ASP.NET MVC View Engine Comparison

My current choice is Razor. It is very clean and easy to read and keeps the view pages very easy to maintain. There is also intellisense support which is really great. ALos, when used with web helpers it is really powerful too.

To provide a simple sample:

@Model namespace.model
<!Doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Razor</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul class="mainList">
@foreach(var x in ViewData.model)
{
<li>@x.PropertyName</li>
}
</ul>
</body>

And there you have it. That is very clean and easy to read. Granted, that's a simple example but even on complex pages and forms it is still very easy to read and understand.

As for the cons? Well so far (I'm new to this) when using some of the helpers for forms there is a lack of support for adding a CSS class reference which is a little annoying.

Thanks Nathj07

How do I get the collection of Model State Errors in ASP.NET MVC?

Here is the VB.

Dim validationErrors As String = String.Join(",", ModelState.Values.Where(Function(E) E.Errors.Count > 0).SelectMany(Function(E) E.Errors).[Select](Function(E) E.ErrorMessage).ToArray())

PHP preg_match - only allow alphanumeric strings and - _ characters

Here is one equivalent of the accepted answer for the UTF-8 world.

if (!preg_match('/^[\p{L}\p{N}_-]+$/u', $string)){
  //Disallowed Character In $string
}

Explanation:

[] => character class definition
p{L} => matches any kind of letter character from any language
p{N} => matches any kind of numeric character
_- => matches underscore and hyphen
+ => Quantifier — Matches between one to unlimited times (greedy)
/u => Unicode modifier. Pattern strings are treated as UTF-16. Also causes escape sequences to match unicode characters

Note, that if the hyphen is the last character in the class definition it does not need to be escaped. If the dash appears elsewhere in the class definition it needs to be escaped, as it will be seen as a range character rather then a hyphen.

Handling exceptions from Java ExecutorService tasks

Instead of subclassing ThreadPoolExecutor, I would provide it with a ThreadFactory instance that creates new Threads and provides them with an UncaughtExceptionHandler

How to scroll to an element inside a div?

Code should be:

var divElem = document.getElementById('scrolling_div');
var chElem = document.getElementById('element_within_div');
var topPos = divElem.offsetTop;
divElem.scrollTop = topPos - chElem.offsetTop;

You want to scroll the difference between child top position and div's top position.

Get access to child elements using:

var divElem = document.getElementById('scrolling_div'); 
var numChildren = divElem.childNodes.length;

and so on....

How to set cell spacing and UICollectionView - UICollectionViewFlowLayout size ratio?

In Certain situations, Setting the UICollectionViewFlowLayout in viewDidLoador ViewWillAppear may not effect on the collectionView.

Setting the UICollectionViewFlowLayout in viewDidAppear may cause see the changes of the cells sizes in runtime.

Another Solution, in Swift 3 :

extension YourViewController : UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout{

    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, insetForSectionAt section: Int) -> UIEdgeInsets {
        return UIEdgeInsets(top: 20, left: 0, bottom: 10, right: 0)
    }

    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {
        let collectionViewWidth = collectionView.bounds.width
        return CGSize(width: collectionViewWidth/3, height: collectionViewWidth/3)
    }

    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumInteritemSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        return 0
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumLineSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        return 20
    }
}

How to filter input type="file" dialog by specific file type?

See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_accept.asp:

The accept attribute is supported in all major browsers, except Internet Explorer and Safari. Definition and Usage

The accept attribute specifies the types of files that the server accepts (that can be submitted through a file upload).

Note: The accept attribute can only be used with <input type="file">.

Tip: Do not use this attribute as a validation tool. File uploads should be validated on the server.

Syntax <input accept="audio/*|video/*|image/*|MIME_type" />

Tip: To specify more than one value, separate the values with a comma (e.g. <input accept="audio/*,video/*,image/*" />.

How can I pass a username/password in the header to a SOAP WCF Service

I got a better method from here: WCF: Creating Custom Headers, How To Add and Consume Those Headers

Client Identifies Itself
The goal here is to have the client provide some sort of information which the server can use to determine who is sending the message. The following C# code will add a header named ClientId:

var cl = new ActiveDirectoryClient();

var eab = new EndpointAddressBuilder(cl.Endpoint.Address);

eab.Headers.Add( AddressHeader.CreateAddressHeader("ClientId",       // Header Name
                                                   string.Empty,     // Namespace
                                                    "OmegaClient")); // Header Value
cl.Endpoint.Address = eab.ToEndpointAddress();

// Now do an operation provided by the service.
cl.ProcessInfo("ABC");

What that code is doing is adding an endpoint header named ClientId with a value of OmegaClient to be inserted into the soap header without a namespace.

Custom Header in Client’s Config File
There is an alternate way of doing a custom header. That can be achieved in the Xml config file of the client where all messages sent by specifying the custom header as part of the endpoint as so:

<configuration>
    <startup> 
        <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" />
    </startup>
    <system.serviceModel>
        <bindings>
            <basicHttpBinding>
                <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IActiveDirectory" />
            </basicHttpBinding>
        </bindings>
        <client>
          <endpoint address="http://localhost:41863/ActiveDirectoryService.svc"
              binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IActiveDirectory"
              contract="ADService.IActiveDirectory" name="BasicHttpBinding_IActiveDirectory">
            <headers>
              <ClientId>Console_Client</ClientId>
            </headers>
          </endpoint>
        </client>
    </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

How do I add my new User Control to the Toolbox or a new Winform?

One way to get this error is trying to add a usercontrol to a form while the project is set to compile as x64. Visual Studio throws the unhelpful: "Failed to load toolbox item . It will be removed from the toolbox."

Workaround is to design with "Any CPU" and compile to x64 as necessary.

Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/963017

How to get the current logged in user Id in ASP.NET Core

Until ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC1 :

It's User.GetUserId() from System.Security.Claims namespace.

Since ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2 :

You now have to use UserManager. You can create a method to get the current user :

private Task<ApplicationUser> GetCurrentUserAsync() => _userManager.GetUserAsync(HttpContext.User);

And get user information with the object :

var user = await GetCurrentUserAsync();

var userId = user?.Id;
string mail = user?.Email;

Note : You can do it without using a method writing single lines like this string mail = (await _userManager.GetUserAsync(HttpContext.User))?.Email, but it doesn't respect the single responsibility principle. It's better to isolate the way you get the user because if someday you decide to change your user management system, like use another solution than Identity, it will get painful since you have to review your entire code.

How to add multiple font files for the same font?

As of CSS3, the spec has changed, allowing for only a single font-style. A comma-separated list (per CSS2) will be treated as if it were normal and override any earlier (default) entry. This will make fonts defined in this way appear italic permanently.

@font-face {
    font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
    src: url("fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf");
}
@font-face {
    font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
    src: url("fonts/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf");
    font-weight: bold;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
    src: url("fonts/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf");
    font-style: italic;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
    src: url("fonts/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf");
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: italic;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
    src: url("fonts/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf");
    font-style: oblique;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: "DejaVu Sans";
    src: url("fonts/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf");
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: oblique;
}

In most cases, italic will probably be sufficient and oblique rules won't be necessary if you take care to define whichever you will use and stick to it.

How to run eclipse in clean mode? what happens if we do so?

This will clean the caches used to store bundle dependency resolution and eclipse extension registry data. Using this option will force eclipse to reinitialize these caches.

Open command prompt (cmd)
Go to eclipse application location (D:\eclipse)
Run command eclipse -clean

How to remove trailing whitespaces with sed?

In the specific case of sed, the -i option that others have already mentioned is far and away the simplest and sanest one.

In the more general case, sponge, from the moreutils collection, does exactly what you want: it lets you replace a file with the result of processing it, in a way specifically designed to keep the processing step from tripping over itself by overwriting the very file it's working on. To quote the sponge man page:

sponge reads standard input and writes it out to the specified file. Unlike a shell redirect, sponge soaks up all its input before writing the output file. This allows constructing pipelines that read from and write to the same file.

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

Best way to create a temp table with same columns and type as a permanent table

Clone Temporary Table Structure to New Physical Table in SQL Server

we will see how to Clone Temporary Table Structure to New Physical Table in SQL Server.This is applicable for both Azure SQL db and on-premises.

Demo SQL Script

IF OBJECT_ID('TempDB..#TempTable') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE #TempTable;

SELECT 1 AS ID,'Arul' AS Names
INTO
#TempTable;

SELECT * FROM #TempTable;

METHOD 1

SELECT * INTO TempTable1 FROM #TempTable WHERE 1=0;

EXEC SP_HELP TempTable1;

METHOD 2

SELECT TOP 0 * INTO TempTable1 FROM #TempTable;

EXEC SP_HELP TempTable1;

How to return value from an asynchronous callback function?

This is impossible as you cannot return from an asynchronous call inside a synchronous method.

In this case you need to pass a callback to foo that will receive the return value

function foo(address, fn){
  geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
     fn(results[0].geometry.location); 
  });
}

foo("address", function(location){
  alert(location); // this is where you get the return value
});

The thing is, if an inner function call is asynchronous, then all the functions 'wrapping' this call must also be asynchronous in order to 'return' a response.

If you have a lot of callbacks you might consider taking the plunge and use a promise library like Q.

GUI Tool for PostgreSQL

Postgres Enterprise Manager from EnterpriseDB is probably the most advanced you'll find. It includes all the features of pgAdmin, plus monitoring of your hosts and database servers, predictive reporting, alerting and a SQL Profiler.

http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/products/postgres-enterprise-manager

Ninja edit disclaimer/notice: it seems that this user is affiliated with EnterpriseDB, as the linked Postgres Enterprise Manager website contains a video of one Dave Page.

How to get response using cURL in PHP

The ultimate curl php function:

function getURL($url,$fields=null,$method=null,$file=null){
    // author   = Ighor Toth <[email protected]>
    // required:
    //      url     = include http or https 
    // optionals:
    //      fields  = must be array (e.g.: 'field1' => $field1, ...)
    //      method  = "GET", "POST"
    //      file    = if want to download a file, declare store location and file name (e.g.: /var/www/img.jpg, ...)
    // please crete 'cookies' dir to store local cookies if neeeded

    // do not modify below
    $useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko';
    $timeout= 240;
    $dir = dirname(__FILE__);
    $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] ?? '127.0.0.1';
    $cookie_file    = $dir . '/cookies/' . md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) . '.txt';
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com/');
    if($file!=null){
        if (!curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $file)){ // Handle error
                die("curl setopt bit the dust: " . curl_error($ch));
        }
        //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $file);
        $timeout= 3600;
    }
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
    if($fields!=null){
        $postvars = http_build_query($fields); // build the urlencoded data
        if($method=="POST"){
            // set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars);
        }
        if($method=="GET"){
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
            $url = $url.'?'.$postvars;
        }
    }
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    $content = curl_exec($ch);
    if (!$content){
        $error = curl_error($ch);
        $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
        die("cURL request failed, error = {$error}; info = " . print_r($info, true));
    }
    if(curl_errno($ch)){
        echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
    } else {
        return $content;        
    }
    curl_close($ch);
}

fetch in git doesn't get all branches

I had a similar problem, however in my case I could pull/push to the remote branch but git status didn't show the local branch state w.r.t the remote ones.

Also, in my case git config --get remote.origin.fetch didn't return anything

The problem is that there was a typo in the .git/config file in the fetch line of the respective remote block. Probably something I added by mistake previously (sometimes I directly look at this file, or even edit it)

So, check if your remote entry in the .git/config file is correct, e.g.:

[remote "origin"]
    url = https://[server]/[user or organization]/[repo].git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

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

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

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

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

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

How can I insert data into Database Laravel?

The error MethodNotAllowedHttpException means the route exists, but the HTTP method (GET) is wrong. You have to change it to POST:

Route::post('test/register', array('uses'=>'TestController@create'));

Also, you need to hash your passwords:

public function create()
{
    $user = new User;

    $user->username = Input::get('username');
    $user->email = Input::get('email');
    $user->password = Hash::make(Input::get('password'));
    $user->save();

    return Redirect::back();
}

And I removed the line:

$user= Input::all();

Because in the next command you replace its contents with

$user = new User;

To debug your Input, you can, in the first line of your controller:

dd( Input::all() );

It will display all fields in the input.

List of tables, db schema, dump etc using the Python sqlite3 API

I'm not familiar with the Python API but you can always use

SELECT * FROM sqlite_master;

What's the default password of mariadb on fedora?

For me, password = admin, worked. I installed it using pacman, Arch (Manjaro KDE).

NB: MariaDB was already installed, as a dependency of Amarok.

Warning: Attempt to present * on * whose view is not in the window hierarchy - swift

Swift 4

func topMostController() -> UIViewController {
    var topController: UIViewController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!.rootViewController!
    while (topController.presentedViewController != nil) {
        topController = topController.presentedViewController!
    }
    return topController
}

Runtime vs. Compile time

I think of it in terms of errors, and when they can be caught.

Compile time:

string my_value = Console.ReadLine();
int i = my_value;

A string value can't be assigned a variable of type int, so the compiler knows for sure at compile time that this code has a problem

Run time:

string my_value = Console.ReadLine();
int i = int.Parse(my_value);

Here the outcome depends on what string was returned by ReadLine(). Some values can be parsed to an int, others can't. This can only be determined at run time

Difference between $.ajax() and $.get() and $.load()

Important note : jQuery.load() method can do not only GET but also POST requests, if data parameter is supplied (see: http://api.jquery.com/load/)

data Type: PlainObject or String A plain object or string that is sent to the server with the request.

Request Method The POST method is used if data is provided as an object; otherwise, GET is assumed.

Example: pass arrays of data to the server (POST request)
$( "#objectID" ).load( "test.php", { "choices[]": [ "Jon", "Susan" ] } );

"The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The source code is different from the original version." What does this mean?

This happens also when debugging a C++ project which loads a module that has been implemented with some CRL language (Managed C++, C# etc). In this situation the error message is misleading indeed.

The solution is to put Common language runtime (CLR) support configuration property to the startup project and recompile that.

check if a number already exist in a list in python

If you want your numbers in ascending order you can add them into a set and then sort the set into an ascending list.

s = set()
if number1 not in s:
  s.add(number1)
if number2 not in s:
  s.add(number2)
...
s = sorted(s)  #Now a list in ascending order

Printing the last column of a line in a file

Using Perl

$ cat rayne.txt
A1 123 456
B1 234 567
C1 345 678
A1 098 766
B1 987 6545
C1 876 5434


$ perl -lane ' /A1/ and $x=$F[2] ; END { print "$x" } ' rayne.txt
766

$

The definitive guide to form-based website authentication

PART I: How To Log In

We'll assume you already know how to build a login+password HTML form which POSTs the values to a script on the server side for authentication. The sections below will deal with patterns for sound practical auth, and how to avoid the most common security pitfalls.

To HTTPS or not to HTTPS?

Unless the connection is already secure (that is, tunneled through HTTPS using SSL/TLS), your login form values will be sent in cleartext, which allows anyone eavesdropping on the line between browser and web server will be able to read logins as they pass through. This type of wiretapping is done routinely by governments, but in general, we won't address 'owned' wires other than to say this: Just use HTTPS.

In essence, the only practical way to protect against wiretapping/packet sniffing during login is by using HTTPS or another certificate-based encryption scheme (for example, TLS) or a proven & tested challenge-response scheme (for example, the Diffie-Hellman-based SRP). Any other method can be easily circumvented by an eavesdropping attacker.

Of course, if you are willing to get a little bit impractical, you could also employ some form of two-factor authentication scheme (e.g. the Google Authenticator app, a physical 'cold war style' codebook, or an RSA key generator dongle). If applied correctly, this could work even with an unsecured connection, but it's hard to imagine that a dev would be willing to implement two-factor auth but not SSL.

(Do not) Roll-your-own JavaScript encryption/hashing

Given the perceived (though now avoidable) cost and technical difficulty of setting up an SSL certificate on your website, some developers are tempted to roll their own in-browser hashing or encryption schemes in order to avoid passing cleartext logins over an unsecured wire.

While this is a noble thought, it is essentially useless (and can be a security flaw) unless it is combined with one of the above - that is, either securing the line with strong encryption or using a tried-and-tested challenge-response mechanism (if you don't know what that is, just know that it is one of the most difficult to prove, most difficult to design, and most difficult to implement concepts in digital security).

While it is true that hashing the password can be effective against password disclosure, it is vulnerable to replay attacks, Man-In-The-Middle attacks / hijackings (if an attacker can inject a few bytes into your unsecured HTML page before it reaches your browser, they can simply comment out the hashing in the JavaScript), or brute-force attacks (since you are handing the attacker both username, salt and hashed password).

CAPTCHAS against humanity

CAPTCHA is meant to thwart one specific category of attack: automated dictionary/brute force trial-and-error with no human operator. There is no doubt that this is a real threat, however, there are ways of dealing with it seamlessly that don't require a CAPTCHA, specifically properly designed server-side login throttling schemes - we'll discuss those later.

Know that CAPTCHA implementations are not created alike; they often aren't human-solvable, most of them are actually ineffective against bots, all of them are ineffective against cheap third-world labor (according to OWASP, the current sweatshop rate is $12 per 500 tests), and some implementations may be technically illegal in some countries (see OWASP Authentication Cheat Sheet). If you must use a CAPTCHA, use Google's reCAPTCHA, since it is OCR-hard by definition (since it uses already OCR-misclassified book scans) and tries very hard to be user-friendly.

Personally, I tend to find CAPTCHAS annoying, and use them only as a last resort when a user has failed to log in a number of times and throttling delays are maxed out. This will happen rarely enough to be acceptable, and it strengthens the system as a whole.

Storing Passwords / Verifying logins

This may finally be common knowledge after all the highly-publicized hacks and user data leaks we've seen in recent years, but it has to be said: Do not store passwords in cleartext in your database. User databases are routinely hacked, leaked or gleaned through SQL injection, and if you are storing raw, plaintext passwords, that is instant game over for your login security.

So if you can't store the password, how do you check that the login+password combination POSTed from the login form is correct? The answer is hashing using a key derivation function. Whenever a new user is created or a password is changed, you take the password and run it through a KDF, such as Argon2, bcrypt, scrypt or PBKDF2, turning the cleartext password ("correcthorsebatterystaple") into a long, random-looking string, which is a lot safer to store in your database. To verify a login, you run the same hash function on the entered password, this time passing in the salt and compare the resulting hash string to the value stored in your database. Argon2, bcrypt and scrypt store the salt with the hash already. Check out this article on sec.stackexchange for more detailed information.

The reason a salt is used is that hashing in itself is not sufficient -- you'll want to add a so-called 'salt' to protect the hash against rainbow tables. A salt effectively prevents two passwords that exactly match from being stored as the same hash value, preventing the whole database being scanned in one run if an attacker is executing a password guessing attack.

A cryptographic hash should not be used for password storage because user-selected passwords are not strong enough (i.e. do not usually contain enough entropy) and a password guessing attack could be completed in a relatively short time by an attacker with access to the hashes. This is why KDFs are used - these effectively "stretch the key", which means that every password guess an attacker makes causes multiple repetitions of the hash algorithm, for example 10,000 times, which causes the attacker to guess the password 10,000 times slower.

Session data - "You are logged in as Spiderman69"

Once the server has verified the login and password against your user database and found a match, the system needs a way to remember that the browser has been authenticated. This fact should only ever be stored server side in the session data.

If you are unfamiliar with session data, here's how it works: A single randomly-generated string is stored in an expiring cookie and used to reference a collection of data - the session data - which is stored on the server. If you are using an MVC framework, this is undoubtedly handled already.

If at all possible, make sure the session cookie has the secure and HTTP Only flags set when sent to the browser. The HttpOnly flag provides some protection against the cookie being read through XSS attack. The secure flag ensures that the cookie is only sent back via HTTPS, and therefore protects against network sniffing attacks. The value of the cookie should not be predictable. Where a cookie referencing a non-existent session is presented, its value should be replaced immediately to prevent session fixation.

Session state can also be maintained on the client side. This is achieved by using techniques like JWT (JSON Web Token).

PART II: How To Remain Logged In - The Infamous "Remember Me" Checkbox

Persistent Login Cookies ("remember me" functionality) are a danger zone; on the one hand, they are entirely as safe as conventional logins when users understand how to handle them; and on the other hand, they are an enormous security risk in the hands of careless users, who may use them on public computers and forget to log out, and who may not know what browser cookies are or how to delete them.

Personally, I like persistent logins for the websites I visit on a regular basis, but I know how to handle them safely. If you are positive that your users know the same, you can use persistent logins with a clean conscience. If not - well, then you may subscribe to the philosophy that users who are careless with their login credentials brought it upon themselves if they get hacked. It's not like we go to our user's houses and tear off all those facepalm-inducing Post-It notes with passwords they have lined up on the edge of their monitors, either.

Of course, some systems can't afford to have any accounts hacked; for such systems, there is no way you can justify having persistent logins.

If you DO decide to implement persistent login cookies, this is how you do it:

First, take some time to read Paragon Initiative's article on the subject. You'll need to get a bunch of elements right, and the article does a great job of explaining each.
And just to reiterate one of the most common pitfalls, DO NOT STORE THE PERSISTENT LOGIN COOKIE (TOKEN) IN YOUR DATABASE, ONLY A HASH OF IT! The login token is Password Equivalent, so if an attacker got their hands on your database, they could use the tokens to log in to any account, just as if they were cleartext login-password combinations. Therefore, use hashing (according to https://security.stackexchange.com/a/63438/5002 a weak hash will do just fine for this purpose) when storing persistent login tokens.

PART III: Using Secret Questions

Don't implement 'secret questions'. The 'secret questions' feature is a security anti-pattern. Read the paper from link number 4 from the MUST-READ list. You can ask Sarah Palin about that one, after her Yahoo! email account got hacked during a previous presidential campaign because the answer to her security question was... "Wasilla High School"!

Even with user-specified questions, it is highly likely that most users will choose either:

A 'standard' secret question like mother's maiden name or favorite pet
A simple piece of trivia that anyone could lift from their blog, LinkedIn profile, or similar
Any question that is easier to answer than guessing their password. Which, for any decent password, is every question you can imagine

In conclusion, security questions are inherently insecure in virtually all their forms and variations, and should not be employed in an authentication scheme for any reason.

The true reason why security questions even exist in the wild is that they conveniently save the cost of a few support calls from users who can't access their email to get to a reactivation code. This at the expense of security and Sarah Palin's reputation. Worth it? Probably not.

PART IV: Forgotten Password Functionality

I already mentioned why you should never use security questions for handling forgotten/lost user passwords; it also goes without saying that you should never e-mail users their actual passwords. There are at least two more all-too-common pitfalls to avoid in this field:

Don't reset a forgotten password to an autogenerated strong password - such passwords are notoriously hard to remember, which means the user must either change it or write it down - say, on a bright yellow Post-It on the edge of their monitor. Instead of setting a new password, just let users pick a new one right away - which is what they want to do anyway. (An exception to this might be if the users are universally using a password manager to store/manage passwords that would normally be impossible to remember without writing it down).
Always hash the lost password code/token in the database. AGAIN, this code is another example of a Password Equivalent, so it MUST be hashed in case an attacker got their hands on your database. When a lost password code is requested, send the plaintext code to the user's email address, then hash it, save the hash in your database -- and throw away the original. Just like a password or a persistent login token.

A final note: always make sure your interface for entering the 'lost password code' is at least as secure as your login form itself, or an attacker will simply use this to gain access instead. Making sure you generate very long 'lost password codes' (for example, 16 case-sensitive alphanumeric characters) is a good start, but consider adding the same throttling scheme that you do for the login form itself.

PART V: Checking Password Strength

First, you'll want to read this small article for a reality check: The 500 most common passwords

Okay, so maybe the list isn't the canonical list of most common passwords on any system anywhere ever, but it's a good indication of how poorly people will choose their passwords when there is no enforced policy in place. Plus, the list looks frighteningly close to home when you compare it to publicly available analyses of recently stolen passwords.

So: With no minimum password strength requirements, 2% of users use one of the top 20 most common passwords. Meaning: if an attacker gets just 20 attempts, 1 in 50 accounts on your website will be crackable.

Thwarting this requires calculating the entropy of a password and then applying a threshold. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-63 has a set of very good suggestions. That, when combined with a dictionary and keyboard layout analysis (for example, 'qwertyuiop' is a bad password), can reject 99% of all poorly selected passwords at a level of 18 bits of entropy. Simply calculating password strength and showing a visual strength meter to a user is good, but insufficient. Unless it is enforced, a lot of users will most likely ignore it.

And for a refreshing take on user-friendliness of high-entropy passwords, Randall Munroe's Password Strength xkcd is highly recommended.

Utilize Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned API to check users passwords against passwords compromised in public data breaches.

PART VI: Much More - Or: Preventing Rapid-Fire Login Attempts

First, have a look at the numbers: Password Recovery Speeds - How long will your password stand up

If you don't have the time to look through the tables in that link, here's the list of them:

It takes virtually no time to crack a weak password, even if you're cracking it with an abacus
It takes virtually no time to crack an alphanumeric 9-character password if it is case insensitive
It takes virtually no time to crack an intricate, symbols-and-letters-and-numbers, upper-and-lowercase password if it is less than 8 characters long (a desktop PC can search the entire keyspace up to 7 characters in a matter of days or even hours)
It would, however, take an inordinate amount of time to crack even a 6-character password, if you were limited to one attempt per second!

So what can we learn from these numbers? Well, lots, but we can focus on the most important part: the fact that preventing large numbers of rapid-fire successive login attempts (ie. the brute force attack) really isn't that difficult. But preventing it right isn't as easy as it seems.

Generally speaking, you have three choices that are all effective against brute-force attacks (and dictionary attacks, but since you are already employing a strong passwords policy, they shouldn't be an issue):

Present a CAPTCHA after N failed attempts (annoying as hell and often ineffective -- but I'm repeating myself here)
Locking accounts and requiring email verification after N failed attempts (this is a DoS attack waiting to happen)
And finally, login throttling: that is, setting a time delay between attempts after N failed attempts (yes, DoS attacks are still possible, but at least they are far less likely and a lot more complicated to pull off).

Best practice #1: A short time delay that increases with the number of failed attempts, like:

1 failed attempt = no delay
2 failed attempts = 2 sec delay
3 failed attempts = 4 sec delay
4 failed attempts = 8 sec delay
5 failed attempts = 16 sec delay
etc.

DoS attacking this scheme would be very impractical, since the resulting lockout time is slightly larger than the sum of the previous lockout times.

To clarify: The delay is not a delay before returning the response to the browser. It is more like a timeout or refractory period during which login attempts to a specific account or from a specific IP address will not be accepted or evaluated at all. That is, correct credentials will not return in a successful login, and incorrect credentials will not trigger a delay increase.

Best practice #2: A medium length time delay that goes into effect after N failed attempts, like:

1-4 failed attempts = no delay
5 failed attempts = 15-30 min delay

DoS attacking this scheme would be quite impractical, but certainly doable. Also, it might be relevant to note that such a long delay can be very annoying for a legitimate user. Forgetful users will dislike you.

Best practice #3: Combining the two approaches - either a fixed, short time delay that goes into effect after N failed attempts, like:

1-4 failed attempts = no delay
5+ failed attempts = 20 sec delay

Or, an increasing delay with a fixed upper bound, like:

1 failed attempt = 5 sec delay
2 failed attempts = 15 sec delay
3+ failed attempts = 45 sec delay

This final scheme was taken from the OWASP best-practices suggestions (link 1 from the MUST-READ list) and should be considered best practice, even if it is admittedly on the restrictive side.

As a rule of thumb, however, I would say: the stronger your password policy is, the less you have to bug users with delays. If you require strong (case-sensitive alphanumerics + required numbers and symbols) 9+ character passwords, you could give the users 2-4 non-delayed password attempts before activating the throttling.

DoS attacking this final login throttling scheme would be very impractical. And as a final touch, always allow persistent (cookie) logins (and/or a CAPTCHA-verified login form) to pass through, so legitimate users won't even be delayed while the attack is in progress. That way, the very impractical DoS attack becomes an extremely impractical attack.

Additionally, it makes sense to do more aggressive throttling on admin accounts, since those are the most attractive entry points

PART VII: Distributed Brute Force Attacks

Just as an aside, more advanced attackers will try to circumvent login throttling by 'spreading their activities':

Distributing the attempts on a botnet to prevent IP address flagging
Rather than picking one user and trying the 50.000 most common passwords (which they can't, because of our throttling), they will pick THE most common password and try it against 50.000 users instead. That way, not only do they get around maximum-attempts measures like CAPTCHAs and login throttling, their chance of success increases as well, since the number 1 most common password is far more likely than number 49.995
Spacing the login requests for each user account, say, 30 seconds apart, to sneak under the radar

Here, the best practice would be logging the number of failed logins, system-wide, and using a running average of your site's bad-login frequency as the basis for an upper limit that you then impose on all users.

Too abstract? Let me rephrase:

Say your site has had an average of 120 bad logins per day over the past 3 months. Using that (running average), your system might set the global limit to 3 times that -- ie. 360 failed attempts over a 24 hour period. Then, if the total number of failed attempts across all accounts exceeds that number within one day (or even better, monitor the rate of acceleration and trigger on a calculated threshold), it activates system-wide login throttling - meaning short delays for ALL users (still, with the exception of cookie logins and/or backup CAPTCHA logins).

I also posted a question with more details and a really good discussion of how to avoid tricky pitfals in fending off distributed brute force attacks

PART VIII: Two-Factor Authentication and Authentication Providers

Credentials can be compromised, whether by exploits, passwords being written down and lost, laptops with keys being stolen, or users entering logins into phishing sites. Logins can be further protected with two-factor authentication, which uses out-of-band factors such as single-use codes received from a phone call, SMS message, app, or dongle. Several providers offer two-factor authentication services.

Authentication can be completely delegated to a single-sign-on service, where another provider handles collecting credentials. This pushes the problem to a trusted third party. Google and Twitter both provide standards-based SSO services, while Facebook provides a similar proprietary solution.

MUST-READ LINKS About Web Authentication

Validation to check if password and confirm password are same is not working

Step 1 :

Create ts : app/_helpers/must-match.validator.ts

import { FormGroup } from '@angular/forms';

export function MustMatch(controlName: string, matchingControlName: string) {
    return (formGroup: FormGroup) => {
        const control = formGroup.controls[controlName];
        const matchingControl = formGroup.controls[matchingControlName];

        if (matchingControl.errors && !matchingControl.errors.mustMatch) { 
            return;
        } 
        if (control.value !== matchingControl.value) {
            matchingControl.setErrors({ mustMatch: true });
        } else {
            matchingControl.setErrors(null);
        }
    }
}

Step 2 :

Use in your component.ts

import { MustMatch } from '../_helpers/must-match.validator'; 

ngOnInit() {
    this.loginForm = this.formbuilder.group({
      Password: ['', [Validators.required, Validators.minLength(6)]], 
      ConfirmPassword: ['', [Validators.required]],
    }, {
      validator: MustMatch('Password', 'ConfirmPassword')
    });
  }

Step 3 :

Use In View/Html

<input type="password" formControlName="Password" class="form-control" autofocus>
                <div *ngIf="loginForm.controls['Password'].invalid && (loginForm.controls['Password'].dirty || loginForm.controls['Password'].touched)" class="alert alert-danger">
                    <div *ngIf="loginForm.controls['Password'].errors.required">Password Required. </div> 
                    <div *ngIf="loginForm.controls['Password'].errors.minlength">Password must be at least 6 characters</div>
                </div> 


 <input type="password" formControlName="ConfirmPassword" class="form-control" >
                <div *ngIf="loginForm.controls['ConfirmPassword'].invalid && (loginForm.controls['ConfirmPassword'].dirty || loginForm.controls['ConfirmPassword'].touched)" class="alert alert-danger">
                    <div *ngIf="loginForm.controls['ConfirmPassword'].errors.required">ConfirmPassword Required. </div> 
                    <div *ngIf="loginForm.controls['ConfirmPassword'].errors.mustMatch">Your password and confirmation password do not match.</div>
                </div>

How can I alter a primary key constraint using SQL syntax?

you can rename constraint objects using sp_rename (as described in this answer)

for example:

EXEC sp_rename N'schema.MyIOldConstraint', N'MyNewConstraint'

Find a string by searching all tables in SQL Server Management Studio 2008

A bit late but hopefully useful.

Why not try some of the third party tools that can be integrated into SSMS.

I’ve worked with ApexSQL Search (100% free) with good success for both schema and data search and there is also SSMS tools pack that has this feature (not free for SQL 2012 but quite affordable).

Stored procedure above is really great; it’s just that this is way more convenient in my opinion. Also, it would require some slight modifications if you want to search for datetime columns or GUID columns and such…

Write a mode method in Java to find the most frequently occurring element in an array

check this.. Brief:Pick each element of array and compare it with all elements of the array, weather it is equal to the picked on or not.

  int popularity1 = 0;
  int popularity2 = 0;
  int popularity_item, array_item; //Array contains integer value. Make it String if array contains string value.
  for(int i =0;i<array.length;i++){
      array_item = array[i];
      for(int j =0;j<array.length;j++){
          if(array_item == array[j])
             popularity1 ++;
          {
      if(popularity1 >= popularity2){
          popularity_item = array_item;
          popularity2 = popularity1;
      }
      popularity1 = 0;
  }
  //"popularity_item" contains the most repeted item in an array.

Setting href attribute at runtime

Small performance test comparision for three solutions:

$(".link").prop('href',"https://example.com")
$(".link").attr('href',"https://example.com")
document.querySelector(".link").href="https://example.com";

Here you can perform test by yourself https://jsperf.com/a-href-js-change

We can read href values in following ways

let href = $(selector).prop('href');
let href = $(selector).attr('href');
let href = document.querySelector(".link").href;

Here you can perform test by yourself https://jsperf.com/a-href-js-read

How to get the <td> in HTML tables to fit content, and let a specific <td> fill in the rest

Setting CSS width to 1% or 100% of an element according to all specs I could find out is related to the parent. Although Blink Rendering Engine (Chrome) and Gecko (Firefox) at the moment of writing seems to handle that 1% or 100% (make a columns shrink or a column to fill available space) well, it is not guaranteed according to all CSS specifications I could find to render it properly.

One option is to replace table with CSS4 flex divs:

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

That works in new browsers i.e. IE11+ see table at the bottom of the article.

Reload content in modal (twitter bootstrap)

step 1 : Create a wrapper for the modal called clone-modal-wrapper.

step 2 : Create a blank div called modal-wrapper.

Step 3 : Copy the modal element from clone-modal-wrapper to modal-wrapper.

step 4 : Toggle the modal of modal-wrapper.

<a data-toggle="modal" class='my-modal'>Open modal</a>

<div class="clone-modal-wrapper">
   <div class='my-modal' class="modal fade">
      <div class="modal-dialog">
         <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
               <a class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</a>
               <h3>Header</h3>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body"></div>
            <div class="modal-footer">
               <input type="submit" class="btn btn-success" value="Save"/>
            </div>
         </div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="modal-wrapper"></div>


$("a[data-target=#myModal]").click(function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    $(".modal-wrapper").html($(".clone-modal-wrapper").html());
    $('.modal-wrapper').find('.my-modal').modal('toggle');
});

Select from one table matching criteria in another?

The simplest solution would be a correlated sub select:

select
    A.*
from
    table_A A
where
    A.id in (
        select B.id from table_B B where B.tag = 'chair'
)

Alternatively you could join the tables and filter the rows you want:

select
    A.*
from
    table_A A
inner join table_B B
    on A.id = B.id
where
    B.tag = 'chair'

You should profile both and see which is faster on your dataset.

How to set editable true/false EditText in Android programmatically?

Since the setEditable(false) is deprecated and we can't use it programmatically, we can use another way to solve it with setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL)

It means we change the input type of edit text. We set it to NULL so it becomes not editable.

Here's the sample that might be useful (I code this on my onCreateView method Fragment):

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                         Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.yourfragment, container, false);
    EditText sample = view.findViewById(R.id.youredittext);
    sample.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Hope this will answer the problem

When to use RSpec let()?

It is important to keep in mind that let is lazy evaluated and not putting side-effect methods in it otherwise you would not be able to change from let to before(:each) easily. You can use let! instead of let so that it is evaluated before each scenario.

how to fix groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method:

In my case it was simply that I had a variable named the same as a function.

Example:

def cleanCache = functionReturningABoolean()

if( cleanCache ){
    echo "Clean cache option is true, do not uninstall previous features / urls"
    uninstallCmd = ""
    
    // and we call the cleanCache method
    cleanCache(userId, serverName)
}
...

and later in my code I have the function:

def cleanCache(user, server){

 //some operations to the server

}

Apparently the Groovy language does not support this (but other languages like Java does). I just renamed my function to executeCleanCache and it works perfectly (or you can also rename your variable whatever option you prefer).

Why does C# XmlDocument.LoadXml(string) fail when an XML header is included?

Try this:

XmlDocument bodyDoc = new XmlDocument();
bodyDoc.XMLResolver = null;
bodyDoc.Load(body);

How long will my session last?

In general you can say session.gc_maxlifetime specifies the maximum lifetime since the last change of your session data (not the last time session_start was called!). But PHP’s session handling is a little bit more complicated.

Because the session data is removed by a garbage collector that is only called by session_start with a probability of session.gc_probability devided by session.gc_divisor. The default values are 1 and 100, so the garbage collector is only started in only 1% of all session_start calls. That means even if the the session is already timed out in theory (the session data had been changed more than session.gc_maxlifetime seconds ago), the session data can be used longer than that.

Because of that fact I recommend you to implement your own session timeout mechanism. See my answer to How do I expire a PHP session after 30 minutes? for more details.

Javascript-Setting background image of a DIV via a function and function parameter

If you are looking for a direct approach and using a local File in that case. Try

<div
style={{ background-image: 'url(' + Image + ')', background-size: 'auto' }}
/>

This is the case of JS with inline styling where Image is a local file that you must have imported with a path.

Animate the transition between fragments

Nurik's answer was very helpful, but I couldn't get it to work until I found this. In short, if you're using the compatibility library (eg SupportFragmentManager instead of FragmentManager), the syntax of the XML animation files will be different.

ASP.Net MVC: Calling a method from a view

Building on Amine's answer, create a helper like:

public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
{
    public static MvcHtmlString CurrencyFormat(this HtmlHelper helper, string value)
    {
        var result = string.Format("{0:C2}", value);
        return new MvcHtmlString(result);
    }
}

in your view: use @Html.CurrencyFormat(model.value)

If you are doing simple formating like Standard Numeric Formats, then simple use string.Format() in your view like in the helper example above:

@string.Format("{0:C2}", model.value)

How to extract file name from path?

Here's an alternative solution without code. This VBA works in the Excel Formula Bar:

To extract the file name:

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\","~",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\","")))))

To extract the file path:

=MID(A1,1,LEN(A1)-LEN(MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",CHAR(1),LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",""))))+1,LEN(A1))))

Twitter Bootstrap 3 Sticky Footer

Here is a very simple and clean sticky footer you can use in bootstrap. Totally Responsive!

HTML

<body>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">
        <img alt="Brand" src="">
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>
    <footer></footer>
</body>
</html>

CSS

html {
    position: relative;
    min-height: 100%;
}
body {
    margin: 0 0 100px;
}
footer {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    height: 100px;
    width: 100%;
    background-color: red;
}

Example: CodePen Demo

How to 'insert if not exists' in MySQL?

Something worth noting is that INSERT IGNORE will still increment the primary key whether the statement was a success or not just like a normal INSERT would.

This will cause gaps in your primary keys that might make a programmer mentally unstable. Or if your application is poorly designed and depends on perfect incremental primary keys, it might become a headache.

Look into innodb_autoinc_lock_mode = 0 (server setting, and comes with a slight performance hit), or use a SELECT first to make sure your query will not fail (which also comes with a performance hit and extra code).

how do I give a div a responsive height

I don't think this is the BEST solution, but it does appear to work. Instead of using the background color, I'm going to just embed an image of the background, position it relatively and then wrap the text in a child element and position it absolute - in the centre.

Hash function that produces short hashes?

You need to hash the contents to come up with a digest. There are many hashes available but 10-characters is pretty small for the result set. Way back, people used CRC-32, which produces a 33-bit hash (basically 4 characters plus one bit). There is also CRC-64 which produces a 65-bit hash. MD5, which produces a 128-bit hash (16 bytes/characters) is considered broken for cryptographic purposes because two messages can be found which have the same hash. It should go without saying that any time you create a 16-byte digest out of an arbitrary length message you're going to end up with duplicates. The shorter the digest, the greater the risk of collisions.

However, your concern that the hash not be similar for two consecutive messages (whether integers or not) should be true with all hashes. Even a single bit change in the original message should produce a vastly different resulting digest.

So, using something like CRC-64 (and base-64'ing the result) should get you in the neighborhood you're looking for.

SQLite Reset Primary Key Field

If you want to reset every RowId via content provider try this

rowCounter=1;
do {            
            rowId = cursor.getInt(0);
            ContentValues values;
            values = new ContentValues();
            values.put(Table_Health.COLUMN_ID,
                       rowCounter);
            updateData2DB(context, values, rowId);
            rowCounter++;

        while (cursor.moveToNext());

public static void updateData2DB(Context context, ContentValues values, int rowId) {
    Uri uri;
    uri = Uri.parseContentProvider.CONTENT_URI_HEALTH + "/" + rowId);
    context.getContentResolver().update(uri, values, null, null);
}

Passing a local variable from one function to another

Adding to @pranay-rana's list:

Third way is:

function passFromValue(){
    var x = 15;
    return x;  
}
function passToValue() {
    var y = passFromValue();
    console.log(y);//15
}
passToValue();

How to install mysql-connector via pip

First install setuptools

sudo pip install setuptools

Then install mysql-connector

sudo pip install mysql-connector

If using Python3, then replace pip by pip3

Line Break in XML?

In XML a line break is a normal character. You can do this:

<xml>
  <text>some text
with
three lines</text>
</xml>

and the contents of <text> will be

some text
with
three lines

If this does not work for you, you are doing something wrong. Special "workarounds" like encoding the line break are unnecessary. Stuff like \n won't work, on the other hand, because XML has no escape sequences^*.

^* Note that 
 is the character entity that represents a line break in serialized XML. "XML has no escape sequences" means the situation when you interact with a DOM document, setting node values through the DOM API.

This is where neither 
 nor things like \n will work, but an actual newline character will. How this character ends up in the serialized document (i.e. "file") is up to the API and should not concern you.

Since you seem to wonder where your line breaks go in HTML: Take a look into your source code, there they are. HTML ignores line breaks in source code. Use <br> tags to force line breaks on screen.

Here is a JavaScript function that inserts <br> into a multi-line string:

function nl2br(s) { return s.split(/\r?\n/).join("<br>"); }

Alternatively you can force line breaks at new line characters with CSS:

div.lines {
    white-space: pre-line;
}

SQL Server 2008: how do I grant privileges to a username?

Like the following. It will make the user database owner.

EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_owner', N'USerNAme'

How to select first and last TD in a row?

You could use the :first-child and :last-child pseudo-selectors:

tr td:first-child{
    color:red;
}
tr td:last-child {
    color:green
}

Or you can use other way like

// To first child 
tr td:nth-child(1){
    color:red;
}

// To last child 
tr td:nth-last-child(1){
    color:green;
}

Both way are perfectly working

jQuery Mobile Page refresh mechanism

Please take a good look here: http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/api/methods.html

$.mobile.changePage() is to change from one page to another, and the parameter can be a url or a page object. ( only #result will also work )

$.mobile.page() isn't recommended anymore, please use .trigger( "create"), see also: JQuery Mobile .page() function causes infinite loop?

Important: Create vs. refresh: An important distinction

Note that there is an important difference between the create event and refresh method that some widgets have. The create event is suited for enhancing raw markup that contains one or more widgets. The refresh method that some widgets have should be used on existing (already enhanced) widgets that have been manipulated programmatically and need the UI be updated to match.

For example, if you had a page where you dynamically appended a new unordered list with data-role=listview attribute after page creation, triggering create on a parent element of that list would transform it into a listview styled widget. If more list items were then programmatically added, calling the listview’s refresh method would update just those new list items to the enhanced state and leave the existing list items untouched.

$.mobile.refresh() doesn't exist i guess

So what are you using for your results? A listview? Then you can update it by doing:

$('ul').listview('refresh');

Example: http://operationmobile.com/dont-forget-to-call-refresh-when-adding-items-to-your-jquery-mobile-list/

Otherwise you can do:

$('#result').live("pageinit", function(){ // or pageshow
    // your dom manipulations here
});

WPF popup window

In WPF there is a control named Popup.

Popup myPopup = new Popup();
//(...)
myPopup.IsOpen = true;

How to define custom sort function in javascript?

It could be that the plugin is case-sensitive. Try inputting Te instead of te. You can probably have your results setup to not be case-sensitive. This question might help.

For a custom sort function on an Array, you can use any JavaScript function and pass it as parameter to an Array's sort() method like this:

_x000D_

var array = ['White 023', 'White', 'White flower', 'Teatr'];_x000D_
_x000D_
array.sort(function(x, y) {_x000D_
  if (x < y) {_x000D_
    return -1;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  if (x > y) {_x000D_
    return 1;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  return 0;_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
// Teatr White White 023 White flower_x000D_
document.write(array);

_x000D_

More Info here on Array.sort.

How do I render a Word document (.doc, .docx) in the browser using JavaScript?

I think I have an idea. This has been doing my nut in too and I'm still having trouble getting it to display in Chrome.

Save document(name.docx) in word as single file webpage (name.mht) In your html use

<iframe src= "name.mht" width="100%" height="800"> </iframe>

Alter the heights and widths as you see fit.

Convert or extract TTC font to TTF - how to?

You can use onlinefontconverter.com site. It works fine and have plenty of output formats (afm bin cff dfont eot pfa pfb pfm ps pt3 suit svg t42 tfm ttc ttf woff). One of the advantages I saw, is that it export all the fonts contained inside the ttc at once (which is very convenient).

iOS 7: UITableView shows under status bar

I think the approach to using UITableViewController might be a little bit different from what you have done before. It has worked for me, but you might not be a fan of it. What I have done is have a view controller with a container view that points to my UItableViewController. This way I am able to use the TopLayoutGuide provided to my in storyboard. Just add the constraint to the container view and you should be taken care of for both iOS7 and iOS6.

I get exception when using Thread.sleep(x) or wait()

You have a lot of reading ahead of you. From compiler errors through exception handling, threading and thread interruptions. But this will do what you want:

try {
    Thread.sleep(1000);                 //1000 milliseconds is one second.
} catch(InterruptedException ex) {
    Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
}

window.close and self.close do not close the window in Chrome

In my case, the page needed to close, but may have been opened by a link and thus window.close would fail.

The solution I chose is to issue the window.close, followed by a window.setTimeout that redirects to a different page.

That way, if window.close succeeds, execution on that page stops, but if it fails, in a second, it will redirect to a different page.

window.close();
window.setTimeout(function(){location.href = '/some-page.php';},1000);

Bash script prints "Command Not Found" on empty lines

If you have Notepad++ and you get this .sh Error Message: "command not found" or this autoconf Error Message "line 615: ../../autoconf/bin/autom4te: No such file or directory".

On your Notepad++, Go to Edit -> EOL Conversion then check Macinthos(CR). This will edit your files. I also encourage to check all files with this command, because soon such an error will occur.

The easiest way to replace white spaces with (underscores) _ in bash

This is borderline programming, but look into using tr:

$ echo "this is just a test" | tr -s ' ' | tr ' ' '_'

Should do it. The first invocation squeezes the spaces down, the second replaces with underscore. You probably need to add TABs and other whitespace characters, this is for spaces only.

Html.BeginForm and adding properties

You can also use the following syntax for the strongly typed version:

<% using (Html.BeginForm<SomeController>(x=> x.SomeAction(), 
          FormMethod.Post, 
          new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" })) 
   { %>

Setting TIME_WAIT TCP

TIME_WAIT might not be the culprit.

int listen(int sockfd, int backlog);

According to Unix Network Programming Volume1, backlog is defined to be the sum of completed connection queue and incomplete connection queue.

Let's say the backlog is 5. If you have 3 completed connections (ESTABLISHED state), and 2 incomplete connections (SYN_RCVD state), and there is another connect request with SYN. The TCP stack just ignores the SYN packet, knowing it'll be retransmitted some other time. This might be causing the degradation.

At least that's what I've been reading. ;)

How can you make a custom keyboard in Android?

Here is a sample project for a soft keyboard.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/creating-input-method.html

Your's should be in the same lines with a different layout.

Edit: If you need the keyboard only in your application, its very simple! Create a linear layout with vertical orientation, and create 3 linear layouts inside it with horizontal orientation. Then place the buttons of each row in each of those horizontal linear layouts, and assign the weight property to the buttons. Use android:layout_weight=1 for all of them, so they get equally spaced.

This will solve. If you didn't get what was expected, please post the code here, and we are here to help you!

How to test REST API using Chrome's extension "Advanced Rest Client"

From the screenshot I can see that you want to pass "user" and "password" values to the service. You have send the parameter values in the request header part which is wrong. The values are sent in the request body and not in the request header. Also your syntax is wrong. Correct syntax is: {"user":"user_val","password":"password_val"}. Also check what is the the content type. It should match with the content type you have set to your service.

Upload file to FTP using C#

public static void UploadFileToFtp(string url, string filePath, string username, string password)
{
    var fileName = Path.GetFileName(filePath);
    var request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url + fileName);

    request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
    request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
    request.UsePassive = true;
    request.UseBinary = true;
    request.KeepAlive = false;

    using (var fileStream = File.OpenRead(filePath))
    {
        using (var requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
        {
            fileStream.CopyTo(requestStream);
            requestStream.Close();
        }
    }

    var response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    Console.WriteLine("Upload done: {0}", response.StatusDescription);
    response.Close();
}

How to create custom button in Android using XML Styles

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="oval">

   <solid 
       android:color="#ffffffff"/>

   <size 
       android:width="@dimen/shape_circle_width"
        android:height="@dimen/shape_circle_height"/>
</shape>

1.add this in your drawable

2.set as background to your button

Error message "Linter pylint is not installed"

This solved the issue for me:

pip install pylint -U

I.e., upgrade the pylint package.

C# equivalent of the IsNull() function in SQL Server

    public static T IsNull<T>(this T DefaultValue, T InsteadValue)
    {

        object obj="kk";

        if((object) DefaultValue == DBNull.Value)
        {
            obj = null;
        }

        if (obj==null || DefaultValue==null || DefaultValue.ToString()=="")
        {
            return InsteadValue;
        }
        else
        {
            return DefaultValue;
        }

    }

//This method can work with DBNull and null value. This method is question's answer

What is log4j's default log file dumping path

To redirect your logs output to a file, you need to use the FileAppender and need to define other file details in your log4j.properties/xml file. Here is a sample properties file for the same:

# Root logger option
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, file

# Direct log messages to a log file
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.File=C:\\loging.log
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=1MB
log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=1
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

Follow this tutorial to learn more about log4j usage:

http://www.mkyong.com/logging/log4j-log4j-properties-examples/

Bootstrap 3: Text overlay on image

Is this what you're after?

http://jsfiddle.net/dCNXU/1/

I added :text-align:center to the div and image

What's the difference between using CGFloat and float?

Objective-C

From the Foundation source code, in CoreGraphics' CGBase.h:

/* Definition of `CGFLOAT_TYPE', `CGFLOAT_IS_DOUBLE', `CGFLOAT_MIN', and
   `CGFLOAT_MAX'. */

#if defined(__LP64__) && __LP64__
# define CGFLOAT_TYPE double
# define CGFLOAT_IS_DOUBLE 1
# define CGFLOAT_MIN DBL_MIN
# define CGFLOAT_MAX DBL_MAX
#else
# define CGFLOAT_TYPE float
# define CGFLOAT_IS_DOUBLE 0
# define CGFLOAT_MIN FLT_MIN
# define CGFLOAT_MAX FLT_MAX
#endif

/* Definition of the `CGFloat' type and `CGFLOAT_DEFINED'. */

typedef CGFLOAT_TYPE CGFloat;
#define CGFLOAT_DEFINED 1

This is essentially doing:

#if defined(__LP64__) && __LP64__
typedef double CGFloat;
#else
typedef float CGFloat;
#endif

Where __LP64__ indicates whether the current architecture* is 64-bit.

Note that 32-bit systems can still use the 64-bit double, it just takes more processor time, so CoreGraphics does this for optimization purposes, not for compatibility. If you aren't concerned about performance but are concerned about accuracy, simply use double.

Swift

In Swift, CGFloat is a struct wrapper around either Float on 32-bit architectures or Double on 64-bit ones (You can detect this at run- or compile-time with CGFloat.NativeType) and cgFloat.native.

From the CoreGraphics source code, in CGFloat.swift.gyb:

public struct CGFloat {
#if arch(i386) || arch(arm)
  /// The native type used to store the CGFloat, which is Float on
  /// 32-bit architectures and Double on 64-bit architectures.
  public typealias NativeType = Float
#elseif arch(x86_64) || arch(arm64)
  /// The native type used to store the CGFloat, which is Float on
  /// 32-bit architectures and Double on 64-bit architectures.
  public typealias NativeType = Double
#endif

^{*Specifically, longs and pointers, hence the LP. See also: http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html}

How to remove components created with Angular-CLI

I had the same issue, couldn't find a right solution so I have manually deleted the component folder and then updated the app.module.ts file (removed the references to the deleted component) and it worked for me.

How to use unicode characters in Windows command line?

On a Windows 10 x64 machine, I made the command prompt display non-English characters by:

Open an elevated command prompt (run CMD.EXE as administrator). Query your registry for available TrueType fonts to the console by:

    REG query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont"

You'll see an output like:

    0    REG_SZ    Lucida Console
    00    REG_SZ    Consolas
    936    REG_SZ    *???
    932    REG_SZ    *MS ????

Now we need to add a TrueType font that supports the characters you need like Courier New. We do this by adding zeros to the string name, so in this case the next one would be "000":

    REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont" /v 000 /t REG_SZ /d "Courier New"

Now we implement UTF-8 support:

    REG ADD HKCU\Console /v CodePage /t REG_DWORD /d 65001 /f

Set default font to "Courier New":

    REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FaceName /t REG_SZ /d "Courier New" /f

Set font size to 20:

    REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FontSize /t REG_DWORD /d 20 /f

Enable quick edit if you like:

    REG ADD HKCU\Console /v QuickEdit /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

CSS to set A4 paper size

CSS

body {
  background: rgb(204,204,204); 
}
page[size="A4"] {
  background: white;
  width: 21cm;
  height: 29.7cm;
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto;
  margin-bottom: 0.5cm;
  box-shadow: 0 0 0.5cm rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
}
@media print {
  body, page[size="A4"] {
    margin: 0;
    box-shadow: 0;
  }
}

HTML

<page size="A4"></page>
<page size="A4"></page>
<page size="A4"></page>

DEMO

How to find a value in an excel column by vba code Cells.Find

Dim strFirstAddress As String
Dim searchlast As Range
Dim search As Range

Set search = ActiveSheet.Range("A1:A100")
Set searchlast = search.Cells(search.Cells.Count)

Set rngFindValue = ActiveSheet.Range("A1:A100").Find(Text, searchlast, xlValues)
If Not rngFindValue Is Nothing Then
  strFirstAddress = rngFindValue.Address
  Do
    Set rngFindValue = search.FindNext(rngFindValue)
  Loop Until rngFindValue.Address = strFirstAddress

Is it possible to use a div as content for Twitter's Popover

All of these answers miss a very important aspect!

By using .html or innerHtml or outerHtml you are not actually using the referenced element. You are using a copy of the element's html. This has some serious draw backs.

You can't use any ids because the ids will be duplicated.
If you load the contents every time that the popover is shown you will lose all of the user's input.

What you want to do is load the object itself into the popover.

https://jsfiddle.net/shrewmouse/ex6tuzm2/4/

HTML:

<h1> Test </h1>

<div><button id="target">click me</button></div>

<!-- This will be the contents of our popover -->
<div class='_content' id='blah'>
<h1>Extra Stuff</h1>
<input type='number' placeholder='number'/>
</div>

JQuery:

$(document).ready(function() {

    // We don't want to see the popover contents until the user clicks the target.
    // If you don't hide 'blah' first it will be visible outside of the popover.
    //
    $('#blah').hide();

    // Initialize our popover
    //
    $('#target').popover({
        content: $('#blah'), // set the content to be the 'blah' div
        placement: 'bottom',
        html: true
    });
    // The popover contents will not be set until the popover is shown.  Since we don't 
    // want to see the popover when the page loads, we will show it then hide it.
    //
    $('#target').popover('show');
    $('#target').popover('hide');

    // Now that the popover's content is the 'blah' dive we can make it visisble again.
    //
    $('#blah').show();


});

Explaining the 'find -mtime' command

To find all files modified in the last 24 hours use the one below. The -1 here means changed 1 day or less ago.

find . -mtime -1 -ls

"Unicode Error "unicodeescape" codec can't decode bytes... Cannot open text files in Python 3

I had this same error in python 3.2.

I have script for email sending and:

csv.reader(open('work_dir\uslugi1.csv', newline='', encoding='utf-8'))

when I remove first char in file uslugi1.csv works fine.

How to send cookies in a post request with the Python Requests library?

If you want to pass the cookie to the browser, you have to append to the headers to be sent back. If you're using wsgi:

import requests
...


def application(environ, start_response):
    cookie = {'enwiki_session': '17ab96bd8ffbe8ca58a78657a918558'}
    response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain')]
    response_headers.append(('Set-Cookie',cookie))
...

    return [bytes(post_env),response_headers]

I'm successfully able to authenticate with Bugzilla and TWiki hosted on the same domain my python wsgi script is running by passing auth user/password to my python script and pass the cookies to the browser. This allows me to open the Bugzilla and TWiki pages in the same browser and be authenticated. I'm trying to do the same with SuiteCRM but i'm having trouble with SuiteCRM accepting the session cookies obtained from the python script even though it has successfully authenticated.

Error Handler - Exit Sub vs. End Sub

Your ProcExit label is your place where you release all the resources whether an error happened or not. For instance:

Public Sub SubA()
  On Error Goto ProcError

  Connection.Open
  Open File for Writing
  SomePreciousResource.GrabIt

ProcExit:  
  Connection.Close
  Connection = Nothing
  Close File
  SomePreciousResource.Release

  Exit Sub

ProcError:  
  MsgBox Err.Description  
  Resume ProcExit
End Sub

Public class is inaccessible due to its protection level

Also if you want to do something like ClassB.Run("thing");, make sure the Method Run(); is static or you could call it like this: thing.Run("thing");.

jQuery animated number counter from zero to value

You can get the element itself in .each(), try this instead of using this

$('.Count').each(function (index, value) {
    jQuery({ Counter: 0 }).animate({ Counter: value.text() }, {
        duration: 1000,
        easing: 'swing',
        step: function () {
            value.text(Math.ceil(this.Counter));
        }
    });
});

How to solve the system.data.sqlclient.sqlexception (0x80131904) error

You also need to change the DataSource of the connection string. KELVIN-PC is the name of your local machine and the sql server is running on the default instance.

If you are sure the the server is running as the default instance, you can always use . in the DataSource, eg.

connectionString="Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=LMS;User ID=sa;Password=temperament"

otherwise, you need to specify the name of the instance of the server,

connectionString="Data Source=.\INSTANCENAME;Initial Catalog=LMS;User ID=sa;Password=temperament"

What does "collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status" mean?

The ld returned 1 exit status error is the consequence of previous errors. In your example there is an earlier error - undefined reference to 'clrscr' - and this is the real one. The exit status error just signals that the linking step in the build process encountered some errors. Normally exit status 0 means success, and exit status > 0 means errors.

When you build your program, multiple tools may be run as separate steps to create the final executable. In your case one of those tools is ld, which first reports the error it found (clrscr reference missing), and then it returns the exit status. Since the exit status is > 0, it means an error and is reported.

In many cases tools return as the exit status the number of errors they encountered. So if ld tool finds two errors, its exit status would be 2.

How to remove text from a string?

you can use slice() it returens charcters between start to end (included end point)

   string.slice(start , end);

here is some exmp to show how it works:

var mystr = ("data-123").slice(5); // jast define start point so output is "123"
var mystr = ("data-123").slice(5,7); // define start and end  so output is "12"
var mystr=(",246").slice(1); // returens "246"

Demo

What does cherry-picking a commit with Git mean?

How do I increase memory on Tomcat 7 when running as a Windows Service?

//ES/tomcat -> This may not work if you have changed the service name during the installation.

Either run the command without any service name

.\bin\tomcat7w.exe //ES

or with exact service name

.\bin\tomcat7w.exe //ES/YourServiceName

How to easily get network path to the file you are working on?

Here's how to get the filepath of the file in Excel 2010.

1) Right click on the Ribbon.
2) Click on "Customize the Ribbon"
3) On the right hand side, click "New Group." This will add a new tab to the Ribbon. If you want to, click on the "Rename" button the right side and name your tab. For example, I named the tab "Doc Path." This step is optional
4) Under "Choose Commands From" on the left hand side, choose "Commands Not in the Ribbon."
5) Select "Document Location" and "Add" it to your newly created group.
6) The filepath should now appear under the newly created tab on the ribbon.

SQL state [99999]; error code [17004]; Invalid column type: 1111 With Spring SimpleJdbcCall

I had this problem, and turns out the problem was that I had used

new SimpleJdbcCall(jdbcTemplate)
    .withProcedureName("foo")

instead of

new SimpleJdbcCall(jdbcTemplate)
    .withFunctionName("foo")

What is the purpose of .PHONY in a Makefile?

There's also one important tricky treat of ".PHONY" - when a physical target depends on phony target that depends on another physical target:

TARGET1 -> PHONY_FORWARDER1 -> PHONY_FORWARDER2 -> TARGET2

You'd simply expect that if you updated TARGET2, then TARGET1 should be considered stale against TARGET1, so TARGET1 should be rebuild. And it really works this way.

The tricky part is when TARGET2 isn't stale against TARGET1 - in which case you should expect that TARGET1 shouldn't be rebuild.

This surprisingly doesn't work because: the phony target was run anyway (as phony targets normally do), which means that the phony target was considered updated. And because of that TARGET1 is considered stale against the phony target.

Consider:

all: fileall

fileall: file2 filefwd
    echo file2 file1 >fileall


file2: file2.src
    echo file2.src >file2

file1: file1.src
    echo file1.src >file1
    echo file1.src >>file1

.PHONY: filefwd
.PHONY: filefwd2

filefwd: filefwd2

filefwd2: file1
    @echo "Produced target file1"


prepare:
    echo "Some text 1" >> file1.src
    echo "Some text 2" >> file2.src

You can play around with this:

first do 'make prepare' to prepare the "source files"
play around with that by touching particular files to see them updated

You can see that fileall depends on file1 indirectly through a phony target - but it always gets rebuilt due to this dependency. If you change the dependency in fileall from filefwd to file, now fileall does not get rebuilt every time, but only when any of dependent targets is stale against it as a file.

Concatenate strings from several rows using Pandas groupby

You can groupby the 'name' and 'month' columns, then call transform which will return data aligned to the original df and apply a lambda where we join the text entries:

In [119]:

df['text'] = df[['name','text','month']].groupby(['name','month'])['text'].transform(lambda x: ','.join(x))
df[['name','text','month']].drop_duplicates()
Out[119]:
    name         text  month
0  name1       hej,du     11
2  name1        aj,oj     12
4  name2     fin,katt     11
6  name2  mycket,lite     12

I sub the original df by passing a list of the columns of interest df[['name','text','month']] here and then call drop_duplicates

EDIT actually I can just call apply and then reset_index:

In [124]:

df.groupby(['name','month'])['text'].apply(lambda x: ','.join(x)).reset_index()

Out[124]:
    name  month         text
0  name1     11       hej,du
1  name1     12        aj,oj
2  name2     11     fin,katt
3  name2     12  mycket,lite

update

the lambda is unnecessary here:

In[38]:
df.groupby(['name','month'])['text'].apply(','.join).reset_index()

Out[38]: 
    name  month         text
0  name1     11           du
1  name1     12        aj,oj
2  name2     11     fin,katt
3  name2     12  mycket,lite

C# Test if user has write access to a folder

For example for all users (Builtin\Users), this method works fine - enjoy.

public static bool HasFolderWritePermission(string destDir)
{
   if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(destDir) || !Directory.Exists(destDir)) return false;
   try
   {
      DirectorySecurity security = Directory.GetAccessControl(destDir);
      SecurityIdentifier users = new SecurityIdentifier(WellKnownSidType.BuiltinUsersSid, null);
      foreach(AuthorizationRule rule in security.GetAccessRules(true, true, typeof(SecurityIdentifier)))
      {
          if(rule.IdentityReference == users)
          {
             FileSystemAccessRule rights = ((FileSystemAccessRule)rule);
             if(rights.AccessControlType == AccessControlType.Allow)
             {
                    if(rights.FileSystemRights == (rights.FileSystemRights | FileSystemRights.Modify)) return true;
             }
          }
       }
       return false;
    }
    catch
    {
        return false;
    }
}

How do I find the length/number of items present for an array?

Do you mean how long is the array itself, or how many customerids are in it?

Because the answer to the first question is easy: 5 (or if you don't want to hard-code it, Ben Stott's answer).

But the answer to the other question cannot be automatically determined. Presumably you have allocated an array of length 5, but will initially have 0 customer IDs in there, and will put them in one at a time, and your question is, "how many customer IDs have I put into the array?"

C can't tell you this. You will need to keep a separate variable, int numCustIds (for example). Every time you put a customer ID into the array, increment that variable. Then you can tell how many you have put in.

use "netsh wlan set hostednetwork ..." to create a wifi hotspot and the authentication can't work correctly

Type

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=hotspotname key=123456789

perform all steps in proper order.. for more detail with image ,have a look..this might help to setup hotspot correctly.

http://www.infogeekers.com/turn-windows-8-into-wifi-hotspot/

How should you diagnose the error SEHException - External component has thrown an exception

The component makers say that this has been fixed in the latest version of their component which we are using in-house, but this has been given to the customer yet.

Ask the component maker how to test whether the problem that the customer is getting is the problem which they say they've fixed in their latest version, without/before deploying their latest version to the customer.

How to equalize the scales of x-axis and y-axis in Python matplotlib?

You need to dig a bit deeper into the api to do this:

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.plot(range(5))
plt.xlim(-3, 3)
plt.ylim(-3, 3)
plt.gca().set_aspect('equal', adjustable='box')
plt.draw()

doc for set_aspect

multi line comment vb.net in Visual studio 2010

I just learned this trick from a friend. Put your code inside these 2 statements and it will be commented out.

#if false

#endif

Get escaped URL parameter

I created a simple function to get URL parameter in JavaScript from a URL like this:

.....58e/web/viewer.html?page=*17*&getinfo=33


function buildLinkb(param) {
    var val = document.URL;
    var url = val.substr(val.indexOf(param))  
    var n=parseInt(url.replace(param+"=",""));
    alert(n+1); 
}
buildLinkb("page");

OUTPUT: 18

JavaScript: SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list

You have an extra closing } in your function.

var nav = document.getElementsByClassName('nav-coll');
for (var i = 0; i < button.length; i++) {
    nav[i].addEventListener('click',function(){
            console.log('haha');
        }        // <== remove this brace
    }, false);
};

You really should be using something like JSHint or JSLint to help find these things. These tools integrate with many editors and IDEs, or you can just paste a code fragment into the above web sites and ask for an analysis.

Syntax of for-loop in SQL Server

DECLARE @intFlag INT
SET @intFlag = 1
WHILE (@intFlag <=5) 
BEGIN
    PRINT @intFlag
    SET @intFlag = @intFlag + 1
END
GO

Difference between static memory allocation and dynamic memory allocation

This is a standard interview question:

Dynamic memory allocation

Is memory allocated at runtime using calloc(), malloc() and friends. It is sometimes also referred to as 'heap' memory, although it has nothing to do with the heap data-structure ^ref.

int * a = malloc(sizeof(int));

Heap memory is persistent until free() is called. In other words, you control the lifetime of the variable.

Automatic memory allocation

This is what is commonly known as 'stack' memory, and is allocated when you enter a new scope (usually when a new function is pushed on the call stack). Once you move out of the scope, the values of automatic memory addresses are undefined, and it is an error to access them.

int a = 43;

Note that scope does not necessarily mean function. Scopes can nest within a function, and the variable will be in-scope only within the block in which it was declared. Note also that where this memory is allocated is not specified. (On a sane system it will be on the stack, or registers for optimisation)

Static memory allocation

Is allocated at compile time^*, and the lifetime of a variable in static memory is the lifetime of the program.

In C, static memory can be allocated using the static keyword. The scope is the compilation unit only.

Things get more interesting when the extern keyword is considered. When an extern variable is defined the compiler allocates memory for it. When an extern variable is declared, the compiler requires that the variable be defined elsewhere. Failure to declare/define extern variables will cause linking problems, while failure to declare/define static variables will cause compilation problems.

in file scope, the static keyword is optional (outside of a function):

int a = 32;

But not in function scope (inside of a function):

static int a = 32;

Technically, extern and static are two separate classes of variables in C.

extern int a; /* Declaration */
int a; /* Definition */

^*Notes on static memory allocation

It's somewhat confusing to say that static memory is allocated at compile time, especially if we start considering that the compilation machine and the host machine might not be the same or might not even be on the same architecture.

It may be better to think that the allocation of static memory is handled by the compiler rather than allocated at compile time.

For example the compiler may create a large data section in the compiled binary and when the program is loaded in memory, the address within the data segment of the program will be used as the location of the allocated memory. This has the marked disadvantage of making the compiled binary very large if uses a lot of static memory. It's possible to write a multi-gigabytes binary generated from less than half a dozen lines of code. Another option is for the compiler to inject initialisation code that will allocate memory in some other way before the program is executed. This code will vary according to the target platform and OS. In practice, modern compilers use heuristics to decide which of these options to use. You can try this out yourself by writing a small C program that allocates a large static array of either 10k, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1G or 10G items. For many compilers, the binary size will keep growing linearly with the size of the array, and past a certain point, it will shrink again as the compiler uses another allocation strategy.

Register Memory

The last memory class are 'register' variables. As expected, register variables should be allocated on a CPU's register, but the decision is actually left to the compiler. You may not turn a register variable into a reference by using address-of.

register int meaning = 42;
printf("%p\n",&meaning); /* this is wrong and will fail at compile time. */

Most modern compilers are smarter than you at picking which variables should be put in registers :)

References:

The libc manual
K&R's The C programming language, Appendix A, Section 4.1, "Storage Class". (PDF)
C11 standard, section 5.1.2, 6.2.2.3
Wikipedia also has good pages on Static Memory allocation, Dynamic Memory Allocation and Automatic memory allocation
The C Dynamic Memory Allocation page on Wikipedia
This Memory Management Reference has more details on the underlying implementations for dynamic allocators.

Angular CLI SASS options

ng set --global defaults.styleExt=scss is deprecated since ng6. You will get this message:

get/set have been deprecated in favor of the config command

You should use:

ng config schematics.@schematics/angular:component '{ styleext: "scss"}'

If you want to target a specific project (replace {project} with your project's name):

ng config projects.{project}.schematics.@schematics/angular:component '{ styleext: "scss"}'

Excel error HRESULT: 0x800A03EC while trying to get range with cell's name

I ran into this error because I was attempting to write a string to a cell which started with an "=".

The solution was to put an "'" (apostrophe) before the equals sign, which is a way to tell excel that you're not, in fact, trying to write a formula, and just want to print the equals sign.

How to get the instance id from within an ec2 instance?

For PHP:

$instance = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document));
$id = $instance['instanceId'];

Edit per @John

Angular JS: What is the need of the directive’s link function when we already had directive’s controller with scope?

Why controllers are needed

The difference between link and controller comes into play when you want to nest directives in your DOM and expose API functions from the parent directive to the nested ones.

From the docs:

Best Practice: use controller when you want to expose an API to other directives. Otherwise use link.

Say you want to have two directives my-form and my-text-input and you want my-text-input directive to appear only inside my-form and nowhere else.

In that case, you will say while defining the directive my-text-input that it requires a controller from the parent DOM element using the require argument, like this: require: '^myForm'. Now the controller from the parent element will be injected into the link function as the fourth argument, following $scope, element, attributes. You can call functions on that controller and communicate with the parent directive.

Moreover, if such a controller is not found, an error will be raised.

Why use link at all

There is no real need to use the link function if one is defining the controller since the $scope is available on the controller. Moreover, while defining both link and controller, one does need to be careful about the order of invocation of the two (controller is executed before).

However, in keeping with the Angular way, most DOM manipulation and 2-way binding using $watchers is usually done in the link function while the API for children and $scope manipulation is done in the controller. This is not a hard and fast rule, but doing so will make the code more modular and help in separation of concerns (controller will maintain the directive state and link function will maintain the DOM + outside bindings).

Add a list item through javascript

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

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

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

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

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

How to overcome "datetime.datetime not JSON serializable"?

I may not 100% correct but, this is the simple way to do serialize

#!/usr/bin/python
import datetime,json

sampledict = {}
sampledict['a'] = "some string"
sampledict['b'] = datetime.datetime.now()

print sampledict   # output : {'a': 'some string', 'b': datetime.datetime(2017, 4, 15, 5, 15, 34, 652996)}

#print json.dumps(sampledict)

'''
output : 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./jsonencodedecode.py", line 10, in <module>
    print json.dumps(sampledict)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 244, in dumps
    return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 207, in encode
    chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 270, in iterencode
    return _iterencode(o, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 184, in default
    raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
TypeError: datetime.datetime(2017, 4, 15, 5, 16, 17, 435706) is not JSON serializable


'''

sampledict['b'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%B %d, %Y %H:%M %p")

afterdump = json.dumps(sampledict)

print afterdump  #output : {"a": "some string", "b": "April 15, 2017 05:18 AM"}

print type(afterdump) #<type 'str'>


afterloads = json.loads(afterdump) 

print afterloads # output : {u'a': u'some string', u'b': u'April 15, 2017 05:18 AM'}


print type(afterloads) # output :<type 'dict'>

How to execute two mysql queries as one in PHP/MYSQL?

You'll have to use the MySQLi extension if you don't want to execute a query twice:

if (mysqli_multi_query($link, $query))
{
    $result1 = mysqli_store_result($link);
    $result2 = null;

    if (mysqli_more_results($link))
    {
        mysqli_next_result($link);
        $result2 = mysqli_store_result($link);
    }

    // do something with both result sets.

    if ($result1)
        mysqli_free_result($result1);

    if ($result2)
        mysqli_free_result($result2);
}

Can promises have multiple arguments to onFulfilled?

The fulfillment value of a promise parallels the return value of a function and the rejection reason of a promise parallels the thrown exception of a function. Functions cannot return multiple values so promises must not have more than 1 fulfillment value.

Using curl POST with variables defined in bash script functions

We can assign a variable for curl using single quote ' and wrap some other variables in double-single-double quote "'" for substitution inside curl-variable. Then easily we can use that curl-variable which here is MERGE.

Example:

# other variables ... 
REF_NAME="new-branch";

# variable for curl using single quote => ' not double "
MERGE='{
    "repository": "tmp",
    "command": "git",
    "args": [
        "pull",
        "origin",
        "'"$REF_NAME"'"
    ],
    "options": {
        "cwd": "/home/git/tmp"
    }
}';

notice this line:

    "'"$REF_NAME"'"

and then calling curl as usual:

curl -s -X POST localhost:1365/M -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data "$MERGE"

How do I get the "id" after INSERT into MySQL database with Python?

This might be just a requirement of PyMySql in Python, but I found that I had to name the exact table that I wanted the ID for:

In:

cnx = pymysql.connect(host='host',
                            database='db',
                            user='user',
                            password='pass')
cursor = cnx.cursor()
update_batch = """insert into batch set type = "%s" , records = %i, started = NOW(); """
second_query = (update_batch % ( "Batch 1", 22  ))
cursor.execute(second_query)
cnx.commit()
batch_id = cursor.execute('select last_insert_id() from batch')
cursor.close()

batch_id

Out: 5
... or whatever the correct Batch_ID value actually is

Regular expression to match a word or its prefix

[ ] defines a character class. So every character you set there, will match. [012] will match 0 or 1 or 2 and [0-2] behaves the same.

What you want is groupings to define a or-statement. Use (s|season) for your issue.

Btw. you have to watch out. Metacharacters in normal regex (or inside a grouping) are different from character class. A character class is like a sub-language. [$A] will only match $ or A, nothing else. No escaping here for the dollar.

forward declaration of a struct in C?

Try this

#include <stdio.h>

struct context;

struct funcptrs{
  void (*func0)(struct context *ctx);
  void (*func1)(void);
};

struct context{
    struct funcptrs fps;
}; 

void func1 (void) { printf( "1\n" ); }
void func0 (struct context *ctx) { printf( "0\n" ); }

void getContext(struct context *con){
    con->fps.func0 = func0;  
    con->fps.func1 = func1;  
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
 struct context c;
   c.fps.func0 = func0;
   c.fps.func1 = func1;
   getContext(&c);
   c.fps.func0(&c);
   getchar();
   return 0;
}

Excel plot time series frequency with continuous xaxis

You can get good Time Series graphs in Excel, the way you want, but you have to work with a few quirks.

Be sure to select "Scatter Graph" (with a line option). This is needed if you have non-uniform time stamps, and will scale the X-axis accordingly.
In your data, you need to add a column with the mid-point. Here's what I did with your sample data. (This trick ensures that the data gets plotted at the mid-point, like you desire.)
You can format the x-axis options with this menu. (Chart->Design->Layout)
Select "Axes" and go to Primary Horizontal Axis, and then select "More Primary Horizontal Axis Options"
Set up the options you wish. (Fix the starting and ending points.)
And you will get a graph such as the one below.

You can then tweak many of the options, label the axes better etc, but this should get you started.

Hope this helps you move forward.

C# Threading - How to start and stop a thread

Thread th = new Thread(function1);
th.Start();
th.Abort();

void function1(){
//code here
}

Android refresh current activity

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

How to group by month from Date field using sql

I would use this:

SELECT  Closing_Date = DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, Closing_Date), 0), 
        Category,  
        COUNT(Status) TotalCount 
FROM    MyTable
WHERE   Closing_Date >= '2012-02-01' 
AND     Closing_Date <= '2012-12-31'
AND     Defect_Status1 IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, Closing_Date), 0), Category;

This will group by the first of every month, so

`DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, '20130128'), 0)`

will give '20130101'. I generally prefer this method as it keeps dates as dates.

Alternatively you could use something like this:

SELECT  Closing_Year = DATEPART(YEAR, Closing_Date),
        Closing_Month = DATEPART(MONTH, Closing_Date),
        Category,  
        COUNT(Status) TotalCount 
FROM    MyTable
WHERE   Closing_Date >= '2012-02-01' 
AND     Closing_Date <= '2012-12-31'
AND     Defect_Status1 IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY DATEPART(YEAR, Closing_Date), DATEPART(MONTH, Closing_Date), Category;

It really depends what your desired output is. (Closing Year is not necessary in your example, but if the date range crosses a year boundary it may be).

document.body.appendChild(i)

You can appendChild to document.body but not if the document hasn't been loaded. So you should put everything in:

window.onload=function(){
    //your code
}

This works or you can make appendChild to be dependent on something else like another event for eg.

https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_doc_body_append

As a matter of fact you can try changing the innerHTML of the document.body it works...!

HTML entity for the middle dot

There's actually seven variants of this:

    char   description          unicode   html       html entity    utf-8

    ·      Middle Dot           U+00B7    &#183;     &middot;       C2 B7
    ·      Greek Ano Teleia     U+0387    &#903;                    CE 87
    •      Bullet               U+2022    &#8226;    &bull;         E2 80 A2
    ‧      Hyphenation Point    U+2027    &#8321;                   E2 80 A7
    ∙      Bullet Operator      U+2219    &#8729;                   E2 88 99
    ●      Black Circle         U+25CF    &#9679;                   E2 97 8F
    ⬤     Black Large Circle   U+2B24    &#11044;                  E2 AC A4

Depending on your viewing application or font, the Bullet Operator may seem very similar to either the Middle Dot or the Bullet.

Create timestamp variable in bash script

Use command substitution:

timestamp=$( date +%T )

How can I disable all views inside the layout?

Let's change tütü's code

private void disableEnableControls(boolean enable, ViewGroup vg){
for (int i = 0; i < vg.getChildCount(); i++){
   View child = vg.getChildAt(i);
   if (child instanceof ViewGroup){ 
      disableEnableControls(enable, (ViewGroup)child);
   } else {
     child.setEnabled(enable);
   }
 }
}

I think, there is no point in just making viewgroup disable. If you want to do it, there is another way I have used for exactly the same purpose. Create view as a sibling of your groupview :

<View
    android:visibility="gone"
    android:id="@+id/reservation_second_screen"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="bottom"
    android:background="#66ffffff"
    android:clickable="false" />

and at run-time, make it visible. Note: your groupview's parent layout should be either relative or frame layout. Hope this will help.

Getting file names without extensions

Just for the record:

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(currentDirName);
FileInfo[] smFiles = di.GetFiles("*.txt");
string fileNames = String.Join(", ", smFiles.Select<FileInfo, string>(fi => Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(fi.FullName)));

This way you don't use StringBuilder but String.Join(). Also please remark that Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension() needs a full path (fi.FullName), not fi.Name as I saw in one of the other answers.

How do I unlock a SQLite database?

In my case, I also got this error.

I already checked for other processes that might be the cause of locked database such as (SQLite Manager, other programs that connects to my database). But there's no other program that connects to it, it's just another active SQLConnection in the same application that stays connected.

Try checking your previous active SQLConnection that might be still connected (disconnect it first) before you establish a new SQLConnection and new command.

Ruby on Rails - Import Data from a CSV file

If you want to Use SmartCSV

all_data = SmarterCSV.process(
             params[:file].tempfile, 
             { 
               :col_sep => "\t", 
               :row_sep => "\n" 
             }
           )

This represents tab delimited data in each row "\t" with rows separated by new lines "\n"

jQuery UI " $("#datepicker").datepicker is not a function"

Have you tried using Firebug to 1) determine that there are no Javascript errors and 2) that the #datepicker element exists on the page?

Most likely there is an error prior to the datepicker call that is preventing the datepicker call from executing.

What is the "proper" way to cast Hibernate Query.list() to List<Type>?

Short answer @SuppressWarnings is the right way to go.

Long answer, Hibernate returns a raw List from the Query.list method, see here. This is not a bug with Hibernate or something the can be solved, the type returned by the query is not known at compile time.

Therefore when you write

final List<MyObject> list = query.list();

You are doing an unsafe cast from List to List<MyObject> - this cannot be avoided.

There is no way you can safely carry out the cast as the List could contain anything.

The only way to make the error go away is the even more ugly

final List<MyObject> list = new LinkedList<>();
for(final Object o : query.list()) {
    list.add((MyObject)o);
}

PHP - Check if the page run on Mobile or Desktop browser

I used Robert Lee`s answer and it works great! Just writing down the complete function i'm using:

function isMobileDevice(){
    $aMobileUA = array(
        '/iphone/i' => 'iPhone', 
        '/ipod/i' => 'iPod', 
        '/ipad/i' => 'iPad', 
        '/android/i' => 'Android', 
        '/blackberry/i' => 'BlackBerry', 
        '/webos/i' => 'Mobile'
    );

    //Return true if Mobile User Agent is detected
    foreach($aMobileUA as $sMobileKey => $sMobileOS){
        if(preg_match($sMobileKey, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){
            return true;
        }
    }
    //Otherwise return false..  
    return false;
}

How do I convert a IPython Notebook into a Python file via commandline?

If you want to convert all *.ipynb files from current directory to python script, you can run the command like this:

jupyter nbconvert --to script *.ipynb

Regular expression: find spaces (tabs/space) but not newlines

Try this character set:

[ \t]

This does only match a space or a tabulator.

ES6 modules implementation, how to load a json file

With json-loader installed, now you can simply use:

import suburbs from '../suburbs.json';

or, even more simply:

import suburbs from '../suburbs';

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {XXXX} failed due to the following error: 80040154

For anyone using VSTO, the problem for me was a missing reference to the office assembly. It would also appear if you were trying to instantiate certain VSTO objects manually.

Install msi with msiexec in a Specific Directory

This one worked for me too

msiexec /i "msi path" INSTALLDIR="D:\myfolder" /q

I had tried two other iterations and both installed in the default C:\Program Files

INSTALLDIR="D:\myfolder" /q got it installed on the other drive.

Android webview & localStorage

If your app use multiple webview you will still have troubles : localStorage is not correctly shared accross all webviews.

If you want to share the same data in multiple webviews the only way is to repair it with a java database and a javascript interface.

This page on github shows how to do this.

hope this help!

MySQL Workbench: How to keep the connection alive

OK - so this issue has been driving me crazy - v 6.3.6 on Ubuntu Linux. None of the above solutions worked for me. Connecting to localhost mysql server previously always worked fine. Connecting to remote server always timed out - after about 60 seconds, sometimes after less time, sometimes more.

What finally worked for me was upgrading Workbench to 6.3.9 - no more dropped connections.

Print text instead of value from C enum

Enumerations in C are basically syntactical sugar for named lists of automatically-sequenced integer values. That is, when you have this code:

int main()
{
    enum Days{Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday};

    Days TheDay = Monday;
}

Your compiler actually spits out this:

int main()
{
    int TheDay = 1; // Monday is the second enumeration, hence 1. Sunday would be 0.
}

Therefore, outputting a C enumeration as a string is not an operation that makes sense to the compiler. If you want to have human-readable strings for these, you will need to define functions to convert from enumerations to strings.

Custom UITableViewCell from nib in Swift

swift 4.1.2

xib.

Create ImageCell2.swift

Step 1

import UIKit

class ImageCell2: UITableViewCell {

    @IBOutlet weak var imgBookLogo: UIImageView!
    @IBOutlet weak var lblTitle: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var lblPublisher: UILabel!
    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        // Initialization code
    }

    override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
        super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
    }

}

step 2 . According Viewcontroller class

  import UIKit

    class ImageListVC: UIViewController,UITableViewDataSource,UITableViewDelegate {
    @IBOutlet weak var tblMainVC: UITableView!

    var arrBook : [BookItem] = [BookItem]()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
         //Regester Cell
        self.tblMainVC.register(UINib.init(nibName: "ImageCell2", bundle: nil), forCellReuseIdentifier: "ImageCell2")
        // Response Call adn Disply Record
        APIManagerData._APIManagerInstance.getAPIBook { (itemInstance) in
            self.arrBook = itemInstance.arrItem!
            self.tblMainVC.reloadData()
        }
    }
    //MARK: DataSource & delegate
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return self.arrBook.count
    }
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
//    [enter image description here][2]
        let cell  = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "ImageCell2") as! ImageCell2
        cell.lblTitle.text = self.arrBook[indexPath.row].title
        cell.lblPublisher.text = self.arrBook[indexPath.row].publisher
        if let authors = self.arrBook[indexPath.row].author {
            for item in authors{
                print(" item \(item)")
            }
        }
        let  url  = self.arrBook[indexPath.row].imageURL
        if url == nil {
            cell.imgBookLogo.kf.setImage(with: URL.init(string: ""), placeholder: UIImage.init(named: "download.jpeg"))
        }
        else{
            cell.imgBookLogo.kf.setImage(with: URL(string: url!)!, placeholder: UIImage.init(named: "download.jpeg"))
        }
        return cell
    }
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat {
        return 90
    } 

}

HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL java servlet

This happened to me when:

Even with my servlet having only the method "doPost"
And the form method="POST"
I tried to access the action using the URL directly, without using the form submitt. Since the default method for the URL is the doGet method, when you don't use the form submit, you'll see @ your console the http 405 error.

Solution: Use only the form button you mapped to your servlet action.

Video format or MIME type is not supported

For Ubuntu 14.04

Just removed the package Oxideqt-dodecs then install flash or ubuntu restricted extras

and you are good to go!!

MVC ajax post to controller action method

I found this way of using ajax which helped me as it was better in use as not having complex json syntaxes

//fifth
function GetAjaxDataPromise(url, postData) {
    debugger;
    var promise = $.post(url, postData, function (promise, status) {
    });
    return promise;
};
$(function () {
    $("#btnGet5").click(function () {
        debugger;
        var promises = GetAjaxDataPromise('@Url.Action("AjaxMethod", "Home")', { EmpId: $("#txtId").val(), EmpName: $("#txtName").val(), EmpSalary: $("#txtSalary").val() });
        promises.done(function (response) {
            debugger;
            alert("Hello: " + response.EmpName + " Your Employee Id Is: " + response.EmpId + "And Your Salary Is: " + response.EmpSalary);
        });
    });
});

This method comes with jquery promise the best part was on controller we can received data by using separate parameters or just by using a model class.

[HttpPost]
    public JsonResult AjaxMethod(PersonModel personModel)
    {
        PersonModel person = new PersonModel
        {
            EmpId = personModel.EmpId,
            EmpName = personModel.EmpName,
            EmpSalary = personModel.EmpSalary
        };
        return Json(person);
    }

[HttpPost]
    public JsonResult AjaxMethod(string empId, string empName, string empSalary)
    {
        PersonModel person = new PersonModel
        {
            EmpId = empId,
            EmpName = empName,
            EmpSalary = empSalary
        };
        return Json(person);
    }

It works for both of the cases. SO you must try out this way. Got the reference from Using Ajax With Asp.Net MVC

There are few more ways of using Ajax explained there other than this one which you must try.

Uses for the '"' entity in HTML

In my experience it may be the result of auto-generation by a string-based tools, where the author did not understand the rules of HTML.

When some developers generate HTML without the use of special XML-oriented tools, they may try to be sure the resulting HTML is valid by taking the approach that everything must be escaped.

Referring to your example, the reason why every occurrence of " is represented by " could be because using that approach, you can safely use such "special" characters in both attributes and values.

Another motivation I've seen is where people believe, "We must explicitly show that our symbols are not part of the syntax." Whereas, valid HTML can be created by using the proper string-manipulation tools, see the previous paragraph again.

Here is some pseudo-code loosely based on C#, although it is preferred to use valid methods and tools:

public class HtmlAndXmlWriter
{
    private string Escape(string badString)
    {
        return badString.Replace("&", "&amp;").Replace("\"", "&quot;").Replace("'", "&apos;").Replace(">", "&gt;").Replace("<", "&lt;");

    }

    public string GetHtmlFromOutObject(Object obj)
    {
        return "<div class='type_" + Escape(obj.Type) + "'>" + Escape(obj.Value) + "</div>";    

    }

}

It's really very common to see such approaches taken to generate HTML.

How to detect orientation change?

My approach is similar to what bpedit shows above, but with an iOS 9+ focus. I wanted to change the scope of the FSCalendar when the view rotates.

override func viewWillTransitionToSize(size: CGSize, withTransitionCoordinator coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
    super.viewWillTransitionToSize(size, withTransitionCoordinator: coordinator)

    coordinator.animateAlongsideTransition({ (context) in
        if size.height < size.width {
            self.calendar.setScope(.Week, animated: true)
            self.calendar.appearance.cellShape = .Rectangle
        }
        else {
            self.calendar.appearance.cellShape = .Circle
            self.calendar.setScope(.Month, animated: true)

        }

        }, completion: nil)
}

This below worked, but I felt sheepish about it :)

coordinator.animateAlongsideTransition({ (context) in
        if size.height < size.width {
            self.calendar.scope = .Week
            self.calendar.appearance.cellShape = .Rectangle
        }
        }) { (context) in
            if size.height > size.width {
                self.calendar.scope = .Month
                self.calendar.appearance.cellShape = .Circle
            }
    }

how to customize `show processlist` in mysql?

If you use old version of MySQL you can always use \P combined with some nice piece of awk code. Interesting example here

http://www.dbasquare.com/2012/03/28/how-to-work-with-a-long-process-list-in-mysql/

Isn't it exactly what you need?

Pointer vs. Reference

Pass by const reference unless there is a reason you wish to change/keep the contents you are passing in.

This will be the most efficient method in most cases.

Make sure you use const on each parameter you do not wish to change, as this not only protects you from doing something stupid in the function, it gives a good indication to other users what the function does to the passed in values. This includes making a pointer const when you only want to change whats pointed to...

toBe(true) vs toBeTruthy() vs toBeTrue()

There are a lot many good answers out there, i just wanted to add a scenario where the usage of these expectations might be helpful. Using element.all(xxx), if i need to check if all elements are displayed at a single run, i can perform -

expect(element.all(xxx).isDisplayed()).toBeTruthy(); //Expectation passes
expect(element.all(xxx).isDisplayed()).toBe(true); //Expectation fails
expect(element.all(xxx).isDisplayed()).toBeTrue(); //Expectation fails

Reason being .all() returns an array of values and so all kinds of expectations(getText, isPresent, etc...) can be performed with toBeTruthy() when .all() comes into picture. Hope this helps.

mysql update column with value from another table

In my case, the accepted solution was just too slow. For a table with 180K rows the rate of updates was about 10 rows per second. This is with the indexes on the join elements.

I finally resolved my issue using a procedure:

CREATE DEFINER=`my_procedure`@`%` PROCEDURE `rescue`()
BEGIN
    declare str VARCHAR(255) default '';
    DECLARE n INT DEFAULT 0;
    DECLARE i INT DEFAULT 0;
    DECLARE cur_name VARCHAR(45) DEFAULT '';
    DECLARE cur_value VARCHAR(10000) DEFAULT '';
    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tableA INTO n;
    SET i=0;
    WHILE i<n DO 
      SELECT namea,valuea FROM tableA limit i,1 INTO cur_name,cur_value;
      UPDATE tableB SET nameb=cur_name where valueb=cur_value;
      SET i = i + 1;
    END WHILE;

END

I hope it will help someone in the future like it helped me

MultipartException: Current request is not a multipart request

in ARC (advanced rest client) - specify as below to make it work Content-Type multipart/form-data (this is header name and header value) this allows you to add form data as key and values you can specify you field name now as per your REST specification and select your file to upload from file selector.

Auto number column in SharePoint list

If you want to control the formatting of the unique identifier you can create your own <FieldType> in SharePoint. MSDN also has a visual How-To. This basically means that you're creating a custom column.

WSS defines the Counter field type (which is what the ID column above is using). I've never had the need to re-use this or extend it, but it should be possible.

A solution might exist without creating a custom <FieldType>. For example: if you wanted unique IDs like CUST1, CUST2, ... it might be possible to create a Calculated column and use the value of the ID column in you formula (="CUST" & [ID]). I haven't tried this, but this should work :)

Use stored procedure to insert some data into a table

if you want to populate a table in SQL SERVER you can use while statement as follows:

declare @llenandoTabla INT = 0;
while @llenandoTabla < 10000
begin
insert into employeestable // Name of my table
(ID, FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME, GENDER, SALARY) // Parameters of my table
VALUES 
(555, 'isaias', 'perez', 'male', '12220') //values
set @llenandoTabla = @llenandoTabla + 1;
end

Hope it helps.

Highlight all occurrence of a selected word?

set hlsearch

maybe ?

How to manually install a pypi module without pip/easy_install?

To further explain Sheena's answer, I needed to have setup-tools installed as a dependency of another tool e.g. more-itertools.

Download

Click the Clone or download button and choose your method. I placed these into a dev/py/libs directory in my user home directory. It does not matter where they are saved, because they will not be installed there.

setuptools: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools
more-itertools: https://github.com/erikrose/more-itertools

Installing setup-tools

You will need to run the following inside the setup-tools directory.

python bootstrap.py
python setup.py install

General dependencies installation

Now you can navigate to the more-itertools direcotry and install it as normal.

Download the package
Unpackage it if it's an archive
Navigate (cd ...) into the directory containing setup.py
If there are any installation instructions contained in the documentation contained herein, read and follow the instructions OTHERWISE
Type in: python setup.py install

Reading a resource file from within jar

The problem is that certain third party libraries require file pathnames rather than input streams. Most of the answers don't address this issue.

In this case, one workaround is to copy the resource contents into a temporary file. The following example uses jUnit's TemporaryFolder.

    private List<String> decomposePath(String path){
        List<String> reversed = Lists.newArrayList();
        File currFile = new File(path);
        while(currFile != null){
            reversed.add(currFile.getName());
            currFile = currFile.getParentFile();
        }
        return Lists.reverse(reversed);
    }

    private String writeResourceToFile(String resourceName) throws IOException {
        ClassLoader loader = getClass().getClassLoader();
        InputStream configStream = loader.getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
        List<String> pathComponents = decomposePath(resourceName);
        folder.newFolder(pathComponents.subList(0, pathComponents.size() - 1).toArray(new String[0]));
        File tmpFile = folder.newFile(resourceName);
        Files.copy(configStream, tmpFile.toPath(), REPLACE_EXISTING);
        return tmpFile.getAbsolutePath();
    }

jQuery remove special characters from string and more

this will remove all the special character

 str.replace(/[_\W]+/g, "");

this is really helpful and solve my issue. Please run the below code and ensure it works

_x000D_

var str="hello world !#to&you%*()";_x000D_
console.log(str.replace(/[_\W]+/g, ""));

_x000D_

How to install Android SDK on Ubuntu?

install the android SDK for me was not the problem, having the right JRE and JDK was the problem.

To solve this install the JVM 8 (the last fully compatible, for now):

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

Next use update-alternative to switch to the jre-8 version:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

You can revert JVM version when you want with the same update-alternatives command

Note that you problably have to do the same after this with javac also (now you have only java command at version 8)

first do:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

sudo update-alternatives --config javac

After this you can install android SDK that require this specific Java version

How can I format my grep output to show line numbers at the end of the line, and also the hit count?

Or use awk instead:

awk '/null/ { counter++; printf("%s%s%i\n",$0, " - Line number: ", NR)} END {print "Total null count: " counter}' file

How to Delete a topic in apache kafka

Deletion of a topic has been supported since 0.8.2.x version. You have to enable topic deletion (setting delete.topic.enable to true) on all brokers first.

Note: Ever since 1.0.x, the functionality being stable, delete.topic.enable is by default true.

Follow this step by step process for manual deletion of topics

Stop Kafka server
Delete the topic directory, on each broker (as defined in the logs.dirs and log.dir properties) with rm -rf command
Connect to Zookeeper instance: zookeeper-shell.sh host:port
From within the Zookeeper instance:
1. List the topics using: ls /brokers/topics
2. Remove the topic folder from ZooKeeper using: rmr /brokers/topics/yourtopic
3. Exit the Zookeeper instance (Ctrl+C)
Restart Kafka server
Confirm if it was deleted or not by using this command kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper host:port

How to show all of columns name on pandas dataframe?

If you just want to see all the columns you can do something of this sort as a quick fix

cols = data_all2.columns

now cols will behave as a iterative variable that can be indexed. for example

cols[11:20]

Changing project port number in Visual Studio 2013

This is the only solution that worked for me after trying several of those above. Switch to your c:\users folder and search for .sln and then remove all .sln files that have your project name. Then restart your computer and rebuild the solution (F5) and it worked!

Ruby max integer

In ruby Fixnums are automatically converted to Bignums.

To find the highest possible Fixnum you could do something like this:

class Fixnum
 N_BYTES = [42].pack('i').size
 N_BITS = N_BYTES * 8
 MAX = 2 ** (N_BITS - 2) - 1
 MIN = -MAX - 1
end
p(Fixnum::MAX)

Shamelessly ripped from a ruby-talk discussion. Look there for more details.

Get LatLng from Zip Code - Google Maps API

Just a hint: zip codes are not worldwide unique so this is worth to provide country ISO code in the request (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2).

e.g looking for coordinates of polish (iso code PL) zipcode 01-210:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=01210,PL

how to obtain user country code?

if you would like to get your user country info based on IP address there are services for it, e.g you can do GET request on: http://ip-api.com/json

How to format numbers as currency string?

Because every problem deserves a one line solution:

Number.prototype.formatCurrency = function() { return this.toFixed(2).toString().split(/[-.]/).reverse().reduceRight(function (t, c, i) { return (i == 2) ? '-' + t : (i == 1) ? t + c.replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+$)/g, '$1,') : t + '.' + c; }, '$'); }

This is easy enough to change for different locales, just change the '$1,' to '$1.' and '.' to ',' to swap , and . in numbers, and the currency symbol can be changed by changing the '$' at the end.

Or, if you have ES6, you can just declare the function with default values:

Number.prototype.formatCurrency = function(thou = ',', dec = '.', sym = '$') { return this.toFixed(2).toString().split(/[-.]/).reverse().reduceRight(function (t, c, i) { return (i == 2) ? '-' + t : (i == 1) ? t + c.replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+$)/g, '$1' + thou) : t + dec + c; }, sym); }

console.log((4215.57).formatCurrency())
$4,215.57
console.log((4216635.57).formatCurrency('.', ','))
$4.216.635,57
console.log((4216635.57).formatCurrency('.', ',', "\u20AC"))
€4.216.635,57

Oh and it works for negative numbers too:

console.log((-6635.574).formatCurrency('.', ',', "\u20AC"))
-€6.635,57
console.log((-1066.507).formatCurrency())
-$1,066.51

And of course you don't have to have a currency symbol

console.log((1234.586).formatCurrency(',','.',''))
1,234.59
console.log((-7890123.456).formatCurrency(',','.',''))
-7,890,123.46
console.log((1237890.456).formatCurrency('.',',',''))
1.237.890,46

How to set TLS version on apache HttpClient

Since this only came up hidden in comments, difficult to find as a solution:

You can use java -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1,TLSv1.1, but you need to use also useSystemProperties()

client = HttpClientBuilder.create().useSystemProperties();

We use this setup in our system now as this enables us to set this only for some usage of the code. In our case we still have some Java 7 running and one API end point disallowed TLSv1, so we use java -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 to enable current TLS versions. Thanks @jebeaudet for pointing in this direction.

angular ng-repeat in reverse

This is what i used:

<alert ng-repeat="alert in alerts.slice().reverse()" type="alert.type" close="alerts.splice(index, 1)">{{$index + 1}}: {{alert.msg}}</alert>

Update:

My answer was OK for old version of Angular. Now, you should be using

ng-repeat="friend in friends | orderBy:'-'"

ng-repeat="friend in friends | orderBy:'+':true"

from https://stackoverflow.com/a/26635708/1782470

Temporary table in SQL server causing ' There is already an object named' error

I usually put these lines at the beginning of my stored procedure, and then at the end.

It is an "exists" check for #temp tables.

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#MyCoolTempTable') IS NOT NULL
begin
        drop table #MyCoolTempTable
end

Full Example:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[uspTempTableSuperSafeExample]
AS
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;


    IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#MyCoolTempTable') IS NOT NULL
    BEGIN
            DROP TABLE #MyCoolTempTable
    END


    CREATE TABLE #MyCoolTempTable (
        MyCoolTempTableKey INT IDENTITY(1,1),
        MyValue VARCHAR(128)
    )  

    INSERT INTO #MyCoolTempTable (MyValue)
        SELECT LEFT(@@VERSION, 128)
        UNION ALL SELECT TOP 10 LEFT(name, 128) from sysobjects

    SELECT MyCoolTempTableKey, MyValue FROM #MyCoolTempTable


    IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#MyCoolTempTable') IS NOT NULL
    BEGIN
            DROP TABLE #MyCoolTempTable
    END


    SET NOCOUNT OFF;
END
GO

I need to get all the cookies from the browser

You can't see cookies for other sites.
You can't see HttpOnly cookies.
All the cookies you can see are in the document.cookie property, which contains a semicolon separated list of name=value pairs.

jQuery - Add active class and remove active from other element on click

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(".tab").click(function () {
        if(!$(this).hasClass('active'))
        {
            $(".tab.active").removeClass("active");
            $(this).addClass("active");        
        }
    });
});

Access parent's parent from javascript object

If I'm reading your question correctly, objects in general are agnostic about where they are contained. They don't know who their parents are. To find that information, you have to parse the parent data structure. The DOM has ways of doing this for us when you're talking about element objects in a document, but it looks like you're talking about vanilla objects.

Remove first Item of the array (like popping from stack)

Just use arr.slice(startingIndex, endingIndex).

If you do not specify the endingIndex, it returns all the items starting from the index provided.

In your case arr=arr.slice(1).

Trying to embed newline in a variable in bash

var="a b c"
for i in $var
do
   p=`echo -e "$p"'\n'$i`
done
echo "$p"

The solution was simply to protect the inserted newline with a "" during current iteration when variable substitution happens.

Finding the median of an unsorted array

Let the problem be: finding the Kth largest element in an unsorted array.

Divide the array into n/5 groups where each group consisting of 5 elements.

Now a1,a2,a3....a(n/5) represent the medians of each group.

x = Median of the elements a1,a2,.....a(n/5).

Now if k<n/2 then we can remove the largets, 2nd largest and 3rd largest element of the groups whose median is greater than the x. We can now call the function again with 7n/10 elements and finding the kth largest value.

else if k>n/2 then we can remove the smallest ,2nd smallest and 3rd smallest element of the group whose median is smaller than the x. We can now call the function of again with 7n/10 elements and finding the (k-3n/10)th largest value.

Time Complexity Analysis: T(n) time complexity to find the kth largest in an array of size n.

T(n) = T(n/5) + T(7n/10) + O(n)

if you solve this you will find out that T(n) is actually O(n)

n/5 + 7n/10 = 9n/10 < n

Java FileWriter how to write to next Line

.newLine() is the best if your system property line.separator is proper . and sometime you don't want to change the property runtime . So alternative solution is appending \n

How to export JavaScript array info to csv (on client side)?

One arrow function with ES6 :

const dataToCsvURI = (data) => encodeURI(
`data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,${data.map((row, index) =>  row.join(',')).join(`\n`)}`
);

Then :

window.open(
  dataToCsvURI(
   [["name1", "city_name1"/*, ...*/], ["name2", "city_name2"/*, ...*/]]
  )
);

In case anyone needs this for reactjs, react-csv is there for that

Getting multiple keys of specified value of a generic Dictionary?

A dictionary doesn't keep an hash of the values, only the keys, so any search over it using a value is going to take at least linear time. Your best bet is to simply iterate over the elements in the dictionary and keep track of the matching keys or switch to a different data structure, perhaps maintain two dictionary mapping key->value and value->List_of_keys. If you do the latter you will trade storage for look up speed. It wouldn't take much to turn @Cybis example into such a data structure.

How to convert String to long in Java?

public class StringToLong {

   public static void main (String[] args) {

      // String s = "fred";    // do this if you want an exception

      String s = "100";

      try {
         long l = Long.parseLong(s);
         System.out.println("long l = " + l);
      } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
         System.out.println("NumberFormatException: " + nfe.getMessage());
      }

   }
}

COUNT DISTINCT with CONDITIONS

This may also work:

SELECT 
    COUNT(DISTINCT T.tag) as DistinctTag,
    COUNT(DISTINCT T2.tag) as DistinctPositiveTag
FROM Table T
    LEFT JOIN Table T2 ON T.tag = T2.tag AND T.entryID = T2.entryID AND T2.entryID > 0

You need the entryID condition in the left join rather than in a where clause in order to make sure that any items that only have a entryID of 0 get properly counted in the first DISTINCT.

SQL query to get the deadlocks in SQL SERVER 2008

You can use a deadlock graph and gather the information you require from the log file.

The only other way I could suggest is digging through the information by using EXEC SP_LOCK (Soon to be deprecated), EXEC SP_WHO2 or the sys.dm_tran_locks table.

SELECT  L.request_session_id AS SPID, 
    DB_NAME(L.resource_database_id) AS DatabaseName,
    O.Name AS LockedObjectName, 
    P.object_id AS LockedObjectId, 
    L.resource_type AS LockedResource, 
    L.request_mode AS LockType,
    ST.text AS SqlStatementText,        
    ES.login_name AS LoginName,
    ES.host_name AS HostName,
    TST.is_user_transaction as IsUserTransaction,
    AT.name as TransactionName,
    CN.auth_scheme as AuthenticationMethod
FROM    sys.dm_tran_locks L
    JOIN sys.partitions P ON P.hobt_id = L.resource_associated_entity_id
    JOIN sys.objects O ON O.object_id = P.object_id
    JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions ES ON ES.session_id = L.request_session_id
    JOIN sys.dm_tran_session_transactions TST ON ES.session_id = TST.session_id
    JOIN sys.dm_tran_active_transactions AT ON TST.transaction_id = AT.transaction_id
    JOIN sys.dm_exec_connections CN ON CN.session_id = ES.session_id
    CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(CN.most_recent_sql_handle) AS ST
WHERE   resource_database_id = db_id()
ORDER BY L.request_session_id

http://www.sqlmag.com/article/sql-server-profiler/gathering-deadlock-information-with-deadlock-graph

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2008/04/29/SQL-Server-2005-Get-full-information-about-transaction-locks.aspx

Deploying my application at the root in Tomcat

Adding on to @Rob Hruska's sol, this setting in server.xml inside section works:

<Context path="" docBase="gateway" reloadable="true" override="true"> </Context>

Note: override="true" might be required in some cases.

How to add colored border on cardview?

As the accepted answer requires you to add a Frame Layout, here how you can do it with material design.

Add this if you haven't already

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'

Now change to Cardview to MaterialCardView

<com.google.android.material.card.MaterialCardView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
app:cardCornerRadius="8dp"
app:cardElevation="2dp"

app:strokeWidth="1dp"
app:strokeColor="@color/black">

Now you need to change the activity theme to Theme.Material. If you are using Theme.Appcompact I will suggest you to move to Theme.Material for future projects for having better material design in you app.

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight">

Difference between left join and right join in SQL Server

Select * from Table1 left join Table2 ...

and

Select * from Table2 right join Table1 ...

are indeed completely interchangeable. Try however Table2 left join Table1 (or its identical pair, Table1 right join Table2) to see a difference. This query should give you more rows, since Table2 contains a row with an id which is not present in Table1.

Write a number with two decimal places SQL Server

try this

SELECT CONVERT(DECIMAL(10,2),YOURCOLUMN)

Using NSLog for debugging

type : BOOL DATA (YES/NO) OR(1/0)

BOOL dtBool = 0;

BOOL dtBool = NO;
NSLog(dtBool ? @"Yes" : @"No");

OUTPUT : NO

type : Long

long aLong = 2015;
NSLog(@"Display Long: %ld”, aLong);

OUTPUT : Display Long: 2015

long long veryLong = 20152015;
NSLog(@"Display very Long: %lld", veryLong);

OUTPUT : Display very Long: 20152015

type : String

NSString *aString = @"A string";
NSLog(@"Display string: %@", aString);

OUTPUT : Display String: a String

type : Float

float aFloat = 5.34245;
NSLog(@"Display Float: %F", aFloat);

OUTPUT : isplay Float: 5.342450

type : Integer

int aInteger = 3;    
NSLog(@"Display Integer: %i", aInteger);

OUTPUT : Display Integer: 3

NSLog(@"\nDisplay String: %@ \n\n Display Float: %f \n\n Display Integer: %i", aString, aFloat, aInteger);

OUTPUT : String: a String

Display Float: 5.342450

Display Integer: 3

http://luterr.blogspot.sg/2015/04/example-code-nslog-console-commands-to.html

How to write "Html.BeginForm" in Razor

The following code works fine:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Upload", "Upload", FormMethod.Post, 
                                      new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
{
    @Html.ValidationSummary(true)
    <fieldset>
        Select a file <input type="file" name="file" />
        <input type="submit" value="Upload" />
    </fieldset>
}

and generates as expected:

<form action="/Upload/Upload" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">    
    <fieldset>
        Select a file <input type="file" name="file" />
        <input type="submit" value="Upload" />
    </fieldset>
</form>

On the other hand if you are writing this code inside the context of other server side construct such as an if or foreach you should remove the @ before the using. For example:

@if (SomeCondition)
{
    using (Html.BeginForm("Upload", "Upload", FormMethod.Post, 
                                      new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
    {
        @Html.ValidationSummary(true)
        <fieldset>
            Select a file <input type="file" name="file" />
            <input type="submit" value="Upload" />
        </fieldset>
    }
}

As far as your server side code is concerned, here's how to proceed:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Upload(HttpPostedFileBase file) 
{
    if (file != null && file.ContentLength > 0) 
    {
        var fileName = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
        var path = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/content/pics"), fileName);
        file.SaveAs(path);
    }
    return RedirectToAction("Upload");
}

Running EXE with parameters

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("PATH to exe", "Command Line Arguments");

Does IMDB provide an API?

What about TMDb API ?

You can search by imdb_id with GET /find/{external_id}

https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/find/find-by-id

Check orientation on Android phone

It's also worth noting that nowadays, there's less good reason to check for explicit orientation with getResources().getConfiguration().orientation if you're doing so for layout reasons, as Multi-Window Support introduced in Android 7 / API 24+ could mess with your layouts quite a bit in either orientation. Better to consider using <ConstraintLayout>, and alternative layouts dependent on available width or height, along with other tricks for determining which layout is being used, e.g. the presence or not of certain Fragments being attached to your Activity.

Private pages for a private Github repo

Many answers are outdated (pre-Microsoft acquisition/free private repos). This one was written after the announcement of free private repos.

Github pages are not available on free private repos for individuals, as shown in the repo settings:

2020 (most basic plan is now "Team"):

NOTICE

All pages are public, even if you upgrade. Upgrading only enables the Pages feature on private repos, just like it enables other features. The Pages feature is publicly available static web hosting.

Angular 4/5/6 Global Variables

I use environment for that. It works automatically and you don't have to create new injectable service and most usefull for me, don't need to import via constructor.

1) Create environment variable in your environment.ts

export const environment = {
    ...
    // runtime variables
    isContentLoading: false,
    isDeployNeeded: false
}

2) Import environment.ts in *.ts file and create public variable (i.e. "env") to be able to use in html template

import { environment } from 'environments/environment';

@Component(...)
export class TestComponent {
    ...
    env = environment;
}

3) Use it in template...

<app-spinner *ngIf='env.isContentLoading'></app-spinner>

in *.ts ...

env.isContentLoading = false

(or just environment.isContentLoading in case you don't need it for template)

You can create your own set of globals within environment.ts like so:

export const globals = {
    isContentLoading: false,
    isDeployNeeded: false
}

and import directly these variables (y)

Table overflowing outside of div

A crude work around is to set display: table on the containing div.

How to use timer in C?

May be this examples help to you

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


/*
    Implementation simple timeout

    Input: count milliseconds as number

    Usage:
        setTimeout(1000) - timeout on 1 second
        setTimeout(10100) - timeout on 10 seconds and 100 milliseconds
 */
void setTimeout(int milliseconds)
{
    // If milliseconds is less or equal to 0
    // will be simple return from function without throw error
    if (milliseconds <= 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Count milliseconds for timeout is less or equal to 0\n");
        return;
    }

    // a current time of milliseconds
    int milliseconds_since = clock() * 1000 / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

    // needed count milliseconds of return from this timeout
    int end = milliseconds_since + milliseconds;

    // wait while until needed time comes
    do {
        milliseconds_since = clock() * 1000 / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
    } while (milliseconds_since <= end);
}


int main()
{

    // input from user for time of delay in seconds
    int delay;
    printf("Enter delay: ");
    scanf("%d", &delay);

    // counter downtime for run a rocket while the delay with more 0
    do {
        // erase the previous line and display remain of the delay
        printf("\033[ATime left for run rocket: %d\n", delay);

        // a timeout for display
        setTimeout(1000);

        // decrease the delay to 1
        delay--;

    } while (delay >= 0);

    // a string for display rocket
    char rocket[3] = "-->";

    // a string for display all trace of the rocket and the rocket itself
    char *rocket_trace = (char *) malloc(100 * sizeof(char));

    // display trace of the rocket from a start to the end
    int i;
    char passed_way[100] = "";
    for (i = 0; i <= 50; i++) {
        setTimeout(25);
        sprintf(rocket_trace, "%s%s", passed_way, rocket);
        passed_way[i] = ' ';
        printf("\033[A");
        printf("| %s\n", rocket_trace);
    }

    // erase a line and write a new line
    printf("\033[A");
    printf("\033[2K");
    puts("Good luck!");

    return 0;
}

Compile file, run and delete after (my preference)

$ gcc timeout.c -o timeout && ./timeout && rm timeout

Try run it for yourself to see result.

Notes:

Testing environment

$ uname -a
Linux wlysenko-Aspire 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.5-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) 4.8.5
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Where am I? - Get country

Actually I just found out that there is even one more way of getting a country code, using the getSimCountryIso() method of TelephoneManager:

TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String countryCode = tm.getSimCountryIso();

Since it is the sim code it also should not change when traveling to other countries.

Groovy: How to check if a string contains any element of an array?

def valid = pointAddress.findAll { a ->
    validPointTypes.any { a.contains(it) }
}

Should do it

How to undo a SQL Server UPDATE query?

If you can catch this in time and you don't have the ability to ROLLBACK or use the transaction log, you can take a backup immediately and use a tool like Redgate's SQL Data Compare to generate a script to "restore" the affected data. This worked like a charm for me. :)

Which way is best for creating an object in JavaScript? Is `var` necessary before an object property?

There is various way to define a function. It is totally based upon your requirement. Below are the few styles :-

Object Constructor
Literal constructor
Function Based
Protoype Based
Function and Prototype Based
Singleton Based

Examples:

Object constructor

var person = new Object();

person.name = "Anand",
person.getName = function(){
  return this.name ; 
};

Literal constructor

var person = { 
  name : "Anand",
  getName : function (){
   return this.name
  } 
}

function Constructor

function Person(name){
  this.name = name
  this.getName = function(){
    return this.name
  } 
}

Prototype

function Person(){};

Person.prototype.name = "Anand";

Function/Prototype combination

function Person(name){
  this.name = name;
} 
Person.prototype.getName = function(){
  return this.name
}

Singleton

var person = new function(){
  this.name = "Anand"
}

You can try it on console, if you have any confusion.

Creating email templates with Django

I wrote a snippet that allows you to send emails rendered with templates stored in the database. An example:

EmailTemplate.send('expense_notification_to_admin', {
    # context object that email template will be rendered with
    'expense': expense_request,
})

HTML table with fixed headers?

I wish I had found @Mark's solution earlier, but I went and wrote my own before I saw this SO question...

Mine is a very lightweight jQuery plugin that supports fixed header, footer, column spanning (colspan), resizing, horizontal scrolling, and an optional number of rows to display before scrolling starts.

jQuery.scrollTableBody (GitHub)

As long as you have a table with proper <thead>, <tbody>, and (optional) <tfoot>, all you need to do is this:

$('table').scrollTableBody();

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings - How to modify and save?

Remember that ConfigurationManager uses only one app.config - one that is in startup project.

If you put some app.config to a solution A and make a reference to it from another solution B then if you run B, app.config from A will be ignored.

So for example unit test project should have their own app.config.

Write to custom log file from a Bash script

@chepner make a good point that logger is dedicated to logging messages.

I do need to mention that @Thomas Haratyk simply inquired why I didn't simply use echo.

At the time, I didn't know about echo, as I'm learning shell-scripting, but he was right.

My simple solution is now this:

#!/bin/bash
echo "This logs to where I want, but using echo" > /var/log/mycustomlog

The example above will overwrite the file after the >

So, I can append to that file with this:

#!/bin/bash
echo "I will just append to my custom log file" >> /var/log/customlog

Thanks guys!

on a side note, it's simply my personal preference to keep my personal logs in /var/log/, but I'm sure there are other good ideas out there. And since I didn't create a daemon, /var/log/ probably isn't the best place for my custom log file. (just saying)

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PART I: How To Log In

PART II: How To Remain Logged In - The Infamous "Remember Me" Checkbox

PART III: Using Secret Questions

PART IV: Forgotten Password Functionality

PART V: Checking Password Strength

PART VI: Much More - Or: Preventing Rapid-Fire Login Attempts

PART VII: Distributed Brute Force Attacks

PART VIII: Two-Factor Authentication and Authentication Providers

MUST-READ LINKS About Web Authentication

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^*Notes on static memory allocation