Programs & Examples On #Struts 1

The Apache Struts web framework is a free open-source solution for creating Java web applications. The Struts framework is designed to help developers create web applications that utilize a MVC architecture.

Windows Task Scheduler doesn't start batch file task

On a Windows system which supports runas. First, independently run your program by launching it from a command line which was run as that user, like following

runas /user:<domain\username> cmd

Then, in that new command line, cd to the path from where you expect the task launcher to launch your program and type the full arguments, for example.

cd D:\Scripts\, then execute

C:\python27\pthon.exe script.py

Any errors that are being suppressed by task scheduler should come out to command line output and will make things easier to debug.

Hashing a string with Sha256

In the PHP version you can send 'true' in the last parameter, but the default is 'false'. The following algorithm is equivalent to the default PHP's hash function when passing 'sha256' as the first parameter:

public static string GetSha256FromString(string strData)
    {
        var message = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strData);
        SHA256Managed hashString = new SHA256Managed();
        string hex = "";

        var hashValue = hashString.ComputeHash(message);
        foreach (byte x in hashValue)
        {
            hex += String.Format("{0:x2}", x);
        }
        return hex;
    }

Converting a vector<int> to string

I usually do it this way...

#include <string>
#include <vector>

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
    std::vector<char> vec;
    //... do something with vec
    std::string str(vec.begin(), vec.end());
    //... do something with str
    return 0;
}

How to output only captured groups with sed?

I believe the pattern given in the question was by way of example only, and the goal was to match any pattern.

If you have a sed with the GNU extension allowing insertion of a newline in the pattern space, one suggestion is:

> set string = "This is a sample 123 text and some 987 numbers"
>
> set pattern = "[0-9][0-9]*"
> echo $string | sed "s/$pattern/\n&\n/g" | sed -n "/$pattern/p"
123
987
> set pattern = "[a-z][a-z]*"
> echo $string | sed "s/$pattern/\n&\n/g" | sed -n "/$pattern/p"
his
is
a
sample
text
and
some
numbers

These examples are with tcsh (yes, I know its the wrong shell) with CYGWIN. (Edit: For bash, remove set, and the spaces around =.)

CSV with comma or semicolon?

best way will be to save it in a text file with csv extension:

Sub ExportToCSV()
Dim i, j As Integer
Dim Name  As String

Dim pathfile As String

Dim fs As Object
    Dim stream As Object

    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
On Error GoTo fileexists

i = 15
Name = Format(Now(), "ddmmyyHHmmss")
pathfile = "D:\1\" & Name & ".csv"

Set stream = fs.CreateTextFile(pathfile, False, True)

fileexists:

If Err.Number = 58 Then
    MsgBox "File already Exists"
    'Your code here
    Return
End If
On Error GoTo 0

j = 1
Do Until IsEmpty(ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 1).Value)

    stream.WriteLine (ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(i, 1).Value & ";" & Replace(ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(i, 6).Value, ".", ","))

    j = j + 1
    i = i + 1
Loop


stream.Close

End Sub

rand() returns the same number each time the program is run

For what its worth you are also only generating numbers between 0 and 99 (inclusive). If you wanted to generate values between 0 and 100 you would need.

rand() % 101

in addition to calling srand() as mentioned by others.

How do I decode a string with escaped unicode?

I don't have enough rep to put this under comments to the existing answers:

unescape is only deprecated for working with URIs (or any encoded utf-8) which is probably the case for most people's needs. encodeURIComponent converts a js string to escaped UTF-8 and decodeURIComponent only works on escaped UTF-8 bytes. It throws an error for something like decodeURIComponent('%a9'); // error because extended ascii isn't valid utf-8 (even though that's still a unicode value), whereas unescape('%a9'); // © So you need to know your data when using decodeURIComponent.

decodeURIComponent won't work on "%C2" or any lone byte over 0x7f because in utf-8 that indicates part of a surrogate. However decodeURIComponent("%C2%A9") //gives you © Unescape wouldn't work properly on that // © AND it wouldn't throw an error, so unescape can lead to buggy code if you don't know your data.

What is the default value for enum variable?

It is whatever member of the enumeration represents the value 0. Specifically, from the documentation:

The default value of an enum E is the value produced by the expression (E)0.

As an example, take the following enum:

enum E
{
    Foo, Bar, Baz, Quux
}

Without overriding the default values, printing default(E) returns Foo since it's the first-occurring element.

However, it is not always the case that 0 of an enum is represented by the first member. For example, if you do this:

enum F
{
    // Give each element a custom value
    Foo = 1, Bar = 2, Baz = 3, Quux = 0
}

Printing default(F) will give you Quux, not Foo.

If none of the elements in an enum G correspond to 0:

enum G
{
    Foo = 1, Bar = 2, Baz = 3, Quux = 4
}

default(G) returns literally 0, although its type remains as G (as quoted by the docs above, a cast to the given enum type).

How can I access my localhost from my Android device?

On mac run this command in the terminal if you have your server in 8080

echo "
rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port 8080 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080
" | sudo pfctl -ef -

printf \t option

A tab is a tab. How many spaces it consumes is a display issue, and depends on the settings of your shell.

If you want to control the width of your data, then you could use the width sub-specifiers in the printf format string. Eg. :

printf("%5d", 2);

It's not a complete solution (if the value is longer than 5 characters, it will not be truncated), but might be ok for your needs.

If you want complete control, you'll probably have to implement it yourself.

Setting "checked" for a checkbox with jQuery

Be aware of memory leaks in Internet Explorer prior to Internet Explorer 9, as the jQuery documentation states:

In Internet Explorer prior to version 9, using .prop() to set a DOM element property to anything other than a simple primitive value (number, string, or boolean) can cause memory leaks if the property is not removed (using .removeProp()) before the DOM element is removed from the document. To safely set values on DOM objects without memory leaks, use .data().

How can I initialize base class member variables in derived class constructor?

If you don't specify visibility for a class member, it defaults to "private". You should make your members private or protected if you want to access them in a subclass.

Adding text to ImageView in Android

Use drawalbeLeft/Right/Bottom/Top in TextView to render image at respective position.

        <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/image"    
        android:text="@strings/text" 
        />

Get GMT Time in Java

To get the time in millis at GMT all you need is

long millis = System.currentTimeMillis();

You can also do

long millis = new Date().getTime();

and

long millis = 
    Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")).getTimeInMillis();

but these are inefficient ways of making the same call.

How to get the browser viewport dimensions?

This is the way I do it, I tried it in IE 8 -> 10, FF 35, Chrome 40, it will work very smooth in all modern browsers (as window.innerWidth is defined) and in IE 8 (with no window.innerWidth) it works smooth as well, any issue (like flashing because of overflow: "hidden"), please report it. I'm not really interested on the viewport height as I made this function just to workaround some responsive tools, but it might be implemented. Hope it helps, I appreciate comments and suggestions.

function viewportWidth () {
  if (window.innerWidth) return window.innerWidth;
  var
  doc = document,
  html = doc && doc.documentElement,
  body = doc && (doc.body || doc.getElementsByTagName("body")[0]),
  getWidth = function (elm) {
    if (!elm) return 0;
    var setOverflow = function (style, value) {
      var oldValue = style.overflow;
      style.overflow = value;
      return oldValue || "";
    }, style = elm.style, oldValue = setOverflow(style, "hidden"), width = elm.clientWidth || 0;
    setOverflow(style, oldValue);
    return width;
  };
  return Math.max(
    getWidth(html),
    getWidth(body)
  );
}

Reduce size of legend area in barplot

The cex parameter will do that for you.

a <- c(3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2 )
barplot(a, beside = T,
        col = 1:6, space = c(0, 2))
legend("topright", 
       legend = c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"), 
       fill = 1:6, ncol = 2,
       cex = 0.75)

The plot

Remove git mapping in Visual Studio 2015

Connect to a different repository (I tried with a TFS repository), then go to Manage Connections, right click the Git repository and you might be able to remove it.

But you still have to manually remove the .git folder and files from your project path before opening the solution again.

jQuery Select first and second td

jquery provides one more function: eq

Select first tr

$(".bootgrid-table tr").eq(0).addClass("black");

Select second tr

$(".bootgrid-table tr").eq(1).addClass("black");

Is a URL allowed to contain a space?

Can someone point to an RFC indicating that a URL with a space must be encoded?

URIs, and thus URLs, are defined in RFC 3986.

If you look at the grammar defined over there you will eventually note that a space character never can be part of a syntactically legal URL, thus the term "URL with a space" is a contradiction in itself.

How to redirect the output of a PowerShell to a file during its execution

Microsoft has announced on Powershell's Connections web site (2012-02-15 at 4:40 PM) that in version 3.0 they have extended the redirection as a solution to this problem.

In PowerShell 3.0, we've extended output redirection to include the following streams: 
 Pipeline (1) 
 Error    (2) 
 Warning  (3) 
 Verbose  (4) 
 Debug    (5)
 All      (*)

We still use the same operators
 >    Redirect to a file and replace contents
 >>   Redirect to a file and append to existing content
 >&1  Merge with pipeline output

See the "about_Redirection" help article for details and examples.

help about_Redirection

Eclipse: How do you change the highlight color of the currently selected method/expression?

1 - right click the highlight whose color you want to change

2 - select "Properties" in the popup menu

3 - choose the new color (as coobird suggested)

This solution is easy because you dont have to search for the highlight by its name ("Ocurrence" or "Write Ocurrence" etc), just right click and the appropriate window is shown.

Free XML Formatting tool

Advanced Conventional Formatting [Update]

XMLSpectrum is an open source syntax-highlighter. Supporting XML - but with special features for XSLT 2.0, XSD 1.1 and XPath 2.0. I'm mentioning this here because it also has special formatting capabilities for XML: it vertically aligns attributes and their contents as well as elements - to enhance XML readability.

The output HTML is suitable for reviewing in a browser or if the XML needs further editing it can be copied and pasted into an XML editor of your choice

Because xmlspectrum.xsl uses its own XML text parser, all content such as entity references and CDATA sections are preserved - as in an editor.

enter image description here

Note on usage: this is just an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet so you would need to enclose the required command-line (samples provided) in a small script so you could automatically transform the XML source.

Virtual Formatting

XMLQuire is a free XML editor that has special formatting capabilities - it formats XML properly, including multi-line attributes, attribute-values, word-wrap indentation and even XML comments.

All XML indentation is done without inserting tabs or spaces, ensuring the integrity of the XML is maintained. For versions of Windows later than XP, no installation is needed, its just a 3MB .exe file.

If you need to print out the formatted XML there are special options within the print-preview, such as line-numbering that follows the indentation. If you need to copy the formatted XML to a word processor as rich text, that's available too.

[Disclosure: I maintain both XMLQuire and XMLSpectrum as 'home projects']

How to pass form input value to php function

You need to look into Ajax; Start here this is the best way to stay on the current page and be able to send inputs to php.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function showHint(str)
{
var xmlhttp;
if (str.length==0)
  { 
  document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML="";
  return;
  }
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
  {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
    {
    document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
    }
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","gethint.php?q="+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h3>Start typing a name in the input field below:</h3>
<form action=""> 
First name: <input type="text" id="txt1" onkeyup="showHint(this.value)" />
</form>
<p>Suggestions: <span id="txtHint"></span></p> 

</body>
</html>

This gets the users input on the textbox and opens the webpage gethint.php?q=ja from here the php script can do anything with $_GET['q'] and echo back to the page James, Jason....etc

How to format DateTime in Flutter , How to get current time in flutter?

Here's my simple solution. That does not require any dependency.

However, the date will be in string format. If you want the time then change the substring values

print(new DateTime.now()
            .toString()
            .substring(0,10)
     );   // 2020-06-10

How to remove illegal characters from path and filenames?

For starters, Trim only removes characters from the beginning or end of the string. Secondly, you should evaluate if you really want to remove the offensive characters, or fail fast and let the user know their filename is invalid. My choice is the latter, but my answer should at least show you how to do things the right AND wrong way:

StackOverflow question showing how to check if a given string is a valid file name. Note you can use the regex from this question to remove characters with a regular expression replacement (if you really need to do this).

JavaFX open new window

I use the following method in my JavaFX applications.

newWindowButton.setOnMouseClicked((event) -> {
    try {
        FXMLLoader fxmlLoader = new FXMLLoader();
        fxmlLoader.setLocation(getClass().getResource("NewWindow.fxml"));
        /* 
         * if "fx:controller" is not set in fxml
         * fxmlLoader.setController(NewWindowController);
         */
        Scene scene = new Scene(fxmlLoader.load(), 600, 400);
        Stage stage = new Stage();
        stage.setTitle("New Window");
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName());
        logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failed to create new Window.", e);
    }
});

android listview get selected item

final ListView lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.ListView01);

lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
      public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> myAdapter, View myView, int myItemInt, long mylng) {
        String selectedFromList =(String) (lv.getItemAtPosition(myItemInt));

      }                 
});

I hope this fixes your problem.

.attr('checked','checked') does not work

It works, but

$('input[name="myname"][checked]').val()

will return the value of the first element with attribute checked. And the a radio button still has this attribute (and it comes before the b button). Selecting b does not remove the checked attribute from a.

You can use jQuery's :checked:

$('input[name="myname"]:checked').val()

DEMO


Further notes:

  • Using $('b').attr('checked',true); is enough.
  • As others mentioned, don't use inline event handlers, use jQuery to add the event handler.

Markdown open a new window link

It is very dependent of the engine that you use for generating html files. If you are using Hugo for generating htmls you have to write down like this:

<a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Example Text</span> </a>.

Graph visualization library in JavaScript

Disclaimer: I'm a developer of Cytoscape.js

Cytoscape.js is a HTML5 graph visualisation library. The API is sophisticated and follows jQuery conventions, including

  • selectors for querying and filtering (cy.elements("node[weight >= 50].someClass") does much as you would expect),
  • chaining (e.g. cy.nodes().unselect().trigger("mycustomevent")),
  • jQuery-like functions for binding to events,
  • elements as collections (like jQuery has collections of HTMLDomElements),
  • extensibility (can add custom layouts, UI, core & collection functions, and so on),
  • and more.

If you're thinking about building a serious webapp with graphs, you should at least consider Cytoscape.js. It's free and open-source:

http://js.cytoscape.org

Deleting a pointer in C++

There is a rule in C++, for every new there is a delete.

  1. Why won't the first case work? Seems the most straightforward use to use and delete a pointer? The error says the memory wasn't allocated but 'cout' returned an address.

new is never called. So the address that cout prints is the address of the memory location of myVar, or the value assigned to myPointer in this case. By writing:

myPointer = &myVar;

you say:

myPointer = The address of where the data in myVar is stored

  1. On the second example the error is not being triggered but doing a cout of the value of myPointer still returns a memory address?

It returns an address that points to a memory location that has been deleted. Because first you create the pointer and assign its value to myPointer, second you delete it, third you print it. So unless you assign another value to myPointer, the deleted address will remain.

  1. Does #3 really work? Seems to work to me, the pointer is no longer storing an address, is this the proper way to delete a pointer?

NULL equals 0, you delete 0, so you delete nothing. And it's logic that it prints 0 because you did:

myPointer = NULL;

which equals:

myPointer = 0;

Create ul and li elements in javascript.

Use the CSS property list-style-position to position the bullet:

list-style-position:inside /* or outside */;

Python, TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'

The problem is that you can't use a list as the key in a dict, since dict keys need to be immutable. Use a tuple instead.

This is a list:

[x, y]

This is a tuple:

(x, y)

Note that in most cases, the ( and ) are optional, since , is what actually defines a tuple (as long as it's not surrounded by [] or {}, or used as a function argument).

You might find the section on tuples in the Python tutorial useful:

Though tuples may seem similar to lists, they are often used in different situations and for different purposes. Tuples are immutable, and usually contain an heterogeneous sequence of elements that are accessed via unpacking (see later in this section) or indexing (or even by attribute in the case of namedtuples). Lists are mutable, and their elements are usually homogeneous and are accessed by iterating over the list.

And in the section on dictionaries:

Unlike sequences, which are indexed by a range of numbers, dictionaries are indexed by keys, which can be any immutable type; strings and numbers can always be keys. Tuples can be used as keys if they contain only strings, numbers, or tuples; if a tuple contains any mutable object either directly or indirectly, it cannot be used as a key. You can’t use lists as keys, since lists can be modified in place using index assignments, slice assignments, or methods like append() and extend().


In case you're wondering what the error message means, it's complaining because there's no built-in hash function for lists (by design), and dictionaries are implemented as hash tables.

The following artifacts could not be resolved: javax.jms:jms:jar:1.1

May not be the exactly same problem. but there is a nice article on the same line Here

Sorting string array in C#

Actually I don't see any nulls:

given:

static void Main()
        {
            string[] testArray = new string[]
            {
                "aa",
                "ab",
                "ac",
                "ad",
                "ab",
                "af"
            };

            Array.Sort(testArray, StringComparer.InvariantCulture);

            Array.ForEach(testArray, x => Console.WriteLine(x));
        }

I obtained:

enter image description here

How to convert XML to java.util.Map and vice versa

I found this on google, but I don't want to use XStream, because it causes to much overhead in my environment. I only needed to parse a file and since I did not find anything I like I created my own simple solution for parsing a file of the format that you describe. So here is my solution:

public class XmlToMapUtil {
    public static Map<String, String> parse(InputSource inputSource) throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
        final DataCollector handler = new DataCollector();
        SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().parse(inputSource, handler);
        return handler.result;
    }

    private static class DataCollector extends DefaultHandler {
        private final StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
        private final Map<String, String> result = new HashMap<String, String>();

        @Override
        public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
            final String value = buffer.toString().trim();
            if (value.length() > 0) {
                result.put(qName, value);
            }
            buffer.setLength(0);
        }

        @Override
        public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
            buffer.append(ch, start, length);
        }
    }
}

Here are a couple of TestNG+FEST Assert Tests:

public class XmlToMapUtilTest {

    @Test(dataProvider = "provide_xml_entries")
    public void parse_returnsMapFromXml(String xml, MapAssert.Entry[] entries) throws Exception {
        // execution
        final Map<String, String> actual = XmlToMapUtil.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));

        // evaluation
        assertThat(actual)
            .includes(entries)
            .hasSize(entries.length);
    }

    @DataProvider
    public Object[][] provide_xml_entries() {
        return new Object[][]{
                {"<root />", new MapAssert.Entry[0]},

                {
                    "<root><a>aVal</a></root>", new MapAssert.Entry[]{
                            MapAssert.entry("a", "aVal")
                    },
                },

                {
                    "<root><a>aVal</a><b>bVal</b></root>", new MapAssert.Entry[]{
                            MapAssert.entry("a", "aVal"),
                            MapAssert.entry("b", "bVal")
                    },
                },

                {
                    "<root> \t <a>\taVal </a><b /></root>", new MapAssert.Entry[]{
                            MapAssert.entry("a", "aVal")
                    },
                },
        };
    }
}

.NET Console Application Exit Event

As a good example may be worth it to navigate to this project and see how to handle exiting processes grammatically or in this snippet from VM found in here

                ConsoleOutputStream = new ObservableCollection<string>();

                var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(FilePath)
                {
                    WorkingDirectory = RootFolderPath,
                    Arguments = StartingArguments,
                    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                    UseShellExecute = false,
                    CreateNoWindow = true
                };
                ConsoleProcess = new Process {StartInfo = startInfo};

                ConsoleProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true;

                ConsoleProcess.OutputDataReceived += (sender, args) =>
                {
                    App.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke((System.Action) delegate
                    {
                        ConsoleOutputStream.Insert(0, args.Data);
                        //ConsoleOutputStream.Add(args.Data);
                    });
                };
                ConsoleProcess.Exited += (sender, args) =>
                {
                    InProgress = false;
                };

                ConsoleProcess.Start();
                ConsoleProcess.BeginOutputReadLine();
        }
    }

    private void RegisterProcessWatcher()
    {
        startWatch = new ManagementEventWatcher(
            new WqlEventQuery($"SELECT * FROM Win32_ProcessStartTrace where ProcessName = '{FileName}'"));
        startWatch.EventArrived += new EventArrivedEventHandler(startProcessWatch_EventArrived);

        stopWatch = new ManagementEventWatcher(
            new WqlEventQuery($"SELECT * FROM Win32_ProcessStopTrace where ProcessName = '{FileName}'"));
        stopWatch.EventArrived += new EventArrivedEventHandler(stopProcessWatch_EventArrived);
    }

    private void stopProcessWatch_EventArrived(object sender, EventArrivedEventArgs e)
    {
        InProgress = false;
    }

    private void startProcessWatch_EventArrived(object sender, EventArrivedEventArgs e)
    {
        InProgress = true;
    }

How can I cast int to enum?

I prefer a short way using a nullable enum type variable.

var enumValue = (MyEnum?)enumInt;

if (!enumValue.HasValue)
{
    throw new ArgumentException(nameof(enumValue));
}

Where is nodejs log file?

forever might be of interest to you. It will run your .js-File 24/7 with logging options. Here are two snippets from the help text:

[Long Running Process] The forever process will continue to run outputting log messages to the console. ex. forever -o out.log -e err.log my-script.js

and

[Daemon] The forever process will run as a daemon which will make the target process start in the background. This is extremely useful for remote starting simple node.js scripts without using nohup. It is recommended to run start with -o -l, & -e. ex. forever start -l forever.log -o out.log -e err.log my-daemon.js forever stop my-daemon.js

Adding simple legend to plot in R

Take a look at ?legend and try this:

legend('topright', names(a)[-1] , 
   lty=1, col=c('red', 'blue', 'green',' brown'), bty='n', cex=.75)

enter image description here

Activate tabpage of TabControl

You can use the method SelectTab.

There are 3 versions:

public void SelectTab(int index);
public void SelectTab(string tabPageName);
public void SelectTab(TabPage tabPage);

How do I list one filename per output line in Linux?

You can also use ls -w1

This allows to set number of columns. From manpage of ls:

   -w, --width=COLS
          set output width to COLS.  0 means no limit

VBA: How to display an error message just like the standard error message which has a "Debug" button?

This answer does not address the Debug button (you'd have to design a form and use the buttons on that to do something like the method in your next question). But it does address this part:

now I don't want to lose the comfortableness of the default handler which also point me to the exact line where the error has occured.

First, I'll assume you don't want this in production code - you want it either for debugging or for code you personally will be using. I use a compiler flag to indicate debugging; then if I'm troubleshooting a program, I can easily find the line that's causing the problem.

# Const IsDebug = True

Sub ProcA()
On Error Goto ErrorHandler
' Main code of proc

ExitHere:
    On Error Resume Next
    ' Close objects and stuff here
    Exit Sub

ErrorHandler:
    MsgBox Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description, , ThisWorkbook.Name & ": ProcA"
    #If IsDebug Then
        Stop            ' Used for troubleshooting - Then press F8 to step thru code 
        Resume          ' Resume will take you to the line that errored out
    #Else
        Resume ExitHere ' Exit procedure during normal running
    #End If
End Sub

Note: the exception to Resume is if the error occurs in a sub-procedure without an error handling routine, then Resume will take you to the line in this proc that called the sub-procedure with the error. But you can still step into and through the sub-procedure, using F8 until it errors out again. If the sub-procedure's too long to make even that tedious, then your sub-procedure should probably have its own error handling routine.

There are multiple ways to do this. Sometimes for smaller programs where I know I'm gonna be stepping through it anyway when troubleshooting, I just put these lines right after the MsgBox statement:

    Resume ExitHere         ' Normally exits during production
    Resume                  ' Never will get here
Exit Sub

It will never get to the Resume statement, unless you're stepping through and set it as the next line to be executed, either by dragging the next statement pointer to that line, or by pressing CtrlF9 with the cursor on that line.

Here's an article that expands on these concepts: Five tips for handling errors in VBA. Finally, if you're using VBA and haven't discovered Chip Pearson's awesome site yet, he has a page explaining Error Handling In VBA.

Sync data between Android App and webserver

@Grantismo provides a great explanation on the overall. If you wish to know who people are actually doing this things i suggest you to take a look at how google did for the Google IO App of 2014 (it's always worth taking a deep look at the source code of these apps that they release. There's a lot to learn from there).

Here's a blog post about it: http://android-developers.blogspot.com.br/2014/09/conference-data-sync-gcm-google-io.html

Essentially, on the application side: GCM for signalling, Sync Adapter for data fetching and talking properly with Content Provider that will make things persistent (yeah, it isolates the DB from direct access from other parts of the app).

Also, if you wish to take a look at the 2015's code: https://github.com/google/iosched

PHP float with 2 decimal places: .00

A float isn't have 0 or 0.00 : those are different string representations of the internal (IEEE754) binary format but the float is the same.

If you want to express your float as "0.00", you need to format it in a string, using number_format :

$numberAsString = number_format($numberAsFloat, 2);

Where is body in a nodejs http.get response?

Edit: replying to self 6 years later

The await keyword is the best way to get a response from an HTTP request, avoiding callbacks and .then()

You'll also need to use an HTTP client that returns Promises. http.get() still returns a Request object, so that won't work.

  • fetch is a low level client, that is both available from npm and will be in future versions of node
  • superagent is a mature HTTP clients that features more reasonable defaults including simpler query string encoding, properly using mime types, JSON by default, and other common HTTP client features.
  • axois is also quite popular and has similar advantages to superagent

await will wait until the Promise has a value - in this case, an HTTP response!

const superagent = require('superagent');

(async function(){
  const response = await superagent.get('https://www.google.com')
  console.log(response.text)
})();

Using await, control simply passes onto the next line once the promise returned by superagent.get() has a value.

Plotting images side by side using matplotlib

You are plotting all your images on one axis. What you want ist to get a handle for each axis individually and plot your images there. Like so:

fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(2,2,1)
ax1.imshow(...)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(2,2,2)
ax2.imshow(...)
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(2,2,3)
ax3.imshow(...)
ax4 = fig.add_subplot(2,2,4)
ax4.imshow(...)

For more info have a look here: http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/subplots_demo.html

For complex layouts, you should consider using gridspec: http://matplotlib.org/users/gridspec.html

Capture Image from Camera and Display in Activity

Here is code I have used for Capturing and Saving Camera Image then display it to imageview. You can use according to your need.

You have to save Camera image to specific location then fetch from that location then convert it to byte-array.

Here is method for opening capturing camera image activity.

private static final int CAMERA_PHOTO = 111;
private Uri imageToUploadUri;

private void captureCameraImage() {
        Intent chooserIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
        File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "POST_IMAGE.jpg");
        chooserIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, Uri.fromFile(f));
        imageToUploadUri = Uri.fromFile(f);
        startActivityForResult(chooserIntent, CAMERA_PHOTO);
    }

then your onActivityResult() method should be like this.

@Override
        protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

            if (requestCode == CAMERA_PHOTO && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                if(imageToUploadUri != null){
                    Uri selectedImage = imageToUploadUri;
                    getContentResolver().notifyChange(selectedImage, null);
                    Bitmap reducedSizeBitmap = getBitmap(imageToUploadUri.getPath());
                    if(reducedSizeBitmap != null){
                        ImgPhoto.setImageBitmap(reducedSizeBitmap);
                        Button uploadImageButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.uploadUserImageButton);
                          uploadImageButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);                
                    }else{
                        Toast.makeText(this,"Error while capturing Image",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    }
                }else{
                    Toast.makeText(this,"Error while capturing Image",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            } 
        }

Here is getBitmap() method used in onActivityResult(). I have done all performance improvement that can be possible while getting camera capture image bitmap.

private Bitmap getBitmap(String path) {

        Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(path));
        InputStream in = null;
        try {
            final int IMAGE_MAX_SIZE = 1200000; // 1.2MP
            in = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);

            // Decode image size
            BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
            o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
            BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in, null, o);
            in.close();


            int scale = 1;
            while ((o.outWidth * o.outHeight) * (1 / Math.pow(scale, 2)) >
                    IMAGE_MAX_SIZE) {
                scale++;
            }
            Log.d("", "scale = " + scale + ", orig-width: " + o.outWidth + ", orig-height: " + o.outHeight);

            Bitmap b = null;
            in = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
            if (scale > 1) {
                scale--;
                // scale to max possible inSampleSize that still yields an image
                // larger than target
                o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
                o.inSampleSize = scale;
                b = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in, null, o);

                // resize to desired dimensions
                int height = b.getHeight();
                int width = b.getWidth();
                Log.d("", "1th scale operation dimenions - width: " + width + ", height: " + height);

                double y = Math.sqrt(IMAGE_MAX_SIZE
                        / (((double) width) / height));
                double x = (y / height) * width;

                Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(b, (int) x,
                        (int) y, true);
                b.recycle();
                b = scaledBitmap;

                System.gc();
            } else {
                b = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
            }
            in.close();

            Log.d("", "bitmap size - width: " + b.getWidth() + ", height: " +
                    b.getHeight());
            return b;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("", e.getMessage(), e);
            return null;
        }
    }

Hope it helps!

Generate C# class from XML

You should consider svcutil (svcutil question)

Both xsd.exe and svcutil operate on the XML schema file (.xsd). Your XML must conform to a schema file to be used by either of these two tools.

Note that various 3rd party tools also exist for this.

Perform debounce in React.js

There's a use-debounce package that you can use with ReactJS hooks.

From package's README:

import { useDebounce } from 'use-debounce';

export default function Input() {
  const [text, setText] = useState('Hello');
  const [value] = useDebounce(text, 1000);

  return (
    <div>
      <input
        defaultValue={'Hello'}
        onChange={(e) => {
          setText(e.target.value);
        }}
      />
      <p>Actual value: {text}</p>
      <p>Debounce value: {value}</p>
    </div>
  );
}

As you can see from the example above, it is set up to update the variable value only once every second (1000 milliseconds).

Attempt to present UIViewController on UIViewController whose view is not in the window hierarchy

In my situation, I was not able to put mine in a class override. So, here is what I got:

let viewController = self // I had viewController passed in as a function,
                          // but otherwise you can do this


// Present the view controller
let currentViewController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController
currentViewController?.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)

if viewController.presentedViewController == nil {
    currentViewController?.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
} else {
    viewController.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Twitter Bootstrap and ASP.NET GridView

Add property of show header in gridview

 <asp:GridView ID="dgvUsers" runat="server" **showHeader="True"** CssClass="table table-hover table-striped" GridLines="None" 
AutoGenerateColumns="False">

and in columns add header template

<HeaderTemplate>
                   //header column names
</HeaderTemplate>

JavaScript: filter() for Objects

Never ever extend Object.prototype.

Horrible things will happen to your code. Things will break. You're extending all object types, including object literals.

Here's a quick example you can try:

    // Extend Object.prototype
Object.prototype.extended = "I'm everywhere!";

    // See the result
alert( {}.extended );          // "I'm everywhere!"
alert( [].extended );          // "I'm everywhere!"
alert( new Date().extended );  // "I'm everywhere!"
alert( 3..extended );          // "I'm everywhere!"
alert( true.extended );        // "I'm everywhere!"
alert( "here?".extended );     // "I'm everywhere!"

Instead create a function that you pass the object.

Object.filter = function( obj, predicate) {
    let result = {}, key;

    for (key in obj) {
        if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key) && !predicate(obj[key])) {
            result[key] = obj[key];
        }
    }

    return result;
};

How to install multiple python packages at once using pip

give the same command as you used to give while installing a single module only pass it via space delimited format

How to implement 2D vector array?

If you know the (maximum) number of rows and columns beforehand, you can use resize() to initialize a vector of vectors and then modify (and access) elements with operator[]. Example:

int no_of_cols = 5;
int no_of_rows = 10;
int initial_value = 0;

std::vector<std::vector<int>> matrix;
matrix.resize(no_of_rows, std::vector<int>(no_of_cols, initial_value));

// Read from matrix.
int value = matrix[1][2];

// Save to matrix.
matrix[3][1] = 5;

Another possibility is to use just one vector and split the id in several variables, access like vector[(row * columns) + column].

Ansible: copy a directory content to another directory

You could use the synchronize module. The example from the documentation:

# Synchronize two directories on one remote host.
- synchronize:
    src: /first/absolute/path
    dest: /second/absolute/path
  delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

This has the added benefit that it will be more efficient for large/many files.

The zip() function in Python 3

The zip() function in Python 3 returns an iterator. That is the reason why when you print test1 you get - <zip object at 0x1007a06c8>. From documentation -

Make an iterator that aggregates elements from each of the iterables.

But once you do - list(test1) - you have exhausted the iterator. So after that anytime you do list(test1) would only result in empty list.

In case of test2, you have already created the list once, test2 is a list, and hence it will always be that list.

How do you run your own code alongside Tkinter's event loop?

The solution posted by Bjorn results in a "RuntimeError: Calling Tcl from different appartment" message on my computer (RedHat Enterprise 5, python 2.6.1). Bjorn might not have gotten this message, since, according to one place I checked, mishandling threading with Tkinter is unpredictable and platform-dependent.

The problem seems to be that app.start() counts as a reference to Tk, since app contains Tk elements. I fixed this by replacing app.start() with a self.start() inside __init__. I also made it so that all Tk references are either inside the function that calls mainloop() or are inside functions that are called by the function that calls mainloop() (this is apparently critical to avoid the "different apartment" error).

Finally, I added a protocol handler with a callback, since without this the program exits with an error when the Tk window is closed by the user.

The revised code is as follows:

# Run tkinter code in another thread

import tkinter as tk
import threading

class App(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.start()

    def callback(self):
        self.root.quit()

    def run(self):
        self.root = tk.Tk()
        self.root.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", self.callback)

        label = tk.Label(self.root, text="Hello World")
        label.pack()

        self.root.mainloop()


app = App()
print('Now we can continue running code while mainloop runs!')

for i in range(100000):
    print(i)

How can I add private key to the distribution certificate?

since xcode5 organizer no longer team section exists. but the bold sentence was the answer for me. God thanks there is another mac to restore and import to problemmatic mac. now all is ok.

Best Timer for using in a Windows service

I know this thread is a little old but it came in handy for a specific scenario I had and I thought it worth while to note that there is another reason why System.Threading.Timer might be a good approach. When you have to periodically execute a Job that might take a long time and you want to ensure that the entire waiting period is used between jobs or if you don't want the job to run again before the previous job has finished in the case where the job takes longer than the timer period. You could use the following:

using System;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Threading;

    public partial class TimerExampleService : ServiceBase
    {
        private AutoResetEvent AutoEventInstance { get; set; }
        private StatusChecker StatusCheckerInstance { get; set; }
        private Timer StateTimer { get; set; }
        public int TimerInterval { get; set; }

        public CaseIndexingService()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            TimerInterval = 300000;
        }

        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {
            AutoEventInstance = new AutoResetEvent(false);
            StatusCheckerInstance = new StatusChecker();

            // Create the delegate that invokes methods for the timer.
            TimerCallback timerDelegate =
                new TimerCallback(StatusCheckerInstance.CheckStatus);

            // Create a timer that signals the delegate to invoke 
            // 1.CheckStatus immediately, 
            // 2.Wait until the job is finished,
            // 3.then wait 5 minutes before executing again. 
            // 4.Repeat from point 2.
            Console.WriteLine("{0} Creating timer.\n",
                DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss.fff"));
            //Start Immediately but don't run again.
            StateTimer = new Timer(timerDelegate, AutoEventInstance, 0, Timeout.Infinite);
            while (StateTimer != null)
            {
                //Wait until the job is done
                AutoEventInstance.WaitOne();
                //Wait for 5 minutes before starting the job again.
                StateTimer.Change(TimerInterval, Timeout.Infinite);
            }
            //If the Job somehow takes longer than 5 minutes to complete then it wont matter because we will always wait another 5 minutes before running again.
        }

        protected override void OnStop()
        {
            StateTimer.Dispose();
        }
    }

    class StatusChecker
        {

            public StatusChecker()
            {
            }

            // This method is called by the timer delegate.
            public void CheckStatus(Object stateInfo)
            {
                AutoResetEvent autoEvent = (AutoResetEvent)stateInfo;
                Console.WriteLine("{0} Start Checking status.",
                    DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss.fff"));
                //This job takes time to run. For example purposes, I put a delay in here.
                int milliseconds = 5000;
                Thread.Sleep(milliseconds);
                //Job is now done running and the timer can now be reset to wait for the next interval
                Console.WriteLine("{0} Done Checking status.",
                    DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss.fff"));
                autoEvent.Set();
            }
        }

Apache: client denied by server configuration

OK I am using the wrong syntax, I should be using

Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
...

Adding a color background and border radius to a Layout

You don't need the separate fill item. In fact, it's invalid. You just have to add a solid block to the shape. The subsequent stroke draws on top of the solid:

<shape 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:shape="rectangle">

    <corners android:radius="5dp" />
    <solid android:color="@android:color/white" />
    <stroke
        android:width="1dip"
        android:color="@color/bggrey" />
</shape>

You also don't need the layer-list if you only have one shape.

Escaping regex string

Unfortunately, re.escape() is not suited for the replacement string:

>>> re.sub('a', re.escape('_'), 'aa')
'\\_\\_'

A solution is to put the replacement in a lambda:

>>> re.sub('a', lambda _: '_', 'aa')
'__'

because the return value of the lambda is treated by re.sub() as a literal string.

Making the main scrollbar always visible

body { height:101%; } will "crop" larger pages.

Instead, I use:

body { min-height:101%; }

Specifying number of decimal places in Python

Use round() function.

round(2.607) = 3
round(2.607,2) = 2.61

Does `anaconda` create a separate PYTHONPATH variable for each new environment?

No, the only thing that needs to be modified for an Anaconda environment is the PATH (so that it gets the right Python from the environment bin/ directory, or Scripts\ on Windows).

The way Anaconda environments work is that they hard link everything that is installed into the environment. For all intents and purposes, this means that each environment is a completely separate installation of Python and all the packages. By using hard links, this is done efficiently. Thus, there's no need to mess with PYTHONPATH because the Python binary in the environment already searches the site-packages in the environment, and the lib of the environment, and so on.

How to clear a textbox using javascript

For my coffeescript peeps!

#disable Delete button until reason is entered
$("#delete_event_button").prop("disabled", true)
$('#event_reason_is_deleted').click ->
    $('#event_reason_is_deleted').val('')
    $("#delete_event_button").prop("disabled", false)

Get css top value as number not as string?

A jQuery plugin based on M4N's answer

jQuery.fn.cssNumber = function(prop){
    var v = parseInt(this.css(prop),10);
    return isNaN(v) ? 0 : v;
};

So then you just use this method to get number values

$("#logo").cssNumber("top")

Perform commands over ssh with Python

Asking User to enter the command as per the device they are logging in.
The below code is validated by PEP8online.com.

import paramiko
import xlrd
import time

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
loc = ('/Users/harshgow/Documents/PYTHON_WORK/labcred.xlsx')
wo = xlrd.open_workbook(loc)
sheet = wo.sheet_by_index(0)
Host = sheet.cell_value(0, 1)
Port = int(sheet.cell_value(3, 1))
User = sheet.cell_value(1, 1)
Pass = sheet.cell_value(2, 1)

def details(Host, Port, User, Pass):
    time.sleep(2)
    ssh.connect(Host, Port, User, Pass)
    print('connected to ip ', Host)
    stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("")
    x = input('Enter the command:')
    stdin.write(x)
    stdin.write('\n')
    print('success')

details(Host, Port, User, Pass)

How do I set up CLion to compile and run?

You can also use Microsoft Visual Studio compiler instead of Cygwin or MinGW in Windows environment as the compiler for CLion.

Just go to find Actions in Help and type "Registry" without " and enable CLion.enable.msvc Now configure toolchain with Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler. (You need to download it if not already downloaded)

follow this link for more details: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/quick-tutorial-on-configuring-clion-on-windows.html

DBCC CHECKIDENT Sets Identity to 0

As you pointed out in your question it is a documented behavior. I still find it strange though. I use to repopulate the test database and even though I do not rely on the values of identity fields it was a bit of annoying to have different values when populating the database for the first time from scratch and after removing all data and populating again.

A possible solution is to use truncate to clean the table instead of delete. But then you need to drop all the constraints and recreate them afterwards

In that way it always behaves as a newly created table and there is no need to call DBCC CHECKIDENT. The first identity value will be the one specified in the table definition and it will be the same no matter if you insert the data for the first time or for the N-th

What is the best way to merge mp3 files?

The time problem has to do with the ID3 headers of the MP3 files, which is something your method isn't taking into account as the entire file is copied.

Do you have a language of choice that you want to use or doesn't it matter? That will affect what libraries are available that support the operations you want.

asp.net Button OnClick event not firing

I had the same problem, my aspnet button's click was not firing. It turns out that some where on other part of the page has an input with html "required" attribute on.

This might be sound strange, but once I remove the required attribute, the button just works normally.

Can I pass an argument to a VBScript (vbs file launched with cscript)?

You can also use named arguments which are optional and can be given in any order.

Set namedArguments = WScript.Arguments.Named

Here's a little helper function:

Function GetNamedArgument(ByVal argumentName, ByVal defaultValue)
  If WScript.Arguments.Named.Exists(argumentName) Then
    GetNamedArgument = WScript.Arguments.Named.Item(argumentName) 
  Else  
    GetNamedArgument = defaultValue
  End If
End Function

Example VBS:

'[test.vbs]
testArg = GetNamedArgument("testArg", "-unknown-")
wscript.Echo now &": "& testArg

Example Usage:

test.vbs /testArg:123

File loading by getClass().getResource()

getClass().getResource() uses the class loader to load the resource. This means that the resource must be in the classpath to be loaded.

When doing it with Eclipse, everything you put in the source folder is "compiled" by Eclipse:

  • .java files are compiled into .class files that go the the bin directory (by default)
  • other files are copied to the bin directory (respecting the package/folder hirearchy)

When launching the program with Eclipse, the bin directory is thus in the classpath, and since it contains the Test.properties file, this file can be loaded by the class loader, using getResource() or getResourceAsStream().

If it doesn't work from the command line, it's thus because the file is not in the classpath.

Note that you should NOT do

FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(new File(getClass().getResource(url).toURI()));

to load a resource. Because that can work only if the file is loaded from the file system. If you package your app into a jar file, or if you load the classes over a network, it won't work. To get an InputStream, just use

getClass().getResourceAsStream("Test.properties")

And finally, as the documentation indicates,

Foo.class.getResourceAsStream("Test.properties")

will load a Test.properties file located in the same package as the class Foo.

Foo.class.getResourceAsStream("/com/foo/bar/Test.properties")

will load a Test.properties file located in the package com.foo.bar.

Is there any way I can define a variable in LaTeX?

This works for me: \newcommand{\variablename}{the text}

For eg: \newcommand\m{100}

So when you type " \m\ is my mark " in the source code,

the pdf output displays as :

100 is my mark

Update Jenkins from a war file

If you have installed Jenkins via apt-get, you should also update Jenkins via apt-get to avoid future problems. Updating should work via "apt-get update" and then "apt-get upgrade".

For details visit the following URL:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu

Python import csv to list

result = []
for line in text.splitlines():
    result.append(tuple(line.split(",")))

How to make VS Code to treat other file extensions as certain language?

eg:

// .vscode/settings.json in workspace

{
  "files.associations": {
    "*Container.js": "javascriptreact",
    "**/components/*/*.js": "javascriptreact",
    "**/config/routes.js": "javascriptreact"
  }
}

Stop and Start a service via batch or cmd file?

I am writing a windows service in C#, the stop/uninstall/build/install/start loop got too tiring. Wrote a mini script, called it reploy.bat and dropped in my Visual Studio output directory (one that has the built service executable) to automate the loop.

Just set these 3 vars

servicename : this shows up on the Windows Service control panel (services.msc)

slndir : folder (not the full path) containing your solution (.sln) file

binpath : full path (not the folder path) to the service executable from the build

NOTE: This needs to be run from the Visual Studio Developer Command Line for the msbuild command to work.

SET servicename="My Amazing Service"
SET slndir="C:dir\that\contains\sln\file"
SET binpath="C:path\to\service.exe"
SET currdir=%cd%

call net stop %servicename%
call sc delete %servicename%
cd %slndir%
call msbuild 
cd %bindir%
call sc create %servicename% binpath=%binpath%
call net start %servicename%
cd %currdir%

Maybe this helps someone :)

npm install vs. update - what's the difference?

The difference between npm install and npm update handling of package versions specified in package.json:

{
  "name":          "my-project",
  "version":       "1.0",                             // install   update
  "dependencies":  {                                  // ------------------
    "already-installed-versionless-module":  "*",     // ignores   "1.0" -> "1.1"
    "already-installed-semver-module":       "^1.4.3" // ignores   "1.4.3" -> "1.5.2"
    "already-installed-versioned-module":    "3.4.1"  // ignores   ignores
    "not-yet-installed-versionless-module":  "*",     // installs  installs
    "not-yet-installed-semver-module":       "^4.2.1" // installs  installs
    "not-yet-installed-versioned-module":    "2.7.8"  // installs  installs
  }
}

Summary: The only big difference is that an already installed module with fuzzy versioning ...

  • gets ignored by npm install
  • gets updated by npm update

Additionally: install and update by default handle devDependencies differently

  • npm install will install/update devDependencies unless --production flag is added
  • npm update will ignore devDependencies unless --dev flag is added

Why use npm install at all?

Because npm install does more when you look besides handling your dependencies in package.json. As you can see in npm install you can ...

  • manually install node-modules
  • set them as global (which puts them in the shell's PATH) using npm install -g <name>
  • install certain versions described by git tags
  • install from a git url
  • force a reinstall with --force

How to grant all privileges to root user in MySQL 8.0

Starting with MySQL 8 you no longer can (implicitly) create a user using the GRANT command. Use CREATE USER instead, followed by the GRANT statement:

mysql> CREATE USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'root';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Caution about the security risks about WITH GRANT OPTION, see:

Parsing ISO 8601 date in Javascript

The Date object handles 8601 as it's first parameter:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var d = new Date("2014-04-07T13:58:10.104Z");_x000D_
console.log(d.toString());
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can one develop iPhone apps in Java?

I think your teacher sent you down the wrong path.

This is a classic example of trying to put a square peg into a round hole. The best way to develop for the iPhone is with the iPhone SDK and objective C. The best way to develop for Andriod is Java and the Android SDK. The best way to develop for WinMobile is C#/VB and the .Net Framework.

As you can see each has their own "best" SDK. Since you are only learning Java I would second the suggestion to play around with Java and Android.

Cannot attach the file *.mdf as database

In my case removing Initail Cataloge=.... from connection string resolved the issue

C# adding a character in a string

You can use this:

string alpha = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
int length = alpha.Length;

for (int i = length - ((length - 1) % 5 + 1); i > 0; i -= 5)
{
    alpha = alpha.Insert(i, "-");
}

Works perfectly with any string. As always, the size doesn't matter. ;)

Moving uncommitted changes to a new branch

Just move to the new branch. The uncommited changes get carried over.

git checkout -b ABC_1

git commit -m <message>

Jquery Ajax Posting json to webservice

  1. markers is not a JSON object. It is a normal JavaScript object.
  2. Read about the data: option:

    Data to be sent to the server. It is converted to a query string, if not already a string.

If you want to send the data as JSON, you have to encode it first:

data: {markers: JSON.stringify(markers)}

jQuery does not convert objects or arrays to JSON automatically.


But I assume the error message comes from interpreting the response of the service. The text you send back is not JSON. JSON strings have to be enclosed in double quotes. So you'd have to do:

return "\"received markers\"";

I'm not sure if your actual problem is sending or receiving the data.

Node.js EACCES error when listening on most ports

On Windows System, restarting the service "Host Network Service", resolved the issue.

Creating custom function in React component

With React Functional way

import React, { useEffect } from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import Button from "@material-ui/core/Button";

const App = () => {
  const saySomething = (something) => {
    console.log(something);
  };
  useEffect(() => {
    saySomething("from useEffect");
  });
  const handleClick = (e) => {
    saySomething("element clicked");
  };
  return (
    <Button variant="contained" color="primary" onClick={handleClick}>
      Hello World
    </Button>
  );
};

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector("#app"));

https://codesandbox.io/s/currying-meadow-gm9g0

How to get the onclick calling object?

http://docs.jquery.com/Events/jQuery.Event

Try with event.target

Contains the DOM element that issued the event. This can be the element that registered for the event or a child of it.

Edit Crystal report file without Crystal Report software

My dad moved his office after 30 year and they need to update the address in the header of their Crystal Reports 7 (1997!) based billing system.

After buying old copies of Access 97 and Visual Studio 2003 Pro, I found out that both programs were too new - they could open the RPT files, but they saved them with an updated version that would not open in the billing system.

I ended up being able to make the changes using this life-saver program...

http://www.softwareforces.com/Products/rpt-inspector-professional-suite-for-crystal-reports

It was available with a 10 day free trial, and I only needed about 10 minutes to make my changes. That said, I would have happily paid whatever they asked for it. :)

Some hints:

  1. When I opened my RPT files, I got an error saving the database could not be found. I ignored this error and everything worked fine.
  2. Because my RPT files were Crystal Reports version 7, I had to go into Options->Misc and tell the program to save in the old format...

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Save bitmap to location

Make sure the directory is created before you call bitmap.compress:

new File(FileName.substring(0,FileName.lastIndexOf("/"))).mkdirs();

Iterator over HashMap in Java

With Java 8:

hm.forEach((k, v) -> {
    System.out.println("Key = " + k + " - " + v);
});

How can I represent 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' in a Swagger Spec (swagger.json)

Posting 2021 answer in JSON using openapi 3.0.0:

{
  "openapi": "3.0.0",
  ...
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "/"
    }
  ],
  ...
  "paths": {
    "/skills": {
      "put": {
        "security": [
           {
              "bearerAuth": []
           }
        ],
       ...
  },


  "components": {        
    "securitySchemes": {
      "bearerAuth": {
        "type": "http",
        "scheme": "bearer",
        "bearerFormat": "JWT"
      }
    }
  }
}

Open multiple Projects/Folders in Visual Studio Code

If you are using unix like OS, you can create a soft link to your target folder.

E.g. I want to see golang source while I am using VSCode. So, I create a soft link to go/src under my project folder.

ln -s /usr/local/go/src gosrc

Hope this helps!


Update: 11/28, 2017

Multi Root Workspaces[0] landed in the stable build, finally. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_18#_support-for-multi-root-workspaces

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/396

What is the preferred Bash shebang?

/bin/sh is usually a link to the system's default shell, which is often bash but on, e.g., Debian systems is the lighter weight dash. Either way, the original Bourne shell is sh, so if your script uses some bash (2nd generation, "Bourne Again sh") specific features ([[ ]] tests, arrays, various sugary things, etc.), then you should be more specific and use the later. This way, on systems where bash is not installed, your script won't run. I understand there may be an exciting trilogy of films about this evolution...but that could be hearsay.

Also note that when evoked as sh, bash to some extent behaves as POSIX standard sh (see also the GNU docs about this).

How to make a GridLayout fit screen size

Starting in API 21 the notion of weight was added to GridLayout.

To support older android devices, you can use the GridLayout from the v7 support library.

compile 'com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:22.2.1'

The following XML gives an example of how you can use weights to fill the screen width.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:grid="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

    android:id="@+id/choice_grid"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:padding="4dp"

    grid:alignmentMode="alignBounds"
    grid:columnCount="2"
    grid:rowOrderPreserved="false"
    grid:useDefaultMargins="true">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        grid:layout_columnWeight="1"
        grid:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:background="#FF33B5E5"
        android:text="Tile1" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        grid:layout_columnWeight="1"
        grid:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:background="#FF33B5E5"
        android:text="Tile2" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        grid:layout_columnWeight="1"
        grid:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:background="#FF33B5E5"
        android:text="Tile3" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        grid:layout_columnWeight="1"
        grid:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:background="#FF33B5E5"
        android:text="Tile4" />

</android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout>

Trigger change event of dropdown

I don't know that much JQuery but I've heard it allows to fire native events with this syntax.

$(document).ready(function(){

    $('#countrylist').change(function(e){
       // Your event handler
    });

    // And now fire change event when the DOM is ready
    $('#countrylist').trigger('change');
});

You must declare the change event handler before calling trigger() or change() otherwise it won't be fired. Thanks for the mention @LenielMacaferi.

More information here.

Full Page <iframe>

For full-screen frame redirects and similar things I have two methods. Both work fine on mobile and desktop.

Note this are complete cross-browser working, valid HTML files. Just change title and src for your needs.

1. this is my favorite:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title> Title-1 </title>
<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width">
<style>
 html, body, iframe { height:100%; width:100%; margin:0; border:0; display:block }
</style>
<iframe src=src1></iframe>

<!-- More verbose CSS for better understanding:
  html   { height:100% }
  body   { height:100%; margin:0 }
  iframe { height:100%; width:100%; border:0; display:block }
-->

or 2. something like that, slightly shorter:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title> Title-2 </title>
<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width">
<iframe src=src2 style="position:absolute; top:0; left:0; width:100%; height:100%; border:0">
</iframe>


Note:
The above examples avoid using height:100vh because old browsers don't know it (maybe moot these days) and height:100vh is not always equal to height:100% on mobile browsers (probably not applicable here). Otherwise, vh simplifies things a little bit, so

3. this is an example using vh (not my favorite, less compatible with little advantage)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title> Title-3 </title>
<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width">
<style>
 body { margin:0 }
 iframe { display:block; width:100%; height:100vh; border:0 }
</style>
<iframe src=src3></iframe>

Is it possible to get an Excel document's row count without loading the entire document into memory?

https://pythonhosted.org/pyexcel/iapi/pyexcel.sheets.Sheet.html see : row_range() Utility function to get row range

if you use pyexcel, can call row_range get max rows.

python 3.4 test pass.

Oracle SELECT TOP 10 records

If you are using Oracle 12c, use:

FETCH NEXT N ROWS ONLY

SELECT DISTINCT 
  APP_ID, 
  NAME, 
  STORAGE_GB, 
  HISTORY_CREATED, 
  TO_CHAR(HISTORY_DATE, 'DD.MM.YYYY') AS HISTORY_DATE  
  FROM HISTORY WHERE 
    STORAGE_GB IS NOT NULL AND 
      APP_ID NOT IN (SELECT APP_ID FROM HISTORY WHERE TO_CHAR(HISTORY_DATE, 'DD.MM.YYYY') ='06.02.2009')
  ORDER BY STORAGE_GB DESC
FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY

More info: http://docs.oracle.com/javadb/10.5.3.0/ref/rrefsqljoffsetfetch.html

How to get IP address of running docker container

You can start your container with the flag -P. This "assigns" a random port to the exposed port of your image.

With docker port <container id> you can see the randomly choosen port. Access is then possible via localhost:port.

jQuery UI Slider (setting programmatically)

Finally below works for me

$("#priceSlider").slider('option',{min: 5, max: 20,value:[6,19]}); $("#priceSlider").slider("refresh");

What's the proper value for a checked attribute of an HTML checkbox?

HTML5 spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#attr-input-checked :

The disabled content attribute is a boolean attribute.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#boolean-attributes :

The presence of a boolean attribute on an element represents the true value, and the absence of the attribute represents the false value.

If the attribute is present, its value must either be the empty string or a value that is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the attribute's canonical name, with no leading or trailing whitespace.

Conclusion:

The following are valid, equivalent and true:

<input type="checkbox" checked />
<input type="checkbox" checked="" />
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />
<input type="checkbox" checked="ChEcKeD" />

The following are invalid:

<input type="checkbox" checked="0" />
<input type="checkbox" checked="1" />
<input type="checkbox" checked="false" />
<input type="checkbox" checked="true" />

The absence of the attribute is the only valid syntax for false:

<input />

Recommendation

If you care about writing valid XHTML, use checked="checked", since <input checked> is invalid XHTML (but valid HTML) and other alternatives are less readable. Else, just use <input checked> as it is shorter.

How do I implement interfaces in python?

I invite you to explore what Python 3.8 has to offer for the subject matter in form of Structural subtyping (static duck typing) (PEP 544)

See the short description https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Protocol

For the simple example here it goes like this:

from typing import Protocol

class MyShowProto(Protocol):
    def show(self):
        ...


class MyClass:
    def show(self):
        print('Hello World!')


class MyOtherClass:
    pass


def foo(o: MyShowProto):
    return o.show()

foo(MyClass())  # ok
foo(MyOtherClass())  # fails

foo(MyOtherClass()) will fail static type checks:

$ mypy proto-experiment.py 
proto-experiment.py:21: error: Argument 1 to "foo" has incompatible type "MyOtherClass"; expected "MyShowProto"
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

In addition, you can specify the base class explicitly, for instance:

class MyOtherClass(MyShowProto):

but note that this makes methods of the base class actually available on the subclass, and thus the static checker will not report that a method definition is missing on the MyOtherClass. So in this case, in order to get a useful type-checking, all the methods that we want to be explicitly implemented should be decorated with @abstractmethod:

from typing import Protocol
from abc import abstractmethod

class MyShowProto(Protocol):
    @abstractmethod
    def show(self): raise NotImplementedError


class MyOtherClass(MyShowProto):
    pass


MyOtherClass()  # error in type checker

Submit HTML form on self page

Use ?:

<form action="?" method="post">

It will send the user back to the same page.

Declaring variable workbook / Worksheet vba

Third solution: I would set ws to a sheet of workbook wb as the use of Sheet("name") always refers to the active workbook, which might change as your code develops.

sub kl() 

    Dim wb As Workbook
    Dim ws As Worksheet

    Set wb = ActiveWorkbook
    'be aware as this might produce an error, if Shet "name" does not exist
    Set ws = wb.Sheets("name")
    ' if wb is other than the active workbook
    wb.activate
    ws.Select

End Sub

Transform only one axis to log10 scale with ggplot2

Another solution using scale_y_log10 with trans_breaks, trans_format and annotation_logticks()

library(ggplot2)

m <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(y = price, x = color))

m + geom_boxplot() +
  scale_y_log10(
    breaks = scales::trans_breaks("log10", function(x) 10^x),
    labels = scales::trans_format("log10", scales::math_format(10^.x))
  ) +
  theme_bw() +
  annotation_logticks(sides = 'lr') +
  theme(panel.grid.minor = element_blank())

How can I make PHP display the error instead of giving me 500 Internal Server Error

Be careful to check if

display_errors

or

error_reporting

is active (not a comment) somewhere else in the ini file.

My development server refused to display errors after upgrade to Kubuntu 16.04 - I had checked php.ini numerous times ... turned out that there was a diplay_errors = off; about 100 lines below my

display_errors = on;

So remember the last one counts!

jquery: get elements by class name and add css to each of them

What makes jQuery easy to use is that you don't have to apply attributes to each element. The jQuery object contains an array of elements, and the methods of the jQuery object applies the same attributes to all the elements in the array.

There is also a shorter form for $(document).ready(function(){...}) in $(function(){...}).

So, this is all you need:

$(function(){
  $('div.easy_editor').css('border','9px solid red');
});

If you want the code to work for any element with that class, you can just specify the class in the selector without the tag name:

$(function(){
  $('.easy_editor').css('border','9px solid red');
});

Using ORDER BY and GROUP BY together

You can try this

 SELECT tbl.* FROM (SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY timestamp DESC) as tbl
 GROUP BY tbl.m_id  

How to tell bash that the line continues on the next line

The character is a backslash \

From the bash manual:

The backslash character ‘\’ may be used to remove any special meaning for the next character read and for line continuation.

Tree view of a directory/folder in Windows?

I recommend WinDirStat.

I frequently use WinDirStat to create screen shots for user documentation of open folders and their contents.

It even uses the correct icons for Windows registered file types.

All I would say is missing is an option to display the files without their icons. I can live without it personally, since I am usually pasting the image into a paint program or Visio to edit it, but it would still be a useful feature.

string.Replace in AngularJs

In Javascript method names are camel case, so it's replace, not Replace:

$scope.newString = oldString.replace("stackover","NO");

Note that contrary to how the .NET Replace method works, the Javascript replace method replaces only the first occurrence if you are using a string as first parameter. If you want to replace all occurrences you need to use a regular expression so that you can specify the global (g) flag:

$scope.newString = oldString.replace(/stackover/g,"NO");

See this example.

Difference in Months between two dates in JavaScript

If you need to count full months, regardless of the month being 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. Below should work.

var months = to.getMonth() - from.getMonth() 
    + (12 * (to.getFullYear() - from.getFullYear()));

if(to.getDate() < from.getDate()){
    months--;
}
return months;

This is an extended version of the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/4312956/1987208 but fixes the case where it calculates 1 month for the case from 31st of January to 1st of February (1day).

This will cover the following;

  • 1st Jan to 31st Jan ---> 30days ---> will result in 0 (logical since it is not a full month)
  • 1st Feb to 1st Mar ---> 28 or 29 days ---> will result in 1 (logical since it is a full month)
  • 15th Feb to 15th Mar ---> 28 or 29 days ---> will result in 1 (logical since a month passed)
  • 31st Jan to 1st Feb ---> 1 day ---> will result in 0 (obvious but the mentioned answer in the post results in 1 month)

Java 8, Streams to find the duplicate elements

A multiset is a structure maintaining the number of occurrences for each element. Using Guava implementation:

Set<Integer> duplicated =
        ImmutableMultiset.copyOf(numbers).entrySet().stream()
                .filter(entry -> entry.getCount() > 1)
                .map(Multiset.Entry::getElement)
                .collect(Collectors.toSet());

Git command to checkout any branch and overwrite local changes

You could follow a solution similar to "How do I force “git pull” to overwrite local files?":

git fetch --all
git reset --hard origin/abranch
git checkout $branch 

That would involve only one fetch.

With Git 2.23+, git checkout is replaced here with git switch (presented here) (still experimental).

git switch -f $branch

(with -f being an alias for --discard-changes, as noted in Jan's answer)

Proceed even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD.
Both the index and working tree are restored to match the switching target.

How to call external JavaScript function in HTML

If a <script> has a src then the text content of the element will be not be executed as JS (although it will appear in the DOM).

You need to use multiple script elements.

  1. a <script> to load the external script
  2. a <script> to hold your inline code (with the call to the function in the external script)

    scroll_messages();

What is the proper use of an EventEmitter?

When you want to have cross component interaction, then you need to know what are @Input , @Output , EventEmitter and Subjects.

If the relation between components is parent- child or vice versa we use @input & @output with event emitter..

@output emits an event and you need to emit using event emitter.

If it's not parent child relationship.. then you have to use subjects or through a common service.

Does Android support near real time push notification?

If you can depend on the Google libraries being there for you target market, then you may want to piggy back on GTalk functionality (registering a resource on the existing username - the intercepting it the messages as they come in with a BroadcastReceiver).

If not, and I expect you can't, then you're into bundling your own versions of XMPP. This is a pain, but may be made easier if XMPP is bundled separately as a standalone library.

You may also consider PubSubHubub, but I have no idea the network usage of it. I believe it is built atop of XMPP.

How to change symbol for decimal point in double.ToString()?

If you have an Asp.Net web application, you can also set it in the web.config so that it is the same throughout the whole web application

<system.web>
    ...
    <globalization 
        requestEncoding="utf-8" 
        responseEncoding="utf-8" 
        culture="en-GB" 
        uiCulture="en-GB" 
        enableClientBasedCulture="false"/>
    ...
</system.web>

Update multiple values in a single statement

Have you tried with a sub-query for every field:

UPDATE
    MasterTbl
SET
    TotalX = (SELECT SUM(X) from DetailTbl where DetailTbl.MasterID = MasterTbl.ID),
    TotalY = (SELECT SUM(Y) from DetailTbl where DetailTbl.MasterID = MasterTbl.ID),
    TotalZ = (SELECT SUM(Z) from DetailTbl where DetailTbl.MasterID = MasterTbl.ID)
WHERE
    ....

Select a date from date picker using Selenium webdriver

It really depends on how it is coded but something like this may work:

driver.findElement(By.id("datepicker")).click(); //click field
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Next")).click(); //click next month
driver.findElement(By.linkText("28")).click(); //click day

PHP - Get bool to echo false when false

echo $bool_val ? 'true' : 'false';

Or if you only want output when it's false:

echo !$bool_val ? 'false' : '';

Getting a list item by index

you can use index to access list elements

List<string> list1 = new List<string>();
list1[0] //for getting the first element of the list

Is returning out of a switch statement considered a better practice than using break?

A break will allow you continue processing in the function. Just returning out of the switch is fine if that's all you want to do in the function.

Center image horizontally within a div

Put an equal pixel padding for left and right:

<div id="artiststhumbnail" style="padding-left:ypx;padding-right:ypx">

How many files can I put in a directory?

I respect this doesn't totally answer your question as to how many is too many, but an idea for solving the long term problem is that in addition to storing the original file metadata, also store which folder on disk it is stored in - normalize out that piece of metadata. Once a folder grows beyond some limit you are comfortable with for performance, aesthetic or whatever reason, you just create a second folder and start dropping files there...

Getting attribute using XPath

you can use:

(//@lang)[1]

these means you get all attributes nodes with name equal to "lang" and get the first one.

MVC4 StyleBundle not resolving images

Although Chris Baxter's answer helps with original problem, it doesn't work in my case when application is hosted in virtual directory. After investigating the options, I finished with DIY solution.

ProperStyleBundle class includes code borrowed from original CssRewriteUrlTransform to properly transform relative paths within virtual directory. It also throws if file doesn't exist and prevents reordering of files in the bundle (code taken from BetterStyleBundle).

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Optimization;
using System.Linq;

namespace MyNamespace
{
    public class ProperStyleBundle : StyleBundle
    {
        public override IBundleOrderer Orderer
        {
            get { return new NonOrderingBundleOrderer(); }
            set { throw new Exception( "Unable to override Non-Ordered bundler" ); }
        }

        public ProperStyleBundle( string virtualPath ) : base( virtualPath ) {}

        public ProperStyleBundle( string virtualPath, string cdnPath ) : base( virtualPath, cdnPath ) {}

        public override Bundle Include( params string[] virtualPaths )
        {
            foreach ( var virtualPath in virtualPaths ) {
                this.Include( virtualPath );
            }
            return this;
        }

        public override Bundle Include( string virtualPath, params IItemTransform[] transforms )
        {
            var realPath = System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath( virtualPath );
            if( !File.Exists( realPath ) )
            {
                throw new FileNotFoundException( "Virtual path not found: " + virtualPath );
            }
            var trans = new List<IItemTransform>( transforms ).Union( new[] { new ProperCssRewriteUrlTransform( virtualPath ) } ).ToArray();
            return base.Include( virtualPath, trans );
        }

        // This provides files in the same order as they have been added. 
        private class NonOrderingBundleOrderer : IBundleOrderer
        {
            public IEnumerable<BundleFile> OrderFiles( BundleContext context, IEnumerable<BundleFile> files )
            {
                return files;
            }
        }

        private class ProperCssRewriteUrlTransform : IItemTransform
        {
            private readonly string _basePath;

            public ProperCssRewriteUrlTransform( string basePath )
            {
                _basePath = basePath.EndsWith( "/" ) ? basePath : VirtualPathUtility.GetDirectory( basePath );
            }

            public string Process( string includedVirtualPath, string input )
            {
                if ( includedVirtualPath == null ) {
                    throw new ArgumentNullException( "includedVirtualPath" );
                }
                return ConvertUrlsToAbsolute( _basePath, input );
            }

            private static string RebaseUrlToAbsolute( string baseUrl, string url )
            {
                if ( string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace( url )
                     || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace( baseUrl )
                     || url.StartsWith( "/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase )
                     || url.StartsWith( "data:", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase )
                    ) {
                    return url;
                }
                if ( !baseUrl.EndsWith( "/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase ) ) {
                    baseUrl = baseUrl + "/";
                }
                return VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute( baseUrl + url );
            }

            private static string ConvertUrlsToAbsolute( string baseUrl, string content )
            {
                if ( string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace( content ) ) {
                    return content;
                }
                return new Regex( "url\\(['\"]?(?<url>[^)]+?)['\"]?\\)" )
                    .Replace( content, ( match =>
                                         "url(" + RebaseUrlToAbsolute( baseUrl, match.Groups["url"].Value ) + ")" ) );
            }
        }
    }
}

Use it like StyleBundle:

bundles.Add( new ProperStyleBundle( "~/styles/ui" )
    .Include( "~/Content/Themes/cm_default/style.css" )
    .Include( "~/Content/themes/custom-theme/jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.css" )
    .Include( "~/Content/DataTables-1.9.4/media/css/jquery.dataTables.css" )
    .Include( "~/Content/DataTables-1.9.4/extras/TableTools/media/css/TableTools.css" ) );

Determining if an Object is of primitive type

commons-lang ClassUtils has relevant methods.

The new version has:

boolean isPrimitiveOrWrapped = 
    ClassUtils.isPrimitiveOrWrapper(object.getClass());

The old versions have wrapperToPrimitive(clazz) method, which will return the primitive correspondence.

boolean isPrimitiveOrWrapped = 
    clazz.isPrimitive() || ClassUtils.wrapperToPrimitive(clazz) != null;

yii2 hidden input value

Use the following:

echo $form->field($model, 'hidden1')->hiddenInput(['value'=> $value])->label(false);

Transpose a data frame

You'd better not transpose the data.frame while the name column is in it - all numeric values will then be turned into strings!

Here's a solution that keeps numbers as numbers:

# first remember the names
n <- df.aree$name

# transpose all but the first column (name)
df.aree <- as.data.frame(t(df.aree[,-1]))
colnames(df.aree) <- n
df.aree$myfactor <- factor(row.names(df.aree))

str(df.aree) # Check the column types

PostgreSQL: role is not permitted to log in

CREATE ROLE blog WITH
  LOGIN
  SUPERUSER
  INHERIT
  CREATEDB
  CREATEROLE
  REPLICATION;

COMMENT ON ROLE blog IS 'Test';

How to redirect verbose garbage collection output to a file?

If in addition you want to pipe the output to a separate file, you can do:

On a Sun JVM:

-Xloggc:C:\whereever\jvm.log -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps

ON an IBM JVM:

-Xverbosegclog:C:\whereever\jvm.log 

How to calculate moving average without keeping the count and data-total?

A neat Python solution based on the above answers:

class RunningAverage():
    def __init__(self):
        self.average = 0
        self.n = 0
        
    def __call__(self, new_value):
        self.n += 1
        self.average = (self.average * (self.n-1) + new_value) / self.n 
        
    def __float__(self):
        return self.average
    
    def __repr__(self):
        return "average: " + str(self.average)

usage:

x = RunningAverage()
x(0)
x(2)
x(4)
print(x)

If '<selector>' is an Angular component, then verify that it is part of this module

  1. Declare your MyComponentComponent in MyComponentModule
  2. Add your MyComponentComponent to exports attribute of MyComponentModule

mycomponentModule.ts

@NgModule({
   imports: [],
   exports: [MyComponentComponent],
   declarations: [MyComponentComponent],
   providers: [],
})

export class MyComponentModule {
}
  1. Add your MyComponentModule to your AppModule imports attribute

app.module.ts

    @NgModule({
       imports: [MyComponentModule]
       declarations: [AppComponent],
       providers: [],
       bootstrap: [AppComponent]
    })
    export class AppModule {} 

Important If your still have that error, Stop your server ctrl+c from terminal, and run it again ng serve -o

How can I check if char* variable points to empty string?

An empty string has one single null byte. So test if (s[0] == (char)0)

How to simulate a click with JavaScript?

What about something simple like:

document.getElementById('elementID').click();

Supported even by IE.

Deleting Objects in JavaScript

Setting a variable to null makes sure to break any references to objects in all browsers including circular references being made between the DOM elements and Javascript scopes. By using delete command we are marking objects to be cleared on the next run of the Garbage collection, but if there are multiple variables referencing the same object, deleting a single variable WILL NOT free the object, it will just remove the linkage between that variable and the object. And on the next run of the Garbage collection, only the variable will be cleaned.

How to hide image broken Icon using only CSS/HTML?

The trick with img::after is a good stuff, but has at least 2 downsides:

  1. not supported by all browsers (e.g. doesn't work on Edge https://codepen.io/dsheiko/pen/VgYErm)
  2. you cannot simply hide the image, you cover it - so not that helpful when you what to show a default image in the case

I do not know an universal solution without JavaScript, but for Firefox only there is a nice one:

img:-moz-broken{
  opacity: 0;
}

Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?

Beyond historical (good and already reported) reasons, there's is also a little problem with operators precedence: dot operator has higher priority than star operator, so if you have struct containing pointer to struct containing pointer to struct... These two are equivalent:

(*(*(*a).b).c).d

a->b->c->d

But the second is clearly more readable. Arrow operator has the highest priority (just as dot) and associates left to right. I think this is clearer than use dot operator both for pointers to struct and struct, because we know the type from the expression without have to look at the declaration, that could even be in another file.

Auto populate columns in one sheet from another sheet

If I understood you right you want to have sheet1!A1 in sheet2!A1, sheet1!A2 in sheet2!A2,...right?

It might not be the best way but you may type the following

=IF(sheet1!A1<>"",sheet1!A1,"")

and drag it down to the maximum number of rows you expect.

Changing ImageView source

Changing ImageView source:

Using setBackgroundResource() method:

  myImgView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.monkey);

you are putting that monkey in the background.

I suggest the use of setImageResource() method:

  myImgView.setImageResource(R.drawable.monkey);

or with setImageDrawable() method:

myImgView.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.monkey));

*** With new android API 22 getResources().getDrawable() is now deprecated. This is an example how to use now:

myImgView.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.monkey, getApplicationContext().getTheme()));

and how to validate for old API versions:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
     myImgView.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.monkey, getApplicationContext().getTheme()));
   } else {
     myImgView.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.monkey));
}

.htaccess, order allow, deny, deny from all: confused?

This is a quite confusing way of using Apache configuration directives.

Technically, the first bit is equivalent to

Allow From All

This is because Order Deny,Allow makes the Deny directive evaluated before the Allow Directives. In this case, Deny and Allow conflict with each other, but Allow, being the last evaluated will match any user, and access will be granted.

Now, just to make things clear, this kind of configuration is BAD and should be avoided at all cost, because it borders undefined behaviour.

The Limit sections define which HTTP methods have access to the directory containing the .htaccess file.

Here, GET and POST methods are allowed access, and PUT and DELETE methods are denied access. Here's a link explaining what the various HTTP methods are: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

However, it's more than often useless to use these limitations as long as you don't have custom CGI scripts or Apache modules that directly handle the non-standard methods (PUT and DELETE), since by default, Apache does not handle them at all.

It must also be noted that a few other methods exist that can also be handled by Limit, namely CONNECT, OPTIONS, PATCH, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.

The last bit is also most certainly useless, since any correctly configured Apache installation contains the following piece of configuration (for Apache 2.2 and earlier):

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being 
# viewed by Web clients. 
#
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy all
</Files>

which forbids access to any file beginning by ".ht".

The equivalent Apache 2.4 configuration should look like:

<Files ~ "^\.ht">
    Require all denied
</Files>

How can I get double quotes into a string literal?

Thankfully, with C++11 there is also the more pleasing approach of using raw string literals.

printf("She said \"time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana\".");

Becomes:

printf(R"(She said "time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana".)");

With respect to the addition of brackets after the opening quote, and before the closing quote, note that they can be almost any combination of up to 16 characters, helping avoid the situation where the combination is present in the string itself. Specifically:

any member of the basic source character set except: space, the left parenthesis (, the right parenthesis ), the backslash , and the control characters representing horizontal tab, vertical tab, form feed, and newline" (N3936 §2.14.5 [lex.string] grammar) and "at most 16 characters" (§2.14.5/2)

How much clearer it makes this short strings might be debatable, but when used on longer formatted strings like HTML or JSON, it's unquestionably far clearer.

How to Select Columns in Editors (Atom,Notepad++, Kate, VIM, Sublime, Textpad,etc) and IDEs (NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc)

With Nedit you can do several operations with selected column:

CTRL+LEFT-MOUSE -> Mark Rectangular Text-Area

MIDDLE-MOUSE pressed in area -> moving text area with pushing aside other text

CTRL+MIDDLE-MOUSE pressed in marked area -> moving text area with overriding aside text and deleting text from original position

CTRL+SHIFT+MIDDLE-MOUSE pressed in marked area -> copying text area with overriding aside text and keeping text from original position

htaccess remove index.php from url

I don't have to many bulky code to give out just a little snippet solved the issue for me.

i have https://example.com/entitlements/index.php rather i want anyone that types it to get error on request event if you type https://example.com/entitlements/index you will still get error since there's this word "index" is contained there will always be an error thrown back though the content of index.php will still be displayed properly

cletus post on "https://stackoverflow.com/a/1055655/12192635" which solved it

Edit your .htaccess file with the below to redirect people visiting https://example.com/entitlements/index.php to 404 page

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \.php[\ /?].*HTTP/
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=404,L]

to redirect people visiting https://example.com/entitlements/index to 404 page

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \index[\ /?].*HTTP/
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=404,L]

Not withstanding we have already known that the above code works with already existing codes on stack see where i applied the code above just below the all codes at it end.

# The following will allow you to use URLs such as the following:
#
#   example.com/anything
#   example.com/anything/
#
# Which will actually serve files such as the following:
#
#   example.com/anything.html
#   example.com/anything.php
#
# But *only if they exist*, otherwise it will report the usual 404 error.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

# Remove trailing slashes.
# e.g. example.com/foo/ will redirect to example.com/foo
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=permanent,QSA]

# Redirect to HTML if it exists.
# e.g. example.com/foo will display the contents of example.com/foo.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.html [L,QSA]

# Redirect to PHP if it exists.
# e.g. example.com/foo will display the contents of example.com/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \.php[\ /?].*HTTP/
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=404,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \index[\ /?].*HTTP/
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=404,L]

How to get JSON object from Razor Model object in javascript

You could use the following:

var json = @Html.Raw(Json.Encode(@Model.CollegeInformationlist));

This would output the following (without seeing your model I've only included one field):

<script>
    var json = [{"State":"a state"}];   
</script>

Working Fiddle

AspNetCore

AspNetCore uses Json.Serialize intead of Json.Encode

var json = @Html.Raw(Json.Serialize(@Model.CollegeInformationlist));

MVC 5/6

You can use Newtonsoft for this:

    @Html.Raw(Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Model, 
Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented))

This gives you more control of the json formatting i.e. indenting as above, camelcasing etc.

What file uses .md extension and how should I edit them?

Stack Edit is an online markdown editor with the ability to save to Google Drive and DropBox.

What is the fastest factorial function in JavaScript?

One line answer:

_x000D_
_x000D_
const factorial = (num, accumulator) => num <= 1 ? accumulator || 1 : factorial(--num, num * (accumulator || num + 1));_x000D_
_x000D_
factorial(5); // 120_x000D_
factorial(10); // 3628800_x000D_
factorial(3); // 6_x000D_
factorial(7); // 5040_x000D_
// et cetera
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Make the image go behind the text and keep it in center using CSS

I style my css in its own file. So I'm not sure how you need to type it in as your are styling inside your html file. But you can use the Img{ position: relative Top: 150px; Left: 40px; } This would move my image up 150px and towards the right 40px. This method makes it so you can move anything you want on your page any where on your page If this is confusing just look on YouTube about position: relative

I also use the same method to move my h1 tag on top of my image.

In my html5 file my image is first and below that I have my h1 tag. Idk if this effects witch will be displayed on top of the other one.

Hope this helps.

How to create a project from existing source in Eclipse and then find it?

In the package explorer and the navigation screen you should now see the project you created. Note that eclipse will not copy your files, it will just allow you to use the existing source and edit it from eclipse.

How to trust a apt repository : Debian apt-get update error public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY <id>

I had the same problem of "gpg: keyserver timed out" with a couple of different servers. Finally, it turned out that I didn't need to do that manually at all. On a Debian system, the simple solution which fixed it was just (as root or precede with sudo):

aptitude install debian-archive-keyring

In case it is some other keyring you need, check out

apt-cache search keyring | grep debian

My squeeze system shows all these:

debian-archive-keyring       - GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive
debian-edu-archive-keyring   - GnuPG archive keys of the Debian Edu archive
debian-keyring               - GnuPG keys of Debian Developers
debian-ports-archive-keyring - GnuPG archive keys of the debian-ports archive
emdebian-archive-keyring     - GnuPG archive keys for the emdebian repository

Create iOS Home Screen Shortcuts on Chrome for iOS

The is no API for adding a shortcut to the home screen in iOS, so no third-party browser is capable of providing that functionality.

Debug JavaScript in Eclipse

I'm not a 100% sure but I think Aptana let's you do that.

How do I execute a file in Cygwin?

When you start in Cygwin you are in the "/home/Administrator" zone, so put your a.exe file there.

Then at the prompt run:

cd a.exe

It will be read in by Cygwin and you will be asked to install it.

Check if element exists in jQuery

If you have a class on your element, then you can try the following:

if( $('.exists_content').hasClass('exists_content') ){
 //element available
}

Override body style for content in an iframe

Override another domain iframe CSS

By using part of SimpleSam5's answer, I achieved this with a few of Tawk's chat iframes (their customization interface is fine but I needed further customizations).

In this particular iframe that shows up on mobile devices, I needed to hide the default icon and place one of my background images. I did the following:

Tawk_API.onLoad = function() {
// without a specific API, you may try a similar load function
// perhaps with a setTimeout to ensure the iframe's content is fully loaded
  $('#mtawkchat-minified-iframe-element').
    contents().find("head").append(
     $("<style type='text/css'>"+
       "#tawkchat-status-text-container {"+
         "background: url(https://example.net/img/my_mobile_bg.png) no-repeat center center blue;"+
         "background-size: 100%;"+
       "} "+
       "#tawkchat-status-icon {display:none} </style>")
   );
};

I do not own any Tawk's domain and this worked for me, thus you may do this even if it's not from the same parent domain (despite Jeremy Becker's comment on Sam's answer).

C# Select elements in list as List of string

List<string> empnames = emplist.Select(e => e.Ename).ToList();

This is an example of Projection in Linq. Followed by a ToList to resolve the IEnumerable<string> into a List<string>.

Alternatively in Linq syntax (head compiled):

var empnamesEnum = from emp in emplist 
                   select emp.Ename;
List<string> empnames = empnamesEnum.ToList();

Projection is basically representing the current type of the enumerable as a new type. You can project to anonymous types, another known type by calling constructors etc, or an enumerable of one of the properties (as in your case).

For example, you can project an enumerable of Employee to an enumerable of Tuple<int, string> like so:

var tuples = emplist.Select(e => new Tuple<int, string>(e.EID, e.Ename));

How can I echo HTML in PHP?

Don't echo out HTML.

If you want to use

<?php echo "<h1>  $title; </h1>"; ?>

you should be doing this:

<h1><?= $title;?></h1>

Why can't DateTime.Parse parse UTC date

or use the AdjustToUniversal DateTimeStyle in a call to

DateTime.ParseExact(String, String[], IFormatProvider, DateTimeStyles)

how to draw a rectangle in HTML or CSS?

In the HTML page you have to to put your css code between the tags, while in the body a div which has as id rectangle. Here the code:

<!doctype>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#rectangle 
{
   all your css code
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="rectangle"></div>
</body>
</html>

How to convert all text to lowercase in Vim

  1. If you really mean small caps, then no, that is not possible – just as it isn’t possible to convert text to bold or italic in any text editor (as opposed to word processor). If you want to convert text to lowercase, create a visual block and press u (or U to convert to uppercase). Tilde (~) in command mode reverses case of the character under the cursor.

  2. If you want to see all text in Vim in small caps, you might want to look at the guifont option, or type :set guifont=* if your Vim flavour supports GUI font chooser.

How do I add files and folders into GitHub repos?

You can add files using git add, example git add README, git add <folder>/*, or even git add *

Then use git commit -m "<Message>" to commit files

Finally git push -u origin master to push files.

When you make modifications run git status which gives you the list of files modified, add them using git add * for everything or you can specify each file individually, then git commit -m <message> and finally, git push -u origin master

Example - say you created a file README, running git status gives you

$ git status
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#   README

Run git add README, the files are staged for committing. Then run git status again, it should give you - the files have been added and ready for committing.

$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   new file:   README
#

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Then run git commit -m 'Added README'

$ git commit -m 'Added README'
[master 6402a2e] Added README
  0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 README

Finally, git push -u origin master to push the remote branch master for the repository origin.

$ git push -u origin master
Counting objects: 4, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 267 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
To [email protected]:xxx/xxx.git
   292c57a..6402a2e  master -> master
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.

The files have been pushed successfully to the remote repository.

Running a git pull origin master to ensure you have absorbed any upstream changes

$ git pull origin master
remote: Counting objects: 12, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 8 (delta 4), reused 7 (delta 3)
Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), done.
From xxx.com:xxx/xxx
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating e0ef362..6402a2e
Fast-forward
 public/javascript/xxx.js |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README

If you do not want to merge the upstream changes with your local repository, run git fetch to fetch the changes and then git merge to merge the changes. git pull is just a combination of fetch and merge.

I have personally used gitimmersion - http://gitimmersion.com/ to get upto curve on git, its a step-by-step guide, if you need some documentation and help

What is the purpose of the var keyword and when should I use it (or omit it)?

Without var - global variable.

Strongly recommended to ALWAYS use var statement, because init global variable in local context - is evil. But, if you need this dirty trick, you should write comment at start of page:

/* global: varname1, varname2... */

Microsoft Web API: How do you do a Server.MapPath?

Since Server.MapPath() does not exist within a Web Api (Soap or REST), you'll need to denote the local- relative to the web server's context- home directory. The easiest way to do so is with:

string AppContext.BaseDirectory { get;}

You can then use this to concatenate a path string to map the relative path to any file.
NOTE: string paths are \ and not / like they are in mvc.

Ex:

System.IO.File.Exists($"{**AppContext.BaseDirectory**}\\\\Content\\\\pics\\\\{filename}");

returns true- positing that this is a sound path in your example

How to get the selected value from drop down list in jsp?

use jquery

$("#item").change(function({
    var x=$(this).val();
});

Your value will be in x variable, use this variable value in your jsp, like this {x} this statement will give the value

How to get the size of a string in Python?

If you are talking about the length of the string, you can use len():

>>> s = 'please answer my question'
>>> len(s)  # number of characters in s
25

If you need the size of the string in bytes, you need sys.getsizeof():

>>> import sys
>>> sys.getsizeof(s)
58

Also, don't call your string variable str. It shadows the built-in str() function.

How to convert date to string and to date again?

try this function

public static Date StringToDate(String strDate) throws ModuleException {
    Date dtReturn = null;
    SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
    try {
        dtReturn = simpleDateFormat.parse(strDate);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return dtReturn;
}

Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

In linux,

find project_directory_name_here -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find project_directory_name_here -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

It will replace all files and folder permission of project_directory_name_here and its inside stuff.

SQL: How do I SELECT only the rows with a unique value on certain column?

Utilizing the "dynamic table" capability in SQL Server (querying against a parenthesis-surrounded query), you can return 2000, 49 w/ the following. If your platform doesn't offer an equivalent to the "dynamic table" ANSI-extention, you can always utilize a temp table in two-steps/statement by inserting the results within the "dynamic table" to a temp table, and then performing a subsequent select on the temp table.

DECLARE  @T TABLE(
    [contract] INT,
    project INT,
    activity INT
)

INSERT INTO @T VALUES( 1000,    8000,    10 )
INSERT INTO @T VALUES( 1000,    8000,    20 )
INSERT INTO @T VALUES( 1000,    8001,    10 )
INSERT INTO @T VALUES( 2000,    9000,    49 )
INSERT INTO @T VALUES( 2000,    9001,    49 )
INSERT INTO @T VALUES( 3000,    9000,    79 )
INSERT INTO @T VALUES( 3000,    9000,    78 )

SELECT
    [contract],
    [Activity] =  max (activity)
FROM
    (
    SELECT
        [contract],
        [Activity]
    FROM
        @T
    GROUP BY
        [contract],
        [Activity]
    ) t
GROUP BY
    [contract]
HAVING count (*) = 1

How to detect the OS from a Bash script?

I tend to keep my .bashrc and .bash_alias on a file share that all platforms can access. This is how I conquer the problem in my .bash_alias:

if [[ -f (name of share)/.bash_alias_$(uname) ]]; then
    . (name of share)/.bash_alias_$(uname)
fi

And I have for example a .bash_alias_Linux with:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

This way I keep platform specific and portable code separate, you can do the same for .bashrc

jQuery ajax request being block because Cross-Origin

Try with cURL request for cross-domain.

If you are working through third party APIs or getting data through CROSS-DOMAIN, it is always recommended to use cURL script (server side) which is more secure.

I always prefer cURL script.

Int division: Why is the result of 1/3 == 0?

public static void main(String[] args) {
    double g = 1 / 3;
    System.out.printf("%.2f", g);
}

Since both 1 and 3 are ints the result not rounded but it's truncated. So you ignore fractions and take only wholes.

To avoid this have at least one of your numbers 1 or 3 as a decimal form 1.0 and/or 3.0.

How to print out a variable in makefile

If you simply want some output, you want to use $(info) by itself. You can do that anywhere in a Makefile, and it will show when that line is evaluated:

$(info VAR="$(VAR)")

Will output VAR="<value of VAR>" whenever make processes that line. This behavior is very position dependent, so you must make sure that the $(info) expansion happens AFTER everything that could modify $(VAR) has already happened!

A more generic option is to create a special rule for printing the value of a variable. Generally speaking, rules are executed after variables are assigned, so this will show you the value that is actually being used. (Though, it is possible for a rule to change a variable.) Good formatting will help clarify what a variable is set to, and the $(flavor) function will tell you what kind of a variable something is. So in this rule:

print-% : ; $(info $* is a $(flavor $*) variable set to [$($*)]) @true
  • $* expands to the stem that the % pattern matched in the rule.
  • $($*) expands to the value of the variable whose name is given by by $*.
  • The [ and ] clearly delineate the variable expansion. You could also use " and " or similar.
  • $(flavor $*) tells you what kind of variable it is. NOTE: $(flavor) takes a variable name, and not its expansion. So if you say make print-LDFLAGS, you get $(flavor LDFLAGS), which is what you want.
  • $(info text) provides output. Make prints text on its stdout as a side-effect of the expansion. The expansion of $(info) though is empty. You can think of it like @echo, but importantly it doesn't use the shell, so you don't have to worry about shell quoting rules.
  • @true is there just to provide a command for the rule. Without that, make will also output print-blah is up to date. I feel @true makes it more clear that it's meant to be a no-op.

Running it, you get

$ make print-LDFLAGS
LDFLAGS is a recursive variable set to [-L/Users/...]

TSQL - Cast string to integer or return default value

If you are on SQL Server 2012 (or newer):

Use the TRY_CONVERT function.

If you are on SQL Server 2005, 2008, or 2008 R2:

Create a user defined function. This will avoid the issues that Fedor Hajdu mentioned with regards to currency, fractional numbers, etc:

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.TryConvertInt(@Value varchar(18))
RETURNS int
AS
BEGIN
    SET @Value = REPLACE(@Value, ',', '')
    IF ISNUMERIC(@Value + 'e0') = 0 RETURN NULL
    IF ( CHARINDEX('.', @Value) > 0 AND CONVERT(bigint, PARSENAME(@Value, 1)) <> 0 ) RETURN NULL
    DECLARE @I bigint =
        CASE
        WHEN CHARINDEX('.', @Value) > 0 THEN CONVERT(bigint, PARSENAME(@Value, 2))
        ELSE CONVERT(bigint, @Value)
        END
    IF ABS(@I) > 2147483647 RETURN NULL
    RETURN @I
END
GO

-- Testing
DECLARE @Test TABLE(Value nvarchar(50))    -- Result
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '1234'            -- 1234
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '1,234'           -- 1234
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '1234.0'          -- 1234
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '-1234'           -- -1234
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '$1234'           -- NULL
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '1234e10'         -- NULL
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '1234 5678'       -- NULL
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '123-456'         -- NULL
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '1234.5'          -- NULL
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT '123456789000000' -- NULL
INSERT INTO @Test SELECT 'N/A'             -- NULL
SELECT Value, dbo.TryConvertInt(Value) FROM @Test

Reference: I used this page extensively when creating my solution.

Angular - Set headers for every request

Create a custom Http class by extending the Angular 2 Http Provider and simply override the constructor and request method in you custom Http class. The example below adds Authorization header in every http request.

import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';
import {Http, XHRBackend, RequestOptions, Request, RequestOptionsArgs, Response, Headers} from '@angular/http';
import {Observable} from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';

@Injectable()
export class HttpService extends Http {

  constructor (backend: XHRBackend, options: RequestOptions) {
    let token = localStorage.getItem('auth_token'); // your custom token getter function here
    options.headers.set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`);
    super(backend, options);
  }

  request(url: string|Request, options?: RequestOptionsArgs): Observable<Response> {
    let token = localStorage.getItem('auth_token');
    if (typeof url === 'string') { // meaning we have to add the token to the options, not in url
      if (!options) {
        // let's make option object
        options = {headers: new Headers()};
      }
      options.headers.set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`);
    } else {
    // we have to add the token to the url object
      url.headers.set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`);
    }
    return super.request(url, options).catch(this.catchAuthError(this));
  }

  private catchAuthError (self: HttpService) {
    // we have to pass HttpService's own instance here as `self`
    return (res: Response) => {
      console.log(res);
      if (res.status === 401 || res.status === 403) {
        // if not authenticated
        console.log(res);
      }
      return Observable.throw(res);
    };
  }
}

Then configure your main app.module.ts to provide the XHRBackend as the ConnectionBackend provider and the RequestOptions to your custom Http class:

import { HttpModule, RequestOptions, XHRBackend } from '@angular/http';
import { HttpService } from './services/http.service';
...
@NgModule({
  imports: [..],
  providers: [
    {
      provide: HttpService,
      useFactory: (backend: XHRBackend, options: RequestOptions) => {
        return new HttpService(backend, options);
      },
      deps: [XHRBackend, RequestOptions]
    }
  ],
  bootstrap: [ AppComponent ]
})

After that, you can now use your custom http provider in your services. For example:

import { Injectable }     from '@angular/core';
import {HttpService} from './http.service';

@Injectable()
class UserService {
  constructor (private http: HttpService) {}

  // token will added automatically to get request header
  getUser (id: number) {
    return this.http.get(`/users/${id}`).map((res) => {
      return res.json();
    } );
  }
}

Here's a comprehensive guide - http://adonespitogo.com/articles/angular-2-extending-http-provider/

getElementById in React

import React, { useState } from 'react';

function App() {
  const [apes , setap] = useState('yo');
  const handleClick = () =>{
    setap(document.getElementById('name').value)
  };
  return (
    <div>
      <input id='name' />
      <h2> {apes} </h2>
      <button onClick={handleClick} />
  </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Rails 4 Authenticity Token

When you define you own html form then you have to include authentication token string ,that should be sent to controller for security reasons. If you use rails form helper to generate the authenticity token is added to form as follow.

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/login/signin" method="post">
  <div style="display:none">
    <input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" />
    <input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="x37DrAAwyIIb7s+w2+AdoCR8cAJIpQhIetKRrPgG5VA=">
  </div>
    ...
</form>

So the solution to the problem is either to add authenticity_token field or use rails form helpers rather then compromising security etc.

What are the sizes used for the iOS application splash screen?

For Adobe AIR iOS Developers, take note that if your iPad Splash images "shift" or display and scale a second later, it's because there are different dimensions depending on what version of AIR you're using.

Default-Portrait.png:
768 x 1004 (AIR 3.3 and earlier)
768 x 1024 (AIR 3.4 and higher)

[email protected]:
1536 x 2008 (AIR 3.3 and earlier)
1536 x 2048 (AIR 3.4 and higher)

Reference:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS901d38e593cd1bac1e63e3d129907d2886-8000.html#WS901d38e593cd1bac58d08f9112e26606ea8-8000

How to implement Android Pull-to-Refresh

I think the best library is : https://github.com/chrisbanes/Android-PullToRefresh.

Works with:

ListView
ExpandableListView
GridView
WebView
ScrollView
HorizontalScrollView
ViewPager

How to run a makefile in Windows?

Check out cygwin, a Unix alike environment for Windows

Get battery level and state in Android

You can use this to get remaining charged in percentage.

private void batteryLevel() {
        BroadcastReceiver batteryLevelReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
            public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
                context.unregisterReceiver(this);
                int rawlevel = intent.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_LEVEL, -1);
                int scale = intent.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_SCALE, -1);
                int level = -1;
                if (rawlevel >= 0 && scale > 0) {
                    level = (rawlevel * 100) / scale;
                }
                batterLevel.setText("Battery Level Remaining: " + level + "%");
            }
        };
        IntentFilter batteryLevelFilter = new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED);
        registerReceiver(batteryLevelReceiver, batteryLevelFilter);
    }

bootstrap jquery show.bs.modal event won't fire

Ensure that you are loading jQuery before you use Bootstrap. Sounds basic, but I was having issues catching these modal events and turns out the error was not with my code but that I was loading Bootstrap before jQuery.

Double border with different color

Alternatively, you can use pseudo-elements to do so :) the advantage of the pseudo-element solution is that you can use it to space the inner border at an arbitrary distance away from the actual border, and the background will show through that space. The markup:

_x000D_
_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #ccc 50%, #fff 50%);_x000D_
  background-repeat: no-repeat;_x000D_
  height: 100vh;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.double-border {_x000D_
  background-color: #ccc;_x000D_
  border: 4px solid #fff;_x000D_
  padding: 2em;_x000D_
  width: 16em;_x000D_
  height: 16em;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  margin: 0 auto;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.double-border:before {_x000D_
  background: none;_x000D_
  border: 4px solid #fff;_x000D_
  content: "";_x000D_
  display: block;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  top: 4px;_x000D_
  left: 4px;_x000D_
  right: 4px;_x000D_
  bottom: 4px;_x000D_
  pointer-events: none;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="double-border">_x000D_
  <!-- Content -->_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

If you want borders that are consecutive to each other (no space between them), you can use multiple box-shadow declarations (separated by commas) to do so:

_x000D_
_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #ccc 50%, #fff 50%);_x000D_
  background-repeat: no-repeat;_x000D_
  height: 100vh;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.double-border {_x000D_
  background-color: #ccc;_x000D_
  border: 4px solid #fff;_x000D_
  box-shadow:_x000D_
    inset 0 0 0 4px #eee,_x000D_
    inset 0 0 0 8px #ddd,_x000D_
    inset 0 0 0 12px #ccc,_x000D_
    inset 0 0 0 16px #bbb,_x000D_
    inset 0 0 0 20px #aaa,_x000D_
    inset 0 0 0 20px #999,_x000D_
    inset 0 0 0 20px #888;_x000D_
  /* And so on and so forth, if you want border-ception */_x000D_
  margin: 0 auto;_x000D_
  padding: 3em;_x000D_
  width: 16em;_x000D_
  height: 16em;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="double-border">_x000D_
  <!-- Content -->_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Lua - Current time in milliseconds

If you're using OpenResty then it provides for in-built millisecond time accuracy through the use of its ngx.now() function. Although if you want fine grained millisecond accuracy then you may need to call ngx.update_time() first. Or if you want to go one step further...

If you are using luajit enabled environment, such as OpenResty, then you can also use ffi to access C based time functions such as gettimeofday() e.g: (Note: The pcall check for the existence of struct timeval is only necessary if you're running it repeatedly e.g. via content_by_lua_file in OpenResty - without it you run into errors such as attempt to redefine 'timeval')

if pcall(ffi.typeof, "struct timeval") then
        -- check if already defined.
else
        -- undefined! let's define it!
        ffi.cdef[[
           typedef struct timeval {
                long tv_sec;
                long tv_usec;
           } timeval;

        int gettimeofday(struct timeval* t, void* tzp);
]]
end
local gettimeofday_struct = ffi.new("struct timeval")
local function gettimeofday()
        ffi.C.gettimeofday(gettimeofday_struct, nil)
        return tonumber(gettimeofday_struct.tv_sec) * 1000000 + tonumber(gettimeofday_struct.tv_usec)
end

Then the new lua gettimeofday() function can be called from lua to provide the clock time to microsecond level accuracy.

Indeed, one could take a similar approaching using clock_gettime() to obtain nanosecond accuracy.

Spring Boot: Cannot access REST Controller on localhost (404)

Place your springbootapplication class in root package for example if your service,controller is in springBoot.xyz package then your main class should be in springBoot package otherwise it will not scan below packages

Angular2: custom pipe could not be found

This didnt worked for me. (Im with Angular 2.1.2). I had NOT to import MainPipeModule in app.module.ts and importe it instead in the module where the component Im using the pipe is imported too.

Looks like if your component is declared and imported in a different module, you need to include your PipeModule in that module too.

WPF Timer Like C# Timer

With Dispatcher you will need to include

using System.Windows.Threading;

Also note that if you right-click DispatcherTimer and click Resolve it should add the appropriate references.

How to use ADB Shell when Multiple Devices are connected? Fails with "error: more than one device and emulator"

The best way to run shell on any particular device is to use:

adb -s << emulator UDID >> shell

For Example:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell

How can I add JAR files to the web-inf/lib folder in Eclipse?

Add the jar file to your WEB-INF/lib folder. Right-click your project in Eclipse, and go to "Build Path > Configure Build Path" Add the "Web App Libraries" library This will ensure all WEB-INF/lib jars are included on the classpath. helped me..

Drag and drop in WEB-INF/lib folder and restart eclipse ans start webservice then create client

Could not load type 'XXX.Global'

I've found that it happens when the Global.asax.(vb|cs) wasn't converted to a partial class properly.

Quickest solution is to surround the class name 'Global' with [square brackets] like so (in VB.Net):

Public Class [Global]
    Inherits System.Web.HttpApplication
    ...

SQL for ordering by number - 1,2,3,4 etc instead of 1,10,11,12

I prefer doing a "PAD" to the data. MySql calls it LPAD, but you can work your way around to doing the same thing in SQL Server.

ORDER BY  REPLACE(STR(ColName, 3), SPACE(1), '0') 

This formula will provide leading zeroes based on the Column's length of 3. This functionality is very useful in other situations outside of ORDER BY, so that is why I wanted to provide this option.

Results: 1 becomes 001, and 10 becomes 010, while 100 remains the same.

Quick way to list all files in Amazon S3 bucket?

Simplified and updated version of the Scala answer by Paolo:

import scala.collection.JavaConversions.{collectionAsScalaIterable => asScala}
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.{ListObjectsRequest, ObjectListing, S3ObjectSummary}

def buildListing(s3: AmazonS3, request: ListObjectsRequest): List[S3ObjectSummary] = {
  def buildList(listIn: List[S3ObjectSummary], bucketList:ObjectListing): List[S3ObjectSummary] = {
    val latestList: List[S3ObjectSummary] = bucketList.getObjectSummaries.toList

    if (!bucketList.isTruncated) listIn ::: latestList
    else buildList(listIn ::: latestList, s3.listNextBatchOfObjects(bucketList))
  }

  buildList(List(), s3.listObjects(request))
}

Stripping out the generics and using the ListObjectRequest generated by the SDK builders.

Android-Studio upgraded from 0.1.9 to 0.2.0 causing gradle build errors now

now you can use the last 1.0.0-rc1 this way :

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.0.0-rc1'

This needs Gradle 2.0 if you don't have it Android Studio will ask you to download it

How to add some non-standard font to a website?

The technique that the W3C has recommended for do this is called "embedding" and is well described by the three articles here: Embedding Fonts. In my limited experiments, I have found this process error-prone and have had limited success in making it function in a multi-browser environment.

Which is the fastest algorithm to find prime numbers?

It depends on your application. There are some considerations:

  • Do you need just the information whether a few numbers are prime, do you need all prime numbers up to a certain limit, or do you need (potentially) all prime numbers?
  • How big are the numbers you have to deal with?

The Miller-Rabin and analogue tests are only faster than a sieve for numbers over a certain size (somewhere around a few million, I believe). Below that, using a trial division (if you just have a few numbers) or a sieve is faster.