Programs & Examples On #Tiles2

Apache Tiles™ is a Java templating framework built to simplify the development of web application user interfaces.

Best way to check for IE less than 9 in JavaScript without library

bah to conditional comments! Conditional code all the way!!! (silly IE)

<script type="text/javascript">
/*@cc_on
   var IE_LT_9 = (@_jscript_version < 9);
@*/
</script>

Seriously though, just throwing this out there in case it suits you better... they're the same thing, this can just be in a .js file instead of inline HTML

Note: it is entirely coincidental that the jscript_version check is "9" here. Setting it to 8, 7, etc will NOT check "is IE8", you'd need to lookup the jscript versions for those browsers.

Iterating through a JSON object

I believe you probably meant:

from __future__ import print_function

for song in json_object:
    # now song is a dictionary
    for attribute, value in song.items():
        print(attribute, value) # example usage

NB: You could use song.iteritems instead of song.items if in Python 2.

android.app.Application cannot be cast to android.app.Activity

You can also try this one.

override fun registerWith( registry: PluginRegistry) {
        GeneratedPluginRegistrant.registerWith(registry as FlutterEngine)       
    //registry.registrarFor("io.flutter.plugins.firebasemessaging.FirebaseMessagingPlugin")
    }

I think this one is far better solution than creating a new class.

How do I POST XML data with curl

It is simpler to use a file (req.xml in my case) with content you want to send -- like this:

curl -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @req.xml -X POST http://localhost/asdf

You should consider using type 'application/xml', too (differences explained here)

Alternatively, without needing making curl actually read the file, you can use cat to spit the file into the stdout and make curl to read from stdout like this:

cat req.xml | curl -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @- -X POST http://localhost/asdf

Both examples should produce identical service output.

How To Launch Git Bash from DOS Command Line?

I prefer to use git-bash.exe instead of sh.exe.

start "" "%ProgramFiles%\Git\git-bash.exe" -c "tail -f /c/Windows/win.ini"

You can stop closing the window when call /usr/bin/bash --login -i in the end;

start "" "%ProgramFiles%\Git\git-bash.exe" -c "echo 1 && echo 2 && /usr/bin/bash --login -i"

Note: I'm not sure this is a good way :)

How to add minutes to my Date

you can use DateUtils class in org.apache.commons.lang3.time package

int addMinuteTime = 5;
Date targetTime = new Date(); //now
targetTime = DateUtils.addMinutes(targetTime, addMinuteTime); //add minute

Getting path relative to the current working directory?

If you don't mind the slashes being switched, you could [ab]use Uri:

Uri file = new Uri(@"c:\foo\bar\blop\blap.txt");
// Must end in a slash to indicate folder
Uri folder = new Uri(@"c:\foo\bar\");
string relativePath = 
Uri.UnescapeDataString(
    folder.MakeRelativeUri(file)
        .ToString()
        .Replace('/', Path.DirectorySeparatorChar)
    );

As a function/method:

string GetRelativePath(string filespec, string folder)
{
    Uri pathUri = new Uri(filespec);
    // Folders must end in a slash
    if (!folder.EndsWith(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar.ToString()))
    {
        folder += Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
    }
    Uri folderUri = new Uri(folder);
    return Uri.UnescapeDataString(folderUri.MakeRelativeUri(pathUri).ToString().Replace('/', Path.DirectorySeparatorChar));
}

How to parse JSON in Scala using standard Scala classes?

I like @huynhjl's answer, it led me down the right path. However, it isn't great at handling error conditions. If the desired node does not exist, you get a cast exception. I've adapted this slightly to make use of Option to better handle this.

class CC[T] {
  def unapply(a:Option[Any]):Option[T] = if (a.isEmpty) {
    None
  } else {
    Some(a.get.asInstanceOf[T])
  }
}

object M extends CC[Map[String, Any]]
object L extends CC[List[Any]]
object S extends CC[String]
object D extends CC[Double]
object B extends CC[Boolean]

for {
  M(map) <- List(JSON.parseFull(jsonString))
  L(languages) = map.get("languages")
  language <- languages
  M(lang) = Some(language)
  S(name) = lang.get("name")
  B(active) = lang.get("is_active")
  D(completeness) = lang.get("completeness")
} yield {
  (name, active, completeness)
}

Of course, this doesn't handle errors so much as avoid them. This will yield an empty list if any of the json nodes are missing. You can use a match to check for the presence of a node before acting...

for {
  M(map) <- Some(JSON.parseFull(jsonString))
} yield {
  map.get("languages") match {
    case L(languages) => {
      for {
        language <- languages
        M(lang) = Some(language)
        S(name) = lang.get("name")
        B(active) = lang.get("is_active")
        D(completeness) = lang.get("completeness")
      } yield {
        (name, active, completeness)
      }        
    }
    case None => "bad json"
  }
}

cancelling a handler.postdelayed process

Another way is to handle the Runnable itself:

Runnable r = new Runnable {
    public void run() {
        if (booleanCancelMember != false) {
            //do what you need
        }
    }
}

Getting the name of the currently executing method

Technically this will work...

String name = new Object(){}.getClass().getEnclosingMethod().getName();

However, a new anonymous inner class will be created during compile time (e.g. YourClass$1.class). So this will create a .class file for each method that deploys this trick. Additionally, an otherwise unused object instance is created on each invocation during runtime. So this may be an acceptable debug trick, but it does come with significant overhead.

An advantage of this trick is that getEnclosingMethod() returns java.lang.reflect.Method which can be used to retrieve all other information of the method including annotations and parameter names. This makes it possible to distinguish between specific methods with the same name (method overload).

Note that according to the JavaDoc of getEnclosingMethod() this trick should not throw a SecurityException as inner classes should be loaded using the same class loader. So there is no need to check the access conditions even if a security manager is present.

Please be aware: It is required to use getEnclosingConstructor() for constructors. During blocks outside of (named) methods, getEnclosingMethod() returns null.

How to compare two java objects

You need to implement the equals() method in your MyClass.

The reason that == didn't work is this is checking that they refer to the same instance. Since you did new for each, each one is a different instance.

The reason that equals() didn't work is because you didn't implement it yourself yet. I believe it's default behavior is the same thing as ==.

Note that you should also implement hashcode() if you're going to implement equals() because a lot of java.util Collections expect that.

What is the difference between Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab?

At this time (mid 2019), with JupyterLab 1.0 release, as a user, I think we should adopt JupyterLab for daily use. And from the JupyterLab official documentation:

The current release of JupyterLab is suitable for general daily use.

and

JupyterLab will eventually replace the classic Jupyter Notebook. Throughout this transition, the same notebook document format will be supported by both the classic Notebook and JupyterLab.


Note that JupyterLab has a extensible modular architecture. So in the old days, there is just one Jupyter Notebook, and now with JupyterLab (and in the future), Notebook is just one of the core applications in JupyterLab (along with others like code Console, command-line Terminal, and a Text Editor).

CSS property to pad text inside of div

The CSS property you are looking for is padding. The problem with padding is that it adds to the width of the original element, so if you have a div with a width of 300px, and add 10px of padding to it, the width will now be 320px (10px on the left and 10px on the right).

To prevent this you can add box-sizing: border-box; to the div, this makes it maintain the designated width, even if you add padding. So your CSS would look like this:

div {
    box-sizing: border-box;
    padding: 10px;
}

you can read more about box-sizing and it's overall browser support here:

http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/

Binary search (bisection) in Python

Simplest is to use bisect and check one position back to see if the item is there:

def binary_search(a,x,lo=0,hi=-1):
    i = bisect(a,x,lo,hi)
    if i == 0:
        return -1
    elif a[i-1] == x:
        return i-1
    else:
        return -1

Select datatype of the field in postgres

Try this request :

SELECT column_name, data_type FROM information_schema.columns WHERE 
table_name = 'YOUR_TABLE' AND column_name = 'YOUR_FIELD';

Adding a HTTP header to the Angular HttpClient doesn't send the header, why?

In my legacy app Array.from of prototype js was conflicting with angular's Array.from that was causing this problem. I resolved it by saving angular's Array.from version and reassigning it after prototype load.

Force table column widths to always be fixed regardless of contents

This works for me

td::after { 
content: ''; 
display: block; 
width: 30px;
}

Whitespaces in java

If you can use apache.commons.lang in your project, the easiest way would be just to use the method provided there:

public static boolean containsWhitespace(CharSequence seq)

Check whether the given CharSequence contains any whitespace characters.

Parameters:

seq - the CharSequence to check (may be null) 

Returns:

true if the CharSequence is not empty and contains at least 1 whitespace character

It handles empty and null parameters and provides the functionality at a central place.

'namespace' but is used like a 'type'

I suspect you've got the same problem at least twice.

Here:

namespace TimeTest
{
    class TimeTest
    {
}

... you're declaring a type with the same name as the namespace it's in. Don't do that.

Now you apparently have the same problem with Time2. I suspect if you add:

using Time2;

to your list of using directives, your code will compile. But please, please, please fix the bigger problem: the problematic choice of names. (Follow the link above to find out more details of why it's a bad idea.)

(Additionally, unless you're really interested in writing time-based types, I'd advise you not to do so... and I say that as someone who does do exactly that. Use the built-in capabilities, or a third party library such as, um, mine. Working with dates and times correctly is surprisingly hairy. :)

Force div element to stay in same place, when page is scrolled

Use position: fixed instead of position: absolute.

See here.

How to create own dynamic type or dynamic object in C#?

I recently had a need to take this one step further, which was to make the property additions in the dynamic object, dynamic themselves, based on user defined entries. The examples here, and from Microsoft's ExpandoObject documentation, do not specifically address adding properties dynamically, but, can be surmised from how you enumerate and delete properties. Anyhow, I thought this might be helpful to someone. Here is an extremely simplified version of how to add truly dynamic properties to an ExpandoObject (ignoring keyword and other handling):

        // my pretend dataset
        List<string> fields = new List<string>();
        // my 'columns'
        fields.Add("this_thing");
        fields.Add("that_thing");
        fields.Add("the_other");

        dynamic exo = new System.Dynamic.ExpandoObject();

        foreach (string field in fields)
        {
            ((IDictionary<String, Object>)exo).Add(field, field + "_data");
        }

        // output - from Json.Net NuGet package
        textBox1.Text = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(exo);

The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value

If you ahve access to the DB, you can change the DB column type from datetime to datetime2(7) it will still send a datetime object and it will be saved

Set field value with reflection

You can try this:

static class Student {
    private int age;
    private int number;

    public Student(int age, int number) {
        this.age = age;
        this.number = number;
    }

    public Student() {
    }
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IllegalAccessException, NoSuchFieldException {
    Student student1=new Student();
   // Class g=student1.getClass();
    Field[]fields=student1.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
    Field age=student1.getClass().getDeclaredField("age");
    age.setAccessible(true);
    age.setInt(student1,13);
    Field number=student1.getClass().getDeclaredField("number");
    number.setAccessible(true);
    number.setInt(student1,936);

    for (Field f:fields
         ) {
        f.setAccessible(true);

        System.out.println(f.getName()+" "+f.getInt(student1));

    }
}

}

LINQ query to select top five

The solution:

var list = (from t in ctn.Items
           where t.DeliverySelection == true && t.Delivery.SentForDelivery == null
           orderby t.Delivery.SubmissionDate
           select t).Take(5);

How to convert a datetime to string in T-SQL

Try below :

DECLARE @myDateTime DATETIME
SET @myDateTime = '2013-02-02'

-- Convert to string now
SELECT LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, @myDateTime, 120), 10)

Pass a data.frame column name to a function

This answer will cover many of the same elements as existing answers, but this issue (passing column names to functions) comes up often enough that I wanted there to be an answer that covered things a little more comprehensively.

Suppose we have a very simple data frame:

dat <- data.frame(x = 1:4,
                  y = 5:8)

and we'd like to write a function that creates a new column z that is the sum of columns x and y.

A very common stumbling block here is that a natural (but incorrect) attempt often looks like this:

foo <- function(df,col_name,col1,col2){
      df$col_name <- df$col1 + df$col2
      df
}

#Call foo() like this:    
foo(dat,z,x,y)

The problem here is that df$col1 doesn't evaluate the expression col1. It simply looks for a column in df literally called col1. This behavior is described in ?Extract under the section "Recursive (list-like) Objects".

The simplest, and most often recommended solution is simply switch from $ to [[ and pass the function arguments as strings:

new_column1 <- function(df,col_name,col1,col2){
    #Create new column col_name as sum of col1 and col2
    df[[col_name]] <- df[[col1]] + df[[col2]]
    df
}

> new_column1(dat,"z","x","y")
  x y  z
1 1 5  6
2 2 6  8
3 3 7 10
4 4 8 12

This is often considered "best practice" since it is the method that is hardest to screw up. Passing the column names as strings is about as unambiguous as you can get.

The following two options are more advanced. Many popular packages make use of these kinds of techniques, but using them well requires more care and skill, as they can introduce subtle complexities and unanticipated points of failure. This section of Hadley's Advanced R book is an excellent reference for some of these issues.

If you really want to save the user from typing all those quotes, one option might be to convert bare, unquoted column names to strings using deparse(substitute()):

new_column2 <- function(df,col_name,col1,col2){
    col_name <- deparse(substitute(col_name))
    col1 <- deparse(substitute(col1))
    col2 <- deparse(substitute(col2))

    df[[col_name]] <- df[[col1]] + df[[col2]]
    df
}

> new_column2(dat,z,x,y)
  x y  z
1 1 5  6
2 2 6  8
3 3 7 10
4 4 8 12

This is, frankly, a bit silly probably, since we're really doing the same thing as in new_column1, just with a bunch of extra work to convert bare names to strings.

Finally, if we want to get really fancy, we might decide that rather than passing in the names of two columns to add, we'd like to be more flexible and allow for other combinations of two variables. In that case we'd likely resort to using eval() on an expression involving the two columns:

new_column3 <- function(df,col_name,expr){
    col_name <- deparse(substitute(col_name))
    df[[col_name]] <- eval(substitute(expr),df,parent.frame())
    df
}

Just for fun, I'm still using deparse(substitute()) for the name of the new column. Here, all of the following will work:

> new_column3(dat,z,x+y)
  x y  z
1 1 5  6
2 2 6  8
3 3 7 10
4 4 8 12
> new_column3(dat,z,x-y)
  x y  z
1 1 5 -4
2 2 6 -4
3 3 7 -4
4 4 8 -4
> new_column3(dat,z,x*y)
  x y  z
1 1 5  5
2 2 6 12
3 3 7 21
4 4 8 32

So the short answer is basically: pass data.frame column names as strings and use [[ to select single columns. Only start delving into eval, substitute, etc. if you really know what you're doing.

How to split a string literal across multiple lines in C / Objective-C?

GCC adds C++ multiline raw string literals as a C extension

C++11 has raw string literals as mentioned at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44337236/895245

However, GCC also adds them as a C extension, you just have to use -std=gnu99 instead of -std=c99. E.g.:

main.c

#include <assert.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
    assert(strcmp(R"(
a
b
)", "\na\nb\n") == 0);
}

Compile and run:

gcc -o main -pedantic -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra main.c
./main

This can be used for example to insert multiline inline assembly into C code: How to write multiline inline assembly code in GCC C++?

Now you just have to lay back, and wait for it to be standardized on C20XY.

C++ was asked at: C++ multiline string literal

Tested on Ubuntu 16.04, GCC 6.4.0, binutils 2.26.1.

How can I find out what version of git I'm running?

If you're using the command-line tools, running git --version should give you the version number.

DataFrame constructor not properly called! error

You are providing a string representation of a dict to the DataFrame constructor, and not a dict itself. So this is the reason you get that error.

So if you want to use your code, you could do:

df = DataFrame(eval(data))

But better would be to not create the string in the first place, but directly putting it in a dict. Something roughly like:

data = []
for row in result_set:
    data.append({'value': row["tag_expression"], 'key': row["tag_name"]})

But probably even this is not needed, as depending on what is exactly in your result_set you could probably:

  • provide this directly to a DataFrame: DataFrame(result_set)
  • or use the pandas read_sql_query function to do this for you (see docs on this)

Why am I getting ImportError: No module named pip ' right after installing pip?

I'v solved this error by setting the correct path variables

    C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Scripts
    C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Lib\site-packages

CSS transition effect makes image blurry / moves image 1px, in Chrome?

I recommended an experimental new attribute CSS I tested on latest browser and it's good:

image-rendering: optimizeSpeed;             /*                     */
image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges;          /* Firefox             */
image-rendering: -o-crisp-edges;            /* Opera               */
image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast; /* Chrome (and Safari) */
image-rendering: optimize-contrast;         /* CSS3 Proposed       */
-ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor;   /* IE8+                */

With this the browser will know the algorithm for rendering

push_back vs emplace_back

One more example for lists:

// constructs the elements in place.                                                
emplace_back("element");

// creates a new object and then copies (or moves) that object.
push_back(ExplicitDataType{"element"});

What are bitwise shift (bit-shift) operators and how do they work?

One gotcha is that the following is implementation dependent (according to the ANSI standard):

char x = -1;
x >> 1;

x can now be 127 (01111111) or still -1 (11111111).

In practice, it's usually the latter.

Graph implementation C++

There can be an even simpler representation assuming that one has to only test graph algorithms not use them(graph) else where. This can be as a map from vertices to their adjacency lists as shown below :-

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

/* implement the graph as a map from the integer index as a key to the   adjacency list
 * of the graph implemented as a vector being the value of each individual key. The
 * program will be given a matrix of numbers, the first element of each row will
 * represent the head of the adjacency list and the rest of the elements will be the
 * list of that element in the graph.
*/

typedef map<int, vector<int> > graphType;

int main(){

graphType graph;
int vertices = 0;

cout << "Please enter the number of vertices in the graph :- " << endl;
cin >> vertices;
if(vertices <= 0){
    cout << "The number of vertices in the graph can't be less than or equal to 0." << endl;
    exit(0);
}

cout << "Please enter the elements of the graph, as an adjacency list, one row after another. " << endl;
for(int i = 0; i <= vertices; i++){

    vector<int> adjList;                    //the vector corresponding to the adjacency list of each vertex

    int key = -1, listValue = -1;
    string listString;
    getline(cin, listString);
    if(i != 0){
        istringstream iss(listString);
        iss >> key;
        iss >> listValue;
        if(listValue != -1){
            adjList.push_back(listValue);
            for(; iss >> listValue; ){
                adjList.push_back(listValue);
            }
            graph.insert(graphType::value_type(key, adjList));
        }
        else
            graph.insert(graphType::value_type(key, adjList));
    }
}

//print the elements of the graph
cout << "The graph that you entered :- " << endl;
for(graphType::const_iterator iterator = graph.begin(); iterator != graph.end(); ++iterator){
    cout << "Key : " << iterator->first << ", values : ";

    vector<int>::const_iterator vectBegIter = iterator->second.begin();
    vector<int>::const_iterator vectEndIter = iterator->second.end();
    for(; vectBegIter != vectEndIter; ++vectBegIter){
        cout << *(vectBegIter) << ", ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}
}

Integration Testing POSTing an entire object to Spring MVC controller

Another way to solve with Reflection, but without marshalling:

I have this abstract helper class:

public abstract class MvcIntegrationTestUtils {

       public static MockHttpServletRequestBuilder postForm(String url,
                 Object modelAttribute, String... propertyPaths) {

              try {
                     MockHttpServletRequestBuilder form = post(url).characterEncoding(
                           "UTF-8").contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED);

                     for (String path : propertyPaths) {
                            form.param(path, BeanUtils.getProperty(modelAttribute, path));
                     }

                     return form;

              } catch (Exception e) {
                     throw new RuntimeException(e);
              }
     }
}

You use it like this:

// static import (optional)
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.*;

// in your test method, populate your model attribute object (yes, works with nested properties)
BlogSetup bgs = new BlogSetup();
      bgs.getBlog().setBlogTitle("Test Blog");
      bgs.getUser().setEmail("[email protected]");
    bgs.getUser().setFirstName("Administrator");
      bgs.getUser().setLastName("Localhost");
      bgs.getUser().setPassword("password");

// finally put it together
mockMvc.perform(
            postForm("/blogs/create", bgs, "blog.blogTitle", "user.email",
                    "user.firstName", "user.lastName", "user.password"))
            .andExpect(status().isOk())

I have deduced it is better to be able to mention the property paths when building the form, since I need to vary that in my tests. For example, I might want to check if I get a validation error on a missing input and I'll leave out the property path to simulate the condition. I also find it easier to build my model attributes in a @Before method.

The BeanUtils is from commons-beanutils:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
        <version>1.8.3</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

How to render a DateTime object in a Twig template

I know this is a pretty old question, but I found this question today, but the answers were not what I needed.

So here's what I needed.

If you, like me, are looking to display the current date in twig, you can use the following:

{{ "now"|date("m/d/Y") }}

See documentation about this:

date in twig

Should a retrieval method return 'null' or throw an exception when it can't produce the return value?

I just wanted to recapitulate the options mentioned before, throwing some new ones in:

  1. return null
  2. throw an Exception
  3. use the null object pattern
  4. provide a boolean parameter to you method, so the caller can chose if he wants you to throw an exception
  5. provide an extra parameter, so the caller can set a value which he gets back if no value is found

Or you might combine these options:

Provide several overloaded versions of your getter, so the caller can decide which way to go. In most cases, only the first one has an implementation of the search algorithm, and the other ones just wrap around the first one:

Object findObjectOrNull(String key);
Object findObjectOrThrow(String key) throws SomeException;
Object findObjectOrCreate(String key, SomeClass dataNeededToCreateNewObject);
Object findObjectOrDefault(String key, Object defaultReturnValue);

Even if you choose to provide only one implementation, you might want to use a naming convention like that to clarify your contract, and it helps you should you ever decide to add other implementations as well.

You should not overuse it, but it may be helpfull, espeacially when writing a helper Class which you will use in hundreds of different applications with many different error handling conventions.

How to sort in-place using the merge sort algorithm?

It really isn't easy or efficient, and I suggest you don't do it unless you really have to (and you probably don't have to unless this is homework since the applications of inplace merging are mostly theoretical). Can't you use quicksort instead? Quicksort will be faster anyway with a few simpler optimizations and its extra memory is O(log N).

Anyway, if you must do it then you must. Here's what I found: one and two. I'm not familiar with the inplace merge sort, but it seems like the basic idea is to use rotations to facilitate merging two arrays without using extra memory.

Note that this is slower even than the classic merge sort that's not inplace.

Check if string begins with something?

A little more reusable function:

beginsWith = function(needle, haystack){
    return (haystack.substr(0, needle.length) == needle);
}

@selector() in Swift?

Create Refresh control using Selector method.   
    var refreshCntrl : UIRefreshControl!
    refreshCntrl = UIRefreshControl()
    refreshCntrl.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    refreshCntrl.attributedTitle = NSAttributedString(string: "Please Wait...")
    refreshCntrl.addTarget(self, action:"refreshControlValueChanged", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.ValueChanged)
    atableView.addSubview(refreshCntrl)

//Refresh Control Method

func refreshControlValueChanged(){
    atableView.reloadData()
    refreshCntrl.endRefreshing()

}

'Best' practice for restful POST response

Returning the whole object on an update would not seem very relevant, but I can hardly see why returning the whole object when it is created would be a bad practice in a normal use case. This would be useful at least to get the ID easily and to get the timestamps when relevant. This is actually the default behavior got when scaffolding with Rails.

I really do not see any advantage to returning only the ID and doing a GET request after, to get the data you could have got with your initial POST.

Anyway as long as your API is consistent I think that you should choose the pattern that fits your needs the best. There is not any correct way of how to build a REST API, imo.

Change Screen Orientation programmatically using a Button

A working code:

private void changeScreenOrientation() {
    int orientation = yourActivityName.this.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation;
    if (orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
        showMediaDescription();
    } else {
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
        hideMediaDescription();
    }
    if (Settings.System.getInt(getContentResolver(),
            Settings.System.ACCELEROMETER_ROTATION, 0) == 1) {
        Handler handler = new Handler();
        handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR);
            }
        }, 4000);
    }
}

call this method in your button click

How can I change from SQL Server Windows mode to mixed mode (SQL Server 2008)?

If the problem is that you don't have access to SQL Server and now you are using mixed mode to enable sa or grant an account admin privileges, then it is far easier just to uninstall SQL Server and reinstall.

kill -3 to get java thread dump

There is a way to redirect JVM thread dump output on break signal to separate file with LogVMOutput diagnostic option:

-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+LogVMOutput -XX:LogFile=jvm.log

In LINQ, select all values of property X where X != null

There is no way to skip a check if it exists.

Can't fix Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 even after fixing compatibility

Its a silly problem, just make sure that the jdk and jre are latest version. This problem mainly occurs due to the automatic update of java(jre) and the jdk is not supported to that version, this makes problem.

How to check if a process is running via a batch script

I'm assuming windows here. So, you'll need to use WMI to get that information. Check out The Scripting Guy's archives for a lot of examples on how to use WMI from a script.

Equal sized table cells to fill the entire width of the containing table

Just use percentage widths and fixed table layout:

<table>
<tr>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>3</td>
</tr>
</table>

with

table { table-layout: fixed; }
td { width: 33%; }

Fixed table layout is important as otherwise the browser will adjust the widths as it sees fit if the contents don't fit ie the widths are otherwise a suggestion not a rule without fixed table layout.

Obviously, adjust the CSS to fit your circumstances, which usually means applying the styling only to a tables with a given class or possibly with a given ID.

C# Copy a file to another location with a different name

You can use either File.Copy(oldFilePath, newFilePath) method or other way is, read file using StreamReader into an string and then use StreamWriter to write the file to destination location.

Your code might look like this :

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("C:\foo.txt");
string fileContent = reader.ReadToEnd();

StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("D:\bar.txt");
writer.Write(fileContent);

You can add exception handling code...

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dalvik.system.PathClassLoader

-if gradle.properties not available then first add that file and add android.useDeprecatedNdk=true

-use this code in build.gradle

defaultConfig {
    applicationId 'com.example.application'
    minSdkVersion 16
    targetSdkVersion 21
    versionCode 11
    versionName "1.1"
    ndk {
        abiFilters "armeabi"
    }
}

`

angular.js ng-repeat li items with html content

use ng-bind-html-unsafe

it will apply html with text inside like below:

    <li ng-repeat=" opt in opts" ng-bind-html-unsafe="opt.text" >
        {{ opt.text }}
    </li>

Add CSS or JavaScript files to layout head from views or partial views

I had a similar problem, and ended up applying Kalman's excellent answer with the code below (not quite as neat, but arguably more expansible):

namespace MvcHtmlHelpers
{
    //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5110028/add-css-or-js-files-to-layout-head-from-views-or-partial-views#5148224
    public static partial class HtmlExtensions
    {
        public static AssetsHelper Assets(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper)
        {
            return AssetsHelper.GetInstance(htmlHelper);
        }
    }
    public enum BrowserType { Ie6=1,Ie7=2,Ie8=4,IeLegacy=7,W3cCompliant=8,All=15}
    public class AssetsHelper
    {
        public static AssetsHelper GetInstance(HtmlHelper htmlHelper)
        {
            var instanceKey = "AssetsHelperInstance";
            var context = htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext;
            if (context == null) {return null;}
            var assetsHelper = (AssetsHelper)context.Items[instanceKey];
            if (assetsHelper == null){context.Items.Add(instanceKey, assetsHelper = new AssetsHelper(htmlHelper));}
            return assetsHelper;
        }
        private readonly List<string> _styleRefs = new List<string>();
        public AssetsHelper AddStyle(string stylesheet)
        {
            _styleRefs.Add(stylesheet);
            return this;
        }
        private readonly List<string> _scriptRefs = new List<string>();
        public AssetsHelper AddScript(string scriptfile)
        {
            _scriptRefs.Add(scriptfile);
            return this;
        }
        public IHtmlString RenderStyles()
        {
            ItemRegistrar styles = new ItemRegistrar(ItemRegistrarFormatters.StyleFormat,_urlHelper);
            styles.Add(Libraries.UsedStyles());
            styles.Add(_styleRefs);
            return styles.Render();
        }
        public IHtmlString RenderScripts()
        {
            ItemRegistrar scripts = new ItemRegistrar(ItemRegistrarFormatters.ScriptFormat, _urlHelper);
            scripts.Add(Libraries.UsedScripts());
            scripts.Add(_scriptRefs);
            return scripts.Render();
        }
        public LibraryRegistrar Libraries { get; private set; }
        private UrlHelper _urlHelper;
        public AssetsHelper(HtmlHelper htmlHelper)
        {
            _urlHelper = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext);
            Libraries = new LibraryRegistrar();
        }
    }
    public class LibraryRegistrar
    {
        public class Component
        {
            internal class HtmlReference
            {
                internal string Url { get; set; }
                internal BrowserType ServeTo { get; set; }
            }
            internal List<HtmlReference> Styles { get; private set; }
            internal List<HtmlReference> Scripts { get; private set; }
            internal List<string> RequiredLibraries { get; private set; }

            public Component()
            {
                Styles = new List<HtmlReference>();
                Scripts = new List<HtmlReference>();
                RequiredLibraries = new List<string>();
            }
            public Component Requires(params string[] libraryNames)
            {
                foreach (var lib in libraryNames)
                {
                    if (!RequiredLibraries.Contains(lib))
                        { RequiredLibraries.Add(lib); }
                }
                return this;
            }
            public Component AddStyle(string url, BrowserType serveTo = BrowserType.All)
            {
                Styles.Add(new HtmlReference { Url = url, ServeTo=serveTo });
                return this;
            }
            public Component AddScript(string url, BrowserType serveTo = BrowserType.All)
            {
                Scripts.Add(new HtmlReference { Url = url, ServeTo = serveTo });
                return this;
            }
        }
        private readonly Dictionary<string, Component> _allLibraries = new Dictionary<string, Component>();
        private List<string> _usedLibraries = new List<string>();
        internal IEnumerable<string> UsedScripts()
        {
            SetOrder();
            var returnVal = new List<string>();
            foreach (var key in _usedLibraries)
            {
                returnVal.AddRange(from s in _allLibraries[key].Scripts
                                   where IncludesCurrentBrowser(s.ServeTo)
                                   select s.Url);
            }
            return returnVal;
        }
        internal IEnumerable<string> UsedStyles()
        {
            SetOrder();
            var returnVal = new List<string>();
            foreach (var key in _usedLibraries)
            {
                returnVal.AddRange(from s in _allLibraries[key].Styles
                                   where IncludesCurrentBrowser(s.ServeTo)
                                   select s.Url);
            }
            return returnVal;
        }
        public void Uses(params string[] libraryNames)
        {
            foreach (var name in libraryNames)
            {
                if (!_usedLibraries.Contains(name)){_usedLibraries.Add(name);}
            }
        }
        public bool IsUsing(string libraryName)
        {
            SetOrder();
            return _usedLibraries.Contains(libraryName);
        }
        private List<string> WalkLibraryTree(List<string> libraryNames)
        {
            var returnList = new List<string>(libraryNames);
            int counter = 0;
            foreach (string libraryName in libraryNames)
            {
                WalkLibraryTree(libraryName, ref returnList, ref counter);
            }
            return returnList;
        }
        private void WalkLibraryTree(string libraryName, ref List<string> libBuild, ref int counter)
        {
            if (counter++ > 1000) { throw new System.Exception("Dependancy library appears to be in infinate loop - please check for circular reference"); }
            Component library;
            if (!_allLibraries.TryGetValue(libraryName, out library))
                { throw new KeyNotFoundException("Cannot find a definition for the required style/script library named: " + libraryName); }
            foreach (var childLibraryName in library.RequiredLibraries)
            {
                int childIndex = libBuild.IndexOf(childLibraryName);
                if (childIndex!=-1)
                {
                    //child already exists, so move parent to position before child if it isn't before already
                    int parentIndex = libBuild.LastIndexOf(libraryName);
                    if (parentIndex>childIndex)
                    {
                        libBuild.RemoveAt(parentIndex);
                        libBuild.Insert(childIndex, libraryName);
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    libBuild.Add(childLibraryName);
                    WalkLibraryTree(childLibraryName, ref libBuild, ref counter);
                }
            }
            return;
        }
        private bool _dependenciesExpanded;
        private void SetOrder()
        {
            if (_dependenciesExpanded){return;}
            _usedLibraries = WalkLibraryTree(_usedLibraries);
            _usedLibraries.Reverse();
            _dependenciesExpanded = true;
        }
        public Component this[string index]
        {
            get
            {
                if (_allLibraries.ContainsKey(index))
                    { return _allLibraries[index]; }
                var newComponent = new Component();
                _allLibraries.Add(index, newComponent);
                return newComponent;
            }
        }
        private BrowserType _requestingBrowser;
        private BrowserType RequestingBrowser
        {
            get
            {
                if (_requestingBrowser == 0)
                {
                    var browser = HttpContext.Current.Request.Browser.Type;
                    if (browser.Length > 2 && browser.Substring(0, 2) == "IE")
                    {
                        switch (browser[2])
                        {
                            case '6':
                                _requestingBrowser = BrowserType.Ie6;
                                break;
                            case '7':
                                _requestingBrowser = BrowserType.Ie7;
                                break;
                            case '8':
                                _requestingBrowser = BrowserType.Ie8;
                                break;
                            default:
                                _requestingBrowser = BrowserType.W3cCompliant;
                                break;
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        _requestingBrowser = BrowserType.W3cCompliant;
                    }
                }
                return _requestingBrowser;
            }
        }
        private bool IncludesCurrentBrowser(BrowserType browserType)
        {
            if (browserType == BrowserType.All) { return true; }
            return (browserType & RequestingBrowser) != 0;
        }
    }
    public class ItemRegistrar
    {
        private readonly string _format;
        private readonly List<string> _items;
        private readonly UrlHelper _urlHelper;

        public ItemRegistrar(string format, UrlHelper urlHelper)
        {
            _format = format;
            _items = new List<string>();
            _urlHelper = urlHelper;
        }
        internal void Add(IEnumerable<string> urls)
        {
            foreach (string url in urls)
            {
                Add(url);
            }
        }
        public ItemRegistrar Add(string url)
        {
            url = _urlHelper.Content(url);
            if (!_items.Contains(url))
                { _items.Add( url); }
            return this;
        }
        public IHtmlString Render()
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (var item in _items)
            {
                var fmt = string.Format(_format, item);
                sb.AppendLine(fmt);
            }
            return new HtmlString(sb.ToString());
        }
    }
    public class ItemRegistrarFormatters
    {
        public const string StyleFormat = "<link href=\"{0}\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" />";
        public const string ScriptFormat = "<script src=\"{0}\" type=\"text/javascript\"></script>";
    }
}

The project contains a static AssignAllResources method:

assets.Libraries["jQuery"]
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/jquery-1.10.0.min.js", BrowserType.IeLegacy)
        .AddScript("~/Scripts//jquery-2.0.1.min.js",BrowserType.W3cCompliant);
        /* NOT HOSTED YET - CHECK SOON 
        .AddScript("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.1/jquery.min.js",BrowserType.W3cCompliant);
        */
    assets.Libraries["jQueryUI"].Requires("jQuery")
        .AddScript("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.9.2/jquery-ui.min.js",BrowserType.Ie6)
        .AddStyle("//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.9.2/themes/eggplant/jquery-ui.css",BrowserType.Ie6)
        .AddScript("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js", ~BrowserType.Ie6)
        .AddStyle("//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.10.3/themes/eggplant/jquery-ui.css", ~BrowserType.Ie6);
    assets.Libraries["TimePicker"].Requires("jQueryUI")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/jquery-ui-sliderAccess.min.js")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon-1.3.min.js")
        .AddStyle("~/Content/jQueryUI/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.css");
    assets.Libraries["Validation"].Requires("jQuery")
        .AddScript("//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.11.1/jquery.validate.min.js")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/mvcfoolproof.unobtrusive.min.js")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/CustomClientValidation-1.0.0.min.js");
    assets.Libraries["MyUtilityScripts"].Requires("jQuery")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/GeneralOnLoad-1.0.0.min.js");
    assets.Libraries["FormTools"].Requires("Validation", "MyUtilityScripts");
    assets.Libraries["AjaxFormTools"].Requires("FormTools", "jQueryUI")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js");
    assets.Libraries["DataTables"].Requires("MyUtilityScripts")
        .AddScript("//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min.js")
        .AddStyle("//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/css/jquery.dataTables.css")
        .AddStyle("//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/css/jquery.dataTables_themeroller.css");
    assets.Libraries["MvcDataTables"].Requires("DataTables", "jQueryUI")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/jquery.dataTables.columnFilter.min.js");
    assets.Libraries["DummyData"].Requires("MyUtilityScripts")
        .AddScript("~/Scripts/DummyData.js")
        .AddStyle("~/Content/DummyData.css");     

in the _layout page

@{
    var assets = Html.Assets();
    CurrentResources.AssignAllResources(assets);
    Html.Assets().RenderStyles()
}
</head>
...
    @Html.Assets().RenderScripts()
</body>

and in the partial(s) and views

Html.Assets().Libraries.Uses("DataTables");
Html.Assets().AddScript("~/Scripts/emailGridUtilities.js");

Regular expression include and exclude special characters

You haven't actually asked a question, but assuming you have one, this could be your answer...

Assuming all characters, except the "Special Characters" are allowed you can write

String regex = "^[^<>'\"/;`%]*$";

How do I convert between big-endian and little-endian values in C++?

i like this one, just for style :-)

long swap(long i) {
    char *c = (char *) &i;
    return * (long *) (char[]) {c[3], c[2], c[1], c[0] };
}

Android SharedPreferences in Fragment

You can make the SharedPrefences in onAttach method of fragment like this:

@Override
public void onAttach(Context context) {
    super.onAttach(context);
    SharedPreferences preferences = context.getSharedPreferences("pref", 0);
}

how to start stop tomcat server using CMD?

I have just downloaded Tomcat and want to stop it (Windows).

  1. To stop tomcat

    • run cmd as administrator (I used Cmder)

    • find process ID

tasklist /fi "Imagename eq tomcat*"

C:\Users\Admin
tasklist /fi "Imagename eq tomcat*"

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
Tomcat8aaw.exe                6376 Console                    1      7,300 K
Tomcat8aa.exe                 5352 Services                   0    124,748 K
  • stop prosess with pid 6376

C:\Users\Admin

taskkill /f /pid 6376

SUCCESS: The process with PID 6376 has been terminated.

  • stop process with pid 5352

C:\Users\Admin

taskkill /f /pid 5352

SUCCESS: The process with PID 5352 has been terminated.

In Postgresql, force unique on combination of two columns

Create unique constraint that two numbers together CANNOT together be repeated:

ALTER TABLE someTable
ADD UNIQUE (col1, col2)

Correct MIME Type for favicon.ico?

When you're serving an .ico file to be used as a favicon, it doesn't matter. All major browsers recognize both mime types correctly. So you could put:

<!-- IE -->
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<!-- other browsers -->
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />

or the same with image/vnd.microsoft.icon, and it will work with all browsers.

Note: There is no IANA specification for the MIME-type image/x-icon, so it does appear that it is a little more unofficial than image/vnd.microsoft.icon.

The only case in which there is a difference is if you were trying to use an .ico file in an <img> tag (which is pretty unusual). Based on previous testing, some browsers would only display .ico files as images when they were served with the MIME-type image/x-icon. More recent tests show: Chromium, Firefox and Edge are fine with both content types, IE11 is not. If you can, just avoid using ico files as images, use png.

How to connect Bitbucket to Jenkins properly

I had a similar problems, till I got it working. Below is the full listing of the integration:

  1. Generate public/private keys pair: ssh-keygen -t rsa
  2. Copy the public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) and paste it in Bitbucket SSH keys, in user’s account management console: enter image description here

  3. Copy the private key (~/.ssh/id_rsa) to new user (or even existing one) with private key credentials, in this case, username will not make a difference, so username can be anything: enter image description here

  4. run this command to test if you can get access to Bitbucket account: ssh -T [email protected]

  5. OPTIONAL: Now, you can use your git to to copy repo to your desk without passwjord git clone [email protected]:username/repo_name.git
  6. Now you can enable Bitbucket hooks for Jenkins push notifications and automatic builds, you will do that in 2 steps:

    1. Add an authentication token inside the job/project you configure, it can be anything: enter image description here

    2. In Bitbucket hooks: choose jenkins hooks, and fill the fields as below: enter image description here

Where:

**End point**: username:usertoken@jenkins_domain_or_ip
**Project name**: is the name of job you created on Jenkins
**Token**: Is the authorization token you added in the above steps in your Jenkins' job/project 

Recommendation: I usually add the usertoken as the authorization Token (in both Jenkins Auth Token job configuration and Bitbucket hooks), making them one variable to ease things on myself.

Regular Expression Validation For Indian Phone Number and Mobile number

All mobile numbers in India start with 9, 8, 7 or 6. Now, there is a chance that you are not bothering about the prefixes (+91 or 0). If this is your scenario, then you can take the help from the website regextester.com or you can use r'^(+91[-\s]?)?[0]?(91)?[789]\d{9}$'

And if you want to validate the Phone number with prefixes(+91 or 0) then use : r'^[6-9]\d{9}$'.

Pointers in JavaScript?

This question may help: How to pass variable by reference in javascript? Read data from ActiveX function which returns more than one value

To summarise, Javascript primitive types are always passed by value, whereas the values inside objects are passed by reference (thanks to commenters for pointing out my oversight). So to get round this, you have to put your integer inside an object:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var myobj = {x:0};_x000D_
_x000D_
function a(obj)_x000D_
{_x000D_
    obj.x++;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
a(myobj);_x000D_
alert(myobj.x); // returns 1_x000D_
_x000D_
  
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

CertPathValidatorException : Trust anchor for certificate path not found - Retrofit Android

You are converting cert into BKS Keystore, why aren't you using .cert directly, from https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-ssl.html:

CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
InputStream instream = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.gtux_cert);
Certificate ca;
try {
    ca = cf.generateCertificate(instream);
} finally {
    caInput.close();
}

KeyStore kStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
kStore.load(null, null);
kStore.setCertificateEntry("ca", ca);

TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm(););
tmf.init(kStore);

SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
context.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);

okHttpClient.setSslSocketFactory(context.getSocketFactory());

Adding delay between execution of two following lines

If you're targeting iOS 4.0+, you can do the following:

[executing first operation];
double delayInSeconds = 2.0;
dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(delayInSeconds * NSEC_PER_SEC));
dispatch_after(popTime, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
    [executing second operation];
});

ElasticSearch - Return Unique Values

if you want to get the first document for each language field unique value, you can do this:

{
 "query": {
    "match_all": {
    }
  },
  "collapse": {
    "field": "language.keyword",
    "inner_hits": {
    "name": "latest",
      "size": 1
    }
  }
}

Notification Icon with the new Firebase Cloud Messaging system

Thought I would add an answer to this one, since my problem was simple but hard to notice. In particular I had copy/pasted an existing meta-data element when creating my com.google.firebase.messaging.default_notification_icon, which used an android:value tag to specify its value. This will not work for the notification icon, and once I changed it to android:resource everything worked as expected.

How to use nan and inf in C?

There is no compiler independent way of doing this, as neither the C (nor the C++) standards say that the floating point math types must support NAN or INF.

Edit: I just checked the wording of the C++ standard, and it says that these functions (members of the templated class numeric_limits):

quiet_NaN() 
signalling_NaN()

wiill return NAN representations "if available". It doesn't expand on what "if available" means, but presumably something like "if the implementation's FP rep supports them". Similarly, there is a function:

infinity() 

which returns a positive INF rep "if available".

These are both defined in the <limits> header - I would guess that the C standard has something similar (probably also "if available") but I don't have a copy of the current C99 standard.

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

<asp:FileUpload ID="FileUploadExcel" ClientIDMode="Static" runat="server" />
<asp:Button ID="btnUpload" ClientIDMode="Static" runat="server" Text="Upload Excel File" />

.

$('#btnUpload').click(function () {
    var uploadpath = $('#FileUploadExcel').val();
    var fileExtension = uploadpath.substring(uploadpath.lastIndexOf(".") + 1, uploadpath.length);

    if ($('#FileUploadExcel').val().length == 0) {
        // write error message
        return false;
    }

    if (fileExtension == "xls" || fileExtension == "xlsx") {
        //write code for success
    }
    else {
        //error code - select only excel files
        return false;
    }

});

How to create an array of object literals in a loop?

If you want to go even further than @tetra with ES6 you can use the Object spread syntax and do something like this:

let john = {
    firstName: "John",
    lastName: "Doe",
};

let people = new Array(10).fill().map((e, i) => {(...john, id: i});

How can I check for existence of element in std::vector, in one line?

int elem = 42;
std::vector<int> v;
v.push_back(elem);
if(std::find(v.begin(), v.end(), elem) != v.end())
{
  //elem exists in the vector
} 

Using msbuild to execute a File System Publish Profile

Found the answer here: http://www.digitallycreated.net/Blog/59/locally-publishing-a-vs2010-asp.net-web-application-using-msbuild

Visual Studio 2010 has great new Web Application Project publishing features that allow you to easy publish your web app project with a click of a button. Behind the scenes the Web.config transformation and package building is done by a massive MSBuild script that’s imported into your project file (found at: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets). Unfortunately, the script is hugely complicated, messy and undocumented (other then some oft-badly spelled and mostly useless comments in the file). A big flowchart of that file and some documentation about how to hook into it would be nice, but seems to be sadly lacking (or at least I can’t find it).

Unfortunately, this means performing publishing via the command line is much more opaque than it needs to be. I was surprised by the lack of documentation in this area, because these days many shops use a continuous integration server and some even do automated deployment (which the VS2010 publishing features could help a lot with), so I would have thought that enabling this (easily!) would be have been a fairly main requirement for the feature.

Anyway, after digging through the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets file for hours and banging my head against the trial and error wall, I’ve managed to figure out how Visual Studio seems to perform its magic one click “Publish to File System” and “Build Deployment Package” features. I’ll be getting into a bit of MSBuild scripting, so if you’re not familiar with MSBuild I suggest you check out this crash course MSDN page.

Publish to File System

The VS2010 Publish To File System Dialog Publish to File System took me a while to nut out because I expected some sensible use of MSBuild to be occurring. Instead, VS2010 does something quite weird: it calls on MSBuild to perform a sort of half-deploy that prepares the web app’s files in your project’s obj folder, then it seems to do a manual copy of those files (ie. outside of MSBuild) into your target publish folder. This is really whack behaviour because MSBuild is designed to copy files around (and other build-related things), so it’d make sense if the whole process was just one MSBuild target that VS2010 called on, not a target then a manual copy.

This means that doing this via MSBuild on the command-line isn’t as simple as invoking your project file with a particular target and setting some properties. You’ll need to do what VS2010 ought to have done: create a target yourself that performs the half-deploy then copies the results to the target folder. To edit your project file, right click on the project in VS2010 and click Unload Project, then right click again and click Edit. Scroll down until you find the Import element that imports the web application targets (Microsoft.WebApplication.targets; this file itself imports the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets file mentioned earlier). Underneath this line we’ll add our new target, called PublishToFileSystem:

<Target Name="PublishToFileSystem"
        DependsOnTargets="PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder">
    <Error Condition="'$(PublishDestination)'==''"
           Text="The PublishDestination property must be set to the intended publishing destination." />
    <MakeDir Condition="!Exists($(PublishDestination))"
             Directories="$(PublishDestination)" />

    <ItemGroup>
        <PublishFiles Include="$(_PackageTempDir)\**\*.*" />
    </ItemGroup>

    <Copy SourceFiles="@(PublishFiles)"
          DestinationFiles="@(PublishFiles->'$(PublishDestination)\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"
          SkipUnchangedFiles="True" />
</Target>

This target depends on the PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder target, which is what VS2010 calls before it does its manual copy. Some digging around in Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets shows that calling this target causes the project files to be placed into the directory specified by the property _PackageTempDir.

The first task we call in our target is the Error task, upon which we’ve placed a condition that ensures that the task only happens if the PublishDestination property hasn’t been set. This will catch you and error out the build in case you’ve forgotten to specify the PublishDestination property. We then call the MakeDir task to create that PublishDestination directory if it doesn’t already exist.

We then define an Item called PublishFiles that represents all the files found under the _PackageTempDir folder. The Copy task is then called which copies all those files to the Publish Destination folder. The DestinationFiles attribute on the Copy element is a bit complex; it performs a transform of the items and converts their paths to new paths rooted at the PublishDestination folder (check out Well-Known Item Metadata to see what those %()s mean).

To call this target from the command-line we can now simply perform this command (obviously changing the project file name and properties to suit you):

msbuild Website.csproj "/p:Platform=AnyCPU;Configuration=Release;PublishDestination=F:\Temp\Publish" /t:PublishToFileSystem

1030 Got error 28 from storage engine

My /tmp was %100. After removing all files and restarting mysql everything worked fine.

Using IF ELSE statement based on Count to execute different Insert statements

Simply use the following:

IF((SELECT count(*) FROM table)=0)
BEGIN

....

END

How to check if a string is numeric?

To check for all int chars, you can simply use a double negative. if (!searchString.matches("[^0-9]+$")) ...

[^0-9]+$ checks to see if there are any characters that are not integer, so the test fails if it's true. Just NOT that and you get true on success.

Saving and loading objects and using pickle

You're forgetting to read it as binary too.

In your write part you have:

open(b"Fruits.obj","wb") # Note the wb part (Write Binary)

In the read part you have:

file = open("Fruits.obj",'r') # Note the r part, there should be a b too

So replace it with:

file = open("Fruits.obj",'rb')

And it will work :)


As for your second error, it is most likely cause by not closing/syncing the file properly.

Try this bit of code to write:

>>> import pickle
>>> filehandler = open(b"Fruits.obj","wb")
>>> pickle.dump(banana,filehandler)
>>> filehandler.close()

And this (unchanged) to read:

>>> import pickle
>>> file = open("Fruits.obj",'rb')
>>> object_file = pickle.load(file)

A neater version would be using the with statement.

For writing:

>>> import pickle
>>> with open('Fruits.obj', 'wb') as fp:
>>>     pickle.dump(banana, fp)

For reading:

>>> import pickle
>>> with open('Fruits.obj', 'rb') as fp:
>>>     banana = pickle.load(fp)

Initialising an array of fixed size in python

>>> n = 5                     #length of list
>>> list = [None] * n         #populate list, length n with n entries "None"
>>> print(list)
[None, None, None, None, None]

>>> list.append(1)            #append 1 to right side of list
>>> list = list[-n:]          #redefine list as the last n elements of list
>>> print(list)
[None, None, None, None, 1]

>>> list.append(1)            #append 1 to right side of list
>>> list = list[-n:]          #redefine list as the last n elements of list
>>> print(list)
[None, None, None, 1, 1]

>>> list.append(1)            #append 1 to right side of list
>>> list = list[-n:]          #redefine list as the last n elements of list
>>> print(list)
[None, None, 1, 1, 1]

or with really nothing in the list to begin with:

>>> n = 5                     #length of list
>>> list = []                 # create list
>>> print(list)
[]

>>> list.append(1)            #append 1 to right side of list
>>> list = list[-n:]          #redefine list as the last n elements of list
>>> print(list)
[1]

on the 4th iteration of append:

>>> list.append(1)            #append 1 to right side of list
>>> list = list[-n:]          #redefine list as the last n elements of list
>>> print(list)
[1,1,1,1]

5 and all subsequent:

>>> list.append(1)            #append 1 to right side of list
>>> list = list[-n:]          #redefine list as the last n elements of list
>>> print(list)
[1,1,1,1,1]

How to create separate AngularJS controller files?

For brevity, here's an ES2015 sample that doesn't rely on global variables

// controllers/example-controller.js

export const ExampleControllerName = "ExampleController"
export const ExampleController = ($scope) => {
  // something... 
}

// controllers/another-controller.js

export const AnotherControllerName = "AnotherController"
export const AnotherController = ($scope) => {
  // functionality... 
}

// app.js

import angular from "angular";

import {
  ExampleControllerName,
  ExampleController
} = "./controllers/example-controller";

import {
  AnotherControllerName,
  AnotherController
} = "./controllers/another-controller";

angular.module("myApp", [/* deps */])
  .controller(ExampleControllerName, ExampleController)
  .controller(AnotherControllerName, AnotherController)

Duplicate line in Visual Studio Code

Use the following: Shift + Alt+(? or ?)

How do I show the changes which have been staged?

USING A VISUAL DIFF TOOL

The Default Answer (at the command line)

The top answers here correctly show how to view the cached/staged changes in the Index:

$ git diff --cached

or $ git diff --staged which is an alias.



Launching the Visual Diff Tool Instead

The default answer will spit out the diff changes at the git bash (i.e. on the command line or in the console). For those who prefer a visual representation of the staged file differences, there is a script available within git which launches a visual diff tool for each file viewed rather than showing them on the command line, called difftool:

$ git difftool --staged

This will do the same this as git diff --staged, except any time the diff tool is run (i.e. every time a file is processed by diff), it will launch the default visual diff tool (in my environment, this is kdiff3).

After the tool launches, the git diff script will pause until your visual diff tool is closed. Therefore, you will need to close each file in order to see the next one.



You Can Always Use difftool in place of diff in git commands

For all your visual diff needs, git difftool will work in place of any git diff command, including all options.

For example, to have the visual diff tool launch without asking whether to do it for each file, add the -y option (I think usually you'll want this!!):

$ git difftool -y --staged

In this case it will pull up each file in the visual diff tool, one at a time, bringing up the next one after the tool is closed.

Or to look at the diff of a particular file that is staged in the Index:

$ git difftool -y --staged <<relative path/filename>>

For all the options, see the man page:

$ git difftool --help


Setting up Visual Git Tool

To use a visual git tool other than the default, use the -t <tool> option:

$ git difftool -t <tool> <<other args>>

Or, see the difftool man page for how to configure git to use a different default visual diff tool.



Example .gitconfig entries for vscode as diff/merge tool

Part of setting up a difftool involves changing the .gitconfig file, either through git commands that change it behind the scenes, or editing it directly.

You can find your .gitconfig in your home directory,such as ~ in Unix or normally c:\users\<username> on Windows).

Or, you can open the user .gitconfig in your default Git editor with git config -e --global.

Here are example entries in my global user .gitconfig for VS Code as both diff tool and merge tool:

[diff]
    tool = vscode
    guitool = vscode
[merge]
    tool = vscode
    guitool = vscode
[mergetool]
    prompt = true
[difftool "vscode"]
    cmd = code --wait --diff \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"
    path = c:/apps/vscode/code.exe
[mergetool "vscode"]
    cmd = code --wait \"$MERGED\"
    path = c:/apps/vscode/code.exe

How to see the changes between two commits without commits in-between?

Let me introduce easy GUI/idiot proof approach that you can take in these situations.

  1. Clone another copy of your repo to new folder, for example myRepo_temp
  2. Checkout the commit/branch that you would like to compare with commit in your original repo (myRepo_original).
  3. Now you can use diff tools, (like Beyond Compare etc.) with these two folders (myRepo_temp and myRepo_original)

This is useful for example if you want partially reverse some changes as you can copy stuff from one to another folder.

Find a value in an array of objects in Javascript

Here is the solution for search and replace

function searchAndUpdate(name,replace){
    var obj = array.filter(function ( obj ) {
        return obj.name === name;
    })[0];
    obj.name = replace;
}

searchAndUpdate("string 2","New String 2");

Change Git repository directory location.

A more Git based approach would be to make the changes to your local copy using cd or copy and pasting and then pushing these changes from local to remote repository.

If you try checking status of your local repo, it may show "untracked changes" which are actually the relocated files. To push these changes forcefully, you need to stage these files/directories by using

$ git add -A
#And commiting them
$ git commit -m "Relocating image demo files"
#And finally, push
$ git push -u local_repo -f HEAD:master

Hope it helps.

How to log Apache CXF Soap Request and Soap Response using Log4j?

When configuring log4j.properties, putting org.apache.cxf logging level to INFO is enough to see the plain SOAP messages:

log4j.logger.org.apache.cxf=INFO

DEBUG is too verbose.

How do I get the calling method name and type using reflection?

Yes, in principe it is possible, but it doesn't come for free.

You need to create a StackTrace, and then you can have a look at the StackFrame's of the call stack.

Checking if a variable is defined?

Try "unless" instead of "if"

a = "apple"
# Note that b is not declared
c = nil

unless defined? a
    puts "a is not defined"
end

unless defined? b
    puts "b is not defined"
end

unless defined? c
    puts "c is not defined"
end

How to create a popup window (PopupWindow) in Android

How to make a simple Android popup window

This is a fuller example. It is a supplemental answer that deals with creating a popup window in general and not necessarily the specific details of the OP's problem. (The OP asks for a cancel button, but this is not necessary because the user can click anywhere on the screen to cancel it.) It will look like the following image.

enter image description here

Make a layout for the popup window

Add a layout file to res/layout that defines what the popup window will look like.

popup_window.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="#62def8">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        android:layout_margin="30dp"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        android:text="This is a popup window."/>

</RelativeLayout>

Inflate and show the popup window

Here is the code for the main activity of our example. Whenever the button is clicked, the popup window is inflated and shown over the activity. Touching anywhere on the screen dismisses the popup window.

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    public void onButtonShowPopupWindowClick(View view) {

        // inflate the layout of the popup window
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)
                getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        View popupView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.popup_window, null);

        // create the popup window
        int width = LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
        int height = LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
        boolean focusable = true; // lets taps outside the popup also dismiss it
        final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(popupView, width, height, focusable);

        // show the popup window
        // which view you pass in doesn't matter, it is only used for the window tolken
        popupWindow.showAtLocation(view, Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);

        // dismiss the popup window when touched
        popupView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                popupWindow.dismiss();
                return true;
            }
        });
    }
}

That's it. You're finished.

Going on

Check out how gravity values effect PopupWindow.

PopupWindow bottom gravity with offsets

You can also add a shadow.

PopupWindow with shadow

Further study

These were also helpful in learning how to make a popup window:

Oracle PL/SQL - Raise User-Defined Exception With Custom SQLERRM

You could use RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR like this:

DECLARE
    ex_custom       EXCEPTION;
BEGIN
    RAISE ex_custom;
EXCEPTION
    WHEN ex_custom THEN
        RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20001,'My exception was raised');
END;
/

That will raise an exception that looks like:

ORA-20001: My exception was raised

The error number can be anything between -20001 and -20999.

How can I "reset" an Arduino board?

Be sure you are not accessing the serial port from a terminal. That loop (or any code) should not prevent the Arduino from being programmed.

How to combine two lists in R

I was looking to do the same thing, but to preserve the list as a just an array of strings so I wrote a new code, which from what I've been reading may not be the most efficient but worked for what i needed to do:

combineListsAsOne <-function(list1, list2){
  n <- c()
  for(x in list1){
    n<-c(n, x)
  }
  for(y in list2){
    n<-c(n, y)
  }
  return(n)
}

It just creates a new list and adds items from two supplied lists to create one.

How to initialize an array's length in JavaScript?

The array constructor has an ambiguous syntax, and JSLint just hurts your feelings after all.

Also, your example code is broken, the second var statement will raise a SyntaxError. You're setting the property length of the array test, so there's no need for another var.

As far as your options go, array.length is the only "clean" one. Question is, why do you need to set the size in the first place? Try to refactor your code to get rid of that dependency.

The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.facebook.sdk error 2.) ios6

For me the problem was invalid permissions - I was requesting "birthday" instead of "user_birthday". It's a shame the error message isn't at least minimally descriptive - just saying "permissions invalid" rather than ERROR CODE 2 would have saved me so much time.

Is it possible to assign a base class object to a derived class reference with an explicit typecast?

You can cast a variable that is typed as the base-class to the type of a derived class; however, by necessity this will do a runtime check, to see if the actual object involved is of the correct type.

Once created, the type of an object cannot be changed (not least, it might not be the same size). You can, however, convert an instance, creating a new instance of the second type - but you need to write the conversion code manually.

Sum values in foreach loop php

You can use array_sum().

$total = array_sum($group);

How to initialize std::vector from C-style array?

You use the word initialize so it's unclear if this is one-time assignment or can happen multiple times.

If you just need a one time initialization, you can put it in the constructor and use the two iterator vector constructor:

Foo::Foo(double* w, int len) : w_(w, w + len) { }

Otherwise use assign as previously suggested:

void set_data(double* w, int len)
{
    w_.assign(w, w + len);
}

Convert MySQL to SQlite

Sequel (Ruby ORM) has a command line tool for dealing with databases, you must have ruby installed, then:

  $ gem install sequel mysql2 sqlite3 
  $ sequel mysql2://user:password@host/database -C sqlite://db.sqlite

MongoDB inserts float when trying to insert integer

If the value type is already double, then update the value with $set command can not change the value type double to int when using NumberInt() or NumberLong() function. So, to Change the value type, it must update the whole record.

var re = db.data.find({"name": "zero"})
re['value']=NumberInt(0)
db.data.update({"name": "zero"}, re)

How to ignore HTML element from tabindex?

The way to do this is by adding tabindex="-1". By adding this to a specific element, it becomes unreachable by the keyboard navigation. There is a great article here that will help you further understand tabindex.

Bridged networking not working in Virtualbox under Windows 10

Install "vbox-ssl-cacertificate.crt" certificate from %userprofile%\\.virtualbox\ and then reboot. If you don't have .virtualbox folder - launch "Oracle VM VirtualBox" once and this folder will appear.

I had this issue not only on my machine but on many hosts, and this certificate fixed the issue. I figured it out by chance, because nowhere said about this certificate -_-

Counting number of words in a file

File Word-Count

If in between words having some symbols then you can split and count the number of Words.

Scanner sc = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(new File("Input.txt")));
        int count = 0;
        while (sc.hasNext()) {

            String[] s = sc.next().split("d*[.@:=#-]"); 

            for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
                if (!s[i].isEmpty()){
                    System.out.println(s[i]);
                    count++;
                }   
            }           
        }
        System.out.println("Word-Count : "+count);

asp:TextBox ReadOnly=true or Enabled=false?

Another behaviour is that readonly = 'true' controls will fire events like click, buton Enabled = False controls will not.

ASP.NET MVC3 Razor - Html.ActionLink style

VB sample:

 @Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", Nothing, New With {.style = "font-weight:bold;", .class = "someClass"})

Sample Css:

.someClass
{
    color: Green !important;
}

In my case, I found that I need the !important attribute to over ride the site.css a:link css class

How to form tuple column from two columns in Pandas

I'd like to add df.values.tolist(). (as long as you don't mind to get a column of lists rather than tuples)

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

size = int(1e+07)
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': np.random.rand(size), 'b': np.random.rand(size)}) 

%timeit df.values.tolist()
1.47 s ± 38.9 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%timeit list(zip(df.a,df.b))
1.92 s ± 131 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

DLL References in Visual C++

You mention adding the additional include directory (C/C++|General) and additional lib dependency (Linker|Input), but have you also added the additional library directory (Linker|General)?

Including a sample error message might also help people answer the question since it's not even clear if the error is during compilation or linking.

convert php date to mysql format

There is several options.

Either convert it to timestamp and use as instructed in other posts with strtotime() or use MySQL’s date parsing option

jquery beforeunload when closing (not leaving) the page?

Try this, loading data via ajax and displaying through return statement.

<script type="text/javascript">
function closeWindow(){

    var Data = $.ajax({
        type : "POST",
        url : "file.txt",  //loading a simple text file for sample.
        cache : false,
        global : false,
        async : false,
        success : function(data) {
            return data;
        }

    }).responseText;


    return "Are you sure you want to leave the page? You still have "+Data+" items in your shopping cart";
}

window.onbeforeunload = closeWindow;
</script>

Converting from byte to int in java

if you want to combine the 4 bytes into a single int you need to do

int i= (rno[0]<<24)&0xff000000|
       (rno[1]<<16)&0x00ff0000|
       (rno[2]<< 8)&0x0000ff00|
       (rno[3]<< 0)&0x000000ff;

I use 3 special operators | is the bitwise logical OR & is the logical AND and << is the left shift

in essence I combine the 4 8-bit bytes into a single 32 bit int by shifting the bytes in place and ORing them together

I also ensure any sign promotion won't affect the result with & 0xff

Read and parse a Json File in C#

This code can help you:

string _filePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory);

JObject data = JObject.Parse(_filePath );

Trigger standard HTML5 validation (form) without using submit button?

Try HTMLFormElement.reportValidity() where this function will invoke the input validations.

Removing leading zeroes from a field in a SQL statement

In case you want to remove the leading zeros from a string with a unknown size.

You may consider using the STUFF command.

Here is an example of how it would work.

SELECT ISNULL(STUFF(ColumnName
                   ,1
                   ,patindex('%[^0]%',ColumnName)-1
                   ,'')
             ,REPLACE(ColumnName,'0','')
             )

See in fiddler various scenarios it will cover

https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=sqlserver_2012&fiddle=14c2dca84aa28f2a7a1fac59c9412d48

How should I edit an Entity Framework connection string?

Open .edmx file any text editor change the Schema="your required schema" and also open the app.config/web.config, change the user id and password from the connection string. you are done.

Remove all files except some from a directory

This is similar to the comment from @siwei-shen but you need the -o flag to do multiple patterns. The -o flag stands for 'or'

find . -type f -not -name '*ignore1' -o -not -name '*ignore2' | xargs rm

Gradle - Move a folder from ABC to XYZ

Your task declaration is incorrectly combining the Copy task type and project.copy method, resulting in a task that has nothing to copy and thus never runs. Besides, Copy isn't the right choice for renaming a directory. There is no Gradle API for renaming, but a bit of Groovy code (leveraging Java's File API) will do. Assuming Project1 is the project directory:

task renABCToXYZ {     doLast {         file("ABC").renameTo(file("XYZ"))     } } 

Looking at the bigger picture, it's probably better to add the renaming logic (i.e. the doLast task action) to the task that produces ABC.

PHP FPM - check if running

in case it helps someone, on amilinux, with php5.6 and php-fpm installed, it's:

sudo /etc/init.d/php-fpm-5.6 status

Android Studio: Gradle: error: cannot find symbol variable

Make sure your variables are in scope for the method that is referencing it. For example I had defined a textview locally in a method in the class and was referencing it in another method.

I moved the textview definition outside the method right below the class definition so the other method could access the definition, which resolved the problem.

Official way to ask jQuery wait for all images to load before executing something

This way you can execute an action when all images inside body or any other container (that depends of your selection) are loaded. PURE JQUERY, no pluggins needed.

var counter = 0;
var size = $('img').length;

$("img").load(function() { // many or just one image(w) inside body or any other container
    counter += 1;
    counter === size && $('body').css('background-color', '#fffaaa'); // any action
}).each(function() {
  this.complete && $(this).load();        
});

EditText underline below text property

Use android:backgroundTint="" in your EditText xml layout.

For api<21 you can use AppCompatEditText from support library thenapp:backgroundTint=""

httpd Server not started: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:88

I edited /etc/selinux/config, set SELINUX=disabled, then reboot; then it worked. Alternately, you can run setenforce 0; you don't need reboot, but this is once used.

New line in Sql Query

Pinal Dave explains this well in his blog.

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/01/sql-server-difference-between-line-feed-n-and-carriage-return-r-t-sql-new-line-char/

DECLARE @NewLineChar AS CHAR(2) = CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
PRINT ('SELECT FirstLine AS FL ' + @NewLineChar + 'SELECT SecondLine AS SL')

Python csv string to array

You can convert a string to a file object using io.StringIO and then pass that to the csv module:

from io import StringIO
import csv

scsv = """text,with,Polish,non-Latin,letters
1,2,3,4,5,6
a,b,c,d,e,f
ges,zólty,waz,idzie,waska,drózka,
"""

f = StringIO(scsv)
reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=',')
for row in reader:
    print('\t'.join(row))

simpler version with split() on newlines:

reader = csv.reader(scsv.split('\n'), delimiter=',')
for row in reader:
    print('\t'.join(row))

Or you can simply split() this string into lines using \n as separator, and then split() each line into values, but this way you must be aware of quoting, so using csv module is preferred.

On Python 2 you have to import StringIO as

from StringIO import StringIO

instead.

Printing one character at a time from a string, using the while loop

Python Code:

for s in myStr:
        print s

OR

for i in xrange(len(myStr)):
    print myStr[i]

Difference between agile and iterative and incremental development

  • Iterative - you don't finish a feature in one go. You are in a code >> get feedback >> code >> ... cycle. You keep iterating till done.
  • Incremental - you build as much as you need right now. You don't over-engineer or add flexibility unless the need is proven. When the need arises, you build on top of whatever already exists. (Note: differs from iterative in that you're adding new things.. vs refining something).
  • Agile - you are agile if you value the same things as listed in the agile manifesto. It also means that there is no standard template or checklist or procedure to "do agile". It doesn't overspecify.. it just states that you can use whatever practices you need to "be agile". Scrum, XP, Kanban are some of the more prescriptive 'agile' methodologies because they share the same set of values. Continuous and early feedback, frequent releases/demos, evolve design, etc.. hence they can be iterative and incremental.

How to set the color of an icon in Angular Material?

Since for some reason white isn't available for selection, I have found that mat-palette($mat-grey, 50) was close enough to white, for my needs at least.

Why use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] instead of ""

There is no difference. The $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] just makes the execution time slower by like 0.000001 second.

Default settings Raspberry Pi /etc/network/interfaces

For my Raspberry Pi 3B model it was

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
    wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
    wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Multiline TextBox multiple newline

textBox1.Text = "Line1\r\r\Line2";
Solved the problem.

How to grep Git commit diffs or contents for a certain word?

To use boolean connector on regular expression:

git log --grep '[0-9]*\|[a-z]*'

This regular expression search for regular expression [0-9]* or [a-z]* on commit messages.

TypeScript error TS1005: ';' expected (II)

I was injecting service like this:

private messageShowService MessageShowService

instead of:

private messageShowService: MessageShowService

and that was the reason of error, despite nothing related with ',' was there.

Create a text file for download on-the-fly

Use below code to generate files on fly..

<? //Generate text file on the fly

   header("Content-type: text/plain");
   header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=savethis.txt");

   // do your Db stuff here to get the content into $content
   print "This is some text...\n";
   print $content;
 ?>

Merging two CSV files using Python

You need to store all of the extra rows in the files in your dictionary, not just one of them:

dict1 = {row[0]: row[1:] for row in r}
...
dict2 = {row[0]: row[1:] for row in r}

Then, since the values in the dictionaries are lists, you need to just concatenate the lists together:

w.writerows([[key] + dict1.get(key, []) + dict2.get(key, []) for key in keys])

Android Studio SDK location

For Ubuntu users running:

  1. Open Android Studio
  2. Select Android Studio -> Settings -> Android SDK or Android Studio -> Project structure -> SDK location or to open Project structure shortcut is (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+s)
  3. Your SDK location will be specified on the upper right side of the screen under [Android SDK Location]

The transaction log for the database is full

Try this:

If possible restart the services MSSQLSERVER and SQLSERVERAGENT.

Getting Serial Port Information

I combined previous answers and used structure of Win32_PnPEntity class which can be found found here. Got solution like this:

using System.Management;
public static void Main()
{
     GetPortInformation();
}

public string GetPortInformation()
    {
        ManagementClass processClass = new ManagementClass("Win32_PnPEntity");
        ManagementObjectCollection Ports = processClass.GetInstances();           
        foreach (ManagementObject property in Ports)
        {
            var name = property.GetPropertyValue("Name");               
            if (name != null && name.ToString().Contains("USB") && name.ToString().Contains("COM"))
            {
                var portInfo = new SerialPortInfo(property);
                //Thats all information i got from port.
                //Do whatever you want with this information
            }
        }
        return string.Empty;
    }

SerialPortInfo class:

public class SerialPortInfo
{
    public SerialPortInfo(ManagementObject property)
    {
        this.Availability = property.GetPropertyValue("Availability") as int? ?? 0;
        this.Caption = property.GetPropertyValue("Caption") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.ClassGuid = property.GetPropertyValue("ClassGuid") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.CompatibleID = property.GetPropertyValue("CompatibleID") as string[] ?? new string[] {};
        this.ConfigManagerErrorCode = property.GetPropertyValue("ConfigManagerErrorCode") as int? ?? 0;
        this.ConfigManagerUserConfig = property.GetPropertyValue("ConfigManagerUserConfig") as bool? ?? false;
        this.CreationClassName = property.GetPropertyValue("CreationClassName") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.Description = property.GetPropertyValue("Description") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.DeviceID = property.GetPropertyValue("DeviceID") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.ErrorCleared = property.GetPropertyValue("ErrorCleared") as bool? ?? false;
        this.ErrorDescription = property.GetPropertyValue("ErrorDescription") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.HardwareID = property.GetPropertyValue("HardwareID") as string[] ?? new string[] { };
        this.InstallDate = property.GetPropertyValue("InstallDate") as DateTime? ?? DateTime.MinValue;
        this.LastErrorCode = property.GetPropertyValue("LastErrorCode") as int? ?? 0;
        this.Manufacturer = property.GetPropertyValue("Manufacturer") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.Name = property.GetPropertyValue("Name") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.PNPClass = property.GetPropertyValue("PNPClass") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.PNPDeviceID = property.GetPropertyValue("PNPDeviceID") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.PowerManagementCapabilities = property.GetPropertyValue("PowerManagementCapabilities") as int[] ?? new int[] { };
        this.PowerManagementSupported = property.GetPropertyValue("PowerManagementSupported") as bool? ?? false;
        this.Present = property.GetPropertyValue("Present") as bool? ?? false;
        this.Service = property.GetPropertyValue("Service") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.Status = property.GetPropertyValue("Status") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.StatusInfo = property.GetPropertyValue("StatusInfo") as int? ?? 0;
        this.SystemCreationClassName = property.GetPropertyValue("SystemCreationClassName") as string ?? string.Empty;
        this.SystemName = property.GetPropertyValue("SystemName") as string ?? string.Empty;
    }

    int Availability;
    string Caption;
    string ClassGuid;
    string[] CompatibleID;
    int ConfigManagerErrorCode;
    bool ConfigManagerUserConfig;
    string CreationClassName;
    string Description;
    string DeviceID;
    bool ErrorCleared;
    string ErrorDescription;
    string[] HardwareID;
    DateTime InstallDate;
    int LastErrorCode;
    string Manufacturer;
    string Name;
    string PNPClass;
    string PNPDeviceID;
    int[] PowerManagementCapabilities;
    bool PowerManagementSupported;
    bool Present;
    string Service;
    string Status;
    int StatusInfo;
    string SystemCreationClassName;
    string SystemName;       

}

Best practices for Storyboard login screen, handling clearing of data upon logout

I'm in the same situation as you and the solution I found for cleaning the data is deleting all the CoreData stuff that my view controllers rely on to draw it's info. But I still found this approach to be very bad, I think that a more elegant way to do this can be accomplished without storyboards and using only code to manage the transitions between view controllers.

I've found this project at Github that does all this stuff only by code and it's quite easy to understand. They use a Facebook-like side menu and what they do is change the center view controller depending if the user is logged-in or not. When the user logs out the appDelegate removes the data from CoreData and sets the main view controller to the login screen again.

Is there a "not equal" operator in Python?

There's the != (not equal) operator that returns True when two values differ, though be careful with the types because "1" != 1. This will always return True and "1" == 1 will always return False, since the types differ. Python is dynamically, but strongly typed, and other statically typed languages would complain about comparing different types.

There's also the else clause:

# This will always print either "hi" or "no hi" unless something unforeseen happens.
if hi == "hi":     # The variable hi is being compared to the string "hi", strings are immutable in Python, so you could use the 'is' operator.
    print "hi"     # If indeed it is the string "hi" then print "hi"
else:              # hi and "hi" are not the same
    print "no hi"

The is operator is the object identity operator used to check if two objects in fact are the same:

a = [1, 2]
b = [1, 2]
print a == b # This will print True since they have the same values
print a is b # This will print False since they are different objects.

Is background-color:none valid CSS?

The answer is no.

Incorrect

.class {
    background-color: none; /* do not do this */
}

Correct

.class {
    background-color: transparent;
}

background-color: transparent accomplishes the same thing what you wanted to do with background-color: none.

iptables LOG and DROP in one rule

At work, I needed to log and block SSLv3 connections on ports 993 (IMAPS) and 995 (POP3S) using iptables. So, I combined Gert van Dijk's How to take down SSLv3 in your network using iptables firewall? (POODLE) with Prevok's answer and came up with this:

iptables -N SSLv3
iptables -A SSLv3 -j LOG --log-prefix "SSLv3 Client Hello detected: "
iptables -A SSLv3 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT \
  -p tcp \! -f -m multiport --dports 993,995 \
  -m state --state ESTABLISHED -m u32 --u32 \
  "0>>22&0x3C@ 12>>26&0x3C@ 0 & 0xFFFFFF00=0x16030000 && \
   0>>22&0x3C@ 12>>26&0x3C@ 2 & 0xFF=0x01 && \
   0>>22&0x3C@ 12>>26&0x3C@ 7 & 0xFFFF=0x0300" \
  -j SSLv3

Explanation

  1. To LOG and DROP, create a custom chain (e.g. SSLv3):

    iptables -N SSLv3
    iptables -A SSLv3 -j LOG --log-prefix "SSLv3 Client Hello detected: "
    iptables -A SSLv3 -j DROP
    
  2. Then, redirect what you want to LOG and DROP to that chain (see -j SSLv3):

    iptables -A INPUT \
      -p tcp \! -f -m multiport --dports 993,995 \
      -m state --state ESTABLISHED -m u32 --u32 \
      "0>>22&0x3C@ 12>>26&0x3C@ 0 & 0xFFFFFF00=0x16030000 && \
       0>>22&0x3C@ 12>>26&0x3C@ 2 & 0xFF=0x01 && \
       0>>22&0x3C@ 12>>26&0x3C@ 7 & 0xFFFF=0x0300" \
      -j SSLv3
    

Note: mind the order of the rules. Those rules did not work for me until I put them above this one I had on my firewall script:

iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Mergesort with Python

The first improvement would be to simplify the three cases in the main loop: Rather than iterating while some of the sequence has elements, iterate while both sequences have elements. When leaving the loop, one of them will be empty, we don't know which, but we don't care: We append them at the end of the result.

def msort2(x):
    if len(x) < 2:
        return x
    result = []          # moved!
    mid = int(len(x) / 2)
    y = msort2(x[:mid])
    z = msort2(x[mid:])
    while (len(y) > 0) and (len(z) > 0):
        if y[0] > z[0]:
            result.append(z[0])
            z.pop(0)
        else:
            result.append(y[0])
            y.pop(0)
    result += y
    result += z
    return result

The second optimization is to avoid popping the elements. Rather, have two indices:

def msort3(x):
    if len(x) < 2:
        return x
    result = []
    mid = int(len(x) / 2)
    y = msort3(x[:mid])
    z = msort3(x[mid:])
    i = 0
    j = 0
    while i < len(y) and j < len(z):
        if y[i] > z[j]:
            result.append(z[j])
            j += 1
        else:
            result.append(y[i])
            i += 1
    result += y[i:]
    result += z[j:]
    return result

A final improvement consists in using a non recursive algorithm to sort short sequences. In this case I use the built-in sorted function and use it when the size of the input is less than 20:

def msort4(x):
    if len(x) < 20:
        return sorted(x)
    result = []
    mid = int(len(x) / 2)
    y = msort4(x[:mid])
    z = msort4(x[mid:])
    i = 0
    j = 0
    while i < len(y) and j < len(z):
        if y[i] > z[j]:
            result.append(z[j])
            j += 1
        else:
            result.append(y[i])
            i += 1
    result += y[i:]
    result += z[j:]
    return result

My measurements to sort a random list of 100000 integers are 2.46 seconds for the original version, 2.33 for msort2, 0.60 for msort3 and 0.40 for msort4. For reference, sorting all the list with sorted takes 0.03 seconds.

How to find first element of array matching a boolean condition in JavaScript?

If you're using underscore.js you can use its find and indexOf functions to get exactly what you want:

var index = _.indexOf(your_array, _.find(your_array, function (d) {
    return d === true;
}));

Documentation:

DateTime fields from SQL Server display incorrectly in Excel

I know it is too late to answer to this question. But, I thought it would still be nice to share how I sorted this out when I had the same issue. Here is what I did.

  • Before copying the data, select the column in Excel and select 'Format cells' and choose 'Text' and click 'Ok' (So, if your SQL data has the 3rd column as DateTime, then apply this formatting to the 3rd column in excel) Step 1
  • Now, copy and paste the data from SQL to Excel and it would have the datetime value in the correct format. Step 2

Simple way to find if two different lists contain exactly the same elements?

list1.equals(list2);

If your list contains a custom Class MyClass, this class must override the equals function.

 class MyClass
  {
  int field=0;
  @0verride
  public boolean equals(Object other)
        {
        if(this==other) return true;
        if(other==null || !(other instanceof MyClass)) return false;
        return this.field== MyClass.class.cast(other).field;
        }
  }

Note :if you want to test equals on a java.util.Set rather than a java.util.List, then your object must override the hashCode function.

How to assign execute permission to a .sh file in windows to be executed in linux

This is possible using the Info-Zip open-source Zip utilities. If unzip is run with the -X parameter, it will attempt to preserve the original permissions. If the source filesystem was NTFS and the destination is a Unix one, it will attempt to translate from one to the other. I do not have a Windows system available right now to test the translation, so you will have to experiment with which group needs to be awarded execute permissions. It'll be something like "Users" or "Any user"

What is Hash and Range Primary Key?

@vnr you can retrieve all the sort keys associated with a partition key by just using the query using partion key. No need of scan. The point here is partition key is compulsory in a query . Sort key are used only to get range of data

how do you filter pandas dataframes by multiple columns

In case somebody wonders what is the faster way to filter (the accepted answer or the one from @redreamality):

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

length = 100_000
df = pd.DataFrame()
df['Year'] = np.random.randint(1950, 2019, size=length)
df['Gender'] = np.random.choice(['Male', 'Female'], length)

%timeit df.query('Gender=="Male" & Year=="2014" ')
%timeit df[(df['Gender']=='Male') & (df['Year']==2014)]

Results for 100,000 rows:

6.67 ms ± 557 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
5.54 ms ± 536 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

Results for 10,000,000 rows:

326 ms ± 6.52 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
472 ms ± 25.1 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

So results depend on the size and the data. On my laptop, query() gets faster after 500k rows. Further, the string search in Year=="2014" has an unnecessary overhead (Year==2014 is faster).

Getting last month's date in php

$prevmonth = date('M Y', strtotime("last month"));

Class method differences in Python: bound, unbound and static

Bound method = instance method

Unbound method = static method.

Display only 10 characters of a long string?

html

<p id='longText'>Some very very very very very very very very very very very long string</p>

javascript (on doc ready)

var longText = $('#longText');
longText.text(longText.text().substr(0, 10));

If you have multiple words in the text, and want each to be limited to at most 10 chars, you could do:

var longText = $('#longText');
var text = longText.text();
var regex = /\w{11}\w*/, match;
while(match = regex.exec(text)) {
    text = text.replace(match[0], match[0].substr(0, 10));
}
longText.text(text);

Math operations from string

The asker commented:

I figure that if I understand a problem well enough to write a program that can figure it out, I don't need to do the work manually.

If he's writing a math expression solver as a learning exercise, using eval() isn't going to help. Plus it's terrible design.

You might consider making a calculator using Reverse Polish Notation instead of standard math notation. It simplifies the parsing considerably. It would still be a good exercise

How can I get the current date and time in UTC or GMT in Java?

Converting Current DateTime in UTC:

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");

DateTimeZone dateTimeZone = DateTimeZone.getDefault(); //Default Time Zone

DateTime currDateTime = new DateTime(); //Current DateTime

long utcTime = dateTimeZone.convertLocalToUTC(currDateTime .getMillis(), false);

String currTime = formatter.print(utcTime); //UTC time converted to string from long in format of formatter

currDateTime = formatter.parseDateTime(currTime); //Converted to DateTime in UTC

plotting different colors in matplotlib

@tcaswell already answered, but I was in the middle of typing my answer up, so I'll go ahead and post it...

There are a number of different ways you could do this. To begin with, matplotlib will automatically cycle through colors. By default, it cycles through blue, green, red, cyan, magenta, yellow, black:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(0, 1, 10)
for i in range(1, 6):
    plt.plot(x, i * x + i, label='$y = {i}x + {i}$'.format(i=i))
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.show()

enter image description here

If you want to control which colors matplotlib cycles through, use ax.set_color_cycle:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(0, 1, 10)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_color_cycle(['red', 'black', 'yellow'])
for i in range(1, 6):
    plt.plot(x, i * x + i, label='$y = {i}x + {i}$'.format(i=i))
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.show()

enter image description here

If you'd like to explicitly specify the colors that will be used, just pass it to the color kwarg (html colors names are accepted, as are rgb tuples and hex strings):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(0, 1, 10)
for i, color in enumerate(['red', 'black', 'blue', 'brown', 'green'], start=1):
    plt.plot(x, i * x + i, color=color, label='$y = {i}x + {i}$'.format(i=i))
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.show()

enter image description here

Finally, if you'd like to automatically select a specified number of colors from an existing colormap:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(0, 1, 10)
number = 5
cmap = plt.get_cmap('gnuplot')
colors = [cmap(i) for i in np.linspace(0, 1, number)]

for i, color in enumerate(colors, start=1):
    plt.plot(x, i * x + i, color=color, label='$y = {i}x + {i}$'.format(i=i))
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.show()

enter image description here

ProgressDialog in AsyncTask

AsyncTask is very helpful!

class QueryBibleDetail extends AsyncTask<Integer, Integer, String>{
        private Activity activity;
        private ProgressDialog dialog;
        private Context context;

        public QueryBibleDetail(Activity activity){
            this.activity = activity;
            this.context = activity;
            this.dialog = new ProgressDialog(activity);
            this.dialog.setTitle("????");
            this.dialog.setMessage("????:"+tome+chapterID+":"+sectionFromID+"-"+sectionToID);
            if(!this.dialog.isShowing()){
                this.dialog.show();
            }
        }

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(Integer... params) {
            Log.d(TAG,"??doInBackground");
            publishProgress(params[0]);

            if(sectionFromID > sectionToID){
                return "";
            }

            String queryBible = "action=query_bible&article="+chapterID+"&id="+tomeID+"&verse_start="+sectionFromID+"&verse_stop="+sectionToID+"";
            try{
                String bible = (Json.getRequest(HOST+queryBible)).trim();
                bible = android.text.Html.fromHtml(bible).toString();
                return bible;
            }catch(Exception e){
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String bible){
            Log.d(TAG,"??onPostExecute");
            TextView bibleBox = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.bibleBox);
            bibleBox.setText(bible);
            this.dialog.dismiss();
        }
    }

How do you round a double in Dart to a given degree of precision AFTER the decimal point?

You can use toStringAsFixed in order to display the limited digits after decimal points. toStringAsFixed returns a decimal-point string-representation. toStringAsFixed accepts an argument called fraction Digits which is how many digits after decimal we want to display. Here is how to use it.

double pi = 3.1415926;
const val = pi.toStringAsFixed(2); // 3.14

Why use Ruby's attr_accessor, attr_reader and attr_writer?

You may use the different accessors to communicate your intent to someone reading your code, and make it easier to write classes which will work correctly no matter how their public API is called.

class Person
  attr_accessor :age
  ...
end

Here, I can see that I may both read and write the age.

class Person
  attr_reader :age
  ...
end

Here, I can see that I may only read the age. Imagine that it is set by the constructor of this class and after that remains constant. If there were a mutator (writer) for age and the class were written assuming that age, once set, does not change, then a bug could result from code calling that mutator.

But what is happening behind the scenes?

If you write:

attr_writer :age

That gets translated into:

def age=(value)
  @age = value
end

If you write:

attr_reader :age

That gets translated into:

def age
  @age
end

If you write:

attr_accessor :age

That gets translated into:

def age=(value)
  @age = value
end

def age
  @age
end

Knowing that, here's another way to think about it: If you did not have the attr_... helpers, and had to write the accessors yourself, would you write any more accessors than your class needed? For example, if age only needed to be read, would you also write a method allowing it to be written?

Display a table/list data dynamically in MVC3/Razor from a JsonResult?

You can do this easily with the KoGrid plugin for KnockoutJS.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        window.viewModel = {
            myObsArray: ko.observableArray([
                { id: 1, firstName: 'John', lastName: 'Doe', createdOn: '1/1/2012', birthday: '1/1/1977', salary: 40000 },
                { id: 1, firstName: 'Jane', lastName: 'Harper', createdOn: '1/2/2012', birthday: '2/1/1976', salary: 45000 },
                { id: 1, firstName: 'Jim', lastName: 'Carrey', createdOn: '1/3/2012', birthday: '3/1/1985', salary: 60000 },
                { id: 1, firstName: 'Joe', lastName: 'DiMaggio', createdOn: '1/4/2012', birthday: '4/1/1991', salary: 70000 }
            ])
        };

        ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
    });
</script>

<div data-bind="koGrid: { data: myObsArray }">

Sample

how to merge 200 csv files in Python

Updating wisty's answer for python3

fout=open("out.csv","a")
# first file:
for line in open("sh1.csv"):
    fout.write(line)
# now the rest:    
for num in range(2,201):
    f = open("sh"+str(num)+".csv")
    next(f) # skip the header
    for line in f:
         fout.write(line)
    f.close() # not really needed
fout.close()

Cannot obtain value of local or argument as it is not available at this instruction pointer, possibly because it has been optimized away

In my case, I was working on a web api project and although the project was set correctly to full debug, I was still seeing this error every time I attached to the IIS process I was trying to debug. Then I realized the publish profile was set to use the Release configuration. So one more place to check is your publish profile if you're using the 'Publish' feature of your dotnet web api project.

How to initialise a string from NSData in Swift

import Foundation
var string = NSString(data: NSData?, encoding: UInt)

How to get index of an item in java.util.Set

you can extend LinkedHashSet adding your desired getIndex() method. It's 15 minutes to implement and test it. Just go through the set using iterator and counter, check the object for equality. If found, return the counter.

Execute a PHP script from another PHP script

The OP refined his question to how a php script is called from a script. The php statement 'require' is good for dependancy as the script will stop if required script is not found.

#!/usr/bin/php
<?
require '/relative/path/to/someotherscript.php';

/* The above script runs as though executed from within this one. */

printf ("Hello world!\n");

?>

laravel Unable to prepare route ... for serialization. Uses Closure

If someone is still looking for an answer, for me the problem was in routes/web.php file. Example:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

It is also Route, so yeah...Just remove it if not needed and you are good to go! You should also follow answers provided from above.

What does void mean in C, C++, and C#?

Void means no value required in return type from a function in all of three language.

Is Unit Testing worth the effort?

If you are using NUnit one simple but effective demo is to run NUnit's own test suite(s) in front of them. Seeing a real test suite giving a codebase a workout is worth a thousand words...

How to upsert (update or insert) in SQL Server 2005

Try to check for existence:

IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM dbo.Employee WHERE ID = @SomeID)

    INSERT INTO dbo.Employee(Col1, ..., ColN)
    VALUES(Val1, .., ValN)

ELSE

    UPDATE dbo.Employee
    SET Col1 = Val1, Col2 = Val2, ...., ColN = ValN
    WHERE ID = @SomeID

You could easily wrap this into a stored procedure and just call that stored procedure from the outside (e.g. from a programming language like C# or whatever you're using).

Update: either you can just write this entire statement in one long string (doable - but not really very useful) - or you can wrap it into a stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.InsertOrUpdateEmployee
       @ID INT,
       @Name VARCHAR(50),
       @ItemName VARCHAR(50),  
       @ItemCatName VARCHAR(50),
       @ItemQty DECIMAL(15,2)
AS BEGIN
    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM dbo.Table1 WHERE ID = @ID)
       INSERT INTO dbo.Table1(ID, Name, ItemName, ItemCatName, ItemQty)
       VALUES(@ID, @Name, @ItemName, @ItemCatName, @ItemQty)
    ELSE
       UPDATE dbo.Table1
       SET Name = @Name,
           ItemName = @ItemName,
           ItemCatName = @ItemCatName,
           ItemQty = @ItemQty
       WHERE ID = @ID
END

and then just call that stored procedure from your ADO.NET code

How to get data from Magento System Configuration

$configValue = Mage::getStoreConfig('sectionName/groupName/fieldName');

sectionName, groupName and fieldName are present in etc/system.xml file of your module.

The above code will automatically fetch config value of currently viewed store.

If you want to fetch config value of any other store than the currently viewed store then you can specify store ID as the second parameter to the getStoreConfig function as below:

$store = Mage::app()->getStore(); // store info
$configValue = Mage::getStoreConfig('sectionName/groupName/fieldName', $store);

Jackson how to transform JsonNode to ArrayNode without casting?

Is there a method equivalent to getJSONArray in org.json so that I have proper error handling in case it isn't an array?

It depends on your input; i.e. the stuff you fetch from the URL. If the value of the "datasets" attribute is an associative array rather than a plain array, you will get a ClassCastException.

But then again, the correctness of your old version also depends on the input. In the situation where your new version throws a ClassCastException, the old version will throw JSONException. Reference: http://www.json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONObject.html#getJSONArray(java.lang.String)

How to change value of ArrayList element in java

You're trying to change the value in the list, but all you're doing is changing the reference of x. Doing the following only changes x, not anything in the collection:

x = Integer.valueOf(9);

Additionally, Integer is immutable, meaning you can't change the value inside the Integer object (which would require a different method to do anyway). This means you need to replace the whole object. There is no way to do this with an Iterator (without adding your own layer of boxing). Do the following instead:

a.set(0, 9);

Calling a phone number in swift

let formatedNumber = phone.components(separatedBy: NSCharacterSet.decimalDigits.inverted).joined(separator: "")
print("calling \(formatedNumber)")
let phoneUrl = "tel://\(formatedNumber)"
let url:URL = URL(string: phoneUrl)!
UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)

On Selenium WebDriver how to get Text from Span Tag

You need to locate the element and use getText() method to extract the text.

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("customSelect_3"));
System.out.println(element.getText());

Overriding css style?

You just have to reset the values you don't want to their defaults. No need to get into a mess by using !important.

#zoomTarget .slikezamenjanje img {
    max-height: auto;
    padding-right: 0px;
}

Hatting

I think the key datum you are missing is that CSS comes with default values. If you want to override a value, set it back to its default, which you can look up.

For example, all CSS height and width attributes default to auto.

How can you have SharePoint Link Lists default to opening in a new window?

Under the Links Tab ==> Edit the URL Item ==> Under the URL (Type the Web address)- format the value as follows:

Example: if the URL = http://www.abc.com ==> then suffix the value with ==>

  • #openinnewwindow/,'" target="http://www.abc.com'

SO, the final value should read as ==> http://www.abc.com#openinnewwindow/,'" target="http://www.abc.com'

DONE ==> this will open the URL in New Window

jQuery detect if textarea is empty

This will check for empty textarea as well as will not allow only Spaces in textarea coz that looks empty too.

 var txt_msg = $("textarea").val();

 if (txt_msg.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "").length == 0 || txt_msg=="") {
    return false;
  }

How to encode the plus (+) symbol in a URL

Just to add this to the list:

Uri.EscapeUriString("Hi there+Hello there") // Hi%20there+Hello%20there
Uri.EscapeDataString("Hi there+Hello there") // Hi%20there%2BHello%20there

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/34189188/98491

Usually you want to use EscapeDataString which does it right.

What is cardinality in Databases?

It depends a bit on context. Cardinality means the number of something but it gets used in a variety of contexts.

  • When you're building a data model, cardinality often refers to the number of rows in table A that relate to table B. That is, are there 1 row in B for every row in A (1:1), are there N rows in B for every row in A (1:N), are there M rows in B for every N rows in A (N:M), etc.
  • When you are looking at things like whether it would be more efficient to use a b*-tree index or a bitmap index or how selective a predicate is, cardinality refers to the number of distinct values in a particular column. If you have a PERSON table, for example, GENDER is likely to be a very low cardinality column (there are probably only two values in GENDER) while PERSON_ID is likely to be a very high cardinality column (every row will have a different value).
  • When you are looking at query plans, cardinality refers to the number of rows that are expected to be returned from a particular operation.

There are probably other situations where people talk about cardinality using a different context and mean something else.

TypeError: only integer scalar arrays can be converted to a scalar index with 1D numpy indices array

Another case that could cause this error is

>>> np.ndindex(np.random.rand(60,60))
TypeError: only integer scalar arrays can be converted to a scalar index

Using the actual shape will fix it.

>>> np.ndindex(np.random.rand(60,60).shape)
<numpy.ndindex object at 0x000001B887A98880>

Open Jquery modal dialog on click event

If you want to put some page in the dialog then you can use these

function Popup()
{
 $("#pop").load('login.html').dialog({
 height: 625,
 width: 600,
 modal:true,
 close: function(event,ui){
     $("pop").dialog('destroy');

        }
 }); 

}

HTML:

<Div id="pop"  style="display:none;">

</Div>

Hibernate: flush() and commit()

session.flush() is synchronise method means to insert data in to database sequentially.if we use this method data will not store in database but it will store in cache,if any exception will rise in middle we can handle it. But commit() it will store data in database,if we are storing more amount of data then ,there may be chance to get out Of Memory Exception,As like in JDBC program in Save point topic

How to make an AJAX call without jQuery?

<html>
  <script>
    var xmlDoc = null ;

  function load() {
    if (typeof window.ActiveXObject != 'undefined' ) {
      xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
      xmlDoc.onreadystatechange = process ;
    }
    else {
      xmlDoc = new XMLHttpRequest();
      xmlDoc.onload = process ;
    }
    xmlDoc.open( "GET", "background.html", true );
    xmlDoc.send( null );
  }

  function process() {
    if ( xmlDoc.readyState != 4 ) return ;
    document.getElementById("output").value = xmlDoc.responseText ;
  }

  function empty() {
    document.getElementById("output").value = '<empty>' ;
  }
</script>

<body>
  <textarea id="output" cols='70' rows='40'><empty></textarea>
  <br></br>
  <button onclick="load()">Load</button> &nbsp;
  <button onclick="empty()">Clear</button>
</body>
</html>

sql primary key and index

primary keys are automatically indexed

you can create additional indices using the pk depending on your usage

  • index zip_code, id may be helpful if you often select by zip_code and id

Sharing a URL with a query string on Twitter

Use tweet web intent, this is the simple link:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=<?=urlencode($url)?>

more variables at https://dev.twitter.com/web/tweet-button/web-intent

Notepad++ change text color?

You can Change it from:

Menu Settings -> Style Configurator

See on screenshot:

enter image description here

How can I print the contents of a hash in Perl?

Data::Dumper is your friend.

use Data::Dumper;
my %hash = ('abc' => 123, 'def' => [4,5,6]);
print Dumper(\%hash);

will output

$VAR1 = {
          'def' => [
                     4,
                     5,
                     6
                   ],
          'abc' => 123
        };

Increase bootstrap dropdown menu width

Update 2018

You should be able to just set it using CSS like this..

.dropdown-menu {
  min-width:???px;
}

This works in both Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4.0.0 (demo).


A no extra CSS option in Bootstrap 4 is using the sizing utils to change the width. For example, here the w-100 (width:100%) class is used for the dropdown menu to fill the width of it's parent....

 <ul class="dropdown-menu w-100">
      <li><a class="nav-link" href="#">Choice1</a></li>
      <li><a class="nav-link" href="#">Choice2</a></li>
      <li><a class="nav-link" href="#">Choice3</a></li>
 </ul>

https://www.codeply.com/go/pAqaPj59N0

TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

The function move.CompleteMove(events) that you use within your class probably doesn't contain a return statement. So nothing is returned to self.values (==> None). Use return in move.CompleteMove(events) to return whatever you want to store in self.values and it should work. Hope this helps.

Using RegEx in SQL Server

Regular Expressions In SQL Server Databases Implementation Use

Regular Expression - Description
. Match any one character
* Match any character
+ Match at least one instance of the expression before
^ Start at beginning of line
$ Search at end of line
< Match only if word starts at this point
> Match only if word stops at this point
\n Match a line break
[] Match any character within the brackets
[^...] Matches any character not listed after the ^
[ABQ]% The string must begin with either the letters A, B, or Q and can be of any length
[AB][CD]% The string must have a length of two or more and which must begin with A or B and have C or D as the second character
[A-Z]% The string can be of any length and must begin with any letter from A to Z
[A-Z0-9]% The string can be of any length and must start with any letter from A to Z or numeral from 0 to 9
[^A-C]% The string can be of any length but cannot begin with the letters A to C
%[A-Z] The string can be of any length and must end with any of the letters from A to Z
%[%$#@]% The string can be of any length and must contain at least one of the special characters enclosed in the bracket

Pandas: Appending a row to a dataframe and specify its index label

The name of the Series becomes the index of the row in the DataFrame:

In [99]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 4), columns=['A','B','C','D'])

In [100]: s = df.xs(3)

In [101]: s.name = 10

In [102]: df.append(s)
Out[102]: 
           A         B         C         D
0  -2.083321 -0.153749  0.174436  1.081056
1  -1.026692  1.495850 -0.025245 -0.171046
2   0.072272  1.218376  1.433281  0.747815
3  -0.940552  0.853073 -0.134842 -0.277135
4   0.478302 -0.599752 -0.080577  0.468618
5   2.609004 -1.679299 -1.593016  1.172298
6  -0.201605  0.406925  1.983177  0.012030
7   1.158530 -2.240124  0.851323 -0.240378
10 -0.940552  0.853073 -0.134842 -0.277135

List vs tuple, when to use each?

There's a strong culture of tuples being for heterogeneous collections, similar to what you'd use structs for in C, and lists being for homogeneous collections, similar to what you'd use arrays for. But I've never quite squared this with the mutability issue mentioned in the other answers. Mutability has teeth to it (you actually can't change a tuple), while homogeneity is not enforced, and so seems to be a much less interesting distinction.

Why does jQuery or a DOM method such as getElementById not find the element?

This solution is for the people who don't use jQuery and to improve performance by not moving the script to bottom of the page, and the problem is that the script is loaded before the html elements are loaded. Add your code in this function body

window.onload=()=>{
    
    // your code here

    // example
    let element=document.getElementById("elementId");
    console.log(element);

};

add everything that has to work only after the document is loaded and keep other functions that has to be executed as soon as the script is loaded outside the function.

I recommend this method instead of moving down the script, because if the script is on top, the browser will try to download it as soon as it sees the script tag, if it is on the bottom of the page, it will take some more time to load it and until that time no event listeners in the script will work. in this case all other functions could be called and the window.onload will get called once everything is loaded.

using stored procedure in entity framework

Mindless passenger has a project that allows you to call a stored proc from entity frame work like this....

using (testentities te = new testentities())
{
    //-------------------------------------------------------------
    // Simple stored proc
    //-------------------------------------------------------------
    var parms1 = new testone() { inparm = "abcd" };
    var results1 = te.CallStoredProc<testone>(te.testoneproc, parms1);
    var r1 = results1.ToList<TestOneResultSet>();
}

... and I am working on a stored procedure framework (here) which you can call like in one of my test methods shown below...

[TestClass]
public class TenantDataBasedTests : BaseIntegrationTest
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void GetTenantForName_ReturnsOneRecord()
    {
        // ARRANGE
        const int expectedCount = 1;
        const string expectedName = "Me";

        // Build the paraemeters object
        var parameters = new GetTenantForTenantNameParameters
        {
            TenantName = expectedName
        };

        // get an instance of the stored procedure passing the parameters
        var procedure = new GetTenantForTenantNameProcedure(parameters);

        // Initialise the procedure name and schema from procedure attributes
        procedure.InitializeFromAttributes();

        // Add some tenants to context so we have something for the procedure to return!
        AddTenentsToContext(Context);

        // ACT
        // Get the results by calling the stored procedure from the context extention method 
        var results = Context.ExecuteStoredProcedure(procedure);

        // ASSERT
        Assert.AreEqual(expectedCount, results.Count);
    }
}

internal class GetTenantForTenantNameParameters
{
    [Name("TenantName")]
    [Size(100)]
    [ParameterDbType(SqlDbType.VarChar)]
    public string TenantName { get; set; }
}

[Schema("app")]
[Name("Tenant_GetForTenantName")]
internal class GetTenantForTenantNameProcedure
    : StoredProcedureBase<TenantResultRow, GetTenantForTenantNameParameters>
{
    public GetTenantForTenantNameProcedure(
        GetTenantForTenantNameParameters parameters)
        : base(parameters)
    {
    }
}

If either of those two approaches are any good?

Press any key to continue

I've created a little Powershell function to emulate MSDOS pause. This handles whether running Powershell ISE or non ISE. (ReadKey does not work in powershell ISE). When running Powershell ISE, this function opens a Windows MessageBox. This can sometimes be confusing, because the MessageBox does not always come to the forefront. Anyway, here it goes:

Usage: pause "Press any key to continue"

Function definition:

Function pause ($message)
{
    # Check if running Powershell ISE
    if ($psISE)
    {
        Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
        [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("$message")
    }
    else
    {
        Write-Host "$message" -ForegroundColor Yellow
        $x = $host.ui.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
    }
}

Dealing with "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" error

resolved this for me as well; however, I noticed that the servlet restart times were much worse, so while it was better in production, it was kind of a drag in development.

Deleting objects from an ArrayList in Java

int sizepuede= listaoptionVO.size();
for (int i = 0; i < sizepuede; i++) {
    if(listaoptionVO.get(i).getDescripcionRuc()==null){
        listaoptionVO.remove(listaoptionVO.get(i));
        i--;
        sizepuede--;
     }
}

edit: added indentation

JavaScript global event mechanism

How to Catch Unhandled Javascript Errors

Assign the window.onerror event to an event handler like:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onerror = function(msg, url, line, col, error) {
   // Note that col & error are new to the HTML 5 spec and may not be 
   // supported in every browser.  It worked for me in Chrome.
   var extra = !col ? '' : '\ncolumn: ' + col;
   extra += !error ? '' : '\nerror: ' + error;

   // You can view the information in an alert to see things working like this:
   alert("Error: " + msg + "\nurl: " + url + "\nline: " + line + extra);

   // TODO: Report this error via ajax so you can keep track
   //       of what pages have JS issues

   var suppressErrorAlert = true;
   // If you return true, then error alerts (like in older versions of 
   // Internet Explorer) will be suppressed.
   return suppressErrorAlert;
};
</script>

As commented in the code, if the return value of window.onerror is true then the browser should suppress showing an alert dialog.

When does the window.onerror Event Fire?

In a nutshell, the event is raised when either 1.) there is an uncaught exception or 2.) a compile time error occurs.

uncaught exceptions

  • throw "some messages"
  • call_something_undefined();
  • cross_origin_iframe.contentWindow.document;, a security exception

compile error

  • <script>{</script>
  • <script>for(;)</script>
  • <script>"oops</script>
  • setTimeout("{", 10);, it will attempt to compile the first argument as a script

Browsers supporting window.onerror

  • Chrome 13+
  • Firefox 6.0+
  • Internet Explorer 5.5+
  • Opera 11.60+
  • Safari 5.1+

Screenshot:

Example of the onerror code above in action after adding this to a test page:

<script type="text/javascript">
call_something_undefined();
</script>

Javascript alert showing error information detailed by the window.onerror event

Example for AJAX error reporting

var error_data = {
    url: document.location.href,
};

if(error != null) {
    error_data['name'] = error.name; // e.g. ReferenceError
    error_data['message'] = error.line;
    error_data['stack'] = error.stack;
} else {
    error_data['msg'] = msg;
    error_data['filename'] = filename;
    error_data['line'] = line;
    error_data['col'] = col;
}

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

xhr.open('POST', '/ajax/log_javascript_error');
xhr.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.onload = function() {
    if (xhr.status === 200) {
        console.log('JS error logged');
    } else if (xhr.status !== 200) {
        console.error('Failed to log JS error.');
        console.error(xhr);
        console.error(xhr.status);
        console.error(xhr.responseText);
    }
};
xhr.send(JSON.stringify(error_data));

JSFiddle:

https://jsfiddle.net/nzfvm44d/

References:

Aligning rotated xticklabels with their respective xticks

You can set the horizontal alignment of ticklabels, see the example below. If you imagine a rectangular box around the rotated label, which side of the rectangle do you want to be aligned with the tickpoint?

Given your description, you want: ha='right'

n=5

x = np.arange(n)
y = np.sin(np.linspace(-3,3,n))
xlabels = ['Ticklabel %i' % i for i in range(n)]

fig, axs = plt.subplots(1,3, figsize=(12,3))

ha = ['right', 'center', 'left']

for n, ax in enumerate(axs):
    ax.plot(x,y, 'o-')
    ax.set_title(ha[n])
    ax.set_xticks(x)
    ax.set_xticklabels(xlabels, rotation=40, ha=ha[n])

enter image description here

Create session factory in Hibernate 4

Even there is an update in 4.3.0 API. ServiceRegistryBuilder is also deprecated in 4.3.0 and replaced with the StandardServiceRegistryBuilder. Now the actual code for creating the session factory would look this example on creating session factory.

Getting Integer value from a String using javascript/jquery

Is this logically possible??.. I guess the approach that you must take is this way :

Str1 ="test123.00"
Str2 ="yes50.00"

This will be impossible to tackle unless you have delimiter in between test and 123.00

eg: Str1 = "test-123.00" 

Then you can split this way

Str2 = Str1.split("-"); 

This will return you an array of words split with "-"

Then you can do parseFloat(Str2[1]) to get the floating value i.e 123.00

querying WHERE condition to character length?

SELECT *
   FROM   my_table
   WHERE  substr(my_field,1,5) = "abcde";

Replace whitespaces with tabs in linux

This will replace consecutive spaces with one space (but not tab).

tr -s '[:blank:]'

This will replace consecutive spaces with a tab.

tr -s '[:blank:]' '\t'

How to make matrices in Python?

you can also use append function

b = [ ]

for x in range(0, 5):
    b.append(["O"] * 5)

def print_b(b):
    for row in b:
        print " ".join(row)

Setting POST variable without using form

Yes, simply set it to another value:

$_POST['text'] = 'another value';

This will override the previous value corresponding to text key of the array. The $_POST is superglobal associative array and you can change the values like a normal PHP array.

Caution: This change is only visible within the same PHP execution scope. Once the execution is complete and the page has loaded, the $_POST array is cleared. A new form submission will generate a new $_POST array.

If you want to persist the value across form submissions, you will need to put it in the form as an input tag's value attribute or retrieve it from a data store.

What is the use of BindingResult interface in spring MVC?

From the official Spring documentation:

General interface that represents binding results. Extends the interface for error registration capabilities, allowing for a Validator to be applied, and adds binding-specific analysis and model building.

Serves as result holder for a DataBinder, obtained via the DataBinder.getBindingResult() method. BindingResult implementations can also be used directly, for example to invoke a Validator on it (e.g. as part of a unit test).

Search text in stored procedure in SQL Server

Try this request:

Query

SELECT name
FROM   sys.procedures
WHERE  Object_definition(object_id) LIKE '%strHell%'