Programs & Examples On #Setcookie

The setcookie function sends an HTTP cookie to a client.

How can I send cookies using PHP curl in addition to CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE?

I think the only cookie you need is JSESSIONID=xxx..

Also NEVER share your cookies, becasuse someone may access your personal data that way. Specially when the cookies are session. These cookies will stop working once you logout the site.

Check if a PHP cookie exists and if not set its value

Cookies are only sent at the time of the request, and therefore cannot be retrieved as soon as it is assigned (only available after reloading).

Once the cookies have been set, they can be accessed on the next page load with the $_COOKIE or $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS arrays.

If output exists prior to calling this function, setcookie() will fail and return FALSE. If setcookie() successfully runs, it will return TRUE. This does not indicate whether the user accepted the cookie.

Cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for. To test if a cookie was successfully set, check for the cookie on a next loading page before the cookie expires. Expire time is set via the expire parameter. A nice way to debug the existence of cookies is by simply calling print_r($_COOKIE);.

Source

Cookies on localhost with explicit domain

Results I had varied by browser.

Chrome- 127.0.0.1 worked but localhost .localhost and "" did not. Firefox- .localhost worked but localhost, 127.0.0.1, and "" did not.

Have not tested in Opera, IE, or Safari

Correct way to pause a Python program

In Linux, you can issue kill -TSTP <pid> to the background and stop a process. So, it's there, but not consuming CPU time.

Then later, kill -CONT <pid> and it's off and running again.

Querying Windows Active Directory server using ldapsearch from command line

The short answer is "yes". A sample ldapsearch command to query an Active Directory server is:

ldapsearch \
    -x -h ldapserver.mydomain.com \
    -D "[email protected]" \
    -W \
    -b "cn=users,dc=mydomain,dc=com" \
    -s sub "(cn=*)" cn mail sn

This would connect to an AD server at hostname ldapserver.mydomain.com as user [email protected], prompt for the password on the command line and show name and email details for users in the cn=users,dc=mydomain,dc=com subtree.

See Managing LDAP from the Command Line on Linux for more samples. See LDAP Query Basics for Microsoft Exchange documentation for samples using LDAP queries with Active Directory.

Better way to right align text in HTML Table

The <colgroup> and <col> tags that lives inside tables are designed for this purpose. If you have three columns in your table and want to align the third, add this after your opening <table> tag:

 <colgroup>
     <col />
     <col />
     <col class="your-right-align-class" />
 </colgroup>

along with the requisite CSS:

 .your-right-align-class { text-align: right; }

From the W3:

Definition and Usage

  • The <col> tag defines attribute values for one or more columns in a table.

  • The <col> tag is useful for applying styles to entire columns, instead of repeating the styles for each cell, for each row.

NuGet behind a proxy

The solution for me was to include

<configuration>
  <config>
    <add key="http_proxy" value="http://<IP>:<Port>" />
    <add key="http_proxy.user" value="<user>" />
    <add key="http_proxy.password" value="<password>" />
  </config>
</configuration>

In the nuget.config file.

PHP write file from input to txt

A possible solution:

<?php
$txt = "data.txt"; 
if (isset($_POST['field1']) && isset($_POST['field2'])) { // check if both fields are set
    $fh = fopen($txt, 'a'); 
    $txt=$_POST['field1'].' - '.$_POST['field2']; 
    fwrite($fh,$txt); // Write information to the file
    fclose($fh); // Close the file
}
?>

You were closing the script before close de file.

Google Chromecast sender error if Chromecast extension is not installed or using incognito

If you want to temporarily get rid of these console errors (like I did) you can install the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast/boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd/reviews?hl=en

I left a review asking for a fix. You can also do a bug report via the extension (after you install it) here. Instructions for doing so are here: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/3187017?hl=en

I hope Google gets on this. I need my console to show my errors, etc. Not theirs.

The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size

If you have properly structured your tables so that each contains relatively unique values, then the less intensive way to do this would be to do 3 separate insert-into statements, 1 for each table, with the join-filter in place for each insert -

INSERT INTO SkusBought...

SELECT t1.customer, t1.SKU, t1.TypeDesc
FROM transactiondatatransit AS T1
LEFT OUTER JOIN topThreetransit AS T2
ON t1.customer = t2.customernum
WHERE T2.customernum IS NOT NULL

Repeat this for the other two tables - copy/paste is a fine method, simply change the FROM table name. ** IF you are trying to prevent duplicated entries in your SkusBought table you can add the following join code in each section prior to the WHERE clause.

LEFT OUTER JOIN SkusBought AS T3
ON  t1.customer = t3.customer
AND t1.sku = t3.sku

-and then the last line of WHERE clause-

AND t3.customer IS NULL

Your initial code is using a number of sub-queries, and the UNION statement can be expensive as it will first create its own temporary table to populate the data from the three separate sources before inserting into the table you want ALONG with running another sub-query to filter results.

SQL Server stored procedure parameters

CREATE PROCEDURE GetTaskEvents
@TaskName varchar(50),
@Id INT
AS
BEGIN
-- SP Logic
END

Procedure Calling

DECLARE @return_value nvarchar(50)

EXEC  @return_value = GetTaskEvents
        @TaskName = 'TaskName',
        @Id =2  

SELECT  'Return Value' = @return_value

Counting the number of files in a directory using Java

Ah... the rationale for not having a straightforward method in Java to do that is file storage abstraction: some filesystems may not have the number of files in a directory readily available... that count may not even have any meaning at all (see for example distributed, P2P filesystems, fs that store file lists as a linked list, or database-backed filesystems...). So yes,

new File(<directory path>).list().length

is probably your best bet.

How to check if a variable is set in Bash?

I found a (much) better code to do this if you want to check for anything in $@.

if [[ $1 = "" ]]
then
  echo '$1 is blank'
else
  echo '$1 is filled up'
fi

Why this all? Everything in $@ exists in Bash, but by default it's blank, so test -z and test -n couldn't help you.

Update: You can also count number of characters in a parameters.

if [ ${#1} = 0 ]
then
  echo '$1 is blank'
else
  echo '$1 is filled up'
fi

How to add parameters into a WebRequest?

For doing FORM posts, the best way is to use WebClient.UploadValues() with a POST method.

How to get response body using HttpURLConnection, when code other than 2xx is returned?

If the response code isn't 200 or 2xx, use getErrorStream() instead of getInputStream().

cannot find module "lodash"

The above error run the commend line\

please change the command $ node server it's working and server is started

How to automate browsing using python?

There are plenty of built in python modules that whould help with this. For example urllib and htmllib.

The problem will be simpler if you change the way you're approaching it. You say you want to "fill some forms, click submit button, send the data back to server, recieve the response", which sounds like a four stage process.

In fact, what you need to do is post some data to a webserver and get a response.

This is as simple as:

>>> import urllib
>>> params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
>>> f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/query", params)
>>> print f.read()

(example taken from the urllib docs).

What you do with the response depends on how complex the HTML is and what you want to do with it. You might get away with parsing it using a regular expression or two, or you can use the htmllib.HTMLParser class, or maybe a higher level more flexible parser like Beautiful Soup.

Xml serialization - Hide null values

It exists a property called XmlElementAttribute.IsNullable

If the IsNullable property is set to true, the xsi:nil attribute is generated for class members that have been set to a null reference.

The following example shows a field with the XmlElementAttribute applied to it, and the IsNullable property set to false.

public class MyClass
{
   [XmlElement(IsNullable = false)]
   public string Group;
}

You can have a look to other XmlElementAttribute for changing names in serialization etc.

How to allow download of .json file with ASP.NET

Just had this issue but had to find the config for IIS Express so I could add the mime types. For me, it was located at C:\Users\<username>\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config and I was able to add in the correct "mime map" there.

How to export the Html Tables data into PDF using Jspdf

Here is an example I think that will help you

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="js/min.js"></script>
<script src="js/pdf.js"></script>
<script>
    $(function(){
         var doc = new jsPDF();
    var specialElementHandlers = {
        '#editor': function (element, renderer) {
            return true;
        }
    };

   $('#cmd').click(function () {

        var table = tableToJson($('#StudentInfoListTable').get(0))
        var doc = new jsPDF('p','pt', 'a4', true);
        doc.cellInitialize();
        $.each(table, function (i, row){
            console.debug(row);
            $.each(row, function (j, cell){
                doc.cell(10, 50,120, 50, cell, i);  // 2nd parameter=top margin,1st=left margin 3rd=row cell width 4th=Row height
            })
        })


        doc.save('sample-file.pdf');
    });
    function tableToJson(table) {
    var data = [];

    // first row needs to be headers
    var headers = [];
    for (var i=0; i<table.rows[0].cells.length; i++) {
        headers[i] = table.rows[0].cells[i].innerHTML.toLowerCase().replace(/ /gi,'');
    }


    // go through cells
    for (var i=0; i<table.rows.length; i++) {

        var tableRow = table.rows[i];
        var rowData = {};

        for (var j=0; j<tableRow.cells.length; j++) {

            rowData[ headers[j] ] = tableRow.cells[j].innerHTML;

        }

        data.push(rowData);
    }       

    return data;
}
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="table">
<table id="StudentInfoListTable">
                <thead>
                    <tr>    
                        <th>Name</th>
                        <th>Email</th>
                        <th>Track</th>
                        <th>S.S.C Roll</th>
                        <th>S.S.C Division</th>
                        <th>H.S.C Roll</th>
                        <th>H.S.C Division</th>
                        <th>District</th>

                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>

                        <tr>
                            <td>alimon  </td>
                            <td>Email</td>
                            <td>1</td>
                            <td>2222</td>
                            <td>as</td>
                            <td>3333</td>
                            <td>dd</td>
                            <td>33</td>
                        </tr>               
                </tbody>
            </table>
<button id="cmd">Submit</button>
</body>
</html>

Here the output

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PHP array: count or sizeof?

I know this is old but just wanted to mention that I tried this with PHP 7.2:

<?php
//Creating array with 1 000 000 elements
$a = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000; ++$i)
{
    $a[] = 100;
}

//Measure
$time = time();
for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000000; ++$i)
{
    $b = count($a);
}
print("1 000 000 000 iteration of count() took ".(time()-$time)." sec\n");

$time = time();
for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000000; ++$i)
{
    $b = sizeof($a);
}
print("1 000 000 000 iteration of sizeof() took ".(time()-$time)." sec\n");
?>

and the result was:

1 000 000 000 iteration of count() took 414 sec
1 000 000 000 iteration of sizeof() took 1369 sec

So just use count().

How can I get the actual video URL of a YouTube live stream?

You need to get the HLS m3u8 playlist files from the video's manifest. There are ways to do this by hand, but for simplicity I'll be using the youtube-dl tool to get this information. I'll be using this live stream as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtc-GtLlTk

First, get the formats of the video:

?  ~ youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=_Gtc-GtLlTk
[youtube] _Gtc-GtLlTk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _Gtc-GtLlTk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Downloading multifeed video (_Gtc-GtLlTk, aflWCT1tYL0) - add --no-playlist to just download video _Gtc-GtLlTk
[download] Downloading playlist: Southwest Florida Eagle Cam
[youtube] playlist Southwest Florida Eagle Cam: Collected 2 video ids (downloading 2 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 2
[youtube] _Gtc-GtLlTk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _Gtc-GtLlTk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] _Gtc-GtLlTk: Extracting video information
[youtube] _Gtc-GtLlTk: Downloading formats manifest
[youtube] _Gtc-GtLlTk: Downloading DASH manifest
[info] Available formats for _Gtc-GtLlTk:
format code  extension  resolution note
140          m4a        audio only DASH audio  144k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (48000Hz)
160          mp4        256x144    DASH video  124k , avc1.42c00b, 30fps, video only
133          mp4        426x240    DASH video  258k , avc1.4d4015, 30fps, video only
134          mp4        640x360    DASH video  646k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only
135          mp4        854x480    DASH video 1171k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only
136          mp4        1280x720   DASH video 2326k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only
137          mp4        1920x1080  DASH video 4347k , avc1.640028, 30fps, video only
151          mp4        72p        HLS , h264, aac  @ 24k
132          mp4        240p       HLS , h264, aac  @ 48k
92           mp4        240p       HLS , h264, aac  @ 48k
93           mp4        360p       HLS , h264, aac  @128k
94           mp4        480p       HLS , h264, aac  @128k
95           mp4        720p       HLS , h264, aac  @256k
96           mp4        1080p      HLS , h264, aac  @256k (best)
[download] Downloading video 2 of 2
[youtube] aflWCT1tYL0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] aflWCT1tYL0: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] aflWCT1tYL0: Extracting video information
[youtube] aflWCT1tYL0: Downloading formats manifest
[youtube] aflWCT1tYL0: Downloading DASH manifest
[info] Available formats for aflWCT1tYL0:
format code  extension  resolution note
140          m4a        audio only DASH audio  144k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (48000Hz)
160          mp4        256x144    DASH video  124k , avc1.42c00b, 30fps, video only
133          mp4        426x240    DASH video  258k , avc1.4d4015, 30fps, video only
134          mp4        640x360    DASH video  646k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only
135          mp4        854x480    DASH video 1171k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only
136          mp4        1280x720   DASH video 2326k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only
151          mp4        72p        HLS , h264, aac  @ 24k
132          mp4        240p       HLS , h264, aac  @ 48k
92           mp4        240p       HLS , h264, aac  @ 48k
93           mp4        360p       HLS , h264, aac  @128k
94           mp4        480p       HLS , h264, aac  @128k
95           mp4        720p       HLS , h264, aac  @256k (best)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Southwest Florida Eagle Cam

In this case, there are two videos because the live stream contains two cameras. From here, we need to get the HLS URL for a specific stream. Use -f to pass in the format you would like to watch, and -g to get that stream's URL:

?  ~ youtube-dl -f 95 -g https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=_Gtc-GtLlTk
https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/id/_Gtc-GtLlTk.2/itag/95/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/live/1/cmbypass/yes/gir/yes/dg_shard/X0d0Yy1HdExsVGsuMg.95/hls_chunk_host/r1---sn-ab5l6ne6.googlevideo.com/playlist_type/LIVE/gcr/us/pmbypass/yes/mm/32/mn/sn-ab5l6ne6/ms/lv/mv/m/pl/20/dover/3/sver/3/fexp/9408495,9410706,9416126,9418581,9420452,9422596,9422780,9423059,9423661,9423662,9425349,9425959,9426661,9426720,9427325,9428422,9429306/upn/xmL7zNht848/mt/1456412649/ip/64.125.177.124/ipbits/0/expire/1456434315/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,cmbypass,gir,dg_shard,hls_chunk_host,playlist_type,gcr,pmbypass,mm,mn,ms,mv,pl/signature/7E48A727654105FF82E158154FCBA7569D52521B.1FA117183C664F00B7508DDB81274644F520C27F/key/dg_yt0/playlist/index.m3u8
https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/id/aflWCT1tYL0.2/itag/95/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/live/1/cmbypass/yes/gir/yes/dg_shard/YWZsV0NUMXRZTDAuMg.95/hls_chunk_host/r13---sn-ab5l6n7y.googlevideo.com/pmbypass/yes/playlist_type/LIVE/gcr/us/mm/32/mn/sn-ab5l6n7y/ms/lv/mv/m/pl/20/dover/3/sver/3/upn/vdBkD9lrq8Q/fexp/9408495,9410706,9416126,9418581,9420452,9422596,9422780,9423059,9423661,9423662,9425349,9425959,9426661,9426720,9427325,9428422,9429306/mt/1456412649/ip/64.125.177.124/ipbits/0/expire/1456434316/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,cmbypass,gir,dg_shard,hls_chunk_host,pmbypass,playlist_type,gcr,mm,mn,ms,mv,pl/signature/4E83CD2DB23C2331CE349CE9AFE806C8293A01ED.880FD2E253FAC8FA56FAA304C78BD1D62F9D22B4/key/dg_yt0/playlist/index.m3u8

These are your HLS m3u8 playlists, one for each camera associated with the live stream.

Without youtube-dl, your flow might look like this:

Take your video id and make a GET request to the get_video_info endpoint:

HTTP GET: https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=_Gtc-GtLlTk&el=info&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en

In the response, the hlsvp value will be the link to the m3u8 HLS playlist:

https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_variant/maudio/1/ipbits/0/key/yt6/ip/64.125.177.124/gcr/us/source/yt_live_broadcast/upn/BYS1YGuQtYI/id/_Gtc-GtLlTk.2/fexp/9416126%2C9416984%2C9417367%2C9420452%2C9422596%2C9423039%2C9423661%2C9423662%2C9423923%2C9425346%2C9427672%2C9428946%2C9429162/sparams/gcr%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmaudio%2Cplaylist_type%2Cpmbypass%2Csource%2Cexpire/sver/3/expire/1456449859/pmbypass/yes/playlist_type/LIVE/itag/0/signature/1E6874232CCAC397B601051699A03DC5A32F66D9.1CABCD9BFC87A2A886A29B86CF877077DD1AEEAA/file/index.m3u8

How do I import from Excel to a DataSet using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel?

Have you seen this one? From http://www.aspspider.com/resources/Resource510.aspx:

public DataTable Import(String path)
{
    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook workBook = app.Workbooks.Open(path, 0, true, 5, "", "", true, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlPlatform.xlWindows, "\t", false, false, 0, true, 1, 0);

    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet workSheet = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet)workBook.ActiveSheet;

    int index = 0;
    object rowIndex = 2;

    DataTable dt = new DataTable();
    dt.Columns.Add("FirstName");
    dt.Columns.Add("LastName");
    dt.Columns.Add("Mobile");
    dt.Columns.Add("Landline");
    dt.Columns.Add("Email");
    dt.Columns.Add("ID");

    DataRow row;

    while (((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range)workSheet.Cells[rowIndex, 1]).Value2 != null)
    {

        row = dt.NewRow();
        row[0] = Convert.ToString(((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range)workSheet.Cells[rowIndex, 1]).Value2);
        row[1] = Convert.ToString(((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range)workSheet.Cells[rowIndex, 2]).Value2);
        row[2] = Convert.ToString(((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range)workSheet.Cells[rowIndex, 3]).Value2);
        row[3] = Convert.ToString(((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range)workSheet.Cells[rowIndex, 4]).Value2);
        row[4] = Convert.ToString(((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range)workSheet.Cells[rowIndex, 5]).Value2);
        index++;

        rowIndex = 2 + index;
        dt.Rows.Add(row);
    }
    app.Workbooks.Close();
    return dt;
}

Is it possible to do a sparse checkout without checking out the whole repository first?

I'm new to git but it seems that if I do git checkout for each directory then it works. Also, the sparse-checkout file needs to have a trailing slash after every directory as indicated. Someone more experience please confirm that this will work.

Interestingly, if you checkout a directory not in the sparse-checkout file it seems to make no difference. They don't show up in git status and git read-tree -m -u HEAD doesn't cause it to be removed. git reset --hard doesn't cause the directory to be removed either. Anyone more experienced care to comment on what git thinks of directories that are checked out but which are not in the sparse checkout file?

Bash script processing limited number of commands in parallel

Use the wait built-in:

process1 &
process2 &
process3 &
process4 &
wait
process5 &
process6 &
process7 &
process8 &
wait

For the above example, 4 processes process1 ... process4 would be started in the background, and the shell would wait until those are completed before starting the next set.

From the GNU manual:

wait [jobspec or pid ...]

Wait until the child process specified by each process ID pid or job specification jobspec exits and return the exit status of the last command waited for. If a job spec is given, all processes in the job are waited for. If no arguments are given, all currently active child processes are waited for, and the return status is zero. If neither jobspec nor pid specifies an active child process of the shell, the return status is 127.

How to concatenate string variables in Bash

The way I'd solve the problem is just

$a$b

For example,

a="Hello"
b=" World"
c=$a$b
echo "$c"

which produces

Hello World

If you try to concatenate a string with another string, for example,

a="Hello"
c="$a World"

then echo "$c" will produce

Hello World

with an extra space.

$aWorld

doesn't work, as you may imagine, but

${a}World

produces

HelloWorld

Groovy built-in REST/HTTP client?

Native Groovy GET and POST

// GET
def get = new URL("https://httpbin.org/get").openConnection();
def getRC = get.getResponseCode();
println(getRC);
if(getRC.equals(200)) {
    println(get.getInputStream().getText());
}

// POST
def post = new URL("https://httpbin.org/post").openConnection();
def message = '{"message":"this is a message"}'
post.setRequestMethod("POST")
post.setDoOutput(true)
post.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json")
post.getOutputStream().write(message.getBytes("UTF-8"));
def postRC = post.getResponseCode();
println(postRC);
if(postRC.equals(200)) {
    println(post.getInputStream().getText());
}

addClass - can add multiple classes on same div?

You code is ok only except that you can't add same class test1.

$('.page-address-edit').addClass('test1').addClass('test2'); //this will add test1 and test2

And you could also do

$('.page-address-edit').addClass('test1 test2');

Run multiple python scripts concurrently

The simplest solution to run two Python processes concurrently is to run them from a bash file, and tell each process to go into the background with the & shell operator.

python script1.py &
python script2.py &

For a more controlled way to run many processes in parallel, look into the Supervisor project, or use the multiprocessing module to orchestrate from inside Python.

Best way to get user GPS location in background in Android

Grant required permission ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION after start service

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationChannel;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentSender;
import android.location.Location;
import android.location.LocationListener;
import android.media.RingtoneManager;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.os.Looper;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Log;

import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailability;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.ApiException;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.ResolvableApiException;
import com.google.android.gms.location.FusedLocationProviderClient;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationCallback;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationResult;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationServices;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationSettingsRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationSettingsResponse;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationSettingsStatusCodes;
import com.google.android.gms.location.SettingsClient;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnCanceledListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnFailureListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnSuccessListener;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

/**
 * Created by Ketan Ramani on 05/11/18.
 */

public class BackgroundLocationUpdateService extends Service implements GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks, GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener, LocationListener {

    /* Declare in manifest
    <service android:name=".BackgroundLocationUpdateService"/>
    */

    private final String TAG = "BackgroundLocationUpdateService";
    private final String TAG_LOCATION = "TAG_LOCATION";
    private Context context;
    private boolean stopService = false;

    /* For Google Fused API */
    protected GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;
    protected LocationSettingsRequest mLocationSettingsRequest;
    private String latitude = "0.0", longitude = "0.0";
    private FusedLocationProviderClient mFusedLocationClient;
    private SettingsClient mSettingsClient;
    private LocationCallback mLocationCallback;
    private LocationRequest mLocationRequest;
    private Location mCurrentLocation;
    /* For Google Fused API */

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        context = this;
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        StartForeground();
        final Handler handler = new Handler();
        final Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    if (!stopService) {
                        //Perform your task here
                    }

                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } finally {
                    if (!stopService) {
                        handler.postDelayed(this, TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(10));
                    }
                }
            }
        };
        handler.postDelayed(runnable, 2000);

        buildGoogleApiClient();

        return START_STICKY;
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        Log.e(TAG, "Service Stopped");
        stopService = true;
        if (mFusedLocationClient != null) {
            mFusedLocationClient.removeLocationUpdates(mLocationCallback);
            Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "Location Update Callback Removed");
        }
        super.onDestroy();
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

    private void StartForeground() {
        Intent intent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0 /* Request code */, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

        String CHANNEL_ID = "channel_location";
        String CHANNEL_NAME = "channel_location";

        NotificationCompat.Builder builder = null;
        NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            NotificationChannel channel = new NotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID, CHANNEL_NAME, NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT);
            channel.setLockscreenVisibility(Notification.VISIBILITY_PRIVATE);
            notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(channel);
            builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(getApplicationContext(), CHANNEL_ID);
            builder.setChannelId(CHANNEL_ID);
            builder.setBadgeIconType(NotificationCompat.BADGE_ICON_NONE);
        } else {
            builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(getApplicationContext(), CHANNEL_ID);
        }

        builder.setContentTitle("Your title");
        builder.setContentText("You are now online");
        Uri notificationSound = RingtoneManager.getActualDefaultRingtoneUri(this, RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
        builder.setSound(notificationSound);
        builder.setAutoCancel(true);
        builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_logo);
        builder.setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
        Notification notification = builder.build();
        startForeground(101, notification);
    }

    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "Location Changed Latitude : " + location.getLatitude() + "\tLongitude : " + location.getLongitude());

        latitude = String.valueOf(location.getLatitude());
        longitude = String.valueOf(location.getLongitude());

        if (latitude.equalsIgnoreCase("0.0") && longitude.equalsIgnoreCase("0.0")) {
            requestLocationUpdate();
        } else {
            Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "Latitude : " + location.getLatitude() + "\tLongitude : " + location.getLongitude());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onConnected(@Nullable Bundle bundle) {
        mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
        mLocationRequest.setInterval(10 * 1000);
        mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(5 * 1000);
        mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);

        LocationSettingsRequest.Builder builder = new LocationSettingsRequest.Builder();
        builder.addLocationRequest(mLocationRequest);
        builder.setAlwaysShow(true);
        mLocationSettingsRequest = builder.build();

        mSettingsClient
                .checkLocationSettings(mLocationSettingsRequest)
                .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<LocationSettingsResponse>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onSuccess(LocationSettingsResponse locationSettingsResponse) {
                        Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "GPS Success");
                        requestLocationUpdate();
                    }
                }).addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                int statusCode = ((ApiException) e).getStatusCode();
                switch (statusCode) {
                    case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.RESOLUTION_REQUIRED:
                        try {
                            int REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS = 214;
                            ResolvableApiException rae = (ResolvableApiException) e;
                            rae.startResolutionForResult((AppCompatActivity) context, REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS);
                        } catch (IntentSender.SendIntentException sie) {
                            Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "Unable to execute request.");
                        }
                        break;
                    case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.SETTINGS_CHANGE_UNAVAILABLE:
                        Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "Location settings are inadequate, and cannot be fixed here. Fix in Settings.");
                }
            }
        }).addOnCanceledListener(new OnCanceledListener() {
            @Override
            public void onCanceled() {
                Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "checkLocationSettings -> onCanceled");
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionSuspended(int i) {
        connectGoogleClient();
    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionFailed(@NonNull ConnectionResult connectionResult) {
        buildGoogleApiClient();
    }

    protected synchronized void buildGoogleApiClient() {
        mFusedLocationClient = LocationServices.getFusedLocationProviderClient(context);
        mSettingsClient = LocationServices.getSettingsClient(context);

        mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(context)
                .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
                .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
                .addApi(LocationServices.API)
                .build();

        connectGoogleClient();

        mLocationCallback = new LocationCallback() {
            @Override
            public void onLocationResult(LocationResult locationResult) {
                super.onLocationResult(locationResult);
                Log.e(TAG_LOCATION, "Location Received");
                mCurrentLocation = locationResult.getLastLocation();
                onLocationChanged(mCurrentLocation);
            }
        };
    }

    private void connectGoogleClient() {
        GoogleApiAvailability googleAPI = GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
        int resultCode = googleAPI.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(context);
        if (resultCode == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
            mGoogleApiClient.connect();
        }
    }

    @SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
    private void requestLocationUpdate() {
        mFusedLocationClient.requestLocationUpdates(mLocationRequest, mLocationCallback, Looper.myLooper());
    }
}

In Activity

Start Service : startService(new Intent(this, BackgroundLocationUpdateService.class));

Stop Service : stopService(new Intent(this, BackgroundLocationUpdateService.class));

In Fragment

Start Service : getActivity().startService(new Intent(getActivity().getBaseContext(), BackgroundLocationUpdateService.class));

Stop Service : getActivity().stopService(new Intent(getActivity(), BackgroundLocationUpdateService.class));

All com.android.support libraries must use the exact same version specification

add these in app level dependencies

implementation 'com.android.support:asynclayoutinflater:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:exifinterface:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:support-media-compat:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:28.0.0'

How do you add a JToken to an JObject?

I think you're getting confused about what can hold what in JSON.Net.

  • A JToken is a generic representation of a JSON value of any kind. It could be a string, object, array, property, etc.
  • A JProperty is a single JToken value paired with a name. It can only be added to a JObject, and its value cannot be another JProperty.
  • A JObject is a collection of JProperties. It cannot hold any other kind of JToken directly.

In your code, you are attempting to add a JObject (the one containing the "banana" data) to a JProperty ("orange") which already has a value (a JObject containing {"colour":"orange","size":"large"}). As you saw, this will result in an error.

What you really want to do is add a JProperty called "banana" to the JObject which contains the other fruit JProperties. Here is the revised code:

JObject foodJsonObj = JObject.Parse(jsonText);
JObject fruits = foodJsonObj["food"]["fruit"] as JObject;
fruits.Add("banana", JObject.Parse(@"{""colour"":""yellow"",""size"":""medium""}"));

Clone an image in cv2 python

If you use cv2, correct method is to use .copy() method in Numpy. It will create a copy of the array you need. Otherwise it will produce only a view of that object.

eg:

In [1]: import numpy as np

In [2]: x = np.arange(10*10).reshape((10,10))

In [4]: y = x[3:7,3:7].copy()

In [6]: y[2,2] = 1000

In [8]: 1000 in x
Out[8]: False     # see, 1000 in y doesn't change values in x, parent array.

Login to website, via C#

Sometimes, it may help switching off AllowAutoRedirect and setting both login POST and page GET requests the same user agent.

request.UserAgent = userAgent;
request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;

Telegram Bot - how to get a group chat id?

If you are implementing your bot, keep stored a group name -> id table, and ask it with a command. Then you can also send per name.

Adding a tooltip to an input box

Apart from HTML 5 data-tip You can use css also for making a totally customizable tooltip to be used anywhere throughout your markup.

_x000D_
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/* ToolTip classses */ _x000D_
.tooltip {_x000D_
    display: inline-block;    _x000D_
}_x000D_
.tooltip .tooltiptext {_x000D_
    margin-left:9px;_x000D_
    width : 320px;_x000D_
    visibility: hidden;_x000D_
    background-color: #FFF;_x000D_
    border-radius:4px;_x000D_
    border: 1px solid #aeaeae;_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    z-index: 1;_x000D_
    padding: 5px;_x000D_
    margin-top : -15px; _x000D_
    opacity: 0;_x000D_
    transition: opacity 0.5s;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.tooltip .tooltiptext::after {_x000D_
    content: " ";_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    top: 5%;_x000D_
    right: 100%;  _x000D_
    margin-top: -5px;_x000D_
    border-width: 5px;_x000D_
    border-style: solid;_x000D_
    border-color: transparent #aeaeae transparent transparent;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
.tooltip:hover .tooltiptext {_x000D_
    visibility: visible;_x000D_
    opacity: 1;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="tooltip">_x000D_
  <input type="text" />_x000D_
  <span class="tooltiptext">_x000D_
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.  </span>_x000D_
</div>
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Best practice for storing and protecting private API keys in applications

One possible solution is to encode the data in your app and use decoding at runtime (when you want to use that data). I also recommend to use progaurd to make it hard to read and understand the decompiled source code of your app . for example I put a encoded key in the app and then used a decode method in my app to decode my secret keys at runtime:

// "the real string is: "mypassword" "; 
//encoded 2 times with an algorithm or you can encode with other algorithms too
public String getClientSecret() {
    return Utils.decode(Utils
            .decode("Ylhsd1lYTnpkMjl5WkE9PQ=="));
}

Decompiled source code of a proguarded app is this:

 public String c()
 {
    return com.myrpoject.mypackage.g.h.a(com.myrpoject.mypackage.g.h.a("Ylhsd1lYTnpkMjl5WkE9PQ=="));
  }

At least it's complicated enough for me. this is the way I do when I have no choice but store a value in my application. Of course we all know It's not the best way but it works for me.

/**
 * @param input
 * @return decoded string
 */
public static String decode(String input) {
    // Receiving side
    String text = "";
    try {
        byte[] data = Decoder.decode(input);
        text = new String(data, "UTF-8");
        return text;
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return "Error";
}

Decompiled version:

 public static String a(String paramString)
  {
    try
    {
      str = new String(a.a(paramString), "UTF-8");
      return str;
    }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException localUnsupportedEncodingException)
    {
      while (true)
      {
        localUnsupportedEncodingException.printStackTrace();
        String str = "Error";
      }
    }
  }

and you can find so many encryptor classes with a little search in google.

Subset data.frame by date

Well, it's clearly not a number since it has dashes in it. The error message and the two comments tell you that it is a factor but the commentators are apparently waiting and letting the message sink in. Dirk is suggesting that you do this:

 EPL2011_12$Date2 <- as.Date( as.character(EPL2011_12$Date), "%d-%m-%y")

After that you can do this:

 EPL2011_12FirstHalf <- subset(EPL2011_12, Date2 > as.Date("2012-01-13") )

R date functions assume the format is either "YYYY-MM-DD" or "YYYY/MM/DD". You do need to compare like classes: date to date, or character to character.

How to store Emoji Character in MySQL Database

Both the databases and tables should have character set utf8mb4 and collation utf8mb4_unicode_ci.

When creating a new database you should use:

CREATE DATABASE mydb CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

If you have an existing database and you want to add support:

ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

You also need to set the correct character set and collation for your tables:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table_name (
    ...
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

or change it if you've got existing tables with a lot of data:

ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

Note that utf8_general_ci is no longer recommended best practice. See the related Q & A:

What's the difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci on Stack Overflow.

Node.js Logging

You can also use npmlog by issacs, recommended in https://npmjs.org/doc/coding-style.html.

You can find this module here https://github.com/isaacs/npmlog

Oracle PL/SQL string compare issue

Let's fill in the gaps in your code, by adding the other branches in the logic, and see what happens:

SQL> DECLARE
  2   str1  varchar2(4000);
  3   str2  varchar2(4000);
  4  BEGIN
  5     str1:='';
  6     str2:='sdd';
  7     IF(str1<>str2) THEN
  8      dbms_output.put_line('The two strings is not equal');
  9     ELSIF (str1=str2) THEN
 10      dbms_output.put_line('The two strings are the same');
 11     ELSE
 12      dbms_output.put_line('Who knows?');
 13     END IF;
 14   END;
 15  /
Who knows?

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>

So the two strings are neither the same nor are they not the same? Huh?

It comes down to this. Oracle treats an empty string as a NULL. If we attempt to compare a NULL and another string the outcome is not TRUE nor FALSE, it is NULL. This remains the case even if the other string is also a NULL.

Converting A String To Hexadecimal In Java

new BigInteger(1, myString.getBytes(/*YOUR_CHARSET?*/)).toString(16)

C# Connecting Through Proxy

Try this code. Call it before making any http requests. The code will use the proxy from your Internet Explorer Settings - one thing though, I use proxy.Credentials = .... because my proxy server is an NTLM authenticated Internet Acceleration Server. Give it a whizz.

static void setProxy()
{
    WebProxy proxy = (WebProxy)WebProxy.GetDefaultProxy();
    if(proxy.Address != null)
    {
        proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
        WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy = new System.Net.WebProxy(proxy.Address, proxy.BypassProxyOnLocal, proxy.BypassList, proxy.Credentials);
    }
}

Merging two images in C#/.NET

This will add an image to another.

using (Graphics grfx = Graphics.FromImage(image))
{
    grfx.DrawImage(newImage, x, y)
}

Graphics is in the namespace System.Drawing

@Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)

If you need a laymans explanation of the use beyond that provided in the Spring Docs

Consider this code...

class Service {
    @Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)
    public void doSomething() {
        // access a database using a DAO
    }
}

When doSomething() is called it knows it has to start a Transaction on the database before executing. If the caller of this method has already started a Transaction then this method will use that same physical Transaction on the current database connection.

This @Transactional annotation provides a means of telling your code when it executes that it must have a Transaction. It will not run without one, so you can make this assumption in your code that you wont be left with incomplete data in your database, or have to clean something up if an exception occurs.

Transaction management is a fairly complicated subject so hopefully this simplified answer is helpful

wait process until all subprocess finish?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Iterate through a C++ Vector using a 'for' loop

If you use

std::vector<std::reference_wrapper<std::string>> names{ };

Do not forget, when you use auto in the for loop, to use also get, like this:

for (auto element in : names)
{
    element.get()//do something
}

Error QApplication: no such file or directory

Make sure you have qmake in your path (which qmake), and that it works (qmake -v) (IF you have to kill it with ctr-c then there is something wrong with your environment).

Then follow this: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/gettingstartedqt.html

How to access accelerometer/gyroscope data from Javascript?

Usefull fallback here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/MozOrientation

function orientationhandler(evt){


  // For FF3.6+
  if (!evt.gamma && !evt.beta) {
    evt.gamma = -(evt.x * (180 / Math.PI));
    evt.beta = -(evt.y * (180 / Math.PI));
  }

  // use evt.gamma, evt.beta, and evt.alpha 
  // according to dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation


}

window.addEventListener('deviceorientation',  orientationhandler, false);
window.addEventListener('MozOrientation',     orientationhandler, false);

"Too many characters in character literal error"

You cannot treat == or || as chars, since they are not chars, but a sequence of chars.

You could make your switch...case work on strings instead.

scipy.misc module has no attribute imread?

As answered misc.imread is deprecated in SciPy 1.0.0, and will be removed in 1.2.0. imageio is one option,it will return object of type :

<class 'imageio.core.util.Image'>

but instead of imageio, use cv2

import cv2
im = cv2.imread('astronaut.png')

im will be of type : <class 'numpy.ndarray'>

As numpy arrays are faster to compute.

How to stop creating .DS_Store on Mac?

Its is possible by using mach_inject. Take a look at Death to .DS_Store

I found that overriding HFSPlusPropertyStore::FlushChanges() with a function that simply did nothing, successfully prevented the creation of .DS_Store files on both Snow Leopard and Lion.

DeathToDSStore source code

NOTE: On 10.11 you can not inject code into system apps.

Ruby: What is the easiest way to remove the first element from an array?

a = [0,1,2,3]

a.drop(1)
# => [1, 2, 3] 

a
# => [0,1,2,3]

and additionally:

[0,1,2,3].drop(2)
=> [2, 3]

[0,1,2,3].drop(3)
=> [3] 

How do I set an absolute include path in PHP?

Not directly answering your question but something to remember:

When using includes with allow_url_include on in your ini beware that, when accessing sessions from included files, if from a script you include one file using an absolute file reference and then include a second file from on your local server using a url file reference that they have different variable scope and the same session will not be seen from both included files. The original session won't be seen from the url included file.

from: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php#84052

syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

Might be a pasting problem, but as far as I can see from your code, you're missing the single quotes around the HTML part you're echo-ing.

If not, could you post the code correctly and tell us what line is causing the error?

How to hash some string with sha256 in Java?

String hashWith256(String textToHash) {
    MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
    byte[] byteOfTextToHash = textToHash.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    byte[] hashedByetArray = digest.digest(byteOfTextToHash);
    String encoded = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(hashedByetArray);
    return encoded;
}

What is the printf format specifier for bool?

There is no format specifier for bool types. However, since any integral type shorter than int is promoted to int when passed down to printf()'s variadic arguments, you can use %d:

bool x = true;
printf("%d\n", x); // prints 1

But why not:

printf(x ? "true" : "false");

or, better:

printf("%s", x ? "true" : "false");

or, even better:

fputs(x ? "true" : "false", stdout);

instead?

Querying a linked sql server

You can use:

SELECT * FROM [aa-db-dev01].[TestDB].[dbo].[users];

How to open the command prompt and insert commands using Java?

You can use any on process for dynamic path on command prompt

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c start dir ");
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c start cd \"E:\\rakhee\\Obligation Extractions\" && dir");
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c start cd \"E:\\oxyzen-workspace\\BrightleafDesktop\\Obligation Extractions\" && dir");

What exactly are DLL files, and how do they work?

What is a DLL?

DLL files are binary files that can contain executable code and resources like images, etc. Unlike applications, these cannot be directly executed, but an application will load them as and when they are required (or all at once during startup).

Are they important?

Most applications will load the DLL files they require at startup. If any of these are not found the system will not be able to start the process at all.

DLL files might require other DLL files

In the same way that an application requires a DLL file, a DLL file might be dependent on other DLL files itself. If one of these DLL files in the chain of dependency is not found, the application will not load. This is debugged easily using any dependency walker tools, like Dependency Walker.

There are so many of them in the system folders

Most of the system functionality is exposed to a user program in the form of DLL files as they are a standard form of sharing code / resources. Each functionality is kept separately in different DLL files so that only the required DLL files will be loaded and thus reduce the memory constraints on the system.

Installed applications also use DLL files

DLL files also becomes a form of separating functionalities physically as explained above. Good applications also try to not load the DLL files until they are absolutely required, which reduces the memory requirements. This too causes applications to ship with a lot of DLL files.

DLL Hell

However, at times system upgrades often breaks other programs when there is a version mismatch between the shared DLL files and the program that requires them. System checkpoints and DLL cache, etc. have been the initiatives from M$ to solve this problem. The .NET platform might not face this issue at all.

How do we know what's inside a DLL file?

You have to use an external tool like DUMPBIN or Dependency Walker which will not only show what publicly visible functions (known as exports) are contained inside the DLL files and also what other DLL files it requires and which exports from those DLL files this DLL file is dependent upon.

How do we create / use them?

Refer the programming documentation from your vendor. For C++, refer to LoadLibrary in MSDN.

Split string with JavaScript

var wrapper = $(document.body);

strings = [
    "19 51 2.108997",
    "20 47 2.1089"
];

$.each(strings, function(key, value) {
    var tmp = value.split(" ");
    $.each([
        tmp[0] + " " + tmp[1],
        tmp[2]
    ], function(key, value) {
        $("<span>" + value + "</span>").appendTo(wrapper);
    }); 
});

Using any() and all() to check if a list contains one set of values or another

Generally speaking:

all and any are functions that take some iterable and return True, if

  • in the case of all(), no values in the iterable are falsy;
  • in the case of any(), at least one value is truthy.

A value x is falsy iff bool(x) == False. A value x is truthy iff bool(x) == True.

Any non-booleans in the iterable will be fine — bool(x) will coerce any x according to these rules: 0, 0.0, None, [], (), [], set(), and other empty collections will yield False, anything else True. The docstring for bool uses the terms 'true'/'false' for 'truthy'/'falsy', and True/False for the concrete boolean values.


In your specific code samples:

You misunderstood a little bit how these functions work. Hence, the following does something completely not what you thought:

if any(foobars) == big_foobar:

...because any(foobars) would first be evaluated to either True or False, and then that boolean value would be compared to big_foobar, which generally always gives you False (unless big_foobar coincidentally happened to be the same boolean value).

Note: the iterable can be a list, but it can also be a generator/generator expression (˜ lazily evaluated/generated list) or any other iterator.

What you want instead is:

if any(x == big_foobar for x in foobars):

which basically first constructs an iterable that yields a sequence of booleans—for each item in foobars, it compares the item to big_foobar and emits the resulting boolean into the resulting sequence:

tmp = (x == big_foobar for x in foobars)

then any walks over all items in tmp and returns True as soon as it finds the first truthy element. It's as if you did the following:

In [1]: foobars = ['big', 'small', 'medium', 'nice', 'ugly']                                        

In [2]: big_foobar = 'big'                                                                          

In [3]: any(['big' == big_foobar, 'small' == big_foobar, 'medium' == big_foobar, 'nice' == big_foobar, 'ugly' == big_foobar])        
Out[3]: True

Note: As DSM pointed out, any(x == y for x in xs) is equivalent to y in xs but the latter is more readable, quicker to write and runs faster.

Some examples:

In [1]: any(x > 5 for x in range(4))
Out[1]: False

In [2]: all(isinstance(x, int) for x in range(10))
Out[2]: True

In [3]: any(x == 'Erik' for x in ['Erik', 'John', 'Jane', 'Jim'])
Out[3]: True

In [4]: all([True, True, True, False, True])
Out[4]: False

See also: http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#all

MVC 4 Edit modal form using Bootstrap

In reply to Dimitrys answer but using Ajax.BeginForm the following works at least with MVC >5 (4 not tested).

  1. write a model as shown in the other answers,

  2. In the "parent view" you will probably use a table to show the data. Model should be an ienumerable. I assume, the model has an id-property. Howeverm below the template, a placeholder for the modal and corresponding javascript

    <table>
    @foreach (var item in Model)
    {
        <tr> <td id="[email protected]"> 
            @Html.Partial("dataRowView", item)
        </td> </tr>
    }
    </table>
    
    <div class="modal fade" id="editor-container" tabindex="-1" 
         role="dialog" aria-labelledby="editor-title">
        <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg" role="document">
            <div class="modal-content" id="editor-content-container"></div>
        </div>
    </div> 
    
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $('.editor-container').click(function () {
                var url = "/area/controller/MyEditAction";  
                var id = $(this).attr('data-id');  
                $.get(url + '/' + id, function (data) {
                    $('#editor-content-container').html(data);
                    $('#editor-container').modal('show');
                });
            });
        });
    
        function success(data,status,xhr) {
            $('#editor-container').modal('hide');
            $('#editor-content-container').html("");
        }
    
        function failure(xhr,status,error) {
            $('#editor-content-container').html(xhr.responseText);
            $('#editor-container').modal('show');
        }
    </script>
    

note the "editor-success-id" in data table rows.

  1. The dataRowView is a partial containing the presentation of an model's item.

    @model ModelView
    @{
        var item = Model;
    }
    <div class="row">
            // some data 
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger editor-container" data-id="@item.Id">Edit</button>
    </div>
    
  2. Write the partial view that is called by clicking on row's button (via JS $('.editor-container').click(function () ... ).

    @model Model
    <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
            <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
        </button>
        <h4 class="modal-title" id="editor-title">Title</h4>
    </div>
    @using (Ajax.BeginForm("MyEditAction", "Controller", FormMethod.Post,
                        new AjaxOptions
                        {
                            InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
                            HttpMethod = "POST",
                            UpdateTargetId = "editor-success-" + @Model.Id,
                            OnSuccess = "success",
                            OnFailure = "failure",
                        }))
    {
        @Html.ValidationSummary()
        @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
        @Html.HiddenFor(model => model.Id)
        <div class="modal-body">
            <div class="form-horizontal">
                // Models input fields
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="modal-footer">
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Cancel</button>
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Save</button>
        </div>
    }
    

This is where magic happens: in AjaxOptions, UpdateTargetId will replace the data row after editing, onfailure and onsuccess will control the modal.

This is, the modal will only close when editing was successful and there have been no errors, otherwise the modal will be displayed after the ajax-posting to display error messages, e.g. the validation summary.

But how to get ajaxform to know if there is an error? This is the controller part, just change response.statuscode as below in step 5:

  1. the corresponding controller action method for the partial edit modal

    [HttpGet]
    public async Task<ActionResult> EditPartData(Guid? id)
    {
        // Find the data row and return the edit form
        Model input = await db.Models.FindAsync(id);
        return PartialView("EditModel", input);
    }
    
    [HttpPost, ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public async Task<ActionResult> MyEditAction([Bind(Include =
       "Id,Fields,...")] ModelView input)
    {
        if (TryValidateModel(input))
        {  
            // save changes, return new data row  
            // status code is something in 200-range
            db.Entry(input).State = EntityState.Modified;
            await db.SaveChangesAsync();
            return PartialView("dataRowView", (ModelView)input);
        }
    
        // set the "error status code" that will redisplay the modal
        Response.StatusCode = 400;
        // and return the edit form, that will be displayed as a 
        // modal again - including the modelstate errors!
        return PartialView("EditModel", (Model)input);
    }
    

This way, if an error occurs while editing Model data in a modal window, the error will be displayed in the modal with validationsummary methods of MVC; but if changes were committed successfully, the modified data table will be displayed and the modal window disappears.

Note: you get ajaxoptions working, you need to tell your bundles configuration to bind jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js (may be installed by NuGet):

        bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jqueryajax").Include(
                    "~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js"));

What do 'lazy' and 'greedy' mean in the context of regular expressions?

'Greedy' means match longest possible string.

'Lazy' means match shortest possible string.

For example, the greedy h.+l matches 'hell' in 'hello' but the lazy h.+?l matches 'hel'.

Can you append strings to variables in PHP?

PHP syntax is little different in case of concatenation from JavaScript. Instead of (+) plus a (.) period is used for string concatenation.

<?php

$selectBox = '<select name="number">';
for ($i=1;$i<=100;$i++)
{
    $selectBox += '<option value="' . $i . '">' . $i . '</option>'; // <-- (Wrong) Replace + with .
    $selectBox .= '<option value="' . $i . '">' . $i . '</option>'; // <-- (Correct) Here + is replaced .
}
$selectBox += '</select>'; // <-- (Wrong) Replace + with .
$selectBox .= '</select>'; // <-- (Correct) Here + is replaced .
echo $selectBox;

?>

Datatables on-the-fly resizing

might be late also like the other answer but I did this early this year and the solution I came up with is using css.

    $(window).bind('resize', function () {
        /*the line below was causing the page to keep loading.
        $('#tableData').dataTable().fnAdjustColumnSizing();
        Below is a workaround. The above should automatically work.*/
        $('#tableData').css('width', '100%');
    } );

Where is NuGet.Config file located in Visual Studio project?

Visual Studio reads NuGet.Config files from the solution root. Try moving it there instead of placing it in the same folder as the project.

You can also place the file at %appdata%\NuGet\NuGet.Config and it will be used everywhere.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/schema/nuget-config-file

Please help me convert this script to a simple image slider

Problems only surface when I am I trying to give the first loaded content an active state

Does this mean that you want to add a class to the first button?

$('.o-links').click(function(e) {   // ... }).first().addClass('O_Nav_Current'); 

instead of using IDs for the slider's items and resetting html contents you can use classes and indexes:

CSS:

.image-area {     width: 100%;     height: auto;     display: none; }  .image-area:first-of-type {     display: block; } 

JavaScript:

var $slides = $('.image-area'),     $btns = $('a.o-links');  $btns.on('click', function (e) {     var i = $btns.removeClass('O_Nav_Current').index(this);     $(this).addClass('O_Nav_Current');      $slides.filter(':visible').fadeOut(1000, function () {         $slides.eq(i).fadeIn(1000);     });      e.preventDefault();  }).first().addClass('O_Nav_Current'); 

http://jsfiddle.net/RmF57/

Why don't Java's +=, -=, *=, /= compound assignment operators require casting?

The problem here involves type casting.

When you add int and long,

  1. The int object is casted to long & both are added and you get long object.
  2. but long object cannot be implicitly casted to int. So, you have to do that explicitly.

But += is coded in such a way that it does type casting. i=(int)(i+m)

Catching FULL exception message

I keep coming back to these questions trying to figure out where exactly the data I'm interested in is buried in what is truly a monolithic ErrorRecord structure. Almost all answers give piecemeal instructions on how to pull certain bits of data.

But I've found it immensely helpful to dump the entire object with ConvertTo-Json so that I can visually see LITERALLY EVERYTHING in a comprehensible layout.

    try {
        Invoke-WebRequest...
    }
    catch {
        Write-Host ($_ | ConvertTo-Json)
    }

Use ConvertTo-Json's -Depth parameter to expand deeper values, but use extreme caution going past the default depth of 2 :P

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/convertto-json

Android Gradle 5.0 Update:Cause: org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.tooling.util

Issue has been resolved after updating Android studio version to 3.3-rc2 or latest released version.

cr: @shadowsheep

have to change version under /gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties. refer below url https://stackoverflow.com/a/56412795/7532946

How do I read an attribute on a class at runtime?

When you have Overridden Methods with same Name Use the helper below

public static TValue GetControllerMethodAttributeValue<T, TT, TAttribute, TValue>(this T type, Expression<Func<T, TT>> exp, Func<TAttribute, TValue> valueSelector) where TAttribute : Attribute
        {
            var memberExpression = exp?.Body as MethodCallExpression;

            if (memberExpression.Method.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(TAttribute), false).FirstOrDefault() is TAttribute attr && valueSelector != null)
            {
                return valueSelector(attr);
            }

            return default(TValue);
        }

Usage: var someController = new SomeController(Some params); var str = typeof(SomeController).GetControllerMethodAttributeValue(x => someController.SomeMethod(It.IsAny()), (RouteAttribute routeAttribute) => routeAttribute.Template);

How to remove all files from directory without removing directory in Node.js

Building on @Waterscroll's response, if you want to use async and await in node 8+:

const fs = require('fs');
const util = require('util');
const readdir = util.promisify(fs.readdir);
const unlink = util.promisify(fs.unlink);
const directory = 'test';

async function toRun() {
  try {
    const files = await readdir(directory);
    const unlinkPromises = files.map(filename => unlink(`${directory}/${filename}`));
    return Promise.all(unlinkPromises);
  } catch(err) {
    console.log(err);
  }
}

toRun();

Purpose of Unions in C and C++

Others have mentioned the architecture differences (little - big endian).

I read the problem that since the memory for the variables is shared, then by writing to one, the others change and, depending on their type, the value could be meaningless.

eg. union{ float f; int i; } x;

Writing to x.i would be meaningless if you then read from x.f - unless that is what you intended in order to look at the sign, exponent or mantissa components of the float.

I think there is also an issue of alignment: If some variables must be word aligned then you might not get the expected result.

eg. union{ char c[4]; int i; } x;

If, hypothetically, on some machine a char had to be word aligned then c[0] and c[1] would share storage with i but not c[2] and c[3].

How to set IE11 Document mode to edge as default?

I was having the same problem while developing my own website. While it was resident locally, resources opened as file//. For pages from the internet, including my own loaded as http://, the F12 Developer did use Edge as default, but not while they were loaded into IE11 from local files.

After following the suggestions above, I unchecked the box for "Display intranet Sites in Compatibility View".

That did the trick without adding any extra coding to my web page, or adding a multitude of pages to populate the list. Now all local files open in Edge document mode with F12.

So if you are referring to using F12 for locally hosted files, this may help.

Use multiple css stylesheets in the same html page

Style sheets are, effectively, concatenated into a single style sheet in the order in which they appear in the HTML source.

The normal rules for applying rulesets then apply (i.e. by specificity with the last ruleset that defines a given property winning in the event of a tie and !important throwing a spanner into the works)

What is the difference between connection and read timeout for sockets?

  1. What is the difference between connection and read timeout for sockets?

The connection timeout is the timeout in making the initial connection; i.e. completing the TCP connection handshake. The read timeout is the timeout on waiting to read data1. If the server (or network) fails to deliver any data <timeout> seconds after the client makes a socket read call, a read timeout error will be raised.

  1. What does connection timeout set to "infinity" mean? In what situation can it remain in an infinitive loop? and what can trigger that the infinity-loop dies?

It means that the connection attempt can potentially block for ever. There is no infinite loop, but the attempt to connect can be unblocked by another thread closing the socket. (A Thread.interrupt() call may also do the trick ... not sure.)

  1. What does read timeout set to "infinity" mean? In what situation can it remain in an infinite loop? What can trigger that the infinite loop to end?

It means that a call to read on the socket stream may block for ever. Once again there is no infinite loop, but the read can be unblocked by a Thread.interrupt() call, closing the socket, and (of course) the other end sending data or closing the connection.


1 - It is not ... as one commenter thought ... the timeout on how long a socket can be open, or idle.

Use JAXB to create Object from XML String

If you want to parse using InputStreams

public Object xmlToObject(String xmlDataString) {
        Object converted = null;
        try {
        
            JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Response.class);
        
            Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
            InputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlDataString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
            
            converted = unmarshaller.unmarshal(stream);
        } catch (JAXBException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return converted;
    }

Why is Visual Studio 2010 not able to find/open PDB files?

Referring to the first thread / another possibility VS cant open or find pdb file of the process is when you have your executable running in the background. I was working with mpiexec and ran into this issue. Always check your task manager and kill any exec process that your gonna build in your project. Once I did that, it debugged or built fine.

Also, if you try to continue with the warning , the breakpoints would not be hit and it would not have the current executable

DETERMINISTIC, NO SQL, or READS SQL DATA in its declaration and binary logging is enabled

Try setting the definer for the function!

So instead of

CREATE FUNCTION get_pet_owner

you will write something akin to

CREATE DEFINER=procadmin@% FUNCTION get_pet_owner

which ought to work if the user prodacmin has rights to create functions/procedures.

In my case the function worked when generated through MySQL Workbench but did not work when run directly as an SQL script. Making the changes above fixed the problem.

Find column whose name contains a specific string

This answer uses the DataFrame.filter method to do this without list comprehension:

import pandas as pd

data = {'spike-2': [1,2,3], 'hey spke': [4,5,6]}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)

print(df.filter(like='spike').columns)

Will output just 'spike-2'. You can also use regex, as some people suggested in comments above:

print(df.filter(regex='spike|spke').columns)

Will output both columns: ['spike-2', 'hey spke']

How to make button fill table cell

For starters:

<p align='center'>
<table width='100%'>
<tr>
<td align='center'><form><input type=submit value="click me" style="width:100%"></form></td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>

Note, if the width of the input button is 100%, you wont need the attribute "align='center'" anymore.

This would be the optimal solution:

<p align='center'>
<table width='100%'>
<tr>
<td><form><input type=submit value="click me" style="width:100%"></form></td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>

How do I use extern to share variables between source files?

With xc8 you have to be careful about declaring a variable as the same type in each file as you could , erroneously, declare something an int in one file and a char say in another. This could lead to corruption of variables.

This problem was elegantly solved in a microchip forum some 15 years ago /* See "http:www.htsoft.com" / / "forum/all/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/18766/an/0/page/0#18766"

But this link seems to no longer work...

So I;ll quickly try to explain it; make a file called global.h.

In it declare the following

#ifdef MAIN_C
#define GLOBAL
 /* #warning COMPILING MAIN.C */
#else
#define GLOBAL extern
#endif
GLOBAL unsigned char testing_mode; // example var used in several C files

Now in the file main.c

#define MAIN_C 1
#include "global.h"
#undef MAIN_C

This means in main.c the variable will be declared as an unsigned char.

Now in other files simply including global.h will have it declared as an extern for that file.

extern unsigned char testing_mode;

But it will be correctly declared as an unsigned char.

The old forum post probably explained this a bit more clearly. But this is a real potential gotcha when using a compiler that allows you to declare a variable in one file and then declare it extern as a different type in another. The problems associated with that are if you say declared testing_mode as an int in another file it would think it was a 16 bit var and overwrite some other part of ram, potentially corrupting another variable. Difficult to debug!

How to run an EXE file in PowerShell with parameters with spaces and quotes

So, I ran into a similar problem and chose to solve it this way instead:

  1. Escape your quote (") characters with a backtick (`)
  2. Surround your new expression with quotes (")
  3. Using the call operator (&), issue the command invoke-expression on the new string

Example solution:

& { invoke-expression "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:dbfullsql=`"Data Source=mysource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;`" -dest:dbfullsql=`"Data Source=.\mydestsource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;`",computername=10.10.10.10,username=administrator,password=adminpass`"" }

Nginx 403 error: directory index of [folder] is forbidden

You need execute permission on your static files directory. Also they need to be chown'ed by your nginx user and group.

Referring to the null object in Python

In Python, to represent the absence of a value, you can use the None value (types.NoneType.None) for objects and "" (or len() == 0) for strings. Therefore:

if yourObject is None:  # if yourObject == None:
    ...

if yourString == "":  # if yourString.len() == 0:
    ...

Regarding the difference between "==" and "is", testing for object identity using "==" should be sufficient. However, since the operation "is" is defined as the object identity operation, it is probably more correct to use it, rather than "==". Not sure if there is even a speed difference.

Anyway, you can have a look at:

Programmatically navigate using react router V4

This works:

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

const SomeComponent = withRouter(({ history }) => (
    <div onClick={() => history.push('/path/some/where')}>
        some clickable element
    </div>); 
);

export default SomeComponent;

Where does pip install its packages?

By default, on Linux, Pip installs packages to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.

Using virtualenv or --user during install will change this default location. If you use pip show make sure you are using the right user or else pip may not see the packages you are referencing.

Bringing a subview to be in front of all other views

In c#, View.BringSubviewToFront(childView); YourView.Layer.ZPosition = 1; both should work.

Change the background color of a pop-up dialog

I order to change the dialog buttons and background colors, you will need to extend the Dialog theme, eg.:

<style name="MyDialogStyle" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.Dialog.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:buttonBarButtonStyle">@style/MyButtonsStyle</item>
    <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/white</item>
</style>

<style name="MyButtonsStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button.ButtonBar.AlertDialog">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/light.blue</item>
</style>

After that, you need to pass this custom style to the dialog builder, eg. like this:

AlertDialog.Builder(requireContext(), R.style.MyDialogStyle)

If you want to change the color of the text inside the dialog, you can pass a custom view to this Builder:

AlertDialog.Builder.setView(View)

or

AlertDialog.Builder.setView(@LayoutResource int)

How to unpack an .asar file?

https://www.electronjs.org/apps/asarui

UI for Asar, Extract All, or drag extract file/directory

Android: ScrollView vs NestedScrollView

In addition to the nested scrolling NestedScrollView added one major functionality, which could even make it interesting outside of nested contexts: It has build in support for OnScrollChangeListener. Adding a OnScrollChangeListener to the original ScrollView below API 23 required subclassing ScrollView or messing around with the ViewTreeObserver of the ScrollView which often means even more work than subclassing. With NestedScrollView it can be done using the build-in setter.

Intellij Idea: Importing Gradle project - getting JAVA_HOME not defined yet

For Windows Platform:

try Running the 64 Bit exe version of IntelliJ from a path similar to following.

note that it is available beside the default idea.exe

"C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 15.0\bin\idea64.exe"

link

How to code a BAT file to always run as admin mode?

go get github.com/mattn/sudo

Then

sudo Example1Server.exe

Integer to hex string in C++

Just print it as an hexadecimal number:

int i = /* ... */;
std::cout << std::hex << i;

How to get "GET" request parameters in JavaScript?

Today I needed to get the page's request parameters into a associative array so I put together the following, with a little help from my friends. It also handles parameters without an = as true.

With an example:

// URL: http://www.example.com/test.php?abc=123&def&xyz=&something%20else

var _GET = (function() {
    var _get = {};
    var re = /[?&]([^=&]+)(=?)([^&]*)/g;
    while (m = re.exec(location.search))
        _get[decodeURIComponent(m[1])] = (m[2] == '=' ? decodeURIComponent(m[3]) : true);
    return _get;
})();

console.log(_GET);
> Object {abc: "123", def: true, xyz: "", something else: true}
console.log(_GET['something else']);
> true
console.log(_GET.abc);
> 123

How to split a string with any whitespace chars as delimiters

Also you may have a UniCode non-breaking space xA0...

String[] elements = s.split("[\\s\\xA0]+"); //include uniCode non-breaking

Appending to list in Python dictionary

list.append returns None, since it is an in-place operation and you are assigning it back to dates_dict[key]. So, the next time when you do dates_dict.get(key, []).append you are actually doing None.append. That is why it is failing. Instead, you can simply do

dates_dict.setdefault(key, []).append(date)

But, we have collections.defaultdict for this purpose only. You can do something like this

from collections import defaultdict
dates_dict = defaultdict(list)
for key, date in cur:
    dates_dict[key].append(date)

This will create a new list object, if the key is not found in the dictionary.

Note: Since the defaultdict will create a new list if the key is not found in the dictionary, this will have unintented side-effects. For example, if you simply want to retrieve a value for the key, which is not there, it will create a new list and return it.

conflicting types for 'outchar'

It's because you haven't declared outchar before you use it. That means that the compiler will assume it's a function returning an int and taking an undefined number of undefined arguments.

You need to add a prototype pf the function before you use it:

void outchar(char);  /* Prototype (declaration) of a function to be called */  int main(void) {     ... }  void outchar(char ch) {     ... } 

Note the declaration of the main function differs from your code as well. It's actually a part of the official C specification, it must return an int and must take either a void argument or an int and a char** argument.

Get Substring - everything before certain char

Building on BrainCore's answer:

    int index = 0;   
    str = "223232-1.jpg";

    //Assuming we trust str isn't null 
    if (str.Contains('-') == "true")
    {
      int index = str.IndexOf('-');
    }

    if(index > 0) {
        return str.Substring(0, index);
    }
    else {
       return str;
    }

jQuery if Element has an ID?

You can do this:

if ($(".parent a[Id]").length > 0) {

    /* then do something here */

}

EOFError: EOF when reading a line

convert your inputs to ints:

width = int(input())
height = int(input())

What's the difference between git clone --mirror and git clone --bare

The difference is that when using --mirror, all refs are copied as-is. This means everything: remote-tracking branches, notes, refs/originals/* (backups from filter-branch). The cloned repo has it all. It's also set up so that a remote update will re-fetch everything from the origin (overwriting the copied refs). The idea is really to mirror the repository, to have a total copy, so that you could for example host your central repo in multiple places, or back it up. Think of just straight-up copying the repo, except in a much more elegant git way.

The new documentation pretty much says all this:

--mirror

Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies --bare. Compared to --bare, --mirror not only maps local branches of the source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including remote branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such that all these refs are overwritten by a git remote update in the target repository.

My original answer also noted the differences between a bare clone and a normal (non-bare) clone - the non-bare clone sets up remote tracking branches, only creating a local branch for HEAD, while the bare clone copies the branches directly.

Suppose origin has a few branches (master (HEAD), next, pu, and maint), some tags (v1, v2, v3), some remote branches (devA/master, devB/master), and some other refs (refs/foo/bar, refs/foo/baz, which might be notes, stashes, other devs' namespaces, who knows).

  • git clone origin-url (non-bare): You will get all of the tags copied, a local branch master (HEAD) tracking a remote branch origin/master, and remote branches origin/next, origin/pu, and origin/maint. The tracking branches are set up so that if you do something like git fetch origin, they'll be fetched as you expect. Any remote branches (in the cloned remote) and other refs are completely ignored.

  • git clone --bare origin-url: You will get all of the tags copied, local branches master (HEAD), next, pu, and maint, no remote tracking branches. That is, all branches are copied as is, and it's set up completely independent, with no expectation of fetching again. Any remote branches (in the cloned remote) and other refs are completely ignored.

  • git clone --mirror origin-url: Every last one of those refs will be copied as-is. You'll get all the tags, local branches master (HEAD), next, pu, and maint, remote branches devA/master and devB/master, other refs refs/foo/bar and refs/foo/baz. Everything is exactly as it was in the cloned remote. Remote tracking is set up so that if you run git remote update all refs will be overwritten from origin, as if you'd just deleted the mirror and recloned it. As the docs originally said, it's a mirror. It's supposed to be a functionally identical copy, interchangeable with the original.

What does ':' (colon) do in JavaScript?

var o = {
    r: 'some value',
    t: 'some other value'
};

is functionally equivalent to

var o = new Object();
o.r = 'some value';
o.t = 'some other value';

Truncating a table in a stored procedure

All DDL statements in Oracle PL/SQL should use Execute Immediate before the statement. Hence you should use:

execute immediate 'truncate table schema.tablename';

JavaScript equivalent of PHP's in_array()

There is a project called Locutus, it implements PHP functions in Javascript and in_array() is included, you can use it exactly as you use in PHP.

Examples of use:

in_array('van', myArray);

in_array(1, otherArray, true); // Forcing strict type

Delete empty rows

To delete rows empty in table

syntax:

DELETE FROM table_name 
WHERE column_name IS NULL;

example:

Table name: data ---> column name: pkdno

DELETE FROM data 
WHERE pkdno IS NULL;

Answer: 5 rows deleted. (sayso)

Using Python String Formatting with Lists

The same as @neobot's answer but a little more modern and succinct.

>>> l = range(5)
>>> " & ".join(["{}"]*len(l)).format(*l)
'0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4'

Get current index from foreach loop

IEnumerable list = DataGridDetail.ItemsSource as IEnumerable;
List<string> lstFile = new List<string>();

int i = 0;
foreach (var row in list)
{
bool IsChecked = (bool)((CheckBox)DataGridDetail.Columns[0].GetCellContent(row)).IsChecked;
if (IsChecked)
{
  MessageBox.show(i);
--Here i want to get the index or current row from the list                   

}
 ++i;
}

What is the most efficient way to check if a value exists in a NumPy array?

The most obvious to me would be:

np.any(my_array[:, 0] == value)

Mocking a class: Mock() or patch()?

Key points which explain difference and provide guidance upon working with unittest.mock

  1. Use Mock if you want to replace some interface elements(passing args) of the object under test
  2. Use patch if you want to replace internal call to some objects and imported modules of the object under test
  3. Always provide spec from the object you are mocking
    • With patch you can always provide autospec
    • With Mock you can provide spec
    • Instead of Mock, you can use create_autospec, which intended to create Mock objects with specification.

In the question above the right answer would be to use Mock, or to be more precise create_autospec (because it will add spec to the mock methods of the class you are mocking), the defined spec on the mock will be helpful in case of an attempt to call method of the class which doesn't exists ( regardless signature), please see some

from unittest import TestCase
from unittest.mock import Mock, create_autospec, patch


class MyClass:
    
    @staticmethod
    def method(foo, bar):
        print(foo)


def something(some_class: MyClass):
    arg = 1
    # Would fail becuase of wrong parameters passed to methd.
    return some_class.method(arg)


def second(some_class: MyClass):
    arg = 1
    return some_class.unexisted_method(arg)


class TestSomethingTestCase(TestCase):
    def test_something_with_autospec(self):
        mock = create_autospec(MyClass)
        mock.method.return_value = True
        # Fails because of signature misuse.
        result = something(mock)
        self.assertTrue(result)
        self.assertTrue(mock.method.called)
    
    def test_something(self):
        mock = Mock()  # Note that Mock(spec=MyClass) will also pass, because signatures of mock don't have spec.
        mock.method.return_value = True
        
        result = something(mock)
        
        self.assertTrue(result)
        self.assertTrue(mock.method.called)
        
    def test_second_with_patch_autospec(self):
        with patch(f'{__name__}.MyClass', autospec=True) as mock:
            # Fails because of signature misuse.
            result = second(mock)
        self.assertTrue(result)
        self.assertTrue(mock.unexisted_method.called)


class TestSecondTestCase(TestCase):
    def test_second_with_autospec(self):
        mock = Mock(spec=MyClass)
        # Fails because of signature misuse.
        result = second(mock)
        self.assertTrue(result)
        self.assertTrue(mock.unexisted_method.called)
    
    def test_second_with_patch_autospec(self):
        with patch(f'{__name__}.MyClass', autospec=True) as mock:
            # Fails because of signature misuse.
            result = second(mock)
        self.assertTrue(result)
        self.assertTrue(mock.unexisted_method.called)
    
    def test_second(self):
        mock = Mock()
        mock.unexisted_method.return_value = True
        
        result = second(mock)
        
        self.assertTrue(result)
        self.assertTrue(mock.unexisted_method.called)

The test cases with defined spec used fail because methods called from something and second functions aren't complaint with MyClass, which means - they catch bugs, whereas default Mock will display.

As a side note there is one more option: use patch.object to mock just the class method which is called with.

The good use cases for patch would be the case when the class is used as inner part of function:

def something():
    arg = 1
    return MyClass.method(arg)

Then you will want to use patch as a decorator to mock the MyClass.

console.log timestamps in Chrome?

A refinement on the answer by JSmyth:

console.logCopy = console.log.bind(console);

console.log = function()
{
    if (arguments.length)
    {
        var timestamp = new Date().toJSON(); // The easiest way I found to get milliseconds in the timestamp
        var args = arguments;
        args[0] = timestamp + ' > ' + arguments[0];
        this.logCopy.apply(this, args);
    }
};

This:

  • shows timestamps with milliseconds
  • assumes a format string as first parameter to .log

The given key was not present in the dictionary. Which key?

You can try this code

Dictionary<string,string> AllFields = new Dictionary<string,string>();  
string value = (AllFields.TryGetValue(key, out index) ? AllFields[key] : null);

If the key is not present, it simply returns a null value.

MySql Proccesslist filled with "Sleep" Entries leading to "Too many Connections"?

Before increasing the max_connections variable, you have to check how many non-interactive connection you have by running show processlist command.

If you have many sleep connection, you have to decrease the value of the "wait_timeout" variable to close non-interactive connection after waiting some times.

  • To show the wait_timeout value:

SHOW SESSION VARIABLES LIKE 'wait_timeout';

+---------------+-------+

| Variable_name | Value |

+---------------+-------+

| wait_timeout | 28800 |

+---------------+-------+

the value is in second, it means that non-interactive connection still up to 8 hours.

  • To change the value of "wait_timeout" variable:

SET session wait_timeout=600; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

After 10 minutes if the sleep connection still sleeping the mysql or MariaDB drop that connection.

Python OpenCV2 (cv2) wrapper to get image size?

I'm afraid there is no "better" way to get this size, however it's not that much pain.

Of course your code should be safe for both binary/mono images as well as multi-channel ones, but the principal dimensions of the image always come first in the numpy array's shape. If you opt for readability, or don't want to bother typing this, you can wrap it up in a function, and give it a name you like, e.g. cv_size:

import numpy as np
import cv2

# ...

def cv_size(img):
    return tuple(img.shape[1::-1])

If you're on a terminal / ipython, you can also express it with a lambda:

>>> cv_size = lambda img: tuple(img.shape[1::-1])
>>> cv_size(img)
(640, 480)

Writing functions with def is not fun while working interactively.

Edit

Originally I thought that using [:2] was OK, but the numpy shape is (height, width[, depth]), and we need (width, height), as e.g. cv2.resize expects, so - we must use [1::-1]. Even less memorable than [:2]. And who remembers reverse slicing anyway?

Python3: ImportError: No module named '_ctypes' when using Value from module multiprocessing

My solution: Installing libffi-dev with apt-get didn't help. But this helped: Installing libffi from source and then installing Python 3.8 from source.

My configuration: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Python 3.8.2

Step by step:

I got the error message "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'" when starting the debugger from Visual Studio Code, and when running python3 -c "import sklearn; sklearn.show_versions()".

  • download libffi v3.3 from https://github.com/libffi/libffi/releases
  • install libtool: sudo apt-get install libtool The file README.md from libffi mentions that autoconf and automake are also necessary. They were already installed on my system.
  • configure libffi without docs:

./configure --disable-docs

make check

sudo make install

After that my python installation could find _ctypes.

How to sleep for five seconds in a batch file/cmd

There is!

SLEEP <seconds>

If you want it in millisecond mode:

SLEEP -m <time in milliseconds>

This is more helpful than TIMEOUT because TIMEOUT can be aborted with a click of a key or CTRL + C (for TIMEOUT /t <secs> /nobreak). SLEEP cannot be aborted by anything (except for close button :p)

Other one is PING. But PING needs internet connection because you'll be recording the connection of a site.

Get month name from number

Calendar API

From that you can see that calendar.month_name[3] would return March, and the array index of 0 is the empty string, so there's no need to worry about zero-indexing either.

Easy way to build Android UI?

http://www.appinventor.mit.edu/

Creating an App Inventor app begins in your browser, where you design how the app will look. Then, like fitting together puzzle pieces, you set your app's behavior. All the while, through a live connection between your computer and your phone, your app appears on your phone.

Does a favicon have to be 32x32 or 16x16?

You will need separate files for each resolution I am afraid. There is a really good article on campaign monitor describing how they created and implemented their icons for each iOS device too:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3234/designing-campaign-monitor-ios-icons/

How to force Sequential Javascript Execution?

I tried the callback way and could not get this to work, what you have to understand is that values are still atomic even though execution is not. For example:

alert('1'); <--- these two functions will be executed at the same time

alert('2'); <--- these two functions will be executed at the same time

but doing like this will force us to know the order of execution:

loop=2;
total=0;
for(i=0;i<loop;i++) {
           total+=1;
           if(total == loop)
                      alert('2');
           else
                      alert('1');
}

Fastest way to compute entropy in Python

My favorite function for entropy is the following:

def entropy(labels):
    prob_dict = {x:labels.count(x)/len(labels) for x in labels}
    probs = np.array(list(prob_dict.values()))

    return - probs.dot(np.log2(probs))

I am still looking for a nicer way to avoid the dict -> values -> list -> np.array conversion. Will comment again if I found it.

Calculate the mean by group

2015 update with dplyr:

df %>% group_by(dive) %>% summarise(percentage = mean(speed))
Source: local data frame [2 x 2]

   dive percentage
1 dive1  0.4777462
2 dive2  0.6726483

how to get current datetime in SQL?

NOW() returns 2009-08-05 15:13:00

CURDATE() returns 2009-08-05

CURTIME() returns 15:13:00

Running npm command within Visual Studio Code

  1. Edit user setting file settings.json.
    • Settings > Search for settings.json > Edit in settings.json
    or
    • Run > type %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json
  2. Copy this code
    { "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe", "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["/k nodevars.bat"] }
  3. Restart VS Code

Ruby on Rails - Import Data from a CSV file

The better way is to include it in a rake task. Create import.rake file inside /lib/tasks/ and put this code to that file.

desc "Imports a CSV file into an ActiveRecord table"
task :csv_model_import, [:filename, :model] => [:environment] do |task,args|
  lines = File.new(args[:filename], "r:ISO-8859-1").readlines
  header = lines.shift.strip
  keys = header.split(',')
  lines.each do |line|
    values = line.strip.split(',')
    attributes = Hash[keys.zip values]
    Module.const_get(args[:model]).create(attributes)
  end
end

After that run this command in your terminal rake csv_model_import[file.csv,Name_of_the_Model]

Error: Cannot find module html

Simple way is to use the EJS template engine for serving .html files. Put this line right next to your view engine setup:

app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);

How to install "make" in ubuntu?

I have no idea what linux distribution "ubuntu centOS" is. Ubuntu and CentOS are two different distributions.

To answer the question in the header: To install make in ubuntu you have to install build-essentials

sudo apt-get install build-essential

How to parseInt in Angular.js

This are to way to bind add too numbers

_x000D_
_x000D_
<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
<html>_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.9/angular.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script>_x000D_
_x000D_
var app = angular.module("myApp", []);_x000D_
_x000D_
app.controller("myCtrl", function($scope) {_x000D_
$scope.total = function() { _x000D_
  return parseInt($scope.num1) + parseInt($scope.num2) _x000D_
}_x000D_
})_x000D_
</script>_x000D_
<body ng-app='myApp' ng-controller='myCtrl'>_x000D_
_x000D_
<input type="number" ng-model="num1">_x000D_
<input type="number" ng-model="num2">_x000D_
Total:{{num1+num2}}_x000D_
_x000D_
Total: {{total() }}_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
</body>_x000D_
</html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to list files and folder in a dir (PHP)

I've found in www.laughing-buddha.net/php/lib/dirlist/ a function that returns an array containing a list of a directory's contents.

Also look at php.net http://es.php.net/manual/es/ref.filesystem.php where you'll find additional functions for working with files in php.

String Concatenation using '+' operator

It doesn't - the C# compiler does :)

So this code:

string x = "hello";
string y = "there";
string z = "chaps";
string all = x + y + z;

actually gets compiled as:

string x = "hello";
string y = "there";
string z = "chaps";
string all = string.Concat(x, y, z);

(Gah - intervening edit removed other bits accidentally.)

The benefit of the C# compiler noticing that there are multiple string concatenations here is that you don't end up creating an intermediate string of x + y which then needs to be copied again as part of the concatenation of (x + y) and z. Instead, we get it all done in one go.

EDIT: Note that the compiler can't do anything if you concatenate in a loop. For example, this code:

string x = "";
foreach (string y in strings)
{
    x += y;
}

just ends up as equivalent to:

string x = "";
foreach (string y in strings)
{
    x = string.Concat(x, y);
}

... so this does generate a lot of garbage, and it's why you should use a StringBuilder for such cases. I have an article going into more details about the two which will hopefully answer further questions.

How to check a boolean condition in EL?

Both works. Instead of == you can write eq

How to use global variable in node.js?

you can define it with using global or GLOBAL, nodejs supports both.

for e.g

global.underscore = require("underscore");

or

GLOBAL.underscore = require("underscore");

How to disable PHP Error reporting in CodeIgniter?

Here is the typical structure of new Codeigniter project:

- application/
- system/
- user_guide/
- index.php <- this is the file you need to change

I usually use this code in my CI index.php. Just change local_server_name to the name of your local webserver.

With this code you can deploy your site to your production server without changing index.php each time.

// Domain-based environment
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'local_server_name') {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
} else {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
}

/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * ERROR REPORTING
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * Different environments will require different levels of error reporting.
 * By default development will show errors but testing and live will hide them.
 */

if (defined('ENVIRONMENT')) {
    switch (ENVIRONMENT) {
        case 'development':
            error_reporting(E_ALL);
            break;
        case 'testing':
        case 'production':
            error_reporting(0);
            ini_set('display_errors', 0);  
            break;
        default:
            exit('The application environment is not set correctly.');
    }
}

How to center a WPF app on screen?

xaml

<Window ... WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen">...

Shell script to get the process ID on Linux

This works in Cygwin but it should be effective in Linux as well.

ps -W | awk '/ruby/,NF=1' | xargs kill -f

or

ps -W | awk '$0~z,NF=1' z=ruby | xargs kill -f

Bash Pitfalls

Remove "whitespace" between div element

The cleanest way to fix this is to apply the vertical-align: top property to you CSS rules:

#div1 div {
   width:30px;height:30px;
   border:blue 1px solid;
   display:inline-block;
   *display:inline;zoom:1;
   margin:0px;outline:none;
   vertical-align: top;
}

If you were to add content to your div's, then using either line-height: 0 or font-size: 0 would cause problems with your text layout.

See fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/eJqaZ/

Where This Problem Comes From

This problem can arise when a browser is in "quirks" mode. In this example, changing the doctype from:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

to

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">

will change how the browser deals with extra whitespace.

In quirks mode, the whitespace is ignored, but preserved in strict mode.

References:

html doctype adds whitespace?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Images,_Tables,_and_Mysterious_Gaps

generating variable names on fly in python

bit long, it works i guess...

prices = [5, 12, 45]
names = []
for i, _ in enumerate(prices):
    names.append("price"+str(i+1))
dict = {}
for name, price in zip(names, prices):
    dict[name] = price
for item in dict:
    print(item, "=", dict[item])

Error in Swift class: Property not initialized at super.init call

Swift has a very clear, specific sequence of operations that are done in initializers. Let's start with some basic examples and work our way up to a general case.

Let's take an object A. We'll define it as follows.

class A {
    var x: Int
    init(x: Int) {
        self.x = x
    }
}

Notice that A does not have a superclass, so it cannot call a super.init() function as it does not exist.

OK, so now let's subclass A with a new class named B.

class B: A {
    var y: Int
    init(x: Int, y: Int) {
        self.y = y
        super.init(x: x)
    }
}

This is a departure from Objective-C where [super init] would typically be called first before anything else. Not so in Swift. You are responsible for ensuring that your instance variables are in a consistent state before you do anything else, including calling methods (which includes your superclass' initializer).

Getting ssh to execute a command in the background on target machine

Quickest and easiest way is to use the 'at' command:

ssh user@target "at now -f /home/foo.sh"

How do I avoid the "#DIV/0!" error in Google docs spreadsheet?

Since you are explicitly also asking to handle columns that haven't yet been filled out, and I assume also don't want to mess with them if they have a word instead of a number, you might consider this:

=If(IsNumber(K23), If(K23 > 0, ........., 0), 0)

This just says... If K23 is a number; And if that number is greater than zero; Then do something ......... Otherwise, return zero.

In ........., you might put your division equation there, such as A1/K23, and you can rest assured that K23 is a number which is greater than zero.

Response.Redirect to new window

HTML

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" onclick="Button1_Click" OnClientClick = "SetTarget();" />

Javascript:

function SetTarget() {
 document.forms[0].target = "_blank";}

AND codebehind:

Response.Redirect(URL); 

How to update json file with python

The issue here is that you've opened a file and read its contents so the cursor is at the end of the file. By writing to the same file handle, you're essentially appending to the file.

The easiest solution would be to close the file after you've read it in, then reopen it for writing.

with open("replayScript.json", "r") as jsonFile:
    data = json.load(jsonFile)

data["location"] = "NewPath"

with open("replayScript.json", "w") as jsonFile:
    json.dump(data, jsonFile)

Alternatively, you can use seek() to move the cursor back to the beginning of the file then start writing, followed by a truncate() to deal with the case where the new data is smaller than the previous.

with open("replayScript.json", "r+") as jsonFile:
    data = json.load(jsonFile)

    data["location"] = "NewPath"

    jsonFile.seek(0)  # rewind
    json.dump(data, jsonFile)
    jsonFile.truncate()

"inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation"

Solving this using Vim editor

  1. Open terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T).
  2. Go to the directory where the file is located (cd <path_to_your_directory>). Ex: cd /home/vineeshvs/work.
  3. Open the file in Vim (vim <file_name>). Ex: vim myfile.txt .
  4. [Optional step] Enable search keyword highlighting in Vim (ESC :set hlsearch)
  5. Go to the line where you have this problem (ESC :<line_number>). Ex: :53 in Vim editor after pressing ESC button once.
  6. Replace tabs using the required number of spaces in Vim (:.,$s/\t/<give_as_many_spaces_as_you_want_to_replace_tab>/gc). Ex: Tab will be replaced with four spaces using the following command: :.,$s/\t/ /gc after pressing ESC button once). This process is interactive. You may give y to replace the tab with spaces and n to skip a particular replacement. Press ESC when you are done with the required replacements.

Android refresh current activity

The easiest way is to call onCreate(null); and your activity will be like new.

Can a Windows batch file determine its own file name?

You can get the file name, but you can also get the full path, depending what you place between the '%~' and the '0'. Take your pick from

d -- drive
p -- path
n -- file name
x -- extension
f -- full path

E.g., from inside c:\tmp\foo.bat, %~nx0 gives you "foo.bat", whilst %~dpnx0 gives "c:\tmp\foo.bat". Note the pieces are always assembled in canonical order, so if you get cute and try %~xnpd0, you still get "c:\tmp\foo.bat"

How can I decrease the size of Ratingbar?

For those who created rating bar programmatically and want set small rating bar instead of default big rating bar


    private LinearLayout generateRatingView(float value){
        LinearLayout linearLayoutRating=new LinearLayout(getContext());
        linearLayoutRating.setLayoutParams(new TableRow.LayoutParams(TableRow.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
        linearLayoutRating.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
        RatingBar ratingBar = new RatingBar(getContext(),null, android.R.attr.ratingBarStyleSmall);
        ratingBar.setEnabled(false);
        ratingBar.setStepSize(Float.parseFloat("0.5"));//for enabling half star
        ratingBar.setNumStars(5);
        ratingBar.setRating(value);
        linearLayoutRating.addView(ratingBar);
        return linearLayoutRating;
    }

How do I prevent DIV tag starting a new line?

The div tag is a block element, causing that behavior.

You should use a span element instead, which is inline.

If you really want to use div, add style="display: inline". (You can also put that in a CSS rule)

Maximum length of HTTP GET request

As already mentioned, HTTP itself doesn't impose any hard-coded limit on request length; but browsers have limits ranging on the 2048 character allowed in the GET method.

Pass a local file in to URL in Java

new File("path_to_file").toURI().toURL();

get current date and time in groovy?

Date has the time part, so we only need to extract it from Date

I personally prefer the default format parameter of the Date when date and time needs to be separated instead of using the extra SimpleDateFormat

Date date = new Date()
String datePart = date.format("dd/MM/yyyy")
String timePart = date.format("HH:mm:ss")

println "datePart : " + datePart + "\ttimePart : " + timePart

How do I set the default page of my application in IIS7?

Just go to web.config file and add following

<system.webServer>
    <defaultDocument>
      <files>
        <clear />
        <add value="Path of your Page" />
      </files>
    </defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>

Show/hide 'div' using JavaScript

Just Simple Set the style attribute of ID:

To Show the hidden div

<div id="xyz" style="display:none">
     ...............
</div>
//In JavaScript

document.getElementById('xyz').style.display ='block';  // to hide

To hide the shown div

<div id="xyz">
     ...............
</div>
//In JavaScript

document.getElementById('xyz').style.display ='none';  // to display

Load properties file in JAR?

For the record, this is documented in How do I add resources to my JAR? (illustrated for unit tests but the same applies for a "regular" resource):

To add resources to the classpath for your unit tests, you follow the same pattern as you do for adding resources to the JAR except the directory you place resources in is ${basedir}/src/test/resources. At this point you would have a project directory structure that would look like the following:

my-app
|-- pom.xml
`-- src
    |-- main
    |   |-- java
    |   |   `-- com
    |   |       `-- mycompany
    |   |           `-- app
    |   |               `-- App.java
    |   `-- resources
    |       `-- META-INF
    |           |-- application.properties
    `-- test
        |-- java
        |   `-- com
        |       `-- mycompany
        |           `-- app
        |               `-- AppTest.java
        `-- resources
            `-- test.properties

In a unit test you could use a simple snippet of code like the following to access the resource required for testing:

...

// Retrieve resource
InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/test.properties" );

// Do something with the resource

...

Gradients on UIView and UILabels On iPhone

Mirko Froehlich's answer worked for me, except when i wanted to use custom colors. The trick is to specify UI color with Hue, saturation and brightness instead of RGB.

CAGradientLayer *gradient = [CAGradientLayer layer];
gradient.frame = myView.bounds;
UIColor *startColour = [UIColor colorWithHue:.580555 saturation:0.31 brightness:0.90 alpha:1.0];
UIColor *endColour = [UIColor colorWithHue:.58333 saturation:0.50 brightness:0.62 alpha:1.0];
gradient.colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:(id)[startColour CGColor], (id)[endColour CGColor], nil];
[myView.layer insertSublayer:gradient atIndex:0];

To get the Hue, Saturation and Brightness of a color, use the in built xcode color picker and go to the HSB tab. Hue is measured in degrees in this view, so divide the value by 360 to get the value you will want to enter in code.

How to justify navbar-nav in Bootstrap 3

Here is a more easy solution. just remove the "navbar-nav" class and add "nav-justified".

Python: How to increase/reduce the fontsize of x and y tick labels?

It is simpler than I thought it would be.

To set the font size of the x-axis ticks:

x_ticks=['x tick 1','x tick 2','x tick 3']
ax.set_xticklabels(x_ticks, rotation=0, fontsize=8)

To do it for the y-axis ticks:

y_ticks=['y tick 1','y tick 2','y tick 3']
ax.set_yticklabels(y_ticks, rotation=0, fontsize=8)

The arguments rotation and fontsize can easily control what I was after.

Reference: http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html

How to change Android usb connect mode to charge only?

The HTC devices have the PCSII.apk which allow them to select usb connect mode. For your device, you can set it manually:

Use SQLite Editor to open /data/data/com.android.providers.setting/databases/settings.db

open table secure

turn settings starting with mount_ums_ to 0, then restart devices.

UPDATE: If it still doesn't work, try turning on debug mode.

How to execute an .SQL script file using c#

There are two points to considerate.

1) This source code worked for me:

private static string Execute(string credentials, string scriptDir, string scriptFilename)
{ 
  Process process = new Process();
  process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
  process.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = scriptDir;
  process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
  process.StartInfo.FileName = "sqlplus";
  process.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format("{0} @{1}", credentials, scriptFilename);
  process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

  process.Start();
  string output = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
  process.WaitForExit();

  return output;
}

I set the working directory to the script directory, so that sub scripts within the script also work.

Call it e.g. as Execute("usr/pwd@service", "c:\myscripts", "script.sql")

2) You have to finalize your SQL script with the statement EXIT;

How can I use xargs to copy files that have spaces and quotes in their names?

With Bash (not POSIX) you can use process substitution to get the current line inside a variable. This enables you to use quotes to escape special characters:

while read line ; do cp "$line" ~/bar ; done < <(find . | grep foo)

Redirecting to a page after submitting form in HTML

You need to use the jQuery AJAX or XMLHttpRequest() for post the data to the server. After data posting you can redirect your page to another page by window.location.href.

Example:

 var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
      window.location.href = 'https://website.com/my-account';
    }
  };
  xhttp.open("POST", "demo_post.asp", true);
  xhttp.send();

What are forward declarations in C++?

One problem is, that the compiler does not know, which kind of value is delivered by your function; is assumes, that the function returns an int in this case, but this can be as correct as it can be wrong. Another problem is, that the compiler does not know, which kind of arguments your function expects, and cannot warn you, if you are passing values of the wrong kind. There are special "promotion" rules, which apply when passing, say floating point values to an undeclared function (the compiler has to widen them to type double), which is often not, what the function actually expects, leading to hard to find bugs at run-time.

How do I add to the Windows PATH variable using setx? Having weird problems

If someone want to run it in PowerShell it works like below,

Run Powershell as Administrator

Then

setx /M PATH "$Env:PATH;<path to add>"

To verify, open another Powershell and view PATH as below,

$Env:PATH

How to ping ubuntu guest on VirtualBox

If you start tinkering with VirtualBox network settings, watch out for this: you might make new network adapters (eth1, eth2), yet have your /etc/network/interfaces still configured for eth0.

Diagnose:

ethtool -i eth0
Cannot get driver information: no such device

Find your interfaces:

ls /sys/class/net
eth1 eth2 lo

Fix it:

Edit /etc/networking/interfaces and replace eth0 with the appropriate interface name (e.g eth1, eth2, etc.)

:%s/eth0/eth2/g

Rails select helper - Default selected value, how?

If try to print the f object, then you will see that there is f.object that can be probed for getting the selected item (applicable for all rails version > 2.3)

logger.warn("f #{f.object.inspect}")

so, use the following script to get the proper selected option:

:selected => f.object.your_field 

Modify the legend of pandas bar plot

This is slightly an edge case but I think it can add some value to the other answers.

If you add more details to the graph (say an annotation or a line) you'll soon discover that it is relevant when you call legend on the axis: if you call it at the bottom of the script it will capture different handles for the legend elements, messing everything.

For instance the following script:

df = pd.DataFrame({'A':26, 'B':20}, index=['N'])
ax = df.plot(kind='bar')
ax.hlines(23, -.5,.5, linestyles='dashed')
ax.annotate('average',(-0.4,23.5))

ax.legend(["AAA", "BBB"]); #quickfix: move this at the third line

Will give you this figure, which is wrong: enter image description here

While this a toy example which can be easily fixed by changing the order of the commands, sometimes you'll need to modify the legend after several operations and hence the next method will give you more flexibility. Here for instance I've also changed the fontsize and position of the legend:

df = pd.DataFrame({'A':26, 'B':20}, index=['N'])
ax = df.plot(kind='bar')
ax.hlines(23, -.5,.5, linestyles='dashed')
ax.annotate('average',(-0.4,23.5))
ax.legend(["AAA", "BBB"]);

# do potentially more stuff here

h,l = ax.get_legend_handles_labels()
ax.legend(h[:2],["AAA", "BBB"], loc=3, fontsize=12)

This is what you'll get:

enter image description here

How to run a program in Atom Editor?

If you know how to launch your program from the command line then you can run it from the platformio-ide-terminal package's terminal. See platformio-ide-terminal provides an embedded terminal within the Atom text editor. So you can issue commands, including commands to run your Java program, from within it. To install this package you can use APM with the command:

$ apm install platformio-ide-terminal --no-confirm

Alternatively, you can install it from the command palette with:

  • Pressing Ctrl+Shift+P. I am assuming this is the appropriate keyboard shortcut for your platform, as you have dealt ith questions about Ubuntu in the past.
  • Type Install Packages and Themes.
  • Search for the platformio-ide-terminal.
  • Install it.

sed with literal string--not input file

You have a single quotes conflict, so use:

 echo "A,B,C" | sed "s/,/','/g"

If using , you can do too (<<< is a here-string):

sed "s/,/','/g" <<< "A,B,C"

but not

sed "s/,/','/g"  "A,B,C"

because sed expect file(s) as argument(s)

EDIT:

if you use or any other ones :

echo string | sed ...

Disable browsers vertical and horizontal scrollbars

Using JQuery you can disable scrolling bar with this code :

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

Also you can enable it again with this code :

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

"make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443" when restarting apache (installing trac and mod_wsgi)

I seconded Matthieu answer

I commented #Listen 443 in httpd-ssl file and apache can be started

Because the file already has VirtualHost default:443

Convert International String to \u Codes in java

Apache commons StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScript(String) returns a string with unicode characters escaped using the \u notation.

"Art of Beer  " -> "Art of Beer \u1F3A8 \u1F37A"

How to get the CPU Usage in C#?

I did not like having to add in the 1 second stall to all of the PerformanceCounter solutions. Instead I chose to use a WMI solution. The reason the 1 second wait/stall exists is to allow the reading to be accurate when using a PerformanceCounter. However if you calling this method often and refreshing this information, I'd advise not to constantly have to incur that delay... even if thinking of doing an async process to get it.

I started with the snippet from here Returning CPU usage in WMI using C# and added a full explanation of the solution on my blog post below:

Get CPU Usage Across All Cores In C# Using WMI

git push vs git push origin <branchname>

First, you need to create your branch locally

git checkout -b your_branch

After that, you can work locally in your branch, when you are ready to share the branch, push it. The next command push the branch to the remote repository origin and tracks it

git push -u origin your_branch

Your Teammates/colleagues can push to your branch by doing commits and then push explicitly

... work ...
git commit
... work ...
git commit
git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/your_branch 

How to use cURL to get jSON data and decode the data?

You can use this:

curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$resultado = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
print_r($info["url"]);

Grep regex NOT containing string

grep matches, grep -v does the inverse. If you need to "match A but not B" you usually use pipes:

grep "${PATT}" file | grep -v "${NOTPATT}"

What is the difference between properties and attributes in HTML?

When writing HTML source code, you can define attributes on your HTML elements. Then, once the browser parses your code, a corresponding DOM node will be created. This node is an object, and therefore it has properties.

For instance, this HTML element:

<input type="text" value="Name:">

has 2 attributes (type and value).

Once the browser parses this code, a HTMLInputElement object will be created, and this object will contain dozens of properties like: accept, accessKey, align, alt, attributes, autofocus, baseURI, checked, childElementCount, childNodes, children, classList, className, clientHeight, etc.

For a given DOM node object, properties are the properties of that object, and attributes are the elements of the attributes property of that object.

When a DOM node is created for a given HTML element, many of its properties relate to attributes with the same or similar names, but it's not a one-to-one relationship. For instance, for this HTML element:

<input id="the-input" type="text" value="Name:">

the corresponding DOM node will have id,type, and value properties (among others):

  • The id property is a reflected property for the id attribute: Getting the property reads the attribute value, and setting the property writes the attribute value. id is a pure reflected property, it doesn't modify or limit the value.

  • The type property is a reflected property for the type attribute: Getting the property reads the attribute value, and setting the property writes the attribute value. type isn't a pure reflected property because it's limited to known values (e.g., the valid types of an input). If you had <input type="foo">, then theInput.getAttribute("type") gives you "foo" but theInput.type gives you "text".

  • In contrast, the value property doesn't reflect the value attribute. Instead, it's the current value of the input. When the user manually changes the value of the input box, the value property will reflect this change. So if the user inputs "John" into the input box, then:

    theInput.value // returns "John"
    

    whereas:

    theInput.getAttribute('value') // returns "Name:"
    

    The value property reflects the current text-content inside the input box, whereas the value attribute contains the initial text-content of the value attribute from the HTML source code.

    So if you want to know what's currently inside the text-box, read the property. If you, however, want to know what the initial value of the text-box was, read the attribute. Or you can use the defaultValue property, which is a pure reflection of the value attribute:

    theInput.value                 // returns "John"
    theInput.getAttribute('value') // returns "Name:"
    theInput.defaultValue          // returns "Name:"
    

There are several properties that directly reflect their attribute (rel, id), some are direct reflections with slightly-different names (htmlFor reflects the for attribute, className reflects the class attribute), many that reflect their attribute but with restrictions/modifications (src, href, disabled, multiple), and so on. The spec covers the various kinds of reflection.

What is the list of supported languages/locales on Android?

If you're using Android Studio you can:

  1. Right click a directory on your project > New > Android Resource File
  2. In the Available qualifiers section select Locale and click >>

You will see a list of all Languages and if you choose them you will see Specific Regions for each. You can also type in the list to filter languages.

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How to Add Stacktrace or debug Option when Building Android Studio Project

Go into your project.

install Gradle.

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/installation.html

On a mac: brew install gradle

Then gradle build --stacktrace

How can I define a composite primary key in SQL?

Just for clarification: a table can have at most one primary key. A primary key consists of one or more columns (from that table). If a primary key consists of two or more columns it is called a composite primary key. It is defined as follows:

CREATE TABLE voting (
  QuestionID NUMERIC,
  MemberID NUMERIC,
  PRIMARY KEY (QuestionID, MemberID)
);

The pair (QuestionID,MemberID) must then be unique for the table and neither value can be NULL. If you do a query like this:

SELECT * FROM voting WHERE QuestionID = 7

it will use the primary key's index. If however you do this:

SELECT * FROM voting WHERE MemberID = 7

it won't because to use a composite index requires using all the keys from the "left". If an index is on fields (A,B,C) and your criteria is on B and C then that index is of no use to you for that query. So choose from (QuestionID,MemberID) and (MemberID,QuestionID) whichever is most appropriate for how you will use the table.

If necessary, add an index on the other:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx1 ON voting (MemberID, QuestionID);

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

The <Comment> tag contains two text nodes and two <br> nodes as children.

Your xpath expression was

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

To break this down,

  1. * is a selector that matches any element (i.e. tag) -- it returns a node-set.
  2. The [] are a conditional that operates on each individual node in that node set. It matches if any of the individual nodes it operates on match the conditions inside the brackets.
  3. text() is a selector that matches all of the text nodes that are children of the context node -- it returns a node set.
  4. contains is a function that operates on a string. If it is passed a node set, the node set is converted into a string by returning the string-value of the node in the node-set that is first in document order. Hence, it can match only the first text node in your <Comment> element -- namely BLAH BLAH BLAH. Since that doesn't match, you don't get a <Comment> in your results.

You need to change this to

//*[text()[contains(.,'ABC')]]
  1. * is a selector that matches any element (i.e. tag) -- it returns a node-set.
  2. The outer [] are a conditional that operates on each individual node in that node set -- here it operates on each element in the document.
  3. text() is a selector that matches all of the text nodes that are children of the context node -- it returns a node set.
  4. The inner [] are a conditional that operates on each node in that node set -- here each individual text node. Each individual text node is the starting point for any path in the brackets, and can also be referred to explicitly as . within the brackets. It matches if any of the individual nodes it operates on match the conditions inside the brackets.
  5. contains is a function that operates on a string. Here it is passed an individual text node (.). Since it is passed the second text node in the <Comment> tag individually, it will see the 'ABC' string and be able to match it.

Using current time in UTC as default value in PostgreSQL

These are 2 equivalent solutions:

(in the following code, you should substitute 'UTC' for zone and now() for timestamp)

  1. timestamp AT TIME ZONE zone - SQL-standard-conforming
  2. timezone(zone, timestamp) - arguably more readable

The function timezone(zone, timestamp) is equivalent to the SQL-conforming construct timestamp AT TIME ZONE zone.


Explanation:

  • zone can be specified either as a text string (e.g., 'UTC') or as an interval (e.g., INTERVAL '-08:00') - here is a list of all available time zones
  • timestamp can be any value of type timestamp
  • now() returns a value of type timestamp (just what we need) with your database's default time zone attached (e.g. 2018-11-11T12:07:22.3+05:00).
  • timezone('UTC', now()) turns our current time (of type timestamp with time zone) into the timezonless equivalent in UTC.
    E.g., SELECT timestamp with time zone '2020-03-16 15:00:00-05' AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' will return 2020-03-16T20:00:00Z.

Docs: timezone()

How do you compare structs for equality in C?

You may be tempted to use memcmp(&a, &b, sizeof(struct foo)), but it may not work in all situations. The compiler may add alignment buffer space to a structure, and the values found at memory locations lying in the buffer space are not guaranteed to be any particular value.

But, if you use calloc or memset the full size of the structures before using them, you can do a shallow comparison with memcmp (if your structure contains pointers, it will match only if the address the pointers are pointing to are the same).

FileNotFoundException..Classpath resource not found in spring?

Two things worth pointing out:

  1. The scope of your spring-context dependency shouldn't be "runtime", but "compile", which is the default, so you can just remove the scope line.
  2. You should configure the compiler plugin to compile to at least java 1.5 to handle the annotations when building with Maven. (Can also affect IDE settings, though Eclipse doesn't tend to care.)

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.5</source>
                    <target>1.5</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    

After that, reconfiguring your project from Maven should fix it. I don't recall exactly how to do that in Eclipse, but you should find it if you right click the project node and poke around the menus.

Reset C int array to zero : the fastest way?

Here's the function I use:

template<typename T>
static void setValue(T arr[], size_t length, const T& val)
{
    std::fill(arr, arr + length, val);
}

template<typename T, size_t N>
static void setValue(T (&arr)[N], const T& val)
{
    std::fill(arr, arr + N, val);
}

You can call it like this:

//fixed arrays
int a[10];
setValue(a, 0);

//dynamic arrays
int *d = new int[length];
setValue(d, length, 0);

Above is more C++11 way than using memset. Also you get compile time error if you use dynamic array with specifying the size.

Passing parameter using onclick or a click binding with KnockoutJS

Knockout's documentation also mentions a much cleaner way of passing extra parameters to functions bound using an on-click binding using function.bind like this:

<button data-bind="click: myFunction.bind($data, 'param1', 'param2')">
    Click me
</button>

How do you convert between 12 hour time and 24 hour time in PHP?

// 24-hour time to 12-hour time 
$time_in_12_hour_format  = date("g:i a", strtotime("13:30"));

// 12-hour time to 24-hour time 
$time_in_24_hour_format  = date("H:i", strtotime("1:30 PM"));

Swift 3 URLSession.shared() Ambiguous reference to member 'dataTask(with:completionHandler:) error (bug)

Tested xcode 8 stable version ; Need to use var request variable with URLRequest() With thats you can easily fix that (bug)

var request = URLRequest(url:myUrl!) And

let task = URLSession.shared().dataTask(with: request as URLRequest) { }

Worked fine ! Thank you guys, i think help many people. !

Insert a new row into DataTable

// create table
var dt = new System.Data.DataTable("tableName");

// create fields
dt.Columns.Add("field1", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("field2", typeof(string));
dt.Columns.Add("field3", typeof(DateTime));

// insert row values
dt.Rows.Add(new Object[]{
                123456,
                "test",
                DateTime.Now
           });

What does Statement.setFetchSize(nSize) method really do in SQL Server JDBC driver?

The fetchSize parameter is a hint to the JDBC driver as to many rows to fetch in one go from the database. But the driver is free to ignore this and do what it sees fit. Some drivers, like the Oracle one, fetch rows in chunks, so you can read very large result sets without needing lots of memory. Other drivers just read in the whole result set in one go, and I'm guessing that's what your driver is doing.

You can try upgrading your driver to the SQL Server 2008 version (which might be better), or the open-source jTDS driver.

"for line in..." results in UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

As suggested by Mark Ransom, I found the right encoding for that problem. The encoding was "ISO-8859-1", so replacing open("u.item", encoding="utf-8") with open('u.item', encoding = "ISO-8859-1") will solve the problem.

How to execute a bash command stored as a string with quotes and asterisk

try this

$ cmd='mysql AMORE -u root --password="password" -h localhost -e "select host from amoreconfig"'
$ eval $cmd

jQuery - determine if input element is textbox or select list

If you just want to check the type, you can use jQuery's .is() function,

Like in my case I used below,

if($("#id").is("select")) {
 alert('Select'); 
else if($("#id").is("input")) {
 alert("input");
}

Execute a shell script in current shell with sudo permission

Even the first answer is absolutely brilliant, you probably want to only run script under sudo.

You have to specify the absolute path like:

sudo /home/user/example.sh
sudo ~/example.sh

(both are working)

THIS WONT WORK!

sudo /bin/sh example.sh
sudo example.sh

It will always return

sudo: bin/sh: command not found
sudo: example.sh: command not found

Convert text to columns in Excel using VBA

Try this

Sub Txt2Col()
    Dim rng As Range

    Set rng = [C7]
    Set rng = Range(rng, Cells(Rows.Count, rng.Column).End(xlUp))

    rng.TextToColumns Destination:=rng, DataType:=xlDelimited, ' rest of your settings

Update: button click event to act on another sheet

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim sh As Worksheet

    Set sh = Worksheets("Sheet2")
    With sh
        Set rng = .[C7]
        Set rng = .Range(rng, .Cells(.Rows.Count, rng.Column).End(xlUp))

        rng.TextToColumns Destination:=rng, DataType:=xlDelimited, _
        TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote,  _
        ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, _
        Tab:=False, _
        Semicolon:=False, _
        Comma:=True, 
        Space:=False, 
        Other:=False, _
        FieldInfo:=Array(Array(1, xlGeneralFormat), Array(2, xlGeneralFormat), Array(3, xlGeneralFormat)), _
        TrailingMinusNumbers:=True
    End With
End Sub

Note the .'s (eg .Range) they refer to the With statement object

How to get max value of a column using Entity Framework?

int maxAge = context.Persons.Max(p => p.Age);

This version, if the list is empty:

  • Returns null - for nullable overloads
  • Throws Sequence contains no element exception - for non-nullable overloads

-

int maxAge = context.Persons.Select(p => p.Age).DefaultIfEmpty(0).Max();

This version handles the empty list case, but it generates more complex query, and for some reason doesn't work with EF Core.

-

int maxAge = context.Persons.Max(p => (int?)p.Age) ?? 0;

This version is elegant and performant (simple query and single round-trip to the database), works with EF Core. It handles the mentioned exception above by casting the non-nullable type to nullable and then applying the default value using the ?? operator.

The application has stopped unexpectedly: How to Debug?

  1. From the Home screen, press the Menu key.
  2. List item
  3. Touch Settings.
  4. Touch Applications.
  5. Touch Manage Applications.
  6. Touch All.
  7. Select the application that is having issues.
  8. Touch Clear data and Clear cache if they are available. This resets the app as if it was new, and may delete personal data stored in the app.

Regular expression for only characters a-z, A-Z

Piggybacking on what the other answers say, since you don't know how to do them at all, here's an example of how you might do it in JavaScript:

var charactersOnly = "This contains only characters";
var nonCharacters = "This has _@#*($()*@#$(*@%^_(#@!$ non-characters";

if (charactersOnly.search(/[^a-zA-Z]+/) === -1) {
  alert("Only characters");
}

if (nonCharacters.search(/[^a-zA-Z]+/)) {
  alert("There are non characters.");
}

The / starting and ending the regular expression signify that it's a regular expression. The search function takes both strings and regexes, so the / are necessary to specify a regex.

From the MDN Docs, the function returns -1 if there is no match.

Also note: that this works for only a-z, A-Z. If there are spaces, it will fail.

How should I pass an int into stringWithFormat?

Marc Charbonneau wrote:

Keep in mind that @"%d" will only work on 32 bit. Once you start using NSInteger for compatibility if you ever compile for a 64 bit platform, you should use @"%ld" as your format specifier.

Interesting, thanks for the tip, I was using @"%d" with my NSIntegers!

The SDK documentation also recommends to cast NSInteger to long in this case (to match the @"%ld"), e.g.:

NSInteger i = 42;
label.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)i];

Source: String Programming Guide for Cocoa - String Format Specifiers (Requires iPhone developer registration)