Programs & Examples On #Security testing

How to execute logic on Optional if not present?

For Java 8 Spring offers ifPresentOrElse from "Utility methods to work with Optionals" to achieve what you want. Example would be:

import static org.springframework.data.util.Optionals.ifPresentOrElse;    

ifPresentOrElse(dao.find(), obj -> obj.setAvailable(true), () -> logger.fatal("Object not available"));

Could not find method android() for arguments

This error appear because the compiler could not found "my-upload-key.keystore" file in your project

After you have generated the file you need to paste it into project's andorid/app folder

this worked for me!

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude$Value

Use jackson-bom which will have all the three jackson versions.i.e.jackson-annotations, jackson-core and jackson-databind. This will resolve the dependencies related to those versions

How to make a input field readonly with JavaScript?

I think you just have readonly="readonly"

<html><body><form><input type="password" placeholder="password" valid="123" readonly=" readonly"></input>

Java: Convert a String (representing an IP) to InetAddress

Simply call InetAddress.getByName(String host) passing in your textual IP address.

From the javadoc: The host name can either be a machine name, such as "java.sun.com", or a textual representation of its IP address.

InetAddress javadoc

frequent issues arising in android view, Error parsing XML: unbound prefix

This error may occurs in the case you use un-defined prefix such as:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<TabHost
    XYZ:id="@android:id/tabhost"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >


</TabHost>

Android compiler does not know what is XYZ since it was not defined yet.

In your case, you should add below define to root node of the xml file.

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

Is there a splice method for strings?

Edit

This is of course not the best way to "splice" a string, I had given this as an example of how the implementation would be, which is flawed and very evident from a split(), splice() and join(). For a far better implementation, see Louis's method.


No, there is no such thing as a String.splice, but you can try this:

newStr = str.split(''); // or newStr = [...str];
newStr.splice(2,5);
newStr = newStr.join('');

I realise there is no splice function as in Arrays, so you have to convert the string into an array. Hard luck...

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

It allows you to provide a default value if the key is missing:

dictionary.get("bogus", default_value)

returns default_value (whatever you choose it to be), whereas

dictionary["bogus"]

would raise a KeyError.

If omitted, default_value is None, such that

dictionary.get("bogus")  # <-- No default specified -- defaults to None

returns None just like

dictionary.get("bogus", None)

would.

A Space between Inline-Block List Items

Even if its not inline-block based, this solution might worth consideration (allows nearly same formatting control from upper levels).

ul {
  display: table;
}
ul li {
  display: table-cell;
}

php - push array into array - key issue

Don't use array_values on your $row

$res_arr_values = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
   {
       array_push($res_arr_values, $row);
   }

Also, the preferred way to add a value to an array is writing $array[] = $value;, not using array_push

$res_arr_values = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
   {
       $res_arr_values[] = $row;
   }

And a further optimization is not to call mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) but to use mysql_fetch_assoc($result) directly.

$res_arr_values = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
   {
       $res_arr_values[] = $row;
   }

What is the meaning of the term "thread-safe"?

Yes and no.

Thread safety is a little bit more than just making sure your shared data is accessed by only one thread at a time. You have to ensure sequential access to shared data, while at the same time avoiding race conditions, deadlocks, livelocks, and resource starvation.

Unpredictable results when multiple threads are running is not a required condition of thread-safe code, but it is often a by-product. For example, you could have a producer-consumer scheme set up with a shared queue, one producer thread, and few consumer threads, and the data flow might be perfectly predictable. If you start to introduce more consumers you'll see more random looking results.

ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading authorization packet', system error: 0

I got both errors: mostly reading initial communication packet and reading authorization packet one time. It seems random, but sometimes I was able to establish a connection after reboots, but after some time the error creeped back.

Avoiding the 5GHz WiFi in the client seems to have fixed the issue. That's what worked for me (server was always connected to 2.4GHz).

I tried everything from server versions, odbc connector versions, firewall settings, installing some windows update (and then uninstalling them), some of the answers posted here, etc... lost my entire sleep time for today. Super tired day awaits me.

How to unpublish an app in Google Play Developer Console

There are two ways to delete an application you have uploaded from the Google Play Developer Console based off of the application's status within the Console. An app's status can be viewed from the "All Applications" tab listed in the furthest column. (See below)

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  • If your app has not yet been published to the Google Play store (ie. Is still a draft):

Select your app from the list and at the top of the page, underneath your application name, it will say DRAFT in blue with the super low-profile option to delete it just to the right. Observe below:

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Click that and you're done! Keep in mind: all of the work you have put into this application so far will be deleted from the Google Play Developer Console.

  • If your app has already been published and you want to remove it from the app store:

This method is similar, however it should be noted that it is not possible to permanently delete an app from your Developer Console once it has been published to the Play Store.

1) Select the application you would like to publish from the "All Applications" tab on the right of the screen

2) Below the title of the app, similar to how it was with the DRAFT application, there will be super low-profile text allowing you the option to unpublish your app from the Play Store. This process "may take a few hours to complete" as it is said by the Developer Console.

(Pictures on the way. As you have seen, my example app is still pending publication, lol)

I hope this helps to answer some people's questions.

Display a decimal in scientific notation

See tables from Python string formatting to select the proper format layout. In your case it's %.2E.

How do you comment an MS-access Query?

If you have a query with a lot of criteria, it can be tricky to remember what each one does. I add a text field into the original table - call it "comments" or "documentation". Then I include it in the query with a comment for each criteria.

Comments need to be written like like this so that all relevant rows are returned. Unfortunately, as I'm a new poster, I can't add a screenshot!

So here goes without

Field:   | Comment              |ContractStatus     | ProblemDealtWith | ...... |

Table:   | ElecContracts        |ElecContracts      | ElecContracts    | ...... |

Sort:  

Show:  

Criteria | <> "all problems are | "objection" Or |

         | picked up with this  | "rejected" Or  |

         | criteria" OR Is Null | "rolled"       |

         | OR ""

<> tells the query to choose rows that are not equal to the text you entered, otherwise it will only pick up fields that have text equal to your comment i.e. none!

" " enclose your comment in quotes

OR Is Null OR "" tells your query to include any rows that have no data in the comments field , otherwise it won't return anything!

What is the difference between VFAT and FAT32 file systems?

FAT32 along with FAT16 and FAT12 are File System Types, but vfat along with umsdos and msdos are drivers, used to mount the FAT file systems in Linux. The choosing of the driver determines how some of the features are applied to the file system, for example, systems mounted with msdos driver don't have long filenames (they are 8.3 format). vfat is the most common driver for mounting FAT32 file systems nowadays.

Source: this wikipedia article

Output of commands like df and lsblk indeed show vfat as the File System Type. But sudo file -sL /dev/<partition> shows FAT (32 bit) if a File System is FAT32.

You can confirm vfat is a module and not a File System Type by running modinfo vfat.

Change image size via parent div

Yours:

  <div style="height:42px;width:42px">
  <img src="http://someimage.jpg">

Is it okay to use this code?

  <div class= "box">
  <img src= "http://someimage.jpg" class= "img">
  </div>

  <style type="text/css">
  .box{width: 42; height: 42;}
  .img{width: 20; height:20;}
  </style>

Just trying, though late. :3 For someone else reading this, letme know if the way i wrote the code were not good. im new in this kind of language. and i still want to learn more.

How to modify WooCommerce cart, checkout pages (main theme portion)

Another way to totally override the cart.php is to copy:

woocommerce/templates/cart/cart.php to   
yourtheme/woocommerce/cart/cart.php

Then do whatever you need at the yourtheme/woocommerce/cart/cart.php

Java: how do I check if a Date is within a certain range?

This was clearer to me,

// declare calendar outside the scope of isWithinRange() so that we initialize it only once
private Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

public boolean isWithinRange(Date date, Date startDate, Date endDate) {

    calendar.setTime(startDate);
    int startDayOfYear = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR); // first day is 1, last day is 365
    int startYear = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);

    calendar.setTime(endDate);
    int endDayOfYear = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
    int endYear = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);

    calendar.setTime(date);
    int dayOfYear = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
    int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);

    return (year > startYear && year < endYear) // year is within the range
            || (year == startYear && dayOfYear >= startDayOfYear) // year is same as start year, check day as well
            || (year == endYear && dayOfYear < endDayOfYear); // year is same as end year, check day as well

}

Get the current date and time

Try this one:

System.DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss")

What is default list styling (CSS)?

You're resetting the margin on all elements in the second css block. Default margin is 40px - this should solve the problem:

.my_container ul {list-style:disc outside none; margin-left:40px;}

How do I set the focus to the first input element in an HTML form independent from the id?

This gets the first of any visible common input, including textareas and select boxes. This also makes sure they aren't hidden, disabled or readonly. it also allows for a target div, which I use in my software (ie, first input inside of this form).

$("input:visible:enabled:not([readonly]),textarea:visible:enabled:not([readonly]),select:visible:enabled:not([readonly])", 
    target).first().focus();

SQLite - getting number of rows in a database

Not sure if I understand your question, but max(id) won't give you the number of lines at all. For example if you have only one line with id = 13 (let's say you deleted the previous lines), you'll have max(id) = 13 but the number of rows is 1. The correct (and fastest) solution is to use count(). BTW if you wonder why there's a star, it's because you can count lines based on a criteria.

While loop in batch

A while loop can be simulated in cmd.exe with:

:still_more_files
    if %countfiles% leq 21 (
        rem change countfile here
        goto :still_more_files
    )

For example, the following script:

    @echo off
    setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
    set /a "x = 0"

:more_to_process
    if %x% leq 5 (
        echo %x%
        set /a "x = x + 1"
        goto :more_to_process
    )

    endlocal

outputs:

0
1
2
3
4
5

For your particular case, I would start with the following. Your initial description was a little confusing. I'm assuming you want to delete files in that directory until there's 20 or less:

    @echo off
    set backupdir=c:\test

:more_files_to_process
    for /f %%x in ('dir %backupdir% /b ^| find /v /c "::"') do set num=%%x
    if %num% gtr 20 (
        cscript /nologo c:\deletefile.vbs %backupdir%
        goto :more_files_to_process
    )

Force download a pdf link using javascript/ajax/jquery

Using Javascript you can download like this in a simple method

var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
// The Endpoint of your server 
var URLToPDF = "https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf";
// Configure XMLHttpRequest
oReq.open("GET", URLToPDF, true);

// Important to use the blob response type
oReq.responseType = "blob";

// When the file request finishes
// Is up to you, the configuration for error events etc.
oReq.onload = function() {
// Once the file is downloaded, open a new window with the PDF
// Remember to allow the POP-UPS in your browser
var file = new Blob([oReq.response], { 
    type: 'application/pdf' 
});

// Generate file download directly in the browser !
saveAs(file, "mypdffilename.pdf");
};

oReq.send();

Laravel Eloquent compare date from datetime field

You can use this

whereDate('date', '=', $date)

If you give whereDate then compare only date from datetime field.

How is __eq__ handled in Python and in what order?

I'm writing an updated answer for Python 3 to this question.

How is __eq__ handled in Python and in what order?

a == b

It is generally understood, but not always the case, that a == b invokes a.__eq__(b), or type(a).__eq__(a, b).

Explicitly, the order of evaluation is:

  1. if b's type is a strict subclass (not the same type) of a's type and has an __eq__, call it and return the value if the comparison is implemented,
  2. else, if a has __eq__, call it and return it if the comparison is implemented,
  3. else, see if we didn't call b's __eq__ and it has it, then call and return it if the comparison is implemented,
  4. else, finally, do the comparison for identity, the same comparison as is.

We know if a comparison isn't implemented if the method returns NotImplemented.

(In Python 2, there was a __cmp__ method that was looked for, but it was deprecated and removed in Python 3.)

Let's test the first check's behavior for ourselves by letting B subclass A, which shows that the accepted answer is wrong on this count:

class A:
    value = 3
    def __eq__(self, other):
        print('A __eq__ called')
        return self.value == other.value

class B(A):
    value = 4
    def __eq__(self, other):
        print('B __eq__ called')
        return self.value == other.value

a, b = A(), B()
a == b

which only prints B __eq__ called before returning False.

How do we know this full algorithm?

The other answers here seem incomplete and out of date, so I'm going to update the information and show you how how you could look this up for yourself.

This is handled at the C level.

We need to look at two different bits of code here - the default __eq__ for objects of class object, and the code that looks up and calls the __eq__ method regardless of whether it uses the default __eq__ or a custom one.

Default __eq__

Looking __eq__ up in the relevant C api docs shows us that __eq__ is handled by tp_richcompare - which in the "object" type definition in cpython/Objects/typeobject.c is defined in object_richcompare for case Py_EQ:.

    case Py_EQ:
        /* Return NotImplemented instead of False, so if two
           objects are compared, both get a chance at the
           comparison.  See issue #1393. */
        res = (self == other) ? Py_True : Py_NotImplemented;
        Py_INCREF(res);
        break;

So here, if self == other we return True, else we return the NotImplemented object. This is the default behavior for any subclass of object that does not implement its own __eq__ method.

How __eq__ gets called

Then we find the C API docs, the PyObject_RichCompare function, which calls do_richcompare.

Then we see that the tp_richcompare function, created for the "object" C definition is called by do_richcompare, so let's look at that a little more closely.

The first check in this function is for the conditions the objects being compared:

  • are not the same type, but
  • the second's type is a subclass of the first's type, and
  • the second's type has an __eq__ method,

then call the other's method with the arguments swapped, returning the value if implemented. If that method isn't implemented, we continue...

    if (!Py_IS_TYPE(v, Py_TYPE(w)) &&
        PyType_IsSubtype(Py_TYPE(w), Py_TYPE(v)) &&
        (f = Py_TYPE(w)->tp_richcompare) != NULL) {
        checked_reverse_op = 1;
        res = (*f)(w, v, _Py_SwappedOp[op]);
        if (res != Py_NotImplemented)
            return res;
        Py_DECREF(res);

Next we see if we can lookup the __eq__ method from the first type and call it. As long as the result is not NotImplemented, that is, it is implemented, we return it.

    if ((f = Py_TYPE(v)->tp_richcompare) != NULL) {
        res = (*f)(v, w, op);
        if (res != Py_NotImplemented)
            return res;
        Py_DECREF(res);

Else if we didn't try the other type's method and it's there, we then try it, and if the comparison is implemented, we return it.

    if (!checked_reverse_op && (f = Py_TYPE(w)->tp_richcompare) != NULL) {
        res = (*f)(w, v, _Py_SwappedOp[op]);
        if (res != Py_NotImplemented)
            return res;
        Py_DECREF(res);
    }

Finally, we get a fallback in case it isn't implemented for either one's type.

The fallback checks for the identity of the object, that is, whether it is the same object at the same place in memory - this is the same check as for self is other:

    /* If neither object implements it, provide a sensible default
       for == and !=, but raise an exception for ordering. */
    switch (op) {
    case Py_EQ:
        res = (v == w) ? Py_True : Py_False;
        break;

Conclusion

In a comparison, we respect the subclass implementation of comparison first.

Then we attempt the comparison with the first object's implementation, then with the second's if it wasn't called.

Finally we use a test for identity for comparison for equality.

Efficient way to Handle ResultSet in Java

Here is the code little modified that i got it from google -

 List data_table = new ArrayList<>();
    Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
            con = DriverManager.getConnection(conn_url, user_id, password);
            Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
            System.out.println("query_string: "+query_string);
            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query_string);
            ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();


            int row_count = 0;
            while (rs.next()) {
                HashMap<String, String> data_map = new HashMap<>();
                if (row_count == 240001) {
                    break;
                }
                for (int i = 1; i <= rsmd.getColumnCount(); i++) {
                    data_map.put(rsmd.getColumnName(i), rs.getString(i));
                }
                data_table.add(data_map);
                row_count = row_count + 1;
            }
            rs.close();
            stmt.close();
            con.close();

How to change screen resolution of Raspberry Pi

If you are like me using a TFT that is connected via SPI (e. g. PiTFT 2.8" 320x240) driven by FBTFT in combination with fbcp to utilise hardware accelerated video decoding (using omxplayer) like it is descriped here. You should add the following into the /boot/config.txt to force the output to HDMI and set the resolution to 320x240:

hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_cvt=320 240 60 1 0 0 0
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87

Post an object as data using Jquery Ajax

All arrays passed to php must be object literals. Here's an example from JS/jQuery:

var myarray = {};  //must be declared as an object literal first

myarray[fld1] = val;  // then you can add elements and values
myarray[fld2] = val;
myarray[fld3] = Array();  // array assigned to an element must also be declared as object literal

etc...`

It can now be sent via Ajax in the data: parameter as follows:

data: { new_name: myarray },

php picks this up and reads it as a normal array without any decoding necessary. Here's an example:

$array = $_POST['new_name'];  // myarray became new_name (see above)
$fld1 = array['fld1'];
$fld2 = array['fld2'];
etc...

However, when you return an array to jQuery via Ajax it must first be encoded using json. Here's an example in php:

$return_array = json_encode($return_aray));
print_r($return_array);

And the output from that looks something like this:

{"fname":"James","lname":"Feducia","vip":"true","owner":"false","cell_phone":"(801) 666-0909","email":"[email protected]", "contact_pk":"","travel_agent":""}

{again we see the object literal encoding tags} now this can be read by JS/jQuery as an array without any further action inside JS/JQuery... Here's an example in jquery ajax:

success: function(result) {
console.log(result);
alert( "Return Values: " + result['fname'] + " " + result['lname'] );
}

Python: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060]

Answer (Basic is advance!):

Error: 10060 Adding a timeout parameter to request solved the issue for me.

Example 1

import urllib
import urllib2
g = "http://www.google.com/"
read = urllib2.urlopen(g, timeout=20)

Example 2

A similar error also occurred while I was making a GET request. Again, passing a timeout parameter solved the 10060 Error.

response = requests.get(param_url, timeout=20)

How do I read text from the clipboard?

The most upvoted answer above is weird in a way that it simply clears the Clipboard and then gets the content (which is then empty). One could clear the clipboard to be sure that some clipboard content type like "formated text" does not "cover" your plain text content you want to save in the clipboard.

The following piece of code replaces all newlines in the clipboard by spaces, then removes all double spaces and finally saves the content back to the clipboard:

import win32clipboard

win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
c = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData()
win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
c = c.replace('\n', ' ')
c = c.replace('\r', ' ')
while c.find('  ') != -1:
    c = c.replace('  ', ' ')
win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(c)
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()

Refresh DataGridView when updating data source

You are setting the datasource inside of the loop and sleeping 500 after each add. Why not just add to itemstates and then set your datasource AFTER you have added everything. If you want the thread sleep after that fine. The first block of code here is yours the second block I modified.

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { 
    itemStates.Add(new ItemState { Id = i.ToString() });
    dataGridView1.DataSource = null;
    dataGridView1.DataSource = itemStates;
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
}

Change your Code As follows: this is much faster.

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { 
    itemStates.Add(new ItemState { Id = i.ToString() });

}
    dataGridView1.DataSource = typeof(List); 
    dataGridView1.DataSource = itemStates;
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);

Return True, False and None in Python

It's impossible to say without seeing your actual code. Likely the reason is a code path through your function that doesn't execute a return statement. When the code goes down that path, the function ends with no value returned, and so returns None.

Updated: It sounds like your code looks like this:

def b(self, p, data): 
    current = p 
    if current.data == data: 
        return True 
    elif current.data == 1:
        return False 
    else: 
        self.b(current.next, data)

That else clause is your None path. You need to return the value that the recursive call returns:

    else:
        return self.b(current.next, data)

BTW: using recursion for iterative programs like this is not a good idea in Python. Use iteration instead. Also, you have no clear termination condition.

NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS setting for decimal

You can see your current session settings by querying nls_session_parameters:

select value
from nls_session_parameters
where parameter = 'NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS';

VALUE                                  
----------------------------------------
.,                                       

That may differ from the database defaults, which you can see in nls_database_parameters.

In this session your query errors:

select to_number('100,12') from dual;

Error report -
SQL Error: ORA-01722: invalid number
01722. 00000 -  "invalid number"

I could alter my session, either directly with alter session or by ensuring my client is configured in a way that leads to the setting the string needs (it may be inherited from a operating system or Java locale, for example):

alter session set NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS = ',.';
select to_number('100,12') from dual;

TO_NUMBER('100,12')
-------------------
             100,12 

In SQL Developer you can set your preferred value in Tool->Preferences->Database->NLS.

But I can also override that session setting as part of the query, with the optional third nlsparam parameter to to_number(); though that makes the optional second fmt parameter necessary as well, so you'd need to be able pick a suitable format:

alter session set NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS = '.,';
select to_number('100,12', '99999D99', 'NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS='',.''')
from dual;

TO_NUMBER('100,12','99999D99','NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS='',.''')
--------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        100.12 

By default the result is still displayed with my session settings, so the decimal separator is still a period.

Java - Relative path of a file in a java web application

Many popular Java webapps, including Jenkins and Nexus, use this mechanism:

  1. Optionally, check a servlet context-param / init-param. This allows configuring multiple webapp instances per servlet container, using context.xml which can be done by modifying the WAR or by changing server settings (in case of Tomcat).

  2. Check an environment variable (using System.getenv), if it is set, then use that folder as your application data folder. e.g. Jenkins uses JENKINS_HOME and Nexus uses PLEXUS_NEXUS_WORK. This allows flexible configuration without any changes to WAR.

  3. Otherwise, use a subfolder inside user's home folder, e.g. $HOME/.yourapp. In Java code this will be:

    final File appFolder = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"), ".yourapp");
    

When should I use UNSIGNED and SIGNED INT in MySQL?

For negative integer value, SIGNED is used and for non-negative integer value, UNSIGNED is used. It always suggested to use UNSIGNED for id as a PRIMARY KEY.

HTML anchor link - href and onclick both?

When doing a clean HTML Structure, you can use this.

_x000D_
_x000D_
//Jquery Code_x000D_
$('a#link_1').click(function(e){_x000D_
  e . preventDefault () ;_x000D_
  var a = e . target ;_x000D_
  window . open ( '_top' , a . getAttribute ('href') ) ;_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
//Normal Code_x000D_
element = document . getElementById ( 'link_1' ) ;_x000D_
element . onClick = function (e) {_x000D_
  e . preventDefault () ;_x000D_
  _x000D_
  window . open ( '_top' , element . getAttribute ('href') ) ;_x000D_
} ;
_x000D_
<a href="#Foo" id="link_1">Do it!</a>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

np.mean() vs np.average() in Python NumPy?

In your invocation, the two functions are the same.

average can compute a weighted average though.

Doc links: mean and average

Change x axes scale in matplotlib

Try using matplotlib.pyplot.ticklabel_format:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
...
plt.ticklabel_format(style='sci', axis='x', scilimits=(0,0))

This applies scientific notation (i.e. a x 10^b) to your x-axis tickmarks

How to export non-exportable private key from store

You're right, no API at all that I'm aware to export PrivateKey marked as non-exportable. But if you patch (in memory) normal APIs, you can use the normal way to export :)

There is a new version of mimikatz that also support CNG Export (Windows Vista / 7 / 2008 ...)

  1. download (and launch with administrative privileges) : http://blog.gentilkiwi.com/mimikatz (trunk version or last version)

Run it and enter the following commands in its prompt:

  1. privilege::debug (unless you already have it or target only CryptoApi)
  2. crypto::patchcng (nt 6) and/or crypto::patchcapi (nt 5 & 6)
  3. crypto::exportCertificates and/or crypto::exportCertificates CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_LOCAL_MACHINE

The exported .pfx files are password protected with the password "mimikatz"

Django - taking values from POST request

If you need to do something on the front end you can respond to the onsubmit event of your form. If you are just posting to admin/start you can access post variables in your view through the request object. request.POST which is a dictionary of post variables

What is the meaning of "__attribute__((packed, aligned(4))) "

  • packed means it will use the smallest possible space for struct Ball - i.e. it will cram fields together without padding
  • aligned means each struct Ball will begin on a 4 byte boundary - i.e. for any struct Ball, its address can be divided by 4

These are GCC extensions, not part of any C standard.

Wrapping text inside input type="text" element HTML/CSS

That is the textarea's job - for multiline text input. The input won't do it; it wasn't designed to do it.

So use a textarea. Besides their visual differences, they are accessed via JavaScript the same way (use value property).

You can prevent newlines being entered via the input event and simply using a replace(/\n/g, '').

Is it possible to declare a public variable in vba and assign a default value?

You can define the variable in General Declarations and then initialise it in the first event that fires in your environment.

Alternatively, you could create yourself a class with the relevant properties and initialise them in the Initialise method

How can I maintain fragment state when added to the back stack?

Replace a Fragment using following code:

Fragment fragment = new AddPaymentFragment();
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.frame, fragment, "Tag_AddPayment")
                .addToBackStack("Tag_AddPayment")
                .commit();

Activity's onBackPressed() is :

  @Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
    if (fm.getBackStackEntryCount() > 1) {

        fm.popBackStack();
    } else {


        finish();

    }
    Log.e("popping BACKSTRACK===> ",""+fm.getBackStackEntryCount());

}

How to select clear table contents without destroying the table?

Try just clearing the data (not the entire table including headers):

ACell.ListObject.DataBodyRange.ClearContents

Which MySQL data type to use for storing boolean values

Bit is only advantageous over the various byte options (tinyint, enum, char(1)) if you have a lot of boolean fields. One bit field still takes up a full byte. Two bit fields fit into that same byte. Three, four,five, six, seven, eight. After which they start filling up the next byte. Ultimately the savings are so small, there are thousands of other optimizations you should focus on. Unless you're dealing with an enormous amount of data, those few bytes aren't going to add up to much. If you're using bit with PHP you need to typecast the values going in and out.

How to install gem from GitHub source?

If you install using bundler as suggested by gryzzly and the gem creates a binary then make sure you run it with bundle exec mygembinary as the gem is stored in a bundler directory which is not visible on the normal gem path.

IsNothing versus Is Nothing

I find that Patrick Steele answered this question best on his blog: Avoiding IsNothing()

I did not copy any of his answer here, to ensure Patrick Steele get's credit for his post. But I do think if you're trying to decide whether to use Is Nothing or IsNothing you should read his post. I think you'll agree that Is Nothing is the best choice.

Edit - VoteCoffe's comment here

Partial article contents: After reviewing more code I found out another reason you should avoid this: It accepts value types! Obviously, since IsNothing() is a function that accepts an 'object', you can pass anything you want to it. If it's a value type, .NET will box it up into an object and pass it to IsNothing -- which will always return false on a boxed value! The VB.NET compiler will check the "Is Nothing" style syntax and won't compile if you attempt to do an "Is Nothing" on a value type. But the IsNothing() function compiles without complaints. -PSteele – VoteCoffee

How to generate XML file dynamically using PHP?

$query=mysql_query("select * from tablename")or die(mysql_error()); 
$xml="<libraray>\n\t\t";
while($data=mysql_fetch_array($query))
{

    $xml .="<mail_address>\n\t\t";
    $xml .= "<id>".$data['id']."</id>\n\t\t";
    $xml .= "<email>".$data['email_address']."</email>\n\t\t";
    $xml .= "<verify_code>".$data['verify']."</verify_code>\n\t\t";
    $xml .= "<status>".$data['status']."</status>\n\t\t";
    $xml.="</mail_address>\n\t";
}
$xml.="</libraray>\n\r";
$xmlobj=new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
$xmlobj->asXML("text.xml");

Its simple just connect with your database it will create test.xml file in your project folder

load json into variable

<input  class="pull-right" id="currSpecID" name="currSpecID" value="">

   $.get("http://localhost:8080/HIS_API/rest/MriSpecimen/getMaxSpecimenID", function(data, status){
       alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
    $("#currSpecID").val(data);
    });

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How to quickly edit values in table in SQL Server Management Studio?

In Mgmt Studio, when you are editing the top 200, you can view the SQL pane - either by right clicking in the grid and choosing Pane->SQL or by the button in the upper left. This will allow you to write a custom query to drill down to the row(s) you want to edit.

But ultimately mgmt studio isn't a data entry/update tool which is why this is a little cumbersome.

Jquery UI datepicker. Disable array of Dates

If you want to disable particular date(s) in jquery datepicker then here is the simple demo for you.

<script type="text/javascript">
    var arrDisabledDates = {};
    arrDisabledDates[new Date("08/28/2017")] = new Date("08/28/2017");
    arrDisabledDates[new Date("12/23/2017")] = new Date("12/23/2017");
    $(".datepicker").datepicker({
        dateFormat: "dd/mm/yy",
        beforeShowDay: function (date) {
            var day = date.getDay(),
                    bDisable = arrDisabledDates[date];
            if (bDisable)
                return [false, "", ""]
        }
    });
</script>

Why I get 411 Length required error?

I had the same error when I imported web requests from fiddler captured sessions to Visual Studio webtests. Some POST requests did not have a StringHttpBody tag. I added an empty one to them and the error was gone. Add this after the Headers tag:

    <StringHttpBody ContentType="" InsertByteOrderMark="False">
  </StringHttpBody>

Single vs Double quotes (' vs ")

The w3 org said:

By default, SGML requires that all attribute values be delimited using either double quotation marks (ASCII decimal 34) or single quotation marks (ASCII decimal 39). Single quote marks can be included within the attribute value when the value is delimited by double quote marks, and vice versa. Authors may also use numeric character references to represent double quotes (&#34;) and single quotes (&#39;). For double quotes authors can also use the character entity reference &quot;.

So... seems to be no difference. Only depends on your style.

MySQL string replace

The replace function should work for you.

REPLACE(str,from_str,to_str)

Returns the string str with all occurrences of the string from_str replaced by the string to_str. REPLACE() performs a case-sensitive match when searching for from_str.

calling server side event from html button control

just use this at the end of your button click event

protected void btnAddButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   ... save data routin 
     Response.Redirect(Request.Url.AbsoluteUri);
}

Intercept and override HTTP requests from WebView

It looks like API level 11 has support for what you need. See WebViewClient.shouldInterceptRequest().

Two div blocks on same line

diplay:flex; is another alternative answer that you can add to all above answers which is supported in all modern browsers.

_x000D_
_x000D_
#block_container {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  justify-content: center;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="block_container">_x000D_
  <div id="bloc1">Copyright &copy; All Rights Reserved.</div>_x000D_
  <div id="bloc2"><img src="..."></div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

What is the reason for the error message "System cannot find the path specified"?

The following worked for me:

  1. Open the Registry Editor (press windows key, type regedit and hit Enter) .
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun and clear the values.
  3. Also check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun.

Relative Paths in Javascript in an external file

Please use the following syntax to enjoy the luxury of asp.net tilda ("~") in javascript

<script src=<%=Page.ResolveUrl("~/MasterPages/assets/js/jquery.js")%>></script>

What do parentheses surrounding an object/function/class declaration mean?

...but what about the previous round parenteses surrounding all the function declaration?

Specifically, it makes JavaScript interpret the 'function() {...}' construct as an inline anonymous function expression. If you omitted the brackets:

function() {
    alert('hello');
}();

You'd get a syntax error, because the JS parser would see the 'function' keyword and assume you're starting a function statement of the form:

function doSomething() {
}

...and you can't have a function statement without a function name.

function expressions and function statements are two different constructs which are handled in very different ways. Unfortunately the syntax is almost identical, so it's not just confusing to the programmer, even the parser has difficulty telling which you mean!

Load different application.yml in SpringBoot Test

You can set your test properties in src/test/resources/config/application.yml file. Spring Boot test cases will take properties from application.yml file in test directory.

The config folder is predefined in Spring Boot.

As per documentation:

If you do not like application.properties as the configuration file name, you can switch to another file name by specifying a spring.config.name environment property. You can also refer to an explicit location by using the spring.config.location environment property (which is a comma-separated list of directory locations or file paths). The following example shows how to specify a different file name:

java -jar myproject.jar --spring.config.location=classpath:/default.properties,classpath:/override.properties

The same works for application.yml

Documentation:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/spring-boot-features.html#boot-features-external-config-application-property-files

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html#boot-features-external-config-application-property-files

How to write to error log file in PHP

We all know that PHP save errors in php_errors.log file.

But, that file contains a lot of data.

If we want to log our application data, we need to save it to a custom location.

We can use two parameters in the error_log function to achieve this.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php

We can do it using:

error_log(print_r($v, TRUE), 3, '/var/tmp/errors.log');

Where,

print_r($v, TRUE) : logs $v (array/string/object) to log file. 3: Put log message to custom log file specified in the third parameter.

'/var/tmp/errors.log': Custom log file (This path is for Linux, we can specify other depending upon OS).

OR, you can use file_put_contents()

file_put_contents('/var/tmp/e.log', print_r($v, true), FILE_APPEND);

Where:

'/var/tmp/errors.log': Custom log file (This path is for Linux, we can specify other depending upon OS). print_r($v, TRUE) : logs $v (array/string/object) to log file. FILE_APPEND: Constant parameter specifying whether to append to the file if it exists, if file does not exist, new file will be created.

Easy way to convert a unicode list to a list containing python strings?

There are several ways to do this. I converted like this

def clean(s):
    s = s.replace("u'","")
    return re.sub("[\[\]\'\s]", '', s)

EmployeeList = [clean(i) for i in str(EmployeeList).split(',')]

After that you can check

if '1001' in EmployeeList:
    #do something

Hope it will help you.

Highlight the difference between two strings in PHP

What you are looking for is a "diff algorithm". A quick google search led me to this solution. I did not test it, but maybe it will do what you need.

Postgres - Transpose Rows to Columns

Use crosstab() from the tablefunc module.

SELECT * FROM crosstab(
   $$SELECT user_id, user_name, rn, email_address
     FROM  (
        SELECT u.user_id, u.user_name, e.email_address
             , row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY u.user_id
                            ORDER BY e.creation_date DESC NULLS LAST) AS rn
        FROM   usr u
        LEFT   JOIN email_tbl e USING (user_id)
        ) sub
     WHERE  rn < 4
     ORDER  BY user_id
   $$
  , 'VALUES (1),(2),(3)'
   ) AS t (user_id int, user_name text, email1 text, email2 text, email3 text);

I used dollar-quoting for the first parameter, which has no special meaning. It's just convenient if you have to escape single quotes in the query string which is a common case:

Detailed explanation and instructions here:

And in particular, for "extra columns":

The special difficulties here are:

  • The lack of key names.
    -> We substitute with row_number() in a subquery.

  • The varying number of emails.
    -> We limit to a max. of three in the outer SELECT
    and use crosstab() with two parameters, providing a list of possible keys.

Pay attention to NULLS LAST in the ORDER BY.

Decode JSON with unknown structure

package main

import "encoding/json"

func main() {
    in := []byte(`{ "votes": { "option_A": "3" } }`)
    var raw map[string]interface{}
    if err := json.Unmarshal(in, &raw); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    raw["count"] = 1
    out, err := json.Marshal(raw)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    println(string(out))
}

https://play.golang.org/p/o8ZwvgsQmoO

How do you rename a Git tag?

You can also rename remote tags without checking them out, by duplicate the old tag/branch to a new name and delete the old one, in a single git push command.

Remote tag rename / Remote branch ? tag conversion: (Notice: :refs/tags/)

git push <remote_name> <old_branch_or_tag>:refs/tags/<new_tag> :<old_branch_or_tag>

Remote branch rename / Remote tag ? branch conversion: (Notice: :refs/heads/)

git push <remote_name> <old_branch_or_tag>:refs/heads/<new_branch> :<old_branch_or_tag>

Output renaming a remote tag:

D:\git.repo>git push gitlab App%2012.1%20v12.1.0.23:refs/tags/App_12.1_v12.1.0.23 :App%2012.1%20v12.1.0.23

Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://gitlab.server/project/repository.git
 - [deleted]               App%2012.1%20v12.1.0.23
 * [new tag]               App%2012.1%20v12.1.0.23 -> App_12.1_v12.1.0.23

Custom height Bootstrap's navbar

your markup was a bit messed up. Here's the styles you need and proper html

CSS:

.navbar-brand,
.navbar-nav li a {
    line-height: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    padding-top: 0;
}

HTML:

<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
    <div class="navbar-header">
        <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
            <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        </button>

        <a class="navbar-brand" href="#"><img src="img/logo.png" /></a>
    </div>

    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse">
        <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
            <li><a href="">Portfolio</a></li>
            <li><a href="">Blog</a></li>
            <li><a href="">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</nav>

Or check out the fiddle at: http://jsfiddle.net/TP5V8/1/

How to select and change value of table cell with jQuery?

I wanted to change the column value in a specific row. Thanks to above answers and after some serching able to come up with below,

var dataTable = $("#yourtableid");
var rowNumber = 0;  
var columnNumber= 2;   
dataTable[0].rows[rowNumber].cells[columnNumber].innerHTML = 'New Content';

Merging multiple PDFs using iTextSharp in c#.net

Merge byte arrays of multiple PDF files:

    public static byte[] MergePDFs(List<byte[]> pdfFiles)
    {  
        if (pdfFiles.Count > 1)
        {
            PdfReader finalPdf;
            Document pdfContainer;
            PdfWriter pdfCopy;
            MemoryStream msFinalPdf = new MemoryStream();

            finalPdf = new PdfReader(pdfFiles[0]);
            pdfContainer = new Document();
            pdfCopy = new PdfSmartCopy(pdfContainer, msFinalPdf);

            pdfContainer.Open();

            for (int k = 0; k < pdfFiles.Count; k++)
            {
                finalPdf = new PdfReader(pdfFiles[k]);
                for (int i = 1; i < finalPdf.NumberOfPages + 1; i++)
                {
                    ((PdfSmartCopy)pdfCopy).AddPage(pdfCopy.GetImportedPage(finalPdf, i));
                }
                pdfCopy.FreeReader(finalPdf);

            }
            finalPdf.Close();
            pdfCopy.Close();
            pdfContainer.Close();

            return msFinalPdf.ToArray();
        }
        else if (pdfFiles.Count == 1)
        {
            return pdfFiles[0];
        }
        return null;
    }

SQL User Defined Function Within Select

If it's a table-value function (returns a table set) you simply join it as a Table

this function generates one column table with all the values from passed comma-separated list

SELECT * FROM dbo.udf_generate_inlist_to_table('1,2,3,4')

How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL?

You can also use wget to »untar it inline«. Simply specify stdout as the output file (-O -):

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 -O - | tar xz

google map API zoom range

Available Zoom Levels

Zoom level 0 is the most zoomed out zoom level available and each integer step in zoom level halves the X and Y extents of the view and doubles the linear resolution.

Google Maps was built on a 256x256 pixel tile system where zoom level 0 was a 256x256 pixel image of the whole earth. A 256x256 tile for zoom level 1 enlarges a 128x128 pixel region from zoom level 0.

As correctly stated by bkaid, the available zoom range depends on where you are looking and the kind of map you are using:

  • Road maps - seem to go up to zoom level 22 everywhere
  • Hybrid and satellite maps - the max available zoom levels depend on location. Here are some examples:
  • Remote regions of Antarctica: 13
  • Gobi Desert: 17
  • Much of the U.S. and Europe: 21
  • "Deep zoom" locations: 22-23 (see bkaid's link)

Note that these values are for the Google Static Maps API which seems to give one more zoom level than the Javascript API. It appears that the extra zoom level available for Static Maps is just an upsampled version of the max-resolution image from the Javascript API.

Map Scale at Various Zoom Levels

Google Maps uses a Mercator projection so the scale varies substantially with latitude. A formula for calculating the correct scale based on latitude is:

meters_per_pixel = 156543.03392 * Math.cos(latLng.lat() * Math.PI / 180) / Math.pow(2, zoom)

Formula is from Chris Broadfoot's comment.


Google Maps basics

Zoom Level - zoom

0 - 19

0 lowest zoom (whole world)

19 highest zoom (individual buildings, if available) Retrieve current zoom level using mapObject.getZoom()


What you're looking for are the scales for each zoom level. Use these:

20 : 1128.497220
19 : 2256.994440
18 : 4513.988880
17 : 9027.977761
16 : 18055.955520
15 : 36111.911040
14 : 72223.822090
13 : 144447.644200
12 : 288895.288400
11 : 577790.576700
10 : 1155581.153000
9  : 2311162.307000
8  : 4622324.614000
7  : 9244649.227000
6  : 18489298.450000
5  : 36978596.910000
4  : 73957193.820000
3  : 147914387.600000
2  : 295828775.300000
1  : 591657550.500000

Solving a "communications link failure" with JDBC and MySQL

Go to Windows services in the control panel and start the MySQL service. For me it worked. When I was doing a Java EE project I got this error" Communication link failure". I restarted my system and then it worked.

After that I again got the same error even after restarting my system. Then I tried to open the MySQL command line console and login with root, even then it gave me an error.

Finally when I started the MySQL service from Windows services, it worked.

TypeError: only length-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars while plot showing

Take note of what is printed for x. You are trying to convert an array (basically just a list) into an int. length-1 would be an array of a single number, which I assume numpy just treats as a float. You could do this, but it's not a purely-numpy solution.

EDIT: I was involved in a post a couple of weeks back where numpy was slower an operation than I had expected and I realised I had fallen into a default mindset that numpy was always the way to go for speed. Since my answer was not as clean as ayhan's, I thought I'd use this space to show that this is another such instance to illustrate that vectorize is around 10% slower than building a list in Python. I don't know enough about numpy to explain why this is the case but perhaps someone else does?

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import datetime

time_start = datetime.datetime.now()

# My original answer
def f(x):
    rebuilt_to_plot = []
    for num in x:
        rebuilt_to_plot.append(np.int(num))
    return rebuilt_to_plot

for t in range(10000):
    x = np.arange(1, 15.1, 0.1)
    plt.plot(x, f(x))

time_end = datetime.datetime.now()

# Answer by ayhan
def f_1(x):
    return np.int(x)

for t in range(10000):
    f2 = np.vectorize(f_1)
    x = np.arange(1, 15.1, 0.1)
    plt.plot(x, f2(x))

time_end_2 = datetime.datetime.now()

print time_end - time_start
print time_end_2 - time_end

In PowerShell, how can I test if a variable holds a numeric value?

filter isNumeric {
    $_ -is [ValueType]
}

-

1 -is [ValueType]
True
"1" -is [ValueType]
False

-

function isNumeric ($Value) {
    return $Value -is [ValueType]
}

isNumeric 1.23
True
isNumeric 123
True
isNumeric ""
False
isNumeric "asdf123"
False

-

(Invoke-Expression '1.5') -is [ValueType]

Using local makefile for CLion instead of CMake

Newest version has better support literally for any generated Makefiles, through the compiledb

Three steps:

  1. install compiledb

    pip install compiledb
    
  2. run a dry make

    compiledb -n make 
    

    (do the autogen, configure if needed)

  3. there will be a compile_commands.json file generated open the project and you will see CLion will load info from the json file. If you your CLion still try to find CMakeLists.txt and cannot read compile_commands.json, try to remove the entire folder, re-download the source files, and redo step 1,2,3

Orignal post: Working with Makefiles in CLion using Compilation DB

Cannot deserialize instance of object out of START_ARRAY token in Spring Webservice

Your json contains an array, but you're trying to parse it as an object. This error occurs because objects must start with {.

You have 2 options:

  1. You can get rid of the ShopContainer class and use Shop[] instead

    ShopContainer response  = restTemplate.getForObject(
        url, ShopContainer.class);
    

    replace with

    Shop[] response  = restTemplate.getForObject(url, Shop[].class);
    

    and then make your desired object from it.

  2. You can change your server to return an object instead of a list

    return mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(list);
    

    replace with

    return mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(
        new ShopContainer(list));
    

C# Pass Lambda Expression as Method Parameter

Lambda expressions have a type of Action<parameters> (in case they don't return a value) or Func<parameters,return> (in case they have a return value). In your case you have two input parameters, and you need to return a value, so you should use:

Func<FullTimeJob, Student, FullTimeJob>

DSO missing from command line

DSO here means Dynamic Shared Object; since the error message says it's missing from the command line, I guess you have to add it to the command line.

That is, try adding -lpthread to your command line.

Frequency table for a single variable

The answer provided by @DSM is simple and straightforward, but I thought I'd add my own input to this question. If you look at the code for pandas.value_counts, you'll see that there is a lot going on.

If you need to calculate the frequency of many series, this could take a while. A faster implementation would be to use numpy.unique with return_counts = True

Here is an example:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

my_series = pd.Series([1,2,2,3,3,3])

print(my_series.value_counts())
3    3
2    2
1    1
dtype: int64

Notice here that the item returned is a pandas.Series

In comparison, numpy.unique returns a tuple with two items, the unique values and the counts.

vals, counts = np.unique(my_series, return_counts=True)
print(vals, counts)
[1 2 3] [1 2 3]

You can then combine these into a dictionary:

results = dict(zip(vals, counts))
print(results)
{1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3}

And then into a pandas.Series

print(pd.Series(results))
1    1
2    2
3    3
dtype: int64

Xcode - Warning: Implicit declaration of function is invalid in C99

I have the same warning (it's make my app cannot build). When I add C function in Objective-C's .m file, But forgot to declared it at .h file.

Selecting Values from Oracle Table Variable / Array?

The sql array type is not neccessary. Not if the element type is a primitive one. (Varchar, number, date,...)

Very basic sample:

declare
  type TPidmList is table of sgbstdn.sgbstdn_pidm%type;
  pidms TPidmList;
begin
  select distinct sgbstdn_pidm
  bulk collect into pidms
  from sgbstdn
  where sgbstdn_majr_code_1 = 'HS04'
  and sgbstdn_program_1 = 'HSCOMPH';

  -- do something with pidms

  open :someCursor for
    select value(t) pidm
    from table(pidms) t;
end;

When you want to reuse it, then it might be interesting to know how that would look like. If you issue several commands than those could be grouped in a package. The private package variable trick from above has its downsides. When you add variables to a package, you give it state and now it doesn't act as a stateless bunch of functions but as some weird sort of singleton object instance instead.

e.g. When you recompile the body, it will raise exceptions in sessions that already used it before. (because the variable values got invalided)

However, you could declare the type in a package (or globally in sql), and use it as a paramter in methods that should use it.

create package Abc as
  type TPidmList is table of sgbstdn.sgbstdn_pidm%type;

  function CreateList(majorCode in Varchar, 
                      program in Varchar) return TPidmList;

  function Test1(list in TPidmList) return PLS_Integer;
  -- "in" to make it immutable so that PL/SQL can pass a pointer instead of a copy
  procedure Test2(list in TPidmList);
end;

create package body Abc as

  function CreateList(majorCode in Varchar, 
                      program in Varchar) return TPidmList is
    result TPidmList;
  begin
    select distinct sgbstdn_pidm
    bulk collect into result
    from sgbstdn
    where sgbstdn_majr_code_1 = majorCode
    and sgbstdn_program_1 = program;

    return result;
  end;

  function Test1(list in TPidmList) return PLS_Integer is
    result PLS_Integer := 0;
  begin
    if list is null or list.Count = 0 then
      return result;
    end if;

    for i in list.First .. list.Last loop
      if ... then
        result := result + list(i);
      end if;
    end loop;
  end;

  procedure Test2(list in TPidmList) as
  begin
    ...
  end;

  return result;
end;

How to call it:

declare
  pidms constant Abc.TPidmList := Abc.CreateList('HS04', 'HSCOMPH');
  xyz PLS_Integer;
begin
  Abc.Test2(pidms);
  xyz := Abc.Test1(pidms);
  ...

  open :someCursor for
    select value(t) as Pidm,
           xyz as SomeValue
    from   table(pidms) t;
end;

Passing data through intent using Serializable

Don't forget to implement Serializable in every class your object will use like a list of objects. Else your app will crash.

Example:

public class City implements Serializable {

private List<House> house;

public List<House> getHouse() {
    return house;
}

public void setHouse(List<House> house) {
    this.house = house;
}}

Then House needs to implements Serializable as so :

public class House implements Serializable {

private String name;

public String getName() {
    return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}}

Then you can use:

Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putSerializable("city", city);
intent.putExtras(bundle);

And retreive it with:

Intent intent = this.getIntent();
Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
City city =  (City)bundle.getSerializable("city");

How to get a context in a recycler view adapter

you can use this:

itemView.getContext()

for or while loop to do something n times

The fundamental difference in most programming languages is that unless the unexpected happens a for loop will always repeat n times or until a break statement, (which may be conditional), is met then finish with a while loop it may repeat 0 times, 1, more or even forever, depending on a given condition which must be true at the start of each loop for it to execute and always false on exiting the loop, (for completeness a do ... while loop, (or repeat until), for languages that have it, always executes at least once and does not guarantee the condition on the first execution).

It is worth noting that in Python a for or while statement can have break, continue and else statements where:

  • break - terminates the loop
  • continue - moves on to the next time around the loop without executing following code this time around
  • else - is executed if the loop completed without any break statements being executed.

N.B. In the now unsupported Python 2 range produced a list of integers but you could use xrange to use an iterator. In Python 3 range returns an iterator.

So the answer to your question is 'it all depends on what you are trying to do'!

text-align: right; not working for <label>

Label is an inline element - so, unless a width is defined, its width is exact the same which the letters span. Your div element is a block element so its width is by default 100%.

You will have to place the text-align: right; on the div element in your case, or applying display: block; to your label

Another option is to set a width for each label and then use text-align. The display: block method will not be necessary using this.

Visual Studio Code pylint: Unable to import 'protorpc'

Spent hours trying to fix the error for importing local modules. Code execution was fine but pylint showed:

    Unable to import '<module>'

Finally figured:

  1. First of all, select the correct python path. (In the case of a virtual environment, it will be venv/bin/python). You can do this by hitting

  2. Make sure that your pylint path is the same as the python path you chose in step 1. (You can open VS Code from within the activated venv from terminal so it automatically performs these two steps)

  3. The most important step: Add an empty __init__.py file in the folder that contains your module file. Although python3 does not require this file for importing modules, I think pylint still requires it for linting.

Restart VS Code, the errors should be gone!

c++ array assignment of multiple values

You have to replace the values one by one such as in a for-loop or copying another array over another such as using memcpy(..) or std::copy

e.g.

for (int i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) {
    array[i] = newValue[i];
}

Take care to ensure proper bounds-checking and any other checking that needs to occur to prevent an out of bounds problem.

How can I convert a .py to .exe for Python?

I can't tell you what's best, but a tool I have used with success in the past was cx_Freeze. They recently updated (on Jan. 7, '17) to version 5.0.1 and it supports Python 3.6.

Here's the pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cx_Freeze

The documentation shows that there is more than one way to do it, depending on your needs. http://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html

I have not tried it out yet, so I'm going to point to a post where the simple way of doing it was discussed. Some things may or may not have changed though.

How do I use cx_freeze?

How to change date format from DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD?

String dt = Date.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

Now you got this for dt, 2010-09-09

Equal sized table cells to fill the entire width of the containing table

Just use percentage widths and fixed table layout:

<table>
<tr>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>3</td>
</tr>
</table>

with

table { table-layout: fixed; }
td { width: 33%; }

Fixed table layout is important as otherwise the browser will adjust the widths as it sees fit if the contents don't fit ie the widths are otherwise a suggestion not a rule without fixed table layout.

Obviously, adjust the CSS to fit your circumstances, which usually means applying the styling only to a tables with a given class or possibly with a given ID.

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

From the man page:

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

For your purposes, brew search will suffice.

What is the easiest way to parse an INI File in C++?

Have you tried libconfig; very JSON-like syntax. I prefer it over XML configuration files.

exception in initializer error in java when using Netbeans

Wherever there is errors or exceptions in static blocks, this exception will be thrown. To get the cause of this exception simply use Throwable.getCause() to know what is wrong.

No assembly found containing an OwinStartupAttribute Error

For those who do want owin to start, <add key="owin:AutomaticAppStartup" value="false" /> won't work, but the following worked for me.

  1. if you have a partial class "Startup" in your Startup.Auth file, create another partial Startup class in the root of your project.

  2. define an assembly owinstartup attribute pointing to that class

  3. create a "Configuration" method

  4. rebuild your application

You could also create the "Configuration" method, and add the assembly attribute to the Startup.Auth, but doing it this way allows you to keep your Startup class separated by leveraging C# class definition splitting. Read more here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/partial-classes-and-methods

This is what my Startup.cs file looked like:

using Microsoft.Owin;
using Owin;

[assembly: OwinStartupAttribute(typeof(ProjectNameSpace.Startup))]

namespace ProjectNameSpace
{
    public partial class Startup
    {
        public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
        {
            ConfigureAuth(app);
        }
    }
}

jQuery posting JSON

'data' should be a stringified JavaScript object:

data: JSON.stringify({ "userName": userName, "password" : password })

To send your formData, pass it to stringify:

data: JSON.stringify(formData)

Some servers also require the application/json content type:

contentType: 'application/json'

There's also a more detailed answer to a similar question here: Jquery Ajax Posting json to webservice

How to convert a string to number in TypeScript?

There are three ways

 let a = + '12'; 
 let b = parseInt('12' , 10); // 10 means decimal number
 let c = Number('12');

Strange out of memory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object

use these code for every image in select from SdCard or drewable to convert bitmap object.

Resources res = getResources();
WindowManager window = (WindowManager) getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
Display display = window.getDefaultDisplay();
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
int width = display.getWidth();
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
int height = display.getHeight();
try {
    if (bitmap != null) {
        bitmap.recycle();
        bitmap = null;
        System.gc();
    }
    bitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(BitmapFactory
        .decodeFile(ImageData_Path.get(img_pos).getPath()),
        width, height, true);
} catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
    if (bitmap != null) {
        bitmap.recycle();
        bitmap = null;
        System.gc();
    }
    BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    options.inPreferredConfig = Config.RGB_565;
    options.inSampleSize = 1;
    options.inPurgeable = true;
    bitmapBitmap.createScaledBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(ImageData_Path.get(img_pos)
        .getPath().toString(), options), width, height,true);
}
return bitmap;

use your image path instend of ImageData_Path.get(img_pos).getPath() .

What difference between the DATE, TIME, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP Types

DATE: It is used for values with a date part but no time part. MySQL retrieves and displays DATE values in YYYY-MM-DD format. The supported range is 1000-01-01 to 9999-12-31.

DATETIME: It is used for values that contain both date and time parts. MySQL retrieves and displays DATETIME values in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format. The supported range is 1000-01-01 00:00:00 to 9999-12-31 23:59:59.

TIMESTAMP: It is also used for values that contain both date and time parts, and includes the time zone. TIMESTAMP has a range of 1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC to 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC.

TIME: Its values are in HH:MM:SS format (or HHH:MM:SS format for large hours values). TIME values may range from -838:59:59 to 838:59:59. The hours part may be so large because the TIME type can be used not only to represent a time of day (which must be less than 24 hours), but also elapsed time or a time interval between two events (which may be much greater than 24 hours, or even negative).

How to implement Android Pull-to-Refresh

I've made an attempt to implement a pull to refresh component, it's far from complete but demonstrates a possible implementation, https://github.com/johannilsson/android-pulltorefresh.

Main logic is implemented in PullToRefreshListView that extends ListView. Internally it controls the scrolling of a header view using smoothScrollBy (API Level 8). The widget is now updated with support for 1.5 and later, please read the README for 1.5 support though.

In your layouts you simply add it like this.

<com.markupartist.android.widget.PullToRefreshListView
    android:id="@+id/android:list"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    />

How to upload images into MySQL database using PHP code

Firstly, you should check if your image column is BLOB type!

I don't know anything about your SQL table, but if I'll try to make my own as an example.

We got fields id (int), image (blob) and image_name (varchar(64)).

So the code should look like this (assume ID is always '1' and let's use this mysql_query):

$image = addslashes(file_get_contents($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'])); //SQL Injection defence!
$image_name = addslashes($_FILES['image']['name']);
$sql = "INSERT INTO `product_images` (`id`, `image`, `image_name`) VALUES ('1', '{$image}', '{$image_name}')";
if (!mysql_query($sql)) { // Error handling
    echo "Something went wrong! :("; 
}

You are doing it wrong in many ways. Don't use mysql functions - they are deprecated! Use PDO or MySQLi. You should also think about storing files locations on disk. Using MySQL for storing images is thought to be Bad Idea™. Handling SQL table with big data like images can be problematic.

Also your HTML form is out of standards. It should look like this:

<form action="insert_product.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <label>File: </label><input type="file" name="image" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

Sidenote:

When dealing with files and storing them as a BLOB, the data must be escaped using mysql_real_escape_string(), otherwise it will result in a syntax error.

Add a list item through javascript

The above answer was helpful for me, but it might be useful (or best practice) to add the name on submit, as I wound up doing. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone. CodePen Sample

    <form id="formAddName">
      <fieldset>
        <legend>Add Name </legend>
            <label for="firstName">First Name</label>
            <input type="text" id="firstName" name="firstName" />

        <button>Add</button>
      </fieldset>
    </form>

      <ol id="demo"></ol>

<script>
    var list = document.getElementById('demo');
    var entry = document.getElementById('formAddName');
    entry.onsubmit = function(evt) {
    evt.preventDefault();
    var firstName = document.getElementById('firstName').value;
    var entry = document.createElement('li');
    entry.appendChild(document.createTextNode(firstName));
    list.appendChild(entry);
  }
</script>

Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all()

solution is easy:

replace

 mask = (50  < df['heart rate'] < 101 &
            140 < df['systolic blood pressure'] < 160 &
            90  < df['dyastolic blood pressure'] < 100 &
            35  < df['temperature'] < 39 &
            11  < df['respiratory rate'] < 19 &
            95  < df['pulse oximetry'] < 100
            , "excellent", "critical")

by

mask = ((50  < df['heart rate'] < 101) &
        (140 < df['systolic blood pressure'] < 160) &
        (90  < df['dyastolic blood pressure'] < 100) &
        (35  < df['temperature'] < 39) &
        (11  < df['respiratory rate'] < 19) &
        (95  < df['pulse oximetry'] < 100)
        , "excellent", "critical")

How do you change video src using jQuery?

Try $("#divVideo video")[0].load(); after you changed the src attribute.

How to count the number of occurrences of an element in a List

A slightly more efficient approach might be

Map<String, AtomicInteger> instances = new HashMap<String, AtomicInteger>();

void add(String name) {
     AtomicInteger value = instances.get(name);
     if (value == null) 
        instances.put(name, new AtomicInteger(1));
     else
        value.incrementAndGet();
}

Magento addFieldToFilter: Two fields, match as OR, not AND

I've got another way to add an or condition in the field:

->addFieldToFilter(
    array('title', 'content'),
    array(
        array('like'=>'%$titlesearchtext%'), 
        array('like'=>'%$contentsearchtext%')
    )
)

Toolbar navigation icon never set

Currently you can use it, changing the order: (it seems to be a bug)

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_awesome_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.ic_good);
toolbar.setTitle("Title");
toolbar.setSubtitle("Sub");
toolbar.setLogo(R.drawable.ic_launcher);

Replace tabs with spaces in vim

Add following lines to your .vimrc

set expandtab
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
map <F2> :retab <CR> :wq! <CR>

Open a file in vim and press F2 The tabs will be converted to 4 spaces and file will be saved automatically.

Correct way to delete cookies server-side

Use Max-Age=-1 rather than "Expires". It is shorter, less picky about the syntax, and Max-Age takes precedence over Expires anyway.

Goal Seek Macro with Goal as a Formula

GoalSeek will throw an "Invalid Reference" error if the GoalSeek cell contains a value rather than a formula or if the ChangingCell contains a formula instead of a value or nothing.

The GoalSeek cell must contain a formula that refers directly or indirectly to the ChangingCell; if the formula doesn't refer to the ChangingCell in some way, GoalSeek either may not converge to an answer or may produce a nonsensical answer.

I tested your code with a different GoalSeek formula than yours (I wasn't quite clear whether some of the terms referred to cells or values).

For the test, I set:

  the GoalSeek cell  H18 = (G18^3)+(3*G18^2)+6
  the Goal cell      H32 =  11
  the ChangingCell   G18 =  0 

The code was:

Sub GSeek()
    With Worksheets("Sheet1")
        .Range("H18").GoalSeek _
        Goal:=.Range("H32").Value, _
        ChangingCell:=.Range("G18")
    End With
End Sub

And the code produced the (correct) answer of 1.1038, the value of G18 at which the formula in H18 produces the value of 11, the goal I was seeking.

Find row in datatable with specific id

You can use LINQ to DataSet/DataTable

var rows = dt.AsEnumerable()
               .Where(r=> r.Field<int>("ID") == 5);

Since each row has a unique ID, you should use Single/SingleOrDefault which would throw exception if you get multiple records back.

DataRow dr = dt.AsEnumerable()
               .SingleOrDefault(r=> r.Field<int>("ID") == 5);

(Substitute int for the type of your ID field)

How to escape regular expression special characters using javascript?

Use the \ character to escape a character that has special meaning inside a regular expression.

To automate it, you could use this:

function escapeRegExp(text) {
  return text.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, '\\$&');
}

Update: There is now a proposal to standardize this method, possibly in ES2016: https://github.com/benjamingr/RegExp.escape

Update: The abovementioned proposal was rejected, so keep implementing this yourself if you need it.

How can I return an empty IEnumerable?

As for me, most elegant way is yield break

Why is my CSS style not being applied?

For me, the problem was incorrect content type of the served .css file (if it included certain unicode characters).

Changing the content-type to text/css solved the problem.

Postgresql, update if row with some unique value exists, else insert

Firstly It tries insert. If there is a conflict on url column then it updates content and last_analyzed fields. If updates are rare this might be better option.

INSERT INTO URLs (url, content, last_analyzed)
VALUES
    (
        %(url)s,
        %(content)s,
        NOW()
    ) 
ON CONFLICT (url) 
DO
UPDATE
SET content=%(content)s, last_analyzed = NOW();

Iterating over dictionaries using 'for' loops

You can check the implementation of CPython's dicttype on GitHub. This is the signature of method that implements the dict iterator:

_PyDict_Next(PyObject *op, Py_ssize_t *ppos, PyObject **pkey,
             PyObject **pvalue, Py_hash_t *phash)

CPython dictobject.c

How to set host_key_checking=false in ansible inventory file?

Yes, you can set this on the inventory/host level.

With an already accepted answer present, I think this is a better answer to the question on how to handle this on the inventory level. I consider this more secure by isolating this insecure setting to the hosts required for this (e.g. test systems, local development machines).

What you can do at the inventory level is add

ansible_ssh_common_args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'

or

ansible_ssh_extra_args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'

to your host definition (see Ansible Behavioral Inventory Parameters).

This will work provided you use the ssh connection type, not paramiko or something else).

For example, a Vagrant host definition would look like…

vagrant ansible_port=2222 ansible_host=127.0.0.1 ansible_ssh_common_args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'

or

vagrant ansible_port=2222 ansible_host=127.0.0.1 ansible_ssh_extra_args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'

Running Ansible will then be successful without changing any environment variable.

$ ansible vagrant -i <path/to/hosts/file> -m ping
vagrant | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false, 
    "ping": "pong"
}

In case you want to do this for a group of hosts, here's a suggestion to make it a supplemental group var for an existing group like this:

[mytestsystems]
test[01:99].example.tld

[insecuressh:children]
mytestsystems

[insecuressh:vars]
ansible_ssh_common_args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'

Pass array to mvc Action via AJAX

I work with asp.net core 2.2 and jquery and have to submit a complex object ('main class') from a view to a controller with simple data fields and some array's.
As soon as I have added the array in the c# 'main class' definition (see below) and submitted the (correct filled) array over ajax (post), the whole object was null in the controller.
First, I thought, the missing "traditional: true," to my ajax call was the reason, but this is not the case.
In my case the reason was the definition in the c# 'main class'.
In the 'main class', I had:

public List<EreignisTagNeu> oEreignistageNeu { get; set; }

and EreignisTagNeu was defined as:

public class EreignisTagNeu
{
 public int iHME_Key { get; set; } 
}

I had to change the definition in the 'main class' to:

 public List<int> oEreignistageNeu { get; set; }

Now it works.
So... for me it seems as asp.net core has a problem (with post), if the list for an array is not defined completely in the 'main class'.
Note: In my case this works with or without "traditional: true," to the ajax call

YouTube iframe API: how do I control an iframe player that's already in the HTML?

You can do this with far less code:

function callPlayer(func, args) {
    var i = 0,
        iframes = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe'),
        src = '';
    for (i = 0; i < iframes.length; i += 1) {
        src = iframes[i].getAttribute('src');
        if (src && src.indexOf('youtube.com/embed') !== -1) {
            iframes[i].contentWindow.postMessage(JSON.stringify({
                'event': 'command',
                'func': func,
                'args': args || []
            }), '*');
        }
    }
}

Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/kmturley/g6P5H/296/

TS1086: An accessor cannot be declared in ambient context

If it's just a library that's causing this, this will avoid the problem just fine. Typescript can be a pain on the neck sometimes so set this value on your tsconfig.json file.

"compilerOptions": {
    "skipLibCheck": true
}

Creating a simple login form

edited @Asraful Haque answer with a bit of js to show and hide the box

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Login Page</title>
<style>
    /* Basics */
    html, body {
        width: 100%;
        height: 100%;
        font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
        color: #444;
        -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
        background: #f0f0f0;
    }
    #container {
        position: fixed;
        width: 340px;
        height: 280px;
        top: 50%;
        left: 50%;
        margin-top: -140px;
        margin-left: -170px;
        background: #fff;
        border-radius: 3px;
        border: 1px solid #ccc;
        box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .1);
        display: none;
    }
    form {
        margin: 0 auto;
        margin-top: 20px;
    }
    label {
        color: #555;
        display: inline-block;
        margin-left: 18px;
        padding-top: 10px;
        font-size: 14px;
    }
    p a {
        font-size: 11px;
        color: #aaa;
        float: right;
        margin-top: -13px;
        margin-right: 20px;
     -webkit-transition: all .4s ease;
        -moz-transition: all .4s ease;
        transition: all .4s ease;
    }
    p a:hover {
        color: #555;
    }
    input {
        font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-size: 12px;
        outline: none;
    }
    input[type=text],
    input[type=password] ,input[type=time]{
        color: #777;
        padding-left: 10px;
        margin: 10px;
        margin-top: 12px;
        margin-left: 18px;
        width: 290px;
        height: 35px;
        border: 1px solid #c7d0d2;
        border-radius: 2px;
        box-shadow: inset 0 1.5px 3px rgba(190, 190, 190, .4), 0 0 0 5px #f5f7f8;
        -webkit-transition: all .4s ease;
        -moz-transition: all .4s ease;
        transition: all .4s ease;
        }
    input[type=text]:hover,
    input[type=password]:hover,input[type=time]:hover {
        border: 1px solid #b6bfc0;
        box-shadow: inset 0 1.5px 3px rgba(190, 190, 190, .7), 0 0 0 5px #f5f7f8;
    }
    input[type=text]:focus,
    input[type=password]:focus,input[type=time]:focus {
        border: 1px solid #a8c9e4;
        box-shadow: inset 0 1.5px 3px rgba(190, 190, 190, .4), 0 0 0 5px #e6f2f9;
    }
    #lower {
        background: #ecf2f5;
        width: 100%;
        height: 69px;
        margin-top: 20px;
          box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px #fff;
        border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
        border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;
        border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;
    }
    input[type=checkbox] {
        margin-left: 20px;
        margin-top: 30px;
    }
    .check {
        margin-left: 3px;
        font-size: 11px;
        color: #444;
        text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
    }
    input[type=submit] {
        float: right;
        margin-right: 20px;
        margin-top: 20px;
        width: 80px;
        height: 30px;
        font-size: 14px;
        font-weight: bold;
        color: #fff;
        background-color: #acd6ef; /*IE fallback*/
        background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#acd6ef), to(#6ec2e8));
        background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top left 90deg, #acd6ef 0%, #6ec2e8 100%);
        background-image: linear-gradient(top left 90deg, #acd6ef 0%, #6ec2e8 100%);
        border-radius: 30px;
        border: 1px solid #66add6;
        box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .3), inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, .5);
        cursor: pointer;
    }
    input[type=submit]:hover {
        background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#b6e2ff), to(#6ec2e8));
        background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top left 90deg, #b6e2ff 0%, #6ec2e8 100%);
        background-image: linear-gradient(top left 90deg, #b6e2ff 0%, #6ec2e8 100%);
    }
    input[type=submit]:active {
        background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#6ec2e8), to(#b6e2ff));
        background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top left 90deg, #6ec2e8 0%, #b6e2ff 100%);
        background-image: linear-gradient(top left 90deg, #6ec2e8 0%, #b6e2ff 100%);
    }
</style>
<script>
    function clicker () {
        var login = document.getElementById("container");
        login.style.display="block";
    }
</script>
</head>

<body>
    <a href="#" id="link" onClick="clicker();">login</a>
    <!-- Begin Page Content -->
    <div id="container">
        <form action="login_process.php" method="post">
            <label for="loginmsg" style="color:hsla(0,100%,50%,0.5); font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;"><?php  echo @$_GET['msg'];?></label>
            <label for="username">Username:</label>
            <input type="text" id="username" name="username">
            <label for="password">Password:</label>
            <input type="password" id="password" name="password">
            <div id="lower">
                <input type="checkbox"><label class="check" for="checkbox">Keep me logged in</label>
                <input type="submit" value="Login">
            </div><!--/ lower-->
        </form>
    </div><!--/ container-->
    <!-- End Page Content -->
</body>
</html>

JavaScript - Get Portion of URL Path

If you have an abstract URL string (not from the current window.location), you can use this trick:

let yourUrlString = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

let parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = yourUrlString;

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

Thanks to jlong

What is the recommended project structure for spring boot rest projects?

Though this question has an accepted answer, still I would like to share my project structure for RESTful services.

src/main/java
    +- com
        +- example
            +- Application.java
            +- ApplicationConstants.java
                +- configuration
                |   +- ApplicationConfiguration.java
                +- controller
                |   +- ApplicationController.java
                +- dao
                |   +- impl
                |   |   +- ApplicationDaoImpl.java
                |   +- ApplicationDao.java
                +- dto
                |   +- ApplicationDto.java
                +- service
                |   +- impl
                |   |   +- ApplicationServiceImpl.java
                |   +- ApplicationService.java
                +- util
                |   +- ApplicationUtils.java
                +- validation
                |   +- impl
                |   |   +- ApplicationValidationImpl.java
                |   +- ApplicationValidation.java

DAO = Data Access Object.
DTO = Data Transfer Object.

How to echo with different colors in the Windows command line

call :color_echo "blue" "blue txt"
call :color_echo "red" "red txt"
echo "white txt"


REM : https://www.robvanderwoude.com/ansi.php
:color_echo
    @echo off

    set "color=%~1"
    set "txt=%~2"

    set ESC=
    set black=%ESC%[30m
    set red=%ESC%[31m
    set green=%ESC%[32m
    set yellow=%ESC%[33m
    set blue=%ESC%[34m
    set magenta=%ESC%[35m
    set cyan=%ESC%[36m
    set white=%ESC%[37m

    if "%~1" == "black"   set "color=!black!"
    if "%~1" == "red"     set "color=!red!"
    if "%~1" == "green"   set "color=!green!"
    if "%~1" == "yellow"  set "color=!yellow!"
    if "%~1" == "blue"    set "color=!blue!"
    if "%~1" == "magenta" set "color=!magenta!"
    if "%~1" == "cyan"    set "color=!cyan!"
    if "%~1" == "white"   set "color=!white!"

    echo | set /p="!color!!txt!"
    echo.

    REM : return to standard white color
    echo | set /p="!white!"

    REM : exiting the function only
    EXIT /B 0

import httplib ImportError: No module named httplib

If you use PyCharm, please change you 'Project Interpreter' to '2.7.x'

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Where is Python's sys.path initialized from?

Python really tries hard to intelligently set sys.path. How it is set can get really complicated. The following guide is a watered-down, somewhat-incomplete, somewhat-wrong, but hopefully-useful guide for the rank-and-file python programmer of what happens when python figures out what to use as the initial values of sys.path, sys.executable, sys.exec_prefix, and sys.prefix on a normal python installation.

First, python does its level best to figure out its actual physical location on the filesystem based on what the operating system tells it. If the OS just says "python" is running, it finds itself in $PATH. It resolves any symbolic links. Once it has done this, the path of the executable that it finds is used as the value for sys.executable, no ifs, ands, or buts.

Next, it determines the initial values for sys.exec_prefix and sys.prefix.

If there is a file called pyvenv.cfg in the same directory as sys.executable or one directory up, python looks at it. Different OSes do different things with this file.

One of the values in this config file that python looks for is the configuration option home = <DIRECTORY>. Python will use this directory instead of the directory containing sys.executable when it dynamically sets the initial value of sys.prefix later. If the applocal = true setting appears in the pyvenv.cfg file on Windows, but not the home = <DIRECTORY> setting, then sys.prefix will be set to the directory containing sys.executable.

Next, the PYTHONHOME environment variable is examined. On Linux and Mac, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to the PYTHONHOME environment variable, if it exists, superseding any home = <DIRECTORY> setting in pyvenv.cfg. On Windows, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix is set to the PYTHONHOME environment variable, if it exists, unless a home = <DIRECTORY> setting is present in pyvenv.cfg, which is used instead.

Otherwise, these sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are found by walking backwards from the location of sys.executable, or the home directory given by pyvenv.cfg if any.

If the file lib/python<version>/dyn-load is found in that directory or any of its parent directories, that directory is set to be to be sys.exec_prefix on Linux or Mac. If the file lib/python<version>/os.py is is found in the directory or any of its subdirectories, that directory is set to be sys.prefix on Linux, Mac, and Windows, with sys.exec_prefix set to the same value as sys.prefix on Windows. This entire step is skipped on Windows if applocal = true is set. Either the directory of sys.executable is used or, if home is set in pyvenv.cfg, that is used instead for the initial value of sys.prefix.

If it can't find these "landmark" files or sys.prefix hasn't been found yet, then python sets sys.prefix to a "fallback" value. Linux and Mac, for example, use pre-compiled defaults as the values of sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix. Windows waits until sys.path is fully figured out to set a fallback value for sys.prefix.

Then, (what you've all been waiting for,) python determines the initial values that are to be contained in sys.path.

  1. The directory of the script which python is executing is added to sys.path. On Windows, this is always the empty string, which tells python to use the full path where the script is located instead.
  2. The contents of PYTHONPATH environment variable, if set, is added to sys.path, unless you're on Windows and applocal is set to true in pyvenv.cfg.
  3. The zip file path, which is <prefix>/lib/python35.zip on Linux/Mac and os.path.join(os.dirname(sys.executable), "python.zip") on Windows, is added to sys.path.
  4. If on Windows and no applocal = true was set in pyvenv.cfg, then the contents of the subkeys of the registry key HK_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python\PythonCore\<DLLVersion>\PythonPath\ are added, if any.
  5. If on Windows and no applocal = true was set in pyvenv.cfg, and sys.prefix could not be found, then the core contents of the of the registry key HK_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python\PythonCore\<DLLVersion>\PythonPath\ is added, if it exists;
  6. If on Windows and no applocal = true was set in pyvenv.cfg, then the contents of the subkeys of the registry key HK_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\PythonCore\<DLLVersion>\PythonPath\ are added, if any.
  7. If on Windows and no applocal = true was set in pyvenv.cfg, and sys.prefix could not be found, then the core contents of the of the registry key HK_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python\PythonCore\<DLLVersion>\PythonPath\ is added, if it exists;
  8. If on Windows, and PYTHONPATH was not set, the prefix was not found, and no registry keys were present, then the relative compile-time value of PYTHONPATH is added; otherwise, this step is ignored.
  9. Paths in the compile-time macro PYTHONPATH are added relative to the dynamically-found sys.prefix.
  10. On Mac and Linux, the value of sys.exec_prefix is added. On Windows, the directory which was used (or would have been used) to search dynamically for sys.prefix is added.

At this stage on Windows, if no prefix was found, then python will try to determine it by searching all the directories in sys.path for the landmark files, as it tried to do with the directory of sys.executable previously, until it finds something. If it doesn't, sys.prefix is left blank.

Finally, after all this, Python loads the site module, which adds stuff yet further to sys.path:

It starts by constructing up to four directories from a head and a tail part. For the head part, it uses sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix; empty heads are skipped. For the tail part, it uses the empty string and then lib/site-packages (on Windows) or lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages and then lib/site-python (on Unix and Macintosh). For each of the distinct head-tail combinations, it sees if it refers to an existing directory, and if so, adds it to sys.path and also inspects the newly added path for configuration files.

How do I read a file line by line in VB Script?

When in doubt, read the documentation:

filename = "C:\Temp\vblist.txt"

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename)

Do Until f.AtEndOfStream
  WScript.Echo f.ReadLine
Loop

f.Close

Unix ls command: show full path when using options

What about this trick...

ls -lrt -d -1 $PWD/{*,.*}

OR

ls -lrt -d -1 $PWD/*

I think this has problems with empty directories but if another poster has a tweak I'll update my answer. Also, you may already know this but this is probably be a good candidate for an alias given it's lengthiness.

[update] added some tweaks based on comments, thanks guys.

[update] as pointed out by the comments you may need to tweek the matcher expressions depending on the shell (bash vs zsh). I've re-added my older command for reference.

What does LPCWSTR stand for and how should it be handled with?

It's a long pointer to a constant, wide string (i.e. a string of wide characters).

Since it's a wide string, you want to make your constant look like: L"TestWindow". I wouldn't create the intermediate a either, I'd just pass L"TestWindow" for the parameter:

ghTest = FindWindowEx(NULL, NULL, NULL, L"TestWindow");

If you want to be pedantically correct, an "LPCTSTR" is a "text" string -- a wide string in a Unicode build and a narrow string in an ANSI build, so you should use the appropriate macro:

ghTest = FindWindow(NULL, NULL, NULL, _T("TestWindow"));

Few people care about producing code that can compile for both Unicode and ANSI character sets though, and if you don't getting it to really work correctly can be quite a bit of extra work for little gain. In this particular case, there's not much extra work, but if you're manipulating strings, there's a whole set of string manipulation macros that resolve to the correct functions.

How to use LINQ to select object with minimum or maximum property value

IF you want to select object with minimum or maximum property value. another way is to use Implementing IComparable.

public struct Money : IComparable<Money>
{
   public Money(decimal value) : this() { Value = value; }
   public decimal Value { get; private set; }
   public int CompareTo(Money other) { return Value.CompareTo(other.Value); }
}

Max Implementation will be.

var amounts = new List<Money> { new Money(20), new Money(10) };
Money maxAmount = amounts.Max();

Min Implementation will be.

var amounts = new List<Money> { new Money(20), new Money(10) };
Money maxAmount = amounts.Min();

In this way, you can compare any object and get the Max and Min while returning the object type.

Hope This will help someone.

How to remove the left part of a string?

How about..

>>> line = r'path=c:\path'
>>> line.partition('path=')
('', 'path=', 'c:\\path')

This triplet is the head, separator, and tail.

Is CSS Turing complete?

This answer is not accurate because it mix description of UTM and UTM itself (Universal Turing Machine).

We have good answer but from different perspective and it do not show directly flaws in current top answer.


First of all we can agree that human can work as UTM. This mean if we do

CSS + Human == UTM

Then CSS part is useless because all work can be done by Human who will do UTM part. Act of clicking can be UTM, because you do not click at random but only in specific places.

Instead of CSS I could use this text (Rule 110):

000 -> 0
001 -> 1
010 -> 1
011 -> 1
100 -> 0
101 -> 1
110 -> 1
111 -> 0

To guide my actions and result will be same. This mean this text UTM? No this is only input (description) that other UTM (human or computer) can read and run. Clicking is enough to run any UTM.


Critical part that CSS lack is ability to change of it own state in arbitrary way, if CSS could generate clicks then it would be UTM. Argument that your clicks are "crank" for CSS is not accurate because real "crank" for CSS is Layout Engine that run it and it should be enough to prove that CSS is UTM.

Commenting in a Bash script inside a multiline command

$IFS comment hacks

This hack uses parameter expansion on $IFS, which is used to separate words in commands:

$ echo foo${IFS}bar
foo bar

Similarly:

$ echo foo${IFS#comment}bar
foo bar

Using this, you can put a comment on a command line with contination:

$ echo foo${IFS# Comment here} \
> bar
foo bar

but the comment will need to be before the \ continuation.

Note that parameter expansion is performed inside the comment:

$ ls file
ls: cannot access 'file': No such file or directory
$ echo foo${IFS# This command will create file: $(touch file)}bar
foo bar
$ ls file
file

Rare exception

The only rare case this fails is if $IFS previously started with the exact text which is removed via the expansion (ie, after the # character):

$ IFS=x
$ echo foo${IFS#y}bar
foo bar
$ echo foo${IFS#x}bar
foobar

Note the final foobar has no space, illustrating the issue.

Since $IFS contains only whitespace by default, it's extremely unlikely you'll run into this problem.


Credit to @pjh's comment which sparked off this answer.

How do I make a fixed size formatted string in python?

Sure, use the .format method. E.g.,

print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('xxx', 123, 98))
print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('yyyy', 3, 1.0))
print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('zz', 42, 123.34))

will print

xxx        123    98.00
yyyy         3     1.00
zz          42   123.34

You can adjust the field sizes as desired. Note that .format works independently of print to format a string. I just used print to display the strings. Brief explanation:

10s format a string with 10 spaces, left justified by default

3d format an integer reserving 3 spaces, right justified by default

7.2f format a float, reserving 7 spaces, 2 after the decimal point, right justfied by default.

There are many additional options to position/format strings (padding, left/right justify etc), String Formatting Operations will provide more information.

Update for f-string mode. E.g.,

text, number, other_number = 'xxx', 123, 98
print(f'{text:10} {number:3d}  {other_number:7.2f}')

For right alignment

print(f'{text:>10} {number:3d}  {other_number:7.2f}')

How can I define a composite primary key in SQL?

CREATE TABLE `voting` (
  `QuestionID` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `MemberId` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `vote` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`QuestionID`,`MemberId`)
);

TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

I had same error and the mistake was that I had added list and dictionary into the same list (object) and when I used to iterate over the list of dictionaries and use to hit a list (type) object then I used to get this error.

Its was a code error and made sure that I only added dictionary objects to that list and list typed object into the list, this solved my issue as well.

Unable to run 'adb root' on a rooted Android phone

I finally found out how to do this! Basically you need to run adb shell first and then while you're in the shell run su, which will switch the shell to run as root!

$: adb shell
$: su

The one problem I still have is that sqlite3 is not installed so the command is not recognized.

showing that a date is greater than current date

Assuming you have a field for DateTime, you could have your query look like this:

SELECT *
FROM TABLE
WHERE DateTime > (GetDate() + 90)

Can you disable tabs in Bootstrap?

With only css, you can define two css classes.

<style type="text/css">
    /* Over the pointer-events:none, set the cursor to not-allowed.
    On this way you will have a more user friendly cursor. */
    .disabledTab {
        cursor: not-allowed;
    }
    /* Clicks are not permitted and change the opacity. */
    li.disabledTab > a[data-toggle="tab"] {
        pointer-events: none;
        filter: alpha(opacity=65);
        -webkit-box-shadow: none;
        box-shadow: none;
        opacity: .65;
    }
</style>

This is an html template. The only thing needed is to set the class to your preferred list item.

<ul class="nav nav-tabs tab-header">
    <li>
        <a href="#tab-info" data-toggle="tab">Info</a>
    </li>
    <li class="disabledTab">
        <a href="#tab-date" data-toggle="tab">Date</a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#tab-photo" data-toggle="tab">Photo</a>
    </li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content">
    <div class="tab-pane active" id="tab-info">Info</div>
    <div class="tab-pane active" id="tab-date">Date</div>
    <div class="tab-pane active" id="tab-photo">Photo</div>
</div>

Is there a .NET/C# wrapper for SQLite?

Here are the ones I can find:

Sources:

Equivalent of shell 'cd' command to change the working directory?

You can change the working directory with:

import os

os.chdir(path)

There are two best practices to follow when using this method:

  1. Catch the exception (WindowsError, OSError) on invalid path. If the exception is thrown, do not perform any recursive operations, especially destructive ones. They will operate on the old path and not the new one.
  2. Return to your old directory when you're done. This can be done in an exception-safe manner by wrapping your chdir call in a context manager, like Brian M. Hunt did in his answer.

Changing the current working directory in a subprocess does not change the current working directory in the parent process. This is true of the Python interpreter as well. You cannot use os.chdir() to change the CWD of the calling process.

What is two way binding?

Actually emberjs supports two-way binding, which is one of the most powerful feature for a javascript MVC framework. You can check it out where it mentioning binding in its user guide.

for emberjs, to create two way binding is by creating a new property with the string Binding at the end, then specifying a path from the global scope:

App.wife = Ember.Object.create({
  householdIncome: 80000
});

App.husband = Ember.Object.create({
  householdIncomeBinding: 'App.wife.householdIncome'
});

App.husband.get('householdIncome'); // 80000

// Someone gets raise.
App.husband.set('householdIncome', 90000);
App.wife.get('householdIncome'); // 90000

Note that bindings don't update immediately. Ember waits until all of your application code has finished running before synchronizing changes, so you can change a bound property as many times as you'd like without worrying about the overhead of syncing bindings when values are transient.

Hope it helps in extend of original answer selected.

How to get values of selected items in CheckBoxList with foreach in ASP.NET C#?

I like to use this simple method to get the selected values and join them into a string

private string JoinCBLSelectedValues(CheckBoxList cbl, string separator = "")
{
    return string.Join(separator, cbl.Items.Cast<ListItem>().Where(li => li.Selected).ToList());
}

How do I count unique values inside a list

The following should work. The lambda function filter out the duplicated words.

inputs=[]
input = raw_input("Word: ").strip()
while input:
    inputs.append(input)
    input = raw_input("Word: ").strip()
uniques=reduce(lambda x,y: ((y in x) and x) or x+[y], inputs, [])
print 'There are', len(uniques), 'unique words'

Lombok annotations do not compile under Intellij idea

None of the advanced answers to this question resolved the problem for me.

I managed to solve the problem by adding a dependencie to lombok in the pom.xml file, i.e. :

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
   <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
   <version>1.16.12</version>
</dependency>

I am using IntelliJ 2016.3.14 with maven-3.3.9

Hope my answer will be helpful for you

Combine two integer arrays

Find the total size of both array and set array1and2 to the total size of both array added. Then loop array1 and then array2 and add the values into array1and2.

Relative instead of Absolute paths in Excel VBA

You can provide more flexibility to your users by provide Browser Button to them

Private Sub btn_browser_file_Click()
Dim xRow As Long
Dim sh1 As Worksheet
Dim xl_app As Excel.Application
Dim xl_wk As Excel.Workbook
Dim WS As Workbook
Dim xDirect$, xFname$, InitialFoldr$
InitialFoldr$ = "C:\"
With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
    .InitialFileName = Application.DefaultFilePath & "\"
    .Title = "Please select a folder to list Files from"
    .InitialFileName = InitialFoldr$
    .Show
    Range("H13").Activate
    If .SelectedItems.Count <> 0 Then
        xDirect$ = .SelectedItems(1) & "\"
         Range("h12").Value = xDirect$
        xFname$ = Dir(xDirect$, 7)
        Do While xFname$ <> ""
         If (Format(FileDateTime(xDirect$ & "\" & xFname$), "MM/DD/YYYY") > Format(Range("H10").Value, "MM/DD/YYYY")) Then
            ActiveCell.Offset(xRow) = xFname$
            xRow = xRow + 1
            xFname$ = Dir
            Else
            xFname$ = Dir
            xRow = xRow
        End If
        Loop
    End If
End With

with this piece of code you can achieve this, easily. Tested code

How to split a number into individual digits in c#?

You can simply do:

"123456".Select(q => new string(q,1)).ToArray();

to have an enumerable of integers, as per comment request, you can:

"123456".Select(q => int.Parse(new string(q,1))).ToArray();

It is a little weak since it assumes the string actually contains numbers.

How to check if an element exists in the xml using xpath?

If boolean() is not available (the tool I'm using does not) one way to achieve it is:

//SELECT[@id='xpto']/OPTION[not(not(@selected))]

In this case, within the /OPTION, one of the options is the selected one. The "selected" does not have a value... it just exists, while the other OPTION do not have "selected". This achieves the objective.

Read and write a text file in typescript

believe there should be a way in accessing file system.

Include node.d.ts using npm i @types/node. And then create a new tsconfig.json file (npx tsc --init) and create a .ts file as followed:

import fs from 'fs';
fs.readFileSync('foo.txt','utf8');

You can use other functions in fs as well : https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

More

Node quick start : https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/node/nodejs.html

PHP header redirect 301 - what are the implications?

Just a tip: using http_response_code is much easier to remember than writing the full header:

http_response_code(301);
header('Location: /option-a'); 
exit;

Python Threading String Arguments

I hope to provide more background knowledge here.

First, constructor signature of the of method threading::Thread:

class threading.Thread(group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}, *, daemon=None)

args is the argument tuple for the target invocation. Defaults to ().

Second, A quirk in Python about tuple:

Empty tuples are constructed by an empty pair of parentheses; a tuple with one item is constructed by following a value with a comma (it is not sufficient to enclose a single value in parentheses).

On the other hand, a string is a sequence of characters, like 'abc'[1] == 'b'. So if send a string to args, even in parentheses (still a sting), each character will be treated as a single parameter.

However, Python is so integrated and is not like JavaScript where extra arguments can be tolerated. Instead, it throws an TypeError to complain.

From an array of objects, extract value of a property as array

Function map is a good choice when dealing with object arrays. Although there have been a number of good answers posted already, the example of using map with combination with filter might be helpful.

In case you want to exclude the properties which values are undefined or exclude just a specific property, you could do the following:

    var obj = {value1: "val1", value2: "val2", Ndb_No: "testing", myVal: undefined};
    var keysFiltered = Object.keys(obj).filter(function(item){return !(item == "Ndb_No" || obj[item] == undefined)});
    var valuesFiltered = keysFiltered.map(function(item) {return obj[item]});

https://jsfiddle.net/ohea7mgk/

What is the Swift equivalent to Objective-C's "@synchronized"?

In conclusion, Here give more common way that include return value or void, and throw

import Foundation

extension NSObject {


    func synchronized<T>(lockObj: AnyObject!, closure: () throws -> T) rethrows ->  T
    {
        objc_sync_enter(lockObj)
        defer {
            objc_sync_exit(lockObj)
        }

        return try closure()
    }


}

How can I format a nullable DateTime with ToString()?

Console.WriteLine(dt2 != null ? dt2.Value.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss") : "n/a"); 

EDIT: As stated in other comments, check that there is a non-null value.

Update: as recommended in the comments, extension method:

public static string ToString(this DateTime? dt, string format)
    => dt == null ? "n/a" : ((DateTime)dt).ToString(format);

And starting in C# 6, you can use the null-conditional operator to simplify the code even more. The expression below will return null if the DateTime? is null.

dt2?.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss")

Undo git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>

Adding to @adardesign's answer, if you want to reset all files that have been added to assume-unchanged list to no-assume-unchanged in one go, you can do the following:

git ls-files -v | grep '^h' | sed 's/^..//' | sed 's/\ /\\ /g' | xargs -I FILE git update-index --no-assume-unchanged FILE || true

This will just strip out the two characters output from grep i.e. "h ", then escape any spaces that may be present in file names, and finally || true will prevent the command to terminate prematurely in case some files in the loop has errors.

limit text length in php and provide 'Read more' link

Limit words in text:

function limitTextWords($content = false, $limit = false, $stripTags = false, $ellipsis = false) 
{
    if ($content && $limit) {
        $content = ($stripTags ? strip_tags($content) : $content);
        $content = explode(' ', $content, $limit+1);
        array_pop($content);
        if ($ellipsis) {
            array_push($content, '...');
        }
        $content = implode(' ', $content);
    }
    return $content;
}

Limit chars in text:

function limitTextChars($content = false, $limit = false, $stripTags = false, $ellipsis = false) 
{
    if ($content && $limit) {
        $content  = ($stripTags ? strip_tags($content) : $content);
        $ellipsis = ($ellipsis ? "..." : $ellipsis);
        $content  = mb_strimwidth($content, 0, $limit, $ellipsis);
    }
    return $content;
}

Use:

$text = "It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.";
echo limitTextWords($text, 5, true, true);
echo limitTextChars($text, 5, true, true);

How can I set the default value for an HTML <select> element?

Another example; using JavaScript to set a selected option.

(You could use this example to for loop an array of values into a drop down component)

<select id="yourDropDownElementId"><select/>

// Get the select element
var select = document.getElementById("yourDropDownElementId");
// Create a new option element
var el = document.createElement("option");
// Add our value to the option
el.textContent = "Example Value";
el.value = "Example Value";
// Set the option to selected
el.selected = true;
// Add the new option element to the select element
select.appendChild(el);

This app won't run unless you update Google Play Services (via Bazaar)

I've created a (German) description how to get it working. You basically need an emulator with at least API level 9 and no Google APIs. Then you'll have to get the APKs from a rooted device:

adb -d pull /data/app/com.android.vending-2.apk
adb -d pull /data/app/com.google.android.gms-2.apk

and install them in the emulator:

adb -e install com.android.vending-2.apk
adb -e install com.google.android.gms-2.apk

You can even run the native Google Maps App, if you have an emulator with at least API level 14 and additionally install com.google.android.apps.maps-1.apk

Have fun.

How to take off line numbers in Vi?

Easily Display Line number:

set number flag (to show line number type)

:set nu or :set number

to unset the number flag (hide the line number type)

:set nu!

If you need number every time you start vi/vim, append following line to your ~/.vimrc file:

set number

Open a file at particular location/line number

$ vi +linenumber file.rb
$ vi +300 initlib.rb 

Count number of rows by group using dplyr

another approach is to use the double colons:

mtcars %>% 
  dplyr::group_by(cyl, gear) %>%
  dplyr::summarise(length(gear))

Laravel - Return json along with http status code

I prefer the response helper myself:

    return response()->json(['message' => 'Yup. This request succeeded.'], 200);

How to set environment variables from within package.json?

UPDATE: This changes in npm v7 due to npm RFC 21.


npm (and yarn) passes a lot of data from package.json into scripts as environment variables. Use npm run env to see them all. This is documented in https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts#environment and is not only for "lifecycle" scripts like prepublish but also any script executed by npm run.

You can access these inside code (e.g. process.env.npm_package_config_port in JS) but they're already available to the shell running the scripts so you can also access them as $npm_... expansions in the "scripts" (unix syntax, might not work on windows?).

The "config" section seems intended for this use:

  "name": "myproject",
  ...
  "config": {
    "port": "8010"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node server.js $npm_package_config_port",
    "test": "wait-on http://localhost:$npm_package_config_port/ && node test.js http://localhost:$npm_package_config_port/"
  } 

An important quality of these "config" fields is that users can override them without modifying package.json!

$ npm run start

> [email protected] start /home/cben/mydir
> node server.js $npm_package_config_port

Serving on localhost:8010

$ npm config set myproject:port 8020
$ git diff package.json  # no change!
$ cat ~/.npmrc
myproject:port=8020

$ npm run start

> [email protected] start /home/cben/mydir
> node server.js $npm_package_config_port

Serving on localhost:8020

See npm config and yarn config docs.
It appears that yarn reads ~/.npmrc so npm config set affects both, but yarn config set writes to ~/.yarnrc, so only yarn will see it :-(

An efficient compression algorithm for short text strings

Huffman has a static cost, the Huffman table, so I disagree it's a good choice.

There are adaptative versions which do away with this, but the compression rate may suffer. Actually, the question you should ask is "what algorithm to compress text strings with these characteristics". For instance, if long repetitions are expected, simple Run-Lengh Encoding might be enough. If you can guarantee that only English words, spaces, punctiation and the occasional digits will be present, then Huffman with a pre-defined Huffman table might yield good results.

Generally, algorithms of the Lempel-Ziv family have very good compression and performance, and libraries for them abound. I'd go with that.

With the information that what's being compressed are URLs, then I'd suggest that, before compressing (with whatever algorithm is easily available), you CODIFY them. URLs follow well-defined patterns, and some parts of it are highly predictable. By making use of this knowledge, you can codify the URLs into something smaller to begin with, and ideas behind Huffman encoding can help you here.

For example, translating the URL into a bit stream, you could replace "http" with the bit 1, and anything else with the bit "0" followed by the actual procotol (or use a table to get other common protocols, like https, ftp, file). The "://" can be dropped altogether, as long as you can mark the end of the protocol. Etc. Go read about URL format, and think on how they can be codified to take less space.

RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in divide

You are dividing by rr which may be 0.0. Check if rr is zero and do something reasonable other than using it in the denominator.

how to convert current date to YYYY-MM-DD format with angular 2

Try this below code it is also works well in angular 2

<span>{{current_date | date: 'yyyy-MM-dd'}}</span>

iOS - Calling App Delegate method from ViewController

Update for Swift 3.0 and higher

//
// Step 1:- Create a method in AppDelegate.swift
//
func someMethodInAppDelegate() {

    print("someMethodInAppDelegate called")
}

calling above method from your controller by followings

//
// Step 2:- Getting a reference to the AppDelegate & calling the require method...
//
if let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate {

    appDelegate.someMethodInAppDelegate()
}

Output:

enter image description here

Return a 2d array from a function

returning an array of pointers pointing to starting elements of all rows is the only decent way of returning 2d array.

In a bootstrap responsive page how to center a div

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body{
    height: 100vh;
} 
.container{
    height: 100%;
}
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<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>


<div class="container text-center d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center">
        <div>
            <div>
                <h1>Counter</h1>
            </div>
            <div>
                <span>0</span>
            </div>
            <div>
                <button class="btn btn-outline-primary">Decrease</button>
                <button class="btn btn-danger">Reset</button>
                <button class="btn btn-outline-success">Increase</button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
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you can do also that way.

Predict() - Maybe I'm not understanding it

Thanks Hong, that was exactly the problem I was running into. The error you get suggests that the number of rows is wrong, but the problem is actually that the model has been trained using a command that ends up with the wrong names for parameters.

This is really a critical detail that is entirely non-obvious for lm and so on. Some of the tutorial make reference to doing lines like lm(olive$Area@olive$Palmitic) - ending up with variable names of olive$Area NOT Area, so creating an entry using anewdata<-data.frame(Palmitic=2) can't then be used. If you use lm(Area@Palmitic,data=olive) then the variable names are right and prediction works.

The real problem is that the error message does not indicate the problem at all:

Warning message: 'anewdata' had 1 rows but variable(s) found to have X rows

How can I change the default Django date template format?

If you need to show short date and time (11/08/2018 03:23 a.m.) you can do it like this:

{{your_date_field|date:"SHORT_DATE_FORMAT"}} {{your_date_field|time:"h:i a"}}

Details for this tag here and more about dates according to the given format here

Example:

<small class="text-muted">Last updated: {{your_date_field|date:"SHORT_DATE_FORMAT"}} {{your_date_field|time:"h:i a"}}</small>

How to apply shell command to each line of a command output?

You can use a basic prepend operation on each line:

ls -1 | while read line ; do echo $line ; done

Or you can pipe the output to sed for more complex operations:

ls -1 | sed 's/^\(.*\)$/echo \1/'

How to get TimeZone from android mobile?

TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getDefault(); 
timeZone.getID();

It will print like

Asia/Kolkata

How can I count occurrences with groupBy?

Here is the simple solution by StreamEx:

StreamEx.of(list).groupingBy(Function.identity(), MoreCollectors.countingInt());

This has the advantage of reducing the Java stream boilerplate code: collect(Collectors.

PHP reindex array?

Use array_values.

$myarray = array_values($myarray);

How to fill OpenCV image with one solid color?

If you are using Java for OpenCV, then you can use the following code.

Mat img = src.clone(); //Clone from the original image
img.setTo(new Scalar(255,255,255)); //This sets the whole image to white, it is R,G,B value

CSS - center two images in css side by side

Flexbox can do this with just two css rules on a surrounding div.

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    display: flex;_x000D_
    justify-content: center;_x000D_
}
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<div class="social-media">_x000D_
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">_x000D_
<img class="fblogo" border="0" alt="Mail" src="http://olympiahaacht.be/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FacebookButtonRevised-e1334605872360.jpg"/></a>_x000D_
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/OlympiaHaacht" target="_blank">_x000D_
<img class="fblogo" border="0" alt="Facebook" src="http://olympiahaacht.be/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FacebookButtonRevised-e1334605872360.jpg"/></a>_x000D_
</div>
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Set a thin border using .css() in javascript

I'd recommend using a class instead of setting css properties. So instead of this:

$(this).css({"border-color": "#C1E0FF", 
             "border-width":"1px", 
             "border-style":"solid"});

Define a css class:

.border 
{ 
  border-color: #C1E0FF; 
  border-width:1px; 
  border-style:solid; 
}

And then change your javascript to:

$(this).addClass("border");

Update Angular model after setting input value with jQuery

You have to use the following code in order to update the scope of the specific input model as follows

$('button').on('click', function(){
    var newVal = $(this).data('val');
    $('select').val(newVal).change();

    var scope = angular.element($("select")).scope();
    scope.$apply(function(){
        scope.selectValue = newVal;
    });
});

Javascript: set label text

you are doing several things wrong. The explanation follows the corrected code:

<label id="LblTextCount"></label>
<textarea name="text" onKeyPress="checkLength(this, 512, 'LblTextCount')">
</textarea>

Note the quotes around the id.

function checkLength(object, maxlength, label) {
    charsleft = (maxlength - object.value.length);

    // never allow to exceed the specified limit
    if( charsleft < 0 ) {
        object.value = object.value.substring(0, maxlength-1);
    }

    // set the value of charsleft into the label
    document.getElementById(label).innerHTML = charsleft;
}

First, on your key press event you need to send the label id as a string for it to read correctly. Second, InnerHTML has a lowercase i. Lastly, because you sent the function the string id you can get the element by that id.

Let me know how that works out for you

EDIT Not that by not declaring charsleft as a var, you are implicitly creating a global variable. a better way would be to do the following when declaring it in the function:

var charsleft = ....

How do I install PIL/Pillow for Python 3.6?

You can download the wheel corresponding to your configuration here ("Pillow-4.1.1-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl" in your case) and install it with:

pip install some-package.whl

If you have problem to install the wheel read this answer

jQuery get mouse position within an element

@AbdulRahim answer is almost correct. But I suggest the function below as substitute (for futher reference):

function getXY(evt, element) {
                var rect = element.getBoundingClientRect();
                var scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop?
                                document.documentElement.scrollTop:document.body.scrollTop;
                var scrollLeft = document.documentElement.scrollLeft?                   
                                document.documentElement.scrollLeft:document.body.scrollLeft;
                var elementLeft = rect.left+scrollLeft;  
                var elementTop = rect.top+scrollTop;

                x = evt.pageX-elementLeft;
                y = evt.pageY-elementTop;

                return {x:x, y:y};
            }




            $('#main-canvas').mousemove(function(e){
                var m=getXY(e, this);
                console.log(m.x, m.y);
            });

Python Requests requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol

I have had this error when connecting to a RabbitMQ MQTT server via TLS. I'm pretty sure the server is broken but anyway it worked with OpenSSL 1.0.1, but not OpenSSL 1.0.2.

You can check your version in Python using this:

import ssl
ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION

I'm not sure how to downgrade OpenSSL within Python (it seems to be statically linked on Windows at least), other than using an older version of Python.

Insert NULL value into INT column

If the column has the NOT NULL constraint then it won't be possible; but otherwise this is fine:

INSERT INTO MyTable(MyIntColumn) VALUES(NULL);

SQL Server: combining multiple rows into one row

Using MySQL inbuilt function group_concat() will be a good choice for getting the desired result. The syntax will be -

SELECT group_concat(STRINGVALUE) 
FROM Jira.customfieldvalue
WHERE CUSTOMFIELD = 12534
AND ISSUE = 19602

Before you execute the above command make sure you increase the size of group_concat_max_len else the the whole output may not fit in that cell.

To set the value of group_concat_max_len, execute the below command-

SET group_concat_max_len = 50000;

You can change the value 50000 accordingly, you increase it to a higher value as required.

How to generate classes from wsdl using Maven and wsimport?

i was having the same issue while generating the classes from wsimport goal. Instead of using jaxws:wsimport goal in eclipse Maven Build i was using clean compile install that was not able to generate code from wsdl file. Thanks to above example. Run jaxws:wsimport goal from Eclipse ide and it will work

Selection with .loc in python

  1. Whenever slicing (a:n) can be used, it can be replaced by fancy indexing (e.g. [a,b,c,...,n]). Fancy indexing is nothing more than listing explicitly all the index values instead of specifying only the limits.

  2. Whenever fancy indexing can be used, it can be replaced by a list of Boolean values (a mask) the same size than the index. The value will be True for index values that would have been included in the fancy index, and False for the values that would have been excluded. It's another way of listing some index values, but which can be easily automated in NumPy and Pandas, e.g by a logical comparison (like in your case).

The second replacement possibility is the one used in your example. In:

iris_data.loc[iris_data['class'] == 'versicolor', 'class'] = 'Iris-versicolor'

the mask

iris_data['class'] == 'versicolor'

is a replacement for a long and silly fancy index which would be list of row numbers where class column (a Series) has the value versicolor.

Whether a Boolean mask appears within a .iloc or .loc (e.g. df.loc[mask]) indexer or directly as the index (e.g. df[mask]) depends on wether a slice is allowed as a direct index. Such cases are shown in the following indexer cheat-sheet:

Pandas indexers loc and iloc cheat-sheet
Pandas indexers loc and iloc cheat-sheet

Remove empty space before cells in UITableView

Xcode 8 bug…

Try this first if your Storyboard UITableView style is set to Plain.

Set the table's style to Grouped and then back to Plain. This removed the space in my app at the head of my UITableView.

jQuery Datepicker close datepicker after selected date

Answer above did not work for me on Chrome. The change event was been fired after I clicked out of the field somewhere, which did not help because the datepicker window is also closed too when you click out of the field.

I did use this code and it worked pretty well. You can place it after calling .datepicker();

HTML

<input type="text" class="datepicker-input" placeholder="click to show datepicker" />

JavaScript

$(".datepicker-input").each(function() {
    $(this).datepicker();
});

$(".datepicker-input").click(function() {
    $(".datepicker-days .day").click(function() {
        $('.datepicker').hide();
    });
});

How to prevent vim from creating (and leaving) temporary files?

Put this in your .vimrc configuration file.

set nobackup