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How to change the height of a <br>?

i Use these methods, but i dont know if cross-browser

================= Method 1 ==================

br {
    display:none;
}

OR

================= Method 2 ==================

br {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 2px;
    font-size:2px;
    line-height: 2px;
}
br:before {
    display: block;
    margin-top: 2px;
    content: "";
}
br:after {
    content: ".";
    visibility: hidden;
    display: block;
}

OR

================= Method 3 ==================

br:after { content: "" }
br { content: "" }

How to get access token from FB.login method in javascript SDK

You can get access token using FB.getAuthResponse()['accessToken']:

FB.login(function(response) {
   if (response.authResponse) {
     var access_token =   FB.getAuthResponse()['accessToken'];
     console.log('Access Token = '+ access_token);
     FB.api('/me', function(response) {
     console.log('Good to see you, ' + response.name + '.');
     });
   } else {
     console.log('User cancelled login or did not fully authorize.');
   }
 }, {scope: ''});

Edit: Updated to use Oauth 2.0, required since December 2011. Now uses FB.getAuthResponse(); If you are using a browser that does not have a console, (I'm talking to you, Internet Explorer) be sure to comment out the console.log lines or use a log-failsafe script such as:

if (typeof(console) == "undefined") { console = {}; } 
if (typeof(console.log) == "undefined") { console.log = function() { return 0; } }

How to insert text into the textarea at the current cursor position?

I like simple javascript, and I usually have jQuery around. Here's what I came up with, based off mparkuk's:

function typeInTextarea(el, newText) {
  var start = el.prop("selectionStart")
  var end = el.prop("selectionEnd")
  var text = el.val()
  var before = text.substring(0, start)
  var after  = text.substring(end, text.length)
  el.val(before + newText + after)
  el[0].selectionStart = el[0].selectionEnd = start + newText.length
  el.focus()
}

$("button").on("click", function() {
  typeInTextarea($("textarea"), "some text")
  return false
})

Here's a demo: http://codepen.io/erikpukinskis/pen/EjaaMY?editors=101

Has an event handler already been added?

EventHandler.GetInvocationList().Length > 0

Adding to an ArrayList Java

If you're using Java 9, there's an easy way with less number of lines without needing to initialize or add method.

List<String> list = List.of("first", "second", "third");

How much faster is C++ than C#?

We have had to determine if C# was comparable to C++ in performance and I wrote some test programs for that (using Visual Studio 2005 for both languages). It turned out that without garbage collection and only considering the language (not the framework) C# has basically the same performance as C++. Memory allocation is way faster in C# than in C++ and C# has a slight edge in determinism when data sizes are increased beyond cache line boundaries. However, all of this had eventually to be paid for and there is a huge cost in the form of non-deterministic performance hits for C# due to garbage collection.

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource - Resteasy

Your resource methods won't get hit, so their headers will never get set. The reason is that there is what's called a preflight request before the actual request, which is an OPTIONS request. So the error comes from the fact that the preflight request doesn't produce the necessary headers.

For RESTeasy, you should use CorsFilter. You can see here for some example how to configure it. This filter will handle the preflight request. So you can remove all those headers you have in your resource methods.

See Also:

Can Twitter Bootstrap alerts fade in as well as out?

I got this way to close fading my Alert after 3 seconds. Hope it will be useful.

    setTimeout(function(){
    $('.alert').fadeTo("slow", 0.1, function(){
        $('.alert').alert('close')
    });     
    }, 3000)

Adjust plot title (main) position

We can use title() function with negative line value to bring down the title.

See this example:

plot(1, 1)
title("Title", line = -2)

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Dynamically adding HTML form field using jQuery

There appears to be a bug with appendTo using a frameset ID appending to a FORM in Chrome. Swapped out the attribute type directly with div and it works.

How do I convert a column of text URLs into active hyperlinks in Excel?

I shocked Excel didn't do this automatically so here is my solution I hope would be useful for others,

  1. Copy the whole column to clipboard
  2. Open this on your Chrome or Firefox

data:text/html,<button onclick="document.write(document.body.querySelector('textarea').value.split('\n').map(x => '<a href=\'' + x + '\'>' + x + '</a>').join('<br>'))">Linkify</button><br><textarea></textarea>

  1. Paste the column on the page you just opened on the browser and press "Linkify"
  2. Copy the result from the tab to the the column on Excel

Instead step two, you can use the below page, first, click on "Run code snippet" then paste the column on it

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<button onclick="document.write(document.body.querySelector('textarea').value.split('\n').map(x => '<a href=\'' + x + '\'>' + x + '</a>').join('<br>'))">Linkify</button><br><textarea></textarea>
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Tab Escape Character?

For someone who needs quick reference of C# Escape Sequences that can be used in string literals:

\t     Horizontal tab (ASCII code value: 9)

\n     Line feed (ASCII code value: 10)

\r     Carriage return (ASCII code value: 13)

\'     Single quotation mark

\"     Double quotation mark

\\     Backslash

\?     Literal question mark

\x12     ASCII character in hexadecimal notation (e.g. for 0x12)

\x1234     Unicode character in hexadecimal notation (e.g. for 0x1234)

It's worth mentioning that these (in most cases) are universal codes. So \t is 9 and \n is 10 char value on Windows and Linux. But newline sequence is not universal. On Windows it's \n\r and on Linux it's just \n. That's why it's best to use Environment.Newline which gets adjusted to current OS settings. With .Net Core it gets really important.

What is the incentive for curl to release the library for free?

I'm Daniel Stenberg.

I made curl

I founded the curl project back in 1998, I wrote the initial curl version and I created libcurl. I've written more than half of all the 24,000 commits done in the source code repository up to this point in time. I'm still the lead developer of the project. To a large extent, curl is my baby.

I shipped the first version of curl as open source since I wanted to "give back" to the open source world that had given me so much code already. I had used so much open source and I wanted to be as cool as the other open source authors.

Thanks to it being open source, literally thousands of people have been able to help us out over the years and have improved the products, the documentation. the web site and just about every other detail around the project. curl and libcurl would never have become the products that they are today were they not open source. The list of contributors now surpass 1900 names and currently the list grows with a few hundred names per year.

Thanks to curl and libcurl being open source and liberally licensed, they were immediately adopted in numerous products and soon shipped by operating systems and Linux distributions everywhere thus getting a reach beyond imagination.

Thanks to them being "everywhere", available and liberally licensed they got adopted and used everywhere and by everyone. It created a defacto transfer library standard.

At an estimated six billion installations world wide, we can safely say that curl is the most widely used internet transfer library in the world. It simply would not have gone there had it not been open source. curl runs in billions of mobile phones, a billion Windows 10 installations, in a half a billion games and several hundred million TVs - and more.

Should I have released it with proprietary license instead and charged users for it? It never occured to me, and it wouldn't have worked because I would never had managed to create this kind of stellar project on my own. And projects and companies wouldn't have used it.

Why do I still work on curl?

Now, why do I and my fellow curl developers still continue to develop curl and give it away for free to the world?

  1. I can't speak for my fellow project team members. We all participate in this for our own reasons.
  2. I think it's still the right thing to do. I'm proud of what we've accomplished and I truly want to make the world a better place and I think curl does its little part in this.
  3. There are still bugs to fix and features to add!
  4. curl is free but my time is not. I still have a job and someone still has to pay someone for me to get paid every month so that I can put food on the table for my family. I charge customers and companies to help them with curl. You too can get my help for a fee, which then indirectly helps making sure that curl continues to evolve, remain free and the kick-ass product it is.
  5. curl was my spare time project for twenty years before I started working with it full time. I've had great jobs and worked on awesome projects. I've been in a position of luxury where I could continue to work on curl on my spare time and keep shipping a quality product for free. My work on curl has given me friends, boosted my career and taken me to places I would not have been at otherwise.
  6. I would not do it differently if I could back and do it again.

Am I proud of what we've done?

Yes. So insanely much.

But I'm not satisfied with this and I'm not just leaning back, happy with what we've done. I keep working on curl every single day, to improve, to fix bugs, to add features and to make sure curl keeps being the number one file transfer solution for the world even going forward.

We do mistakes along the way. We make the wrong decisions and sometimes we implement things in crazy ways. But to win in the end and to conquer the world is about patience and endurance and constantly going back and reconsidering previous decisions and correcting previous mistakes. To continuously iterate, polish off rough edges and gradually improve over time.

Never give in. Never stop. Fix bugs. Add features. Iterate. To the end of time.

For real?

Yeah. For real.

Do I ever get tired? Is it ever done?

Sure I get tired at times. Working on something every day for over twenty years isn't a paved downhill road. Sometimes there are obstacles. During times things are rough. Occasionally people are just as ugly and annoying as people can be.

But curl is my life's project and I have patience. I have thick skin and I don't give up easily. The tough times pass and most days are awesome. I get to hang out with awesome people and the reward is knowing that my code helps driving the Internet revolution everywhere is an ego boost above normal.

curl will never be "done" and so far I think work on curl is pretty much the most fun I can imagine. Yes, I still think so even after twenty years in the driver's seat. And as long as I think it's fun I intend to keep at it.

How to Update a Component without refreshing full page - Angular

You can use a BehaviorSubject for communicating between different components throughout the app. You can define a data sharing service containing the BehaviorSubject to which you can subscribe and emit changes.

Define a data sharing service

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { BehaviorSubject } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable()
export class DataSharingService {
    public isUserLoggedIn: BehaviorSubject<boolean> = new BehaviorSubject<boolean>(false);
}

Add the DataSharingService in your AppModule providers entry.

Next, import the DataSharingService in your <app-header> and in the component where you perform the sign-in operation. In <app-header> subscribe to the changes to isUserLoggedIn subject:

import { DataSharingService } from './data-sharing.service';

export class AppHeaderComponent { 
    // Define a variable to use for showing/hiding the Login button
    isUserLoggedIn: boolean;

    constructor(private dataSharingService: DataSharingService) {

        // Subscribe here, this will automatically update 
        // "isUserLoggedIn" whenever a change to the subject is made.
        this.dataSharingService.isUserLoggedIn.subscribe( value => {
            this.isUserLoggedIn = value;
        });
    }
}

In your <app-header> html template, you need to add the *ngIf condition e.g.:

<button *ngIf="!isUserLoggedIn">Login</button> 
<button *ngIf="isUserLoggedIn">Sign Out</button>

Finally, you just need to emit the event once the user has logged in e.g:

someMethodThatPerformsUserLogin() {
    // Some code 
    // .....
    // After the user has logged in, emit the behavior subject changes.
    this.dataSharingService.isUserLoggedIn.next(true);
}

break statement in "if else" - java

The "break" command does not work within an "if" statement.

If you remove the "break" command from your code and then test the code, you should find that the code works exactly the same without a "break" command as with one.

"Break" is designed for use inside loops (for, while, do-while, enhanced for and switch).

Determine when a ViewPager changes pages

Use the ViewPager.onPageChangeListener:

viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new OnPageChangeListener() {
    public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {}
    public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {}

    public void onPageSelected(int position) {
        // Check if this is the page you want.
    }
});

How to POST a JSON object to a JAX-RS service

I faced the same 415 http error when sending objects, serialized into JSON, via PUT/PUSH requests to my JAX-rs services, in other words my server was not able to de-serialize the objects from JSON. In my case, the server was able to serialize successfully the same objects in JSON when sending them into its responses.

As mentioned in the other responses I have correctly set the Accept and Content-Type headers to application/json, but it doesn't suffice.

Solution

I simply forgot a default constructor with no parameters for my DTO objects. Yes this is the same reasoning behind @Entity objects, you need a constructor with no parameters for the ORM to instantiate objects and populate the fields later.

Adding the constructor with no parameters to my DTO objects solved my issue. Here follows an example that resembles my code:

Wrong

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class NumberDTO {
    public NumberDTO(Number number) {
        this.number = number;
    }

    private Number number;

    public Number getNumber() {
        return number;
    }

    public void setNumber(Number string) {
        this.number = string;
    }
}

Right

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class NumberDTO {

    public NumberDTO() {
    }

    public NumberDTO(Number number) {
        this.number = number;
    }

    private Number number;

    public Number getNumber() {
        return number;
    }

    public void setNumber(Number string) {
        this.number = string;
    }
}

I lost hours, I hope this'll save yours ;-)

How can I detect whether an iframe is loaded?

I imagine this like that:

<html>
<head>
<script>
var frame_loaded = 0;
function setFrameLoaded()
{
   frame_loaded = 1;
   alert("Iframe is loaded");
}
$('#click').click(function(){
   if(frame_loaded == 1)
    console.log('iframe loaded')
   } else {
    console.log('iframe not loaded')
   }
})
</script>
</head>
<button id='click'>click me</button>

<iframe id='MainPopupIframe' onload='setFrameLoaded();' src='http://...' />...</iframe>

Regular Expression to match only alphabetic characters

You may use any of these 2 variants:

/^[A-Z]+$/i
/^[A-Za-z]+$/

to match an input string of ASCII alphabets.

  • [A-Za-z] will match all the alphabets (both lowercase and uppercase).
  • ^ and $ will make sure that nothing but these alphabets will be matched.

Code:

preg_match('/^[A-Z]+$/i', "abcAbc^Xyz", $m);
var_dump($m);

Output:

array(0) {
}

Test case is for OP's comment that he wants to match only if there are 1 or more alphabets present in the input. As you can see in the test case that matches failed because there was ^ in the input string abcAbc^Xyz.

Note: Please note that the above answer only matches ASCII alphabets and doesn't match Unicode characters. If you want to match Unicode letters then use:

/^\p{L}+$/u

Here, \p{L} matches any kind of letter from any language

How to SELECT based on value of another SELECT

You can calculate the total (and from that the desired percentage) by using a subquery in the FROM clause:

SELECT Name,
       SUM(Value) AS "SUM(VALUE)",
       SUM(Value) / totals.total AS "% of Total"
FROM   table1,
       (
           SELECT Name,
                  SUM(Value) AS total
           FROM   table1
           GROUP BY Name
       ) AS totals
WHERE  table1.Name = totals.Name
AND    Year BETWEEN 2000 AND 2001
GROUP BY Name;

Note that the subquery does not have the WHERE clause filtering the years.

Binding an Image in WPF MVVM

@Sheridan thx.. if I try your example with "DisplayedImagePath" on both sides, it works with absolute path as you show.

As for the relative paths, this is how I always connect relative paths, I first include the subdirectory (!) and the image file in my project.. then I use ~ character to denote the bin-path..

    public string DisplayedImagePath
    {
        get { return @"~\..\images\osc.png"; }
    }

This was tested, see below my Solution Explorer in VS2015..

example of image binding in VS2015)

Note: if you want a Click event, use the Button tag around the image,

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<Button Click="image_Click" Width="128" Height="128"  Grid.Row="2" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left">_x000D_
  <Image x:Name="image" Source="{Binding DisplayedImagePath}" Margin="0,0,0,0" />_x000D_
</Button>
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How to fix Python indentation

If you're using Vim, see :h retab.

                                                        *:ret* *:retab*
:[range]ret[ab][!] [new_tabstop]
                        Replace all sequences of white-space containing a
                        <Tab> with new strings of white-space using the new
                        tabstop value given.  If you do not specify a new
                        tabstop size or it is zero, Vim uses the current value
                        of 'tabstop'.
                        The current value of 'tabstop' is always used to
                        compute the width of existing tabs.
                        With !, Vim also replaces strings of only normal
                        spaces with tabs where appropriate.
                        With 'expandtab' on, Vim replaces all tabs with the
                        appropriate number of spaces.
                        This command sets 'tabstop' to the new value given,
                        and if performed on the whole file, which is default,
                        should not make any visible change.
                        Careful: This command modifies any <Tab> characters
                        inside of strings in a C program.  Use "\t" to avoid
                        this (that's a good habit anyway).
                        ":retab!" may also change a sequence of spaces by
                        <Tab> characters, which can mess up a printf().
                        {not in Vi}
                        Not available when |+ex_extra| feature was disabled at
                        compile time.

For example, if you simply type

:ret

all your tabs will be expanded into spaces.

You may want to

:se et  " shorthand for :set expandtab

to make sure that any new lines will not use literal tabs.


If you're not using Vim,

perl -i.bak -pe "s/\t/' 'x(8-pos()%8)/eg" file.py

will replace tabs with spaces, assuming tab stops every 8 characters, in file.py (with the original going to file.py.bak, just in case). Replace the 8s with 4s if your tab stops are every 4 spaces instead.

Oracle query execution time

Use:

set serveroutput on
variable n number
exec :n := dbms_utility.get_time;
select ......
exec dbms_output.put_line( (dbms_utility.get_time-:n)/100) || ' seconds....' );

Or possibly:

SET TIMING ON;

-- do stuff

SET TIMING OFF;

...to get the hundredths of seconds that elapsed.

In either case, time elapsed can be impacted by server load/etc.

Reference:

Python, add items from txt file into a list

The pythonic way to read a file and put every lines in a list:

from __future__ import with_statement #for python 2.5
Names = []
with open('C:/path/txtfile.txt', 'r') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()
    Names.append(lines.strip())

Redirecting to a new page after successful login

May be use like this

if($match > 0){
 $msg = 'Login Complete! Thanks';
 echo "<a href='".$link_address."'>link</a>";
 }
else{
 $msg = 'Login Failed!<br /> Please make sure that you enter the correct  details and that you have activated your account.';
}

How do I handle Database Connections with Dapper in .NET?

I created extension methods with a property that retrieves the connection string from configuration. This lets the callers not have to know anything about the connection, whether it's open or closed, etc. This method does limit you a bit since you're hiding some of the Dapper functionality, but in our fairly simple app it's worked fine for us, and if we needed more functionality from Dapper we could always add a new extension method that exposes it.

internal static string ConnectionString = new Configuration().ConnectionString;

    internal static IEnumerable<T> Query<T>(string sql, object param = null)
    {
        using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
        {
            conn.Open();
            return conn.Query<T>(sql, param);
        }
    }

    internal static int Execute(string sql, object param = null)
    {
        using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
        {
            conn.Open();
            return conn.Execute(sql, param);
        }
    }

How can I pass an argument to a PowerShell script?

# ENTRY POINT MAIN()
Param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
    [String] $site,
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
    [String] $application,
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
    [String] $dir,
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
    [String] $applicationPool
)

# Create Web IIS Application
function ValidateWebSite ([String] $webSiteName)
{
    $iisWebSite = Get-Website -Name $webSiteName
    if($Null -eq $iisWebSite)
    {
        Write-Error -Message "Error: Web Site Name: $($webSiteName) not exists."  -Category ObjectNotFound
    }
    else
    {
        return 1
    }
}

# Get full path from IIS WebSite
function GetWebSiteDir ([String] $webSiteName)
{
    $iisWebSite = Get-Website -Name $webSiteName
    if($Null -eq $iisWebSite)
    {
        Write-Error -Message "Error: Web Site Name: $($webSiteName) not exists."  -Category ObjectNotFound
    }
    else
    {
        return $iisWebSite.PhysicalPath
    }
}

# Create Directory
function CreateDirectory([string]$fullPath)
{
    $existEvaluation = Test-Path $fullPath -PathType Any
    if($existEvaluation -eq $false)
    {
        new-item $fullPath -itemtype directory
    }
    return 1
}

function CreateApplicationWeb
{
    Param(
        [String] $WebSite,
        [String] $WebSitePath,
        [String] $application,
        [String] $applicationPath,
        [String] $applicationPool
        )
    $fullDir = "$($WebSitePath)\$($applicationPath)"
    CreateDirectory($fullDir)
    New-WebApplication -Site $WebSite -Name $application -PhysicalPath $fullDir -ApplicationPool $applicationPool -Force
}

$fullWebSiteDir = GetWebSiteDir($Site)f($null -ne $fullWebSiteDir)
{
    CreateApplicationWeb -WebSite $Site -WebSitePath $fullWebSiteDir -application $application  -applicationPath $dir -applicationPool $applicationPool
}

Combine Date and Time columns using python pandas

Use the combine function:

datetime.datetime.combine(date, time)

How to set the locale inside a Debian/Ubuntu Docker container?

Tip: Browse the container documentation forums, like the Docker Forum.

Here's a solution for debian & ubuntu, add the following to your Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y locales && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8

On Windows, running "import tensorflow" generates No module named "_pywrap_tensorflow" error

cuDNN causes my problem. PATH variable doesn't work for me. I have to copy the files in my cuDNN folders into respectful CUDA 8.0 folder structure.

Test a string for a substring

There are several other ways, besides using the in operator (easiest):

index()

>>> try:
...   "xxxxABCDyyyy".index("test")
... except ValueError:
...   print "not found"
... else:
...   print "found"
...
not found

find()

>>> if "xxxxABCDyyyy".find("ABCD") != -1:
...   print "found"
...
found

re

>>> import re
>>> if re.search("ABCD" , "xxxxABCDyyyy"):
...  print "found"
...
found

Change WPF controls from a non-main thread using Dispatcher.Invoke

When a thread is executing and you want to execute the main UI thread which is blocked by current thread, then use the below:

current thread:

Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.Invoke(MethodName,
    new object[] { parameter1, parameter2 }); // if passing 2 parameters to method.

Main UI thread:

Application.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(
    DispatcherPriority.Background, new Action(() => MethodName(parameter)));

Check if Variable is Empty - Angular 2

You can play here with different types and check the output,

Demo

export class ParentCmp {
  myVar:stirng="micronyks";
  myVal:any;
  myArray:Array[]=[1,2,3];
  myArr:Array[];

    constructor() {
      if(this.myVar){
         console.log('has value')     // answer
      }
      else{
        console.log('no value');
      }

      if(this.myVal){
         console.log('has value') 
      }
      else{
        console.log('no value');      //answer
      }


       if(this.myArray){
          console.log('has value')    //answer
       }
       else{
          console.log('no value');
       }

       if(this.myArr){
             console.log('has value')
       }
       else{
             console.log('no value');  //answer
       }
    } 

}

How to retrieve unique count of a field using Kibana + Elastic Search

Be aware with Unique count you are using 'cardinality' metric, which does not always guarantee exact unique count. :-)

the cardinality metric is an approximate algorithm. It is based on the HyperLogLog++ (HLL) algorithm. HLL works by hashing your input and using the bits from the hash to make probabilistic estimations on the cardinality.

Depending on amount of data I can get differences of 700+ entries missing in a 300k dataset via Unique Count in Elastic which are otherwise really unique.

Read more here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/cardinality.html

How to set Default Controller in asp.net MVC 4 & MVC 5

Set below code in RouteConfig.cs in App_Start folder

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
 routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
 routes.MapRoute(
 name: "Default",
 url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
 defaults: new { controller = "Account", action = "Login", id = UrlParameter.Optional });
}

IF still not working then do below steps

Second Way : You simple follow below steps,

1) Right click on your Project

2) Select Properties

3) Select Web option and then Select Specific Page (Controller/View) and then set your login page

Here, Account is my controller and Login is my action method (saved in Account Controller)

Please take a look attachedenter image description here screenshot.

Tracking Google Analytics Page Views with AngularJS

I am using ui-router and my code looks like this:

$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function(event, toState, toParams){
  /* Google analytics */
  var path = toState.url;
  for(var i in toParams){
    path = path.replace(':' + i, toParams[i]);
  }
  /* global ga */
  ga('send', 'pageview', path);
});

This way I can track different states. Maybe someone will find it usefull.

Delete files older than 3 months old in a directory using .NET

Alternatively, you can use the File.GetCreationTime Method if you need to delete files based on creation dates.

How can I determine the current CPU utilization from the shell?

Try this command:

cat /proc/stat

This will be something like this:

cpu  55366 271 17283 75381807 22953 13468 94542 0
cpu0 3374 0 2187 9462432 1393 2 665 0
cpu1 2074 12 1314 9459589 841 2 43 0
cpu2 1664 0 1109 9447191 666 1 571 0
cpu3 864 0 716 9429250 387 2 118 0
cpu4 27667 110 5553 9358851 13900 2598 21784 0
cpu5 16625 146 2861 9388654 4556 4026 24979 0
cpu6 1790 0 1836 9436782 480 3307 19623 0
cpu7 1306 0 1702 9399053 726 3529 26756 0
intr 4421041070 559 10 0 4 5 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 111 0 129692 0 0 0 0 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 369 91027 1580921706 1277926101 570026630 991666971 0 277768 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ctxt 8097121
btime 1251365089
processes 63692
procs_running 2
procs_blocked 0

More details:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01690.html http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm

qmake: could not find a Qt installation of ''

For my Qt 5.7, open QtCreator, go to Tools -> Options -> Build & Run -> Qt Versions gave me the location of qmake.

overlay two images in android to set an imageview

this is my solution:

    public Bitmap Blend(Bitmap topImage1, Bitmap bottomImage1, PorterDuff.Mode Type) {

        Bitmap workingBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(topImage1);
        Bitmap topImage = workingBitmap.copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888, true);

        Bitmap workingBitmap2 = Bitmap.createBitmap(bottomImage1);
        Bitmap bottomImage = workingBitmap2.copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888, true);

        Rect dest = new Rect(0, 0, bottomImage.getWidth(), bottomImage.getHeight());
        new BitmapFactory.Options().inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
        bottomImage.setHasAlpha(true);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bottomImage);
        Paint paint = new Paint();

        paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Type));

        paint.setFilterBitmap(true);
        canvas.drawBitmap(topImage, null, dest, paint);
        return bottomImage;
    }

usage :

imageView.setImageBitmap(Blend(topBitmap, bottomBitmap, PorterDuff.Mode.SCREEN));

or

imageView.setImageBitmap(Blend(topBitmap, bottomBitmap, PorterDuff.Mode.OVERLAY));

and the results :

Overlay mode : Overlay mode

Screen mode: Screen mode

What are the ways to make an html link open a folder

Hope it will help someone someday. I was making a small POC and came across this. A button, onClick display contents of the folder. Below is the HTML,

<input type=button onClick="parent.location='file:///C:/Users/' " value='Users'>

Difference between Mutable objects and Immutable objects

Mutable objects can have their fields changed after construction. Immutable objects cannot.

public class MutableClass {

 private int value;

 public MutableClass(int aValue) {
  value = aValue;
 }

 public void setValue(int aValue) {
  value = aValue;
 }

 public getValue() {
  return value;
 }

}

public class ImmutableClass {

 private final int value;
 // changed the constructor to say Immutable instead of mutable
 public ImmutableClass (final int aValue) {
  //The value is set. Now, and forever.
  value = aValue;
 }

 public final getValue() {
  return value;
 }

}

Set windows environment variables with a batch file

@ECHO OFF

:: %HOMEDRIVE% = C:
:: %HOMEPATH% = \Users\Ruben
:: %system32% ??
:: No spaces in paths
:: Program Files > ProgramFiles
:: cls = clear screen
:: CMD reads the system environment variables when it starts. To re-read those variables you need to restart CMD
:: Use console 2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/


:: Assign all Path variables
SET PHP="%HOMEDRIVE%\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.16"
SET SYSTEM32=";%HOMEDRIVE%\Windows\System32"
SET ANT=";%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Downloads\apache-ant-1.9.0-bin\apache-ant-1.9.0\bin"
SET GRADLE=";%HOMEDRIVE%\tools\gradle-1.6\bin;"
SET ADT=";%HOMEDRIVE%\tools\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219\eclipse\jre\bin"
SET ADTTOOLS=";%HOMEDRIVE%\tools\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219\sdk\tools"
SET ADTP=";%HOMEDRIVE%\tools\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219\sdk\platform-tools"
SET YII=";%HOMEDRIVE%\wamp\www\yii\framework"
SET NODEJS=";%HOMEDRIVE%\ProgramFiles\nodejs"
SET CURL=";%HOMEDRIVE%\tools\curl_734_0_ssl"
SET COMPOSER=";%HOMEDRIVE%\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin"
SET GIT=";%HOMEDRIVE%\Program Files\Git\cmd"

:: Set Path variable
setx PATH "%PHP%%SYSTEM32%%NODEJS%%COMPOSER%%YII%%GIT%" /m

:: Set Java variable
setx JAVA_HOME "%HOMEDRIVE%\ProgramFiles\Java\jdk1.7.0_21" /m

PAUSE

Basic Apache commands for a local Windows machine

Going back to absolute basics here. The answers on this page and a little googling have brought me to the following resolution to my issue. Steps to restart the apache service with Xampp installed:-

  1. Click the start button and type CMD (if on Windows Vista or later and Apache is installed as a service make sure this is an elevated command prompt)
  2. In the command window that appears type cd C:\xampp\apache\bin (the default installation path for Xampp)
  3. Then type httpd -k restart

I hope that this is of use to others just starting out with running a local Apache server.

Proper use of mutexes in Python

You have to unlock your Mutex at sometime...

There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first

In addition to Ladislav Mrnka's answer:

If you are publishing and overriding container on Settings tab, you can set MultipleActiveResultSet to True. You can find this option by clicking Advanced... and it's going to be under Advanced group.

How do I clear the dropdownlist values on button click event using jQuery?

A shorter alternative to the first solution given by Russ Cam would be:

$('#mySelect').val('');

This assumes you want to retain the list, but make it so that no option is selected.

If you wish to select a particular default value, just pass that value instead of an empty string.

$('#mySelect').val('someDefaultValue');

or to do it by the index of the option, you could do:

$('#mySelect option:eq(0)').attr('selected','selected'); // Select first option

Getting String value from enum in Java

I believe enum have a .name() in its API, pretty simple to use like this example:

private int security;
public String security(){ return Security.values()[security].name(); }
public void setSecurity(int security){ this.security = security; }

    private enum Security {
            low,
            high
    }

With this you can simply call

yourObject.security() 

and it returns high/low as String, in this example

Can I change the height of an image in CSS :before/:after pseudo-elements?

Since my other answer was obviously not well understood, here's a second attempt:

There's two approaches to answer the question.

Practical (just show me the goddamn picture!)

Forget about the :after pseudo-selector, and go for something like

.pdflink {
    min-height: 20px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    background-position: right bottom;
    background-size: 10px 20px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

Theoretical

The question is: Can you style generated content? The answer is: No, you can't. There's been a lengthy discussion on the W3C mailing list on this issue, but no solution so far.

Generated content is rendered into a generated box, and you can style that box, but not the content as such. Different browsers show very different behaviour

#foo         {content: url("bar.jpg"); width: 42px; height:42px;}  
#foo::before {content: url("bar.jpg"); width: 42px; height:42px;}

Chrome resizes the first one, but uses the intrinsic dimensions of the image for the second

firefox and ie don't support the first, and use intrinsic dimensions for the second

opera uses intrinsic dimensions for both cases

(from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0451.html )

Similarly, browsers show very different results on things like http://jsfiddle.net/Nwupm/1/ , where more than one element is generated. Keep in mind that CSS3 is still in early development stage, and this issue has yet to be solved.

Add a column in a table in HIVE QL

You cannot add a column with a default value in Hive. You have the right syntax for adding the column ALTER TABLE test1 ADD COLUMNS (access_count1 int);, you just need to get rid of default sum(max_count). No changes to that files backing your table will happen as a result of adding the column. Hive handles the "missing" data by interpreting NULL as the value for every cell in that column.

So now your have the problem of needing to populate the column. Unfortunately in Hive you essentially need to rewrite the whole table, this time with the column populated. It may be easier to rerun your original query with the new column. Or you could add the column to the table you have now, then select all of its columns plus value for the new column.

You also have the option to always COALESCE the column to your desired default and leave it NULL for now. This option fails when you want NULL to have a meaning distinct from your desired default. It also requires you to depend on always remembering to COALESCE.

If you are very confident in your abilities to deal with the files backing Hive, you could also directly alter them to add your default. In general I would recommend against this because most of the time it will be slower and more dangerous. There might be some case where it makes sense though, so I've included this option for completeness.

What is the benefit of zerofill in MySQL?

One example in order to understand, where the usage of ZEROFILL might be interesting:

In Germany, we have 5 digit zipcodes. However, those Codes may start with a Zero, so 80337 is a valid zipcode for munic, 01067 is a zipcode of Berlin.

As you see, any German citizen expects the zipcodes to be displayed as a 5 digit code, so 1067 looks strange.

In order to store those data, you could use a VARCHAR(5) or INT(5) ZEROFILL whereas the zerofilled integer has two big advantages:

  1. Lot lesser storage space on hard disk
  2. If you insert 1067, you still get 01067 back

Maybe this example helps understanding the use of ZEROFILL.

Stored Procedure parameter default value - is this a constant or a variable

It has to be a constant - the value has to be computable at the time that the procedure is created, and that one computation has to provide the value that will always be used.

Look at the definition of sys.all_parameters:

default_value sql_variant If has_default_value is 1, the value of this column is the value of the default for the parameter; otherwise, NULL.

That is, whatever the default for a parameter is, it has to fit in that column.


As Alex K pointed out in the comments, you can just do:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[problemParam] 
    @StartDate INT = NULL,
    @EndDate INT = NULL
AS  
BEGIN
   SET @StartDate = COALESCE(@StartDate,CONVERT(INT,(CONVERT(CHAR(8),GETDATE()-130,112))))

provided that NULL isn't intended to be a valid value for @StartDate.


As to the blog post you linked to in the comments - that's talking about a very specific context - that, the result of evaluating GETDATE() within the context of a single query is often considered to be constant. I don't know of many people (unlike the blog author) who would consider a separate expression inside a UDF to be part of the same query as the query that calls the UDF.

Matplotlib - Move X-Axis label downwards, but not X-Axis Ticks

If the variable ax.xaxis._autolabelpos = True, matplotlib sets the label position in function _update_label_position in axis.py according to (some excerpts):

    bboxes, bboxes2 = self._get_tick_bboxes(ticks_to_draw, renderer)
    bbox = mtransforms.Bbox.union(bboxes)
    bottom = bbox.y0
    x, y = self.label.get_position()
    self.label.set_position((x, bottom - self.labelpad * self.figure.dpi / 72.0))

You can set the label position independently of the ticks by using:

    ax.xaxis.set_label_coords(x0, y0)

that sets _autolabelpos to False or as mentioned above by changing the labelpad parameter.

Create sequence of repeated values, in sequence?

You missed the each= argument to rep():

R> n <- 3
R> rep(1:5, each=n)
 [1] 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5
R> 

so your example can be done with a simple

R> rep(1:8, each=20)

Neither user 10102 nor current process has android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE

On Android >=6.0, We have to request permission runtime.

Step1: add in AndroidManifest.xml file

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>

Step2: Request permission.

int permissionCheck = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE);

if (permissionCheck != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
    ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE}, REQUEST_READ_PHONE_STATE);
} else {
    //TODO
}

Step3: Handle callback when you request permission.

@Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String permissions[], int[] grantResults) {
    switch (requestCode) {
        case REQUEST_READ_PHONE_STATE:
            if ((grantResults.length > 0) && (grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED)) {
                //TODO
            }
            break;

        default:
            break;
    }
}

Edit: Read official guide here Requesting Permissions at Run Time

Python 3 - ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 2)

You probably want to assign the lastname you are reading out here

lastname = sheet.cell(row=r, column=3).value

to something; currently the program just forgets it

you could do that two lines after, like so

unpaidMembers[name] = lastname, email

your program will still crash at the same place, because .items() still won't give you 3-tuples but rather something that has this structure: (name, (lastname, email))

good news is, python can handle this

for name, (lastname, email) in unpaidMembers.items():

etc.

how to add or embed CKEditor in php page

If you have downloaded the latest Version 4.3.4 then just follow these steps.

  • Download the package, unzip and place in your web directory or root folder.
  • Provide the read write permissions to that folder (preferably Ubuntu machines )
  • Create view page test.php
  • Paste the below mentioned code it should work fine.

Load the mentioned js file

<script type="text/javascript" src="/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
<textarea class="ckeditor" name="editor"></textarea>

Programmatically scroll to a specific position in an Android ListView

If you want to jump directly to the desired position in a listView just use

listView.setSelection(int position);

and if you want to jump smoothly to the desired position in listView just use

listView.smoothScrollToPosition(int position);

No resource found that matches the given name '@style/ Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar'

The @android did not work for me. When I use android (without the @) it works like a charm.

Example:

<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
       parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">

How to add AUTO_INCREMENT to an existing column?

I managed to do this with the following code:

ALTER TABLE `table_name`
CHANGE COLUMN `colum_name` `colum_name` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT FIRST;

This is the only way I could make a column auto increment.

INT(11) shows that the maximum int length is 11, you can skip it if you want.

Difference between jQuery’s .hide() and setting CSS to display: none

To use both is a nice answer; it's not a question of either or.

The advantage of using both is that the CSS will hide the element immediately when the page loads. The jQuery .hide will flash the element for a quarter of a second then hide it.

In the case when we want to have the element not shown when the page loads we can use CSS and set display:none & use the jQuery .hide(). If we plan to toggle the element we can use jQuery toggle.

What does the term "canonical form" or "canonical representation" in Java mean?

Wikipedia points to the term Canonicalization.

A process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard" canonical representation. This can be done to compare different representations for equivalence, to count the number of distinct data structures, to improve the efficiency of various algorithms by eliminating repeated calculations, or to make it possible to impose a meaningful sorting order.

The Unicode example made the most sense to me:

Variable-length encodings in the Unicode standard, in particular UTF-8, have more than one possible encoding for most common characters. This makes string validation more complicated, since every possible encoding of each string character must be considered. A software implementation which does not consider all character encodings runs the risk of accepting strings considered invalid in the application design, which could cause bugs or allow attacks. The solution is to allow a single encoding for each character. Canonicalization is then the process of translating every string character to its single allowed encoding. An alternative is for software to determine whether a string is canonicalized, and then reject it if it is not. In this case, in a client/server context, the canonicalization would be the responsibility of the client.

In summary, a standard form of representation for data. From this form you can then convert to any representation you may need.

mysql said: Cannot connect: invalid settings. xampp

I faced this problem as well but i could fix it by going to the folder /xampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

Open config.inc.php, u will find (if no password) ['password']= '' or (if old password) ['password']= '123'

Change the password $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'test' and u will be able to access phpmyadmin again :)

Combating AngularJS executing controller twice

Just adding my case here as well:

I was using angular-ui-router with $state.go('new_state', {foo: "foo@bar"})

Once I added encodeURIComponent to the parameter, the problem was gone: $state.go('new_state', {foo: encodeURIComponent("foo@bar")}).

What happened? The character "@" in the parameter value is not allowed in URLs. As a consequence, angular-ui-router created my controller twice: during first creation it passed the original "foo@bar", during second creation it would pass the encoded version "foo%40bar". Once I explicitly encoded the parameter as shown above, the problem went away.

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:582 throw err

Ran into a similar issue with nodemon running through docker,

it'd be worth checking that your "main" file in your package.json is configured to point at the correct entry point

in package.json

"main": "server.js",
"scripts": {
    "start":"nodemon src/server.js",
    "docker:build": "docker build -f ./docker/Dockerfile . "
  },

How can I get a resource "Folder" from inside my jar File?

Simple ... use OSGi. In OSGi you can iterate over your Bundle's entries with findEntries and findPaths.

Operation Not Permitted when on root - El Capitan (rootless disabled)

Correct solution is to copy or install to /usr/local/bin not /usr/bin.This is due to System Integrity Protection (SIP). SIP makes /usr/bin read-only but leaves /usr/local as read-write.

SIP should not be disabled as stated in the answer above because it adds another layer of protection against malware gaining root access. Here is a complete explanation of what SIP does and why it is useful.

As suggested in this answer one should not disable SIP (rootless mode) "It is not recommended to disable rootless mode! The best practice is to install custom stuff to "/usr/local" only."

Is there a way to select sibling nodes?

Use document.querySelectorAll() and Loops and iteration

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function sibblingOf(children,targetChild){_x000D_
  var children = document.querySelectorAll(children);_x000D_
  for(var i=0; i< children.length; i++){_x000D_
    children[i].addEventListener("click", function(){_x000D_
      for(var y=0; y<children.length;y++){children[y].classList.remove("target")}_x000D_
      this.classList.add("target")_x000D_
    }, false)_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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sibblingOf("#outer >div","#inner2");
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#outer >div:not(.target){color:red}
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<div id="outer">_x000D_
      <div id="inner1">Div 1 </div>_x000D_
      <div id="inner2">Div 2 </div>_x000D_
      <div id="inner3">Div 3 </div>_x000D_
      <div id="inner4">Div 4 </div>_x000D_
 </div>
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Single-threaded apartment - cannot instantiate ActiveX control

If you used [STAThread] to the main entry of your application and still get the error you may need to make a Thread-Safe call to the control... something like below. In my case with the same problem the following solution worked!

Private void YourFunc(..)
{
    if (this.InvokeRequired)
    {
        Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate()
        {
           // Call your method YourFunc(..);
        }));
    }
    else
    {
        ///
    }

How to darken an image on mouseover?

Make the image 100% bright so it is clear. And then on Img hover reduce it to whatever brightness you want.

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img {_x000D_
   -webkit-transition: all 1s ease;_x000D_
   -moz-transition: all 1s ease;_x000D_
   -o-transition: all 1s ease;_x000D_
   -ms-transition: all 1s ease;_x000D_
   transition: all 1s ease;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
img:hover {_x000D_
   -webkit-filter: brightness(70%);_x000D_
   filter: brightness(70%);_x000D_
}
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<img src="http://dummyimage.com/300x150/ebebeb/000.jpg">
_x000D_
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That will do it, Hope that helps

The Use of Multiple JFrames: Good or Bad Practice?

It's been a while since the last time i touch swing but in general is a bad practice to do this. Some of the main disadvantages that comes to mind:

  • It's more expensive: you will have to allocate way more resources to draw a JFrame that other kind of window container, such as Dialog or JInternalFrame.

  • Not user friendly: It is not easy to navigate into a bunch of JFrame stuck together, it will look like your application is a set of applications inconsistent and poorly design.

  • It's easy to use JInternalFrame This is kind of retorical, now it's way easier and other people smarter ( or with more spare time) than us have already think through the Desktop and JInternalFrame pattern, so I would recommend to use it.

How to make a new line or tab in <string> XML (eclipse/android)?

Add '\t' for tab

<string name="tab">\u0009</string>

Print raw string from variable? (not getting the answers)

I had a similar problem and stumbled upon this question, and know thanks to Nick Olson-Harris' answer that the solution lies with changing the string.

Two ways of solving it:

  1. Get the path you want using native python functions, e.g.:

    test = os.getcwd() # In case the path in question is your current directory
    print(repr(test))
    

    This makes it platform independent and it now works with .encode. If this is an option for you, it's the more elegant solution.

  2. If your string is not a path, define it in a way compatible with python strings, in this case by escaping your backslashes:

    test = 'C:\\Windows\\Users\\alexb\\'
    print(repr(test))
    

How to make Java Set?

Like this:

import java.util.*;
Set<Integer> a = new HashSet<Integer>();
a.add( 1);
a.add( 2);
a.add( 3);

Or adding from an Array/ or multiple literals; wrap to a list, first.

Integer[] array = new Integer[]{ 1, 4, 5};
Set<Integer> b = new HashSet<Integer>();
b.addAll( Arrays.asList( b));         // from an array variable
b.addAll( Arrays.asList( 8, 9, 10));  // from literals

To get the intersection:

// copies all from A;  then removes those not in B.
Set<Integer> r = new HashSet( a);
r.retainAll( b);
// and print;   r.toString() implied.
System.out.println("A intersect B="+r);

Hope this answer helps. Vote for it!

Vim delete blank lines

How about:

:g/^[ \t]*$/d

Multiple GitHub Accounts & SSH Config

I posted the technique I use to deal with these here

Setting the User-Agent header for a WebClient request

You can also use that:

client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent, "My app.");

Difference between dates in JavaScript

This answer, based on another one (link at end), is about the difference between two dates.
You can see how it works because it's simple, also it includes splitting the difference into
units of time (a function that I made) and converting to UTC to stop time zone problems.

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function date_units_diff(a, b, unit_amounts) {_x000D_
    var split_to_whole_units = function (milliseconds, unit_amounts) {_x000D_
        // unit_amounts = list/array of amounts of milliseconds in a_x000D_
        // second, seconds in a minute, etc., for example "[1000, 60]"._x000D_
        time_data = [milliseconds];_x000D_
        for (i = 0; i < unit_amounts.length; i++) {_x000D_
            time_data.push(parseInt(time_data[i] / unit_amounts[i]));_x000D_
            time_data[i] = time_data[i] % unit_amounts[i];_x000D_
        }; return time_data.reverse();_x000D_
    }; if (unit_amounts == undefined) {_x000D_
        unit_amounts = [1000, 60, 60, 24];_x000D_
    };_x000D_
    var utc_a = new Date(a.toUTCString());_x000D_
    var utc_b = new Date(b.toUTCString());_x000D_
    var diff = (utc_b - utc_a);_x000D_
    return split_to_whole_units(diff, unit_amounts);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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// Example of use:_x000D_
var d = date_units_diff(new Date(2010, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0), new Date()).slice(0,-2);_x000D_
document.write("In difference: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes.".replace(_x000D_
   /0|1|2/g, function (x) {return String( d[Number(x)] );} ));
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How my code above works

A date/time difference, as milliseconds, can be calculated using the Date object:

var a = new Date(); // Current date now.
var b = new Date(2010, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); // Start of 2010.

var utc_a = new Date(a.toUTCString());
var utc_b = new Date(b.toUTCString());
var diff = (utc_b - utc_a); // The difference as milliseconds.

Then to work out the number of seconds in that difference, divide it by 1000 to convert
milliseconds to seconds, then change the result to an integer (whole number) to remove
the milliseconds (fraction part of that decimal): var seconds = parseInt(diff/1000).
Also, I could get longer units of time using the same process, for example:
- (whole) minutes, dividing seconds by 60 and changing the result to an integer,
- hours, dividing minutes by 60 and changing the result to an integer.

I created a function for doing that process of splitting the difference into
whole units of time, named split_to_whole_units, with this demo:

console.log(split_to_whole_units(72000, [1000, 60]));
// -> [1,12,0] # 1 (whole) minute, 12 seconds, 0 milliseconds.

This answer is based on this other one.

How to safely upgrade an Amazon EC2 instance from t1.micro to large?

From my experience, the way I do it is create a snapshot of your current image, then once its done you'll see it as an option when launching new instances. Simply launch it as a large instance at that point.

This is my approach if I do not want any downtime(i.e. production server) because this solution only takes a server offline only after the new one is up and running(I also use it to add new machines to my clusters by using this approach to only add new machines). If Downtime is acceptable then see Marcel Castilho's answer.

Why can templates only be implemented in the header file?

Another reason that it's a good idea to write both declarations and definitions in header files is for readability. Suppose there's such a template function in Utility.h:

template <class T>
T min(T const& one, T const& theOther);

And in the Utility.cpp:

#include "Utility.h"
template <class T>
T min(T const& one, T const& other)
{
    return one < other ? one : other;
}

This requires every T class here to implement the less than operator (<). It will throw a compiler error when you compare two class instances that haven't implemented the "<".

Therefore if you separate the template declaration and definition, you won't be able to only read the header file to see the ins and outs of this template in order to use this API on your own classes, though the compiler will tell you in this case about which operator needs to be overridden.

What does axis in pandas mean?

Many answers here helped me a lot!

In case you get confused by the different behaviours of axis in Python and MARGIN in R (like in the apply function), you may find a blog post that I wrote of interest: https://accio.github.io/programming/2020/05/19/numpy-pandas-axis.html.

In essence:

  • Their behaviours are, intriguingly, easier to understand with three-dimensional array than with two-dimensional arrays.
  • In Python packages numpy and pandas, the axis parameter in sum actually specifies numpy to calculate the mean of all values that can be fetched in the form of array[0, 0, ..., i, ..., 0] where i iterates through all possible values. The process is repeated with the position of i fixed and the indices of other dimensions vary one after the other (from the most far-right element). The result is a n-1-dimensional array.
  • In R, the MARGINS parameter let the apply function calculate the mean of all values that can be fetched in the form of array[, ... , i, ... ,] where i iterates through all possible values. The process is not repeated when all i values have been iterated. Therefore, the result is a simple vector.

How can I check if a checkbox is checked?

If you are using this form for mobile app then you may use the required attribute html5. you dont want to use any java script validation for this. It should work

<input id="remember" name="remember" type="checkbox" required="required" />

Multiple file upload in php

Simple is that, just count the files array first, then in while loop you can easily do this like

$count = count($_FILES{'item_file']['name']);

now you got total number of files right.

In while loop do like this:

$i = 0;
while($i<$count)
{
    Upload one by one like we do normally
    $i++;
}

SQL Count for each date

Your created_date field is datetime, so you'll need to strip off the time before the grouping will work if you want to go by date:

SELECT COUNT(created_date), created_date 
FROM table 
WHERE DATEDIFF(created_date, getdate()) < 10
GROUP BY convert(varchar, created_date, 101)

What's "this" in JavaScript onclick?

It refers to the element in the DOM to which the onclick attribute belongs:

<script type="text/javascript"
        src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function func(e) {
  $(e).text('there');
}
</script>
<a onclick="func(this)">here</a>

(This example uses jQuery.)

Turning a string into a Uri in Android

Uri.parse(STRING);

See doc:

String: an RFC 2396-compliant, encoded URI

Url must be canonicalized before using, like this:

Uri.parse(Uri.decode(STRING));

How do I set a column value to NULL in SQL Server Management Studio?

If you are using the table interface you can type in NULL (all caps)

otherwise you can run an update statement where you could:

Update table set ColumnName = NULL where [Filter for record here]

intellij incorrectly saying no beans of type found for autowired repository

If you don't want to make any change to you code just to make your IDE happy. I have solved it by adding all components to the Spring facet.

  1. Create a group with name "Service, Processors and Routers" or any name you like;
  2. Remove and recreate "Spring Application Context" use the group you created previously as a parent.

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Descending order by date filter in AngularJs

Descending Sort by date

It will help to filter records with date in descending order.

$scope.logData = [
            { event: 'Payment', created_at: '04/05/17 6:47 PM PST' },
            { event: 'Payment', created_at: '04/06/17 12:47 AM PST' },
            { event: 'Payment', created_at: '04/05/17 1:50 PM PST' }
        ]; 

<div ng-repeat="logs in logData | orderBy: '-created_at'" >
      {{logs.event}}
 </div>

How to redirect a url in NGINX

First make sure you have installed Nginx with the HTTP rewrite module. To install this we need to have pcre-library

How to install pcre library

If the above mentioned are done or if you already have them, then just add the below code in your nginx server block

  if ($host !~* ^www\.) {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.$host$1 permanent;
  }

To remove www from every request you can use

  if ($host = 'www.your_domain.com' ) {
   rewrite  ^/(.*)$  http://your_domain.com/$1  permanent;
  }

so your server block will look like

  server {
            listen       80;
            server_name  test.com;
            if ($host !~* ^www\.) {
                    rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.$host$1 permanent;
            }
            client_max_body_size   10M;
            client_body_buffer_size   128k;

            root       /home/test/test/public;
            passenger_enabled on;
            rails_env production;

            error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
                    root   html;
            }
    }

Bootstrap col-md-offset-* not working

<div class="jumbotron">
        <div class="container">
            <div class="row">
                <div>
                    <h2 class="col-md-4 offset-md-4">Browse.</h2>
                    <h2 class="col-md-4 offset-md-4">create.</h2>
                    <h2 class="col-md-4 offset-md-4">share.</h2>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

You can try this.

Best approach to remove time part of datetime in SQL Server

How about select cast(cast my_datetime_field as date) as datetime)? This results in the same date, with the time set to 00:00, but avoids any conversion to text and also avoids any explicit numeric rounding.

SQL Server: Extract Table Meta-Data (description, fields and their data types)

If it is OK to use .NET code I'd suggest using SMO: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162169.aspx, In your particular case it would be the Table class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.smo.table.aspx This would be a more portable solution than using version specific system views and tables.

If this is something you are going to use on a regular basis - you might want to write a simple console application, perhaps with a runtime T4 code generator http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee844259.aspx

If it's just a one-off task - you could use my LiveDoco's( http://www.livedoco.com ) export to XML feature with an optional XSLT transform or I'm sure there are free tools out there that can do this. This one looks okay: http://sqldbdoc.codeplex.com/ - supports XML via XSLT, but I'm not sure if you can run it for a selection of tables though (With LiveDoco you can).

How can I count text lines inside an DOM element? Can I?

getClientRects return the client rects like this and if you want to get the lines, use the follow function like this

function getRowRects(element) {
    var rects = [],
        clientRects = element.getClientRects(),
        len = clientRects.length,
        clientRect, top, rectsLen, rect, i;

    for(i=0; i<len; i++) {
        has = false;
        rectsLen = rects.length;
        clientRect = clientRects[i];
        top = clientRect.top;
        while(rectsLen--) {
            rect = rects[rectsLen];
            if (rect.top == top) {
                has = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        if(has) {
            rect.right = rect.right > clientRect.right ? rect.right : clientRect.right;
            rect.width = rect.right - rect.left;
        }
        else {
            rects.push({
                top: clientRect.top,
                right: clientRect.right,
                bottom: clientRect.bottom,
                left: clientRect.left,
                width: clientRect.width,
                height: clientRect.height
            });
        }
    }
    return rects;
}

PHP + curl, HTTP POST sample code?

Curl Post + Error Handling + Set Headers [thanks to @mantas-d]:

function curlPost($url, $data=NULL, $headers = NULL) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    if(!empty($data)){
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    }

    if (!empty($headers)) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    }

    $response = curl_exec($ch);

    if (curl_error($ch)) {
        trigger_error('Curl Error:' . curl_error($ch));
    }

    curl_close($ch);
    return $response;
}


curlPost('google.com', [
    'username' => 'admin',
    'password' => '12345',
]);

Heroku: How to push different local Git branches to Heroku/master

You should check out heroku_san, it solves this problem quite nicely.

For example, you could:

git checkout BRANCH
rake qa deploy

It also makes it easy to spin up new Heroku instances to deploy a topic branch to new servers:

git checkout BRANCH
# edit config/heroku.yml with new app instance and shortname
rake shortname heroku:create deploy # auto creates deploys and migrates

And of course you can make simpler rake tasks if you do something frequently.

Using setattr() in python

You are setting self.name to the string "get_thing", not the function get_thing.

If you want self.name to be a function, then you should set it to one:

setattr(self, 'name', self.get_thing)

However, that's completely unnecessary for your other code, because you could just call it directly:

value_returned = self.get_thing()

Send FormData with other field in AngularJS

Assume that we want to get a list of certain images from a PHP server using the POST method.

You have to provide two parameters in the form for the POST method. Here is how you are going to do.

app.controller('gallery-item', function ($scope, $http) {

    var url = 'service.php'; 

    var data = new FormData();

    data.append("function", 'getImageList');
    data.append('dir', 'all');

    $http.post(url, data, {
        transformRequest: angular.identity,
        headers: {'Content-Type': undefined}
      }).then(function (response) {

          // This function handles success
        console.log('angular:', response);

    }, function (response) {

        // this function handles error

    });
});

I have tested it on my system and it works.

Section vs Article HTML5

I'd use <article> for a text block that is totally unrelated to the other blocks on the page. <section>, on the other hand, would be a divider to separate a document which have are related to each other.

Now, i'm not sure what you have in your videos, newsfeed etc, but here's an example (there's no REAL right or wrong, just a guideline of how I use these tags):

<article>
    <h1>People</h1>
    <p>text about people</p>
    <section>
        <h1>fat people</h1>
        <p>text about fat people</p>
    </section>
    <section>
        <h1>skinny people</p>
        <p>text about skinny people</p>
    </section>
</article>
<article>
    <h1>Cars</h1>
    <p>text about cars</p>
    <section>
        <h1>Fast Cars</h1>
        <p>text about fast cars</p>
    </section>
</article>

As you can see, the sections are still relevant to each other, but as long as they're inside a block that groups them. Sections DONT have to be inside articles. They can be in the body of a document, but i use sections in the body, when the whole document is one article.

e.g.

<body>
    <h1>Cars</h1>
    <p>text about cars</p>
    <section>
        <h1>Fast Cars</h1>
        <p>text about fast cars</p>
    </section>
</body>

Hope this makes sense.

C# HttpClient 4.5 multipart/form-data upload

I'm adding a code snippet which shows on how to post a file to an API which has been exposed over DELETE http verb. This is not a common case to upload a file with DELETE http verb but it is allowed. I've assumed Windows NTLM authentication for authorizing the call.

The problem that one might face is that all the overloads of HttpClient.DeleteAsync method have no parameters for HttpContent the way we get it in PostAsync method

var requestUri = new Uri("http://UrlOfTheApi");
using (var streamToPost = new MemoryStream("C:\temp.txt"))
using (var fileStreamContent = new StreamContent(streamToPost))
using (var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler() { UseDefaultCredentials = true })
using (var httpClient = new HttpClient(httpClientHandler, true))
using (var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, requestUri))
using (var formDataContent = new MultipartFormDataContent())
{
    formDataContent.Add(fileStreamContent, "myFile", "temp.txt");
    requestMessage.Content = formDataContent;
    var response = httpClient.SendAsync(requestMessage).GetAwaiter().GetResult();

    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        // File upload was successfull
    }
    else
    {
        var erroResult = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        throw new Exception("Error on the server : " + erroResult);
    }
}

You need below namespaces at the top of your C# file:

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Net.Http;

P.S. Sorry about so many using blocks(IDisposable pattern) in my code. Unfortunately, the syntax of using construct of C# doesn't support initializing multiple variables in single statement.

jQuery's .on() method combined with the submit event

I had a problem with the same symtoms. In my case, it turned out that my submit function was missing the "return" statement.

For example:

 $("#id_form").on("submit", function(){
   //Code: Action (like ajax...)
   return false;
 })

How to display Oracle schema size with SQL query?

SELECT table_name as Table_Name, row_cnt as Row_Count, SUM(mb) as Size_MB
FROM
  (SELECT in_tbl.table_name,   to_number(extractvalue(xmltype(dbms_xmlgen.getxml('select count(*) c from ' ||ut.table_name)),'/ROWSET/ROW/C')) AS row_cnt , mb
FROM
(SELECT CASE WHEN lob_tables IS NULL THEN table_name WHEN lob_tables IS NOT NULL THEN lob_tables END AS table_name , mb
FROM (SELECT ul.table_name AS lob_tables, us.segment_name AS table_name , us.bytes/1024/1024 MB FROM user_segments us
LEFT JOIN user_lobs ul ON us.segment_name = ul.segment_name ) ) in_tbl INNER JOIN user_tables ut ON in_tbl.table_name = ut.table_name ) GROUP BY table_name, row_cnt ORDER BY 3 DESC;``

Above query will give, Table_name, Row_count, Size_in_MB(includes lob column size) of specific user.

Query an XDocument for elements by name at any depth

There are two ways to accomplish this,

  1. LINQ to XML
  2. XPath

The following are samples of using these approaches,

List<XElement> result = doc.Root.Element("emails").Elements("emailAddress").ToList();

If you use XPath, you need to do some manipulation with the IEnumerable:

IEnumerable<XElement> mails = ((IEnumerable)doc.XPathEvaluate("/emails/emailAddress")).Cast<XElement>();

Note that

var res = doc.XPathEvaluate("/emails/emailAddress");

results either a null pointer, or no results.

How to decode jwt token in javascript without using a library?

If you use Node.JS, You can use the native Buffer module by doing :

const token = 'eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiYWRtaW4iOnRydWUsImp0aSI6ImU3YjQ0Mjc4LTZlZDYtNDJlZC05MTZmLWFjZDQzNzhkM2U0YSIsImlhdCI6MTU5NTg3NzUxOCwiZXhwIjoxNTk1ODgxMTE4fQ.WXyDlDMMSJAjOFF9oAU9JrRHg2wio-WolWAkAaY3kg4';
const base64Url = token.split('.')[1];
const decoded = Buffer.from(base64Url, 'base64').toString();
console.log(decoded)

And you're good to go :-)

How do I clone a generic list in C#?

For a deep clone I use reflection as follows:

public List<T> CloneList<T>(IEnumerable<T> listToClone) {
    Type listType = listToClone.GetType();
    Type elementType = listType.GetGenericArguments()[0];
    List<T> listCopy = new List<T>();
    foreach (T item in listToClone) {
        object itemCopy = Activator.CreateInstance(elementType);
        foreach (PropertyInfo property in elementType.GetProperties()) {
            elementType.GetProperty(property.Name).SetValue(itemCopy, property.GetValue(item));
        }
        listCopy.Add((T)itemCopy);
    }
    return listCopy;
}

You can use List or IEnumerable interchangeably.

Jenkins: Failed to connect to repository

On Ubuntu, placed your id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files in /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh

Make Jenkins own them sudo chown -R jenkins /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/

Make sure that Jenkins key is added as deploy key with RW access in GitHub (or similar) - use the id_rsa.pub key for this.

Now everything should jive with the SCM Sync Plugin.

Reference - What does this regex mean?

The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ

See also a lot of general hints and useful links at the tag details page.


Online tutorials

Quantifiers

Character Classes

Escape Sequences

Anchors

(Also see "Flavor-Specific Information ? Java ? The functions in Matcher")

Groups

Lookarounds

Modifiers

Other:

Common Tasks

Advanced Regex-Fu

Flavor-Specific Information

(Except for those marked with *, this section contains non-Stack Overflow links.)

General information

(Links marked with * are non-Stack Overflow links.)

Examples of regex that can cause regex engine to fail

Tools: Testers and Explainers

(This section contains non-Stack Overflow links.)

PHP MySQL Google Chart JSON - Complete Example

use this, it realy works:

data.addColumn no of your key, you can add more columns or remove

<?php
$con=mysql_connect("localhost","USername","Password") or die("Failed to connect with database!!!!");
mysql_select_db("Database Name", $con); 
// The Chart table contain two fields: Weekly_task and percentage
//this example will display a pie chart.if u need other charts such as Bar chart, u will need to change little bit to make work with bar chart and others charts
$sth = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM chart");

while($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($sth)) {
$arr2=array_keys($r);
$arr1=array_values($r);

}

for($i=0;$i<count($arr1);$i++)
{
    $chart_array[$i]=array((string)$arr2[$i],intval($arr1[$i]));
}
echo "<pre>";
$data=json_encode($chart_array);
?>

<html>
  <head>
    <!--Load the AJAX API-->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">

    // Load the Visualization API and the piechart package.
    google.load('visualization', '1', {'packages':['corechart']});

    // Set a callback to run when the Google Visualization API is loaded.
    google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);

    function drawChart() {

      // Create our data table out of JSON data loaded from server.
     var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
        data.addColumn("string", "YEAR");
        data.addColumn("number", "NO of record");

        data.addRows(<?php $data ?>);

        ]); 
      var options = {
           title: 'My Weekly Plan',
          is3D: 'true',
          width: 800,
          height: 600
        };
      // Instantiate and draw our chart, passing in some options.
      //do not forget to check ur div ID
      var chart = new google.visualization.PieChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
      chart.draw(data, options);
    }
    </script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <!--Div that will hold the pie chart-->
    <div id="chart_div"></div>
  </body>
</html>

'Missing contentDescription attribute on image' in XML

Updated:

As pointed out in the comments, setting the description to null indicates that the image is purely decorative and is understood as that by screen readers like TalkBack.

Old answer, I no longer support this answer:

For all the people looking how to avoid the warning:

I don't think android:contentDescription="@null" is the best solution.

I'm using tools:ignore="ContentDescription" that is what is meant to be.

Make sure you include xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" in your root layout.

What is the difference between i++ and ++i?

int i = 0;
Console.WriteLine(i++); // Prints 0. Then value of "i" becomes 1.
Console.WriteLine(--i); // Value of "i" becomes 0. Then prints 0.

Does this answer your question ?

How to change Rails 3 server default port in develoment?

You could install $ gem install foreman, and use foreman to start your server as defined in your Procfile like:

web: bundle exec rails -p 10524

You can check foreman gem docs here: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman for more info

The benefit of this approach is not only can you set/change the port in the config easily and that it doesn't require much code to be added but also you can add different steps in the Procfile that foreman will run for you so you don't have to go though them each time you want to start you application something like:

bundle: bundle install
web: bundle exec rails -p 10524
...
...

Cheers

how to get 2 digits after decimal point in tsql?

Assume that you have dynamic currency precision

  • value => 1.002431

  • currency precision => 3

  • `result => 1.002

CAST(Floor(your_float_value) AS VARCHAR) + '.' + REPLACE(STR(FLOOR((your_float_value FLOOR(your_float_value)) * power(10,cu_precision)), cu_precision), SPACE(1), '0')

Do standard windows .ini files allow comments?

I have seen comments in INI files, so yes. Please refer to this Wikipedia article. I could not find an official specification, but that is the correct syntax for comments, as many game INI files had this as I remember.

Edit

The API returns the Value and the Comment (forgot to mention this in my reply), just construct and example INI file and call the API on this (with comments) and you can see how this is returned.

SQL Server : How to test if a string has only digit characters

I was attempting to find strings with numbers ONLY, no punctuation or anything else. I finally found an answer that would work here.

Using PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', some_column) = 0 allowed me to filter out everything but actual number strings.

Fetch: reject promise and catch the error if status is not OK?

For me, fny answers really got it all. since fetch is not throwing error, we need to throw/handle the error ourselves. Posting my solution with async/await. I think it's more strait forward and readable

Solution 1: Not throwing an error, handle the error ourselves

  async _fetch(request) {
    const fetchResult = await fetch(request); //Making the req
    const result = await fetchResult.json(); // parsing the response

    if (fetchResult.ok) {
      return result; // return success object
    }


    const responseError = {
      type: 'Error',
      message: result.message || 'Something went wrong',
      data: result.data || '',
      code: result.code || '',
    };

    const error = new Error();
    error.info = responseError;

    return (error);
  }

Here if we getting an error, we are building an error object, plain JS object and returning it, the con is that we need to handle it outside. How to use:

  const userSaved = await apiCall(data); // calling fetch
  if (userSaved instanceof Error) {
    debug.log('Failed saving user', userSaved); // handle error

    return;
  }
  debug.log('Success saving user', userSaved); // handle success

Solution 2: Throwing an error, using try/catch

async _fetch(request) {
    const fetchResult = await fetch(request);
    const result = await fetchResult.json();

    if (fetchResult.ok) {
      return result;
    }

    const responseError = {
      type: 'Error',
      message: result.message || 'Something went wrong',
      data: result.data || '',
      code: result.code || '',
    };

    let error = new Error();
    error = { ...error, ...responseError };
    throw (error);
  }

Here we are throwing and error that we created, since Error ctor approve only string, Im creating the plain Error js object, and the use will be:

  try {
    const userSaved = await apiCall(data); // calling fetch
    debug.log('Success saving user', userSaved); // handle success
  } catch (e) {
    debug.log('Failed saving user', userSaved); // handle error
  }

Solution 3: Using customer error

  async _fetch(request) {
    const fetchResult = await fetch(request);
    const result = await fetchResult.json();

    if (fetchResult.ok) {
      return result;
    }

    throw new ClassError(result.message, result.data, result.code);
  }

And:

class ClassError extends Error {

  constructor(message = 'Something went wrong', data = '', code = '') {
    super();
    this.message = message;
    this.data = data;
    this.code = code;
  }

}

Hope it helped.

Stretch and scale CSS background

Add a background-attachment line:

#background {
    background-attachment:fixed;
    width: 100%; 
    height: 100%; 
    position: absolute; 
    margin-left: 0px; 
    margin-top: 0px; 
    z-index: 0;
}

.stretch {
    width:100%;
    height:auto;
}

How to add parameters into a WebRequest?

If these are the parameters of url-string then you need to add them through '?' and '&' chars, for example http://example.com/index.aspx?username=Api_user&password=Api_password.

If these are the parameters of POST request, then you need to create POST data and write it to request stream. Here is sample method:

private static string doRequestWithBytesPostData(string requestUri, string method, byte[] postData,
                                        CookieContainer cookieContainer,
                                        string userAgent, string acceptHeaderString,
                                        string referer,
                                        string contentType, out string responseUri)
        {
            var result = "";
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(requestUri))
            {
                var request = WebRequest.Create(requestUri) as HttpWebRequest;
                if (request != null)
                {
                    request.KeepAlive = true;
                    var cachePolicy = new RequestCachePolicy(RequestCacheLevel.BypassCache);
                    request.CachePolicy = cachePolicy;
                    request.Expect = null;
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(method))
                        request.Method = method;
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(acceptHeaderString))
                        request.Accept = acceptHeaderString;
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(referer))
                        request.Referer = referer;
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(contentType))
                        request.ContentType = contentType;
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userAgent))
                        request.UserAgent = userAgent;
                    if (cookieContainer != null)
                        request.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;

                    request.Timeout = Constants.RequestTimeOut;

                    if (request.Method == "POST")
                    {
                        if (postData != null)
                        {
                            request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
                            using (var dataStream = request.GetRequestStream())
                            {
                                dataStream.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length);
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    using (var httpWebResponse = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
                    {
                        if (httpWebResponse != null)
                        {
                            responseUri = httpWebResponse.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri;
                            cookieContainer.Add(httpWebResponse.Cookies);
                            using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()))
                            {
                                result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
                            }
                            return result;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            responseUri = null;
            return null;
        }

NullPointerException in Java with no StackTrace

As you mentioned in a comment, you're using log4j. I discovered (inadvertently) a place where I had written

LOG.error(exc);

instead of the typical

LOG.error("Some informative message", e);

through laziness or perhaps just not thinking about it. The unfortunate part of this is that it doesn't behave as you expect. The logger API actually takes Object as the first argument, not a string - and then it calls toString() on the argument. So instead of getting the nice pretty stack trace, it just prints out the toString - which in the case of NPE is pretty useless.

Perhaps this is what you're experiencing?

Parse large JSON file in Nodejs

I solved this problem using the split npm module. Pipe your stream into split, and it will "Break up a stream and reassemble it so that each line is a chunk".

Sample code:

var fs = require('fs')
  , split = require('split')
  ;

var stream = fs.createReadStream(filePath, {flags: 'r', encoding: 'utf-8'});
var lineStream = stream.pipe(split());
linestream.on('data', function(chunk) {
    var json = JSON.parse(chunk);           
    // ...
});

Checking if a textbox is empty in Javascript

function valid(id)
    {
        var textVal=document.getElementById(id).value;
        if (!textVal.match("Tryit") 
        {
            alert("Field says Tryit");
            return false;
        } 
        else 
        {
            return true;
        }
     }

Use this for expressing things

Visual c++ can't open include file 'iostream'

It is possible that your compiler and the resources installed around it were somehow incomplete. I recommend re-installing your compiler: it should work after that.

Git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches

For me what worked was:

git fetch

Which pulls all the refs down to your machine for all the branches on remote. Then I could do

git checkout <branchname>

and that worked perfectly. Similar to the top voted answer, but a little more simple.

Accessing elements by type in javascript

In plain-old JavaScript you can do this:

var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');

for(var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
    if(inputs[i].type.toLowerCase() == 'text') {
        alert(inputs[i].value);
    }
}

In jQuery, you would just do:

// select all inputs of type 'text' on the page
$("input:text")

// hide all text inputs which are descendants of div class="foo"
$("div.foo input:text").hide();

Delete first character of a string in Javascript

var s = "0test";
if(s.substr(0,1) == "0") {
    s = s.substr(1);
}

For all 0s: http://jsfiddle.net/An4MY/

String.prototype.ltrim0 = function() {
 return this.replace(/^[0]+/,"");
}
var s = "0000test".ltrim0();

Calculate summary statistics of columns in dataframe

To clarify one point in @EdChum's answer, per the documentation, you can include the object columns by using df.describe(include='all'). It won't provide many statistics, but will provide a few pieces of info, including count, number of unique values, top value. This may be a new feature, I don't know as I am a relatively new user.

IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection

Just try to re-create connection. In my situation one of jdbc connection stopped working for no reason. From console sqlplus was working ok. It took me 2 hours to realize that If i create the same connection - it works.

Where to put default parameter value in C++?

One more point I haven't found anyone mentioned:

If you have virtual method, each declaration can have its own default value!

It depends on the interface you are calling which value will be used.

Example on ideone

struct iface
{
    virtual void test(int a = 0) { std::cout << a; }
};

struct impl : public iface
{
    virtual void test(int a = 5) override { std::cout << a; }
};

int main()
{
    impl d;
    d.test();
    iface* a = &d;
    a->test();
}

It prints 50

I strongly discourage you to use it like this

HTML5 Video Autoplay not working correctly

Mobile browsers generally ignore this attribute to prevent consuming data until user explicitly starts the download.

UPDATE: newer version of mobile browser on Android and iOS do support autoplay function. But it only works if the video is muted or has no audio channel:

Some additional info: https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

How to solve a pair of nonlinear equations using Python?

If you prefer sympy you can use nsolve.

>>> nsolve([x+y**2-4, exp(x)+x*y-3], [x, y], [1, 1])
[0.620344523485226]
[1.83838393066159]

The first argument is a list of equations, the second is list of variables and the third is an initial guess.

Problem with converting int to string in Linq to entities

If your "contact" is acting as generic list, I hope the following code works well.

var items = contact.Distinct().OrderBy(c => c.Name)
                              .Select( c => new ListItem
                              {
                                Value = c.ContactId.ToString(),
                                Text = c.Name
                              });

Thanks.

How to initialise memory with new operator in C++?

For c++ use std::array<int/*type*/, 10/*size*/> instead of c-style array. This is available with c++11 standard, and which is a good practice. See it here for standard and examples. If you want to stick to old c-style arrays for reasons, there two possible ways:

  1. int *a = new int[5](); Here leave the parenthesis empty, otherwise it will give compile error. This will initialize all the elements in the allocated array. Here if you don't use the parenthesis, it will still initialize the integer values with zeros because new will call the constructor, which is in this case int().
  2. int *a = new int[5] {0, 0, 0}; This is allowed in c++11 standard. Here you can initialize array elements with any value you want. Here make sure your initializer list(values in {}) size should not be greater than your array size. Initializer list size less than array size is fine. Remaining values in array will be initialized with 0.

Controlling fps with requestAnimationFrame?

The simplest way


const FPS = 30;
let lastTimestamp = 0;


function update(timestamp) {
  requestAnimationFrame(update);
  if (timestamp - lastTimestamp < 1000 / FPS) return;
  
  
   /* <<< PUT YOUR CODE HERE >>>  */

 
  lastTimestamp = timestamp;
}


update();

Get the first key name of a JavaScript object

If you decide to use Underscore.js you better do

_.values(ahash)[0]

to get value, or

_.keys(ahash)[0]

to get key.

generate model using user:references vs user_id:integer

For the former, convention over configuration. Rails default when you reference another table with

 belongs_to :something

is to look for something_id.

references, or belongs_to is actually newer way of writing the former with few quirks.

Important is to remember that it will not create foreign keys for you. In order to do that, you need to set it up explicitly using either:

t.references :something, foreign_key: true
t.belongs_to :something_else, foreign_key: true

or (note the plural):

add_foreign_key :table_name, :somethings
add_foreign_key :table_name, :something_elses`

How to get the hostname of the docker host from inside a docker container on that host without env vars

You can pass it as an environment variable like this. Generally Node is the host that it is running in. The hostname is defaulted to the host name of the node when it is created.

docker service create -e 'FOO={{.Node.Hostname}}' nginx  

Then you can do docker ps to get the process ID and look at the env

$ docker exec -it c81640b6d1f1 env                                                                                                                                    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
HOSTNAME=c81640b6d1f1
TERM=xterm
FOO=docker-desktop
NGINX_VERSION=1.17.4
NJS_VERSION=0.3.5
PKG_RELEASE=1~buster
HOME=/root

An example of usage would be with metricbeats so you know which node is having system issues which I put in https://github.com/trajano/elk-swarm:

  metricbeat:
    image: docker.elastic.co/beats/metricbeat:7.4.0
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
      - /sys/fs/cgroup:/hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup:ro
      - /proc:/hostfs/proc:ro
      - /:/hostfs:ro
    user: root
    hostname: "{{.Node.Hostname}}"
    command:
      - -E
      - |
        metricbeat.modules=[
          {
            module:docker,
            hosts:[unix:///var/run/docker.sock],
            period:10s,
            enabled:true
          }
        ] 
      - -E
      - processors={1:{add_docker_metadata:{host:unix:///var/run/docker.sock}}} 
      - -E
      - output.elasticsearch.enabled=false
      - -E
      - output.logstash.enabled=true
      - -E
      - output.logstash.hosts=["logstash:5044"]
    deploy:
      mode: global

How can I auto increment the C# assembly version via our CI platform (Hudson)?

This is a simpler mechanism. It simply involves the addition of a Windows Batch command task build step before the MSBuild step and the use of a simple find and replace program (FART).

The Batch Step

fart --svn -r AssemblyInfo.cs "[assembly: AssemblyVersion(\"1.0.0.0\")]" "[assembly: AssemblyVersion(\"1.0.%BUILD_NUMBER%.%SVN_REVISION%\")]"
if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 exit /b 1
fart --svn -r AssemblyInfo.cs "[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion(\"1.0.0.0\")]" "[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion(\"1.0.%BUILD_NUMBER%.%SVN_REVISION%\")]"
if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 exit /b 1
exit /b 0

If you are using source control other than svn change the --svn option for the appropriate one for your scm environment.

Download Fart

How to update /etc/hosts file in Docker image during "docker build"

If this is useful for anyone, the HOSTALIASES env variable worked for me:

echo "fakehost realhost" > /etc/host.aliases
export HOSTALIASES=/etc/host.aliases

Changing the URL in react-router v4 without using Redirect or Link

I'm using this to redirect with React Router v4:

this.props.history.push('/foo');

Hope it work for you ;)

Scale image to fit a bounding box

The cleanest and simplest way to do this:

First some CSS:

div.image-wrapper {
    height: 230px; /* Suggestive number; pick your own height as desired */
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden; /* This will do the magic */
    width: 300px; /* Pick an appropriate width as desired, unless you already use a grid, in that case use 100% */
}
img {
    width: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    top: 0;
    height: auto;
}

The HTML:

<div class="image-wrapper">
  <img src="yourSource.jpg">
</div>

This should do the trick!

How do I print my Java object without getting "SomeType@2f92e0f4"?

In Eclipse, Go to your class, Right click->source->Generate toString();

It will override the toString() method and will print the object of that class.

SSL handshake alert: unrecognized_name error since upgrade to Java 1.7.0

It should be useful. To retry on a SNI error in Apache HttpClient 4.4 - the easiest way we came up with (see HTTPCLIENT-1522):

public class SniHttpClientConnectionOperator extends DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator {

    public SniHttpClientConnectionOperator(Lookup<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry) {
        super(socketFactoryRegistry, null, null);
    }

    @Override
    public void connect(
            final ManagedHttpClientConnection conn,
            final HttpHost host,
            final InetSocketAddress localAddress,
            final int connectTimeout,
            final SocketConfig socketConfig,
            final HttpContext context) throws IOException {
        try {
            super.connect(conn, host, localAddress, connectTimeout, socketConfig, context);
        } catch (SSLProtocolException e) {
            Boolean enableSniValue = (Boolean) context.getAttribute(SniSSLSocketFactory.ENABLE_SNI);
            boolean enableSni = enableSniValue == null || enableSniValue;
            if (enableSni && e.getMessage() != null && e.getMessage().equals("handshake alert:  unrecognized_name")) {
                TimesLoggers.httpworker.warn("Server received saw wrong SNI host, retrying without SNI");
                context.setAttribute(SniSSLSocketFactory.ENABLE_SNI, false);
                super.connect(conn, host, localAddress, connectTimeout, socketConfig, context);
            } else {
                throw e;
            }
        }
    }
}

and

public class SniSSLSocketFactory extends SSLConnectionSocketFactory {

    public static final String ENABLE_SNI = "__enable_sni__";

    /*
     * Implement any constructor you need for your particular application -
     * SSLConnectionSocketFactory has many variants
     */
    public SniSSLSocketFactory(final SSLContext sslContext, final HostnameVerifier verifier) {
        super(sslContext, verifier);
    }

    @Override
    public Socket createLayeredSocket(
            final Socket socket,
            final String target,
            final int port,
            final HttpContext context) throws IOException {
        Boolean enableSniValue = (Boolean) context.getAttribute(ENABLE_SNI);
        boolean enableSni = enableSniValue == null || enableSniValue;
        return super.createLayeredSocket(socket, enableSni ? target : "", port, context);
    }
}

and

cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(new SniHttpClientConnectionOperator(socketFactoryRegistry), null, -1, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

td widths, not working?

This problem is quite easily solved using min-width and max-width within a css rule.

HTML

<table>
  <tr>
    <td class="name">Peter</td>
    <td class="hobby">Photography</td>
    <td class="comment">A long comment about something...</td>
  </td>
</table>

CSS

.name {
  max-width: 80px;
  min-width: 80px;
}

This will force the first column to be 80px wide. Usually I only use max-width without min-width to reign in text that is very occasionally too long from creating a table that has a super wide column that is mostly empty. The OP's question was about setting to a fixed width though, hence both rules together. On many browsers width:80px; in CSS is ignored for table columns. Setting the width within the HTML does work, but is not the way you should do things.

I would recommend using min and max width rules, and not set them the same but rather set a range. This way the table can do it's thing, but you can give it some hints on what to do with overly long content.

If I want to keep the text from wrapping and increasing the height of a row - but still make it possible for a user to see the full text, I use white-space: nowrap; on the main rule, then apply a hover rule that removes the width and nowrap rules so that the user can see the full content when they over their mouse over it. Something like this:

CSS

.name {
  max-width: 80px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.name:hover {
  max-width: none;
  white-space: normal;
  overflow:auto;
}

It just depends on exactly what you are trying to achieve. I hope this helps someone. PS As an aside, for iOS there is a fix for hover not working - see CSS Hover Not Working on iOS Safari and Chrome

Selenium using Python - Geckodriver executable needs to be in PATH

Ubuntu 18.04+ and the newest release of geckodriver

This should also work for other *nix varieties as well.

export GV=v0.29.0
wget "https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/$GV/geckodriver-$GV-linux64.tar.gz"
tar xvzf geckodriver-$GV-linux64.tar.gz
chmod +x geckodriver
sudo cp geckodriver /usr/local/bin/

For Mac update to:

geckodriver-$GV-macos.tar.gz

javac: invalid target release: 1.8

Installing a newer release of IDEA Community (2018.3 instead of 2017.x) was solved my issue with same error but java version:11. Reimport hadn't worked for me. But it worth a try.

How can I install the VS2017 version of msbuild on a build server without installing the IDE?

The Visual Studio Build tools are a different download than the IDE. They appear to be a pretty small subset, and they're called Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 (download).

You can use the GUI to do the installation, or you can script the installation of msbuild:

vs_buildtools.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools --quiet

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools is a "wrapper" ID for the three subcomponents you need:

  • Microsoft.Component.MSBuild
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreBuildTools
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler

You can find documentation about the other available CLI switches here.

The build tools installation is much quicker than the full IDE. In my test, it took 5-10 seconds. With --quiet there is no progress indicator other than a brief cursor change. If the installation was successful, you should be able to see the build tools in %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin.

If you don't see them there, try running without --quiet to see any error messages that may occur during installation.

Convert tuple to list and back

Since Python 3.5 (PEP 448 -- Additional Unpacking Generalizations) one can use the following literal syntax to convert a tuple to a list:

>>> t = (1,2,3)
>>> lst = [*t]
>>> lst
[1, 2, 3]
>>> *lst,  # back to tuple
(1, 2, 3)

A list comprehension can be use to convert a tuple of tuples to a list of lists:

>>> level1 = (
...      (1,1,1,1,1,1),
...      (1,0,0,0,0,1),
...      (1,0,0,0,0,1),
...      (1,0,0,0,0,1),
...      (1,0,0,0,0,1),
...      (1,1,1,1,1,1))
>>> level1_list = [[*row] for row in level1]
>>> level1_list
[[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], 
 [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], 
 [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], 
 [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], 
 [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], 
 [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]]
>>> *((*row,) for row in level1_list),
((1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1), 
 (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1), 
 (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1), 
 (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1), 
 (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1), 
 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1))
>>> _ == level1
True

How to insert a new line in strings in Android

Try using System.getProperty("line.separator") to get a new line.

C++ Dynamic Shared Library on Linux

Basically, you should include the class' header file in the code where you want to use the class in the shared library. Then, when you link, use the '-l' flag to link your code with the shared library. Of course, this requires the .so to be where the OS can find it. See 3.5. Installing and Using a Shared Library

Using dlsym is for when you don't know at compile time which library you want to use. That doesn't sound like it's the case here. Maybe the confusion is that Windows calls the dynamically loaded libraries whether you do the linking at compile or run-time (with analogous methods)? If so, then you can think of dlsym as the equivalent of LoadLibrary.

If you really do need to dynamically load the libraries (i.e., they're plug-ins), then this FAQ should help.

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'tx:annotation-driven'

Make sure that Spring version and xsd version both are same.In my case I am using Spring 4.1.1 so my all xsd should be version *-4.1.xsd

Read Variable from Web.Config

I would suggest you to don't modify web.config from your, because every time when change, it will restart your application.

However you can read web.config using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings

Store an array in HashMap

You can store objects in a HashMap.

HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();

You'll just need to cast it back out correctly.

Change Date Format(DD/MM/YYYY) in SQL SELECT Statement

Changed to:

SELECT FORMAT(SA.[RequestStartDate],'dd/MM/yyyy') as 'Service Start Date', SA.[RequestEndDate] as 'Service End Date', FROM (......)SA WHERE......

Have no idea which SQL engine you are using, for other SQL engine, CONVERT can be used in SELECT statement to change the format in the form you needed.

use a javascript array to fill up a drop down select box

Use a for loop to iterate through your array. For each string, create a new option element, assign the string as its innerHTML and value, and then append it to the select element.

var cuisines = ["Chinese","Indian"];     
var sel = document.getElementById('CuisineList');
for(var i = 0; i < cuisines.length; i++) {
    var opt = document.createElement('option');
    opt.innerHTML = cuisines[i];
    opt.value = cuisines[i];
    sel.appendChild(opt);
}

DEMO

UPDATE: Using createDocumentFragment and forEach

If you have a very large list of elements that you want to append to a document, it can be non-performant to append each new element individually. The DocumentFragment acts as a light weight document object that can be used to collect elements. Once all your elements are ready, you can execute a single appendChild operation so that the DOM only updates once, instead of n times.

var cuisines = ["Chinese","Indian"];     

var sel = document.getElementById('CuisineList');
var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();

cuisines.forEach(function(cuisine, index) {
    var opt = document.createElement('option');
    opt.innerHTML = cuisine;
    opt.value = cuisine;
    fragment.appendChild(opt);
});

sel.appendChild(fragment);

DEMO

CSV parsing in Java - working example..?

I agree with @Brian Clapper. I have used SuperCSV as a parser though I've had mixed results. I enjoy the versatility of it, but there are some situations within my own csv files for which I have not been able to reconcile "yet". I have faith in this product and would recommend it overall--I'm just missing something simple, no doubt, that I'm doing in my own implementation.

SuperCSV can parse the columns into various formats, do edits on the columns, etc. It's worth taking a look-see. It has examples as well, and easy to follow.

The one/only limitation I'm having is catching an 'empty' column and parsing it into an Integer or maybe a blank, etc. I'm getting null-pointer errors, but javadocs suggest each cellProcessor checks for nulls first. So, I'm blaming myself first, for now. :-)

Anyway, take a look at SuperCSV. http://supercsv.sourceforge.net/

max value of integer

A 32 bit integer ranges from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647. However the fact that you are on a 32-bit machine does not mean your C compiler uses 32-bit integers.

How to replace substrings in windows batch file

Expanding from Andriy M, and yes you can do this from a file, even one with multiple lines

@echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion
set "INTEXTFILE=test.txt"
set "OUTTEXTFILE=test_out.txt"
set "SEARCHTEXT=bath"
set "REPLACETEXT=hello"

for /f "delims=" %%A in ('type "%INTEXTFILE%"') do (
    set "string=%%A"
    set "modified=!string:%SEARCHTEXT%=%REPLACETEXT%!"
    echo !modified!>>"%OUTTEXTFILE%"
)

del "%INTEXTFILE%"
rename "%OUTTEXTFILE%" "%INTEXTFILE%"
endlocal

EDIT

Thanks David Nelson, I have updated the script so it doesn't have the hard coded values anymore.

JavaScript single line 'if' statement - best syntax, this alternative?

can use this,

lemons ? alert("please give me a lemonade") : alert("then give me a beer");

explanation: if lemons is true then alert("please give me a lemonade"), if not, alert("then give me a beer")

check if file exists in php

  1. The function expects a string.

  2. file_exists() does not work properly with HTTP URLs.

Changing the selected option of an HTML Select element

None of the examples using jquery in here are actually correct as they will leave the select displaying the first entry even though value has been changed.

The right way to select Alaska and have the select show the right item as selected using:

<select id="state">
    <option value="AL">Alabama</option>
    <option value="AK">Alaska</option>
    <option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
</select>

With jquery would be:

$('#state').val('AK').change();

How should I read a file line-by-line in Python?

if you're turned off by the extra line, you can use a wrapper function like so:

def with_iter(iterable):
    with iterable as iter:
        for item in iter:
            yield item

for line in with_iter(open('...')):
    ...

in Python 3.3, the yield from statement would make this even shorter:

def with_iter(iterable):
    with iterable as iter:
        yield from iter

ErrorActionPreference and ErrorAction SilentlyContinue for Get-PSSessionConfiguration

A solution for me:

$old_ErrorActionPreference = $ErrorActionPreference
$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
if((Get-PSSessionConfiguration -Name "MyShellUri" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {
   WriteTraceForTrans "The session configuration MyShellUri is already unregistered."
}
else {        
   #Unregister-PSSessionConfiguration -Name "MyShellUri" -Force -ErrorAction Ignore
}
$ErrorActionPreference = $old_ErrorActionPreference 

Or use try-catch

try { 

(Get-PSSessionConfiguration -Name "MyShellUri" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)

} 
catch {

}

Turn a simple socket into an SSL socket

OpenSSL is quite difficult. It's easy to accidentally throw away all your security by not doing negotiation exactly right. (Heck, I've been personally bitten by a bug where curl wasn't reading the OpenSSL alerts exactly right, and couldn't talk to some sites.)

If you really want quick and simple, put stud in front of your program an call it a day. Having SSL in a different process won't slow you down: http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-benchmark.html

Undo a Git merge that hasn't been pushed yet

  1. First, make sure that you've committed everything.

  2. Then reset your repository to the previous working state:

    $ git reset f836e4c1fa51524658b9f026eb5efa24afaf3a36
    

    or using --hard (this will remove all local, not committed changes!):

    $ git reset f836e4c1fa51524658b9f026eb5efa24afaf3a36 --hard
    

    Use the hash which was there before your wrongly merged commit.

  3. Check which commits you'd like to re-commit on the top of the previous correct version by:

    $ git log 4c3e23f529b581c3cbe95350e84e66e3cb05704f
    
    commit 4c3e23f529b581c3cbe95350e84e66e3cb05704f
    
    ...
    
    commit 16b373a96b0a353f7454b141f7aa6f548c979d0a
    
    ...
    
  4. Apply your right commits on the top of the right version of your repository by:

    • By using cherry-pick (the changes introduced by some existing commits)

          git cherry-pick ec59ab844cf504e462f011c8cc7e5667ebb2e9c7
      
    • Or by cherry-picking the range of commits by:

      • First checking the right changes before merging them:

        git diff 5216b24822ea1c48069f648449997879bb49c070..4c3e23f529b581c3cbe95350e84e66e3cb05704f
        
      • First checking the right changes before merging them:

        git cherry-pick 5216b24822ea1c48069f648449997879bb49c070..4c3e23f529b581c3cbe95350e84e66e3cb05704f
        

        where this is the range of the correct commits which you've committed (excluding wrongly committed merge).

How do I count cells that are between two numbers in Excel?

=COUNTIFS(H5:H21000,">=100", H5:H21000,"<999")

Docker container not starting (docker start)

What I need is to use Docker with MariaDb on different port /3301/ on my Ubuntu machine because I already had MySql installed and running on 3306.

To do this after half day searching did it using:

docker run -it -d -p 3301:3306 -v ~/mdbdata/mariaDb:/var/lib/mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root --name mariaDb mariadb

This pulls the image with latest MariaDb, creates container called mariaDb, and run mysql on port 3301. All data of which is located in home directory in /mdbdata/mariaDb.

To login in mysql after that can use:

mysql -u root -proot -h 127.0.0.1 -P3301

Used sources are:

The answer of Iarks in this article /using -it -d was the key :) /

how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-16-04

installing-and-using-mariadb-via-docker

mariadb-and-docker-use-cases-part-1

Good luck all!

Java how to sort a Linked List?

If you'd like to know how to sort a linked list without using standard Java libraries, I'd suggest looking at different algorithms yourself. Examples here show how to implement an insertion sort, another StackOverflow post shows a merge sort, and ehow even gives some examples on how to create a custom compare function in case you want to further customize your sort.

When do I use path params vs. query params in a RESTful API?

In a REST API, you shouldn't be overly concerned by predictable URI's. The very suggestion of URI predictability alludes to a misunderstanding of RESTful architecture. It assumes that a client should be constructing URIs themselves, which they really shouldn't have to.

However, I assume that you are not creating a true REST API, but a 'REST inspired' API (such as the Google Drive one). In these cases the rule of thumb is 'path params = resource identification' and 'query params = resource sorting'. So, the question becomes, can you uniquely identify your resource WITHOUT status / region? If yes, then perhaps its a query param. If no, then its a path param.

HTH.

Class has no member named

Do you have a typo in your .h? I once came across this error when i had the method properly called in my main, but with a typo in the .h/.cpp (a "g" vs a "q" in the method name, which made it kinda difficult to spot). It falls under the "copy/paste error" category.

Java Command line arguments

As everyone else has said... the .equals method is what you need.

In the off chance you used something like:

if(argv[0] == "a")

then it does not work because == compares the location of the two objects (physical equality) rather than the contents (logical equality).

Since "a" from the command line and "a" in the source for your program are allocated in two different places the == cannot be used. You have to use the equals method which will check to see that both strings have the same characters.

Another note... "a" == "a" will work in many cases, because Strings are special in Java, but 99.99999999999999% of the time you want to use .equals.

How do I add indices to MySQL tables?

You say you have an index, the explain says otherwise. However, if you really do, this is how to continue:

If you have an index on the column, and MySQL decides not to use it, it may by because:

  1. There's another index in the query MySQL deems more appropriate to use, and it can use only one. The solution is usually an index spanning multiple columns if their normal method of retrieval is by value of more then one column.
  2. MySQL decides there are to many matching rows, and thinks a tablescan is probably faster. If that isn't the case, sometimes an ANALYZE TABLE helps.
  3. In more complex queries, it decides not to use it based on extremely intelligent thought-out voodoo in the query-plan that for some reason just not fits your current requirements.

In the case of (2) or (3), you could coax MySQL into using the index by index hint sytax, but if you do, be sure run some tests to determine whether it actually improves performance to use the index as you hint it.

Calling a class method raises a TypeError in Python

Every function inside a class, and every class variable must take the self argument as pointed.

class mystuff:
    def average(a,b,c): #get the average of three numbers
            result=a+b+c
            result=result/3
            return result
    def sum(self,a,b):
            return a+b


print mystuff.average(9,18,27) # should raise error
print mystuff.sum(18,27) # should be ok

If class variables are involved:

 class mystuff:
    def setVariables(self,a,b):
            self.x = a
            self.y = b
            return a+b
    def mult(self):
            return x * y  # This line will raise an error
    def sum(self):
            return self.x + self.y

 print mystuff.setVariables(9,18) # Setting mystuff.x and mystuff.y
 print mystuff.mult() # should raise error
 print mystuff.sum()  # should be ok

PHP Call to undefined function

How to reproduce the error, and how to fix it:

  1. Put this code in a file called p.php:

    <?php
    class yoyo{
        function salt(){
        }
        function pepper(){
            salt();
        }
    }
    $y = new yoyo();
    $y->pepper();
    ?>
    
  2. Run it like this:

    php p.php
    
  3. We get error:

    PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function salt() in 
    /home/el/foo/p.php on line 6
    
  4. Solution: use $this->salt(); instead of salt();

    So do it like this instead:

    <?php
    class yoyo{
        function salt(){
        }
        function pepper(){
            $this->salt();
        }
    }
    $y = new yoyo();
    $y->pepper();
    
    ?>
    

If someone could post a link to why $this has to be used before PHP functions within classes, yeah, that would be great.

What is the difference between bindParam and bindValue?

Here are some I can think about :

  • With bindParam, you can only pass variables ; not values
  • with bindValue, you can pass both (values, obviously, and variables)
  • bindParam works only with variables because it allows parameters to be given as input/output, by "reference" (and a value is not a valid "reference" in PHP) : it is useful with drivers that (quoting the manual) :

support the invocation of stored procedures that return data as output parameters, and some also as input/output parameters that both send in data and are updated to receive it.

With some DB engines, stored procedures can have parameters that can be used for both input (giving a value from PHP to the procedure) and ouput (returning a value from the stored proc to PHP) ; to bind those parameters, you've got to use bindParam, and not bindValue.

How does the stack work in assembly language?

The call stack is implemented by the x86 instruction set and the operating system.

Instructions like push and pop adjust the stack pointer while the operating system takes care of allocating memory as the stack grows for each thread.

The fact that the x86 stack "grows down" from higher to lower addresses make this architecture more susceptible to the buffer overflow attack.

Setting the selected attribute on a select list using jQuery

Code:

var select = function(dropdown, selectedValue) {
    var options = $(dropdown).find("option");
    var matches = $.grep(options,
        function(n) { return $(n).text() == selectedValue; });
    $(matches).attr("selected", "selected");
};

Example:

select("#dropdown", "B");

git: Switch branch and ignore any changes without committing

Follow,

$: git checkout -f

$: git checkout next_branch

What is difference between @RequestBody and @RequestParam?

Here is an example with @RequestBody, First look at the controller !!

  public ResponseEntity<Void> postNewProductDto(@RequestBody NewProductDto newProductDto) {

   ...
        productService.registerProductDto(newProductDto);
        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.CREATED);
   ....

}

And here is angular controller

function postNewProductDto() {
                var url = "/admin/products/newItem";
                $http.post(url, vm.newProductDto).then(function () {
                            //other things go here...
                            vm.newProductMessage = "Product successful registered";
                        }
                        ,
                        function (errResponse) {
                            //handling errors ....
                        }
                );
            }

And a short look at form

 <label>Name: </label>
 <input ng-model="vm.newProductDto.name" />

<label>Price </label> 
 <input ng-model="vm.newProductDto.price"/>

 <label>Quantity </label>
  <input ng-model="vm.newProductDto.quantity"/>

 <label>Image </label>
 <input ng-model="vm.newProductDto.photo"/>

 <Button ng-click="vm.postNewProductDto()" >Insert Item</Button>

 <label > {{vm.newProductMessage}} </label>

How to make the tab character 4 spaces instead of 8 spaces in nano?

For anyone who may stumble across this old question ...

There is one thing that I think needs to be addressed.

~/.nanorc is used to apply your user specific settings to nano, so if you are editing files that require the use of sudo nano for permissions then this is not going to work.

When using sudo your custom user configuration files will not be loaded when opening a program, as you are not running the program from your account so none of your configuration changes in ~/.nanorc will be applied.

If this is the situation you find yourself in (wanting to run sudo nano and use your own config settings) then you have three options :

  • using command line flags when running sudo nano
  • editing the /root/.nanorc file
  • editing the /etc/nanorc global config file

Keep in mind that /etc/nanorc is a global configuration file and as such it affects all users, which may or may not be a problem depending on whether you have a multi-user system.

Also, user config files will override the global one, so if you were to edit /etc/nanorc and ~/.nanorc with different settings, when you run nano it will load the settings from ~/.nanorc but if you run sudo nano then it will load the settings from /etc/nanorc.

Same goes for /root/.nanorc this will override /etc/nanorc when running sudo nano

Using flags is probably the best option unless you have a lot of options.

JavaScript: Object Rename Key

A variation using object destructuring and spread operator:

const old_obj = {
    k1: `111`,
    k2: `222`,
    k3: `333`
};    

// destructuring, with renaming. The variable 'rest' will hold those values not assigned to kA, kB, or kC.
const {
    k1: kA, 
    k2: kB, 
    k3: kC,
    ...rest
} = old_obj;
    

// now create a new object, with the renamed properties kA, kB, kC; 
// spread the remaining original properties in the 'rest' variable
const newObj = {kA, kB, kC, ...rest};

For one key, this can be as simple as:

const { k1: kA, ...rest } = old_obj;
const new_obj = { kA, ...rest }

You may also prefer a more 'traditional' style:

const { k1, ...rest } = old_obj
const new_obj = { kA: k1, ...rest}

Replace Line Breaks in a String C#

Use replace with Environment.NewLine

myString = myString.Replace(System.Environment.NewLine, "replacement text"); //add a line terminating ;

As mentioned in other posts, if the string comes from another environment (OS) then you'd need to replace that particular environments implementation of new line control characters.

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

Learning algorithms/maths/file IO/Pythonic optimisation

This won't get you guru-hood but to start out, try working through the Project Euler problems The first 50 or so shouldn't tax you if you have decent high-school mathematics and know how to Google. When you solve one you get into the forum where you can look through other people's solutions which will teach you even more. Be decent though and don't post up your solutions as the idea is to encourage people to work it out for themselves.

Forcing yourself to work in Python will be unforgiving if you use brute-force algorithms. This will teach you how to lay out large datasets in memory and access them efficiently with the fast language features such as dictionaries.

From doing this myself I learnt:

  • File IO
  • Algorithms and techniques such as Dynamic Programming
  • Python data layout
    • Dictionaries/hashmaps
    • Lists
    • Tuples
    • Various combinations thereof, e.g. dictionaries to lists of tuples
  • Generators
  • Recursive functions
  • Developing Python libraries
    • Filesystem layout
    • Reloading them during an interpreter session

And also very importantly

  • When to give up and use C or C++!

All of this should be relevant to Bioinformatics

Admittedly I didn't learn about the OOP features of Python from that experience.

How to use <sec:authorize access="hasRole('ROLES)"> for checking multiple Roles?

you can try in this way if you are using thymeleaf

sec:authorize="hasAnyRole(T(com.orsbv.hcs.model.SystemRole).ADMIN.getName(),
               T(com.orsbv.hcs.model.SystemRole).SUPER_USER.getName(),'ROLE_MANAGEMENT')"

this will return true if the user has the mentioned roles,false otherwise.

Please note you have to use sec tag in your html declaration tag like this

<html xmlns:sec="http://www.thymeleaf.org/thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity4">

How to lock specific cells but allow filtering and sorting

I had a simular problem. I wanted the user to be able to filter "Table3" in a protected worksheet. But the user is not able to edit the table. I accomplished above, using the vba code below:

Range("Table3").Select
Selection.Locked = True
Selection.FormulaHidden = False 
ActiveSheet.Protect DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True _
    , allowfiltering:=True

In the following code I filtered the code using VBA:

Range("Table3[[#Headers],[Aantal4]]").Select
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("Table3").Range.AutoFilter Field:=8, Criteria1:= _
    Array("1", "12", "2", "24", "4", "6"), Operator:=xlFilterValues

PHP simple foreach loop with HTML

This will work although when embedding PHP in HTML it is better practice to use the following form:

<table>
    <?php foreach($array as $key=>$value): ?>
    <tr>
        <td><?= $key; ?></td>
    </tr>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</table>

You can find the doc for the alternative syntax on PHP.net

Access to the path denied error in C#

Did you try specifing some file name?

eg:

string route="D:\\somefilename.txt";

Functional, Declarative, and Imperative Programming

imperative and declarative describe two opposing styles of programming. imperative is the traditional "step by step recipe" approach while declarative is more "this is what i want, now you work out how to do it".

these two approaches occur throughout programming - even with the same language and the same program. generally the declarative approach is considered preferable, because it frees the programmer from having to specify so many details, while also having less chance for bugs (if you describe the result you want, and some well-tested automatic process can work backwards from that to define the steps then you might hope that things are more reliable than having to specify each step by hand).

on the other hand, an imperative approach gives you more low level control - it's the "micromanager approach" to programming. and that can allow the programmer to exploit knowledge about the problem to give a more efficient answer. so it's not unusual for some parts of a program to be written in a more declarative style, but for the speed-critical parts to be more imperative.

as you might imagine, the language you use to write a program affects how declarative you can be - a language that has built-in "smarts" for working out what to do given a description of the result is going to allow a much more declarative approach than one where the programmer needs to first add that kind of intelligence with imperative code before being able to build a more declarative layer on top. so, for example, a language like prolog is considered very declarative because it has, built-in, a process that searches for answers.

so far, you'll notice that i haven't mentioned functional programming. that's because it's a term whose meaning isn't immediately related to the other two. at its most simple, functional programming means that you use functions. in particular, that you use a language that supports functions as "first class values" - that means that not only can you write functions, but you can write functions that write functions (that write functions that...), and pass functions to functions. in short - that functions are as flexible and common as things like strings and numbers.

it might seem odd, then, that functional, imperative and declarative are often mentioned together. the reason for this is a consequence of taking the idea of functional programming "to the extreme". a function, in it's purest sense, is something from maths - a kind of "black box" that takes some input and always gives the same output. and that kind of behaviour doesn't require storing changing variables. so if you design a programming language whose aim is to implement a very pure, mathematically influenced idea of functional programming, you end up rejecting, largely, the idea of values that can change (in a certain, limited, technical sense).

and if you do that - if you limit how variables can change - then almost by accident you end up forcing the programmer to write programs that are more declarative, because a large part of imperative programming is describing how variables change, and you can no longer do that! so it turns out that functional programming - particularly, programming in a functional language - tends to give more declarative code.

to summarise, then:

  • imperative and declarative are two opposing styles of programming (the same names are used for programming languages that encourage those styles)

  • functional programming is a style of programming where functions become very important and, as a consequence, changing values become less important. the limited ability to specify changes in values forces a more declarative style.

so "functional programming" is often described as "declarative".

jQuery "on create" event for dynamically-created elements

if you are using angularjs you can write your own directive. I had the same problem whith bootstrapSwitch. I have to call $("[name='my-checkbox']").bootstrapSwitch(); in javascript but my html input object was not created at that time. So I write an own directive and create the input element with <input type="checkbox" checkbox-switch>

In the directive I compile the element to get access via javascript an execute the jquery command (like your .combobox() command). Very important is to remove the attribute. Otherwise this directive will call itself and you have build a loop

app.directive("checkboxSwitch", function($compile) {
return {
    link: function($scope, element) {
        var input = element[0];
        input.removeAttribute("checkbox-switch");
        var inputCompiled = $compile(input)($scope.$parent);
        inputCompiled.bootstrapSwitch();
    }
}
});

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name

According to the stack trace, your issue is that your app cannot find org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource, as per this line:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource

I see that you have commons-dbcp in your list of jars, but for whatever reason, your app is not finding the BasicDataSource class in it.

Split string with delimiters in C

My approach is to scan the string and let the pointers point to every character after the deliminators(and the first character), at the same time assign the appearances of deliminator in string to '\0'.
First make a copy of original string(since it's constant), then get the number of splits by scan it pass it to pointer parameter len. After that, point the first result pointer to the copy string pointer, then scan the copy string: once encounter a deliminator, assign it to '\0' thus the previous result string is terminated, and point the next result string pointer to the next character pointer.

char** split(char* a_str, const char a_delim, int* len){
    char* s = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * strlen(a_str));
    strcpy(s, a_str);
    char* tmp = a_str;
    int count = 0;
    while (*tmp != '\0'){
        if (*tmp == a_delim) count += 1;
        tmp += 1;
    }
    *len = count;
    char** results = (char**)malloc(count * sizeof(char*));
    results[0] = s;
    int i = 1;
    while (*s!='\0'){
        if (*s == a_delim){
            *s = '\0';
            s += 1;
            results[i++] = s;
        }
        else s += 1;
    }
    return results;
}

Java integer to byte array

My try :

public static byte[] toBytes(final int intVal, final int... intArray) {
    if (intArray == null || (intArray.length == 0)) {
        return ByteBuffer.allocate(4).putInt(intVal).array();
    } else {
        final ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(4 + (intArray.length * 4)).putInt(intVal);
        for (final int val : intArray) {
            bb.putInt(val);
        }
        return bb.array();
    }
}

With it you can do this :

byte[] fourBytes = toBytes(0x01020304);
byte[] eightBytes = toBytes(0x01020304, 0x05060708);

Full class is here : https://gist.github.com/superbob/6548493, it supports initialization from shorts or long

byte[] eightBytesAgain = toBytes(0x0102030405060708L);

How to access to the parent object in c#

something like this:

  public int PowerRating
    {
       get { return base.PowerRating; } // if power inherits from meter...
    }

How to change DataTable columns order

This is based off of "default locale"'s answer but it will remove invalid column names prior to setting ordinal. This is because if you accidentally send an invalid column name then it would fail and if you put a check to prevent it from failing then the index would be wrong since it would skip indices wherever an invalid column name was passed in.

public static class DataTableExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// SetOrdinal of DataTable columns based on the index of the columnNames array. Removes invalid column names first.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="table"></param>
    /// <param name="columnNames"></param>
    /// <remarks> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3757997/how-to-change-datatable-colums-order</remarks>
    public static void SetColumnsOrder(this DataTable dtbl, params String[] columnNames)
    {
        List<string> listColNames = columnNames.ToList();

        //Remove invalid column names.
        foreach (string colName in columnNames)
        {
            if (!dtbl.Columns.Contains(colName))
            {
                listColNames.Remove(colName);
            }
        }

        foreach (string colName in listColNames)
        {
            dtbl.Columns[colName].SetOrdinal(listColNames.IndexOf(colName));
        }
}

JComboBox Selection Change Listener?

you can do this with jdk >= 8

getComboBox().addItemListener(this::comboBoxitemStateChanged);

so

public void comboBoxitemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
    if (e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED) {
        YourObject selectedItem = (YourObject) e.getItem();
        //TODO your actitons
    }
}

How to display pdf in php

There are quite a few options that can be used: (both tested).

Here are two ways.

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=filename.pdf");
@readfile('path\to\filename.pdf');

or: (note the escaped double-quotes). The same need to be use when assigning a name to it.

<?php

echo "<iframe src=\"file.pdf\" width=\"100%\" style=\"height:100%\"></iframe>";

?>

I.e.: name="myiframe" id="myiframe"

would need to be changed to:

name=\"myiframe\" id=\"myiframe\" inside PHP.

Be sure to have a look at: this answer on SO for more options on the subject.

Footnote: There are known issues when trying to view PDF files in Windows 8. Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader is a better method to view these types of documents if no browser plug-ins are installed.

Specifying an Index (Non-Unique Key) Using JPA

This solution is for EclipseLink 2.5, and it works (tested):

@Table(indexes = {@Index(columnList="mycol1"), @Index(columnList="mycol2")})
@Entity
public class myclass implements Serializable{
      private String mycol1;
      private String mycol2;
}

This assumes ascendant order.