Programs & Examples On #Sap iq

Sybase IQ is a column-based RDBMS used for business intelligence, data warehousing, and data marts. Produced by Sybase, an SAP company, its primary function is to analyze large amounts of data in a low-cost, high-availability environment.

How schedule build in Jenkins?

This example is everyday, once around 9am and once around 5pm. (edited per comments).

H 9,17 * * * 

Install Qt on Ubuntu

In Ubuntu 18.04 the QtCreator examples and API docs missing, This is my way to solve this problem, should apply to almost every Ubuntu release.

For QtCreator and Examples and API Docs:

sudo apt install `apt-cache search 5-examples | grep qt | grep example | awk '{print $1 }' | xargs `

sudo apt install `apt-cache search 5-doc | grep "Qt 5 " | awk '{print $1}' | xargs`

sudo apt-get install build-essential qtcreator qt5-default

If something is also missing, then:

sudo apt install `apt-cache search qt | grep 5- | grep ^qt | awk '{print $1}' | xargs `

Hope to be helpful.

Also posted in Ask Ubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/450983/ubuntu-14-04-qtcreator-qt5-examples-missing

REST API Best practices: Where to put parameters?

If there are documented best practices, I have not found them yet. However, here are a few guidelines I use when determining where to put parameters in an url:

Optional parameters tend to be easier to put in the query string.

If you want to return a 404 error when the parameter value does not correspond to an existing resource then I would tend towards a path segment parameter. e.g. /customer/232 where 232 is not a valid customer id.

If however you want to return an empty list then when the parameter is not found then I suggest using query string parameters. e.g. /contacts?name=dave

If a parameter affects an entire subtree of your URI space then use a path segment. e.g. a language parameter /en/document/foo.txt versus /document/foo.txt?language=en

I prefer unique identifiers to be in a path segment rather than a query parameter.

The official rules for URIs are found in this RFC spec here. There is also another very useful RFC spec here that defines rules for parameterizing URIs.

How to convert ActiveRecord results into an array of hashes

May be?

result.map(&:attributes)

If you need symbols keys:

result.map { |r| r.attributes.symbolize_keys }

Get user location by IP address

Use http://ipinfo.io , You need to pay them if you make more than 1000 requests per day.

The code below requires the Json.NET package.

public static string GetUserCountryByIp(string ip)
{
    IpInfo ipInfo = new IpInfo();
    try
    {
        string info = new WebClient().DownloadString("http://ipinfo.io/" + ip);
        ipInfo = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<IpInfo>(info);
        RegionInfo myRI1 = new RegionInfo(ipInfo.Country);
        ipInfo.Country = myRI1.EnglishName;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        ipInfo.Country = null;
    }
    
    return ipInfo.Country;
}

And the IpInfo Class I used:

public class IpInfo
{
    [JsonProperty("ip")]
    public string Ip { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("hostname")]
    public string Hostname { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("city")]
    public string City { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("region")]
    public string Region { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("country")]
    public string Country { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("loc")]
    public string Loc { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("org")]
    public string Org { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("postal")]
    public string Postal { get; set; }
}

How Do I Replace/Change The Heading Text Inside <h3></h3>, Using jquery?

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Just use method "text()".

The .text() method cannot be used on form inputs or scripts. To set or get the text value of input or textarea elements, use the .val() method. To get the value of a script element, use the .html() method.

http://api.jquery.com/text/

Case vs If Else If: Which is more efficient?

Wikipedia's Switch statement entry is pretty big and actually pretty good. Interesting points:

  • Switches are not inherently fast. It depends on the language, compiler, and specific use.
  • A compiler may optimize switches using jump tables or indexed function pointers.
  • The statement was inspired by some interesting math from Stephen Kleene (and others).

For a strange and interesting optimization using a C switch see Duff's Device.

Completely remove MariaDB or MySQL from CentOS 7 or RHEL 7

These steps are working on CentOS 6.5 so they should work on CentOS 7 too:

(EDIT - exactly the same steps work for MariaDB 10.3 on CentOS 8)

  1. yum remove mariadb mariadb-server
  2. rm -rf /var/lib/mysql If your datadir in /etc/my.cnf points to a different directory, remove that directory instead of /var/lib/mysql
  3. rm /etc/my.cnf the file might have already been deleted at step 1
  4. Optional step: rm ~/.my.cnf
  5. yum install mariadb mariadb-server

[EDIT] - Update for MariaDB 10.1 on CentOS 7

The steps above worked for CentOS 6.5 and MariaDB 10.

I've just installed MariaDB 10.1 on CentOS 7 and some of the steps are slightly different.

Step 1 would become:

yum remove MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

Step 5 would become:

yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

The other steps remain the same.

Java HTML Parsing

The nu.validator project is an excellent, high performance HTML parser that doesn't cut corners correctness-wise.

The Validator.nu HTML Parser is an implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm in Java. The parser is designed to work as a drop-in replacement for the XML parser in applications that already support XHTML 1.x content with an XML parser and use SAX, DOM or XOM to interface with the parser. Low-level functionality is provided for applications that wish to perform their own IO and support document.write() with scripting. The parser core compiles on Google Web Toolkit and can be automatically translated into C++. (The C++ translation capability is currently used for porting the parser for use in Gecko.)

How to store NULL values in datetime fields in MySQL?

I had this problem on windows.

This is the solution:

To pass '' for NULL you should disable STRICT_MODE (which is enabled by default on Windows installations)

BTW It's funny to pass '' for NULL. I don't know why they let this kind of behavior.

Google Maps setCenter()

For me above solutions didn't work then I tried

map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng));

and it worked as expected.

Ruby: Easiest Way to Filter Hash Keys?

If you work with rails and you have the keys in a separate list, you can use the * notation:

keys = [:foo, :bar]
hash1 = {foo: 1, bar:2, baz: 3}
hash2 = hash1.slice(*keys)
=> {foo: 1, bar:2}

As other answers stated, you can also use slice! to modify the hash in place (and return the erased key/values).

Find the IP address of the client in an SSH session

You can get it in a programmatic way via an SSH library (https://code.google.com/p/sshxcute)

public static String getIpAddress() throws TaskExecFailException{
    ConnBean cb = new ConnBean(host, username, password);
    SSHExec ssh = SSHExec.getInstance(cb);
    ssh.connect();
    CustomTask sampleTask = new ExecCommand("echo \"${SSH_CLIENT%% *}\"");
    String Result = ssh.exec(sampleTask).sysout;
    ssh.disconnect();   
    return Result;
}

The performance impact of using instanceof in Java

You should measure/profile if it's really a performance issue in your project. If it is I'd recommend a redesign - if possible. I'm pretty sure you can't beat the platform's native implementation (written in C). You should also consider the multiple inheritance in this case.

You should tell more about the problem, maybe you could use an associative store, e.g. a Map<Class, Object> if you are only interested in the concrete types.

Make a VStack fill the width of the screen in SwiftUI

This is what worked for me (ScrollView (optional) so more content can be added if needed, plus centered content):

import SwiftUI

struct SomeView: View {
    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometry in
            ScrollView(Axis.Set.horizontal) {
                HStack(alignment: .center) {
                    ForEach(0..<8) { _ in
                        Text("")
                    }
                }.frame(width: geometry.size.width, height: 50)
            }
        }
    }
}

// MARK: - Preview

#if DEBUG
struct SomeView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        SomeView()
    }
}
#endif

Result

centered

ng: command not found while creating new project using angular-cli

if you find this error when you are installing angular-cli, -bash: ng: command not found try this it works,

After removing Node from your system

install NVM from here https://github.com/creationix/nvm
Install Node via NVM: nvm install stable
run npm install -g angular-cli

Rails: How to run `rails generate scaffold` when the model already exists?

For the ones starting a rails app with existing database there is a cool gem called schema_to_scaffold to generate a scaffold script. it outputs:

rails g scaffold users fname:string lname:string bdate:date email:string encrypted_password:string

from your schema.rb our your renamed schema.rb. Check it

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

I had the same error. I found the solution for problem now. The problem was client program was finishing before server read the streams.

Foreach in a Foreach in MVC View

Controller

public ActionResult Index()
    {


        //you don't need to include the category bc it does it by itself
        //var model = db.Product.Include(c => c.Category).ToList()

        ViewBag.Categories = db.Category.OrderBy(c => c.Name).ToList();
        var model = db.Product.ToList()
        return View(model);
    }


View

you need to filter the model with the given category

like :=> Model.where(p=>p.CategoryID == category.CategoryID)

try this...

@foreach (var category in ViewBag.Categories)
{
    <h3><u>@category.Name</u></h3>

    <div>

        @foreach (var product in Model.where(p=>p.CategoryID == category.CategoryID))
        {

                <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing"5" style="border:1px solid black; width:100%;background-color:White;">
                    <thead>
                        <tr>
                            <th style="background-color:black; color:white;">
                                @product.Title  
                                @if (System.Web.Security.UrlAuthorizationModule.CheckUrlAccessForPrincipal("/admin", User, "GET"))
                                {
                                    @Html.Raw(" - ")  
                                    @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id = product.ID }, new { style = "background-color:black; color:white !important;" })
                                }
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>

                    <tbody>
                        <tr>
                            <td style="background-color:White;">
                                @product.Description
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </tbody>      
                </table>                       
            }


    </div>
}  

python mpl_toolkits installation issue

It is not on PyPI and you should not be installing it via pip. If you have matplotlib installed, you should be able to import mpl_toolkits directly:

$ pip install --upgrade matplotlib
...

$ python
>>> import mpl_toolkits
>>> 

Is there a way to create and run javascript in Chrome?

You can also open your js file path in the chrome browser which will only display text.

However you can dynamically create the page by including:

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.type = 'text/javascript';
script.src = 'myjs.js';
document.head.appendChild(script);

Now you can have access to the js variables and functions in the console.

Now when you explore the elements it should have included.

So not i guess you dont need a html file.

replacing text in a file with Python

I might consider using a dict and re.sub for something like this:

import re
repldict = {'zero':'0', 'one':'1' ,'temp':'bob','garage':'nothing'}
def replfunc(match):
    return repldict[match.group(0)]

regex = re.compile('|'.join(re.escape(x) for x in repldict))
with open('file.txt') as fin, open('fout.txt','w') as fout:
    for line in fin:
        fout.write(regex.sub(replfunc,line))

This has a slight advantage to replace in that it is a bit more robust to overlapping matches.

How to hide a column (GridView) but still access its value?

I used a method similar to user496892:

SPBoundField hiddenField = new SPBoundField();
hiddenField.HeaderText = "Header";
hiddenField.DataField = "DataFieldName";
grid.Columns.Add(hiddenField);

grid.DataSource = myDataSource;
grid.DataBind();

hiddenField.Visible = false;

use jQuery to get values of selected checkboxes

$('input:checkbox[name=locationthemes]:checked').each(function() 
{
   // add $(this).val() to your array
});

Working Demo

OR

Use jQuery's is() function:

$('input:checkbox[name=locationthemes]').each(function() 
{    
    if($(this).is(':checked'))
      alert($(this).val());
});

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Path to MSBuild

Instructions for finding MSBuild:

  • PowerShell: &"${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -latest -prerelease -products * -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -find MSBuild\**\Bin\MSBuild.exe
  • CMD: "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -latest -prerelease -products * -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -find MSBuild\**\Bin\MSBuild.exe

Instructions for finding VSTest:

  • PowerShell: &"${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -latest -prerelease -products * -requires Microsoft.VisualStudio.PackageGroup.TestTools.Core -find Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe
  • CMD: "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -latest -prerelease -products * -requires Microsoft.VisualStudio.PackageGroup.TestTools.Core -find Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe

(Note that the instructions above are slightly modified from Microsoft's official ones. In particular, I've included the -prerelease flag to allow Preview and RC installations to be picked up, and the -products * to detect Visual Studio Build Tools installations.)


It only took over two years but finally in 2019, Microsoft has listened and given us a way to find these vital executables! If you have Visual Studio 2017 and/or 2019 installed, the vswhere utility can be queried for the location of MSBuild et al. Since vswhere is guaranteed by Microsoft to be located at %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe, there is no bootstrapping and no path hardcoding required anymore.

The magic is the -find parameter, added in version 2.6.2. You can determine the version you have installed by running vswhere, or checking its file properties. If you have an older version, you can simply download the latest one and overwrite the existing %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe.

vswhere.exe is a standalone executable, so you can download and run it from anywhere you have an internet connection. That means your build scripts can check if the environment they're running on is setup correctly, to name one option.

Getting "file not found" in Bridging Header when importing Objective-C frameworks into Swift project

Clean project,Clean build folder,Restart Xcode. i just remove path at project goto > Build Settings > Search the keyword. Swift Compiler - General -> Objective-C Bridging header worked for me.

How to create JSON string in JavaScript?

I think this way helps you...

var name=[];
var age=[];
name.push('sulfikar');
age.push('24');
var ent={};
for(var i=0;i<name.length;i++)
{
ent.name=name[i];
ent.age=age[i];
}
JSON.Stringify(ent);

Can Javascript read the source of any web page?

If you absolutely need to use javascript, you could load the page source with an ajax request.

Note that with javascript, you can only retrieve pages that are located under the same domain with the requesting page.

Build a simple HTTP server in C

I'd recommend that you take a look at: A Practical Guide to Writing Clients and Servers

What you have to implement in incremental steps is:

  1. Get your basic TCP sockets layer running (listen on port/ports, accept client connections and send/receive data).
  2. Implement a buffered reader so that you can read requests one line (delimited by CRLF) at a time.
  3. Read the very first line. Parse out the method, the request version and the path.
  4. Implement header parsing for the "Header: value" syntax. Don't forget unfolding folded headers.
  5. Check the request method, content type and content size to determine how/if the body will be read.
  6. Implement decoding of content based on content type.
  7. If you're going to support HTTP 1.1, implement things like "100 Continue", keep-alive, chunked transfer.
  8. Add robustness/security measures like detecting incomplete requests, limiting max number of clients etc.
  9. Shrink wrap your code and open-source it :)

How to raise a ValueError?

raise ValueError('could not find %c in %s' % (ch,str))

Loop in react-native

This should work

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What is WebKit and how is it related to CSS?

Webkit is the rendering engine used in the popular browsers Safari and Chrome, as well as others.

REACT - toggle class onclick

React has a concept of components state, so if you want to Toggle, use setState:

  1. App.js
import React from 'react';

import TestState from './components/TestState';

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <h1>React State Example</h1>
        <TestState/>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default App;
  1. components/TestState.js
import React from 'react';

class TestState extends React.Component
{

    constructor()
    {
        super();
        this.state = {
            message: 'Please subscribe',
            status: "Subscribe"
        }
    }

    changeMessage()
    {
        if (this.state.status === 'Subscribe')
        {
            this.setState({message : 'Thank You For Scubscribing.', status: 'Unsubscribe'})
        }
        else
        {
            this.setState({ message: 'Please subscribe', status: 'Subscribe' })
        }
    }
    
    render()
    {
        return (
            <div>
                <h1>{this.state.message}</h1>
        <button onClick={()=> this.changeMessage() } >{this.state.status}</button>
            </div>
        )
    }
}

export default TestState;
  1. Output

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Sending emails through SMTP with PHPMailer

SMTP -> FROM SERVER:
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:
SMTP -> ERROR: EHLO not accepted from server:

that's typical of trying to connect to a SSL service with a client that's not using SSL

SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.

no suprise there having failed to start an SMTP conversation authentigation is not an option,.

phpmailer doesn't do implicit SSL (aka TLS on connect, SMTPS) Short of rewriting smtp.class.php to include support for it there it no way to do what you ask.

Use port 587 with explicit SSL (aka TLS, STARTTLS) instead.

Jquery to change form action

jQuery is just JavaScript, don't think very differently about it! Like you would do in 'normal' JS, you add an event listener to the buttons and change the action attribute of the form. In jQuery this looks something like:

$('#button1').click(function(){
   $('#your_form').attr('action', 'http://uri-for-button1.com');
});

This code is the same for the second button, you only need to change the id of your button and the URI where the form should be submitted to.

Jdbctemplate query for string: EmptyResultDataAccessException: Incorrect result size: expected 1, actual 0

Actually, You can play with JdbcTemplate and customize your own method as you prefer. My suggestion is to make something like this:

public String test() {
    String cert = null;
    String sql = "select ID_NMB_SRZ from codb_owner.TR_LTM_SLS_RTN
        where id_str_rt = '999' and ID_NMB_SRZ = '60230009999999'";
    ArrayList<String> certList = (ArrayList<String>) jdbc.query(
        sql, new RowMapperResultSetExtractor(new UserMapper()));
    cert =  DataAccessUtils.singleResult(certList);

    return cert;
}

It works as the original jdbc.queryForObject, but without throw new EmptyResultDataAccessException when size == 0.

React component not re-rendering on state change

My issue was that I was using 'React.PureComponent' when I should have been using 'React.Component'.

No notification sound when sending notification from firebase in android

In the notification payload of the notification there is a sound key.

From the official documentation its use is:

Indicates a sound to play when the device receives a notification. Supports default or the filename of a sound resource bundled in the app. Sound files must reside in /res/raw/.

Eg:

{
    "to" : "bk3RNwTe3H0:CI2k_HHwgIpoDKCIZvvDMExUdFQ3P1...",

    "notification" : {
      "body" : "great match!",
      "title" : "Portugal vs. Denmark",
      "icon" : "myicon",
      "sound" : "mySound"
    }
  }

If you want to use default sound of the device, you should use: "sound": "default".

See this link for all possible keys in the payloads: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/http-server-ref#notification-payload-support

For those who don't know firebase handles notifications differently when the app is in background. In this case the onMessageReceived function is not called.

When your app is in the background, Android directs notification messages to the system tray. A user tap on the notification opens the app launcher by default. This includes messages that contain both notification and data payload. In these cases, the notification is delivered to the device's system tray, and the data payload is delivered in the extras of the intent of your launcher Activity.

Android: alternate layout xml for landscape mode

The layouts in /res/layout are applied to both portrait and landscape, unless you specify otherwise. Let’s assume we have /res/layout/home.xml for our homepage and we want it to look differently in the 2 layout types.

  1. create folder /res/layout-land (here you will keep your landscape adjusted layouts)
  2. copy home.xml there
  3. make necessary changes to it

Source

How to install JRE 1.7 on Mac OS X and use it with Eclipse?

Try editing your eclipse.ini file and add the following at the top

-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_09.jdk/Contents/Home

Of course the path may be slightly different, looks like I have an older version...

I'm not sure if it will add itself automatically. If not go into

Preferences --> Java --> Installed JREs

Click Add and follow the instructions there to add it

Java, return if trimmed String in List contains String

You can use your own code. You don't need to use the looping structure, if you don't want to use the looping structure as you said above. Only you have to focus to remove space or trim the String of the list.

If you are using java8 you can simply trim the String using the single line of the code:

myList = myList.stream().map(String :: trim).collect(Collectors.toList());

The importance of the above line is, in the future, you can use a List or set as well. Now you can use your own code:

if(myList.contains("A")){
    //true
}else{
    // false
}

Merge development branch with master

1) On branch Development, check git status using following command:

git status

There should be no uncommitted code. If it is, push your code on Development branch:

git add *

git commit -m "My initial commit message"

git push origin Development

2) On Development branch, run following two commands:

git branch -f master HEAD

git push -f origin master

It will push your Development branch code to master branch.

How to use bootstrap-theme.css with bootstrap 3?

For an example of the css styles have a look at: http://getbootstrap.com/examples/theme/

If you want to see how the example looks without the bootstrap-theme.css file open up your browser developer tools and delete the link from the <head> of the example and then you can compare it.

I know this is an old question but posted it just in case anyone is looking for an example of how it looks like I was.

Update

bootstrap.css = main css framework (grids, basic styles, etc)

bootstrap-theme.css = extended styling (3D buttons, gradients etc). This file is optional and does not effect the functionality of bootstrap at all, it only enhances the appearance.

Update 2

With the release of v3.2.0 Bootstrap have added an option to view the theme css on the doc pages. If you go to one of the doc pages (css, components, javascript) you should see a "Preview theme" link at the bottom of the side nav which you can use to turn the theme css on and off.

Changing text of UIButton programmatically swift

Swift 3:

Set button title:

//for normal state:
my_btn.setTitle("Button Title", for: .normal)

// For highlighted state:
my_btn.setTitle("Button Title2", for: .highlighted)

How to view hierarchical package structure in Eclipse package explorer

Here is representation of screen eclipse to make hierarachical.

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C++ callback using class member

Instead of having static methods and passing around a pointer to the class instance, you could use functionality in the new C++11 standard: std::function and std::bind:

#include <functional>
class EventHandler
{
    public:
        void addHandler(std::function<void(int)> callback)
        {
            cout << "Handler added..." << endl;
            // Let's pretend an event just occured
            callback(1);
        }
};

The addHandler method now accepts a std::function argument, and this "function object" have no return value and takes an integer as argument.

To bind it to a specific function, you use std::bind:

class MyClass
{
    public:
        MyClass();

        // Note: No longer marked `static`, and only takes the actual argument
        void Callback(int x);
    private:
        int private_x;
};

MyClass::MyClass()
{
    using namespace std::placeholders; // for `_1`

    private_x = 5;
    handler->addHandler(std::bind(&MyClass::Callback, this, _1));
}

void MyClass::Callback(int x)
{
    // No longer needs an explicit `instance` argument,
    // as `this` is set up properly
    cout << x + private_x << endl;
}

You need to use std::bind when adding the handler, as you explicitly needs to specify the otherwise implicit this pointer as an argument. If you have a free-standing function, you don't have to use std::bind:

void freeStandingCallback(int x)
{
    // ...
}

int main()
{
    // ...
    handler->addHandler(freeStandingCallback);
}

Having the event handler use std::function objects, also makes it possible to use the new C++11 lambda functions:

handler->addHandler([](int x) { std::cout << "x is " << x << '\n'; });

React-router: How to manually invoke Link?

React Router 4

You can easily invoke the push method via context in v4:

this.context.router.push(this.props.exitPath);

where context is:

static contextTypes = {
    router: React.PropTypes.object,
};

Define: What is a HashSet?

Simply said and without revealing the kitchen secrets: a set in general, is a collection that contains no duplicate elements, and whose elements are in no particular order. So, A HashSet<T> is similar to a generic List<T>, but is optimized for fast lookups (via hashtables, as the name implies) at the cost of losing order.

App.settings - the Angular way?

We had this problem years ago before I had joined and had in place a solution that used local storage for user and environment information. Angular 1.0 days to be exact. We were formerly dynamically creating a js file at runtime that would then place the generated api urls into a global variable. We're a little more OOP driven these days and don't use local storage for anything.

I created a better solution for both determining environment and api url creation.

How does this differ?

The app will not load unless the config.json file is loaded. It uses factory functions to create a higher degree of SOC. I could encapsulate this into a service, but I never saw any reason when the only similarity between the different sections of the file are that they exist together in the file. Having a factory function allows me to pass the function directly into a module if it's capable of accepting a function. Last, I have an easier time setting up InjectionTokens when factory functions are available to utilize.

Downsides?

You're out of luck using this setup (and most of the other answers) if the module you want to configure doesn't allow a factory function to be passed into either forRoot() or forChild(), and there's no other way to configure the package by using a factory function.

Instructions

  1. Using fetch to retrieve a json file, I store the object in window and raise a custom event. - remember to install whatwg-fetch and add it to your polyfills.ts for IE compatibility
  2. Have an event listener listening for the custom event.
  3. The event listener receives the event, retrieves the object from window to pass to an observable, and clears out what was stored in window.
  4. Bootstrap Angular

-- This is where my solution starts to really differ --

  1. Create a file exporting an interface whose structure represents your config.json -- it really helps with type consistency and the next section of code requires a type, and don't specify {} or any when you know you can specify something more concrete
  2. Create the BehaviorSubject that you will pass the parsed json file into in step 3.
  3. Use factory functions to reference the different sections of your config to maintain SOC
  4. Create InjectionTokens for the providers needing the result of your factory functions

-- and/or --

  1. Pass the factory functions directly into the modules capable of accepting a function in either its forRoot() or forChild() methods.

-- main.ts

I check window["environment"] is not populated before creating an event listener to allow the possiblilty of a solution where window["environment"] is populated by some other means before the code in main.ts ever executes.

import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { AppModule } from './app/app.module';
import { configurationSubject } from './app/utils/environment-resolver';

var configurationLoadedEvent = document.createEvent('Event');
configurationLoadedEvent.initEvent('config-set', true, true);
fetch("../../assets/config.json")
.then(result => { return result.json(); })
.then(data => {
  window["environment"] = data;
  document.dispatchEvent(configurationLoadedEvent);
}, error => window.location.reload());

/*
  angular-cli only loads the first thing it finds it needs a dependency under /app in main.ts when under local scope. 
  Make AppModule the first dependency it needs and the rest are done for ya. Event listeners are 
  ran at a higher level of scope bypassing the behavior of not loading AppModule when the 
  configurationSubject is referenced before calling platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule)

  example: this will not work because configurationSubject is the first dependency the compiler realizes that lives under 
  app and will ONLY load that dependency, making AppModule an empty object.

  if(window["environment"])
  {
    if (window["environment"].production) {
      enableProdMode();
    }
    configurationSubject.next(window["environment"]);
    platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule)
    .catch(err => console.log(err));
  }
*/
if(!window["environment"]) {
  document.addEventListener('config-set', function(e){
    if (window["environment"].production) {
      enableProdMode();
    }
    configurationSubject.next(window["environment"]);
    window["environment"] = undefined;
    platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule)
    .catch(err => console.log(err));
  });
}

--- environment-resolvers.ts

I assign a value to the BehaviorSubject using window["environment"] for redundancy. You could devise a solution where your config is preloaded already and window["environment"] is already populated by the time any of your Angular's app code is ran, including the code in main.ts

import { BehaviorSubject } from "rxjs";
import { IConfig } from "../config.interface";

const config = <IConfig>Object.assign({}, window["environment"]);
export const configurationSubject = new BehaviorSubject<IConfig>(config);
export function resolveEnvironment() {
  const env = configurationSubject.getValue().environment;
  let resolvedEnvironment = "";
  switch (env) {
 // case statements for determining whether this is dev, test, stage, or prod
  }
  return resolvedEnvironment;
}

export function resolveNgxLoggerConfig() {
  return configurationSubject.getValue().logging;
}

-- app.module.ts - Stripped down for easier understanding

Fun fact! Older versions of NGXLogger required you to pass in an object into LoggerModule.forRoot(). In fact, the LoggerModule still does! NGXLogger kindly exposes LoggerConfig which you can override allowing you to use a factory function for setup.

import { resolveEnvironment, resolveNgxLoggerConfig, resolveSomethingElse } from './environment-resolvers';
import { LoggerConfig } from 'ngx-logger';
@NgModule({
    modules: [
        SomeModule.forRoot(resolveSomethingElse)
    ],
    providers:[
        {
            provide: ENVIRONMENT,
            useFactory: resolveEnvironment
        },
        { 
            provide: LoggerConfig,
            useFactory: resolveNgxLoggerConfig
        }
    ]
})
export class AppModule

Addendum

How did I solve the creation of my API urls?

I wanted to be able to understand what each url did via a comment and wanted typechecking since that's TypeScript's greatest strength compared to javascript (IMO). I also wanted to create an experience for other devs to add new endpoints, and apis that was as seamless as possible.

I created a class that takes in the environment (dev, test, stage, prod, "", and etc) and passed this value to a series of classes[1-N] whose job is to create the base url for each API collection. Each ApiCollection is responsible for creating the base url for each collection of APIs. Could be our own APIs, a vendor's APIs, or even an external link. That class will pass the created base url into each subsequent api it contains. Read the code below to see a bare bones example. Once setup, it's very simple for another dev to add another endpoint to an Api class without having to touch anything else.

TLDR; basic OOP principles and lazy getters for memory optimization

@Injectable({
    providedIn: 'root'
})
export class ApiConfig {
    public apis: Apis;

    constructor(@Inject(ENVIRONMENT) private environment: string) {
        this.apis = new Apis(environment);
    }
}

export class Apis {
    readonly microservices: MicroserviceApiCollection;

    constructor(environment: string) {
        this.microservices = new MicroserviceApiCollection(environment);
    }
}

export abstract class ApiCollection {
  protected domain: any;

  constructor(environment: string) {
      const domain = this.resolveDomain(environment);
      Object.defineProperty(ApiCollection.prototype, 'domain', {
          get() {
              Object.defineProperty(this, 'domain', { value: domain });
              return this.domain;
          },
          configurable: true
      });
  }
}

export class MicroserviceApiCollection extends ApiCollection {
  public member: MemberApi;

  constructor(environment) {
      super(environment);
      this.member = new MemberApi(this.domain);
  }

  resolveDomain(environment: string): string {
      return `https://subdomain${environment}.actualdomain.com/`;
  }
}

export class Api {
  readonly base: any;

  constructor(baseUrl: string) {
      Object.defineProperty(this, 'base', {
          get() {
              Object.defineProperty(this, 'base',
              { value: baseUrl, configurable: true});
              return this.base;
          },
          enumerable: false,
          configurable: true
      });
  }

  attachProperty(name: string, value: any, enumerable?: boolean) {
      Object.defineProperty(this, name,
      { value, writable: false, configurable: true, enumerable: enumerable || true });
  }
}

export class MemberApi extends Api {

  /**
  * This comment will show up when referencing this.apiConfig.apis.microservices.member.memberInfo
  */
  get MemberInfo() {
    this.attachProperty("MemberInfo", `${this.base}basic-info`);
    return this.MemberInfo;
  }

  constructor(baseUrl: string) {
    super(baseUrl + "member/api/");
  }
}

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 1

Try setting the system default encoding as utf-8 at the start of the script, so that all strings are encoded using that.

# coding: utf-8
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

How to iterate through property names of Javascript object?

Use for...in loop:

for (var key in obj) {
   console.log(' name=' + key + ' value=' + obj[key]);

   // do some more stuff with obj[key]
}

Re-doing a reverted merge in Git

I just found this post when facing the same problem. I find above wayyy to scary to do reset hards etc. I'll end up deleting something I don't want to, and won't be able to get it back.

Instead I checked out the commit I wanted the branch to go back to e.g. git checkout 123466t7632723. Then converted to a branch git checkout my-new-branch. I then deleted the branch I didn't want any more. Of course this will only work if you are able to throw away the branch you messed up.

MongoDB vs. Cassandra

I saw a presentation on mongodb yesterday. I can definitely say that setup was "simple", as simple as unpacking it and firing it up. Done.

I believe that both mongodb and cassandra will run on virtually any regular linux hardware so you should not find to much barrier in that area.

I think in this case, at the end of the day, it will come down to which do you personally feel more comfortable with and which has a toolset that you prefer. As far as the presentation on mongodb, the presenter indicated that the toolset for mongodb was pretty light and that there werent many (they said any really) tools similar to whats available for MySQL. This was of course their experience so YMMV. One thing that I did like about mongodb was that there seemed to be lots of language support for it (Python, and .NET being the two that I primarily use).

The list of sites using mongodb is pretty impressive, and I know that twitter just switched to using cassandra.

Angular HTTP GET with TypeScript error http.get(...).map is not a function in [null]

Just add the line in you file,

import 'rxjs/Rx';

It will import bunch of dependencies.Tested in angular 5

Short rot13 function - Python

You can support uppercase letters on the original code posted by Mr. Walter by alternating the upper case and lower case letters.

chars = "AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz"

If you notice the index of the uppercase letters are all even numbers while the index of the lower case letters are odd.

  • A = 0 a = 1,
  • B = 2, b = 3,
  • C = 4, c = 4,
  • ...

This odd-even pattern allows us to safely add the amount needed without having to worry about the case.

trans = chars[26:] + chars[:26]

The reason you add 26 is because the string has doubled in letters due to the upper case letters. However, the shift is still 13 spaces on the alphabet.

The full code:

def rot13(s):
    chars = "AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz"
    trans = chars[26:]+chars[:26]
    rot_char = lambda c: trans[chars.find(c)] if chars.find(c) > -1 else c
    return ''.join(rot_char(c) for c in s)

OUTPUT (Tested with python 2.7):

print rot13("Hello World!") --> Uryyb Jbeyq!

Starting iPhone app development in Linux?

You can use Tersus (open source), and it lets you export the app as an Xcode project.

Asking the user for input until they give a valid response

Use try-except to handle the error and repeat it again:

while True:
    try:
        age = int(input("Please enter your age: "))
        if age >= 18:
            print("You are able to vote in the United States!")
        else:
            print("You are not able to vote in the United States.")
    except Exception as e:
        print("please enter number")

Add a prefix string to beginning of each line

You can use Vim in Ex mode:

ex -sc '%s/^/prefix/|x' file
  1. % select all lines

  2. s replace

  3. x save and close

How to check if the docker engine and a docker container are running?

Any docker command (except docker -v), like docker ps If Docker is running, you'll get some valid response, otherwise you'll get a message that includes "Is your docker daemon up and running?"

You can also check your task manager.

PHP Sort a multidimensional array by element containing date

For those still looking a solved it this way inside a class with a function sortByDate, see the code below

<?php

class ContactsController 
{
    public function __construct()
    {
    //
    }


    function sortByDate($key)
    {
        return function ($a, $b) use ($key) {
            $t1 = strtotime($a[$key]);
            $t2 = strtotime($b[$key]);
            return $t2-$t1;
        };

    }

    public function index()
    {

        $data[] = array('contact' => '434343434', 'name' => 'dickson','updated_at' =>'2020-06-11 12:38:23','created_at' =>'2020-06-11 12:38:23');
        $data[] = array('contact' => '434343434', 'name' => 'dickson','updated_at' =>'2020-06-16 12:38:23','created_at' =>'2020-06-10 12:38:23');
        $data[] = array('contact' => '434343434', 'name' => 'dickson','updated_at' =>'2020-06-7 12:38:23','created_at' =>'2020-06-9 12:38:23');


        usort($data, $this->sortByDate('updated_at'));

        //usort($data, $this->sortByDate('created_at'));
        echo $data;

    }
}

Android Starting Service at Boot Time , How to restart service class after device Reboot?

First register a receiver in your manifest.xml file:

    <receiver android:name="com.mileagelog.service.Broadcast_PowerUp" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_POWER_CONNECTED" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_POWER_DISCONNECTED" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

and then write a broadcast for this receiver like:

public class Broadcast_PowerUp extends BroadcastReceiver {

  @Override
  public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    String action = intent.getAction();

    if (action.equals(Intent.ACTION_POWER_CONNECTED)) {
        Toast.makeText(context, "Service_PowerUp Started",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();


    } else if (action.equals(Intent.ACTION_POWER_DISCONNECTED)) {



        Toast.makeText(context, "Service_PowerUp Stoped", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
        .show();
    }
  }
}

Are iframes considered 'bad practice'?

The original frameset model (Frameset and Frame-elements) were very bad from a usability standpoint. IFrame vas a later invention which didn't have as many problems as the original frameset model, but it does have its drawback.

If you allow the user to navigate inside the IFrame, then links and bookmarks will not work as expected (because you bookmark the URL of the outer page, but not the URL of the iframe).

How to check if a variable is an integer in JavaScript?

Lodash https://lodash.com/docs#isInteger (since 4.0.0) has function to check if variable is an integer:

_.isInteger(3);
// ? true

_.isInteger(Number.MIN_VALUE);
// ? false

_.isInteger(Infinity);
// ? false

_.isInteger('3');
// ? false

How to find out whether a file is at its `eof`?

You can compare the returned value of fp.tell() before and after calling the read method. If they return the same value, fp is at eof.

Furthermore, I don't think your example code actually works. The read method to my knowledge never returns None, but it does return an empty string on eof.

Adding external library in Android studio

Try this:

File > Project Structure > Dependencies Tab > Add module dependency (scope = compile)

Where the module dependency is the project library Android folder.

Restrict varchar() column to specific values?

You want a check constraint.

CHECK constraints determine the valid values from a logical expression that is not based on data in another column. For example, the range of values for a salary column can be limited by creating a CHECK constraint that allows for only data that ranges from $15,000 through $100,000. This prevents salaries from being entered beyond the regular salary range.

You want something like:

ALTER TABLE dbo.Table ADD CONSTRAINT CK_Table_Frequency
    CHECK (Frequency IN ('Daily', 'Weekly', 'Monthly', 'Yearly'))

You can also implement check constraints with scalar functions, as described in the link above, which is how I prefer to do it.

Spool Command: Do not output SQL statement to file

You can directly export the query result with export option in the result grig. This export has various options to export. I think this will work.

proper way to logout from a session in PHP

Session_unset(); only destroys the session variables. To end the session there is another function called session_destroy(); which also destroys the session .

update :

In order to kill the session altogether, like to log the user out, the session id must also be unset. If a cookie is used to propagate the session id (default behavior), then the session cookie must be deleted. setcookie() may be used for that

Custom seekbar (thumb size, color and background)

You can use the official Slider in the Material Components Library.

Use the app:trackHeight="xxdp" (default value is 4dp) to change the height of the track bar.

Also use these attributes to customize the colors:

  • app:activeTrackColor: the active track color
  • app:inactiveTrackColor: the inactive track color
  • app:thumbColor: to fill the thumb

Something like:

    <com.google.android.material.slider.Slider
        android:id="@+id/slider"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:activeTrackColor="#ffd400"
        app:inactiveTrackColor="#e7e7e7"
        app:thumbColor="#ffb300"
        app:trackHeight="12dp"
        .../>

enter image description here

It requires the version 1.2.0 of the library.

HRESULT: 0x80131040: The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference

This happened to me when I updated web.config without updating all referenced dlls.

Using proper diff filter (beware of Meld's default directory compare filter ignoring binaries) the difference was identified, files were copied and everything worked fine.

Professional jQuery based Combobox control?

Unfortunately, the best thing I have seen is the jquery.combobox, but it doesn't really look like something I'd really want to use in my web applications. I think there are some usability issues with this control, but as a user I don't think I'd know to start typing for the dropdownlist to turn into a textbox.

I much prefer the Combo Dropdown Box, but it still has some features that I'd want and it's still in alpha. The only think I don't like about this other than its being alpha... is that once I type in the combobox, the original dropdownlist items disappear. However, maybe there is a setting for this... or maybe it could be added fairly easily.

Those are the only two options that I know of. Good luck in your search. I'd love to hear if you find one or if the second option works out for you.

Get HTML source of WebElement in Selenium WebDriver using Python

I hope this could help: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebElement.html

Here is described Java method:

java.lang.String    getText() 

But unfortunately it's not available in Python. So you can translate the method names to Python from Java and try another logic using present methods without getting the whole page source...

E.g.

 my_id = elem[0].get_attribute('my-id')

How do I resolve git saying "Commit your changes or stash them before you can merge"?

This solved my error:

I am on branch : "A"

git stash

Move to master branch:

git checkout master <br>
git pull*

Move back to my branch: "A"

git checkout A <br>
git stash pop*

500 internal server error at GetResponse()

For me the error was misleading. I discovered the true error by testing the errant web service with SoapUI.

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

public static final String URL = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=dbName";
public static final String USERNAME = "xxxx";
public static final String PASSWORD = "xxxx";

/**
 *  This method
    @param args     command line argument
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
   try
   {
        Connection connection;
        DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver());   
        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(MainDriver.URL,MainDriver.USERNAME,
                        MainDriver.PASSWORD);
        String query ="select * from employee";
        Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
        ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery(query);
        while(resultSet.next())
        {
            System.out.print("First Name: " + resultSet.getString("first_name"));
            System.out.println("  Last Name: " + resultSet.getString("last_name"));                
        }
   }catch(Exception ex)
   {
        ex.printStackTrace();
   }
}

Disable button in WPF?

I know this isn't as elegant as the other posts, but it's a more straightforward xaml/codebehind example of how to accomplish the same thing.

Xaml:

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
   <TextBox Name="TextBox01" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="70" />
   <Button Name="Button01" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10,0,0,0" />
</StackPanel>

CodeBehind:

Private Sub Window1_Loaded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles Me.Loaded

        Button01.IsEnabled = False
        Button01.Content = "I am Disabled"

End Sub

Private Sub TextBox01_TextChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Controls.TextChangedEventArgs) Handles TextBox01.TextChanged

        If TextBox01.Text.Trim.Length > 0 Then
            Button01.IsEnabled = True
            Button01.Content = "I am Enabled"
        Else
            Button01.IsEnabled = False
            Button01.Content = "I am Disabled"
        End If

End Sub

Why XML-Serializable class need a parameterless constructor

The answer is: for no good reason whatsoever.

Contrary to its name, the XmlSerializer class is used not only for serialization, but also for deserialization. It performs certain checks on your class to make sure that it will work, and some of those checks are only pertinent to deserialization, but it performs them all anyway, because it does not know what you intend to do later on.

The check that your class fails to pass is one of the checks that are only pertinent to deserialization. Here is what happens:

  • During deserialization, the XmlSerializer class will need to create instances of your type.

  • In order to create an instance of a type, a constructor of that type needs to be invoked.

  • If you did not declare a constructor, the compiler has already supplied a default parameterless constructor, but if you did declare a constructor, then that's the only constructor available.

  • So, if the constructor that you declared accepts parameters, then the only way to instantiate your class is by invoking that constructor which accepts parameters.

  • However, XmlSerializer is not capable of invoking any constructor except a parameterless constructor, because it does not know what parameters to pass to constructors that accept parameters. So, it checks to see if your class has a parameterless constructor, and since it does not, it fails.

So, if the XmlSerializer class had been written in such a way as to only perform the checks pertinent to serialization, then your class would pass, because there is absolutely nothing about serialization that makes it necessary to have a parameterless constructor.

As others have already pointed out, the quick solution to your problem is to simply add a parameterless constructor. Unfortunately, it is also a dirty solution, because it means that you cannot have any readonly members initialized from constructor parameters.

In addition to all this, the XmlSerializer class could have been written in such a way as to allow even deserialization of classes without parameterless constructors. All it would take would be to make use of "The Factory Method Design Pattern" (Wikipedia). From the looks of it, Microsoft decided that this design pattern is far too advanced for DotNet programmers, who apparently should not be unnecessarily confused with such things. So, DotNet programmers should better stick to parameterless constructors, according to Microsoft.

The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called

I ran into this problem during Jenkins builds on an Ubuntu machine.

/var/log/syslog reported Out of memory: Kill process 19557 (java) score 207 or sacrifice child.

I therefore gave the Ubuntu machine more swap space. Since then, the problem is gone.

How to lay out Views in RelativeLayout programmatically?

Just spent 4 hours with this problem. Finally realized that you must not use zero as view id. You would think that it is allowed as NO_ID == -1, but things tend to go haywire if you give it to your view...

Converting characters to integers in Java

public class IntergerParser {

public static void main(String[] args){
String number = "+123123";
System.out.println(parseInt(number));
}

private static int parseInt(String number){
    char[] numChar = number.toCharArray();
    int intValue = 0;
    int decimal = 1;
    for(int index = numChar.length ; index > 0 ; index --){
        if(index == 1 ){
            if(numChar[index - 1] == '-'){
                return intValue * -1;
            } else if(numChar[index - 1] == '+'){
                return intValue;
            }
        }
        intValue = intValue + (((int)numChar[index-1] - 48) * (decimal));
        System.out.println((int)numChar[index-1] - 48+ " " + (decimal));
        decimal = decimal * 10;
    }
    return intValue;
}

Why do I get "Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent" when I call Response.Redirect()?

There are 2 ways to fix this:

  1. Just add a return statement after your Response.Redirect(someUrl); ( if the method signature is not "void", you will have to return that "type", of course ) as so:

    Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");

    return;

Note the return allows the server to perform the redirect...without it, the server wants to continue executing the rest of your code...

  1. Make your Response.Redirect(someUrl) the LAST executed statement in the method that is throwing the exception. Replace your Response.Redirect(someUrl) with a string VARIABLE named "someUrl", and set it to the redirect location... as follows:

//......some code

string someUrl = String.Empty

.....some logic

if (x=y)
{
    // comment (original location of Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");)
    someUrl = "Login.aspx";
}

......more code

// MOVE your Response.Redirect to HERE (the end of the method):

Response.Redirect(someUrl);
return; 

Disable HTTP OPTIONS, TRACE, HEAD, COPY and UNLOCK methods in IIS

This worked for me but only after forcing the specific verbs to be handled by the default handler.

<system.web>
...
  <httpHandlers>
  ... 
    <add path="*" verb="OPTIONS" type="System.Web.DefaultHttpHandler" validate="true"/>
    <add path="*" verb="TRACE" type="System.Web.DefaultHttpHandler" validate="true"/>
    <add path="*" verb="HEAD" type="System.Web.DefaultHttpHandler" validate="true"/>

You still use the same configuration as you have above, but also force the verbs to be handled with the default handler and validated. Source: http://forums.asp.net/t/1311323.aspx

An easy way to test is just to deny GET and see if your site loads.

How to make a GridLayout fit screen size

If you use fragments you can prepare XML layout and than stratch critical elements programmatically

int thirdScreenWidth = (int)(screenWidth *0.33);

View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_second, null);
View _container = view.findViewById(R.id.rim1container);
_container.getLayoutParams().width = thirdScreenWidth * 2;

_container = view.findViewById(R.id.rim2container);
_container.getLayoutParams().width = screenWidth - thirdScreenWidth * 2;

_container = view.findViewById(R.id.rim3container);
_container.getLayoutParams().width = screenWidth - thirdScreenWidth * 2;

This layout for 3 equal columns. First element takes 2x2 Result in the picture enter image description here

Python: One Try Multiple Except

Yes, it is possible.

try:
   ...
except FirstException:
   handle_first_one()

except SecondException:
   handle_second_one()

except (ThirdException, FourthException, FifthException) as e:
   handle_either_of_3rd_4th_or_5th()

except Exception:
   handle_all_other_exceptions()

See: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html

The "as" keyword is used to assign the error to a variable so that the error can be investigated more thoroughly later on in the code. Also note that the parentheses for the triple exception case are needed in python 3. This page has more info: Catch multiple exceptions in one line (except block)

Difference between "\n" and Environment.NewLine

Depends on the platform. On Windows it is actually "\r\n".

From MSDN:

A string containing "\r\n" for non-Unix platforms, or a string containing "\n" for Unix platforms.

batch file to copy files to another location?

Two approaches:

  • When you login: you can to create a copy_my_files.bat file into your All Programs > Startup folder with this content (its a plain text document):

    • xcopy c:\folder\*.* d:\another_folder\.

    Use xcopy c:\folder\*.* d:\another_folder\. /Y to overwrite the file without any prompt.

  • Everytime a folder changes: if you can to use C#, you can to create a program using FileSystemWatcher

Dump all tables in CSV format using 'mysqldump'

If you are using MySQL or MariaDB, the easiest and performant way dump CSV for single table is -

SELECT customer_id, firstname, surname INTO OUTFILE '/exportdata/customers.txt'
  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
  LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
  FROM customers;

Now you can use other techniques to repeat this command for multiple tables. See more details here:

How to keep two folders automatically synchronized?

Just simple modification of @silgon answer:

while true; do 
  inotifywait -r -e modify,create,delete /directory
  rsync -avz /directory /target
done

(@silgon version sometimes crashes on Ubuntu 16 if you run it in cron)

Bootstrap 4 datapicker.js not included

You can use this and then you can add just a class form from bootstrap. (does not matter which version)

<div class="form-group">
 <label >Begin voorverkoop periode</label>
 <input type="date" name="bday" max="3000-12-31" 
        min="1000-01-01" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
 <label >Einde voorverkoop periode</label>
 <input type="date" name="bday" min="1000-01-01"
        max="3000-12-31" class="form-control">
</div>

Aggregate function in SQL WHERE-Clause

You haven't mentioned the DBMS. Assuming you are using MS SQL-Server, I've found a T-SQL Error message that is self-explanatory:

"An aggregate may not appear in the WHERE clause unless it is in a subquery contained in a HAVING clause or a select list, and the column being aggregated is an outer reference"

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/


And an example that it is possible in a subquery.

Show all customers and smallest order for those who have 5 or more orders (and NULL for others):

SELECT a.lastname
     , a.firstname
     , ( SELECT MIN( o.amount )
         FROM orders o
         WHERE a.customerid = o.customerid
           AND COUNT( a.customerid ) >= 5
        )
        AS smallestOrderAmount
FROM account a
GROUP BY a.customerid
       , a.lastname
       , a.firstname ;

UPDATE.

The above runs in both SQL-Server and MySQL but it doesn't return the result I expected. The next one is more close. I guess it has to do with that the field customerid, GROUPed BY and used in the query-subquery join is in the first case PRIMARY KEY of the outer table and in the second case it's not.

Show all customer ids and number of orders for those who have 5 or more orders (and NULL for others):

SELECT o.customerid
     , ( SELECT COUNT( o.customerid )
         FROM account a
         WHERE a.customerid = o.customerid
           AND COUNT( o.customerid ) >= 5
        )
        AS cnt
FROM orders o
GROUP BY o.customerid ;

How can I get the current network interface throughput statistics on Linux/UNIX?

ifconfig -a
ip -d link
ls -l /sys/class/net/ (physical and virtual devices)
route -n

If you want the output of (ifconfig -a) in json format you can use this (python)

#pragma once vs include guards?

I don't think it will make a significant difference in compile time but #pragma once is very well supported across compilers but not actually part of the standard. The preprocessor may be a little faster with it as it is more simple to understand your exact intent.

#pragma once is less prone to making mistakes and it is less code to type.

To speed up compile time more just forward declare instead of including in .h files when you can.

I prefer to use #pragma once.

See this wikipedia article about the possibility of using both.

How do I use the Tensorboard callback of Keras?

You should check out Losswise (https://losswise.com), it has a plugin for Keras that's easier to use than Tensorboard and has some nice extra features. With Losswise you'd just use from losswise.libs import LosswiseKerasCallback and then callback = LosswiseKerasCallback(tag='my fancy convnet 1') and you're good to go (see https://docs.losswise.com/#keras-plugin).

How to find item with max value using linq?

With EF or LINQ to SQL:

var item = db.Items.OrderByDescending(i => i.Value).FirstOrDefault();

With LINQ to Objects I suggest to use morelinq extension MaxBy (get morelinq from nuget):

var item = items.MaxBy(i => i.Value);

Getting the inputstream from a classpath resource (XML file)

That depends on where exactly the XML file is. Is it in the sources folder (in the "default package" or the "root") or in the same folder as the class?

In for former case, you must use "/file.xml" (note the leading slash) to find the file and it doesn't matter which class you use to try to locate it.

If the XML file is next to some class, SomeClass.class.getResourceAsStream() with just the filename is the way to go.

Make var_dump look pretty

I have make an addition to @AbraCadaver answers. I have included a javascript script which will delete php starting and closing tag. We will have clean more pretty dump.

May be somebody like this too.

function dd($data){
  highlight_string("<?php\n " . var_export($data, true) . "?>");
  echo '<script>document.getElementsByTagName("code")[0].getElementsByTagName("span")[1].remove() ;document.getElementsByTagName("code")[0].getElementsByTagName("span")[document.getElementsByTagName("code")[0].getElementsByTagName("span").length - 1].remove() ; </script>';
  die();
}

Result before:

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Result After:

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Now we don't have php starting and closing tag

How do I move a file (or folder) from one folder to another in TortoiseSVN?

As mentioned earlier, you'll create the add and delete commands. You can use svn move on both your working copy or the repository url. If you use your working copy, the changes won't be committed - you'll need to commit in a separate operation.

If you svn move a URL, you'll need to supply a --message, and the changes will be reflected in the repository immediately.

How do I do a bulk insert in mySQL using node.js

Few things I want to mention is that I'm using mysql package for making a connection with my database and what you saw below is working code and written for insert bulk query.

const values = [
  [1, 'DEBUG', 'Something went wrong. I have to debug this.'],
  [2, 'INFO', 'This just information to end user.'],
  [3, 'WARNING', 'Warning are really helping users.'],
  [4, 'SUCCESS', 'If everything works then your request is successful']
];

const query = "INSERT INTO logs(id, type, desc) VALUES ?";

const query = connection.query(query, [values], function(err, result) {
  if (err) {
    console.log('err', err)
  }

  console.log('result', result)
});

data type not understood

Try:

mmatrix = np.zeros((nrows, ncols))

Since the shape parameter has to be an int or sequence of ints

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.zeros.html

Otherwise you are passing ncols to np.zeros as the dtype.

Path of assets in CSS files in Symfony 2

I'll post what worked for me, thanks to @xavi-montero.

Put your CSS in your bundle's Resource/public/css directory, and your images in say Resource/public/img.

Change assetic paths to the form 'bundles/mybundle/css/*.css', in your layout.

In config.yml, add rule css_rewrite to assetic:

assetic:
    filters:
        cssrewrite:
            apply_to: "\.css$"

Now install assets and compile with assetic:

$ rm -r app/cache/* # just in case
$ php app/console assets:install --symlink
$ php app/console assetic:dump --env=prod

This is good enough for the development box, and --symlink is useful, so you don't have to reinstall your assets (for example, you add a new image) when you enter through app_dev.php.

For the production server, I just removed the '--symlink' option (in my deployment script), and added this command at the end:

$ rm -r web/bundles/*/css web/bundles/*/js # all this is already compiled, we don't need the originals

All is done. With this, you can use paths like this in your .css files: ../img/picture.jpeg

SQL (MySQL) vs NoSQL (CouchDB)

Here's a quote from a recent blog post from Dare Obasanjo.

SQL databases are like automatic transmission and NoSQL databases are like manual transmission. Once you switch to NoSQL, you become responsible for a lot of work that the system takes care of automatically in a relational database system. Similar to what happens when you pick manual over automatic transmission. Secondly, NoSQL allows you to eke more performance out of the system by eliminating a lot of integrity checks done by relational databases from the database tier. Again, this is similar to how you can get more performance out of your car by driving a manual transmission versus an automatic transmission vehicle.

However the most notable similarity is that just like most of us can’t really take advantage of the benefits of a manual transmission vehicle because the majority of our driving is sitting in traffic on the way to and from work, there is a similar harsh reality in that most sites aren’t at Google or Facebook’s scale and thus have no need for a Bigtable or Cassandra.

To which I can add only that switching from MySQL, where you have at least some experience, to CouchDB, where you have no experience, means you will have to deal with a whole new set of problems and learn different concepts and best practices. While by itself this is wonderful (I am playing at home with MongoDB and like it a lot), it will be a cost that you need to calculate when estimating the work for that project, and brings unknown risks while promising unknown benefits. It will be very hard to judge if you can do the project on time and with the quality you want/need to be successful, if it's based on a technology you don't know.

Now, if you have on the team an expert in the NoSQL field, then by all means take a good look at it. But without any expertise on the team, don't jump on NoSQL for a new commercial project.

Update: Just to throw some gasoline in the open fire you started, here are two interesting articles from people on the SQL camp. :-)

I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die (original article is gone, here's a copy)
Fighting The NoSQL Mindset, Though This Isn't an anti-NoSQL Piece
Update: Well here is an interesting article about NoSQL
Making Sense of NoSQL

How to list branches that contain a given commit?

You may run:

git log <SHA1>..HEAD --ancestry-path --merges

From comment of last commit in the output you may find original branch name

Example:

       c---e---g--- feature
      /         \
-a---b---d---f---h---j--- master

git log e..master --ancestry-path --merges

commit h
Merge: g f
Author: Eugen Konkov <>
Date:   Sat Oct 1 00:54:18 2016 +0300

    Merge branch 'feature' into master

Event when window.location.href changes

I use this script in my extension "Grab Any Media" and work fine ( like youtube case )

var oldHref = document.location.href;

window.onload = function() {

    var
         bodyList = document.querySelector("body")

        ,observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {

            mutations.forEach(function(mutation) {

                if (oldHref != document.location.href) {

                    oldHref = document.location.href;

                    /* Changed ! your code here */

                }

            });

        });

    var config = {
        childList: true,
        subtree: true
    };

    observer.observe(bodyList, config);

};

Different ways of clearing lists

Doing alist = [] does not clear the list, just creates an empty list and binds it to the variable alist. The old list will still exist if it had other variable bindings.

To actually clear a list in-place, you can use any of these ways:

  1. alist.clear() # Python 3.3+, most obvious
  2. del alist[:]
  3. alist[:] = []
  4. alist *= 0 # fastest

See the Mutable Sequence Types documentation page for more details.

How to export SQL Server 2005 query to CSV

You can use following Node.js module to do it with a breeze:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql-to-csv

How to get current page URL in MVC 3

public static string GetCurrentWebsiteRoot()
{
    return HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority);
}

Is it a good idea to index datetime field in mysql?

Here author performed tests showed that integer unix timestamp is better than DateTime. Note, he used MySql. But I feel no matter what DB engine you use comparing integers are slightly faster than comparing dates so int index is better than DateTime index. Take T1 - time of comparing 2 dates, T2 - time of comparing 2 integers. Search on indexed field takes approximately O(log(rows)) time because index based on some balanced tree - it may be different for different DB engines but anyway Log(rows) is common estimation. (if you not use bitmask or r-tree based index). So difference is (T2-T1)*Log(rows) - may play role if you perform your query oftenly.

Display a view from another controller in ASP.NET MVC

You can use:

return View("../Category/NotFound", model);

It was tested in ASP.NET MVC 3, but should also work in ASP.NET MVC 2.

When I run `npm install`, it returns with `ERR! code EINTEGRITY` (npm 5.3.0)

This Worked for me . open the project in CMD the run

npm cache verify 
npm install 
npm start

Storage permission error in Marshmallow

After lots of searching This code work for me:

Check the permission already has: Check WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission Allowed or not?

if(isReadStorageAllowed()){
            //If permission is already having then showing the toast
            //Toast.makeText(SplashActivity.this,"You already have the permission",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            //Existing the method with return
            return;
        }else{
            requestStoragePermission();
        }



private boolean isReadStorageAllowed() {
    //Getting the permission status
    int result = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE);

    //If permission is granted returning true
    if (result == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED)
        return true;

    //If permission is not granted returning false
    return false;
}

//Requesting permission
private void requestStoragePermission(){

    if (ActivityCompat.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(this, android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)){
        //If the user has denied the permission previously your code will come to this block
        //Here you can explain why you need this permission
        //Explain here why you need this permission
    }

    //And finally ask for the permission
    ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this,new String[]{android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE},REQUEST_WRITE_STORAGE);
}

Implement Override onRequestPermissionsResult method for checking is the user allow or denie

 @Override
 public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, @NonNull String[] permissions, @NonNull int[] grantResults) {
    //Checking the request code of our request
    if(requestCode == REQUEST_WRITE_STORAGE){

        //If permission is granted
        if(grantResults.length >0 && grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED){

            //Displaying a toast
            Toast.makeText(this,"Permission granted now you can read the storage",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        }else{
            //Displaying another toast if permission is not granted
            Toast.makeText(this,"Oops you just denied the permission",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }

"Insert if not exists" statement in SQLite

If you have a table called memos that has two columns id and text you should be able to do like this:

INSERT INTO memos(id,text) 
SELECT 5, 'text to insert' 
WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM memos WHERE id = 5 AND text = 'text to insert');

If a record already contains a row where text is equal to 'text to insert' and id is equal to 5, then the insert operation will be ignored.

I don't know if this will work for your particular query, but perhaps it give you a hint on how to proceed.

I would advice that you instead design your table so that no duplicates are allowed as explained in @CLs answer below.

Running Python in PowerShell?

Go to Python Website/dowloads/windows. Download Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file. 2. Open Windows Explorer

open zipped folder python-3.7.0 In the windows toolbar with the Red flair saying “Compressed Folder Tool” Press “Extract” button on the tool bar with “File” “Home “Share” “View” Select Extract all Extraction process is not covered yet Once extracted save onto SDD or fastest memory device. Not usb. HDD is fine. SDD Users/butte/ProgramFiles blah blah ooooor D:\Python Or Hook up to your cloud 3. Click your User Icon in the Windows tool bar.

Search environment variable Proceed with progressing with “Environment Variables” button press Under the “user variables” table select “New..” After the Canvas of Information Add Python in Variable Name Select the “D:\Python\python-3.7.0-embed-amd64\python.exe;” click ok Under the “System Variables” label and in the Canvas the first row has a value marked “Path” Select “Edit” when “Path” is highlighted. Select “New” Enter D:\Python\python-3.7.0-embed-amd click ok Ok Save and double check Open Power Shell python --help

python --version

Source to tutorial https://thedishbunnybitch.com/2018/08/11/installing-python-on-windows-10-for-powershell/

How do you convert a C++ string to an int?

Let me add my vote for boost::lexical_cast

#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>

int val = boost::lexical_cast<int>(strval) ;

It throws bad_lexical_cast on error.

ASP.Net which user account running Web Service on IIS 7?

You are most likely looking for the IIS_IUSRS account.

How to keep a git branch in sync with master

concept47's approach is the right way to do it, but I'd advise to merge with the --no-ff option in order to keep your commit history clear.

git checkout develop
git pull --rebase
git checkout NewFeatureBranch
git merge --no-ff master

Change a web.config programmatically with C# (.NET)

Since web.config file is xml file you can open web.config using xmldocument class. Get the node from that xml file that you want to update and then save xml file.

here is URL that explains in more detail how you can update web.config file programmatically.

http://patelshailesh.com/index.php/update-web-config-programmatically

Note: if you make any changes to web.config, ASP.NET detects that changes and it will reload your application(recycle application pool) and effect of that is data kept in Session, Application, and Cache will be lost (assuming session state is InProc and not using a state server or database).

Using grep to search for hex strings in a file

If you want search for printable strings, you can use:

strings -ao filename | grep string

strings will output all printable strings from a binary with offsets, and grep will search within.

If you want search for any binary string, here is your friend:

Change values on matplotlib imshow() graph axis

I had a similar problem and google was sending me to this post. My solution was a bit different and less compact, but hopefully this can be useful to someone.

Showing your image with matplotlib.pyplot.imshow is generally a fast way to display 2D data. However this by default labels the axes with the pixel count. If the 2D data you are plotting corresponds to some uniform grid defined by arrays x and y, then you can use matplotlib.pyplot.xticks and matplotlib.pyplot.yticks to label the x and y axes using the values in those arrays. These will associate some labels, corresponding to the actual grid data, to the pixel counts on the axes. And doing this is much faster than using something like pcolor for example.

Here is an attempt at this with your data:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# ... define 2D array hist as you did

plt.imshow(hist, cmap='Reds')
x = np.arange(80,122,2) # the grid to which your data corresponds
nx = x.shape[0]
no_labels = 7 # how many labels to see on axis x
step_x = int(nx / (no_labels - 1)) # step between consecutive labels
x_positions = np.arange(0,nx,step_x) # pixel count at label position
x_labels = x[::step_x] # labels you want to see
plt.xticks(x_positions, x_labels)
# in principle you can do the same for y, but it is not necessary in your case

Razor HtmlHelper Extensions (or other namespaces for views) Not Found

I had this same error in an MVC 4 application using Razor. In an attempt to clean up the web.config files, I removed the two webpages: configuration values:

<appSettings>
  <add key="webpages:Version" value="2.0.0.0" />
  <add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />

Once I restored these configuration values, the pages would compile correctly and the errors regarding the .Partial() extension method disappeared.

Cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication

If you do not have Administrator access to the MySQL Server configuration (i.e. you are using a hosting service), then there are 2 options to get this to work:

1) Request that the old_passwords option be set to false on the MySQL server

2) Downgrade PHP to 5.2.2 until option 1 occurs.

From what I've been able to find, the issue seems to be with how the MySQL account passwords are stored and if the 'old_passwords' setting is set to true. This causes a compatibility issue between MySQL and newer versions of PHP (5.3+) where PHP attempts to connect using a 41-character hash but the MySQL server is still storing account passwords using a 16-character hash.

This incompatibility was brought about by the changing of the hashing method used in MySQL 4.1 which allows for both short and long hash lengths (Scenario 2 on this page from the MySQL site: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/password-hashing.html) and the inclusion of the MySQL Native Driver in PHP 5.3 (backwards compatibility issue documented on bullet 7 of this page from the PHP documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php).

Run JavaScript in Visual Studio Code

There is no need to set the environment for running the code on javascript,python,etc in visual studio code what you have to do is just install the Code Runner Extension and then just select the part of the code you want to run and hit the run button present on the upper right corner.

How to change line color in EditText

Try the following way, it will convert the bottom line color of EditText, when used as a background property.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:left="@dimen/spacing_neg"
        android:right="@dimen/spacing_neg"
        android:top="@dimen/spacing_neg">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent" />
            <stroke
                android:width="@dimen/spacing_1"
                android:color="@android:color/black" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Changing PowerShell's default output encoding to UTF-8

To be short, use:

write-output "your text" | out-file -append -encoding utf8 "filename"

How to retrieve Jenkins build parameters using the Groovy API?

I've just got this working, so specifically, using the Groovy Postbuild plugin, you can do the following:

def paramText
def actionList = manager.build.getActions(hudson.model.ParametersAction)
if (actionList.size() != 0)
{
  def pA = actionList.get(0)
  paramText = pA.createVariableResolver(manager.build).resolve("MY_PARAM_NAME")
}

How do I generate a constructor from class fields using Visual Studio (and/or ReSharper)?

As of Visual Studio 2017, this looks to be a built-in feature. Hit Ctrl + . while your cursor is in the class body, and select "Generate Constructor" from the Quick Actions and Refactorings dropdown.

Given two directory trees, how can I find out which files differ by content?

To report differences between dirA and dirB, while also updating/syncing.

rsync -auv <dirA> <dirB>

What is the difference between WCF and WPF?

WCF = Windows Communication Foundation is used to build service-oriented applications. WPF = Windows Presentation Foundation is used to write platform-independent applications.

python pandas extract year from datetime: df['year'] = df['date'].year is not working

What worked for me was upgrading pandas to latest version:

From Command Line do:

conda update pandas

How to set Oracle's Java as the default Java in Ubuntu?

If you want to use specific version of Java when multiple JDKs are installed, just setting JAVA_HOME may not work.

You need to use sudo update-alternatives --config java to set default Java.

Refer to https://askubuntu.com/questions/121654/how-to-set-default-java-version.

Removing duplicates from rows based on specific columns in an RDD/Spark DataFrame

The below programme will help you drop duplicates on whole , or if you want to drop duplicates based on certain columns , you can even do that:

import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession

object DropDuplicates {
def main(args: Array[String]) {
val spark =
  SparkSession.builder()
    .appName("DataFrame-DropDuplicates")
    .master("local[4]")
    .getOrCreate()

import spark.implicits._

// create an RDD of tuples with some data
val custs = Seq(
  (1, "Widget Co", 120000.00, 0.00, "AZ"),
  (2, "Acme Widgets", 410500.00, 500.00, "CA"),
  (3, "Widgetry", 410500.00, 200.00, "CA"),
  (4, "Widgets R Us", 410500.00, 0.0, "CA"),
  (3, "Widgetry", 410500.00, 200.00, "CA"),
  (5, "Ye Olde Widgete", 500.00, 0.0, "MA"),
  (6, "Widget Co", 12000.00, 10.00, "AZ")
)
val customerRows = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(custs, 4)

// convert RDD of tuples to DataFrame by supplying column names
val customerDF = customerRows.toDF("id", "name", "sales", "discount", "state")

println("*** Here's the whole DataFrame with duplicates")

customerDF.printSchema()

customerDF.show()

// drop fully identical rows
val withoutDuplicates = customerDF.dropDuplicates()

println("*** Now without duplicates")

withoutDuplicates.show()

// drop fully identical rows
val withoutPartials = customerDF.dropDuplicates(Seq("name", "state"))

println("*** Now without partial duplicates too")

withoutPartials.show()

 }
 }

Visual Studio 6 Windows Common Controls 6.0 (sp6) Windows 7, 64 bit

I had the problem whereby VB6 IDE would not load the common controls (Sp6)with VB6 install on W7 64bit, specifically comctrl and msmask. I tried all the solutions proposed using regsrv32 (elevated), edited the registry, changing the version number in the vbp etc as proposed by MS and others. All failed. These solutions worked on my other 2 PCS but not this one. Eventually I removed IE11 and all worked properly afterwards. IE10 had never bene installed on thsi PC - we went straight from IE8 to IE11 and have been forced to backtrack to using IE8.

I have to say the simple solution above does not address the problem which is that the VB6 IDE will not load the common controls (using the Components menu selection under Project) - you get an error saying Object not loaded. So this will happen (and I proved this to myself) on any project, new or old that try to use theose common controls that will not load.

So my suggestion to anyone who has this problem is to try the manual register solution using regsrv32 route, then the edit the vbp to change the version, and if these fail uninstall IE11 (and defintely IE10). But this may still not be a 100% solution because if your existing project files ".vbp" contain references to the wrong common controls you need to correct that manually - this is where loading a new project, loading the Components you need inside the IDE, then edit the newly create vbp using notepad and copy the version numbers for the common controls to your existing vbp files.

Can someone provide an example of a $destroy event for scopes in AngularJS?

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/sunnycpp/u4vjR/2/

Here I have created handle-destroy directive.

ctrl.directive('handleDestroy', function() {
    return function(scope, tElement, attributes) {        
        scope.$on('$destroy', function() {
            alert("In destroy of:" + scope.todo.text);
        });
    };
});

Bootstrap modal z-index

The modal dialog can be positioned on top by overriding its z-index property:

.modal.fade {
  z-index: 10000000 !important;
}

Import file size limit in PHPMyAdmin

enter image description here

Open this file

edit these parameters:

  • memory_limit =128M
  • post_max_size = 64M
  • upload_max_filesize = 64M

"unable to locate adb" using Android Studio

if using avast go for virus chest,will find adb,restore it by clicking right button..thats all,perfectly works

How do I install a JRE or JDK to run the Android Developer Tools on Windows 7?

download jre1.7.0_45 and then extract it into the Eclipse folder and rename folder of jre1.7.0_45 to jre and Eclipse will run

Static variables in C++

Static variable in a header file:

say 'common.h' has

static int zzz;

This variable 'zzz' has internal linkage (This same variable can not be accessed in other translation units). Each translation unit which includes 'common.h' has it's own unique object of name 'zzz'.

Static variable in a class:

Static variable in a class is not a part of the subobject of the class. There is only one copy of a static data member shared by all the objects of the class.

$9.4.2/6 - "Static data members of a class in namespace scope have external linkage (3.5).A local class shall not have static data members."

So let's say 'myclass.h' has

struct myclass{
   static int zzz;        // this is only a declaration
};

and myclass.cpp has

#include "myclass.h"

int myclass::zzz = 0           // this is a definition, 
                               // should be done once and only once

and "hisclass.cpp" has

#include "myclass.h"

void f(){myclass::zzz = 2;}    // myclass::zzz is always the same in any 
                               // translation unit

and "ourclass.cpp" has

#include "myclass.h"
void g(){myclass::zzz = 2;}    // myclass::zzz is always the same in any 
                               // translation unit

So, class static members are not limited to only 2 translation units. They need to be defined only once in any one of the translation units.

Note: usage of 'static' to declare file scope variable is deprecated and unnamed namespace is a superior alternate

Java - checking if parseInt throws exception

You can use a scanner instead of try-catch:

Scanner scanner = new Scanner(line).useDelimiter("\n");
if(scanner.hasNextInt()){
    System.out.println("yes, it's an int");
}

Pycharm/Python OpenCV and CV2 install error

I rather use Virtualenv to install such packages rather than the entire system, saves time and effort rather than building from source.

I use virtualenvwrapper

Windows user can download

pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

https://pypi.org/project/virtualenvwrapper-win/

Linux follow

pip install opencv-python

opencv-python

If processing a video is required

pip install opencv-contrib-python

opencv-contrib-python

If you do not need GUI in Opencv

pip install opencv-contrib-python-headless

opencv-contrib-python-headless

Conditional Replace Pandas

np.where function works as follows:

df['X'] = np.where(df['Y']>=50, 'yes', 'no')

In your case you would want:

import numpy as np
df['my_channel'] = np.where(df.my_channel > 20000, 0, df.my_channel)

How to get city name from latitude and longitude coordinates in Google Maps?

try using this api :

URL ": http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng="+String.valueOf(yout_lattitude)+","+String.valueOf(your_longitude)

Get the selected option id with jQuery

Th easiest way to this is var id = $(this).val(); from inside an event like on change.

How to store file name in database, with other info while uploading image to server using PHP?

<form method="post" action="addMember.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <p>
              Please Enter the Band Members Name.
            </p>
            <p>
              Band Member or Affiliates Name:
            </p>
            <input type="text" name="nameMember"/>
            <p>
              Please Enter the Band Members Position. Example:Drums.
            </p>
            <p>
              Band Position:
            </p>
            <input type="text" name="bandMember"/>
            <p>
              Please Upload a Photo of the Member in gif or jpeg format. The file name should be named after the Members name. If the same file name is uploaded twice it will be overwritten! Maxium size of File is 35kb.
            </p>
            <p>
              Photo:
            </p>
            <input type="hidden" name="size" value="350000">
            <input type="file" name="photo"> 
            <p>
              Please Enter any other information about the band member here.
            </p>
            <p>
              Other Member Information:
            </p>
<textarea rows="10" cols="35" name="aboutMember">
</textarea>
            <p>
              Please Enter any other Bands the Member has been in.
            </p>
            <p>
              Other Bands:
            </p>
            <input type="text" name="otherBands" size=30 />
            <br/>
            <br/>
            <input TYPE="submit" name="upload" title="Add data to the Database" value="Add Member"/>
          </form>

save it as addMember.php

<?php

//This is the directory where images will be saved
$target = "your directory";
$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['photo']['name']);

//This gets all the other information from the form
$name=$_POST['nameMember'];
$bandMember=$_POST['bandMember'];
$pic=($_FILES['photo']['name']);
$about=$_POST['aboutMember'];
$bands=$_POST['otherBands'];


// Connects to your Database
mysql_connect("yourhost", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error()) ;
mysql_select_db("dbName") or die(mysql_error()) ;

//Writes the information to the database
mysql_query("INSERT INTO tableName (nameMember,bandMember,photo,aboutMember,otherBands)
VALUES ('$name', '$bandMember', '$pic', '$about', '$bands')") ;

//Writes the photo to the server
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target))
{

//Tells you if its all ok
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['photo']['name']). " has been uploaded, and your information has been added to the directory";
}
else {

//Gives and error if its not
echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.";
}
?>

in the above code one little bug ,i fixed that bug.

How to concatenate strings in windows batch file for loop?

In batch you could do it like this:

@echo off

setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

set "string_list=str1 str2 str3 ... str10"

for %%s in (%string_list%) do (
  set "var=%%sxyz"
  svn co "!var!"
)

If you don't need the variable !var! elsewhere in the loop, you could simplify that to

@echo off

setlocal

set "string_list=str1 str2 str3 ... str10"

for %%s in (%string_list%) do svn co "%%sxyz"

However, like C.B. I'd prefer PowerShell if at all possible:

$string_list = 'str1', 'str2', 'str3', ... 'str10'

$string_list | ForEach-Object {
  $var = "${_}xyz"   # alternatively: $var = $_ + 'xyz'
  svn co $var
}

Again, this could be simplified if you don't need $var elsewhere in the loop:

$string_list = 'str1', 'str2', 'str3', ... 'str10'
$string_list | ForEach-Object { svn co "${_}xyz" }

How do I convert an object to an array?

Careful:

$array = (array) $object;

does a shallow conversion ($object->innerObject = new stdClass() remains an object) and converting back and forth using json works but it's not a good idea if performance is an issue.

If you need all objects to be converted to associative arrays here is a better way to do that (code ripped from I don't remember where):

function toArray($obj)
{
    if (is_object($obj)) $obj = (array)$obj;
    if (is_array($obj)) {
        $new = array();
        foreach ($obj as $key => $val) {
            $new[$key] = toArray($val);
        }
    } else {
        $new = $obj;
    }

    return $new;
}

Center Div inside another (100% width) div

The below style to the inner div will center it.

margin: 0 auto;

Create a dictionary with list comprehension

Just to throw in another example. Imagine you have the following list:

nums = [4,2,2,1,3]

and you want to turn it into a dict where the key is the index and value is the element in the list. You can do so with the following line of code:

{index:nums[index] for index in range(0,len(nums))}

How to place div in top right hand corner of page

the style is:

<style type="text/css">
 .topcorner{
   position:absolute;
   top:0;
   right:0;
  }
</style>

hope it will work. Thanks

java.sql.SQLException: Missing IN or OUT parameter at index:: 1

In your INSERT statements:

INSERT INTO employee(hans,germany) values(?,?)

You've got your values where your field names belong. Change it to be:

INSERT INTO employee(emp_name,emp_address) values(?,?)

If you were to run that statement from a SQL prompt, it would look like this:

INSERT INTO employee(emp_name,emp_address) values('hans','germany');

Note that you'd need to put single quotes around the string/varchar values.

Additionally, you are also not adding any parameters to your prepared statement. That is what's actually causing the error you're seeing. Try this:

PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(inserting); 
ps.setString(1, "hans");
ps.setString(2, "germany");
ps.execute();

Also (according to Oracle), you can use "execute" for any SQL statement. Using "executeUpdate" would also be valid in this situation, which would return an integer to indicate the number of rows affected.

How to change an Eclipse default project into a Java project

  1. Right click on project
  2. Configure -> 'Convert to Faceted Form'
  3. You will get a popup, Select 'Java' in 'Project Facet' column.
  4. Press Apply and Ok.

Convert array of integers to comma-separated string

var result = string.Join(",", arr);

This uses the following overload of string.Join:

public static string Join<T>(string separator, IEnumerable<T> values);

Adding values to a C# array

Answers on how to do it using an array are provided here.

However, C# has a very handy thing called System.Collections :)

Collections are fancy alternatives to using an array, though many of them use an array internally.

For example, C# has a collection called List that functions very similar to the PHP array.

using System.Collections.Generic;

// Create a List, and it can only contain integers.
List<int> list = new List<int>();

for (int i = 0; i < 400; i++)
{
   list.Add(i);
}

Turning a Comma Separated string into individual rows

DECLARE @id_list VARCHAR(MAX) = '1234,23,56,576,1231,567,122,87876,57553,1216'
DECLARE @table TABLE ( id VARCHAR(50) )
DECLARE @x INT = 0
DECLARE @firstcomma INT = 0
DECLARE @nextcomma INT = 0

SET @x = LEN(@id_list) - LEN(REPLACE(@id_list, ',', '')) + 1 -- number of ids in id_list

WHILE @x > 0
    BEGIN
        SET @nextcomma = CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(',', @id_list, @firstcomma + 1) = 0
                              THEN LEN(@id_list) + 1
                              ELSE CHARINDEX(',', @id_list, @firstcomma + 1)
                         END
        INSERT  INTO @table
        VALUES  ( SUBSTRING(@id_list, @firstcomma + 1, (@nextcomma - @firstcomma) - 1) )
        SET @firstcomma = CHARINDEX(',', @id_list, @firstcomma + 1)
        SET @x = @x - 1
    END

SELECT  *
FROM    @table

Add resources, config files to your jar using gradle

Be aware that the path under src/main/resources must match the package path of your .class files wishing to access the resource. See my answer here.

socket.error:[errno 99] cannot assign requested address and namespace in python

when you bind localhost or 127.0.0.1, it means you can only connect to your service from local.

you cannot bind 10.0.0.1 because it not belong to you, you can only bind ip owned by your computer

you can bind 0.0.0.0 because it means all ip on your computer, so any ip can connect to your service if they can connect to any of your ip

Heroku "psql: FATAL: remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections"

See Heroku “psql: FATAL: remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections”:

Heroku sometimes has a problem with database load balancing.

André Laszlo, markshiz and me all reported dealing with that in comments on the question.

To save you the support call, here's the response I got from Heroku Support for a similar issue:

Hello,

One of the limitations of the hobby tier databases is unannounced maintenance. Many hobby databases run on a single shared server, and we will occasionally need to restart that server for hardware maintenance purposes, or migrate databases to another server for load balancing. When that happens, you'll see an error in your logs or have problems connecting. If the server is restarting, it might take 15 minutes or more for the database to come back online.

Most apps that maintain a connection pool (like ActiveRecord in Rails) can just open a new connection to the database. However, in some cases an app won't be able to reconnect. If that happens, you can heroku restart your app to bring it back online.

This is one of the reasons we recommend against running hobby databases for critical production applications. Standard and Premium databases include notifications for downtime events, and are much more performant and stable in general. You can use pg:copy to migrate to a standard or premium plan.

If this continues, you can try provisioning a new database (on a different server) with heroku addons:add, then use pg:copy to move the data. Keep in mind that hobby tier rules apply to the $9 basic plan as well as the free database.

Thanks, Bradley

Android/Eclipse: how can I add an image in the res/drawable folder?

When inserting an image into the drawable folders, another import point in addition to the "no capital letters" rule is that the image name cannot contain dashes or other special characters.

Double.TryParse or Convert.ToDouble - which is faster and safer?

To start with, I'd use double.Parse rather than Convert.ToDouble in the first place.

As to whether you should use Parse or TryParse: can you proceed if there's bad input data, or is that a really exceptional condition? If it's exceptional, use Parse and let it blow up if the input is bad. If it's expected and can be cleanly handled, use TryParse.

jQuery UI Sortable, then write order into a database

Thought this might help as well. A) it was designed to keep payload to its minimum while sending back to server, after each sort. (instead of sending all elements each time or iterating through many elements that server might chuck out) B) I needed to send back custom id without compromising the id / name of the element. This code will get the list from asp.net server and then upon sorting only 2 values will be sent back: The db id of sorted element and db id of the element next to which it was dropped. Based on those 2 values, server can easily identify the new postion.

<div id="planlist" style="width:1000px">
    <ul style="width:1000px">
       <li plid="listId1"><a href="#pl-1">List 1</a></li>
       <li plid="listId2"><a href="#pl-2">List 1</a></li>
       <li plid="listId3"><a href="#pl-3">List 1</a></li>
       <li plid="listId4"><a href="#pl-4">List 1</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div id="pl-1"></div>
    <div id="pl-2"></div>
    <div id="pl-3"></div>
    <div id="pl-4"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    $(function () {
        var tabs = $("#planlist").tabs();
        tabs.find(".ui-tabs-nav").sortable({
            axis: "x",
            stop: function () {
                tabs.tabs("refresh");
            },
            update: function (event, ui) {
                //db id of the item sorted
                alert(ui.item.attr('plid'));
                //db id of the item next to which the dragged item was dropped
                alert(ui.item.prev().attr('plid'));

                //make ajax call
            }
        });
    });
</script>

How do you create a hidden div that doesn't create a line break or horizontal space?

Show / hide by mouse click:

<script language="javascript">

    function toggle() {

        var ele = document.getElementById("toggleText");
        var text = document.getElementById("displayText");

        if (ele.style.display == "block") {

            ele.style.display = "none";
            text.innerHTML = "show";
        }
        else {

            ele.style.display = "block";
            text.innerHTML = "hide";
        }
    }
</script>

<a id="displayText" href="javascript:toggle();">show</a> <== click Here

<div id="toggleText" style="display: none"><h1>peek-a-boo</h1></div>

Source: Here

Toggle show/hide on click with jQuery

You can use .toggle() function instead of .click()....

HTML5 phone number validation with pattern

This code will accept all country code with + sign

<input type="text" pattern="[0-9]{5}[-][0-9]{7}[-][0-9]{1}"/>

Some countries allow a single "0" character instead of "+" and others a double "0" character instead of the "+". Neither are standard.

TypeScript: casting HTMLElement

Just to clarify, this is correct.

Cannot convert 'NodeList' to 'HTMLScriptElement[]'

as a NodeList is not an actual array (e.g. it doesn't contain .forEach, .slice, .push, etc...).

Thus if it did convert to HTMLScriptElement[] in the type system, you'd get no type errors if you tried to call Array.prototype members on it at compile time, but it would fail at run time.

Delete all rows in table

Truncate table is faster than delete * from XXX. Delete is slow because it works one row at a time. There are a few situations where truncate doesn't work, which you can read about on MSDN.

select into in mysql

In MySQL, It should be like this

INSERT INTO this_table_archive (col1, col2, ..., coln)
SELECT col1, col2, ..., coln
FROM this_table
WHERE entry_date < '2011-01-01 00:00:00';

MySQL Documentation

Git checkout - switching back to HEAD

You can stash (save the changes in temporary box) then, back to master branch HEAD.

$ git add .
$ git stash
$ git checkout master

Jump Over Commits Back and Forth:

  • Go to a specific commit-sha.

      $ git checkout <commit-sha>
    
  • If you have uncommitted changes here then, you can checkout to a new branch | Add | Commit | Push the current branch to the remote.

      # checkout a new branch, add, commit, push
      $ git checkout -b <branch-name>
      $ git add .
      $ git commit -m 'Commit message'
      $ git push origin HEAD          # push the current branch to remote 
    
      $ git checkout master           # back to master branch now
    
  • If you have changes in the specific commit and don't want to keep the changes, you can do stash or reset then checkout to master (or, any other branch).

      # stash
      $ git add -A
      $ git stash
      $ git checkout master
    
      # reset
      $ git reset --hard HEAD
      $ git checkout master
    
  • After checking out a specific commit if you have no uncommitted change(s) then, just back to master or other branch.

      $ git status          # see the changes
      $ git checkout master
    
      # or, shortcut
      $ git checkout -      # back to the previous state
    

Why does flexbox stretch my image rather than retaining aspect ratio?

It is stretching because align-self default value is stretch. Set align-self to center.

align-self: center;

See documentation here: align-self

How to comment/uncomment in HTML code

Depending on your editor, this should be a fairly easy macro to write.

  • Go to beginning of line or highlighted area
  • Insert <!--
  • Go to end of line or highlighted area
  • Insert -->

Another macro to reverse these steps, and you are done.

Edit: this simplistic approach does not handle nested comment tags, but should make the commenting/uncommenting easier in the general case.

Is it possible to validate the size and type of input=file in html5

I could do this (demo):

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <form >
        <input type="file" id="f" data-max-size="32154" />
        <input type="submit" />
    </form>
<script>
$(function(){
    $('form').submit(function(){
        var isOk = true;
        $('input[type=file][data-max-size]').each(function(){
            if(typeof this.files[0] !== 'undefined'){
                var maxSize = parseInt($(this).attr('max-size'),10),
                size = this.files[0].size;
                isOk = maxSize > size;
                return isOk;
            }
        });
        return isOk;
    });
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

URL Encode a string in jQuery for an AJAX request

Better way:

encodeURIComponent escapes all characters except the following: alphabetic, decimal digits, - _ . ! ~ * ' ( )

To avoid unexpected requests to the server, you should call encodeURIComponent on any user-entered parameters that will be passed as part of a URI. For example, a user could type "Thyme &time=again" for a variable comment. Not using encodeURIComponent on this variable will give comment=Thyme%20&time=again. Note that the ampersand and the equal sign mark a new key and value pair. So instead of having a POST comment key equal to "Thyme &time=again", you have two POST keys, one equal to "Thyme " and another (time) equal to again.

For application/x-www-form-urlencoded (POST), per http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interac...m-content-type, spaces are to be replaced by '+', so one may wish to follow a encodeURIComponent replacement with an additional replacement of "%20" with "+".

If one wishes to be more stringent in adhering to RFC 3986 (which reserves !, ', (, ), and *), even though these characters have no formalized URI delimiting uses, the following can be safely used:

function fixedEncodeURIComponent (str) {
  return encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/[!'()]/g, escape).replace(/\*/g, "%2A");
}

How to save a list to a file and read it as a list type?

If you want you can use numpy's save function to save the list as file. Say you have two lists

sampleList1=['z','x','a','b']
sampleList2=[[1,2],[4,5]]

here's the function to save the list as file, remember you need to keep the extension .npy

def saveList(myList,filename):
    # the filename should mention the extension 'npy'
    np.save(filename,myList)
    print("Saved successfully!")

and here's the function to load the file into a list

def loadList(filename):
    # the filename should mention the extension 'npy'
    tempNumpyArray=np.load(filename)
    return tempNumpyArray.tolist()

a working example

>>> saveList(sampleList1,'sampleList1.npy')
>>> Saved successfully!
>>> saveList(sampleList2,'sampleList2.npy')
>>> Saved successfully!

# loading the list now 
>>> loadedList1=loadList('sampleList1.npy')
>>> loadedList2=loadList('sampleList2.npy')

>>> loadedList1==sampleList1
>>> True

>>> print(loadedList1,sampleList1)

>>> ['z', 'x', 'a', 'b'] ['z', 'x', 'a', 'b']

Converting HTML to PDF using PHP?

If you wish to create a pdf from php, pdflib will help you (as some others suggested).

Else, if you want to convert an HTML page to PDF via PHP, you'll find a little trouble outta here.. For 3 years I've been trying to do it as best as I can.

So, the options I know are:

DOMPDF : php class that wraps the html and builds the pdf. Works good, customizable (if you know php), based on pdflib, if I remember right it takes even some CSS. Bad news: slow when the html is big or complex.

HTML2PS: same as DOMPDF, but this one converts first to a .ps (ghostscript) file, then, to whatever format you need (pdf, jpg, png). For me is little better than dompdf, but has the same speed problem.. but, better compatibility with CSS.

Those two are php classes, but if you can install some software on the server, and access it throught passthru() or system(), give a look to these too:

wkhtmltopdf: based on webkit (safari's wrapper), is really fast and powerful.. seems like this is the best one (atm) for converting html pages to pdf on the fly; taking only 2 seconds for a 3 page xHTML document with CSS2. It is a recent project, anyway, the google.code page is often updated.

htmldoc : This one is a tank, it never really stops/crashes.. the project looks dead since 2007, but anyway if you don't need CSS compatibility this can be nice for you.

How to make a view with rounded corners?

Another approach is to make a custom layout class like the one below. This layout first draws its contents to an offscreen bitmap, masks the offscreen bitmap with a rounded rect and then draws the offscreen bitmap on the actual canvas.

I tried it and it seems to work (at least for my simple testcase). It will of course affect performance compared to a regular layout.

package com.example;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.*;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.widget.FrameLayout;

public class RoundedCornerLayout extends FrameLayout {
    private final static float CORNER_RADIUS = 40.0f;

    private Bitmap maskBitmap;
    private Paint paint, maskPaint;
    private float cornerRadius;

    public RoundedCornerLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init(context, null, 0);
    }

    public RoundedCornerLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init(context, attrs, 0);
    }

    public RoundedCornerLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    private void init(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        DisplayMetrics metrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        cornerRadius = TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, CORNER_RADIUS, metrics);

        paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);

        maskPaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG | Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG);
        maskPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));

        setWillNotDraw(false);
    }

    @Override
    public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
        Bitmap offscreenBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas offscreenCanvas = new Canvas(offscreenBitmap);

        super.draw(offscreenCanvas);

        if (maskBitmap == null) {
            maskBitmap = createMask(canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());
        }

        offscreenCanvas.drawBitmap(maskBitmap, 0f, 0f, maskPaint);
        canvas.drawBitmap(offscreenBitmap, 0f, 0f, paint);
    }

    private Bitmap createMask(int width, int height) {
        Bitmap mask = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Bitmap.Config.ALPHA_8);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(mask);

        Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
        paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);

        canvas.drawRect(0, 0, width, height, paint);

        paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));
        canvas.drawRoundRect(new RectF(0, 0, width, height), cornerRadius, cornerRadius, paint);

        return mask;
    }
}

Use this like a normal layout:

<com.example.RoundedCornerLayout
    android:layout_width="200dp"
    android:layout_height="200dp">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:src="@drawable/test"/>

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:background="#ff0000"
        />

</com.example.RoundedCornerLayout>

How to load npm modules in AWS Lambda?

You can now use Lambda Layers for this matters. Simply add a layer containing the package you need and it will run perfectly.

Follow this post: https://medium.com/@anjanava.biswas/nodejs-runtime-environment-with-aws-lambda-layers-f3914613e20e

How to make an element width: 100% minus padding?

For me, using margin:15px;padding:10px 0 15px 23px;width:100%, the result was this:

enter image description here

The solution for me was to use width:auto instead of width:100%. My new code was:

margin:15px;padding:10px 0 15px 23px;width:auto. Then the element aligned properly:

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How do I vertically center text with CSS?

I would just like to extend the answer from Michielvoo in order to release need for line-height and breathing of div height. It is basically just a simplified version like this:

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  width: 250px;_x000D_
  /* height: 100px;_x000D_
  line-height: 100px; */_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
  border: 1px solid #123456;_x000D_
  background-color: #bbbbff;_x000D_
  padding: 10px;_x000D_
  margin: 10px;_x000D_
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span {_x000D_
  display: inline-block;_x000D_
  vertical-align: middle;_x000D_
  line-height: normal;_x000D_
}
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  <span>All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it</span>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
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  <span>And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.</span>_x000D_
</div>
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NOTE: commented out part of cssis needed for fixed-height of enclosing div.

What is Options +FollowSymLinks?

Parameter Options FollowSymLinks enables you to have a symlink in your webroot pointing to some other file/dir. With this disabled, Apache will refuse to follow such symlink. More secure Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch can be used instead - this will allow you to link only to other files which you do own.

If you use Options directive in .htaccess with parameter which has been forbidden in main Apache config, server will return HTTP 500 error code.

Allowed .htaccess options are defined by directive AllowOverride in the main Apache config file. To allow symlinks, this directive need to be set to All or Options.

Besides allowing use of symlinks, this directive is also needed to enable mod_rewrite in .htaccess context. But for this, also the more secure SymLinksIfOwnerMatch option can be used.

Retrieve the position (X,Y) of an HTML element relative to the browser window

I did it like this so it was cross-compatible with old browsers.

// For really old browser's or incompatible ones
    function getOffsetSum(elem) {
        var top = 0,
            left = 0,
            bottom = 0,
            right = 0

         var width = elem.offsetWidth;
         var height = elem.offsetHeight;

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

         right = left + width;
         bottom = top + height;

        return {
            top: top,
            left: left,
            bottom: bottom,
            right: right,
        }
    }

    function getOffsetRect(elem) {
        var box = elem.getBoundingClientRect();

        var body = document.body;
        var docElem = document.documentElement;

        var scrollTop = window.pageYOffset || docElem.scrollTop || body.scrollTop;
        var scrollLeft = window.pageXOffset || docElem.scrollLeft || body.scrollLeft;

        var clientTop = docElem.clientTop;
        var clientLeft = docElem.clientLeft;


        var top = box.top + scrollTop - clientTop;
        var left = box.left + scrollLeft - clientLeft;
        var bottom = top + (box.bottom - box.top);
        var right = left + (box.right - box.left);

        return {
            top: Math.round(top),
            left: Math.round(left),
            bottom: Math.round(bottom),
            right: Math.round(right),
        }
    }

    function getOffset(elem) {
        if (elem) {
            if (elem.getBoundingClientRect) {
                return getOffsetRect(elem);
            } else { // old browser
                return getOffsetSum(elem);
            }
        } else
            return null;
    }

More about coordinates in JavaScript here: http://javascript.info/tutorial/coordinates

Format output string, right alignment

It can be achieved by using rjust:

line_new = word[0].rjust(10) + word[1].rjust(10) + word[2].rjust(10)

What is "string[] args" in Main class for?

You must have seen some application that run from the commandline and let you to pass them arguments. If you write one such app in C#, the array args serves as the collection of the said arguments.

This how you process them:

static void Main(string[] args) {
    foreach (string arg in args) {
       //Do something with each argument
    }
}

Append TimeStamp to a File Name

I prefer to use:

string result = "myFile_" + DateTime.Now.ToFileTime() + ".txt";

What does ToFileTime() do?

Converts the value of the current DateTime object to a Windows file time.

public long ToFileTime()

A Windows file time is a 64-bit value that represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since 12:00 midnight, January 1, 1601 A.D. (C.E.) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Windows uses a file time to record when an application creates, accesses, or writes to a file.

Source: MSDN documentation - DateTime.ToFileTime Method

C++ program converts fahrenheit to celsius

Fahrenheit to celsius would be (Fahrenheit - 32) * 5 / 9

What is (functional) reactive programming?

Acts like a spreadsheet as noted. Usually based on an event driven framework.

As with all "paradigms", it's newness is debatable.

From my experience of distributed flow networks of actors, it can easily fall prey to a general problem of state consistency across the network of nodes i.e. you end up with a lot of oscillation and trapping in strange loops.

This is hard to avoid as some semantics imply referential loops or broadcasting, and can be quite chaotic as the network of actors converges (or not) on some unpredictable state.

Similarly, some states may not be reached, despite having well-defined edges, because the global state steers away from the solution. 2+2 may or may not get to be 4 depending on when the 2's became 2, and whether they stayed that way. Spreadsheets have synchronous clocks and loop detection. Distributed actors generally don't.

All good fun :).

did you specify the right host or port? error on Kubernetes

This errors means that kubectl is attempting to connect to a Kubernetes apiserver running on your local machine, which is the default if you haven't configured it to talk to a remote apiserver.

count distinct values in spreadsheet

This is similar to Solution 1 from @JSuar...

Assume your original city data is a named range called dataCity. In a new sheet, enter the following:

    A                 | B
  ----------------------------------------------------------
1 | =UNIQUE(dataCity) | Count
2 |                   | =DCOUNTA(dataCity,"City",{"City";$A2})
3 |                   | [copy down the formula above]
4 |                   | ...
5 |                   | ...

How to initialize an array in Kotlin with values?

Worth mentioning that when using kotlin builtines (e.g. intArrayOf(), longArrayOf(), arrayOf(), etc) you are not able to initialize the array with default values (or all values to desired value) for a given size, instead you need to do initialize via calling according to class constructor.

// Array of integers of a size of N
val arr = IntArray(N)

// Array of integers of a size of N initialized with a default value of 2
val arr = IntArray(N) { i -> 2 }

What does the function then() mean in JavaScript?

In this case then() is a class method of the object returned by doSome() method.

Unable to connect to any of the specified mysql hosts. C# MySQL

use SqlConnectionStringBuilder to simplify the connection

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionStringBuilder builder = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionStringBuilder();
builder["Initial Catalog"] = "Server";
builder["Data Source"] = "db";
builder["integrated Security"] = true;
string connexionString = builder.ConnectionString;
SqlConnection connexion = new SqlConnection(connexionString);
try { connexion.Open(); return true; }
catch { return false; }

TypeError: tuple indices must be integers, not str

Like the error says, row is a tuple, so you can't do row["pool_number"]. You need to use the index: row[0].

target input by type and name (selector)

You can combine attribute selectors this way:

$("[attr1=val][attr2=val]")...

so that an element has to satisfy both conditions. Of course you can use this for more than two. Also, don't do [type=checkbox]. jQuery has a selector for that, namely :checkbox so the end result is:

$("input:checkbox[name=ProductCode]")...

Attribute selectors are slow however so the recommended approach is to use ID and class selectors where possible. You could change your markup to:

<input type="checkbox" class="ProductCode" name="ProductCode"value="396P4"> 
<input type="checkbox" class="ProductCode" name="ProductCode"value="401P4"> 
<input type="checkbox" class="ProductCode" name="ProductCode"value="F460129">

allowing you to use the much faster selector of:

$("input.ProductCode")...

How to make a TextBox accept only alphabetic characters?

This solution uses regular expressions, does not allow invalid characters to be pasted into the text box and maintains the cursor position.

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

int CursorWas;
string WhatItWas;

private void textBox1_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        WhatItWas = textBox1.Text;
    }

private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (Regex.IsMatch(textBox1.Text, "^[a-zA-Z ]*$"))
        {
            WhatItWas = textBox1.Text;
        }
        else
        {
            CursorWas = textBox1.SelectionStart == 0 ? 0 : textBox1.SelectionStart - 1;
            textBox1.Text = WhatItWas;
            textBox1.SelectionStart = CursorWas;
        }
    }

Note: textBox1_TextChanged recursive call.

jQuery - Sticky header that shrinks when scrolling down

This should be what you are looking for using jQuery.

$(function(){
  $('#header_nav').data('size','big');
});

$(window).scroll(function(){
  if($(document).scrollTop() > 0)
{
    if($('#header_nav').data('size') == 'big')
    {
        $('#header_nav').data('size','small');
        $('#header_nav').stop().animate({
            height:'40px'
        },600);
    }
}
else
  {
    if($('#header_nav').data('size') == 'small')
      {
        $('#header_nav').data('size','big');
        $('#header_nav').stop().animate({
            height:'100px'
        },600);
      }  
  }
});

Demonstration: http://jsfiddle.net/jezzipin/JJ8Jc/

mysqli::query(): Couldn't fetch mysqli

I had the same problem. I changed the localhost parameter in the mysqli object to '127.0.0.1' instead of writing 'localhost'. It worked; I’m not sure how or why.

$db_connection = new mysqli("127.0.0.1","root","","db_name");

Hope it helps.

Angular 2 Scroll to top on Route Change

If you are loading different components with the same route then you can use ViewportScroller to achieve the same thing.

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

constructor(private viewportScroller: ViewportScroller) {}

this.viewportScroller.scrollToPosition([0, 0]);

Reliable way for a Bash script to get the full path to itself

Get the absolute path of a shell script

It does not use the -f option in readlink, and it should therefore work on BSD/Mac OS X.

Supports

  • source ./script (When called by the . dot operator)
  • Absolute path /path/to/script
  • Relative path like ./script
  • /path/dir1/../dir2/dir3/../script
  • When called from symlink
  • When symlink is nested eg) foo->dir1/dir2/bar bar->./../doe doe->script
  • When caller changes the scripts name

I am looking for corner cases where this code does not work. Please let me know.

Code

pushd . > /dev/null
SCRIPT_PATH="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}";
while([ -h "${SCRIPT_PATH}" ]); do
    cd "`dirname "${SCRIPT_PATH}"`"
    SCRIPT_PATH="$(readlink "`basename "${SCRIPT_PATH}"`")";
done
cd "`dirname "${SCRIPT_PATH}"`" > /dev/null
SCRIPT_PATH="`pwd`";
popd  > /dev/null
echo "srcipt=[${SCRIPT_PATH}]"
echo "pwd   =[`pwd`]"

Known issus

The script must be on disk somewhere. Let it be over a network. If you try to run this script from a PIPE it will not work

wget -o /dev/null -O - http://host.domain/dir/script.sh |bash

Technically speaking, it is undefined. Practically speaking, there is no sane way to detect this. (A co-process can not access the environment of the parent.)