button on a file.

myDropzone.on("totaluploadprogress", function(totalPercentage, totalBytesToBeSent, totalBytesSent ){
            if(totalPercentage >= 100 && totalBytesSent) {
                // All done! Call func here
            }
        });

Generate Java class from JSON?

Here's an online tool that will take JSON, including nested objects or nested arrays of objects and generate a Java source with Jackson annotations.

Strange PostgreSQL "value too long for type character varying(500)"

We had this same issue. We solved it adding 'length' to entity attribute definition:

@Column(columnDefinition="text", length=10485760)
private String configFileXml = ""; 

C++ "Access violation reading location" Error

You haven't posted the findvertex method, but Access Reading Violation with an offset like 0x00000048 means that the Vertex* f; in your getCost function is receiving null, and when trying to access the member adj in the null Vertex pointer (that is, in f), it is offsetting to adj (in this case, 72 bytes ( 0x48 bytes in decimal )), it's reading near the 0 or null memory address.

Doing a read like this violates Operating-System protected memory, and more importantly means whatever you're pointing at isn't a valid pointer. Make sure findvertex isn't returning null, or do a comparisong for null on f before using it to keep yourself sane (or use an assert):

assert( f != null ); // A good sanity check

EDIT:

If you have a map for doing something like a find, you can just use the map's find method to make sure the vertex exists:

Vertex* Graph::findvertex(string s)
{
    vmap::iterator itr = map1.find( s );
    if ( itr == map1.end() )
    {
        return NULL;
    }
    return itr->second;
}

Just make sure you're still careful to handle the error case where it does return NULL. Otherwise, you'll keep getting this access violation.

How to split() a delimited string to a List<String>

Either use:

List<string> list = new List<string>(array);

or from LINQ:

List<string> list = array.ToList();

Or change your code to not rely on the specific implementation:

IList<string> list = array; // string[] implements IList<string>

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 to export DataTable to Excel

To export data to Excel, you can use the ClosedXML.Report library (https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML.Report). Believe me, this is a wonderful library and easy for her to use. The library does not need Excel Interop. ClosedXML.Report generates an Excel file based on a template that you can create in Excel using any formatting. For example:

    var template = new XLTemplate(@".\Templates\report.xlsx");

    using (var db = new DbDemos())
    {
        var cust = db.customers.LoadWith(c => c.Orders).First();
        template.AddVariable(cust);
        template.Generate();
    }

    template.SaveAs(outputFile);

Nested ifelse statement

Using the SQL CASE statement with the dplyr and sqldf packages:

Data

df <-structure(list(idnat = structure(c(2L, 2L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("foreign", 
"french"), class = "factor"), idbp = structure(c(3L, 1L, 4L, 
2L), .Label = c("colony", "foreign", "mainland", "overseas"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("idnat", 
"idbp"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -4L))

sqldf

library(sqldf)
sqldf("SELECT idnat, idbp,
        CASE 
          WHEN idbp IN ('colony', 'overseas') THEN 'overseas' 
          ELSE idbp 
        END AS idnat2
       FROM df")

dplyr

library(dplyr)
df %>% 
mutate(idnat2 = case_when(.$idbp == 'mainland' ~ "mainland", 
                          .$idbp %in% c("colony", "overseas") ~ "overseas", 
                         TRUE ~ "foreign"))

Output

    idnat     idbp   idnat2
1  french mainland mainland
2  french   colony overseas
3  french overseas overseas
4 foreign  foreign  foreign

Where does application data file actually stored on android device?

You can get if from your document_cache folder, subfolder (mine is 1946507). Once there, rename the "content" by adding .pdf to the end of the file, save, and open with any pdf reader.

Huge performance difference when using group by vs distinct

The two queries express the same question. Apparently the query optimizer chooses two different execution plans. My guess would be that the distinct approach is executed like:

  • Copy all business_key values to a temporary table
  • Sort the temporary table
  • Scan the temporary table, returning each item that is different from the one before it

The group by could be executed like:

  • Scan the full table, storing each value of business key in a hashtable
  • Return the keys of the hashtable

The first method optimizes for memory usage: it would still perform reasonably well when part of the temporary table has to be swapped out. The second method optimizes for speed, but potentially requires a large amount of memory if there are a lot of different keys.

Since you either have enough memory or few different keys, the second method outperforms the first. It's not unusual to see performance differences of 10x or even 100x between two execution plans.

Rounding up to next power of 2

Portable solution in C#:

long value = 27
long nextPowerOfTwo = 1 << (int)Math.Ceiling(Math.Log2(value));

nextPowerOfTwo is 32.

Math.Ceiling(Math.Log2(value)) calculates the exponent of the next power of two, the 1 << calculates the real value through bitshifting.

"Cannot GET /" with Connect on Node.js

You typically want to render templates like this:

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.render('index.ejs');
});

However you can also deliver static content - to do so use:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

Now everything in the /public directory of your project will be delivered as static content at the root of your site e.g. if you place default.htm in the public folder if will be available by visiting /default.htm

Take a look through the express API and Connect Static middleware docs for more info.

SQL join: selecting the last records in a one-to-many relationship

You haven't specified the database. If it is one that allows analytical functions it may be faster to use this approach than the GROUP BY one(definitely faster in Oracle, most likely faster in the late SQL Server editions, don't know about others).

Syntax in SQL Server would be:

SELECT c.*, p.*
FROM customer c INNER JOIN 
     (SELECT RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY customer_id ORDER BY date DESC) r, *
             FROM purchase) p
ON (c.id = p.customer_id)
WHERE p.r = 1

How to sort a list of lists by a specific index of the inner list?

array.sort(key = lambda x:x[1])

You can easily sort using this snippet, where 1 is the index of the element.

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

The purpose is that you can give a default value if the key is not found, which is very useful

dictionary.get("Name",'harry')

Bootstrap DatePicker, how to set the start date for tomorrow?

this.$('#datepicker').datepicker({minDate: 1});

minDate:0 - Enable dates in the calender from the current date. MinDate:1 enable dates in the calender currentDate+1

To Restrict date between from tomorrow and the same day next month u need to give something like

$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({ minDate: 1, maxDate: "+1M" });

How to convert date format to milliseconds?

beginupd.getTime() will give you time in milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT till the time you have specified in Date object

Select random lines from a file

seq 1 100 | python3 -c 'print(__import__("random").choice(__import__("sys").stdin.readlines()))'

How can I view all historical changes to a file in SVN

You could use git-svn to import the repository into a Git repository, then use git log -p filename. This shows each log entry for the file followed by the corresponding diff.

ORA-01008: not all variables bound. They are bound

I found how to run the query without error, but I hesitate to call it a "solution" without really understanding the underlying cause.

This more closely resembles the beginning of my actual query:

-- Comment
-- More comment
SELECT rf.flowrow, rf.stage, rf.process,
rf.instr instnum, rf.procedure_id, rtd_history.runtime, rtd_history.waittime
FROM
(
    -- Comment at beginning of subquery
    -- These two comment lines are the problem
    SELECT sub2.flowrow, sub2.stage, sub2.process, sub2.instr, sub2.pid
    FROM ( ...

The second set of comments above, at the beginning of the subquery, were the problem. When removed, the query executes. Other comments are fine. This is not a matter of some rogue or missing newline causing the following line to be commented, because the following line is a SELECT. A missing select would yield a different error than "not all variables bound."

I asked around and found one co-worker who has run into this -- comments causing query failures -- several times. Does anyone know how this can be the cause? It is my understanding that the very first thing a DBMS would do with comments is see if they contain hints, and if not, remove them during parsing. How can an ordinary comment containing no unusual characters (just letters and a period) cause an error? Bizarre.

Change package name for Android in React Native

Go to file android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml -

Update :

attr android:label of Element application as :

Old value - android:label="@string/app_name"

New Value - android:label="(string you want to put)"

and

attr android:label of Element activity as :

Old value - android:label="@string/app_name"

New Value - android:label="(string you want to put)"

Worked for me, hopefully it will help.

MySQL root password change

a common error i run into from time to time, is that i forget the -p option, so are you sure you used:

mysql -u root -p

How to write a Python module/package?

Make a file named "hello.py"

If you are using Python 2.x

def func():
    print "Hello"

If you are using Python 3.x

def func():
    print("Hello")

Run the file. Then, you can try the following:

>>> import hello
>>> hello.func()
Hello

If you want a little bit hard, you can use the following:

If you are using Python 2.x

def say(text):
    print text

If you are using Python 3.x

def say(text):
    print(text)

See the one on the parenthesis beside the define? That is important. It is the one that you can use within the define.

Text - You can use it when you want the program to say what you want. According to its name, it is text. I hope you know what text means. It means "words" or "sentences".

Run the file. Then, you can try the following if you are using Python 3.x:

>>> import hello
>>> hello.say("hi")
hi
>>> from hello import say
>>> say("test")
test

For Python 2.x - I guess same thing with Python 3? No idea. Correct me if I made a mistake on Python 2.x (I know Python 2 but I am used with Python 3)

Replace whitespaces with tabs in linux

Using Perl:

perl -p -i -e 's/ /\t/g' file.txt

Adding a background image to a <div> element

<div id="image">Example to have Background Image</div>

We need to Add the below content in Style tag:

.image {
  background-image: url('C:\Users\ajai\Desktop\10.jpg');
}

How to calculate the SVG Path for an arc (of a circle)

Expanding on @wdebeaum's great answer, here's a method for generating an arced path:

function polarToCartesian(centerX, centerY, radius, angleInDegrees) {
  var angleInRadians = (angleInDegrees-90) * Math.PI / 180.0;

  return {
    x: centerX + (radius * Math.cos(angleInRadians)),
    y: centerY + (radius * Math.sin(angleInRadians))
  };
}

function describeArc(x, y, radius, startAngle, endAngle){

    var start = polarToCartesian(x, y, radius, endAngle);
    var end = polarToCartesian(x, y, radius, startAngle);

    var largeArcFlag = endAngle - startAngle <= 180 ? "0" : "1";

    var d = [
        "M", start.x, start.y, 
        "A", radius, radius, 0, largeArcFlag, 0, end.x, end.y
    ].join(" ");

    return d;       
}

to use

document.getElementById("arc1").setAttribute("d", describeArc(200, 400, 100, 0, 180));

and in your html

<path id="arc1" fill="none" stroke="#446688" stroke-width="20" />

Live demo

How can I go back/route-back on vue-router?

Use router.back() directly to go back/route-back programmatic on vue-router.

Why aren't programs written in Assembly more often?

As a developer who spends most of his time in the embedded programming world, I would argue that assembly is far from a dead/obsolete language. There is a certain close-to-the-metal level of coding (for example, in drivers) that sometimes cannot be expressed as accurately or efficiently in a higher-level language. We write nearly all of our hardware interface routines in assembler.

That being said, this assembly code is wrapped such that it can be called from C code and is treated like a library. We don't write the entire program in assembly for many reasons. First and foremost is portability; our code base is used on several products that use different architectures and we want to maximize the amount of code that can be shared between them. Second is developer familiarity. Simply put, schools don't teach assembly like they used to, and our developers are far more productive in C than in assembly. Also, we have a wide variety of "extras" (things like libraries, debuggers, static analysis tools, etc) available for our C code that aren't available for assembly language code. Even if we wanted to write a pure-assembly program, we would not be able to because several critical hardware libraries are only available as C libs. In one sense, it's a chicken/egg problem. People are driven away from assembly because there aren't as many libraries and development/debug tools available for it, but the libs/tools don't exist because not enough people use assembly to warrant the effort creating them.

In the end, there is a time and a place for just about any language. People use what they are most familiar and productive with. There will probably always be a place in a programmer's repertoire for assembly, but most programmers will find that they can write code in a higher-level language that is almost as efficient in far less time.

CMD: Export all the screen content to a text file

Just see this page

in cmd type:

Command | clip

Then open a *.Txt file and Paste. That's it. Done.

Javascript return number of days,hours,minutes,seconds between two dates

Just figure out the difference in seconds (don't forget JS timestamps are actually measured in milliseconds) and decompose that value:

// get total seconds between the times
var delta = Math.abs(date_future - date_now) / 1000;

// calculate (and subtract) whole days
var days = Math.floor(delta / 86400);
delta -= days * 86400;

// calculate (and subtract) whole hours
var hours = Math.floor(delta / 3600) % 24;
delta -= hours * 3600;

// calculate (and subtract) whole minutes
var minutes = Math.floor(delta / 60) % 60;
delta -= minutes * 60;

// what's left is seconds
var seconds = delta % 60;  // in theory the modulus is not required

EDIT code adjusted because I just realised that the original code returned the total number of hours, etc, not the number of hours left after counting whole days.

How would I create a UIAlertView in Swift?

Here is a funny example in Swift:

private func presentRandomJoke() {
  if let randomJoke: String = jokesController.randomJoke() {
    let alertController: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title:nil, message:randomJoke, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
    alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title:"Done", style:UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler:nil))
    presentViewController(alertController, animated:true, completion:nil)
  }
}

Evaluate a string with a switch in C++

what about just have the option number:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string s;
    int op;

    cin >> s >> op;
    switch (op) {
    case 1: break;
    case 2: break;
    default:
    }

    return 0;
}  

JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

do it thru cmd -

echo %JAVA_HOME% set set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0 echo %JAVA_HOME%

PHP convert XML to JSON

Try to use this

$xml = ... // Xml file data

// first approach
$Json = json_encode(simplexml_load_string($xml));

---------------- OR -----------------------

// second approach
$Json = json_encode(simplexml_load_string($xml, "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_NOCDATA));

echo $Json;

Or

You can use this library : https://github.com/rentpost/xml2array

Updating MySQL primary key

You can use the IGNORE keyword too, example:

 update IGNORE table set primary_field = 'value'...............

List of all index & index columns in SQL Server DB

Based on the accepted answer and two other questions 1, 2 I have assembled the following query:

SELECT
    QUOTENAME(t.name) AS TableName,
    QUOTENAME(i.name) AS IndexName,
    i.is_primary_key,
    i.is_unique,
    i.is_unique_constraint,
    STUFF(REPLACE(REPLACE((
        SELECT QUOTENAME(c.name) + CASE WHEN ic.is_descending_key = 1 THEN ' DESC' ELSE '' END AS [data()]
        FROM sys.index_columns AS ic
        INNER JOIN sys.columns AS c ON ic.object_id = c.object_id AND ic.column_id = c.column_id
        WHERE ic.object_id = i.object_id AND ic.index_id = i.index_id AND ic.is_included_column = 0
        ORDER BY ic.key_ordinal
        FOR XML PATH
    ), '<row>', ', '), '</row>', ''), 1, 2, '') AS KeyColumns,
    STUFF(REPLACE(REPLACE((
        SELECT QUOTENAME(c.name) AS [data()]
        FROM sys.index_columns AS ic
        INNER JOIN sys.columns AS c ON ic.object_id = c.object_id AND ic.column_id = c.column_id
        WHERE ic.object_id = i.object_id AND ic.index_id = i.index_id AND ic.is_included_column = 1
        ORDER BY ic.index_column_id
        FOR XML PATH
    ), '<row>', ', '), '</row>', ''), 1, 2, '') AS IncludedColumns,
    u.user_seeks,
    u.user_scans,
    u.user_lookups,
    u.user_updates
FROM sys.tables AS t
INNER JOIN sys.indexes AS i ON t.object_id = i.object_id
LEFT JOIN sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats AS u ON i.object_id = u.object_id AND i.index_id = u.index_id
WHERE t.is_ms_shipped = 0
AND i.type <> 0

This query returns results such as below which shows the list of indexes, their columns and usage. Very helpful in determining which index is performing better than others:

index list, columns and usage

Is it possible to install another version of Python to Virtualenv?

You may use pyenv.

There are a lot of different versions anaconda, jython, pypy and so on...

https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv

Installation as simple as pyenv install 3.2.6

pyenv install --list
Available versions:
  2.1.3
  2.2.3
  2.3.7
  2.4
  2.4.1
  2.4.2
  2.4.3
  2.4.4
  2.4.5
  2.4.6
  2.5
  2.5.1
  2.5.2
  2.5.3
  2.5.4
  2.5.5
  2.5.6
  2.6.6

...

Maximum size of an Array in Javascript

You could try something like this to test and trim the length:

http://jsfiddle.net/orolo/wJDXL/

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  longArray.length = 3;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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alert(longArray); //1, 2, 3
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How to get MD5 sum of a string using python?

Have you tried using the MD5 implementation in hashlib? Note that hashing algorithms typically act on binary data rather than text data, so you may want to be careful about which character encoding is used to convert from text to binary data before hashing.

The result of a hash is also binary data - it looks like Flickr's example has then been converted into text using hex encoding. Use the hexdigest function in hashlib to get this.

How to JUnit test that two List<E> contain the same elements in the same order?

  • My answer about whether Iterables.elementsEqual is best choice:

Iterables.elementsEqual is enough to compare 2 Lists.

Iterables.elementsEqual is used in more general scenarios, It accepts more general types: Iterable. That is, you could even compare a List with a Set. (by iterate order, it is important)

Sure ArrayList and LinkedList define equals pretty good, you could call equals directly. While when you use a not well defined List, Iterables.elementsEqual is the best choice. One thing should be noticed: Iterables.elementsEqual does not accept null

  • To convert List to array: Iterables.toArray is easer.

  • For unit test, I recommend add empty list to your test case.

How to convert milliseconds to seconds with precision

Why don't you simply try

System.out.println(1500/1000.0);
System.out.println(500/1000.0);

Eclipse compilation error: The hierarchy of the type 'Class name' is inconsistent

If the extended class has the issue then the above error message will gets displayed.

Example

class Example extends Example1 {

}

fix the issues in Example1

How do I get the value of a textbox using jQuery?

Possible Duplicate:

Just Additional Info which took me long time to find.what if you were using the field name and not id for identifying the form field. You do it like this:

For radio button:

 var inp= $('input:radio[name=PatientPreviouslyReceivedDrug]:checked').val();

For textbox:

 var txt=$('input:text[name=DrugDurationLength]').val();

jquery: animate scrollLeft

You'll want something like this:


$("#next").click(function(){
      var currentElement = currentElement.next();
      $('html, body').animate({scrollLeft: $(currentElement).offset().left}, 800);
      return false;
   }); 
I believe this should work, it's adopted from a scrollTop function.

Vue.js—Difference between v-model and v-bind

In simple words v-model is for two way bindings means: if you change input value, the bound data will be changed and vice versa.

but v-bind:value is called one way binding that means: you can change input value by changing bound data but you can't change bound data by changing input value through the element.

check out this simple example: https://jsfiddle.net/gs0kphvc/

Configuring angularjs with eclipse IDE

Since these previous answers above, there is now a release of an Eclipse Plugin to assist with development using AngularJS:

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/angularjs-eclipse https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse/wiki/Installation---Update-Site (take a look around the other Wiki pages for information on features)

The release at the time of the answer is 0.1.0.

Please also checkout JSDT (http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jsdt/) and also Eclipse VJET (http://eclipse.org/vjet/). The VJET project appears to be an attempt to provide better feature sets to the editor without being encumbered by the JSDT project (open source politics at play I guess).

Sending and receiving data over a network using TcpClient

Be warned - this is a very old and cumbersome "solution".

By the way, you can use serialization technology to send strings, numbers or any objects which are support serialization (most of .NET data-storing classes & structs are [Serializable]). There, you should at first send Int32-length in four bytes to the stream and then send binary-serialized (System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter) data into it.

On the other side or the connection (on both sides actually) you definetly should have a byte[] buffer which u will append and trim-left at runtime when data is coming.

Something like that I am using:

namespace System.Net.Sockets
{
    public class TcpConnection : IDisposable
    {
        public event EvHandler<TcpConnection, DataArrivedEventArgs> DataArrive = delegate { };
        public event EvHandler<TcpConnection> Drop = delegate { };

        private const int IntSize = 4;
        private const int BufferSize = 8 * 1024;

        private static readonly SynchronizationContext _syncContext = SynchronizationContext.Current;
        private readonly TcpClient _tcpClient;
        private readonly object _droppedRoot = new object();
        private bool _dropped;
        private byte[] _incomingData = new byte[0];
        private Nullable<int> _objectDataLength;

        public TcpClient TcpClient { get { return _tcpClient; } }
        public bool Dropped { get { return _dropped; } }

        private void DropConnection()
        {
            lock (_droppedRoot)
            {
                if (Dropped)
                    return;

                _dropped = true;
            }

            _tcpClient.Close();
            _syncContext.Post(delegate { Drop(this); }, null);
        }

        public void SendData(PCmds pCmd) { SendDataInternal(new object[] { pCmd }); }
        public void SendData(PCmds pCmd, object[] datas)
        {
            datas.ThrowIfNull();
            SendDataInternal(new object[] { pCmd }.Append(datas));
        }
        private void SendDataInternal(object data)
        {
            if (Dropped)
                return;

            byte[] bytedata;

            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
            {
                BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

                try { bf.Serialize(ms, data); }
                catch { return; }

                bytedata = ms.ToArray();
            }

            try
            {
                lock (_tcpClient)
                {
                    TcpClient.Client.BeginSend(BitConverter.GetBytes(bytedata.Length), 0, IntSize, SocketFlags.None, EndSend, null);
                    TcpClient.Client.BeginSend(bytedata, 0, bytedata.Length, SocketFlags.None, EndSend, null);
                }
            }
            catch { DropConnection(); }
        }
        private void EndSend(IAsyncResult ar)
        {
            try { TcpClient.Client.EndSend(ar); }
            catch { }
        }

        public TcpConnection(TcpClient tcpClient)
        {
            _tcpClient = tcpClient;
            StartReceive();
        }

        private void StartReceive()
        {
            byte[] buffer = new byte[BufferSize];

            try
            {
                _tcpClient.Client.BeginReceive(buffer, 0, buffer.Length, SocketFlags.None, DataReceived, buffer);
            }
            catch { DropConnection(); }
        }

        private void DataReceived(IAsyncResult ar)
        {
            if (Dropped)
                return;

            int dataRead;

            try { dataRead = TcpClient.Client.EndReceive(ar); }
            catch
            {
                DropConnection();
                return;
            }

            if (dataRead == 0)
            {
                DropConnection();
                return;
            }

            byte[] byteData = ar.AsyncState as byte[];
            _incomingData = _incomingData.Append(byteData.Take(dataRead).ToArray());
            bool exitWhile = false;

            while (exitWhile)
            {
                exitWhile = true;

                if (_objectDataLength.HasValue)
                {
                    if (_incomingData.Length >= _objectDataLength.Value)
                    {
                        object data;
                        BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

                        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(_incomingData, 0, _objectDataLength.Value))
                            try { data = bf.Deserialize(ms); }
                            catch
                            {
                                SendData(PCmds.Disconnect);
                                DropConnection();
                                return;
                            }

                        _syncContext.Post(delegate(object T)
                        {
                            try { DataArrive(this, new DataArrivedEventArgs(T)); }
                            catch { DropConnection(); }
                        }, data);

                        _incomingData = _incomingData.TrimLeft(_objectDataLength.Value);
                        _objectDataLength = null;
                        exitWhile = false;
                    }
                }
                else
                    if (_incomingData.Length >= IntSize)
                    {
                        _objectDataLength = BitConverter.ToInt32(_incomingData.TakeLeft(IntSize), 0);
                        _incomingData = _incomingData.TrimLeft(IntSize);
                        exitWhile = false;
                    }
            }
            StartReceive();
        }


        public void Dispose() { DropConnection(); }
    }
}

That is just an example, you should edit it for your use.

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

On viewWillLayoutSubviews:

override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
    sampleView.layer.masksToBounds =  false
    sampleView.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.darkGrayColor().CGColor;
    sampleView.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(2.0, 2.0)
    sampleView.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0
}

Using Extension of UIView:

extension UIView {

    func addDropShadowToView(targetView:UIView? ){
        targetView!.layer.masksToBounds =  false
        targetView!.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.darkGrayColor().CGColor;
        targetView!.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(2.0, 2.0)
        targetView!.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0
    }
}

Usage:

sampleView.addDropShadowToView(sampleView)

Create a simple Login page using eclipse and mysql

use this code it is working

// index.jsp or login.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="login" method="post">
Username : <input type="text" name="username"><br>
Password : <input type="password" name="pass"><br>
<input type="submit"><br>
</form>

</body>
</html>

// authentication servlet class

    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.PrintWriter;
    import java.sql.Connection;
    import java.sql.DriverManager;
    import java.sql.SQLException;
    import java.sql.Statement;

    import javax.servlet.ServletException;
    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

    public class auth extends HttpServlet {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

        public auth() {
            super();
        }
        protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
                HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

        }

        protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
                HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

            try {
                Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            String username = request.getParameter("username");
            String pass = request.getParameter("pass");

            String sql = "select * from reg where username='" + username + "'";
            Connection conn = null;

            try {
                conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/Exam",
                        "root", "");
                Statement s = conn.createStatement();

                java.sql.ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery(sql);
                String un = null;
                String pw = null;
                String name = null;

            /* Need to put some condition in case the above query does not return any row, else code will throw Null Pointer exception */   

            PrintWriter prwr1 = response.getWriter();               
            if(!rs.isBeforeFirst()){
                prwr1.write("<h1> No Such User in Database<h1>");
            } else {

/* Conditions to be executed after at least one row is returned by query execution */ 
                while (rs.next()) {
                    un = rs.getString("username");
                    pw = rs.getString("password");
                    name = rs.getString("name");
                }

                PrintWriter pww = response.getWriter();

                if (un.equalsIgnoreCase(username) && pw.equals(pass)) {
                                // use this or create request dispatcher 
                    response.setContentType("text/html");
                    pww.write("<h1>Welcome, " + name + "</h1>");
                } else {
                    pww.write("wrong username or password\n");
                }
              }

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

        }

    }

best practice to generate random token for forgot password

In PHP, use random_bytes(). Reason: your are seeking the way to get a password reminder token, and, if it is a one-time login credentials, then you actually have a data to protect (which is - whole user account)

So, the code will be as follows:

//$length = 78 etc
$token = bin2hex(random_bytes($length));

Update: previous versions of this answer was referring to uniqid() and that is incorrect if there is a matter of security and not only uniqueness. uniqid() is essentially just microtime() with some encoding. There are simple ways to get accurate predictions of the microtime() on your server. An attacker can issue a password reset request and then try through a couple of likely tokens. This is also possible if more_entropy is used, as the additional entropy is similarly weak. Thanks to @NikiC and @ScottArciszewski for pointing this out.

For more details see

Update TensorFlow

Tensorflow upgrade -Python3

>> pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow --user

if you got this

"ERROR: tensorboard 2.0.2 has requirement grpcio>=1.24.3, but you'll have grpcio 1.22.0 which is incompatible."

Upgrade grpcio

>> pip3 install --upgrade grpcio --user

Identifier is undefined

You may also be missing using namespace std;

Class is inaccessible due to its protection level

Hi You need to change the Button properties from private to public. You can change Under Button >> properties >> Design >> Modifiers >> "public" Once change the protection error will gone.

Budi

How to update npm

For Ubuntu 18.04

npm install latest-version

I hope its for you also

How do I handle a click anywhere in the page, even when a certain element stops the propagation?

What you really want to do is bind the event handler for the capture phase of the event. However, that isn't supported in IE as far as I know, so that might not be all that useful.

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_order.html

Related questions:

Access maven properties defined in the pom

Use the properties-maven-plugin to write specific pom properties to a file at compile time, and then read that file at run time.

In your pom.xml:

<properties>
     <name>${project.name}</name>
     <version>${project.version}</version>
     <foo>bar</foo>
</properties>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>generate-resources</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>write-project-properties</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <outputFile>${project.build.outputDirectory}/my.properties</outputFile>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

And then in .java:

java.io.InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("my.properties");
java.util.Properties p = new Properties();
p.load(is);
String name = p.getProperty("name");
String version = p.getProperty("version");
String foo = p.getProperty("foo");

Basic authentication for REST API using spring restTemplate

You may use spring-boot RestTemplateBuilder

@Bean
RestOperations rest(RestTemplateBuilder restTemplateBuilder) {
    return restTemplateBuilder.basicAuthentication("user", "password").build();
}

See documentation

(before SB 2.1.0 it was #basicAuthorization)

What are enums and why are they useful?

Enum? Why should it be used? I think it's more understood when you will use it. I have the same experience.

Say you have a create, delete, edit and read database operation.

Now if you create an enum as an operation:

public enum operation {
    create("1")
    delete("2")
    edit("3")
    read("4")

    // You may have is methods here
    public boolean isCreate() {
        return this.equals(create);
    }
    // More methods like the above can be written

}

Now, you may declare something like:

private operation currentOperation;

// And assign the value for it 
currentOperation = operation.create

So you can use it in many ways. It's always good to have enum for specific things as the database operation in the above example can be controlled by checking the currentOperation. Perhaps one can say this can be accomplished with variables and integer values too. But I believe Enum is a safer and a programmer's way.

Another thing: I think every programmer loves boolean, don't we? Because it can store only two values, two specific values. So Enum can be thought of as having the same type of facilities where a user will define how many and what type of value it will store, just in a slightly different way. :)

SQL Server - stop or break execution of a SQL script

If you can use SQLCMD mode, then the incantation

:on error exit

(INCLUDING the colon) will cause RAISERROR to actually stop the script. E.g.,

:on error exit

IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[SOMETABLE]') AND type in (N'U')) 
    RaisError ('This is not a Valid Instance Database', 15, 10)
GO

print 'Keep Working'

will output:

Msg 50000, Level 15, State 10, Line 3
This is not a Valid Instance Database
** An error was encountered during execution of batch. Exiting.

and the batch will stop. If SQLCMD mode isn't turned on, you'll get parse error about the colon. Unfortuantely, it's not completely bulletproof as if the script is run without being in SQLCMD mode, SQL Managment Studio breezes right past even parse time errors! Still, if you're running them from the command line, this is fine.

Check if a file is executable

Testing files, directories and symlinks

The solutions given here fail on either directories or symlinks (or both). On Linux, you can test files, directories and symlinks with:

if [[ -f "$file" && -x $(realpath "$file") ]]; then .... fi

On OS X, you should be able to install coreutils with homebrew and use grealpath.

Defining an isexec function

You can define a function for convenience:

isexec() {
    if [[ -f "$1" && -x $(realpath "$1") ]]; then
        true;
    else
        false;
    fi;
}

Or simply

isexec() { [[ -f "$1" && -x $(realpath "$1") ]]; }

Then you can test using:

if `isexec "$file"`; then ... fi

DataColumn Name from DataRow (not DataTable)

You can make it easier in your code (if you're doing this a lot anyway) by using an extension on the DataRow object, like:

static class Extensions
{
    public static string GetColumn(this DataRow Row, int Ordinal)
    {
        return Row.Table.Columns[Ordinal].ColumnName;
    }
}

Then call it using:

string MyColumnName = MyRow.GetColumn(5);

Way to go from recursion to iteration

Thinking of things that actually need a stack:

If we consider the pattern of recursion as:

if(task can be done directly) {
    return result of doing task directly
} else {
    split task into two or more parts
    solve for each part (possibly by recursing)
    return result constructed by combining these solutions
}

For example, the classic Tower of Hanoi

if(the number of discs to move is 1) {
    just move it
} else {
    move n-1 discs to the spare peg
    move the remaining disc to the target peg
    move n-1 discs from the spare peg to the target peg, using the current peg as a spare
}

This can be translated into a loop working on an explicit stack, by restating it as:

place seed task on stack
while stack is not empty 
   take a task off the stack
   if(task can be done directly) {
      Do it
   } else {
      Split task into two or more parts
      Place task to consolidate results on stack
      Place each task on stack
   }
}

For Tower of Hanoi this becomes:

stack.push(new Task(size, from, to, spare));
while(! stack.isEmpty()) {
    task = stack.pop();
    if(task.size() = 1) {
        just move it
    } else {
        stack.push(new Task(task.size() -1, task.spare(), task,to(), task,from()));
        stack.push(new Task(1, task.from(), task.to(), task.spare()));
        stack.push(new Task(task.size() -1, task.from(), task.spare(), task.to()));
    }
}

There is considerable flexibility here as to how you define your stack. You can make your stack a list of Command objects that do sophisticated things. Or you can go the opposite direction and make it a list of simpler types (e.g. a "task" might be 4 elements on a stack of int, rather than one element on a stack of Task).

All this means is that the memory for the stack is in the heap rather than in the Java execution stack, but this can be useful in that you have more control over it.

How can I tell if a DOM element is visible in the current viewport?

Update: Time marches on and so have our browsers. This technique is no longer recommended and you should use Dan's solution if you do not need to support version of Internet Explorer before 7.

Original solution (now outdated):

This will check if the element is entirely visible in the current viewport:

function elementInViewport(el) {
  var top = el.offsetTop;
  var left = el.offsetLeft;
  var width = el.offsetWidth;
  var height = el.offsetHeight;

  while(el.offsetParent) {
    el = el.offsetParent;
    top += el.offsetTop;
    left += el.offsetLeft;
  }

  return (
    top >= window.pageYOffset &&
    left >= window.pageXOffset &&
    (top + height) <= (window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight) &&
    (left + width) <= (window.pageXOffset + window.innerWidth)
  );
}

You could modify this simply to determine if any part of the element is visible in the viewport:

function elementInViewport2(el) {
  var top = el.offsetTop;
  var left = el.offsetLeft;
  var width = el.offsetWidth;
  var height = el.offsetHeight;

  while(el.offsetParent) {
    el = el.offsetParent;
    top += el.offsetTop;
    left += el.offsetLeft;
  }

  return (
    top < (window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight) &&
    left < (window.pageXOffset + window.innerWidth) &&
    (top + height) > window.pageYOffset &&
    (left + width) > window.pageXOffset
  );
}

How to add values in a variable in Unix shell scripting?

Here's a simple example to add two variables:

var1=4
var2=3
let var3=$var1+$var2
echo $var3

SQL Not Like Statement not working

Is the value of your particular COMMENT column null?

Sometimes NOT LIKE doesn't know how to behave properly around nulls.

How to get date representing the first day of a month?

As of SQL Server 2012 you can use the eomonth built-in function, which is intended for getting the end of the month but can also be used to get the start as so:

select dateadd(day, 1, eomonth(<date>, -1))

If you need the result as a datetime etc., just cast it:

select cast(dateadd(day, 1, eomonth(<date>, -1)) as datetime)

How to add a line to a multiline TextBox?

If you know how many lines you want, create an array of String with that many members (e.g. myStringArray). Then use myListBox.Lines = myStringArray;

What is an .inc and why use it?

Just to add. Another disadvantage would be, .inc files are not recognized by IDE thus, you could not take advantage of auto-complete or code prediction features.

sqlite3.ProgrammingError: Incorrect number of bindings supplied. The current statement uses 1, and there are 74 supplied

cursor.execute(sql,array)

Only takes two arguments.
It will iterate the "array"-object and match ? in the sql-string.
(with sanity checks to avoid sql-injection)

React: "this" is undefined inside a component function

Write your function this way:

onToggleLoop = (event) => {
    this.setState({loopActive: !this.state.loopActive})
    this.props.onToggleLoop()
}

Fat Arrow Functions

the binding for the keyword this is the same outside and inside the fat arrow function. This is different than functions declared with function, which can bind this to another object upon invocation. Maintaining the this binding is very convenient for operations like mapping: this.items.map(x => this.doSomethingWith(x)).

"string could not resolved" error in Eclipse for C++ (Eclipse can't resolve standard library)

I had the same problem. Change the CurrentBuilder in Properties/C/C++ Build/ToolChainEditor to another value and apply it. Then again change it the original value. It works.

PHP - Indirect modification of overloaded property

Though I am very late in this discussion, I thought this may be useful for some one in future.

I had faced similar situation. The easiest workaround for those who doesn't mind unsetting and resetting the variable is to do so. I am pretty sure the reason why this is not working is clear from the other answers and from the php.net manual. The simplest workaround worked for me is

Assumption:

  1. $object is the object with overloaded __get and __set from the base class, which I am not in the freedom to modify.
  2. shippingData is the array I want to modify a field of for e.g. :- phone_number

 

// First store the array in a local variable.
$tempShippingData = $object->shippingData;

unset($object->shippingData);

$tempShippingData['phone_number'] = '888-666-0000' // what ever the value you want to set

$object->shippingData = $tempShippingData; // this will again call the __set and set the array variable

unset($tempShippingData);

Note: this solution is one of the quick workaround possible to solve the problem and get the variable copied. If the array is too humungous, it may be good to force rewrite the __get method to return a reference rather expensive copying of big arrays.

Import data into Google Colaboratory

Here is one way to import files from google drive to notebooks.

open jupyter notebook and run the below code and do complete the authentication process

!apt-get install -y -qq software-properties-common python-software-properties   module-init-tools
!add-apt-repository -y ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa 2>&1 > /dev/null
!apt-get update -qq 2>&1 > /dev/null
!apt-get -y install -qq google-drive-ocamlfuse fuse
from google.colab import auth
auth.authenticate_user()
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials
creds = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
import getpass
!google-drive-ocamlfuse -headless -id={creds.client_id} -secret=  {creds.client_secret} < /dev/null 2>&1 | grep URL
vcode = getpass.getpass()
!echo {vcode} | google-drive-ocamlfuse -headless -id={creds.client_id} -secret={creds.client_secret}

once you done with above code , run the below code to mount google drive

!mkdir -p drive
!google-drive-ocamlfuse drive

Importing files from google drive to notebooks (Ex: Colab_Notebooks/db.csv)

lets say your dataset file in Colab_Notebooks folder and its name is db.csv

import pandas as pd
dataset=pd.read_csv("drive/Colab_Notebooks/db.csv")

I hope it helps

Do we need type="text/css" for <link> in HTML5

Don’t need to specify a type value of “text/css”

Every time you link to a CSS file:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file.css">

You can simply write:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="file.css">

How to enable external request in IIS Express?

What helped me, was right clicking the 'IISExpress' icon, 'Show All applications'. Then selecting the website and I saw which aplicationhost.config it uses, and the the correction went perfectly.

IISExpress configuration

Jquery, set value of td in a table?

From:

it could be:

.html()

In an HTML document, .html() can be used to get the contents of any element.

.text()

Unlike the .html() method, .text() can be used in both XML and HTML documents. The result of the .text() method is a string containing the combined text of all matched elements.

.val()

The .val() method is primarily used to get the values of form elements such as input, select and textarea. When called on an empty collection, it returns undefined.

Using {% url ??? %} in django templates

Instead of importing the logout_view function, you should provide a string in your urls.py file:

So not (r'^login/', login_view),

but (r'^login/', 'login.views.login_view'),

That is the standard way of doing things. Then you can access the URL in your templates using:

{% url login.views.login_view %}

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/

Difference between .keystore file and .jks file

One reason to choose .keystore over .jks is that Unity recognizes the former but not the latter when you're navigating to select your keystore file (Unity 2017.3, macOS).

C#: Assign same value to multiple variables in single statement

Your example would be:

int num1 = 1;
int num2 = 1;

num1 = num2 = 5;

How many socket connections possible?

I achieved 1600k concurrent idle socket connections, and at the same time 57k req/s on a Linux desktop (16G RAM, I7 2600 CPU). It's a single thread http server written in C with epoll. Source code is on github, a blog here.

Edit:

I did 600k concurrent HTTP connections (client & server) on both the same computer, with JAVA/Clojure . detail info post, HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127251

The cost of a connection(with epoll):

  • application need some RAM per connection
  • TCP buffer 2 * 4k ~ 10k, or more
  • epoll need some memory for a file descriptor, from epoll(7)

Each registered file descriptor costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32-bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes on a 64-bit kernel.

Button Center CSS

I realize this is a very old question, but I stumbled across this problem today and I got it to work with

<div style="text-align:center;">
    <button>button1</button>
    <button>button2</button>
</div>

Cheers, Mark

Best practices for circular shift (rotate) operations in C++

another suggestion

template<class T>
inline T rotl(T x, unsigned char moves){
    unsigned char temp;
    __asm{
        mov temp, CL
        mov CL, moves
        rol x, CL
        mov CL, temp
    };
    return x;
}

how to add new <li> to <ul> onclick with javascript

First you have to create a li(with id and value as you required) then add it to your ul.

Javascript ::

addAnother = function() {
    var ul = document.getElementById("list");
    var li = document.createElement("li");
    var children = ul.children.length + 1
    li.setAttribute("id", "element"+children)
    li.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Element "+children));
    ul.appendChild(li)
}

Check this example that add li element to ul.

How to use wait and notify in Java without IllegalMonitorStateException?

For this particular problem, why not store up your various results in variables and then when the last of your thread is processed you can print in whatever format you want. This is especially useful if you are gonna be using your work history in other projects.

Extract a subset of a dataframe based on a condition involving a field

Just to extend the answer above you can also index your columns rather than specifying the column names which can also be useful depending on what you're doing. Given that your location is the first field it would look like this:

    bar <- foo[foo[ ,1] == "there", ]

This is useful because you can perform operations on your column value, like looping over specific columns (and you can do the same by indexing row numbers too).

This is also useful if you need to perform some operation on more than one column because you can then specify a range of columns:

    foo[foo[ ,c(1:N)], ]

Or specific columns, as you would expect.

    foo[foo[ ,c(1,5,9)], ]

converting json to string in python

json.dumps() is much more than just making a string out of a Python object, it would always produce a valid JSON string (assuming everything inside the object is serializable) following the Type Conversion Table.

For instance, if one of the values is None, the str() would produce an invalid JSON which cannot be loaded:

>>> data = {'jsonKey': None}
>>> str(data)
"{'jsonKey': None}"
>>> json.loads(str(data))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 1)

But the dumps() would convert None into null making a valid JSON string that can be loaded:

>>> import json
>>> data = {'jsonKey': None}
>>> json.dumps(data)
'{"jsonKey": null}'
>>> json.loads(json.dumps(data))
{u'jsonKey': None}

Check if a String contains numbers Java

try this

str.matches(".*\\d.*");

Why do we use web.xml?

It says all the requests to go through WicketFilter


Also, if you use wicket WicketApplication for application level settings. Like URL patterns and things that are true at app level


This is what you need really, http://wicket.apache.org/learn/examples/helloworld.html

FileNotFoundException..Classpath resource not found in spring?

Check the contents of SpringExample/target/classes. Is spring-config.xml there? If not, try manually removing the SpringExample/target/ directory, and force a rebuild with Project=>Clean... in Eclipse.

Java 8 Distinct by property

A variation of the top answer that handles null:

    public static <T, K> Predicate<T> distinctBy(final Function<? super T, K> getKey) {
        val seen = ConcurrentHashMap.<Optional<K>>newKeySet();
        return obj -> seen.add(Optional.ofNullable(getKey.apply(obj)));
    }

In my tests:

        assertEquals(
                asList("a", "bb"),
                Stream.of("a", "b", "bb", "aa").filter(distinctBy(String::length)).collect(toList()));

        assertEquals(
                asList(5, null, 2, 3),
                Stream.of(5, null, 2, null, 3, 3, 2).filter(distinctBy(x -> x)).collect(toList()));

        val maps = asList(
                hashMapWith(0, 2),
                hashMapWith(1, 2),
                hashMapWith(2, null),
                hashMapWith(3, 1),
                hashMapWith(4, null),
                hashMapWith(5, 2));

        assertEquals(
                asList(0, 2, 3),
                maps.stream()
                        .filter(distinctBy(m -> m.get("val")))
                        .map(m -> m.get("i"))
                        .collect(toList()));

2D Euclidean vector rotations

Rotating a vector 90 degrees is particularily simple.

(x, y) rotated 90 degrees around (0, 0) is (-y, x).

If you want to rotate clockwise, you simply do it the other way around, getting (y, -x).

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: contains a path separator

I got the above error message while trying to access a file from Internal Storage using openFileInput("/Dir/data.txt") method with subdirectory Dir.

You cannot access sub-directories using the above method.

Try something like:

FileInputStream fIS = new FileInputStream (new File("/Dir/data.txt"));

MVC web api: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource

It may be because of the installation of Cors nuget packages.

If you facing the problem after installing and enabaling cors from nuget , then you may try reinstalling web Api.

From the package manager, run Update-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi -reinstall

What are libtool's .la file for?

I found very good explanation about .la files here http://openbooks.sourceforge.net/books/wga/dealing-with-libraries.html

Summary (The way I understood): Because libtool deals with static and dynamic libraries internally (through --diable-shared or --disable-static) it creates a wrapper on the library files it builds. They are treated as binary library files with in libtool supported environment.

Is there an upper bound to BigInteger?

The number is held in an int[] - the maximum size of an array is Integer.MAX_VALUE. So the maximum BigInteger probably is (2 ^ 32) ^ Integer.MAX_VALUE.

Admittedly, this is implementation dependent, not part of the specification.


In Java 8, some information was added to the BigInteger javadoc, giving a minimum supported range and the actual limit of the current implementation:

BigInteger must support values in the range -2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive) to +2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive) and may support values outside of that range.

Implementation note: BigInteger constructors and operations throw ArithmeticException when the result is out of the supported range of -2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive) to +2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive).

How to clear File Input

In my case other solutions did not work than this way:

$('.bootstrap-filestyle :input').val('');

However, if you will have more than 1 file input on page, it will reset the text on all of them.

How to set up a squid Proxy with basic username and password authentication?

Here's what I had to do to setup basic auth on Ubuntu 14.04 (didn't find a guide anywhere else)

Basic squid conf

/etc/squid3/squid.conf instead of the super bloated default config file

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid3/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid3/passwords
auth_param basic realm proxy
acl authenticated proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow authenticated

# Choose the port you want. Below we set it to default 3128.
http_port 3128

Please note the basic_ncsa_auth program instead of the old ncsa_auth

squid 2.x

For squid 2.x you need to edit /etc/squid/squid.conf file and place:

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/digest_pw_auth /etc/squid/passwords
auth_param basic realm proxy
acl authenticated proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow authenticated

Setting up a user

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/squid3/passwords username_you_like

and enter a password twice for the chosen username then

sudo service squid3 restart

squid 2.x

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/squid/passwords username_you_like

and enter a password twice for the chosen username then

sudo service squid restart

htdigest vs htpasswd

For the many people that asked me: the 2 tools produce different file formats:

  • htdigest stores the password in plain text.
  • htpasswd stores the password hashed (various hashing algos are available)

Despite this difference in format basic_ncsa_auth will still be able to parse a password file generated with htdigest. Hence you can alternatively use:

sudo htdigest -c /etc/squid3/passwords realm_you_like username_you_like

Beware that this approach is empirical, undocumented and may not be supported by future versions of Squid.

On Ubuntu 14.04 htdigest and htpasswd are both available in the [apache2-utils][1] package.

MacOS

Similar as above applies, but file paths are different.

Install squid

brew install squid

Start squid service

brew services start squid

Squid config file is stored at /usr/local/etc/squid.conf.

Comment or remove following line:

http_access allow localnet

Then similar to linux config (but with updated paths) add this:

auth_param basic program /usr/local/Cellar/squid/4.8/libexec/basic_ncsa_auth /usr/local/etc/squid_passwords
auth_param basic realm proxy
acl authenticated proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow authenticated

Note that path to basic_ncsa_auth may be different since it depends on installed version when using brew, you can verify this with ls /usr/local/Cellar/squid/. Also note that you should add the above just bellow the following section:

#
# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
#

Now generate yourself a user:password basic auth credential (note: htpasswd and htdigest are also both available on MacOS)

htpasswd -c /usr/local/etc/squid_passwords username_you_like

Restart the squid service

brew services restart squid

Joining Multiple Tables - Oracle

I recommend that you get in the habit, right now, of using ANSI-style joins, meaning you should use the INNER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, RIGHT OUTER JOIN, FULL OUTER JOIN, and CROSS JOIN elements in your SQL statements rather than using the "old-style" joins where all the tables are named together in the FROM clause and all the join conditions are put in the the WHERE clause. ANSI-style joins are easier to understand and less likely to be miswritten and/or misinterpreted than "old-style" joins.

I'd rewrite your query as:

SELECT bc.firstname,
       bc.lastname,
       b.title,
       TO_CHAR(bo.orderdate, 'MM/DD/YYYY') "Order Date",
       p.publishername
FROM BOOK_CUSTOMER bc
INNER JOIN books b
  ON b.BOOK_ID = bc.BOOK_ID
INNER JOIN  book_order bo
  ON bo.BOOK_ID = b.BOOK_ID
INNER JOIN publisher p
  ON p.PUBLISHER_ID = b.PUBLISHER_ID
WHERE p.publishername = 'PRINTING IS US';

Share and enjoy.

Image steganography that could survive jpeg compression

Quite a few applications seem to implement Steganography on JPEG, so it's feasible:

http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/toolmatrix.htm

Here's an article regarding a relevant algorithm (PM1) to get you started:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00500-008-0327-7#page-1

Why do I get "'property cannot be assigned" when sending an SMTP email?

First go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and make Allow less secure apps true.

Then use the below code. This below code will work only if your from email address is from gmail.

static void SendEmail()
    {
        string mailBodyhtml =
            "<p>some text here</p>";
        var msg = new MailMessage("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "Hello", mailBodyhtml);
        msg.To.Add("[email protected]");
        msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
        var smtpClient = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587); //**if your from email address is "[email protected]" then host should be "smtp.hotmail.com"**
        smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
        smtpClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password");
        smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
        smtpClient.Send(msg);
        Console.WriteLine("Email Sent Successfully");
    }

Difference between SelectedItem, SelectedValue and SelectedValuePath

Their names can be a bit confusing :). Here's a summary:

  • The SelectedItem property returns the entire object that your list is bound to. So say you've bound a list to a collection of Category objects (with each Category object having Name and ID properties). eg. ObservableCollection<Category>. The SelectedItem property will return you the currently selected Category object. For binding purposes however, this is not always what you want, as this only enables you to bind an entire Category object to the property that the list is bound to, not the value of a single property on that Category object (such as its ID property).

  • Therefore we have the SelectedValuePath property and the SelectedValue property as an alternative means of binding (you use them in conjunction with one another). Let's say you have a Product object, that your view is bound to (with properties for things like ProductName, Weight, etc). Let's also say you have a CategoryID property on that Product object, and you want the user to be able to select a category for the product from a list of categories. You need the ID property of the Category object to be assigned to the CategoryID property on the Product object. This is where the SelectedValuePath and the SelectedValue properties come in. You specify that the ID property on the Category object should be assigned to the property on the Product object that the list is bound to using SelectedValuePath='ID', and then bind the SelectedValue property to the property on the DataContext (ie. the Product).

The example below demonstrates this. We have a ComboBox bound to a list of Categories (via ItemsSource). We're binding the CategoryID property on the Product as the selected value (using the SelectedValue property). We're relating this to the Category's ID property via the SelectedValuePath property. And we're saying only display the Name property in the ComboBox, with the DisplayMemberPath property).

<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Categories}" 
          SelectedValue="{Binding CategoryID, Mode=TwoWay}" 
          SelectedValuePath="ID" 
          DisplayMemberPath="Name" />
public class Category
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Product
{
    public int CategoryID { get; set; }
}

It's a little confusing initially, but hopefully this makes it a bit clearer... :)

Chris

printf formatting (%d versus %u)

You can find a list of formatting escapes on this page.

%d is a signed integer, while %u is an unsigned integer. Pointers (when treated as numbers) are usually non-negative.

If you actually want to display a pointer, use the %p format specifier.

Getting DOM elements by classname

Update: Xpath version of *[@class~='my-class'] css selector

So after my comment below in response to hakre's comment, I got curious and looked into the code behind Zend_Dom_Query. It looks like the above selector is compiled to the following xpath (untested):

[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' my-class ')]

So the PHP would be:

$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->load($filePath);
$finder = new DomXPath($dom);
$classname="my-class";
$nodes = $finder->query("//*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' $classname ')]");

Basically, all we do here is normalize the class attribute so that even a single class is bounded by spaces, and the complete class list is bounded in spaces. Then append the class we are searching for with a space. This way we are effectively looking for and find only instances of my-class .


Use an xpath selector?

$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->load($filePath);
$finder = new DomXPath($dom);
$classname="my-class";
$nodes = $finder->query("//*[contains(@class, '$classname')]");

If it is only ever one type of element you can replace the * with the particular tagname.

If you need to do a lot of this with very complex selector I would recommend Zend_Dom_Query which supports CSS selector syntax (a la jQuery):

$finder = new Zend_Dom_Query($html);
$classname = 'my-class';
$nodes = $finder->query("*[class~=\"$classname\"]");

How to remove responsive features in Twitter Bootstrap 3?

This is explained in the official Bootstrap 3 release docs:

Steps to disable responsive views

To disable responsive features, follow these steps. See it in action in the modified template below.

  1. Remove (or just don't add) the viewport <meta> mentioned in the CSS docs
  2. Remove the max-width on the .container for all grid tiers with max-width: none !important; and set a regular width like width: 970px;. Be sure that this comes after the default Bootstrap CSS. You can optionally avoid the !important with media queries or some selector-fu.
  3. If using navbars, undo all the navbar collapsing and expanding behavior (this is too much to show here, so peep the example).
  4. For grid layouts, make use of .col-xs-* classes in addition to or in place of the medium/large ones. Don't worry, the extra-small device grid scales up to all resolutions, so you're set there.

You'll still need Respond.js for IE8 (since our media queries are still there and need to be picked up). This just disables the "mobile site" of Bootstrap.

See also the example on GetBootstrap.com/examples/non-responsive/

How to get distinct results in hibernate with joins and row-based limiting (paging)?

You can achieve the desired result by requesting a list of distinct ids instead of a list of distinct hydrated objects.

Simply add this to your criteria:

criteria.setProjection(Projections.distinct(Projections.property("id")));

Now you'll get the correct number of results according to your row-based limiting. The reason this works is because the projection will perform the distinctness check as part of the sql query, instead of what a ResultTransformer does which is to filter the results for distinctness after the sql query has been performed.

Worth noting is that instead of getting a list of objects, you will now get a list of ids, which you can use to hydrate objects from hibernate later.

How to change the background-color of jumbrotron?

I think another way to do it is to use in-line css, just add your background-color in the html code

<div class="jumbotron" style="background-color:blue;">
    <h3>Piece of text</h3>
</div>

Node.js EACCES error when listening on most ports

I got this error on my mac because it ran the apache server by default using the same port as the one used by the node server which in my case was the port 80. All I had to do is stop it with sudo apachectl stop

Hope this helps someone.

Crystal Reports for VS2012 - VS2013 - VS2015 - VS2017 - VS2019

This post is right from SAP on Sep 20, 2012.

In short, they are still working on a release of Crystal Reports that will support VS2012 (including support for Windows 8) It will come in the form of a service pack release that updates the version currently supporting VS2010. At that time they will drop 2010/2012 from the name and simply call it Crystal Reports Developer.

If you want to download that version you can find it here.

Further, service packs etc. when released can be found here.


I would also add that I am currently using Visual Studio 2012. As long as you don't edit existing reports they continue to compile and work fine. Even on Windows 8. When I need to modify a report I can still open the project with VS2010, do my work, save my changes, and then switch back to 2012. It's a little bit of a pain but the ability for VS2010 and VS2012 to co-exist is nice in this regard. I'm also using TFS2012 and so far it hasn't had a problem with me modifying files in 2010 on a "2012" solution.

Ubuntu apt-get unable to fetch packages

This can be caused by the use of a proxy as well. Check if you have proxy definitions in the /etc/environment file:

cat /etc/environment

If you have anything with http_proxy or https_proxy upper or lower case then unset each of them.

message box in jquery

Jquery .on('scroll') not firing the event while scrolling

You probably forgot to give # before id for id selector, you need to give # before id ie is ulId

You problably need to bind scroll event on div that contains the ul and scrolls. You need to bind the event with div instead of ul

$(document).on( 'scroll', '#idOfDivThatContainsULandScroll', function(){
    console.log('Event Fired');
});

Edit

The above would not work because the scroll event does not bubble up in DOM which is used for event delegation, see this question why doesn't delegate work for scroll?

But with modern browsers > IE 8 you can do it by other way. Instead of delegating by using jquery you can do it using event capturing with java script document.addEventListener, with the third argument as true; see how bubbling and capturing work in this tuturial.

Live Demo

document.addEventListener('scroll', function (event) {
    if (event.target.id === 'idOfUl') { // or any other filtering condition        
        console.log('scrolling', event.target);
    }
}, true /*Capture event*/);

If you do not need event delegation then you can bind scroll event directly to the ul instead of delegating it through document.

Live Demo

$("#idOfUl").on( 'scroll', function(){
   console.log('Event Fired');
});

HTML5 Number Input - Always show 2 decimal places

This works to enforce a max of 2 decimal places without automatically rounding to 2 places if the user isn't finished typing.

function naturalRound(e) {

   let dec = e.target.value.indexOf(".")
   let tooLong = e.target.value.length > dec + 3
   let invalidNum = isNaN(parseFloat(e.target.value))

   if ((dec >= 0 && tooLong) || invalidNum) {
     e.target.value = e.target.value.slice(0, -1)
   }
}

How to set DOM element as the first child?

2018 version - prepend

parent.prepend(newChild)  // [newChild, child1, child2]

This is modern JS! It is more readable than previous options. It is currently available in Chrome, FF, and Opera.

The equivalent for adding to the end is append, replacing the old appendChild

parent.append(newChild)  // [child1, child2, newChild]

Advanced usage

  1. You can pass multiple values (or use spread operator ...).
  2. Any string value will be added as a text element.

Examples:

parent.prepend(newChild, "foo")   // [newChild, "foo", child1, child2]

const list = ["bar", newChild]
parent.append(...list, "fizz")    // [child1, child2, "bar", newChild, "fizz"]

Related DOM methods

  1. Read More - child.before and child.after
  2. Read More - child.replaceWith

Mozilla Documentation

Can I Use

Debugging the error "gcc: error: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory"

I was getting the error “gcc: error: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory” as I was trying to build a simple c-extension module to run in Python. I tried all the things above to no avail, and finally realized that I had an error in my module.c code! So I thought it would be helpful to add that, if you are getting this error message but you have python-dev and everything correctly installed, you should look for issues in your code.

Difference between Select Unique and Select Distinct

  1. Unique was the old syntax while Distinct is the new syntax,which is now the Standard sql.
  2. Unique creates a constraint that all values to be inserted must be different from the others. An error can be witnessed if one tries to enter a duplicate value. Distinct results in the removal of the duplicate rows while retrieving data.
  3. Example: SELECT DISTINCT names FROM student ;

    CREATE TABLE Persons ( Id varchar NOT NULL UNIQUE, Name varchar(20) );

What are App Domains in Facebook Apps?

it stands for your website where your app is running on. like you have made an app www.xyz.pqr then you will type this www.xyz.pqr in App domain the site where your app is running on should be secure and valid

Why doesn't Java support unsigned ints?

Reading between the lines, I think the logic was something like this:

  • generally, the Java designers wanted to simplify the repertoire of data types available
  • for everyday purposes, they felt that the most common need was for signed data types
  • for implementing certain algorithms, unsigned arithmetic is sometimes needed, but the kind of programmers that would be implementing such algorithms would also have the knowledge to "work round" doing unsigned arithmetic with signed data types

Mostly, I'd say it was a reasonable decision. Possibly, I would have:

  • made byte unsigned, or at least have provided a signed/unsigned alternatives, possibly with different names, for this one data type (making it signed is good for consistency, but when do you ever need a signed byte?)
  • done away with 'short' (when did you last use 16-bit signed arithmetic?)

Still, with a bit of kludging, operations on unsigned values up to 32 bits aren't tooo bad, and most people don't need unsigned 64-bit division or comparison.

SyntaxError: missing ; before statement

I got this error, hope this will help someone:

const firstName = 'Joe';
const lastName = 'Blogs';
const wholeName = firstName + ' ' lastName + '.';

The problem was that I was missing a plus (+) between the empty space and lastName. This is a super simplified example: I was concatenating about 9 different parts so it was hard to spot the error.

Summa summarum: if you get "SyntaxError: missing ; before statement", don't look at what is wrong with the the semicolon (;) symbols in your code, look for an error in syntax on that line.

Oracle: how to set user password unexpire?

While applying the new profile to the user,you should also check for resource limits are "turned on" for the database as a whole i.e.RESOURCE_LIMIT = TRUE

Let check the parameter value.
If in Case it is :

SQL> show parameter resource_limit
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ---------
resource_limit                       boolean     FALSE
Its mean resource limit is off,we ist have to enable it. 

Use the ALTER SYSTEM statement to turn on resource limits. 

SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET RESOURCE_LIMIT = TRUE;
System altered.

Convert `List<string>` to comma-separated string

The following will result in a comma separated list. Be sure to include a using statement for System.Linq

List<string> ls = new List<string>();
ls.Add("one");
ls.Add("two");
string type = ls.Aggregate((x,y) => x + "," + y);

will yield one,two

if you need a space after the comma, simply change the last line to string type = ls.Aggregate((x,y) => x + ", " + y);

Creating temporary files in Android

Best practices on internal and external temporary files:

Internal Cache

If you'd like to cache some data, rather than store it persistently, you should use getCacheDir() to open a File that represents the internal directory where your application should save temporary cache files.

When the device is low on internal storage space, Android may delete these cache files to recover space. However, you should not rely on the system to clean up these files for you. You should always maintain the cache files yourself and stay within a reasonable limit of space consumed, such as 1MB. When the user uninstalls your application, these files are removed.

External Cache

To open a File that represents the external storage directory where you should save cache files, call getExternalCacheDir(). If the user uninstalls your application, these files will be automatically deleted.

Similar to ContextCompat.getExternalFilesDirs(), mentioned above, you can also access a cache directory on a secondary external storage (if available) by calling ContextCompat.getExternalCacheDirs().

Tip: To preserve file space and maintain your app's performance, it's important that you carefully manage your cache files and remove those that aren't needed anymore throughout your app's lifecycle.

C multi-line macro: do/while(0) vs scope block

Andrey Tarasevich provides the following explanation:

  1. On Google Groups
  2. On bytes.com

[Minor changes to formatting made. Parenthetical annotations added in square brackets []].

The whole idea of using 'do/while' version is to make a macro which will expand into a regular statement, not into a compound statement. This is done in order to make the use of function-style macros uniform with the use of ordinary functions in all contexts.

Consider the following code sketch:

if (<condition>)
  foo(a);
else
  bar(a);

where foo and bar are ordinary functions. Now imagine that you'd like to replace function foo with a macro of the above nature [named CALL_FUNCS]:

if (<condition>)
  CALL_FUNCS(a);
else
  bar(a);

Now, if your macro is defined in accordance with the second approach (just { and }) the code will no longer compile, because the 'true' branch of if is now represented by a compound statement. And when you put a ; after this compound statement, you finished the whole if statement, thus orphaning the else branch (hence the compilation error).

One way to correct this problem is to remember not to put ; after macro "invocations":

if (<condition>)
  CALL_FUNCS(a)
else
  bar(a);

This will compile and work as expected, but this is not uniform. The more elegant solution is to make sure that macro expand into a regular statement, not into a compound one. One way to achieve that is to define the macro as follows:

#define CALL_FUNCS(x) \
do { \
  func1(x); \
  func2(x); \
  func3(x); \
} while (0)

Now this code:

if (<condition>)
  CALL_FUNCS(a);
else
  bar(a);

will compile without any problems.

However, note the small but important difference between my definition of CALL_FUNCS and the first version in your message. I didn't put a ; after } while (0). Putting a ; at the end of that definition would immediately defeat the entire point of using 'do/while' and make that macro pretty much equivalent to the compound-statement version.

I don't know why the author of the code you quoted in your original message put this ; after while (0). In this form both variants are equivalent. The whole idea behind using 'do/while' version is not to include this final ; into the macro (for the reasons that I explained above).

What is the right way to POST multipart/form-data using curl?

I had a hard time sending a multipart HTTP PUT request with curl to a Java backend. I simply tried

curl -X PUT URL \
   --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------BOUNDARY' \
   --data-binary @file

and the content of the file was

-----------BOUNDARY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name1"
Content-Type: application/xml;version=1.0;charset=UTF-8

<xml>content</xml>
-----------BOUNDARY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name2"
Content-Type: text/plain

content
-----------BOUNDARY--

but I always got an error that the boundary was incorrect. After some Java backend debugging I found out that the Java implementation was adding a \r\n-- as a prefix to the boundary, so after changing my input file to

                          <-- here's the CRLF
-------------BOUNDARY       <-- added '--' at the beginning
...
-------------BOUNDARY       <-- added '--' at the beginning
...
-------------BOUNDARY--     <-- added '--' at the beginning

everything works fine!

tl;dr

Add a newline (CRLF \r\n) at the beginning of the multipart boundary content and -- at the beginning of the boundaries and try again.

Maybe you are sending a request to a Java backend that needs this changes in the boundary.

How do I use PHP namespaces with autoload?

I use this simple hack in one line:

spl_autoload_register(function($name){
        require_once 'lib/'.str_replace('\\','/',$name).'.php';
    });

phpmailer error "Could not instantiate mail function"

I was having this issue while sending files with regional characters in their names like: VeryRegiónal file - name.pdf.

The solution was to clear filename before attaching it to the email.

COLLATION 'utf8_general_ci' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'latin1'

Firstly run this query

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%char%';

You have character_set_server='latin1'

If so,go into your config file,my.cnf and add or uncomment these lines:

character-set-server = utf8
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci

Restart the server. Yes late to the party,just encountered the same issue.

PHP Warning: Module already loaded in Unknown on line 0

Comment out these two lines in php.ini

;extension=imagick.so
;extension="ixed.5.6.lin"

it should fix the issue.

Programmatically check Play Store for app updates

Apart from using JSoup, we can alternatively do pattern matching for getting the app version from playStore.

To match the latest pattern from google playstore ie <div class="BgcNfc">Current Version</div><span class="htlgb"><div><span class="htlgb">X.X.X</span></div> we first have to match the above node sequence and then from above sequence get the version value. Below is the code snippet for same:

    private String getAppVersion(String patternString, String inputString) {
        try{
            //Create a pattern
            Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternString);
            if (null == pattern) {
                return null;
            }

            //Match the pattern string in provided string
            Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(inputString);
            if (null != matcher && matcher.find()) {
                return matcher.group(1);
            }

        }catch (PatternSyntaxException ex) {

            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }


    private String getPlayStoreAppVersion(String appUrlString) {
        final String currentVersion_PatternSeq = "<div[^>]*?>Current\\sVersion</div><span[^>]*?>(.*?)><div[^>]*?>(.*?)><span[^>]*?>(.*?)</span>";
        final String appVersion_PatternSeq = "htlgb\">([^<]*)</s";
        String playStoreAppVersion = null;

        BufferedReader inReader = null;
        URLConnection uc = null;
        StringBuilder urlData = new StringBuilder();

        final URL url = new URL(appUrlString);
        uc = url.openConnection();
        if(uc == null) {
           return null;
        }
        uc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6");
        inReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
        if (null != inReader) {
            String str = "";
            while ((str = inReader.readLine()) != null) {
                           urlData.append(str);
            }
        }

        // Get the current version pattern sequence 
        String versionString = getAppVersion (currentVersion_PatternSeq, urlData.toString());
        if(null == versionString){ 
            return null;
        }else{
            // get version from "htlgb">X.X.X</span>
            playStoreAppVersion = getAppVersion (appVersion_PatternSeq, versionString);
        }

        return playStoreAppVersion;
    }

I got it solved through this, as this works for latest Google playstore changes also. Hope that helps.

Transpose list of lists

import numpy as np
r = list(map(list, np.transpose(l)))

IndentationError: unexpected indent error

While the indentation errors are obvious in the StackOverflow page, they may not be in your editor. You have a mix of different indentation types here, 1, 4 and 8 spaces. You should always use four spaces for indentation, as per PEP8. You should also avoid mixing tabs and spaces.

I also recommend that you try to run your script using the '-tt' command-line option to determine when you accidentally mix tabs and spaces. Of course any decent editor will be able to highlight tabs versus spaces (such as Vim's 'list' option).

HTML.HiddenFor value set

Strange but, Try with @Value , capital "V"

e.g. (working on MVC4)

@Html.HiddenFor(m => m.Id, new { @Value = Model.Id })

Update:

Found that @Value (capital V) is creating another attribute with "Value" along with "value", using small @value seems to be working too!

Need to check the MVC source code to find more.


Update, After going through how it works internally:

First of all forget all these workarounds (I have kept in for the sake of continuity here), now looks silly :)

Basically, it happens when a model is posted and the model is returned back to same page.

The value is accessed (and formed into html) in InputHelper method (InputExtensions.cs) using following code fragment

string attemptedValue = (string)htmlHelper.GetModelStateValue(fullName, typeof(string));

The GetModelStateValue method (in Htmlelper.cs) retrieves the value as

ViewData.ModelState.TryGetValue(key, out modelState)

Here is the issue, since the value is accessed from ViewData.ModelState dictionary. This returns the value posted from the page instead of modified value!!

i.e. If your posted value of the variable (e.g. Person.Id) is 0 but you set the value inside httpPost action (e.g. Person.Id = 2), the ModelState still retains the old value "0" and the attemptedValue contains "0" ! so the field in rendered page will contain "0" as value!!

Workaround if you are returning model to same page : Clear the item from ModelState,

e.g.

ModelState.Remove("Id"); 

This will remove the item from dictionary and the ViewData.ModelState.TryGetValue(key, out modelState) returns null, and the next statement (inside InputExtensions.cs) takes the actual value (valueParameter) passed to HiddenFor(m => m.Id)

this is done in the following line in InputExtensions.cs

tagBuilder.MergeAttribute("value", attemptedValue ?? ((useViewData) ? htmlHelper.EvalString(fullName, format) : valueParameter), isExplicitValue);

Summary:

Clear the item in ModelState using:

ModelState.Remove("...");

Hope this is helpful.

socket programming multiple client to one server

Here is code for Multiple Client to one Server Working Fine .. Give it a try :)

Server.java:

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

class Multi extends Thread{
private Socket s=null;
DataInputStream infromClient;
Multi() throws IOException{


}
Multi(Socket s) throws IOException{
    this.s=s;
    infromClient = new DataInputStream(s.getInputStream());
}
public void run(){  

    String SQL=new String();
    try {
        SQL = infromClient.readUTF();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(Multi.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }
    System.out.println("Query: " + SQL); 
    try {
        System.out.println("Socket Closing");
        s.close();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(Multi.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
       }
   }  
}
public class Server {

public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, 
InterruptedException{   

    while(true){
        ServerSocket ss=new ServerSocket(11111);
        System.out.println("Server is Awaiting"); 
        Socket s=ss.accept();
        Multi t=new Multi(s);
        t.start();

        Thread.sleep(2000);
        ss.close();
    }    




    }   
}

Client1.java:

 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
 import java.net.Socket;


public class client1 {
   public static void main(String[] arg) {
  try {

     Socket socketConnection = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 11111);


     //QUERY PASSING
     DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(socketConnection.getOutputStream());

     String SQL="I  am  client 1";
     outToServer.writeUTF(SQL);


  } catch (Exception e) {System.out.println(e); }
   }
}

Client2.java

import java.io.DataOutputStream; 
import java.net.Socket;


public class client2 {
    public static void main(String[] arg) {
  try {

     Socket socketConnection = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 11111);


     //QUERY PASSING
     DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(socketConnection.getOutputStream());

     String SQL="I am  Client 2";
     outToServer.writeUTF(SQL);


  } catch (Exception e) {System.out.println(e); }
   }
 }

What are the main differences between JWT and OAuth authentication?

JWT (JSON Web Tokens)- It is just a token format. JWT tokens are JSON encoded data structures contains information about issuer, subject (claims), expiration time etc. It is signed for tamper proof and authenticity and it can be encrypted to protect the token information using symmetric or asymmetric approach. JWT is simpler than SAML 1.1/2.0 and supported by all devices and it is more powerful than SWT(Simple Web Token).

OAuth2 - OAuth2 solve a problem that user wants to access the data using client software like browse based web apps, native mobile apps or desktop apps. OAuth2 is just for authorization, client software can be authorized to access the resources on-behalf of end user using access token.

OpenID Connect - OpenID Connect builds on top of OAuth2 and add authentication. OpenID Connect add some constraint to OAuth2 like UserInfo Endpoint, ID Token, discovery and dynamic registration of OpenID Connect providers and session management. JWT is the mandatory format for the token.

CSRF protection - You don't need implement the CSRF protection if you do not store token in the browser's cookie.

How do I check if a column is empty or null in MySQL?

SELECT column_name FROM table_name WHERE column_name IN (NULL, '')

How to style the UL list to a single line

Try experimenting with something like this also:

HTML

 <ul class="inlineList">
   <li>She</li>
   <li>Needs</li>
   <li>More Padding, Captain!</li>
 </ul>

CSS

 .inlineList {
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: row;
   /* Below sets up your display method: flex-start|flex-end|space-between|space-around */
   justify-content: flex-start; 
   /* Below removes bullets and cleans white-space */
   list-style: none;
   padding: 0;
   /* Bonus: forces no word-wrap */
   white-space: nowrap;
 }
 /* Here, I got you started.
 li {
   padding-top: 50px;
   padding-bottom: 50px;
   padding-left: 50px;
   padding-right: 50px;
 }
 */

I made a codepen to illustrate: http://codepen.io/agm1984/pen/mOxaEM

Converting VS2012 Solution to VS2010

Open the project file and not the solution. The project will be converted by the Wizard, and after converted, when you build the project, a new Solution will be generated as a VS2010 one.

What does it mean: The serializable class does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field?

The reasons for warning are documented here, and the simple fixes are to turn off the warning or put the following declaration in your code to supply the version UID. The actual value is not relevant, start with 999 if you like, but changing it when you make incompatible changes to the class is.

public class HelloWorldSwing extends JFrame {

        JTextArea m_resultArea = new JTextArea(6, 30);
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

What charset does Microsoft Excel use when saving files?

You can create CSV file using encoding UTF8 + BOM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark).

First three bytes are BOM (0xEF,0xBB,0xBF) and then UTF8 content.

Using HTTPS with REST in Java

Here's the painful route:

    SSLContext ctx = null;
    try {
        KeyStore trustStore;
        trustStore = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
        trustStore.load(new FileInputStream("C:\\truststore_client"),
                "asdfgh".toCharArray());
        TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory
                .getInstance("SunX509");
        tmf.init(trustStore);
        ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
        ctx.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);
    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    } catch (KeyStoreException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (CertificateException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (KeyManagementException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    ClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
    config.getProperties().put(HTTPSProperties.PROPERTY_HTTPS_PROPERTIES,
            new HTTPSProperties(null, ctx));

    WebResource service = Client.create(config).resource(
            "https://localhost:9999/");
    service.addFilter(new HTTPBasicAuthFilter(username, password));

    // Attempt to view the user's page.
    try {
        service.path("user/" + username).get(String.class);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Gotta love those six different caught exceptions :). There are certainly some refactoring to simplify the code a bit. But, I like delfuego's -D options on the VM. I wish there was a javax.net.ssl.trustStore static property that I could just set. Just two lines of code and done. Anyone know where that would be?

This may be too much to ask, but, ideally the keytool would not be used. Instead, the trustedStore would be created dynamically by the code and the cert is added at runtime.

There must be a better answer.

How to configure static content cache per folder and extension in IIS7?

You can do it on a per file basis. Use the path attribute to include the filename

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <location path="YourFileNameHere.xml">
        <system.webServer>
            <staticContent>
                <clientCache cacheControlMode="DisableCache" />
            </staticContent>
        </system.webServer>
    </location>
</configuration>

How to detect scroll direction

var mousewheelevt = (/Firefox/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) ? "DOMMouseScroll" : "mousewheel" //FF doesn't recognize mousewheel as of FF3.x
$(document).bind(mousewheelevt, 
function(e)
    {
        var evt = window.event || e //equalize event object     
        evt = evt.originalEvent ? evt.originalEvent : evt; //convert to originalEvent if possible               
        var delta = evt.detail ? evt.detail*(-40) : evt.wheelDelta //check for detail first, because it is used by Opera and FF
        if(delta > 0) 
            {
            scrollup();
            }
        else
            {
            scrolldown();
            }   
    }
);

Date to milliseconds and back to date in Swift

@Prashant Tukadiya answer works. But if you want to save the value in UserDefaults and then compare it to other date you get yout int64 truncated so it can cause problems. I found a solution.

Swift 4:

You can save int64 as string in UserDefaults:

let value: String(Date().millisecondsSince1970)
let stringValue = String(value)
UserDefaults.standard.set(stringValue, forKey: "int64String")

Like that you avoid Int truncation.

And then you can recover the original value:

let int64String = UserDefaults.standard.string(forKey: "int64String")
let originalValue = Int64(int64String!)

This allow you to compare it with other date values:

let currentTime = Date().millisecondsSince1970
let int64String = UserDefaults.standard.string(forKey: "int64String")
let originalValue = Int64(int64String!) ?? 0 

if currentTime < originalValue {
     return false
} else {
     return true
}

Hope this helps someone who has same problem

What is the definition of "interface" in object oriented programming

In Programming, an interface defines what the behavior a an object will have, but it will not actually specify the behavior. It is a contract, that will guarantee, that a certain class can do something.

Consider this piece of C# code here:

using System;

public interface IGenerate
{
    int Generate();
}

// Dependencies
public class KnownNumber : IGenerate
{
    public int Generate() 
    {
        return 5;
    }   
}

public class SecretNumber : IGenerate
{
    public int Generate()
    {
        return new Random().Next(0, 10);
    }
}

// What you care about
class Game
{
    public Game(IGenerate generator) 
    {
        Console.WriteLine(generator.Generate())
    }
}

new Game(new SecretNumber());
new Game(new KnownNumber());

The Game class requires a secret number. For the sake of testing it, you would like to inject what will be used as a secret number (this principle is called Inversion of Control).

The game class wants to be "open minded" about what will actually create the random number, therefore it will ask in its constructor for "anything, that has a Generate method".

First, the interface specifies, what operations an object will provide. It just contains what it looks like, but no actual implementation is given. This is just the signature of the method. Conventionally, in C# interfaces are prefixed with an I. The classes now implement the IGenerate Interface. This means that the compiler will make sure, that they both have a method, that returns an int and is called Generate. The game now is being called two different object, each of which implementant the correct interface. Other classes would produce an error upon building the code.

Here I noticed the blueprint analogy you used:

A class is commonly seen as a blueprint for an object. An Interface specifies something that a class will need to do, so one could argue that it indeed is just a blueprint for a class, but since a class does not necessarily need an interface, I would argue that this metaphor is breaking. Think of an interface as a contract. The class that "signs it" will be legally required (enforced by the compiler police), to comply to the terms and conditions in the contract. This means that it will have to do, what is specified in the interface.

This is all due to the statically typed nature of some OO languages, as it is the case with Java or C#. In Python on the other hand, another mechanism is used:

import random

# Dependencies
class KnownNumber(object):
    def generate(self):
        return 5

class SecretNumber(object):
    def generate(self):
        return random.randint(0,10)

# What you care about
class SecretGame(object):
    def __init__(self, number_generator):
        number = number_generator.generate()
        print number

Here, none of the classes implement an interface. Python does not care about that, because the SecretGame class will just try to call whatever object is passed in. If the object HAS a generate() method, everything is fine. If it doesn't: KAPUTT! This mistake will not be seen at compile time, but at runtime, so possibly when your program is already deployed and running. C# would notify you way before you came close to that.

The reason this mechanism is used, naively stated, because in OO languages naturally functions aren't first class citizens. As you can see, KnownNumber and SecretNumber contain JUST the functions to generate a number. One does not really need the classes at all. In Python, therefore, one could just throw them away and pick the functions on their own:

# OO Approach
SecretGame(SecretNumber())
SecretGame(KnownNumber())

# Functional Approach

# Dependencies
class SecretGame(object):
    def __init__(self, generate):
        number =  generate()
        print number

SecretGame(lambda: random.randint(0,10))
SecretGame(lambda: 5)

A lambda is just a function, that was declared "in line, as you go". A delegate is just the same in C#:

class Game
{
    public Game(Func<int> generate) 
    {
        Console.WriteLine(generate())
    }
}    

new Game(() => 5);
new Game(() => new Random().Next(0, 10));

Side note: The latter examples were not possible like this up to Java 7. There, Interfaces were your only way of specifying this behavior. However, Java 8 introduced lambda expressions so the C# example can be converted to Java very easily (Func<int> becomes java.util.function.IntSupplier and => becomes ->).

SameSite warning Chrome 77

Fixed by adding crossorigin to the script tag.

From: https://code.jquery.com/

<script
  src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"
  integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo="
  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

The integrity and crossorigin attributes are used for Subresource Integrity (SRI) checking. This allows browsers to ensure that resources hosted on third-party servers have not been tampered with. Use of SRI is recommended as a best-practice, whenever libraries are loaded from a third-party source. Read more at srihash.org

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot (forward | sendRedirect | create session) after response has been committed

Bump...

I just had the same error. I noticed that I was invoking super.doPost(request, response); when overriding the doPost() method as well as explicitly invoking the superclass constructor

    public ScheduleServlet() {
        super();
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

As soon as I commented out the super.doPost(request, response); from within doPost() statement it worked perfectly...

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

        //super.doPost(request, response);
        // More code here...

}

Needless to say, I need to re-read on super() best practices :p

How to extract numbers from a string in Python?

@jmnas, I liked your answer, but it didn't find floats. I'm working on a script to parse code going to a CNC mill and needed to find both X and Y dimensions that can be integers or floats, so I adapted your code to the following. This finds int, float with positive and negative vals. Still doesn't find hex formatted values but you could add "x" and "A" through "F" to the num_char tuple and I think it would parse things like '0x23AC'.

s = 'hello X42 I\'m a Y-32.35 string Z30'
xy = ("X", "Y")
num_char = (".", "+", "-")

l = []

tokens = s.split()
for token in tokens:

    if token.startswith(xy):
        num = ""
        for char in token:
            # print(char)
            if char.isdigit() or (char in num_char):
                num = num + char

        try:
            l.append(float(num))
        except ValueError:
            pass

print(l)

Why is vertical-align:text-top; not working in CSS

The vertical-align attribute is for inline elements only. It will have no effect on block level elements, like a div. Also text-top only moves the text to the top of the current font size. If you would like to vertically align an inline element to the top just use this.

vertical-align: top;

The paragraph tag is not outdated. Also, the vertical-align attribute applied to a span element may not display as intended in some mozilla browsers.

adb remount permission denied, but able to access super user in shell -- android

Some newer builds require the following additional adb commands to be run first

adb root
adb disable-verity
adb reboot

Then

adb root
adb remount

Cannot issue data manipulation statements with executeQuery()

If you're using spring boot, just add an @Modifying annotation.

@Modifying
@Query
(value = "UPDATE user SET middleName = 'Mudd' WHERE id = 1", nativeQuery = true)
void updateMiddleName();

The default for KeyValuePair

I recommend more understanding way using extension method:

public static class KeyValuePairExtensions
{
    public static bool IsNull<T, TU>(this KeyValuePair<T, TU> pair)
    {
        return pair.Equals(new KeyValuePair<T, TU>());
    }
}

And then just use:

var countries = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
    {"cz", "prague"},
    {"de", "berlin"}
};

var country = countries.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Key == "en");

if(country.IsNull()){

}

Check if a string is a date value

Here is an improved function that uses only Date.parse():

function isDate(s) {
    if(isNaN(s) && !isNaN(Date.parse(s)))
        return true;
    else return false;
}

Note: Date.parse() will parse numbers: for example Date.parse(1) will return a date. So here we check if s is not a number the, if it is a date.

What is CDATA in HTML?

A way to write a common subset of HTML and XHTML

In the hope of greater portability.

In HTML, <script> is magic escapes everything until </script> appears.

So you can write:

<script>x = '<br/>';

and <br/> won't be considered a tag.

This is why strings such as:

x = '</scripts>'

must be escaped like:

x = '</scri' + 'pts>'

See: Why split the <script> tag when writing it with document.write()?

But XML (and thus XHTML, which is a "subset" of XML, unlike HTML), doesn't have that magic: <br/> would be seen as a tag.

<![CDATA[ is the XHTML way to say:

don't parse any tags until the next ]]>, consider it all a string

The // is added to make the CDATA work well in HTML as well.

In HTML <![CDATA[ is not magic, so it would be run by JavaScript. So // is used to comment it out.

The XHTML also sees the //, but will observe it as an empty comment line which is not a problem:

//

That said:

  • compliant browsers should recognize if the document is HTML or XHTML from the initial doctype <!DOCTYPE html> vs <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
  • compliant websites could rely on compliant browsers, and coordinate doctype with a single valid script syntax

But that violates the golden rule of the Internet:

don't trust third parties, or your product will break

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.

VBA - If a cell in column A is not blank the column B equals

Use the function IF :

=IF ( logical_test, value_if_true, value_if_false )

How to replace master branch in Git, entirely, from another branch?

I found this to be the best way of doing this (I had an issue with my server not letting me delete).

On the server that hosts the origin repository, type the following from a directory inside the repository:

git config receive.denyDeleteCurrent ignore

On your workstation:

git branch -m master vabandoned                 # Rename master on local
git branch -m newBranch master                  # Locally rename branch newBranch to master
git push origin :master                         # Delete the remote's master
git push origin master:refs/heads/master        # Push the new master to the remote
git push origin abandoned:refs/heads/abandoned  # Push the old master to the remote

Back on the server that hosts the origin repository:

git config receive.denyDeleteCurrent true

Credit to the author of blog post http://www.mslinn.com/blog/?p=772

How to declare a constant in Java

final means that the value cannot be changed after initialization, that's what makes it a constant. static means that instead of having space allocated for the field in each object, only one instance is created for the class.

So, static final means only one instance of the variable no matter how many objects are created and the value of that variable can never change.

How to check the multiple permission at single request in Android M?

First initialize permission request code

public  static final int PERMISSIONS_MULTIPLE_REQUEST = 123;

Check android version

 private void checkAndroidVersion() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
        checkPermission();

    } else {
        // write your logic here
    }

}

check multiple permission code

 private void checkPermission() {
    if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(getActivity(),
            Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) + ContextCompat
            .checkSelfPermission(getActivity(),
                    Manifest.permission.CAMERA)
            != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {

        if (ActivityCompat.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale
                (getActivity(), Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) ||
                ActivityCompat.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale
                        (getActivity(), Manifest.permission.CAMERA)) {

      Snackbar.make(getActivity().findViewById(android.R.id.content),
                    "Please Grant Permissions to upload profile photo",
                    Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE).setAction("ENABLE",
                    new View.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(View v) {
                            requestPermissions(
                                    new String[]{Manifest.permission
                                            .READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, Manifest.permission.CAMERA},
                                    PERMISSIONS_MULTIPLE_REQUEST);
                        }
                    }).show();
        } else {
            requestPermissions(
                    new String[]{Manifest.permission
                            .READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, Manifest.permission.CAMERA},
                    PERMISSIONS_MULTIPLE_REQUEST);
        }
    } else {
        // write your logic code if permission already granted
    }
}

call back method after grant permission by user

@Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode,
                                       @NonNull String[] permissions, @NonNull int[] grantResults) {

    switch (requestCode) {
        case PERMISSIONS_MULTIPLE_REQUEST:
            if (grantResults.length > 0) {
               boolean cameraPermission = grantResults[1] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED;
               boolean readExternalFile = grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED;

                if(cameraPermission && readExternalFile)
                {
                    // write your logic here 
                } else {
                    Snackbar.make(getActivity().findViewById(android.R.id.content),
                        "Please Grant Permissions to upload profile photo",
                        Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE).setAction("ENABLE",
                        new View.OnClickListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onClick(View v) {
                                requestPermissions(
                                        new String[]{Manifest.permission
                                                .READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, Manifest.permission.CAMERA},
                                        PERMISSIONS_MULTIPLE_REQUEST);
                            }
                        }).show();
                }
           }
           break;
    }
}

Delete all items from a c++ std::vector

Is v.clear() not working for some reason?

Performing a Stress Test on Web Application?

Blaze meter has a chrome extension for recording sessions and exporting them to JMeter (currently requires login). You also have the option of paying them money to run it on their cluster of JMeter servers (their pricing seems much better than LoadImpact which I've just stopped using):

I don't have any association with them, I just like the look of their service, although I haven't used the paid version yet.

How to allow <input type="file"> to accept only image files?

Use it like this

<input type="file" accept=".png, .jpg, .jpeg" />

It worked for me

https://jsfiddle.net/ermagrawal/5u4ftp3k/

SSIS package creating Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Login timeout expired" error

I had a similar error..This might be due to two reasons. a) If you have used variables, re-evaluate the expressions in which variables are used and make sure the expression is evaluated without errors. b) If you are deleting the excel sheet and creating excel sheet on the fly in your package.

Installing PIL with pip

I tried all the answers, but failed. Directly get the source from the official site and then build install success.

  1. Go to the site http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/#pil117
  2. Click "Python Imaging Library 1.1.7 Source Kit" to download the source
  3. tar xf Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz
  4. cd Imaging-1.1.7
  5. sudo python setup.py install

How to add a button to UINavigationBar?

Sample code to set the rightbutton on a NavigationBar.

UIBarButtonItem *rightButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Done" 
    style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:nil action:nil];
UINavigationItem *item = [[UINavigationItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title"];
item.rightBarButtonItem = rightButton;
item.hidesBackButton = YES;
[bar pushNavigationItem:item animated:NO];

But normally you would have a NavigationController, enabling you to write:

UIBarButtonItem *rightButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Done"
    style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:nil action:nil];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightButton;

How to run a single test with Mocha?

Depending on your usage pattern, you might just like to use only. We use the TDD style; it looks like this:

test.only('Date part of valid Partition Key', function (done) {
    //...
}

Only this test will run from all the files/suites.

MongoDB SELECT COUNT GROUP BY

Starting in MongoDB 3.4, you can use the $sortByCount aggregation.

Groups incoming documents based on the value of a specified expression, then computes the count of documents in each distinct group.

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregation/sortByCount/

For example:

db.contest.aggregate([
    { $sortByCount: "$province" }
]);

What are the git concepts of HEAD, master, origin?

I highly recommend the book "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon. Take time and really read it, while exploring an actual git repo as you do.

HEAD: the current commit your repo is on. Most of the time HEAD points to the latest commit in your current branch, but that doesn't have to be the case. HEAD really just means "what is my repo currently pointing at".

In the event that the commit HEAD refers to is not the tip of any branch, this is called a "detached head".

master: the name of the default branch that git creates for you when first creating a repo. In most cases, "master" means "the main branch". Most shops have everyone pushing to master, and master is considered the definitive view of the repo. But it's also common for release branches to be made off of master for releasing. Your local repo has its own master branch, that almost always follows the master of a remote repo.

origin: the default name that git gives to your main remote repo. Your box has its own repo, and you most likely push out to some remote repo that you and all your coworkers push to. That remote repo is almost always called origin, but it doesn't have to be.

HEAD is an official notion in git. HEAD always has a well-defined meaning. master and origin are common names usually used in git, but they don't have to be.

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol (C++)

That means that the definition of your function is not present in your program. You forgot to add that one.cpp to your program.

What "to add" means in this case depends on your build environment and its terminology. In MSVC (since you are apparently use MSVC) you'd have to add one.cpp to the project.

In more practical terms, applicable to all typical build methodologies, when you link you program, the object file created form one.cpp is missing.

Getting the actual usedrange

This function gives all 4 limits of the used range:

Function FindUsedRangeLimits()
    Set Sheet = ActiveSheet
    Sheet.UsedRange.Select

    ' Display the range's rows and columns.
    row_min = Sheet.UsedRange.Row
    row_max = row_min + Sheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count - 1
    col_min = Sheet.UsedRange.Column
    col_max = col_min + Sheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count - 1

    MsgBox "Rows " & row_min & " - " & row_max & vbCrLf & _
           "Columns: " & col_min & " - " & col_max
    LastCellBeforeBlankInColumn = True
End Function

Random alpha-numeric string in JavaScript?

Use md5 library: https://github.com/blueimp/JavaScript-MD5

The shortest way:

md5(Math.random())

If you want to limit the size to 5:

md5(Math.random()).substr(0, 5)

Using HTML5/Canvas/JavaScript to take in-browser screenshots

Heres an example using: getDisplayMedia

document.body.innerHTML = '<video style="width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 1px black solid;"/>';

navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia()
.then( mediaStream => {
  const video = document.querySelector('video');
  video.srcObject = mediaStream;
  video.onloadedmetadata = e => {
    video.play();
    video.pause();
  };
})
.catch( err => console.log(`${err.name}: ${err.message}`));

Also worth checking out is the Screen Capture API docs.