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How to get relative path of a file in visual studio?

In Visual Studio please click 'Folder.ico' file in the Solution Explorer pane. Then you will see Properties pane. Change 'Copy to Output Directory' behavior to 'Copy if newer'. This will make Visual Studio copy the file to the output bin directory.

Now to get the file path using relative path just type:

string pathToIcoFile = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "//FolderIcon//Folder.ico";

Hope that helped.

What is and how to fix System.TypeInitializationException error?

i. Please check the InnerException property of the TypeInitializationException

ii. Also, this may occur due to mismatch between the runtime versions of the assemblies. Please verify the runtime versions of the main assembly (calling application) and the referred assembly

How can I make a menubar fixed on the top while scrolling

This should get you started

 <div class="menuBar">
        <img class="logo" src="logo.jpg"/>
        <div class="nav"> 
            <ul>
                <li>Menu1</li>
                <li>Menu 2</li>
                <li>Menu 3</li>
            </ul> 
        </div>
    </div>



body{
    margin-top:50px;}
.menuBar{
    width:100%;
    height:50px;
    display:block;
    position:absolute;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    }
.logo{
    float:left;
    }
.nav{
    float:right;
    margin-right:10px;}
.nav ul li{
    list-style:none;
    float:left;
    }

Why do I get an error instantiating an interface?

You can't instantiate interfaces or abstract classes.

That's because it wouldn't have any logic to it.

Interfaces provide a contract of the methods that should be in a class, without implementation. (So there's no actual logic in the interface).

Abstract classes provide basic logic of a class, but are not fully functional (not everything is implemented). So again, you won't be able to do anything with it.

Ignore <br> with CSS?

Note: This solution only works for Webkit browsers, which incorrectly apply pseudo-elements to self-closing tags.

As an addendum to above answers it is worth noting that in some cases one needs to insert a space instead of merely ignoring <br>:

For instance the above answers will turn

Monday<br>05 August

to

Monday05 August

as I had verified while I tried to format my weekly event calendar. A space after "Monday" is preferred to be inserted. This can be done easily by inserting the following in the CSS:

br  {
    content: ' '
}
br:after {
    content: ' '
}

This will make

Monday<br>05 August

look like

Monday 05 August

You can change the content attribute in br:after to ', ' if you want to separate by commas, or put anything you want within ' ' to make it the delimiter! By the way

Monday, 05 August

looks neat ;-)

See here for a reference.

As in the above answers, if you want to make it tag-specific, you can. As in if you want this property to work for tag <h3>, just add a h3 each before br and br:after, for instance.

It works most generally for a pseudo-tag.

How can I sort an ArrayList of Strings in Java?

Collections.sort(teamsName.subList(1, teamsName.size()));

The code above will reflect the actual sublist of your original list sorted.

Get user profile picture by Id

Through the Javascript SDK (v2.12 - April, 2017) you can get the details of the picture request this way:

FB.api("/" + uid + "/picture?redirect=0", function (response) {
  console.log(response);

  // prints the following:
  //data: {
  //  height: 50
  //  is_silhouette: false
  //  url: "https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?asid=…&height=50&width=50&ext=…&hash…"
  //  width: 50
  //}

  if (response && !response.error) {
    // change the src attribute of img elements
    [...document.getElementsByClassName('fb-user-img')].forEach(
      i => i.src = response.data.url
    );

    // OR redirect to the URL above
    location.assign(response.data.url);
  }
});

For getting the JSON response the parameter redirect with 0 (zero) as value is important since the request redirects to the image by default. You may still add other parameters in the same URL. Examples:

  • "/" + uid + "/picture?redirect=0&width=100&height=100": a 100x100 image will be returned;
  • "/" + uid + "/picture?redirect=0&type=large": a 200x200 image is returned. Other possible type values include: small, normal, album, and square.

ASP.NET Core 1.0 on IIS error 502.5

I solved it by adding "edit permission" to the application of the site, mapped to the physical directory and then selected the windows user that could have access to this root folder. (private network).

What is the purpose of the : (colon) GNU Bash builtin?

It's also useful for polyglot programs:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
':' //; exec "$(command -v node)" "$0" "$@"
~function(){ ... }

This is now both an executable shell-script and a JavaScript program: meaning ./filename.js, sh filename.js, and node filename.js all work.

(Definitely a little bit of a strange usage, but effective nonetheless.)


Some explication, as requested:

  • Shell-scripts are evaluated line-by-line; and the exec command, when run, terminates the shell and replaces it's process with the resultant command. This means that to the shell, the program looks like this:

    #!/usr/bin/env sh
    ':' //; exec "$(command -v node)" "$0" "$@"
    
  • As long as no parameter expansion or aliasing is occurring in the word, any word in a shell-script can be wrapped in quotes without changing its' meaning; this means that ':' is equivalent to : (we've only wrapped it in quotes here to achieve the JavaScript semantics described below)

  • ... and as described above, the first command on the first line is a no-op (it translates to : //, or if you prefer to quote the words, ':' '//'. Notice that the // carries no special meaning here, as it does in JavaScript; it's just a meaningless word that's being thrown away.)

  • Finally, the second command on the first line (after the semicolon), is the real meat of the program: it's the exec call which replaces the shell-script being invoked, with a Node.js process invoked to evaluate the rest of the script.

  • Meanwhile, the first line, in JavaScript, parses as a string-literal (':'), and then a comment, which is deleted; thus, to JavaScript, the program looks like this:

    ':'
    ~function(){ ... }
    

    Since the string-literal is on a line by itself, it is a no-op statement, and is thus stripped from the program; that means that the entire line is removed, leaving only your program-code (in this example, the function(){ ... } body.)

Efficiently finding the last line in a text file

The inefficiency here is not really due to Python, but to the nature of how files are read. The only way to find the last line is to read the file in and find the line endings. However, the seek operation may be used to skip to any byte offset in the file. You can, therefore begin very close to the end of the file, and grab larger and larger chunks as needed until the last line ending is found:

from os import SEEK_END

def get_last_line(file):
  CHUNK_SIZE = 1024 # Would be good to make this the chunk size of the filesystem

  last_line = ""

  while True:
    # We grab chunks from the end of the file towards the beginning until we 
    # get a new line
    file.seek(-len(last_line) - CHUNK_SIZE, SEEK_END)
    chunk = file.read(CHUNK_SIZE)

    if not chunk:
      # The whole file is one big line
      return last_line

    if not last_line and chunk.endswith('\n'):
      # Ignore the trailing newline at the end of the file (but include it 
      # in the output).
      last_line = '\n'
      chunk = chunk[:-1]

    nl_pos = chunk.rfind('\n')
    # What's being searched for will have to be modified if you are searching
    # files with non-unix line endings.

    last_line = chunk[nl_pos + 1:] + last_line

    if nl_pos == -1:
      # The whole chunk is part of the last line.
      continue

    return last_line

ExtJs Gridpanel store refresh

Another approach in 3.4 (don't know if this is proper Ext): You can have a delete handler like this, assuming every row has a 'delete' button.

handler: function(grid, rowIndex, colIndex) {
    var rec = grid.getStore().getAt(rowIndex);
    var id = rec.get('id');
    // some DELETE/GET ajax callback here...
    // pass in 'id' var or some key
    // inside success
    grid.getStore().removeAt(rowIndex);
}

Why should I use a container div in HTML?

div tags are used to style the webpage so that it look visually appealing for the users or audience of the website. using container-div in html will make the website look more professional and attractive and therefore more people will want to explore your page.

The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'id' of non-nullable type 'System.Int32'

I was facing the Same Error.

Solution: The name of the variable in the View through which we are passing value to Controller should Match the Name of Variable on Controller Side.

.csHtml (View) :

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit" , new { id=item.EmployeeId })

.cs (Controller Method):

 [HttpGet]
            public ActionResult Edit(int id)
            {
                EmployeeContext employeeContext = new EmployeeContext();
                Employee employee = employeeContext.Employees.Where(emp => emp.EmployeeId == id).First();
                return View(employee);
            }

Best IDE for HTML5, Javascript, CSS, Jquery support with GUI building tools

As per my personal experience Adobe edge is the best tool for HTML5. It's still in preview mode but you will download it free from Adobe site.

how to call a onclick function in <a> tag?

Try onclick function separately it can give you access to execute your function which can be used to open up a new window, for this purpose you first need to create a javascript function there you can define it and in your anchor tag you just need to call your function.

Example:

function newwin() {              
 myWindow=window.open('lead_data.php?leadid=1','myWin','width=400,height=650')
}

See how to call it from your anchor tag

<a onclick='newwin()'>Anchor</a>

Update

Visit this jsbin

http://jsbin.com/icUTUjI/1/edit

May be this will help you a lot to understand your problem.

How can I create an observable with a delay

What you want is a timer:

// RxJS v6+
import { timer } from 'rxjs';

//emit [1, 2, 3] after 1 second.
const source = timer(1000).map(([1, 2, 3]);
//output: [1, 2, 3]
const subscribe = source.subscribe(val => console.log(val));

Split function in oracle to comma separated values with automatic sequence

Try like below

select 
    split.field(column_name,1,',','"') name1,
    split.field(column_name,2,',','"') name2
from table_name

socket programming multiple client to one server

I guess the problem is that you need to start a separate thread for each connection and call serverSocket.accept() in a loop to accept more than one connection.

It is not a problem to have more than one connection on the same port.

Can I mask an input text in a bat file?

I would probably just do:

..
echo Before you enter your password, make sure no-one is looking!
set /P password=Password:  
cls
echo Thanks, got that.
.. 

So you get a prompt, then the screen clears after it's entered.

Note that the entered password will be stored in the CMD history if the batch file is executed from a command prompt (Thanks @Mark K Cowan).

If that wasn't good enough, I would either switch to python, or write an executable instead of a script.

I know none of these are perfect soutions, but maybe one is good enough for you :)

SQLite select where empty?

Maybe you mean

select x
from some_table
where some_column is null or some_column = ''

but I can't tell since you didn't really ask a question.

Code for Greatest Common Divisor in Python

This code calculates the gcd of more than two numbers depending on the choice given by # the user, here user gives the number

numbers = [];
count = input ("HOW MANY NUMBERS YOU WANT TO CALCULATE GCD?\n")
for i in range(0, count):
  number = input("ENTER THE NUMBER : \n")
  numbers.append(number)
numbers_sorted = sorted(numbers)
print  'NUMBERS SORTED IN INCREASING ORDER\n',numbers_sorted
gcd = numbers_sorted[0]

for i in range(1, count):
  divisor = gcd
  dividend = numbers_sorted[i]
  remainder = dividend % divisor
  if remainder == 0 :
  gcd = divisor
  else :
    while not remainder == 0 :
      dividend_one = divisor
      divisor_one = remainder
      remainder = dividend_one % divisor_one
      gcd = divisor_one

print 'GCD OF ' ,count,'NUMBERS IS \n', gcd

What are database normal forms and can you give examples?

Here's a quick, admittedly butchered response, but in a sentence:

1NF : Your table is organized as an unordered set of data, and there are no repeating columns.

2NF: You don't repeat data in one column of your table because of another column.

3NF: Every column in your table relates only to your table's key -- you wouldn't have a column in a table that describes another column in your table which isn't the key.

For more detail, see wikipedia...

How to loop through a HashMap in JSP?

Below code works for me

first I defined the partnerTypesMap like below in the server side,

Map<String, String> partnerTypes = new HashMap<>();

after adding values to it I added the object to model,

model.addAttribute("partnerTypesMap", partnerTypes);

When rendering the page I use below foreach to print them one by one.

<c:forEach items="${partnerTypesMap}" var="partnerTypesMap">
      <form:option value="${partnerTypesMap['value']}">${partnerTypesMap['key']}</form:option>
</c:forEach>

Creating a copy of an object in C#

The easiest way to do this is writing a copy constructor in the MyClass class.

Something like this:

namespace Example
{
    class MyClass
    {
        public int val;

        public MyClass()
        {
        }

        public MyClass(MyClass other)
        {
            val = other.val;
        }
    }
}

The second constructor simply accepts a parameter of his own type (the one you want to copy) and creates a new object assigned with the same value

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        MyClass objectA = new MyClass();
        MyClass objectB = new MyClass(objectA);
        objectA.val = 10;
        objectB.val = 20;
        Console.WriteLine("objectA.val = {0}", objectA.val);
        Console.WriteLine("objectB.val = {0}", objectB.val);
        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}

output:

objectA.val = 10

objectB.val = 20               

How can I keep Bootstrap popovers alive while being hovered?

        $(function() {
            $("[data-toggle = 'popover']").popover({
                placement: 'left',
                html: true,
                trigger: "  focus",
            }).on("mouseenter", function() {
                var _this = this;
                $(this).popover("show");
                $(this).siblings(".popover").on("mouseleave", function() {
                    $(_this).popover('hide');
                });
            }).on("mouseleave", function() {
                var _this = this;
                setTimeout(function() {
                    if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
                        $(_this).popover("hide")
                    }
                }, 100);
            });
        }); 

Tab Escape Character?

For someone who needs quick reference of C# Escape Sequences that can be used in string literals:

\t     Horizontal tab (ASCII code value: 9)

\n     Line feed (ASCII code value: 10)

\r     Carriage return (ASCII code value: 13)

\'     Single quotation mark

\"     Double quotation mark

\\     Backslash

\?     Literal question mark

\x12     ASCII character in hexadecimal notation (e.g. for 0x12)

\x1234     Unicode character in hexadecimal notation (e.g. for 0x1234)

It's worth mentioning that these (in most cases) are universal codes. So \t is 9 and \n is 10 char value on Windows and Linux. But newline sequence is not universal. On Windows it's \n\r and on Linux it's just \n. That's why it's best to use Environment.Newline which gets adjusted to current OS settings. With .Net Core it gets really important.

High Quality Image Scaling Library

you could try this one if it's a lowres cgi 2D Image Filter

How to post JSON to a server using C#?

Some different and clean way to achieve this is by using HttpClient like this:

public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> PostResult(string url, ResultObject resultObject)
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient())
    {
        HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
        try
        {
            response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(url, resultObject);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex
        }
        return response;
     }
}

git clone from another directory

It's as easy as it looks.

14:27:05 ~$ mkdir gittests
14:27:11 ~$ cd gittests/
14:27:13 ~/gittests$ mkdir localrepo
14:27:20 ~/gittests$ cd localrepo/
14:27:21 ~/gittests/localrepo$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andwed/gittests/localrepo/.git/
14:27:22 ~/gittests/localrepo (master #)$ cd ..
14:27:35 ~/gittests$ git clone localrepo copyoflocalrepo
Cloning into 'copyoflocalrepo'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
done.
14:27:42 ~/gittests$ cd copyoflocalrepo/
14:27:46 ~/gittests/copyoflocalrepo (master #)$ git status
On branch master

Initial commit

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
14:27:46 ~/gittests/copyoflocalrepo (master #)$ 

pandas groupby sort descending order

This kind of operation is covered under hierarchical indexing. Check out the examples here

When you groupby, you're making new indices. If you also pass a list through .agg(). you'll get multiple columns. I was trying to figure this out and found this thread via google.

It turns out if you pass a tuple corresponding to the exact column you want sorted on.

Try this:

# generate toy data 
ex = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(1,10,size=(100,3)), columns=['features', 'AUC', 'recall'])

# pass a tuple corresponding to which specific col you want sorted. In this case, 'mean' or 'AUC' alone are not unique. 
ex.groupby('features').agg(['mean','std']).sort_values(('AUC', 'mean'))

This will output a df sorted by the AUC-mean column only.

SOAP PHP fault parsing WSDL: failed to load external entity?

I had the same problem.

This php setting solved my problem:

allow_url_fopen -> 1

How to determine the current iPhone/device model?

There are some problems with the accepted answer when you're using Swift 3! This answer (inspired from NAZIK) works with Swift 3 and the new iPhone models:

import UIKit


public extension UIDevice {
var modelName: String {
    #if (arch(i386) || arch(x86_64)) && os(iOS)
        let DEVICE_IS_SIMULATOR = true
    #else
        let DEVICE_IS_SIMULATOR = false
    #endif

    var machineString = String()

    if DEVICE_IS_SIMULATOR == true
    {
        if let dir = ProcessInfo().environment["SIMULATOR_MODEL_IDENTIFIER"] {
            machineString = dir
        }
    }
    else {
        var systemInfo = utsname()
        uname(&systemInfo)
        let machineMirror = Mirror(reflecting: systemInfo.machine)
        machineString = machineMirror.children.reduce("") { identifier, element in
            guard let value = element.value as? Int8 , value != 0 else { return identifier }
            return identifier + String(UnicodeScalar(UInt8(value)))
        }
    }
    switch machineString {
    case "iPod4,1":                                 return "iPod Touch 4G"
    case "iPod5,1":                                 return "iPod Touch 5G"
    case "iPod7,1":                                 return "iPod Touch 6G"
    case "iPhone3,1", "iPhone3,2", "iPhone3,3":     return "iPhone 4"
    case "iPhone4,1":                               return "iPhone 4s"
    case "iPhone5,1", "iPhone5,2":                  return "iPhone 5"
    case "iPhone5,3", "iPhone5,4":                  return "iPhone 5c"
    case "iPhone6,1", "iPhone6,2":                  return "iPhone 5s"
    case "iPhone7,2":                               return "iPhone 6"
    case "iPhone7,1":                               return "iPhone 6 Plus"
    case "iPhone8,1":                               return "iPhone 6s"
    case "iPhone8,2":                               return "iPhone 6s Plus"
    case "iPhone8,4":                               return "iPhone SE"
    case "iPhone9,1", "iPhone9,3":                  return "iPhone 7"
    case "iPhone9,2", "iPhone 9,4":                 return "iPhone 7 Plus"
    case "iPad2,1", "iPad2,2", "iPad2,3", "iPad2,4":return "iPad 2"
    case "iPad3,1", "iPad3,2", "iPad3,3":           return "iPad 3"
    case "iPad3,4", "iPad3,5", "iPad3,6":           return "iPad 4"
    case "iPad4,1", "iPad4,2", "iPad4,3":           return "iPad Air"
    case "iPad5,3", "iPad5,4":                      return "iPad Air 2"
    case "iPad2,5", "iPad2,6", "iPad2,7":           return "iPad Mini"
    case "iPad4,4", "iPad4,5", "iPad4,6":           return "iPad Mini 2"
    case "iPad4,7", "iPad4,8", "iPad4,9":           return "iPad Mini 3"
    case "iPad5,1", "iPad5,2":                      return "iPad Mini 4"
    case "iPad6,3", "iPad6,4":                      return "iPad Pro (9.7 inch)"
    case "iPad6,7", "iPad6,8":                      return "iPad Pro (12.9 inch)"
    case "AppleTV5,3":                              return "Apple TV"
    default:                                        return machineString
    }
}
}

What is unexpected T_VARIABLE in PHP?

There might be a semicolon or bracket missing a line before your pasted line.

It seems fine to me; every string is allowed as an array index.

How to find the lowest common ancestor of two nodes in any binary tree?

Here are two approaches in c# (.net) (both discussed above) for reference:

  1. Recursive version of finding LCA in binary tree (O(N) - as at most each node is visited) (main points of the solution is LCA is (a) only node in binary tree where both elements reside either side of the subtrees (left and right) is LCA. (b) And also it doesn't matter which node is present either side - initially i tried to keep that info, and obviously the recursive function become so confusing. once i realized it, it became very elegant.

  2. Searching both nodes (O(N)), and keeping track of paths (uses extra space - so, #1 is probably superior even thought the space is probably negligible if the binary tree is well balanced as then extra memory consumption will be just in O(log(N)).

    so that the paths are compared (essentailly similar to accepted answer - but the paths is calculated by assuming pointer node is not present in the binary tree node)

  3. Just for the completion (not related to question), LCA in BST (O(log(N))

  4. Tests

Recursive:

private BinaryTreeNode LeastCommonAncestorUsingRecursion(BinaryTreeNode treeNode, 
            int e1, int e2)
        {
            Debug.Assert(e1 != e2);
            
            if(treeNode == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            if((treeNode.Element == e1)
                || (treeNode.Element == e2))
            {
                //we don't care which element is present (e1 or e2), we just need to check 
                //if one of them is there
                return treeNode;
            }
            var nLeft = this.LeastCommonAncestorUsingRecursion(treeNode.Left, e1, e2);
            var nRight = this.LeastCommonAncestorUsingRecursion(treeNode.Right, e1, e2);
            if(nLeft != null && nRight != null)
            {
                //note that this condition will be true only at least common ancestor
                return treeNode;
            }
            else if(nLeft != null)
            {
                return nLeft;
            }
            else if(nRight != null)
            {
                return nRight;
            }
            return null;
        }

where above private recursive version is invoked by following public method:

public BinaryTreeNode LeastCommonAncestorUsingRecursion(int e1, int e2)
        {
            var n = this.FindNode(this._root, e1);
            if(null == n)
            {
                throw new Exception("Element not found: " + e1);
            }
            if (e1 == e2)
            {   
                return n;
            }
            n = this.FindNode(this._root, e2);
            if (null == n)
            {
                throw new Exception("Element not found: " + e2);
            }
            var node = this.LeastCommonAncestorUsingRecursion(this._root, e1, e2);
            if (null == node)
            {
                throw new Exception(string.Format("Least common ancenstor not found for the given elements: {0},{1}", e1, e2));
            }
            return node;
        }

Solution by keeping track of paths of both nodes:

public BinaryTreeNode LeastCommonAncestorUsingPaths(int e1, int e2)
        {
            var path1 = new List<BinaryTreeNode>();
            var node1 = this.FindNodeAndPath(this._root, e1, path1);
            if(node1 == null)
            {
                throw new Exception(string.Format("Element {0} is not found", e1));
            }
            if(e1 == e2)
            {
                return node1;
            }
            List<BinaryTreeNode> path2 = new List<BinaryTreeNode>();
            var node2 = this.FindNodeAndPath(this._root, e2, path2);
            if (node1 == null)
            {
                throw new Exception(string.Format("Element {0} is not found", e2));
            }
            BinaryTreeNode lca = null;
            Debug.Assert(path1[0] == this._root);
            Debug.Assert(path2[0] == this._root);
            int i = 0;
            while((i < path1.Count)
                && (i < path2.Count)
                && (path2[i] == path1[i]))
            {
                lca = path1[i];
                i++;
            }
            Debug.Assert(null != lca);
            return lca;
        }

where FindNodeAndPath is defined as

private BinaryTreeNode FindNodeAndPath(BinaryTreeNode node, int e, List<BinaryTreeNode> path)
        {
            if(node == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            if(node.Element == e)
            {
                path.Add(node);
                return node;
            }
            var n = this.FindNodeAndPath(node.Left, e, path);
            if(n == null)
            {
                n = this.FindNodeAndPath(node.Right, e, path);
            }
            if(n != null)
            {
                path.Insert(0, node);
                return n;
            }
            return null;
        }

BST (LCA) - not related (just for completion for reference)

public BinaryTreeNode BstLeastCommonAncestor(int e1, int e2)
        {
            //ensure both elements are there in the bst
            var n1 = this.BstFind(e1, throwIfNotFound: true);
            if(e1 == e2)
            {
                return n1;
            }
            this.BstFind(e2, throwIfNotFound: true);
            BinaryTreeNode leastCommonAcncestor = this._root;
            var iterativeNode = this._root;
            while(iterativeNode != null)
            {
                if((iterativeNode.Element > e1 ) && (iterativeNode.Element > e2))
                {
                    iterativeNode = iterativeNode.Left;
                }
                else if((iterativeNode.Element < e1) && (iterativeNode.Element < e2))
                {
                    iterativeNode = iterativeNode.Right;
                }
                else
                {
                    //i.e; either iterative node is equal to e1 or e2 or in between e1 and e2
                    return iterativeNode;
                }
            }
            //control will never come here
            return leastCommonAcncestor;
        }

Unit Tests

[TestMethod]
        public void LeastCommonAncestorTests()
        {
            int[] a = { 13, 2, 18, 1, 5, 17, 20, 3, 6, 16, 21, 4, 14, 15, 25, 22, 24 };
            int[] b = { 13, 13, 13, 2, 13, 18, 13, 5, 13, 18, 13, 13, 14, 18, 25, 22};
            BinarySearchTree bst = new BinarySearchTree();
            foreach (int e in a)
            {
                bst.Add(e);
                bst.Delete(e);
                bst.Add(e);
            }
            for(int i = 0; i < b.Length; i++)
            {
                var n = bst.BstLeastCommonAncestor(a[i], a[i + 1]);
                Assert.IsTrue(n.Element == b[i]);
                var n1 = bst.LeastCommonAncestorUsingPaths(a[i], a[i + 1]);
                Assert.IsTrue(n1.Element == b[i]);
                Assert.IsTrue(n == n1);
                var n2 = bst.LeastCommonAncestorUsingRecursion(a[i], a[i + 1]);
                Assert.IsTrue(n2.Element == b[i]);
                Assert.IsTrue(n2 == n1);
                Assert.IsTrue(n2 == n);
            }
        }

How to strip all whitespace from string

Alternatively,

"strip my spaces".translate( None, string.whitespace )

And here is Python3 version:

"strip my spaces".translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.whitespace))

Comma separated results in SQL

If you're stuck with SQL Server <2017, you can use GroupConcat. The syntax and the performance is far better than the FOR XML PATH sollution.

Installation:

-- https://codeplexarchive.blob.core.windows.net/archive/projects/groupconcat/groupconcat.zip
create assembly [GroupConcat] from 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with permission_set = safe;
create aggregate [dbo].[GROUP_CONCAT]    (@VALUE [nvarchar](4000))                                                      returns[nvarchar](max) external name [GroupConcat].[GroupConcat.GROUP_CONCAT];
create aggregate [dbo].[GROUP_CONCAT_D]  (@VALUE [nvarchar](4000), @DELIMITER [nvarchar](4))                            returns[nvarchar](max) external name [GroupConcat].[GroupConcat.GROUP_CONCAT_D];
create aggregate [dbo].[GROUP_CONCAT_DS] (@VALUE [nvarchar](4000), @DELIMITER [nvarchar](4), @SORT_ORDER [tinyint])     returns[nvarchar](max) external name [GroupConcat].[GroupConcat.GROUP_CONCAT_DS];
create aggregate [dbo].[GROUP_CONCAT_S]  (@VALUE [nvarchar](4000), @SORT_ORDER [tinyint])                               returns[nvarchar](max) external name [GroupConcat].[GroupConcat.GROUP_CONCAT_S];

go

Usage:

declare @liststr varchar(max)
select @liststr = dbo.group_concat_d(institutionname, ',')
from education
where studentnumber = '111'
group by studentnumber;
select @liststr

GroupConcat does not support ordering, though. You could use PIVOT, CTE's and windows functions if you need ordering:

drop table if exists #students;
create table #students (
    name        varchar(20),
    institution varchar(20),
    year        int -- order by year
)
go

insert into #students(name, institution, year)
values
    ('Simon', 'INSTITUTION1', 2005),
    ('Simon', 'INSTITUTION2', 2008);

with cte as (
    select name,
           institution,
           rn = row_number() over (partition by name order by year)
    from #students
)
select name,
       [1] +
       isnull((',' + [2]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [3]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [4]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [5]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [6]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [7]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [8]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [9]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [10]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [11]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [12]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [13]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [14]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [15]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [16]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [17]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [18]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [19]), '') +
       isnull((',' + [20]), '')
from cte
    pivot (
    max(institution)
    for rn in ([1], [2], [3], [4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17],[18],[19],[20])
    ) as piv

Adding new line of data to TextBox

C# - serialData is ReceivedEventHandler in TextBox.

SerialPort sData = sender as SerialPort;
string recvData = sData.ReadLine();

serialData.Invoke(new Action(() => serialData.Text = String.Concat(recvData)));

Now Visual Studio drops my lines. TextBox, of course, had all the correct options on.

Serial:

Serial.print(rnd);
Serial.( '\n' );  //carriage return

phpMyAdmin ERROR: mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user 'pma'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

I just finished setting up my XAMPP on the MAC and had the same trouble. I just fixed it. It is not quite clear what OS you're using but you need to run the XAMPP security. You indicate you've done that, but here it is anyway for the MAC

sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp security 

Set your password on the questions you get.

In you're phpmyadmin import the "create_tables.sql" .. Which can be found in the ./phpmyadmin/sql folder.

Next open the config.inc.php file inside the ./phpmyadmin folder.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'you_password';

Make sure to log out and log in to reflect the changes within phpmyadmin

matplotlib: how to draw a rectangle on image

From my understanding matplotlib is a plotting library.

If you want to change the image data (e.g. draw a rectangle on an image), you could use PIL's ImageDraw, OpenCV, or something similar.

Here is PIL's ImageDraw method to draw a rectangle.

Here is one of OpenCV's methods for drawing a rectangle.

Your question asked about Matplotlib, but probably should have just asked about drawing a rectangle on an image.

Here is another question which addresses what I think you wanted to know: Draw a rectangle and a text in it using PIL

Dealing with multiple Python versions and PIP?

for example, if you set other versions (e.g. 3.5) as default and want to install pip for python 2.7:

  1. download pip at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip (tar)
  2. unzip tar file
  3. cd to the file’s directory
  4. sudo python2.7 setup.py install

Centering Bootstrap input fields

You can use offsets to make a column appear centered, just use an offset equal to half of the remaining size of the row, in your case I would suggest using col-lg-4 with col-lg-offset-4, that's (12-4)/2.

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-lg-4 col-lg-offset-4">
        <div class="input-group">
            <input type="text" class="form-control" /> 
            <span class="input-group-btn">
                <button class="btn btn-default" type="button">Go!</button>
            </span>
        </div><!-- /input-group -->
    </div><!-- /.col-lg-4 -->
</div><!-- /.row -->

Demo fiddle

Note that this technique only works for even column sizes (.col-X-2, .col-X-4, col-X-6, etc...), if you want to support any size you can use margin: 0 auto; but you need to remove the float from the element too, I recommend a custom CSS class like the following:

.col-centered{
    margin: 0 auto;
    float: none;
}

Demo fiddle

Is there a default password to connect to vagrant when using `homestead ssh` for the first time?

By default Vagrant uses a generated private key to login, you can try this:

ssh -l ubuntu -p 2222 -i .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key 127.0.0.1

Converting a JToken (or string) to a given Type

var i2 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(obj["id"].ToString(), type);

throws a parsing exception due to missing quotes around the first argument (I think). I got it to work by adding the quotes:

var i2 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject("\"" + obj["id"].ToString() + "\"", type);

SQLAlchemy equivalent to SQL "LIKE" statement

If you use native sql, you can refer to my code, otherwise just ignore my answer.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE tags LIKE "%banana%";
from sqlalchemy import text

bar_tags = "banana"

# '%' attention to spaces
query_sql = """SELECT * FROM table WHERE tags LIKE '%' :bar_tags '%'"""

# db is sqlalchemy session object
tags_res_list = db.execute(text(query_sql), {"bar_tags": bar_tags}).fetchall()

Django Cookies, how can I set them?

UPDATE : check Peter's answer below for a builtin solution :

This is a helper to set a persistent cookie:

import datetime

def set_cookie(response, key, value, days_expire=7):
    if days_expire is None:
        max_age = 365 * 24 * 60 * 60  # one year
    else:
        max_age = days_expire * 24 * 60 * 60
    expires = datetime.datetime.strftime(
        datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=max_age),
        "%a, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S GMT",
    )
    response.set_cookie(
        key,
        value,
        max_age=max_age,
        expires=expires,
        domain=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN,
        secure=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE or None,
    )

Use the following code before sending a response.

def view(request):
    response = HttpResponse("hello")
    set_cookie(response, 'name', 'jujule')
    return response

UPDATE : check Peter's answer below for a builtin solution :

jQuery's .click - pass parameters to user function

If you call it the way you had it...

$('.leadtoscore').click(add_event('shot'));

...you would need to have add_event() return a function, like...

function add_event(param) {
    return function() {
                // your code that does something with param
                alert( param );
           };
}

The function is returned and used as the argument for .click().

What's the longest possible worldwide phone number I should consider in SQL varchar(length) for phone

It's a bit worse, I use a calling card for international calls, so its local number in the US + account# (6 digits) + pin (4 digits) + "pause" + what you described above.

I suspect there might be other cases

If Radio Button is selected, perform validation on Checkboxes

Full validation example with javascript:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>Radio button: full validation example with javascript</title>
        <script>
            function send() {
                var genders = document.getElementsByName("gender");
                if (genders[0].checked == true) {
                    alert("Your gender is male");
                } else if (genders[1].checked == true) {
                    alert("Your gender is female");
                } else {
                    // no checked
                    var msg = '<span style="color:red;">You must select your gender!</span><br /><br />';
                    document.getElementById('msg').innerHTML = msg;
                    return false;
                }
                return true;
            }

            function reset_msg() {
                document.getElementById('msg').innerHTML = '';
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="" method="POST">
            <label>Gender:</label>
            <br />
            <input type="radio" name="gender" value="m" onclick="reset_msg();" />Male
            <br />
            <input type="radio" name="gender" value="f" onclick="reset_msg();" />Female
            <br />
            <div id="msg"></div>
            <input type="submit" value="send>>" onclick="return send();" />
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Regards,

Fernando

Apache 2.4 - Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error

You're getting into looping most likely due to these rules:

RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]

Just comment it out and try again in a new browser.

How to use awk sort by column 3

awk -F "," '{print $0}' user.csv | sort -nk3 -t ','

This should work

Image library for Python 3

You want the Pillow library, here is how to install it on Python 3:

pip3 install Pillow

If that does not work for you (it should), try normal pip:

pip install Pillow

ImportError: No module named requests

Python Common installation issues

These commands are also useful if Homebrew screws up your path on macOS.

python -m pip install requests

or

python3 -m pip install requests

Multiple versions of Python installed in parallel?

Class file has wrong version 52.0, should be 50.0

In your IntelliJ idea find tools.jar replace it with tools.jar from yout JDK8

How do I do redo (i.e. "undo undo") in Vim?

Vim documentation

<Undo>      or                  *undo* *<Undo>* *u*
u           Undo [count] changes.  {Vi: only one level}

                            *:u* *:un* *:undo*
:u[ndo]         Undo one change.  {Vi: only one level}

                            *CTRL-R*
CTRL-R          Redo [count] changes which were undone.  {Vi: redraw screen}

                            *:red* *:redo* *redo*
:red[o]         Redo one change which was undone.  {Vi: no redo}

                            *U*
U           Undo all latest changes on one line.  {Vi: while not
            moved off of it}

Finishing current activity from a fragment

When working with fragments, instead of using this or refering to the context, always use getActivity(). You should call

getActivity().finish();

to finish your activity from fragment.

How to get current location in Android

You need to write code in the OnLocationChanged method, because this method is called when the location has changed. I.e. you need to save the new location to return it if getLocation is called.

If you don't use the onLocationChanged it always will be the old location.

How to use adb command to push a file on device without sd card

This might be the best answer you'll may read. Setup Android Studio Then just go to view & Open Device Explorer. Right-click on the folder & just upload a file.

Why can't I make a vector of references?

The component type of containers like vectors must be assignable. References are not assignable (you can only initialize them once when they are declared, and you cannot make them reference something else later). Other non-assignable types are also not allowed as components of containers, e.g. vector<const int> is not allowed.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at

The server at x3.chatforyoursite.com needs to output the following header:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.example.com

Where http://www.example.com is your website address. You should check your settings on chatforyoursite.com to see if you can enable this - if not their technical support would probably be the best way to resolve this. However to answer your question, you need the remote site to allow your site to access AJAX responses client side.

How to return a part of an array in Ruby?

Ruby 2.6 Beginless/Endless Ranges

(..1)
# or
(...1)

(1..)
# or
(1...)

[1,2,3,4,5,6][..3]
=> [1, 2, 3, 4]

[1,2,3,4,5,6][...3]
 => [1, 2, 3]

ROLES = %w[superadmin manager admin contact user]
ROLES[ROLES.index('admin')..]
=> ["admin", "contact", "user"]

XPath contains(text(),'some string') doesn't work when used with node with more than one Text subnode

The XML document:

<Home>
    <Addr>
        <Street>ABC</Street>
        <Number>5</Number>
        <Comment>BLAH BLAH BLAH <br/><br/>ABC</Comment>
    </Addr>
</Home>

The XPath expression:

//*[contains(text(), 'ABC')]

//* matches any descendant element of the root node. That is, any element but the root node.

[...] is a predicate, it filters the node-set. It returns nodes for which ... is true:

A predicate filters a node-set [...] to produce a new node-set. For each node in the node-set to be filtered, the PredicateExpr is evaluated [...]; if PredicateExpr evaluates to true for that node, the node is included in the new node-set; otherwise, it is not included.

contains('haystack', 'needle') returns true if haystack contains needle:

Function: boolean contains(string, string)

The contains function returns true if the first argument string contains the second argument string, and otherwise returns false.

But contains() takes a string as its first parameter. And it's passed nodes. To deal with that every node or node-set passed as the first parameter is converted to a string by the string() function:

An argument is converted to type string as if by calling the string function.

string() function returns string-value of the first node:

A node-set is converted to a string by returning the string-value of the node in the node-set that is first in document order. If the node-set is empty, an empty string is returned.

string-value of an element node:

The string-value of an element node is the concatenation of the string-values of all text node descendants of the element node in document order.

string-value of a text node:

The string-value of a text node is the character data.

So, basically string-value is all text that is contained in a node (concatenation of all descendant text nodes).

text() is a node test that matches any text node:

The node test text() is true for any text node. For example, child::text() will select the text node children of the context node.

Having that said, //*[contains(text(), 'ABC')] matches any element (but the root node), the first text node of which contains ABC. Since text() returns a node-set that contains all child text nodes of the context node (relative to which an expression is evaluated). But contains() takes only the first one. So for the document above the path matches the Street element.

The following expression //*[text()[contains(., 'ABC')]] matches any element (but the root node), that has at least one child text node, that contains ABC. . represents the context node. In this case, it's a child text node of any element but the root node. So for the document above the path matches the Street, and the Comment elements.

Now then, //*[contains(., 'ABC')] matches any element (but the root node) that contains ABC (in the concatenation of the descendant text nodes). For the document above it matches the Home, the Addr, the Street, and the Comment elements. As such, //*[contains(., 'BLAH ABC')] matches the Home, the Addr, and the Comment elements.

How to change the date format of a DateTimePicker in vb.net

You need to set the Format of the DateTimePicker to Custom and then assign the CustomFormat.

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    DateTimePicker1.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Custom
    DateTimePicker1.CustomFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy"
End Sub

What's the difference between a Future and a Promise?

(I'm not completely happy with the answers so far, so here is my attempt...)

I think that Kevin Wright's comment ("You can make a Promise and it's up to you to keep it. When someone else makes you a promise you must wait to see if they honour it in the Future") summarizes it pretty well, but some explanation can be useful.

Futures and promises are pretty similar concepts, the difference is that a future is a read-only container for a result that does not yet exist, while a promise can be written (normally only once). The Java 8 CompletableFuture and the Guava SettableFuture can be thought of as promises, because their value can be set ("completed"), but they also implement the Future interface, therefore there is no difference for the client.

The result of the future will be set by "someone else" - by the result of an asynchronous computation. Note how FutureTask - a classic future - must be initialized with a Callable or Runnable, there is no no-argument constructor, and both Future and FutureTask are read-only from the outside (the set methods of FutureTask are protected). The value will be set to the result of the computation from the inside.

On the other hand, the result of a promise can be set by "you" (or in fact by anybody) anytime because it has a public setter method. Both CompletableFuture and SettableFuture can be created without any task, and their value can be set at any time. You send a promise to the client code, and fulfill it later as you wish.

Note that CompletableFuture is not a "pure" promise, it can be initialized with a task just like FutureTask, and its most useful feature is the unrelated chaining of processing steps.

Also note that a promise does not have to be a subtype of future and it does not have to be the same object. In Scala a Future object is created by an asynchronous computation or by a different Promise object. In C++ the situation is similar: the promise object is used by the producer and the future object by the consumer. The advantage of this separation is that the client cannot set the value of the future.

Both Spring and EJB 3.1 have an AsyncResult class, which is similar to the Scala/C++ promises. AsyncResult does implement Future but this is not the real future: asynchronous methods in Spring/EJB return a different, read-only Future object through some background magic, and this second "real" future can be used by the client to access the result.

Stretch child div height to fill parent that has dynamic height

Use display: flex to stretch your divs:

div#container {
    padding:20px;
    background:#F1F1F1;
    display: flex;
}

.content {
    width:150px;
    background:#ddd;
    padding:10px;
    margin-left: 10px;
}

JSFIDDLE

Using Caps Lock as Esc in Mac OS X

Since macOS 10.12.1 it is possible to remap Caps Lock to Esc natively (System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys).

enter image description here

Laravel Eloquent compare date from datetime field

Have you considered using:

where('date', '<', '2014-08-11')

You should avoid using the DATE() function on indexed columns in MySQL, as this prevents the engine from using the index.

UPDATE

As there seems to be some disagreement about the importance of DATE() and indexes, I have created a fiddle that demonstrates the difference, see POSSIBLE KEYS.

Formatting dates on X axis in ggplot2

Can you use date as a factor?

Yes, but you probably shouldn't.

...or should you use as.Date on a date column?

Yes.

Which leads us to this:

library(scales)
df$Month <- as.Date(df$Month)
ggplot(df, aes(x = Month, y = AvgVisits)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
  theme_bw() +
  labs(x = "Month", y = "Average Visits per User") +
  scale_x_date(labels = date_format("%m-%Y"))

enter image description here

in which I've added stat = "identity" to your geom_bar call.

In addition, the message about the binwidth wasn't an error. An error will actually say "Error" in it, and similarly a warning will always say "Warning" in it. Otherwise it's just a message.

How to send password securely over HTTP?

Using https sounds best option here (certificates are not that expensive nowadays). However if http is a requirement, you may use some encription - encript it on server side and decript in users browser (send key separately).

We have used that while implementing safevia.net - encription is done on clients (sender/receiver) sides, so users data are not available on network nor server layer.

How to check if $? is not equal to zero in unix shell scripting?

I don't know how you got a string in $? but you can do:

if [[ "x$?" == "x0" ]]; then
   echo good
fi

GitHub - failed to connect to github 443 windows/ Failed to connect to gitHub - No Error

(Not an answer, but a very similar problem) I have Git Gui installed on a Windows system behind a proxy. Issuing 'git clone' from a Linux virtual machine running on the Windows system works, but Git Gui yields the 443 error mentioned in the heading.

To fix this, one must edit %USERPROFILE%\.gitconfig to add an [http] section:

[http]
    postBuffer = 1000000000
    proxy = the.proxy.address:the.proxy.port
    sslcainfo = C:/Users/username/Documents/the.certificate.name.cer

Note that the path to the security certificate file has had its backslashes ('\') replaced by slashes ('/').

org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class

Check your dependencies.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>SchoolApp</groupId>
  <artifactId>SchoolApp</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>war</packaging>

  <properties>
    <hibernate.version>4.2.0.Final</hibernate.version>
    <mysql.connector.version>5.1.21</mysql.connector.version>
    <spring.version>3.2.2.RELEASE</spring.version>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
    <!-- DB related dependencies -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
      <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
      <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
      <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
      <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>mysql</groupId>
      <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
      <version>${mysql.connector.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
      <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
      <version>1.4</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>javassist</groupId>
      <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
      <version>3.12.1.GA</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- SPRING -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
      <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
      <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
      <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
      <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
      <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
      <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- Spring Security  -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
      <version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
      <version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
      <version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
      <version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- CGLIB is required to process @Configuration classes -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>cglib</groupId>
      <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
      <version>2.2.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- Servlet API and JSTL -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
      <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
      <version>3.0.1</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>jstl</groupId>
      <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
      <version>1.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- Test -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.7</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
      <version>${spring.version}</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-test-mvc</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0.M1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
      <name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
      <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <build>
    <finalName>spr-mvc-hib</finalName>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.7</source>
          <target>1.7</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

if...else within JSP or JSTL

simple way :

<c:if test="${condition}">
    //if
</c:if>
<c:if test="${!condition}">
    //else
</c:if>

Combine two columns of text in pandas dataframe

generalising to multiple columns, why not:

columns = ['whatever', 'columns', 'you', 'choose']
df['period'] = df[columns].astype(str).sum(axis=1)

How do I update Node.js?

For OS X, I had v5.4.1 and needed the latest version 6 so I went to the Node.js homepage and clicked on one of the links below:

Node.js OS X download links

I then followed the installer and then I magically had the latest version of Node.js and npm.

HTML5 LocalStorage: Checking if a key exists

The MDN documentation shows how the getItem method is implementated:

Object.defineProperty(oStorage, "getItem", {
      value: function (sKey) { return sKey ? this[sKey] : null; },
      writable: false,
      configurable: false,
      enumerable: false
    });

If the value isn't set, it returns null. You are testing to see if it is undefined. Check to see if it is null instead.

if(localStorage.getItem("username") === null){

How do I retrieve my MySQL username and password?

Stop the MySQL process.

Start the MySQL process with the --skip-grant-tables option.

Start the MySQL console client with the -u root option.

List all the users;

SELECT * FROM mysql.user;

Reset password;

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('[password]') WHERE User='[username]';

But DO NOT FORGET to

Stop the MySQL process

Start the MySQL Process normally (i.e. without the --skip-grant-tables option)

when you are finished. Otherwise, your database's security could be compromised.

CSS selectors ul li a {...} vs ul > li > a {...}

1) for example HTML code:

<ul>
    <li>
        <a href="#">firstlink</a>
        <span><a href="#">second link&lt;/a>
    </li>
</ul>

and css rules:

1) ul li a {color:red;} 
2) ul > li > a {color:blue;}

">" - symbol mean that that will be searching only child selector (parentTag > childTag)

so first css rule will apply to all links (first and second) and second rule will apply anly to first link

2) As for efficiency - I think second will be more fast - as in case with JavaScript selectors. This rule read from right to left, this mean that when rule will parse by browser, it get all links on page: - in first case it will find all parent elements for each link on page and filter all links where exist parent tags "ul" and "li" - in second case it will check only parent node of link if it is "li" tag then -> check if parent tag of "li" is "ul"

some thing like this. Hope I describe all properly for you

How to read a text-file resource into Java unit test?

You can use a Junit Rule to create this temporary folder for your test:

@Rule public TemporaryFolder temporaryFolder = new TemporaryFolder(); File file = temporaryFolder.newFile(".src/test/resources/abc.xml");

How to display .svg image using swift

You can use this pod called 'SVGParser'. https://cocoapods.org/pods/SVGParser.

After adding it in your pod file, all you have to do is to import this module to the class that you want to use it. You should show the SVG image in an ImageView.

There are three cases you can show this SVGimage:

  1. Load SVG from local path as Data
  2. Load SVG from local path
  3. Load SVG from remote URL

You can also find an example project in GitHub: https://github.com/AndreyMomot/SVGParser. Just download the project and run it to see how it works.

editing PATH variable on mac

Based on my own experiences and internet search, I find these places work:

/etc/paths.d

~/.bash_profile

Note that you should open a new terminal window to see the changes.

You may also refer to this this question

ExecJS and could not find a JavaScript runtime

Attempting to debug in RubyMine using Ubuntu 18.04, Ruby 2.6.*, Rails 5, & RubyMine 2019.1.1, I ran into the same issue.

To resolve the issue, I uncommented the mini_racer line from my Gemfile and then ran bundle:

# See https://github.com/rails/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
# gem 'mini_racer', platforms: :ruby

Change to:

# See https://github.com/rails/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
gem 'mini_racer', platforms: :ruby

How to clear a data grid view

dataGridView1.Rows.Clear();
dataGridView1.Refresh();

String isNullOrEmpty in Java?

You can add one

public static boolean isNullOrBlank(String param) { 
    return param == null || param.trim().length() == 0;
}

I have

public static boolean isSet(String param) { 
    // doesn't ignore spaces, but does save an object creation.
    return param != null && param.length() != 0; 
}

Mysql Compare two datetime fields

You can use the following SQL to compare both date and time -

Select * From temp where mydate > STR_TO_DATE('2009-06-29 04:00:44', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s');

Attached mysql output when I used same SQL on same kind of table and field that you mentioned in the problem-

enter image description here

It should work perfect.

Use of *args and **kwargs

The syntax is the * and **. The names *args and **kwargs are only by convention but there's no hard requirement to use them.

You would use *args when you're not sure how many arguments might be passed to your function, i.e. it allows you pass an arbitrary number of arguments to your function. For example:

>>> def print_everything(*args):
        for count, thing in enumerate(args):
...         print( '{0}. {1}'.format(count, thing))
...
>>> print_everything('apple', 'banana', 'cabbage')
0. apple
1. banana
2. cabbage

Similarly, **kwargs allows you to handle named arguments that you have not defined in advance:

>>> def table_things(**kwargs):
...     for name, value in kwargs.items():
...         print( '{0} = {1}'.format(name, value))
...
>>> table_things(apple = 'fruit', cabbage = 'vegetable')
cabbage = vegetable
apple = fruit

You can use these along with named arguments too. The explicit arguments get values first and then everything else is passed to *args and **kwargs. The named arguments come first in the list. For example:

def table_things(titlestring, **kwargs)

You can also use both in the same function definition but *args must occur before **kwargs.

You can also use the * and ** syntax when calling a function. For example:

>>> def print_three_things(a, b, c):
...     print( 'a = {0}, b = {1}, c = {2}'.format(a,b,c))
...
>>> mylist = ['aardvark', 'baboon', 'cat']
>>> print_three_things(*mylist)
a = aardvark, b = baboon, c = cat

As you can see in this case it takes the list (or tuple) of items and unpacks it. By this it matches them to the arguments in the function. Of course, you could have a * both in the function definition and in the function call.

How to disable input conditionally in vue.js

Bear in mind that ES6 Sets/Maps don't appear to be reactive as far as i can tell, at time of writing.

Print in new line, java

It does create a new line. Try:

System.out.println("---\n###");

Is there a CSS parent selector?

There no css (and therefore in css preprocessors) parent selector due to "The major reasons for the CSS Working Group previously rejecting proposals for parent selectors are related to browser performance and incremental rendering issues."

python: how to check if a line is an empty line

I think is more robust to use regular expressions:

import re

for i, line in enumerate(content):
    print line if not (re.match('\r?\n', line)) else pass

This would match in Windows/unix. In addition if you are not sure about lines containing only space char you could use '\s*\r?\n' as expression

What is the difference between MVC and MVVM?

MVVMC, or perhaps MVC+, seems to be a viable approach for enterprise as well as rapid application development. While it is nice to separate the UI from business and interaction logic, the 'pure' MVVM pattern and most available examples work best on singular views.

Not sure about your designs, but most of my applications, however, contain pages and several (reusable) views and thus the ViewModels do need to interact to some degree. Using the page as controller would defeat the purpose of the MVVM altogether, so not using a "VM-C" approach for the underlying logic might result in .. well .. challenging constructs as the application matures. Even in VB-6 most of us probably stopped coding business logic into the Button event and started 'relaying' commands to a controller, right? I recently looked at many emerging framworks on that topic; my favorite clearly is the Magellan (at codeplex) approach. Happy coding!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_ViewModel#References

How to convert rdd object to dataframe in spark

This code works perfectly from Spark 2.x with Scala 2.11

Import necessary classes

import org.apache.spark.sql.{Row, SparkSession}
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{DoubleType, StringType, StructField, StructType}

Create SparkSession Object, and Here it's spark

val spark: SparkSession = SparkSession.builder.master("local").getOrCreate
val sc = spark.sparkContext // Just used to create test RDDs

Let's an RDD to make it DataFrame

val rdd = sc.parallelize(
  Seq(
    ("first", Array(2.0, 1.0, 2.1, 5.4)),
    ("test", Array(1.5, 0.5, 0.9, 3.7)),
    ("choose", Array(8.0, 2.9, 9.1, 2.5))
  )
)

Method 1

Using SparkSession.createDataFrame(RDD obj).

val dfWithoutSchema = spark.createDataFrame(rdd)

dfWithoutSchema.show()
+------+--------------------+
|    _1|                  _2|
+------+--------------------+
| first|[2.0, 1.0, 2.1, 5.4]|
|  test|[1.5, 0.5, 0.9, 3.7]|
|choose|[8.0, 2.9, 9.1, 2.5]|
+------+--------------------+

Method 2

Using SparkSession.createDataFrame(RDD obj) and specifying column names.

val dfWithSchema = spark.createDataFrame(rdd).toDF("id", "vals")

dfWithSchema.show()
+------+--------------------+
|    id|                vals|
+------+--------------------+
| first|[2.0, 1.0, 2.1, 5.4]|
|  test|[1.5, 0.5, 0.9, 3.7]|
|choose|[8.0, 2.9, 9.1, 2.5]|
+------+--------------------+

Method 3 (Actual answer to the question)

This way requires the input rdd should be of type RDD[Row].

val rowsRdd: RDD[Row] = sc.parallelize(
  Seq(
    Row("first", 2.0, 7.0),
    Row("second", 3.5, 2.5),
    Row("third", 7.0, 5.9)
  )
)

create the schema

val schema = new StructType()
  .add(StructField("id", StringType, true))
  .add(StructField("val1", DoubleType, true))
  .add(StructField("val2", DoubleType, true))

Now apply both rowsRdd and schema to createDataFrame()

val df = spark.createDataFrame(rowsRdd, schema)

df.show()
+------+----+----+
|    id|val1|val2|
+------+----+----+
| first| 2.0| 7.0|
|second| 3.5| 2.5|
| third| 7.0| 5.9|
+------+----+----+

Cannot convert lambda expression to type 'string' because it is not a delegate type

For people just stumbling upon this now, I resolved an error of this type that was thrown with all the references and using statements placed properly. There's evidently some confusion with substituting in a function that returns DataTable instead of calling it on a declared DataTable. For example:

This worked for me:

DataTable dt = SomeObject.ReturnsDataTable();

List<string> ls = dt.AsEnumerable().Select(dr => dr["name"].ToString()).ToList<string>();

But this didn't:

List<string> ls = SomeObject.ReturnsDataTable().AsEnumerable().Select(dr => dr["name"].ToString()).ToList<string>();

I'm still not 100% sure why, but if anyone is frustrated by an error of this type, give this a try.

How can I check if a View exists in a Database?

if exists (SELECT * FROM sys.views WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[MyTable]') )

Writing handler for UIAlertAction

  1. In Swift

    let alertController = UIAlertController(title:"Title", message: "Message", preferredStyle:.alert)
    
    let Action = UIAlertAction.init(title: "Ok", style: .default) { (UIAlertAction) in
        // Write Your code Here
    }
    
    alertController.addAction(Action)
    self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    
  2. In Objective C

    UIAlertController *alertController = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Title" message:@"Message" preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
    
    UIAlertAction *OK = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"OK" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault handler:^(UIAlertAction * _Nonnull action)
    {
    }];
    
    [alertController addAction:OK];
    
    [self presentViewController:alertController animated:YES completion:nil];
    

Increasing (or decreasing) the memory available to R processes

From:

http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig/docs/How_do_I2.html (mirror)

Windows users may get the error that R has run out of memory.

If you have R already installed and subsequently install more RAM, you may have to reinstall R in order to take advantage of the additional capacity.

You may also set the amount of available memory manually. Close R, then right-click on your R program icon (the icon on your desktop or in your programs directory). Select ``Properties'', and then select the ``Shortcut'' tab. Look for the ``Target'' field and after the closing quotes around the location of the R executible, add

--max-mem-size=500M

as shown in the figure below. You may increase this value up to 2GB or the maximum amount of physical RAM you have installed.

If you get the error that R cannot allocate a vector of length x, close out of R and add the following line to the ``Target'' field:

--max-vsize=500M

or as appropriate. You can always check to see how much memory R has available by typing at the R prompt

memory.limit()

which gives you the amount of available memory in MB. In previous versions of R you needed to use: round(memory.limit()/2^20, 2).

Apply style ONLY on IE

For IE9+

@media screen and (min-width:0\0) and (min-resolution: +72dpi) {
   // IE9+ CSS
   .selector{
      color: red;
   }
}

IE Edge 12+

@supports (-ms-ime-align: auto) {
  .selector {
    color: red;
  }
}

This one works on Edge and all IEs

:-ms-lang(x), .selector { color: red; }

How do I clear only a few specific objects from the workspace?

  1. In RStudio, ensure the Environment tab is in Grid (not List) mode.

  2. Tick the object(s) you want to remove from the environment.

  3. Click the broom icon.

Python: Random numbers into a list

import random

a=[]
n=int(input("Enter number of elements:"))

for j in range(n):
       a.append(random.randint(1,20))

print('Randomised list is: ',a)

How to add rows dynamically into table layout

You are doing it right; every time you need to add a row, simply so new TableRow(), etc. It might be easier for you to inflate the new row from XML though.

Simple post to Web Api

It's been quite sometime since I asked this question. Now I understand it more clearly, I'm going to put a more complete answer to help others.

In Web API, it's very simple to remember how parameter binding is happening.

  • if you POST simple types, Web API tries to bind it from the URL
  • if you POST complex type, Web API tries to bind it from the body of the request (this uses a media-type formatter).

  • If you want to bind a complex type from the URL, you'll use [FromUri] in your action parameter. The limitation of this is down to how long your data going to be and if it exceeds the url character limit.

    public IHttpActionResult Put([FromUri] ViewModel data) { ... }

  • If you want to bind a simple type from the request body, you'll use [FromBody] in your action parameter.

    public IHttpActionResult Put([FromBody] string name) { ... }

as a side note, say you are making a PUT request (just a string) to update something. If you decide not to append it to the URL and pass as a complex type with just one property in the model, then the data parameter in jQuery ajax will look something like below. The object you pass to data parameter has only one property with empty property name.

var myName = 'ABC';
$.ajax({url:.., data: {'': myName}});

and your web api action will look something like below.

public IHttpActionResult Put([FromBody] string name){ ... }

This asp.net page explains it all. http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/formats-and-model-binding/parameter-binding-in-aspnet-web-api

Loading context in Spring using web.xml

From the spring docs

Spring can be easily integrated into any Java-based web framework. All you need to do is to declare the ContextLoaderListener in your web.xml and use a contextConfigLocation to set which context files to load.

The <context-param>:

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext*.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
   <listener-class>
        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
   </listener-class>
</listener> 

You can then use the WebApplicationContext to get a handle on your beans.

WebApplicationContext ctx = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(servlet.getServletContext());
SomeBean someBean = (SomeBean) ctx.getBean("someBean");

See http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/springframework/web/context/support/WebApplicationContextUtils.html for more info

What is the difference between ports 465 and 587?

587 vs. 465

These port assignments are specified by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA):

  • Port 587: [SMTP] Message submission (SMTP-MSA), a service that accepts submission of email from email clients (MUAs). Described in RFC 6409.
  • Port 465: URL Rendezvous Directory for SSM (entirely unrelated to email)

Historically, port 465 was initially planned for the SMTPS encryption and authentication “wrapper” over SMTP, but it was quickly deprecated (within months, and over 15 years ago) in favor of STARTTLS over SMTP (RFC 3207). Despite that fact, there are probably many servers that support the deprecated protocol wrapper, primarily to support older clients that implemented SMTPS. Unless you need to support such older clients, SMTPS and its use on port 465 should remain nothing more than an historical footnote.

The hopelessly confusing and imprecise term, SSL, has often been used to indicate the SMTPS wrapper and TLS to indicate the STARTTLS protocol extension.

For completeness: Port 25

  • Port 25: Simple Mail Transfer (SMTP-MTA), a service that accepts submission of email from other servers (MTAs or MSAs). Described in RFC 5321.

Sources:

Throw HttpResponseException or return Request.CreateErrorResponse?

I want to point out that it has been my experience that if throwing an HttpResponseException instead of returning an HttpResponseMessage in a webapi 2 method, that if a call is made immediately to IIS Express it will timeout or return a 200 but with a html error in the response. Easiest way to test this is to make $.ajax call to a method that throws a HttpResponseException and in the errorCallBack in ajax make an immediate call to another method or even a simple http page. You will notice the imediate call will fail. If you add a break point or a settimeout() in the error call back to delay the second call a second or two giving the server time to recover it works correctly. This makes no since but its almost like the throw HttpResponseException causes the server side listener thread to exit and restart causing a split second of no server accepting connections or something.

Update: The root cause of the wierd Ajax connection Timeout is if an ajax call is made quick enough the same tcp connection is used. I was raising a 401 error ether by returning a HttpResonseMessage or throwing a HTTPResponseException which was returned to the browser ajax call. But along with that call MS was returning a Object Not Found Error because in Startup.Auth.vb app.UserCookieAuthentication was enabled so it was trying to return intercept the response and add a redirect but it errored with Object not Instance of an Object. This Error was html but was appended to the response after the fact so only if the ajax call was made quick enough and the same tcp connection used did it get returned to the browser and then it got appended to the front of the next call. For some reason Chrome just timedout, fiddler pucked becasue of the mix of json and htm but firefox rturned the real error. So wierd but packet sniffer or firefox was the only way to track this one down.

Also it should be noted that if you are using Web API help to generate automatic help and you return HttpResponseMessage then you should add a

[System.Web.Http.Description.ResponseType(typeof(CustomReturnedType))] 

attribute to the method so the help generates correctly. Then

return Request.CreateResponse<CustomReturnedType>(objCustomeReturnedType) 

or on error

return Request.CreateErrorResponse( System.Net.HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, new Exception("An Error Ocurred"));

Hope this helps someone else who may be getting random timeout or server not available immediately after throwing a HttpResponseException.

Also returning an HttpResponseException has the added benefit of not causing Visual Studio to break on an Un-handled exception usefull when the error being returned is the AuthToken needs to be refreshed in a single page app.

Update: I am retracting my statement about IIS Express timing out, this happened to be a mistake in my client side ajax call back it turns out since Ajax 1.8 returning $.ajax() and returning $.ajax.().then() both return promise but not the same chained promise then() returns a new promise which caused the order of execution to be wrong. So when the then() promise completed it was a script timeout. Weird gotcha but not an IIS express issue a problem between the Keyboard and chair.

How can I listen for a click-and-hold in jQuery?

Presumably you could kick off a setTimeout call in mousedown, and then cancel it in mouseup (if mouseup happens before your timeout completes).

However, looks like there is a plugin: longclick.

Change font-weight of FontAwesome icons?

The author appears to have taken a freemium approach to the font library and provides Black Tie to give different weights to the Font-Awesome library.

No resource found that matches the given name '@style/ Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar'

There is a major error in the tutorials destined for newbies here: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/styling.html

It is major because it is almost impossible to detect cause of error for a newbie.

The error is that this tutorial explicitly states that the tutorial is valid for api level 11 (Android 3.0), while in reality this is only true for the theme Theme.Holo (without further extensions and variants)

But this tutorial uses the the theme Theme.holo.Light.DarkActionBar which is only a valid theme from api level 14 (Android 4.0) and above.

This is only one of many examples on errors found in these tutorials (which are great in other regards). Somebody should correct these errors this weekend because they are really costly and annoying timethieves. If there is a way I can send this info to the Android team, then please tell me and I will do it. Hopefully, however, they read Stackoverflow. (let me suggest: The Android team should consider to put someone newbie to try out all tutorials as a qualification that they are valid).

Another error I (and countless other people) have found is that the appcombat backward compliance module really is not working if you strictly follow the tutorials. Error unknown. I had to give up.

Regarding the error in this thread, here is a quote from the tutorial text with italics on the mismatch:

" For Android 3.0 and higher only

When supporting Android 3.0 and higher only, you can define the action bar's background like this:

    <resources>
        <!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
        <style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
        parent="@style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"> 

ERROR1: Only Theme.Holo can be used with Android 3.0. Therefore, remove the "Light.DarkActionBar etc.

ERROR2: @style/Theme.Holo"> will not work. It is necessary to write @android:style/Theme.Holo">in order to indicate that it is a built in Theme that is being referenced. (A bit strange that "built in" is not the default, but needs to be stated?)

The compiler advice for error correction is to define api level 14 as minimum sdk. This is not optimal because it creates incompliance to Andreoid 3.0 (api level 11). Therefore, I use Theme.Holo only and this seems to work fine (a fresh finding, though).

I am using Netbeans with Android support. Works nicely.

Check if pull needed in Git

You can also find a Phing script who does that now.

I needed a solution to update my production environments automatically and we're very happy thanks to this script that I'm sharing.

The script is written in XML and needs Phing.

How does the Python's range function work?

A "for loop" in most, if not all, programming languages is a mechanism to run a piece of code more than once.

This code:

for i in range(5):
    print i

can be thought of working like this:

i = 0
print i
i = 1
print i
i = 2
print i
i = 3
print i
i = 4
print i

So you see, what happens is not that i gets the value 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 at the same time, but rather sequentially.

I assume that when you say "call a, it gives only 5", you mean like this:

for i in range(5):
    a=i+1
print a

this will print the last value that a was given. Every time the loop iterates, the statement a=i+1 will overwrite the last value a had with the new value.

Code basically runs sequentially, from top to bottom, and a for loop is a way to make the code go back and something again, with a different value for one of the variables.

I hope this answered your question.

JSON to TypeScript class instance?

You can now use Object.assign(target, ...sources). Following your example, you could use it like this:

class Foo {
  name: string;
  getName(): string { return this.name };
}

let fooJson: string = '{"name": "John Doe"}';
let foo: Foo = Object.assign(new Foo(), JSON.parse(fooJson));

console.log(foo.getName()); //returns John Doe

Object.assign is part of ECMAScript 2015 and is currently available in most modern browsers.

How to test if a string is JSON or not?

I use just 2 lines to perform that:

var isValidJSON = true;
try { JSON.parse(jsonString) } catch { isValidJSON = false }

That's all!

But keep in mind there are 2 traps:
1. JSON.parse(null) returns null
2. Any number or string can be parsed with JSON.parse() method.
   JSON.parse("5") returns 5
   JSON.parse(5) returns 5

Let's some play on code:

// TEST 1
var data = '{ "a": 1 }'

// Avoiding 'null' trap! Null is confirmed as JSON.
var isValidJSON = data ? true : false
try { JSON.parse(data) } catch(e) { isValidJSON = false }

console.log("data isValidJSON: ", isValidJSON);
console.log("data isJSONArray: ", isValidJSON && JSON.parse(data).length ? true : false);

Console outputs:
data isValidJSON:  true
data isJSONArray:  false


// TEST 2
var data2 = '[{ "b": 2 }]'

var isValidJSON = data ? true : false
try { JSON.parse(data2) } catch(e) { isValidJSON = false }

console.log("data2 isValidJSON: ", isValidJSON);
console.log("data2 isJSONArray: ", isValidJSON && JSON.parse(data2).length ? true : false);

Console outputs:
data2 isValidJSON:  true
data2 isJSONArray:  true


// TEST 3
var data3 = '[{ 2 }]'

var isValidJSON = data ? true : false
try { JSON.parse(data3) } catch(e) { isValidJSON = false }

console.log("data3 isValidJSON: ", isValidJSON);
console.log("data3 isJSONArray: ", isValidJSON && JSON.parse(data3).length ? true : false);

Console outputs:
data3 isValidJSON:  false
data3 isJSONArray:  false


// TEST 4
var data4 = '2'

var isValidJSON = data ? true : false
try { JSON.parse(data4) } catch(e) { isValidJSON = false }

console.log("data4 isValidJSON: ", isValidJSON);
console.log("data4 isJSONArray: ", isValidJSON && JSON.parse(data4).length ? true : false);


Console outputs:
data4 isValidJSON:  true
data4 isJSONArray:  false


// TEST 5
var data5 = ''

var isValidJSON = data ? true : false
try { JSON.parse(data5) } catch(e) { isValidJSON = false }

console.log("data5 isValidJSON: ", isValidJSON);
console.log("data5 isJSONArray: ", isValidJSON && JSON.parse(data5).length ? true : false);


Console outputs:
data5 isValidJSON:  false
data5 isJSONArray:  false

// TEST 6
var data6; // undefined

var isValidJSON = data ? true : false
try { JSON.parse(data6) } catch(e) { isValidJSON = false }

console.log("data6 isValidJSON: ", isValidJSON);
console.log("data6 isJSONArray: ", isValidJSON && JSON.parse(data6).length ? true : false);

Console outputs:
data6 isValidJSON:  false
data6 isJSONArray:  false

python mpl_toolkits installation issue

if anyone has a problem on Mac, can try this

sudo pip install --upgrade matplotlib --ignore-installed six

In jQuery how can I set "top,left" properties of an element with position values relative to the parent and not the document?

You could try jQuery UI's .position method.

$("#mydiv").position({
  of: $('#mydiv').parent(),
  my: 'left+200 top+200',
  at: 'left top'
});

Check the working demo.

ASP.NET MVC: Html.EditorFor and multi-line text boxes

in your view, instead of:

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Comments[0].Comment)

just use:

@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Comments[0].Comment, 5, 1, null)

How to prevent a double-click using jQuery?

If what you really want is to avoid multiple form submissions, and not just prevent double click, using jQuery one() on a button's click event can be problematic if there's client-side validation (such as text fields marked as required). That's because click triggers client-side validation, and if the validation fails you cannot use the button again. To avoid this, one() can still be used directly on the form's submit event. This is the cleanest jQuery-based solution I found for that:

<script type="text/javascript">
$("#my-signup-form").one("submit", function() {
    // Just disable the button.
    // There will be only one form submission.
    $("#my-signup-btn").prop("disabled", true);
});
</script>

Create pandas Dataframe by appending one row at a time

We often see the construct df.loc[subscript] = … to assign to one DataFrame row. Mikhail_Sam posted benchmarks containing, among others, this construct as well as the method using dict and create DataFrame in the end. He found the latter to be the fastest by far. But if we replace the df3.loc[i] = … (with preallocated DataFrame) in his code with df3.values[i] = …, the outcome changes significantly, in that that method performs similar to the one using dict. So we should more often take the use of df.values[subscript] = … into consideration. However note that .values takes a zero-based subscript, which may be different from the DataFrame.index.

How to save a Seaborn plot into a file

Its also possible to just create a matplotlib figure object and then use plt.savefig(...):

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd

df = sns.load_dataset('iris')
plt.figure() # Push new figure on stack
sns_plot = sns.pairplot(df, hue='species', size=2.5)
plt.savefig('output.png') # Save that figure

Oracle SQL, concatenate multiple columns + add text

Below query works for me @Oracle 10G ----

select PHONE, CONTACT, (ADDR1 ||  '-' || ADDR2 || '-' || ADDR3) as Address
from CUSTOMER_DETAILS
where Code='341'; 

O/P -

1111 [email protected] 4th street-capetown-sa

How can I add JAR files to the web-inf/lib folder in Eclipse?

Add the jar file to your WEB-INF/lib folder. Right-click your project in Eclipse, and go to "Build Path > Configure Build Path" Add the "Web App Libraries" library This will ensure all WEB-INF/lib jars are included on the classpath. helped me..

Drag and drop in WEB-INF/lib folder and restart eclipse ans start webservice then create client

Java ArrayList how to add elements at the beginning

I had a similar problem, trying to add an element at the beginning of an existing array, shift the existing elements to the right and discard the oldest one (array[length-1]). My solution might not be very performant but it works for my purposes.

 Method:

   updateArray (Element to insert)

     - for all the elements of the Array
       - start from the end and replace with the one on the left; 
     - Array [0] <- Element

Good luck

How do you fix a MySQL "Incorrect key file" error when you can't repair the table?

The storage engine (MyISAM) DOES support repair table. You should be able to repair it.

If the repair fails then it's a sign that the table is very corrupted, you have no choice but to restore it from backups.

If you have other systems (e.g. non-production with same software versions and schema) with an identical table then you might be able to fix it with some hackery (copying the frm an MYI files, followed by a repair).

In essence, the trick is to avoid getting broken tables in the first place. This means always shutting your db down cleanly, never having it crash and never having hardware or power problems. In practice this isn't very likely, so if durability matters you may want to consider a more crash-safe storage engine.

Get GPS location from the web browser

Observable

/*
  function geo_success(position) {
    do_something(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
  }

  function geo_error() {
    alert("Sorry, no position available.");
  }

  var geo_options = {
    enableHighAccuracy: true,
    maximumAge        : 30000,
    timeout           : 27000
  };

  var wpid = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(geo_success, geo_error, geo_options);
  */
  getLocation(): Observable<Position> {
    return Observable.create((observer) => {
      const watchID = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition((position: Position) => {
        observer.next(position);
      });
      return () => {
        navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(watchID);
      };
    });
  }

  ngOnDestroy() {
    this.sub.unsubscribe();
  }

python inserting variable string as file name

f = open('{}.csv'.format(), 'wb')

How to create separate AngularJS controller files?

What about this solution? Modules and Controllers in Files (at the end of the page) It works with multiple controllers, directives and so on:

app.js

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

myCtrl.js

app.controller("myCtrl", function($scope) { ..});

html

<script src="app.js"></script>
<script src="myCtrl.js"></script>
<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="myCtrl">

Google has also a Best Practice Recommendations for Angular App Structure I really like to group by context. Not all the html in one folder, but for example all files for login (html, css, app.js,controller.js and so on). So if I work on a module, all the directives are easier to find.

How to convert upper case letters to lower case

To convert a string to lower case in Python, use something like this.

list.append(sentence.lower())

I found this in the first result after searching for "python upper to lower case".

Usage of MySQL's "IF EXISTS"

SELECT IF((
     SELECT count(*) FROM gdata_calendars 
     WHERE `group` =  ? AND id = ?)
,1,0);

For Detail explanation you can visit here

Using AngularJS date filter with UTC date

Similar Question here

I'll repost my response and propose a merge:

Output UTC seems to be the subject of some confusion -- people seem to gravitate toward moment.js.

Borrowing from this answer, you could do something like this (i.e. use a convert function that creates the date with the UTC constructor) without moment.js:

controller

var app1 = angular.module('app1',[]);

app1.controller('ctrl',['$scope',function($scope){

  var toUTCDate = function(date){
    var _utc = new Date(date.getUTCFullYear(), date.getUTCMonth(), date.getUTCDate(),  date.getUTCHours(), date.getUTCMinutes(), date.getUTCSeconds());
    return _utc;
  };

  var millisToUTCDate = function(millis){
    return toUTCDate(new Date(millis));
  };

    $scope.toUTCDate = toUTCDate;
    $scope.millisToUTCDate = millisToUTCDate;

  }]);

template

<html ng-app="app1">

  <head>
    <script data-require="angular.js@*" data-semver="1.2.12" src="http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.12/angular.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <script src="script.js"></script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <div ng-controller="ctrl">
      <div>
      utc {{millisToUTCDate(1400167800) | date:'dd-M-yyyy H:mm'}}
      </div>
      <div>
      local {{1400167800 | date:'dd-M-yyyy H:mm'}}
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>

</html>

here's plunker to play with it

See also this and this.

Also note that with this method, if you use the 'Z' from Angular's date filter, it seems it will still print your local timezone offset.

How to convert date into this 'yyyy-MM-dd' format in angular 2

You can also try this.

consider today's date '28 Dec 2018'(for example)

 this.date = new Date().toISOString().slice(0,10); 

new Date() we get as: Fri Dec 28 2018 11:44:33 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

toISOString will convert to : 2018-12-28T06:15:27.479Z

slice(0,10) we get only first 10 characters as date which contains yyyy-mm-dd : 2018-12-28.

SQLite: How do I save the result of a query as a CSV file?

All the existing answers only work from the sqlite command line, which isn't ideal if you'd like to build a reusable script. Python makes it easy to build a script that can be executed programatically.

import pandas as pd
import sqlite3

conn = sqlite3.connect('your_cool_database.sqlite')

df = pd.read_sql('SELECT * from orders', conn)
df.to_csv('orders.csv', index = False)

You can customize the query to only export part of the sqlite table to the CSV file.

You can also run a single command to export all sqlite tables to CSV files:

for table in c.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table';").fetchall():
    t = table[0]
    df = pd.read_sql('SELECT * from ' + t, conn)
    df.to_csv(t + '_one_command.csv', index = False)

See here for more info.

SSRS - Checking whether the data is null

Or in your SQL query wrap that field with IsNull or Coalesce (SQL Server).

Either way works, I like to put that logic in the query so the report has to do less.

How do I output lists as a table in Jupyter notebook?

tabletext fit this well

import tabletext

data = [[1,2,30],
        [4,23125,6],
        [7,8,999],
        ]

print tabletext.to_text(data)

result:

+-----------------+
¦ 1 ¦     2 ¦  30 ¦
+---+-------+-----¦
¦ 4 ¦ 23125 ¦   6 ¦
+---+-------+-----¦
¦ 7 ¦     8 ¦ 999 ¦
+-----------------+

React Native absolute positioning horizontal centre

You can try the code

<View
    style={{
      alignItems: 'center',
      justifyContent: 'center'
    }}
  >
    <View
      style={{
        position: 'absolute',
        margin: 'auto',
        width: 50,
        height: 50
      }}
    />
  </View>

how to display employee names starting with a and then b in sql

select columns
  from table
 where (
         column like 'a%' 
      or column like 'b%' )
 order by column asc

Checking for an empty file in C++

Perhaps something akin to:

bool is_empty(std::ifstream& pFile)
{
    return pFile.peek() == std::ifstream::traits_type::eof();
}

Short and sweet.


With concerns to your error, the other answers use C-style file access, where you get a FILE* with specific functions.

Contrarily, you and I are working with C++ streams, and as such cannot use those functions. The above code works in a simple manner: peek() will peek at the stream and return, without removing, the next character. If it reaches the end of file, it returns eof(). Ergo, we just peek() at the stream and see if it's eof(), since an empty file has nothing to peek at.

Note, this also returns true if the file never opened in the first place, which should work in your case. If you don't want that:

std::ifstream file("filename");

if (!file)
{
    // file is not open
}

if (is_empty(file))
{
    // file is empty
}

// file is open and not empty

Custom Input[type="submit"] style not working with jquerymobile button

jQuery Mobile >= 1.4

Create a custom class, e.g. .custom-btn. Note that to override jQM styles without using !important, CSS hierarchy should be respected. .ui-btn.custom-class or .ui-input-btn.custom-class.

.ui-input-btn.custom-btn {
   border:1px solid red;
   text-decoration:none;
   font-family:helvetica;
   color:red;
   background:url(img.png) repeat-x;
}

Add a data-wrapper-class to input. The custom class will be added to input wrapping div.

<input type="button" data-wrapper-class="custom-btn">

Demo


jQuery Mobile <= 1.3

Input button is wrapped by a DIV with class ui-btn. You need to select that div and the input[type="submit"]. Using !important is essential to override Jquery Mobile styles.

Demo

div.ui-btn, input[type="submit"] {
 border:1px solid red !important;
 text-decoration:none !important;
 font-family:helvetica !important;
 color:red !important;
 background:url(../images/btn_hover.png) repeat-x !important;
}

How to know if a Fragment is Visible?

Adding some information here that I experienced:

fragment.isVisible is only working (true/false) when you replaceFragment() otherwise if you work with addFragment(), isVisible always returns true whether the fragment is in behind of some other fragment.

Spring JPA and persistence.xml

I have a test application set up using JPA/Hibernate & Spring, and my configuration mirrors yours with the exception that I create a datasource and inject it into the EntityManagerFactory, and moved the datasource specific properties out of the persistenceUnit and into the datasource. With these two small changes, my EM gets injected properly.

Most efficient way to find smallest of 3 numbers Java?

double smallest;
if(a<b && a<c){
    smallest = a;
}else if(b<c && b<a){
    smallest = b;
}else{
    smallest = c;
}

can be improved to:

double smallest;
if(a<b && a<c){
smallest = a;
}else if(b<c){
    smallest = b;
}else{
    smallest = c;
}

DynamoDB vs MongoDB NoSQL

I have worked on both and kind of fan of both.

But you need to understand when to use what and for what purpose.

I don't think It's a great idea to move all your database to DynamoDB, reason being querying is difficult except on primary and secondary keys, Indexing is limited and scanning in DynamoDB is painful.

I would go for a hybrid sort of DB, where extensive query-able data should be there is MongoDB, with all it's feature you would never feel constrained to provide enhancements or modifications.

DynamoDB is lightning fast (faster than MongoDB) so DynamoDB is often used as an alternative to sessions in scalable applications. DynamoDB best practices also suggests that if there are plenty of data which are less being used, move it to other table.

So suppose you have a articles or feeds. People are more likely to look for last week stuff or this month's stuff. chances are really rare for people to visit two year old data. For these purposes DynamoDB prefers to have data stored by month or years in different tables.

DynamoDB is seemlessly scalable, something you will have to do manually in MongoDB. however you would lose on performance of DynamoDB, if you don't understand about throughput partition and how scaling works behind the scene.

DynamoDB should be used where speed is critical, MongoDB on the other hand has too many hands and features, something DynamoDB lacks.

for example, you can have a replica set of MongoDB in such a way that one of the replica holds data instance of 8(or whatever) hours old. Really useful, if you messed up something big time in your DB and want to get the data as it is before.

That's my opinion though.

How to check if a variable is NULL, then set it with a MySQL stored procedure?

@last_run_time is a 9.4. User-Defined Variables and last_run_time datetime one 13.6.4.1. Local Variable DECLARE Syntax, are different variables.

Try: SELECT last_run_time;

UPDATE

Example:

/* CODE FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES */
DELIMITER $$

CREATE PROCEDURE `sp_test`()
BEGIN
    DECLARE current_procedure_name CHAR(60) DEFAULT 'accounts_general';
    DECLARE last_run_time DATETIME DEFAULT NULL;
    DECLARE current_run_time DATETIME DEFAULT NOW();

    -- Define the last run time
    SET last_run_time := (SELECT MAX(runtime) FROM dynamo.runtimes WHERE procedure_name = current_procedure_name);

    -- if there is no last run time found then use yesterday as starting point
    IF(last_run_time IS NULL) THEN
        SET last_run_time := DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 DAY);
    END IF;

    SELECT last_run_time;

    -- Insert variables in table2
    INSERT INTO table2 (col0, col1, col2) VALUES (current_procedure_name, last_run_time, current_run_time);
END$$

DELIMITER ;

Is not an enclosing class Java

As stated in the docs:

OuterClass.InnerClass innerObject = outerObject.new InnerClass();

Command to collapse all sections of code?

The following key combinations are used to do things:

CTRL + M + M → Collapse / Expand current preset area (e.g. Method)

CTRL + M + H → Collapse / Hide (Expand) current selection

CTRL + M + O → Collapse all(Collapse declaration bodies)

CTRL + M + A → Collapse all

CTRL + M + X → Expand all

CTRL + M + L → Toggle all

There some options in the context menu under Outlining.

How to create a hidden <img> in JavaScript?

I'm not sure I understand your question. But there are two approaches to making the image invisible...

Pure HTML

<img src="a.gif" style="display: none;" />

Or...

HTML + Javascript

<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("myImage").style.display = "none";
</script>

<img id="myImage" src="a.gif" />

Clear text field value in JQuery

    First Name: <input type="text" autocomplete="off" name="input1"/>
    <br/>
    Last Name: <input type="text" autocomplete="off" name="input2"/>
    <br/>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Best practice to return errors in ASP.NET Web API

If you are using ASP.NET Web API 2, the easiest way is to use the ApiController Short-Method. This will result in a BadRequestResult.

return BadRequest("message");

How to hide Soft Keyboard when activity starts

To hide the softkeyboard at the time of New Activity start or onCreate(),onStart() etc. you can use the code below:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Convert dd-mm-yyyy string to date

new Date().toLocaleDateString();

simple as that, just pass your date to js Date Object

Moment JS - check if a date is today or in the future

If we want difference without the time you can get the date different (only date without time) like below, using moment's format.

As, I was facing issue with the difference while doing ;

moment().diff([YOUR DATE])

So, came up with following;

const dateValidate = moment(moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD')).diff(moment([YOUR SELECTED DATE HERE]).format('YYYY-MM-DD'))

IF dateValidate > 0 
   //it's past day
else
   //it's current or future

Please feel free to comment if there's anything to improve on.

Thanks,

git switch branch without discarding local changes

You can either :

  • Use git stash to shelve your changes or,

  • Create another branch and commit your changes there, and then merge that branch into your working directory

How to get Java Decompiler / JD / JD-Eclipse running in Eclipse Helios

if you need to decompile standalone jar try JD-GUI by the same autor (of JD-Eclipse). It is a standalone application (does not need eclipse). It can open both *.class and *.jar files. Interesting enough it needs .Net installed (as do JD-Eclipse indeed), but otherwise works like a charm.

Find it here:

http://jd.benow.ca/

Regards,

PHP: trying to create a new line with "\n"

This answer was so obvious and it took me forever to figure out:

echo "foo
bar";

I know that looks like it's wrapping. It's not. What I did is I literally hit return halfway through the string, between foo and bar. It creates a new line in the HTML source and makes your PHP look horrible. This was in Linux/Apache.

How to get div height to auto-adjust to background size?

Adding to the original accepted answer just add style width:100%; to the inner image so it will auto-shrink/expand for mobile devices and wont end up taking large top or bottom margins in mobile view.

_x000D_
_x000D_
<div style="background-image: url(http://your-image.jpg);background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size: contain;height: auto;">
 <img src="http://your-image.jpg" style="visibility: hidden; width: 100%;" />
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Radio button checked event handling

$(document).on('change','.radio-button', function(){

    const radio = $(this);

    if (radio.is(':checked')) {
      console.log(radio)
    }

});

How do I rotate text in css?

Using writing-mode and transform.

.rotate {
     writing-mode: vertical-lr;
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-180deg);
    -moz-transform: rotate(-180deg);
}


<span class="rotate">Hello</span>

How to disable sort in DataGridView?

foreach (DataGridViewColumn column in dataGridView.Columns)
{
    column.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable;
}

Docker expose all ports or range of ports from 7000 to 8000

Since Docker 1.5 you can now expose a range of ports to other linked containers using:

The Dockerfile EXPOSE command:

EXPOSE 7000-8000

or The Docker run command:

docker run --expose=7000-8000

Or instead you can publish a range of ports to the host machine via Docker run command:

docker run -p 7000-8000:7000-8000

Using a bitmask in C#

I have included an example here which demonstrates how you might store the mask in a database column as an int, and how you would reinstate the mask later on:

public enum DaysBitMask { Mon=0, Tues=1, Wed=2, Thu = 4, Fri = 8, Sat = 16, Sun = 32 }


DaysBitMask mask = DaysBitMask.Sat | DaysBitMask.Thu;
bool test;
if ((mask & DaysBitMask.Sat) == DaysBitMask.Sat)
    test = true;
if ((mask & DaysBitMask.Thu) == DaysBitMask.Thu)
    test = true;
if ((mask & DaysBitMask.Wed) != DaysBitMask.Wed)
    test = true;

// Store the value
int storedVal = (int)mask;

// Reinstate the mask and re-test
DaysBitMask reHydratedMask = (DaysBitMask)storedVal;

if ((reHydratedMask & DaysBitMask.Sat) == DaysBitMask.Sat)
    test = true;
if ((reHydratedMask & DaysBitMask.Thu) == DaysBitMask.Thu)
    test = true;
if ((reHydratedMask & DaysBitMask.Wed) != DaysBitMask.Wed)
    test = true;

How do I use a char as the case in a switch-case?

charAt gets a character from a string, and you can switch on them since char is an integer type.

So to switch on the first char in the String hello,

switch (hello.charAt(0)) {
  case 'a': ... break;
}

You should be aware though that Java chars do not correspond one-to-one with code-points. See codePointAt for a way to reliably get a single Unicode codepoints.

Disable developer mode extensions pop up in Chrome

I found something that will load user-packed extensions and works beautifully:

You'll still have to pack it in details for the problem extension, but after that you can turn off developer mode and load the packed CRX through this. You don't have to deal with signing it or anything.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crosspilot/migomhggnppjdijnfkiimcpjgnhmnale?hl=en

Note: I'm not from their team, I've just been looking for an elegant solution for this for years.

Process with an ID #### is not running in visual studio professional 2013 update 3

I update my Visual Studio to 2019 version and has this problem, I tried all solution from this question but it doesn't help to start my ASP.NET MVC 5 project with IIS Express. After I remove IIS Express (using Control Panel), download last version from www.microsoft.com and install it. After this everything works fine.

After some weeks i got update for Visual Studio and I got this problem again. I remove IIS Express and reinstall and it works fine now. p.s. repair didn't help me, only uninstall and install.

iloc giving 'IndexError: single positional indexer is out-of-bounds'

This happens when you index a row/column with a number that is larger than the dimensions of your dataframe. For instance, getting the eleventh column when you have only three.

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'Name': ['Mark', 'Laura', 'Adam', 'Roger', 'Anna'],
                   'City': ['Lisbon', 'Montreal', 'Lisbon', 'Berlin', 'Glasgow'],
                   'Car': ['Tesla', 'Audi', 'Porsche', 'Ford', 'Honda']})

You have 5 rows and three columns:

    Name      City      Car
0   Mark    Lisbon    Tesla
1  Laura  Montreal     Audi
2   Adam    Lisbon  Porsche
3  Roger    Berlin     Ford
4   Anna   Glasgow    Honda

Let's try to index the eleventh column (it doesn't exist):

df.iloc[:, 10] # there is obviously no 11th column

IndexError: single positional indexer is out-of-bounds

If you are a beginner with Python, remember that df.iloc[:, 10] would refer to the eleventh column.

How to start automatic download of a file in Internet Explorer?

I hope this will works all the browsers. You can also set the auto download timing.

<html>
<head>
<title>Start Auto Download file</title>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
$('a[data-auto-download]').each(function(){
var $this = $(this);
setTimeout(function() {
window.location = $this.attr('href');
}, 2000);
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<p>The download should start shortly. If it doesn't, click
<a data-auto-download href="auto-download.zip">here</a>.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Demo Here

how to install python distutils

By searching all python-distutils related package:

apt-cache search x

I get python3-distutils-extra - enhancements to the Python3 build system

Then just try:

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils-extra

How can I disable the UITableView selection?

You can also disable selection of row from interface builder itself by choosing NoSelection from the selection option(of UITableView Properties) in inspector pane as shown in the below image

UITableView Inspector

Arduino error: does not name a type?

More recently, I have found that other factors will also cause this error. I had an AES.h, AES.cpp containing a AES class and it gave this same unhelpful error. Only when I renamed to Encryption.h, Encryption.cpp and Encryption as the class name did it suddenly start working. There were no other code changes.

What's the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?

RFC 3339 is mostly a profile of ISO 8601, but is actually inconsistent with it in borrowing the "-00:00" timezone specification from RFC 2822. This is described in the Wikipedia article.

What is the inclusive range of float and double in Java?

Java's Double class has members containing the Min and Max value for the type.

2^-1074 <= x <= (2-2^-52)·2^1023 // where x is the double.

Check out the Min_VALUE and MAX_VALUE static final members of Double.

(some)People will suggest against using floating point types for things where accuracy and precision are critical because rounding errors can throw off calculations by measurable (small) amounts.

Is there an online application that automatically draws tree structures for phrases/sentences?

In short, yes. I assume you're looking to parse English: for that you can use the Link Parser from Carnegie Mellon.

It is important to remember that there are many theories of syntax, that can give completely different-looking phrase structure trees; further, the trees are different for each language, and tools may not exist for those languages.

As a note for the future: if you need a sentence parsed out and tag it as linguistics (and syntax or whatnot, if that's available), someone can probably parse it out for you and guide you through it.

Convert an integer to a float number

Type Conversions T() where T is the desired datatype of the result are quite simple in GoLang.

In my program, I scan an integer i from the user input, perform a type conversion on it and store it in the variable f. The output prints the float64 equivalent of the int input. float32 datatype is also available in GoLang

Code:

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
    var i int
    fmt.Println("Enter an Integer input: ")
    fmt.Scanf("%d", &i)
    f := float64(i)
    fmt.Printf("The float64 representation of %d is %f\n", i, f)
}

Solution:

>>> Enter an Integer input:
>>> 232332
>>> The float64 representation of 232332 is 232332.000000

How to plot a 2D FFT in Matlab?

Here is an example from my HOW TO Matlab page:

close all; clear all;

img   = imread('lena.tif','tif');
imagesc(img)
img   = fftshift(img(:,:,2));
F     = fft2(img);

figure;

imagesc(100*log(1+abs(fftshift(F)))); colormap(gray); 
title('magnitude spectrum');

figure;
imagesc(angle(F));  colormap(gray);
title('phase spectrum');

This gives the magnitude spectrum and phase spectrum of the image. I used a color image, but you can easily adjust it to use gray image as well.

ps. I just noticed that on Matlab 2012a the above image is no longer included. So, just replace the first line above with say

img = imread('ngc6543a.jpg');

and it will work. I used an older version of Matlab to make the above example and just copied it here.

On the scaling factor

When we plot the 2D Fourier transform magnitude, we need to scale the pixel values using log transform to expand the range of the dark pixels into the bright region so we can better see the transform. We use a c value in the equation

s = c log(1+r) 

There is no known way to pre detrmine this scale that I know. Just need to try different values to get on you like. I used 100 in the above example.

enter image description here

Installed Java 7 on Mac OS X but Terminal is still using version 6

You can execute following command in your terminal :

export PATH="/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin:$PATH"

And this replaces the java old with new one.

Is it safe to delete the "InetPub" folder?

Don't delete the folder or you will create a registry problem. However, if you do not want to use IIS, search the web for turning it off. You might want to check out "www.blackviper.com" because he lists all Operating System "services" (Not "Computer Services" - both are in Administrator Tools) with extra information for what you can and cannot disable to change to manual. If I recall correctly, he had some IIS info and how to turn it off.

Disable browsers vertical and horizontal scrollbars

Using JQuery you can disable scrolling bar with this code :

$('body').on({
    'mousewheel': function(e) {
        if (e.target.id == 'el') return;
        e.preventDefault();
        e.stopPropagation();
     }
});

Also you can enable it again with this code :

 $('body').unbind('mousewheel');

How can I parse a CSV string with JavaScript, which contains comma in data?

RFC 4180 solution

This does not solve the string in the question since its format is not conforming with RFC 4180; the acceptable encoding is escaping double quote with double quote. The solution below works correctly with CSV files d/l from google spreadsheets.

UPDATE (3/2017)

Parsing single line would be wrong. According to RFC 4180 fields may contain CRLF which will cause any line reader to break the CSV file. Here is an updated version that parses CSV string:

_x000D_
_x000D_
'use strict';_x000D_
_x000D_
function csvToArray(text) {_x000D_
    let p = '', row = [''], ret = [row], i = 0, r = 0, s = !0, l;_x000D_
    for (l of text) {_x000D_
        if ('"' === l) {_x000D_
            if (s && l === p) row[i] += l;_x000D_
            s = !s;_x000D_
        } else if (',' === l && s) l = row[++i] = '';_x000D_
        else if ('\n' === l && s) {_x000D_
            if ('\r' === p) row[i] = row[i].slice(0, -1);_x000D_
            row = ret[++r] = [l = '']; i = 0;_x000D_
        } else row[i] += l;_x000D_
        p = l;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return ret;_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
let test = '"one","two with escaped """" double quotes""","three, with, commas",four with no quotes,"five with CRLF\r\n"\r\n"2nd line one","two with escaped """" double quotes""","three, with, commas",four with no quotes,"five with CRLF\r\n"';_x000D_
console.log(csvToArray(test));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

OLD ANSWER

(Single line solution)

_x000D_
_x000D_
function CSVtoArray(text) {_x000D_
    let ret = [''], i = 0, p = '', s = true;_x000D_
    for (let l in text) {_x000D_
        l = text[l];_x000D_
        if ('"' === l) {_x000D_
            s = !s;_x000D_
            if ('"' === p) {_x000D_
                ret[i] += '"';_x000D_
                l = '-';_x000D_
            } else if ('' === p)_x000D_
                l = '-';_x000D_
        } else if (s && ',' === l)_x000D_
            l = ret[++i] = '';_x000D_
        else_x000D_
            ret[i] += l;_x000D_
        p = l;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return ret;_x000D_
}_x000D_
let test = '"one","two with escaped """" double quotes""","three, with, commas",four with no quotes,five for fun';_x000D_
console.log(CSVtoArray(test));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

And for the fun, here is how you create CSV from the array:

_x000D_
_x000D_
function arrayToCSV(row) {_x000D_
    for (let i in row) {_x000D_
        row[i] = row[i].replace(/"/g, '""');_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return '"' + row.join('","') + '"';_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
let row = [_x000D_
  "one",_x000D_
  "two with escaped \" double quote",_x000D_
  "three, with, commas",_x000D_
  "four with no quotes (now has)",_x000D_
  "five for fun"_x000D_
];_x000D_
let text = arrayToCSV(row);_x000D_
console.log(text);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Finding sum of elements in Swift array

How about the simple way of

for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 sum = sum + Int(multiples[i])!
}

//where n = number of elements in the array

How to get JSON from URL in JavaScript?

If you want to do it in plain javascript, you can define a function like this:

var getJSON = function(url, callback) {
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('GET', url, true);
    xhr.responseType = 'json';
    xhr.onload = function() {
      var status = xhr.status;
      if (status === 200) {
        callback(null, xhr.response);
      } else {
        callback(status, xhr.response);
      }
    };
    xhr.send();
};

And use it like this:

getJSON('http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20%2a%20from%20yahoo.finance.quotes%20WHERE%20symbol%3D%27WRC%27&format=json&diagnostics=true&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys&callback',
function(err, data) {
  if (err !== null) {
    alert('Something went wrong: ' + err);
  } else {
    alert('Your query count: ' + data.query.count);
  }
});

Note that data is an object, so you can access its attributes without having to parse it.

HSL to RGB color conversion

For all who said that Garry Tan solution converting incorrect from RGB to HSL and back. It because he left out fraction part of number in his code. I corrected his code (javascript). Sorry for link on russian languadge, but on english absent - HSL-wiki

function toHsl(r, g, b)
{
    r /= 255.0;
    g /= 255.0;
    b /= 255.0;
    var max = Math.max(r, g, b);
    var min = Math.min(r, g, b);
    var h, s, l = (max + min) / 2.0;

    if(max == min)
    {
        h = s = 0; 
    }
    else
    {
        var d = max - min;
        s = (l > 0.5 ? d / (2.0 - max - min) : d / (max + min));

        if(max == r && g >= b)
        {
            h = 1.0472 * (g - b) / d ;
        }
        else if(max == r && g < b)
        {
            h = 1.0472 * (g - b) / d + 6.2832;
        }
        else if(max == g)
        {
            h = 1.0472 * (b - r) / d + 2.0944;
        }
        else if(max == b)
        {
            h = 1.0472 * (r - g) / d + 4.1888;
        }
    }
    return {
        str: 'hsl(' + parseInt(h / 6.2832 * 360.0 + 0.5) + ',' + parseInt(s * 100.0 + 0.5) + '%,' + parseInt(l * 100.0 + 0.5) + '%)',
        obj: { h: parseInt(h / 6.2832 * 360.0 + 0.5), s: parseInt(s * 100.0 + 0.5), l: parseInt(l * 100.0 + 0.5) }
    };
};

Batch file to delete files older than N days

IMO, JavaScript is gradually becoming a universal scripting standard: it is probably available in more products than any other scripting language (in Windows, it is available using the Windows Scripting Host). I have to clean out old files in lots of folders, so here is a JavaScript function to do that:

// run from an administrator command prompt (or from task scheduler with full rights):  wscript jscript.js
// debug with:   wscript /d /x jscript.js

var fs = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

clearFolder('C:\\temp\\cleanup');

function clearFolder(folderPath)
{
    // calculate date 3 days ago
    var dateNow = new Date();
    var dateTest = new Date();
    dateTest.setDate(dateNow.getDate() - 3);

    var folder = fs.GetFolder(folderPath);
    var files = folder.Files;

    for( var it = new Enumerator(files); !it.atEnd(); it.moveNext() )
    {
        var file = it.item();

        if( file.DateLastModified < dateTest)
        {
            var filename = file.name;
            var ext = filename.split('.').pop().toLowerCase();

            if (ext != 'exe' && ext != 'dll')
            {
                file.Delete(true);
            }
        }
    }

    var subfolders = new Enumerator(folder.SubFolders);
    for (; !subfolders.atEnd(); subfolders.moveNext())
    {
        clearFolder(subfolders.item().Path);
    }
}

For each folder to clear, just add another call to the clearFolder() function. This particular code also preserves exe and dll files, and cleans up subfolders as well.

How can I extract the folder path from file path in Python?

You were almost there with your use of the split function. You just needed to join the strings, like follows.

>>> import os
>>> '\\'.join(existGDBPath.split('\\')[0:-1])
'T:\\Data\\DBDesign'

Although, I would recommend using the os.path.dirname function to do this, you just need to pass the string, and it'll do the work for you. Since, you seem to be on windows, consider using the abspath function too. An example:

>>> import os
>>> os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(existGDBPath))
'T:\\Data\\DBDesign'

If you want both the file name and the directory path after being split, you can use the os.path.split function which returns a tuple, as follows.

>>> import os
>>> os.path.split(os.path.abspath(existGDBPath))
('T:\\Data\\DBDesign', 'DBDesign_93_v141b.mdb')

Hadoop/Hive : Loading data from .csv on a local machine

if you have a hive setup you can put the local dataset directly using Hive load command in hdfs/s3.

You will need to use "Local" keyword when writing your load command.

Syntax for hiveload command

LOAD DATA [LOCAL] INPATH 'filepath' [OVERWRITE] INTO TABLE tablename [PARTITION (partcol1=val1, partcol2=val2 ...)]

Refer below link for more detailed information. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual%20DML#LanguageManualDML-Loadingfilesintotables

Top 1 with a left join

Use OUTER APPLY instead of LEFT JOIN:

SELECT u.id, mbg.marker_value 
FROM dps_user u
OUTER APPLY 
    (SELECT TOP 1 m.marker_value, um.profile_id
     FROM dps_usr_markers um (NOLOCK)
         INNER JOIN dps_markers m (NOLOCK) 
             ON m.marker_id= um.marker_id AND 
                m.marker_key = 'moneyBackGuaranteeLength'
     WHERE um.profile_id=u.id 
     ORDER BY m.creation_date
    ) AS MBG
WHERE u.id = 'u162231993';

Unlike JOIN, APPLY allows you to reference the u.id inside the inner query.

Jersey Exception : SEVERE: A message body reader for Java class

I was able to fix the issue by adding the maven dependency for jersey-json.

How to use glOrtho() in OpenGL?

Minimal runnable example

glOrtho: 2D games, objects close and far appear the same size:

enter image description here

glFrustrum: more real-life like 3D, identical objects further away appear smaller:

enter image description here

main.c

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/glu.h>
#include <GL/glut.h>

static int ortho = 0;

static void display(void) {
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
    glLoadIdentity();
    if (ortho) {
    } else {
        /* This only rotates and translates the world around to look like the camera moved. */
        gluLookAt(0.0, 0.0, -3.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
    }
    glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
    glutWireCube(2);
    glFlush();
}

static void reshape(int w, int h) {
    glViewport(0, 0, w, h);
    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
    glLoadIdentity();
    if (ortho) {
        glOrtho(-2.0, 2.0, -2.0, 2.0, -1.5, 1.5);
    } else {
        glFrustum(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0, 1.5, 20.0);
    }
    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    glutInit(&argc, argv);
    if (argc > 1) {
        ortho = 1;
    }
    glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGB);
    glutInitWindowSize(500, 500);
    glutInitWindowPosition(100, 100);
    glutCreateWindow(argv[0]);
    glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
    glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);
    glutDisplayFunc(display);
    glutReshapeFunc(reshape);
    glutMainLoop();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

GitHub upstream.

Compile:

gcc -ggdb3 -O0 -o main -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic main.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut

Run with glOrtho:

./main 1

Run with glFrustrum:

./main

Tested on Ubuntu 18.10.

Schema

Ortho: camera is a plane, visible volume a rectangle:

enter image description here

Frustrum: camera is a point,visible volume a slice of a pyramid:

enter image description here

Image source.

Parameters

We are always looking from +z to -z with +y upwards:

glOrtho(left, right, bottom, top, near, far)
  • left: minimum x we see
  • right: maximum x we see
  • bottom: minimum y we see
  • top: maximum y we see
  • -near: minimum z we see. Yes, this is -1 times near. So a negative input means positive z.
  • -far: maximum z we see. Also negative.

Schema:

Image source.

How it works under the hood

In the end, OpenGL always "uses":

glOrtho(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0);

If we use neither glOrtho nor glFrustrum, that is what we get.

glOrtho and glFrustrum are just linear transformations (AKA matrix multiplication) such that:

  • glOrtho: takes a given 3D rectangle into the default cube
  • glFrustrum: takes a given pyramid section into the default cube

This transformation is then applied to all vertexes. This is what I mean in 2D:

Image source.

The final step after transformation is simple:

  • remove any points outside of the cube (culling): just ensure that x, y and z are in [-1, +1]
  • ignore the z component and take only x and y, which now can be put into a 2D screen

With glOrtho, z is ignored, so you might as well always use 0.

One reason you might want to use z != 0 is to make sprites hide the background with the depth buffer.

Deprecation

glOrtho is deprecated as of OpenGL 4.5: the compatibility profile 12.1. "FIXED-FUNCTION VERTEX TRANSFORMATIONS" is in red.

So don't use it for production. In any case, understanding it is a good way to get some OpenGL insight.

Modern OpenGL 4 programs calculate the transformation matrix (which is small) on the CPU, and then give the matrix and all points to be transformed to OpenGL, which can do the thousands of matrix multiplications for different points really fast in parallel.

Manually written vertex shaders then do the multiplication explicitly, usually with the convenient vector data types of the OpenGL Shading Language.

Since you write the shader explicitly, this allows you to tweak the algorithm to your needs. Such flexibility is a major feature of more modern GPUs, which unlike the old ones that did a fixed algorithm with some input parameters, can now do arbitrary computations. See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36211337/895245

With an explicit GLfloat transform[] it would look something like this:

glfw_transform.c

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define GLEW_STATIC
#include <GL/glew.h>

#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>

static const GLuint WIDTH = 800;
static const GLuint HEIGHT = 600;
/* ourColor is passed on to the fragment shader. */
static const GLchar* vertex_shader_source =
    "#version 330 core\n"
    "layout (location = 0) in vec3 position;\n"
    "layout (location = 1) in vec3 color;\n"
    "out vec3 ourColor;\n"
    "uniform mat4 transform;\n"
    "void main() {\n"
    "    gl_Position = transform * vec4(position, 1.0f);\n"
    "    ourColor = color;\n"
    "}\n";
static const GLchar* fragment_shader_source =
    "#version 330 core\n"
    "in vec3 ourColor;\n"
    "out vec4 color;\n"
    "void main() {\n"
    "    color = vec4(ourColor, 1.0f);\n"
    "}\n";
static GLfloat vertices[] = {
/*   Positions          Colors */
     0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
    -0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f,
     0.0f,  0.5f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f
};

/* Build and compile shader program, return its ID. */
GLuint common_get_shader_program(
    const char *vertex_shader_source,
    const char *fragment_shader_source
) {
    GLchar *log = NULL;
    GLint log_length, success;
    GLuint fragment_shader, program, vertex_shader;

    /* Vertex shader */
    vertex_shader = glCreateShader(GL_VERTEX_SHADER);
    glShaderSource(vertex_shader, 1, &vertex_shader_source, NULL);
    glCompileShader(vertex_shader);
    glGetShaderiv(vertex_shader, GL_COMPILE_STATUS, &success);
    glGetShaderiv(vertex_shader, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &log_length);
    log = malloc(log_length);
    if (log_length > 0) {
        glGetShaderInfoLog(vertex_shader, log_length, NULL, log);
        printf("vertex shader log:\n\n%s\n", log);
    }
    if (!success) {
        printf("vertex shader compile error\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    /* Fragment shader */
    fragment_shader = glCreateShader(GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER);
    glShaderSource(fragment_shader, 1, &fragment_shader_source, NULL);
    glCompileShader(fragment_shader);
    glGetShaderiv(fragment_shader, GL_COMPILE_STATUS, &success);
    glGetShaderiv(fragment_shader, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &log_length);
    if (log_length > 0) {
        log = realloc(log, log_length);
        glGetShaderInfoLog(fragment_shader, log_length, NULL, log);
        printf("fragment shader log:\n\n%s\n", log);
    }
    if (!success) {
        printf("fragment shader compile error\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    /* Link shaders */
    program = glCreateProgram();
    glAttachShader(program, vertex_shader);
    glAttachShader(program, fragment_shader);
    glLinkProgram(program);
    glGetProgramiv(program, GL_LINK_STATUS, &success);
    glGetProgramiv(program, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &log_length);
    if (log_length > 0) {
        log = realloc(log, log_length);
        glGetProgramInfoLog(program, log_length, NULL, log);
        printf("shader link log:\n\n%s\n", log);
    }
    if (!success) {
        printf("shader link error");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    /* Cleanup. */
    free(log);
    glDeleteShader(vertex_shader);
    glDeleteShader(fragment_shader);
    return program;
}

int main(void) {
    GLint shader_program;
    GLint transform_location;
    GLuint vbo;
    GLuint vao;
    GLFWwindow* window;
    double time;

    glfwInit();
    window = glfwCreateWindow(WIDTH, HEIGHT, __FILE__, NULL, NULL);
    glfwMakeContextCurrent(window);
    glewExperimental = GL_TRUE;
    glewInit();
    glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
    glViewport(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);

    shader_program = common_get_shader_program(vertex_shader_source, fragment_shader_source);

    glGenVertexArrays(1, &vao);
    glGenBuffers(1, &vbo);
    glBindVertexArray(vao);
    glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo);
    glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(vertices), vertices, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
    /* Position attribute */
    glVertexAttribPointer(0, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 6 * sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)0);
    glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
    /* Color attribute */
    glVertexAttribPointer(1, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 6 * sizeof(GLfloat), (GLvoid*)(3 * sizeof(GLfloat)));
    glEnableVertexAttribArray(1);
    glBindVertexArray(0);

    while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) {
        glfwPollEvents();
        glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

        glUseProgram(shader_program);
        transform_location = glGetUniformLocation(shader_program, "transform");
        /* THIS is just a dummy transform. */
        GLfloat transform[] = {
            0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
            0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
            0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f,
            0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f,
        };
        time = glfwGetTime();
        transform[0] = 2.0f * sin(time);
        transform[5] = 2.0f * cos(time);
        glUniformMatrix4fv(transform_location, 1, GL_FALSE, transform);

        glBindVertexArray(vao);
        glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3);
        glBindVertexArray(0);
        glfwSwapBuffers(window);
    }
    glDeleteVertexArrays(1, &vao);
    glDeleteBuffers(1, &vbo);
    glfwTerminate();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

GitHub upstream.

Compile and run:

gcc -ggdb3 -O0 -o glfw_transform.out -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic glfw_transform.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut -lGLEW -lglfw -lm
./glfw_transform.out

Output:

enter image description here

The matrix for glOrtho is really simple, composed only of scaling and translation:

scalex, 0,      0,      translatex,
0,      scaley, 0,      translatey,
0,      0,      scalez, translatez,
0,      0,      0,      1

as mentioned in the OpenGL 2 docs.

The glFrustum matrix is not too hard to calculate by hand either, but starts getting annoying. Note how frustum cannot be made up with only scaling and translations like glOrtho, more info at: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/118848/25171

The GLM OpenGL C++ math library is a popular choice for calculating such matrices. http://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.2/api/a00245.html documents both an ortho and frustum operations.

Android Crop Center of Bitmap

public static Bitmap resizeAndCropCenter(Bitmap bitmap, int size, boolean recycle) {
    int w = bitmap.getWidth();
    int h = bitmap.getHeight();
    if (w == size && h == size) return bitmap;
    // scale the image so that the shorter side equals to the target;
    // the longer side will be center-cropped.
    float scale = (float) size / Math.min(w,  h);
    Bitmap target = Bitmap.createBitmap(size, size, getConfig(bitmap));
    int width = Math.round(scale * bitmap.getWidth());
    int height = Math.round(scale * bitmap.getHeight());
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(target);
    canvas.translate((size - width) / 2f, (size - height) / 2f);
    canvas.scale(scale, scale);
    Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG | Paint.DITHER_FLAG);
    canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, paint);
    if (recycle) bitmap.recycle();
    return target;
}

private static Bitmap.Config getConfig(Bitmap bitmap) {
    Bitmap.Config config = bitmap.getConfig();
    if (config == null) {
        config = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
    }
    return config;
}

How can I add a username and password to Jenkins?

If installed as an admin, use:-

uname - admin
pw - the passkey that was generated during installation

Difference between onLoad and ng-init in angular

ng-init is a directive that can be placed inside div's, span's, whatever, whereas onload is an attribute specific to the ng-include directive that functions as an ng-init. To see what I mean try something like:

<span onload="a = 1">{{ a }}</span>
<span ng-init="b = 2">{{ b }}</span>

You'll see that only the second one shows up.

An isolated scope is a scope which does not prototypically inherit from its parent scope. In laymen's terms if you have a widget that doesn't need to read and write to the parent scope arbitrarily then you use an isolate scope on the widget so that the widget and widget container can freely use their scopes without overriding each other's properties.

JUNIT testing void methods

If your method has no side effects, and doesn't return anything, then it's not doing anything.

If your method does some computation and returns the result of that computation, you can obviously enough assert that the result returned is correct.

If your code doesn't return anything but does have side effects, you can call the code and then assert that the correct side effects have happened. What the side effects are will determine how you do the checks.

In your example, you are calling static methods from your non-returning functions, which makes it tricky unless you can inspect that the result of all those static methods are correct. A better way - from a testing point of view - is to inject actual objects in that you call methods on. You can then use something like EasyMock or Mockito to create a Mock Object in your unit test, and inject the mock object into the class. The Mock Object then lets you assert that the correct functions were called, with the correct values and in the correct order.

For example:

private ErrorFile errorFile;

public void setErrorFile(ErrorFile errorFile) {
    this.errorFile = errorFile;
}

private void method1(arg1) {
    if (arg1.indexOf("$") == -1) {

        //Add an error message 
        errorFile.addErrorMessage("There is a dollar sign in the specified parameter");
    }
}

Then in your test you can write:

public void testMethod1() {
    ErrorFile errorFile = EasyMock.createMock(ErrorFile.class);
    errorFile.addErrorMessage("There is a dollar sign in the specified parameter");
    EasyMock.expectLastCall(errorFile);
    EasyMock.replay(errorFile);

    ClassToTest classToTest = new ClassToTest();
    classToTest.setErrorFile(errorFile);
    classToTest.method1("a$b");

    EasyMock.verify(errorFile); // This will fail the test if the required addErrorMessage call didn't happen
}

How to reverse apply a stash?

This is in addition to the above answers but adds search for the git stash based on the message as the stash number can change when new stashes are saved. I have written a couple of bash functions:

apply(){
  if [ "$1" ]; then
    git stash apply `git stash list | grep -oPm1 "(.*)(?=:.*:.*$1.*)"`
  fi
}
remove(){
  if [ "$1" ]; then
    git stash show -p `git stash list | grep -oPm1 "(.*)(?=:.*:.*$1.*)"` | git apply -R
    git status
  fi
}
  1. Create stash with name (message) $ git stash save "my stash"
  2. To appply named $ apply "my stash"
  3. To remove named stash $ remove "my stash"

Return background color of selected cell

If you are looking at a Table, a Pivot Table, or something with conditional formatting, you can try:

ActiveCell.DisplayFormat.Interior.Color

This also seems to work just fine on regular cells.

Make a dictionary in Python from input values

n = int(input("enter a n value:"))
d = {}

for i in range(n):
    keys = input() # here i have taken keys as strings
    values = int(input()) # here i have taken values as integers
    d[keys] = values
print(d)

How to download Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition for offline installation?

No, there should be an .exe file (vs_Community_xxxxx.exe) directly in you f:\vs2017c directory !

Just start from the this directory, not from a longer path. the packages downloaded are partly having very long path names, it fails if you start from a longer path.

How to center form in bootstrap 3

use centered class with offset-6 like below sample.

<body class="container">
<div class="col-lg-1 col-offset-6 centered">
    <img data-src="holder.js/100x100" alt="" />
</div>

How do I programmatically click a link with javascript?

For me, I managed to make it work that way. I deployed the automatic click in 5000 milliseconds and then closed the loop after 1000 milliseconds. Then there was only 1 automatic click.

<script> var myVar = setInterval(function ({document.getElementById("test").click();}, 500)); setInterval(function () {clearInterval(myVar)}, 1000));</script>

Image comparison - fast algorithm

My company has about 24million images come in from manufacturers every month. I was looking for a fast solution to ensure that the images we upload to our catalog are new images.

I want to say that I have searched the internet far and wide to attempt to find an ideal solution. I even developed my own edge detection algorithm.
I have evaluated speed and accuracy of multiple models. My images, which have white backgrounds, work extremely well with phashing. Like redcalx said, I recommend phash or ahash. DO NOT use MD5 Hashing or anyother cryptographic hashes. Unless, you want only EXACT image matches. Any resizing or manipulation that occurs between images will yield a different hash.

For phash/ahash, Check this out: imagehash

I wanted to extend *redcalx'*s post by posting my code and my accuracy.

What I do:

from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFilter
import imagehash

img1=Image.open(r"C:\yourlocation")
img2=Image.open(r"C:\yourlocation")
if img1.width<img2.width:
    img2=img2.resize((img1.width,img1.height))
else:
    img1=img1.resize((img2.width,img2.height))
img1=img1.filter(ImageFilter.BoxBlur(radius=3))
img2=img2.filter(ImageFilter.BoxBlur(radius=3))
phashvalue=imagehash.phash(img1)-imagehash.phash(img2)
ahashvalue=imagehash.average_hash(img1)-imagehash.average_hash(img2)
totalaccuracy=phashvalue+ahashvalue

Here are some of my results:

item1  item2  totalsimilarity
desk1  desk1       3
desk1  phone1     22
chair1 desk1      17
phone1 chair1     34

Hope this helps!

Android: Is it possible to display video thumbnails?

if you don't or cannot go through cursor and if you have only paths or File objects, you can use since API level 8 (2.2) public static Bitmap createVideoThumbnail (String filePath, int kind)

Android documentation

The following code runs perfectly:

Bitmap bMap = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(file.getAbsolutePath(), MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND);

Where are shared preferences stored?

Preferences can either be set in code or can be found in res/xml/preferences.xml. You can read more about preferences on the Android SDK website.