Programs & Examples On #Scale

The scale tag is mostly used for questions that relate to proportional resizing of images or UI elements. It is also used for questions related to function scale() in R language.

simple Jquery hover enlarge

To create simple hover enlarge plugin, try this. (DEMO)

HTML

     <div id="content">
     <img src="http://www.freevectorgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Vintage-Microphone- 11395-large.jpg" style="width:50%;" />
     </div>

js

        $(function () {
          $('#content img').hover(function () {
          $(this).toggle(function () {
          $(this).width('70%');
                   });
              });
         });

Scale the contents of a div by a percentage?

This cross-browser lib seems safer - just zoom and moz-transform won't cover as many browsers as jquery.transform2d's scale().

http://louisremi.github.io/jquery.transform.js/

For example

$('#div').css({ transform: 'scale(.5)' });

Update

OK - I see people are voting this down without an explanation. The other answer here won't work in old Safari (people running Tiger), and it won't work consistently in some older browsers - that is, it does scale things but it does so in a way that's either very pixellated or shifts the position of the element in a way that doesn't match other browsers.

http://www.browsersupport.net/CSS/zoom

Or just look at this question, which this one is likely just a dupe of:

complete styles for cross browser CSS zoom

Understanding `scale` in R

This is a late addition but I was looking for information on the scale function myself and though it might help somebody else as well.

To modify the response from Ricardo Saporta a little bit.
Scaling is not done using standard deviation, at least not in version 3.6.1 of R, I base this on "Becker, R. (2018). The new S language. CRC Press." and my own experimentation.

X.man.scaled <- X/sqrt(sum(X^2)/(length(X)-1))
X.aut.scaled <- scale(X, center = F)

The result of these rows are exactly the same, I show it without centering because of simplicity.

I would respond in a comment but did not have enough reputation.

Fit image into ImageView, keep aspect ratio and then resize ImageView to image dimensions?

Edited Jarno Argillanders answer:

How to fit Image with your Width and Height:

1) Initialize ImageView and set Image:

iv = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.iv_image);
iv.setImageBitmap(image);

2) Now resize:

scaleImage(iv);

Edited scaleImage method: (you can replace EXPECTED bounding values)

private void scaleImage(ImageView view) {
    Drawable drawing = view.getDrawable();
    if (drawing == null) {
        return;
    }
    Bitmap bitmap = ((BitmapDrawable) drawing).getBitmap();

    int width = bitmap.getWidth();
    int height = bitmap.getHeight();
    int xBounding = ((View) view.getParent()).getWidth();//EXPECTED WIDTH
    int yBounding = ((View) view.getParent()).getHeight();//EXPECTED HEIGHT

    float xScale = ((float) xBounding) / width;
    float yScale = ((float) yBounding) / height;

    Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
    matrix.postScale(xScale, yScale);

    Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, width, height, matrix, true);
    width = scaledBitmap.getWidth();
    height = scaledBitmap.getHeight();
    BitmapDrawable result = new BitmapDrawable(context.getResources(), scaledBitmap);

    view.setImageDrawable(result);

    LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams(); 
    params.width = width;
    params.height = height;
    view.setLayoutParams(params);
}

And .xml:

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/iv_image"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />

Auto Scale TextView Text to Fit within Bounds

At google IO conference in 2017, google introduced autoSize property of TextView

https://youtu.be/fjUdJ2aVqE4

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="@string/my_text"
        app:autoSizeTextType="uniform"
        app:autoSizeMaxTextSize="10sp"
        app:autoSizeMinTextSize="6sp"
        app:autoSizeStepGranularity="1sp"/>

Adjusting the Xcode iPhone simulator scale and size

However iOS Simulator->HardWare->Device menu.

How to scale Docker containers in production

One option not mentioned in other posts is Helios. It is built by spotify and does not try to do too much.

https://github.com/spotify/helios

How to capture UIView to UIImage without loss of quality on retina display

Switch from use of UIGraphicsBeginImageContext to UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions (as documented on this page). Pass 0.0 for scale (the third argument) and you'll get a context with a scale factor equal to that of the screen.

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext uses a fixed scale factor of 1.0, so you're actually getting exactly the same image on an iPhone 4 as on the other iPhones. I'll bet either the iPhone 4 is applying a filter when you implicitly scale it up or just your brain is picking up on it being less sharp than everything around it.

So, I guess:

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

+ (UIImage *)imageWithView:(UIView *)view
{
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.bounds.size, view.opaque, 0.0);
    [view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];

    UIImage * img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return img;
}

And in Swift 4:

func image(with view: UIView) -> UIImage? {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.bounds.size, view.isOpaque, 0.0)
    defer { UIGraphicsEndImageContext() }
    if let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() {
        view.layer.render(in: context)
        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        return image
    }
    return nil
}

Plot logarithmic axes with matplotlib in python

First of all, it's not very tidy to mix pylab and pyplot code. What's more, pyplot style is preferred over using pylab.

Here is a slightly cleaned up code, using only pyplot functions:

from matplotlib import pyplot

a = [ pow(10,i) for i in range(10) ]

pyplot.subplot(2,1,1)
pyplot.plot(a, color='blue', lw=2)
pyplot.yscale('log')
pyplot.show()

The relevant function is pyplot.yscale(). If you use the object-oriented version, replace it by the method Axes.set_yscale(). Remember that you can also change the scale of X axis, using pyplot.xscale() (or Axes.set_xscale()).

Check my question What is the difference between ‘log’ and ‘symlog’? to see a few examples of the graph scales that matplotlib offers.

How can I shrink the drawable on a button?

Here the function which I created for scaling vector drawables. I used it for setting TextView compound drawable.

/**
 * Used to load vector drawable and set it's size to intrinsic values
 *
 * @param context Reference to {@link Context}
 * @param resId   Vector image resource id
 * @param tint    If not 0 - colour resource to tint the drawable with.
 * @param newWidth If not 0 then set the drawable's width to this value and scale 
 *                 height accordingly.
 * @return On success a reference to a vector drawable
 */
@Nullable
public static Drawable getVectorDrawable(@NonNull Context context,
                                         @DrawableRes int resId,
                                         @ColorRes int tint,
                                         float newWidth)
{
    VectorDrawableCompat drawableCompat =
            VectorDrawableCompat.create(context.getResources(), resId, context.getTheme());
    if (drawableCompat != null)
    {
        if (tint != 0)
        {
            drawableCompat.setTint(ResourcesCompat.getColor(context.getResources(), tint, context.getTheme()));
        }

        drawableCompat.setBounds(0, 0, drawableCompat.getIntrinsicWidth(), drawableCompat.getIntrinsicHeight());

        if (newWidth != 0.0)
        {
            float scale = newWidth / drawableCompat.getIntrinsicWidth();
            float height = scale * drawableCompat.getIntrinsicHeight();
            ScaleDrawable scaledDrawable = new ScaleDrawable(drawableCompat, Gravity.CENTER, 1.0f, 1.0f);
            scaledDrawable.setBounds(0,0, (int) newWidth, (int) height);
            scaledDrawable.setLevel(10000);
            return scaledDrawable;
        }
    }
    return drawableCompat;
}

Plotting with ggplot2: "Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale" on categorical y-axis

if x is numeric, then add scale_x_continuous(); if x is character/factor, then add scale_x_discrete(). This might solve your problem.

How do I interpret precision and scale of a number in a database?

Numeric precision refers to the maximum number of digits that are present in the number.

ie 1234567.89 has a precision of 9

Numeric scale refers to the maximum number of decimal places

ie 123456.789 has a scale of 3

Thus the maximum allowed value for decimal(5,2) is 999.99

How to set the initial zoom/width for a webview

I'm working with loading images for this answer and I want them to be scaled to the device's width. I find that, for older phones with versions less than API 19 (KitKat), the behavior for Brian's answer isn't quite as I like it. It puts a lot of whitespace around some images on older phones, but works on my newer one. Here is my alternative, with help from this answer: Can Android's WebView automatically resize huge images? The layout algorithm SINGLE_COLUMN is deprecated, but it works and I feel like it is appropriate for working with older webviews.

WebSettings settings = webView.getSettings();

// Image set to width of device. (Must be done differently for API < 19 (kitkat))
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
    if (!settings.getLayoutAlgorithm().equals(WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN))
        settings.setLayoutAlgorithm(WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN);
} else {
    if (!settings.getLoadWithOverviewMode()) settings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    if (!settings.getUseWideViewPort()) settings.setUseWideViewPort(true);
}

Fit Image in ImageButton in Android

I'm using android:scaleType="fitCenter" with satisfaction.

How to convert all tables from MyISAM into InnoDB?

<?php
    // connect your database here first 
    // 

    // Actual code starts here 

    $sql = "SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
        WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'your_database_name' 
        AND ENGINE = 'MyISAM'";

    $rs = mysql_query($sql);

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs))
    {
        $tbl = $row[0];
        $sql = "ALTER TABLE `$tbl` ENGINE=INNODB";
        mysql_query($sql);
    }
?>

how to get the first and last days of a given month

Print only current month week:

function my_week_range($date) {
    $ts = strtotime($date);
    $start = (date('w', $ts) == 0) ? $ts : strtotime('last sunday', $ts);
    echo $currentWeek = ceil((date("d",strtotime($date)) - date("w",strtotime($date)) - 1) / 7) + 1;
    $start_date = date('Y-m-d', $start);$end_date=date('Y-m-d', strtotime('next saturday', $start));
    if($currentWeek==1)
        {$start_date = date('Y-m-01', strtotime($date));}
    else if($currentWeek==5)
       {$end_date = date('Y-m-t', strtotime($date));}
    else
       {}
    return array($start_date, $end_date );
}

$date_range=list($start_date, $end_date) = my_week_range($new_fdate);

Swift error : signal SIGABRT how to solve it

If you run into this in Xcode 10 you will have to clean before build. Or, switch to the legacy build system. File -> Workspace Settings... -> Build System: Legacy Build System.

Angular 2 - Checking for server errors from subscribe

As stated in the relevant RxJS documentation, the .subscribe() method can take a third argument that is called on completion if there are no errors.

For reference:

  1. [onNext] (Function): Function to invoke for each element in the observable sequence.
  2. [onError] (Function): Function to invoke upon exceptional termination of the observable sequence.
  3. [onCompleted] (Function): Function to invoke upon graceful termination of the observable sequence.

Therefore you can handle your routing logic in the onCompleted callback since it will be called upon graceful termination (which implies that there won't be any errors when it is called).

this.httpService.makeRequest()
    .subscribe(
      result => {
        // Handle result
        console.log(result)
      },
      error => {
        this.errors = error;
      },
      () => {
        // 'onCompleted' callback.
        // No errors, route to new page here
      }
    );

As a side note, there is also a .finally() method which is called on completion regardless of the success/failure of the call. This may be helpful in scenarios where you always want to execute certain logic after an HTTP request regardless of the result (i.e., for logging purposes or for some UI interaction such as showing a modal).

Rx.Observable.prototype.finally(action)

Invokes a specified action after the source observable sequence terminates gracefully or exceptionally.

For instance, here is a basic example:

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/finally';

// ...

this.httpService.getRequest()
    .finally(() => {
      // Execute after graceful or exceptionally termination
      console.log('Handle logging logic...');
    })
    .subscribe (
      result => {
        // Handle result
        console.log(result)
      },
      error => {
        this.errors = error;
      },
      () => {
        // No errors, route to new page
      }
    );

Switch to selected tab by name in Jquery-UI Tabs

@bduke's answer actually works with a slight tweak.

var index = $("#tabs>div").index($("#simple-tab-2"));
$("#tabs").tabs("select", index);

Above assumes something similar to:

<div id="tabs">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#simple-tab-0">Tab 0</a></li>
    <li><a href="#simple-tab-1">Tab 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#simple-tab-2">Tab 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#simple-tab-3">Tab 3</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="simple-tab-0"></div>
  <div id="simple-tab-1"></div>
  <div id="simple-tab-2"></div>
  <div id="simple-tab-3"></div>
</div>

jQueryUI now supports calling "select" using the tab's ID/HREF selector, but when constructing the tabs, the "selected" Option still only supports the numeric index.

My vote goes to bdukes for getting me on the right track. Thanks!

How should I choose an authentication library for CodeIgniter?

I'm the developer of Redux Auth and some of the issues you mentioned have been fixed in the version 2 beta. You can download this off the offcial website with a sample application too.

  • Requires autoloading (impeding performance)
  • Uses the inherently unsafe concept of 'security questions'. Dealbreaker!

Security questions are now not used and a simpler forgotten password system has been put in place.

  • Return types are a bit of a hodgepodge of true, false, error and success codes

This was fixed in version 2 and returns boolean values. I hated the hodgepodge as much as you.

  • Doesn't hook into CI's validation system

The sample application uses the CI's validation system.

  • Doesn't allow a user to resend a 'lost password' code

Work in progress

I also implemented some other features such as email views, this gives you the choice of being able to use the CodeIgniter helpers in your emails.

It's still a work in progress so if have any more suggestions please keep them coming.

-Popcorn

Ps : Thanks for recommending Redux.

Issue with adding common code as git submodule: "already exists in the index"

Go to the repository folder. Delete relevant submodules from .gitmodules. Select show hidden files. Go to .git folder, delete the submodules from module folder and config.

How to properly create composite primary keys - MYSQL

I would not make the primary key of the "info" table a composite of the two values from other tables.

Others can articulate the reasons better, but it feels wrong to have a column that is really made up of two pieces of information. What if you want to sort on the ID from the second table for some reason? What if you want to count the number of times a value from either table is present?

I would always keep these as two distinct columns. You could use a two-column primay key in mysql ...PRIMARY KEY(id_a, id_b)... but I prefer using a two-column unique index, and having an auto-increment primary key field.

How can I tell if an algorithm is efficient?

Yes you can start with the Wikipedia article explaining the Big O notation, which in a nutshell is a way of describing the "efficiency" (upper bound of complexity) of different type of algorithms. Or you can look at an earlier answer where this is explained in simple english

How to add a custom HTTP header to every WCF call?

You add it to the call using:

using (OperationContextScope scope = new OperationContextScope((IContextChannel)channel))
{
    MessageHeader<string> header = new MessageHeader<string>("secret message");
    var untyped = header.GetUntypedHeader("Identity", "http://www.my-website.com");
    OperationContext.Current.OutgoingMessageHeaders.Add(untyped);

    // now make the WCF call within this using block
}

And then, server-side you grab it using:

MessageHeaders headers = OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders;
string identity = headers.GetHeader<string>("Identity", "http://www.my-website.com");

Install opencv for Python 3.3

I know this is an old thread, but just in case anyone is looking, here is how I got it working on El Capitan:

brew install opencv3 --with-python3

and wait a while for it to finish.

Then run the following as necessary:

brew unlink opencv

Then run the following as the final step:

brew ln opencv3 --force

Now you should be able to run import cv2 no problem in a python 3.x script.

Using GZIP compression with Spring Boot/MVC/JavaConfig with RESTful

I had the same problem into my Spring Boot+Spring Data project when invoking to a @RepositoryRestResource.

The problem is the MIME type returned; which is application/hal+json. Adding it to the server.compression.mime-types property solved this problem for me.

Hope this helps to someone else!

Recursively add the entire folder to a repository

In my case, there was a .git folder in the subdirectory because I had previously initialized a git repo there. When I added the subdirectory it simply added it as a subproject without adding any of the contained files.

I solved the issue by removing the git repository from the subdirectory and then re-adding the folder.

how to hide <li> bullets in navigation menu and footer links BUT show them for listing items

You need to define a class for the bullets you want to hide. For examples

.no-bullets {
    list-style-type: none;
}

Then apply it to the list you want hidden bullets:

<ul class="no-bullets">

All other lists (without a specific class) will show the bulltets as usual.

No output to console from a WPF application?

You'll have to create a Console window manually before you actually call any Console.Write methods. That will init the Console to work properly without changing the project type (which for WPF application won't work).

Here's a complete source code example, of how a ConsoleManager class might look like, and how it can be used to enable/disable the Console, independently of the project type.

With the following class, you just need to write ConsoleManager.Show() somewhere before any call to Console.Write...

[SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity]
public static class ConsoleManager
{
    private const string Kernel32_DllName = "kernel32.dll";

    [DllImport(Kernel32_DllName)]
    private static extern bool AllocConsole();

    [DllImport(Kernel32_DllName)]
    private static extern bool FreeConsole();

    [DllImport(Kernel32_DllName)]
    private static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow();

    [DllImport(Kernel32_DllName)]
    private static extern int GetConsoleOutputCP();

    public static bool HasConsole
    {
        get { return GetConsoleWindow() != IntPtr.Zero; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a new console instance if the process is not attached to a console already.
    /// </summary>
    public static void Show()
    {
        //#if DEBUG
        if (!HasConsole)
        {
            AllocConsole();
            InvalidateOutAndError();
        }
        //#endif
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// If the process has a console attached to it, it will be detached and no longer visible. Writing to the System.Console is still possible, but no output will be shown.
    /// </summary>
    public static void Hide()
    {
        //#if DEBUG
        if (HasConsole)
        {
            SetOutAndErrorNull();
            FreeConsole();
        }
        //#endif
    }

    public static void Toggle()
    {
        if (HasConsole)
        {
            Hide();
        }
        else
        {
            Show();
        }
    }

    static void InvalidateOutAndError()
    {
        Type type = typeof(System.Console);

        System.Reflection.FieldInfo _out = type.GetField("_out",
            System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);

        System.Reflection.FieldInfo _error = type.GetField("_error",
            System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);

        System.Reflection.MethodInfo _InitializeStdOutError = type.GetMethod("InitializeStdOutError",
            System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);

        Debug.Assert(_out != null);
        Debug.Assert(_error != null);

        Debug.Assert(_InitializeStdOutError != null);

        _out.SetValue(null, null);
        _error.SetValue(null, null);

        _InitializeStdOutError.Invoke(null, new object[] { true });
    }

    static void SetOutAndErrorNull()
    {
        Console.SetOut(TextWriter.Null);
        Console.SetError(TextWriter.Null);
    }
} 

How to safely upgrade an Amazon EC2 instance from t1.micro to large?

Use the AWS EC2 console, not ElasticFox.

First Way:

  • Create a new AMI of the instance
  • Launch it

Alternative Way:

  • Make a snapshot of the disk
  • Launch a large EBS instance with the same AMI type (please note that at this point the disk will contain the data that was present when this AMI was created, not your latest changes)
  • Once is fully booted, stop the new instance
  • Detach the root volume from the stopped instance
  • Create a virtual disk from the snapshot created before in the same availability zone of the new instance
  • Attach the root volume to /dev/sda1
  • Start the new instance again

Change MySQL root password in phpMyAdmin

I had to do 2 steps:

  • follow Tiep Phan solution ... edit config.inc.php file ...

  • follow Mahmoud Zalt solution ... change password within phpmyadmin

Stopping fixed position scrolling at a certain point?

Just improvised mVChr code

$(".sidebar").css('position', 'fixed')

    var windw = this;

    $.fn.followTo = function(pos) {
        var $this = this,
                $window = $(windw);

        $window.scroll(function(e) {
            if ($window.scrollTop() > pos) {
                topPos = pos + $($this).height();
                $this.css({
                    position: 'absolute',
                    top: topPos
                });
            } else {
                $this.css({
                    position: 'fixed',
                    top: 250 //set your value
                });
            }
        });
    };

    var height = $("body").height() - $("#footer").height() ;
    $('.sidebar').followTo(height);
    $('.sidebar').scrollTo($('html').offset().top);

openssl s_client using a proxy

for anyone coming here as of post-May 2015: there's a new "-proxy" option that will be included in the next release of openssl: https://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2651&user=guest&pass=guest

Can a Windows batch file determine its own file name?

Yes.

Use the special %0 variable to get the path to the current file.

Write %~n0 to get just the filename without the extension.

Write %~n0%~x0 to get the filename and extension.

Also possible to write %~nx0 to get the filename and extension.

How to properly URL encode a string in PHP?

Here is my use case, which requires an exceptional amount of encoding. Maybe you think it contrived, but we run this on production. Coincidently, this covers every type of encoding, so I'm posting as a tutorial.

Use case description

Somebody just bought a prepaid gift card ("token") on our website. Tokens have corresponding URLs to redeem them. This customer wants to email the URL to someone else. Our web page includes a mailto link that lets them do that.

PHP code

// The order system generates some opaque token
$token = 'w%a&!e#"^2(^@azW';

// Here is a URL to redeem that token
$redeemUrl = 'https://httpbin.org/get?token=' . urlencode($token);

// Actual contents we want for the email
$subject = 'I just bought this for you';
$body = 'Please enter your shipping details here: ' . $redeemUrl;

// A URI for the email as prescribed
$mailToUri = 'mailto:?subject=' . rawurlencode($subject) . '&body=' . rawurlencode($body);

// Print an HTML element with that mailto link
echo '<a href="' . htmlspecialchars($mailToUri) . '">Email your friend</a>';

Note: the above assumes you are outputting to a text/html document. If your output media type is text/json then simply use $retval['url'] = $mailToUri; because output encoding is handled by json_encode().

Test case

  1. Run the code on a PHP test site (is there a canonical one I should mention here?)
  2. Click the link
  3. Send the email
  4. Get the email
  5. Click that link

You should see:

"args": {
  "token": "w%a&!e#\"^2(^@azW"
}, 

And of course this is the JSON representation of $token above.

Possible to extend types in Typescript?

May be below approach will be helpful for someone TS with reactjs

interface Event {
   name: string;
   dateCreated: string;
   type: string;
}

interface UserEvent<T> extends Event<T> {
    UserId: string;
}

How to tell Maven to disregard SSL errors (and trusting all certs)?

An alternative that worked for me is to tell Maven to use http: instead of https: when using Maven Central by adding the following to settings.xml:

<settings>
   .
   .
   .
  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
        <id>central-no-ssl</id>
        <name>Central without ssl</name>
        <url>http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
        <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>
   .
   .
   .
</settings>

Your mileage may vary of course.

"Invalid signature file" when attempting to run a .jar

Compare the folder META-INF in new jar with old jar (before you added new libraries). It is possibility that there will be new files. If yes, you can remove them. It should helps. Regards, 999michal

Why Anaconda does not recognize conda command?

I had a similar problem. I searched conda.exe and I found it on Scripts folder. So, In Anaconda3 you need to add two variables to PATH. The first is Anaconda_folder_path and the second is Anaconda_folder_path\Scripts

Check time difference in Javascript

This function returns a string with the difference from a datetime string and the current datetime.

function get_time_diff( datetime )
{
    var datetime = typeof datetime !== 'undefined' ? datetime : "2014-01-01 01:02:03.123456";

    var datetime = new Date( datetime ).getTime();
    var now = new Date().getTime();

    if( isNaN(datetime) )
    {
        return "";
    }

    console.log( datetime + " " + now);

    if (datetime < now) {
        var milisec_diff = now - datetime;
    }else{
        var milisec_diff = datetime - now;
    }

    var days = Math.floor(milisec_diff / 1000 / 60 / (60 * 24));

    var date_diff = new Date( milisec_diff );

    return days + " Days "+ date_diff.getHours() + " Hours " + date_diff.getMinutes() + " Minutes " + date_diff.getSeconds() + " Seconds";
}

Tested in the Google Chrome console (press F12)

get_time_diff()
1388534523123 1375877555722
"146 Days 12 Hours 49 Minutes 27 Seconds"

Java - get index of key in HashMap?

I don't know is this what you're looking for

List keys = new ArrayList(map.keySet());
int index = keys.indexOf(element);

How can I make my string property nullable?

Strings are nullable in C# anyway because they are reference types. You can just use public string CMName { get; set; } and you'll be able to set it to null.

Thread-safe List<T> property

Even as it got the most votes, one usually can't take System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentBag<T> as a thread-safe replacement for System.Collections.Generic.List<T> as it is (Radek Stromský already pointed it out) not ordered.

But there is a class called System.Collections.Generic.SynchronizedCollection<T> that is already since .NET 3.0 part of the framework, but it is that well hidden in a location where one does not expect it that it is little known and probably you have never ever stumbled over it (at least I never did).

SynchronizedCollection<T> is compiled into assembly System.ServiceModel.dll (which is part of the client profile but not of the portable class library).

How to specify preference of library path?

As an alternative, you can use the environment variables LIBRARY_PATH and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, which respectively indicate where to look for libraries and where to look for headers (CPATH will also do the job), without specifying the -L and -I options.

Edit: CPATH includes header with -I and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH with -isystem.

SELECT COUNT in LINQ to SQL C#

You should be able to do the count on the purch variable:

purch.Count();

e.g.

var purch = from purchase in myBlaContext.purchases
select purchase;

purch.Count();

How do I access nested HashMaps in Java?

Yes.

See:

public static void main(String args[]) {

    HashMap<String, HashMap<String, Object>> map = new HashMap<String, HashMap<String,Object>>();
    map.put("key", new HashMap<String, Object>());
    map.get("key").put("key2", "val2");

    System.out.println(map.get("key").get("key2"));
}

Exchange Powershell - How to invoke Exchange 2010 module from inside script?

import-module Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010aTry with some implementation like:

$exchangeser = "MTLServer01"
$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionURI http://${exchangeserver}/powershell/ -Authentication kerberos
import-PSSession $session 

or

add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010

How does the "view" method work in PyTorch?

The view function is meant to reshape the tensor.

Say you have a tensor

import torch
a = torch.range(1, 16)

a is a tensor that has 16 elements from 1 to 16(included). If you want to reshape this tensor to make it a 4 x 4 tensor then you can use

a = a.view(4, 4)

Now a will be a 4 x 4 tensor. Note that after the reshape the total number of elements need to remain the same. Reshaping the tensor a to a 3 x 5 tensor would not be appropriate.

What is the meaning of parameter -1?

If there is any situation that you don't know how many rows you want but are sure of the number of columns, then you can specify this with a -1. (Note that you can extend this to tensors with more dimensions. Only one of the axis value can be -1). This is a way of telling the library: "give me a tensor that has these many columns and you compute the appropriate number of rows that is necessary to make this happen".

This can be seen in the neural network code that you have given above. After the line x = self.pool(F.relu(self.conv2(x))) in the forward function, you will have a 16 depth feature map. You have to flatten this to give it to the fully connected layer. So you tell pytorch to reshape the tensor you obtained to have specific number of columns and tell it to decide the number of rows by itself.

Drawing a similarity between numpy and pytorch, view is similar to numpy's reshape function.

How do I get the file name from a String containing the Absolute file path?

The other answers didn't quite work for my specific scenario, where I am reading paths that have originated from an OS different to my current one. To elaborate I am saving email attachments saved from a Windows platform on a Linux server. The filename returned from the JavaMail API is something like 'C:\temp\hello.xls'

The solution I ended up with:

String filenameWithPath = "C:\\temp\\hello.xls";
String[] tokens = filenameWithPath.split("[\\\\|/]");
String filename = tokens[tokens.length - 1];

Use and meaning of "in" in an if statement?

It depends on what next is.

If it's a string (as in your example), then in checks for substrings.

>>> "in" in "indigo"
True
>>> "in" in "violet"
False
>>> "0" in "10"
True
>>> "1" in "10"
True

If it's a different kind of iterable (list, tuple, set, dictionary...), then in checks for membership.

>>> "in" in ["in", "out"]
True
>>> "in" in ["indigo", "violet"]
False

In a dictionary, membership is seen as "being one of the keys":

>>> "in" in {"in": "out"}
True
>>> "in" in {"out": "in"}
False

How to change Android usb connect mode to charge only?

Nothing worked until I went this way: Settings>Developer options>Default USB configuration now you can choose your default USB connection purpose.

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

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

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

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

ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ or ZeroMQ or

There is a comparison of the features and performance of RabbitMQ ActiveMQ and QPID given at
http://bhavin.directi.com/rabbitmq-vs-apache-activemq-vs-apache-qpid/

Personally I have tried all the above three. RabbitMQ is the best performance wise according to me, but it does not have failover and recovery options. ActiveMQ has the most features, but is slower.

Update : HornetQ is also an option you can look into, it is JMS Complaint, a better option than ActiveMQ if you are looking for a JMS based solution.

Exec : display stdout "live"

I'd just like to add that one small issue with outputting the buffer strings from a spawned process with console.log() is that it adds newlines, which can spread your spawned process output over additional lines. If you output stdout or stderr with process.stdout.write() instead of console.log(), then you'll get the console output from the spawned process 'as is'.

I saw that solution here: Node.js: printing to console without a trailing newline?

Hope that helps someone using the solution above (which is a great one for live output, even if it is from the documentation).

How do I read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java?

This solution to this question is not the simplest, but since NIO streams and channels have not been mentioned, here goes a version which uses NIO channels and a ByteBuffer to convert a stream into a string.

public static String streamToStringChannel(InputStream in, String encoding, int bufSize) throws IOException {
    ReadableByteChannel channel = Channels.newChannel(in);
    ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(bufSize);
    ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    WritableByteChannel outChannel = Channels.newChannel(bout);
    while (channel.read(byteBuffer) > 0 || byteBuffer.position() > 0) {
        byteBuffer.flip();  //make buffer ready for write
        outChannel.write(byteBuffer);
        byteBuffer.compact(); //make buffer ready for reading
    }
    channel.close();
    outChannel.close();
    return bout.toString(encoding);
}

Here is an example how to use it:

try (InputStream in = new FileInputStream("/tmp/large_file.xml")) {
    String x = streamToStringChannel(in, "UTF-8", 1);
    System.out.println(x);
}

The performance of this method should be good for large files.

How many threads can a Java VM support?

After reading Charlie Martin's post, I was curious about whether the heap size makes any difference in the number of threads you can create, and I was totally dumbfounded by the result.

Using JDK 1.6.0_11 on Vista Home Premium SP1, I executed Charlie's test application with different heap sizes, between 2 MB and 1024 MB.

For example, to create a 2 MB heap, I'd invoke the JVM with the arguments -Xms2m -Xmx2m.

Here are my results:

2 mb --> 5744 threads
4 mb --> 5743 threads
8 mb --> 5735 threads
12 mb --> 5724 threads
16 mb --> 5712 threads
24 mb --> 5687 threads
32 mb --> 5662 threads
48 mb --> 5610 threads
64 mb --> 5561 threads
96 mb --> 5457 threads
128 mb --> 5357 threads
192 mb --> 5190 threads
256 mb --> 5014 threads
384 mb --> 4606 threads
512 mb --> 4202 threads
768 mb --> 3388 threads
1024 mb --> 2583 threads

So, yeah, the heap size definitely matters. But the relationship between heap size and maximum thread count is INVERSELY proportional.

Which is weird.

Display JSON as HTML

You can use the JSON.stringify function with unformatted JSON. It outputs it in a formatted way.

JSON.stringify({ foo: "sample", bar: "sample" }, null, 4)

This turns

{ "foo": "sample", "bar": "sample" }

into

 {
     "foo": "sample", 
     "bar": "sample" 
 }

Now the data is a readable format you can use the Google Code Prettify script as suggested by @A. Levy to colour code it.

It is worth adding that IE7 and older browsers do not support the JSON.stringify method.

Checkout remote branch using git svn

Standard Subversion layout

Create a git clone of that includes your Subversion trunk, tags, and branches with

git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags

The --stdlayout option is a nice shortcut if your Subversion repository uses the typical structure:

git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project --stdlayout

Make your git repository ignore everything the subversion repo does:

git svn show-ignore >> .git/info/exclude

You should now be able to see all the Subversion branches on the git side:

git branch -r

Say the name of the branch in Subversion is waldo. On the git side, you'd run

git checkout -b waldo-svn remotes/waldo

The -svn suffix is to avoid warnings of the form

warning: refname 'waldo' is ambiguous.

To update the git branch waldo-svn, run

git checkout waldo-svn
git svn rebase

Starting from a trunk-only checkout

To add a Subversion branch to a trunk-only clone, modify your git repository's .git/config to contain

[svn-remote "svn-mybranch"]
        url = http://svn.example.com/project/branches/mybranch
        fetch = :refs/remotes/mybranch

You'll need to develop the habit of running

git svn fetch --fetch-all

to update all of what git svn thinks are separate remotes. At this point, you can create and track branches as above. For example, to create a git branch that corresponds to mybranch, run

git checkout -b mybranch-svn remotes/mybranch

For the branches from which you intend to git svn dcommit, keep their histories linear!


Further information

You may also be interested in reading an answer to a related question.

Locate Git installation folder on Mac OS X

If you have fresh installation / update of Xcode, it is possible that your git binary can't be executed (I had mine under /usr/bin/git). To fix this problem just run the Xcode and "Accept" license conditions and try again, it should work.

Check If only numeric values were entered in input. (jQuery)

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/CustomMethods/phoneUS

Check that out. It should be just what you're looking for. A US phone validation plugin for jQuery.

If you want to do it on your own, you're going to be in for a good amount of work. Check out the isNaN() function. It tells you if it is not a number. You're also going to want to brush up on your regular expressions for validation. If you're using RegEx, you can go without isNaN(), as you'll be testing for that anyway.

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

The VARCHAR datatype is synonymous with the VARCHAR2 datatype. To avoid possible changes in behavior, always use the VARCHAR2 datatype to store variable-length character strings.

If your database runs on a single-byte character set (e.g. US7ASCII, WE8MSWIN1252 or WE8ISO8859P1) it does not make any difference whether you use VARCHAR2(x BYTE) or VARCHAR2(x CHAR).

It makes only a difference when your DB runs on multi-byte character set (e.g. AL32UTF8 or AL16UTF16). You can simply see it in this example:

CREATE TABLE my_table (
    VARCHAR2_byte VARCHAR2(1 BYTE), 
    VARCHAR2_char VARCHAR2(1 CHAR)
);

INSERT INTO my_table (VARCHAR2_char) VALUES ('€');
1 row created.

INSERT INTO my_table (VARCHAR2_char) VALUES ('ü');
1 row created.

INSERT INTO my_table (VARCHAR2_byte) VALUES ('€');
INSERT INTO my_table (VARCHAR2_byte) VALUES ('€')
Error at line 10
ORA-12899: value too large for column "MY_TABLE"."VARCHAR2_BYTE" (actual: 3, maximum: 1)

INSERT INTO my_table (VARCHAR2_byte) VALUES ('ü')
Error at line 11
ORA-12899: value too large for column "MY_TABLE"."VARCHAR2_BYTE" (actual: 2, maximum: 1)

VARCHAR2(1 CHAR) means you can store up to 1 character, no matter how many byte it has. In case of Unicode one character may occupy up to 4 bytes.

VARCHAR2(1 BYTE) means you can store a character which occupies max. 1 byte.

If you don't specify either BYTE or CHAR then the default is taken from NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS session parameter.

Unless you have Oracle 12c where you can set MAX_STRING_SIZE=EXTENDED the limit is VARCHAR2(4000 CHAR)

However, VARCHAR2(4000 CHAR) does not mean you are guaranteed to store up to 4000 characters. The limit is still 4000 bytes, so in worst case you may store only up to 1000 characters in such field.

See this example ( in UTF-8 occupies 3 bytes):

CREATE TABLE my_table2(VARCHAR2_char VARCHAR2(4000 CHAR));

BEGIN
    INSERT INTO my_table2 VALUES ('€€€€€€€€€€');
    FOR i IN 1..7 LOOP
        UPDATE my_table2 SET VARCHAR2_char = VARCHAR2_char ||VARCHAR2_char;
    END LOOP;
END;
/

SELECT LENGTHB(VARCHAR2_char) , LENGTHC(VARCHAR2_char) FROM my_table2;

LENGTHB(VARCHAR2_CHAR) LENGTHC(VARCHAR2_CHAR)
---------------------- ----------------------
                  3840                   1280
1 row selected.


UPDATE my_table2 SET VARCHAR2_char = VARCHAR2_char ||VARCHAR2_char;

UPDATE my_table2 SET VARCHAR2_char = VARCHAR2_char ||VARCHAR2_char
Error at line 1
ORA-01489: result of string concatenation is too long

See also Examples and limits of BYTE and CHAR semantics usage (NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS) (Doc ID 144808.1)

SQL How to Select the most recent date item

Select Top 1* FROM test_table WHERE user_id = value order by Date_Added Desc

Unable to Build using MAVEN with ERROR - Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile

Your Maven is reading Java version as 1.6.0_65, Where as the pom.xml says the version is 1.7.

Try installing the required verison.

If already installed check your $JAVA_HOME environment variable, it should contain the path of Java JDK 7. If you dont find it, fix your environment variable.

also remove the lines

 <fork>true</fork>
     <executable>${JAVA_1_7_HOME}/bin/javac</executable>

from the pom.xml

Python Pandas: How to read only first n rows of CSV files in?

If you only want to read the first 999,999 (non-header) rows:

read_csv(..., nrows=999999)

If you only want to read rows 1,000,000 ... 1,999,999

read_csv(..., skiprows=1000000, nrows=999999)

nrows : int, default None Number of rows of file to read. Useful for reading pieces of large files*

skiprows : list-like or integer Row numbers to skip (0-indexed) or number of rows to skip (int) at the start of the file

and for large files, you'll probably also want to use chunksize:

chunksize : int, default None Return TextFileReader object for iteration

pandas.io.parsers.read_csv documentation

How to make JQuery-AJAX request synchronous

Instead of adding onSubmit event, you can prevent the default action for submit button.

So, in the following html:

<form name="form" action="insert.php" method="post">
    <input type='submit' />
</form>?

first, prevent submit button action. Then make the ajax call asynchronously, and submit the form when the password is correct.

$('input[type=submit]').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault(); //prevent form submit when button is clicked

    var password = $.trim($('#employee_password').val());

     $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "checkpass.php",
        data: "password="+password,
        success: function(html) {
            var arr=$.parseJSON(html);
            var $form = $('form');
            if(arr == "Successful")
            {    
                $form.submit(); //submit the form if the password is correct
            }
        }
    });
});????????????????????????????????

What is &#39; and why does Google search replace it with apostrophe?

It's HTML character references for encoding a character by its decimal code point

Look at the ASCII table here and you'll see that 39 (hex 0x27, octal 47) is the code for apostrophe

ASCII table

Export pictures from excel file into jpg using VBA

If i remember correctly, you need to use the "Shapes" property of your sheet.

Each Shape object has a TopLeftCell and BottomRightCell attributes that tell you the position of the image.

Here's a piece of code i used a while ago, roughly adapted to your needs. I don't remember the specifics about all those ChartObjects and whatnot, but here it is:

For Each oShape In ActiveSheet.Shapes
    strImageName = ActiveSheet.Cells(oShape.TopLeftCell.Row, 1).Value
    oShape.Select
    'Picture format initialization
    Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Contrast = 0.5: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.ColorType = msoPictureAutomatic: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.TransparentBackground = msoFalse: Selection.ShapeRange.Fill.Visible = msoFalse: Selection.ShapeRange.Line.Visible = msoFalse: Selection.ShapeRange.Rotation = 0#: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.CropLeft = 0#: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.CropRight = 0#: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.CropTop = 0#: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.CropBottom = 0#: Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleHeight 1#, msoTrue, msoScaleFromTopLeft: Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleWidth 1#, msoTrue, msoScaleFromTopLeft
    '/Picture format initialization
    Application.Selection.CopyPicture
    Set oDia = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add(0, 0, oShape.Width, oShape.Height)
    Set oChartArea = oDia.Chart
    oDia.Activate
    With oChartArea
        .ChartArea.Select
        .Paste
        .Export ("H:\Webshop_Zpider\Strukturbildene\" & strImageName & ".jpg")
    End With
    oDia.Delete 'oChartArea.Delete
Next

Update records in table from CTE

Try the following query:

;WITH CTE_DocTotal
 AS
 (
   SELECT SUM(Sale + VAT) AS DocTotal_1
   FROM PEDI_InvoiceDetail
   GROUP BY InvoiceNumber
 )

UPDATE CTE_DocTotal
SET DocTotal = CTE_DocTotal.DocTotal_1

How to find foreign key dependencies in SQL Server?

Just a note for @"John Sansom" answer,

If the foreign key dependencies are sought, I think that the PT Where clause should be:

i1.CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'FOREIGN KEY'  -- instead of 'PRIMARY KEY'

and its the ON condition:

ON PT.TABLE_NAME = FK.TABLE_NAME – instead of PK.TABLE_NAME

As commonly is used the primary key of the foreign table, I think this issue has not been noticed before.

In Java, how to append a string more efficiently?

java.lang.StringBuilder. Use int constructor to create an initial size.

How to read an excel file in C# without using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel libraries

I have used Excel.dll library which is:

  • open source
  • lightweight
  • fast
  • compatible with xls and xlsx

The documentation available over here: https://exceldatareader.codeplex.com/

Strongly recommendable.

android on Text Change Listener

var filenameText = findViewById(R.id.filename) as EditText
filenameText.addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
    override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
        filename = filenameText.text.toString()
        Log.i("FileName: ", filename)
    }
    
    override fun beforeTextChanged(p0: CharSequence?, p1: Int, p2: Int, p3: Int) {}
    override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, before: Int, count: Int) {}
})

How to Configure SSL for Amazon S3 bucket

It is not possible directly with S3, but you can create a Cloud Front distribution from you bucket. Then go to certificate manager and request a certificate. Amazon gives them for free. Ones you have successfully confirmed the certification, assign it to your Cloud Front distribution. Also remember to set the rule to re-direct http to https.

I'm hosting couple of static websites on Amazon S3, like my personal website to which I have assigned the SSL certificate as they have the Cloud Front distribution.

How can I run an EXE program from a Windows Service using C#?

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Exe Name");

Warning: mysqli_query() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, resource given

You are mixing mysqli and mysql extensions, which will not work.

You need to use

$myConnection= mysqli_connect("$db_host","$db_username","$db_pass") or die ("could not connect to mysql"); 

mysqli_select_db($myConnection, "mrmagicadam") or die ("no database");   

mysqli has many improvements over the original mysql extension, so it is recommended that you use mysqli.

ggplot legends - change labels, order and title

You need to do two things:

  1. Rename and re-order the factor levels before the plot
  2. Rename the title of each legend to the same title

The code:

dtt$model <- factor(dtt$model, levels=c("mb", "ma", "mc"), labels=c("MBB", "MAA", "MCC"))

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(dtt, aes(x=year, y=V, group = model, colour = model, ymin = lower, ymax = upper)) +
  geom_ribbon(alpha = 0.35, linetype=0)+ 
  geom_line(aes(linetype=model), size = 1) +       
  geom_point(aes(shape=model), size=4)  +      
  theme(legend.position=c(.6,0.8)) +
  theme(legend.background = element_rect(colour = 'black', fill = 'grey90', size = 1, linetype='solid')) +
  scale_linetype_discrete("Model 1") +
  scale_shape_discrete("Model 1") +
  scale_colour_discrete("Model 1")

enter image description here

However, I think this is really ugly as well as difficult to interpret. It's far better to use facets:

ggplot(dtt, aes(x=year, y=V, group = model, colour = model, ymin = lower, ymax = upper)) +
  geom_ribbon(alpha=0.2, colour=NA)+ 
  geom_line() +       
  geom_point()  +      
  facet_wrap(~model)

enter image description here

Get image data url in JavaScript?

Use onload event to convert image after loading

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function loaded(img) {_x000D_
  let c = document.createElement('canvas')_x000D_
  c.getContext('2d').drawImage(img, 0, 0)_x000D_
  msg.innerText= c.toDataURL();_x000D_
}
_x000D_
pre { word-wrap: break-word; width: 500px; white-space: pre-wrap; }
_x000D_
<img onload="loaded(this)" src="https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/http://lorempixel.com/200/140" crossorigin="anonymous"/>_x000D_
_x000D_
<pre id="msg"></pre>
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set initial viewcontroller in appdelegate - swift

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {

    self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)
    let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
    var exampleViewController: ExampleViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("ExampleController") as! ExampleViewController

    self.window?.rootViewController = exampleViewController

    self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()

    return true
}

How exactly does binary code get converted into letters?

Here's a way to convert binary numbers to ASCII characters that is often simple enough to do in your head.

1 - Convert every 4 binary digits into one hex digit.

Here's a binary to hex conversion chart:

0001 = 1 
0010 = 2 
0011 = 3 
0100 = 4 
0101 = 5
0110 = 6
0111 = 7
1000 = 8

1001 = 9
1010 = a (the hex number a, not the letter a)
1011 = b
1100 = c
1101 = d
1110 = e
1111 = f

(The hexadecimal numbers a through f are the decimal numbers 10 through 15. That's what hexadecimal, or "base 16" is - instead of each digit being capable of representing 10 different numbers [0 - 9], like decimal or "base 10" does, each digit is instead capable of representing 16 different numbers [0 - f].)

Once you know that chart, converting any string of binary digits into a string of hex digits is simple.

For example,

01000100 = 0100 0100 = 44 hex
1010001001110011 = 1010 0010 0111 0011 = a273 hex

Simple enough, right? It is a simple matter to convert a binary number of any length into its hexadecimal equivalent.

(This works because hexadecimal is base 16 and binary is base 2 and 16 is the 4th power of 2, so it takes 4 binary digits to make 1 hex digit. 10, on the other hand, is not a power of 2, so we can't convert binary to decimal nearly as easily.)

2 - Split the string of hex digits into pairs.

When converting a number into ASCII, every 2 hex digits is a character. So break the hex string into sets of 2 digits.

You would split a hex number like 7340298b392 this into 6 pairs, like this:

7340298b392 = 07 34 02 98 b3 92

(Notice I prepended a 0, since I had an odd number of hex digits.)

That's 6 pairs of hex digits, so its going to be 6 letters. (Except I know right away that 98, b3 and 92 aren't letters. I'll explain why in a minute.)

3 - Convert each pair of hex digits into a decimal number.

Do this by multiplying the (decimal equivalent of the) left digit by 16, and adding the 2nd.

For example, b3 hex = 11*16 + 3, which is 110 + 66 + 3, which is 179. (b hex is 11 decimal.)

4 - Convert the decimal numbers into ASCII characters.

Now, to get the ASCII letters for the decimal numbers, simply keep in mind that in ASCII, 65 is an uppercase 'A', and 97 is a lowercase 'a'.

So what letter is 68?

68 is the 4th letter of the alphabet in uppercase, right?
65 = A, 66 = B, 67 = C, 68 = D.

So 68 is 'D'.

You take the decimal number, subtract 64 for uppercase letters if the number is less than 97, or 96 for lowercase letters if the number is 97 or larger, and that's the number of the letter of the alphabet associated with that set of 2 hex digits.


Alternatively, if you're not afraid of a little bit of easy hex arithmetic, you can skip step 3, and just go straight from hex to ASCII, by remembering, for example, that

hex 41 = 'A' 
hex 61 = 'a'

So subtract 40 hex for uppercase letters or 60 hex for lowercase letters, and convert what's left to decimal to get the alphabet letter number.

For example

01101100 = 6c, 6c - 60 = c = 12 decimal = 'l'
01010010 = 52, 52 - 40 = 12 hex = 18 decimal = 'R'

(When doing this, it's helpful to remember that 'm' (or 'M') is the 13 letter of the alphabet. So you can count up or down from 13 to find a letter that's nearer to the middle than to either end.)

I saw this on a shirt once, and was able to read it in my head:

01000100
01000001
01000100

I did it like this:

01000100 = 0100 0100 = 44 hex, - 40 hex = ucase letter 4 = D
01000001 = 0100 0001 = 41 hex, - 40 hex = ucase letter 1 = A
01000100 = 0100 0100 = 44 hex, - 40 hex = ucase letter 4 = D

The shirt said "DAD", which I thought was kinda cool, since it was being purchased by a pregnant woman. Her husband must be a geek like me.


How did I know right away that 92, b3, and 98 were not letters?

Because the ASCII code for a lowercase 'z' is 96 + 26 = 122, which in hex is 7a. 7a is the largest hex number for a letter. Anything larger than 7a is not a letter.


So that's how you can do it as a human.

How do computer programs do it?

For each set of 8 binary digits, convert it to a number, and look it up in an ASCII table.

(That's one pretty obvious and straight forward way. A typical programmer could probably think of 10 or 15 other ways in the space of a few minutes. The details depend on the computer language environment.)

Set the absolute position of a view

A more cleaner and dynamic way without hardcoding any pixel values in the code.

I wanted to position a dialog (which I inflate on the fly) exactly below a clicked button.

and solved it this way :

    // get the yoffset of the position where your View has to be placed 
    final int yoffset = < calculate the position of the view >

    // position using top margin
    if(myView.getLayoutParams() instanceof MarginLayoutParams) {
        ((MarginLayoutParams) myView.getLayoutParams()).topMargin = yOffset;
    }

However you have to make sure the parent layout of myView is an instance of RelativeLayout.

more complete code :

    // identify the button
    final Button clickedButton = <... code to find the button here ...>

    // inflate the dialog - the following style preserves xml layout params
    final View floatingDialog = 
        this.getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.floating_dialog,
            this.floatingDialogContainer, false);

    this.floatingDialogContainer.addView(floatingDialog);

    // get the buttons position
    final int[] buttonPos = new int[2];
    clickedButton.getLocationOnScreen(buttonPos);        
    final int yOffset =  buttonPos[1] + clickedButton.getHeight();

    // position using top margin
    if(floatingDialog.getLayoutParams() instanceof MarginLayoutParams) {
        ((MarginLayoutParams) floatingDialog.getLayoutParams()).topMargin = yOffset;
    }

This way you can still expect the target view to adjust to any layout parameters set using layout XML files, instead of hardcoding those pixels/dps in your Java code.

IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection

I figured out that in my case, my database was in different subnet than the subnet from where i was trying to access the db.

What is the meaning of Bus: error 10 in C

Whenever you are using pointer variables ( the asterix ) such as

char *str = "First string";

you need to asign memory to it

str = malloc(strlen(*str))

Scroll Automatically to the Bottom of the Page

So many answers trying to calculate the height of the document. But it wasn't calculating correctly for me. However, both of these worked:

jquery

    $('html,body').animate({scrollTop: 9999});

or just js

    window.scrollTo(0,9999);

Conversion of Char to Binary in C

We show up two functions that prints a SINGLE character to binary.

void printbinchar(char character)
{
    char output[9];
    itoa(character, output, 2);
    printf("%s\n", output);
}

printbinchar(10) will write into the console

    1010

itoa is a library function that converts a single integer value to a string with the specified base. For example... itoa(1341, output, 10) will write in output string "1341". And of course itoa(9, output, 2) will write in the output string "1001".

The next function will print into the standard output the full binary representation of a character, that is, it will print all 8 bits, also if the higher bits are zero.

void printbincharpad(char c)
{
    for (int i = 7; i >= 0; --i)
    {
        putchar( (c & (1 << i)) ? '1' : '0' );
    }
    putchar('\n');
}

printbincharpad(10) will write into the console

    00001010

Now i present a function that prints out an entire string (without last null character).

void printstringasbinary(char* s)
{
    // A small 9 characters buffer we use to perform the conversion
    char output[9];

    // Until the first character pointed by s is not a null character
    // that indicates end of string...
    while (*s)
    {
        // Convert the first character of the string to binary using itoa.
        // Characters in c are just 8 bit integers, at least, in noawdays computers.
        itoa(*s, output, 2);

        // print out our string and let's write a new line.
        puts(output);

        // we advance our string by one character,
        // If our original string was "ABC" now we are pointing at "BC".
        ++s;
    }
}

Consider however that itoa don't adds padding zeroes, so printstringasbinary("AB1") will print something like:

1000001
1000010
110001

How to compare a local git branch with its remote branch?

This is how I do it.

#To update your local.
git fetch --all

this will fetch everything from the remote, so when you check difference, it will compare the difference with the remote branch.

#to list all branches
git branch -a

the above command will display all the branches.

#to go to the branch you want to check difference
git checkout <branch_name>
#to check on which branch you are in, use
git branch
    (or)
git status

Now, you can check difference as follows.

git diff origin/<branch_name>

this will compare your local branch with the remote branch

IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState with ViewPager

Add this in your activity

@Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
    if (outState.isEmpty()) {
        // Work-around for a pre-Android 4.2 bug
        outState.putBoolean("bug:fix", true);
    }
}

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' with PHPMyAdmin

Here are few steps that must be followed carefully

  1. First of all make sure that the WAMP server is running if it is not running, start the server.
  2. Enter the URL http://localhost/phpmyadmin/setup in address bar of your browser.
  3. Create a folder named config inside C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin, the folder inside apps may have different name like phpmyadmin3.2.0.1

  4. Return to your browser in phpmyadmin setup tab, and click New server.New server

  5. Change the authentication type to ‘cookie’ and leave the username and password field empty but if you change the authentication type to ‘config’ enter the password for username root.

  6. Click save save

  7. Again click save in configuration file option.
  8. Now navigate to the config folder. Inside the folder there will be a file named config.inc.php. Copy the file and paste it out of the folder (if the file with same name is already there then override it) and finally delete the folder.
  9. Now you are done. Try to connect the mysql server again and this time you won’t get any error. --credits Bibek Subedi

Git push existing repo to a new and different remote repo server?

Simply point the new repo by changing the GIT repo URL with this command:

git remote set-url origin [new repo URL]

Example: git remote set-url origin [email protected]:Batman/batmanRepoName.git

Now, pushing and pulling are linked to the new REPO.

Then push normally like so:

git push -u origin master

How add class='active' to html menu with php

A very easy solution to this problem is to do this.

<ul>
  <li class="<?php if(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == 'index.php'){echo 'current'; }else { echo ''; } ?>"><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
  <li class="<?php if(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == 'portfolio.php'){echo 'current'; }else { echo ''; } ?>"><a href="portfolio.php">Portfolio</a></li>
  <li class="<?php if(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == 'services.php'){echo 'current'; }else { echo ''; } ?>"><a href="services.php">Services</a></li>
  <li class="<?php if(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == 'contact.php'){echo 'current'; }else { echo ''; } ?>"><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
  <li class="<?php if(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == 'links.php'){echo 'current'; }else { echo ''; } ?>"><a href="links.php">Links</a></li>
</ul>

Which will output

<ul>
  <li class="current"><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
  <li class=""><a href="portfolio.php">Portfolio</a></li>
  <li class=""><a href="services.php">Services</a></li>
  <li class=""><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
  <li class=""><a href="links.php">Links</a></li>
</ul>

Clearing input in vuejs form

I had a situation where i was working with a custom component and i needed to clear the form data.

But only if the page was in 'create' form state, and if the page was not being used to edit an existing item. So I made a method.

I called this method inside a watcher on custom component file, and not the vue page that uses the custom component. If that makes sense.

The entire form $ref was only available to me on the Base Custom Component.

<!-- Custom component HTML -->
<template>
  <v-form ref="form" v-model="valid" @submit.prevent>
    <slot v-bind="{ formItem, formState, valid }"></slot>
  </v-form>
</template>

watch: {
  value() {
    // Some other code here
    this.clearFormDataIfNotEdit(this)
    // Some other code here too
  }
}
... some other stuff ....

methods: {
  clearFormDataIfNotEdit(objct) {
    if (objct.formstate === 'create' && objct.formItem.id === undefined) {
       objct.$refs.form.reset()
    }
  },
}

Basically i checked to see if the form data had an ID, if it did not, and the state was on create, then call the obj.$ref.form.reset() if i did this directly in the watcher, then it would be this.$ref.form.reset() obvs.

But you can only call the $ref from the page which it's referenced. Which is what i wanted to call out with this answer.

'names' attribute must be the same length as the vector

For me, this error was because I had some of my data titles were two names, I merged them in one name and all went well.

Max or Default?

Think about what you're asking!

The max of {1, 2, 3, -1, -2, -3} is obviously 3. The max of {2} is obviously 2. But what is the max of the empty set { }? Obviously that is a meaningless question. The max of the empty set is simply not defined. Attempting to get an answer is a mathematical error. The max of any set must itself be an element in that set. The empty set has no elements, so claiming that some particular number is the max of that set without being in that set is a mathematical contradiction.

Just as it is correct behavior for the computer to throw an exception when the programmer asks it to divide by zero, so it is correct behavior for the computer to throw an exception when the programmer asks it to take the max of the empty set. Division by zero, taking the max of the empty set, wiggering the spacklerorke, and riding the flying unicorn to Neverland are all meaningless, impossible, undefined.

Now, what is it that you actually want to do?

Cordova - Error code 1 for command | Command failed for

In my case it was the file size restriction which was put on proxy server. Zip file of gradle was not able to download due this restriction. I was getting 401 error while downloading gradle zip file. If you are getting 401 or 403 error in log, make sure you are able to download those files manually.

React.js create loop through Array

As @Alexander solves, the issue is one of async data load - you're rendering immediately and you will not have participants loaded until the async ajax call resolves and populates data with participants.

The alternative to the solution they provided would be to prevent render until participants exist, something like this:

    render: function() {
        if (!this.props.data.participants) {
            return null;
        }
        return (
            <ul className="PlayerList">
            // I'm the Player List {this.props.data}
            // <Player author="The Mini John" />
            {
                this.props.data.participants.map(function(player) {
                    return <li key={player}>{player}</li>
                })
            }
            </ul>
        );
    }

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

SoLvEd

Python is looking for the a object within your a.py module.

Either RENAME that file to something else or use

from __future__ import absolute_import 

at the top of your a.py module.

Xcode 'CodeSign error: code signing is required'

Another possibility - When you Build for Archive make sure your Archive choice in your scheme is set for Distribution, not Release.

Go to Product -> Edit Scheme This brings up a new dialog.

Select Archive on the left. Make sure the build configuration is Distribution.

convert an enum to another type of enum

I wrote this answer because I believe there are fundamental issues with the majority of answers already provided, and the ones that are acceptable are incomplete.

Mapping by enum integer value

This approach is bad simply because it assumes that the integer values of both MyGender and TheirGender will always remain comparable. In practice, it is very rare that you can guarantee this even within a single project, let alone a separate service.

The approach we take should be something that can be used for other enum-mapping cases. We should never assume that one enum identically relates to another - especially when we may not have control over one or another.

Mapping by enum string value

This is a little better, as MyGender.Male will still convert to TheirGender.Male even if the integer representation is changed, but still not ideal.

I would discourage this approach as it assumes the name values will not change, and will always remain identical. Considering future enhancements, you cannot guarantee that this will be the case; consider if MyGender.NotKnown was added. It is likely that you would want this to map to TheirGender.Unknown, but this would not be supported.

Also, it is generally bad to assume that one enum equates to another by name, as this might not be the case in some contexts. As mentioned earlier, an ideal approach would work for other enum-mapping requirements.

Explicitly mapping enums

This approach explictly maps MyGender to TheirGender using a switch statement.

This is better as:

  • Covers the case where the underlying integer value changes.
  • Covers the case where the enum names changes (i.e. no assumptions - the developer will need to update the code to handle the scenario - good).
  • Handles cases where enum values cannot be mapped.
  • Handles cases where new enum values are added and cannot be mapped by default (again, no assumptions made - good).
  • Can easily be updated to support new enum values for either MyGender or TheirGender.
  • The same approach can be taken for all enum mapping requirements.

Assuming we have the following enums:

public enum MyGender
{
    Male = 0,
    Female = 1,
}

public enum TheirGender
{
    Male = 0,
    Female = 1,
    Unknown = 2,
}

We can create the following function to "convert from their enum to mine":

public MyGender GetMyGender(TheirGender theirGender)
{
    switch (theirGender)
    {
        case TheirGender.Male:
            return MyGender.Male;

        case TheirGender.Female:
            return MyGender.Female;

        default:
            throw new InvalidEnumArgumentException(nameof(theirGender), (int)theirGender, typeof(TheirGender));
    }
}

A previous answer suggested returning a nullable enum (TheirGender?) and returning null for any unmatched input. This is bad; null is not the same as an unknown mapping. If the input cannot be mapped, an exception should be thrown, else the method should be named more explictly to the behaviour:

public TheirGender? GetTheirGenderOrDefault(MyGender myGender)
{
    switch (myGender)
    {
        case MyGender.Male:
            return TheirGender.Male;
            
        case MyGender.Female:
            return TheirGender.Female;
            
        default:
            return default(TheirGender?);
    }
}

Additional considerations

If it is likely that this method will be required more than once in various parts of the solution, you could consider creating an extension method for this:

public static class TheirGenderExtensions
{
    public static MyGender GetMyGender(this TheirGender theirGender)
    {
        switch (theirGender)
        {
            case TheirGender.Male:
                return MyGender.Male;

            case TheirGender.Female:
                return MyGender.Female;

            default:
                throw new InvalidEnumArgumentException(nameof(theirGender), (int)theirGender, typeof(TheirGender));
        }
    }
}

If you are using C#8, you can use the syntax for switch expressions and expression bodies to neaten up the code:

public static class TheirGenderExtensions
{
    public static MyGender GetMyGender(this TheirGender theirGender)
        => theirGender switch
        {
            TheirGender.Male => MyGender.Male,
            TheirGender.Female => MyGender.Female,
            _ => throw new InvalidEnumArgumentException(nameof(theirGender), (int)theirGender, typeof(TheirGender))
        };
}

If you will only ever be mapping the enums within a single class, then an extension method may be overkill. In this case, the method can be declared within the class itself.

Furthermore, if the mapping will only ever take place within a single method, then you can declare this as a local function:

public static void Main()
{
    Console.WriteLine(GetMyGender(TheirGender.Male));
    Console.WriteLine(GetMyGender(TheirGender.Female));
    Console.WriteLine(GetMyGender(TheirGender.Unknown));
    
    static MyGender GetMyGender(TheirGender theirGender)
        => theirGender switch
        {
            TheirGender.Male => MyGender.Male,
            TheirGender.Female => MyGender.Female,
            _ => throw new InvalidEnumArgumentException(nameof(theirGender), (int)theirGender, typeof(TheirGender))
        };
}

Here's a dotnet fiddle link with the above example.

tl;dr:

Do not:

  • Map enums by integer value
  • Map enums by name

Do:

  • Map enums explicitly using a switch statement
  • Throw an exception when a value cannot be mapped rather than returning null
  • Consider using extension methods

How to overlay image with color in CSS?

Here's a creative idea using box-shadow:

#header {
    background-image: url("apple.jpg");
    box-shadow: inset 0 0 99999px rgba(0, 120, 255, 0.5);
}

What's happening

  1. The background sets the background for your element.

  2. The box-shadow is the important bit. It basically sets a really big shadow on the inside of the element, on top of the background, that is semi-transparent

How to read and write xml files?

Here is a quick DOM example that shows how to read and write a simple xml file with its dtd:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE roles SYSTEM "roles.dtd">
<roles>
    <role1>User</role1>
    <role2>Author</role2>
    <role3>Admin</role3>
    <role4/>
</roles>

and the dtd:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!ELEMENT roles (role1,role2,role3,role4)>
<!ELEMENT role1 (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT role2 (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT role3 (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT role4 (#PCDATA)>

First import these:

import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;

Here are a few variables you will need:

private String role1 = null;
private String role2 = null;
private String role3 = null;
private String role4 = null;
private ArrayList<String> rolev;

Here is a reader (String xml is the name of your xml file):

public boolean readXML(String xml) {
        rolev = new ArrayList<String>();
        Document dom;
        // Make an  instance of the DocumentBuilderFactory
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        try {
            // use the factory to take an instance of the document builder
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            // parse using the builder to get the DOM mapping of the    
            // XML file
            dom = db.parse(xml);

            Element doc = dom.getDocumentElement();

            role1 = getTextValue(role1, doc, "role1");
            if (role1 != null) {
                if (!role1.isEmpty())
                    rolev.add(role1);
            }
            role2 = getTextValue(role2, doc, "role2");
            if (role2 != null) {
                if (!role2.isEmpty())
                    rolev.add(role2);
            }
            role3 = getTextValue(role3, doc, "role3");
            if (role3 != null) {
                if (!role3.isEmpty())
                    rolev.add(role3);
            }
            role4 = getTextValue(role4, doc, "role4");
            if ( role4 != null) {
                if (!role4.isEmpty())
                    rolev.add(role4);
            }
            return true;

        } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
            System.out.println(pce.getMessage());
        } catch (SAXException se) {
            System.out.println(se.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
        }

        return false;
    }

And here a writer:

public void saveToXML(String xml) {
    Document dom;
    Element e = null;

    // instance of a DocumentBuilderFactory
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    try {
        // use factory to get an instance of document builder
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        // create instance of DOM
        dom = db.newDocument();

        // create the root element
        Element rootEle = dom.createElement("roles");

        // create data elements and place them under root
        e = dom.createElement("role1");
        e.appendChild(dom.createTextNode(role1));
        rootEle.appendChild(e);

        e = dom.createElement("role2");
        e.appendChild(dom.createTextNode(role2));
        rootEle.appendChild(e);

        e = dom.createElement("role3");
        e.appendChild(dom.createTextNode(role3));
        rootEle.appendChild(e);

        e = dom.createElement("role4");
        e.appendChild(dom.createTextNode(role4));
        rootEle.appendChild(e);

        dom.appendChild(rootEle);

        try {
            Transformer tr = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            tr.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            tr.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
            tr.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
            tr.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM, "roles.dtd");
            tr.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "4");

            // send DOM to file
            tr.transform(new DOMSource(dom), 
                                 new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream(xml)));

        } catch (TransformerException te) {
            System.out.println(te.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println(ioe.getMessage());
        }
    } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
        System.out.println("UsersXML: Error trying to instantiate DocumentBuilder " + pce);
    }
}

getTextValue is here:

private String getTextValue(String def, Element doc, String tag) {
    String value = def;
    NodeList nl;
    nl = doc.getElementsByTagName(tag);
    if (nl.getLength() > 0 && nl.item(0).hasChildNodes()) {
        value = nl.item(0).getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
    }
    return value;
}

Add a few accessors and mutators and you are done!

Nodejs cannot find installed module on Windows

For windows, everybody said you should set environment variables for nodejs and npm modules, but do you know why? For some modules, they have command line tool, after installed the module, there'are [module].cmd file in C:\Program Files\nodejs, and it's used for launch in window command. So if you don't add the path containing the cmd file to environment variables %PATH% , you won't launch them successfully through command window.

Copy / Put text on the clipboard with FireFox, Safari and Chrome

Firefox does allow you to store data in the clipboard, but due to security implications it is disabled by default. See how to enable it in "Granting JavaScript access to the clipboard" in the Mozilla Firefox knowledge base.

The solution offered by amdfan is the best if you are having a lot of users and configuring their browser isn't an option. Though you could test if the clipboard is available and provide a link for changing the settings, if the users are tech savvy. The JavaScript editor TinyMCE follows this approach.

CORS jQuery AJAX request

It's easy, you should set server http response header first. The problem is not with your front-end javascript code. You need to return this header:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*

or

Access-Control-Allow-Origin:your domain

In Apache config files, the code is like this:

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

In nodejs,the code is like this:

res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin','*');

Check whether a path is valid

private bool IsValidPath(string path)
{
    Regex driveCheck = new Regex(@"^[a-zA-Z]:\\$");
    if (!driveCheck.IsMatch(path.Substring(0, 3))) return false;
    string strTheseAreInvalidFileNameChars = new string(Path.GetInvalidPathChars());
    strTheseAreInvalidFileNameChars += @":/?*" + "\"";
    Regex containsABadCharacter = new Regex("[" + Regex.Escape(strTheseAreInvalidFileNameChars) + "]");
    if (containsABadCharacter.IsMatch(path.Substring(3, path.Length - 3)))
        return false;

    DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(Path.GetFullPath(path));
    if (!dir.Exists)
        dir.Create();
    return true;
}

How to resolve 'unrecognized selector sent to instance'?

Set flag -ObjC in Other linker Flag in your Project setting... (Not in the static library project but the project you that is using static library...) And make sure that in Project setting Configuration is set to All Configuration

IF EXISTS, THEN SELECT ELSE INSERT AND THEN SELECT

You need to do this in transaction to ensure two simultaneous clients won't insert same fieldValue twice:

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE
BEGIN TRANSACTION
    DECLARE @id AS INT
    SELECT @id = tableId FROM table WHERE fieldValue=@newValue
    IF @id IS NULL
    BEGIN
       INSERT INTO table (fieldValue) VALUES (@newValue)
       SELECT @id = SCOPE_IDENTITY()
    END
    SELECT @id
COMMIT TRANSACTION

you can also use Double-checked locking to reduce locking overhead

DECLARE @id AS INT
SELECT @id = tableID FROM table (NOLOCK) WHERE fieldValue=@newValue
IF @id IS NULL
BEGIN
    SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE
    BEGIN TRANSACTION
        SELECT @id = tableID FROM table WHERE fieldValue=@newValue
        IF @id IS NULL
        BEGIN
           INSERT INTO table (fieldValue) VALUES (@newValue)
           SELECT @id = SCOPE_IDENTITY()
        END
    COMMIT TRANSACTION
END
SELECT @id

As for why ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE is necessary, when you are inside a serializable transaction, the first SELECT that hits the table creates a range lock covering the place where the record should be, so nobody else can insert the same record until this transaction ends.

Without ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE, the default isolation level (READ COMMITTED) would not lock the table at read time, so between SELECT and UPDATE, somebody would still be able to insert. Transactions with READ COMMITTED isolation level do not cause SELECT to lock. Transactions with REPEATABLE READS lock the record (if found) but not the gap.

How to use <md-icon> in Angular Material?

All md- prefixes are now mat- prefixes as of time of writing this!

Put this in your html head:

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet">

Import in our module:

import { MatIconModule } from '@angular/material';

Use in your code:

<mat-icon>face</mat-icon>

Here is the latest documentation:

https://material.angular.io/components/icon/overview

C++ compile time error: expected identifier before numeric constant

Initializations with (...) in the class body is not allowed. Use {..} or = .... Unfortunately since the respective constructor is explicit and vector has an initializer list constructor, you need a functional cast to call the wanted constructor

vector<string> name = decltype(name)(5);
vector<int> val = decltype(val)(5,0);

As an alternative you can use constructor initializer lists

 Attribute():name(5), val(5, 0) {}

How to change color of SVG image using CSS (jQuery SVG image replacement)?

Since SVG is basically code, you need just contents. I used PHP to obtain content, but you can use whatever you want.

<?php
$content    = file_get_contents($pathToSVG);
?>

Then, I've printed content "as is" inside a div container

<div class="fill-class"><?php echo $content;?></div>

To finnaly set rule to container's SVG childs on CSS

.fill-class > svg { 
    fill: orange;
}

I got this results with a material icon SVG:

  1. Mozilla Firefox 59.0.2 (64-bit) Linux

enter image description here

  1. Google Chrome66.0.3359.181 (Build oficial) (64 bits) Linux

enter image description here

  1. Opera 53.0.2907.37 Linux

enter image description here

How to split and modify a string in NodeJS?

var str = "123, 124, 234,252";
var arr = str.split(",");
for(var i=0;i<arr.length;i++) {
    arr[i] = ++arr[i];
}

MySQL load NULL values from CSV data

MySQL manual says:

When reading data with LOAD DATA INFILE, empty or missing columns are updated with ''. If you want a NULL value in a column, you should use \N in the data file. The literal word “NULL” may also be used under some circumstances.

So you need to replace the blanks with \N like this:

1,2,3,4,5
1,2,3,\N,5
1,2,3

How to set Google Chrome in WebDriver

It was giving Illegal Exception.

My workaround with code:

public void dofirst(){
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\\Softwares\\selenium\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("http://www.facebook.com");
}

How to set timeout for a line of c# code

I use something like this (you should add code to deal with the various fails):

    var response = RunTaskWithTimeout<ReturnType>(
        (Func<ReturnType>)delegate { return SomeMethod(someInput); }, 30);


    /// <summary>
    /// Generic method to run a task on a background thread with a specific timeout, if the task fails,
    /// notifies a user
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T">Return type of function</typeparam>
    /// <param name="TaskAction">Function delegate for task to perform</param>
    /// <param name="TimeoutSeconds">Time to allow before task times out</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    private T RunTaskWithTimeout<T>(Func<T> TaskAction, int TimeoutSeconds)
    {
        Task<T> backgroundTask;

        try
        {
            backgroundTask = Task.Factory.StartNew(TaskAction);
            backgroundTask.Wait(new TimeSpan(0, 0, TimeoutSeconds));
        }
        catch (AggregateException ex)
        {
            // task failed
            var failMessage = ex.Flatten().InnerException.Message);
            return default(T);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // task failed
            var failMessage = ex.Message;
            return default(T);
        }

        if (!backgroundTask.IsCompleted)
        {
            // task timed out
            return default(T);
        }

        // task succeeded
        return backgroundTask.Result;
    }

Reorder / reset auto increment primary key

You may simply use this query

alter table abc auto_increment = 1;

How to make execution pause, sleep, wait for X seconds in R?

See help(Sys.sleep).

For example, from ?Sys.sleep

testit <- function(x)
{
    p1 <- proc.time()
    Sys.sleep(x)
    proc.time() - p1 # The cpu usage should be negligible
}
testit(3.7)

Yielding

> testit(3.7)
   user  system elapsed 
  0.000   0.000   3.704 

Multiple files upload (Array) with CodeIgniter 2.0

function imageUpload(){
            if ($this->input->post('submitImg') && !empty($_FILES['files']['name'])) {
                $filesCount = count($_FILES['files']['name']);
                $userID = $this->session->userdata('userID');
                $this->load->library('upload');

                $config['upload_path'] = './userdp/';
                $config['allowed_types'] = 'jpg|png|jpeg';
                $config['max_size'] = '9184928';
                $config['max_width']  = '5000';
                $config['max_height']  = '5000';

                $files = $_FILES;
                $cpt = count($_FILES['files']['name']);

                for($i = 0 ; $i < $cpt ; $i++){
                    $_FILES['files']['name']= $files['files']['name'][$i];
                    $_FILES['files']['type']= $files['files']['type'][$i];
                    $_FILES['files']['tmp_name']= $files['files']['tmp_name'][$i];
                    $_FILES['files']['error']= $files['files']['error'][$i];
                    $_FILES['files']['size']= $files['files']['size'][$i];    

                    $imageName = 'image_'.$userID.'_'.rand().'.png';

                    $config['file_name'] = $imageName;

                    $this->upload->initialize($config);
                    if($this->upload->do_upload('files')){
                        $fileData = $this->upload->data(); //it return
                        $uploadData[$i]['picturePath'] = $fileData['file_name'];
                    }
                }

                if (!empty($uploadData)) {
                    $imgInsert = $this->insert_model->insertImg($uploadData);
                    $statusMsg = $imgInsert?'Files uploaded successfully.':'Some problem occurred, please try again.';
                    $this->session->set_flashdata('statusMsg',$statusMsg);
                    redirect('home/user_dash');
                }
            }
            else{
                redirect('home/user_dash');
            }
        }

Make outer div be automatically the same height as its floating content

You may want to try self-closing floats, as detailed on http://www.sitepoint.com/simple-clearing-of-floats/

So perhaps try either overflow: auto (usually works), or overflow: hidden, as alex said.

Inserting HTML elements with JavaScript

As others said the convenient jQuery prepend functionality can be emulated:

var html = '<div>Hello prepended</div>';
document.body.innerHTML = html + document.body.innerHTML;

While some say it is better not to "mess" with innerHTML, it is reliable in many use cases, if you know this:

If a <div>, <span>, or <noembed> node has a child text node that includes the characters (&), (<), or (>), innerHTML returns these characters as &amp, &lt and &gt respectively. Use Node.textContent to get a correct copy of these text nodes' contents.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/innerHTML

Or:

var html = '<div>Hello prepended</div>';
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', html)

insertAdjacentHTML is probably a good alternative: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/insertAdjacentHTML

How to set default font family in React Native?

That works for me: Add Custom Font in React Native

download your fonts and place them in assets/fonts folder, add this line in package.json

 "rnpm": {
"assets": ["assets/fonts/Sarpanch"]}

then open terminal and run this command: react-native link

Now your are good to go. For more detailed step. visit the link above mentioned

Set Background cell color in PHPExcel

This always running!

$sheet->getActiveSheet()->getStyle('A1')->getFill()->getStartColor()->setRGB('FF0000');

How do I calculate power-of in C#?

The function you want is Math.Pow in System.Math.

Is there a Max function in SQL Server that takes two values like Math.Max in .NET?

For the answer above regarding large numbers, you could do the multiplication before the addition/subtraction. It's a bit bulkier but requires no cast. (I can't speak for speed but I assume it's still pretty quick)

SELECT 0.5 * ((@val1 + @val2) + ABS(@val1 - @val2))

Changes to

SELECT @val1*0.5+@val2*0.5 + ABS(@val1*0.5 - @val2*0.5)

at least an alternative if you want to avoid casting.

Sum across multiple columns with dplyr

dplyr >= 1.0.0 using across

sum up each row using rowSums (rowwise works for any aggreation, but is slower)

df %>%
   replace(is.na(.), 0) %>%
   mutate(sum = rowSums(across(where(is.numeric))))

sum down each column

df %>%
   summarise(across(everything(), ~ sum(., is.na(.), 0)))

dplyr < 1.0.0

sum up each row

df %>%
   replace(is.na(.), 0) %>%
   mutate(sum = rowSums(.[1:5]))

sum down each column using superseeded summarise_all:

df %>%
   replace(is.na(.), 0) %>%
   summarise_all(funs(sum))

What is considered a good response time for a dynamic, personalized web application?

I think you will find that if your web app is performing a complex operation then provided feedback is given to the user, they won't mind (too much).

For example: Loading Google Mail.

How can I show data using a modal when clicking a table row (using bootstrap)?

The solution from PSL will not work in Firefox. FF accepts event only as a formal parameter. So you have to find another way to identify the selected row. My solution is something like this:

...
$('#mySelector')
  .on('show.bs.modal', function(e) {
  var mid;


  if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('firefox') > -1) 
    mid = $(e.relatedTarget).data('id');
  else
    mid = $(event.target).closest('tr').data('id');

...

Import an existing git project into GitLab?

Moving a project from GitHub to GitLab including issues, pull requests Wiki, Milestones, Labels, Release notes and comments

There is a thorough instruction on GitLab Docs:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html

tl;dr

  • Ensure that any GitHub users who you want to map to GitLab users have either:

    • A GitLab account that has logged in using the GitHub icon - or -
    • A GitLab account with an email address that matches the public email address of the GitHub user
  • From the top navigation bar, click + and select New project.

  • Select the Import project tab and then select GitHub.
  • Select the first button to List your GitHub repositories. You are redirected to a page on github.com to authorize the GitLab application.
  • Click Authorize gitlabhq. You are redirected back to GitLab's Import page and all of your GitHub repositories are listed.
  • Continue on to selecting which repositories to import.

But Please read the GitLab Docs page for details and hooks!

(it's not much)

rejected master -> master (non-fast-forward)

If anyone has this error while trying to push to heroku then just replace 'origin' with 'heroku' like this: git push -f heroku master

denied: requested access to the resource is denied : docker

To those trying pushing the image to their own Nexus Repository Manager, do the below:

1) Login to your Nexus Repository Manager (Port 8443 is associated with a specific Docker host Repository)

sudo docker login xxx.mydomain.com:8443

2) Tag the image WITH YOUR NEXUS SERVER IP/DNS

sudo docker tag myimage:latest xxx.mydomain.com:8443/myimage:1.0.0

3) Push the image

sudo docker push xxx.mydomain.com:8443/myimage:1.0.0

What "wmic bios get serialnumber" actually retrieves?

run cmd

Enter wmic baseboard get product,version,serialnumber

Press the enter key. The result you see under serial number column is your motherboard serial number

image.onload event and browser cache

If the src is already set then the event is firing in the cached case before you even get the event handler bound. So, you should trigger the event based off .complete also.

code sample:

$("img").one("load", function() {
   //do stuff
}).each(function() {
   if(this.complete || /*for IE 10-*/ $(this).height() > 0)
     $(this).load();
});

How to detect online/offline event cross-browser?

Currently in 2011, the various browser vendors cannot agree on how to define offline. Some browsers have a Work Offline feature, which they consider separate to a lack of network access, which again is different to internet access. The whole thing is a mess. Some browser vendors update the navigator.onLine flag when actual network access is lost, others don't.

From the spec:

Returns false if the user agent is definitely offline (disconnected from the network). Returns true if the user agent might be online.

The events online and offline are fired when the value of this attribute changes.

The navigator.onLine attribute must return false if the user agent will not contact the network when the user follows links or when a script requests a remote page (or knows that such an attempt would fail), and must return true otherwise.

Finally, the spec notes:

This attribute is inherently unreliable. A computer can be connected to a network without having Internet access.

What does "Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead" mean?

That's really an informational message.

Likely, you're doing OPTIMIZE on an InnoDB table (table using the InnoDB storage engine, rather than the MyISAM storage engine).

InnoDB doesn't support the OPTIMIZE the way MyISAM does. It does something different. It creates an empty table, and copies all of the rows from the existing table into it, and essentially deletes the old table and renames the new table, and then runs an ANALYZE to gather statistics. That's the closest that InnoDB can get to doing an OPTIMIZE.

The message you are getting is basically MySQL server repeating what the InnoDB storage engine told MySQL server:

Table does not support optimize is the InnoDB storage engine saying...

"I (the InnoDB storage engine) don't do an OPTIMIZE operation like my friend (the MyISAM storage engine) does."

"doing recreate + analyze instead" is the InnoDB storage engine saying...

"I have decided to perform a different set of operations which will achieve an equivalent result."

How to add new line into txt file

Why not do it with one method call:

File.AppendAllLines("file.txt", new[] { DateTime.Now.ToString() });

which will do the newline for you, and allow you to insert multiple lines at once if you want.

Errors in SQL Server while importing CSV file despite varchar(MAX) being used for each column

Goto Advanced tab----> data type of column---> Here change data type from DT_STR to DT_TEXT and column width 255. Now you can check it will work perfectly.

jQuery - simple input validation - "empty" and "not empty"

    jQuery("#input").live('change', function() {
        // since we check more than once against the value, place it in a var.
        var inputvalue = $("#input").attr("value");

        // if it's value **IS NOT** ""
        if(inputvalue !== "") {
            jQuery(this).css('outline', 'solid 1px red'); 
        }   

        // else if it's value **IS** ""
        else if(inputvalue === "") {
            alert('empty'); 
        }

    });

SSLHandshakeException: No subject alternative names present

Unlike some browsers, Java follows the HTTPS specification strictly when it comes to the server identity verification (RFC 2818, Section 3.1) and IP addresses.

When using a host name, it's possible to fall back to the Common Name in the Subject DN of the server certificate, instead of using the Subject Alternative Name.

When using an IP address, there must be a Subject Alternative Name entry (of type IP address, not DNS name) in the certificate.

You'll find more details about the specification and how to generate such a certificate in this answer.

Clean up a fork and restart it from the upstream

The simplest solution would be (using 'upstream' as the remote name referencing the original repo forked):

git remote add upstream /url/to/original/repo
git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git reset --hard upstream/master  
git push origin master --force 

(Similar to this GitHub page, section "What should I do if I’m in a bad situation?")

Be aware that you can lose changes done on the master branch (both locally, because of the reset --hard, and on the remote side, because of the push --force).

An alternative would be, if you want to preserve your commits on master, to replay those commits on top of the current upstream/master.
Replace the reset part by a git rebase upstream/master. You will then still need to force push.
See also "What should I do if I’m in a bad situation?"


A more complete solution, backing up your current work (just in case) is detailed in "Cleanup git master branch and move some commit to new branch".

See also "Pull new updates from original GitHub repository into forked GitHub repository" for illustrating what "upstream" is.

upstream


Note: recent GitHub repos do protect the master branch against push --force.
So you will have to un-protect master first (see picture below), and then re-protect it after force-pushing).

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Note: on GitHub specifically, there is now (February 2019) a shortcut to delete forked repos for pull requests that have been merged upstream.

Transfer data from one HTML file to another

The old fashioned way of setting a global variable that persist between pages is to set the data in a Cookie. The modern way is to use Local Storage, which has a good browser support (IE8+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 4+, Android 2+, iPhone 2+). Using localStorage is as easy as using an array:

localStorage["key"] = value;

... in another page ...
value = localStorage["key"];

You can also attach event handlers to listen for changes, though the event API is slightly different between browsers. More on the topic.

IntelliJ Organize Imports

Ctrl + Alt + O (Code ? Optimize Imports...) is what you're looking for, both on Windows/Linux and macOS keymaps.

It says "Optimize", but, if configured to do so, it will also:

  • organize existing imports
  • remove unneeded imports
  • add new required imports
  • add unambiguous imports on the fly

You can tune the auto-import settings under "Settings ? Editor ? General ? Auto Import" as described by Dave.

You can also modify how the imports are auto-ordered under "Settings ? Editor ? Code Style ? Java ? Imports"

Does Spring Data JPA have any way to count entites using method name resolving?

Working example

@Repository
public interface TenantRepository extends JpaRepository< Tenant, Long > {
    List<Tenant>findByTenantName(String tenantName,Pageable pageRequest);
    long countByTenantName(String tenantName);
}

Calling from DAO layer

@Override
public long countByTenantName(String tenantName) {
    return repository.countByTenantName(tenantName);
}

Using jquery to get all checked checkboxes with a certain class name

Simple way to get all of values into an array

var valores = (function () {
    var valor = [];
    $('input.className[type=checkbox]').each(function () {
        if (this.checked)
            valor.push($(this).val());
    });
    return valor;

})();

console.log(valores);

How to ignore a particular directory or file for tslint?

There are others who encountered the problem. Unfortunately, there is only an open issue for excluding files: https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/73

So I'm afraid the answer is no.

How to create two columns on a web page?

I found a real cool Grid which I also use for columns. Check it out Simple Grid. Wich this CSS you can simply use:

<div class="grid">
    <div class="col-1-2">
       <div class="content">
           <p>...insert content left side...</p>
       </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-1-2">
       <div class="content">
           <p>...insert content right side...</p>
       </div>
    </div>
</div>

I use it for all my projects.

How to call a method after a delay in Android

A suitable solution in android:

private static long SLEEP_TIME = 2 // for 2 second
.
.
MyLauncher launcher = new MyLauncher();
            launcher.start();
.
.
private class MyLauncher extends Thread {
        @Override
        /**
         * Sleep for 2 seconds as you can also change SLEEP_TIME 2 to any. 
         */
        public void run() {
            try {
                // Sleeping
                Thread.sleep(SLEEP_TIME * 1000);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage());
            }
            //do something you want to do
           //And your code will be executed after 2 second
        }
    }

is there a css hack for safari only NOT chrome?

You can use a media-query hack to select Safari 6.1-7.0 from other browsers.

@media \\0 screen {}

Disclaimer: This hack also targets old Chrome versions (before July 2013).

React - changing an uncontrolled input

Another approach it could be setting the default value inside your input, like this:

 <input name="name" type="text" value={this.state.name || ''} onChange={this.onFieldChange('name').bind(this)}/>

IF - ELSE IF - ELSE Structure in Excel

Say P7 is a Cell then you can use the following Syntex to check the value of the cell and assign appropriate value to another cell based on this following nested if:

=IF(P7=0,200,IF(P7=1,100,IF(P7=2,25,IF(P7=3,10,IF((P7=4),5,0)))))

Bootstrap 3.0 Popovers and tooltips

You have a syntax error in your script and, as noted by xXPhenom22Xx, you must instantiate the tooltip.

<script type="text/javascript">

    $(document).ready(function() {

        $('.btn-danger').tooltip();

    }); //END $(document).ready()

</script>

Note that I used your class "btn-danger". You can create a different class, or use an id="someidthatimakeup".

Compare two objects in Java with possible null values

OK, so what does "best possible solution" mean?

If you mean most readable, then all the possible solutions are pretty much equivalent for an experienced Java programmer. But IMO the most readable is this

 public boolean compareStringsOrNulls(String str1, String str2) {
     // Implement it how you like
 }

In other words, hide the implementation inside a simple method that (ideally) can be inlined.

(You could also "out-source" to a 3rd party utility library ... if you already use it in your codebase.)


If you mean most performant, then:

  1. the most performant solution depends on the platform and the context,
  2. one of the "context" issues is the relative (dynamic) frequency of occurrence of null arguments,
  3. it probably doesn't matter which version is faster ... because the difference is probably too small to make a difference to the overall application performance, and
  4. if it does matter, the only way to figure out which is fastest ON YOUR PLATFORM is to try both versions and measure the difference.

Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in

The problem is your query returned false meaning there was an error in your query. After your query you could do the following:

if (!$result) {
    die(mysqli_error($link));
}

Or you could combine it with your query:

$results = mysqli_query($link, $query) or die(mysqli_error($link));

That will print out your error.

Also... you need to sanitize your input. You can't just take user input and put that into a query. Try this:

$query = "SELECT * FROM shopsy_db WHERE name LIKE '%" . mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $searchTerm) . "%'";

In reply to: Table 'sookehhh_shopsy_db.sookehhh_shopsy_db' doesn't exist

Are you sure the table name is sookehhh_shopsy_db? maybe it's really like users or something.

HTML checkbox - allow to check only one checkbox

sapSet = mbo.getThisMboSet()
sapCount = sapSet.count()
saplist = []

if sapCount > 1:
   for i in range(sapCount):`enter code here`
     defaultCheck = sapSet.getMbo(i)
     saplist.append(defaultCheck.getInt("HNADEFACC"))
   defCount = saplist.count(1)
   if defCount > 1:
      errorgroup = " Please Note: you are allowed"
      errorkey = "  only One Default Account"
   if defCount < 1:
      errorgroup = " Please enter "
      errorkey = "  at leat One Default Account"
else:
   mbo.setValue("HNADEFACC",1,MboConstants.NOACCESSCHECK)

How can I match multiple occurrences with a regex in JavaScript similar to PHP's preg_match_all()?

Well... I had a similar problem... I want an incremental / step search with RegExp (eg: start search... do some processing... continue search until last match)

After lots of internet search... like always (this is turning an habit now) I end up in StackOverflow and found the answer...

Whats is not referred and matters to mention is "lastIndex" I now understand why the RegExp object implements the "lastIndex" property

What is the proper way to URL encode Unicode characters?

IRIs do not replace URIs, because only URIs (effectively, ASCII) are permissible in some contexts -- including HTTP.

Instead, you specify an IRI and it gets transformed into a URI when going out on the wire.

Please explain the exec() function and its family

exec is often used in conjunction with fork, which I saw that you also asked about, so I will discuss this with that in mind.

exec turns the current process into another program. If you ever watched Doctor Who, then this is like when he regenerates -- his old body is replaced with a new body.

The way that this happens with your program and exec is that a lot of the resources that the OS kernel checks to see if the file you are passing to exec as the program argument (first argument) is executable by the current user (user id of the process making the exec call) and if so it replaces the virtual memory mapping of the current process with a virtual memory the new process and copies the argv and envp data that were passed in the exec call into an area of this new virtual memory map. Several other things may also happen here, but the files that were open for the program that called exec will still be open for the new program and they will share the same process ID, but the program that called exec will cease (unless exec failed).

The reason that this is done this way is that by separating running a new program into two steps like this you can do some things between the two steps. The most common thing to do is to make sure that the new program has certain files opened as certain file descriptors. (remember here that file descriptors are not the same as FILE *, but are int values that the kernel knows about). Doing this you can:

int X = open("./output_file.txt", O_WRONLY);

pid_t fk = fork();
if (!fk) { /* in child */
    dup2(X, 1); /* fd 1 is standard output,
                   so this makes standard out refer to the same file as X  */
    close(X);

    /* I'm using execl here rather than exec because
       it's easier to type the arguments. */
    execl("/bin/echo", "/bin/echo", "hello world");
    _exit(127); /* should not get here */
} else if (fk == -1) {
    /* An error happened and you should do something about it. */
    perror("fork"); /* print an error message */
}
close(X); /* The parent doesn't need this anymore */

This accomplishes running:

/bin/echo "hello world" > ./output_file.txt

from the command shell.

How to delete files/subfolders in a specific directory at the command prompt in Windows

rmdir is my all time favorite command for the job. It works for deleting huge files and folders with subfolders. A backup is not created, so make sure that you have copied your files safely before running this command.

RMDIR "FOLDERNAME" /S /Q

This silently removes the folder and all files and subfolders.

How to check for a valid Base64 encoded string

I know you said you didn't want to catch an exception. But, because catching an exception is more reliable, I will go ahead and post this answer.

public static bool IsBase64(this string base64String) {
     // Credit: oybek https://stackoverflow.com/users/794764/oybek
     if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(base64String) || base64String.Length % 4 != 0
        || base64String.Contains(" ") || base64String.Contains("\t") || base64String.Contains("\r") || base64String.Contains("\n"))
        return false;

     try{
         Convert.FromBase64String(base64String);
         return true;
     }
     catch(Exception exception){
     // Handle the exception
     }
     return false;
}

Update: I've updated the condition thanks to oybek to further improve reliability.

UIView bottom border?

Implemented in a category as below:

UIButton+Border.h:

@interface UIButton (Border)

- (void)addBottomBorderWithColor: (UIColor *) color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth;

- (void)addLeftBorderWithColor: (UIColor *) color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth;

- (void)addRightBorderWithColor: (UIColor *) color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth;

- (void)addTopBorderWithColor: (UIColor *) color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth;

@end

UIButton+Border.m:

@implementation UIButton (Border)

- (void)addTopBorderWithColor:(UIColor *)color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth {
    CALayer *border = [CALayer layer];
    border.backgroundColor = color.CGColor;

    border.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, borderWidth);
    [self.layer addSublayer:border];
}

- (void)addBottomBorderWithColor:(UIColor *)color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth {
    CALayer *border = [CALayer layer];
    border.backgroundColor = color.CGColor;

    border.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.frame.size.height - borderWidth, self.frame.size.width, borderWidth);
    [self.layer addSublayer:border];
}

- (void)addLeftBorderWithColor:(UIColor *)color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth {
    CALayer *border = [CALayer layer];
    border.backgroundColor = color.CGColor;

    border.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, borderWidth, self.frame.size.height);
    [self.layer addSublayer:border];
}

- (void)addRightBorderWithColor:(UIColor *)color andWidth:(CGFloat) borderWidth {
    CALayer *border = [CALayer layer];
    border.backgroundColor = color.CGColor;

    border.frame = CGRectMake(self.frame.size.width - borderWidth, 0, borderWidth, self.frame.size.height);
    [self.layer addSublayer:border];
}

@end

@import vs #import - iOS 7

It's a new feature called Modules or "semantic import". There's more info in the WWDC 2013 videos for Session 205 and 404. It's kind of a better implementation of the pre-compiled headers. You can use modules with any of the system frameworks in iOS 7 and Mavericks. Modules are a packaging together of the framework executable and its headers and are touted as being safer and more efficient than #import.

One of the big advantages of using @import is that you don't need to add the framework in the project settings, it's done automatically. That means that you can skip the step where you click the plus button and search for the framework (golden toolbox), then move it to the "Frameworks" group. It will save many developers from the cryptic "Linker error" messages.

You don't actually need to use the @import keyword. If you opt-in to using modules, all #import and #include directives are mapped to use @import automatically. That means that you don't have to change your source code (or the source code of libraries that you download from elsewhere). Supposedly using modules improves the build performance too, especially if you haven't been using PCHs well or if your project has many small source files.

Modules are pre-built for most Apple frameworks (UIKit, MapKit, GameKit, etc). You can use them with frameworks you create yourself: they are created automatically if you create a Swift framework in Xcode, and you can manually create a ".modulemap" file yourself for any Apple or 3rd-party library.

You can use code-completion to see the list of available frameworks:

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Modules are enabled by default in new projects in Xcode 5. To enable them in an older project, go into your project build settings, search for "Modules" and set "Enable Modules" to "YES". The "Link Frameworks" should be "YES" too:

You have to be using Xcode 5 and the iOS 7 or Mavericks SDK, but you can still release for older OSs (say iOS 4.3 or whatever). Modules don't change how your code is built or any of the source code.


From the WWDC slides:

  • Imports complete semantic description of a framework
  • Doesn't need to parse the headers
  • Better way to import a framework’s interface
  • Loads binary representation
  • More flexible than precompiled headers
  • Immune to effects of local macro definitions (e.g. #define readonly 0x01)
  • Enabled for new projects by default

To explicitly use modules:

Replace #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> with @import Cocoa;

You can also import just one header with this notation:

@import iAd.ADBannerView;

The submodules autocomplete for you in Xcode.

Best way to parseDouble with comma as decimal separator?

If you don't know the correct Locale and the string can have a thousand separator this could be a last resort:

    doubleStrIn = doubleStrIn.replaceAll("[^\\d,\\.]++", "");
    if (doubleStrIn.matches(".+\\.\\d+,\\d+$"))
        return Double.parseDouble(doubleStrIn.replaceAll("\\.", "").replaceAll(",", "."));
    if (doubleStrIn.matches(".+,\\d+\\.\\d+$"))
        return Double.parseDouble(doubleStrIn.replaceAll(",", ""));
    return Double.parseDouble(doubleStrIn.replaceAll(",", "."));

Be aware: this will happily parse strings like "R 1 52.43,2" to "15243.2".

Java ElasticSearch None of the configured nodes are available

This means we are not able to instantiate ES transportClient and throw this exception. There are couple of possibilities that cause this issue.

  • Cluster name is incorrect. So open ES_HOME_DIR/config/elasticserach.yml file and check the cluster name value OR use this command: curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes'
  • Verify port 9200 is http port but elasticsearch service is using tcp port 9300 [by default]. So verify that the port is not blocked.
  • Authentication issue: set the header in transportClient's context for authentication:

    client.threadPool().getThreadContext()
      .putHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encodeBase64String(basicHeader.getBytes()));
    

If you are still facing this issue then add the following property:

put("client.transport.ignore_cluster_name", true)

The below basic code is working fine for me:

Settings settings = Settings.builder()
            .put("cluster.name", "my-application").put("client.transport.sniff", true).put("client.transport.ignore_cluster_name", false).build();
    TransportClient client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(settings).addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName("127.0.0.1"), 9300));

Is there a way to take the first 1000 rows of a Spark Dataframe?

Limit is very simple, example limit first 50 rows

val df_subset = data.limit(50)

Java: how to represent graphs?

Time ago I had the same problem and did my own implementation. What I suggest you is to implement another class: Edge. Then, a Vertex will have a List of Edge.

public class Edge {
    private Node a, b;
    private directionEnum direction;     // AB, BA or both
    private int weight;
    ...
}

It worked for me. But maybe is so simple. There is this library that maybe can help you if you look into its code: http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net/

React img tag issue with url and class

var Hello = React.createClass({
    render: function() {
      return (
        <div className="divClass">
           <img src={this.props.url} alt={`${this.props.title}'s picture`}  className="img-responsive" />
           <span>Hello {this.props.name}</span>
        </div>
      );
    }
});

How do I find the size of a struct?

Contrary to what some of the other answers have said, on most systems, in the absence of a pragma or compiler option, the size of the structure will be at least 6 bytes and, on most 32-bit systems, 8 bytes. For 64-bit systems, the size could easily be 16 bytes. Alignment does come into play; always. The sizeof a single struct has to be such that an array of those sizes can be allocated and the individual members of the array are sufficiently aligned for the processor in question. Consequently, if the size of the struct was 5 as others have hypothesized, then an array of two such structures would be 10 bytes long, and the char pointer in the second array member would be aligned on an odd byte, which would (on most processors) cause a major bottleneck in the performance.

How do I rename a file using VBScript?

Yes you can do that.
Here I am renaming a .exe file to .txt file

rename a file

Dim objFso  
Set objFso= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")  
objFso.MoveFile "D:\testvbs\autorun.exe", "D:\testvbs\autorun.txt"

How do you check in python whether a string contains only numbers?

As every time I encounter an issue with the check is because the str can be None sometimes, and if the str can be None, only use str.isdigit() is not enough as you will get an error

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'isdigit'

and then you need to first validate the str is None or not. To avoid a multi-if branch, a clear way to do this is:

if str and str.isdigit():

Hope this helps for people have the same issue like me.

The CSRF token is invalid. Please try to resubmit the form

I hade the same issue recently, and my case was something that's not mentioned here yet:

The problem was I was testing it on localhost domain. I'm not sure why exactly was this an issue, but it started to work after I added a host name alias for localhost into /etc/hosts like this:

127.0.0.1        foobar

There's probably something wrong with the session while using Apache and localhost as a domain. If anyone can elaborate in the comments I'd be happy to edit this answer to include more details.

Expected block end YAML error

This error also occurs if you use four-space instead of two-space indentation.

e.g., the following would throw the error:

fields:
    - metadata: {}
        name: colName
        nullable: true

whereas changing indentation to two-spaces would fix it:

fields:
  - metadata: {}
    name: colName
    nullable: true

wildcard * in CSS for classes

Yes you can do this.

*[id^='term-']{
    [css here]
}

This will select all ids that start with 'term-'.

As for the reason for not doing this, I see where it would be preferable to select this way; as for style, I wouldn't do it myself, but it's possible.

Different color for each bar in a bar chart; ChartJS

After looking into the Chart.Bar.js file I've managed to find the solution. I've used this function to generate a random color:

function getRandomColor() {
    var letters = '0123456789ABCDEF'.split('');
    var color = '#';
    for (var i = 0; i < 6; i++ ) {
        color += letters[Math.floor(Math.random() * 16)];
    }
    return color;
}

I've added it to the end of the file and i called this function right inside the "fillColor:" under

helpers.each(dataset.data,function(dataPoint,index){
                    //Add a new point for each piece of data, passing any required data to draw.

so now it looks like this:

helpers.each(dataset.data,function(dataPoint,index){
                    //Add a new point for each piece of data, passing any required data to draw.

                    datasetObject.bars.push(new this.BarClass({
                        value : dataPoint,
                        label : data.labels[index],
                        datasetLabel: dataset.label,
                        strokeColor : dataset.strokeColor,
                        fillColor : getRandomColor(),
                        highlightFill : dataset.highlightFill || dataset.fillColor,
                        highlightStroke : dataset.highlightStroke || dataset.strokeColor
                    }));
                },this);

and it works I get different color for each bar.

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.62.dylib error running php after installing node with brew on Mac

I solved int by updating all the R packages:

update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)

Return list of items in list greater than some value

A list comprehension is a simple approach:

j2 = [x for x in j if x >= 5]

Alternately, you can use filter for the exact same result:

j2 = filter(lambda x: x >= 5, j)

Note that the original list j is unmodified.

GCM with PHP (Google Cloud Messaging)

After searching for a long time finally I am able to figure out what I exactly needed, Connecting to the GCM using PHP as a server side scripting language, The following tutorial will give us a clear idea of how to setup everything we need to get started with GCM

Android Push Notifications using Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), PHP and MySQL

How do I copy to the clipboard in JavaScript?

If you want a really simple solution (takes less than 5 minutes to integrate) and looks good right out of the box, then Clippy is a nice alternative to some of the more complex solutions.

It was written by a cofounder of GitHub. Example Flash embed code below:

<object
    classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
    width="110"
    height="14"
    id="clippy">

    <param name="movie" value="/flash/clippy.swf"/>
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/>
    <param name="quality" value="high"/>
    <param name="scale" value="noscale"/>
    <param NAME="FlashVars" value="text=#{text}"/>
    <param name="bgcolor" value="#{bgcolor}"/>
    <embed
        src="/flash/clippy.swf"
        width="110"
        height="14"
        name="clippy"
        quality="high"
        allowScriptAccess="always"
        type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
        pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
        FlashVars="text=#{text}"
        bgcolor="#{bgcolor}"/>
</object>

Remember to replace #{text} with the text you need copied, and #{bgcolor} with a color.

error UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

I had a similar issue and searched all the internet for this problem

if you have this problem just copy your HTML code in a new HTML file and use the normal <meta charset="UTF-8"> and it will work....

just create a new HTML file in the same location and use a different name

How can I write variables inside the tasks file in ansible

Variable definitions are meant to be used in tasks. But if you want to include them in tasks probably use the register directive. Like this:

- name: Define variable in task.
  shell: echo "http://www.my.url.com"
  register: url

- name: Download apache
  shell: wget {{ item }}
  with_items: url.stdout

You can also look at roles as a way of separating tasks depending on the different roles roles. This way you can have separate variables for each of one of your roles. For example you may have a url variable for apache1 and a separate url variable for the role apache2.

How to get phpmyadmin username and password

I had a problem with this. I didn't even create any passwords so I was confused. I googled it and I found out that I should just write root as username and than click GO. I hope it helps.

jQuery Change event on an <input> element - any way to retain previous value?

I created these functions based on Joey Guerra's suggestion, thank you for that. I'm elaborating a little bit, perhaps someone can use it. The first function checkDefaults() is called when an input changes, the second is called when the form is submitted using jQuery.post. div.updatesubmit is my submit button, and class 'needsupdate' is an indicator that an update is made but not yet submitted.

function checkDefaults() {
    var changed = false;
        jQuery('input').each(function(){
            if(this.defaultValue != this.value) {
                changed = true;
            }
        });
        if(changed === true) {
            jQuery('div.updatesubmit').addClass("needsupdate");
        } else {
            jQuery('div.updatesubmit').removeClass("needsupdate");
        }
}

function renewDefaults() {
        jQuery('input').each(function(){
            this.defaultValue = this.value;
        });
        jQuery('div.updatesubmit').removeClass("needsupdate");
}

How to read a file from jar in Java?

Check first your class loader.

ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();

if (classLoader == null) {
    classLoader = Class.class.getClassLoader();
}

classLoader.getResourceAsStream("xmlFileNameInJarFile.xml");

// xml file location at xxx.jar
// + folder
// + folder
// xmlFileNameInJarFile.xml

Laravel is there a way to add values to a request array

Referring to Alexey Mezenin answer:

While using his answer, I had to add something directly to the Request Object and used:

$request->request->add(['variable', 'value']);

Using this it adds two variables :

$request[0] = 'variable', $request[1] = 'value'

If you are a newbie like me and you needed an associate array the correct way to do is

$request->request->add(['variable' => 'value']);

Hope I saved your some time

PS: Thank you @Alexey, you really helped me out with your answer

Angular2: How to load data before rendering the component?

update

original

When console.log(this.ev) is executed after this.fetchEvent();, this doesn't mean the fetchEvent() call is done, this only means that it is scheduled. When console.log(this.ev) is executed, the call to the server is not even made and of course has not yet returned a value.

Change fetchEvent() to return a Promise

     fetchEvent(){
        return  this._apiService.get.event(this.eventId).then(event => {
            this.ev = event;
            console.log(event); // Has a value
            console.log(this.ev); // Has a value
        });
     }

change ngOnInit() to wait for the Promise to complete

    ngOnInit() {
        this.fetchEvent().then(() =>
        console.log(this.ev)); // Now has value;
    }

This actually won't buy you much for your use case.

My suggestion: Wrap your entire template in an <div *ngIf="isDataAvailable"> (template content) </div>

and in ngOnInit()

    isDataAvailable:boolean = false;

    ngOnInit() {
        this.fetchEvent().then(() =>
        this.isDataAvailable = true); // Now has value;
    }

ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError Explained

In my case, I had this problem in my spec file, while running my tests.

I had to change ngIf to [hidden]

<app-loading *ngIf="isLoading"></app-loading>

to

<app-loading [hidden]="!isLoading"></app-loading>

How do I view an older version of an SVN file?

Using the latest versions of Subclipse, you can actually view them without using the cmd prompt. On the file, simply right-click => Team => Switch to another branch/tag/revision. Besides the revision field, you click select, and you'll see all the versions of that file.

How to split an integer into an array of digits?

I'd rather not turn an integer into a string, so here's the function I use for this:

def digitize(n, base=10):
    if n == 0:
        yield 0
    while n:
        n, d = divmod(n, base)
        yield d

Examples:

tuple(digitize(123456789)) == (9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
tuple(digitize(0b1101110, 2)) == (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1)
tuple(digitize(0x123456789ABCDEF, 16)) == (15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)

As you can see, this will yield digits from right to left. If you'd like the digits from left to right, you'll need to create a sequence out of it, then reverse it:

reversed(tuple(digitize(x)))

You can also use this function for base conversion as you split the integer. The following example splits a hexadecimal number into binary nibbles as tuples:

import itertools as it
tuple(it.zip_longest(*[digitize(0x123456789ABCDEF, 2)]*4, fillvalue=0)) == ((1, 1, 1, 1), (0, 1, 1, 1), (1, 0, 1, 1), (0, 0, 1, 1), (1, 1, 0, 1), (0, 1, 0, 1), (1, 0, 0, 1), (0, 0, 0, 1), (1, 1, 1, 0), (0, 1, 1, 0), (1, 0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1, 0), (1, 1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0), (1, 0, 0, 0))

Note that this method doesn't handle decimals, but could be adapted to.

matplotlib savefig in jpeg format

I just updated matplotlib to 1.1.0 on my system and it now allows me to save to jpg with savefig.

To upgrade to matplotlib 1.1.0 with pip, use this command:

pip install -U 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.0/matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.gz/download'

EDIT (to respond to comment):

pylab is simply an aggregation of the matplotlib.pyplot and numpy namespaces (as well as a few others) jinto a single namespace.

On my system, pylab is just this:

from matplotlib.pylab import *
import matplotlib.pylab
__doc__ = matplotlib.pylab.__doc__

You can see that pylab is just another namespace in your matplotlib installation. Therefore, it doesn't matter whether or not you import it with pylab or with matplotlib.pyplot.

If you are still running into problem, then I'm guessing the macosx backend doesn't support saving plots to jpg. You could try using a different backend. See here for more information.

How to load images dynamically (or lazily) when users scrolls them into view

(Edit: replaced broken links with archived copies)

Dave Artz of AOL gave a great talk on optimization at jQuery Conference Boston last year. AOL uses a tool called Sonar for on-demand loading based on scroll position. Check the code for the particulars of how it compares scrollTop (and others) to the element offset to detect if part or all of the element is visible.

jQuery Sonar

Dave talks about Sonar in these slides. Sonar starts on slide 46, while the overall "load on demand" discussion starts on slide 33.

NoSql vs Relational database

Not all data is relational. For those situations, NoSQL can be helpful.

With that said, NoSQL stands for "Not Only SQL". It's not intended to knock SQL or supplant it.

SQL has several very big advantages:

  1. Strong mathematical basis.
  2. Declarative syntax.
  3. A well-known language in Structured Query Language (SQL).

Those haven't gone away.

It's a mistake to think about this as an either/or argument. NoSQL is an alternative that people need to consider when it fits, that's all.

Documents can be stored in non-relational databases, like CouchDB.

Maybe reading this will help.

Download file through an ajax call php

AJAX isn't for downloading files. Pop up a new window with the download link as its address, or do document.location = ....

No notification sound when sending notification from firebase in android

do like this

@Override
public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {

    //codes..,.,,

    Uri sound= RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
        builder.setSound(sound);

}

Catch error if iframe src fails to load . Error :-"Refused to display 'http://www.google.co.in/' in a frame.."

I solved it with window.length. But with this solution you can take current error (X-Frame or 404).

iframe.onload = event => {
   const isLoaded = event.target.contentWindow.window.length // 0 or 1
}

MSDN

Using Thymeleaf when the value is null

   <p data-th-text ="${#strings.defaultString(yourNullable,'defaultValueIfYourValueIsNull')}"></p>

MongoDB query with an 'or' condition

Query objects in Mongo by default AND expressions together. Mongo currently does not include an OR operator for such queries, however there are ways to express such queries.

Use "in" or "where".

Its gonna be something like this:

db.mycollection.find( { $where : function() { 
return ( this.startTime < Now() && this.expireTime > Now() || this.expireTime == null ); } } );

Javascript - remove an array item by value

Here are some helper functions I use:

Array.contains = function (arr, key) {
    for (var i = arr.length; i--;) {
        if (arr[i] === key) return true;
    }
    return false;
};

Array.add = function (arr, key, value) {
    for (var i = arr.length; i--;) {
        if (arr[i] === key) return arr[key] = value;
    }
    this.push(key);
};

Array.remove = function (arr, key) {
    for (var i = arr.length; i--;) {
        if (arr[i] === key) return arr.splice(i, 1);
    }
};

How to check if element is visible after scrolling?

jQuery Waypoints plugin goes very nice here.

$('.entry').waypoint(function() {
   alert('You have scrolled to an entry.');
});

There are some examples on the site of the plugin.

Is it possible to indent JavaScript code in Notepad++?

I think you want a code beautifier, this one looks quick and easy: http://jsbeautifier.org/

How does autowiring work in Spring?

Spring dependency inject help you to remove coupling from your classes. Instead of creating object like this:

UserService userService = new UserServiceImpl();

You will be using this after introducing DI:

@Autowired
private UserService userService;

For achieving this you need to create a bean of your service in your ServiceConfiguration file. After that you need to import that ServiceConfiguration class to your WebApplicationConfiguration class so that you can autowire that bean into your Controller like this:

public class AccController {

    @Autowired
    private UserService userService;
} 

You can find a java configuration based POC here example.

Mixing C# & VB In The Same Project

Walkthrough: Using Multiple Programming Languages in a Web Site Project http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366714.aspx

By default, the App_Code folder does not allow multiple programming languages. However, in a Web site project you can modify your folder structure and configuration settings to support multiple programming languages such as Visual Basic and C#. This allows ASP.NET to create multiple assemblies, one for each language. For more information, see Shared Code Folders in ASP.NET Web Projects. Developers commonly include multiple programming languages in Web applications to support multiple development teams that operate independently and prefer different programming languages.

How do I update a Mongo document after inserting it?

This is an old question, but I stumbled onto this when looking for the answer so I wanted to give the update to the answer for reference.

The methods save and update are deprecated.

save(to_save, manipulate=True, check_keys=True, **kwargs)¶ Save a document in this collection.

DEPRECATED - Use insert_one() or replace_one() instead.

Changed in version 3.0: Removed the safe parameter. Pass w=0 for unacknowledged write operations.

update(spec, document, upsert=False, manipulate=False, multi=False, check_keys=True, **kwargs) Update a document(s) in this collection.

DEPRECATED - Use replace_one(), update_one(), or update_many() instead.

Changed in version 3.0: Removed the safe parameter. Pass w=0 for unacknowledged write operations.

in the OPs particular case, it's better to use replace_one.

Printing Even and Odd using two Threads in Java

I could not understand most of the codes that were here so I wrote myself one, maybe it helps someone like me:

NOTE: This does not use separate print even and odd method. One method print() does it all.

public class test {

    private static int START_INT = 1;
    private static int STOP_INT = 10;
    private static String THREAD_1 = "Thread A";
    private static String THREAD_2 = "Thread B";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SynchronizedRepository syncRep = new SynchronizedRepository(START_INT,STOP_INT);
        Runnable r1 = new EvenOddWorker(THREAD_1,syncRep);
        Runnable r2 = new EvenOddWorker(THREAD_2,syncRep);
        Thread t1 = new Thread(r1, THREAD_1);
        Thread t2 = new Thread(r2, THREAD_2);
        t1.start();
        t2.start();
    }

}




public class SynchronizedRepository {
    private volatile int number;
    private volatile boolean isSlotEven;
    private int startNumber;
    private int stopNumber;

    public SynchronizedRepository(int startNumber, int stopNumber) {
        super();
        this.number = startNumber;
        this.isSlotEven = startNumber%2==0;
        this.startNumber = startNumber;
        this.stopNumber = stopNumber;
    }


    public synchronized void print(String threadName) {
        try {
            for(int i=startNumber; i<=stopNumber/2; i++){
                if ((isSlotEven && number % 2 == 0)||
                        (!isSlotEven && number % 2 != 0)){
                    System.out.println(threadName + " "+ number);
                    isSlotEven = !isSlotEven;
                    number++;
                }
                notifyAll();
                wait();
            }
            notifyAll();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

}



public class EvenOddWorker implements Runnable {

    private String threadName;
    private SynchronizedRepository syncRep;

    public EvenOddWorker(String threadName, SynchronizedRepository syncRep) {
        super();
        this.threadName = threadName;
        this.syncRep = syncRep;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        syncRep.print(threadName);
    }

}

How do I limit the number of results returned from grep?

Another option is just using head:

grep ...parameters... yourfile | head

This won't require searching the entire file - it will stop when the first ten matching lines are found. Another advantage with this approach is that will return no more than 10 lines even if you are using grep with the -o option.

For example if the file contains the following lines:

112233
223344
123123

Then this is the difference in the output:

$ grep -o '1.' yourfile | head -n2
11
12

$ grep -m2 -o '1.'
11
12
12

Using head returns only 2 results as desired, whereas -m2 returns 3.

How can I create an editable combo box in HTML/Javascript?

try doing this

<div style="position: absolute;top: 32px; left: 430px;" id="outerFilterDiv">
<input name="filterTextField" type="text" id="filterTextField" tabindex="2"  style="width: 140px;
    position: absolute; top: 1px; left: 1px; z-index: 2;border:none;" />
        <div style="position: absolute;" id="filterDropdownDiv">
<select name="filterDropDown" id="filterDropDown" tabindex="1000"
    onchange="DropDownTextToBox(this,'filterTextField');" style="position: absolute;
    top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 1; width: 165px;">
    <option value="-1" selected="selected" disabled="disabled">-- Select Column Name --</option>
</select>

please look at following example fiddle

How to check which PHP extensions have been enabled/disabled in Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS?

Checking for installed php modules and packages

In addition to running

php -m

to get the list of installed php modules, you will probably find it helpful to get the list of the currently installed php packages in Ubuntu:

sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep php

This is helpful since Ubuntu makes php modules available via packages.

You can then install the needed modules by selecting from the available Ubuntu php packages, which you can view by running:

sudo apt-cache search php | grep "^php5-"

Or, for Ubuntu 16.04 and higher:

sudo apt-cache search php | grep "^php7"

As you have mentioned, there is plenty of information available on the actual installation of the packages that you might require, so I won't go into detail about that here.

Related: Enabling / disabling installed php modules

It is possible that an installed module has been disabled. In that case, it won't show up when running php -m, but it will show up in the list of installed Ubuntu packages.

Modules can be enabled/disabled via the php5enmod tool (phpenmod on later distros) which is part of the php-common package.

Ubuntu 12.04:

Enabled modules are symlinked in /etc/php5/conf.d

Ubuntu 12.04: (with PHP 5.4+)

To enable an installed module:

php5enmod <modulename>

To disable an installed module:

php5dismod <modulename>

Ubuntu 16.04 (php7) and higher:

To enable an installed module:

phpenmod <modulename>

To disable an installed module:

phpdismod <modulename>

Reload Apache

Remember to reload Apache2 after enabling/disabling:

service apache2 reload

Force "portrait" orientation mode

If you wish to support different orientations in debug and release builds, write so (see https://developer.android.com/studio/build/gradle-tips#share-properties-with-the-manifest).

In build.gradle of your app folder write:

android {
    ...
    buildTypes {
        debug {
            applicationIdSuffix '.debug'
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
            // Creates a placeholder property to use in the manifest.
            manifestPlaceholders = [orientation: "fullSensor"]
        }
        release {
            debuggable true
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
            // Creates a placeholder property to use in the manifest.
            manifestPlaceholders = [orientation: "portrait"]
        }
    }
}

Then in AndroidManifest you can use this variable "orientation" in any Activity:

<activity
    android:name=".LoginActivity"
    android:screenOrientation="${orientation}" />

You can add android:configChanges:

manifestPlaceholders = [configChanges: "", orientation: "fullSensor"] in debug and manifestPlaceholders = [configChanges: "keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize", orientation: "portrait"] in release,

<activity
    android:name=".LoginActivity"
    android:configChanges="${configChanges}"
    android:screenOrientation="${orientation}" />

How exactly does the android:onClick XML attribute differ from setOnClickListener?

Suppose, You want to add click event like this main.xml

<Button
    android:id="@+id/btn_register"
    android:layout_margin="1dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="3dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_weight="2"
    android:onClick="register"
    android:text="Register"
    android:textColor="#000000"/>

In java file, you have to write a method like this method.

public void register(View view) {
}

How to correctly close a feature branch in Mercurial?

One way is to just leave merged feature branches open (and inactive):

$ hg up default
$ hg merge feature-x
$ hg ci -m merge

$ hg heads
    (1 head)

$ hg branches
default    43:...
feature-x  41:...
    (2 branches)

$ hg branches -a
default    43:...
    (1 branch)

Another way is to close a feature branch before merging using an extra commit:

$ hg up feature-x
$ hg ci -m 'Closed branch feature-x' --close-branch
$ hg up default
$ hg merge feature-x
$ hg ci -m merge

$ hg heads
    (1 head)

$ hg branches
default    43:...
    (1 branch)

The first one is simpler, but it leaves an open branch. The second one leaves no open heads/branches, but it requires one more auxiliary commit. One may combine the last actual commit to the feature branch with this extra commit using --close-branch, but one should know in advance which commit will be the last one.

Update: Since Mercurial 1.5 you can close the branch at any time so it will not appear in both hg branches and hg heads anymore. The only thing that could possibly annoy you is that technically the revision graph will still have one more revision without childen.

Update 2: Since Mercurial 1.8 bookmarks have become a core feature of Mercurial. Bookmarks are more convenient for branching than named branches. See also this question:

How do I create a right click context menu in Java Swing?

There's a section on Bringing Up a Popup Menu in the How to Use Menus article of The Java Tutorials which explains how to use the JPopupMenu class.

The example code in the tutorial shows how to add MouseListeners to the components which should display a pop-up menu, and displays the menu accordingly.

(The method you describe is fairly similar to the way the tutorial presents the way to show a pop-up menu on a component.)

REST API Token-based Authentication

A pure RESTful API should use the underlying protocol standard features:

  1. For HTTP, the RESTful API should comply with existing HTTP standard headers. Adding a new HTTP header violates the REST principles. Do not re-invent the wheel, use all the standard features in HTTP/1.1 standards - including status response codes, headers, and so on. RESTFul web services should leverage and rely upon the HTTP standards.

  2. RESTful services MUST be STATELESS. Any tricks, such as token based authentication that attempts to remember the state of previous REST requests on the server violates the REST principles. Again, this is a MUST; that is, if you web server saves any request/response context related information on the server in attempt to establish any sort of session on the server, then your web service is NOT Stateless. And if it is NOT stateless it is NOT RESTFul.

Bottom-line: For authentication/authorization purposes you should use HTTP standard authorization header. That is, you should add the HTTP authorization / authentication header in each subsequent request that needs to be authenticated. The REST API should follow the HTTP Authentication Scheme standards.The specifics of how this header should be formatted are defined in the RFC 2616 HTTP 1.1 standards – section 14.8 Authorization of RFC 2616, and in the RFC 2617 HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication.

I have developed a RESTful service for the Cisco Prime Performance Manager application. Search Google for the REST API document that I wrote for that application for more details about RESTFul API compliance here. In that implementation, I have chosen to use HTTP "Basic" Authorization scheme. - check out version 1.5 or above of that REST API document, and search for authorization in the document.

How to convert a data frame column to numeric type?

If you run into problems with:

as.numeric(as.character(dat$x))

Take a look to your decimal marks. If they are "," instead of "." (e.g. "5,3") the above won't work.

A potential solution is:

as.numeric(gsub(",", ".", dat$x))

I believe this is quite common in some non English speaking countries.

How To Run PHP From Windows Command Line in WAMPServer

Try using batch file

  1. Open notepad
  2. type php -S localhost:8000
  3. save file as .bat extension, server.bat
  4. now click on server.bat file your server is ready on http://localhost:8000

Dependency

if you got error php not recognize any internal or external command then goto environment variable and edit path to php.exe "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3"

Why can't I use background image and color together?

It's perfectly possible to use both a color and an image as background for an element.

You set the background-color and background-image styles. If the image is smaller than the element, you need to use the background-position style to place it to the right, and to keep it from repeating and covering the entire background you use the background-repeat style:

background-color: green;
background-image: url(images/shadow.gif);
background-position: right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;

Or using the composite style background:

background: green url(images/shadow.gif) right no-repeat;

If you use the composite style background to set both separately, only the last one will be used, that's one possible reason why your color is not visible:

background: green; /* will be ignored */
background: url(images/shadow.gif) right no-repeat;

There is no way to specifically limit the background image to cover only part of the element, so you have to make sure that the image is smaller than the element, or that it has any transparent areas, for the background color to be visible.

GIT: Checkout to a specific folder

Use git archive branch-index | tar -x -C your-folder-on-PC to clone a branch to another folder. I think, then you can copy any file that you need

DateTime.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff") resulted in something like "09/14/2013 07.20.31.371"

You can use String.Format:

DateTime d = DateTime.Now;
string str = String.Format("{0:00}/{1:00}/{2:0000} {3:00}:{4:00}:{5:00}.{6:000}", d.Month, d.Day, d.Year, d.Hour, d.Minute, d.Second, d.Millisecond);
// I got this result: "02/23/2015 16:42:38.234"

Render Partial View Using jQuery in ASP.NET MVC

You'll need to create an Action on your Controller that returns the rendered result of the "UserDetails" partial view or control. Then just use an Http Get or Post from jQuery to call the Action to get the rendered html to be displayed.