Programs & Examples On #Surrogate pairs

Animate element to auto height with jQuery

you can always do this:

jQuery.fn.animateAuto = function(prop, speed, callback){
var elem, height, width;
return this.each(function(i, el){
    el = jQuery(el), elem = el.clone().css({"height":"auto","width":"auto"}).appendTo("body");
    height = elem.css("height"),
    width = elem.css("width"),
    elem.remove();

    if(prop === "height")
        el.animate({"height":height}, speed, callback);
    else if(prop === "width")
        el.animate({"width":width}, speed, callback);  
    else if(prop === "both")
        el.animate({"width":width,"height":height}, speed, callback);
});  
}

here is a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Zuriel/faE9w/2/

Batch file to map a drive when the folder name contains spaces

I just created some directories, shared them and mapped using:

net use y: "\\mycomputername\folder with spaces"

So this solution gets "works on my machine" certificate. What error code do you get?

The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

Its an issue of extension directory. You need to change php extension directory manually to work this.

If you are using AMPP Server, do the following

Goto settings -> PHP -> Configuration

in php7.3.ini Find, (Versions might change)

extension_dir = "" , (Already having some path)

and change value to

extension_dir = "C:\Program Files\Ampps\php-7.3\ext"

If you are using XAMP

Goto XAMP Settings, Apache -> PHP.ini

Find, extension_dir = in php.ini, and set path of the php extension folder of your local machine. See the below example.

extension_dir = "C:\php\ext" (Check your path properly)

Python threading. How do I lock a thread?

You can see that your locks are pretty much working as you are using them, if you slow down the process and make them block a bit more. You had the right idea, where you surround critical pieces of code with the lock. Here is a small adjustment to your example to show you how each waits on the other to release the lock.

import threading
import time
import inspect

class Thread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, t, *args):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self, target=t, args=args)
        self.start()

count = 0
lock = threading.Lock()

def incre():
    global count
    caller = inspect.getouterframes(inspect.currentframe())[1][3]
    print "Inside %s()" % caller
    print "Acquiring lock"
    with lock:
        print "Lock Acquired"
        count += 1  
        time.sleep(2)  

def bye():
    while count < 5:
        incre()

def hello_there():
    while count < 5:
        incre()

def main():    
    hello = Thread(hello_there)
    goodbye = Thread(bye)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Sample output:

...
Inside hello_there()
Acquiring lock
Lock Acquired
Inside bye()
Acquiring lock
Lock Acquired
...

Importing a long list of constants to a Python file

Python doesn't have a preprocessor, nor does it have constants in the sense that they can't be changed - you can always change (nearly, you can emulate constant object properties, but doing this for the sake of constant-ness is rarely done and not considered useful) everything. When defining a constant, we define a name that's upper-case-with-underscores and call it a day - "We're all consenting adults here", no sane man would change a constant. Unless of course he has very good reasons and knows exactly what he's doing, in which case you can't (and propably shouldn't) stop him either way.

But of course you can define a module-level name with a value and use it in another module. This isn't specific to constants or anything, read up on the module system.

# a.py
MY_CONSTANT = ...

# b.py
import a
print a.MY_CONSTANT

C++ correct way to return pointer to array from function

In a real app, the way you returned the array is called using an out parameter. Of course you don't actually have to return a pointer to the array, because the caller already has it, you just need to fill in the array. It's also common to pass another argument specifying the size of the array so as to not overflow it.

Using an out parameter has the disadvantage that the caller may not know how large the array needs to be to store the result. In that case, you can return a std::vector or similar array class instance.

SQL Server CASE .. WHEN .. IN statement

CASE AlarmEventTransactions.DeviceID should just be CASE.

You are mixing the 2 forms of the CASE expression.

How would I run an async Task<T> method synchronously?

NOTE: I think as best practice is not recommended to change the nature of the action if it is asynchronous the best thing is handling as it is (async all the way). In that way you can get other benefits like parallel processing / multi-threading, etc.

Seeing the other answers did not use this approach, I want to post it here as well:

var customers = GetCustomersAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();

How to access pandas groupby dataframe by key

gb = df.groupby(['A'])

gb_groups = grouped_df.groups

If you are looking for selective groupby objects then, do: gb_groups.keys(), and input desired key into the following key_list..

gb_groups.keys()

key_list = [key1, key2, key3 and so on...]

for key, values in gb_groups.iteritems():
    if key in key_list:
        print df.ix[values], "\n"

Displaying splash screen for longer than default seconds

The simplest way to achieve this is to creat an UIImageView with "Default.png" on the top of your first ViewController's UIView.

And add an Timer to remove the UIImageView after seconds you expected.

How can I write a byte array to a file in Java?

Apache Commons IO Utils has a FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile() method. Note that if you're doing any file/IO work then the Apache Commons IO library will do a lot of work for you.

UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE003 bad major version in WebSphere AS 7

I was getting the same error. In the Project Facets of my Java project, the Java compile level was set to 1.7 whereas the WebSphere Application Server v7.0 had a Runtime Composition of JRE v1.6; setting the Java compile level to 1.6 in Project Facets got rid of the error. I did not have to change the Compiler compliance level though, it's still 1.7. Hope this helps!

invalid use of incomplete type

The reason is that when instantiating a class template, all its declarations (not the definitions) of its member functions are instantiated too. The class template is instantiated precisely when the full definition of a specialization is required. That is the case when it is used as a base class for example, as in your case.

So what happens is that A<B> is instantiated at

class B : public A<B>

at which point B is not a complete type yet (it is after the closing brace of the class definition). However, A<B>::action's declaration requires B to be complete, because it is crawling in the scope of it:

Subclass::mytype

What you need to do is delaying the instantiation to some point at which B is complete. One way of doing this is to modify the declaration of action to make it a member template.

template<typename T>
void action(T var) {
    (static_cast<Subclass*>(this))->do_action(var);
}

It is still type-safe because if var is not of the right type, passing var to do_action will fail.

Java random number with given length

Generate a number in the range from 100000 to 999999.

// pseudo code
int n = 100000 + random_float() * 900000;

For more details see the documentation for Random

How to Install Windows Phone 8 SDK on Windows 7

Here is a link from developer.nokia.com wiki pages, which explains how to install Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator

And another link here

AFAIK, it is not possible to directly install WP8 SDK in Windows 7, because WP8 sdk is VS 2012 supported and also its emulator works on a Hyper-V (which is integrated into the Windows 8).

How to stretch children to fill cross-axis?

  • The children of a row-flexbox container automatically fill the container's vertical space.

  • Specify flex: 1; for a child if you want it to fill the remaining horizontal space:

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.wrapper {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: row;_x000D_
  align-items: stretch;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 5em;_x000D_
  background: #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .left_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #fcc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .right_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #ccf;_x000D_
  flex: 1; _x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="wrapper">_x000D_
  <div class="left">Left</div>_x000D_
  <div class="right">Right</div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

  • Specify flex: 1; for both children if you want them to fill equal amounts of the horizontal space:

_x000D_
_x000D_
.wrapper {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: row;_x000D_
  align-items: stretch;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 5em;_x000D_
  background: #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > div _x000D_
{_x000D_
  flex: 1; _x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .left_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #fcc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .right_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #ccf;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="wrapper">_x000D_
  <div class="left">Left</div>_x000D_
  <div class="right">Right</div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Using pip behind a proxy with CNTLM

Under our security policy I may not use https with pypi, SSL-inspection rewrites certificates, it breaks the built-in security of pip for www.python.org. The man in the middle is the network-admin.

So I need to use plain http. To do so I need to override the system proxy as well as the default pypi:

bin/pip install --proxy=squidproxy:3128 -i http://www.python.org/pypi --upgrade "SQLAlchemy>=0.7.10"

HTML - how can I show tooltip ONLY when ellipsis is activated

You could possibly surround the span with another span, then simply test if the width of the original/inner span is greater than that of the new/outer span. Note that I say possibly -- it is roughly based on my situation where I had a span inside of a td so I don't actually know that if it will work with a span inside of a span.

Here though is my code for others who may find themselves in a position similar to mine; I'm copying/pasting it without modification even though it is in an Angular context, I don't think that detracts from the readability and the essential concept. I coded it as a service method because I needed to apply it in more than one place. The selector I've been passing in has been a class selector that will match multiple instances.

CaseService.applyTooltip = function(selector) {
    angular.element(selector).on('mouseenter', function(){
        var td = $(this)
        var span = td.find('span');

        if (!span.attr('tooltip-computed')) {
            //compute just once
            span.attr('tooltip-computed','1');

            if (span.width() > td.width()){
                span.attr('data-toggle','tooltip');
                span.attr('data-placement','right');
                span.attr('title', span.html());
            }
        }
    });
}

How to remove a package from Laravel using composer?

To remove a package using composer command

composer remove <package>

To install a package using composer command

composer require <package>

To install all packages which are mentioned in composer.json

composer install

To update packages

composer update

I used these for Laravel project

How to configure nginx to enable kinda 'file browser' mode?

Just add this section to server, just before the location / {

location /your/folder/to/browse/ {
        autoindex on;
}

how to call a function from another function in Jquery

wrap you shared code into another function:

<script>
  function myFun () {
      //do something
  }

  $(document).ready(function(){
    //Load City by State
    $(document).on('change', '#billing_state_id', function() {
       myFun ();
    });   
    $(document).on('click', '#click_me', function() {
       //do something
       myFun();
    });   
  });
</script>

onKeyDown event not working on divs in React

You need to write it this way

<div 
    className="player"
    style={{ position: "absolute" }}
    onKeyDown={this.onKeyPressed}
    tabIndex="0"
  >

If onKeyPressed is not bound to this, then try to rewrite it using arrow function or bind it in the component constructor.

How to use multiple databases in Laravel

Actually, DB::connection('name')->select(..) doesnt work for me, because 'name' has to be in double quotes: "name"

Still, the select query is executed on my default connection. Still trying to figure out, how to convince Laravel to work the way it is intended: change the connection.

Edit: I figured it out. After debugging Laravels DatabaseManager it turned out my database.php (config file) (inside $this->app) was wrong. In the section "connections" I had stuff like "database" with values of the one i copied it from. In clear terms, instead of

env('DB_DATABASE', 'name')

I needed to place something like

'myNewName'

since all connections were listed with the same values for the database, username, password, etc. which of course makes little sense if I want to access at least another database name

Therefore, every time I wanted to select something from another database I always ended up in my default database

find -exec with multiple commands

Extending @Tinker's answer,

In my case, I needed to make a command | command | command inside the -exec to print both the filename and the found text in files containing a certain text.

I was able to do it with:

find . -name config -type f \( -exec  grep "bitbucket" {} \; -a -exec echo {} \;  \) 

the result is:

    url = [email protected]:a/a.git
./a/.git/config
    url = [email protected]:b/b.git
./b/.git/config
    url = [email protected]:c/c.git
./c/.git/config

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in

In my case it was a simple type

$_SESSION['role' == 'ge']

I was missing the correct closing bracket

$_SESSION['role'] == 'ge'

AssertContains on strings in jUnit

Another variant is

Assert.assertThat(actual, new Matches(expectedRegex));

Moreover in org.mockito.internal.matchers there are some other interesting matchers, like StartWith, Contains etc.

Array of PHP Objects

Arrays can hold pointers so when I want an array of objects I do that.

$a = array();
$o = new Whatever_Class();
$a[] = &$o;
print_r($a);

This will show that the object is referenced and accessible through the array.

ORA-12528: TNS Listener: all appropriate instances are blocking new connections. Instance "CLRExtProc", status UNKNOWN

You have to know if the problem come from the listener or from the database.

  • So first, restart the listener, it could solve the problem.

  • Second, it could come from the db if it's not in open mode (nomount, mount, restrict). To check it, connect locally and do the following query:

    sqlplus /nolog

    connect / as sysdba

    SQL> select instance_name, status, database_status from v$instance;

Http Servlet request lose params from POST body after read it once

The method getContentAsByteArray() of the Spring class ContentCachingRequestWrapper reads the body multiple times, but the methods getInputStream() and getReader() of the same class do not read the body multiple times:

"This class caches the request body by consuming the InputStream. If we read the InputStream in one of the filters, then other subsequent filters in the filter chain can't read it anymore. Because of this limitation, this class is not suitable in all situations."

In my case more general solution that solved this problem was to add following three classes to my Spring boot project (and the required dependencies to the pom file):

CachedBodyHttpServletRequest.java:

public class CachedBodyHttpServletRequest extends HttpServletRequestWrapper {

    private byte[] cachedBody;

    public CachedBodyHttpServletRequest(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
        super(request);
        InputStream requestInputStream = request.getInputStream();
        this.cachedBody = StreamUtils.copyToByteArray(requestInputStream);
    }

    @Override
    public ServletInputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
        return new CachedBodyServletInputStream(this.cachedBody);
    }

    @Override
    public BufferedReader getReader() throws IOException {
        // Create a reader from cachedContent
        // and return it
        ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(this.cachedBody);
        return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(byteArrayInputStream));
    }
}

CachedBodyServletInputStream.java:

public class CachedBodyServletInputStream extends ServletInputStream {

    private InputStream cachedBodyInputStream;

    public CachedBodyServletInputStream(byte[] cachedBody) {
        this.cachedBodyInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(cachedBody);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isFinished() {
        try {
            return cachedBodyInputStream.available() == 0;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isReady() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void setReadListener(ReadListener readListener) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public int read() throws IOException {
        return cachedBodyInputStream.read();
    }
}

ContentCachingFilter.java:

@Order(value = Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
@Component
@WebFilter(filterName = "ContentCachingFilter", urlPatterns = "/*")
public class ContentCachingFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {

    @Override
    protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse, FilterChain filterChain) throws ServletException, IOException {
        System.out.println("IN  ContentCachingFilter ");
        CachedBodyHttpServletRequest cachedBodyHttpServletRequest = new CachedBodyHttpServletRequest(httpServletRequest);
        filterChain.doFilter(cachedBodyHttpServletRequest, httpServletResponse);
    }
}

I also added the following dependencies to pom:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.10.0</version>
</dependency>

A tuturial and full source code is located here: https://www.baeldung.com/spring-reading-httpservletrequest-multiple-times

LaTeX: Prevent line break in a span of text

\mbox is the simplest answer. Regarding the update:

TeX prefers overlong lines to adding too much space between words on a line; I think the idea is that you will notice the lines that extend into the margin (and the black boxes it inserts after such lines), and will have a chance to revise the contents, whereas if there was too much space, you might not notice it.

Use \sloppy or \begin{sloppypar}...\end{sloppypar} to adjust this behavior, at least a little. Another possibility is \raggedright (or \begin{raggedright}...\end{raggedright}).

How to negate code in "if" statement block in JavaScript -JQuery like 'if not then..'

You can use the Logical NOT ! operator:

if (!$(this).parent().next().is('ul')){

Or equivalently (see comments below):

if (! ($(this).parent().next().is('ul'))){

For more information, see the Logical Operators section of the MDN docs.

Regex Email validation

I found nice document on MSDN for it.

How to: Verify that Strings Are in Valid Email Format http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/01escwtf.aspx (check out that this code also supports the use of non-ASCII characters for Internet domain names.)

There are 2 implementation, for .Net 2.0/3.0 and for .Net 3.5 and higher.
the 2.0/3.0 version is:

bool IsValidEmail(string strIn)
{
    // Return true if strIn is in valid e-mail format.
    return Regex.IsMatch(strIn, @"^([\w-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$"); 
}

My tests over this method give:

Invalid: @majjf.com
Invalid: A@b@[email protected]
Invalid: Abc.example.com
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Invalid: js*@proseware.com
Invalid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Invalid: ma@@jjf.com
Invalid: ma@jjf.
Invalid: [email protected]
Invalid: [email protected]
Invalid: ma_@jjf
Invalid: ma_@jjf.
Valid: [email protected]
Invalid: -------
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Invalid: [email protected]
Valid: j_9@[129.126.118.1]
Valid: [email protected]
Invalid: js#[email protected]
Invalid: [email protected]
Invalid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Invalid: [email protected]
Invalid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]
Valid: [email protected]

Display XML content in HTML page

If you treat the content as text, not HTML, then DOM operations should cause the data to be properly encoded. Here's how you'd do it in jQuery:

$('#container').text(xmlString);

Here's how you'd do it with standard DOM methods:

document.getElementById('container')
        .appendChild(document.createTextNode(xmlString));

If you're placing the XML inside of HTML through server-side scripting, there are bound to be encoding functions to allow you to do that (if you add what your server-side technology is, we can give you specific examples of how you'd do it).

Open button in new window?

I couldn't get your method to work @Damien-at-SF...

So I resorted to my old knowledge.

By encasing the input type="button" within a hyperlink element, you can simply declare the target property as so:

<a href="http://www.site.org" target="_blank">
<input type="button" class="button" value="Open" />
</a>

The 'target="_blank"' is the property which makes the browser open the link within a new tab. This attribute has other properties, See: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp for further details.

Since the 'value=""' attribute on buttons will write the contained string to the button, a span is not necessary.

Instead of writing:

<element></element>

for most HTML elements you can simply close them with a trailing slash, like so:

<element />

Oh, and finally... a 'button' element has a refresh trigger within it, so I use an 'input type[button]' to avoid triggering the form.

Good Luck Programmers.

Due to StackOverflow's policy I had to change the domain in the example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/208963/why-are-certain-example-urls-like-http-site-com-and-http-mysite-com-blocke

PHP convert date format dd/mm/yyyy => yyyy-mm-dd

Do this:

date('Y-m-d', strtotime('dd/mm/yyyy'));

But make sure 'dd/mm/yyyy' is the actual date.

Does PHP have threading?

There is a Threading extension being activley developed based on PThreads that looks very promising at https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads

JQuery $.each() JSON array object iteration

Assign the second variable for the $.each function() as well, makes it lot easier as it'll provide you the data (so you won't have to work with the indicies).

$.each(json, function(arrayID,group) {
            console.log('<a href="'+group.GROUP_ID+'">');
    $.each(group.EVENTS, function(eventID,eventData) {
            console.log('<p>'+eventData.SHORT_DESC+'</p>');
     });
});

Should print out everything you were trying in your question.

http://jsfiddle.net/niklasvh/hZsQS/

edit renamed the variables to make it bit easier to understand what is what.

MySQL - SELECT all columns WHERE one column is DISTINCT

If what your asking is to only show rows that have 1 link for them then you can use the following:

SELECT * FROM posted WHERE link NOT IN 
(SELECT link FROM posted GROUP BY link HAVING COUNT(LINK) > 1)

Again this is assuming that you want to cut out anything that has a duplicate link.

how to check if the input is a number or not in C?

You can use a function like strtol() which will convert a character array to a long.

It has a parameter which is a way to detect the first character that didn't convert properly. If this is anything other than the end of the string, then you have a problem.

See the following program for an example:

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

int main( int argc, char *argv[]) {
    int i;
    long val;
    char *next;

    // Process each argument given.

    for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
        // Get value with failure detection.

        val = strtol (argv[i], &next, 10);

        // Check for empty string and characters left after conversion.

        if ((next == argv[i]) || (*next != '\0')) {
            printf ("'%s' is not valid\n", argv[i]);
        } else {
            printf ("'%s' gives %ld\n", argv[i], val);
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

Running this, you can see it in operation:

pax> testprog hello "" 42 12.2 77x

'hello' is not valid
'' is not valid
'42' gives 42
'12.2' is not valid
'77x' is not valid

SELECT query with CASE condition and SUM()

To get each sum in a separate column:

Select SUM(IF(CPaymentType='Check', CAmount, 0)) as PaymentAmountCheck,
       SUM(IF(CPaymentType='Cash', CAmount, 0)) as PaymentAmountCash
from TableOrderPayment
where CPaymentType IN ('Check','Cash') 
and CDate<=SYSDATETIME() 
and CStatus='Active';

What is the difference between angular-route and angular-ui-router?

ngRoute is a angular core module which is good for basic scenarios. I believe that they will add more powerful features in upcoming releases.

URL: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngRoute

Ui-router is a contributed module which is overcome the problems of ngRoute. Mainly Nested/Complex views.

URL: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router

Some of the difference between ui-router and ngRoute

http://www.amasik.com/angularjs-ngroute-vs-ui-router/

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ImportError: No module named matplotlib.pyplot

I had a similar issue that I resolved and here is my issue:

I set everything up on python3 but I was using python to call my file for example: I was typing "python mnist.py" ...since I have everything on python3 it was thinking I was trying to use python 2.7

The correction: "python3 mnist.py" - the 3 made all the difference

I'm by no means an expert in python or pip, but there is definitely a difference between pip and pip3 (pip is tied to python 2.7) (pip3 is tied to python 3.6)

so when installing for 2.7 do: pip install when installing for 3.6 do: pip3 install

and when running your code for 2.7 do: python when running your code for 3.6 do: python3

I hope this helps someone!

What is the simplest way to write the contents of a StringBuilder to a text file in .NET 1.1?

If you need to write line by line from string builder

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine("New Line!");

using (var sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\MyDir\MyNewTextFile.txt", true))
{
   sw.Write(sb.ToString());
}

If you need to write all text as single line from string builder

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("New Text line!");

using (var sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\MyDir\MyNewTextFile.txt", true))
{
   sw.Write(sb.ToString());
}

What does 'const static' mean in C and C++?

According to C99/GNU99 specification:

  • static

    • is storage-class specifier

    • objects of file level scope by default has external linkage

    • objects of file level scope with static specifier has internal linkage
  • const

    • is type-qualifier (is a part of type)

    • keyword applied to immediate left instance - i.e.

      • MyObj const * myVar; - unqualified pointer to const qualified object type

      • MyObj * const myVar; - const qualified pointer to unqualified object type

    • Leftmost usage - applied to the object type, not variable

      • const MyObj * myVar; - unqualified pointer to const qualified object type

THUS:

static NSString * const myVar; - constant pointer to immutable string with internal linkage.

Absence of the static keyword will make variable name global and might lead to name conflicts within the application.

Alternative to the HTML Bold tag

Use the <strong> tag because it's more semantic. <b> has been depreciated so it's best not to use it. Also bold text is given more Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) weight so it's always best to use a real <strong> rather than making a <p> or <span> bold using CSS.

Converting a view to Bitmap without displaying it in Android?

here is my solution:

public static Bitmap getBitmapFromView(View view) {
    Bitmap returnedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(), view.getHeight(),Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(returnedBitmap);
    Drawable bgDrawable =view.getBackground();
    if (bgDrawable!=null) 
        bgDrawable.draw(canvas);
    else 
        canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
    view.draw(canvas);
    return returnedBitmap;
}

Enjoy :)

Insert PHP code In WordPress Page and Post

You can't use PHP in the WordPress back-end Page editor. Maybe with a plugin you can, but not out of the box.

The easiest solution for this is creating a shortcode. Then you can use something like this

function input_func( $atts ) {
    extract( shortcode_atts( array(
        'type' => 'text',
        'name' => '',
    ), $atts ) );

    return '<input name="' . $name . '" id="' . $name . '" value="' . (isset($_GET\['from'\]) && $_GET\['from'\] ? $_GET\['from'\] : '') . '" type="' . $type . '" />';
}
add_shortcode( 'input', 'input_func' );

See the Shortcode_API.

Node.js Error: connect ECONNREFUSED

Had a similar issue, it turned out the listening port printed was different from what it actually was. Typos in the request string or listening function might make the target server appear to not exist.

How can I copy a conditional formatting from one document to another?

To achieve this you can try below steps:

  1. Copy the cell or column which has the conditional formatting you want to copy.
  2. Go to the desired cell or column (maybe other sheets) where you want to apply conditional formatting.
  3. Open the context menu of the desired cell or column (by right-click on it).
  4. Find the "Paste Special" option which has a sub-menu.
  5. Select the "Paste conditional formatting only" option of the sub-menu and done.

Regex not operator

You could capture the (2001) part and replace the rest with nothing.

public static string extractYearString(string input) {
    return input.replaceAll(".*\(([0-9]{4})\).*", "$1");
}

var subject = "(2001) (asdf) (dasd1123_asd 21.01.2011 zqge)(dzqge) name (20019)";
var result = extractYearString(subject);
System.out.println(result); // <-- "2001"

.*\(([0-9]{4})\).* means

  • .* match anything
  • \( match a ( character
  • ( begin capture
  • [0-9]{4} any single digit four times
  • ) end capture
  • \) match a ) character
  • .* anything (rest of string)

SQLite3 database or disk is full / the database disk image is malformed

Cloning the current database from the sqlite3 commandline worked for me.

.open /path/to/database/corrupted_database.sqlite3
.clone /path/to/database/new_database.sqlite3

In the Django setting file change the database name

DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
    'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'new_database.sqlite3'),
}}

How to implement the --verbose or -v option into a script?

There could be a global variable, likely set with argparse from sys.argv, that stands for whether the program should be verbose or not. Then a decorator could be written such that if verbosity was on, then the standard input would be diverted into the null device as long as the function were to run:

import os
from contextlib import redirect_stdout
verbose = False

def louder(f):
    def loud_f(*args, **kwargs):
        if not verbose:
            with open(os.devnull, 'w') as void:
                with redirect_stdout(void):
                    return f(*args, **kwargs)
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return loud_f

@louder
def foo(s):
    print(s*3)

foo("bar")

This answer is inspired by this code; actually, I was going to just use it as a module in my program, but I got errors I couldn't understand, so I adapted a portion of it.

The downside of this solution is that verbosity is binary, unlike with logging, which allows for finer-tuning of how verbose the program can be. Also, all print calls are diverted, which might be unwanted for.

Jquery check if element is visible in viewport

You can see this example.

// Is this element visible onscreen?
var visible = $(#element).visible( detectPartial );

detectPartial :

  • True : the entire element is visible
  • false : part of the element is visible

visible is boolean variable which indicates if the element is visible or not.

Is Android using NTP to sync time?

I know about Android ICS that it uses a custom service called: NetworkTimeUpdateService. This service also implements a NTP time synchronization via the NtpTrustedTime singleton.

In NtpTrustedTime the default NTP server is requested from the Android system string source:

final Resources res = context.getResources();

final String defaultServer = res.getString(
                                com.android.internal.R.string.config_ntpServer);

If the automatic time sync option in the system settings is checked and no NITZ time service is available then the time will be synchronized with the NTP server from com.android.internal.R.string.config_ntpServer.

To get the value of com.android.internal.R.string.config_ntpServer you can use the following method:

    final Resources res = this.getResources();
    final int id = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier(
                       "config_ntpServer", "string","android");
    final String defaultServer = res.getString(id);

How do I remove  from the beginning of a file?

If you need to be able to remove the BOM from UTF-8 encoded files, you first need to get hold of an editor that is aware of them.

I personally use E Text Editor.

In the bottom right, there are options for character encoding, including the BOM tag. Load your file, deselect Byte Order Marker if it is selected, resave, and it should be done.

Alt text http://oth4.com/encoding.png

E is not free, but there is a free trial, and it is an excellent editor (limited TextMate compatibility).

What to use instead of "addPreferencesFromResource" in a PreferenceActivity?

Instead of using a PreferenceActivity to directly load preferences, use an AppCompatActivity or equivalent that loads a PreferenceFragmentCompat that loads your preferences. It's part of the support library (now Android Jetpack) and provides compatibility back to API 14.

In your build.gradle, add a dependency for the preference support library:

dependencies {
    // ...
    implementation "androidx.preference:preference:1.0.0-alpha1"
}

Note: We're going to assume you have your preferences XML already created.

For your activity, create a new activity class. If you're using material themes, you should extend an AppCompatActivity, but you can be flexible with this:

public class MyPreferencesActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.my_preferences_activity)
        if (savedInstanceState == null) {
            getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                    .replace(R.id.fragment_container, MyPreferencesFragment())
                    .commitNow()
        }
    }
}

Now for the important part: create a fragment that loads your preferences from XML:

public class MyPreferencesFragment extends PreferenceFragmentCompat {

    @Override
    public void onCreatePreferences(Bundle savedInstanceState, String rootKey) {
        setPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.my_preferences_fragment); // Your preferences fragment
    }
}

For more information, read the Android Developers docs for PreferenceFragmentCompat.

Jackson and generic type reference

This is a well-known problem with Java type erasure: T is just a type variable, and you must indicate actual class, usually as Class argument. Without such information, best that can be done is to use bounds; and plain T is roughly same as 'T extends Object'. And Jackson will then bind JSON Objects as Maps.

In this case, tester method needs to have access to Class, and you can construct

JavaType type = mapper.getTypeFactory().
  constructCollectionType(List.class, Foo.class)

and then

List<Foo> list = mapper.readValue(new File("input.json"), type);

How to vertically center a "div" element for all browsers using CSS?

CSS Grid

_x000D_
_x000D_
body, html { margin: 0; }_x000D_
_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  display: grid;_x000D_
  min-height: 100vh;_x000D_
  align-items: center;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div>Div to be aligned vertically</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to check permissions of a specific directory?

This displays files with its permisions

stat -c '%a - %n' directory/*

Google Forms file upload complete example

Update: Google Forms can now upload files. This answer was posted before Google Forms had the capability to upload files.

This solution does not use Google Forms. This is an example of using an Apps Script Web App, which is very different than a Google Form. A Web App is basically a website, but you can't get a domain name for it. This is not a modification of a Google Form, which can't be done to upload a file.

NOTE: I did have an example of both the UI Service and HTML Service, but have removed the UI Service example, because the UI Service is deprecated.

NOTE: The only sandbox setting available is now IFRAME. I you want to use an onsubmit attribute in the beginning form tag: <form onsubmit="myFunctionName()">, it may cause the form to disappear from the screen after the form submission.

If you were using NATIVE mode, your file upload Web App may no longer be working. With NATIVE mode, a form submission would not invoke the default behavior of the page disappearing from the screen. If you were using NATIVE mode, and your file upload form is no longer working, then you may be using a "submit" type button. I'm guessing that you may also be using the "google.script.run" client side API to send data to the server. If you want the page to disappear from the screen after a form submission, you could do that another way. But you may not care, or even prefer to have the page stay on the screen. Depending upon what you want, you'll need to configure the settings and code a certain way.

If you are using a "submit" type button, and want to continue to use it, you can try adding event.preventDefault(); to your code in the submit event handler function. Or you'll need to use the google.script.run client side API.


A custom form for uploading files from a users computer drive, to your Google Drive can be created with the Apps Script HTML Service. This example requires writing a program, but I've provide all the basic code here.

This example shows an upload form with Google Apps Script HTML Service.

What You Need

  • Google Account
  • Google Drive
  • Google Apps Script - also called Google Script

Google Apps Script

There are various ways to end up at the Google Apps Script code editor.

I mention this because if you are not aware of all the possibilities, it could be a little confusing. Google Apps Script can be embedded in a Google Site, Sheets, Docs or Forms, or used as a stand alone app.

Apps Script Overview

This example is a "Stand Alone" app with HTML Service.

HTML Service - Create a web app using HTML, CSS and Javascript

Google Apps Script only has two types of files inside of a Project:

  • Script
  • HTML

Script files have a .gs extension. The .gs code is a server side code written in JavaScript, and a combination of Google's own API.

  • Copy and Paste the following code

  • Save It

  • Create the first Named Version

  • Publish it

  • Set the Permissions

    and you can start using it.

Start by:

  • Create a new Blank Project in Apps Script
  • Copy and Paste in this code:

Upload a file with HTML Service:

Code.gs file (Created by Default)

//For this to work, you need a folder in your Google drive named:
// 'For Web Hosting'
// or change the hard coded folder name to the name of the folder
// you want the file written to

function doGet(e) {
  return HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('Form')
    .evaluate() // evaluate MUST come before setting the Sandbox mode
    .setTitle('Name To Appear in Browser Tab')
    .setSandboxMode();//Defaults to IFRAME which is now the only mode available
}

function processForm(theForm) {
  var fileBlob = theForm.picToLoad;
  
  Logger.log("fileBlob Name: " + fileBlob.getName())
  Logger.log("fileBlob type: " + fileBlob.getContentType())
  Logger.log('fileBlob: ' + fileBlob);

  var fldrSssn = DriveApp.getFolderById(Your Folder ID);
    fldrSssn.createFile(fileBlob);
    
  return true;
}

Create an html file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <base target="_top">
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1 id="main-heading">Main Heading</h1>
    <br/>
    <div id="formDiv">

      <form id="myForm">
    
        <input name="picToLoad" type="file" /><br/>
        <input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="picUploadJs(this.parentNode)" />
          
      </form>
    </div>


  <div id="status" style="display: none">
  <!-- div will be filled with innerHTML after form submission. -->
  Uploading. Please wait...
</div>

</body>
<script>

function picUploadJs(frmData) {

  document.getElementById('status').style.display = 'inline';

  google.script.run
    .withSuccessHandler(updateOutput)
    .processForm(frmData)
};
  // Javascript function called by "submit" button handler,
  // to show results.
  
  function updateOutput() {
  
    var outputDiv = document.getElementById('status');
    outputDiv.innerHTML = "The File was UPLOADED!";
  }

</script>
</html>

This is a full working example. It only has two buttons and one <div> element, so you won't see much on the screen. If the .gs script is successful, true is returned, and an onSuccess function runs. The onSuccess function (updateOutput) injects inner HTML into the div element with the message, "The File was UPLOADED!"

  • Save the file, give the project a name
  • Using the menu: File, Manage Version then Save the first Version
  • Publish, Deploy As Web App then Update

When you run the Script the first time, it will ask for permissions because it's saving files to your drive. After you grant permissions that first time, the Apps Script stops, and won't complete running. So, you need to run it again. The script won't ask for permissions again after the first time.

The Apps Script file will show up in your Google Drive. In Google Drive you can set permissions for who can access and use the script. The script is run by simply providing the link to the user. Use the link just as you would load a web page.

Another example of using the HTML Service can be seen at this link here on StackOverflow:

File Upload with HTML Service

NOTES about deprecated UI Service:

There is a difference between the UI Service, and the Ui getUi() method of the Spreadsheet Class (Or other class) The Apps Script UI Service was deprecated on Dec. 11, 2014. It will continue to work for some period of time, but you are encouraged to use the HTML Service.

Google Documentation - UI Service

Even though the UI Service is deprecated, there is a getUi() method of the spreadsheet class to add custom menus, which is NOT deprecated:

Spreadsheet Class - Get UI method

I mention this because it could be confusing because they both use the terminology UI.

The UI method returns a Ui return type.

You can add HTML to a UI Service, but you can't use a <button>, <input> or <script> tag in the HTML with the UI Service.

Here is a link to a shared Apps Script Web App file with an input form:

Shared File - Contact Form

How does java do modulus calculations with negative numbers?

Modulo arithmetic with negative operands is defined by the language designer, who might leave it to the language implementation, who might defer the definition to the CPU architecture.

I wasn't able to find a Java language definition.
Thanks Ishtar, Java Language Specification for the Remainder Operator % says that the sign of the result is the same as the sign of the numerator.

PHP upload image

<?php

$filename=$_FILES['file']['name'];
$filetype=$_FILES['file']['type'];
if($filetype=='image/jpeg' or $filetype=='image/png' or $filetype=='image/gif')
{
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'],'dir_name/'.$filename);
$filepath="dir_name`enter code here`/".$filename;
}

?> 

create a text file using javascript

From a web page this cannot work since IE restricts the use of that object.

Copy to Clipboard for all Browsers using javascript

I spent a lot of time looking for a solution to this problem too. Here's what i've found thus far:

If you want your users to be able to click on a button and copy some text, you may have to use Flash.

If you want your users to press Ctrl+C anywhere on the page, but always copy xyz to the clipboard, I wrote an all-JS solution in YUI3 (although it could easily be ported to other frameworks, or raw JS if you're feeling particularly self-loathing).

It involves creating a textbox off the screen which gets highlighted as soon as the user hits Ctrl/CMD. When they hit 'C' shortly after, they copy the hidden text. If they hit 'V', they get redirected to a container (of your choice) before the paste event fires.

This method can work well, because while you listen for the Ctrl/CMD keydown anywhere in the body, the 'A', 'C' or 'V' keydown listeners only attach to the hidden text box (and not the whole body). It also doesn't have to break the users expectations - you only get redirected to the hidden box if you had nothing selected to copy anyway!

Here's what i've got working on my site, but check http://at.cg/js/clipboard.js for updates if there are any:

YUI.add('clipboard', function(Y) {


// Change this to the id of the text area you would like to always paste in to:

pasteBox = Y.one('#pasteDIV');


// Make a hidden textbox somewhere off the page.

Y.one('body').append('<input id="copyBox" type="text" name="result" style="position:fixed; top:-20%;" onkeyup="pasteBox.focus()">');
copyBox = Y.one('#copyBox');


// Key bindings for Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc:

// Catch Ctrl/Window/Apple keydown anywhere on the page.
Y.on('key', function(e) {
    copyData();
        //  Uncomment below alert and remove keyCodes after 'down:' to figure out keyCodes for other buttons.
        //  alert(e.keyCode);
        //  }, 'body',  'down:', Y);
}, 'body',  'down:91,224,17', Y);

// Catch V - BUT ONLY WHEN PRESSED IN THE copyBox!!!
Y.on('key', function(e) {
    // Oh no! The user wants to paste, but their about to paste into the hidden #copyBox!!
    // Luckily, pastes happen on keyPress (which is why if you hold down the V you get lots of pastes), and we caught the V on keyDown (before keyPress).
    // Thus, if we're quick, we can redirect the user to the right box and they can unload their paste into the appropriate container. phew.
    pasteBox.select();
}, '#copyBox',  'down:86', Y);

// Catch A - BUT ONLY WHEN PRESSED IN THE copyBox!!!
Y.on('key', function(e) {
    // User wants to select all - but he/she is in the hidden #copyBox! That wont do.. select the pasteBox instead (which is probably where they wanted to be).
    pasteBox.select();
}, '#copyBox',  'down:65', Y);



// What to do when keybindings are fired:

// User has pressed Ctrl/Meta, and is probably about to press A,C or V. If they've got nothing selected, or have selected what you want them to copy, redirect to the hidden copyBox!
function copyData() {
    var txt = '';
    // props to Sabarinathan Arthanari for sharing with the world how to get the selected text on a page, cheers mate!
        if (window.getSelection) { txt = window.getSelection(); }
        else if (document.getSelection) { txt = document.getSelection(); }
        else if (document.selection) { txt = document.selection.createRange().text; }
        else alert('Something went wrong and I have no idea why - please contact me with your browser type (Firefox, Safari, etc) and what you tried to copy and I will fix this immediately!');

    // If the user has nothing selected after pressing Ctrl/Meta, they might want to copy what you want them to copy. 
        if(txt=='') {
                copyBox.select();
        }
    // They also might have manually selected what you wanted them to copy! How unnecessary! Maybe now is the time to tell them how silly they are..?!
        else if (txt == copyBox.get('value')) {
        alert('This site uses advanced copy/paste technology, possibly from the future.\n \nYou do not need to select things manually - just press Ctrl+C! \n \n(Ctrl+V will always paste to the main box too.)');
                copyBox.select();
        } else {
                // They also might have selected something completely different! If so, let them. It's only fair.
        }
}
});

Hope someone else finds this useful :]

How to get a jqGrid selected row cells value

First you can get the rowid of the selected row with respect of getGridParam method and 'selrow' as the parameter and then you can use getCell to get the cell value from the corresponding column:

var myGrid = $('#list'),
    selRowId = myGrid.jqGrid ('getGridParam', 'selrow'),
    celValue = myGrid.jqGrid ('getCell', selRowId, 'columnName');

The 'columnName' should be the same name which you use in the 'name' property of the colModel. If you need values from many column of the selected row you can use getRowData instead of getCell.

LaTeX package for syntax highlighting of code in various languages

You can use the listings package. It supports many different languages and there are lots of options for customising the output.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}

\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=html]
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Hello</title>
    </head>
    <body>Hello</body>
</html>
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

C read file line by line

In your readLine function, you return a pointer to the line array (Strictly speaking, a pointer to its first character, but the difference is irrelevant here). Since it's an automatic variable (i.e., it's “on the stack”), the memory is reclaimed when the function returns. You see gibberish because printf has put its own stuff on the stack.

You need to return a dynamically allocated buffer from the function. You already have one, it's lineBuffer; all you have to do is truncate it to the desired length.

    lineBuffer[count] = '\0';
    realloc(lineBuffer, count + 1);
    return lineBuffer;
}

ADDED (response to follow-up question in comment): readLine returns a pointer to the characters that make up the line. This pointer is what you need to work with the contents of the line. It's also what you must pass to free when you've finished using the memory taken by these characters. Here's how you might use the readLine function:

char *line = readLine(file);
printf("LOG: read a line: %s\n", line);
if (strchr(line, 'a')) { puts("The line contains an a"); }
/* etc. */
free(line);
/* After this point, the memory allocated for the line has been reclaimed.
   You can't use the value of `line` again (though you can assign a new value
   to the `line` variable if you want). */

Java ResultSet how to check if there are any results

I think the easiest way for checking result set is via CollectionUtils under package org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils

if(CollectionUtils.isNotEmpty(resultList)){
  /**
  * do some stuff
  */
}

This will check for null as well as empty result set condition.

For more detail information you can refer to the following doc. CollectionUtils

Convert string to date in Swift

just Step 1 > get the String value from JSON or dataSource

Step 2 > create a local variable and assign it.

let startDate = CurrentDashBoard.startdate

Step 3> create an instance of DateFormatter.

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()

step 4> call the dateFormat from dateFormatter and provide saved date dataType.

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss"("may be String formate")

step 5> Assign the Local variable to this variable to convert.

let dateFromStringstartDate : NSDate = dateFormatter.date(from: startDate)! as NSDate

Step 6> provide your required date Formate by the following code.

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"

Step 6> Assign it to label/text

cell.lblStartDate.text = String(format: "%@", strstartDate)

Code:

let startDate = CurrentDashBoard.startdate let dateFormatter = DateFormatter() 
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss" let dateFromStringstartDate : 
NSDate = dateFormatter.date(from: startDate)! as NSDate
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"
let strstartDate = dateFormatter.string(from: dateFromStringstartDate as Date)

Android, How can I Convert String to Date?

From String to Date

String dtStart = "2010-10-15T09:27:37Z";  
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");  
try {  
    Date date = format.parse(dtStart);  
    System.out.println(date);  
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();  
}

From Date to String

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");  
try {  
    Date date = new Date();  
    String dateTime = dateFormat.format(date);
    System.out.println("Current Date Time : " + dateTime); 
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();  
}

jQuery add image inside of div tag

var img;
for (var i = 0; i < jQuery('.MulImage').length; i++) {
                var imgsrc = jQuery('.MulImage')[i];
                var CurrentImgSrc = imgsrc.src;
                img = jQuery('<img class="dynamic" style="width:100%;">');
                img.attr('src', CurrentImgSrc);
                jQuery('.YourDivClass').append(img);

            }

Pass data to layout that are common to all pages

There's another way to handle this. Maybe not the cleanest way from an architectural point of view, but it avoids a lot of pain involved with the other answers. Simply inject a service in the Razor layout and then call a method that gets the necessary data:

@inject IService myService

Then later in the layout view:

@if (await myService.GetBoolValue()) {
   // Good to go...
}

Again, not clean in terms of architecture (obviously the service shouldn't be injected directly in the view), but it gets the job done.

Call a function after previous function is complete

If you're using jQuery 1.5 you can use the new Deferreds pattern:

$('a.button').click(function(){
    if(condition == 'true'){
        $.when(function1()).then(function2());
    }
    else {
        doThis(someVariable);
    }
});

Edit: Updated blog link:

Rebecca Murphy had a great write-up on this here: http://rmurphey.com/blog/2010/12/25/deferreds-coming-to-jquery/

How to include scripts located inside the node_modules folder?

If you want a quick and easy solution (and you have gulp installed).

In my gulpfile.js I run a simple copy paste task that puts any files I might need into ./public/modules/ directory.

gulp.task('modules', function() {
    sources = [
      './node_modules/prismjs/prism.js',
      './node_modules/prismjs/themes/prism-dark.css',
    ]
    gulp.src( sources ).pipe(gulp.dest('./public/modules/'));
});

gulp.task('copy-modules', ['modules']);

The downside to this is that it isn't automated. However, if all you need is a few scripts and styles copied over (and kept in a list), this should do the job.

Does Notepad++ show all hidden characters?

For non-printing characters, you can do the following:

  • if you could identify the character, where cursor takes 2 arrow keys to move, just select that character.
  • do Ctrl-F
  • now you can count or replace or even mark all such characters

Declare variable in SQLite and use it

For a read-only variable (that is, a constant value set once and used anywhere in the query), use a Common Table Expression (CTE).

WITH const AS (SELECT 'name' AS name, 10 AS more)
SELECT table.cost, (table.cost + const.more) AS newCost
FROM table, const 
WHERE table.name = const.name

SQLite WITH clause

How to click a browser button with JavaScript automatically?

document.getElementById('youridhere').click()

Where can I download JSTL jar

You can downlod JSTL jar from this link

http://findjar.com/jar/javax/servlet/jstl/1.2/jstl-1.2.jar.html

Passing arguments to "make run"

This question is almost three years old, but anyway...

If you're using GNU make, this is easy to do. The only problem is that make will interpret non-option arguments in the command line as targets. The solution is to turn them into do-nothing targets, so make won't complain:

# If the first argument is "run"...
ifeq (run,$(firstword $(MAKECMDGOALS)))
  # use the rest as arguments for "run"
  RUN_ARGS := $(wordlist 2,$(words $(MAKECMDGOALS)),$(MAKECMDGOALS))
  # ...and turn them into do-nothing targets
  $(eval $(RUN_ARGS):;@:)
endif

prog: # ...
    # ...

.PHONY: run
run : prog
    @echo prog $(RUN_ARGS)

Running this gives:

$ make run foo bar baz
prog foo bar baz

Why are my PowerShell scripts not running?

import-module IISAdministration;

function StartSite{
    param($sitename)
    try{
        Start-IISSite -Name $sitename;
        Write-Host "Site was started";
    }
    catch{
        Write-Error "Error while staring the IISSite";
    }
}

function StopSite{
    param($sitename)
    try{
        Stop-IISSite -Name $sitename -confirm:$False; # Supress interaction inputs
        Write-Host "Site was stopped";
    }
    catch{
            Write-Error "Error while stopping the IISSite";
    }
}
function ReplaceSiteFiles{
    try{
        Get-ChildItem -Path A:\APPS\CreditApp -Recurse | Foreach-Object {Remove-Item -Recurse -Path $_.FullName} # Remove file from AppPool Directory
        Expand-Archive A:\Staging\LTA\Installers\CreditApp\CreditApp.zip -DestinationPath A:\APPS\ # Extract files from zip
        Write-Host "Site files replaced successfully!";
    }
    catch [System.SystemException]{
        Write-Host "Error while replacing the site files";
        Write-Host $_
    }
}

## Start Here
$site=Get-IISSite -Name "Default Web Site";

Write-Host $site

if($site.length -eq 1){

    $siteState = $site.state;
    Write-Host "The Site Exists with state: ${siteState}";

    switch ($siteState)
    {
        'started' { 
                    StopSite -sitename $site.name;
                    ReplaceSiteFiles;
                    StartSite -sitename $site.name;
                    
                  }
        'stopped' { 
                    ReplaceSiteFiles;
                    StartSite -sitename $site.name;
                  }
        default { "Deployment failed! Site state could not be determined.";}
    }    
}

else{
    Write-Error "Invalid! Site does not exists";
}

##  End Here

Making a DateTime field in a database automatic?

Just right click on that column and select properties and write getdate()in Default value or binding.like image:

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If you want do it in CodeFirst in EF you should add this attributes befor of your column definition:

[Databasegenerated(Databaseoption.computed)]

this attributes can found in System.ComponentModel.Dataannotion.Schema.

In my opinion first one is better:))

Escape dot in a regex range

If you using JavaScript to test your Regex, try \\. instead of \..

It acts on the same way because JS remove first backslash.

Can you create nested WITH clauses for Common Table Expressions?

I was trying to measure the time between events with the exception of what one entry that has multiple processes between the start and end. I needed this in the context of other single line processes.

I used a select with an inner join as my select statement within the Nth cte. The second cte I needed to extract the start date on X and end date on Y and used 1 as an id value to left join to put them on a single line.

Works for me, hope this helps.

cte_extract
as 
(
    select ps.Process as ProcessEvent
        , ps.ProcessStartDate 
        , ps.ProcessEndDate 
        -- select strt.*
    from dbo.tbl_some_table ps 
    inner join (select max(ProcessStatusId) ProcessStatusId 
                    from dbo.tbl_some_table 
                where Process = 'some_extract_tbl' 
                and convert(varchar(10), ProcessStartDate, 112) < '29991231'
                ) strt on strt.ProcessStatusId = ps.ProcessStatusID
), 
cte_rls
as 
(
    select 'Sample' as ProcessEvent, 
     x.ProcessStartDate, y.ProcessEndDate  from (
    select 1 as Id, ps.Process as ProcessEvent
        , ps.ProcessStartDate 
        , ps.ProcessEndDate
        -- select strt.*
    from dbo.tbl_some_table ps 
    inner join (select max(ProcessStatusId) ProcessStatusId 
                    from dbo.tbl_some_table 
                where Process = 'XX Prcss' 
                and convert(varchar(10), ProcessStartDate, 112) < '29991231'
                ) strt on strt.ProcessStatusId = ps.ProcessStatusID
    ) x
    left join (
        select 1 as Id, ps.Process as ProcessEvent
            , ps.ProcessStartDate 
            , ps.ProcessEndDate
            -- select strt.*
        from dbo.tbl_some_table ps 
        inner join (select max(ProcessStatusId) ProcessStatusId
                    from dbo.tbl_some_table 
                    where Process = 'YY Prcss Cmpltd' 
                    and convert(varchar(10), ProcessEndDate, 112) < '29991231'
                    ) enddt on enddt.ProcessStatusId = ps.ProcessStatusID
            ) y on y.Id = x.Id 
),

.... other ctes

How To Use DateTimePicker In WPF?

For the controls embedded in WPF Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0, please refer http://elegantcode.com/2011/04/08/extended-wpf-toolkit-release-1-4-0/

For Calendar & DatePicker Walkthrough please refer, http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-35sp1-toolkit-calendar-datepicker-walkthrough.aspx

And you can cutomize the look and feel by Microsoft Expression Studio [Use Edit Template option] Sample shows here:

Add following namespaces to xaml page

xmlns:toolkit="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls;assembly=WPFToolkit.Extended"
xmlns:Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Core_Converters="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Core.Converters;assembly=WPFToolkit.Extended" 
xmlns:Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Chromes="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Chromes;assembly=WPFToolkit.Extended"

Add followings to Page/Window resources

<!--DateTimePicker Customized Style-->
        <Style x:Key="DateTimePickerStyle1" TargetType="{x:Type toolkit:DateTimePicker}">
            <Setter Property="TimeWatermarkTemplate">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <ContentControl Content="{Binding}" Foreground="Gray" Focusable="False"/>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
            <Setter Property="WatermarkTemplate">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <ContentControl Content="{Binding}" Foreground="Gray" Focusable="False"/>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type toolkit:DateTimePicker}">
                        <Border>
                            <Grid>
                                <Grid>
                                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
                                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

                                    <toolkit:DateTimeUpDown AllowSpin="{TemplateBinding AllowSpin}" 
                                                                  BorderThickness="1,1,0,1" 
                                                                  FormatString="{TemplateBinding FormatString}" 
                                                                  Format="{TemplateBinding Format}" 
                                                                  ShowButtonSpinner="{TemplateBinding ShowButtonSpinner}" 
                                                                  Value="{Binding Value, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" 
                                                                  WatermarkTemplate="{TemplateBinding WatermarkTemplate}" 
                                                                  Watermark="{TemplateBinding Watermark}" 
                                                                  Foreground="#FFEFE3E3" 
                                                                  BorderBrush="#FFEBB31A">
                                        <toolkit:DateTimeUpDown.Background>
                                            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
                                                <GradientStop Color="Black" Offset="0"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FF2F2828" Offset="1"/>
                                            </LinearGradientBrush>
                                        </toolkit:DateTimeUpDown.Background>
                                    </toolkit:DateTimeUpDown>

                                    <ToggleButton x:Name="_calendarToggleButton" 
                                                  Background="{x:Null}" Grid.Column="1" IsChecked="{Binding IsOpen, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}">
                                        <ToggleButton.IsHitTestVisible>
                                            <Binding Path="IsOpen" RelativeSource="{RelativeSource TemplatedParent}">
                                                <Binding.Converter>
                                                    <Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Core_Converters:InverseBoolConverter/>
                                                </Binding.Converter>
                                            </Binding>
                                        </ToggleButton.IsHitTestVisible>
                                        <ToggleButton.Style>
                                            <Style TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
                                                <Setter Property="Template">
                                                    <Setter.Value>
                                                        <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
                                                            <Grid SnapsToDevicePixels="True">
                                                                <Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Chromes:ButtonChrome x:Name="ToggleButtonChrome" CornerRadius="0,2.75,2.75,0" InnerCornerRadius="0,1.75,1.75,0" RenderMouseOver="{TemplateBinding IsMouseOver}" RenderPressed="{TemplateBinding IsPressed}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}">
                                                                    <Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Chromes:ButtonChrome.Background>
                                                                        <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" MappingMode="RelativeToBoundingBox" StartPoint="0.5,0">
                                                                            <GradientStop Color="#FFF3F3F3" Offset="1"/>
                                                                            <GradientStop Color="#7FC0A112"/>
                                                                        </LinearGradientBrush>
                                                                    </Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Chromes:ButtonChrome.Background>
                                                                </Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Chromes:ButtonChrome>
                                                                <Grid>
                                                                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                                                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
                                                                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                                                    <ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}" Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" ContentStringFormat="{TemplateBinding ContentStringFormat}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"/>
                                                                    <Grid x:Name="arrowGlyph" Grid.Column="1" IsHitTestVisible="False" Margin="5">
                                                                        <Path Data="M0,1C0,1 0,0 0,0 0,0 3,0 3,0 3,0 3,1 3,1 3,1 4,1 4,1 4,1 4,0 4,0 4,0 7,0 7,0 7,0 7,1 7,1 7,1 6,1 6,1 6,1 6,2 6,2 6,2 5,2 5,2 5,2 5,3 5,3 5,3 4,3 4,3 4,3 4,4 4,4 4,4 3,4 3,4 3,4 3,3 3,3 3,3 2,3 2,3 2,3 2,2 2,2 2,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,1 1,1 1,1 0,1 0,1z" Fill="#FF82E511" Height="4" Width="7"/>
                                                                    </Grid>
                                                                </Grid>
                                                            </Grid>
                                                        </ControlTemplate>
                                                    </Setter.Value>
                                                </Setter>
                                            </Style>
                                        </ToggleButton.Style>
                                    </ToggleButton>
                                </Grid>

                                <Popup IsOpen="{Binding IsChecked, ElementName=_calendarToggleButton}" StaysOpen="False">
                                    <Border BorderThickness="1" Padding="3">
                                        <Border.BorderBrush>
                                            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FFA3AEB9" Offset="0"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FF8399A9" Offset="0.375"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FF718597" Offset="0.375"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FFD2C217" Offset="1"/>
                                            </LinearGradientBrush>
                                        </Border.BorderBrush>
                                        <Border.Background>
                                            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0,1" StartPoint="0,0">
                                                <GradientStop Color="White" Offset="0"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FFE9B116" Offset="1"/>
                                            </LinearGradientBrush>
                                        </Border.Background>
                                        <StackPanel Background="{x:Null}">
                                            <Calendar x:Name="Part_Calendar" BorderThickness="0" DisplayDate="2011-06-28" Background="#7FE0B41A"/>
                                            <toolkit:TimePicker x:Name="Part_TimeUpDown" Format="ShortTime" Value="{Binding Value, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" WatermarkTemplate="{TemplateBinding TimeWatermarkTemplate}" Watermark="{TemplateBinding TimeWatermark}" Background="{x:Null}" Style="{DynamicResource TimePickerStyle1}"/>
                                        </StackPanel>
                                    </Border>
                                </Popup>
                            </Grid>
                        </Border>
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
        </Style>

        <Style x:Key="TimePickerStyle1" 
               TargetType="{x:Type toolkit:TimePicker}">
            <Setter Property="WatermarkTemplate">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <ContentControl Content="{Binding}" Foreground="Gray" Focusable="False"/>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type toolkit:TimePicker}">
                        <Border>
                            <Grid>
                                <Grid>
                                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
                                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                    <Grid>
                                        <toolkit:DateTimeUpDown x:Name="PART_TimeUpDown" AllowSpin="{TemplateBinding AllowSpin}" BorderThickness="1,1,0,1" FormatString="{TemplateBinding FormatString}" ShowButtonSpinner="{TemplateBinding ShowButtonSpinner}" Value="{Binding Value, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" WatermarkTemplate="{TemplateBinding WatermarkTemplate}" Watermark="{TemplateBinding Watermark}" Background="#7FE0B41A" BorderBrush="#FFF9F2F2">
                                            <toolkit:DateTimeUpDown.Format>
                                                <TemplateBinding Property="Format">
                                                    <TemplateBinding.Converter>
                                                        <Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Core_Converters:TimeFormatToDateTimeFormatConverter/>
                                                    </TemplateBinding.Converter>
                                                </TemplateBinding>
                                            </toolkit:DateTimeUpDown.Format>
                                        </toolkit:DateTimeUpDown>
                                    </Grid>
                                    <ToggleButton x:Name="_timePickerToggleButton" Grid.Column="1" IsChecked="{Binding IsOpen, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" >
                                        <ToggleButton.IsHitTestVisible>
                                            <Binding Path="IsOpen" RelativeSource="{RelativeSource TemplatedParent}">
                                                <Binding.Converter>
                                                    <Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Core_Converters:InverseBoolConverter/>
                                                </Binding.Converter>
                                            </Binding>
                                        </ToggleButton.IsHitTestVisible>
                                        <ToggleButton.Style>
                                            <Style TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
                                                <Setter Property="Template">
                                                    <Setter.Value>
                                                        <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
                                                            <Grid SnapsToDevicePixels="True">
                                                                <Microsoft_Windows_Controls_Chromes:ButtonChrome x:Name="ToggleButtonChrome" CornerRadius="0,2.75,2.75,0" InnerCornerRadius="0,1.75,1.75,0" RenderMouseOver="{TemplateBinding IsMouseOver}" RenderPressed="{TemplateBinding IsPressed}"/>
                                                                <Grid>
                                                                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                                                                        <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
                                                                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                                                    <ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}" Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" ContentStringFormat="{TemplateBinding ContentStringFormat}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"/>
                                                                    <Grid x:Name="arrowGlyph" Grid.Column="1" IsHitTestVisible="False" Margin="5">
                                                                        <Path Data="M0,1C0,1 0,0 0,0 0,0 3,0 3,0 3,0 3,1 3,1 3,1 4,1 4,1 4,1 4,0 4,0 4,0 7,0 7,0 7,0 7,1 7,1 7,1 6,1 6,1 6,1 6,2 6,2 6,2 5,2 5,2 5,2 5,3 5,3 5,3 4,3 4,3 4,3 4,4 4,4 4,4 3,4 3,4 3,4 3,3 3,3 3,3 2,3 2,3 2,3 2,2 2,2 2,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,1 1,1 1,1 0,1 0,1z" Fill="Black" Height="4" Width="7"/>
                                                                    </Grid>
                                                                </Grid>
                                                            </Grid>
                                                        </ControlTemplate>
                                                    </Setter.Value>
                                                </Setter>
                                            </Style>
                                        </ToggleButton.Style>
                                    </ToggleButton>
                                </Grid>

                                <Popup IsOpen="{Binding IsChecked, ElementName=_timePickerToggleButton}" StaysOpen="False">
                                    <Border BorderThickness="1">
                                        <Border.Background>
                                            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0,1" StartPoint="0,0">
                                                <GradientStop Color="White" Offset="0"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FFE7C857" Offset="1"/>
                                            </LinearGradientBrush>
                                        </Border.Background>
                                        <Border.BorderBrush>
                                            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FFA3AEB9" Offset="0"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FF8399A9" Offset="0.375"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FF718597" Offset="0.375"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FF617584" Offset="1"/>
                                            </LinearGradientBrush>
                                        </Border.BorderBrush>

                                        <Grid>
                                            <ListBox x:Name="PART_TimeListItems" BorderThickness="0" DisplayMemberPath="Display" Height="130" Width="150" Background="#7FE0B41A">
                                                <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
                                                    <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}">
                                                        <Setter Property="Template">
                                                            <Setter.Value>
                                                                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}">
                                                                    <Border x:Name="Border" SnapsToDevicePixels="True">
                                                                        <ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}" Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" ContentStringFormat="{TemplateBinding ContentStringFormat}" Margin="4"/>
                                                                    </Border>
                                                                    <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                                                                        <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">
                                                                            <Setter Property="Background" TargetName="Border" Value="#FFE7F5FD"/>
                                                                        </Trigger>
                                                                        <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                                                                            <Setter Property="Background" TargetName="Border" Value="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}}"/>
                                                                            <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/>
                                                                        </Trigger>
                                                                    </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                                                                </ControlTemplate>
                                                            </Setter.Value>
                                                        </Setter>
                                                    </Style>
                                                </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
                                            </ListBox>
                                        </Grid>
                                    </Border>
                                </Popup>
                            </Grid>
                        </Border>
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
        </Style>

And in Window you can use the style as

Thanks,

How to view/delete local storage in Firefox?

There is now a great plugin for Firebug that clones this nice feature in chrome. Check out:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firestorage-plus/

It's developed by Nick Belhomme and updated regularly

Linq to Entities join vs groupjoin

Let's suppose you have two different classes:

public class Person
{
    public string Name, Email;
    
    public Person(string name, string email)
    {
        Name = name;
        Email = email;
    }
}
class Data
{
    public string Mail, SlackId;
    
    public Data(string mail, string slackId)
    {
        Mail = mail;
        SlackId = slackId;
    }
}

Now, let's Prepare data to work with:

var people = new Person[]
    {
        new Person("Sudi", "[email protected]"),
        new Person("Simba", "[email protected]"),
        new Person("Sarah", string.Empty)
    };
    
    var records = new Data[]
    {
        new Data("[email protected]", "Sudi_Try"),
        new Data("[email protected]", "Sudi@Test"),
        new Data("[email protected]", "SimbaLion")
    };

You will note that [email protected] has got two slackIds. I have made that for demonstrating how Join works.

Let's now construct the query to join Person with Data:

var query = people.Join(records,
        x => x.Email,
        y => y.Mail,
        (person, record) => new { Name = person.Name, SlackId = record.SlackId});
    Console.WriteLine(query);

After constructing the query, you could also iterate over it with a foreach like so:

foreach (var item in query)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"{item.Name} has Slack ID {item.SlackId}");
    }

Let's also output the result for GroupJoin:

Console.WriteLine(
    
        people.GroupJoin(
            records,
            x => x.Email,
            y => y.Mail,
            (person, recs) => new {
                Name = person.Name,
                SlackIds = recs.Select(r => r.SlackId).ToArray() // You could materialize //whatever way you want.
            }
        ));

You will notice that the GroupJoin will put all SlackIds in a single group.

How to wrap text around an image using HTML/CSS

With CSS Shapes you can go one step further than just float text around a rectangular image.

You can actually wrap text such that it takes the shape of the edge of the image or polygon that you are wrapping it around.

DEMO FIDDLE (Currently working on webkit - caniuse)

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  width: 400px;_x000D_
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  color: #111;_x000D_
  border-radius: 50%;_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
  font-size: 90px;_x000D_
  float: left;_x000D_
  shape-outside: ellipse();_x000D_
  padding: 10px;_x000D_
  background-color: MediumPurple;_x000D_
  background-clip: content-box;_x000D_
}_x000D_
span {_x000D_
  padding-top: 70px;_x000D_
  display: inline-block;_x000D_
}
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<div class="oval"><span>PHP</span>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has_x000D_
  survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing_x000D_
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  of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing_x000D_
  Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy_x000D_
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Also, here is a good list apart article on CSS Shapes

Execute PowerShell Script from C# with Commandline Arguments

Mine is a bit more smaller and simpler:

/// <summary>
/// Runs a PowerShell script taking it's path and parameters.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="scriptFullPath">The full file path for the .ps1 file.</param>
/// <param name="parameters">The parameters for the script, can be null.</param>
/// <returns>The output from the PowerShell execution.</returns>
public static ICollection<PSObject> RunScript(string scriptFullPath, ICollection<CommandParameter> parameters = null)
{
    var runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();
    runspace.Open();
    var pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline();
    var cmd = new Command(scriptFullPath);
    if (parameters != null)
    {
        foreach (var p in parameters)
        {
            cmd.Parameters.Add(p);
        }
    }
    pipeline.Commands.Add(cmd);
    var results = pipeline.Invoke();
    pipeline.Dispose();
    runspace.Dispose();
    return results;
}

Executing JavaScript after X seconds

I believe you are looking for the setTimeout function.

To make your code a little neater, define a separate function for onclick in a <script> block:

function myClick() {
  setTimeout(
    function() {
      document.getElementById('div1').style.display='none';
      document.getElementById('div2').style.display='none';
    }, 5000);
}

then call your function from onclick

onclick="myClick();"

How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?

You are trying to solve the wrong problem.

Solution 1: Each time you put dirty socks in your laundry basket, tie them in a little knot. That way you will not have to do any sorting after the washing. Think of it like registering an index in a Mongo database. A little work ahead for some CPU savings in the future.

Solution 2: If it's winter, you don't have to wear matching socks. We are programmers. Nobody needs to know, as long as it works.

Solution 3: Spread the work. You want to perform such a complex CPU process asynchronously, without blocking the UI. Take that pile of socks and stuff them in a bag. Only look for a pair when you need it. That way the amount of work it takes is much less noticeable.

Hope this helps!

How can prepared statements protect from SQL injection attacks?

The key phrase is need not be correctly escaped. That means that you don't to worry about people trying to throw in dashes, apostrophes, quotes, etc...

It is all handled for you.

Bootstrap modal in React.js

Just add href='#scheduleentry-modal' to the element you want to open the modal with

Or using jQuery: $('#scheduleentry-modal').modal('show');

What exactly does Perl's "bless" do?

bless associates a reference with a package.

It doesn't matter what the reference is to, it can be to a hash (most common case), to an array (not so common), to a scalar (usually this indicates an inside-out object), to a regular expression, subroutine or TYPEGLOB (see the book Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques by Damian Conway for useful examples) or even a reference to a file or directory handle (least common case).

The effect bless-ing has is that it allows you to apply special syntax to the blessed reference.

For example, if a blessed reference is stored in $obj (associated by bless with package "Class"), then $obj->foo(@args) will call a subroutine foo and pass as first argument the reference $obj followed by the rest of the arguments (@args). The subroutine should be defined in package "Class". If there is no subroutine foo in package "Class", a list of other packages (taken form the array @ISA in the package "Class") will be searched and the first subroutine foo found will be called.

String is immutable. What exactly is the meaning?

String is immutable it means that,the content of the String Object can't be change, once it is created. If you want to modify the content then you can go for StringBuffer/StringBuilder instead of String. StringBuffer and StringBuilder are mutable classes.

Pass multiple complex objects to a post/put Web API method

Late answer, but you can take advantage of the fact that you can deserialize multiple objects from one JSON string, as long as the objects don't share any common property names,

    public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Post(HttpRequestMessage request)
    {
        var jsonString = await request.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        var content  = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Content >(jsonString);
        var config  = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Config>(jsonString);
    }

Finding the index of elements based on a condition using python list comprehension

Even if it's a late answer: I think this is still a very good question and IMHO Python (without additional libraries or toolkits like numpy) is still lacking a convenient method to access the indices of list elements according to a manually defined filter.

You could manually define a function, which provides that functionality:

def indices(list, filtr=lambda x: bool(x)):
    return [i for i,x in enumerate(list) if filtr(x)]

print(indices([1,0,3,5,1], lambda x: x==1))

Yields: [0, 4]

In my imagination the perfect way would be making a child class of list and adding the indices function as class method. In this way only the filter method would be needed:

class MyList(list):
    def __init__(self, *args):
        list.__init__(self, *args)
    def indices(self, filtr=lambda x: bool(x)):
        return [i for i,x in enumerate(self) if filtr(x)]

my_list = MyList([1,0,3,5,1])
my_list.indices(lambda x: x==1)

I elaborated a bit more on that topic here: http://tinyurl.com/jajrr87

Is there any difference between "!=" and "<>" in Oracle Sql?

At university we were taught 'best practice' was to use != when working for employers, though all the operators above have the same functionality.

Is there a Pattern Matching Utility like GREP in Windows?

PowerShell (included as standard on Windows 7/2008R2, optional for XP/2003/Vista/2008) which includes the select-string cmdlet for this purpose.

align images side by side in html

I suggest to use a container for each img p like this:

<div class="image123">
    <div style="float:left;margin-right:5px;">
        <img src="/images/tv.gif" height="200" width="200"  />
        <p style="text-align:center;">This is image 1</p>
    </div>
    <div style="float:left;margin-right:5px;">
        <img class="middle-img" src="/images/tv.gif/" height="200" width="200" />
        <p style="text-align:center;">This is image 2</p>
    </div>
    <div style="float:left;margin-right:5px;">
        <img src="/images/tv.gif/" height="200" width="200" />
        <p style="text-align:center;">This is image 3</p>
    </div>
</div>

Then apply float:left to each container. I add and 5px margin right so there is a space between each image. Also alway close your elements. Maybe in html img tag is not important to close but in XHTML is.

fiddle

Also a friendly advice. Try to avoid inline styles as much as possible. Take a look here:

html

<div class="image123">
    <div>
        <img src="/images/tv.gif" />
        <p>This is image 1</p>
    </div>
    <div>
        <img class="middle-img" src="/images/tv.gif/" />
        <p>This is image 2</p>
    </div>
    <div>
        <img src="/images/tv.gif/" />
        <p>This is image 3</p>
    </div>
</div>

css

div{
    float:left;
    margin-right:5px;
}

div > img{
   height:200px;
    width:200px;
}

p{
    text-align:center;
}

It's generally recommended that you use linked style sheets because:

  • They can be cached by browsers for performance
  • Generally a lot easier to maintain for a development perspective

source

fiddle

Excel VBA: function to turn activecell to bold

A UDF will only return a value it won't allow you to change the properties of a cell/sheet/workbook. Move your code to a Worksheet_Change event or similar to change properties.

Eg

Private Sub worksheet_change(ByVal target As Range)
  target.Font.Bold = True
End Sub

In Oracle, is it possible to INSERT or UPDATE a record through a view?

Oracle has two different ways of making views updatable:-

  1. The view is "key preserved" with respect to what you are trying to update. This means the primary key of the underlying table is in the view and the row appears only once in the view. This means Oracle can figure out exactly which underlying table row to update OR
  2. You write an instead of trigger.

I would stay away from instead-of triggers and get your code to update the underlying tables directly rather than through the view.

How-to turn off all SSL checks for postman for a specific site

enter image description here

This steps are used in spring boot with self signed ssl certificate implementation

if SSL turns off then HTTPS call will be worked as expected.

https://localhost:8443/test/hello

These are the steps we have to follow,

  1. Generate self signed ssl certificate
keytool -genkeypair -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -storetype PKCS12 -keystore keystore.p12 -validity 3650

after key generation has done then copy that file in to the resource foder in your project

  1. add key store properties in applicaiton.properties
server.port: 8443
server.ssl.key-store:classpath:keystore.p12
server.ssl.key-store-password: test123
server.ssl.keyStoreType: PKCS12
server.ssl.keyAlias: tomcat
  1. change your postman ssl verification settings to turn OFF

now verify the url: https://localhost:8443/test/hello

Escaping quotation marks in PHP

Use the addslashes function:

 $str = "Is your name O'Reilly?";

 // Outputs: Is your name O\'Reilly?
   echo addslashes($str);

What's a Good Javascript Time Picker?

CSS Gallery has variety of Time Pickers. Have a look.

Perifer Design's time picker is similar to google one

Redirect Windows cmd stdout and stderr to a single file

There is, however, no guarantee that the output of SDTOUT and STDERR are interweaved line-by-line in timely order, using the POSIX redirect merge syntax.

If an application uses buffered output, it may happen that the text of one stream is inserted in the other at a buffer boundary, which may appear in the middle of a text line.

A dedicated console output logger (I.e. the "StdOut/StdErr Logger" by 'LoRd MuldeR') may be more reliable for such a task.

See: MuldeR's OpenSource Projects

Send file via cURL from form POST in PHP

Here is my solution, i have been reading a lot of post and they was really helpfull, finaly i build a code for small files, with cUrl and Php, that i think its really usefull.

public function postFile()
{


        $file_url = "test.txt";  //here is the file route, in this case is on same directory but you can set URL too like "http://examplewebsite.com/test.txt"
        $eol = "\r\n"; //default line-break for mime type
        $BOUNDARY = md5(time()); //random boundaryid, is a separator for each param on my post curl function
        $BODY=""; //init my curl body
        $BODY.= '--'.$BOUNDARY. $eol; //start param header
        $BODY .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="sometext"' . $eol . $eol; // last Content with 2 $eol, in this case is only 1 content.
        $BODY .= "Some Data" . $eol;//param data in this case is a simple post data and 1 $eol for the end of the data
        $BODY.= '--'.$BOUNDARY. $eol; // start 2nd param,
        $BODY.= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="somefile"; filename="test.txt"'. $eol ; //first Content data for post file, remember you only put 1 when you are going to add more Contents, and 2 on the last, to close the Content Instance
        $BODY.= 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' . $eol; //Same before row
        $BODY.= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' . $eol . $eol; // we put the last Content and 2 $eol,
        $BODY.= chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($file_url))) . $eol; // we write the Base64 File Content and the $eol to finish the data,
        $BODY.= '--'.$BOUNDARY .'--' . $eol. $eol; // we close the param and the post width "--" and 2 $eol at the end of our boundary header.



        $ch = curl_init(); //init curl
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
                         'X_PARAM_TOKEN : 71e2cb8b-42b7-4bf0-b2e8-53fbd2f578f9' //custom header for my api validation you can get it from $_SERVER["HTTP_X_PARAM_TOKEN"] variable
                         ,"Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=".$BOUNDARY) //setting our mime type for make it work on $_FILE variable
                    );
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/1.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0'); //setting our user agent
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "api.endpoint.post"); //setting our api post url
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $BOUNDARY.'.txt'); //saving cookies just in case we want
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // call return content
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); navigate the endpoint
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); //set as post
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $BODY); // set our $BODY 


        $response = curl_exec($ch); // start curl navigation

     print_r($response); //print response

}

With this we shoud be get on the "api.endpoint.post" the following vars posted You can easly test with this script, and you should be recive this debugs on the function postFile() at the last row

print_r($response); //print response

public function getPostFile()
{

    echo "\n\n_SERVER\n";
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($_SERVER['HTTP_X_PARAM_TOKEN']);
    echo "/<pre>";
    echo "_POST\n";
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($_POST['sometext']);
    echo "/<pre>";
    echo "_FILES\n";
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($_FILEST['somefile']);
    echo "/<pre>";
}

Here you are it should be work good, could be better solutions but this works and is really helpfull to understand how the Boundary and multipart/from-data mime works on php and curl library,

My Best Reggards,

my apologies about my english but isnt my native language.

How to import an excel file in to a MySQL database

For a step by step example for importing Excel 2007 into MySQL with correct encoding (UTF-8) search for this comment:

"Posted by Mike Laird on October 13 2010 12:50am"

in the next URL:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html

When should you use 'friend' in C++?

Friend comes handy when you are building a container and you want to implement an iterator for that class.

How to run python script on terminal (ubuntu)?

Save your python file in a spot where you will be able to find it again. Then navigate to that spot using the command line (cd /home/[profile]/spot/you/saved/file) or go to that location with the file browser. If you use the latter, right click and select "Open In Terminal." When the terminal opens, type "sudo chmod +x Yourfilename." After entering your password, type "python ./Yourfilename" which will open your python file in the command line. Hope this helps!

Running Linux Mint

AJAX in Chrome sending OPTIONS instead of GET/POST/PUT/DELETE?

Chrome is preflighting the request to look for CORS headers. If the request is acceptable, it will then send the real request. If you're doing this cross-domain, you will simply have to deal with it or else find a way to make the request non-cross-domain. This is why the jQuery bug was closed as won't-fix. This is by design.

Unlike simple requests (discussed above), "preflighted" requests first send an HTTP request by the OPTIONS method to the resource on the other domain, in order to determine whether the actual request is safe to send. Cross-site requests are preflighted like this since they may have implications to user data. In particular, a request is preflighted if:

  • It uses methods other than GET, HEAD or POST. Also, if POST is used to send request data with a Content-Type other than application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain, e.g. if the POST request sends an XML payload to the server using application/xml or text/xml, then the request is preflighted.
  • It sets custom headers in the request (e.g. the request uses a header such as X-PINGOTHER)

ASP.NET MVC3 Razor - Html.ActionLink style

Here's the signature.

public static string ActionLink(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, 
                                string linkText,
                                string actionName,
                                string controllerName,
                                object values, 
                                object htmlAttributes)

What you are doing is mixing the values and the htmlAttributes together. values are for URL routing.

You might want to do this.

@Html.ActionLink(Context.User.Identity.Name, "Index", "Account", null, 
     new { @style="text-transform:capitalize;" });

Best way to work with transactions in MS SQL Server Management Studio

The easisest thing to do is to wrap your code in a transaction, and then execute each batch of T-SQL code line by line.

For example,

Begin Transaction

         -Do some T-SQL queries here.

Rollback transaction -- OR commit transaction

If you want to incorporate error handling you can do so by using a TRY...CATCH BLOCK. Should an error occur you can then rollback the tranasction within the catch block.

For example:

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
BEGIN TRANSACTION;

BEGIN TRY
    -- Generate a constraint violation error.
    DELETE FROM Production.Product
    WHERE ProductID = 980;
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
    SELECT 
        ERROR_NUMBER() AS ErrorNumber
        ,ERROR_SEVERITY() AS ErrorSeverity
        ,ERROR_STATE() AS ErrorState
        ,ERROR_PROCEDURE() AS ErrorProcedure
        ,ERROR_LINE() AS ErrorLine
        ,ERROR_MESSAGE() AS ErrorMessage;

    IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
        ROLLBACK TRANSACTION;
END CATCH;

IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
    COMMIT TRANSACTION;
GO

See the following link for more details.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175976.aspx

Hope this helps but please let me know if you need more details.

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 while installing eventlet

This is an old post but I just run to the same problem on AWS EC2 installing regex. This working perfectly for me

sudo yum -y install gcc

and next

sudo yum -y install gcc-c++

CSS media queries for screen sizes

Unless you have more style sheets than that, you've messed up your break points:

#1 (max-width: 700px)
#2 (min-width: 701px) and (max-width: 900px)
#3 (max-width: 901px)

The 3rd media query is probably meant to be min-width: 901px. Right now, it overlaps #1 and #2, and only controls the page layout by itself when the screen is exactly 901px wide.

Edit for updated question:

(max-width: 640px)
(max-width: 800px)
(max-width: 1024px)
(max-width: 1280px)

Media queries aren't like catch or if/else statements. If any of the conditions match, then it will apply all of the styles from each media query it matched. If you only specify a min-width for all of your media queries, it's possible that some or all of the media queries are matched. In your case, a device that's 640px wide matches all 4 of your media queries, so all for style sheets are loaded. What you are most likely looking for is this:

(max-width: 640px)
(min-width: 641px) and (max-width: 800px)
(min-width: 801px) and (max-width: 1024px)
(min-width: 1025px)

Now there's no overlap. The styles will only apply if the device's width falls between the widths specified.

Which is fastest? SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS FROM `table`, or SELECT COUNT(*)

When choosing the "best" approach, a more important consideration than speed might be the maintainability and correctness of your code. If so, SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS is preferable because you only need to maintain a single query. Using a single query completely precludes the possibility of a subtle difference between the main and count queries, which may lead to an inaccurate COUNT.

Format Date output in JSF

With EL 2 (Expression Language 2) you can use this type of construct for your question:

    #{formatBean.format(myBean.birthdate)}

Or you can add an alternate getter in your bean resulting in

    #{myBean.birthdateString}

where getBirthdateString returns the proper text representation. Remember to annotate the get method as @Transient if it is an Entity.

Keeping ASP.NET Session Open / Alive

I use JQuery to perform a simple AJAX call to a dummy HTTP Handler that does nothing but keeping my Session alive:

function setHeartbeat() {
    setTimeout("heartbeat()", 5*60*1000); // every 5 min
}

function heartbeat() {
    $.get(
        "/SessionHeartbeat.ashx",
        null,
        function(data) {
            //$("#heartbeat").show().fadeOut(1000); // just a little "red flash" in the corner :)
            setHeartbeat();
        },
        "json"
    );
}

Session handler can be as simple as:

public class SessionHeartbeatHttpHandler : IHttpHandler, IRequiresSessionState
{
    public bool IsReusable { get { return false; } }

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {
        context.Session["Heartbeat"] = DateTime.Now;
    }
}

The key is to add IRequiresSessionState, otherwise Session won't be available (= null). The handler can of course also return a JSON serialized object if some data should be returned to the calling JavaScript.

Made available through web.config:

<httpHandlers>
    <add verb="GET,HEAD" path="SessionHeartbeat.ashx" validate="false" type="SessionHeartbeatHttpHandler"/>
</httpHandlers>

added from balexandre on August 14th, 2012

I liked so much of this example, that I want to improve with the HTML/CSS and the beat part

change this

//$("#heartbeat").show().fadeOut(1000); // just a little "red flash" in the corner :)

into

beatHeart(2); // just a little "red flash" in the corner :)

and add

// beat the heart 
// 'times' (int): nr of times to beat
function beatHeart(times) {
    var interval = setInterval(function () {
        $(".heartbeat").fadeIn(500, function () {
            $(".heartbeat").fadeOut(500);
        });
    }, 1000); // beat every second

    // after n times, let's clear the interval (adding 100ms of safe gap)
    setTimeout(function () { clearInterval(interval); }, (1000 * times) + 100);
}

HTML and CSS

<div class="heartbeat">&hearts;</div>

/* HEARBEAT */
.heartbeat {
    position: absolute;
    display: none;
    margin: 5px;
    color: red;
    right: 0;
    top: 0;
}

here is a live example for only the beating part: http://jsbin.com/ibagob/1/

About .bash_profile, .bashrc, and where should alias be written in?

Check out http://mywiki.wooledge.org/DotFiles for an excellent resource on the topic aside from man bash.

Summary:

  • You only log in once, and that's when ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile is read and executed. Since everything you run from your login shell inherits the login shell's environment, you should put all your environment variables in there. Like LESS, PATH, MANPATH, LC_*, ... For an example, see: My .profile
  • Once you log in, you can run several more shells. Imagine logging in, running X, and in X starting a few terminals with bash shells. That means your login shell started X, which inherited your login shell's environment variables, which started your terminals, which started your non-login bash shells. Your environment variables were passed along in the whole chain, so your non-login shells don't need to load them anymore. Non-login shells only execute ~/.bashrc, not /.profile or ~/.bash_profile, for this exact reason, so in there define everything that only applies to bash. That's functions, aliases, bash-only variables like HISTSIZE (this is not an environment variable, don't export it!), shell options with set and shopt, etc. For an example, see: My .bashrc
  • Now, as part of UNIX peculiarity, a login-shell does NOT execute ~/.bashrc but only ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile, so you should source that one manually from the latter. You'll see me do that in my ~/.profile too: source ~/.bashrc.

What is your single most favorite command-line trick using Bash?

while IFS= read -r line; do
echo "$line"
done < somefile.txt

This is a good way to process a file line by line. Clearing IFS is needed to get whitespace characters at the front or end of the line. The "-r" is needed to get all raw characters, including backslashes.

C# string reference type?

"A picture is worth a thousand words".

I have a simple example here, it's similar to your case.

string s1 = "abc";
string s2 = s1;
s1 = "def";
Console.WriteLine(s2);
// Output: abc

This is what happened:

enter image description here

  • Line 1 and 2: s1 and s2 variables reference to the same "abc" string object.
  • Line 3: Because strings are immutable, so the "abc" string object do not modify itself (to "def"), but a new "def" string object is created instead, and then s1 references to it.
  • Line 4: s2 still references to "abc" string object, so that's the output.

Why is this HTTP request not working on AWS Lambda?

I had the very same problem and then I realized that programming in NodeJS is actually different than Python or Java as its based on JavaScript. I'll try to use simple concepts as there may be a few new folks that would be interested or may come to this question.

Let's look at the following code :

var http = require('http'); // (1)
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
  console.log('start request to ' + event.url)
  http.get(event.url,  // (2)
  function(res) {  //(3)
    console.log("Got response: " + res.statusCode);
    context.succeed();
  }).on('error', function(e) {
    console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
    context.done(null, 'FAILURE');
  });

  console.log('end request to ' + event.url); //(4)
}

Whenever you make a call to a method in http package (1) , it is created as event and this event gets it separate event. The 'get' function (2) is actually the starting point of this separate event.

Now, the function at (3) will be executing in a separate event, and your code will continue it executing path and will straight jump to (4) and finish it off, because there is nothing more to do.

But the event fired at (2) is still executing somewhere and it will take its own sweet time to finish. Pretty bizarre, right ?. Well, No it is not. This is how NodeJS works and its pretty important you wrap your head around this concept. This is the place where JavaScript Promises come to help.

You can read more about JavaScript Promises here. In a nutshell, you would need a JavaScript Promise to keep the execution of code inline and will not spawn new / extra threads.

Most of the common NodeJS packages have a Promised version of their API available, but there are other approaches like BlueBirdJS that address the similar problem.

The code that you had written above can be loosely re-written as follows.

'use strict';
console.log('Loading function');
var rp = require('request-promise');
exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {    

    var options = {
    uri: 'https://httpbin.org/ip',
    method: 'POST',
    body: {

    },
    json: true 
};


    rp(options).then(function (parsedBody) {
            console.log(parsedBody);
        })
        .catch(function (err) {
            // POST failed... 
            console.log(err);
        });

    context.done(null);
};

Please note that the above code will not work directly if you will import it in AWS Lambda. For Lambda, you will need to package the modules with the code base too.

How to extract this specific substring in SQL Server?

select substring(your_field, CHARINDEX(';',your_field)+1 ,CHARINDEX('[',your_field)-CHARINDEX(';',your_field)-1) from your_table

Can't get the others to work. I believe you just want what is in between ';' and '[' in all cases regardless of how long the string in between is. After specifying the field in the substring function, the second argument is the starting location of what you will extract. That is, where the ';' is + 1 (fourth position - the c), because you don't want to include ';'. The next argument takes the location of the '[' (position 14) and subtracts the location of the spot after the ';' (fourth position - this is why I now subtract 1 in the query). This basically says substring(field,location I want substring to begin, how long I want substring to be). I've used this same function in other cases. If some of the fields don't have ';' and '[', you'll want to filter those out in the "where" clause, but that's a little different than the question. If your ';' was say... ';;;', you would use 3 instead of 1 in the example. Hope this helps!

Regex to remove letters, symbols except numbers

If you want to keep only numbers then use /[^0-9]+/ instead of /[^a-zA-Z]+/

Exporting PDF with jspdf not rendering CSS

You can get the example of css implemented html to pdf conversion using jspdf on following link: JSFiddle Link

This is sample code for the jspdf html to pdf download.

$('#print-btn').click(() => {
    var pdf = new jsPDF('p','pt','a4');
    pdf.addHTML(document.body,function() {
        pdf.save('web.pdf');
    });
})

What is the most accurate way to retrieve a user's correct IP address in PHP?

Just another clean way:

  function validateIp($var_ip){
    $ip = trim($var_ip);

    return (!empty($ip) &&
            $ip != '::1' &&
            $ip != '127.0.0.1' &&
            filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE) !== false)
            ? $ip : false;
  }

  function getClientIp() {
    $ip = @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ?:
          'LOCAL OR UNKNOWN ACCESS';

    return $ip;
  }

Open the terminal in visual studio?

Not sure if this will help, but I usually pull the command prompt up by going into "Synchronization" tab in Team Explorer and clicking on "Actions"

When the command prompt opens it is in the directory of the project.

How to unzip a list of tuples into individual lists?

Use zip(*list):

>>> l = [(1,2), (3,4), (8,9)]
>>> list(zip(*l))
[(1, 3, 8), (2, 4, 9)]

The zip() function pairs up the elements from all inputs, starting with the first values, then the second, etc. By using *l you apply all tuples in l as separate arguments to the zip() function, so zip() pairs up 1 with 3 with 8 first, then 2 with 4 and 9. Those happen to correspond nicely with the columns, or the transposition of l.

zip() produces tuples; if you must have mutable list objects, just map() the tuples to lists or use a list comprehension to produce a list of lists:

map(list, zip(*l))          # keep it a generator
[list(t) for t in zip(*l)]  # consume the zip generator into a list of lists

Differences between fork and exec

enter image description herefork():

It creates a copy of running process. The running process is called parent process & newly created process is called child process. The way to differentiate the two is by looking at the returned value:

  1. fork() returns the process identifier (pid) of the child process in the parent

  2. fork() returns 0 in the child.

exec():

It initiates a new process within a process. It loads a new program into the current process, replacing the existing one.

fork() + exec():

When launching a new program is to firstly fork(), creating a new process, and then exec() (i.e. load into memory and execute) the program binary it is supposed to run.

int main( void ) 
{
    int pid = fork();
    if ( pid == 0 ) 
    {
        execvp( "find", argv );
    }

    //Put the parent to sleep for 2 sec,let the child finished executing 
    wait( 2 );

    return 0;
}

How to convert Integer to int?

Another simple way would be:

Integer i = new Integer("10");

if (i != null)
    int ip = Integer.parseInt(i.toString());

Convert data.frame column to a vector?

I'm going to attempt to explain this without making any mistakes, but I'm betting this will attract a clarification or two in the comments.

A data frame is a list. When you subset a data frame using the name of a column and [, what you're getting is a sublist (or a sub data frame). If you want the actual atomic column, you could use [[, or somewhat confusingly (to me) you could do aframe[,2] which returns a vector, not a sublist.

So try running this sequence and maybe things will be clearer:

avector <- as.vector(aframe['a2'])
class(avector) 

avector <- aframe[['a2']]
class(avector)

avector <- aframe[,2]
class(avector)

how to transfer a file through SFTP in java?

Try this code.

public void send (String fileName) {
    String SFTPHOST = "host:IP";
    int SFTPPORT = 22;
    String SFTPUSER = "username";
    String SFTPPASS = "password";
    String SFTPWORKINGDIR = "file/to/transfer";

    Session session = null;
    Channel channel = null;
    ChannelSftp channelSftp = null;
    System.out.println("preparing the host information for sftp.");

    try {
        JSch jsch = new JSch();
        session = jsch.getSession(SFTPUSER, SFTPHOST, SFTPPORT);
        session.setPassword(SFTPPASS);
        java.util.Properties config = new java.util.Properties();
        config.put("StrictHostKeyChecking", "no");
        session.setConfig(config);
        session.connect();
        System.out.println("Host connected.");
        channel = session.openChannel("sftp");
        channel.connect();
        System.out.println("sftp channel opened and connected.");
        channelSftp = (ChannelSftp) channel;
        channelSftp.cd(SFTPWORKINGDIR);
        File f = new File(fileName);
        channelSftp.put(new FileInputStream(f), f.getName());
        log.info("File transfered successfully to host.");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        System.out.println("Exception found while tranfer the response.");
    } finally {
        channelSftp.exit();
        System.out.println("sftp Channel exited.");
        channel.disconnect();
        System.out.println("Channel disconnected.");
        session.disconnect();
        System.out.println("Host Session disconnected.");
    }
}   

Insert variable into Header Location PHP

header('Location: http://linkhere.com/' . $your_variable);

What is the difference between ng-if and ng-show/ng-hide

The ng-if directive removes the content from the page and ng-show/ng-hide uses the CSS display property to hide content.

This is useful in case you want to use :first-child and :last-child pseudo selectors to style.

How can I delete all Git branches which have been merged?

Windoze-friendly Python script (because git-sweep choked on Wesnoth repository):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Remove merged git branches. Cross-platform way to execute:
#
#   git branch --merged | grep -v master | xargs git branch -d
#
# Requires gitapi - https://bitbucket.org/haard/gitapi
# License: Public Domain

import gitapi

repo = gitapi.Repo('.')
output = repo.git_command('branch', '--merged').strip()
for branch in output.split('\n'):
  branch = branch.strip()
  if branch.strip(' *') != 'master':
    print(repo.git_command('branch', '-d', branch).strip())

https://gist.github.com/techtonik/b3f0d4b9a56dbacb3afc

How can I use LTRIM/RTRIM to search and replace leading/trailing spaces?

To remove spaces from left/right, use LTRIM/RTRIM. What you had

UPDATE *tablename*
   SET *columnname* = LTRIM(RTRIM(*columnname*));

would have worked on ALL the rows. To minimize updates if you don't need to update, the update code is unchanged, but the LIKE expression in the WHERE clause would have been

UPDATE [tablename]
   SET [columnname] = LTRIM(RTRIM([columnname]))
 WHERE 32 in (ASCII([columname]), ASCII(REVERSE([columname])));

Note: 32 is the ascii code for the space character.

Extract time from moment js object

If you read the docs (http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/) you can find this format:

moment("2015-01-16T12:00:00").format("hh:mm:ss a")

See JS Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Bjolja/6mn32xhu/

Android: long click on a button -> perform actions

Initially when i implemented a longClick and a click to perform two separate events the problem i face was that when i had a longclick , the application also performed the action to be performed for a simple click . The solution i realized was to change the return type of the longClick to true which is normally false by default . Change it and it works perfectly .

Store multiple values in single key in json

Use arrays:

{
    "number": ["1", "2", "3"],
    "alphabet": ["a", "b", "c"]
}

You can the access the different values from their position in the array. Counting starts at left of array at 0. myJsonObject["number"][0] == 1 or myJsonObject["alphabet"][2] == 'c'

HTML 'td' width and height

The width attribute of <td> is deprecated in HTML 5.

Use CSS. e.g.

 <td style="width:100px">

in detail, like this:

<table >
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="width:70%">January</td>
    <td style="width:30%">$100</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>February</td>
    <td>$80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

forEach is not a function error with JavaScript array

There is no need for the forEach, you can iterate using only the from's second parameter, like so:

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Array.from(nodeList, child => {_x000D_
  console.log(child)_x000D_
});
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Basic authentication with fetch?

NODE USERS (REACT,EXPRESS) FOLLOW THESE STEPS

  1. npm install base-64 --save
  2. import { encode } from "base-64";
  3.  const response = await fetch(URL, {
      method: 'post',
      headers: new Headers({
        'Authorization': 'Basic ' + encode(username + ":" + password),
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
      }),
      body: JSON.stringify({
        "PassengerMobile": "xxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "Password": "xxxxxxx"
      })
    });
    const posts = await response.json();
    
  4. Don't forget to define this whole function as async

Run Jquery function on window events: load, resize, and scroll?

You can use the following. They all wrap the window object into a jQuery object.

Load:

$(window).load(function () {
    topInViewport($("#mydivname"))
});

Resize:

$(window).resize(function () {
   topInViewport($("#mydivname"))
});

Scroll

$(window).scroll(function () {
    topInViewport($("#mydivname"))
});

Or bind to them all using on:

$(window).on("load resize scroll",function(e){
    topInViewport($("#mydivname"))
});

Phone number formatting an EditText in Android

I've recently done a similar formatting like 1 (XXX) XXX-XXXX for Android EditText. Please find the code below. Just use the TextWatcher sub-class as the text changed listener : ....

UsPhoneNumberFormatter addLineNumberFormatter = new UsPhoneNumberFormatter(
            new WeakReference<EditText>(mYourEditText));
    mYourEditText.addTextChangedListener(addLineNumberFormatter);

...

private class UsPhoneNumberFormatter implements TextWatcher {
    //This TextWatcher sub-class formats entered numbers as 1 (123) 456-7890
    private boolean mFormatting; // this is a flag which prevents the
                                    // stack(onTextChanged)
    private boolean clearFlag;
    private int mLastStartLocation;
    private String mLastBeforeText;
    private WeakReference<EditText> mWeakEditText;

    public UsPhoneNumberFormatter(WeakReference<EditText> weakEditText) {
        this.mWeakEditText = weakEditText;
    }

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
            int after) {
        if (after == 0 && s.toString().equals("1 ")) {
            clearFlag = true;
        }
        mLastStartLocation = start;
        mLastBeforeText = s.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
            int count) {
        // TODO: Do nothing
    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        // Make sure to ignore calls to afterTextChanged caused by the work
        // done below
        if (!mFormatting) {
            mFormatting = true;
            int curPos = mLastStartLocation;
            String beforeValue = mLastBeforeText;
            String currentValue = s.toString();
            String formattedValue = formatUsNumber(s);
            if (currentValue.length() > beforeValue.length()) {
                int setCusorPos = formattedValue.length()
                        - (beforeValue.length() - curPos);
                mWeakEditText.get().setSelection(setCusorPos < 0 ? 0 : setCusorPos);
            } else {
                int setCusorPos = formattedValue.length()
                        - (currentValue.length() - curPos);
                if(setCusorPos > 0 && !Character.isDigit(formattedValue.charAt(setCusorPos -1))){
                    setCusorPos--;
                }
                mWeakEditText.get().setSelection(setCusorPos < 0 ? 0 : setCusorPos);
            }
            mFormatting = false;
        }
    }

    private String formatUsNumber(Editable text) {
        StringBuilder formattedString = new StringBuilder();
        // Remove everything except digits
        int p = 0;
        while (p < text.length()) {
            char ch = text.charAt(p);
            if (!Character.isDigit(ch)) {
                text.delete(p, p + 1);
            } else {
                p++;
            }
        }
        // Now only digits are remaining
        String allDigitString = text.toString();

        int totalDigitCount = allDigitString.length();

        if (totalDigitCount == 0
                || (totalDigitCount > 10 && !allDigitString.startsWith("1"))
                || totalDigitCount > 11) {
            // May be the total length of input length is greater than the
            // expected value so we'll remove all formatting
            text.clear();
            text.append(allDigitString);
            return allDigitString;
        }
        int alreadyPlacedDigitCount = 0;
        // Only '1' is remaining and user pressed backspace and so we clear
        // the edit text.
        if (allDigitString.equals("1") && clearFlag) {
            text.clear();
            clearFlag = false;
            return "";
        }
        if (allDigitString.startsWith("1")) {
            formattedString.append("1 ");
            alreadyPlacedDigitCount++;
        }
        // The first 3 numbers beyond '1' must be enclosed in brackets "()"
        if (totalDigitCount - alreadyPlacedDigitCount > 3) {
            formattedString.append("("
                    + allDigitString.substring(alreadyPlacedDigitCount,
                            alreadyPlacedDigitCount + 3) + ") ");
            alreadyPlacedDigitCount += 3;
        }
        // There must be a '-' inserted after the next 3 numbers
        if (totalDigitCount - alreadyPlacedDigitCount > 3) {
            formattedString.append(allDigitString.substring(
                    alreadyPlacedDigitCount, alreadyPlacedDigitCount + 3)
                    + "-");
            alreadyPlacedDigitCount += 3;
        }
        // All the required formatting is done so we'll just copy the
        // remaining digits.
        if (totalDigitCount > alreadyPlacedDigitCount) {
            formattedString.append(allDigitString
                    .substring(alreadyPlacedDigitCount));
        }

        text.clear();
        text.append(formattedString.toString());
        return formattedString.toString();
    }

}

What does it mean when Statement.executeUpdate() returns -1?

I haven't seen this anywhere, either, but my instinct would be that this means that the IF prevented the whole statement from executing.

Try to run the statement with a database where the IF passes.

Also check if there are any triggers involved which might change the result.

[EDIT] When the standard says that this function should never return -1, that doesn't enforce this. Java doesn't have pre and post conditions. A JDBC driver could return a random number and there was no way to stop it.

If it's important to know why this happens, run the statement against different database until you have tried all execution paths (i.e. one where the IF returns false and one where it returns true).

If it's not that important, mark it off as a "clever trick" by a Microsoft engineer and remember how much you liked it when you feel like being clever yourself next time.

JavaScript window resize event

You can use following approach which is ok for small projects

<body onresize="yourHandler(event)">

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function yourHandler(e) {
  console.log('Resized:', e.target.innerWidth)
}
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<body onresize="yourHandler(event)">
  Content... (resize browser to see)
</body>
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Write to Windows Application Event Log

Yes, there is a way to write to the event log you are looking for. You don't need to create a new source, just simply use the existent one, which often has the same name as the EventLog's name and also, in some cases like the event log Application, can be accessible without administrative privileges*.

*Other cases, where you cannot access it directly, are the Security EventLog, for example, which is only accessed by the operating system.

I used this code to write directly to the event log Application:

using (EventLog eventLog = new EventLog("Application")) 
{
    eventLog.Source = "Application"; 
    eventLog.WriteEntry("Log message example", EventLogEntryType.Information, 101, 1); 
}

As you can see, the EventLog source is the same as the EventLog's name. The reason of this can be found in Event Sources @ Windows Dev Center (I bolded the part which refers to source name):

Each log in the Eventlog key contains subkeys called event sources. The event source is the name of the software that logs the event. It is often the name of the application or the name of a subcomponent of the application if the application is large. You can add a maximum of 16,384 event sources to the registry.

Overriding interface property type defined in Typescript d.ts file

NOTE: Not sure if the syntax I'm using in this answer was available when the older answers were written, but I think that this is a better approach on how to solve the example mentioned in this question.


I've had some issues related to this topic (overwriting interface properties), and this is how I'm handling it:

  1. First create a generic interface, with the possible types you'd like to use.

You can even use choose a default value for the generic parameter as you can see in <T extends number | SOME_OBJECT = number>

type SOME_OBJECT = { foo: "bar" }

interface INTERFACE_A <T extends number | SOME_OBJECT = number> {
  property: T;
}
  1. Then you can create new types based on that contract, by passing a value to the generic parameter (or omit it and use the default):
type A_NUMBER = INTERFACE_A;                   // USES THE default = number TYPE. SAME AS INTERFACE_A<number>
type A_SOME_OBJECT = INTERFACE_A<SOME_OBJECT>  // MAKES { property: SOME_OBJECT }

And this is the result:

const aNumber: A_NUMBER = {
    property: 111  // THIS EXPECTS A NUMBER
}

const anObject: A_SOME_OBJECT = {
    property: {   // THIS EXPECTS SOME_OBJECT
        foo: "bar"
    }
}

Typescript playground

How to define hash tables in Bash?

Prior to bash 4 there is no good way to use associative arrays in bash. Your best bet is to use an interpreted language that actually has support for such things, like awk. On the other hand, bash 4 does support them.

As for less good ways in bash 3, here is a reference than might help: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/006

Registering for Push Notifications in Xcode 8/Swift 3.0?

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {

    if #available(iOS 10, *) {

        //Notifications get posted to the function (delegate):  func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: () -> Void)"


        UNUserNotificationCenter.current().requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .badge, .sound]) { (granted, error) in

            guard error == nil else {
                //Display Error.. Handle Error.. etc..
                return
            }

            if granted {
                //Do stuff here..

                //Register for RemoteNotifications. Your Remote Notifications can display alerts now :)
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    application.registerForRemoteNotifications()
                }
            }
            else {
                //Handle user denying permissions..
            }
        }

        //Register for remote notifications.. If permission above is NOT granted, all notifications are delivered silently to AppDelegate.
        application.registerForRemoteNotifications()
    }
    else {
        let settings = UIUserNotificationSettings(types: [.alert, .badge, .sound], categories: nil)
        application.registerUserNotificationSettings(settings)
        application.registerForRemoteNotifications()
    }

    return true
}

Get specific objects from ArrayList when objects were added anonymously?

Given the use of List, there's no way to "lookup" a value without iterating through it...

For example...

Cave cave = new Cave();

// Loop adds several Parties to the cave's party list
cave.parties.add(new Party("FirstParty")); // all anonymously added
cave.parties.add(new Party("SecondParty"));
cave.parties.add(new Party("ThirdParty"));

for (Party p : cave.parties) {
    if (p.name.equals("SecondParty") {
        p.index = ...;
        break;
    }
}

Now, this will take time. If the element you are looking for is at the end of the list, you will have to iterate to the end of the list before you find a match.

It might be better to use a Map of some kind...

So, if we update Cave to look like...

class Cave {
    Map<String, Party> parties = new HashMap<String, Party>(25);
}

We could do something like...

Cave cave = new Cave();

// Loop adds several Parties to the cave's party list
cave.parties.put("FirstParty", new Party("FirstParty")); // all anonymously added
cave.parties.put("SecondParty", new Party("SecondParty"));
cave.parties.put("ThirdParty", new Party("ThirdParty"));

if (cave.parties.containsKey("SecondParty")) {
    cave.parties.get("SecondParty").index = ...
}

Instead...

Ultimately, this will all depend on what it is you want to achieve...

Comment shortcut Android Studio

In LINUX

1.Single line commenting. Ctrl + /

2.For block comment Ctrl + Shift + /

How to get rid of blank pages in PDF exported from SSRS

In BIDS or SSDT-BI, do the following:

  1. Click on Report > Report Properties > Layout tab (Page Setup tab in SSDT-BI)
  2. Make a note of the values for Page width, Left margin, Right margin
  3. Close and go back to the design surface
  4. In the Properties window, select Body
  5. Click the + symbol to expand the Size node
  6. Make a note of the value for Width

To render in PDF correctly Body Width + Left margin + Right margin must be less than or equal to Page width. When you see blank pages being rendered it is almost always because the body width plus margins is greater than the page width.

Remember: (Body Width + Left margin + Right margin) <= (Page width)

get current date and time in groovy?

Date has the time as well, just add HH:mm:ss to the date format:

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
def date = new Date()
def sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss")
println sdf.format(date)

In case you are using JRE 8 you can use LoaclDateTime:

import java.time.*

LocalDateTime t = LocalDateTime.now();
return t as String

What is the difference between null and undefined in JavaScript?

As typeof returns undefined, undefined is a type where as null is an initializer indicates the variable points to no object(virtually everything in Javascript is an object).

Clicking the back button twice to exit an activity

 private static final int TIME_DELAY = 2000;
    private static long back_pressed;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }
    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (back_pressed + TIME_DELAY > System.currentTimeMillis()) {
            super.onBackPressed();
        } else {
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Press once again to exit!",
                    Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
        back_pressed = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }

Adding a library/JAR to an Eclipse Android project

If you are using the ADT version 22, you need to check the android dependencies and android private libraries in the order&Export tab in the project build path

How to stop event propagation with inline onclick attribute?

Use separate handler, say:

function myOnClickHandler(th){
//say let t=$(th)
}

and in html do this:

<...onclick="myOnClickHandler(this); event.stopPropagation();"...>

Or even :

function myOnClickHandler(e){
  e.stopPropagation();
}

for:

<...onclick="myOnClickHandler(event)"...>

Error: package or namespace load failed for ggplot2 and for data.table

For me, i had to uninstall R from brew brew uninstall --force R and then head over to the R website and download and install it from there.

JIRA JQL searching by date - is there a way of getting Today() (Date) instead of Now() (DateTime)

In case you want to search for all the issues updated after 9am previous day until today at 9AM, please try: updated >= startOfDay(-15h) and updated <= startOfDay(9h). (explanation: 9AM - 24h/day = -15h)

You can also use updated >= startOfDay(-900m) . where 900m = 15h*60m

Reference: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching

Uninstall Eclipse under OSX?

I just had a similar problem, with the GWT-PlugIn not showing up in the interface. Deleting the eclipse folder did not solve it, GWT was still there! Deleting workspace didn't work! But deleting the .eclipse folder in the home directory did! I'm working under WIndows 7 here, but it should be the same with OSX. But you may have to make the folder visible first. Under linux based system, folders starting with a dot are invisible by default.

This folder was probably the reason I had problems in the first place. If I remember right, I switched from basic Eclipse to EE, but didn't delete this folder.

In my opinion, an uninstall skript would do Eclipse quite good.

Generating a random password in php

This function will generate a password based on the rules in parameters

function random_password( $length = 8, $characters = true, $numbers = true, $case_sensitive = true, $hash = true ) {

    $password = '';

    if($characters)
    {
        $charLength = $length;
        if($numbers) $charLength-=2;
        if($case_sensitive) $charLength-=2;
        if($hash) $charLength-=2;
        $chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
        $password.= substr( str_shuffle( $chars ), 0, $charLength );
    }

    if($numbers)
    {
        $numbersLength = $length;
        if($characters) $numbersLength-=2;
        if($case_sensitive) $numbersLength-=2;
        if($hash) $numbersLength-=2;
        $chars = "0123456789";
        $password.= substr( str_shuffle( $chars ), 0, $numbersLength );
    }

    if($case_sensitive)
    {
        $UpperCaseLength = $length;
        if($characters) $UpperCaseLength-=2;
        if($numbers) $UpperCaseLength-=2;
        if($hash) $UpperCaseLength-=2;
        $chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
        $password.= substr( str_shuffle( $chars ), 0, $UpperCaseLength );
    }

    if($hash)
    {
        $hashLength = $length;
        if($characters) $hashLength-=2;
        if($numbers) $hashLength-=2;
        if($case_sensitive) $hashLength-=2;
        $chars = "!@#$%^&*()_-=+;:,.?";
        $password.= substr( str_shuffle( $chars ), 0, $hashLength );
    }

    $password = str_shuffle( $password );
    return $password;
}

Making HTTP Requests using Chrome Developer tools

Since the Fetch API is supported by Chrome (and most other browsers), it is now quite easy to make HTTP requests from the devtools console.

To GET a JSON file for instance:

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  .then(res => res.json())_x000D_
  .then(console.log)
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Or to POST a new resource:

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  method: 'POST',_x000D_
  body: JSON.stringify({_x000D_
    title: 'foo',_x000D_
    body: 'bar',_x000D_
    userId: 1_x000D_
  }),_x000D_
  headers: {_x000D_
    'Content-type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'_x000D_
  }_x000D_
})_x000D_
.then(res => res.json())_x000D_
.then(console.log)
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Chrome Devtools actually also support new async/await syntax (even though await normally only can be used within an async function):

const response = await fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')
console.log(await response.json())

Notice that your requests will be subject to the same-origin policy, just like any other HTTP-request in the browser, so either avoid cross-origin requests, or make sure the server sets CORS-headers that allow your request.

Using a plugin (old answer)

As an addition to previously posted suggestions I've found the Postman plugin for Chrome to work very well. It allow you to set headers and URL parameters, use HTTP authentication, save request you execute frequently and so on.

How to convert a Map to List in Java?

If you want to ensure the values in the resultant List<Value> are in the key-ordering of the input Map<Key, Value>, you need to "go via" SortedMap somehow.

Either start with a concrete SortedMap implementation (Such as TreeMap) or insert your input Map into a SortedMap before converting that to List. e.g.:

Map<Key,Value> map;
List<Value> list = new ArrayList<Value>( new TreeMap<Key Value>( map ));

Otherwise you'll get whatever native ordering the Map implementation provides, which can often be something other than the natural key ordering (Try Hashtable or ConcurrentHashMap, for variety).

Count how many files in directory PHP

Maybe usefull to someone. On a Windows system, you can let Windows do the job by calling the dir-command. I use an absolute path, like E:/mydir/mysubdir.

<?php 
$mydir='E:/mydir/mysubdir';
$dir=str_replace('/','\\',$mydir);
$total = exec('dir '.$dir.' /b/a-d | find /v /c "::"');

How can I align button in Center or right using IONIC framework?

center tag aligns the buttons within it as expected:  

<ion-footer>
    <ion-toolbar>
        <center>
            <button royal>
                Contacts
                <ion-icon name="contact"></ion-icon>
            </button>
            <button secondary>
                Receive
                <ion-icon name="arrow-round-back"></ion-icon>
            </button>
            <button danger>
                Wallet
                <ion-icon name="home"></ion-icon>
            </button>
            <button secondary>
                Send
                <ion-icon name="send"></ion-icon>
            </button>
            <button danger>
                Transactions
                <ion-icon name="archive"></ion-icon>
            </button>
            <button danger>
                About
                <ion-icon name="information-circle"></ion-icon>
            </button>
        </center>
    </ion-toolbar>
</ion-footer>

Using TortoiseSVN via the command line

By default TortoiseSVN always has a GUI (Graphical User Interface) associated with it. But on the installer (of version 1.7 and later) you can select the "command line client tools" option so you can call svn commands (like svn commit and svn update) from the command line.

Here's a screenshot of the "command line client tools" option in the installer, you need to make sure you select it:

How-to-install-TortoiseSvn-CommandLineTools

Selecting rows where remainder (modulo) is 1 after division by 2?

At least some versions of SQL (Oracle, Informix, DB2, ISO Standard) support:

WHERE MOD(value, 2) = 1

MySQL supports '%' as the modulus operator:

WHERE value % 2 = 1

Difference between numpy dot() and Python 3.5+ matrix multiplication @

Just FYI, @ and its numpy equivalents dot and matmul are all equally fast. (Plot created with perfplot, a project of mine.)

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Code to reproduce the plot:

import perfplot
import numpy


def setup(n):
    A = numpy.random.rand(n, n)
    x = numpy.random.rand(n)
    return A, x


def at(data):
    A, x = data
    return A @ x


def numpy_dot(data):
    A, x = data
    return numpy.dot(A, x)


def numpy_matmul(data):
    A, x = data
    return numpy.matmul(A, x)


perfplot.show(
    setup=setup,
    kernels=[at, numpy_dot, numpy_matmul],
    n_range=[2 ** k for k in range(15)],
)

How to rename a table column in Oracle 10g

SQL> create table a(id number);

Table created.

SQL> alter table a rename column id to new_id;

Table altered.

SQL> desc a
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- -----------
 NEW_ID                                             NUMBER

How to kill a nodejs process in Linux?

Run ps aux | grep nodejs, find the PID of the process you're looking for, then run kill starting with SIGTERM (kill -15 25239). If that doesn't work then use SIGKILL instead, replacing -15 with -9.

How to convert comma-separated String to List?

This code will help,

String myStr = "item1,item2,item3";
List myList = Arrays.asList(myStr.split(","));

How can I get useful error messages in PHP?

if you are a ubuntu user then goto your terminal and run this command

sudo tail -50f /var/log/apache2/error.log

where it will display recent 50 errors. There is a error file error.log for apache2 which logs all the errors.

Converting from hex to string

 string hexString = "8E2";
 int num = Int32.Parse(hexString, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
 Console.WriteLine(num);
 //Output: 2274

From https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb311038.aspx

what is the difference between OLE DB and ODBC data sources?

I'm not sure of all the details, but my understanding is that OLE DB and ODBC are two APIs that are available for connecting to various types of databases without having to deal with all the implementation specific details of each. According to the Wikipedia article on OLE DB, OLE DB is Microsoft's successor to ODBC, and provides some features that you might not be able to do with ODBC such as accessing spreadsheets as database sources.

Maven: Command to update repository after adding dependency to POM

Right, click on the project. Go to Maven -> Update Project.

The dependencies will automatically be installed.

In ASP.NET MVC: All possible ways to call Controller Action Method from a Razor View

Method 1 : Using jQuery Ajax Get call (partial page update).

Suitable for when you need to retrieve jSon data from database.

Controller's Action Method

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Foo(string id)
{
    var person = Something.GetPersonByID(id);
    return Json(person, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

Jquery GET

function getPerson(id) {
    $.ajax({
        url: '@Url.Action("Foo", "SomeController")',
        type: 'GET',
        dataType: 'json',
        // we set cache: false because GET requests are often cached by browsers
        // IE is particularly aggressive in that respect
        cache: false,
        data: { id: id },
        success: function(person) {
            $('#FirstName').val(person.FirstName);
            $('#LastName').val(person.LastName);
        }
    });
}

Person class

public class Person
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

Method 2 : Using jQuery Ajax Post call (partial page update).

Suitable for when you need to do partial page post data into database.

Post method is also same like above just replace [HttpPost] on Action method and type as post for jquery method.

For more information check Posting JSON Data to MVC Controllers Here

Method 3 : As a Form post scenario (full page update).

Suitable for when you need to save or update data into database.

View

@using (Html.BeginForm("SaveData","ControllerName", FormMethod.Post))
{        
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => m.Text)
    
    <input type="submit" value="Save" />
}

Action Method

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SaveData(FormCollection form)
    {
        // Get movie to update
        return View();
   }

Method 4 : As a Form Get scenario (full page update).

Suitable for when you need to Get data from database

Get method also same like above just replace [HttpGet] on Action method and FormMethod.Get for View's form method.

I hope this will help to you.

HTML5 Pre-resize images before uploading

I tackled this problem a few years ago and uploaded my solution to github as https://github.com/rossturner/HTML5-ImageUploader

robertc's answer uses the solution proposed in the Mozilla Hacks blog post, however I found this gave really poor image quality when resizing to a scale that was not 2:1 (or a multiple thereof). I started experimenting with different image resizing algorithms, although most ended up being quite slow or else were not great in quality either.

Finally I came up with a solution which I believe executes quickly and has pretty good performance too - as the Mozilla solution of copying from 1 canvas to another works quickly and without loss of image quality at a 2:1 ratio, given a target of x pixels wide and y pixels tall, I use this canvas resizing method until the image is between x and 2 x, and y and 2 y. At this point I then turn to algorithmic image resizing for the final "step" of resizing down to the target size. After trying several different algorithms I settled on bilinear interpolation taken from a blog which is not online anymore but accessible via the Internet Archive, which gives good results, here's the applicable code:

ImageUploader.prototype.scaleImage = function(img, completionCallback) {
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    canvas.width = img.width;
    canvas.height = img.height;
    canvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(img, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);

    while (canvas.width >= (2 * this.config.maxWidth)) {
        canvas = this.getHalfScaleCanvas(canvas);
    }

    if (canvas.width > this.config.maxWidth) {
        canvas = this.scaleCanvasWithAlgorithm(canvas);
    }

    var imageData = canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg', this.config.quality);
    this.performUpload(imageData, completionCallback);
};

ImageUploader.prototype.scaleCanvasWithAlgorithm = function(canvas) {
    var scaledCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');

    var scale = this.config.maxWidth / canvas.width;

    scaledCanvas.width = canvas.width * scale;
    scaledCanvas.height = canvas.height * scale;

    var srcImgData = canvas.getContext('2d').getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
    var destImgData = scaledCanvas.getContext('2d').createImageData(scaledCanvas.width, scaledCanvas.height);

    this.applyBilinearInterpolation(srcImgData, destImgData, scale);

    scaledCanvas.getContext('2d').putImageData(destImgData, 0, 0);

    return scaledCanvas;
};

ImageUploader.prototype.getHalfScaleCanvas = function(canvas) {
    var halfCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    halfCanvas.width = canvas.width / 2;
    halfCanvas.height = canvas.height / 2;

    halfCanvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(canvas, 0, 0, halfCanvas.width, halfCanvas.height);

    return halfCanvas;
};

ImageUploader.prototype.applyBilinearInterpolation = function(srcCanvasData, destCanvasData, scale) {
    function inner(f00, f10, f01, f11, x, y) {
        var un_x = 1.0 - x;
        var un_y = 1.0 - y;
        return (f00 * un_x * un_y + f10 * x * un_y + f01 * un_x * y + f11 * x * y);
    }
    var i, j;
    var iyv, iy0, iy1, ixv, ix0, ix1;
    var idxD, idxS00, idxS10, idxS01, idxS11;
    var dx, dy;
    var r, g, b, a;
    for (i = 0; i < destCanvasData.height; ++i) {
        iyv = i / scale;
        iy0 = Math.floor(iyv);
        // Math.ceil can go over bounds
        iy1 = (Math.ceil(iyv) > (srcCanvasData.height - 1) ? (srcCanvasData.height - 1) : Math.ceil(iyv));
        for (j = 0; j < destCanvasData.width; ++j) {
            ixv = j / scale;
            ix0 = Math.floor(ixv);
            // Math.ceil can go over bounds
            ix1 = (Math.ceil(ixv) > (srcCanvasData.width - 1) ? (srcCanvasData.width - 1) : Math.ceil(ixv));
            idxD = (j + destCanvasData.width * i) * 4;
            // matrix to vector indices
            idxS00 = (ix0 + srcCanvasData.width * iy0) * 4;
            idxS10 = (ix1 + srcCanvasData.width * iy0) * 4;
            idxS01 = (ix0 + srcCanvasData.width * iy1) * 4;
            idxS11 = (ix1 + srcCanvasData.width * iy1) * 4;
            // overall coordinates to unit square
            dx = ixv - ix0;
            dy = iyv - iy0;
            // I let the r, g, b, a on purpose for debugging
            r = inner(srcCanvasData.data[idxS00], srcCanvasData.data[idxS10], srcCanvasData.data[idxS01], srcCanvasData.data[idxS11], dx, dy);
            destCanvasData.data[idxD] = r;

            g = inner(srcCanvasData.data[idxS00 + 1], srcCanvasData.data[idxS10 + 1], srcCanvasData.data[idxS01 + 1], srcCanvasData.data[idxS11 + 1], dx, dy);
            destCanvasData.data[idxD + 1] = g;

            b = inner(srcCanvasData.data[idxS00 + 2], srcCanvasData.data[idxS10 + 2], srcCanvasData.data[idxS01 + 2], srcCanvasData.data[idxS11 + 2], dx, dy);
            destCanvasData.data[idxD + 2] = b;

            a = inner(srcCanvasData.data[idxS00 + 3], srcCanvasData.data[idxS10 + 3], srcCanvasData.data[idxS01 + 3], srcCanvasData.data[idxS11 + 3], dx, dy);
            destCanvasData.data[idxD + 3] = a;
        }
    }
};

This scales an image down to a width of config.maxWidth, maintaining the original aspect ratio. At the time of development this worked on iPad/iPhone Safari in addition to major desktop browsers (IE9+, Firefox, Chrome) so I expect it will still be compatible given the broader uptake of HTML5 today. Note that the canvas.toDataURL() call takes a mime type and image quality which will allow you to control the quality and output file format (potentially different to input if you wish).

The only point this doesn't cover is maintaining the orientation information, without knowledge of this metadata the image is resized and saved as-is, losing any metadata within the image for orientation meaning that images taken on a tablet device "upside down" were rendered as such, although they would have been flipped in the device's camera viewfinder. If this is a concern, this blog post has a good guide and code examples on how to accomplish this, which I'm sure could be integrated to the above code.

vertical-align: middle with Bootstrap 2

Try removing the float attribute from span6:

{ float:none !important; }

How does database indexing work?

Why is it needed?

When data is stored on disk-based storage devices, it is stored as blocks of data. These blocks are accessed in their entirety, making them the atomic disk access operation. Disk blocks are structured in much the same way as linked lists; both contain a section for data, a pointer to the location of the next node (or block), and both need not be stored contiguously.

Due to the fact that a number of records can only be sorted on one field, we can state that searching on a field that isn’t sorted requires a Linear Search which requires N/2 block accesses (on average), where N is the number of blocks that the table spans. If that field is a non-key field (i.e. doesn’t contain unique entries) then the entire tablespace must be searched at N block accesses.

Whereas with a sorted field, a Binary Search may be used, which has log2 N block accesses. Also since the data is sorted given a non-key field, the rest of the table doesn’t need to be searched for duplicate values, once a higher value is found. Thus the performance increase is substantial.

What is indexing?

Indexing is a way of sorting a number of records on multiple fields. Creating an index on a field in a table creates another data structure which holds the field value, and a pointer to the record it relates to. This index structure is then sorted, allowing Binary Searches to be performed on it.

The downside to indexing is that these indices require additional space on the disk since the indices are stored together in a table using the MyISAM engine, this file can quickly reach the size limits of the underlying file system if many fields within the same table are indexed.

How does it work?

Firstly, let’s outline a sample database table schema;

Field name       Data type      Size on disk
id (Primary key) Unsigned INT   4 bytes
firstName        Char(50)       50 bytes
lastName         Char(50)       50 bytes
emailAddress     Char(100)      100 bytes

Note: char was used in place of varchar to allow for an accurate size on disk value. This sample database contains five million rows and is unindexed. The performance of several queries will now be analyzed. These are a query using the id (a sorted key field) and one using the firstName (a non-key unsorted field).

Example 1 - sorted vs unsorted fields

Given our sample database of r = 5,000,000 records of a fixed size giving a record length of R = 204 bytes and they are stored in a table using the MyISAM engine which is using the default block size B = 1,024 bytes. The blocking factor of the table would be bfr = (B/R) = 1024/204 = 5 records per disk block. The total number of blocks required to hold the table is N = (r/bfr) = 5000000/5 = 1,000,000 blocks.

A linear search on the id field would require an average of N/2 = 500,000 block accesses to find a value, given that the id field is a key field. But since the id field is also sorted, a binary search can be conducted requiring an average of log2 1000000 = 19.93 = 20 block accesses. Instantly we can see this is a drastic improvement.

Now the firstName field is neither sorted nor a key field, so a binary search is impossible, nor are the values unique, and thus the table will require searching to the end for an exact N = 1,000,000 block accesses. It is this situation that indexing aims to correct.

Given that an index record contains only the indexed field and a pointer to the original record, it stands to reason that it will be smaller than the multi-field record that it points to. So the index itself requires fewer disk blocks than the original table, which therefore requires fewer block accesses to iterate through. The schema for an index on the firstName field is outlined below;

Field name       Data type      Size on disk
firstName        Char(50)       50 bytes
(record pointer) Special        4 bytes

Note: Pointers in MySQL are 2, 3, 4 or 5 bytes in length depending on the size of the table.

Example 2 - indexing

Given our sample database of r = 5,000,000 records with an index record length of R = 54 bytes and using the default block size B = 1,024 bytes. The blocking factor of the index would be bfr = (B/R) = 1024/54 = 18 records per disk block. The total number of blocks required to hold the index is N = (r/bfr) = 5000000/18 = 277,778 blocks.

Now a search using the firstName field can utilize the index to increase performance. This allows for a binary search of the index with an average of log2 277778 = 18.08 = 19 block accesses. To find the address of the actual record, which requires a further block access to read, bringing the total to 19 + 1 = 20 block accesses, a far cry from the 1,000,000 block accesses required to find a firstName match in the non-indexed table.

When should it be used?

Given that creating an index requires additional disk space (277,778 blocks extra from the above example, a ~28% increase), and that too many indices can cause issues arising from the file systems size limits, careful thought must be used to select the correct fields to index.

Since indices are only used to speed up the searching for a matching field within the records, it stands to reason that indexing fields used only for output would be simply a waste of disk space and processing time when doing an insert or delete operation, and thus should be avoided. Also given the nature of a binary search, the cardinality or uniqueness of the data is important. Indexing on a field with a cardinality of 2 would split the data in half, whereas a cardinality of 1,000 would return approximately 1,000 records. With such a low cardinality the effectiveness is reduced to a linear sort, and the query optimizer will avoid using the index if the cardinality is less than 30% of the record number, effectively making the index a waste of space.

.gitignore all the .DS_Store files in every folder and subfolder

Step :1)Remove the existing files using this command

find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 git rm -f --ignore-unmatch

Step : 2)Add .DS_Store in your .gitignore file

Step :3) Commit your changes in .gitignore git add .gitignore git commit -m "removed .DS_Store"

How to find the day, month and year with moment.js

If you are looking for answer in string values , try this

var check = moment('date/utc format');
day = check.format('dddd') // => ('Monday' , 'Tuesday' ----)
month = check.format('MMMM') // => ('January','February.....)
year = check.format('YYYY') // => ('2012','2013' ...)  

Spring 3 MVC resources and tag <mvc:resources />

Recommendations for resources in order to handle HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by offering static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory is to simply add the following line in the configuration file:

<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

It has worked for me.

Sources (Spring in Action book and http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html)

Why use Optional.of over Optional.ofNullable?

In addition, If you know your code should not work if object is null, you can throw exception by using Optional.orElseThrow

String nullName = null;

String name = Optional.ofNullable(nullName)
                      .orElseThrow(NullPointerException::new);
                   // .orElseThrow(CustomException::new);

phpmyadmin - count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

|| ((count($analyzed_sql_results['select_expr']) == 1

This is what I changed in line 614 and phpmyadmin works without any error. Need one ( before count, and one ) before == . That's it.

Using Thymeleaf when the value is null

I use

<div th:text ="${variable != null} ? (${variable != ''} ? ${variable} : 'empty string message') : 'null message' "></div>

Android - Using Custom Font

I had the same problem, the TTF did not show up. I changed the font file, and with the same code it's working.

Are duplicate keys allowed in the definition of binary search trees?

1.) left <= root < right

2.) left < root <= right

3.) left < root < right, such that no duplicate keys exist.

I might have to go and dig out my algorithm books, but off the top of my head (3) is the canonical form.

(1) or (2) only come about when you start to allow duplicates nodes and you put duplicate nodes in the tree itself (rather than the node containing a list).

SQL Server: how to select records with specific date from datetime column

SELECT *
FROM LogRequests
WHERE cast(dateX as date) between '2014-05-09' and '2014-05-10';

This will select all the data between the 2 dates

SSH Private Key Permissions using Git GUI or ssh-keygen are too open

For *nix systems, the obvious fix is chmod 600 id_rsa ofc, but on windows 7 I had to hit my head against the wall for a while, but then I found the magic solution:

go to My Computer / Right Click / Properties / Advanced System Settings / Environment Variables and DELETE the variable (possibly from both system and user environment):

CYGWIN

Basically, its a flaw in mingw32 used by git windows binary, seeing all files 644 and all folders 755 always. Removing the environment variable does not change that behaviour, but it appearantly tells ssh.exe to ignore the problem. If you do set proper permissions to your id_rsa through explorers security settings (there really is no need to have any other user in there than your own, not "everyone", not "administrators", not "system". none. just you), you'll still be secure.

Now, why mingw32, a different system than cygwin, would make any use of the CYGWIN environment variable, is beyond me. Looks like a bug to me.

How do I clone into a non-empty directory?

I had a similar problem with a new Apache web directory (account created with WHM) that I planned to use as a staging web server. I needed to initially clone my new project with the code base there and periodically deploy changes by pulling from repository.

The problem was that the account already contained web server files like:

.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.contactemail
.cpanel/
...

...that I did not want to either delete or commit to my repository. I needed them to just stay there unstaged and untracked.

What I did:

I went to my web folder (existing_folder):

cd /home/existing_folder

and then:

git init
git remote add origin PATH/TO/REPO
git pull origin master
git status

It displayed (as expected) a list of many not staged files - those that already existed initially from my cPanel web account.

Then, thanks to this article, I just added the list of those files to:

**.git/info/exclude**

This file, almost like the .gitignore file, allows you to ignore files from being staged. After this I had nothing to commit in the .git/ directory - it works like a personal .gitignore that no one else can see.

Now checking git status returns:

On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Now I can deploy changes to this web server by simply pulling from my git repository. Hope this helps some web developers to easily create a staging server.

How to implement a material design circular progress bar in android

The platform uses a vector drawable, so you can't reuse it as in in older versions.
However, the support lib v4 contains a backport of this drawable : http://androidxref.com/5.1.0_r1/xref/frameworks/support/v4/java/android/support/v4/widget/MaterialProgressDrawable.java It has a @hide annotation (it is here for the SwipeRefreshLayout), but nothing prevents you from copying this class in your codebase.

How do I start a process from C#?

Use the Process class. The MSDN documentation has an example how to use it.

Opacity of div's background without affecting contained element in IE 8?

opacity on parent element sets it for the whole sub DOM tree

You can't really set opacity for certain element that wouldn't cascade to descendants as well. That's not how CSS opacity works I'm afraid.

What you can do is to have two sibling elements in one container and set transparent one's positioning:

<div id="container">
    <div id="transparent"></div>
    <div id="content"></div>
</div>

then you have to set transparent position: absolute/relative so its content sibling will be rendered over it.

rgba can do background transparency of coloured backgrounds

rgba colour setting on element's background-color will of course work, but it will limit you to only use colour as background. No images I'm afraid. You can of course use CSS3 gradients though if you provide gradient stop colours in rgba. That works as well.

But be advised that rgba may not be supported by your required browsers.

Alert-free modal dialog functionality

But if you're after some kind of masking the whole page, this is usually done by adding a separate div with this set of styles:

position: fixed;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 1000; /* some high enough value so it will render on top */
opacity: .5;
filter: alpha(opacity=50);

Then when you display the content it should have a higher z-index. But these two elements are not related in terms of siblings or anything. They're just displayed as they should be. One over the other.

In C can a long printf statement be broken up into multiple lines?

The C compiler can glue adjacent string literals into one, like

printf("foo: %s "
       "bar: %d", foo, bar);

The preprocessor can use a backslash as a last character of the line, not counting CR (or CR/LF, if you are from Windowsland):

printf("foo %s \
bar: %d", foo, bar);

Oracle Installer:[INS-13001] Environment does not meet minimum requirements

To make @Raghavendra's answer more specific:

Once you've downloaded 2 zip files,

copy ALL the contents of "win64_11gR2_database_2of2.zip -> Database -> Stage -> Components" folder to "win64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip -> Database -> Stage -> Components" folder.

You'll still get the same warning, however, the installation will run completely without generating any errors.