Programs & Examples On #Rhino security

Rhino Security is a row level security framework for NHibernate.

Storing query results into a variable and modifying it inside a Stored Procedure

Yup, this is possible of course. Here are several examples.

-- one way to do this
DECLARE @Cnt int

SELECT @Cnt = COUNT(SomeColumn)
FROM TableName
GROUP BY SomeColumn

-- another way to do the same thing
DECLARE @StreetName nvarchar(100)
SET @StreetName = (SELECT Street_Name from Streets where Street_ID = 123)

-- Assign values to several variables at once
DECLARE @val1 nvarchar(20)
DECLARE @val2 int
DECLARE @val3 datetime
DECLARE @val4 uniqueidentifier
DECLARE @val5 double

SELECT @val1 = TextColumn,
@val2 = IntColumn,
@val3 = DateColumn,
@val4 = GuidColumn,
@val5 = DoubleColumn
FROM SomeTable

Getting the minimum of two values in SQL

Use Case:

   Select Case When @PaidThisMonth < @OwedPast 
               Then @PaidThisMonth Else @OwedPast End PaidForPast

As Inline table valued UDF

CREATE FUNCTION Minimum
(@Param1 Integer, @Param2 Integer)
Returns Table As
Return(Select Case When @Param1 < @Param2 
                   Then @Param1 Else @Param2 End MinValue)

Usage:

Select MinValue as PaidforPast 
From dbo.Minimum(@PaidThisMonth, @OwedPast)

ADDENDUM: This is probably best for when addressing only two possible values, if there are more than two, consider Craig's answer using Values clause.

How to check heap usage of a running JVM from the command line?

For Java 8 you can use the following command line to get the heap space utilization in kB:

jstat -gc <PID> | tail -n 1 | awk '{split($0,a," "); sum=a[3]+a[4]+a[6]+a[8]; print sum}'

The command basically sums up:

  • S0U: Survivor space 0 utilization (kB).
  • S1U: Survivor space 1 utilization (kB).
  • EU: Eden space utilization (kB).
  • OU: Old space utilization (kB).

You may also want to include the metaspace and the compressed class space utilization. In this case you have to add a[10] and a[12] to the awk sum.

Git ignore local file changes

If you dont want your local changes, then do below command to ignore(delete permanently) the local changes.

  • If its unstaged changes, then do checkout (git checkout <filename> or git checkout -- .)
  • If its staged changes, then first do reset (git reset <filename> or git reset) and then do checkout (git checkout <filename> or git checkout -- .)
  • If it is untracted files/folders (newly created), then do clean (git clean -fd)

If you dont want to loose your local changes, then stash it and do pull or rebase. Later merge your changes from stash.

  • Do git stash, and then get latest changes from repo git pull orign master or git rebase origin/master, and then merge your changes from stash git stash pop stash@{0}

Is there a way to make AngularJS load partials in the beginning and not at when needed?

If you use Grunt to build your project, there is a plugin that will automatically assemble your partials into an Angular module that primes $templateCache. You can concatenate this module with the rest of your code and load everything from one file on startup.

https://npmjs.org/package/grunt-html2js

Kill all processes for a given user

The following kills all the processes created by this user:

kill  -9  -1

Moving from one activity to another Activity in Android

First you have to declare the activity in Manifest. It is important. You can add this inside application like this.

Get generic type of java.util.List

Generally impossible, because List<String> and List<Integer> share the same runtime class.

You might be able to reflect on the declared type of the field holding the list, though (if the declared type does not itself refer to a type parameter whose value you don't know).

Ruby: Easiest Way to Filter Hash Keys?

With Hash::select:

params = params.select { |key, value| /^choice\d+$/.match(key.to_s) }

How to Set the Background Color of a JButton on the Mac OS

If you are not required to use Apple's look and feel, a simple fix is to put the following code in your application or applet, before you add any GUI components to your JFrame or JApplet:

 try {
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel( UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName() );
 } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
 }

That will set the look and feel to the cross-platform look and feel, and the setBackground() method will then work to change a JButton's background color.

Getting 404 Not Found error while trying to use ErrorDocument

The ErrorDocument directive, when supplied a local URL path, expects the path to be fully qualified from the DocumentRoot. In your case, this means that the actual path to the ErrorDocument is

ErrorDocument 404 /hellothere/error/404page.html

How can I exclude a directory from Visual Studio Code "Explore" tab?

tl;dr

  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + P or Command + Shift + P on mac
  2. Type "Workspace settings".
  3. Change exclude settings either via the GUI or in settings.json:

GUI way

  1. Type "exclude" to the search bar.
  2. Click the "Add Pattern" button. Add exclude pattern in VS Code settings

Code way

  1. Click on the little {} icon at the top right corner to open the settings.json: Click brackets icon to open settings.json
  2. Add excluded folders to files.exclude. Also check out search.exclude and files.watcherExclude as they might be useful too. This snippet contains their explanations and defaults:

    {
      // Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders. 
      // For example, the files explorer decides which files and folders to show 
      // or hide based on this setting. 
      // Read more about glob patterns [here](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_advanced-search-options).
      "files.exclude": {
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true
      },
      // Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders in searches. 
      // Inherits all glob patterns from the `files.exclude` setting.   
      // Read more about glob patterns [here](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_advanced-search-options).
      "search.exclude": {
        "**/node_modules": true,
        "**/bower_components": true
      },
      // Configure glob patterns of file paths to exclude from file watching. 
      // Patterns must match on absolute paths 
      // (i.e. prefix with ** or the full path to match properly). 
      // Changing this setting requires a restart. 
      // When you experience Code consuming lots of cpu time on startup, 
      // you can exclude large folders to reduce the initial load.
      "files.watcherExclude": {
        "**/.git/objects/**": true,
        "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
        "**/node_modules/*/**": true
      }
    }
    

For more details on the other settings, see the official settings.json reference.

How do I know the script file name in a Bash script?

Re: Tanktalus's (accepted) answer above, a slightly cleaner way is to use:

me=$(readlink --canonicalize --no-newline $0)

If your script has been sourced from another bash script, you can use:

me=$(readlink --canonicalize --no-newline $BASH_SOURCE)

I agree that it would be confusing to dereference symlinks if your objective is to provide feedback to the user, but there are occasions when you do need to get the canonical name to a script or other file, and this is the best way, imo.

How do I merge dictionaries together in Python?

You can use the .update() method if you don't need the original d2 any more:

Update the dictionary with the key/value pairs from other, overwriting existing keys. Return None.

E.g.:

>>> d1 = {'a': 1, 'b': 2} 
>>> d2 = {'b': 1, 'c': 3}
>>> d2.update(d1)
>>> d2
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2}

Update:

Of course you can copy the dictionary first in order to create a new merged one. This might or might not be necessary. In case you have compound objects (objects that contain other objects, like lists or class instances) in your dictionary, copy.deepcopy should also be considered.

PLS-00201 - identifier must be declared

When creating the TABLE under B2BOWNER, be sure to prefix the PL/SQL function with the Schema name; i.e. B2BOWNER.F_SSC_Page_Map_Insert.

I did not realize this until the DBAs pointed it out. I could have created the table under my root USER/SCHEMA and the PL/SQL function would have worked fine.

A project with an Output Type of Class Library cannot be started directly

The project you downloaded is a class library. Which can't be started.

Add a new project which can be started (console app, win forms, what ever you want) and add a reference to the class library project to be able to "play with it".

And set this new project as "Startup project"

Changing Java Date one hour back

To subtract hours, you need to use the HOUR_OF_DAY constant. Within that, include the number with the negative sign. This would be the hours you want to reduce. All this is done under the Calendar add() method.

The following is an example:

import java.util.Calendar;
public class Example {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
   Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
     System.out.println("Date : " + c.getTime());
       // 2 hours subtracted
   c.add(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, -2);
   System.out.println("After subtracting 2 hrs : " + c.getTime());
 }
}

Here is the output:

Date : Sun Dec 16 16:28:53 UTC 2018
After subtracting 2 hrs : Sun Dec 16 14:28:53 UTC 2018

PostgreSQL psql terminal command

Use \x Example from postgres manual:

    postgres=# \x
    postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_stat_statements ORDER BY total_time DESC LIMIT 3;
    -[ RECORD 1 ]------------------------------------------------------------
    userid     | 10
    dbid       | 63781
    query      | UPDATE branches SET bbalance = bbalance + $1 WHERE bid = $2;
    calls      | 3000
    total_time | 20.716706
    rows       | 3000
    -[ RECORD 2 ]------------------------------------------------------------
    userid     | 10
    dbid       | 63781
    query      | UPDATE tellers SET tbalance = tbalance + $1 WHERE tid = $2;
    calls      | 3000
    total_time | 17.1107649999999
    rows       | 3000
    -[ RECORD 3 ]------------------------------------------------------------
    userid     | 10
    dbid       | 63781
    query      | UPDATE accounts SET abalance = abalance + $1 WHERE aid = $2;
    calls      | 3000
    total_time | 0.645601
    rows       | 3000

Send a file via HTTP POST with C#

To send the raw file only:

using(WebClient client = new WebClient()) {
    client.UploadFile(address, filePath);
}

If you want to emulate a browser form with an <input type="file"/>, then that is harder. See this answer for a multipart/form-data answer.

What does the PHP error message "Notice: Use of undefined constant" mean?

you probably forgot to use "".

For exemple:

$_array[text] = $_var;

change to:

$_array["text"] = $_var;

Submit form without reloading page

You can't do this using forms the normal way. Instead, you want to use AJAX.

A sample function that will submit the data and alert the page response.

function submitForm() {
    var http = new XMLHttpRequest();
    http.open("POST", "<<whereverTheFormIsGoing>>", true);
    http.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    var params = "search=" + <<get search value>>; // probably use document.getElementById(...).value
    http.send(params);
    http.onload = function() {
        alert(http.responseText);
    }
}

Replace \n with <br />

thatLine = thatLine.replace('\n', '<br />')

str.replace() returns a copy of the string, it doesn't modify the string you pass in.

Total memory used by Python process?

Using sh and os to get into python bayer's answer.

float(sh.awk(sh.ps('u','-p',os.getpid()),'{sum=sum+$6}; END {print sum/1024}'))

Answer is in megabytes.

How do I upload a file with the JS fetch API?

To submit a single file, you can simply use the File object from the input's .files array directly as the value of body: in your fetch() initializer:

const myInput = document.getElementById('my-input');

// Later, perhaps in a form 'submit' handler or the input's 'change' handler:
fetch('https://example.com/some_endpoint', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: myInput.files[0],
});

This works because File inherits from Blob, and Blob is one of the permissible BodyInit types defined in the Fetch Standard.

The import org.apache.commons cannot be resolved in eclipse juno

The mentioned package/classes are not present in the compiletime classpath. Basically, Java has no idea what you're talking about when you say to import this and that. It can't find them in the classpath.

It's part of Apache Commons FileUpload. Just download the JAR and drop it in /WEB-INF/lib folder of the webapp project and this error should disappear. Don't forget to do the same for Apache Commons IO, that's where FileUpload depends on, otherwise you will get the same problem during runtime.


Unrelated to the concrete problem, I see that you're using Tomcat 7, which is a Servlet 3.0 compatible container. Do you know that you can just use the new request.getPart() method to obtain the uploaded file without the need for the whole Commons FileUpload stuff? Just add @MultipartConfig annotation to the servlet class so that you can use it. See also How to upload files to server using JSP/Servlet?

SSIS Excel Import Forcing Incorrect Column Type

  1. Click File on the ribbon menu, and then click on Options.
  2. Click Advanced, and then under When calculating this workbook, select the Set precision as displayed check box, and then click OK.

  3. Click OK.

  4. In the worksheet, select the cells that you want to format.

  5. On the Home tab, click the Dialog Box Launcher Button image next to Number.

  6. In the Category box, click Number.

  7. In the Decimal places box, enter the number of decimal places that you want to display.

HEAD and ORIG_HEAD in Git

HEAD is (direct or indirect, i.e. symbolic) reference to the current commit. It is a commit that you have checked in the working directory (unless you made some changes, or equivalent), and it is a commit on top of which "git commit" would make a new one. Usually HEAD is symbolic reference to some other named branch; this branch is currently checked out branch, or current branch. HEAD can also point directly to a commit; this state is called "detached HEAD", and can be understood as being on unnamed, anonymous branch.

And @ alone is a shortcut for HEAD, since Git 1.8.5

ORIG_HEAD is previous state of HEAD, set by commands that have possibly dangerous behavior, to be easy to revert them. It is less useful now that Git has reflog: HEAD@{1} is roughly equivalent to ORIG_HEAD (HEAD@{1} is always last value of HEAD, ORIG_HEAD is last value of HEAD before dangerous operation).

For more information read git(1) manpage / [gitrevisions(7) manpage][git-revisions], Git User's Manual, the Git Community Book and Git Glossary

React-Router open Link in new tab

In React Router version 5.0.1 and above, you can use:

<Link to="route" target="_blank" onClick={(event) => {event.preventDefault(); window.open(this.makeHref("route"));}} />

Updating the value of data attribute using jQuery

$('.toggle img').data('block', 'something');
$('.toggle img').attr('src', 'something.jpg');

Use jQuery.data and jQuery.attr.

I'm showing them to you separately for the sake of understanding.

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at

Move the session_start(); to top of the page always.

<?php
@ob_start();
session_start();
?>

Failed loading english.pickle with nltk.data.load

you just need to go to python console and type->

import nltk

press enter and retype->

nltk.download()

and then a interface will come. Just search for download button and press it. It will install all the required items and will take time. Give the time and just try it again. Your problem will get solved

How to get current user, and how to use User class in MVC5?

I feel your pain, I'm trying to do the same thing. In my case I just want to clear the user.

I've created a base controller class that all my controllers inherit from. In it I override OnAuthentication and set the filterContext.HttpContext.User to null

That's the best I've managed to far...

public abstract class ApplicationController : Controller   
{
    ...
    protected override void OnAuthentication(AuthenticationContext filterContext)
    {
        base.OnAuthentication(filterContext); 

        if ( ... )
        {
            // You may find that modifying the 
            // filterContext.HttpContext.User 
            // here works as desired. 
            // In my case I just set it to null
            filterContext.HttpContext.User = null;
        }
    }
    ...
}

Programmatically navigate using react router V4

Step 1: There is only one thing to import on top:

import {Route} from 'react-router-dom';

Step 2: In your Route, pass the history:

<Route
  exact
  path='/posts/add'
  render={({history}) => (
    <PostAdd history={history} />
  )}
/>

Step 3: history gets accepted as part of props in the next Component, so you can simply:

this.props.history.push('/');

That was easy and really powerful.

Access index of last element in data frame

It may be too late now, I use index method to retrieve last index of a DataFrame, then use [-1] to get the last values:

For example,

df = pd.DataFrame(np.zeros((4, 1)), columns=['A'])
print(f'df:\n{df}\n')

print(f'Index = {df.index}\n')
print(f'Last index = {df.index[-1]}')

The output is

df:
     A
0  0.0
1  0.0
2  0.0
3  0.0

Index = RangeIndex(start=0, stop=4, step=1)

Last index = 3

JPQL SELECT between date statement

public List<Student> findStudentByReports(Date startDate, Date endDate) {
    System.out.println("call findStudentMethd******************with this pattern"
                    + startDate
                    + endDate
                    + "*********************************************");

    return em
            .createQuery(
                    "' select attendence from Attendence attendence where attendence.admissionDate BETWEEN : startDate '' AND endDate ''"
                            + "'")
            .setParameter("startDate", startDate, TemporalType.DATE)
            .setParameter("endDate", endDate, TemporalType.DATE)
            .getResultList();

}

How to concat string + i?

according to this it looks like you have to set "N" before trying to use it and it looks like it needs to be an int not string? Don't know much bout MatLab but just what i gathered from that site..hope it helps :)

Variable might not have been initialized error

because of your a and b variable is not have been initialized. You must initialized this variables for excample if you declare this variable like this int a=0; int b=0; than your code run without error.

What is the best IDE for PHP?

Why Dreamweaver - 2? For current work I prefer Dreamweaver rather than another editor. I have tried a lot of editors, but in the end I stick with Dreamweaver.

How to make the corners of a button round?

Create file myButton.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <solid android:color="@color/colorButton"/>
    <corners android:radius="10dp"/>
</shape>

add to your button

 <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/myButton"/>

How to put a div in center of browser using CSS?

.center {
  margin: auto;
  margin-top: 15vh;
}

Should do the trick

How to replace a string in an existing file in Perl?

Anything wrong with a one-liner?

$ perl -pi.bak -e 's/blue/red/g' *_classification.dat

Explanation

  • -p processes, then prints <> line by line
  • -i activates in-place editing. Files are backed up using the .bak extension
  • The regex substitution acts on the implicit variable, which are the contents of the file, line-by-line

Clone private git repo with dockerfile

Above solutions did not work for bitbucket. I figured this does the trick:

RUN ssh-keyscan bitbucket.org >> /root/.ssh/known_hosts \
    && eval `ssh-agent` \
    && ssh-add ~/.ssh/[key] \
    && git clone [email protected]:[team]/[repo].git

How to create a JQuery Clock / Timer

Just used the @Uday answer code and build a reverse clock of hr:mm

Was just playing, so thought if anyone would might need this, so sharing the fiddle in comments (Dnt know why stackover flow is not allowing me to paste the link here)

Where does pip install its packages?

pip list -v can be used to list packages' install locations, introduced in https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#b1-2018-03-31

Show install locations when list command ran with “-v” option. (#979)

>pip list -v
Package                  Version   Location                                                             Installer
------------------------ --------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------
alabaster                0.7.12    c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
apipkg                   1.5       c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
argcomplete              1.10.3    c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
astroid                  2.3.3     c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
...

This feature is introduced in pip 10.0.0b1. On Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), pip or pip3 installed with sudo apt install python-pip or sudo apt install python3-pip is 9.0.1 which doesn't have this feature.

Check https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for suitable ways of upgrading pip or pip3.

Should I use window.navigate or document.location in JavaScript?

I'd go with window.location = "http://...";. I've been coding cross-browser JavaScript for a few years, and I've never experienced problems using this approach.

window.navigate and window.location.href seems a bit odd to me.

Giving my function access to outside variable

$myArr = array();

function someFuntion(array $myArr) {
    $myVal = //some processing here to determine value of $myVal
    $myArr[] = $myVal;

    return $myArr;
}

$myArr = someFunction($myArr);

Difference between char* and const char*?

The question is what's the difference between

char *name

which points to a constant string literal, and

const char *cname

I.e. given

char *name = "foo";

and

const char *cname = "foo";

There is not much difference between the 2 and both can be seen as correct. Due to the long legacy of C code, the string literals have had a type of char[], not const char[], and there are lots of older code that likewise accept char * instead of const char *, even when they do not modify the arguments.

The principal difference of the 2 in general is that *cname or cname[n] will evaluate to lvalues of type const char, whereas *name or name[n] will evaluate to lvalues of type char, which are modifiable lvalues. A conforming compiler is required to produce a diagnostics message if target of the assignment is not a modifiable lvalue; it need not produce any warning on assignment to lvalues of type char:

name[0] = 'x'; // no diagnostics *needed*
cname[0] = 'x'; // a conforming compiler *must* produce a diagnostic message

The compiler is not required to stop the compilation in either case; it is enough that it produces a warning for the assignment to cname[0]. The resulting program is not a correct program. The behaviour of the construct is undefined. It may crash, or even worse, it might not crash, and might change the string literal in memory.

Good way of getting the user's location in Android

I scoured the internet for an updated (past year) answer using the latest location pulling methods suggested by google (to use FusedLocationProviderClient). I finally landed on this:

https://github.com/googlesamples/android-play-location/tree/master/LocationUpdates

I created a new project and copied in most of this code. Boom. It works. And I think without any deprecated lines.

Also, the simulator doesn't seem to get a GPS location, that I know of. It did get as far as reporting this in the log: "All location settings are satisfied."

And finally, in case you wanted to know (I did), you DO NOT need a google maps api key from the google developer console, if all you want is the GPS location.

Also useful is their tutorial. But I wanted a full one page tutorial/code example, and that. Their tutorial stacks but is confusing when you're new to this because you don't know what pieces you need from earlier pages.

https://developer.android.com/training/location/index.html

And finally, remember things like this:

I not only had to modify the mainActivity.Java. I also had to modify Strings.xml, androidmanifest.xml, AND the correct build.gradle. And also your activity_Main.xml (but that part was easy for me).

I needed to add dependencies like this one: implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.8.0', and update the settings of my android studio SDK to include google play services. (file settings appearance system settings android SDK SDK Tools check google play services).

update: the android simulator did seem to get a location and location change events (when I changed the value in the settings of the sim). But my best and first results were on an actual device. So it's probably easiest to test on actual devices.

start/play embedded (iframe) youtube-video on click of an image

This should work perfect just copy this div code

<div onclick="thevid=document.getElementById('thevideo'); thevid.style.display='block'; this.style.display='none'">
<img style="cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://oi59.tinypic.com/33trpyo.jpg" />
</div>
<div id="thevideo" style="display: none;">
<embed width="631" height="466" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/26EpwxkU5js?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;autoplay=1" allowFullScreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" />
</div>

How to make rectangular image appear circular with CSS

Following worked for me:

CSS

.round {
  border-radius: 50%;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  background: no-repeat 50%;
  object-fit: cover;
}
.round img {
   display: block;
   height: 100%;
   width: 100%;
}

HTML

<div class="round">
   <img src="test.png" />
</div>

How different is Objective-C from C++?

While they are both rooted in C, they are two completely different languages.

A major difference is that Objective-C is focused on runtime-decisions for dispatching and heavily depends on its runtime library to handle inheritance and polymorphism, while in C++ the focus usually lies on static, compile time, decisions.

Regarding libraries, you can use plain C libraries in both languages - but their native libraries are completely different.

Of interest though is that you can mix both languages (with some limitations). The result is called Objective-C++.

Efficient SQL test query or validation query that will work across all (or most) databases

I use this one:

select max(table_catalog) as x from information_schema.tables

to check connection and ability to run queries (with 1 row as result) for postgreSQL, MySQL and MSSQL.

Spring: return @ResponseBody "ResponseEntity<List<JSONObject>>"

Instead of

return new ResponseEntity<JSONObject>(entities, HttpStatus.OK);

try

return new ResponseEntity<List<JSONObject>>(entities, HttpStatus.OK);

Check if a folder exist in a directory and create them using C#

    String path = Server.MapPath("~/MP_Upload/");
    if (!Directory.Exists(path))
    {
        Directory.CreateDirectory(path);
    }

wait process until all subprocess finish?

A Popen object has a .wait() method exactly defined for this: to wait for the completion of a given subprocess (and, besides, for retuning its exit status).

If you use this method, you'll prevent that the process zombies are lying around for too long.

(Alternatively, you can use subprocess.call() or subprocess.check_call() for calling and waiting. If you don't need IO with the process, that might be enough. But probably this is not an option, because your if the two subprocesses seem to be supposed to run in parallel, which they won't with (check_)call().)

If you have several subprocesses to wait for, you can do

exit_codes = [p.wait() for p in p1, p2]

which returns as soon as all subprocesses have finished. You then have a list of return codes which you maybe can evaluate.

How to change the Spyder editor background to dark?

For Spyder 3: In case you don't find Preferences under Tools > Preferences, thats probably because Preferences is pinned onto your tool bar by default Preferences in Tool Bar

How do I remove the blue styling of telephone numbers on iPhone/iOS?

This x-ms-format-detection="none" attribute handle the format phone.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn337007(v=vs.85).aspx

<p id="phone-text" x-ms-format-detection="none"  >Call us on <strong>+44 (0)20 7194 8000</strong></p>

Get index of a row of a pandas dataframe as an integer

The nature of wanting to include the row where A == 5 and all rows upto but not including the row where A == 8 means we will end up using iloc (loc includes both ends of slice).

In order to get the index labels we use idxmax. This will return the first position of the maximum value. I run this on a boolean series where A == 5 (then when A == 8) which returns the index value of when A == 5 first happens (same thing for A == 8).

Then I use searchsorted to find the ordinal position of where the index label (that I found above) occurs. This is what I use in iloc.

i5, i8 = df.index.searchsorted([df.A.eq(5).idxmax(), df.A.eq(8).idxmax()])
df.iloc[i5:i8]

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numpy

you can further enhance this by using the underlying numpy objects the analogous numpy functions. I wrapped it up into a handy function.

def find_between(df, col, v1, v2):
    vals = df[col].values
    mx1, mx2 = (vals == v1).argmax(), (vals == v2).argmax()
    idx = df.index.values
    i1, i2 = idx.searchsorted([mx1, mx2])
    return df.iloc[i1:i2]

find_between(df, 'A', 5, 8)

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timing
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Removing legend on charts with chart.js v2

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

Remove legend

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

Remove Tooltip

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

Here is a working fiddler.

How to remove first and last character of a string?

This will gives you basic idea

    String str="";
    String str1="";
    Scanner S=new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter the string");
    str=S.nextLine();
    int length=str.length();
    for(int i=0;i<length;i++)
    {
        str1=str.substring(1, length-1);
    }
    System.out.println(str1);

differences between using wmode="transparent", "opaque", or "window" for an embedded object on a webpage

Here is some weak adobe documentation on different flash 9 wmode settings.

A note of caution on wmode transparent is here in the adobe bug trac.

And new for flash 10, are two new wmodes: gpu and direct. Please refer to Adobe Knowledge Base about wmode.

Replace text in HTML page with jQuery

Check out Padolsey's article on DOM find and replace, as well as the library to implement the described algorithm.

In this sample usage, I replace all text inside a <div id="content"> that looks like a US telephone number with a tel: scheme link:

findAndReplaceDOMText(document.getElementById('content'), {
    find:/\b(\d\d\d-\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)\b/g,
    replace:function (portion) {
        var a = document.createElement('a');
        a.className = 'telephone';
        a.href = 'tel:' + portion.text.replace(/\D/g, '');
        a.textContent = portion.text;
        return a;
    }
});

Detect whether a Python string is a number or a letter

For a string of length 1 you can simply perform isdigit() or isalpha()

If your string length is greater than 1, you can make a function something like..

def isinteger(a):
    try:
        int(a)
        return True
    except ValueError:
        return False

time data does not match format

I had the exact same error but with slightly different format and root-cause, and since this is the first Q&A that pops up when you search for "time data does not match format", I thought I'd leave the mistake I made for future viewers:

My initial code:

start = datetime.strptime('05-SEP-19 00.00.00.000 AM', '%d-%b-%y %I.%M.%S.%f %p')

Where I used %I to parse the hours and %p to parse 'AM/PM'.

The error:

ValueError: time data '05-SEP-19 00.00.00.000000 AM' does not match format '%d-%b-%y %I.%M.%S.%f %p'

I was going through the datetime docs and finally realized in 12-hour format %I, there is no 00... once I changed 00.00.00 to 12.00.00, the problem was resolved.

So it's either 01-12 using %I with %p, or 00-23 using %H.

Save bitmap to location

Save Bitmap to your Gallery Without Compress.

private File saveBitMap(Context context, Bitmap Final_bitmap) {
    File pictureFileDir = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES), "Your Folder Name");
    if (!pictureFileDir.exists()) {
        boolean isDirectoryCreated = pictureFileDir.mkdirs();
        if (!isDirectoryCreated)
            Log.i("TAG", "Can't create directory to save the image");
        return null;
    }
    String filename = pictureFileDir.getPath() + File.separator + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".jpg";
    File pictureFile = new File(filename);
    try {
        pictureFile.createNewFile();
        FileOutputStream oStream = new FileOutputStream(pictureFile);
        Final_bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, oStream);
        oStream.flush();
        oStream.close();
        Toast.makeText(Full_Screen_Activity.this, "Save Image Successfully..", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        Log.i("TAG", "There was an issue saving the image.");
    }
    scanGallery(context, pictureFile.getAbsolutePath());
    return pictureFile;
}
private void scanGallery(Context cntx, String path) {
    try {
        MediaScannerConnection.scanFile(cntx, new String[]{path}, null, new MediaScannerConnection.OnScanCompletedListener() {
            public void onScanCompleted(String path, Uri uri) {
                Toast.makeText(Full_Screen_Activity.this, "Save Image Successfully..", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        Log.i("TAG", "There was an issue scanning gallery.");
    }
}

Adding JPanel to JFrame

Your Test2 class is not a Component, it has a Component which is a difference.

Either you do something like

frame.add(test.getPanel() );

after you introduced a getter for the panel in your class, or you make sure your Test2 class becomes a Component (e.g. by extending a JPanel)

How to install a plugin in Jenkins manually

This is a way to copy plugins from one Jenkins box to another.

Copy over the plugins directory:

scp -r jenkins-box.url.com:/var/lib/jenkins/plugins .

Compress the plugins:

tar cvfJ plugins.tar.xz plugins

Copy them over to the other Jenkins box:

scp plugins.tar.xz different-jenkins-box.url.com
ssh different-jenkins-box.url.com "tar xvfJ plugins.tar.xz -C /var/lib/jenkins"

Restart Jenkins.

Escape double quotes in Java

Escaping the double quotes with backslashes is the only way to do this in Java.

Some IDEs around such as IntelliJ IDEA do this escaping automatically when pasting such a String into a String literal (i.e. between the double quotes surrounding a java String literal)

One other option would be to put the String into some kind of text file that you would then read at runtime

How to force garbage collection in Java?

Using the Java™ Virtual Machine Tool Interface (JVM TI), the function

jvmtiError ForceGarbageCollection(jvmtiEnv* env)

will "Force the VM to perform a garbage collection." The JVM TI is part of the JavaTM Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA).

Parameter binding on left joins with array in Laravel Query Builder

You don't have to bind parameters if you use query builder or eloquent ORM. However, if you use DB::raw(), ensure that you binding the parameters.

Try the following:

$array = array(1,2,3);       $query = DB::table('offers');             $query->select('id', 'business_id', 'address_id', 'title', 'details', 'value', 'total_available', 'start_date', 'end_date', 'terms', 'type', 'coupon_code', 'is_barcode_available', 'is_exclusive', 'userinformations_id', 'is_used');             $query->leftJoin('user_offer_collection', function ($join) use ($array)             {                 $join->on('user_offer_collection.offers_id', '=', 'offers.id')                       ->whereIn('user_offer_collection.user_id', $array);             });       $query->get(); 

When to use setAttribute vs .attribute= in JavaScript?

Interesting takeout from Google API script regarding this:

They do it like this:

var scriptElement = document.createElement("script");
scriptElement = setAttribute("src", "https://some.com");
scriptElement = setAttribute("nonce", "https://some.com");
scriptElement.async = "true";

Notice, how they use setAttribute for "src" and "nonce", but then .async = ... for "async" attribute.

I'm not 100% sure, but probably that's because "async" is only supported on browsers that support direct .attr = assignment. So, there's no sense trying to sestAttribute("async") because if browser doesn't understand .async=... - it will not understand "async" attribute.

Hopefully, that's a helpful insight from my ongoing "Un-minify GAPI" research project. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Deploying my application at the root in Tomcat

I know that my answer is kind of overlapping with some of the other answer, but this is a complete solution that has some advantages. This works on Tomcat 8:

  1. The main application is served from the root
  2. The deployment of war files through the web interface is maintained.
  3. The main application will run on port 80 while only the admins have access to the managment folders (I realize that *nix systems require superuser for binding to 80, but on windows this is not an issue).

This means that you only have to restart the tomcat once, and after updated war files can be deployed without a problem.

Step 1: In the server.xml file, find the connector entry and replace it with:

<Connector 
    port="8080"
    protocol="HTTP/1.1"
    connectionTimeout="20000"
    redirectPort="8443" />

<Connector
    port="80"
    protocol="HTTP/1.1"
    connectionTimeout="20000"
    redirectPort="8443" />

Step 2: Define contexts within the <Host ...> tag:

<Context path="/" docBase="CAS">
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
</Context>
<Context path="/ROOT" docBase="ROOT">
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
</Context>
<Context path="/manager" docBase="manager" privileged="true">
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
</Context>
<Context path="/host-manager" docBase="host-manager" privileged="true">
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
</Context>

Note that I addressed all apps in the webapp folder. The first effectively switch the root and the main app from position. ROOT is now on http://example.com/ROOT and the the main application is on http://example.com/. The webapps that are password protected require the privileged="true" attribute.

When you deploy a CAS.war file that matches with the root (<Context path="/" docBase="CAS"> you have to reload that one in the admin panel as it does not refresh with the deployment.

Do not include the <Context path="/CAS" docBase="CAS"> in your contexts as it disables the manager option to deploy war files. This means that you can access the app in two ways: http://example.com/ and http://example.com/APP/

Step 3: In order to prevent unwanted access to the root and manager folder, add a valve to those context tags like this:

<Context path="/manager" docBase="manager" privileged="true">
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
        addConnectorPort="true"
        allow="143\.21\.2\.\d+;8080|127\.0\.0\.1;8080|::1;8080|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1;8080"/>
</Context>

This essentially limits access to the admin web app folder to people from my own domain (fake IP address) and localhost when they use the default port 8080 and maintains the ability to dynamically deploy the war files through the web interface.

If you want to use this for multiple apps that are using different IP addresses, you can add the IP address to the connector (address="143.21.2.1").

If you want to run multiple web apps from the root, you can duplicate the Service tag (use a different name for the second) and change the docbase of the <Context path="/" docBase="CAS"> to for example <Context path="/" docBase="ICR">.

How to sort rows of HTML table that are called from MySQL

This is the most simple solution that use:

// Use this as first line upon load of page

$sort = $_GET['s'];

// Then simply sort according to that variable

$sql="SELECT * FROM tracks ORDER BY $sort";

echo '<tr>';
echo '<td><a href="report_tracks.php?s=title">Title</a><td>';
echo '<td><a href="report_tracks.php?s=album">Album</a><td>';
echo '<td><a href="report_tracks.php?s=artist">Artist</a><td>';
echo '<td><a href="report_tracks.php?s=count">Count</a><td>';
echo '</tr>';

How do I check if a SQL Server text column is empty?

DECLARE @temp as nvarchar(20)

SET @temp = NULL
--SET @temp = ''
--SET @temp = 'Test'

SELECT IIF(ISNULL(@temp,'')='','[Empty]',@temp)

Disabling same-origin policy in Safari

There is an option to disable cross-origin restrictions in Safari 9, different from local file restrictions as mentioned above.

Pandas unstack problems: ValueError: Index contains duplicate entries, cannot reshape

There's a far more simpler solution to tackle this.

The reason why you get ValueError: Index contains duplicate entries, cannot reshape is because, once you unstack "Location", then the remaining index columns "id" and "date" combinations are no longer unique.

You can avoid this by retaining the default index column (row #) and while setting the index using "id", "date" and "location", add it in "append" mode instead of the default overwrite mode.

So use,

e.set_index(['id', 'date', 'location'], append=True)

Once this is done, your index columns will still have the default index along with the set indexes. And unstack will work.

Let me know how it works out.

Add querystring parameters to link_to

In case you want to pass in a block, say, for a glyphicon button, as in the following:

<%= link_to my_url, class: "stuff" do %>
  <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-inbox></i> Nice glyph-button
<% end %>

Then passing querystrings params could be accomplished through:

<%= link_to url_for(params.merge(my_params: "value")), class: "stuff" do %>
  <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-inbox></i> Nice glyph-button
<% end %>

css transition opacity fade background

http://jsfiddle.net/6xJQq/13/

.container {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 5px; /*included padding to see background when img apacity is 100%*/
    background-color: black;
    opacity: 1;
}

.container:hover {
    background-color: red;
}

img {
    opacity: 1;
}

img:hover {
    opacity: 0.7;
}

.transition {
    transition: all .25s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: all .25s ease-in-out;
    -webkit-transition: all .25s  ease-in-out;
}

How to configure custom PYTHONPATH with VM and PyCharm?

To me the solution was to go to

Run > Edit Configuration > Defaults > Python

then manage the

  • "Add content roots to PYTHONPATH" and
  • "Add source root to PYTHONPATH"

checkboxes, as well as setting the "Working directory" field.

If you have set up your own Run/Debug Configurations then you might want to go to

Run > Edit Configuration > Python > [Whatever you called your config]

and edit it there.

My problem was that I wanted to have my whole repository included in my PyCharm 2016.2 project, but only a subfolder was the actual python source code root. I added it as "Source Root" by right clicking the folder then

Mark directory as > Source Root

Then unchecking "Add content roots to PYTHONPATH" and checking "Add source root to PYTHONPATH" in the Run/Debug config menu. I then checked the folder pathing by doing:

import sys
logger.info(sys.path)

This outputed:

[
    '/usr/local/my_project_root/my_sources_root', 
    '/usr/local/my_project_root/my_sources_root', 
    '/usr/lib/python3.4', '/usr/lib/python3.4/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', 
    '/usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload', 
    '/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages', 
    '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages'
]

However, without the fix it said:

[
    '/usr/local/my_project_root/my_sources_root', 
    '/usr/local/my_project_root',                   <-- NOT WANTED
    '/usr/lib/python3.4', 
    '/usr/lib/python3.4/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', 
    '/usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload', 
    '/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages', 
    '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages'
]

Which meant I got the project root folder included. This messed up the pathing for me.

How can I clear an HTML file input with JavaScript?

I changed to type text and back to type to file using setAttribute

'<input file-model="thefilePic" style="width:95%;" type="file" name="file" id="filepicture" accept="image/jpeg" />'

'var input=document.querySelector('#filepicture');'

if(input != null)
{
    input.setAttribute("type", "text");
    input.setAttribute("type", "file");
}

optional parameters in SQL Server stored proc?

2014 and above at least you can set a default and it will take that and NOT error when you do not pass that parameter. Partial Example: the 3rd parameter is added as optional. exec of the actual procedure with only the first two parameters worked fine

exec getlist 47,1,0

create procedure getlist
   @convId int,
   @SortOrder int,
   @contestantsOnly bit = 0
as

ByRef argument type mismatch in Excel VBA

I suspect you haven't set up last_name properly in the caller.

With the statement Worksheets(data_sheet).Range("C2").Value = ProcessString(last_name)

this will only work if last_name is a string, i.e.

Dim last_name as String

appears in the caller somewhere.

The reason for this is that VBA passes in variables by reference by default which means that the data types have to match exactly between caller and callee.

Two fixes:

1) Force ByVal -- Change your function to pass variable ByVal:
Public Function ProcessString(ByVal input_string As String) As String, or

2) Dim varname -- put Dim last_name As String in the caller before you use it.

(1) works because for ByVal, a copy of input_string is taken when passing to the function which will coerce it into the correct data type. It also leads to better program stability since the function cannot modify the variable in the caller.

Local file access with JavaScript

If you're deploying on Windows, the Windows Script Host offers a very useful JScript API to the file system and other local resources. Incorporating WSH scripts into a local web application may not be as elegant as you might wish, however.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

To avoid that exception, if you are using JUnit and Spring try adding this in every test class:

@DirtiesContext(classMode = DirtiesContext.ClassMode.AFTER_CLASS)

Quickest way to compare two generic lists for differences

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace YourProject.Extensions
{
    public static class ListExtensions
    {
        public static bool SetwiseEquivalentTo<T>(this List<T> list, List<T> other)
            where T: IEquatable<T>
        {
            if (list.Except(other).Any())
                return false;
            if (other.Except(list).Any())
                return false;
            return true;
        }
    }
}

Sometimes you only need to know if two lists are different, and not what those differences are. In that case, consider adding this extension method to your project. Note that your listed objects should implement IEquatable!

Usage:

public sealed class Car : IEquatable<Car>
{
    public Price Price { get; }
    public List<Component> Components { get; }

    ...
    public override bool Equals(object obj)
        => obj is Car other && Equals(other);

    public bool Equals(Car other)
        => Price == other.Price
            && Components.SetwiseEquivalentTo(other.Components);

    public override int GetHashCode()
        => Components.Aggregate(
            Price.GetHashCode(),
            (code, next) => code ^ next.GetHashCode()); // Bitwise XOR
}

Whatever the Component class is, the methods shown here for Car should be implemented almost identically.

It's very important to note how we've written GetHashCode. In order to properly implement IEquatable, Equals and GetHashCode must operate on the instance's properties in a logically compatible way.

Two lists with the same contents are still different objects, and will produce different hash codes. Since we want these two lists to be treated as equal, we must let GetHashCode produce the same value for each of them. We can accomplish this by delegating the hashcode to every element in the list, and using the standard bitwise XOR to combine them all. XOR is order-agnostic, so it doesn't matter if the lists are sorted differently. It only matters that they contain nothing but equivalent members.

Note: the strange name is to imply the fact that the method does not consider the order of the elements in the list. If you do care about the order of the elements in the list, this method is not for you!

How to cast Object to its actual type?

I don't think you can (not without reflection), you should provide a type to your function as well:

void MyMethod(Object obj, Type t)
{
    var convertedObject = Convert.ChangeType(obj, t);
    ...
}

UPD:

This may work for you:

void MyMethod(Object obj)
{
    if (obj is A)
    {
        A a = obj as A;
        ...
    } 
    else if (obj is B)
    {
        B b = obj as B;
        ...
    }
}

Java Keytool error after importing certificate , "keytool error: java.io.FileNotFoundException & Access Denied"

I even run the command prompt as Administrator but it didn't work for me with the below error.

'keytool' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
 operable program or batch file.

If the path to the keytool is not in your System paths then you will need to use the full path to use the keytool, which is

C:\Program Files\Java\jre<version>\bin

So, the command should be like

"C:\Program Files\Java\jre<version>\bin\keytool.exe" -importcert -alias certificateFileAlias -file CertificateFileName.cer -keystore cacerts

that worked for me.

Angularjs: Error: [ng:areq] Argument 'HomeController' is not a function, got undefined

In my case, I was missing the name of the Angular application in the html file. For example, I had included this file to be start of my application code. I had assumed it was being ran, but it wasn't.

app.module.js

(function () {
    'use strict';

    angular
        .module('app', [
        // Other dependencies here...
        ])
    ;

})();

However, when I declared the app in the html I had this:

index.html

<html lang="en" ng-app>

But to reference the Angular application by the name I used, I had to use:

index.html (Fixed)

<html lang="en" ng-app="app">

What is a handle in C++?

This appears in the context of the Handle-Body-Idiom, also called Pimpl idiom. It allows one to keep the ABI (binary interface) of a library the same, by keeping actual data into another class object, which is merely referenced by a pointer held in an "handle" object, consisting of functions that delegate to that class "Body".

It's also useful to enable constant time and exception safe swap of two objects. For this, merely the pointer pointing to the body object has to be swapped.

image processing to improve tesseract OCR accuracy

Adaptive thresholding is important if the lighting is uneven across the image. My preprocessing using GraphicsMagic is mentioned in this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tesseract-ocr/jONGSChLRv4

GraphicsMagic also has the -lat feature for Linear time Adaptive Threshold which I will try soon.

Another method of thresholding using OpenCV is described here: http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/doc/py_tutorials/py_imgproc/py_thresholding/py_thresholding.html

Appropriate datatype for holding percent values?

  • Hold as a decimal.
  • Add check constraints if you want to limit the range (e.g. between 0 to 100%; in some cases there may be valid reasons to go beyond 100% or potentially even into the negatives).
  • Treat value 1 as 100%, 0.5 as 50%, etc. This will allow any math operations to function as expected (i.e. as opposed to using value 100 as 100%).
  • Amend precision and scale as required (these are the two values in brackets columnName decimal(precision, scale). Precision says the total number of digits that can be held in the number, scale says how many of those are after the decimal place, so decimal(3,2) is a number which can be represented as #.##; decimal(5,3) would be ##.###.
  • decimal and numeric are essentially the same thing. However decimal is ANSI compliant, so always use that unless told otherwise (e.g. by your company's coding standards).

Example Scenarios

  • For your case (0.00% to 100.00%) you'd want decimal(5,4).
  • For the most common case (0% to 100%) you'd want decimal(3,2).
  • In both of the above, the check constraints would be the same

Example:

if object_id('Demo') is null
create table Demo
    (
        Id bigint not null identity(1,1) constraint pk_Demo primary key
        , Name nvarchar(256) not null constraint uk_Demo unique 
        , SomePercentValue decimal(3,2) constraint chk_Demo_SomePercentValue check (SomePercentValue between 0 and 1)
        , SomePrecisionPercentValue decimal(5,2) constraint chk_Demo_SomePrecisionPercentValue check (SomePrecisionPercentValue between 0 and 1)
    )

Further Reading:

SVG gradient using CSS

Thank you everyone, for all your precise replys.

Using the svg in a shadow dom, I add the 3 linear gradients I need within the svg, inside a . I place the css fill rule on the web component and the inheritance od fill does the job.

_x000D_
_x000D_
    <svg viewbox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
      <path
        d="m258 0c-45 0-83 38-83 83 0 45 37 83 83 83 45 0 83-39 83-84 0-45-38-82-83-82zm-85 204c-13 0-24 10-24 23v48c0 13 11 23 24 23h23v119h-23c-13 0-24 11-24 24l-0 47c0 13 11 24 24 24h168c13 0 24-11 24-24l0-47c0-13-11-24-24-24h-21v-190c0-13-11-23-24-23h-123z"></path>
    </svg>
    
    <svg height="0" width="0">
      <defs>
        <linearGradient id="lgrad-p" gradientTransform="rotate(75)"><stop offset="45%" stop-color="#4169e1"></stop><stop offset="99%" stop-color="#c44764"></stop></linearGradient>
        <linearGradient id="lgrad-s" gradientTransform="rotate(75)"><stop offset="45%" stop-color="#ef3c3a"></stop><stop offset="99%" stop-color="#6d5eb7"></stop></linearGradient>
        <linearGradient id="lgrad-g" gradientTransform="rotate(75)"><stop offset="45%" stop-color="#585f74"></stop><stop offset="99%" stop-color="#b6bbc8"></stop></linearGradient>
      </defs>
    </svg>
    
    <div></div>

    <style>
      :first-child {
        height:150px;
        width:150px;
        fill:url(#lgrad-p) blue;
      }
      div{
        position:relative;
        width:150px;
        height:150px;
        fill:url(#lgrad-s) red;
      }
    </style>
    <script>
      const shadow = document.querySelector('div').attachShadow({mode: 'open'});
      shadow.innerHTML="<svg viewbox=\"0 0 512 512\">\
        <path d=\"m258 0c-45 0-83 38-83 83 0 45 37 83 83 83 45 0 83-39 83-84 0-45-38-82-83-82zm-85 204c-13 0-24 10-24 23v48c0 13 11 23 24 23h23v119h-23c-13 0-24 11-24 24l-0 47c0 13 11 24 24 24h168c13 0 24-11 24-24l0-47c0-13-11-24-24-24h-21v-190c0-13-11-23-24-23h-123z\"></path>\
      </svg>\
      <svg height=\"0\">\
      <defs>\
        <linearGradient id=\"lgrad-s\" gradientTransform=\"rotate(75)\"><stop offset=\"45%\" stop-color=\"#ef3c3a\"></stop><stop offset=\"99%\" stop-color=\"#6d5eb7\"></stop></linearGradient>\
        <linearGradient id=\"lgrad-g\" gradientTransform=\"rotate(75)\"><stop offset=\"45%\" stop-color=\"#585f74\"></stop><stop offset=\"99%\" stop-color=\"#b6bbc8\"></stop></linearGradient>\
      </defs>\
    </svg>\
    ";
    </script>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

The first one is normal SVG, the second one is inside a shadow dom.

How do I escape only single quotes?

Use the native function htmlspecialchars. It will escape from all special character. If you want to escape from a quote specifically, use with ENT_COMPAT or ENT_QUOTES. Here is the example:

$str = "Jane & 'Tarzan'";
echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_COMPAT); // Will only convert double quotes
echo "<br>";

echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_QUOTES); // Converts double and single quotes
echo "<br>";

echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_NOQUOTES); // Does not convert any quotes

The output would be like this:

Jane &amp; 'Tarzan'<br>
Jane &amp; &#039;Tarzan&#039;<br>
Jane &amp; 'Tarzan'

Read more in PHP htmlspecialchars() Function

Android: I lost my android key store, what should I do?

As everyone has said, you definitely need the key. There's no workaround for that. However, you might be surprised at how good the data recovery software can be, and how long the key may linger on your systems -- it's a tiny, tiny file, after all, and may not yet be overwritten. I was pleasantly surprised on both counts.

I develop on an OSX machine. I unintentionally deleted my app key around 6 weeks ago. When I tried to update, I realized my schoolboy error. I tried all the recovery tools I could find for OSX, but none could find the file -- not because it wasn't there, but because these tools are optimized to find the sorts of files the majority of users want back (photos, Word docs, etc.). They're definitely not looking for a 1KB file with an unusual file signature.

Now this next part is going to sound like a plug, but it isn't -- I don't have any connection to the developers:

The only recover tool I found that worked was one called Data Rescue by Prosoft Engineering (which I believe works for other files systems as well -- not just HFS+). It worked because it has a feature which allows you to train it to look for any file type -- even an Android key. You give it several examples. (I generated a few keys, filling in the data fields in as like manner as possible to the original). You then tell it to "deep search". If you're lucky, you'll get your key back in the "custom files" section.

For me, it was a life saver.

It's $100 to purchase, so it's not cheap, but it's worth it if you've got a mass of users and no further means of feeding them updates.

I believe they allow you 1 free file recovery in demo mode, but, unfortunately, in my case, I had several keys and could not tell which one was the one I needed without recovering them all (file names are not preserved on HFS+).

Try it first in demo mode, you may get lucky and be able to recover the key without paying anything.

May this message help someone. It's a sickening feeling, I know, but there may be relief.

How can I reverse a list in Python?

The most direct translation of your requirement into Python is this for statement:

for i in xrange(len(array) - 1, -1, -1):
   print i, array[i]

This is rather cryptic but may be useful.

Grant Select on all Tables Owned By Specific User

yes, its possible, run this command:

lets say you have user called thoko

grant select any table, insert any table, delete any table, update any table to thoko;

note: worked on oracle database

Difference between window.location.href, window.location.replace and window.location.assign

The part about not being able to use the Back button is a common misinterpretation. window.location.replace(URL) throws out the top ONE entry from the page history list, by overwriting it with the new entry, so the user can't easily go Back to that ONE particular webpage. The function does NOT wipe out the entire page history list, nor does it make the Back button completely non-functional.

(NO function nor combination of parameters that I know of can change or overwrite history list entries that you don't own absolutely for certain - browsers generally impelement this security limitation by simply not even defining any operation that might at all affect any entry other than the top one in the page history list. I shudder to think what sorts of dastardly things malware might do if such a function existed.)

If you really want to make the Back button non-functional (probably not "user friendly": think again if that's really what you want to do), "open" a brand new window. (You can "open" a popup that doesn't even have a "Back" button too ...but popups aren't very popular these days:-) If you want to keep your page showing no matter what the user does (again the "user friendliness" is questionable), set up a window.onunload handler that just reloads your page all over again clear from the very beginning every time.

How to make ConstraintLayout work with percentage values?

As of "ConstraintLayout1.1.0-beta1" you can use percent to define widths & heights.

android:layout_width="0dp"
app:layout_constraintWidth_default="percent"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent=".4"

This will define the width to be 40% of the width of the screen. A combination of this and guidelines in percent allows you to create any percent-based layout you want.

Undefined reference to `sin`

I had the same problem, which went away after I listed my library last: gcc prog.c -lm

Count unique values using pandas groupby

This is just an add-on to the solution in case you want to compute not only unique values but other aggregate functions:

df.groupby(['group']).agg(['min','max','count','nunique'])

Hope you find it useful

How to convert seconds to time format?

If you were to hardcode it you would use modulus to extract the time as others suggested.

If you are returning the seconds from MySQL database, assuming you don't need the data in seconds format in your app, there is a much cleaner way to do it, you can use MySQL's SEC_TO_TIME and it will return time in hh:mm:ss format.

Eg.

SELECT SEC_TO_TIME(my_seconds_field) AS my_timestring;

Eclipse: The resource is not on the build path of a Java project

You can add the src folder to build path by:

  1. Select Java perspective.
  2. Right click on src folder.
  3. Select Build Path > Use a source folder.

And you are done. Hope this help.

EDIT: Refer to the Eclipse documentation

What is thread safe or non-thread safe in PHP?

For me, I always choose non-thread safe version because I always use nginx, or run PHP from the command line.

The non-thread safe version should be used if you install PHP as a CGI binary, command line interface or other environment where only a single thread is used.

A thread-safe version should be used if you install PHP as an Apache module in a worker MPM (multi-processing model) or other environment where multiple PHP threads run concurrently.

How can I revert a single file to a previous version?

Extracted from here: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Revert-a-single-commit-in-a-single-file-td6064050.html

 git revert <commit> 
 git reset 
 git add <path> 
 git commit ... 
 git reset --hard # making sure you didn't have uncommited changes earlier 

It worked very fine to me.

MySQL Error 1215: Cannot add foreign key constraint

For me, the 1215 error occurred when I was importing a dumpfile created by mysqldump, which creates the tables alphabetically, which in my case, caused foreign keys to reference tables created later in the file. (Props to this page for pointing it out: https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/04/06/dealing-mysql-error-code-1215-cannot-add-foreign-key-constraint/)

Since mysqldump orders tables alphabetically and I did not want to change the names of tables, I followed the instructions in the answer by JeremyWeir on this page, which states to put set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0; at the top of the dump file and put SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1; at the bottom of the dump file.

That solution worked for me.

CSS: Creating textured backgrounds

with latest CSS3 technology, it is possible to create textured background. Check this out: http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/#

but it still limited on so many aspect. And browser support is also not so ready.

your best bet is using small texture image and make repeat to that background. you could get some nice ready to use texture image here:

http://subtlepatterns.com

Insert a row to pandas dataframe

One way to achieve this is

>>> pd.DataFrame(np.array([[2, 3, 4]]), columns=['A', 'B', 'C']).append(df, ignore_index=True)
Out[330]: 
   A  B  C
0  2  3  4
1  5  6  7
2  7  8  9

Generally, it's easiest to append dataframes, not series. In your case, since you want the new row to be "on top" (with starting id), and there is no function pd.prepend(), I first create the new dataframe and then append your old one.

ignore_index will ignore the old ongoing index in your dataframe and ensure that the first row actually starts with index 1 instead of restarting with index 0.

Typical Disclaimer: Cetero censeo ... appending rows is a quite inefficient operation. If you care about performance and can somehow ensure to first create a dataframe with the correct (longer) index and then just inserting the additional row into the dataframe, you should definitely do that. See:

>>> index = np.array([0, 1, 2])
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A', 'B', 'C'], index=index)
>>> df2.loc[0:1] = [list(s1), list(s2)]
>>> df2
Out[336]: 
     A    B    C
0    5    6    7
1    7    8    9
2  NaN  NaN  NaN
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A', 'B', 'C'], index=index)
>>> df2.loc[1:] = [list(s1), list(s2)]

So far, we have what you had as df:

>>> df2
Out[339]: 
     A    B    C
0  NaN  NaN  NaN
1    5    6    7
2    7    8    9

But now you can easily insert the row as follows. Since the space was preallocated, this is more efficient.

>>> df2.loc[0] = np.array([2, 3, 4])
>>> df2
Out[341]: 
   A  B  C
0  2  3  4
1  5  6  7
2  7  8  9

An "and" operator for an "if" statement in Bash

Try this:

if [ $STATUS -ne 200 -a "$STRING" != "$VALUE" ]; then

C#: calling a button event handler method without actually clicking the button

btnTest_Click(null, null);

Provided that the method isn't using either of these parameters (it's very common not to.)

To be honest though this is icky. If you have code that needs to be called you should follow the following convention:

protected void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   SomeSub();
}

protected void SomeOtherFunctionThatNeedsToCallTheCode()
{
   SomeSub();
}

protected void SomeSub()
{
   // ...
}

How can I get Git to follow symlinks?

Conversion from symlinks could be useful. Link in a Git folder instead of a symlink by a script.

Should C# or C++ be chosen for learning Games Programming (consoles)?

It depends

It depends on a lot of things - your goals, your experience, your timeframe, etc.

The majority of game programming isn't language specific. 3D math is 3D math in C# as much as it is in C++. While the APIs may be different, and different 'bookkeeping' may be required, the fundamental logic and math will remain the same.

And it's true that most AAA game engines are C++ with a scripting language on top of them. That is undeniable. However, most AAA engines also have a bunch of in-house tools supporting them, and those may be in anything - Java, C#, C++, etc.

If you want to write a game, and are an experienced developer then C++ and C# have a lot going for them. C# has less housekeeping, while C++ has more available libraries and tools. For anything highly complex, however, you'd be best off trying to use an existing engine as a starting point.

If you want to write a game, and are a new developer then don't write an engine. Use an existing engine, and mod it or use its facilities to write your game. Trust me.

If you want to learn how to write an engine, and are an experienced developer you should probably think about C++. C# is possible as well, but the amount of code and ease of integration of C++ probably puts it over the top.

If you want to learn how to write an engine, and are a new developer I'd probably recommend C#/XNA. You'll get to the game 'stuff' faster, with less headache of learning the ins and outs of C++.

If you want a job in the industry then you need to figure out what kind of job you want. A high-level language can help get a foot in the door dealing with tools and/or web development, which can lead to opportunities on actual game work. Even knowledge of scripting languages can help if you want to go for more of the game designer/scripter position. Chances are that you will not get a job working on core engine stuff immediately, as the skills required to do so are pretty high. Strong C++ development skills are always helpful, especially in real-time or networked scenarios.

AAA game engine development involves some serious brain-twisting code.

If you want to start a professional development house then you probably aren't reading this, but already know that C++ is probably the only viable answer.

If you want to do casual game development then you should probably consider Flash or a similar technology.

Adding a view controller as a subview in another view controller

Thanks to Rob, Updated Swift 4.2 syntax

let controller:WalletView = self.storyboard!.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MyView") as! WalletView
controller.view.frame = self.view.bounds
self.view.addSubview(controller.view)
self.addChild(controller)
controller.didMove(toParent: self)

create table with sequence.nextval in oracle

I for myself prefer Lukas Edger's solution.

But you might want to know there is also a function SYS_GUID which can be applied as a default value to a column and generate unique ids.

you can read more about pros and cons here

Change type of varchar field to integer: "cannot be cast automatically to type integer"

Try this, it will work for sure.

When writing Rails migrations to convert a string column to an integer you'd usually say:

change_column :table_name, :column_name, :integer

However, PostgreSQL will complain:

PG::DatatypeMismatch: ERROR:  column "column_name" cannot be cast automatically to type integer
HINT:  Specify a USING expression to perform the conversion.

The "hint" basically tells you that you need to confirm you want this to happen, and how data shall be converted. Just say this in your migration:

change_column :table_name, :column_name, 'integer USING CAST(column_name AS integer)'

The above will mimic what you know from other database adapters. If you have non-numeric data, results may be unexpected (but you're converting to an integer, after all).

Get Image Height and Width as integer values?

getimagesize('image.jpg') function works only if allow_url_fopen is set to 1 or On inside php.ini file on the server, if it is not enabled, one should use ini_set('allow_url_fopen',1); on top of the file where getimagesize() function is used.

How to log PostgreSQL queries?

+1 to above answers. I use following config

log_line_prefix = '%t %c %u ' # time sessionid user
log_statement = 'all'

How do I return the response from an asynchronous call?

Using ES2017 you should have this as the function declaration

async function foo() {
    var response = await $.ajax({url: '...'})
    return response;
}

And executing it like this.

(async function() {
    try {
        var result = await foo()
        console.log(result)
    } catch (e) {}
})()

Or the Promise syntax

foo().then(response => {
    console.log(response)

}).catch(error => {
    console.log(error)

})

Case insensitive string as HashMap key

As suggested by Guido García in their answer here:

import java.util.HashMap;

public class CaseInsensitiveMap extends HashMap<String, String> {

    @Override
    public String put(String key, String value) {
       return super.put(key.toLowerCase(), value);
    }

    // not @Override because that would require the key parameter to be of type Object
    public String get(String key) {
       return super.get(key.toLowerCase());
    }
}

Or

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/apidocs/org/apache/commons/collections4/map/CaseInsensitiveMap.html

onchange file input change img src and change image color

in your HTML : <input type="file" id="yourFile"> don't forget to reference your js file or put the following script between <script></script> in your script :

var fileToRead = document.getElementById("yourFile");

fileToRead.addEventListener("change", function(event) {
    var files = fileToRead.files;
    if (files.length) {
        console.log("Filename: " + files[0].name);
        console.log("Type: " + files[0].type);
        console.log("Size: " + files[0].size + " bytes");
    }

}, false);

What is the difference between .text, .value, and .value2?

.Text is the formatted cell's displayed value; .Value is the value of the cell possibly augmented with date or currency indicators; .Value2 is the raw underlying value stripped of any extraneous information.

range("A1") = Date
range("A1").numberformat = "yyyy-mm-dd"
debug.print range("A1").text
debug.print range("A1").value
debug.print range("A1").value2

'results from Immediate window
2018-06-14
6/14/2018 
43265 

range("A1") = "abc"
range("A1").numberformat = "_(_(_(@"
debug.print range("A1").text
debug.print range("A1").value
debug.print range("A1").value2

'results from Immediate window
   abc
abc
abc

range("A1") = 12
range("A1").numberformat = "0 \m\m"
debug.print range("A1").text
debug.print range("A1").value
debug.print range("A1").value2

'results from Immediate window
12 mm
12
12

If you are processing the cell's value then reading the raw .Value2 is marginally faster than .Value or .Text. If you are locating errors then .Text will return something like #N/A as text and can be compared to a string while .Value and .Value2 will choke comparing their returned value to a string. If you have some custom cell formatting applied to your data then .Text may be the better choice when building a report.

Is there a way to list open transactions on SQL Server 2000 database?

You can get all the information of active transaction by the help of below query

SELECT
trans.session_id AS [SESSION ID],
ESes.host_name AS [HOST NAME],login_name AS [Login NAME],
trans.transaction_id AS [TRANSACTION ID],
tas.name AS [TRANSACTION NAME],tas.transaction_begin_time AS [TRANSACTION 
BEGIN TIME],
tds.database_id AS [DATABASE ID],DBs.name AS [DATABASE NAME]
FROM sys.dm_tran_active_transactions tas
JOIN sys.dm_tran_session_transactions trans
ON (trans.transaction_id=tas.transaction_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.dm_tran_database_transactions tds
ON (tas.transaction_id = tds.transaction_id )
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.databases AS DBs
ON tds.database_id = DBs.database_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions AS ESes
ON trans.session_id = ESes.session_id
WHERE ESes.session_id IS NOT NULL

and it will give below similar result enter image description here

and you close that transaction by the help below KILL query by refering session id

KILL 77

Cannot run emulator in Android Studio

A common approach to follow to solve this problem.

1.CHECK your SDK manager by running from your android studio and stand alons sdk folder by executing ./android.sh helps you to find broken packages

  1. Try installing System emulator images with google API support than the Intel one. Just like , i solved my problem by running into another system image.

  2. Experment on KVM based Virtulaization suggested by Google for Linux

How to restrict user to type 10 digit numbers in input element?

Here all of the above outputs are giving a 10 digit number, but along with that the input field is accepting characters also, which is not the full solution. In order to set the 10 digit numbers only, we can use an input tag along with that type as number, and in that we can remove the up-down array by writing some small code in css which is shown below along with the input tag.

 <input name="phone" maxlength="10" pattern="[1-9]{1}[0-9]{9}" class="form-control" id="mobile"  placeholder="Enter your phone Number" type="number">


input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button,
input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button { 
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    appearance: none;
    margin: 0; 
}

How to change Java version used by TOMCAT?

If you use the standard scripts to launch Tomcat (i.e. you haven't installed Tomcat as a windows service), you can use the setenv.bat file, to set your JRE_HOME version.

On Windows, create the file %CATALINA_BASE%\bin\setenv.bat, with content:

set "JRE_HOME=%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre1.6.0_20"

exit /b 0

And that should be it.

You can test this using %CATALINA_BASE%\bin\configtest.bat (Disclaimer: I've only checked this with a Tomcat7 installation).

Further Reading:

What is the difference between `git merge` and `git merge --no-ff`?

Merge Strategies

Explicit Merge: Creates a new merge commit. (This is what you will get if you used --no-ff.)

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Fast Forward Merge: Forward rapidly, without creating a new commit:

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Rebase: Establish a new base level:

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Squash: Crush or squeeze (something) with force so that it becomes flat:

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Form onSubmit determine which submit button was pressed

All of the answers above are very good but I cleaned it up a little bit.

This solution automatically puts the name of the submit button pressed into the action hidden field. Both the javascript on the page and the server code can check the action hidden field value as needed.

The solution uses jquery to automatically apply to all submit buttons.

<input type="hidden" name="action" id="action" />
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        //when a submit button is clicked, put its name into the action hidden field
        $(":submit").click(function () { $("#action").val(this.name); });
    });
</script>
<input type="submit" class="bttn" value="<< Back" name="back" />
<input type="submit" class="bttn" value="Finish" name="finish" />
<input type="submit" class="bttn" value="Save" name="save" />
<input type="submit" class="bttn" value="Next >>" name="next" />
<input type="submit" class="bttn" value="Delete" name="delete" />
<input type="button" class="bttn" name="cancel" value="Cancel" onclick="window.close();" />

Then write code like this into your form submit handler.

 if ($("#action").val() == "delete") {
     return confirm("Are you sure you want to delete the selected item?");
 }

Overlapping Views in Android

Visible gallery changes visibility which is how you get the gallery over other view overlap. the Home sample app has some good examples of this technique.

How to check null objects in jQuery

jquery $() function always return non null value - mean elements matched you selector cretaria. If the element was not found it will return an empty array. So your code will look something like this -

if ($("#btext" + i).length){
        //alert($("#btext" + i).text());
    $("#btext" + i).text("Branch " + i);
}

Arrays in unix shell?

In ksh you do it:

set -A array element1 element2 elementn

# view the first element
echo ${array[0]}

# Amount elements (You have to substitute 1)
echo ${#array[*]}

# show last element
echo ${array[ $(( ${#array[*]} - 1 )) ]}

Remove a file from a Git repository without deleting it from the local filesystem

To remove an entire folder from the repo (like Resharper files), do this:

git rm -r --cached folderName

I had committed some resharper files, and did not want those to persist for other project users.

Spring 3 MVC accessing HttpRequest from controller

@RequestMapping(value="/") public String home(HttpServletRequest request){
    System.out.println("My Attribute :: "+request.getAttribute("YourAttributeName"));
    return "home"; 
}

What does upstream mean in nginx?

It's used for proxying requests to other servers.

An example from http://wiki.nginx.org/LoadBalanceExample is:

http {
  upstream myproject {
    server 127.0.0.1:8000 weight=3;
    server 127.0.0.1:8001;
    server 127.0.0.1:8002;    
    server 127.0.0.1:8003;
  }

  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.domain.com;
    location / {
      proxy_pass http://myproject;
    }
  }
}

This means all requests for / go to the any of the servers listed under upstream XXX, with a preference for port 8000.

How to convert string to Title Case in Python?

just use .title(), and it will convert first letter of every word in capital, rest in small:

>>> a='mohs shahid ss'
>>> a.title()
'Mohs Shahid Ss'
>>> a='TRUE'
>>> b=a.title()
>>> b
'True'
>>> eval(b)
True

How to Determine the Screen Height and Width in Flutter

Using the following method we can get the device's physical height. Ex. 1080X1920

WidgetsBinding.instance.window.physicalSize.height
WidgetsBinding.instance.window.physicalSize.width

How can I send the "&" (ampersand) character via AJAX?

You can use encodeURIComponent().

It will escape all the characters that cannot occur verbatim in URLs:

var wysiwyg_clean = encodeURIComponent(wysiwyg);

In this example, the ampersand character & will be replaced by the escape sequence %26, which is valid in URLs.

BAT file: Open new cmd window and execute a command in there

You may already find your answer because it was some time ago you asked. But I tried to do something similar when coding ror. I wanted to run "rails server" in a new cmd window so I don't have to open a new cmd and then find my path again.

What I found out was to use the K switch like this:

start cmd /k echo Hello, World!

start before "cmd" will open the application in a new window and "/K" will execute "echo Hello, World!" after the new cmd is up.

You can also use the /C switch for something similar.

start cmd /C pause

This will then execute "pause" but close the window when the command is done. In this case after you pressed a button. I found this useful for "rails server", then when I shutdown my dev server I don't have to close the window after.


Use the following in your batch file:

start cmd.exe /c "more-batch-commands-here"

or

start cmd.exe /k "more-batch-commands-here"

/c Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates

/k Carries out the command specified by string but remains

The /c and /k options controls what happens once your command finishes running. With /c the terminal window will close automatically, leaving your desktop clean. With /k the terminal window will remain open. It's a good option if you want to run more commands manually afterwards.

Consult the cmd.exe documentation using cmd /? for more details.

Escaping Commands with White Spaces

The proper formatting of the command string becomes more complicated when using arguments with spaces. See the examples below. Note the nested double quotes in some examples.

Examples:

Run a program and pass a filename parameter:
CMD /c write.exe c:\docs\sample.txt

Run a program and pass a filename which contains whitespace:
CMD /c write.exe "c:\sample documents\sample.txt"

Spaces in program path:
CMD /c ""c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe""

Spaces in program path + parameters:
CMD /c ""c:\Program Files\demo.cmd"" Parameter1 Param2
CMD /k ""c:\batch files\demo.cmd" "Parameter 1 with space" "Parameter2 with space""

Launch demo1 and demo2:
CMD /c ""c:\Program Files\demo1.cmd" & "c:\Program Files\demo2.cmd""

Source: http://ss64.com/nt/cmd.html

How to change the locale in chrome browser

Based from this thread, you need to bookmark chrome://settings/languages and then Drag and Drop the language to make it default. You have to click on the Display Google Chrome in this Language button and completely restart Chrome.

Difference between ${} and $() in Bash

  1. $() means: "first evaluate this, and then evaluate the rest of the line".

    Ex :

    echo $(pwd)/myFile.txt
    

    will be interpreted as

    echo /my/path/myFile.txt
    

    On the other hand ${} expands a variable.

    Ex:

    MY_VAR=toto
    echo ${MY_VAR}/myFile.txt
    

    will be interpreted as

    echo toto/myFile.txt
    
  2. Why can't I use it as bash$ while ((i=0;i<10;i++)); do echo $i; done

    I'm afraid the answer is just that the bash syntax for while just isn't the same as the syntax for for.

Check if XML Element exists

//if the problem is "just" to verify that the element exist in the xml-file before you //extract the value you could do like this

XmlNodeList YOURTEMPVARIABLE = doc.GetElementsByTagName("YOUR_ELEMENTNAME");

        if (YOURTEMPVARIABLE.Count > 0 )
        {
            doctype = YOURTEMPVARIABLE[0].InnerXml;

        }
        else
        {
            doctype = "";
        }

IIS URL Rewrite and Web.config

1) Your existing web.config: you have declared rewrite map .. but have not created any rules that will use it. RewriteMap on its' own does absolutely nothing.

2) Below is how you can do it (it does not utilise rewrite maps -- rules only, which is fine for small amount of rewrites/redirects):

This rule will do SINGLE EXACT rewrite (internal redirect) /page to /page.html. URL in browser will remain unchanged.

<system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="SpecificRewrite" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="^page$" />
                <action type="Rewrite" url="/page.html" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

This rule #2 will do the same as above, but will do 301 redirect (Permanent Redirect) where URL will change in browser.

<system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="SpecificRedirect" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="^page$" />
                <action type="Redirect" url="/page.html" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

Rule #3 will attempt to execute such rewrite for ANY URL if there are such file with .html extension (i.e. for /page it will check if /page.html exists, and if it does then rewrite occurs):

<system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="DynamicRewrite" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html" matchType="IsFile" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="/{R:1}.html" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

How to convert column with string type to int form in pyspark data frame?

from pyspark.sql.types import IntegerType
data_df = data_df.withColumn("Plays", data_df["Plays"].cast(IntegerType()))
data_df = data_df.withColumn("drafts", data_df["drafts"].cast(IntegerType()))

You can run loop for each column but this is the simplest way to convert string column into integer.

Iterating a JavaScript object's properties using jQuery

Late, but can be done by using Object.keys like,

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var a={key1:'value1',key2:'value2',key3:'value3',key4:'value4'},_x000D_
  ulkeys=document.getElementById('object-keys'),str='';_x000D_
var keys = Object.keys(a);_x000D_
for(i=0,l=keys.length;i<l;i++){_x000D_
   str+= '<li>'+keys[i]+' : '+a[keys[i]]+'</li>';_x000D_
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ulkeys.innerHTML=str;
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How do I use $rootScope in Angular to store variables?

Sharing data between controllers is what Factories/Services are very good for. In short, it works something like this.

var app = angular.module('myApp', []);

app.factory('items', function() {
    var items = [];
    var itemsService = {};

    itemsService.add = function(item) {
        items.push(item);
    };
    itemsService.list = function() {
        return items;
    };

    return itemsService;
});

function Ctrl1($scope,items) {
    $scope.list = items.list; 
}

function Ctrl2($scope, items) {
    $scope.add = items.add;
}

You can see a working example in this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/mbielski/m8saa/

Deserialize json object into dynamic object using Json.net

Json.NET allows us to do this:

dynamic d = JObject.Parse("{number:1000, str:'string', array: [1,2,3,4,5,6]}");

Console.WriteLine(d.number);
Console.WriteLine(d.str);
Console.WriteLine(d.array.Count);

Output:

 1000
 string
 6

Documentation here: LINQ to JSON with Json.NET

See also JObject.Parse and JArray.Parse

What does it mean when the size of a VARCHAR2 in Oracle is declared as 1 byte?

To answer you first question:
Yes, it means that 1 byte allocates for 1 character. Look at this example

SQL> conn / as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> create table test (id number(10), v_char varchar2(10));

Table created.

SQL> insert into test values(11111111111,'darshan');
insert into test values(11111111111,'darshan')
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01438: value larger than specified precision allows for this column


SQL> insert into test values(11111,'darshandarsh');
insert into test values(11111,'darshandarsh')
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12899: value too large for column "SYS"."TEST"."V_CHAR" (actual: 12,
maximum: 10)


SQL> insert into test values(111,'Darshan');

1 row created.

SQL> 

And to answer your next one: The difference between varchar2 and varchar :

  1. VARCHAR can store up to 2000 bytes of characters while VARCHAR2 can store up to 4000 bytes of characters.
  2. If we declare datatype as VARCHAR then it will occupy space for NULL values, In case of VARCHAR2 datatype it will not occupy any space.

How to write a CSS hack for IE 11?

Use a combination of Microsoft specific CSS rules to filter IE11:

<!doctype html>
<html>
 <head>
  <title>IE10/11 Media Query Test</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
  <style>
    @media all and (-ms-high-contrast:none)
     {
     .foo { color: green } /* IE10 */
     *::-ms-backdrop, .foo { color: red } /* IE11 */
     }
  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <div class="foo">Hi There!!!</div>
 </body>
</html>

Filters such as this work because of the following:

When a user agent cannot parse the selector (i.e., it is not valid CSS 2.1), it must ignore the selector and the following declaration block (if any) as well.

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 <head>_x000D_
  <title>IE10/11 Media Query Test</title>_x000D_
  <meta charset="utf-8">_x000D_
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">_x000D_
  <style>_x000D_
    @media all and (-ms-high-contrast:none)_x000D_
     {_x000D_
     .foo { color: green } /* IE10 */_x000D_
     *::-ms-backdrop, .foo { color: red } /* IE11 */_x000D_
     }_x000D_
  </style>_x000D_
 </head>_x000D_
 <body>_x000D_
  <div class="foo">Hi There!!!</div>_x000D_
 </body>_x000D_
</html>
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References

How can I create an object and add attributes to it?

You could use my ancient Bunch recipe, but if you don't want to make a "bunch class", a very simple one already exists in Python -- all functions can have arbitrary attributes (including lambda functions). So, the following works:

obj = someobject
obj.a = lambda: None
setattr(obj.a, 'somefield', 'somevalue')

Whether the loss of clarity compared to the venerable Bunch recipe is OK, is a style decision I will of course leave up to you.

Last element in .each() set

For future Googlers i've a different approach to check if it's last element. It's similar to last lines in OP question.

This directly compares elements rather than just checking index numbers.

$yourset.each(function() {
    var $this = $(this);
    if($this[0] === $yourset.last()[0]) {
        //$this is the last one
    }
});

Description Box using "onmouseover"

Although not necessarily a JavaScript solution, there is also a "title" global tag attribute that may be helpful.

<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3559467/description-box-on-mouseover" title="This is a title.">Mouseover me</a>

Mouseover me

How to write to error log file in PHP

You can use normal file operation to create an error log. Just refer this and input this link: PHP File Handling

How to get DATE from DATETIME Column in SQL?

You can use

select * 
from transaction 
where (Card_No='123') and (transaction_date = convert(varchar(10),getdate(),101))

Alternative to deprecated getCellType

    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File("C:/Test.xlsx"));

    //create workbook instance
    XSSFWorkbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook(fis);

    //create a sheet object to retrieve the sheet
    XSSFSheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);

    //to evaluate cell type
    FormulaEvaluator formulaEvaluator = wb.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator();

    for(Row row : sheet)
    {
        for(Cell cell : row)
        {
            switch(formulaEvaluator.evaluateInCell(cell).getCellTypeEnum())
            {
            case NUMERIC:
                System.out.print(cell.getNumericCellValue() + "\t");
                break;
            case STRING:
                System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue() + "\t");
                break;
            default:
                break;

            }
        }
        System.out.println();
    }

This code will work fine. Use getCellTypeEnum() and to compare use just NUMERIC or STRING.

How can I convert string to double in C++?

Must say I agree with that the most elegant solution to this is using boost::lexical_cast. You can then catch the bad_lexical_cast that might occure, and do something when it fails, instead of getting 0.0 which atof gives.

#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <string>

int main()
{
    std::string str = "3.14";
    double strVal;
    try {
        strVal = boost::lexical_cast<double>(str);
    } catch(bad_lexical_cast&) {
        //Do your errormagic
    }
    return 0;
}

Export pictures from excel file into jpg using VBA

Dim filepath as string
Sheets("Sheet 1").ChartObjects("Chart 1").Chart.Export filepath & "Name.jpg"

Slimmed down the code to the absolute minimum if needed.

Set multiple system properties Java command line

You may be able to use the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable to set options. It worked for me with Rasbian. See Environment Variables and System Properties which has this to say:

In many environments, the command line is not readily accessible to start the application with the necessary command-line options.

This often happens with applications that use embedded VMs (meaning they use the Java Native Interface (JNI) Invocation API to start the VM), or where the startup is deeply nested in scripts. In these environments the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable can be useful to augment a command line.

When this environment variable is set, the JNI_CreateJavaVM function (in the JNI Invocation API), the JNI_CreateJavaVM function adds the value of the environment variable to the options supplied in its JavaVMInitArgs argument.

However this environment variable use may be disabled for security reasons.

In some cases, this option is disabled for security reasons. For example, on the Oracle Solaris operating system, this option is disabled when the effective user or group ID differs from the real ID.

See this example showing the difference between specifying on the command line versus using the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable.

screenshot showing use of JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable

How to put Google Maps V2 on a Fragment using ViewPager

By using this code we can setup MapView anywhere, inside any ViewPager or Fragment or Activity.

In the latest update of Google for Maps, only MapView is supported for fragments. MapFragment & SupportMapFragment doesn't work. I might be wrong but this is what I saw after trying to implement MapFragment & SupportMapFragment.

Setting up the layout for showing the map in the file location_fragment.xml:

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

    <com.google.android.gms.maps.MapView
        android:id="@+id/mapView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</RelativeLayout>

Now, we code the Java class for showing the map in the file MapViewFragment.java:

public class MapViewFragment extends Fragment {

    MapView mMapView;
    private GoogleMap googleMap;

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.location_fragment, container, false);

        mMapView = (MapView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.mapView);
        mMapView.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        mMapView.onResume(); // needed to get the map to display immediately

        try {
            MapsInitializer.initialize(getActivity().getApplicationContext());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        mMapView.getMapAsync(new OnMapReadyCallback() {
            @Override
            public void onMapReady(GoogleMap mMap) {
                googleMap = mMap;

                // For showing a move to my location button
                googleMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);

                // For dropping a marker at a point on the Map
                LatLng sydney = new LatLng(-34, 151);
                googleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(sydney).title("Marker Title").snippet("Marker Description"));

                // For zooming automatically to the location of the marker
                CameraPosition cameraPosition = new CameraPosition.Builder().target(sydney).zoom(12).build();
                googleMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newCameraPosition(cameraPosition));
            }
        });

        return rootView;
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        mMapView.onResume();
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        mMapView.onPause();
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        mMapView.onDestroy();
    }

    @Override
    public void onLowMemory() {
        super.onLowMemory();
        mMapView.onLowMemory();
    }
}

Finally you need to get the API Key for your app by registering your app at Google Cloud Console. Register your app as Native Android App.

Connect Android to WiFi Enterprise network EAP(PEAP)

Thanks for enlightening us Cypawer.

I also tried this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oneguyinabasement.leapwifi

and it worked flawlessly.

Leap Wifi Connector

PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1 with array when reading data

The ideal solution would be as below. You won't miss the values from 0 to n.

$len=count($data);
for($i=0;$i<$len;$i++)
     echo $data[$i]. "<br>";

What is the purpose of class methods?

This is an interesting topic. My take on it is that python classmethod operates like a singleton rather than a factory (which returns a produced an instance of a class). The reason it is a singleton is that there is a common object that is produced (the dictionary) but only once for the class but shared by all instances.

To illustrate this here is an example. Note that all instances have a reference to the single dictionary. This is not Factory pattern as I understand it. This is probably very unique to python.

class M():
 @classmethod
 def m(cls, arg):
     print "arg was",  getattr(cls, "arg" , None),
     cls.arg = arg
     print "arg is" , cls.arg

 M.m(1)   # prints arg was None arg is 1
 M.m(2)   # prints arg was 1 arg is 2
 m1 = M()
 m2 = M() 
 m1.m(3)  # prints arg was 2 arg is 3  
 m2.m(4)  # prints arg was 3 arg is 4 << this breaks the factory pattern theory.
 M.m(5)   # prints arg was 4 arg is 5

How to draw an overlay on a SurfaceView used by Camera on Android?

SurfaceView probably does not work like a regular View in this regard.

Instead, do the following:

  1. Put your SurfaceView inside of a FrameLayout or RelativeLayout in your layout XML file, since both of those allow stacking of widgets on the Z-axis
  2. Move your drawing logic into a separate custom View class
  3. Add an instance of the custom View class to the layout XML file as a child of the FrameLayout or RelativeLayout, but have it appear after the SurfaceView

This will cause your custom View class to appear to float above the SurfaceView.

See here for a sample project that layers popup panels above a SurfaceView used for video playback.

How to schedule a periodic task in Java?

my servlet contains this as a code how to keep this in scheduler if a user presses accept

if(bt.equals("accept")) {
    ScheduledExecutorService scheduler=Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1);
    String lat=request.getParameter("latlocation");
    String lng=request.getParameter("lnglocation");
    requestingclass.updatelocation(lat,lng);
}

I can't install intel HAXM

Note: this is not an answer because I could not find a solution. But I think the information may be useful for others (and it wouldn't be practical as a comment). I have tried all of the steps detailed in the various docs but I could not get Android Emulator to work on my AMD Ryzen 7 :(


Most answers work only for Intel CPUs. If you have an AMD CPU (like me, an AMD Ryzen 7) you need to know about some restrictions and you have to use WHPX instead of HAXM.

I found this on MS's site: Because the Android emulator currently supports AMD hardware acceleration only on Linux, hardware acceleration is not available for AMD-based computers running Windows.

Fortunatelly there is a way to make it work but configuring hardware acceleration for an AMD CPU is a bit more complex:

Requirements and recommendations: - AMD CPU recommendation: AMD Ryzen CPU - Android Studio 3.2 Beta 1 or higher - Android Emulator version 27.3.8 or higher - Windows 10 with April 2018 Update or higher

To use WHPX acceleration on Windows, you must enable the Windows Hypervisor Platform option in the Turn Windows features on or off dialog box. For changes to this option to take effect, restart your computer.

Additionally, the following changes must be made in the BIOS settings: - AMD CPU: Virtualization or SVM must be enabled.

Note that there are further restrictions as well:

  • You can't run a VM-accelerated emulator inside another VM, such as a VM hosted by VirtualBox, VMWare, or Docker. You must run the emulator directly on your system hardware.
  • You can't run software that uses another virtualization technology at the same time that you run the accelerated emulator. For example, VirtualBox, VMWare, and Docker currently use a different virtualization technology, so you can't run them at the same time as the accelerated emulator.

Some more info: Android Emulator - AMD Processor & Hyper-V Support

This recommendation did not help either:

Please note: More recent versions of the emulator (27.2.8, 27.3.0, or later), require an emulator flag while the feature is in the preview. To do this, create or edit the file C:\Users\.android\advancedFeatures.ini and add the line “WindowsHypervisorPlatform = on”, or start the emulator from the command line with “-feature WindowsHypervisorPlatform”.

Resolve conflicts using remote changes when pulling from Git remote

You can either use the answer from the duplicate link pointed by nvm.

Or you can resolve conflicts by using their changes (but some of your changes might be kept if they don't conflict with remote version):

git pull -s recursive -X theirs

How to loop through all enum values in C#?

Yes you can use the ?GetValue???s method:

var values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(Foos));

Or the typed version:

var values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(Foos)).Cast<Foos>();

I long ago added a helper function to my private library for just such an occasion:

public static class EnumUtil {
    public static IEnumerable<T> GetValues<T>() {
        return Enum.GetValues(typeof(T)).Cast<T>();
    }
}

Usage:

var values = EnumUtil.GetValues<Foos>();

What is difference between Errors and Exceptions?

An Error "indicates serious problems that a reasonable application should not try to catch."

while

An Exception "indicates conditions that a reasonable application might want to catch."

Error along with RuntimeException & their subclasses are unchecked exceptions. All other Exception classes are checked exceptions.

Checked exceptions are generally those from which a program can recover & it might be a good idea to recover from such exceptions programmatically. Examples include FileNotFoundException, ParseException, etc. A programmer is expected to check for these exceptions by using the try-catch block or throw it back to the caller

On the other hand we have unchecked exceptions. These are those exceptions that might not happen if everything is in order, but they do occur. Examples include ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException, ClassCastException, etc. Many applications will use try-catch or throws clause for RuntimeExceptions & their subclasses but from the language perspective it is not required to do so. Do note that recovery from a RuntimeException is generally possible but the guys who designed the class/exception deemed it unnecessary for the end programmer to check for such exceptions.

Errors are also unchecked exception & the programmer is not required to do anything with these. In fact it is a bad idea to use a try-catch clause for Errors. Most often, recovery from an Error is not possible & the program should be allowed to terminate. Examples include OutOfMemoryError, StackOverflowError, etc.

Do note that although Errors are unchecked exceptions, we shouldn't try to deal with them, but it is ok to deal with RuntimeExceptions(also unchecked exceptions) in code. Checked exceptions should be handled by the code.

How to fire a button click event from JavaScript in ASP.NET

You can just place this line in a JavaScript function:

__doPostBack('btnSubmit','OnClick');

Or do something like this:

$('#btnSubmit').trigger('click');

Using if-else in JSP

It's almost always advisable to not use scriptlets in your JSP. They're considered bad form. Instead, try using JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library) combined with EL (Expression Language) to run the conditional logic you're trying to do. As an added benefit, JSTL also includes other important features like looping.

Instead of:

<%String user=request.getParameter("user"); %>
<%if(user == null || user.length() == 0){
    out.print("I see! You don't have a name.. well.. Hello no name");   
}
else {%>
    <%@ include file="response.jsp" %>
<% } %>

Use:

<c:choose>
    <c:when test="${empty user}">
        I see!  You don't have a name.. well.. Hello no name
    </c:when>
    <c:otherwise>
        <%@ include file="response.jsp" %>
    </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

Also, unless you plan on using response.jsp somewhere else in your code, it might be easier to just include the html in your otherwise statement:

<c:otherwise>
    <h1>Hello</h1>
    ${user}
</c:otherwise>

Also of note. To use the core tag, you must import it as follows:

 <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

You want to make it so the user will receive a message when the user submits a username. The easiest way to do this is to not print a message at all when the "user" param is null. You can do some validation to give an error message when the user submits null. This is a more standard approach to your problem. To accomplish this:

In scriptlet:

<% String user = request.getParameter("user");
   if( user != null && user.length() > 0 ) {
       <%@ include file="response.jsp" %>
   }
%>

In jstl:

<c:if test="${not empty user}">
    <%@ include file="response.jsp" %>
</c:if>

Android, getting resource ID from string?

A simple way to getting resource ID from string. Here resourceName is the name of resource ImageView in drawable folder which is included in XML file as well.

int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(resourceName, "id", getPackageName());
ImageView im = (ImageView) findViewById(resID);
Context context = im.getContext();
int id = context.getResources().getIdentifier(resourceName, "drawable",
context.getPackageName());
im.setImageResource(id);

What's the difference between Perl's backticks, system, and exec?

In general I use system, open, IPC::Open2, or IPC::Open3 depending on what I want to do. The qx// operator, while simple, is too constraining in its functionality to be very useful outside of quick hacks. I find open to much handier.

system: run a command and wait for it to return

Use system when you want to run a command, don't care about its output, and don't want the Perl script to do anything until the command finishes.

#doesn't spawn a shell, arguments are passed as they are
system("command", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3");

or

#spawns a shell, arguments are interpreted by the shell, use only if you
#want the shell to do globbing (e.g. *.txt) for you or you want to redirect
#output
system("command arg1 arg2 arg3");

qx// or ``: run a command and capture its STDOUT

Use qx// when you want to run a command, capture what it writes to STDOUT, and don't want the Perl script to do anything until the command finishes.

#arguments are always processed by the shell

#in list context it returns the output as a list of lines
my @lines = qx/command arg1 arg2 arg3/;

#in scalar context it returns the output as one string
my $output = qx/command arg1 arg2 arg3/;

exec: replace the current process with another process.

Use exec along with fork when you want to run a command, don't care about its output, and don't want to wait for it to return. system is really just

sub my_system {
    die "could not fork\n" unless defined(my $pid = fork);
    return waitpid $pid, 0 if $pid; #parent waits for child
    exec @_; #replace child with new process
}

You may also want to read the waitpid and perlipc manuals.

open: run a process and create a pipe to its STDIN or STDERR

Use open when you want to write data to a process's STDIN or read data from a process's STDOUT (but not both at the same time).

#read from a gzip file as if it were a normal file
open my $read_fh, "-|", "gzip", "-d", $filename
    or die "could not open $filename: $!";

#write to a gzip compressed file as if were a normal file
open my $write_fh, "|-", "gzip", $filename
    or die "could not open $filename: $!";

IPC::Open2: run a process and create a pipe to both STDIN and STDOUT

Use IPC::Open2 when you need to read from and write to a process's STDIN and STDOUT.

use IPC::Open2;

open2 my $out, my $in, "/usr/bin/bc"
    or die "could not run bc";

print $in "5+6\n";

my $answer = <$out>;

IPC::Open3: run a process and create a pipe to STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR

use IPC::Open3 when you need to capture all three standard file handles of the process. I would write an example, but it works mostly the same way IPC::Open2 does, but with a slightly different order to the arguments and a third file handle.

Multiple HttpPost method in Web API controller

public class Journal : ApiController
{
    public MyResult Get(journal id)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

public class Journal : ApiController
{

    public MyResult Get(journal id, publication id)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

I am not sure whether overloading get/post method violates the concept of restfull api,but it workds. If anyone could've enlighten on this matter. What if I have a uri as

uri:/api/journal/journalid
uri:/api/journal/journalid/publicationid

so as you might seen my journal sort of aggregateroot, though i can define another controller for publication solely and pass id number of publication in my url however this gives much more sense. since my publication would not exist without journal itself.

Android EditText Hint

et.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {

            et.setHint(temp +" Characters");
        }
    });

What is the difference between Serializable and Externalizable in Java?

When considering options for improving performance, don't forget custom serialization. You can let Java do what it does well, or at least good enough, for free, and provide custom support for what it does badly. This is usually a lot less code than full Externalizable support.

TCPDF Save file to folder?

nick's example saves it to your localhost.
But you can also save it to your local drive.
if you use doublebackslashes:

 $filename= "Invoice.pdf"; 
 $filelocation = "C:\\invoices";  

 $fileNL = $filelocation."\\".$filename;
 $pdf->Output($fileNL,'F');

 $pdf->Output($filename,'D'); // you cannot add file location here

P.S. In Firefox (optional) Tools> Options > General tab> Download >Always ask me where to save files

How to encrypt and decrypt String with my passphrase in Java (Pc not mobile platform)?

Both Encrypt and Decrypt with AES and DES Algoritham ,This worked for me perfectly GithubLink: Java Code For Encryption and Decryption

package decrypt;

import java.security.Key;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
/* Decrypt encrypted string into plain string with aes and Des algoritham*/ 

public class Decrypt {

public String decrypt(String str,String k) throws Exception {
// Decode base64 to get bytes

 Cipher  dcipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
 Key aesKey = new SecretKeySpec(k.getBytes(), "AES");
 dcipher.init(dcipher.DECRYPT_MODE, aesKey);
//System.out.println(aesKey);
byte[] dec = new sun.misc.BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(str);
byte[] utf8 = dcipher.doFinal(dec);
//System.out.println(utf8);
// Decode using utf-8
 return new String(utf8, "UTF8");
 }


  public String encrypt(String str,String k) throws Exception {
 Cipher ecipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
 Key aeskey = new SecretKeySpec(k.getBytes(),"AES");
 byte[] utf8 = str.getBytes("UTF8");
 ecipher.init(ecipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, aeskey );

 byte[] enc = ecipher.doFinal(utf8);

 return new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode(enc);

}
 public String encrypt(String str,String k,String Algo) throws Exception {
 Cipher ecipher = Cipher.getInstance(Algo);
 Key aeskey = new SecretKeySpec(k.getBytes(),Algo);
 byte[] utf8 = str.getBytes("UTF8");
 ecipher.init(ecipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, aeskey );

 byte[] enc = ecipher.doFinal(utf8);

 return new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode(enc);

}
public String decrypt(String str,String k,String Algo) throws Exception {
    // Decode base64 to get bytes

     Cipher  dcipher = Cipher.getInstance(Algo);
     Key aesKey = new SecretKeySpec(k.getBytes(), Algo);
     dcipher.init(dcipher.DECRYPT_MODE, aesKey);
    //System.out.println(aesKey);
    byte[] dec = new sun.misc.BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(str);
    byte[] utf8 = dcipher.doFinal(dec);
    //System.out.println(utf8);
 // Decode using utf-8
     return new String(utf8, "UTF8");
  }

public static void main(String args []) throws Exception
{
    String original = "rakesh";
    String data = "CfPcX0G+e7TLKKMyyvrvrQ==";
    String k = "qertyuiopasdfghw"; //AES key length must be 16
    String k1 = "qertyuio";  // DES key length must be 8 
    String data1 = "rakesh";
    String data2 = "nAtvNq7uHKE=";
    String Algo= "DES";
    String Algo1= "AES";
    Decrypt decrypter = new Decrypt();
     System.out.println("Original String: " + original);

     System.out.println("encrypted String in DES: " + decrypter.encrypt(data1, 
      k1,Algo));
     System.out.println("Decrypted String in DES: " + decrypter.decrypt(data2, 
       k1,Algo));
     System.out.println("encrypted String in AES: " + decrypter.encrypt(data1, 
      k,Algo1));
     System.out.println("Decrypted String in AES: " + decrypter.decrypt(data, 
      k,Algo1));
   }
}

How do I delete an item or object from an array using ng-click?

In case you're inside an ng-repeat

you could use a one liner option

    <div ng-repeat="key in keywords"> 
        <button ng-click="keywords.splice($index, 1)">

            {{key.name}}
        </button>
    </div>

$index is used by angular to show current index of the array inside ng-repeat

how to get text from textview

You have to do the following:

a=a.replace("\n"," ");
a=a.trim();
String b[]=a.split("+");
int k=Integer.ValueOf(b[0]);
int l=Integer.ValueOf(b[1]);
int sum=k+l;

How do I find a list of Homebrew's installable packages?

From the man page:

search, -S text|/text/
Perform a substring search of formula names for text. If text is surrounded with slashes,
then it is interpreted as a regular expression. If no search term is given,
all available formula are displayed.

For your purposes, brew search will suffice.

Excel VBA For Each Worksheet Loop

Instead of adding "ws." before every Range, as suggested above, you can add "ws.activate" before Call instead.

This will get you into the worksheet you want to work on.

Check if a string is a valid date using DateTime.TryParse

Basically, I want to check if a particular string contains AT LEAST day(1 through 31 or 01 through 31),month(1 through 12 or 01 through 12) and year(yyyy or yy) in any order, with any date separator , what will be the solution? So, if the value includes any parts of time, it should return true too. I could NOT be able to define a array of format.

When I was in a similar situation, here is what I did:

  1. Gather all the formats my system is expected to support.
  2. Looked at what is common or can be generalize.
  3. Learned to create REGEX (It is an investment of time initially but pays off once you create one or two on your own). Also do not try to build REGEX for all formats in one go, follow incremental process.
  4. I created REGEX to cover as many format as possible.
  5. For few cases, not to make REGEX extra complex, I covered it through DateTime.Parse() method.
  6. With the combination of both Parse as well as REGEX i was able to validate the input is correct/as expected.

This http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13255/Validation-with-Regular-Expressions-Made-Simple was really helpful both for understanding as well as validation the syntax for each format.

My 2 cents if it helps....

How to get the range of occupied cells in excel sheet

You should not delete the data in box by pressing "delete", i think thats the problem , because excel will still detected the box as "" <- still have value, u should delete by right click the box and click delete.

NSString with \n or line break

I found that when I was reading strings in from a .plist file, occurrences of "\n" were parsed as "\\n". The solution for me was to replace occurrences of "\\n" with "\n". For example, given an instance of NSString named myString read in from my .plist file, I had to call...

myString = [myString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\n" withString:@"\n"];

... before assigning it to my UILabel instance...

myLabel.text = myString;

How to Get the Query Executed in Laravel 5? DB::getQueryLog() Returning Empty Array

Apparently with Laravel 5.2, the closure in DB::listen only receives a single parameter.

So, if you want to use DB::listen in Laravel 5.2, you should do something like:

DB::listen(
    function ($sql) {
        // $sql is an object with the properties:
        //  sql: The query
        //  bindings: the sql query variables
        //  time: The execution time for the query
        //  connectionName: The name of the connection

        // To save the executed queries to file:
        // Process the sql and the bindings:
        foreach ($sql->bindings as $i => $binding) {
            if ($binding instanceof \DateTime) {
                $sql->bindings[$i] = $binding->format('\'Y-m-d H:i:s\'');
            } else {
                if (is_string($binding)) {
                    $sql->bindings[$i] = "'$binding'";
                }
            }
        }

        // Insert bindings into query
        $query = str_replace(array('%', '?'), array('%%', '%s'), $sql->sql);

        $query = vsprintf($query, $sql->bindings);

        // Save the query to file
        $logFile = fopen(
            storage_path('logs' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . date('Y-m-d') . '_query.log'),
            'a+'
        );
        fwrite($logFile, date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ': ' . $query . PHP_EOL);
        fclose($logFile);
    }
);

org.hibernate.PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist

Most likely the problem lies outside the code you are showing us here. You are trying to update an object that is not associated with the current session. If it is not the Invoice, then maybe it is an InvoiceItem that has already been persisted, obtained from the db, kept alive in some sort of session and then you try to persist it on a new session. This is not possible. As a general rule, never keep your persisted objects alive across sessions.

The solution will ie in obtaining the whole object graph from the same session you are trying to persist it with. In a web environment this would mean:

  • Obtain the session
  • Fetch the objects you need to update or add associations to. Preferabley by their primary key
  • Alter what is needed
  • Save/update/evict/delete what you want
  • Close/commit your session/transaction

If you keep having issues post some of the code that is calling your service.

Fastest way to serialize and deserialize .NET objects

I removed the bugs in above code and got below results: Also I am unsure given how NetSerializer requires you to register the types you are serializing, what kind of compatibility or performance differences that could potentially make.

Generating 100000 arrays of data...
Test data generated.
Testing BinarySerializer...
BinaryFormatter: Serializing took 508.9773ms.
BinaryFormatter: Deserializing took 371.8499ms.

Testing ProtoBuf serializer...
ProtoBuf: Serializing took 3280.9185ms.
ProtoBuf: Deserializing took 3190.7899ms.

Testing NetSerializer serializer...
NetSerializer: Serializing took 427.1241ms.
NetSerializer: Deserializing took 78.954ms.
Press any key to end.

Modified Code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace SerializationTests
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var count = 100000;
            var rnd = new Random((int)DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks & 0xFF);
            Console.WriteLine("Generating {0} arrays of data...", count);
            var arrays = new List<int[]>();
            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                var elements = rnd.Next(1, 100);
                var array = new int[elements];
                for (int j = 0; j < elements; j++)
                {
                    array[j] = rnd.Next();
                }
                arrays.Add(array);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Test data generated.");
            var stopWatch = new Stopwatch();

            Console.WriteLine("Testing BinarySerializer...");
            var binarySerializer = new BinarySerializer();
            var binarySerialized = new List<byte[]>();
            var binaryDeserialized = new List<int[]>();

            stopWatch.Reset();
            stopWatch.Start();
            foreach (var array in arrays)
            {
                binarySerialized.Add(binarySerializer.Serialize(array));
            }
            stopWatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("BinaryFormatter: Serializing took {0}ms.", stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

            stopWatch.Reset();
            stopWatch.Start();
            foreach (var serialized in binarySerialized)
            {
                binaryDeserialized.Add(binarySerializer.Deserialize<int[]>(serialized));
            }
            stopWatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("BinaryFormatter: Deserializing took {0}ms.", stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);


            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Testing ProtoBuf serializer...");
            var protobufSerializer = new ProtoBufSerializer();
            var protobufSerialized = new List<byte[]>();
            var protobufDeserialized = new List<int[]>();

            stopWatch.Reset();
            stopWatch.Start();
            foreach (var array in arrays)
            {
                protobufSerialized.Add(protobufSerializer.Serialize(array));
            }
            stopWatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("ProtoBuf: Serializing took {0}ms.", stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

            stopWatch.Reset();
            stopWatch.Start();
            foreach (var serialized in protobufSerialized)
            {
                protobufDeserialized.Add(protobufSerializer.Deserialize<int[]>(serialized));
            }
            stopWatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("ProtoBuf: Deserializing took {0}ms.", stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Testing NetSerializer serializer...");
            var netSerializerSerialized = new List<byte[]>();
            var netSerializerDeserialized = new List<int[]>();

            stopWatch.Reset();
            stopWatch.Start();
            var netSerializerSerializer = new NS();
            foreach (var array in arrays)
            {
                netSerializerSerialized.Add(netSerializerSerializer.Serialize(array));
            }
            stopWatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("NetSerializer: Serializing took {0}ms.", stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

            stopWatch.Reset();
            stopWatch.Start();
            foreach (var serialized in netSerializerSerialized)
            {
                netSerializerDeserialized.Add(netSerializerSerializer.Deserialize<int[]>(serialized));
            }
            stopWatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("NetSerializer: Deserializing took {0}ms.", stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to end.");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

        public class BinarySerializer
        {
            private static readonly BinaryFormatter Formatter = new BinaryFormatter();

            public byte[] Serialize(object toSerialize)
            {
                using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    Formatter.Serialize(stream, toSerialize);
                    return stream.ToArray();
                }
            }

            public T Deserialize<T>(byte[] serialized)
            {
                using (var stream = new MemoryStream(serialized))
                {
                    var result = (T)Formatter.Deserialize(stream);
                    return result;
                }
            }
        }

        public class ProtoBufSerializer
        {
            public byte[] Serialize(object toSerialize)
            {
                using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    ProtoBuf.Serializer.Serialize(stream, toSerialize);
                    return stream.ToArray();
                }
            }

            public T Deserialize<T>(byte[] serialized)
            {
                using (var stream = new MemoryStream(serialized))
                {
                    var result = ProtoBuf.Serializer.Deserialize<T>(stream);
                    return result;
                }
            }
        }

        public class NS
        {
            NetSerializer.Serializer Serializer = new NetSerializer.Serializer(new Type[] { typeof(int), typeof(int[]) });

            public byte[] Serialize(object toSerialize)
            {
                using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    Serializer.Serialize(stream, toSerialize);
                    return stream.ToArray();
                }
            }

            public T Deserialize<T>(byte[] serialized)
            {
                using (var stream = new MemoryStream(serialized))
                {
                    Serializer.Deserialize(stream, out var result);
                    return (T)result;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

python 2.7: cannot pip on windows "bash: pip: command not found"

  1. press [win] + Pause
  2. Advanced settings
  3. System variables
  4. Append ;C:\python27\Scripts to the end of Path variable
  5. Restart console

How do I add a Fragment to an Activity with a programmatically created content view

It turns out there's more than one problem with that code. A fragment cannot be declared that way, inside the same java file as the activity but not as a public inner class. The framework expects the fragment's constructor (with no parameters) to be public and visible. Moving the fragment into the Activity as an inner class, or creating a new java file for the fragment fixes that.

The second issue is that when you're adding a fragment this way, you must pass a reference to the fragment's containing view, and that view must have a custom id. Using the default id will crash the app. Here's the updated code:

public class DebugExampleTwo extends Activity {

    private static final int CONTENT_VIEW_ID = 10101010;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        FrameLayout frame = new FrameLayout(this);
        frame.setId(CONTENT_VIEW_ID);
        setContentView(frame, new LayoutParams(
            LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

        if (savedInstanceState == null) {
            Fragment newFragment = new DebugExampleTwoFragment();
            FragmentTransaction ft = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
            ft.add(CONTENT_VIEW_ID, newFragment).commit();
        }
    }

    public static class DebugExampleTwoFragment extends Fragment {
        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            EditText v = new EditText(getActivity());
            v.setText("Hello Fragment!");
            return v;
        }
    }
}

Blocks and yields in Ruby

It's quite possible that someone will provide a truly detailed answer here, but I've always found this post from Robert Sosinski to be a great explanation of the subtleties between blocks, procs & lambdas.

I should add that I believe the post I'm linking to is specific to ruby 1.8. Some things have changed in ruby 1.9, such as block variables being local to the block. In 1.8, you'd get something like the following:

>> a = "Hello"
=> "Hello"
>> 1.times { |a| a = "Goodbye" }
=> 1
>> a
=> "Goodbye"

Whereas 1.9 would give you:

>> a = "Hello"
=> "Hello"
>> 1.times { |a| a = "Goodbye" }
=> 1
>> a
=> "Hello"

I don't have 1.9 on this machine so the above might have an error in it.

message box in jquery

Try this plugin JQuery UI Message box. He uses jQuery UI Dialog.

How to scroll to an element in jQuery?

If you're simply trying to scroll to the specified element, you can use the scrollIntoView method of the Element. Here's an example :

$target.get(0).scrollIntoView();

Best method to download image from url in Android

you can use below function to download image from url.

private Bitmap getImage(String imageUrl, int desiredWidth, int desiredHeight)
    {   
           private Bitmap image = null;
           int inSampleSize = 0;


            BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();

            options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;

            options.inSampleSize = inSampleSize;

            try
            {
                URL url = new URL(imageUrl);

                HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

                InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();

                image = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(stream, null, options);

                int imageWidth = options.outWidth;

                int imageHeight = options.outHeight;

                if(imageWidth > desiredWidth || imageHeight > desiredHeight)
                {   
                    System.out.println("imageWidth:"+imageWidth+", imageHeight:"+imageHeight);

                    inSampleSize = inSampleSize + 2;

                    getImage(imageUrl);
                }
                else
                {   
                    options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;

                    connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

                    stream = connection.getInputStream();

                    image = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(stream, null, options);

                    return image;
                }
            }

            catch(Exception e)
            {
                Log.e("getImage", e.toString());
            }

        return image;
    }

See complete explanation here

Maven fails to find local artifact

I had the same error from a different cause: I'd created a starter POM containing our "good practice" dependencies, and built & installed it locally to test it. I could "see" it in the repo, but a project that used it got the above error. What I'd done was set the starter POM to pom, so there was no JAR. Maven was quite correct that it wasn't in Nexus -- but I wasn't expecting it to be, so the error was, ummm, unhelpful. Changing the starter POM to normal packaging & reinstalling fixed the issue.

How to break out of a loop in Bash?

while true ; do
    ...
    if [ something ]; then
        break
    fi
done

How to convert wstring into string?

// Embarcadero C++ Builder 

// convertion string to wstring
string str1 = "hello";
String str2 = str1;         // typedef UnicodeString String;   -> str2 contains now u"hello";

// convertion wstring to string
String str2 = u"hello";
string str1 = UTF8string(str2).c_str();   // -> str1 contains now "hello"

Get user info via Google API

This scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile has been deprecated now. Please look at https://developers.google.com/+/api/auth-migration#timetable.

New scope you will be using to get profile info is: profile or https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login

and the endpoint is - https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/{userId} - userId can be just 'me' for currently logged in user.

Deprecated Java HttpClient - How hard can it be?

Relevant imports:

import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import java.io.IOException;

Usage:

HttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();

EDIT (after Jules' suggestion):

As the build() method returns a CloseableHttpClient which is-a AutoClosable, you can place the declaration in a try-with-resources statement (Java 7+):

try (CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build()) {

    // use httpClient (no need to close it explicitly)

} catch (IOException e) {

    // handle

}