Programs & Examples On #Suite

Are all Spring Framework Java Configuration injection examples buggy?

In your test, you are comparing the two TestParent beans, not the single TestedChild bean.

Also, Spring proxies your @Configuration class so that when you call one of the @Bean annotated methods, it caches the result and always returns the same object on future calls.

See here:

How do I prevent Conda from activating the base environment by default?

To disable auto activation of conda base environment in terminal:

conda config --set auto_activate_base false

To activate conda base environment:

conda activate

8080 port already taken issue when trying to redeploy project from Spring Tool Suite IDE

You have to stop the current process and run your new one. In Eclipse, you can press this button to ReLaunch your application: enter image description here

Class Not Found: Empty Test Suite in IntelliJ

This might also happen, if your test folder has been imported as a separate module (a small square is shown on the folder icon in the project view).
Remove the module by selecting the test folder in the project view and press DEL.
Then start your test.
If a popup dialog appears with an error message, that no module is selected, specify your root module from the dropdown.

Spring Boot application can't resolve the org.springframework.boot package

From your pom.xml, try to remove spring repository entries, per default will download from maven repository. I have tried with 1.5.6.RELEASE and worked very well.

Maven: How do I activate a profile from command line?

I have encountered this problem and i solved mentioned problem by adding -DprofileIdEnabled=true parameter while running mvn cli command.

Please run your mvn cli command as : mvn clean install -Pdev1 -DprofileIdEnabled=true.

In addition to this solution, you don't need to remove activeByDefault settings in your POM mentioned as previouses answer.

I hope this answer solve your problem.

Maven- No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups

If you are using Spring Boot for application, forgetting to add

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.7.RELEASE</version>
 </parent>

can cause this issue, as well as missing these lines

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>spring-releases</id>
        <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>spring-releases</id>
        <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

No tests found for given includes Error, when running Parameterized Unit test in Android Studio

For me it worked when I've added @EnableJUnit4MigrationSupport class annotation.

(Of course together with already mentioned gradle libs and settings)

How to enable TLS 1.2 support in an Android application (running on Android 4.1 JB)

I have some additions to above mentioned answers Its infact a hack mentioned by Jesse Wilson from okhttp, square here. According to this hack, i had to rename my SSLSocketFactory variable to

private SSLSocketFactory delegate;

This is my TLSSocketFactory class

public class TLSSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {

private SSLSocketFactory delegate;

public TLSSocketFactory() throws KeyManagementException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
    SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
    context.init(null, null, null);
    delegate = context.getSocketFactory();
}

@Override
public String[] getDefaultCipherSuites() {
    return delegate.getDefaultCipherSuites();
}

@Override
public String[] getSupportedCipherSuites() {
    return delegate.getSupportedCipherSuites();
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket() throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket());
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(Socket s, String host, int port, boolean autoClose) throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(s, host, port, autoClose));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(String host, int port) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(host, port));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(String host, int port, InetAddress localHost, int localPort) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(host, port, localHost, localPort));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(InetAddress host, int port) throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(host, port));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(InetAddress address, int port, InetAddress localAddress, int localPort) throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(address, port, localAddress, localPort));
}

private Socket enableTLSOnSocket(Socket socket) {
    if(socket != null && (socket instanceof SSLSocket)) {
        ((SSLSocket)socket).setEnabledProtocols(new String[] {"TLSv1.1", "TLSv1.2"});
    }
    return socket;
}
}

and this is how i used it with okhttp and retrofit

 OkHttpClient client=new OkHttpClient();
    try {
        client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                .sslSocketFactory(new TLSSocketFactory())
                .build();
    } catch (KeyManagementException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl(URL)
            .client(client)
            .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
            .build();

Spring Boot - Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource

change below line of code

spring.datasource.driverClassName

to

spring.datasource.driver-class-name

How to include vars file in a vars file with ansible?

I know it's an old post but I had the same issue today, what I did is simple : changing my script that send my playbook from my local host to the server, before sending it with maven command, I did this :

cat common_vars.yml > vars.yml
cat snapshot_vars.yml >> vars.yml
# or 
#cat release_vars.yml >> vars.yml
mvn ....

Why does JSHint throw a warning if I am using const?

Create .jshintrc file in the root dir and add there the latest js version: "esversion": 9 and asi version: "asi": true (it will help you to avoid using semicolons)

{
    "esversion": 9,
    "asi": true
}

How to decode a QR-code image in (preferably pure) Python?

I'm answering only the part of the question about zbar installation.

I spent nearly half an hour a few hours to make it work on Windows + Python 2.7 64-bit, so here are additional notes to the accepted answer:

PS: Making it work with Python 3.x is even more difficult: Compile zbar for Python 3.x.

PS2: I just tested pyzbar with pip install pyzbar and it's MUCH easier, it works out-of-the-box (the only thing is you need to have VC Redist 2013 files installed). It is also recommended to use this library in this pyimagesearch.com article.

JWT (JSON Web Token) automatic prolongation of expiration

An alternative solution for invalidating JWTs, without any additional secure storage on the backend, is to implement a new jwt_version integer column on the users table. If the user wishes to log out or expire existing tokens, they simply increment the jwt_version field.

When generating a new JWT, encode the jwt_version into the JWT payload, optionally incrementing the value beforehand if the new JWT should replace all others.

When validating the JWT, the jwt_version field is compared alongside the user_id and authorisation is granted only if it matches.

Spring: Returning empty HTTP Responses with ResponseEntity<Void> doesn't work

NOTE: This is true for the version mentioned in the question, 4.1.1.RELEASE.

Spring MVC handles a ResponseEntity return value through HttpEntityMethodProcessor.

When the ResponseEntity value doesn't have a body set, as is the case in your snippet, HttpEntityMethodProcessor tries to determine a content type for the response body from the parameterization of the ResponseEntity return type in the signature of the @RequestMapping handler method.

So for

public ResponseEntity<Void> taxonomyPackageExists( @PathVariable final String key ) {

that type will be Void. HttpEntityMethodProcessor will then loop through all its registered HttpMessageConverter instances and find one that can write a body for a Void type. Depending on your configuration, it may or may not find any.

If it does find any, it still needs to make sure that the corresponding body will be written with a Content-Type that matches the type(s) provided in the request's Accept header, application/xml in your case.

If after all these checks, no such HttpMessageConverter exists, Spring MVC will decide that it cannot produce an acceptable response and therefore return a 406 Not Acceptable HTTP response.

With ResponseEntity<String>, Spring will use String as the response body and find StringHttpMessageConverter as a handler. And since StringHttpMessageHandler can produce content for any media type (provided in the Accept header), it will be able to handle the application/xml that your client is requesting.

Spring MVC has since been changed to only return 406 if the body in the ResponseEntity is NOT null. You won't see the behavior in the original question if you're using a more recent version of Spring MVC.


In iddy85's solution, which seems to suggest ResponseEntity<?>, the type for the body will be inferred as Object. If you have the correct libraries in your classpath, ie. Jackson (version > 2.5.0) and its XML extension, Spring MVC will have access to MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter which it can use to produce application/xml for the type Object. Their solution only works under these conditions. Otherwise, it will fail for the same reason I've described above.

Spring Boot: Is it possible to use external application.properties files in arbitrary directories with a fat jar?

If you have not changed the defaults of Spring Boot (meaning you are using @EnableAutoConfiguration or @SpringBootApplication and have not changed any Property Source handling), then it will look for properties with the following order (highest overrides lowest):

  1. A /config subdir of the current directory
  2. The current directory
  3. A classpath /config package
  4. The classpath root

The list above is mentioned in this part of the documentation

What that means is that if a property is found for example application.properties under src/resources is will be overridden by a property with the same name found in application.properties in the /config directory that is "next" to the packaged jar.

This default order used by Spring Boot allows for very easy configuration externalization which in turn makes applications easy to configure in multiple environments (dev, staging, production, cloud etc)

To see the whole set of features provided by Spring Boot for property reading (hint: there is a lot more available than reading from application.properties) check out this part of the documentation.

As one can see from my short description above or from the full documentation, Spring Boot apps are very DevOps friendly!

Error: org.testng.TestNGException: Cannot find class in classpath: EmpClass

I had the same issue when i was using selenium 3.11.xx dependency however my problem was resolved when i used selenium 3.4.x dependency.

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

This is an easy way to get a successful response from the server like PHP echo otherwise an error message.

BufferedReader br = null;
if (conn.getResponseCode() == 200) {
    br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
    String strCurrentLine;
        while ((strCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
               System.out.println(strCurrentLine);
        }
} else {
    br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getErrorStream()));
    String strCurrentLine;
        while ((strCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
               System.out.println(strCurrentLine);
        }
}

What is an AssertionError? In which case should I throw it from my own code?

Of course the "You shall not instantiate an item of this class" statement has been violated, but if this is the logic behind that, then we should all throw AssertionErrors everywhere, and that is obviously not what happens.

The code isn't saying the user shouldn't call the zero-args constructor. The assertion is there to say that as far as the programmer is aware, he/she has made it impossible to call the zero-args constructor (in this case by making it private and not calling it from within Example's code). And so if a call occurs, that assertion has been violated, and so AssertionError is appropriate.

java.lang.Exception: No runnable methods exception in running JUnits

I had to change the import statement:

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

to

import org.junit.Test;

How do I remove all null and empty string values from an object?

Enhancement to Alexis King's code to run without Jquery and removal of empty arrays and array of empty objects (With no properties) recursively.

var sjonObj = {
"executionMode": "SEQUENTIAL",
"coreTEEVersion": "3.3.1.4_RC8",
"testSuiteId": "yyy",
"testSuiteFormatVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"testStatus": "IDLE",
"reportPath": "",
"startTime": 0,
"durationBetweenTestCases": 20,
"endTime": 0,
"lastExecutedTestCaseId": 0,
"repeatCount": 0,
"retryCount": 0,
"fixedTimeSyncSupported": false,
"totalRepeatCount": 0,
"totalRetryCount": 0,
"summaryReportRequired": "true",
"postConditionExecution": "ON_SUCCESS",
"testCaseList": [{
        "executionMode": "SEQUENTIAL",
        "commandList": [{
            "sample1": "",
            "sample2": ""
        }],
        "testCaseList": [

        ],
        "testStatus": "IDLE",
        "boundTimeDurationForExecution": 0,
        "startTime": 0,
        "endTime": 0,
        "label": null,
        "repeatCount": 0,
        "retryCount": 0,
        "totalRepeatCount": 0,
        "totalRetryCount": 0,
        "testCaseId": "a",
        "summaryReportRequired": "false",
        "postConditionExecution": "ON_SUCCESS"
    },
    {
        "executionMode": "SEQUENTIAL",
        "commandList": [

        ],
        "testCaseList": [{
            "executionMode": "SEQUENTIAL",
            "commandList": [{
                "commandParameters": {
                    "serverAddress": "www.ggp.com",
                    "echoRequestCount": "",
                    "sendPacketSize": "",
                    "interval": "",
                    "ttl": "",
                    "addFullDataInReport": "True",
                    "maxRTT": "",
                    "failOnTargetHostUnreachable": "True",
                    "failOnTargetHostUnreachableCount": "",
                    "initialDelay": "",
                    "commandTimeout": "",
                    "testDuration": ""
                },
                "commandName": "Ping",
                "testStatus": "IDLE",
                "label": "",
                "reportFileName": "tc_2-tc_1-cmd_1_Ping",
                "endTime": 0,
                "startTime": 0,
                "repeatCount": 0,
                "retryCount": 0,
                "totalRepeatCount": 0,
                "totalRetryCount": 0,
                "postConditionExecution": "ON_SUCCESS",
                "detailReportRequired": "true",
                "summaryReportRequired": "true"
            }],
            "testCaseList": [

            ],
            "testStatus": "IDLE",
            "boundTimeDurationForExecution": 0,
            "startTime": 0,
            "endTime": 0,
            "label": null,
            "repeatCount": 0,
            "retryCount": 0,
            "totalRepeatCount": 0,
            "totalRetryCount": 0,
            "testCaseId": "dd",
            "summaryReportRequired": "false",
            "postConditionExecution": "ON_SUCCESS"
        }],
        "testStatus": "IDLE",
        "boundTimeDurationForExecution": 0,
        "startTime": 0,
        "endTime": 0,
        "label": null,
        "repeatCount": 0,
        "retryCount": 0,
        "totalRepeatCount": 0,
        "totalRetryCount": 0,
        "testCaseId": "b",
        "summaryReportRequired": "false",
        "postConditionExecution": "ON_SUCCESS"
    }
]};
function filter(obj) {
  for(let key in obj){
    if (obj[key] === "" || obj[key] === null){
        delete obj[key];
    } else if (Object.prototype.toString.call(obj[key]) === '[object Object]') {
            filter(obj[key]);
    } else if (Array.isArray(obj[key])) {
        if(obj[key].length == 0){
            delete obj[key];
        }else{
            for(let _key in obj[key]){
                filter(obj[key][_key]);
            }
            obj[key] = obj[key].filter(value => Object.keys(value).length !== 0);
            if(obj[key].length == 0){
                delete obj[key];
            }
        }
    }   
}};

filter(sjonObj);
console.log(JSON.stringify(sjonObj, null, 3));

Entity Framework rollback and remove bad migration

First, Update your last perfect migration via this command :

Update-Database –TargetMigration

Example:

Update-Database -20180906131107_xxxx_xxxx

And, then delete your unused migration manually.

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I know this an old Question but i feel this might help someone. I was recently faced with the same problem but in my case, i remember my password quite alright but it kept on giving me the same error. I tried so many solutions but still none helped then i tried this

mysql -u root -p 

after which it asks you for a pass word like this

Enter password: 

and then i typed in the password i used. That's all

Cannot find firefox binary in PATH. Make sure firefox is installed

Another option is to configure the server rather than the test client.

Configure the slave node service so that it knows where the firefox is. Install location can change from node to node, or even need multiple services running on a node to support access to different versions of FF.

java -jar "selenium-server-standalone-2.2.0.jar"
 -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="C:\FirefoxCollection\Mozilla Firefox 36.0\firefox.exe"

Concrete Javascript Regex for Accented Characters (Diacritics)

You can remove the diacritics from alphabets by using:

var str = "résumé"
str.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '') // returns resume

It will remove all the diacritical marks, and then perform your regex on it

Reference:

https://thread.engineering/2018-08-29-searching-and-sorting-text-with-diacritical-marks-in-javascript/

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined

Check if the jQuery object contains any element before you try to get its offset:

var nav = $('.content-nav');
if (nav.length) {
  var contentNav = nav.offset().top;
  ...continue to set up the menu
}

WCF Exception: Could not find a base address that matches scheme http for the endpoint

You can get this if you ONLY configure https as a site binding inside IIS.

You need to add http(80) as well as https(443) - at least I did :-)

How to approach a "Got minus one from a read call" error when connecting to an Amazon RDS Oracle instance

The immediate cause of the problem is that the JDBC driver has attempted to read from a network Socket that has been closed by "the other end".

This could be due to a few things:

  • If the remote server has been configured (e.g. in the "SQLNET.ora" file) to not accept connections from your IP.

  • If the JDBC url is incorrect, you could be attempting to connect to something that isn't a database.

  • If there are too many open connections to the database service, it could refuse new connections.

Given the symptoms, I think the "too many connections" scenario is the most likely. That suggests that your application is leaking connections; i.e. creating connections and then failing to (always) close them.

maven... Failed to clean project: Failed to delete ..\org.ow2.util.asm-asm-tree-3.1.jar

Close the target folder and its file you have opened before mvn clean

Eclipse+Maven src/main/java not visible in src folder in Package Explorer

I have solved this issue by below steps:

Right click the Maven Project -> Build Path -> Configure Build Path In Order and Export tab, you can see the message like '2 build path entries are missing' Now select 'JRE System Library' and 'Maven Dependencies' checkbox Click OK Now you can see below in all type of Explorers (Package or Project or Navigator)

Can't install via pip because of egg_info error

Try these: pip install --upgrade setuptools or easy_install -U setuptools

casting int to char using C++ style casting

Using static cast would probably result in something like this:

// This does not prevent a possible type overflow
const char char_max = -1;

int i = 48;
char c = (i & char_max);

To prevent possible type overflow you could do this:

const char char_max = (char)(((unsigned char) char(-1)) / 2);

int i = 128;
char c = (i & char_max); // Would always result in positive signed values.

Where reinterpret_cast would probably just directly convert to char, without any cast safety. -> Never use reinterpret_cast if you can also use static_cast. If you're casting between classes, static_cast will also ensure, that the two types are matching (the object is a derivate of the cast type).

If your object a polymorphic type and you don't know which one it is, you should use dynamic_cast which will perform a type check at runtime and return nullptr if the types do not match.

IF you need const_cast you most likely did something wrong and should think about possible alternatives to fix const correctness in your code.

javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: protocol_version

I was getting the same error. For Java version 7, following is working for me.

java.lang.System.setProperty("https.protocols", "TLSv1.2");

Colorplot of 2D array matplotlib

I'm afraid your posted example is not working, since X and Y aren't defined. So instead of pcolormesh let's use imshow:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

H = np.array([[1, 2, 3, 4],
              [5, 6, 7, 8],
              [9, 10, 11, 12],
              [13, 14, 15, 16]])  # added some commas and array creation code

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(6, 3.2))

ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.set_title('colorMap')
plt.imshow(H)
ax.set_aspect('equal')

cax = fig.add_axes([0.12, 0.1, 0.78, 0.8])
cax.get_xaxis().set_visible(False)
cax.get_yaxis().set_visible(False)
cax.patch.set_alpha(0)
cax.set_frame_on(False)
plt.colorbar(orientation='vertical')
plt.show()

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock

I had faced similar problem recently. Went through many answers. I got it working by following steps.

  1. change the socket path in /etc/my.cnf (as i was repeatedly getting error with /tmp/mysql.sock ) reference to change the socket path
  2. run mysqld_safe to restart the server as it is the recommended way to restart in case of errors. reference to mysqld_safe

How to dump raw RTSP stream to file?

You can use mplayer.

mencoder -nocache -rtsp-stream-over-tcp rtsp://192.168.XXX.XXX/test.sdp -oac copy -ovc copy -o test.avi

The "copy" codec is just a dumb copy of the stream. Mencoder adds a header and stuff you probably want.

In the mplayer source file "stream/stream_rtsp.c" is a prebuffer_size setting of 640k and no option to change the size other then recompile. The result is that writing the stream is always delayed, which can be annoying for things like cameras, but besides this, you get an output file, and can play it back most places without a problem.

Can Selenium WebDriver open browser windows silently in the background?

Use it ...

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome(CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, chrome_options=options)

Rounding BigDecimal to *always* have two decimal places

value = value.setScale(2, RoundingMode.CEILING)

How to make Java 6, which fails SSL connection with "SSL peer shut down incorrectly", succeed like Java 7?

Do it like this:

SSLSocket socket = (SSLSocket) sslFactory.createSocket(host, port);
socket.setEnabledProtocols(new String[]{"SSLv3", "TLSv1"});

PHP check if file is an image

Native way to get the mimetype:

For PHP < 5.3 use mime_content_type()
For PHP >= 5.3 use finfo_open() or mime_content_type()

Alternatives to get the MimeType are exif_imagetype and getimagesize, but these rely on having the appropriate libs installed. In addition, they will likely just return image mimetypes, instead of the whole list given in magic.mime.

While mime_content_type is available from PHP 4.3 and is part of the FileInfo extension (which is enabled by default since PHP 5.3, except for Windows platforms, where it must be enabled manually, for details see here).

If you don't want to bother about what is available on your system, just wrap all four functions into a proxy method that delegates the function call to whatever is available, e.g.

function getMimeType($filename)
{
    $mimetype = false;
    if(function_exists('finfo_open')) {
        // open with FileInfo
    } elseif(function_exists('getimagesize')) {
        // open with GD
    } elseif(function_exists('exif_imagetype')) {
       // open with EXIF
    } elseif(function_exists('mime_content_type')) {
       $mimetype = mime_content_type($filename);
    }
    return $mimetype;
}

Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:pom:2.7.1 from/to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

This problem was solved by following steps -

  1. Go to the local m2 repository and find the directory org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin.
  2. Delete the problematic version.
  3. maven update the project, then download it again.

java.lang.VerifyError: Expecting a stackmap frame at branch target JDK 1.7

If you are using java 1.8, remove XX:-UseSplitVerifier and use -noverify in your JVM properties.

Java SSLHandshakeException "no cipher suites in common"

Having had this exception myself, I delved into the JRE source code. It became apparent that the message is rather misleading. It could mean what it says, but it more generally means that the server doesn't have the data it needs to respond to the client in the requested way. This can happen, for example, if certificates are missing from the keystore, or haven't been generated with the an appropriate algoritm. Indeed, given the cipher suites that are installed by default, one would have to go to some lengths to really get this exception because of lack of common cipher suites. In my particular case I'd generated the certificates with the default algorithm of DSA, when what I needed to get the server to work with Firefox was RSA.

Use a cell value in VBA function with a variable

VAL1 and VAL2 need to be dimmed as integer, not as string, to be used as an argument for Cells, which takes integers, not strings, as arguments.

Dim val1 As Integer, val2 As Integer, i As Integer

For i = 1 To 333

  Sheets("Feuil2").Activate
  ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 1).Select

    val1 = Cells(i, 1).Value
    val2 = Cells(i, 2).Value

Sheets("Classeur2.csv").Select
Cells(val1, val2).Select

ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "1"

Next i

What does -> mean in Python function definitions?

It's a function annotation.

In more detail, Python 2.x has docstrings, which allow you to attach a metadata string to various types of object. This is amazingly handy, so Python 3 extends the feature by allowing you to attach metadata to functions describing their parameters and return values.

There's no preconceived use case, but the PEP suggests several. One very handy one is to allow you to annotate parameters with their expected types; it would then be easy to write a decorator that verifies the annotations or coerces the arguments to the right type. Another is to allow parameter-specific documentation instead of encoding it into the docstring.

Making WPF applications look Metro-styled, even in Windows 7? (Window Chrome / Theming / Theme)

Take a look at this WPF metro-styled window with optional glowing borders.

This is a stand-alone application using no other libraries than Microsoft.Windows.Shell (included) to create metro-styled windows with optional glowing borders.

Supports Windows all the way back to XP (.NET4).

How to make Sonar ignore some classes for codeCoverage metric?

At the time of this writing (which is with SonarQube 4.5.1), the correct property to set is sonar.coverage.exclusions, e.g.:

<properties>
    <sonar.coverage.exclusions>foo/**/*,**/bar/*</sonar.coverage.exclusions>
</properties>

This seems to be a change from just a few versions earlier. Note that this excludes the given classes from coverage calculation only. All other metrics and issues are calculated.

In order to find the property name for your version of SonarQube, you can try going to the General Settings section of your SonarQube instance and look for the Code Coverage item (in SonarQube 4.5.x, that's General Settings → Exclusions → Code Coverage). Below the input field, it gives the property name mentioned above ("Key: sonar.coverage.exclusions").

Automated testing for REST Api

You can also use Rest Assured library. For a demo with sample script, refer to http://artoftesting.com/automationTesting/restAPIAutomationGetRequest.html

How to run TestNG from command line

You need to have the testng.jar under classpath.

try C:\projectfred> java -cp "path-tojar/testng.jar:path_to_yourtest_classes" org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

Update:

Under linux I ran this command and it would be some thing similar on Windows either

test/bin# java -cp ".:../lib/*" org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

Directory structure:

/bin - All my test packages are under bin including testng.xml
/src - All source files are under src
/lib - All libraries required for the execution of tests are under this.

Once I compile all sources they go under bin directory. So, in the classpath I need to specify contents of bin directory and all the libraries like testng.xml, loggers etc over here. Also copy testng.xml to bin folder if you dont want to specify the full path where the testng.xml is available.

 /bin
    -- testng.xml
    -- testclasses
    -- Properties files if any.
 /lib
    -- testng.jar
    -- log4j.jar

Update:

Go to the folder MyProject and type run the java command like the way shown below:-

java -cp ".: C:\Program Files\jbdevstudio4\studio\plugins\*" org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

I believe the testng.xml file is under C:\Users\me\workspace\MyProject if not please give the full path for testng.xml file

deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations)

I was having same issue. I was trying to delete and insert in the same transaction. I added theEntityManager.flush(); after theEntityManager.remove(entity);.

Android Error - Open Failed ENOENT

Put the text file in the assets directory. If there isnt an assets dir create one in the root of the project. Then you can use Context.getAssets().open("BlockForTest.txt"); to open a stream to this file.

Python pip install fails: invalid command egg_info

As distribute has been merged back into setuptools, it is now recommended to install/upgrade setuptools instead:

[sudo] pip install --upgrade setuptools

Certificate is trusted by PC but not by Android

Make sure you also use your intermediate crt (.crt file with a bundle.. some providers also call it bundle or ca certificate). then in your ssl.conf,

SSLCertificateFile </path/for/actual/certificate>

SSLCACertificateFile </path/for/actual/intermediate_certificate>

then restart your webserver :ex for apache use :

sudo service httpd restart

How to stretch the background image to fill a div

For this you can use CSS3 background-size property. Write like this:

#div2{
    background-image:url(http://s7.static.hootsuite.com/3-0-48/images/themes/classic/streams/message-gradient.png);
    -moz-background-size:100% 100%;
    -webkit-background-size:100% 100%;
    background-size:100% 100%;
    height:180px;
    width:200px;
    border: 1px solid red;
}

Check this: http://jsfiddle.net/qdzaw/1/

Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Access is denied. The issue is random, but after it happens once, it continues

To anyone else who tried most of the solutions and still having problems.

My solution is different from the others, which is located at the bottom of this post, but before you try it make sure you have exhausted the following lists. To be sure, I have tried all of them but to no avail.

  1. Recompile and redeploy from scratch, don't update the existing app. SO Answer

  2. Grant IIS_IUSRS full access to the directory "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files"

    Keep in mind the framework version you are using. If your app is using impersonation, use that identity instead of IIS_IUSRS

  3. Delete all contents of the directory "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files".

    Keep in mind the framework version you are using

  4. Change the identity of the AppPool that your app is using, from ApplicatonPoolIdentity to NetworkService.

    IIS > Application Pools > Select current app pool > Advance Settings > Identity.

    SO Answer (please restore to default if it doesn't work)

  5. Verify IIS Version and AppPool .NET version compatibility with your app. Highly applicable to first time deployments. SO Answer

  6. Verify impersonation configuration if applicable. SO Answer

My Solution:

I found out that certain anti-virus softwares are actively blocking compilations of DLLs within the directory "Temporary ASP.NET Files", mine was McAfee, the IT people failed to notify me of the installation.

As per advice by both McAfee experts and Microsoft, you need to exclude the directory "Temporary ASP.NET Files" in the real time scanning.

Sources:

Don't disable the Anti-Virus because it is only doing its job. Don't manually copy missing DLL files in the directory \Temporary ASP.NET Files{project name} because thats duct taping.

Driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property

You will need have to download InternetExplorer driver executable on your system, download it from the source (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list) after download unzip it and put on the place of somewhere in your computer. In my example, I will place it to D:\iexploredriver.exe

Then you have write below code in your eclipse main class

   System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "D:/iexploredriver.exe");
   WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

Calculate rolling / moving average in C++

a simple moving average for 10 items, using a list:

#include <list>

std::list<float> listDeltaMA;

float getDeltaMovingAverage(float delta)
{
    listDeltaMA.push_back(delta);
    if (listDeltaMA.size() > 10) listDeltaMA.pop_front();
    float sum = 0;
    for (std::list<float>::iterator p = listDeltaMA.begin(); p != listDeltaMA.end(); ++p)
        sum += (float)*p;
    return sum / listDeltaMA.size();
}

Headers and client library minor version mismatch

Your PHP was compiled with MySQL 5.1 but now it is linking a mysql library of 5.5.X family. You have to upgrade PHP to a version compiled with MySQL 5.5 or revert back mysql client libraries to 5.1.x.

Resource from src/main/resources not found after building with maven

Resources from src/main/resources will be put onto the root of the classpath, so you'll need to get the resource as:

new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/config.txt")));

You can verify by looking at the JAR/WAR file produced by maven as you'll find config.txt in the root of your archive.

How can I style the border and title bar of a window in WPF?

I suggest you to start from an existing solution and customize it to fit your needs, that's better than starting from scratch!

I was looking for the same thing and I fall on this open source solution, I hope it will help.

Make the current commit the only (initial) commit in a Git repository?

The only solution that works for me (and keeps submodules working) is

git checkout --orphan newBranch
git add -A  # Add all files and commit them
git commit
git branch -D master  # Deletes the master branch
git branch -m master  # Rename the current branch to master
git push -f origin master  # Force push master branch to github
git gc --aggressive --prune=all     # remove the old files

Deleting .git/ always causes huge issues when I have submodules. Using git rebase --root would somehow cause conflicts for me (and take long since I had a lot of history).

Compiler error "archive for required library could not be read" - Spring Tool Suite

I was using Eclipse as IDE and I was getting very same error. I had to do Project->Maven->Update Project. Select all the checkboxes below except "offline" esp. the one "Force update of snapshots/releases" and click OK. Did the Clean Build for the Project again.

Maven plugin not using Eclipse's proxy settings

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.1.0.xsd">

     <proxies>
       <proxy>
          <active>true</active>
          <protocol>http</protocol>
          <host>proxy.somewhere.com</host>
          <port>8080</port>
          <username>proxyuser</username>
          <password>somepassword</password>
          <nonProxyHosts>www.google.com|*.somewhere.com</nonProxyHosts>
        </proxy>
      </proxies>

    </settings>

Window > Preferences > Maven > User Settings

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Java GUI frameworks. What to choose? Swing, SWT, AWT, SwingX, JGoodies, JavaFX, Apache Pivot?

I've been quite happy with Swing for the desktop applications I've been involved in. However, I do share your view on Swing not offering advanced components. What I've done in these cases is to go for JIDE. It's not free, but not that pricey either and it gives you a whole lot more tools under your belt. Specifically, they do offer a filterable TreeTable.

bash script read all the files in directory

You can go without the loop:

find /path/to/dir -type f -exec /your/first/command \{\} \; -exec /your/second/command \{\} \; 

HTH

Can I run HTML files directly from GitHub, instead of just viewing their source?

Here is a little Greasemonkey script that will add a CDN button to html pages on github

Target page will be of the form: https://cdn.rawgit.com/user/repo/master/filename.js


// ==UserScript==
// @name        cdn.rawgit.com
// @namespace   github.com
// @include     https://github.com/*/blob/*.html
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

var buttonGroup = $(".meta .actions .button-group");
var raw = buttonGroup.find("#raw-url");
var cdn = raw.clone();
cdn.attr("id", "cdn-url");
cdn.attr("href", "https://cdn.rawgit.com" + cdn.attr("href").replace("/raw/","/") );
cdn.text("CDN");
cdn.insertBefore(raw);

Eclipse Indigo - Cannot install Android ADT Plugin

The best answer (by Sathya) is also applicable in Eclipse Juno.

What order are the Junit @Before/@After called?

I think based on the documentation of the @Before and @After the right conclusion is to give the methods unique names. I use the following pattern in my tests:

public abstract class AbstractBaseTest {

  @Before
  public final void baseSetUp() { // or any other meaningful name
    System.out.println("AbstractBaseTest.setUp");
  }

  @After
  public final void baseTearDown() { // or any other meaningful name
    System.out.println("AbstractBaseTest.tearDown");
  }
}

and

public class Test extends AbstractBaseTest {

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    System.out.println("Test.setUp");
  }

  @After
  public void tearDown() {
    System.out.println("Test.tearDown");
  }

  @Test
  public void test1() throws Exception {
    System.out.println("test1");
  }

  @Test
  public void test2() throws Exception {
    System.out.println("test2");
  }
}

give as a result

AbstractBaseTest.setUp
Test.setUp
test1
Test.tearDown
AbstractBaseTest.tearDown
AbstractBaseTest.setUp
Test.setUp
test2
Test.tearDown
AbstractBaseTest.tearDown

Advantage of this approach: Users of the AbstractBaseTest class cannot override the setUp/tearDown methods by accident. If they want to, they need to know the exact name and can do it.

(Minor) disadvantage of this approach: Users cannot see that there are things happening before or after their setUp/tearDown. They need to know that these things are provided by the abstract class. But I assume that's the reason why they use the abstract class

Spring MVC UTF-8 Encoding

In addition to Benjamin's answer - in case if you are using Spring Security, placing the CharacterEncodingFilter in web.xml might not always work. In this case you need to create a custom filter and add it to the filter chain as the first filter. To make sure it's the first filter in the chain, you need to add it before ChannelProcessingFilter, using addFilterBefore in your WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity 
public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {


    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

        //add your custom encoding filter as the first filter in the chain
        http.addFilterBefore(new EncodingFilter(), ChannelProcessingFilter.class);

        http.authorizeRequests()
            .and()
            // your code here ...
    }
}

The ordering of all filters in Spring Security is available here: HttpSecurityBuilder - addFilter()

Your custom UTF-8 encoding filter can look like following:

public class EncodingFilter extends GenericFilterBean {

    @Override
    public void doFilter(
            ServletRequest request, 
            ServletResponse response,
            FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {

        request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    }
}

Don't forget to add in your jsp files:

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

And remove the CharacterEncodingFilter from web.xml if it's there.

This could be due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol

My problem was too many items were being passed between client and server. I had to change this settings in the behavior on both sides.

<dataContractSerializer maxItemsInObjectGraph="2147483646"/>

The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded

My solution was to use the "-OutBuffer 2147483647" parameter in my query, which is part of the Common Parameters. PS C:> Get-Help about_CommonParameters -Full

WCF Service Client: The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding

In my case a URL rewrite rule was messing with my service name, it was rewritten as lowercase and I was getting this error.

Make sure you don't lowercase WCF service calls.

How to kill a child process after a given timeout in Bash?

# Spawn a child process:
(dosmth) & pid=$!
# in the background, sleep for 10 secs then kill that process
(sleep 10 && kill -9 $pid) &

or to get the exit codes as well:

# Spawn a child process:
(dosmth) & pid=$!
# in the background, sleep for 10 secs then kill that process
(sleep 10 && kill -9 $pid) & waiter=$!
# wait on our worker process and return the exitcode
exitcode=$(wait $pid && echo $?)
# kill the waiter subshell, if it still runs
kill -9 $waiter 2>/dev/null
# 0 if we killed the waiter, cause that means the process finished before the waiter
finished_gracefully=$?

How to decide when to use Node.js?

I have one real-world example where I have used Node.js. The company where I work got one client who wanted to have a simple static HTML website. This website is for selling one item using PayPal and the client also wanted to have a counter which shows the amount of sold items. Client expected to have huge amount of visitors to this website. I decided to make the counter using Node.js and the Express.js framework.

The Node.js application was simple. Get the sold items amount from a Redis database, increase the counter when item is sold and serve the counter value to users via the API.

Some reasons why I chose to use Node.js in this case

  1. It is very lightweight and fast. There has been over 200000 visits on this website in three weeks and minimal server resources has been able to handle it all.
  2. The counter is really easy to make to be real time.
  3. Node.js was easy to configure.
  4. There are lots of modules available for free. For example, I found a Node.js module for PayPal.

In this case, Node.js was an awesome choice.

getApplication() vs. getApplicationContext()

Very interesting question. I think it's mainly a semantic meaning, and may also be due to historical reasons.

Although in current Android Activity and Service implementations, getApplication() and getApplicationContext() return the same object, there is no guarantee that this will always be the case (for example, in a specific vendor implementation).

So if you want the Application class you registered in the Manifest, you should never call getApplicationContext() and cast it to your application, because it may not be the application instance (which you obviously experienced with the test framework).

Why does getApplicationContext() exist in the first place ?

getApplication() is only available in the Activity class and the Service class, whereas getApplicationContext() is declared in the Context class.

That actually means one thing : when writing code in a broadcast receiver, which is not a context but is given a context in its onReceive method, you can only call getApplicationContext(). Which also means that you are not guaranteed to have access to your application in a BroadcastReceiver.

When looking at the Android code, you see that when attached, an activity receives a base context and an application, and those are different parameters. getApplicationContext() delegates it's call to baseContext.getApplicationContext().

One more thing : the documentation says that it most cases, you shouldn't need to subclass Application:

There is normally no need to subclass Application. In most situation, static singletons can provide the same functionality in a more modular way. If your singleton needs a global context (for example to register broadcast receivers), the function to retrieve it can be given a Context which internally uses Context.getApplicationContext() when first constructing the singleton.

I know this is not an exact and precise answer, but still, does that answer your question?

Disable HttpClient logging

I tried all above solutions to no avail. The one soution that came the closest for me was the one suggesting creating a logback.xml. That worked, however nothing got logged. After playing around with the logback.xml, this is what I ended up with

<configuration>
  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
    <withJansi>true</withJansi>
    <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder">
    </encoder>
  </appender>
  <root level="INFO">
    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
  </root>
</configuration>

Now All levels below DEBUG gets logged correctly.

How to extract numbers from a string in Python?

If you only want to extract only positive integers, try the following:

>>> str = "h3110 23 cat 444.4 rabbit 11 2 dog"
>>> [int(s) for s in str.split() if s.isdigit()]
[23, 11, 2]

I would argue that this is better than the regex example because you don't need another module and it's more readable because you don't need to parse (and learn) the regex mini-language.

This will not recognize floats, negative integers, or integers in hexadecimal format. If you can't accept these limitations, jmnas's answer below will do the trick.

How to write a test which expects an Error to be thrown in Jasmine?

You are using:

expect(fn).toThrow(e)

But if you'll have a look on the function comment (expected is string):

294 /**
295  * Matcher that checks that the expected exception was thrown by the actual.
296  *
297  * @param {String} expected
298  */
299 jasmine.Matchers.prototype.toThrow = function(expected) {

I suppose you should probably write it like this (using lambda - anonymous function):

expect(function() { parser.parse(raw); } ).toThrow("Parsing is not possible");

This is confirmed in the following example:

expect(function () {throw new Error("Parsing is not possible")}).toThrow("Parsing is not possible");

Douglas Crockford strongly recommends this approach, instead of using "throw new Error()" (prototyping way):

throw {
   name: "Error",
   message: "Parsing is not possible"
}

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space in Maven

In order to resolve java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space in Maven, try to configure below configuration in pom

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</version>
     <configuration>
        <verbose>true</verbose>
        <fork>true</fork>
        <argLine>-XX:MaxPermSize=500M</argLine>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

In Python, when to use a Dictionary, List or Set?

Dictionary: A python dictionary is used like a hash table with key as index and object as value.

List: A list is used for holding objects in an array indexed by position of that object in the array.

Set: A set is a collection with functions that can tell if an object is present or not present in the set.

JUnit tests pass in Eclipse but fail in Maven Surefire

This doesn't exactly apply to your situation, but I had the same thing -- tests that would pass in Eclipse failed when the test goal from Maven was run.

It turned out to be a test earlier in my suite, in a different package. This took me a week to solve!

An earlier test was testing some Logback classes, and created a Logback context from a config file.

The later test was testing a subclass of Spring's SimpleRestTemplate, and somehow, the earlier Logback context was held, with DEBUG on. This caused extra calls to be made in RestTemplate to log HttpStatus, etc.

It's another thing to check if one ever gets into this situation. I fixed my problem by injecting some Mocks into my Logback test class, so that no real Logback contexts were created.

How to file split at a line number

file_name=test.log

# set first K lines:
K=1000

# line count (N): 
N=$(wc -l < $file_name)

# length of the bottom file:
L=$(( $N - $K ))

# create the top of file: 
head -n $K $file_name > top_$file_name

# create bottom of file: 
tail -n $L $file_name > bottom_$file_name

Also, on second thought, split will work in your case, since the first split is larger than the second. Split puts the balance of the input into the last split, so

split -l 300000 file_name

will output xaa with 300k lines and xab with 100k lines, for an input with 400k lines.

Order of execution of tests in TestNG

use: preserve-order="true" enabled="true" that would run test cases in the manner in which you have written.

<suite name="Sanity" verbose="1" parallel="" thread-count="">   
<test name="Automation" preserve-order="true"  enabled="true">
        <listeners>
            <listener class-name="com.yourtest.testNgListner.RetryListener" />
        </listeners>
        <parameter name="BrowserName" value="chrome" />
        <classes>
            <class name="com.yourtest.Suites.InitilizeClass" />
            <class name="com.yourtest.Suites.SurveyTestCases" />
            <methods>
                <include name="valid_Login" />
                <include name="verifyManageSurveyPage" />
                <include name="verifySurveyDesignerPage" />
                <include name="cloneAndDeleteSurvey" />
                <include name="createAndDelete_Responses" />
                <include name="previewSurvey" />
                <include name="verifySurveyLink" />
                <include name="verifySurveyResponses" />
                <include name="verifySurveyReports" />
            </methods>
        </classes>
    </test>
</suite>

How to check if a subclass is an instance of a class at runtime?

Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't this suffice:

if (view instanceof B) {
    // this view is an instance of B
}

What is the difference between MySQL, MySQLi and PDO?

Specifically, the MySQLi extension provides the following extremely useful benefits over the old MySQL extension..

OOP Interface (in addition to procedural) Prepared Statement Support Transaction + Stored Procedure Support Nicer Syntax Speed Improvements Enhanced Debugging

PDO Extension

PHP Data Objects extension is a Database Abstraction Layer. Specifically, this is not a MySQL interface, as it provides drivers for many database engines (of course including MYSQL).

PDO aims to provide a consistent API that means when a database engine is changed, the code changes to reflect this should be minimal. When using PDO, your code will normally "just work" across many database engines, simply by changing the driver you're using.

In addition to being cross-database compatible, PDO also supports prepared statements, stored procedures and more, whilst using the MySQL Driver.

Turn off enclosing <p> tags in CKEditor 3.0

Across the internet, people have noticed that setting config.enterMode to CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR removes the wrapping paragraph tags from CKEditor. It's worth noting that the setting changes the behavior of the enter key to insert line breaks rather than paragraphs, which is not desirable.

See: http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html#.enterMode "It is recommended to use the CKEDITOR.ENTER_P setting because of its semantic value and correctness."

However, the setting that is designed to remove that initial paragraph, config.autoParagraph, isn't advisable either, as it introduces "unpredictable usability issues" because the editor really wants a top-level block element.

See: http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html#.autoParagraph

The magic happens on wysiwygarea/plugin.js, line 410, where the editor selects the default block element based on config.enterMode. A config option to change the default block element would allow us to start with a div, but we'd continue getting more divs with every enter press, unless we changed the paragraph format via the menu.

See: http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/src/plugins_wysiwygarea_plugin.js.html

It would be possible to remove the wrapping paragraph tag with post-processing (either on the server or in CKEditor's getData event), but that leads us into the same problem as disabling autoParagraph: there's no top-level block.

I would rather say that there's not a good solution, but rather a handful of half-solutions, than to accept changing config.enterMode as the canonical solution.

How do I run all Python unit tests in a directory?

I use PyDev/LiClipse and haven't really figured out how to run all tests at once from the GUI. (edit: you right click the root test folder and choose Run as -> Python unit-test

This is my current workaround:

import unittest

def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern):
    return loader.discover('.')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

I put this code in a module called all in my test directory. If I run this module as a unittest from LiClipse then all tests are run. If I ask to only repeat specific or failed tests then only those tests are run. It doesn't interfere with my commandline test runner either (nosetests) -- it's ignored.

You may need to change the arguments to discover based on your project setup.

Conditionally ignoring tests in JUnit 4

The JUnit way is to do this at run-time is org.junit.Assume.

 @Before
 public void beforeMethod() {
     org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue(someCondition());
     // rest of setup.
 }

You can do it in a @Before method or in the test itself, but not in an @After method. If you do it in the test itself, your @Before method will get run. You can also do it within @BeforeClass to prevent class initialization.

An assumption failure causes the test to be ignored.

Edit: To compare with the @RunIf annotation from junit-ext, their sample code would look like this:

@Test
public void calculateTotalSalary() {
    assumeThat(Database.connect(), is(notNull()));
    //test code below.
}

Not to mention that it is much easier to capture and use the connection from the Database.connect() method this way.

WCF Service , how to increase the timeout?

In your binding configuration, there are four timeout values you can tweak:

<bindings>
  <basicHttpBinding>
    <binding name="IncreasedTimeout"
             sendTimeout="00:25:00">
    </binding>
  </basicHttpBinding>

The most important is the sendTimeout, which says how long the client will wait for a response from your WCF service. You can specify hours:minutes:seconds in your settings - in my sample, I set the timeout to 25 minutes.

The openTimeout as the name implies is the amount of time you're willing to wait when you open the connection to your WCF service. Similarly, the closeTimeout is the amount of time when you close the connection (dispose the client proxy) that you'll wait before an exception is thrown.

The receiveTimeout is a bit like a mirror for the sendTimeout - while the send timeout is the amount of time you'll wait for a response from the server, the receiveTimeout is the amount of time you'll give you client to receive and process the response from the server.

In case you're send back and forth "normal" messages, both can be pretty short - especially the receiveTimeout, since receiving a SOAP message, decrypting, checking and deserializing it should take almost no time. The story is different with streaming - in that case, you might need more time on the client to actually complete the "download" of the stream you get back from the server.

There's also openTimeout, receiveTimeout, and closeTimeout. The MSDN docs on binding gives you more information on what these are for.

To get a serious grip on all the intricasies of WCF, I would strongly recommend you purchase the "Learning WCF" book by Michele Leroux Bustamante:

Learning WCF http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GNuqUJq%2BL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

and you also spend some time watching her 15-part "WCF Top to Bottom" screencast series - highly recommended!

For more advanced topics I recommend that you check out Juwal Lowy's Programming WCF Services book.

Programming WCF http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41odWcLoGAL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

How do a send an HTTPS request through a proxy in Java?

HTTPS proxy doesn't make sense because you can't terminate your HTTP connection at the proxy for security reasons. With your trust policy, it might work if the proxy server has a HTTPS port. Your error is caused by connecting to HTTP proxy port with HTTPS.

You can connect through a proxy using SSL tunneling (many people call that proxy) using proxy CONNECT command. However, Java doesn't support newer version of proxy tunneling. In that case, you need to handle the tunneling yourself. You can find sample code here,

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip111.html

EDIT: If you want defeat all the security measures in JSSE, you still need your own TrustManager. Something like this,

 public SSLTunnelSocketFactory(String proxyhost, String proxyport){
      tunnelHost = proxyhost;
      tunnelPort = Integer.parseInt(proxyport);
      dfactory = (SSLSocketFactory)sslContext.getSocketFactory();
 }

 ...

 connection.setSSLSocketFactory( new SSLTunnelSocketFactory( proxyHost, proxyPort ) );
 connection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier( new HostnameVerifier()
 {
    public boolean verify( String arg0, SSLSession arg1 )
    {
        return true;
    }
 }  );

EDIT 2: I just tried my program I wrote a few years ago using SSLTunnelSocketFactory and it doesn't work either. Apparently, Sun introduced a new bug sometime in Java 5. See this bug report,

http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6614957

The good news is that the SSL tunneling bug is fixed so you can just use the default factory. I just tried with a proxy and everything works as expected. See my code,

public class SSLContextTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty("https.proxyHost", "proxy.xxx.com");
        System.setProperty("https.proxyPort", "8888");

        try {

            SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");

            // set up a TrustManager that trusts everything
            sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
                public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                    System.out.println("getAcceptedIssuers =============");
                    return null;
                }

                public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                        String authType) {
                    System.out.println("checkClientTrusted =============");
                }

                public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                        String authType) {
                    System.out.println("checkServerTrusted =============");
                }
            } }, new SecureRandom());

            HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(
                    sslContext.getSocketFactory());

            HttpsURLConnection
                    .setDefaultHostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
                        public boolean verify(String arg0, SSLSession arg1) {
                            System.out.println("hostnameVerifier =============");
                            return true;
                        }
                    });

            URL url = new URL("https://www.verisign.net");
            URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
            BufferedReader reader = 
                new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
            String line;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(line);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } 
    }
}

This is what I get when I run the program,

checkServerTrusted =============
hostnameVerifier =============
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
......

As you can see, both SSLContext and hostnameVerifier are getting called. HostnameVerifier is only involved when the hostname doesn't match the cert. I used "www.verisign.net" to trigger this.

WCF gives an unsecured or incorrectly secured fault error

If you are passing user credential from client (As per below code block), then it should match with the username/password on server. otherwise you will get this error.

FYI, in my case I am using "basicHTTPAuthentication" with "TransportWithMessageCredential" security mode. And the WCF service is hosted in IIS on https.

var service = new TestService();

service.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "InvalidUser";
service.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "InvalidPass";

Hope this will help to someone... :)

Are loops really faster in reverse?

The best approach to answering this sort of question is to actually try it. Set up a loop that counts a million iterations or whatever, and do it both ways. Time both loops, and compare the results.

The answer will probably depend on which browser you are using. Some will have different results than others.

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?

Ruby has the concepts of blocks, which are essentially syntactic sugar around a section of code; they are a way to create closures and pass them to another method which may or may not use the block. A block can be invoked later on through a yield statement.

For example, a simple definition of an each method on Array might be something like:

class Array
  def each
    for i in self  
      yield(i)     # If a block has been passed, control will be passed here.
    end  
  end  
end  

Then you can invoke this like so:

# Add five to each element.
[1, 2, 3, 4].each{ |e| puts e + 5 }
> [6, 7, 8, 9]

Python has anonymous functions/closures/lambdas, but it doesn't quite have blocks since it's missing some of the useful syntactic sugar. However, there's at least one way to get it in an ad-hoc fashion. See, for example, here.

How to import an existing X.509 certificate and private key in Java keystore to use in SSL?

Yes, it's indeed a sad fact that keytool has no functionality to import a private key.

For the record, at the end I went with the solution described here

Where do I configure log4j in a JUnit test class?

The LogManager class determines which log4j config to use in a static block which runs when the class is loaded. There are three options intended for end-users:

  1. If you specify log4j.defaultInitOverride to false, it will not configure log4j at all.
  2. Specify the path to the configuration file manually yourself and override the classpath search. You can specify the location of the configuration file directly by using the following argument to java:

    -Dlog4j.configuration=<path to properties file>

    in your test runner configuration.

  3. Allow log4j to scan the classpath for a log4j config file during your test. (the default)

See also the online documentation.

How can I test a PDF document if it is PDF/A compliant?

pdf validation with OPEN validator:

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/

JHOVE - JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/

OOP vs Functional Programming vs Procedural

These paradigms don't have to be mutually exclusive. If you look at python, it supports functions and classes, but at the same time, everything is an object, including functions. You can mix and match functional/oop/procedural style all in one piece of code.

What I mean is, in functional languages (at least in Haskell, the only one I studied) there are no statements! functions are only allowed one expression inside them!! BUT, functions are first-class citizens, you can pass them around as parameters, along with a bunch of other abilities. They can do powerful things with few lines of code.

While in a procedural language like C, the only way you can pass functions around is by using function pointers, and that alone doesn't enable many powerful tasks.

In python, a function is a first-class citizen, but it can contain arbitrary number of statements. So you can have a function that contains procedural code, but you can pass it around just like functional languages.

Same goes for OOP. A language like Java doesn't allow you to write procedures/functions outside of a class. The only way to pass a function around is to wrap it in an object that implements that function, and then pass that object around.

In Python, you don't have this restriction.

Linux error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

All I had to do was run:

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1

I was in the folder located at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and it worked perfectly.

What can I use for good quality code coverage for C#/.NET?

We've released EAP to dotCover and will be releasing the beta version soon.

When to use static classes in C#

I've started using static classes when I wish to use functions, rather than classes, as my unit of reuse. Previously, I was all about the evil of static classes. However, learning F# has made me see them in a new light.

What do I mean by this? Well, say when working up some super DRY code, I end up with a bunch of one-method classes. I may just pull these methods into a static class and then inject them into dependencies using a delegate. This also plays nicely with my dependency injection (DI) container of choice Autofac.

Of course taking a direct dependency on a static method is still usually evil (there are some non-evil uses).

Binary search (bisection) in Python

Check out the examples on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm

def binary_search(a, key, imin=0, imax=None):
    if imax is None:
        # if max amount not set, get the total
        imax = len(a) - 1

    while imin <= imax:
        # calculate the midpoint
        mid = (imin + imax)//2
        midval = a[mid]

        # determine which subarray to search
        if midval < key:
            # change min index to search upper subarray
            imin = mid + 1
        elif midval > key:
            # change max index to search lower subarray
            imax = mid - 1
        else:
            # return index number 
            return mid
    raise ValueError

What SOAP client libraries exist for Python, and where is the documentation for them?

Could this help: http://users.skynet.be/pascalbotte/rcx-ws-doc/python.htm#SOAPPY

I found it by searching for wsdl and python, with the rational being, that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers....

What can cause intermittent ORA-12519 (TNS: no appropriate handler found) errors

I had the similar issue. It happened every time when I run a pack of database (Spring JDBC) tests with SpringJUnit4ClassRunner, so I resolved the issue putting @DirtiesContext annotation for each test in order to cleanup the application context and release all resources thus each test could run with a new initalization of the application context.

What is the purpose for using OPTION(MAXDOP 1) in SQL Server?

There are a couple of parallization bugs in SQL server with abnormal input. OPTION(MAXDOP 1) will sidestep them.

EDIT: Old. My testing was done largely on SQL 2005. Most of these seem to not exist anymore, but every once in awhile we question the assumption when SQL 2014 does something dumb and we go back to the old way and it works. We never managed to demonstrate that it wasn't just a bad plan generation on more recent cases though since SQL server can be relied on to get the old way right in newer versions. Since all cases were IO bound queries MAXDOP 1 doesn't hurt.

Cause of No suitable driver found for

"no suitable driver" usually means that the syntax for the connection URL is incorrect.

What is the ideal data type to use when storing latitude / longitude in a MySQL database?

Depends on the precision that you require.

Datatype           Bytes       resolution
------------------ -----  --------------------------------
Deg*100 (SMALLINT)     4  1570 m    1.0 mi  Cities
DECIMAL(4,2)/(5,2)     5  1570 m    1.0 mi  Cities
SMALLINT scaled        4   682 m    0.4 mi  Cities
Deg*10000 (MEDIUMINT)  6    16 m     52 ft  Houses/Businesses
DECIMAL(6,4)/(7,4)     7    16 m     52 ft  Houses/Businesses
MEDIUMINT scaled       6   2.7 m    8.8 ft
FLOAT                  8   1.7 m    5.6 ft
DECIMAL(8,6)/(9,6)     9    16cm    1/2 ft  Friends in a mall
Deg*10000000 (INT)     8    16mm    5/8 in  Marbles
DOUBLE                16   3.5nm     ...    Fleas on a dog

From: http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/latlng

To summarise:

  • The most precise available option is DOUBLE.
  • The most common seen type used is DECIMAL(8,6)/(9,6).

As of MySQL 5.7, consider using Spatial Data Types (SDT), specifically POINT for storing a single coordinate. Prior to 5.7, SDT does not support indexes (with exception of 5.6 when table type is MyISAM).

Note:

  • When using POINT class, the order of the arguments for storing coordinates must be POINT(latitude, longitude).
  • There is a special syntax for creating a spatial index.
  • The biggest benefit of using SDT is that you have access to Spatial Analyses Functions, e.g. calculating distance between two points (ST_Distance) and determining whether one point is contained within another area (ST_Contains).

Before and After Suite execution hook in jUnit 4.x

Since maven-surefire-plugin does not run Suite class first but treats suite and test classes same, so we can configure plugin as below to enable only suite classes and disable all the tests. Suite will run all the tests.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <configuration>
                <includes>
                    <include>**/*Suite.java</include>
                </includes>
                <excludes>
                    <exclude>**/*Test.java</exclude>
                    <exclude>**/*Tests.java</exclude>
                </excludes>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

Tree data structure in C#

If you would like to write your own, you can start with this six-part document detailing effective usage of C# 2.0 data structures and how to go about analyzing your implementation of data structures in C#. Each article has examples and an installer with samples you can follow along with.

“An Extensive Examination of Data Structures Using C# 2.0” by Scott Mitchell

Good Free Alternative To MS Access

NuBuilder (www.nubuilder.net) might be right.

NuBuilder is a GPLv3-licensed PHP web application that requires MySQL as backend database. Users and programmers both use the web interface.

They promote it as a free, web based MS Access alternative. I'm creating my second NuBuilder application these days. The NuBuilder seems to be very actively developed, and I found it stable and well documented (provided you can stand video tutorials.)

Parse usable Street Address, City, State, Zip from a string

RecogniContact is a Windows COM object that parses US and European addresses. You can try it right on http://www.loquisoft.com/index.php?page=8

How to deep copy a list?

@Sukrit Kalra

No.1: list(), [:], copy.copy() are all shallow copy. If an object is compound, they are all not suitable. You need to use copy.deepcopy().

No.2: b = a directly, a and b have the same reference, changing a is even as changing b.

$ python
Python 3.9.0 (tags/v3.9.0:9cf6752, Oct  5 2020, 15:34:40) [MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
>>> b = list(a)
>>> a
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
>>> b
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
>>> a[0] = 1
>>> a
[1, [4, 5, 6]]
>>> b
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
>>> exit()

$ python
Python 3.9.0 (tags/v3.9.0:9cf6752, Oct  5 2020, 15:34:40) [MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
>>> b = a
>>> a
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
>>> b
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
>>> a[0] = 1
>>> a
[1, [4, 5, 6]]
>>> b
[1, [4, 5, 6]]
>>> exit()

How to replicate vector in c?

They would start by hiding the defining a structure that would hold members necessary for the implementation. Then providing a group of functions that would manipulate the contents of the structure.

Something like this:

typedef struct vec
{
    unsigned char* _mem;
    unsigned long _elems;
    unsigned long _elemsize;
    unsigned long _capelems;
    unsigned long _reserve;
};

vec* vec_new(unsigned long elemsize)
{
    vec* pvec = (vec*)malloc(sizeof(vec));
    pvec->_reserve = 10;
    pvec->_capelems = pvec->_reserve;
    pvec->_elemsize = elemsize;
    pvec->_elems = 0;
    pvec->_mem = (unsigned char*)malloc(pvec->_capelems * pvec->_elemsize);
    return pvec;
}

void vec_delete(vec* pvec)
{
    free(pvec->_mem);
    free(pvec);
}

void vec_grow(vec* pvec)
{
    unsigned char* mem = (unsigned char*)malloc((pvec->_capelems + pvec->_reserve) * pvec->_elemsize);
    memcpy(mem, pvec->_mem, pvec->_elems * pvec->_elemsize);
    free(pvec->_mem);
    pvec->_mem = mem;
    pvec->_capelems += pvec->_reserve;
}

void vec_push_back(vec* pvec, void* data, unsigned long elemsize)
{
    assert(elemsize == pvec->_elemsize);
    if (pvec->_elems == pvec->_capelems) {
        vec_grow(pvec);
    }
    memcpy(pvec->_mem + (pvec->_elems * pvec->_elemsize), (unsigned char*)data, pvec->_elemsize);
    pvec->_elems++;    
}

unsigned long vec_length(vec* pvec)
{
    return pvec->_elems;
}

void* vec_get(vec* pvec, unsigned long index)
{
    assert(index < pvec->_elems);
    return (void*)(pvec->_mem + (index * pvec->_elemsize));
}

void vec_copy_item(vec* pvec, void* dest, unsigned long index)
{
    memcpy(dest, vec_get(pvec, index), pvec->_elemsize);
}

void playwithvec()
{
    vec* pvec = vec_new(sizeof(int));

    for (int val = 0; val < 1000; val += 10) {
        vec_push_back(pvec, &val, sizeof(val));
    }

    for (unsigned long index = (int)vec_length(pvec) - 1; (int)index >= 0; index--) {
        int val;
        vec_copy_item(pvec, &val, index);
        printf("vec(%d) = %d\n", index, val);
    }

    vec_delete(pvec);
}

Further to this they would achieve encapsulation by using void* in the place of vec* for the function group, and actually hide the structure definition from the user by defining it within the C module containing the group of functions rather than the header. Also they would hide the functions that you would consider to be private, by leaving them out from the header and simply prototyping them only in the C module.

How to create empty constructor for data class in Kotlin Android

If you give default values to all the fields - empty constructor is generated automatically by Kotlin.

data class User(var id: Long = -1,
                var uniqueIdentifier: String? = null)

and you can simply call:

val user = User()

SQL Server replace, remove all after certain character

Could use CASE WHEN to leave those with no ';' alone.

    SELECT
    CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(';', MyText) > 0 THEN
    LEFT(MyText, CHARINDEX(';', MyText)-1) ELSE
    MyText END
    FROM MyTable

What does $(function() {} ); do?

I think you may be confusing Javascript with jQuery methods. Vanilla or plain Javascript is something like:

function example() {
}

A function of that nature can be called at any time, anywhere.

jQuery (a library built on Javascript) has built in functions that generally required the DOM to be fully rendered before being called. The syntax for when this is completed is:

$(document).ready(function() {
});

So a jQuery function, which is prefixed with the $ or the word jQuery generally is called from within that method.

$(document).ready(function() {        
    // Assign all list items on the page to be the  color red.  
    //      This does not work until AFTER the entire DOM is "ready", hence the $(document).ready()
    $('li').css('color', 'red');   
});

The pseudo-code for that block is:

When the document object model $(document) is ready .ready(), call the following function function() { }. In that function, check for all <li>'s on the page $('li') and using the jQuery method .CSS() to set the CSS property "color" to the value "red" .css('color', 'red');

Converting dict to OrderedDict

Most of the time we go for OrderedDict when we required a custom order not a generic one like ASC etc.

Here is the proposed solution:

import collections
ship = {"NAME": "Albatross",
         "HP":50,
         "BLASTERS":13,
         "THRUSTERS":18,
         "PRICE":250}

ship = collections.OrderedDict(ship)

print ship


new_dict = collections.OrderedDict()
new_dict["NAME"]=ship["NAME"]
new_dict["HP"]=ship["HP"]
new_dict["BLASTERS"]=ship["BLASTERS"]
new_dict["THRUSTERS"]=ship["THRUSTERS"]
new_dict["PRICE"]=ship["PRICE"]


print new_dict

This will be output:

OrderedDict([('PRICE', 250), ('HP', 50), ('NAME', 'Albatross'), ('BLASTERS', 13), ('THRUSTERS', 18)])
OrderedDict([('NAME', 'Albatross'), ('HP', 50), ('BLASTERS', 13), ('THRUSTERS', 18), ('PRICE', 250)])

Note: The new sorted dictionaries maintain their sort order when entries are deleted. But when new keys are added, the keys are appended to the end and the sort is not maintained.(official doc)

How to create global variables accessible in all views using Express / Node.JS?

After having a chance to study the Express 3 API Reference a bit more I discovered what I was looking for. Specifically the entries for app.locals and then a bit farther down res.locals held the answers I needed.

I discovered for myself that the function app.locals takes an object and stores all of its properties as global variables scoped to the application. These globals are passed as local variables to each view. The function res.locals, however, is scoped to the request and thus, response local variables are accessible only to the view(s) rendered during that particular request/response.

So for my case in my app.js what I did was add:

app.locals({
    site: {
        title: 'ExpressBootstrapEJS',
        description: 'A boilerplate for a simple web application with a Node.JS and Express backend, with an EJS template with using Twitter Bootstrap.'
    },
    author: {
        name: 'Cory Gross',
        contact: '[email protected]'
    }
});

Then all of these variables are accessible in my views as site.title, site.description, author.name, author.contact.

I could also define local variables for each response to a request with res.locals, or simply pass variables like the page's title in as the optionsparameter in the render call.

EDIT: This method will not allow you to use these locals in your middleware. I actually did run into this as Pickels suggests in the comment below. In this case you will need to create a middleware function as such in his alternative (and appreciated) answer. Your middleware function will need to add them to res.locals for each response and then call next. This middleware function will need to be placed above any other middleware which needs to use these locals.

EDIT: Another difference between declaring locals via app.locals and res.locals is that with app.locals the variables are set a single time and persist throughout the life of the application. When you set locals with res.locals in your middleware, these are set everytime you get a request. You should basically prefer setting globals via app.locals unless the value depends on the request req variable passed into the middleware. If the value doesn't change then it will be more efficient for it to be set just once in app.locals.

Find column whose name contains a specific string

You also can use this code:

spike_cols =[x for x in df.columns[df.columns.str.contains('spike')]]

How can I label points in this scatterplot?

Your call to text() doesn't output anything because you inverted your x and your y:

plot(abs_losses, percent_losses, 
     main= "Absolute Losses vs. Relative Losses(in%)",
     xlab= "Losses (absolute, in miles of millions)",
     ylab= "Losses relative (in % of January´2007 value)",
     col= "blue", pch = 19, cex = 1, lty = "solid", lwd = 2)

text(abs_losses, percent_losses, labels=namebank, cex= 0.7)

Now if you want to move your labels down, left, up or right you can add argument pos= with values, respectively, 1, 2, 3 or 4. For instance, to place your labels up:

 text(abs_losses, percent_losses, labels=namebank, cex= 0.7, pos=3)

enter image description here

You can of course gives a vector of value to pos if you want some of the labels in other directions (for instance for Goldman_Sachs, UBS and Société_Generale since they are overlapping with other labels):

 pos_vector <- rep(3, length(namebank))
 pos_vector[namebank %in% c("Goldman_Sachs", "Societé_Generale", "UBS")] <- 4
 text(abs_losses, percent_losses, labels=namebank, cex= 0.7, pos=pos_vector)

enter image description here

ADB device list is empty

This helped me at the end:

Quick guide:

  • Download Google USB Driver

  • Connect your device with Android Debugging enabled to your PC

  • Open Device Manager of Windows from System Properties.

  • Your device should appear under Other devices listed as something like Android ADB Interface or 'Android Phone' or similar. Right-click that and click on Update Driver Software...

  • Select Browse my computer for driver software

  • Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer

  • Double-click Show all devices

  • Press the Have disk button

  • Browse and navigate to [wherever your SDK has been installed]\google-usb_driver and select android_winusb.inf

  • Select Android ADB Interface from the list of device types.

  • Press the Yes button

  • Press the Install button

  • Press the Close button

Now you've got the ADB driver set up correctly. Reconnect your device if it doesn't recognize it already.

"React.Children.only expected to receive a single React element child" error when putting <Image> and <TouchableHighlight> in a <View>

Yes, indeed you need to have one child inside your <TouchableHighlight>.

And, If you don't want to pollute your file with Views you can use React Fragments to achieve the same.

<TouchableWithoutFeedback>
  <React.Fragment>
   ...
  </React.Fragment>
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>

or even better there is a short syntax for React Fragments. So the above code can be written as below:

<TouchableWithoutFeedback>
  <>
   ...
  </>
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>

De-obfuscate Javascript code to make it readable again

Here's a new automated tool, JSNice, to try to deobfuscate/deminify it. The tool even tries to guess the variable names, which is unbelievably cool. (It mines Javascript on github for this purpose.)

http://www.jsnice.org

Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC Error

This is a common but poorly documented Excel COM Error. I've seen it documented as "NAME_NOT_FOUND", meaning that Excel's COM layer is disabled, and can't find the COM property or method name.

I get this error consistently when running the COM code while Excel is 'busy', for example if you set a timer that will start the code, and the code starts running while the user is editing a cell or pressing down their mouse button, then you'll always get this error. This error only happens when the code runs on the main Excel thread, but seems to be the equivalent of error VBA_E_IGNORE = 0x800AC472, which you get when calling the Excel COM object model from another thread, while Excel is 'busy'.

The only workaround seems to be to retry (with some small delay) the COM call until it succeeds - when Excel is no longer 'busy'.

Selecting a Record With MAX Value

Say, for an user, there is revision for each date. The following will pick up record for the max revision of each date for each employee.

select job, adate, rev, usr, typ 
from tbl
where exists (  select 1 from ( select usr, adate, max(rev) as max_rev 
                                from tbl
                                group by usr, adate 
                              ) as cond
                where tbl.usr=cond.usr 
                and tbl.adate =cond.adate 
                and tbl.rev =cond.max_rev
             )
order by adate, job, usr

Setting up and using environment variables in IntelliJ Idea

Path Variables dialog has nothing to do with the environment variables.

Environment variables can be specified in your OS or customized in the Run configuration:

env

ggplot geom_text font size control

Here are a few options for changing text / label sizes

library(ggplot2)

# Example data using mtcars

a <- aggregate(mpg ~ vs + am , mtcars, function(i) round(mean(i)))

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(vs), y=mpg, fill=factor(am))) + 
            geom_bar(stat="identity",position="dodge") + 
            geom_text(data = a, aes(label = mpg), 
                            position = position_dodge(width=0.9),  size=20)

The size in the geom_text changes the size of the geom_text labels.

p <- p + theme(axis.text = element_text(size = 15)) # changes axis labels

p <- p + theme(axis.title = element_text(size = 25)) # change axis titles

p <- p + theme(text = element_text(size = 10)) # this will change all text size 
                                                             # (except geom_text)


For this And why size of 10 in geom_text() is different from that in theme(text=element_text()) ?

Yes, they are different. I did a quick manual check and they appear to be in the ratio of ~ (14/5) for geom_text sizes to theme sizes.

So a horrible fix for uniform sizes is to scale by this ratio

geom.text.size = 7
theme.size = (14/5) * geom.text.size

ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(vs), y=mpg, fill=factor(am))) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity",position="dodge") + 
  geom_text(data = a, aes(label = mpg), 
            position = position_dodge(width=0.9),  size=geom.text.size) + 
  theme(axis.text = element_text(size = theme.size, colour="black")) 

This of course doesn't explain why? and is a pita (and i assume there is a more sensible way to do this)

Remove unwanted parts from strings in a column

Suppose your DF is having those extra character in between numbers as well.The last entry.

  result   time
0   +52A  09:00
1   +62B  10:00
2   +44a  11:00
3   +30b  12:00
4  -110a  13:00
5   3+b0  14:00

You can try str.replace to remove characters not only from start and end but also from in between.

DF['result'] = DF['result'].str.replace('\+|a|b|\-|A|B', '')

Output:

  result   time
0     52  09:00
1     62  10:00
2     44  11:00
3     30  12:00
4    110  13:00
5     30  14:00

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:component-scan

It's too late but somewhat may useful to others

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:component-scan

which Means you have Missed some Declarations or The Required Declarations Not Found in Your XML

In my case i forgot to add the follwoing

After Adding this the Problem Gone away

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-4.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">

How to create an Array, ArrayList, Stack and Queue in Java?

I am guessing you're confused with the parameterization of the types:

// This works, because there is one class/type definition in the parameterized <> field
ArrayList<String> myArrayList = new ArrayList<String>(); 


// This doesn't work, as you cannot use primitive types here
ArrayList<char> myArrayList = new ArrayList<char>();

Returning a promise in an async function in TypeScript

It's complicated.

First of all, in this code

const p = new Promise((resolve) => {
    resolve(4);
});

the type of p is inferred as Promise<{}>. There is open issue about this on typescript github, so arguably this is a bug, because obviously (for a human), p should be Promise<number>.

Then, Promise<{}> is compatible with Promise<number>, because basically the only property a promise has is then method, and then is compatible in these two promise types in accordance with typescript rules for function types compatibility. That's why there is no error in whatever1.

But the purpose of async is to pretend that you are dealing with actual values, not promises, and then you get the error in whatever2 because {} is obvioulsy not compatible with number.

So the async behavior is the same, but currently some workaround is necessary to make typescript compile it. You could simply provide explicit generic argument when creating a promise like this:

const whatever2 = async (): Promise<number> => {
    return new Promise<number>((resolve) => {
        resolve(4);
    });
};

Timeout function if it takes too long to finish

I rewrote David's answer using the with statement, it allows you do do this:

with timeout(seconds=3):
    time.sleep(4)

Which will raise a TimeoutError.

The code is still using signal and thus UNIX only:

import signal

class timeout:
    def __init__(self, seconds=1, error_message='Timeout'):
        self.seconds = seconds
        self.error_message = error_message
    def handle_timeout(self, signum, frame):
        raise TimeoutError(self.error_message)
    def __enter__(self):
        signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self.handle_timeout)
        signal.alarm(self.seconds)
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        signal.alarm(0)

How to specify the current directory as path in VBA?

If the path you want is the one to the workbook running the macro, and that workbook has been saved, then

ThisWorkbook.Path

is what you would use.

C Programming: How to read the whole file contents into a buffer

Here is what I would recommend.

It should conform to C89, and be completely portable. In particular, it works also on pipes and sockets on POSIXy systems.

The idea is that we read the input in large-ish chunks (READALL_CHUNK), dynamically reallocating the buffer as we need it. We only use realloc(), fread(), ferror(), and free():

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

/* Size of each input chunk to be
   read and allocate for. */
#ifndef  READALL_CHUNK
#define  READALL_CHUNK  262144
#endif

#define  READALL_OK          0  /* Success */
#define  READALL_INVALID    -1  /* Invalid parameters */
#define  READALL_ERROR      -2  /* Stream error */
#define  READALL_TOOMUCH    -3  /* Too much input */
#define  READALL_NOMEM      -4  /* Out of memory */

/* This function returns one of the READALL_ constants above.
   If the return value is zero == READALL_OK, then:
     (*dataptr) points to a dynamically allocated buffer, with
     (*sizeptr) chars read from the file.
     The buffer is allocated for one extra char, which is NUL,
     and automatically appended after the data.
   Initial values of (*dataptr) and (*sizeptr) are ignored.
*/
int readall(FILE *in, char **dataptr, size_t *sizeptr)
{
    char  *data = NULL, *temp;
    size_t size = 0;
    size_t used = 0;
    size_t n;

    /* None of the parameters can be NULL. */
    if (in == NULL || dataptr == NULL || sizeptr == NULL)
        return READALL_INVALID;

    /* A read error already occurred? */
    if (ferror(in))
        return READALL_ERROR;

    while (1) {

        if (used + READALL_CHUNK + 1 > size) {
            size = used + READALL_CHUNK + 1;

            /* Overflow check. Some ANSI C compilers
               may optimize this away, though. */
            if (size <= used) {
                free(data);
                return READALL_TOOMUCH;
            }

            temp = realloc(data, size);
            if (temp == NULL) {
                free(data);
                return READALL_NOMEM;
            }
            data = temp;
        }

        n = fread(data + used, 1, READALL_CHUNK, in);
        if (n == 0)
            break;

        used += n;
    }

    if (ferror(in)) {
        free(data);
        return READALL_ERROR;
    }

    temp = realloc(data, used + 1);
    if (temp == NULL) {
        free(data);
        return READALL_NOMEM;
    }
    data = temp;
    data[used] = '\0';

    *dataptr = data;
    *sizeptr = used;

    return READALL_OK;
}

Above, I've used a constant chunk size, READALL_CHUNK == 262144 (256*1024). This means that in the worst case, up to 262145 chars are wasted (allocated but not used), but only temporarily. At the end, the function reallocates the buffer to the optimal size. Also, this means that we do four reallocations per megabyte of data read.

The 262144-byte default in the code above is a conservative value; it works well for even old minilaptops and Raspberry Pis and most embedded devices with at least a few megabytes of RAM available for the process. Yet, it is not so small that it slows down the operation (due to many read calls, and many buffer reallocations) on most systems.

For desktop machines at this time (2017), I recommend a much larger READALL_CHUNK, perhaps #define READALL_CHUNK 2097152 (2 MiB).

Because the definition of READALL_CHUNK is guarded (i.e., it is defined only if it is at that point in the code still undefined), you can override the default value at compile time, by using (in most C compilers) -DREADALL_CHUNK=2097152 command-line option -- but do check your compiler options for defining a preprocessor macro using command-line options.

JQuery Error: cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'close'

Try this - it works for me:

$(".editDialog").on("click", function (e) {
    var url = $(this).attr('href');
    $("#dialog-edit").dialog({
        title: 'Edit Office',
        autoOpen: false,
        resizable: false,
        height: 450,
        width: 380,
        show: { effect: 'drop', direction: "up" },
        modal: true,
        draggable: true,
        open: function (event, ui) {
            $(this).load(url);
        },
        close: function (event, ui) {
            $("#dialog-edit").dialog().dialog('close');
        }
    });

    $("#dialog-edit").dialog('open');
    return false;
});

Hope it will help you

Saving images in Python at a very high quality

If you are using Matplotlib and are trying to get good figures in a LaTeX document, save as an EPS. Specifically, try something like this after running the commands to plot the image:

plt.savefig('destination_path.eps', format='eps')

I have found that EPS files work best and the dpi parameter is what really makes them look good in a document.

To specify the orientation of the figure before saving, simply call the following before the plt.savefig call, but after creating the plot (assuming you have plotted using an axes with the name ax):

ax.view_init(elev=elevation_angle, azim=azimuthal_angle)

Where elevation_angle is a number (in degrees) specifying the polar angle (down from vertical z axis) and the azimuthal_angle specifies the azimuthal angle (around the z axis).

I find that it is easiest to determine these values by first plotting the image and then rotating it and watching the current values of the angles appear towards the bottom of the window just below the actual plot. Keep in mind that the x, y, z, positions appear by default, but they are replaced with the two angles when you start to click+drag+rotate the image.

Git commit date

If you want to see only the date of a tag you'd do:

git show -s --format=%ci <mytagname>^{commit}

which gives: 2013-11-06 13:22:37 +0100

Or do:

git show -s --format=%ct <mytagname>^{commit}

which gives UNIX timestamp: 1383740557

Java - Opposite of .contains (does not contain)

It seems that Luiggi Mendoza and joey rohan both already answered this, but I think it can be clarified a little.

You can write it as a single if statement:

if (inventory.contains("bread") && !inventory.contains("water")) {
    // do something
}

How to insert an item into a key/value pair object?

Do you need to look up objects by the key? If not, consider using List<Tuple<string, string>> or List<KeyValuePair<string, string>> if you're not using .NET 4.

What is the best way to compare 2 folder trees on windows?

Like the OP, I was looking for a Windows folder diff tool, in particular one that could handle very large trees (100s of Gigabytes of data). Thanks Lieven Keersmaekers for the pointer to BeyondCompare, which I found to be VERY fast (roughly 10-100 times faster) than my previous old school tool windiff.

BTW, BeyondCompare does have a command line mode in addition to the GUI.

Initializing an Array of Structs in C#

Change const to static readonly and initialise it like this

static readonly MyStruct[] MyArray = new[] {
    new MyStruct { label = "a", id = 1 },
    new MyStruct { label = "b", id = 5 },
    new MyStruct { label = "q", id = 29 }
};

Removing all empty elements from a hash / YAML?

Rails 4.1 added Hash#compact and Hash#compact! as a core extensions to Ruby's Hash class. You can use them like this:

hash = { a: true, b: false, c: nil }
hash.compact                        
# => { a: true, b: false }
hash                                
# => { a: true, b: false, c: nil }
hash.compact!                        
# => { a: true, b: false }
hash                                
# => { a: true, b: false }
{ c: nil }.compact                  
# => {}

Heads up: this implementation is not recursive. As a curiosity, they implemented it using #select instead of #delete_if for performance reasons. See here for the benchmark.

In case you want to backport it to your Rails 3 app:

# config/initializers/rails4_backports.rb

class Hash
  # as implemented in Rails 4
  # File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/compact.rb, line 8
  def compact
    self.select { |_, value| !value.nil? }
  end
end

How does numpy.newaxis work and when to use it?

Simply put, numpy.newaxis is used to increase the dimension of the existing array by one more dimension, when used once. Thus,

  • 1D array will become 2D array

  • 2D array will become 3D array

  • 3D array will become 4D array

  • 4D array will become 5D array

and so on..

Here is a visual illustration which depicts promotion of 1D array to 2D arrays.

newaxis canva visualization


Scenario-1: np.newaxis might come in handy when you want to explicitly convert a 1D array to either a row vector or a column vector, as depicted in the above picture.

Example:

# 1D array
In [7]: arr = np.arange(4)
In [8]: arr.shape
Out[8]: (4,)

# make it as row vector by inserting an axis along first dimension
In [9]: row_vec = arr[np.newaxis, :]     # arr[None, :]
In [10]: row_vec.shape
Out[10]: (1, 4)

# make it as column vector by inserting an axis along second dimension
In [11]: col_vec = arr[:, np.newaxis]     # arr[:, None]
In [12]: col_vec.shape
Out[12]: (4, 1)

Scenario-2: When we want to make use of numpy broadcasting as part of some operation, for instance while doing addition of some arrays.

Example:

Let's say you want to add the following two arrays:

 x1 = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
 x2 = np.array([5, 4, 3])

If you try to add these just like that, NumPy will raise the following ValueError :

ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with shapes (5,) (3,)

In this situation, you can use np.newaxis to increase the dimension of one of the arrays so that NumPy can broadcast.

In [2]: x1_new = x1[:, np.newaxis]    # x1[:, None]
# now, the shape of x1_new is (5, 1)
# array([[1],
#        [2],
#        [3],
#        [4],
#        [5]])

Now, add:

In [3]: x1_new + x2
Out[3]:
array([[ 6,  5,  4],
       [ 7,  6,  5],
       [ 8,  7,  6],
       [ 9,  8,  7],
       [10,  9,  8]])

Alternatively, you can also add new axis to the array x2:

In [6]: x2_new = x2[:, np.newaxis]    # x2[:, None]
In [7]: x2_new     # shape is (3, 1)
Out[7]: 
array([[5],
       [4],
       [3]])

Now, add:

In [8]: x1 + x2_new
Out[8]: 
array([[ 6,  7,  8,  9, 10],
       [ 5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
       [ 4,  5,  6,  7,  8]])

Note: Observe that we get the same result in both cases (but one being the transpose of the other).


Scenario-3: This is similar to scenario-1. But, you can use np.newaxis more than once to promote the array to higher dimensions. Such an operation is sometimes needed for higher order arrays (i.e. Tensors).

Example:

In [124]: arr = np.arange(5*5).reshape(5,5)

In [125]: arr.shape
Out[125]: (5, 5)

# promoting 2D array to a 5D array
In [126]: arr_5D = arr[np.newaxis, ..., np.newaxis, np.newaxis]    # arr[None, ..., None, None]

In [127]: arr_5D.shape
Out[127]: (1, 5, 5, 1, 1)

As an alternative, you can use numpy.expand_dims that has an intuitive axis kwarg.

# adding new axes at 1st, 4th, and last dimension of the resulting array
In [131]: newaxes = (0, 3, -1)
In [132]: arr_5D = np.expand_dims(arr, axis=newaxes)
In [133]: arr_5D.shape
Out[133]: (1, 5, 5, 1, 1)

More background on np.newaxis vs np.reshape

newaxis is also called as a pseudo-index that allows the temporary addition of an axis into a multiarray.

np.newaxis uses the slicing operator to recreate the array while numpy.reshape reshapes the array to the desired layout (assuming that the dimensions match; And this is must for a reshape to happen).

Example

In [13]: A = np.ones((3,4,5,6))
In [14]: B = np.ones((4,6))
In [15]: (A + B[:, np.newaxis, :]).shape     # B[:, None, :]
Out[15]: (3, 4, 5, 6)

In the above example, we inserted a temporary axis between the first and second axes of B (to use broadcasting). A missing axis is filled-in here using np.newaxis to make the broadcasting operation work.


General Tip: You can also use None in place of np.newaxis; These are in fact the same objects.

In [13]: np.newaxis is None
Out[13]: True

P.S. Also see this great answer: newaxis vs reshape to add dimensions

Where are Magento's log files located?

These code lines can help you quickly enable log setting in your magento site.

INSERT INTO `core_config_data` (`config_id`, `scope`, `scope_id`, `path`, `value`) VALUES
('', 'default', 0, 'dev/log/active', '1'),
('', 'default', 0, 'dev/log/file', 'system.log'),
('', 'default', 0, 'dev/log/exception_file', 'exception.log');

Then you can see them inside the folder: /var/log under root installation.

More detail in this blog

Regex Named Groups in Java

Yes but its messy hacking the sun classes. There is a simpler way:

http://code.google.com/p/named-regexp/

named-regexp is a thin wrapper for the standard JDK regular expressions implementation, with the single purpose of handling named capturing groups in the .net style : (?...).

It can be used with Java 5 and 6 (generics are used).

Java 7 will handle named capturing groups , so this project is not meant to last.

Is it possible to return empty in react render function?

We can return like this,

return <React.Fragment />;

Project vs Repository in GitHub

In general, on GitHub, 1 repository = 1 project. For example: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot . But it isn't a hard rule.

1 repository = many projects. For example: https://github.com/donhuvy/java_examples

1 projects = many repositories. For example: https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework (1 project named Zend Framework 3 has 61 + 1 = 62 repositories, don't believe? let count Zend Frameworks' modules + main repository)

I totally agree with @Brandon Ibbotson's comment:

A GitHub repository is just a "directory" where folders and files can exist.

Reading an Excel file in PHP

Try this...

I have used following code to read "xls and xlsx"

    <?php
    include 'excel_reader.php';       // include the class
    $excel = new PhpExcelReader;      // creates object instance of the class
    $excel->read('excel_file.xls');   // reads and stores the excel file data

    // Test to see the excel data stored in $sheets property
    echo '<pre>';
    var_export($excel->sheets);

    echo '</pre>';

    or 

 echo '<pre>';
    print_r($excel->sheets);

    echo '</pre>';

Reference:http://coursesweb.net/php-mysql/read-excel-file-data-php_pc

Search an array for matching attribute

Must be too late now, but the right version would be:

for(var i = 0; i < restaurants.restaurant.length; i++)
{
  if(restaurants.restaurant[i].food == 'chicken')
  {
    return restaurants.restaurant[i].name;
  }
}

Bootstrap combining rows (rowspan)

Check this one. hope it will help full for you.

http://jsfiddle.net/j6amM/

.row-fix { margin-bottom:20px;}

.row-fix > [class*="span"]{ height:100px; background:#f1f1f1;}

.row-fix .two-col{ background:none;}

.two-col > [class*="col"]{ height:40px; background:#ccc;}

.two-col > .col1{margin-bottom:20px;}

Cant get text of a DropDownList in code - can get value but not text

Have a look here, this has a proof-of-concept page and demo you can use to get anything from the drop-down: asp:DropDownList Control Tutorial Page

C - split string into an array of strings

Since you've already looked into strtok just continue down the same path and split your string using space (' ') as a delimiter, then use something as realloc to increase the size of the array containing the elements to be passed to execvp.

See the below example, but keep in mind that strtok will modify the string passed to it. If you don't want this to happen you are required to make a copy of the original string, using strcpy or similar function.

char    str[]= "ls -l";
char ** res  = NULL;
char *  p    = strtok (str, " ");
int n_spaces = 0, i;


/* split string and append tokens to 'res' */

while (p) {
  res = realloc (res, sizeof (char*) * ++n_spaces);

  if (res == NULL)
    exit (-1); /* memory allocation failed */

  res[n_spaces-1] = p;

  p = strtok (NULL, " ");
}

/* realloc one extra element for the last NULL */

res = realloc (res, sizeof (char*) * (n_spaces+1));
res[n_spaces] = 0;

/* print the result */

for (i = 0; i < (n_spaces+1); ++i)
  printf ("res[%d] = %s\n", i, res[i]);

/* free the memory allocated */

free (res);

res[0] = ls
res[1] = -l
res[2] = (null)

Insert new column into table in sqlite?

You have two options. First, you could simply add a new column with the following:

ALTER TABLE {tableName} ADD COLUMN COLNew {type};

Second, and more complicatedly, but would actually put the column where you want it, would be to rename the table:

ALTER TABLE {tableName} RENAME TO TempOldTable;

Then create the new table with the missing column:

CREATE TABLE {tableName} (name TEXT, COLNew {type} DEFAULT {defaultValue}, qty INTEGER, rate REAL);

And populate it with the old data:

INSERT INTO {tableName} (name, qty, rate) SELECT name, qty, rate FROM TempOldTable;

Then delete the old table:

DROP TABLE TempOldTable;

I'd much prefer the second option, as it will allow you to completely rename everything if need be.

Rails: call another controller action from a controller

Separate these functions from controllers and put them into model file. Then include the model file in your controller.

What are the differences between 'call-template' and 'apply-templates' in XSL?

The functionality is indeed similar (apart from the calling semantics, where call-template requires a name attribute and a corresponding names template).

However, the parser will not execute the same way.

From MSDN:

Unlike <xsl:apply-templates>, <xsl:call-template> does not change the current node or the current node-list.

Sticky and NON-Sticky sessions

I've made an answer with some more details here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/11045462/592477

Or you can read it there ==>

When you use loadbalancing it means you have several instances of tomcat and you need to divide loads.

  • If you're using session replication without sticky session : Imagine you have only one user using your web app, and you have 3 tomcat instances. This user sends several requests to your app, then the loadbalancer will send some of these requests to the first tomcat instance, and send some other of these requests to the secondth instance, and other to the third.
  • If you're using sticky session without replication : Imagine you have only one user using your web app, and you have 3 tomcat instances. This user sends several requests to your app, then the loadbalancer will send the first user request to one of the three tomcat instances, and all the other requests that are sent by this user during his session will be sent to the same tomcat instance. During these requests, if you shutdown or restart this tomcat instance (tomcat instance which is used) the loadbalancer sends the remaining requests to one other tomcat instance that is still running, BUT as you don't use session replication, the instance tomcat which receives the remaining requests doesn't have a copy of the user session then for this tomcat the user begin a session : the user loose his session and is disconnected from the web app although the web app is still running.
  • If you're using sticky session WITH session replication : Imagine you have only one user using your web app, and you have 3 tomcat instances. This user sends several requests to your app, then the loadbalancer will send the first user request to one of the three tomcat instances, and all the other requests that are sent by this user during his session will be sent to the same tomcat instance. During these requests, if you shutdown or restart this tomcat instance (tomcat instance which is used) the loadbalancer sends the remaining requests to one other tomcat instance that is still running, as you use session replication, the instance tomcat which receives the remaining requests has a copy of the user session then the user keeps on his session : the user continue to browse your web app without being disconnected, the shutdown of the tomcat instance doesn't impact the user navigation.

Excel formula to reference 'CELL TO THE LEFT'

Please select the entire sheet and HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true::

=A1<>XFD1

Format..., select choice of formatting, OK, OK.

How to implement an STL-style iterator and avoid common pitfalls?

I was trying to solve the problem of being able to iterate over several different text arrays all of which are stored within a memory resident database that is a large struct.

The following was worked out using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition on an MFC test application. I am including this as an example as this posting was one of several that I ran across that provided some help yet were still insufficient for my needs.

The struct containing the memory resident data looked something like the following. I have removed most of the elements for the sake of brevity and have also not included the Preprocessor defines used (the SDK in use is for C as well as C++ and is old).

What I was interested in doing is having iterators for the various WCHAR two dimensional arrays which contained text strings for mnemonics.

typedef struct  tagUNINTRAM {
    // stuff deleted ...
    WCHAR   ParaTransMnemo[MAX_TRANSM_NO][PARA_TRANSMNEMO_LEN]; /* prog #20 */
    WCHAR   ParaLeadThru[MAX_LEAD_NO][PARA_LEADTHRU_LEN];   /* prog #21 */
    WCHAR   ParaReportName[MAX_REPO_NO][PARA_REPORTNAME_LEN];   /* prog #22 */
    WCHAR   ParaSpeMnemo[MAX_SPEM_NO][PARA_SPEMNEMO_LEN];   /* prog #23 */
    WCHAR   ParaPCIF[MAX_PCIF_SIZE];            /* prog #39 */
    WCHAR   ParaAdjMnemo[MAX_ADJM_NO][PARA_ADJMNEMO_LEN];   /* prog #46 */
    WCHAR   ParaPrtModi[MAX_PRTMODI_NO][PARA_PRTMODI_LEN];  /* prog #47 */
    WCHAR   ParaMajorDEPT[MAX_MDEPT_NO][PARA_MAJORDEPT_LEN];    /* prog #48 */
    //  ... stuff deleted
} UNINIRAM;

The current approach is to use a template to define a proxy class for each of the arrays and then to have a single iterator class that can be used to iterate over a particular array by using a proxy object representing the array.

A copy of the memory resident data is stored in an object that handles reading and writing the memory resident data from/to disk. This class, CFilePara contains the templated proxy class (MnemonicIteratorDimSize and the sub class from which is it is derived, MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase) and the iterator class, MnemonicIterator.

The created proxy object is attached to an iterator object which accesses the necessary information through an interface described by a base class from which all of the proxy classes are derived. The result is to have a single type of iterator class which can be used with several different proxy classes because the different proxy classes all expose the same interface, the interface of the proxy base class.

The first thing was to create a set of identifiers which would be provided to a class factory to generate the specific proxy object for that type of mnemonic. These identifiers are used as part of the user interface to identify the particular provisioning data the user is interested in seeing and possibly modifying.

const static DWORD_PTR dwId_TransactionMnemonic = 1;
const static DWORD_PTR dwId_ReportMnemonic = 2;
const static DWORD_PTR dwId_SpecialMnemonic = 3;
const static DWORD_PTR dwId_LeadThroughMnemonic = 4;

The Proxy Class

The templated proxy class and its base class are as follows. I needed to accommodate several different kinds of wchar_t text string arrays. The two dimensional arrays had different numbers of mnemonics, depending on the type (purpose) of the mnemonic and the different types of mnemonics were of different maximum lengths, varying between five text characters and twenty text characters. Templates for the derived proxy class was a natural fit with the template requiring the maximum number of characters in each mnemonic. After the proxy object is created, we then use the SetRange() method to specify the actual mnemonic array and its range.

// proxy object which represents a particular subsection of the
// memory resident database each of which is an array of wchar_t
// text arrays though the number of array elements may vary.
class MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase
{
    DWORD_PTR  m_Type;

public:
    MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase(DWORD_PTR x) { }
    virtual ~MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase() { }

    virtual wchar_t *begin() = 0;
    virtual wchar_t *end() = 0;
    virtual wchar_t *get(int i) = 0;
    virtual int ItemSize() = 0;
    virtual int ItemCount() = 0;

    virtual DWORD_PTR ItemType() { return m_Type; }
};

template <size_t sDimSize>
class MnemonicIteratorDimSize : public MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase
{
    wchar_t    (*m_begin)[sDimSize];
    wchar_t    (*m_end)[sDimSize];

public:
    MnemonicIteratorDimSize(DWORD_PTR x) : MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase(x), m_begin(0), m_end(0) { }
    virtual ~MnemonicIteratorDimSize() { }

    virtual wchar_t *begin() { return m_begin[0]; }
    virtual wchar_t *end() { return m_end[0]; }
    virtual wchar_t *get(int i) { return m_begin[i]; }

    virtual int ItemSize() { return sDimSize; }
    virtual int ItemCount() { return m_end - m_begin; }

    void SetRange(wchar_t (*begin)[sDimSize], wchar_t (*end)[sDimSize]) {
        m_begin = begin; m_end = end;
    }

};

The Iterator Class

The iterator class itself is as follows. This class provides just basic forward iterator functionality which is all that is needed at this time. However I expect that this will change or be extended when I need something additional from it.

class MnemonicIterator
{
private:
    MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase   *m_p;  // we do not own this pointer. we just use it to access current item.
    int      m_index;                    // zero based index of item.
    wchar_t  *m_item;                    // value to be returned.

public:
    MnemonicIterator(MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase *p) : m_p(p) { }
    ~MnemonicIterator() { }

    // a ranged for needs begin() and end() to determine the range.
    // the range is up to but not including what end() returns.
    MnemonicIterator & begin() { m_item = m_p->get(m_index = 0); return *this; }                 // begining of range of values for ranged for. first item
    MnemonicIterator & end() { m_item = m_p->get(m_index = m_p->ItemCount()); return *this; }    // end of range of values for ranged for. item after last item.
    MnemonicIterator & operator ++ () { m_item = m_p->get(++m_index); return *this; }            // prefix increment, ++p
    MnemonicIterator & operator ++ (int i) { m_item = m_p->get(m_index++); return *this; }       // postfix increment, p++
    bool operator != (MnemonicIterator &p) { return **this != *p; }                              // minimum logical operator is not equal to
    wchar_t * operator *() const { return m_item; }                                              // dereference iterator to get what is pointed to
};

The proxy object factory determines which object to created based on the mnemonic identifier. The proxy object is created and the pointer returned is the standard base class type so as to have a uniform interface regardless of which of the different mnemonic sections are being accessed. The SetRange() method is used to specify to the proxy object the specific array elements the proxy represents and the range of the array elements.

CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase * CFilePara::MakeIterator(DWORD_PTR x)
{
    CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase  *mi = nullptr;

    switch (x) {
    case dwId_TransactionMnemonic:
        {
            CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_TRANSMNEMO_LEN> *mk = new CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_TRANSMNEMO_LEN>(x);
            mk->SetRange(&m_Para.ParaTransMnemo[0], &m_Para.ParaTransMnemo[MAX_TRANSM_NO]);
            mi = mk;
        }
        break;
    case dwId_ReportMnemonic:
        {
            CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_REPORTNAME_LEN> *mk = new CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_REPORTNAME_LEN>(x);
            mk->SetRange(&m_Para.ParaReportName[0], &m_Para.ParaReportName[MAX_REPO_NO]);
            mi = mk;
        }
        break;
    case dwId_SpecialMnemonic:
        {
            CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_SPEMNEMO_LEN> *mk = new CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_SPEMNEMO_LEN>(x);
            mk->SetRange(&m_Para.ParaSpeMnemo[0], &m_Para.ParaSpeMnemo[MAX_SPEM_NO]);
            mi = mk;
        }
        break;
    case dwId_LeadThroughMnemonic:
        {
            CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_LEADTHRU_LEN> *mk = new CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSize<PARA_LEADTHRU_LEN>(x);
            mk->SetRange(&m_Para.ParaLeadThru[0], &m_Para.ParaLeadThru[MAX_LEAD_NO]);
            mi = mk;
        }
        break;
    }

    return mi;
}

Using the Proxy Class and Iterator

The proxy class and its iterator are used as shown in the following loop to fill in a CListCtrl object with a list of mnemonics. I am using std::unique_ptr so that when the proxy class i not longer needed and the std::unique_ptr goes out of scope, the memory will be cleaned up.

What this source code does is to create a proxy object for the array within the struct which corresponds to the specified mnemonic identifier. It then creates an iterator for that object, uses a ranged for to fill in the CListCtrl control and then cleans up. These are all raw wchar_t text strings which may be exactly the number of array elements so we copy the string into a temporary buffer in order to ensure that the text is zero terminated.

    std::unique_ptr<CFilePara::MnemonicIteratorDimSizeBase> pObj(pFile->MakeIterator(m_IteratorType));
    CFilePara::MnemonicIterator pIter(pObj.get());  // provide the raw pointer to the iterator who doesn't own it.

    int i = 0;    // CListCtrl index for zero based position to insert mnemonic.
    for (auto x : pIter)
    {
        WCHAR szText[32] = { 0 };     // Temporary buffer.

        wcsncpy_s(szText, 32, x, pObj->ItemSize());
        m_mnemonicList.InsertItem(i, szText);  i++;
    }

How can I alias a default import in JavaScript?

defaultMember already is an alias - it doesn't need to be the name of the exported function/thing. Just do

import alias from 'my-module';

Alternatively you can do

import {default as alias} from 'my-module';

but that's rather esoteric.

How to urlencode data for curl command?

url=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/%/%25/g' -e 's/ /%20/g' -e 's/!/%21/g' -e 's/"/%22/g' -e 's/#/%23/g' -e 's/\$/%24/g' -e 's/\&/%26/g' -e 's/'\''/%27/g' -e 's/(/%28/g' -e 's/)/%29/g' -e 's/\*/%2a/g' -e 's/+/%2b/g' -e 's/,/%2c/g' -e 's/-/%2d/g' -e 's/\./%2e/g' -e 's/\//%2f/g' -e 's/:/%3a/g' -e 's/;/%3b/g' -e 's//%3e/g' -e 's/?/%3f/g' -e 's/@/%40/g' -e 's/\[/%5b/g' -e 's/\\/%5c/g' -e 's/\]/%5d/g' -e 's/\^/%5e/g' -e 's/_/%5f/g' -e 's/`/%60/g' -e 's/{/%7b/g' -e 's/|/%7c/g' -e 's/}/%7d/g' -e 's/~/%7e/g')

this will encode the string inside of $1 and output it in $url. although you don't have to put it in a var if you want. BTW didn't include the sed for tab thought it would turn it into spaces

Using media breakpoints in Bootstrap 4-alpha

Bootstrap has a way of using media queries to define the different task for different sites. It uses four breakpoints.

we have extra small screen sizes which are less than 576 pixels that small in which I mean it's size from 576 to 768 pixels.

medium screen sizes take up screen size from 768 pixels up to 992 pixels large screen size from 992 pixels up to 1200 pixels.

E.g Small Text

This means that at the small screen between 576px and 768px, center the text For medium screen, change "sm" to "md" and same goes to large "lg"

Java generics: multiple generic parameters?

Yes - it's possible (though not with your method signature) and yes, with your signature the types must be the same.

With the signature you have given, T must be associated to a single type (e.g. String or Integer) at the call-site. You can, however, declare method signatures which take multiple type parameters

public <S, T> void func(Set<S> s, Set<T> t)

Note in the above signature that I have declared the types S and T in the signature itself. These are therefore different to and independent of any generic types associated with the class or interface which contains the function.

public class MyClass<S, T> {
   public        void foo(Set<S> s, Set<T> t); //same type params as on class
   public <U, V> void bar(Set<U> s, Set<V> t); //type params independent of class
}

You might like to take a look at some of the method signatures of the collection classes in the java.util package. Generics is really rather a complicated subject, especially when wildcards (? extends and ? super) are considered. For example, it's often the case that a method which might take a Set<Number> as a parameter should also accept a Set<Integer>. In which case you'd see a signature like this:

public void baz(Set<? extends T> s);

There are plenty of questions already on SO for you to look at on the subject!

Not sure what the point of returning an int from the function is, although you could do that if you want!

How do I decode a base64 encoded string?

Simple:

byte[] data = Convert.FromBase64String(encodedString);
string decodedString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data);

Passing data through intent using Serializable

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),SomeClass.class);
intent.putExtra("value",all_thumbs);
startActivity(intent);

In SomeClass.java

Bundle b = getIntent().getExtras();
if(b != null)
thumbs = (List<Thumbnail>) b.getSerializable("value");

Appending to an empty DataFrame in Pandas?

You can concat the data in this way:

InfoDF = pd.DataFrame()
tempDF = pd.DataFrame(rows,columns=['id','min_date'])

InfoDF = pd.concat([InfoDF,tempDF])

Excel Date Conversion from yyyymmdd to mm/dd/yyyy

Here is a bare bones version:

Let's say that you have a date in Cell A1 in the format you described. For example: 19760210.

Then this formula will give you the date you want:

=DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,5,2),RIGHT(A1,2)).

On my system (Excel 2010) it works with strings or floats.

hash function for string

I have tried these hash functions and got the following result. I have about 960^3 entries, each 64 bytes long, 64 chars in different order, hash value 32bit. Codes from here.

Hash function    | collision rate | how many minutes to finish
==============================================================
MurmurHash3      |           6.?% |                      4m15s
Jenkins One..    |           6.1% |                      6m54s   
Bob, 1st in link |          6.16% |                      5m34s
SuperFastHash    |            10% |                      4m58s
bernstein        |            20% |       14s only finish 1/20
one_at_a_time    |          6.16% |                       7m5s
crc              |          6.16% |                      7m56s

One strange things is that almost all the hash functions have 6% collision rate for my data.

How do I show multiple recaptchas on a single page?

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      $('.g-recaptcha').each(function(){_x000D_
      var el = $(this);_x000D_
      grecaptcha.render(el.get(0), {'sitekey' : el.data("sitekey")});_x000D_
      });  _x000D_
        };
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=ReCaptchaCallback&render=explicit" async defer></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
ReCaptcha 1_x000D_
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Lc8WQcUAAAAABQKSITdXbc6p9HISCQhZIJwm2Zw"></div>_x000D_
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ReCaptcha 2_x000D_
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Lc8WQcUAAAAABQKSITdXbc6p9HISCQhZIJwm2Zw"></div>_x000D_
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ReCaptcha 3_x000D_
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Lc8WQcUAAAAABQKSITdXbc6p9HISCQhZIJwm2Zw"></div>
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Postgres: How to convert a json string to text?

In 9.4.4 using the #>> operator works for me:

select to_json('test'::text) #>> '{}';

To use with a table column:

select jsoncol #>> '{}' from mytable;

Function overloading in Javascript - Best practices

Something like this can be done for function overloading.

function addCSS(el, prop, val) {
  return {
    2: function() {
      // when two arguments are set
      // now prop is an oject
      for (var i in prop) {
          el.style[i] = prop[i];
      }
    },
    3: function() {
      // when three arguments are set
      el.style[prop] = val;
    }
    }[arguments.length]();
}
// usage
var el = document.getElementById("demo");
addCSS(el, "color", "blue");
addCSS(el, {
    "backgroundColor": "black",
  "padding": "10px"
});

Source

How to define two fields "unique" as couple

Django 2.2+

Using the constraints features UniqueConstraint is preferred over unique_together.

From the Django documentation for unique_together:

Use UniqueConstraint with the constraints option instead.
UniqueConstraint provides more functionality than unique_together.
unique_together may be deprecated in the future.

For example:

class Volume(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    journal_id = models.ForeignKey(Journals, db_column='jid', null=True, verbose_name="Journal")
    volume_number = models.CharField('Volume Number', max_length=100)
    comments = models.TextField('Comments', max_length=4000, blank=True)

    class Meta:
        constraints = [
            models.UniqueConstraint(fields=['journal_id', 'volume_number'], name='name of constraint')
        ]

How to remove all line breaks from a string

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console.log(str.trim());
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String.trim() removes whitespace from the beginning and end of strings... including newlines.

const myString = "   \n \n\n Hey! \n I'm a string!!!         \n\n";
const trimmedString = myString.trim();

console.log(trimmedString);
// outputs: "Hey! \n I'm a string!!!"

Here's an example fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/BLs8u/

NOTE! it only trims the beginning and end of the string, not line breaks or whitespace in the middle of the string.

Append a dictionary to a dictionary

There is the .update() method :)

update([other]) Update the dictionary with the key/value pairs from other, overwriting existing keys. Return None.

update() accepts either another dictionary object or an iterable of key/value pairs (as tuples or other iterables of length two). If keyword arguments are specified, the dictionary is then updated with those key/value pairs: d.update(red=1, blue=2).

Changed in version 2.4: Allowed the argument to be an iterable of key/value pairs and allowed keyword arguments.

Executors.newCachedThreadPool() versus Executors.newFixedThreadPool()

I think the docs explain the difference and usage of these two functions pretty well:

newFixedThreadPool

Creates a thread pool that reuses a fixed number of threads operating off a shared unbounded queue. At any point, at most nThreads threads will be active processing tasks. If additional tasks are submitted when all threads are active, they will wait in the queue until a thread is available. If any thread terminates due to a failure during execution prior to shutdown, a new one will take its place if needed to execute subsequent tasks. The threads in the pool will exist until it is explicitly shutdown.

newCachedThreadPool

Creates a thread pool that creates new threads as needed, but will reuse previously constructed threads when they are available. These pools will typically improve the performance of programs that execute many short-lived asynchronous tasks. Calls to execute will reuse previously constructed threads if available. If no existing thread is available, a new thread will be created and added to the pool. Threads that have not been used for sixty seconds are terminated and removed from the cache. Thus, a pool that remains idle for long enough will not consume any resources. Note that pools with similar properties but different details (for example, timeout parameters) may be created using ThreadPoolExecutor constructors.

In terms of resources, the newFixedThreadPool will keep all the threads running until they are explicitly terminated. In the newCachedThreadPool Threads that have not been used for sixty seconds are terminated and removed from the cache.

Given this, the resource consumption will depend very much in the situation. For instance, If you have a huge number of long running tasks I would suggest the FixedThreadPool. As for the CachedThreadPool, the docs say that "These pools will typically improve the performance of programs that execute many short-lived asynchronous tasks".

How to change JFrame icon

Here is how I do it:

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.io.File;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;



public class MainFrame implements ActionListener{

/**
 * 
 */


/**
 * @param args
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {
    String appdata = System.getenv("APPDATA");
    String iconPath = appdata + "\\JAPP_icon.png";
    File icon = new File(iconPath);

    if(!icon.exists()){
        FileDownloaderNEW fd = new FileDownloaderNEW();
        fd.download("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/artua/mac/512/Setting-icon.png", iconPath, false, false);
    }
        JFrame frm = new JFrame("Test");
        ImageIcon imgicon = new ImageIcon(iconPath);
        JButton bttn = new JButton("Kill");
        MainFrame frame = new MainFrame();
        bttn.addActionListener(frame);
        frm.add(bttn);
        frm.setIconImage(imgicon.getImage());
        frm.setSize(100, 100);
        frm.setVisible(true);


}

@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    System.exit(0);

}

}

and here is the downloader:

import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;

public class FileDownloaderNEW extends JFrame {
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  public static void download(String a1, String a2, boolean showUI, boolean exit)
    throws Exception
  {

    String site = a1;
    String filename = a2;
    JFrame frm = new JFrame("Download Progress");
    JProgressBar current = new JProgressBar(0, 100);
    JProgressBar DownloadProg = new JProgressBar(0, 100);
    JLabel downloadSize = new JLabel();
    current.setSize(50, 50);
    current.setValue(43);
    current.setStringPainted(true);
    frm.add(downloadSize);
    frm.add(current);
    frm.add(DownloadProg);
    frm.setVisible(showUI);
    frm.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 3, 5, 5));
    frm.pack();
    frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(3);
    try
    {
      URL url = new URL(site);
      HttpURLConnection connection = 
        (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
      int filesize = connection.getContentLength();
      float totalDataRead = 0.0F;
      BufferedInputStream in = new      BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
      FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(filename);
      BufferedOutputStream bout = new BufferedOutputStream(fos, 1024);
      byte[] data = new byte[1024];
      int i = 0;
      while ((i = in.read(data, 0, 1024)) >= 0)
      {
        totalDataRead += i;
        float prog = 100.0F - totalDataRead * 100.0F / filesize;
        DownloadProg.setValue((int)prog);
        bout.write(data, 0, i);
        float Percent = totalDataRead * 100.0F / filesize;
        current.setValue((int)Percent);
        double kbSize = filesize / 1000;

        String unit = "kb";
        double Size;
        if (kbSize > 999.0D) {
          Size = kbSize / 1000.0D;
          unit = "mb";
        } else {
          Size = kbSize;
        }
        downloadSize.setText("Filesize: " + Double.toString(Size) + unit);
      }
      bout.close();
      in.close();
      System.out.println("Took " + System.nanoTime() / 1000000000L / 10000L + "      seconds");
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
      JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(
        null, e.getMessage(), "Error", 
        -1);
    } finally {
        if(exit = true){
            System.exit(128);   
        }

    }
  }
}

How to Git stash pop specific stash in 1.8.3?

If none of the above work, quotation marks around the stash itself might work for you:

git stash pop "stash@{0}"

Margin-Top not working for span element?

Looks like you missed some options, try to add:

position: relative;
top: 25px;

XAMPP permissions on Mac OS X?

If you are running your page on the new XAMPP-VM version of MacOS you will have to set daemon as user and as group. Here you can find a great step-by-step illustration with screenshots from aXfon on how to do this.

As the htdocs folder under XAMPP-VM will be mounted as external volume, you'll have to do this as root of the mounted volume (root@debian). This can be achieved through the XAMPP-VM GUI: See screenshot.

Once you are running as root of the mounted volume you can as described above change the file permission using:

chown -R daemon:daemon /opt/lampp/htdocs/FOLDER_OF_YOUR_PAGE

Source (w/ step-by-step illustration): aXfon

How can I make a list of installed packages in a certain virtualenv?

In Python3

pip list

Empty venv is

Package    Version
---------- ------- 
pip        19.2.3 
setuptools 41.2.0

To start a new environment

python3 -m venv your_foldername_here

Activate

cd your_foldername_here
source bin/activate

Deactivate

deactivate

You can also stand in the folder and give the virtual environment a name/folder (python3 -m venv name_of_venv).

Venv is a subset of virtualenv that is shipped with Python after 3.3.

Bootstrap 3: how to make head of dropdown link clickable in navbar

This enables the link in the top-level menu of the dropdown when it's opened and disables it when closed, with the only drawback of apparently having to "tap" twice outside of the dropdown to close it in mobile devices.

$(document).on("page:load", function(){
    $('body').on('show.bs.dropdown', function (e) {
        $(e.relatedTarget).addClass('disabled')
    });
    $('body').on('hide.bs.dropdown', function (e) {
        $(e.relatedTarget).removeClass('disabled')
    });
});

Note this assumes the "standard" markup and Turbolinks (Rails). You can try with $(document).ready(...)

Creating lowpass filter in SciPy - understanding methods and units

A few comments:

  • The Nyquist frequency is half the sampling rate.
  • You are working with regularly sampled data, so you want a digital filter, not an analog filter. This means you should not use analog=True in the call to butter, and you should use scipy.signal.freqz (not freqs) to generate the frequency response.
  • One goal of those short utility functions is to allow you to leave all your frequencies expressed in Hz. You shouldn't have to convert to rad/sec. As long as you express your frequencies with consistent units, the scaling in the utility functions takes care of the normalization for you.

Here's my modified version of your script, followed by the plot that it generates.

import numpy as np
from scipy.signal import butter, lfilter, freqz
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


def butter_lowpass(cutoff, fs, order=5):
    nyq = 0.5 * fs
    normal_cutoff = cutoff / nyq
    b, a = butter(order, normal_cutoff, btype='low', analog=False)
    return b, a

def butter_lowpass_filter(data, cutoff, fs, order=5):
    b, a = butter_lowpass(cutoff, fs, order=order)
    y = lfilter(b, a, data)
    return y


# Filter requirements.
order = 6
fs = 30.0       # sample rate, Hz
cutoff = 3.667  # desired cutoff frequency of the filter, Hz

# Get the filter coefficients so we can check its frequency response.
b, a = butter_lowpass(cutoff, fs, order)

# Plot the frequency response.
w, h = freqz(b, a, worN=8000)
plt.subplot(2, 1, 1)
plt.plot(0.5*fs*w/np.pi, np.abs(h), 'b')
plt.plot(cutoff, 0.5*np.sqrt(2), 'ko')
plt.axvline(cutoff, color='k')
plt.xlim(0, 0.5*fs)
plt.title("Lowpass Filter Frequency Response")
plt.xlabel('Frequency [Hz]')
plt.grid()


# Demonstrate the use of the filter.
# First make some data to be filtered.
T = 5.0         # seconds
n = int(T * fs) # total number of samples
t = np.linspace(0, T, n, endpoint=False)
# "Noisy" data.  We want to recover the 1.2 Hz signal from this.
data = np.sin(1.2*2*np.pi*t) + 1.5*np.cos(9*2*np.pi*t) + 0.5*np.sin(12.0*2*np.pi*t)

# Filter the data, and plot both the original and filtered signals.
y = butter_lowpass_filter(data, cutoff, fs, order)

plt.subplot(2, 1, 2)
plt.plot(t, data, 'b-', label='data')
plt.plot(t, y, 'g-', linewidth=2, label='filtered data')
plt.xlabel('Time [sec]')
plt.grid()
plt.legend()

plt.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.35)
plt.show()

lowpass example

How to convert hex string to Java string?

First of all read in the data, then convert it to byte array:

 byte b = Byte.parseByte(str, 16); 

and then use String constructor:

new String(byte[] bytes) 

or if the charset is not system default then:

new String(byte[] bytes, String charsetName) 

How can I hide the Android keyboard using JavaScript?

I'm coming into this a little late, but I wanted to share a solution that is working for me on Android 2.5.x+ and iOS 7.

My big deal was closing the keyboard on orientation change. This results in a recoverable (meaning mostly elegant) state after any browser orientation change.

This is coffeeScript:

@windowRepair: (mobileOS) ->
  activeElement = document.activeElement.tagName
  if activeElement == "TEXTAREA" or activeElement == "INPUT"
    $(document.activeElement).blur()
    #alert "Active Element " + activeElement + " detected"
  else
    $('body').focus()
    #alert "Fallback Focus Initiated"
  if mobileOS == "iOS"
    window.scrollTo(0,0)
  $('body').css("width", window.innerWidth)
  $('body').css("height", window.innerHeight)

I hope this helps somebody. I know I spent a ton of time figuring it out.

How do you initialise a dynamic array in C++?

The array form of new-expression accepts only one form of initializer: an empty (). This, BTW, has the same effect as the empty {} in your non-dynamic initialization.


The above applies to pre-C++11 language. Starting from C++11 one can use uniform initialization syntax with array new-expressions

char* c = new char[length]{};
char* d = new char[length]{ 'a', 'b', 'c' };

How to push to History in React Router v4?

Here's my hack (this is my root-level file, with a little redux mixed in there - though I'm not using react-router-redux):

const store = configureStore()
const customHistory = createBrowserHistory({
  basename: config.urlBasename || ''
})

ReactDOM.render(
  <Provider store={store}>
    <Router history={customHistory}>
      <Route component={({history}) => {
        window.appHistory = history
        return (
          <App />
        )
      }}/>
    </Router>
  </Provider>,
  document.getElementById('root')
)

I can then use window.appHistory.push() anywhere I want (for example, in my redux store functions/thunks/sagas, etc) I had hoped I could just use window.customHistory.push() but for some reason react-router never seemed to update even though the url changed. But this way I have the EXACT instance react-router uses. I don't love putting stuff in the global scope, and this is one of the few things I'd do that with. But it's better than any other alternative I've seen IMO.

Numpy AttributeError: 'float' object has no attribute 'exp'

Probably there's something wrong with the input values for X and/or T. The function from the question works ok:

import numpy as np
from math import e

def sigmoid(X, T):
  return 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-1.0 * np.dot(X, T)))

X = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [5, 0, 0]])
T = np.array([[1, 2], [1, 1], [4, 4]])

print(X.dot(T))
# Just to see if values are ok
print([1. / (1. + e ** el) for el in [-5, -10, -15, -16]])
print()
print(sigmoid(X, T))

Result:

[[15 16]
 [ 5 10]]

[0.9933071490757153, 0.9999546021312976, 0.999999694097773, 0.9999998874648379]

[[ 0.99999969  0.99999989]
 [ 0.99330715  0.9999546 ]]

Probably it's the dtype of your input arrays. Changing X to:

X = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [5, 0, 0]], dtype=object)

Gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/[...]/stackoverflow_sigmoid.py", line 24, in <module>
    print sigmoid(X, T)
  File "/[...]/stackoverflow_sigmoid.py", line 14, in sigmoid
    return 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-1.0 * np.dot(X, T)))
AttributeError: exp

How to center horizontally div inside parent div

Just out of interest, if you want to center two or more divs (so they're side by side in the center), then here's how to do it:

<div style="text-align:center;">
    <div style="border:1px solid #000; display:inline-block;">Div 1</div>
    <div style="border:1px solid red; display:inline-block;">Div 2</div>
</div>   

How can I find the method that called the current method?

private static MethodBase GetCallingMethod()
{
  return new StackFrame(2, false).GetMethod();
}

private static Type GetCallingType()
{
  return new StackFrame(2, false).GetMethod().DeclaringType;
}

A fantastic class is here: http://www.csharp411.com/c-get-calling-method/

How to view the roles and permissions granted to any database user in Azure SQL server instance?

Building on @tmullaney 's answer, you can also left join in the sys.objects view to get insight when explicit permissions have been granted on objects. Make sure to use the LEFT join:

SELECT DISTINCT pr.principal_id, pr.name AS [UserName], pr.type_desc AS [User_or_Role], pr.authentication_type_desc AS [Auth_Type], pe.state_desc,
    pe.permission_name, pe.class_desc, o.[name] AS 'Object' 
    FROM sys.database_principals AS pr 
    JOIN sys.database_permissions AS pe ON pe.grantee_principal_id = pr.principal_id
    LEFT JOIN sys.objects AS o on (o.object_id = pe.major_id)

Adding default parameter value with type hint in Python

If you're using typing (introduced in Python 3.5) you can use typing.Optional, where Optional[X] is equivalent to Union[X, None]. It is used to signal that the explicit value of None is allowed . From typing.Optional:

def foo(arg: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
    ...

MySQL ORDER BY multiple column ASC and DESC

group by default order by pk id,so the result
username point avg_time
demo123 100 90 ---> id = 4
demo123456 100 100 ---> id = 7
demo 90 120 ---> id = 1

Find and replace words/lines in a file

public static void replaceFileString(String old, String new) throws IOException {
    String fileName = Settings.getValue("fileDirectory");
    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);
    String content = IOUtils.toString(fis, Charset.defaultCharset());
    content = content.replaceAll(old, new);
    FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
    IOUtils.write(content, new FileOutputStream(fileName), Charset.defaultCharset());
    fis.close();
    fos.close();
}

above is my implementation of Meriton's example that works for me. The fileName is the directory (ie. D:\utilities\settings.txt). I'm not sure what character set should be used, but I ran this code on a Windows XP machine just now and it did the trick without doing that temporary file creation and renaming stuff.

How to both read and write a file in C#

This thread seems to answer your question : simultaneous-read-write-a-file

Basically, what you need is to declare two FileStream, one for read operations, the other for write operations. Writer Filestream needs to open your file in 'Append' mode.

comparing two strings in ruby

From what you printed, it seems var2 is an array containing one string. Or actually, it appears to hold the result of running .inspect on an array containing one string. It would be helpful to show how you are initializing them.

irb(main):005:0* v1 = "test"
=> "test"
irb(main):006:0> v2 = ["test"]
=> ["test"]
irb(main):007:0> v3 = v2.inspect
=> "[\"test\"]"
irb(main):008:0> puts v1,v2,v3
test
test
["test"]

INSERT INTO a temp table, and have an IDENTITY field created, without first declaring the temp table?

If you want to include the column that is the current identity, you can still do that but you have to explicitly list the columns and cast the current identity to an int (assuming it is one now), like so:

select cast (CurrentID as int) as CurrentID, SomeOtherField, identity(int) as TempID 
into #temp
from myserver.dbo.mytable

What causing this "Invalid length for a Base-64 char array"

In addition to @jalchr's solution that helped me, I found that when calling ATL::Base64Encode from a c++ application to encode the content you pass to an ASP.NET webservice, you need something else, too. In addition to

sEncryptedString = sEncryptedString.Replace(' ', '+'); 

from @jalchr's solution, you also need to ensure that you do not use the ATL_BASE64_FLAG_NOPAD flag on ATL::Base64Encode:

 BOOL bEncoded = Base64Encode(lpBuffer,
                    nBufferSizeInBytes,
                    strBase64Encoded.GetBufferSetLength(base64Length),
                    &base64Length,ATL_BASE64_FLAG_NOCRLF/*|ATL_BASE64_FLAG_NOPAD*/);

How to get the current time in milliseconds from C in Linux?

C11 timespec_get

It returns up to nanoseconds, rounded to the resolution of the implementation.

It is already implemented in Ubuntu 15.10. API looks the same as the POSIX clock_gettime.

#include <time.h>
struct timespec ts;
timespec_get(&ts, TIME_UTC);
struct timespec {
    time_t   tv_sec;        /* seconds */
    long     tv_nsec;       /* nanoseconds */
};

More details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36095407/895245

How to Specify Eclipse Proxy Authentication Credentials?

Add the following line at the end of your eclipse.ini file

-Dorg.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.excludeContributors=org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient4

Determining type of an object in ruby

variable_name.class

Here variable name is "a" a.class

SVG Positioning

I know this is old but neither an <svg> group tag nor a <g> fixed the issue I was facing. I needed to adjust the y position of a tag which also had animation on it.

The solution was to use both the and tag together:

<svg y="1190" x="235">
   <g class="light-1">
     <path />
   </g>
</svg>

Draw an X in CSS

You want an entity known as a cross mark:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/274c/index.htm

The code for it is &#10060; and it displays like ❌

If you want a perfectly centered cross mark, like this:

cross mark demo

try the following CSS:

div {
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    background-color: #FA6900;
    border-radius: 5px;
    position: relative;
}

div:after {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    content: "\274c"; /* use the hex value here... */
    font-size: 50px; 
    color: #FFF;
    line-height: 100px;
    text-align: center;
}

See Demo Fiddle

Cross-Browser Issue

The cross-mark entity does not display with Safari or Chrome. However, the same entity displays well in Firefox, IE and Opera.

It is safe to use the smaller but similarly shaped multiplication sign entity, &#xd7; which displays as ×.

Select multiple columns by labels in pandas

How do I select multiple columns by labels in pandas?

Multiple label-based range slicing is not easily supported with pandas, but position-based slicing is, so let's try that instead:

loc = df.columns.get_loc
df.iloc[:, np.r_[loc('A'):loc('C')+1, loc('E'), loc('G'):loc('I')+1]]

          A         B         C         E         G         H         I
0 -1.666330  0.321260 -1.768185 -0.034774  0.023294  0.533451 -0.241990
1  0.911498  3.408758  0.419618 -0.462590  0.739092  1.103940  0.116119
2  1.243001 -0.867370  1.058194  0.314196  0.887469  0.471137 -1.361059
3 -0.525165  0.676371  0.325831 -1.152202  0.606079  1.002880  2.032663
4  0.706609 -0.424726  0.308808  1.994626  0.626522 -0.033057  1.725315
5  0.879802 -1.961398  0.131694 -0.931951 -0.242822 -1.056038  0.550346
6  0.199072  0.969283  0.347008 -2.611489  0.282920 -0.334618  0.243583
7  1.234059  1.000687  0.863572  0.412544  0.569687 -0.684413 -0.357968
8 -0.299185  0.566009 -0.859453 -0.564557 -0.562524  0.233489 -0.039145
9  0.937637 -2.171174 -1.940916 -1.553634  0.619965 -0.664284 -0.151388

Note that the +1 is added because when using iloc the rightmost index is exclusive.


Comments on Other Solutions

  • filter is a nice and simple method for OP's headers, but this might not generalise well to arbitrary column names.

  • The "location-based" solution with loc is a little closer to the ideal, but you cannot avoid creating intermediate DataFrames (that are eventually thrown out and garbage collected) to compute the final result range -- something that we would ideally like to avoid.

  • Lastly, "pick your columns directly" is good advice as long as you have a manageably small number of columns to pick. It will, however not be applicable in some cases where ranges span dozens (or possibly hundreds) of columns.

Enabling/installing GD extension? --without-gd

if you are on a Debian based server (such as Ubuntu) you can run the following command:

apt-get install php-gd

Then once it is complete run:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This will restart your server and enable GD in PHP.

If you are on another type of system you will need to use something else (like yum install) or compile directly into PHP.

python pip: force install ignoring dependencies

When I were trying install librosa package with pip (pip install librosa), this error were appeared:

ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'llvmlite'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

I tried to remove llvmlite, but pip uninstall could not remove it. So, I used capability of ignore of pip by this code:

pip install librosa --ignore-installed llvmlite

Indeed, you can use this rule for ignoring a package you don't want to consider:

pip install {package you want to install} --ignore-installed {installed package you don't want to consider}

jQuery .css("margin-top", value) not updating in IE 8 (Standards mode)

I found the answer!

I want to acknowledge the hard work of everyone in trying to find a better way to solve this problem, unfortunately because of a series of larger constraints I am unable to select them as the "answer" (I am voting them up because you deserve points for contributing).

The specific problem I was facing was a JavaScript onScoll event that was firing but a subsequent CSS update that wasn't causing IE8 (in standards mode) to redraw. Even stranger was the fact that in some pages it was redrawing while in others (with no obvious similarity) it wasn't. The solution in the end was to add the following CSS

#ActionBox {
  position: relative;
  float: right;
}

Here is an updated pastbin showing this (I added some more style to show how I am implementing this code). The IE "edit code" then "view output" bug fudgey talked about still occurs (but it seems to be a event binding issue unique to pastbin (and similar services)

I don't know why adding "float: right" allows IE8 to complete a redraw on an event that was already firing, but for some reason it does.

Create a BufferedImage from file and make it TYPE_INT_ARGB

BufferedImage in = ImageIO.read(img);

BufferedImage newImage = new BufferedImage(
    in.getWidth(), in.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

Graphics2D g = newImage.createGraphics();
g.drawImage(in, 0, 0, null);
g.dispose();

ld cannot find an existing library

Unless I'm badly mistaken libmagic or -lmagic is not the same library as ImageMagick. You state that you want ImageMagick.

ImageMagick comes with a utility to supply all appropriate options to the compiler.

Ex:

g++ program.cpp `Magick++-config --cppflags --cxxflags --ldflags --libs` -o "prog"

How to pass datetime from c# to sql correctly?

I had many issues involving C# and SqlServer. I ended up doing the following:

  1. On SQL Server I use the DateTime column type
  2. On c# I use the .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") method

Also make sure that all your machines run on the same timezone.

Regarding the different result sets you get, your first example is "July First" while the second is "4th of July" ...

Also, the second example can be also interpreted as "April 7th", it depends on your server localization configuration (my solution doesn't suffer from this issue).

EDIT: hh was replaced with HH, as it doesn't seem to capture the correct hour on systems with AM/PM as opposed to systems with 24h clock. See the comments below.

Python: finding lowest integer

l is a list of strings. When you put numbers between single quotes like that, you are creating strings, which are just a sequence of characters. To make your code work properly, you would have to do this:

l = [-1.2, 0.0, 1]  # no quotation marks

x = 100.0
for i in l:
    if i < x:
        x = i
print x

If you must use a list of strings, you can try to let Python try to make a number out of each string. This is similar to Justin's answer, except it understands floating-point (decimal) numbers correctly.

l = ['-1.2', '0.0', '1']

x = 100.0
for i in l:
    inum = float(i)
    if inum < x:
        x = inum
print x

I hope that this is code that you are writing to learn either Python or programming in general. If this is the case, great. However, if this is production code, consider using Python's built-in functions.

l = ['-1.2', '0.0', '1']
lnums = map(float, l)  # turn strings to numbers
x = min(lnums)  # find minimum value
print x

What is the difference/usage of homebrew, macports or other package installation tools?

Homebrew and macports both solve the same problem - that is the installation of common libraries and utilities that are not bundled with osx.

Typically these are development related libraries and the most common use of these tools is for developers working on osx.

They both need the xcode command line tools installed (which you can download separately from https://developer.apple.com/), and for some specific packages you will need the entire xcode IDE installed.

xcode can be installed from the mac app store, its a free download but it takes a while since its around 5GB (if I remember correctly).

macports is an osx version of the port utility from BSD (as osx is derived from BSD, this was a natural choice). For anyone familiar with any of the BSD distributions, macports will feel right at home.

One major difference between homebrew and macports; and the reason I prefer homebrew is that it will not overwrite things that should be installed "natively" in osx. This means that if there is a native package available, homebrew will notify you instead of overwriting it and causing problems further down the line. It also installs libraries in the user space (thus, you don't need to use "sudo" to install things). This helps when getting rid of libraries as well since everything is in a path accessible to you.

homebrew also enjoys a more active user community and its packages (called formulas) are updated quite often.


macports does not overwrite native OSX packages - it supplies its own version - This is the main reason I prefer macports over home-brew, you need to be certain of what you are using and Apple's change at different times to the ports and have been know to be years behind updates in some projects

Can you give a reference showing that macports overwrites native OS X packages? As far as I can tell, all macports installation happens in /opt/local

Perhaps I should clarify - I did not say anywhere in my answer that macports overwrites OSX native packages. They both install items separately.

Homebrew will warn you when you should install things "natively" (using the library/tool's preferred installer) for better compatibility. This is what I meant. It will also use as many of the local libraries that are available in OS X. From the wiki:

We really don’t like dupes in Homebrew/homebrew

However, we do like dupes in the tap!

Stuff that comes with OS X or is a library that is provided by RubyGems, CPAN or PyPi should not be duped. There are good reasons for this:

  • Duplicate libraries regularly break builds
  • Subtle bugs emerge with duplicate libraries, and to a lesser extent, duplicate tools
  • We want you to try harder to make your formula work with what OS X comes with

You can optionally overwrite the macosx supplied versions of utilities with homebrew.

How to list all functions in a Python module?

If you want to get the list of all the functions defined in the current file, you can do it that way:

# Get this script's name.
import os
script_name = os.path.basename(__file__).rstrip(".py")

# Import it from its path so that you can use it as a Python object.
import importlib.util
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(script_name, __file__)
x = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
spec.loader.exec_module(x)

# List the functions defined in it.
from inspect import getmembers, isfunction
list_of_functions = getmembers(x, isfunction)

As an application example, I use that for calling all the functions defined in my unit testing scripts.

This is a combination of codes adapted from the answers of Thomas Wouters and adrian here, and from Sebastian Rittau on a different question.

CardView background color always white

You can use

app:cardBackgroundColor="@color/red"

or

android:backgroundTint="@color/red"

How can I present a file for download from an MVC controller?

Although standard action results FileContentResult or FileStreamResult may be used for downloading files, for reusability, creating a custom action result might be the best solution.

As an example let's create a custom action result for exporting data to Excel files on the fly for download.

ExcelResult class inherits abstract ActionResult class and overrides the ExecuteResult method.

We are using FastMember package for creating DataTable from IEnumerable object and ClosedXML package for creating Excel file from the DataTable.

public class ExcelResult<T> : ActionResult
{
    private DataTable dataTable;
    private string fileName;

    public ExcelResult(IEnumerable<T> data, string filename, string[] columns)
    {
        this.dataTable = new DataTable();
        using (var reader = ObjectReader.Create(data, columns))
        {
            dataTable.Load(reader);
        }
        this.fileName = filename;
    }

    public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
    {
        if (context != null)
        {
            var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
            response.Clear();
            response.ContentType = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";
            response.AddHeader("content-disposition", string.Format(@"attachment;filename=""{0}""", fileName));
            using (XLWorkbook wb = new XLWorkbook())
            {
                wb.Worksheets.Add(dataTable, "Sheet1");
                using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    wb.SaveAs(stream);
                    response.BinaryWrite(stream.ToArray());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

In the Controller use the custom ExcelResult action result as follows

[HttpGet]
public async Task<ExcelResult<MyViewModel>> ExportToExcel()
{
    var model = new Models.MyDataModel();
    var items = await model.GetItems();
    string[] columns = new string[] { "Column1", "Column2", "Column3" };
    string filename = "mydata.xlsx";
    return new ExcelResult<MyViewModel>(items, filename, columns);
}

Since we are downloading the file using HttpGet, create an empty View without model and empty layout.

Blog post about custom action result for downloading files that are created on the fly:

https://acanozturk.blogspot.com/2019/03/custom-actionresult-for-files-in-aspnet.html

How does PHP 'foreach' actually work?

In example 3 you don't modify the array. In all other examples you modify either the contents or the internal array pointer. This is important when it comes to PHP arrays because of the semantics of the assignment operator.

The assignment operator for the arrays in PHP works more like a lazy clone. Assigning one variable to another that contains an array will clone the array, unlike most languages. However, the actual cloning will not be done unless it is needed. This means that the clone will take place only when either of the variables is modified (copy-on-write).

Here is an example:

$a = array(1,2,3);
$b = $a;  // This is lazy cloning of $a. For the time
          // being $a and $b point to the same internal
          // data structure.

$a[] = 3; // Here $a changes, which triggers the actual
          // cloning. From now on, $a and $b are two
          // different data structures. The same would
          // happen if there were a change in $b.

Coming back to your test cases, you can easily imagine that foreach creates some kind of iterator with a reference to the array. This reference works exactly like the variable $b in my example. However, the iterator along with the reference live only during the loop and then, they are both discarded. Now you can see that, in all cases but 3, the array is modified during the loop, while this extra reference is alive. This triggers a clone, and that explains what's going on here!

Here is an excellent article for another side effect of this copy-on-write behaviour: The PHP Ternary Operator: Fast or not?

mongodb group values by multiple fields

TLDR Summary

In modern MongoDB releases you can brute force this with $slice just off the basic aggregation result. For "large" results, run parallel queries instead for each grouping ( a demonstration listing is at the end of the answer ), or wait for SERVER-9377 to resolve, which would allow a "limit" to the number of items to $push to an array.

db.books.aggregate([
    { "$group": {
        "_id": {
            "addr": "$addr",
            "book": "$book"
        },
        "bookCount": { "$sum": 1 }
    }},
    { "$group": {
        "_id": "$_id.addr",
        "books": { 
            "$push": { 
                "book": "$_id.book",
                "count": "$bookCount"
            },
        },
        "count": { "$sum": "$bookCount" }
    }},
    { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
    { "$limit": 2 },
    { "$project": {
        "books": { "$slice": [ "$books", 2 ] },
        "count": 1
    }}
])

MongoDB 3.6 Preview

Still not resolving SERVER-9377, but in this release $lookup allows a new "non-correlated" option which takes an "pipeline" expression as an argument instead of the "localFields" and "foreignFields" options. This then allows a "self-join" with another pipeline expression, in which we can apply $limit in order to return the "top-n" results.

db.books.aggregate([
  { "$group": {
    "_id": "$addr",
    "count": { "$sum": 1 }
  }},
  { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
  { "$limit": 2 },
  { "$lookup": {
    "from": "books",
    "let": {
      "addr": "$_id"
    },
    "pipeline": [
      { "$match": { 
        "$expr": { "$eq": [ "$addr", "$$addr"] }
      }},
      { "$group": {
        "_id": "$book",
        "count": { "$sum": 1 }
      }},
      { "$sort": { "count": -1  } },
      { "$limit": 2 }
    ],
    "as": "books"
  }}
])

The other addition here is of course the ability to interpolate the variable through $expr using $match to select the matching items in the "join", but the general premise is a "pipeline within a pipeline" where the inner content can be filtered by matches from the parent. Since they are both "pipelines" themselves we can $limit each result separately.

This would be the next best option to running parallel queries, and actually would be better if the $match were allowed and able to use an index in the "sub-pipeline" processing. So which is does not use the "limit to $push" as the referenced issue asks, it actually delivers something that should work better.


Original Content

You seem have stumbled upon the top "N" problem. In a way your problem is fairly easy to solve though not with the exact limiting that you ask for:

db.books.aggregate([
    { "$group": {
        "_id": {
            "addr": "$addr",
            "book": "$book"
        },
        "bookCount": { "$sum": 1 }
    }},
    { "$group": {
        "_id": "$_id.addr",
        "books": { 
            "$push": { 
                "book": "$_id.book",
                "count": "$bookCount"
            },
        },
        "count": { "$sum": "$bookCount" }
    }},
    { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
    { "$limit": 2 }
])

Now that will give you a result like this:

{
    "result" : [
            {
                    "_id" : "address1",
                    "books" : [
                            {
                                    "book" : "book4",
                                    "count" : 1
                            },
                            {
                                    "book" : "book5",
                                    "count" : 1
                            },
                            {
                                    "book" : "book1",
                                    "count" : 3
                            }
                    ],
                    "count" : 5
            },
            {
                    "_id" : "address2",
                    "books" : [
                            {
                                    "book" : "book5",
                                    "count" : 1
                            },
                            {
                                    "book" : "book1",
                                    "count" : 2
                            }
                    ],
                    "count" : 3
            }
    ],
    "ok" : 1
}

So this differs from what you are asking in that, while we do get the top results for the address values the underlying "books" selection is not limited to only a required amount of results.

This turns out to be very difficult to do, but it can be done though the complexity just increases with the number of items you need to match. To keep it simple we can keep this at 2 matches at most:

db.books.aggregate([
    { "$group": {
        "_id": {
            "addr": "$addr",
            "book": "$book"
        },
        "bookCount": { "$sum": 1 }
    }},
    { "$group": {
        "_id": "$_id.addr",
        "books": { 
            "$push": { 
                "book": "$_id.book",
                "count": "$bookCount"
            },
        },
        "count": { "$sum": "$bookCount" }
    }},
    { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
    { "$limit": 2 },
    { "$unwind": "$books" },
    { "$sort": { "count": 1, "books.count": -1 } },
    { "$group": {
        "_id": "$_id",
        "books": { "$push": "$books" },
        "count": { "$first": "$count" }
    }},
    { "$project": {
        "_id": {
            "_id": "$_id",
            "books": "$books",
            "count": "$count"
        },
        "newBooks": "$books"
    }},
    { "$unwind": "$newBooks" },
    { "$group": {
      "_id": "$_id",
      "num1": { "$first": "$newBooks" }
    }},
    { "$project": {
        "_id": "$_id",
        "newBooks": "$_id.books",
        "num1": 1
    }},
    { "$unwind": "$newBooks" },
    { "$project": {
        "_id": "$_id",
        "num1": 1,
        "newBooks": 1,
        "seen": { "$eq": [
            "$num1",
            "$newBooks"
        ]}
    }},
    { "$match": { "seen": false } },
    { "$group":{
        "_id": "$_id._id",
        "num1": { "$first": "$num1" },
        "num2": { "$first": "$newBooks" },
        "count": { "$first": "$_id.count" }
    }},
    { "$project": {
        "num1": 1,
        "num2": 1,
        "count": 1,
        "type": { "$cond": [ 1, [true,false],0 ] }
    }},
    { "$unwind": "$type" },
    { "$project": {
        "books": { "$cond": [
            "$type",
            "$num1",
            "$num2"
        ]},
        "count": 1
    }},
    { "$group": {
        "_id": "$_id",
        "count": { "$first": "$count" },
        "books": { "$push": "$books" }
    }},
    { "$sort": { "count": -1 } }
])

So that will actually give you the top 2 "books" from the top two "address" entries.

But for my money, stay with the first form and then simply "slice" the elements of the array that are returned to take the first "N" elements.


Demonstration Code

The demonstration code is appropriate for usage with current LTS versions of NodeJS from v8.x and v10.x releases. That's mostly for the async/await syntax, but there is nothing really within the general flow that has any such restriction, and adapts with little alteration to plain promises or even back to plain callback implementation.

index.js

const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
const fs = require('mz/fs');

const uri = 'mongodb://localhost:27017';

const log = data => console.log(JSON.stringify(data, undefined, 2));

(async function() {

  try {
    const client = await MongoClient.connect(uri);

    const db = client.db('bookDemo');
    const books = db.collection('books');

    let { version } = await db.command({ buildInfo: 1 });
    version = parseFloat(version.match(new RegExp(/(?:(?!-).)*/))[0]);

    // Clear and load books
    await books.deleteMany({});

    await books.insertMany(
      (await fs.readFile('books.json'))
        .toString()
        .replace(/\n$/,"")
        .split("\n")
        .map(JSON.parse)
    );

    if ( version >= 3.6 ) {

    // Non-correlated pipeline with limits
      let result = await books.aggregate([
        { "$group": {
          "_id": "$addr",
          "count": { "$sum": 1 }
        }},
        { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
        { "$limit": 2 },
        { "$lookup": {
          "from": "books",
          "as": "books",
          "let": { "addr": "$_id" },
          "pipeline": [
            { "$match": {
              "$expr": { "$eq": [ "$addr", "$$addr" ] }
            }},
            { "$group": {
              "_id": "$book",
              "count": { "$sum": 1 },
            }},
            { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
            { "$limit": 2 }
          ]
        }}
      ]).toArray();

      log({ result });
    }

    // Serial result procesing with parallel fetch

    // First get top addr items
    let topaddr = await books.aggregate([
      { "$group": {
        "_id": "$addr",
        "count": { "$sum": 1 }
      }},
      { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
      { "$limit": 2 }
    ]).toArray();

    // Run parallel top books for each addr
    let topbooks = await Promise.all(
      topaddr.map(({ _id: addr }) =>
        books.aggregate([
          { "$match": { addr } },
          { "$group": {
            "_id": "$book",
            "count": { "$sum": 1 }
          }},
          { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
          { "$limit": 2 }
        ]).toArray()
      )
    );

    // Merge output
    topaddr = topaddr.map((d,i) => ({ ...d, books: topbooks[i] }));
    log({ topaddr });

    client.close();

  } catch(e) {
    console.error(e)
  } finally {
    process.exit()
  }

})()

books.json

{ "addr": "address1",  "book": "book1"  }
{ "addr": "address2",  "book": "book1"  }
{ "addr": "address1",  "book": "book5"  }
{ "addr": "address3",  "book": "book9"  }
{ "addr": "address2",  "book": "book5"  }
{ "addr": "address2",  "book": "book1"  }
{ "addr": "address1",  "book": "book1"  }
{ "addr": "address15", "book": "book1"  }
{ "addr": "address9",  "book": "book99" }
{ "addr": "address90", "book": "book33" }
{ "addr": "address4",  "book": "book3"  }
{ "addr": "address5",  "book": "book1"  }
{ "addr": "address77", "book": "book11" }
{ "addr": "address1",  "book": "book1"  }

Laravel Advanced Wheres how to pass variable into function?

You can pass variables using this...

$status =1;
 $info = JOBS::where(function($query) use ($status){        
         $query->where('status',$status);
         })->get();
print_r($info);

Razor/CSHTML - Any Benefit over what we have?

The biggest benefit is that the code is more succinct. The VS editor will also have the IntelliSense support that some of the other view engines don't have.

Declarative HTML Helpers also look pretty cool as doing HTML helpers within C# code reminds me of custom controls in ASP.NET. I think they took a page from partials but with the inline code.

So some definite benefits over the asp.net view engine.

With contrast to a view engine like spark though:

Spark is still more succinct, you can keep the if's and loops within a html tag itself. The markup still just feels more natural to me.

You can code partials exactly how you would do a declarative helper, you'd just pass along the variables to the partial and you have the same thing. This has been around with spark for quite awhile.

HashMap with multiple values under the same key

Apache Commons collection classes can implement multiple values under same key.

MultiMap multiMapDemo = new MultiValueMap();

multiMapDemo .put("fruit", "Mango");
multiMapDemo .put("fruit", "Orange");
multiMapDemo.put("fruit", "Blueberry");

System.out.println(multiMapDemo.get("fruit"));

Maven Dependency

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-collections4 -->
<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
   <version>4.4</version>
</dependency>

Pandas timeseries plot setting x-axis major and minor ticks and labels

Both pandas and matplotlib.dates use matplotlib.units for locating the ticks.

But while matplotlib.dates has convenient ways to set the ticks manually, pandas seems to have the focus on auto formatting so far (you can have a look at the code for date conversion and formatting in pandas).

So for the moment it seems more reasonable to use matplotlib.dates (as mentioned by @BrenBarn in his comment).

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
import matplotlib.dates as dates

idx = pd.date_range('2011-05-01', '2011-07-01')
s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(len(idx)), index=idx)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot_date(idx.to_pydatetime(), s, 'v-')
ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(dates.WeekdayLocator(byweekday=(1),
                                                interval=1))
ax.xaxis.set_minor_formatter(dates.DateFormatter('%d\n%a'))
ax.xaxis.grid(True, which="minor")
ax.yaxis.grid()
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(dates.MonthLocator())
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(dates.DateFormatter('\n\n\n%b\n%Y'))
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

pandas_like_date_fomatting

(my locale is German, so that Tuesday [Tue] becomes Dienstag [Di])

Jquery date picker z-index issue

Put the following style at the 'input' text element: position: relative; z-index: 100000;.

The datepicker div takes the z-index from the input, but this works only if the position is relative.

Using this way you don't have to modify any javascript from jQuery UI.

Apache Tomcat Not Showing in Eclipse Server Runtime Environments

You may get more success if you do a "search" for the runtime env from the preferences screen instead of hitting "add" - see this demo on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkN5IPoJVs&playnext_from=TL&videos=rVnITzSU2Z8 - When you hit search, you are prompted to point to the tomcat directory and then it SHOULD add it as a server runtime environment. Unfortunately for me, that is not the case (I get "no new server runtime environments were found") But you might have more success.

How to increase editor font size?

In mac book ,you can use two fingers to zoom in(increase font size) or zoom out for decrease font size, like when we zoomed image in mobilephone.

how to create a window with two buttons that will open a new window

You add your ActionListener twice to button. So correct your code for button2 to

  JButton button2 = new JButton("hello agin2");
  panel.add(button2);
  button2.addActionListener (new Action2());//note the button2 here instead of button

Furthermore, perform your Swing operations on the correct thread by using EventQueue.invokeLater

Java; String replace (using regular expressions)?

Try this:

String str = "5 * x^3 - 6 * x^1 + 1";
String replacedStr = str.replaceAll("\\^(\\d+)", "<sup>\$1</sup>");

Be sure to import java.util.regex.

How to use the ProGuard in Android Studio?

Try renaming your 'proguard-rules.txt' file to 'proguard-android.txt' and remove the reference to 'proguard-rules.txt' in your gradle file. The getDefaultProguardFile(...) call references a different default proguard file, one provided by Google and not that in your project. So remove this as well, so that here the gradle file reads:

buildTypes {
    release {
        runProguard true
        proguardFile 'proguard-android.txt'
    }
}

How to configure SMTP settings in web.config

Set IIS to forward your mail to the remote server. The specifics vary greatly depending on the version of IIS. For IIS 7.5:

  1. Open IIS Manager
  2. Connect to your server if needed
  3. Select the server node; you should see an SMTP option on the right in the ASP.NET section
  4. Double-click the SMTP icon.
  5. Select the "Deliver e-mail to SMTP server" option and enter your server name, credentials, etc.

private final static attribute vs private final attribute

"Static" keyword makes the variable property of the class rather than individual instances of the class. There will be one copy of that variable that is shared amongst all the instances of that class. Any change in the state of the static variable will be reflected across all the instances. Add final to static and we get a variable that has been initialised once and for all at the class loading time and cannot be changed later by any instance of the class. Static final variables need to be initialised at the declaration time else we have compile time error. As far as private instance field is concerned, it refers to the property /state of an object /instance of a class. Each instance /object of the class will have its own copy of instance variable. When instance variable is declared final, it means we cannot change its value for this instance. For this we need to initialise the final variable either at declaration or in the constructor.If its not done in either of them, compile time error will show. Once initialised, if you try to reassign a value you will get a compile time error. Use static final variables where the data will be shared across all the instances of the class and you want the data to be read only.Use instance final variable if you want to represent some data that belongs to a each individual instance of the class but once stored cannot be changed. Usage of static and instance key word depends upon your design needs and what that data represents in the domain. If the data is used across the class instances then there is no need for individual copies/memory references for each object.

Hive query output to file

This command will redirect the output to a text file of your choice:

$hive -e "select * from table where id > 10" > ~/sample_output.txt

Can't find out where does a node.js app running and can't kill it

If all those kill process commands don't work for you, my suggestion is to check if you were using any other packages to run your node process.

I had the similar issue, and it was due to I was running my node process using PM2(a NPM package). The kill [processID] command disables the process but keeps the port occupied. Hence I had to go into PM2 and dump all node process to free up the port again.

HTML5: Slider with two inputs possible?

I've been looking for a lightweight, dependency free dual slider for some time (it seemed crazy to import jQuery just for this) and there don't seem to be many out there. I ended up modifying @Wildhoney's code a bit and really like it.

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function getVals(){_x000D_
  // Get slider values_x000D_
  var parent = this.parentNode;_x000D_
  var slides = parent.getElementsByTagName("input");_x000D_
    var slide1 = parseFloat( slides[0].value );_x000D_
    var slide2 = parseFloat( slides[1].value );_x000D_
  // Neither slider will clip the other, so make sure we determine which is larger_x000D_
  if( slide1 > slide2 ){ var tmp = slide2; slide2 = slide1; slide1 = tmp; }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  var displayElement = parent.getElementsByClassName("rangeValues")[0];_x000D_
      displayElement.innerHTML = slide1 + " - " + slide2;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
window.onload = function(){_x000D_
  // Initialize Sliders_x000D_
  var sliderSections = document.getElementsByClassName("range-slider");_x000D_
      for( var x = 0; x < sliderSections.length; x++ ){_x000D_
        var sliders = sliderSections[x].getElementsByTagName("input");_x000D_
        for( var y = 0; y < sliders.length; y++ ){_x000D_
          if( sliders[y].type ==="range" ){_x000D_
            sliders[y].oninput = getVals;_x000D_
            // Manually trigger event first time to display values_x000D_
            sliders[y].oninput();_x000D_
          }_x000D_
        }_x000D_
      }_x000D_
}
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  section.range-slider {_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    width: 200px;_x000D_
    height: 35px;_x000D_
    text-align: center;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
section.range-slider input {_x000D_
    pointer-events: none;_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    overflow: hidden;_x000D_
    left: 0;_x000D_
    top: 15px;_x000D_
    width: 200px;_x000D_
    outline: none;_x000D_
    height: 18px;_x000D_
    margin: 0;_x000D_
    padding: 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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section.range-slider input::-webkit-slider-thumb {_x000D_
    pointer-events: all;_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    z-index: 1;_x000D_
    outline: 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
section.range-slider input::-moz-range-thumb {_x000D_
    pointer-events: all;_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    z-index: 10;_x000D_
    -moz-appearance: none;_x000D_
    width: 9px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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section.range-slider input::-moz-range-track {_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    z-index: -1;_x000D_
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);_x000D_
    border: 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
section.range-slider input:last-of-type::-moz-range-track {_x000D_
    -moz-appearance: none;_x000D_
    background: none transparent;_x000D_
    border: 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
  section.range-slider input[type=range]::-moz-focus-outer {_x000D_
  border: 0;_x000D_
}
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<!-- This block can be reused as many times as needed -->_x000D_
<section class="range-slider">_x000D_
  <span class="rangeValues"></span>_x000D_
  <input value="5" min="0" max="15" step="0.5" type="range">_x000D_
  <input value="10" min="0" max="15" step="0.5" type="range">_x000D_
</section>
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How to create a static library with g++?

Create a .o file:

g++ -c header.cpp

add this file to a library, creating library if necessary:

ar rvs header.a header.o

use library:

g++ main.cpp header.a

socket.emit() vs. socket.send()

https://socket.io/docs/client-api/#socket-send-args-ack

socket.send // Sends a message event

socket.emit(eventName[, ...args][, ack]) // you can custom eventName

How to prevent user from typing in text field without disabling the field?

A non-Javascript alternative that can be easily overlooked: can you use the readonly attribute instead of the disabled attribute? It prevents editing the text in the input, but browsers style the input differently (less likely to "grey it out") e.g. <input readonly type="text" ...>

Performing Inserts and Updates with Dapper

you can do it in such way:

sqlConnection.Open();

string sqlQuery = "INSERT INTO [dbo].[Customer]([FirstName],[LastName],[Address],[City]) VALUES (@FirstName,@LastName,@Address,@City)";
sqlConnection.Execute(sqlQuery,
    new
    {
        customerEntity.FirstName,
        customerEntity.LastName,
        customerEntity.Address,
        customerEntity.City
    });

sqlConnection.Close();

Difference between INNER JOIN and LEFT SEMI JOIN

Tried in Hive and got the below output

table1

1,wqe,chennai,india

2,stu,salem,india

3,mia,bangalore,india

4,yepie,newyork,USA

table2

1,wqe,chennai,india

2,stu,salem,india

3,mia,bangalore,india

5,chapie,Los angels,USA

Inner Join

SELECT * FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON (table1.id = table2.id);

1 wqe chennai india 1 wqe chennai india

2 stu salem india 2 stu salem india

3 mia bangalore india 3 mia bangalore india

Left Join

SELECT * FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2 ON (table1.id = table2.id);

1 wqe chennai india 1 wqe chennai india

2 stu salem india 2 stu salem india

3 mia bangalore india 3 mia bangalore india

4 yepie newyork USA NULL NULL NULL NULL

Left Semi Join

SELECT * FROM table1 LEFT SEMI JOIN table2 ON (table1.id = table2.id);

1 wqe chennai india

2 stu salem india

3 mia bangalore india

note: Only records in left table are displayed whereas for Left Join both the table records displayed

col align right

From the documentation, you do it like:

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-6">left</div>
    <div class="col-md-push-6">content needs to be right aligned</div>
</div>

Docs

What is the best way to give a C# auto-property an initial value?

To clarify, yes, you need to set default values in the constructor for class derived objects. You will need to ensure the constructor exists with the proper access modifier for construction where used. If the object is not instantiated, e.g. it has no constructor (e.g. static methods) then the default value can be set by the field. The reasoning here is that the object itself will be created only once and you do not instantiate it.

@Darren Kopp - good answer, clean, and correct. And to reiterate, you CAN write constructors for Abstract methods. You just need to access them from the base class when writing the constructor:

Constructor at Base Class:

public BaseClassAbstract()
{
    this.PropertyName = "Default Name";
}

Constructor at Derived / Concrete / Sub-Class:

public SubClass() : base() { }

The point here is that the instance variable drawn from the base class may bury your base field name. Setting the current instantiated object value using "this." will allow you to correctly form your object with respect to the current instance and required permission levels (access modifiers) where you are instantiating it.

Oracle query execution time

I'd recommend looking at consistent gets/logical reads as a better proxy for 'work' than run time. The run time can be skewed by what else is happening on the database server, how much stuff is in the cache etc.

But if you REALLY want SQL executing time, the V$SQL view has both CPU_TIME and ELAPSED_TIME.

Laravel 5.2 redirect back with success message

You can simply use back() function to redirect no need to use redirect()->back() make sure you are using 5.2 or greater than 5.2 version.

You can replace your code to below code.

return back()->with('message', 'WORKS!');

In the view file replace below code.

@if(session()->has('message'))
    <div class="alert alert-success">
        {{ session()->get('message') }}
    </div>
@endif

For more detail, you can read here

back() is just a helper function. It's doing the same thing as redirect()->back()

How to undo a successful "git cherry-pick"?

A cherry-pick is basically a commit, so if you want to undo it, you just undo the commit.

when I have other local changes

Stash your current changes so you can reapply them after resetting the commit.

$ git stash
$ git reset --hard HEAD^
$ git stash pop  # or `git stash apply`, if you want to keep the changeset in the stash

when I have no other local changes

$ git reset --hard HEAD^

How do I declare a two dimensional array?

Or for larger arrays, all with the same value:

$m_by_n_array = array_fill(0, $n, array_fill(0, $m, $value);

will create an $m by $n array with everything set to $value.

Powershell command to hide user from exchange address lists

I use this as a daily scheduled task to hide users disabled in AD from the Global Address List

$mailboxes = get-user | where {$_.UserAccountControl -like '*AccountDisabled*' -and $_.RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox' } | get-mailbox  | where {$_.HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled -eq $false}

foreach ($mailbox in $mailboxes) { Set-Mailbox -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true -Identity $mailbox }

Hash function that produces short hashes?

Just summarizing an answer that was helpful to me (noting @erasmospunk's comment about using base-64 encoding). My goal was to have a short string that was mostly unique...

I'm no expert, so please correct this if it has any glaring errors (in Python again like the accepted answer):

import base64
import hashlib
import uuid

unique_id = uuid.uuid4()
# unique_id = UUID('8da617a7-0bd6-4cce-ae49-5d31f2a5a35f')

hash = hashlib.sha1(str(unique_id).encode("UTF-8"))
# hash.hexdigest() = '882efb0f24a03938e5898aa6b69df2038a2c3f0e'

result = base64.b64encode(hash.digest())
# result = b'iC77DySgOTjliYqmtp3yA4osPw4='

The result here is using more than just hex characters (what you'd get if you used hash.hexdigest()) so it's less likely to have a collision (that is, should be safer to truncate than a hex digest).

Note: Using UUID4 (random). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier for the other types.

data type not understood

Try:

mmatrix = np.zeros((nrows, ncols))

Since the shape parameter has to be an int or sequence of ints

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.zeros.html

Otherwise you are passing ncols to np.zeros as the dtype.

How to compute the sum and average of elements in an array?

here's your one liner:

var average = arr.reduce((sum,item,index,arr)=>index !== arr.length-1?sum+item:sum+item/arr.length,0)

Get ConnectionString from appsettings.json instead of being hardcoded in .NET Core 2.0 App

If you need in different Layer :

Create a Static Class and expose all config properties on that layer as below :

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using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;_x000D_
using System.IO;_x000D_
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namespace Core.DAL_x000D_
{_x000D_
    public static class ConfigSettings_x000D_
    {_x000D_
        public static string conStr1 { get ; }_x000D_
        static ConfigSettings()_x000D_
        {_x000D_
            var configurationBuilder = new ConfigurationBuilder();_x000D_
            string path = Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "appsettings.json");_x000D_
            configurationBuilder.AddJsonFile(path, false);_x000D_
            conStr1 = configurationBuilder.Build().GetSection("ConnectionStrings:ConStr1").Value;_x000D_
        }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
}
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Executing Shell Scripts from the OS X Dock?

You could create a Automator workflow with a single step - "Run Shell Script"

Then File > Save As, and change the File Format to "Application". When you open the application, it will run the Shell Script step, executing the command, exiting after it completes.

The benefit to this is it's really simple to do, and you can very easily get user input (say, selecting a bunch of files), then pass it to the input of the shell script (either to stdin, or as arguments).

(Automator is in your /Applications folder!)

Example workflow

What process is listening on a certain port on Solaris?

Most probly sun's administrative server.. It's usually bundled along with sun's directory and a few other webmin-ish stuff that is in the default installation

mysql command for showing current configuration variables

What you are looking for is this:

SHOW VARIABLES;  

You can modify it further like any query:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%max%';  

Apply multiple functions to multiple groupby columns

New in version 0.25.0.

To support column-specific aggregation with control over the output column names, pandas accepts the special syntax in GroupBy.agg(), known as “named aggregation”, where

  • The keywords are the output column names
  • The values are tuples whose first element is the column to select and the second element is the aggregation to apply to that column. Pandas provides the pandas.NamedAgg namedtuple with the fields ['column', 'aggfunc'] to make it clearer what the arguments are. As usual, the aggregation can be a callable or a string alias.
    In [79]: animals = pd.DataFrame({'kind': ['cat', 'dog', 'cat', 'dog'],
       ....:                         'height': [9.1, 6.0, 9.5, 34.0],
       ....:                         'weight': [7.9, 7.5, 9.9, 198.0]})
       ....: 

    In [80]: animals
    Out[80]: 
      kind  height  weight
    0  cat     9.1     7.9
    1  dog     6.0     7.5
    2  cat     9.5     9.9
    3  dog    34.0   198.0

    In [81]: animals.groupby("kind").agg(
       ....:     min_height=pd.NamedAgg(column='height', aggfunc='min'),
       ....:     max_height=pd.NamedAgg(column='height', aggfunc='max'),
       ....:     average_weight=pd.NamedAgg(column='weight', aggfunc=np.mean),
       ....: )
       ....: 
    Out[81]: 
          min_height  max_height  average_weight
    kind                                        
    cat          9.1         9.5            8.90
    dog          6.0        34.0          102.75

pandas.NamedAgg is just a namedtuple. Plain tuples are allowed as well.

    In [82]: animals.groupby("kind").agg(
       ....:     min_height=('height', 'min'),
       ....:     max_height=('height', 'max'),
       ....:     average_weight=('weight', np.mean),
       ....: )
       ....: 
    Out[82]: 
          min_height  max_height  average_weight
    kind                                        
    cat          9.1         9.5            8.90
    dog          6.0        34.0          102.75

Additional keyword arguments are not passed through to the aggregation functions. Only pairs of (column, aggfunc) should be passed as **kwargs. If your aggregation functions requires additional arguments, partially apply them with functools.partial().

Named aggregation is also valid for Series groupby aggregations. In this case there’s no column selection, so the values are just the functions.

    In [84]: animals.groupby("kind").height.agg(
       ....:     min_height='min',
       ....:     max_height='max',
       ....: )
       ....: 
    Out[84]: 
          min_height  max_height
    kind                        
    cat          9.1         9.5
    dog          6.0        34.0

How to get a substring between two strings in PHP?

function strbtwn($s,$start,$end){
    $i = strpos($s,$start);
    $j = strpos($s,$end,$i);
    return $i===false||$j===false? false: substr(substr($s,$i,$j-$i),strlen($start));
}

usage:

echo strbtwn($s,"<h2>","</h2>");//<h2>:)</h2> --> :)

Creating files in C++

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

string filename = "/tmp/filename.txt";

int main() {
  std::ofstream o(filename.c_str());

  o << "Hello, World\n" << std::endl;

  return 0;
}

This is what I had to do in order to use a variable for the filename instead of a regular string.

Javascript document.getElementById("id").value returning null instead of empty string when the element is an empty text box

I think the textbox you are trying to access is not yet loaded onto the page at the time your javascript is being executed.

ie., For the Javascript to be able to read the textbox from the DOM of the page, the textbox must be available as an element. If the javascript is getting called before the textbox is written onto the page, the textbox will not be visible and so NULL is returned.

Running a cron every 30 seconds

You can check out my answer to this similar question

Basically, I've included there a bash script named "runEvery.sh" which you can run with cron every 1 minute and pass as arguments the real command you wish to run and the frequency in seconds in which you want to run it.

something like this

* * * * * ~/bin/runEvery.sh 5 myScript.sh

passing form data to another HTML page

*first html page*

<form action="display.jsp" >
    <input type="text" name="serialNumber" />
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>


*Second html page*
<body>
<p>The serial number is:<%=request.getParameter("serialNumber") %></p>
</body>


you will get the value of the textbox on another page.

How to preserve aspect ratio when scaling image using one (CSS) dimension in IE6?

The only way to do explicit scaling in CSS is to use tricks such as found here.

IE6 only, you could also use filters (check out PNGFix). But applying them automatically to the page will need javascript, though that javascript could be embedded in the CSS file.

If you are going to require javascript, then you might want to just have javascript fill in the missing value for the height by inspecting the image once the content has loaded. (Sorry I do not have a reference for this technique).

Finally, and pardon me for this soapbox, you might want to eschew IE6 support in this matter. You could add _width: auto after your width: 75px rule, so that IE6 at least renders the image reasonably, even if it is the wrong size.

I recommend the last solution simply because IE6 is on the way out: 20% and going down almost a percent a month. Also, I note that your site is recreational and in the UK. Both of these help the demographic lean to be away from IE6: IE6 usage drops nearly 40% during weekends (no citation sorry), and UK has a much lower IE6 demographic (again no citation, sorry).

Good luck!

How to check for the type of a template parameter?

std::is_same() is only available since C++11. For pre-C++11 you can use typeid():

template <typename T>
void foo()
{
    if (typeid(T) == typeid(animal)) { /* ... */ }
}

Viewing contents of a .jar file

Well, a jar-file is just a zip-file, so if you unzip it (with your favorite unzipping utility), you get all the files inside.

If you want to look inside the class files to see the methods, you'll need a tool for that. As PhiLho mentions, Eclipse is able to do that (by default), and I would think most Java IDEs are capable of that.

Getting value from appsettings.json in .net core

This tends to happen particularly with as I'd assume because of how one configures the launch.json.

Based on this answer I had to reconfigure the base path the configuration is being searched for to that of DLL's path, and since the default setting was optional it was hard to track this down on a .net core 3.1 & net 5.0 app. Here's how I've reconfigured

Program.cs:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;

namespace API
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static int Main(string[] args)
        {
            CreateHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
            return 0;
        }

        public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args)
        {
            return Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
            .ConfigureAppConfiguration(c =>
            {
                var codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
                var uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
                var path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
                var assembyDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
                c.SetBasePath(assembyDirectory);
            })
            .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
            {
                webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
            })
            ;
        }
    }
}

I could access the configuration fine in Startup.cs:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Model;

namespace API
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }

        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
        {
            Configuration = configuration;
        }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            var myOptions = Configuration.To<ApiConfig>();
            services.AddAuthentication(myOptions.Secret);
            services.AddControllers();
        }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
        {
            app.UseRouting();
            app.UseAuthentication();
            app.UseAuthorization();
            app.UseEndpoints(endpoints => { endpoints.MapControllers(); });
        }
    }
}

Iterate a certain number of times without storing the iteration number anywhere

The idiom (shared by quite a few other languages) for an unused variable is a single underscore _. Code analysers typically won't complain about _ being unused, and programmers will instantly know it's a shortcut for i_dont_care_wtf_you_put_here. There is no way to iterate without having an item variable - as the Zen of Python puts it, "special cases aren't special enough to break the rules".

How to submit an HTML form on loading the page?

You don't need Jquery here! The simplest solution here is (based on the answer from charles):

<html>
<body onload="document.frm1.submit()">
   <form action="http://www.google.com" name="frm1">
      <input type="hidden" name="q" value="Hello world" />
   </form>
</body>
</html>

How to configure SSL certificates with Charles Web Proxy and the latest Android Emulator on Windows?

For what it's worth here are the step by step instructions for doing this in an Android device. Should be the same for iOS:

  1. Open Charles
  2. Go to Proxy > Proxy Settings > SSL
  3. Check “Enable SSL Proxying”
  4. Select “Add location” and enter the host name and port (if needed)
  5. Click ok and make sure the option is checked
  6. Download the Charles cert from here: Charles cert >
  7. Send that file to yourself in an email.
  8. Open the email on your device and select the cert
  9. In “Name the certificate” enter whatever you want
  10. Click OK and you should get a message that the certificate was installed

You should then be able to see the SSL files in Charles. If you want to intercept and change the values you can use the "Map Local" tool which is really awesome:

  1. In Charles go to Tools > Map Local
  2. Select "Add entry"
  3. Enter the values for the file you want to replace
  4. In “Local path” select the file you want the app to load instead
  5. Click OK
  6. Make sure the entry is selected and click OK
  7. Run your app
  8. You should see in “Notes” that your file loads instead of the live one

How to pass table value parameters to stored procedure from .net code

DataTable, DbDataReader, or IEnumerable<SqlDataRecord> objects can be used to populate a table-valued parameter per the MSDN article Table-Valued Parameters in SQL Server 2008 (ADO.NET).

The following example illustrates using either a DataTable or an IEnumerable<SqlDataRecord>:

SQL Code:

CREATE TABLE dbo.PageView
(
    PageViewID BIGINT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT pkPageView PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
    PageViewCount BIGINT NOT NULL
);
CREATE TYPE dbo.PageViewTableType AS TABLE
(
    PageViewID BIGINT NOT NULL
);
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.procMergePageView
    @Display dbo.PageViewTableType READONLY
AS
BEGIN
    MERGE INTO dbo.PageView AS T
    USING @Display AS S
    ON T.PageViewID = S.PageViewID
    WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET T.PageViewCount = T.PageViewCount + 1
    WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT VALUES(S.PageViewID, 1);
END

C# Code:

private static void ExecuteProcedure(bool useDataTable, 
                                     string connectionString, 
                                     IEnumerable<long> ids) 
{
    using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) 
    {
        connection.Open();
        using (SqlCommand command = connection.CreateCommand()) 
        {
            command.CommandText = "dbo.procMergePageView";
            command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

            SqlParameter parameter;
            if (useDataTable) {
                parameter = command.Parameters
                              .AddWithValue("@Display", CreateDataTable(ids));
            }
            else 
            {
                parameter = command.Parameters
                              .AddWithValue("@Display", CreateSqlDataRecords(ids));
            }
            parameter.SqlDbType = SqlDbType.Structured;
            parameter.TypeName = "dbo.PageViewTableType";

            command.ExecuteNonQuery();
        }
    }
}

private static DataTable CreateDataTable(IEnumerable<long> ids) 
{
    DataTable table = new DataTable();
    table.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(long));
    foreach (long id in ids) 
    {
        table.Rows.Add(id);
    }
    return table;
}

private static IEnumerable<SqlDataRecord> CreateSqlDataRecords(IEnumerable<long> ids) 
{
    SqlMetaData[] metaData = new SqlMetaData[1];
    metaData[0] = new SqlMetaData("ID", SqlDbType.BigInt);
    SqlDataRecord record = new SqlDataRecord(metaData);
    foreach (long id in ids) 
    {
        record.SetInt64(0, id);
        yield return record;
    }
}

.bashrc: Permission denied

If you can't access the file and your os is any linux distro or mac os x then either of these commands should work:

sudo nano .bashrc

chmod 777 .bashrc 

it is worthless

What does "request for member '*******' in something not a structure or union" mean?

I saw this when I was trying to access the members.

My struct was this:

struct test { 
    int a;
    int b;
};
    
struct test testvar;

Normally we access structure members as

testvar.a;
testvar.b;

I mistook testvar to be a pointer and did this.

testvar->a;

That's when I saw this error.

request for member ‘a’ in something not a structure or union

@ variables in Ruby on Rails

@variables are called instance variables in ruby. Which means you can access these variables in ANY METHOD inside the class. [Across all methods in the class]

Variables without the @ symbol are called local variables, which means you can access these local variables within THAT DECLARED METHOD only. Limited to the local scope.

Example of Instance Variables:

class Customer
  def initialize(id, name, addr)
    @cust_id = id
    @cust_name = name
    @cust_addr = addr
  end

  def display_details
    puts "Customer id #{@cust_id}"
    puts "Customer name #{@cust_name}"
    puts "Customer address #{@cust_addr}"
  end
end

In the above example @cust_id, @cust_name, @cust_addr are accessed in another method within the class. But the same thing would not be accessible with local variables.

How do I get DOUBLE_MAX?

DBL_MAX is defined in <float.h>. Its availability in <limits.h> on unix is what is marked as "(LEGACY)".

(linking to the unix standard even though you have no unix tag since that's probably where you found the "LEGACY" notation, but much of what is shown there for float.h is also in the C standard back to C89)

How do I zip two arrays in JavaScript?

Use the map method:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var a = [1, 2, 3]_x000D_
var b = ['a', 'b', 'c']_x000D_
_x000D_
var c = a.map(function(e, i) {_x000D_
  return [e, b[i]];_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(c)
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

DEMO

Convert Int to String in Swift

Just for completeness, you can also use:

let x = 10.description

or any other value that supports a description.

BEGIN - END block atomic transactions in PL/SQL

BEGIN-END blocks are the building blocks of PL/SQL, and each PL/SQL unit is contained within at least one such block. Nesting BEGIN-END blocks within PL/SQL blocks is usually done to trap certain exceptions and handle that special exception and then raise unrelated exceptions. Nevertheless, in PL/SQL you (the client) must always issue a commit or rollback for the transaction.

If you wish to have atomic transactions within a PL/SQL containing transaction, you need to declare a PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION in the declaration block. This will ensure that any DML within that block can be committed or rolledback independently of the containing transaction.

However, you cannot declare this pragma for nested blocks. You can only declare this for:

  • Top-level (not nested) anonymous PL/SQL blocks
  • List item
  • Local, standalone, and packaged functions and procedures
  • Methods of a SQL object type
  • Database triggers

Reference: Oracle

Download file from web in Python 3

If you are using Linux you can use the wget module of Linux through the python shell. Here is a sample code snippet

import os
url = 'http://www.example.com/foo.zip'
os.system('wget %s'%url)

Remove whitespaces inside a string in javascript

For space-character removal use

"hello world".replace(/\s/g, "");

for all white space use the suggestion by Rocket in the comments below!

What is the canonical way to check for errors using the CUDA runtime API?

talonmies' answer above is a fine way to abort an application in an assert-style manner.

Occasionally we may wish to report and recover from an error condition in a C++ context as part of a larger application.

Here's a reasonably terse way to do that by throwing a C++ exception derived from std::runtime_error using thrust::system_error:

#include <thrust/system_error.h>
#include <thrust/system/cuda/error.h>
#include <sstream>

void throw_on_cuda_error(cudaError_t code, const char *file, int line)
{
  if(code != cudaSuccess)
  {
    std::stringstream ss;
    ss << file << "(" << line << ")";
    std::string file_and_line;
    ss >> file_and_line;
    throw thrust::system_error(code, thrust::cuda_category(), file_and_line);
  }
}

This will incorporate the filename, line number, and an English language description of the cudaError_t into the thrown exception's .what() member:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
  try
  {
    // do something crazy
    throw_on_cuda_error(cudaSetDevice(-1), __FILE__, __LINE__);
  }
  catch(thrust::system_error &e)
  {
    std::cerr << "CUDA error after cudaSetDevice: " << e.what() << std::endl;

    // oops, recover
    cudaSetDevice(0);
  }

  return 0;
}

The output:

$ nvcc exception.cu -run
CUDA error after cudaSetDevice: exception.cu(23): invalid device ordinal

A client of some_function can distinguish CUDA errors from other kinds of errors if desired:

try
{
  // call some_function which may throw something
  some_function();
}
catch(thrust::system_error &e)
{
  std::cerr << "CUDA error during some_function: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}
catch(std::bad_alloc &e)
{
  std::cerr << "Bad memory allocation during some_function: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}
catch(std::runtime_error &e)
{
  std::cerr << "Runtime error during some_function: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}
catch(...)
{
  std::cerr << "Some other kind of error during some_function" << std::endl;

  // no idea what to do, so just rethrow the exception
  throw;
}

Because thrust::system_error is a std::runtime_error, we can alternatively handle it in the same manner of a broad class of errors if we don't require the precision of the previous example:

try
{
  // call some_function which may throw something
  some_function();
}
catch(std::runtime_error &e)
{
  std::cerr << "Runtime error during some_function: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}

Change span text?

document.getElementById("serverTime").innerHTML = ...;

Move column by name to front of table in pandas

You can use the df.reindex() function in pandas. df is

                      Net  Upper   Lower  Mid  Zsore
Answer option                                      
More than once a day  0%  0.22%  -0.12%    2     65
Once a day            0%  0.32%  -0.19%    3     45
Several times a week  2%  2.45%   1.10%    4     78
Once a week           1%  1.63%  -0.40%    6     65

define an list of column names

cols = df.columns.tolist()
cols
Out[13]: ['Net', 'Upper', 'Lower', 'Mid', 'Zsore']

move the column name to wherever you want

cols.insert(0, cols.pop(cols.index('Mid')))
cols
Out[16]: ['Mid', 'Net', 'Upper', 'Lower', 'Zsore']

then use df.reindex() function to reorder

df = df.reindex(columns= cols)

out put is: df

                      Mid  Upper   Lower Net  Zsore
Answer option                                      
More than once a day    2  0.22%  -0.12%  0%     65
Once a day              3  0.32%  -0.19%  0%     45
Several times a week    4  2.45%   1.10%  2%     78
Once a week             6  1.63%  -0.40%  1%     65

How to convert a Java 8 Stream to an Array?

You can create a custom collector that convert a stream to array.

public static <T> Collector<T, ?, T[]> toArray( IntFunction<T[]> converter )
{
    return Collectors.collectingAndThen( 
                  Collectors.toList(), 
                  list ->list.toArray( converter.apply( list.size() ) ) );
}

and a quick use

List<String> input = Arrays.asList( ..... );

String[] result = input.stream().
         .collect( CustomCollectors.**toArray**( String[]::new ) );

MySQL Workbench not displaying query results

I have updated macOS to 10.13.4 and it works.

Disable button in jQuery

I want to disable button on some condition, i am using 1st solution but it won't work for me. But when I use 2nd one it worked.Below are outputs from browser console.

1. $('#psl2 .btn-continue').prop("disabled", true)

<a class=?"btn btn-yellow btn-continue" href=?"#">?Next?</a>?

2. $('#psl2 .btn-continue').attr("disabled","disabled")

<a class=?"btn btn-yellow btn-continue" href=?"#" disabled=?"disabled">?Next?</a>?

Query to get the names of all tables in SQL Server 2008 Database

To get the fields info too, you can use the following:

SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, 
       COLUMN_NAME, substring(DATA_TYPE, 1,1) AS DATA_TYPE
FROM information_schema.COLUMNS 
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA NOT IN("information_schema", "mysql", "performance_schema") 
ORDER BY TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION

Get a list of all functions and procedures in an Oracle database

Do a describe on dba_arguments, dba_errors, dba_procedures, dba_objects, dba_source, dba_object_size. Each of these has part of the pictures for looking at the procedures and functions.

Also the object_type in dba_objects for packages is 'PACKAGE' for the definition and 'PACKAGE BODY" for the body.

If you are comparing schemas on the same database then try:

select * from dba_objects 
   where schema_name = 'ASCHEMA' 
     and object_type in ( 'PROCEDURE', 'PACKAGE', 'FUNCTION', 'PACKAGE BODY' )
minus
select * from dba_objects 
where schema_name = 'BSCHEMA' 
  and object_type in ( 'PROCEDURE', 'PACKAGE', 'FUNCTION', 'PACKAGE BODY' )

and switch around the orders of ASCHEMA and BSCHEMA.

If you also need to look at triggers and comparing other stuff between the schemas you should take a look at the Article on Ask Tom about comparing schemas

Maximum and Minimum values for ints

sys.maxsize is not the actually the maximum integer value which is supported. You can double maxsize and multiply it by itself and it stays a valid and correct value.

However, if you try sys.maxsize ** sys.maxsize, it will hang your machine for a significant amount of time. As many have pointed out, the byte and bit size does not seem to be relevant because it practically doesn't exist. I guess python just happily expands it's integers when it needs more memory space. So in general there is no limit.

Now, if you're talking about packing or storing integers in a safe way where they can later be retrieved with integrity then of course that is relevant. I'm really not sure about packing but I know python's pickle module handles those things well. String representations obviously have no practical limit.

So really, the bottom line is: what is your applications limit? What does it require for numeric data? Use that limit instead of python's fairly nonexistent integer limit.

How can I use Google's Roboto font on a website?

Use /fonts/ or /font/ before font type name in your CSS stylesheet. I face this error but after that its working fine.

@font-face {
    font-family: 'robotoregular';
    src: url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot');
    src: url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.svg#robotoregular') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;

}

Why isn't ProjectName-Prefix.pch created automatically in Xcode 6?

You need to create own PCH file
Add New file -> Other-> PCH file

Then add the path of this PCH file to your build setting->prefix header->path

($(SRCROOT)/filename.pch)

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Find intersection of two nested lists?

A pythonic way of taking the intersection of 2 lists is:

[x for x in list1 if x in list2]

Using (Ana)conda within PyCharm

Continuum Analytics now provides instructions on how to setup Anaconda with various IDEs including Pycharm here. However, with Pycharm 5.0.1 running on Unbuntu 15.10 Project Interpreter settings were found via the File | Settings and then under the Project branch of the treeview on the Settings dialog.

Delete entire row if cell contains the string X

Try this ...

Dim r as Range
Dim x as Integer

For x = 5000 to 4 step -1 '---> or change as you want //Thanx 4 KazJaw

  set r = range("E" & format(x))
  if ucase(r.Value) = "NONE" then
    Rows(x).EntireRow.Delete
  end if 

Next

Increasing nesting function calls limit

This error message comes specifically from the XDebug extension. PHP itself does not have a function nesting limit. Change the setting in your php.ini:

xdebug.max_nesting_level = 200

or in your PHP code:

ini_set('xdebug.max_nesting_level', 200);

As for if you really need to change it (i.e.: if there's a alternative solution to a recursive function), I can't tell without the code.

How can I export Excel files using JavaScript?

To answer your question with a working example:

<script type="text/javascript">
function DownloadJSON2CSV(objArray)
{
    var array = typeof objArray != 'object' ? JSON.parse(objArray) : objArray;

    var str = '';

    for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        var line = new Array();

        for (var index in array[i]) {
           line.push('"' + array[i][index] + '"');
        }

        str += line.join(';');
        str += '\r\n';
    }
    window.open( "data:text/csv;charset=utf-8," + encodeURIComponent(str));
}
</script>

JavaScript get window X/Y position for scroll

The method jQuery (v1.10) uses to find this is:

var doc = document.documentElement;
var left = (window.pageXOffset || doc.scrollLeft) - (doc.clientLeft || 0);
var top = (window.pageYOffset || doc.scrollTop)  - (doc.clientTop || 0);

That is:

  • It tests for window.pageXOffset first and uses that if it exists.
  • Otherwise, it uses document.documentElement.scrollLeft.
  • It then subtracts document.documentElement.clientLeft if it exists.

The subtraction of document.documentElement.clientLeft / Top only appears to be required to correct for situations where you have applied a border (not padding or margin, but actual border) to the root element, and at that, possibly only in certain browsers.

Adding attribute in jQuery

$('.some_selector').attr('disabled', true);

Replace Div Content onclick

A simple addClass and removeClass will do the trick on what you need..

$('#change').on('click', function() { 
  $('div').each(function() { 
    if($(this).hasClass('active')) { 
        $(this).removeClass('active');
    } else { 
        $(this).addClass('active');
    }
});

});

Seee fiddle

I recommend you to learn jquery first before using.

The representation of if-elseif-else in EL using JSF

You can use "ELSE IF" using conditional operator in expression language as below:

 <p:outputLabel value="#{transaction.status.equals('PNDNG')?'Pending':
                                     transaction.status.equals('RJCTD')?'Rejected':
                                     transaction.status.equals('CNFRMD')?'Confirmed':
                                     transaction.status.equals('PSTD')?'Posted':''}"/>

How do I edit a file after I shell to a Docker container?

As in the comments, there's no default editor set - strange - the $EDITOR environment variable is empty. You can log in into a container with:

docker exec -it <container> bash

And run:

apt-get update
apt-get install vim

Or use the following Dockerfile:

FROM  confluent/postgres-bw:0.1

RUN ["apt-get", "update"]
RUN ["apt-get", "install", "-y", "vim"]

Docker images are delivered trimmed to the bare minimum - so no editor is installed with the shipped container. That's why there's a need to install it manually.

EDIT

I also encourage you read my post about the topic.

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

With this approach, there is no need to import any library.

DateTime now = DateTime.now();

String convertedDateTime = "${now.year.toString()}-${now.month.toString().padLeft(2,'0')}-${now.day.toString().padLeft(2,'0')} ${now.hour.toString()}-${now.minute.toString()}";

Output

2020-12-05 14:57

Jquery get form field value

if you know the id of the inputs you only need to use this:

var value = $("#inputID").val();

Finding three elements in an array whose sum is closest to a given number

I did this in n^3, my pseudocode is below;

//Create a hashMap with key as Integer and value as ArrayList //iterate through list using a for loop, for each value in list iterate again starting from next value;

for (int i=0; i<=arr.length-1 ; i++){
    for (int j=i+1; j<=arr.length-1;j++){

//if the sum of arr[i] and arr[j] is less than desired sum then there is potential to find a third digit so do another for loop

      if (arr[i]+arr[j] < sum){
        for (int k= j+1; k<=arr.length-1;k++)

//in this case we are now looking for the third value; if the sum of arr[i] and arr[j] and arr[k] is the desired sum then add these to the HashMap by making the arr[i] the key and then adding arr[j] and arr[k] into the ArrayList in the value of that key

          if (arr[i]+arr[j]+arr[k] ==  sum){              
              map.put(arr[i],new ArrayList<Integer>());
              map.get(arr[i]).add(arr[j]);
              map.get(arr[i]).add(arr[k]);}

after this you now have a dictionary that has all the entries representing the three values adding to the desired sum. Extract all these entries using HashMap functions. This worked perfectly.

Launching Google Maps Directions via an intent on Android

This is what worked for me:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("http://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=" + yourAddress));
if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
   startActivity(intent);
}

Addition for BigDecimal

//you can do in this way...as BigDecimal is immutable so cant set values except in constructor

BigDecimal test = BigDecimal.ZERO;
BigDecimal result = test.add(new BigDecimal(30));
System.out.println(result);

result would be 30

Installing Python library from WHL file

From How do I install a Python package with a .whl file? [sic], How do I install a Python package USING a .whl file ?

For all Windows platforms:

1) Download the .WHL package install file.

2) Make Sure path [C:\Progra~1\Python27\Scripts] is in the system PATH string. This is for using both [pip.exe] and [easy-install.exe].

3) Make sure the latest version of pip.EXE is now installed. At this time of posting:

pip.EXE --version

  pip 9.0.1 from C:\PROGRA~1\Python27\lib\site-packages (python 2.7)

4) Run pip.EXE in an Admin command shell.

 - Open an Admin privileged command shell.

 > easy_install.EXE --upgrade  pip

 - Check the pip.EXE version:
 > pip.EXE --version

 pip 9.0.1 from C:\PROGRA~1\Python27\lib\site-packages (python 2.7)

 > pip.EXE install --use-wheel --no-index 
     --find-links="X:\path to wheel file\DownloadedWheelFile.whl"

Be sure to double-quote paths or path\filenames with embedded spaces in them ! Alternatively, use the MSW 'short' paths and filenames.

Java: Detect duplicates in ArrayList?

If you are looking to avoid having duplicates at all, then you should just cut out the middle process of detecting duplicates and use a Set.

How can I convert a string to a number in Perl?

You don't need to convert it at all:

% perl -e 'print "5.45" + 0.1;'
5.55

Difference between Inheritance and Composition

Are Composition and Inheritance the same?

They are not same.

Composition : It enables a group of objects have to be treated in the same way as a single instance of an object. The intent of a composite is to "compose" objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies

Inheritance: A class inherits fields and methods from all its superclasses, whether direct or indirect. A subclass can override methods that it inherits, or it can hide fields or methods that it inherits.

If I want to implement the composition pattern, how can I do that in Java?

Wikipedia article is good enough to implement composite pattern in java.

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Key Participants:

Component:

  1. Is the abstraction for all components, including composite ones
  2. Declares the interface for objects in the composition

Leaf:

  1. Represents leaf objects in the composition
  2. Implements all Component methods

Composite:

  1. Represents a composite Component (component having children)
  2. Implements methods to manipulate children
  3. Implements all Component methods, generally by delegating them to its children

Code example to understand Composite pattern:

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

interface Part{
    public double getPrice();
    public String getName();
}
class Engine implements Part{
    String name;
    double price;
    public Engine(String name,double price){
        this.name = name;
        this.price = price;
    }
    public double getPrice(){
        return price;
    }
    public String getName(){
        return name;
    }
}
class Trunk implements Part{
    String name;
    double price;
    public Trunk(String name,double price){
        this.name = name;
        this.price = price;
    }
    public double getPrice(){
        return price;
    }
    public String getName(){
        return name;
    }
}
class Body implements Part{
    String name;
    double price;
    public Body(String name,double price){
        this.name = name;
        this.price = price;
    }
    public double getPrice(){
        return price;
    }
    public String getName(){
        return name;
    }
}
class Car implements Part{
    List<Part> parts;
    String name;

    public Car(String name){
        this.name = name;
        parts = new ArrayList<Part>();
    }
    public void addPart(Part part){
        parts.add(part);
    }
    public String getName(){
        return name;
    }
    public String getPartNames(){
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for ( Part part: parts){
            sb.append(part.getName()).append(" ");
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
    public double getPrice(){
        double price = 0;
        for ( Part part: parts){
            price += part.getPrice();
        }
        return price;
    }   
}

public class CompositeDemo{
    public static void main(String args[]){
        Part engine = new Engine("DiselEngine",15000);
        Part trunk = new Trunk("Trunk",10000);
        Part body = new Body("Body",12000);

        Car car = new Car("Innova");
        car.addPart(engine);
        car.addPart(trunk);
        car.addPart(body);

        double price = car.getPrice();

        System.out.println("Car name:"+car.getName());
        System.out.println("Car parts:"+car.getPartNames());
        System.out.println("Car price:"+car.getPrice());
    }

}

output:

Car name:Innova
Car parts:DiselEngine Trunk Body
Car price:37000.0

Explanation:

  1. Part is a leaf
  2. Car contains many Parts
  3. Different Parts of the car have been added to Car
  4. The price of Car = sum of ( Price of each Part )

Refer to below question for Pros and Cons of Composition and Inheritance.

Prefer composition over inheritance?

How can I simulate an anchor click via jquery?

this approach works on firefox, chrome and IE. hope it helps someone:

var comp = document.getElementById('yourCompId');
try { //in firefox
    comp.click();
    return;
} catch(ex) {}
try { // in chrome
    if(document.createEvent) {
        var e = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
        e.initEvent( 'click', true, true );
        comp.dispatchEvent(e);
        return;
    }
} catch(ex) {}
try { // in IE
    if(document.createEventObject) {
         var evObj = document.createEventObject();
         comp.fireEvent("onclick", evObj);
         return;
    }
} catch(ex) {}

View the change history of a file using Git versioning

You can use

git log -p filename

to let git generate the patches for each log entry.

See

git help log

for more options - it can actually do a lot of nice things :) To get just the diff for a specific commit you can

git show HEAD 

or any other revision by identifier. Or use

gitk

to browse the changes visually.

How to enable NSZombie in Xcode?

I encountered the same problem with troubleshooting EXC_BAD_ACCESS and had hard time to find the setting with Xcode 4.2 (the latest one that comes with iOS5 SDK). Apple keeps on moving things and the settings are no longer where they used to be.

Fortunately, I've found it and it works for the device, not just Simulator. You need to open the Product menu in the Xcode, select Edit scheme and then choose the Diagnostics tab. There you have "Enable Zombie Objects". Once selected and run in debugger will point you to the double released object! Enjoy!

In short

Product->Edit Scheme->Diagnostics-> Click Enable Zombie Objects

Could not create work tree dir 'example.com'.: Permission denied

I was facing same issue then I read first few lines of this question and I realised that I was trying to run command at the root directory of my bash profile instead of CD/my work project folder. I switched back to my work folder and able to clone the project successfully

Column order manipulation using col-lg-push and col-lg-pull in Twitter Bootstrap 3

Misconception Common misconception with column ordering is that, I should (or could) do the pushing and pulling on mobile devices, and that the desktop views should render in the natural order of the markup. This is wrong.

Reality Bootstrap is a mobile first framework. This means that the order of the columns in your HTML markup should represent the order in which you want them displayed on mobile devices. This mean that the pushing and pulling is done on the larger desktop views. not on mobile devices view..

Brandon Schmalz - Full Stack Web Developer Have a look at full description here

How do we determine the number of days for a given month in python

Use calendar.monthrange:

>>> from calendar import monthrange
>>> monthrange(2011, 2)
(1, 28)

Just to be clear, monthrange supports leap years as well:

>>> from calendar import monthrange
>>> monthrange(2012, 2)
(2, 29)

As @mikhail-pyrev mentions in a comment:

First number is weekday of first day of the month, second number is number of days in said month.

How to get index of object by its property in JavaScript?

var index = Data.findIndex(item => item.name == "John")

Which is a simplified version of:

var index = Data.findIndex(function(item){ return item.name == "John"})

From mozilla.org:

The findIndex() method returns the index of the first element in the array that satisfies the provided testing function. Otherwise -1 is returned.