Programs & Examples On #Uibarbuttonitemstyle

The style of an iOS UIBarButtonItem that can be added to a UINavigationBar or a UIToolBar. Possible values are UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered, UIBarButtonItemStylePlain, or UIBarButtonItemStyleDone.

How to enable back/left swipe gesture in UINavigationController after setting leftBarButtonItem?

This is the best way to enable/ disable swipe to pop view controller in iOS 10, Swift 3 :

For First Screen [ Where you want to Disable Swipe gesture ] :

class SignUpViewController : UIViewController,UIGestureRecognizerDelegate {

//MARK: - View initializers
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
}

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    swipeToPop()
}

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}

func swipeToPop() {

    self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = true;
    self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.delegate = self;
}

func gestureRecognizerShouldBegin(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {

    if gestureRecognizer == self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer {
        return false
    }
    return true
} }

For middle screen [ Where you want to Enable Swipe gesture ] :

class FriendListViewController : UIViewController {

//MARK: - View initializers
override func viewDidLoad() {

    super.viewDidLoad()
    swipeToPop()
}

func swipeToPop() {

    self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = true;
    self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.delegate = nil;
} }

Removing the title text of an iOS UIBarButtonItem

Swift 3.1 You can do this by implementing the delegate method of UINavigationController. It'll hide the Title with back button only, we'll still get the back arrow image and default functionality.

func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, 
  willShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
        let item = UIBarButtonItem(title: " ", style: .plain, target: nil, 
                    action: nil)
        viewController.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = item
    }

Add button to navigationbar programmatically

Hello everyone !! I created the solution to the issue at hand where Two UIInterface orientations are wanted using the UIIMagePicker.. In my ViewController where I handle the segue to the UIImagePickerController

**I use a..

-(void) editButtonPressed:(id)sender {
   BOOL editPressed = YES;
    NSUserDefaults *boolDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    [boolDefaults setBool:editPressed forKey:@"boolKey"];
    [boolDefaults synchronize];

    [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"photoSegue" sender:nil]; 

}

**

Then in the AppDelegate Class I do the following.

- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window {

    BOOL appDelBool;
    NSUserDefaults *boolDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    appDelBool = [boolDefaults boolForKey:@"boolKey"];

       if (appDelBool == YES)
           return (UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait);
        else
            return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft;
}

How to add a right button to a UINavigationController?

You can try

self.navigationBar.topItem.rightBarButtonItem = anotherButton;

Setting action for back button in navigation controller

Unlike Amagrammer said, it's possible. You have to subclass your navigationController. I explained everything here (including example code).

Apply CSS style attribute dynamically in Angular JS

On a generic note, you can use a combination of ng-if and ng-style incorporate conditional changes with change in background image.

<span ng-if="selectedItem==item.id"
      ng-style="{'background-image':'url(../images/'+'{{item.id}}'+'_active.png)',
                'background-size':'52px 57px',
                'padding-top':'70px',
                'background-repeat':'no-repeat',
                'background-position': 'center'}">
 </span>
 <span ng-if="selectedItem!=item.id"
       ng-style="{'background-image':'url(../images/'+'{{item.id}}'+'_deactivated.png)',
                'background-size':'52px 57px',
                'padding-top':'70px',
                'background-repeat':'no-repeat',
                'background-position': 'center'}">
 </span>

Java, How to specify absolute value and square roots

Try using Math.abs:

variableAbs = Math.abs(variable);

For square root use:

variableSqRt = Math.sqrt(variable);

How to size an Android view based on its parent's dimensions

If the other side is empty. I guess the simplest way would be to add an empty view (e.g. a linear layout) then set both views' widths to fill_parent and both their weights to 1.

This works in a LinearLayout...

Why can't I enter a string in Scanner(System.in), when calling nextLine()-method?

.nextInt() gets the next int, but doesn't read the new line character. This means that when you ask it to read the "next line", you read til the end of the new line character from the first time.

You can insert another .nextLine() after you get the int to fix this. Or (I prefer this way), read the int in as a string, and parse it to an int.

How to get the real and total length of char * (char array)?

This may sound Evilâ„¢ and I haven't tested it, but how about initializing all values in an array at allocation to '\0' and then using strlen() ? This would give you your so-called real value since it would stop counting at the first '\0' it encounters.

Well, now that I think about it though, please don't Everâ„¢ do this. Unless, you want to land in a pile of dirty memory.

Also, for the allocated memory or the total memory you may use the following functions if your environment provides them:

What is the difference between JVM, JDK, JRE & OpenJDK?

JVM is abbreviated as Java Virtual Machine, JVM is the main component of java architecture. JVM is written in C programming language. Java compiler produce the byte code for JVM. JVM reading the byte code verifying the byte code and linking the code with the ibrary.

JRE is abbreviated as Java Runtime Environment. it is provide environment at runtime. It is physically exist. It contain JVM + set of libraries(jar) +other files.

JDK is abbreviated as Java Development Kit . it is develop java applications. And also Debugging and monitoring java applications . JDK contain JRE +development tools(javac,java)

OpenJDK OpenJDK is an open source version of sun JDK. Oracle JDK is Sun's official JDK.

Cannot load properties file from resources directory

I think you need to put it under src/main/resources and load it as follows:

props.load(new FileInputStream("src/main/resources/myconf.properties"));

The way you are trying to load it will first check in base folder of your project. If it is in target/classes and you want to load it from there do the following:

props.load(new FileInputStream("target/classes/myconf.properties"));

ASP.net Getting the error "Access to the path is denied." while trying to upload files to my Windows Server 2008 R2 Web server

the problem might be that networkservice has no read rights

salution:

rightclick your upload folder -> poperty's -> security ->Edit -> add -> type :NETWORK SERVICE -> check box full control allow-> press ok or apply

Chrome Extension: Make it run every page load

From a background script you can listen to the chrome.tabs.onUpdated event and check the property changeInfo.status on the callback. It can be loading or complete. If it is complete, do the action.

Example:

chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener( function (tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
  if (changeInfo.status == 'complete') {

    // do your things

  }
})

Because this will probably trigger on every tab completion, you can also check if the tab is active on its homonymous attribute, like this:

chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener( function (tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
  if (changeInfo.status == 'complete' && tab.active) {

    // do your things

  }
})

Regular expression to get a string between two strings in Javascript

A lookahead (that (?= part) does not consume any input. It is a zero-width assertion (as are boundary checks and lookbehinds).

You want a regular match here, to consume the cow portion. To capture the portion in between, you use a capturing group (just put the portion of pattern you want to capture inside parenthesis):

cow(.*)milk

No lookaheads are needed at all.

How to add/subtract time (hours, minutes, etc.) from a Pandas DataFrame.Index whos objects are of type datetime.time?

Liam's link looks great, but also check out pandas.Timedelta - looks like it plays nicely with NumPy's and Python's time deltas.

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/timedeltas.html

pd.date_range('2014-01-01', periods=10) + pd.Timedelta(days=1)

Adding header to all request with Retrofit 2

Try this type header for Retrofit 1.9 and 2.0. For Json Content Type.

@Headers({"Accept: application/json"})
@POST("user/classes")
Call<playlist> addToPlaylist(@Body PlaylistParm parm);

You can add many more headers i.e

@Headers({
        "Accept: application/json",
        "User-Agent: Your-App-Name",
        "Cache-Control: max-age=640000"
    })

Dynamically Add to headers:

@POST("user/classes")
Call<ResponseModel> addToPlaylist(@Header("Content-Type") String content_type, @Body RequestModel req);

Call you method i.e

mAPI.addToPlayList("application/json", playListParam);

Or

Want to pass everytime then Create HttpClient object with http Interceptor:

OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient();
        httpClient.networkInterceptors().add(new Interceptor() {
            @Override
            public com.squareup.okhttp.Response intercept(Chain chain) throws IOException {
                Request.Builder requestBuilder = chain.request().newBuilder();
                requestBuilder.header("Content-Type", "application/json");
                return chain.proceed(requestBuilder.build());
            }
        });

Then add to retrofit object

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder().baseUrl(BASE_URL).client(httpClient).build();

UPDATE if you are using Kotlin remove the { } else it will not work

Setting the character encoding in form submit for Internet Explorer

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

How to open Console window in Eclipse?

  1. Open Eclipse
  2. Click on Window
  3. Go to Show view
  4. Click on Console
  5. Minimize it now or drag it to the bottom and it will split between your console and other screens

Reference an Element in a List of Tuples

Here's a quick example:

termList = []
termList.append(('term1', [1,2,3,4]))
termList.append(('term2', [5,6,7,8]))
termList.append(('term3', [9,10,11,12]))

result = [x[1] for x in termList if x[0] == 'term3']

print(result)

Update elements in a JSONObject

Remove key and then add again the modified key, value pair as shown below :

    JSONObject js = new JSONObject();
    js.put("name", "rai");

    js.remove("name");
    js.put("name", "abc");

I haven't used your example; but conceptually its same.

Check/Uncheck all the checkboxes in a table

All CheckBox Checked

$("input[type=checkbox]").prop('checked', true);

How to update large table with millions of rows in SQL Server?

This is a more efficient version of the solution from @Kramb. The existence check is redundant as the update where clause already handles this. Instead you just grab the rowcount and compare to batchsize.

Also note @Kramb solution didn't filter out already updated rows from the next iteration hence it would be an infinite loop.

Also uses the modern batch size syntax instead of using rowcount.

DECLARE @batchSize INT, @rowsUpdated INT
SET @batchSize = 1000;
SET @rowsUpdated = @batchSize; -- Initialise for the while loop entry

WHILE (@batchSize = @rowsUpdated)
BEGIN
    UPDATE TOP (@batchSize) TableName
    SET Value = 'abc1'
    WHERE Parameter1 = 'abc' AND Parameter2 = 123 and Value <> 'abc1';

    SET @rowsUpdated = @@ROWCOUNT;
END

How to configure WAMP (localhost) to send email using Gmail?

As an alternative to PHPMailer, Pear's Mail and others you could use the Zend's library

  $config = array('auth' => 'login',
                   'ssl' => 'ssl',
                   'port'=> 465,
                   'username' => '[email protected]',
                   'password' => 'XXXXXXX');

 $transport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('smtp.gmail.com', $config);
 $mail = new Zend_Mail();
 $mail->setBodyText('This is the text of the mail.');
 $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Some Sender');
 $mail->addTo('[email protected]', 'Some Recipient');
 $mail->setSubject('TestSubj');
 $mail->send($transport); 

That is my set up in localhost server and I can able to see incoming mail to my mail box.

Formatting a double to two decimal places

The problem is that when you are doing additions and multiplications of numbers all with two decimal places, you expect there will be no rounding errors, but remember the internal representation of double is in base 2, not in base 10 ! So a number like 0.1 in base 10 may be in base 2 : 0.101010101010110011... with an infinite number of decimals (the value stored in the double will be a number N with :

 0.1-Math.Pow(2,-64) < N < 0.1+Math.Pow(2,-64) 

As a consequence an operation like 12.3 + 0.1 may be not the same exact 64 bits double value as 12.4 (or 12.456 * 10 may be not the same as 124.56) because of rounding errors. For example if you store in a Database the result of 12.3 +0.1 into a table/column field of type double precision number and then SELECT WHERE xx=12.4 you may realize that you stored a number that is not exactly 12.4 and the Sql select will not return the record; So if you cannot use the decimal datatype (which has internal representation in base 10) and must use the 'double' datatype, you have to do some normalization after each addition or multiplication :

double freqMHz= freqkHz.MulRound(0.001); // freqkHz*0.001
double amountEuro= amountEuro.AddRound(delta); // amountEuro+delta


    public static double AddRound(this double d,double val)
    {
        return double.Parse(string.Format("{0:g14}", d+val));
    }
    public static double MulRound(this double d,double val)
    {
        return double.Parse(string.Format("{0:g14}", d*val));
    }

JavaScript: Passing parameters to a callback function

If you want something slightly more general, you can use the arguments variable like so:

function tryMe (param1, param2) {
    alert(param1 + " and " + param2);
}

function callbackTester (callback) {
    callback (arguments[1], arguments[2]);
}

callbackTester (tryMe, "hello", "goodbye");

But otherwise, your example works fine (arguments[0] can be used in place of callback in the tester)

How do I add slashes to a string in Javascript?

Following JavaScript function handles ', ", \b, \t, \n, \f or \r equivalent of php function addslashes().

function addslashes(string) {
    return string.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').
        replace(/\u0008/g, '\\b').
        replace(/\t/g, '\\t').
        replace(/\n/g, '\\n').
        replace(/\f/g, '\\f').
        replace(/\r/g, '\\r').
        replace(/'/g, '\\\'').
        replace(/"/g, '\\"');
}

How to get the current time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:Sec.Millisecond format in Java?

I have a simple example here to display date and time with Millisecond......

import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class MyClass{

    public static void main(String[]args){
        LocalDateTime myObj = LocalDateTime.now();
        DateTimeFormatter myFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS);
        String forDate = myObj.format(myFormat);
        System.out.println("The Date and Time are: " + forDate);
    }
}

Get Insert Statement for existing row in MySQL

In PHPMyAdmin you can:

  1. click copy on the row you want to know its insert statements SQL:

Select copy

  1. click Preview SQL:

Select Preview

  1. you will get the created insert statement that generates it

You can apply that on many rows at once if you select them and click copy from the bottom of the table and then Preview SQl

UITableView, Separator color where to set?

If you just want to set the same color to every separator and it is opaque you can use:

 self.tableView.separatorColor = UIColor.redColor()

If you want to use different colors for the separators or clear the separator color or use a color with alpha.

BE CAREFUL: You have to know that there is a backgroundView in the separator that has a default color.

To change it you can use this functions:

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {
        if(view.isKindOfClass(UITableViewHeaderFooterView)){
            var headerView = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView;
            headerView.backgroundView?.backgroundColor = myColor

           //Other colors you can change here
           // headerView.backgroundColor = myColor
           // headerView.contentView.backgroundColor = myColor
        }
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayFooterView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {
        if(view.isKindOfClass(UITableViewHeaderFooterView)){
            var footerView = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView;
            footerView.backgroundView?.backgroundColor = myColor
           //Other colors you can change here
           //footerView.backgroundColor = myColor
           //footerView.contentView.backgroundColor = myColor
        }
    }

Hope it helps!

Adjusting and image Size to fit a div (bootstrap)

I had this same problem and stumbled upon the following simple solution. Just add a bit of padding to the image and it resizes itself to fit within the div.

<div class="col-sm-3">
  <img src="xxx.png" class="img-responsive" style="padding-top: 5px">
</div>

Using $state methods with $stateChangeStart toState and fromState in Angular ui-router

Suggestion 1

When you add an object to $stateProvider.state that object is then passed with the state. So you can add additional properties which you can read later on when needed.

Example route configuration

$stateProvider
.state('public', {
    abstract: true,
    module: 'public'
})
.state('public.login', {
    url: '/login',
    module: 'public'
})
.state('tool', {
    abstract: true,
    module: 'private'
})
.state('tool.suggestions', {
    url: '/suggestions',
    module: 'private'
});

The $stateChangeStart event gives you acces to the toState and fromState objects. These state objects will contain the configuration properties.

Example check for the custom module property

$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function(e, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
    if (toState.module === 'private' && !$cookies.Session) {
        // If logged out and transitioning to a logged in page:
        e.preventDefault();
        $state.go('public.login');
    } else if (toState.module === 'public' && $cookies.Session) {
        // If logged in and transitioning to a logged out page:
        e.preventDefault();
        $state.go('tool.suggestions');
    };
});

I didn't change the logic of the cookies because I think that is out of scope for your question.

Suggestion 2

You can create a Helper to get you this to work more modular.

Value publicStates

myApp.value('publicStates', function(){
    return {
      module: 'public',
      routes: [{
        name: 'login', 
        config: { 
          url: '/login'
        }
      }]
    };
});

Value privateStates

myApp.value('privateStates', function(){
    return {
      module: 'private',
      routes: [{
        name: 'suggestions', 
        config: { 
          url: '/suggestions'
        }
      }]
    };
});

The Helper

myApp.provider('stateshelperConfig', function () {
  this.config = {
    // These are the properties we need to set
    // $stateProvider: undefined
    process: function (stateConfigs){
      var module = stateConfigs.module;
      $stateProvider = this.$stateProvider;
      $stateProvider.state(module, {
        abstract: true,
        module: module
      });
      angular.forEach(stateConfigs, function (route){
        route.config.module = module;
        $stateProvider.state(module + route.name, route.config);
      });
    }
  };

  this.$get = function () {
    return {
      config: this.config
    };
  };
});

Now you can use the helper to add the state configuration to your state configuration.

myApp.config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', 
    'stateshelperConfigProvider', 'publicStates', 'privateStates',
  function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, helper, publicStates, privateStates) {
    helper.config.$stateProvider = $stateProvider;
    helper.process(publicStates);
    helper.process(privateStates);
}]);

This way you can abstract the repeated code, and come up with a more modular solution.

Note: the code above isn't tested

Safely limiting Ansible playbooks to a single machine?

This approach will exit if more than a single host is provided by checking the play_hosts variable. The fail module is used to exit if the single host condition is not met. The examples below use a hosts file with two hosts alice and bob.

user.yml (playbook)

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Check for single host
      fail: msg="Single host check failed."
      when: "{{ play_hosts|length }} != 1"
    - debug: msg='I got executed!'

Run playbook with no host filters

$ ansible-playbook user.yml
PLAY [all] ****************************************************************
TASK: [Check for single host] *********************************************
failed: [alice] => {"failed": true}
msg: Single host check failed.
failed: [bob] => {"failed": true}
msg: Single host check failed.
FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

Run playbook on single host

$ ansible-playbook user.yml --limit=alice

PLAY [all] ****************************************************************

TASK: [Check for single host] *********************************************
skipping: [alice]

TASK: [debug msg='I got executed!'] ***************************************
ok: [alice] => {
    "msg": "I got executed!"
}

How to remove text from a string?

Plain old JavaScript will suffice - jQuery is not necessary for such a simple task:

var myString = "data-123";
var myNewString = myString.replace("data-", "");

See: .replace() docs on MDN for additional information and usage.

if else condition in blade file (laravel 5.3)

I think you are putting one too many curly brackets. Try this

 @if($user->status=='waiting')
            <td><a href="#" class="viewPopLink btn btn-default1" role="button" data-id="{!! $user->travel_id !!}" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">Approve/Reject</a> </td>
            @else
            <td>{!! $user->status !!}</td>
        @endif

Converting string into datetime

You can also check out dateparser

dateparser provides modules to easily parse localized dates in almost any string formats commonly found on web pages.

Install:

$ pip install dateparser

This is, I think, the easiest way you can parse dates.

The most straightforward way is to use the dateparser.parse function, that wraps around most of the functionality in the module.

Sample Code:

import dateparser

t1 = 'Jun 1 2005  1:33PM'
t2 = 'Aug 28 1999 12:00AM'

dt1 = dateparser.parse(t1)
dt2 = dateparser.parse(t2)

print(dt1)
print(dt2)

Output:

2005-06-01 13:33:00
1999-08-28 00:00:00

Syntax error near unexpected token 'fi'

As well as having then on a new line, you also need a space before and after the [, which is a special symbol in BASH.

#!/bin/bash
echo "start\n"
for f in *.jpg
do
  fname=$(basename "$f")
  echo "fname is $fname\n"
  fname="${filename%.*}"
  echo "fname is $fname\n"
  if [ $((fname %  2)) -eq 1 ]
  then
    echo "removing $fname\n"
    rm "$f"
  fi
done

Cloud Firestore collection count

As with many questions, the answer is - It depends.

You should be very careful when handling large amounts of data on the front end. On top of making your front end feel sluggish, Firestore also charges you $0.60 per million reads you make.


Small collection (less than 100 documents)

Use with care - Frontend user experience may take a hit

Handling this on the front end should be fine as long as you are not doing too much logic with this returned array.

db.collection('...').get().then(snap => {
   size = snap.size // will return the collection size
});

Medium collection (100 to 1000 documents)

Use with care - Firestore read invocations may cost a lot

Handling this on the front end is not feasible as it has too much potential to slow down the users system. We should handle this logic server side and only return the size.

The drawback to this method is you are still invoking firestore reads (equal to the size of your collection), which in the long run may end up costing you more than expected.

Cloud Function:

...
db.collection('...').get().then(snap => {
    res.status(200).send({length: snap.size});
});

Front End:

yourHttpClient.post(yourCloudFunctionUrl).toPromise().then(snap => {
     size = snap.length // will return the collection size
})

Large collection (1000+ documents)

Most scalable solution


FieldValue.increment()

As of April 2019 Firestore now allows incrementing counters, completely atomically, and without reading the data prior. This ensures we have correct counter values even when updating from multiple sources simultaneously (previously solved using transactions), while also reducing the number of database reads we perform.


By listening to any document deletes or creates we can add to or remove from a count field that is sitting in the database.

See the firestore docs - Distributed Counters Or have a look at Data Aggregation by Jeff Delaney. His guides are truly fantastic for anyone using AngularFire but his lessons should carry over to other frameworks as well.

Cloud Function:

export const documentWriteListener = 
    functions.firestore.document('collection/{documentUid}')
    .onWrite((change, context) => {

    if (!change.before.exists) {
        // New document Created : add one to count

        db.doc(docRef).update({numberOfDocs: FieldValue.increment(1)});
    
    } else if (change.before.exists && change.after.exists) {
        // Updating existing document : Do nothing

    } else if (!change.after.exists) {
        // Deleting document : subtract one from count

        db.doc(docRef).update({numberOfDocs: FieldValue.increment(-1)});

    }

return;
});

Now on the frontend you can just query this numberOfDocs field to get the size of the collection.

Copy filtered data to another sheet using VBA

When i need to copy data from filtered table i use range.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).copy. Where the range is range of all data (without a filter).

Example:

Sub copy()
     'source worksheet
     dim ws as Worksheet
     set ws = Application.Worksheets("Data")' set you source worksheet here
     dim data_end_row_number as Integer
     data_end_row_number = ws.Range("B3").End(XlDown).Row.Number
    'enable filter
    ws.Range("B2:F2").AutoFilter Field:=2, Criteria1:="hockey", VisibleDropDown:=True
    ws.Range("B3:F" & data_end_row_number).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy
    Application.Worksheets("Hoky").Range("B3").Paste
    'You have to add headers to Hoky worksheet
end sub

Check a collection size with JSTL

use ${fn:length(companies) > 0} to check the size. This returns a boolean

Initializing data.frames()

> df <- data.frame(matrix(ncol = 300, nrow = 100))
> dim(df)
[1] 100 300

Setting the Vim background colors

Using set bg=dark with a white background can produce nearly unreadable text in some syntax highlighting schemes. Instead, you can change the overall colorscheme to something that looks good in your terminal. The colorscheme file should set the background attribute for you appropriately. Also, for more information see:

:h color

css selector to match an element without attribute x

For a more cross-browser solution you could style all inputs the way you want the non-typed, text, and password then another style the overrides that style for radios, checkboxes, etc.

input { border:solid 1px red; }

input[type=radio], 
input[type=checkbox], 
input[type=submit], 
input[type=reset], 
input[type=file] 
      { border:none; }

- Or -

could whatever part of your code that is generating the non-typed inputs give them a class like .no-type or simply not output at all? Additionally this type of selection could be done with jQuery.

Change working directory in my current shell context when running Node script

Short answer: no (easy?) way, but you can do something that serves your purpose.

I've done a similar tool (a small command that, given a description of a project, sets environment, paths, directories, etc.). What I do is set-up everything and then spawn a shell with:

spawn('bash', ['-i'], {
  cwd: new_cwd,
  env: new_env,
  stdio: 'inherit'
});

After execution, you'll be on a shell with the new directory (and, in my case, environment). Of course you can change bash for whatever shell you prefer. The main differences with what you originally asked for are:

  • There is an additional process, so...
  • you have to write 'exit' to come back, and then...
  • after existing, all changes are undone.

However, for me, that differences are desirable.

JavaScript: remove event listener

If @Cybernate's solution doesn't work, try breaking the trigger off in to it's own function so you can reference it.

clickHandler = function(event){
  if (click++ == 49)
    canvas.removeEventListener('click',clickHandler);
}
canvas.addEventListener('click',clickHandler);

List Git aliases

Yet another git alias (called alias) that prints out git aliases: add the following to your gitconfig [alias] section:

[alias]
    # lists aliases matching a regular expression
    alias = "!f() { git config --get-regexp "^alias.${1}$" ; }; f"

Example usage, giving full alias name (matches alias name exactly: i.e., ^foobar$), and simply shows the value:

$ git alias st
alias.st status -s

$ git alias dif
alias.dif diff

Or, give regexp, which shows all matching aliases & values:

$ git alias 'dif.*'
alias.dif diff
alias.difs diff --staged
alias.difh diff HEAD
alias.difr diff @{u}
alias.difl diff --name-only

$ git alias '.*ing'
alias.incoming !git remote update -p; git log ..@{u}
alias.outgoing log @{u}..

Caveats: quote the regexp to prevent shell expansion as a glob, although it's not technically necessary if/when no files match the pattern. Also: any regexp is fine, except ^ (pattern start) and $ (pattern end) can't be used; they are implied. Assumes you're not using git-alias from git-extras.

Also, obviously your aliases will be different; these are just a few that I have configured. (Perhaps you'll find them useful, too.)

xcopy file, rename, suppress "Does xxx specify a file name..." message

Don't use the xcopy, use copy instead, it doesn't have this issue.

xcopy is generally used when performing recursive copies of multiple files/folders, or when you need the verification/prompting features it offers. For single file copies, the copy command works just fine.

Getting the closest string match

To query a large set of text in efficient manner you can use the concept of Edit Distance/ Prefix Edit Distance.

Edit Distance ED(x,y): minimal number of transfroms to get from term x to term y

But computing ED between each term and query text is resource and time intensive. Therefore instead of calculating ED for each term first we can extract possible matching terms using a technique called Qgram Index. and then apply ED calculation on those selected terms.

An advantage of Qgram index technique is it supports for Fuzzy Search.

One possible approach to adapt QGram index is build an Inverted Index using Qgrams. In there we store all the words which consists with particular Qgram, under that Qgram.(Instead of storing full string you can use unique ID for each string). You can use Tree Map data structure in Java for this. Following is a small example on storing of terms

col : colmbia, colombo, gancola, tacolama

Then when querying, we calculate the number of common Qgrams between query text and available terms.

Example: x = HILLARY, y = HILARI(query term)
Qgrams
$$HILLARY$$ -> $$H, $HI, HIL, ILL, LLA, LAR, ARY, RY$, Y$$
$$HILARI$$ -> $$H, $HI, HIL, ILA, LAR, ARI, RI$, I$$
number of q-grams in common = 4

number of q-grams in common = 4.

For the terms with high number of common Qgrams, we calculate the ED/PED against the query term and then suggest the term to the end user.

you can find an implementation of this theory in following project(See "QGramIndex.java"). Feel free to ask any questions. https://github.com/Bhashitha-Gamage/City_Search

To study more about Edit Distance, Prefix Edit Distance Qgram index please watch the following video of Prof. Dr Hannah Bast https://www.youtube.com/embed/6pUg2wmGJRo (Lesson starts from 20:06)

Counting Number of Letters in a string variable

If you don't need the leading and trailing spaces :

str.Trim().Length

Mailto: Body formatting

From the first result on Google:

mailto:[email protected]_t?subject=Header&body=This%20is...%20the%20first%20line%0D%0AThis%20is%20the%20second

Func vs. Action vs. Predicate

Func - When you want a delegate for a function that may or may not take parameters and returns a value. The most common example would be Select from LINQ:

var result = someCollection.Select( x => new { x.Name, x.Address });

Action - When you want a delegate for a function that may or may not take parameters and does not return a value. I use these often for anonymous event handlers:

button1.Click += (sender, e) => { /* Do Some Work */ }

Predicate - When you want a specialized version of a Func that evaluates a value against a set of criteria and returns a boolean result (true for a match, false otherwise). Again, these are used in LINQ quite frequently for things like Where:

var filteredResults = 
    someCollection.Where(x => x.someCriteriaHolder == someCriteria);

I just double checked and it turns out that LINQ doesn't use Predicates. Not sure why they made that decision...but theoretically it is still a situation where a Predicate would fit.

JPA: how do I persist a String into a database field, type MYSQL Text

for mysql 'text':

@Column(columnDefinition = "TEXT")
private String description;

for mysql 'longtext':

@Lob
private String description;

Simple InputBox function

Probably the simplest way is to use the InputBox method of the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction class:

[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.VisualBasic')

$title = 'Demographics'
$msg   = 'Enter your demographics:'

$text = [Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction]::InputBox($msg, $title)

List of <p:ajax> events

Here's what I found during debug.

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How to create a sleep/delay in nodejs that is Blocking?

Just use child_process.execSync and call the system's sleep function.

//import child_process module
const child_process = require("child_process");
// Sleep for 5 seconds
child_process.execSync("sleep 5");

// Sleep for 250 microseconds
child_process.execSync("usleep 250");

// Sleep for a variable number of microseconds
var numMicroSeconds = 250;
child_process.execFileSync("usleep", [numMicroSeconds]);

I use this in a loop at the top of my main application script to make Node wait until network drives are attached before running the rest of the application.

Convert special characters to HTML in Javascript

You need a function that does something like

return mystring.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/"/g, "&quot;");

But taking into account your desire for different handling of single/double quotes.

Python: Convert timedelta to int in a dataframe

The simplest way to do this is by

df["DateColumn"] = (df["DateColumn"]).dt.days

How to download folder from putty using ssh client

You cannot use PuTTY to download the files, but you can use PSCP from the PuTTY developers to get the files or dump any directory that you want.

Please see the following link on how to download a file/folder: https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter5.html

Dealing with "Xerces hell" in Java/Maven?

My friend that's very simple, here an example:

<dependency>
    <groupId>xalan</groupId>
    <artifactId>xalan</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.2</version>
    <scope>${my-scope}</scope>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
        <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
        <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
</dependency>

And if you want to check in the terminal(windows console for this example) that your maven tree has no problems:

mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose | grep --color=always '(.* conflict\|^' | less -r

JPG vs. JPEG image formats

The term "JPEG" is an acronym for the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the standard. .jpeg and .jpg files are identical. JPEG images are identified with 6 different standard file name extensions:

  • .jpg
  • .jpeg
  • .jpe
  • .jif
  • .jfif
  • .jfi

The jpg was used in Microsoft Operating Systems when they only supported 3 chars-extensions.

The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF - last three extensions in my list) is an image file format standard for exchanging JPEG encoded files compliant with the JPEG Interchange Format (JIF) standard, solving some of JIF's limitations in regard. Image data in JFIF files is compressed using the techniques in the JPEG standard, hence JFIF is sometimes referred to as "JPEG/JFIF".

How to draw border on just one side of a linear layout?

I was able to achieve the effect with the following code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item android:left="0dp" android:right="-5dp" android:top="-5dp" android:bottom="-5dp">
        <shape
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#123456" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

You can adjust to your needs for border position by changing the direction of displacement

What is a MIME type?

It is useful to think of MIME in the context of the client-server model. Clients and servers communicate over what is known as the HTTP protocol. In a http request or response, we can have a body. The Content-type or MIME type specifies what is the type of the body, like text/javascript or something else like audio, video, etc.

However, MIME types are not limited just to HTTP.

As the name suggests, MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. Originally, SMTP only supported ascii-encodings. However, there as a need for more. We could use MIME to slap a label on the content being transmitted or received.

(grep) Regex to match non-ASCII characters?

You could also to check this page: Unicode Regular Expressions, as it contains some useful Unicode characters classes, like:

\p{Control}: an ASCII 0x00..0x1F or Latin-1 0x80..0x9F control character.

How to get a complete list of object's methods and attributes?

For the complete list of attributes, the short answer is: no. The problem is that the attributes are actually defined as the arguments accepted by the getattr built-in function. As the user can reimplement __getattr__, suddenly allowing any kind of attribute, there is no possible generic way to generate that list. The dir function returns the keys in the __dict__ attribute, i.e. all the attributes accessible if the __getattr__ method is not reimplemented.

For the second question, it does not really make sense. Actually, methods are callable attributes, nothing more. You could though filter callable attributes, and, using the inspect module determine the class methods, methods or functions.

Slide right to left?

This can be achieved natively using the jQueryUI hide/show methods. Eg.

    // To slide something leftwards into view,
    // with a delay of 1000 msec
    $("div").click(function () {
          $(this).show("slide", { direction: "left" }, 1000);
    });

Reference: http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Effects/Slide

Can I redirect the stdout in python into some sort of string buffer?

In Python3.6, the StringIO and cStringIO modules are gone, you should use io.StringIO instead.So you should do this like the first answer:

import sys
from io import StringIO

old_stdout = sys.stdout
old_stderr = sys.stderr
my_stdout = sys.stdout = StringIO()
my_stderr = sys.stderr = StringIO()

# blah blah lots of code ...

sys.stdout = self.old_stdout
sys.stderr = self.old_stderr

// if you want to see the value of redirect output, be sure the std output is turn back
print(my_stdout.getvalue())
print(my_stderr.getvalue())

my_stdout.close()
my_stderr.close()

Relative URLs in WordPress

I think this is the kind of question only a core developer could/should answer. I've researched and found the core ticket #17048: URLs delivered to the browser should be root-relative. Where we can find the reasons explained by Andrew Nacin, lead core developer. He also links to this [wp-hackers] thread. On both those links, these are the key quotes on why WP doesn't use relative URLs:

Core ticket:

  • Root-relative URLs aren't really proper. /path/ might not be WordPress, it might be outside of the install. So really it's not much different than an absolute URL.

  • Any relative URLs also make it significantly more difficult to perform transformations when the install is moved. The find-replace is going to be necessary in most situations, and having an absolute URL is ironically more portable for those reasons.

  • absolute URLs are needed in numerous other places. Needing to add these in conditionally will add to processing, as well as introduce potential bugs (and incompatibilities with plugins).

[wp-hackers] thread

  • Relative to what, I'm not sure, as WordPress is often in a subdirectory, which means we'll always need to process the content to then add in the rest of the path. This introduces overhead.

  • Keep in mind that there are two types of relative URLs, with and without the leading slash. Both have caveats that make this impossible to properly implement.

  • WordPress should (and does) store absolute URLs. This requires no pre-processing of content, no overhead, no ambiguity. If you need to relocate, it is a global find-replace in the database.


And, on a personal note, more than once I've found theme and plugins bad coded that simply break when WP_CONTENT_URL is defined.
They don't know this can be set and assume that this is true: WP.URL/wp-content/WhatEver, and it's not always the case. And something will break along the way.


The plugin Relative URLs (linked in edse's Answer), applies the function wp_make_link_relative in a series of filters in the action hook template_redirect. It's quite a simple code and seems a nice option.

'Use of Unresolved Identifier' in Swift

Once I had this problem after renaming a file. I renamed the file from within Xcode, but afterwards Xcode couldn't find the function in the file. Even a clean rebuild didn't fix the problem, but closing and then re-opening the project got the build to work.

How to get < span > value?

var test = document.getElementById( 'test' );

// To get the text only, you can use "textContent"
console.log( test.textContent ); // "1 2 3 4"

textContent is the standard way. innerText is the property to use for legacy IE. If you want something as cross browser as possible, recursively use nodeValue.

Pagination response payload from a RESTful API

ReSTful APIs are consumed primarily by other systems, which is why I put paging data in the response headers. However, some API consumers may not have direct access to the response headers, or may be building a UX over your API, so providing a way to retrieve (on demand) the metadata in the JSON response is a plus.

I believe your implementation should include machine-readable metadata as a default, and human-readable metadata when requested. The human-readable metadata could be returned with every request if you like or, preferably, on-demand via a query parameter, such as include=metadata or include_metadata=true.

In your particular scenario, I would include the URI for each product with the record. This makes it easy for the API consumer to create links to the individual products. I would also set some reasonable expectations as per the limits of my paging requests. Implementing and documenting default settings for page size is an acceptable practice. For example, GitHub's API sets the default page size to 30 records with a maximum of 100, plus sets a rate limit on the number of times you can query the API. If your API has a default page size, then the query string can just specify the page index.

In the human-readable scenario, when navigating to /products?page=5&per_page=20&include=metadata, the response could be:

{
  "_metadata": 
  {
      "page": 5,
      "per_page": 20,
      "page_count": 20,
      "total_count": 521,
      "Links": [
        {"self": "/products?page=5&per_page=20"},
        {"first": "/products?page=0&per_page=20"},
        {"previous": "/products?page=4&per_page=20"},
        {"next": "/products?page=6&per_page=20"},
        {"last": "/products?page=26&per_page=20"},
      ]
  },
  "records": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Widget #1",
      "uri": "/products/1"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Widget #2",
      "uri": "/products/2"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "name": "Widget #3",
      "uri": "/products/3"
    }
  ]
}

For machine-readable metadata, I would add Link headers to the response:

Link: </products?page=5&perPage=20>;rel=self,</products?page=0&perPage=20>;rel=first,</products?page=4&perPage=20>;rel=previous,</products?page=6&perPage=20>;rel=next,</products?page=26&perPage=20>;rel=last

(the Link header value should be urlencoded)

...and possibly a custom total-count response header, if you so choose:

total-count: 521

The other paging data revealed in the human-centric metadata might be superfluous for machine-centric metadata, as the link headers let me know which page I am on and the number per page, and I can quickly retrieve the number of records in the array. Therefore, I would probably only create a header for the total count. You can always change your mind later and add more metadata.

As an aside, you may notice I removed /index from your URI. A generally accepted convention is to have your ReST endpoint expose collections. Having /index at the end muddies that up slightly.

These are just a few things I like to have when consuming/creating an API. Hope that helps!

Which way is best for creating an object in JavaScript? Is `var` necessary before an object property?

There is no "best way" to create an object. Each way has benefits depending on your use case.

The constructor pattern (a function paired with the new operator to invoke it) provides the possibility of using prototypal inheritance, whereas the other ways don't. So if you want prototypal inheritance, then a constructor function is a fine way to go.

However, if you want prototypal inheritance, you may as well use Object.create, which makes the inheritance more obvious.

Creating an object literal (ex: var obj = {foo: "bar"};) works great if you happen to have all the properties you wish to set on hand at creation time.

For setting properties later, the NewObject.property1 syntax is generally preferable to NewObject['property1'] if you know the property name. But the latter is useful when you don't actually have the property's name ahead of time (ex: NewObject[someStringVar]).

Hope this helps!

Python datetime to string without microsecond component

We can try something like below

import datetime

date_generated = datetime.datetime.now()
date_generated.replace(microsecond=0).isoformat(' ').partition('+')[0]

Passing variable from Form to Module in VBA

Siddharth's answer is nice, but relies on globally-scoped variables. There's a better, more OOP-friendly way.

A UserForm is a class module like any other - the only difference is that it has a hidden VB_PredeclaredId attribute set to True, which makes VB create a global-scope object variable named after the class - that's how you can write UserForm1.Show without creating a new instance of the class.

Step away from this, and treat your form as an object instead - expose Property Get members and abstract away the form's controls - the calling code doesn't care about controls anyway:

Option Explicit
Private cancelling As Boolean

Public Property Get UserId() As String
    UserId = txtUserId.Text
End Property

Public Property Get Password() As String
    Password = txtPassword.Text
End Property

Public Property Get IsCancelled() As Boolean
    IsCancelled = cancelling
End Property

Private Sub OkButton_Click()
    Me.Hide
End Sub

Private Sub CancelButton_Click()
    cancelling = True
    Me.Hide
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_QueryClose(Cancel As Integer, CloseMode As Integer)
    If CloseMode = VbQueryClose.vbFormControlMenu Then
        cancelling = True
        Cancel = True
        Me.Hide
    End If
End Sub

Now the calling code can do this (assuming the UserForm was named LoginPrompt):

With New LoginPrompt
    .Show vbModal
    If .IsCancelled Then Exit Sub
    DoSomething .UserId, .Password
End With

Where DoSomething would be some procedure that requires the two string parameters:

Private Sub DoSomething(ByVal uid As String, ByVal pwd As String)
    'work with the parameter values, regardless of where they came from
End Sub

How can a Java program get its own process ID?

This is the code JConsole, and potentially jps and VisualVM uses. It utilizes classes from sun.jvmstat.monitor.* package, from tool.jar.

package my.code.a003.process;

import sun.jvmstat.monitor.HostIdentifier;
import sun.jvmstat.monitor.MonitorException;
import sun.jvmstat.monitor.MonitoredHost;
import sun.jvmstat.monitor.MonitoredVm;
import sun.jvmstat.monitor.MonitoredVmUtil;
import sun.jvmstat.monitor.VmIdentifier;


public class GetOwnPid {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new GetOwnPid().run();
    }

    public void run() {
        System.out.println(getPid(this.getClass()));
    }

    public Integer getPid(Class<?> mainClass) {
        MonitoredHost monitoredHost;
        Set<Integer> activeVmPids;
        try {
            monitoredHost = MonitoredHost.getMonitoredHost(new HostIdentifier((String) null));
            activeVmPids = monitoredHost.activeVms();
            MonitoredVm mvm = null;
            for (Integer vmPid : activeVmPids) {
                try {
                    mvm = monitoredHost.getMonitoredVm(new VmIdentifier(vmPid.toString()));
                    String mvmMainClass = MonitoredVmUtil.mainClass(mvm, true);
                    if (mainClass.getName().equals(mvmMainClass)) {
                        return vmPid;
                    }
                } finally {
                    if (mvm != null) {
                        mvm.detach();
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (java.net.URISyntaxException e) {
            throw new InternalError(e.getMessage());
        } catch (MonitorException e) {
            throw new InternalError(e.getMessage());
        }
        return null;
    }
}

There are few catches:

  • The tool.jar is a library distributed with Oracle JDK but not JRE!
  • You cannot get tool.jar from Maven repo; configure it with Maven is a bit tricky
  • The tool.jar probably contains platform dependent (native?) code so it is not easily distributable
  • It runs under assumption that all (local) running JVM apps are "monitorable". It looks like that from Java 6 all apps generally are (unless you actively configure opposite)
  • It probably works only for Java 6+
  • Eclipse does not publish main class, so you will not get Eclipse PID easily Bug in MonitoredVmUtil?

UPDATE: I have just double checked that JPS uses this way, that is Jvmstat library (part of tool.jar). So there is no need to call JPS as external process, call Jvmstat library directly as my example shows. You can aslo get list of all JVMs runnin on localhost this way. See JPS source code:

what is the use of annotations @Id and @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)? Why the generationtype is identity?

Let me answer this question:
First of all, using annotations as our configure method is just a convenient method instead of coping the endless XML configuration file.

The @Idannotation is inherited from javax.persistence.Id, indicating the member field below is the primary key of current entity. Hence your Hibernate and spring framework as well as you can do some reflect works based on this annotation. for details please check javadoc for Id

The @GeneratedValue annotation is to configure the way of increment of the specified column(field). For example when using Mysql, you may specify auto_increment in the definition of table to make it self-incremental, and then use

@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)

in the Java code to denote that you also acknowledged to use this database server side strategy. Also, you may change the value in this annotation to fit different requirements.

1. Define Sequence in database

For instance, Oracle has to use sequence as increment method, say we create a sequence in Oracle:

create sequence oracle_seq;

2. Refer the database sequence

Now that we have the sequence in database, but we need to establish the relation between Java and DB, by using @SequenceGenerator:

@SequenceGenerator(name="seq",sequenceName="oracle_seq")

sequenceName is the real name of a sequence in Oracle, name is what you want to call it in Java. You need to specify sequenceName if it is different from name, otherwise just use name. I usually ignore sequenceName to save my time.

3. Use sequence in Java

Finally, it is time to make use this sequence in Java. Just add @GeneratedValue:

@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator="seq")

The generator field refers to which sequence generator you want to use. Notice it is not the real sequence name in DB, but the name you specified in name field of SequenceGenerator.

4. Complete

So the complete version should be like this:

public class MyTable
{
    @Id
    @SequenceGenerator(name="seq",sequenceName="oracle_seq")        
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator="seq")               
    private Integer pid;
}

Now start using these annotations to make your JavaWeb development easier.

Volatile Vs Atomic

The volatile keyword is used:

  • to make non atomic 64-bit operations atomic: long and double. (all other, primitive accesses are already guaranteed to be atomic!)
  • to make variable updates guaranteed to be seen by other threads + visibility effects: after writing to a volatile variable, all the variables that where visible before writing that variable become visible to another thread after reading the same volatile variable (happen-before ordering).

The java.util.concurrent.atomic.* classes are, according to the java docs:

A small toolkit of classes that support lock-free thread-safe programming on single variables. In essence, the classes in this package extend the notion of volatile values, fields, and array elements to those that also provide an atomic conditional update operation of the form:

boolean compareAndSet(expectedValue, updateValue);

The atomic classes are built around the atomic compareAndSet(...) function that maps to an atomic CPU instruction. The atomic classes introduce the happen-before ordering as the volatile variables do. (with one exception: weakCompareAndSet(...)).

From the java docs:

When a thread sees an update to an atomic variable caused by a weakCompareAndSet, it does not necessarily see updates to any other variables that occurred before the weakCompareAndSet.

To your question:

Does this mean that whosoever takes lock on it, that will be setting its value first. And in if meantime, some other thread comes up and read old value while first thread was changing its value, then doesn't new thread will read its old value?

You don't lock anything, what you are describing is a typical race condition that will happen eventually if threads access shared data without proper synchronization. As already mentioned declaring a variable volatile in this case will only ensure that other threads will see the change of the variable (the value will not be cached in a register of some cache that is only seen by one thread).

What is the difference between AtomicInteger and volatile int?

AtomicInteger provides atomic operations on an int with proper synchronization (eg. incrementAndGet(), getAndAdd(...), ...), volatile int will just ensure the visibility of the int to other threads.

Reading all files in a directory, store them in objects, and send the object

For all example below you need to import fs and path modules:

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

Read files asynchronously

function readFiles(dir, processFile) {
  // read directory
  fs.readdir(dir, (error, fileNames) => {
    if (error) throw error;

    fileNames.forEach(filename => {
      // get current file name
      const name = path.parse(filename).name;
      // get current file extension
      const ext = path.parse(filename).ext;
      // get current file path
      const filepath = path.resolve(dir, filename);

      // get information about the file
      fs.stat(filepath, function(error, stat) {
        if (error) throw error;

        // check if the current path is a file or a folder
        const isFile = stat.isFile();

        // exclude folders
        if (isFile) {
          // callback, do something with the file
          processFile(filepath, name, ext, stat);
        }
      });
    });
  });
}

Usage:

// use an absolute path to the folder where files are located
readFiles('absolute/path/to/directory/', (filepath, name, ext, stat) => {
  console.log('file path:', filepath);
  console.log('file name:', name);
  console.log('file extension:', ext);
  console.log('file information:', stat);
});

Read files synchronously, store in array, natural sorting

/**
 * @description Read files synchronously from a folder, with natural sorting
 * @param {String} dir Absolute path to directory
 * @returns {Object[]} List of object, each object represent a file
 * structured like so: `{ filepath, name, ext, stat }`
 */
function readFilesSync(dir) {
  const files = [];

  fs.readdirSync(dir).forEach(filename => {
    const name = path.parse(filename).name;
    const ext = path.parse(filename).ext;
    const filepath = path.resolve(dir, filename);
    const stat = fs.statSync(filepath);
    const isFile = stat.isFile();

    if (isFile) files.push({ filepath, name, ext, stat });
  });

  files.sort((a, b) => {
    // natural sort alphanumeric strings
    // https://stackoverflow.com/a/38641281
    return a.name.localeCompare(b.name, undefined, { numeric: true, sensitivity: 'base' });
  });

  return files;
}

Usage:

// return an array list of objects
// each object represent a file
const files = readFilesSync('absolute/path/to/directory/');

Read files async using promise

More info on promisify in this article.

const { promisify } = require('util');

const readdir_promise = promisify(fs.readdir);
const stat_promise = promisify(fs.stat);

function readFilesAsync(dir) {
  return readdir_promise(dir, { encoding: 'utf8' })
    .then(filenames => {
      const files = getFiles(dir, filenames);

      return Promise.all(files);
    })
    .catch(err => console.error(err));
}

function getFiles(dir, filenames) {
  return filenames.map(filename => {
    const name = path.parse(filename).name;
    const ext = path.parse(filename).ext;
    const filepath = path.resolve(dir, filename);

    return stat({ name, ext, filepath });
  });
}

function stat({ name, ext, filepath }) {
  return stat_promise(filepath)
    .then(stat => {
      const isFile = stat.isFile();

      if (isFile) return { name, ext, filepath, stat };
    })
    .catch(err => console.error(err));
}

Usage:

readFiles('absolute/path/to/directory/')
  // return an array list of objects
  // each object is a file
  // with those properties: { name, ext, filepath, stat }
  .then(files => console.log(files))
  .catch(err => console.log(err));

Note: return undefined for folders, if you want you can filter them out:

readFiles('absolute/path/to/directory/')
  .then(files => files.filter(file => file !== undefined))
  .catch(err => console.log(err));

Best way to check if object exists in Entity Framework?

I just check if object is null , it works 100% for me

    try
    {
        var ID = Convert.ToInt32(Request.Params["ID"]);
        var Cert = (from cert in db.TblCompCertUploads where cert.CertID == ID select cert).FirstOrDefault();
        if (Cert != null)
        {
            db.TblCompCertUploads.DeleteObject(Cert);
            db.SaveChanges();
            ViewBag.Msg = "Deleted Successfully";
        }
        else
        {
            ViewBag.Msg = "Not Found !!";
        }                           
    }
    catch
    {
        ViewBag.Msg = "Something Went wrong";
    }

How to trigger a phone call when clicking a link in a web page on mobile phone

Essentially, use an <a> element with an href attr pointing to the phone number prefixed by tel:. Note that pluses can be used to specify country code, and hyphens can be included simply for human eyes.

MDN Web Docs

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#Creating_a_phone_link

The HTML <a> element (or anchor element), along with its href attribute, creates a hyperlink to other web pages, files, locations within the same page, email addresses, or any other URL.

[…]

Offering phone links is helpful for users viewing web documents and laptops connected to phones.

<a href="tel:+491570156">+49 157 0156</a>

IETF Documents

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3966

The tel URI for Telephone Numbers

The "tel" URI has the following syntax:

telephone-uri = "tel:" telephone-subscriber

[…]

Examples

tel:+1-201-555-0123: This URI points to a phone number in the United States. The hyphens are included to make the number more human readable; they separate country, area code and subscriber number.

tel:7042;phone-context=example.com: The URI describes a local phone number valid within the context "example.com".

tel:863-1234;phone-context=+1-914-555: The URI describes a local phone number that is valid within a particular phone prefix.

Hibernate: ids for this class must be manually assigned before calling save()

your id attribute is not set. this MAY be due to the fact that the DB field is not set to auto increment? what DB are you using? MySQL? is your field set to AUTO INCREMENT?

Get value of a specific object property in C# without knowing the class behind

Reflection can help you.

var someObject;
var propertyName = "PropertyWhichValueYouWantToKnow";
var propertyName = someObject.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName).GetValue(someObject, null);

SQL Server - NOT IN

Use a LEFT JOIN checking the right side for nulls.

SELECT a.Id
FROM TableA a
LEFT JOIN TableB on a.Id = b.Id
WHERE b.Id IS NULL

The above would match up TableA and TableB based on the Id column in each, and then give you the rows where the B side is empty.

What's the PowerShell syntax for multiple values in a switch statement?

Supports entering y|ye|yes and case insensitive.

switch -regex ($someString.ToLower()) {
        "^y(es?)?$" {
            "You entered Yes." 
        }
        default { "You entered No." }
}

How to convert a Scikit-learn dataset to a Pandas dataset?

This is easy method worked for me.

boston = load_boston()
boston_frame = pd.DataFrame(data=boston.data, columns=boston.feature_names)
boston_frame["target"] = boston.target

But this can applied to load_iris as well.

How can I do GUI programming in C?

The most famous library to create some GUI in C language is certainly GTK.

With this library you can easily create some buttons (for your example). When a user clicks on the button, a signal is emitted and you can write a handler to do some actions.

Eclipse error: "The import XXX cannot be resolved"

Removing the "module-info.java" did resolve the issue for me!

This file was automatically generated and did appear in my hierarchy...

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

It can also be done using a single line with while loops and if like this:

if (blah)
    doThis();

It also works with while loops.

Running multiple AsyncTasks at the same time -- not possible?

Making @sulai suggestion more generic :

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) // API 11
public static <T> void executeAsyncTask(AsyncTask<T, ?, ?> asyncTask, T... params) {
    if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
        asyncTask.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR, params);
    else
        asyncTask.execute(params);
}   

How to auto import the necessary classes in Android Studio with shortcut?

Go on the missing declaration with cursor and press alt+enter enter image description here

Cannot checkout, file is unmerged

status tell you what to do.

Unmerged paths:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
  (use "git add <file>..." to mark resolution)

you probably applied a stash or something else that cause a conflict.

either add, reset, or rm.

How do I sort a table in Excel if it has cell references in it?

Easy solution - copy from excel and paste into google sheets. It copies all of your reference cells as absolute cells so you can begin from scratch. Then sort and download back as an excel grid and reformat to your needs.

Where does error CS0433 "Type 'X' already exists in both A.dll and B.dll " come from?

I ended up changing how the MasterType is referenced in the page mark up.

I changed: <%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/x/y/MyMaster.Master" %> to <%@ MasterType TypeName="FullyQualifiedNamespace.MyMaster" %>

See here for details.

Hope this helps someone out.

How to call a stored procedure from Java and JPA

You can use @Query(value = "{call PROC_TEST()}", nativeQuery = true) in your repository. This worked for me.

Attention: use '{' and '}' or else it will not work.

How to configure slf4j-simple

You can programatically change it by setting the system property:

public class App {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty(org.slf4j.impl.SimpleLogger.DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL_KEY, "TRACE");

        final org.slf4j.Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(App.class);

        log.trace("trace");
        log.debug("debug");
        log.info("info");
        log.warn("warning");
        log.error("error");

    }
}

The log levels are ERROR > WARN > INFO > DEBUG > TRACE.

Please note that once the logger is created the log level can't be changed. If you need to dynamically change the logging level you might want to use log4j with SLF4J.

Saving and Reading Bitmaps/Images from Internal memory in Android

/**
 * Created by Ilya Gazman on 3/6/2016.
 */
public class ImageSaver {

    private String directoryName = "images";
    private String fileName = "image.png";
    private Context context;
    private boolean external;

    public ImageSaver(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    public ImageSaver setFileName(String fileName) {
        this.fileName = fileName;
        return this;
    }

    public ImageSaver setExternal(boolean external) {
        this.external = external;
        return this;
    }

    public ImageSaver setDirectoryName(String directoryName) {
        this.directoryName = directoryName;
        return this;
    }

    public void save(Bitmap bitmapImage) {
        FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = null;
        try {
            fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(createFile());
            bitmapImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, fileOutputStream);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (fileOutputStream != null) {
                    fileOutputStream.close();
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

    @NonNull
    private File createFile() {
        File directory;
        if(external){
            directory = getAlbumStorageDir(directoryName);
        }
        else {
            directory = context.getDir(directoryName, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        }
        if(!directory.exists() && !directory.mkdirs()){
            Log.e("ImageSaver","Error creating directory " + directory);
        }

        return new File(directory, fileName);
    }

    private File getAlbumStorageDir(String albumName) {
        return new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(
                Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES), albumName);
    }

    public static boolean isExternalStorageWritable() {
        String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
        return Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state);
    }

    public static boolean isExternalStorageReadable() {
        String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
        return Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state) ||
                Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED_READ_ONLY.equals(state);
    }

    public Bitmap load() {
        FileInputStream inputStream = null;
        try {
            inputStream = new FileInputStream(createFile());
            return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (inputStream != null) {
                    inputStream.close();
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

Usage

  • To save:

    new ImageSaver(context).
            setFileName("myImage.png").
            setDirectoryName("images").
            save(bitmap);
    
  • To load:

    Bitmap bitmap = new ImageSaver(context).
            setFileName("myImage.png").
            setDirectoryName("images").
            load();
    

Edit:

Added ImageSaver.setExternal(boolean) to support saving to external storage based on googles example.

Cron and virtualenv

Since a cron executes in its own minimal sh environment, here's what I do to run Python scripts in a virtual environment:

* * * * * . ~/.bash_profile; . ~/path/to/venv/bin/activate; python ~/path/to/script.py

(Note: if . ~/.bash_profile doesn't work for you, then try . ~/.bashrc or . ~/.profile depending on how your server is set up.)

This loads your bash shell environment, then activates your Python virtual environment, essentially leaving you with the same setup you tested your scripts in.

No need to define environment variables in crontab and no need to modify your existing scripts.

How do I run a Python script on my web server?

Very simply, you can rename your Python script to "pythonscript.cgi". Post that in your cgi-bin directory, add the appropriate permissions and browse to it.

This is a great link you can start with.

Here's another good one.

Hope that helps.


EDIT (09/12/2015): The second link has long been removed. Replaced it with one that provides information referenced from the original.

What does "publicPath" in Webpack do?

the publicPath is just used for dev purpose, I was confused at first time I saw this config property, but it makes sense now that I've used webpack for a while

suppose you put all your js source file under src folder, and you config your webpack to build the source file to dist folder with output.path.

But you want to serve your static assets under a more meaningful location like webroot/public/assets, this time you can use out.publicPath='/webroot/public/assets', so that in your html, you can reference your js with <script src="/webroot/public/assets/bundle.js"></script>.

when you request webroot/public/assets/bundle.js the webpack-dev-server will find the js under the dist folder

Update:

thanks for Charlie Martin to correct my answer

original: the publicPath is just used for dev purpose, this is not just for dev purpose

No, this option is useful in the dev server, but its intention is for asynchronously loading script bundles in production. Say you have a very large single page application (for example Facebook). Facebook wouldn't want to serve all of its javascript every time you load the homepage, so it serves only whats needed on the homepage. Then, when you go to your profile, it loads some more javascript for that page with ajax. This option tells it where on your server to load that bundle from

Get integer value from string in swift

I wrote an extension for that purpose. It always returns an Int. If the string does not fit into an Int, 0 is returned.

extension String {
    func toTypeSafeInt() -> Int {
        if let safeInt = self.toInt() {
            return safeInt
        } else {
            return 0
        }
    }
}

How do you read a CSV file and display the results in a grid in Visual Basic 2010?

Consider this snippet of code. Modify as you see fit, or to fit your requirements. You'll need to have Imports statements for System.IO and System.Data.OleDb.

Dim fi As New FileInfo("c:\foo.csv")
Dim connectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Extended Properties=Text;Data Source=" & fi.DirectoryName

Dim conn As New OleDbConnection(connectionString)
conn.Open()

'the SELECT statement is important here, 
'and requires some formatting to pull dates and deal with headers with spaces.
Dim cmdSelect As New OleDbCommand("SELECT Foo, Bar, FORMAT(""SomeDate"",'YYYY/MM/DD') AS SomeDate, ""SOME MULTI WORD COL"", FROM " & fi.Name, conn)

Dim adapter1 As New OleDbDataAdapter
adapter1.SelectCommand = cmdSelect

Dim ds As New DataSet
adapter1.Fill(ds, "DATA")

myDataGridView.DataSource = ds.Tables(0).DefaultView 
myDataGridView.DataBind
conn.Close()

What is Gradle in Android Studio?

Gradle is a build system running on Android Studio.

In other languages for example:

I want to use CASE statement to update some records in sql server 2005

This is also an alternate use of case-when...

UPDATE [dbo].[JobTemplates]
SET [CycleId] = 
    CASE [Id]
        WHEN 1376 THEN 44   --ACE1 FX1
        WHEN 1385 THEN 44   --ACE1 FX2
        WHEN 1574 THEN 43   --ACE1 ELEM1
        WHEN 1576 THEN 43   --ACE1 ELEM2
        WHEN 1581 THEN 41   --ACE1 FS1
        WHEN 1585 THEN 42   --ACE1 HS1
        WHEN 1588 THEN 43   --ACE1 RS1
        WHEN 1589 THEN 44   --ACE1 RM1
        WHEN 1590 THEN 43   --ACE1 ELEM3
        WHEN 1591 THEN 43   --ACE1 ELEM4
        WHEN 1595 THEN 44   --ACE1 SSTn     
        ELSE 0  
     END
WHERE
    [Id] IN (1376,1385,1574,1576,1581,1585,1588,1589,1590,1591,1595)

I like the use of the temporary tables in cases where duplicate values are not permitted and your update may create them. For example:

SELECT
     [Id]
    ,[QueueId]
    ,[BaseDimensionId]
    ,[ElastomerTypeId]
    ,CASE [CycleId]
        WHEN  29 THEN 44
        WHEN  30 THEN 43
        WHEN  31 THEN 43
        WHEN 101 THEN 41
        WHEN 102 THEN 43
        WHEN 116 THEN 42
        WHEN 120 THEN 44
        WHEN 127 THEN 44
        WHEN 129 THEN 44
        ELSE    0
     END                AS [CycleId]
INTO
    ##ACE1_PQPANominals_1
FROM 
    [dbo].[ProductionQueueProcessAutoclaveNominals]
WHERE
    [QueueId] = 3
ORDER BY 
    [BaseDimensionId], [ElastomerTypeId], [Id];
---- (403 row(s) affected)

UPDATE [dbo].[ProductionQueueProcessAutoclaveNominals]
SET 
    [CycleId] = X.[CycleId]
FROM
    [dbo].[ProductionQueueProcessAutoclaveNominals]
INNER JOIN
(
    SELECT  
        MIN([Id]) AS [Id],[QueueId],[BaseDimensionId],[ElastomerTypeId],[CycleId] 
    FROM 
        ##ACE1_PQPANominals_1
    GROUP BY    
        [QueueId],[BaseDimensionId],[ElastomerTypeId],[CycleId] 
) AS X
ON
    [dbo].[ProductionQueueProcessAutoclaveNominals].[Id] = X.[Id];
----(375 row(s) affected)

Is it possible to add an array or object to SharedPreferences on Android

Shared preferences introduced a getStringSet and putStringSet methods in API Level 11, but that's not compatible with older versions of Android (which are still popular), and also is limited to sets of strings.

Android does not provide better methods, and looping over maps and arrays for saving and loading them is not very easy and clean, specially for arrays. But a better implementation isn't that hard:

package com.example.utils;

import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;

public class JSONSharedPreferences {
    private static final String PREFIX = "json";

    public static void saveJSONObject(Context c, String prefName, String key, JSONObject object) {
        SharedPreferences settings = c.getSharedPreferences(prefName, 0);
        SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
        editor.putString(JSONSharedPreferences.PREFIX+key, object.toString());
        editor.commit();
    }

    public static void saveJSONArray(Context c, String prefName, String key, JSONArray array) {
        SharedPreferences settings = c.getSharedPreferences(prefName, 0);
        SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
        editor.putString(JSONSharedPreferences.PREFIX+key, array.toString());
        editor.commit();
    }

    public static JSONObject loadJSONObject(Context c, String prefName, String key) throws JSONException {
        SharedPreferences settings = c.getSharedPreferences(prefName, 0);
        return new JSONObject(settings.getString(JSONSharedPreferences.PREFIX+key, "{}"));
    }

    public static JSONArray loadJSONArray(Context c, String prefName, String key) throws JSONException {
        SharedPreferences settings = c.getSharedPreferences(prefName, 0);
        return new JSONArray(settings.getString(JSONSharedPreferences.PREFIX+key, "[]"));
    }

    public static void remove(Context c, String prefName, String key) {
        SharedPreferences settings = c.getSharedPreferences(prefName, 0);
        if (settings.contains(JSONSharedPreferences.PREFIX+key)) {
            SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
            editor.remove(JSONSharedPreferences.PREFIX+key);
            editor.commit();
        }
    }
}

Now you can save any collection in shared preferences with this five methods. Working with JSONObject and JSONArray is very easy. You can use JSONArray (Collection copyFrom) public constructor to make a JSONArray out of any Java collection and use JSONArray's get methods to access the elements.

There is no size limit for shared preferences (besides device's storage limits), so these methods can work for most of usual cases where you want a quick and easy storage for some collection in your app. But JSON parsing happens here, and preferences in Android are stored as XMLs internally, so I recommend using other persistent data store mechanisms when you're dealing with megabytes of data.

Easiest way to open a download window without navigating away from the page

I've been looking for a good way to use javascript to initiate the download of a file, just as this question suggests. However these answers not been helpful. I then did some xbrowser testing and have found that an iframe works best on all modern browsers IE>8.

downloadUrl = "http://example.com/download/file.zip";
var downloadFrame = document.createElement("iframe"); 
downloadFrame.setAttribute('src',downloadUrl);
downloadFrame.setAttribute('class',"screenReaderText"); 
document.body.appendChild(downloadFrame); 

class="screenReaderText" is my class to style content that is present but not viewable.

css:

.screenReaderText { 
  border: 0; 
  clip: rect(0 0 0 0); 
  height: 1px; 
  margin: -1px; 
  overflow: hidden; 
  padding: 0; 
  position: absolute; 
  width: 1px; 
}

same as .visuallyHidden in html5boilerplate

I prefer this to the javascript window.open method because if the link is broken the iframe method simply doesn't do anything as opposed to redirecting to a blank page saying the file could not be opened.

window.open(downloadUrl, 'download_window', 'toolbar=0,location=no,directories=0,status=0,scrollbars=0,resizeable=0,width=1,height=1,top=0,left=0');
window.focus();

RegExp matching string not starting with my

Wouldn't it be significantly more readable to do a positive match and reject those strings - rather than match the negative to find strings to accept?

/^my/

Deleting a SQL row ignoring all foreign keys and constraints

Yes, simply run

DELETE FROM myTable where myTable.ID = 6850

AND LET ENGINE VERIFY THE CONSTRAINTS.

If you're trying to be 'clever' and disable constraints, you'll pay a huge price: enabling back the constraints has to verify every row instead of the one you just deleted. There are internal flags SQL keeps to know that a constraint is 'trusted' or not. You're 'optimization' would result in either changing these flags to 'false' (meaning SQL no longer trusts the constraints) or it has to re-verify them from scratch.

See Guidelines for Disabling Indexes and Constraints and Non-trusted constraints and performance.

Unless you did some solid measurements that demonstrated that the constraint verification of the DELETE operation are a performance bottleneck, let the engine do its work.

Parsing JSON string in Java

See my comment. You need to include the full org.json library when running as android.jar only contains stubs to compile against.

In addition, you must remove the two instances of extra } in your JSON data following longitude.

   private final static String JSON_DATA =
     "{" 
   + "  \"geodata\": [" 
   + "    {" 
   + "      \"id\": \"1\"," 
   + "      \"name\": \"Julie Sherman\","                  
   + "      \"gender\" : \"female\"," 
   + "      \"latitude\" : \"37.33774833333334\"," 
   + "      \"longitude\" : \"-121.88670166666667\""
   + "    }," 
   + "    {" 
   + "      \"id\": \"2\"," 
   + "      \"name\": \"Johnny Depp\","          
   + "      \"gender\" : \"male\"," 
   + "      \"latitude\" : \"37.336453\"," 
   + "      \"longitude\" : \"-121.884985\""
   + "    }" 
   + "  ]" 
   + "}"; 

Apart from that, geodata is in fact not a JSONObject but a JSONArray.

Here is the fully working and tested corrected code:

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class ShowActivity {


  private final static String JSON_DATA =
     "{" 
   + "  \"geodata\": [" 
   + "    {" 
   + "      \"id\": \"1\"," 
   + "      \"name\": \"Julie Sherman\","                  
   + "      \"gender\" : \"female\"," 
   + "      \"latitude\" : \"37.33774833333334\"," 
   + "      \"longitude\" : \"-121.88670166666667\""
   + "    }," 
   + "    {" 
   + "      \"id\": \"2\"," 
   + "      \"name\": \"Johnny Depp\","          
   + "      \"gender\" : \"male\"," 
   + "      \"latitude\" : \"37.336453\"," 
   + "      \"longitude\" : \"-121.884985\""
   + "    }" 
   + "  ]" 
   + "}"; 

  public static void main(final String[] argv) throws JSONException {
    final JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(JSON_DATA);
    final JSONArray geodata = obj.getJSONArray("geodata");
    final int n = geodata.length();
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
      final JSONObject person = geodata.getJSONObject(i);
      System.out.println(person.getInt("id"));
      System.out.println(person.getString("name"));
      System.out.println(person.getString("gender"));
      System.out.println(person.getDouble("latitude"));
      System.out.println(person.getDouble("longitude"));
    }
  }
}

Here's the output:

C:\dev\scrap>java -cp json.jar;. ShowActivity
1
Julie Sherman
female
37.33774833333334
-121.88670166666667
2
Johnny Depp
male
37.336453
-121.884985

Read a HTML file into a string variable in memory

Use File.ReadAllText(path_to_file) to read

How to update/refresh specific item in RecyclerView

Below solution worked for me:

On a RecyclerView item, user will click a button but another view like TextView will update without directly notifying adapter:

I found a good solution for this without using notifyDataSetChanged() method, this method reloads all data of recyclerView so if you have image or video inside item then they will reload and user experience will not good:

Here is an example of click on a ImageView like icon and only update a single TextView (Possible to update more view in same way of same item) to show like count update after adding +1:

// View holder class inside adapter class
public class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{

    ImageView imageViewLike;

    public MyViewHolder(View itemView) {
         super(itemView);

        imageViewLike = itemView.findViewById(R.id.imageViewLike);
        imageViewLike.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                int pos = getAdapterPosition(); // Get clicked item position
                TextView tv = v.getRootView().findViewById(R.id.textViewLikeCount); // Find textView of recyclerView item
                resultList.get(pos).setLike(resultList.get(pos).getLike() + 1); // Need to change data list to show updated data again after scrolling
                tv.setText(String.valueOf(resultList.get(pos).getLike())); // Set data to TextView from updated list
            }
        });
    }

Check empty string in Swift?

if myString?.startIndex != myString?.endIndex {}

Select distinct values from a table field

In addition to the still very relevant answer of jujule, I find it quite important to also be aware of the implications of order_by() on distinct("field_name") queries. This is, however, a Postgres only feature!

If you are using Postgres and if you define a field name that the query should be distinct for, then order_by() needs to begin with the same field name (or field names) in the same sequence (there may be more fields afterward).

Note

When you specify field names, you must provide an order_by() in the QuerySet, and the fields in order_by() must start with the fields in distinct(), in the same order.

For example, SELECT DISTINCT ON (a) gives you the first row for each value in column a. If you don’t specify an order, you’ll get some arbitrary row.

If you want to e-g- extract a list of cities that you know shops in , the example of jujule would have to be adapted to this:

# returns an iterable Queryset of cities.
models.Shop.objects.order_by('city').values_list('city', flat=True).distinct('city')  

Python: How to remove empty lists from a list?

You can use filter() instead of a list comprehension:

list2 = filter(None, list1)

If None is used as first argument to filter(), it filters out every value in the given list, which is False in a boolean context. This includes empty lists.

It might be slightly faster than the list comprehension, because it only executes a single function in Python, the rest is done in C.

Add / remove input field dynamically with jQuery

I took the liberty of putting together a jsFiddle illustrating the functionality of building a custom form using jQuery. Here it is...

EDIT: Updated the jsFiddle to include remove buttons for each field.

EDIT: As per the request in the last comment, code from the jsFiddle is below.

EDIT: As per Abhishek's comment, I have updated the jsFiddle (and code below) to cater for scenarios where duplicate field IDs might arise.

HTML:

<fieldset id="buildyourform">
    <legend>Build your own form!</legend>
</fieldset>
<input type="button" value="Preview form" class="add" id="preview" />
<input type="button" value="Add a field" class="add" id="add" />

JavaScript:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#add").click(function() {
        var lastField = $("#buildyourform div:last");
        var intId = (lastField && lastField.length && lastField.data("idx") + 1) || 1;
        var fieldWrapper = $("<div class=\"fieldwrapper\" id=\"field" + intId + "\"/>");
        fieldWrapper.data("idx", intId);
        var fName = $("<input type=\"text\" class=\"fieldname\" />");
        var fType = $("<select class=\"fieldtype\"><option value=\"checkbox\">Checked</option><option value=\"textbox\">Text</option><option value=\"textarea\">Paragraph</option></select>");
        var removeButton = $("<input type=\"button\" class=\"remove\" value=\"-\" />");
        removeButton.click(function() {
            $(this).parent().remove();
        });
        fieldWrapper.append(fName);
        fieldWrapper.append(fType);
        fieldWrapper.append(removeButton);
        $("#buildyourform").append(fieldWrapper);
    });
    $("#preview").click(function() {
        $("#yourform").remove();
        var fieldSet = $("<fieldset id=\"yourform\"><legend>Your Form</legend></fieldset>");
        $("#buildyourform div").each(function() {
            var id = "input" + $(this).attr("id").replace("field","");
            var label = $("<label for=\"" + id + "\">" + $(this).find("input.fieldname").first().val() + "</label>");
            var input;
            switch ($(this).find("select.fieldtype").first().val()) {
                case "checkbox":
                    input = $("<input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"" + id + "\" name=\"" + id + "\" />");
                    break;
                case "textbox":
                    input = $("<input type=\"text\" id=\"" + id + "\" name=\"" + id + "\" />");
                    break;
                case "textarea":
                    input = $("<textarea id=\"" + id + "\" name=\"" + id + "\" ></textarea>");
                    break;    
            }
            fieldSet.append(label);
            fieldSet.append(input);
        });
        $("body").append(fieldSet);
    });
});

CSS:

body
{
    font-family:Gill Sans MT;
    padding:10px;
}
fieldset
{
    border: solid 1px #000;
    padding:10px;
    display:block;
    clear:both;
    margin:5px 0px;
}
legend
{
    padding:0px 10px;
    background:black;
    color:#FFF;
}
input.add
{
    float:right;
}
input.fieldname
{
    float:left;
    clear:left;
    display:block;
    margin:5px;
}
select.fieldtype
{
    float:left;
    display:block;
    margin:5px;
}
input.remove
{
    float:left;
    display:block;
    margin:5px;
}
#yourform label
{
    float:left;
    clear:left;
    display:block;
    margin:5px;
}
#yourform input, #yourform textarea
{
    float:left;
    display:block;
    margin:5px;
}

How to make Excel VBA variables available to multiple macros?

Declare them outside the subroutines, like this:

Public wbA as Workbook
Public wbB as Workbook
Sub MySubRoutine()
    Set wbA = Workbooks.Open("C:\file.xlsx")
    Set wbB = Workbooks.Open("C:\file2.xlsx")
    OtherSubRoutine
End Sub
Sub OtherSubRoutine()
    MsgBox wbA.Name, vbInformation
End Sub

Alternately, you can pass variables between subroutines:

Sub MySubRoutine()
Dim wbA as Workbook
Dim wbB as Workbook
    Set wbA = Workbooks.Open("C:\file.xlsx")
    Set wbB = Workbooks.Open("C:\file2.xlsx")
    OtherSubRoutine wbA, wbB
End Sub
Sub OtherSubRoutine(wb1 as Workbook, wb2 as Workbook)
    MsgBox wb1.Name, vbInformation
    MsgBox wb2.Name, vbInformation
End Sub

Or use Functions to return values:

Sub MySubroutine()
    Dim i as Long
    i = MyFunction()
    MsgBox i
End Sub
Function MyFunction()
    'Lots of code that does something
    Dim x As Integer, y as Double
    For x = 1 to 1000
        'Lots of code that does something
    Next
    MyFunction = y
End Function

In the second method, within the scope of OtherSubRoutine you refer to them by their parameter names wb1 and wb2. Passed variables do not need to use the same names, just the same variable types. This allows you some freedom, for example you have a loop over several workbooks, and you can send each workbook to a subroutine to perform some action on that Workbook, without making all (or any) of the variables public in scope.

A Note About User Forms

Personally I would recommend keeping Option Explicit in all of your modules and forms (this prevents you from instantiating variables with typos in their names, like lCoutn when you meant lCount etc., among other reasons).

If you're using Option Explicit (which you should), then you should qualify module-scoped variables for style and to avoid ambiguity, and you must qualify user-form Public scoped variables, as these are not "public" in the same sense. For instance, i is undefined, though it's Public in the scope of UserForm1:

enter image description here

You can refer to it as UserForm1.i to avoid the compile error, or since forms are New-able, you can create a variable object to contain reference to your form, and refer to it that way:

enter image description here

NB: In the above screenshots x is declared Public x as Long in another standard code module, and will not raise the compilation error. It may be preferable to refer to this as Module2.x to avoid ambiguity and possible shadowing in case you re-use variable names...

How to access property of anonymous type in C#?

If you want a strongly typed list of anonymous types, you'll need to make the list an anonymous type too. The easiest way to do this is to project a sequence such as an array into a list, e.g.

var nodes = (new[] { new { Checked = false, /* etc */ } }).ToList();

Then you'll be able to access it like:

nodes.Any(n => n.Checked);

Because of the way the compiler works, the following then should also work once you have created the list, because the anonymous types have the same structure so they are also the same type. I don't have a compiler to hand to verify this though.

nodes.Add(new { Checked = false, /* etc */ });

How to programmatically get iOS status bar height

Swift 3 or Swift 4:

UIApplication.shared.statusBarFrame.height

Django Admin - change header 'Django administration' text

you do not need to change any template for this work you just need to update the settings.py of your project. Go to the bottom of the settings.py and define this.

admin.site.site_header = 'My Site Admin'

In this way you would be able to change the header of the of the Django admin. Moreover you can read more about Django Admin customization and settings on the following link.

Django Admin Documentation

Open JQuery Datepicker by clicking on an image w/ no input field

To change the "..." when the mouse hovers over the calendar icon, You need to add the following in the datepicker options:

    showOn: 'button',
    buttonText: 'Click to show the calendar',
    buttonImageOnly: true, 
    buttonImage: 'images/cal2.png',

Run jar file with command line arguments

For the question

How can i run a jar file in command prompt but with arguments

.

To pass arguments to the jar file at the time of execution

java -jar myjar.jar arg1 arg2

In the main() method of "Main-Class" [mentioned in the manifest.mft file]of your JAR file. you can retrieve them like this:

String arg1 = args[0];
String arg2 = args[1];

Git Push error: refusing to update checked out branch

I has this error because the git repo was (accidentally) initialised twice on the same location : first as a non-bare repo and shortly after as a bare repo. Because the .git folder remains, git assumes the repository is non-bare. Removing the .git folder and working directory data solved the issue.

How to refactor Node.js code that uses fs.readFileSync() into using fs.readFile()?

This variant is better because you could not know whether file exists or not. You should send correct header when you know for certain that you can read contents of your file. Also, if you have branches of code that does not finish with '.end()', browser will wait until it get them. In other words, your browser will wait a long time.

var fs = require("fs");
var filename = "./index.html";

function start(resp) {

    fs.readFile(filename, "utf8", function(err, data) {
        if (err) {
            // may be filename does not exists?
            resp.writeHead(404, {
                'Content-Type' : 'text/html'
            });
            // log this error into browser
            resp.write(err.toString());
            resp.end();
        } else {

            resp.writeHead(200, {
                "Content-Type": "text/html"
            });      
            resp.write(data.toString());
            resp.end();
        }
    });
}

What is JNDI? What is its basic use? When is it used?

JNDI Overview

JNDI is an API specified in Java technology that provides naming and directory functionality to applications written in the Java programming language. It is designed especially for the Java platform using Java's object model. Using JNDI, applications based on Java technology can store and retrieve named Java objects of any type. In addition, JNDI provides methods for performing standard directory operations, such as associating attributes with objects and searching for objects using their attributes.

JNDI is also defined independent of any specific naming or directory service implementation. It enables applications to access different, possibly multiple, naming and directory services using a common API. Different naming and directory service providers can be plugged in seamlessly behind this common API. This enables Java technology-based applications to take advantage of information in a variety of existing naming and directory services, such as LDAP, NDS, DNS, and NIS(YP), as well as enabling the applications to coexist with legacy software and systems.

Using JNDI as a tool, you can build new powerful and portable applications that not only take advantage of Java's object model but are also well-integrated with the environment in which they are deployed.

Reference

check if "it's a number" function in Oracle

Here's a simple method which :

  • does not rely on TRIM
  • does not rely on REGEXP
  • allows to specify decimal and/or thousands separators ("." and "," in my example)
  • works very nicely on Oracle versions as ancient as 8i (personally tested on 8.1.7.4.0; yes, you read that right)
SELECT
    TEST_TABLE.*,

    CASE WHEN
        TRANSLATE(TEST_TABLE.TEST_COLUMN, 'a.,0123456789', 'a') IS NULL
    THEN 'Y'
    ELSE 'N'
    END
    AS IS_NUMERIC

FROM
    (
    -- DUMMY TEST TABLE
        (SELECT '1' AS TEST_COLUMN FROM DUAL) UNION
        (SELECT '1,000.00' AS TEST_COLUMN FROM DUAL) UNION
        (SELECT 'xyz1' AS TEST_COLUMN FROM DUAL) UNION
        (SELECT 'xyz 123' AS TEST_COLUMN FROM DUAL) UNION
        (SELECT '.,' AS TEST_COLUMN FROM DUAL)
    ) TEST_TABLE

Result:

TEST_COLUMN IS_NUMERIC
----------- ----------
.,          Y
1           Y
1,000.00    Y
xyz 123     N
xyz1        N

5 rows selected.

Granted this might not be the most powerful method of all; for example ".," is falsely identified as a numeric. However it is quite simple and fast and it might very well do the job, depending on the actual data values that need to be processed.

For integers, we can simplify the Translate operation as follows :

TRANSLATE(TEST_TABLE.TEST_COLUMN, 'a0123456789', 'a') IS NULL

How it works

From the above, note the Translate function's syntax is TRANSLATE(string, from_string, to_string). Now the Translate function cannot accept NULL as the to_string argument. So by specifying 'a0123456789' as the from_string and 'a' as the to_string, two things happen:

  • character a is left alone;
  • numbers 0 to 9 are replaced with nothing since no replacement is specified for them in the to_string.

In effect the numbers are discarded. If the result of that operation is NULL it means it was purely numbers to begin with.

Using BeautifulSoup to extract text without tags

I think you can get it using subc1.text.

>>> html = """
<p>
    <strong class="offender">YOB:</strong> 1987<br />
    <strong class="offender">RACE:</strong> WHITE<br />
    <strong class="offender">GENDER:</strong> FEMALE<br />
    <strong class="offender">HEIGHT:</strong> 5'05''<br />
    <strong class="offender">WEIGHT:</strong> 118<br />
    <strong class="offender">EYE COLOR:</strong> GREEN<br />
    <strong class="offender">HAIR COLOR:</strong> BROWN<br />
</p>
"""
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
>>> print soup.text


YOB: 1987
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: FEMALE
HEIGHT: 5'05''
WEIGHT: 118
EYE COLOR: GREEN
HAIR COLOR: BROWN

Or if you want to explore it, you can use .contents :

>>> p = soup.find('p')
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(p.contents)
[u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">YOB:</strong>,
 u' 1987',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">RACE:</strong>,
 u' WHITE',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">GENDER:</strong>,
 u' FEMALE',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">HEIGHT:</strong>,
 u" 5'05''",
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">WEIGHT:</strong>,
 u' 118',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">EYE COLOR:</strong>,
 u' GREEN',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">HAIR COLOR:</strong>,
 u' BROWN',
 <br/>,
 u'\n']

and filter out the necessary items from the list:

>>> data = dict(zip([x.text for x in p.contents[1::4]], [x.strip() for x in p.contents[2::4]]))
>>> pprint(data)
{u'EYE COLOR:': u'GREEN',
 u'GENDER:': u'FEMALE',
 u'HAIR COLOR:': u'BROWN',
 u'HEIGHT:': u"5'05''",
 u'RACE:': u'WHITE',
 u'WEIGHT:': u'118',
 u'YOB:': u'1987'}

How to un-commit last un-pushed git commit without losing the changes

2020 simple way :

git reset <commit_hash>

Commit hash of the last commit you want to keep.

Python: Generate random number between x and y which is a multiple of 5

Create an integer random between e.g. 1-11 and multiply it by 5. Simple math.

import random
for x in range(20):
  print random.randint(1,11)*5,
print

produces e.g.

5 40 50 55 5 15 40 45 15 20 25 40 15 50 25 40 20 15 50 10

How to concatenate multiple lines of output to one line?

Piping output to xargs will concatenate each line of output to a single line with spaces:

grep pattern file | xargs

Or any command, eg. ls | xargs. The default limit of xargs output is ~4096 characters, but can be increased with eg. xargs -s 8192.

How to condense if/else into one line in Python?

There is the conditional expression:

a if cond else b

but this is an expression, not a statement.

In if statements, the if (or elif or else) can be written on the same line as the body of the block if the block is just one like:

if something: somefunc()
else: otherfunc()

but this is discouraged as a matter of formatting-style.

Concatenate two JSON objects

okay, you can do this in one line of code. you'll need json2.js for this (you probably already have.). the two json objects here are unparsed strings.

json1 = '[{"foo":"bar"},{"bar":"foo"},{"name":"craig"}]';

json2 = '[{"foo":"baz"},{"bar":"fob"},{"name":"george"}]';

concattedjson = JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(json1).concat(JSON.parse(json2)));

Web link to specific whatsapp contact

********* UPDATE ADDED AT THE END *********

I've tried many approaches and I have a winner (see Test 3), here is the result of each one:

(I think the Test 3 will also work for you because if the person visiting your site doesn't have you on their contact list, it's the only option that will allow it.)

In all tests, the number had to be complete, with country and location code without any initial zeros. Example:

  • +55(011) 99999-9999 (NOT)
  • +5511999999999 (YES)

On tests 1 and 2, it only worked with a plus sign on the country code: +5511999999999

Test 1:

<a href="whatsapp://send?abid=phonenumber&text=Hello%2C%20World!">Send Message</a>

This way you must have the phonenumber on your contact list. It doesn't work for me because I wanted to be able to send a message to a number which I may not have on my contact list.

If you don't have the number on your contact list, it opens the Whatsapp listing all your registered contacts, so you can choose one.

It's a good option for sharing stuff.

Test 2:

<a href="intent://send/phonenumber#Intent;scheme=smsto;package=com.whatsapp;action=android.intent.action.SENDTO;end">Send Message</a>

This approach only works on Android AND if you have the number on your contact list. If you don't have it, Android opens your SMS app, so you can invite the contact to use Whatsapp.

Test 3 (The Winner):

<a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=15551234567">Send Message</a>

This was the only way that worked fully for me.

  • It works on Android, iOS and Web app on the desktop,
  • You can start a conversation with a number that you don't have on your contact list
  • You can create a link with one pre-built message adding &text=[message-url-encoded] like:

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=15551234567&text=Send20%a20%quote

And if you wish to have a bookmarklet for additional ease of use, you may use this one:

javascript: (function() { var val= prompt("Enter phone number",""); if (val) location="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone="+escape('972' + val)+""; })()

Youll need to change the country code(or remove it) to you.r target country and paste it in the address field in a chrome/firefox link

Worth notice:

***************** UPDATE (START) *****************

Whatsapp made available other option, now you can create one link to a conversation like this:

https://wa.me/[phonenumber]

The phone number should be in international format:

Like this:

https://wa.me/552196312XXXX

NOT like this:

https://wa.me/+55(021)96312-XXXX

And if you want to add one pre-built message to your link, you can add ?text= at the end with the text URL Encoded:

https://wa.me/552196312XXXX?text=[message-url-encoded]

Exemple:

https://wa.me/552196312XXXX?text=Send20%a20%quote

More info here:

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-use-click-to-chat

***************** UPDATE (END) *****************

ADB.exe is obsolete and has serious performance problems

This can also be an issue with hyper-v settings on Windows 10 pro. Because with this error I was facing BSOD - https://www.techclassy.com/fix-hypervisor-error-bsod/

How to determine if OpenSSL and mod_ssl are installed on Apache2

The default Apache install is configured to send this information on the Server header line. You can view this for any server using the curl command.

$ curl --head http://localhost/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:14:03 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8a DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 SVN/1.5.4 proxy_html/3.0.0

Formatting numbers (decimal places, thousands separators, etc) with CSS

Well, for any numbers in Javascript I use next one:

var a = "1222333444555666777888999";
a = a.replace(new RegExp("^(\\d{" + (a.length%3?a.length%3:0) + "})(\\d{3})", "g"), "$1 $2").replace(/(\d{3})+?/gi, "$1 ").trim();

and if you need to use any other separator as comma for example:

var sep = ",";
a = a.replace(/\s/g, sep);

or as a function:

function numberFormat(_number, _sep) {
    _number = typeof _number != "undefined" && _number > 0 ? _number : "";
    _number = _number.replace(new RegExp("^(\\d{" + (_number.length%3? _number.length%3:0) + "})(\\d{3})", "g"), "$1 $2").replace(/(\d{3})+?/gi, "$1 ").trim();
    if(typeof _sep != "undefined" && _sep != " ") {
        _number = _number.replace(/\s/g, _sep);
    }
    return _number;
}

How do I get the YouTube video ID from a URL?

I simplified Lasnv's answer a bit.

It also fixes the bug that WebDeb describes.

Here it is:

var regExp = /^.*(youtu\.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=|\&v=)([^#\&\?]*).*/;
var match = url.match(regExp);
if (match && match[2].length == 11) {
  return match[2];
} else {
  //error
}

Here is a regexer link to play with: http://regexr.com/3dnqv

Mockito How to mock only the call of a method of the superclass

Even if i totally agree with iwein response (

favor composition over inheritance

), i admit there are some times inheritance seems just natural, and i don't feel breaking or refactor it just for the sake of a unit test.

So, my suggestion :

/**
 * BaseService is now an asbtract class encapsulating 
 * some common logic callable by child implementations
 */
abstract class BaseService {  
    protected void commonSave() {
        // Put your common work here
    }

    abstract void save();
}

public ChildService extends BaseService {  
    public void save() {
        // Put your child specific work here
        // ...

        this.commonSave();
    }  
}

And then, in the unit test :

    ChildService childSrv = Mockito.mock(ChildService.class, Mockito.CALLS_REAL_METHODS);

    Mockito.doAnswer(new Answer<Void>() {
        @Override
        public Boolean answer(InvocationOnMock invocation)
                throws Throwable {
            // Put your mocked behavior of BaseService.commonSave() here
            return null;
        }
    }).when(childSrv).commonSave();

    childSrv.save();

    Mockito.verify(childSrv, Mockito.times(1)).commonSave();

    // Put any other assertions to check child specific work is done

Mocking a function to raise an Exception to test an except block

Your mock is raising the exception just fine, but the error.resp.status value is missing. Rather than use return_value, just tell Mock that status is an attribute:

barMock.side_effect = HttpError(mock.Mock(status=404), 'not found')

Additional keyword arguments to Mock() are set as attributes on the resulting object.

I put your foo and bar definitions in a my_tests module, added in the HttpError class so I could use it too, and your test then can be ran to success:

>>> from my_tests import foo, HttpError
>>> import mock
>>> with mock.patch('my_tests.bar') as barMock:
...     barMock.side_effect = HttpError(mock.Mock(status=404), 'not found')
...     result = my_test.foo()
... 
404 - 
>>> result is None
True

You can even see the print '404 - %s' % error.message line run, but I think you wanted to use error.content there instead; that's the attribute HttpError() sets from the second argument, at any rate.

App not setup: This app is still in development mode

make sure your app is live on developer.facebook.com

This green circle is indicating the app is live enter image description here

If it is not then follow this two steps for make your app live

Step 1 Go to your application -> setting => and add Contact Email and apply save Changes

Setp 2 Then goto App Review option and make sure this toggle is Yes i added a screen shot

enter image description here

When to use Task.Delay, when to use Thread.Sleep?

if the current thread is killed and you use Thread.Sleep and it is executing then you might get a ThreadAbortException. With Task.Delay you can always provide a cancellation token and gracefully kill it. Thats one reason I would choose Task.Delay. see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21177.visual-c-thread-sleep-vs-task-delay.aspx

I also agree efficiency is not paramount in this case.

Invalid attempt to read when no data is present

I used the code below and it worked for me.

String email="";
    SqlDataReader reader=cmd.ExecuteReader();
    if(reader.Read()){
        email=reader["Email"].ToString();
    }

String To=email;

Excel: How to check if a cell is empty with VBA?

IsEmpty() would be the quickest way to check for that.

IsNull() would seem like a similar solution, but keep in mind Null has to be assigned to the cell; it's not inherently created in the cell.

Also, you can check the cell by:

count()

counta()

Len(range("BCell").Value) = 0

Getting all types that implement an interface

I appreciate this is a very old question but I thought I would add another answer for future users as all the answers to date use some form of Assembly.GetTypes.

Whilst GetTypes() will indeed return all types, it does not necessarily mean you could activate them and could thus potentially throw a ReflectionTypeLoadException.

A classic example for not being able to activate a type would be when the type returned is derived from base but base is defined in a different assembly from that of derived, an assembly that the calling assembly does not reference.

So say we have:

Class A // in AssemblyA
Class B : Class A, IMyInterface // in AssemblyB
Class C // in AssemblyC which references AssemblyB but not AssemblyA

If in ClassC which is in AssemblyC we then do something as per accepted answer:

var type = typeof(IMyInterface);
var types = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()
    .SelectMany(s => s.GetTypes())
    .Where(p => type.IsAssignableFrom(p));

Then it will throw a ReflectionTypeLoadException.

This is because without a reference to AssemblyA in AssemblyC you would not be able to:

var bType = typeof(ClassB);
var bClass = (ClassB)Activator.CreateInstance(bType);

In other words ClassB is not loadable which is something that the call to GetTypes checks and throws on.

So to safely qualify the result set for loadable types then as per this Phil Haacked article Get All Types in an Assembly and Jon Skeet code you would instead do something like:

public static class TypeLoaderExtensions {
    public static IEnumerable<Type> GetLoadableTypes(this Assembly assembly) {
        if (assembly == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("assembly");
        try {
            return assembly.GetTypes();
        } catch (ReflectionTypeLoadException e) {
            return e.Types.Where(t => t != null);
        }
    }
}

And then:

private IEnumerable<Type> GetTypesWithInterface(Assembly asm) {
    var it = typeof (IMyInterface);
    return asm.GetLoadableTypes().Where(it.IsAssignableFrom).ToList();
}

How to fix 'sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified' error?

For Ubuntu 16.04 users

There is a file you have to read with:

cat /etc/sudoers.d/README

Placing a file with mode 0440 in /etc/sudoers.d/myuser with following content:

myuser  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Should fix the issue.

Do not forget to:

chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/myuser

Help needed with Median If in Excel

Expanding on Brian Camire's Answer:

Using =MEDIAN(IF($A$1:$A$6="Airline",$B$1:$B$6,"")) with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER will include blank cells in the calculation. Blank cells will be evaluated as 0 which results in a lower median value. The same is true if using the average funtion. If you don't want to include blank cells in the calculation, use a nested if statement like so:

=MEDIAN(IF($A$1:$A$6="Airline",IF($B$1:$B$6<>"",$B$1:$B$6)))

Don't forget to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to treat the formula as an "array formula".

PHP: Count a stdClass object

Just use this

$i=0;
foreach ($object as $key =>$value)
{
$i++;
}

the variable $i is number of keys.

How to correctly use Html.ActionLink with ASP.NET MVC 4 Areas

I hate answering my own question, but @Matt Bodily put me on the right track.

The @Html.Action method actually invokes a controller and renders the view, so that wouldn't work to create a snippet of HTML in my case, as this was causing a recursive function call resulting in a StackOverflowException. The @Url.Action(action, controller, { area = "abc" }) does indeed return the URL, but I finally discovered an overload of Html.ActionLink that provided a better solution for my case:

@Html.ActionLink("Admin", "Index", "Home", new { area = "Admin" }, null)

Note: , null is significant in this case, to match the right signature.

Documentation: @Html.ActionLink (LinkExtensions.ActionLink)

Documentation for this particular overload:

LinkExtensions.ActionLink(Controller, Action, Text, RouteArgs, HtmlAttributes)

It's been difficult to find documentation for these helpers. I tend to search for "Html.ActionLink" when I probably should have searched for "LinkExtensions.ActionLink", if that helps anyone in the future.

Still marking Matt's response as the answer.

Edit: Found yet another HTML helper to solve this:

@Html.RouteLink("Admin", new { action = "Index", controller = "Home", area = "Admin" })

Javascript "Cannot read property 'length' of undefined" when checking a variable's length

If you aren't doing some kind of numeric comparison of the length property, it's better not to use it in the if statement, just do:

if(theHref){
   // do stuff
}else{
  // do other stuff
}

An empty (or undefined, as it is in this case) string will evaluate to false (just like a length of zero would.)

Received an invalid column length from the bcp client for colid 6

Check the size of the columns in the table you are doing bulk insert/copy. the varchar or other string columns might needs to be extended or the value your are inserting needs to be trim. Column order also should be same as in table.

e.g, Increase size of varchar column 30 to 50 =>

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] ALTER COLUMN [ColumnName] Varchar(50)

How to open a website when a Button is clicked in Android application?

you can use this on your button click activity

Intent webOpen = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            WebOpen.setData(Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"));
                startActivity(myWebLink);

and import this on your code

import android.net.Uri;

Easy way to print Perl array? (with a little formatting)

Map can also be used, but sometimes hard to read when you have lots of things going on.

map{ print "element $_\n" }   @array; 

How do I ignore an error on 'git pull' about my local changes would be overwritten by merge?

If you want to discard your local changes on one file you can do the following:

git checkout -- <file>

Then you could overwrite the file[s] with the latest version just doing:

git pull

adding x and y axis labels in ggplot2

since the data ex1221new was not given, so I have created a dummy data and added it to a data frame. Also, the question which was asked has few changes in codes like then ggplot package has deprecated the use of

"scale_area()" and nows uses scale_size_area()
"opts()" has changed to theme()

In my answer,I have stored the plot in mygraph variable and then I have used

mygraph$labels$x="Discharge of materials" #changes x axis title
       mygraph$labels$y="Area Affected" # changes y axis title

And the work is done. Below is the complete answer.

install.packages("Sleuth2")
library(Sleuth2)
library(ggplot2)

ex1221new<-data.frame(Discharge<-c(100:109),Area<-c(120:129),NO3<-seq(2,5,length.out = 10))
discharge<-ex1221new$Discharge
area<-ex1221new$Area
nitrogen<-ex1221new$NO3
p <- ggplot(ex1221new, aes(discharge, area), main="Point")
mygraph<-p + geom_point(aes(size= nitrogen)) + 
  scale_size_area() + ggtitle("Weighted Scatterplot of Watershed Area vs. Discharge and Nitrogen Levels (PPM)")+
theme(
 plot.title =  element_text(color="Blue", size=30, hjust = 0.5), 

 # change the styling of both the axis simultaneously from this-
 axis.title = element_text(color = "Green", size = 20, family="Courier",)
 

   # you can change the  axis title from the code below
   mygraph$labels$x="Discharge of materials" #changes x axis title
   mygraph$labels$y="Area Affected" # changes y axis title
   mygraph



   

Also, you can change the labels title from the same formula used above -

mygraph$labels$size= "N2" #size contains the nitrogen level 

How do you revert to a specific tag in Git?

Git tags are just pointers to the commit. So you use them the same way as you do HEAD, branch names or commit sha hashes. You can use tags with any git command that accepts commit/revision arguments. You can try it with git rev-parse tagname to display the commit it points to.

In your case you have at least these two alternatives:

  1. Reset the current branch to specific tag:

    git reset --hard tagname
    
  2. Generate revert commit on top to get you to the state of the tag:

    git revert tag
    

This might introduce some conflicts if you have merge commits though.

How to remove all null elements from a ArrayList or String Array?

Mainly I'm using this:

list.removeAll(Collections.singleton(null));

But after I learned Java 8, I switched to this:

List.removeIf(Objects::isNull);

How to build an android library with Android Studio and gradle?

Note: This answer is a pure Gradle answer, I use this in IntelliJ on a regular basis but I don't know how the integration is with Android Studio. I am a believer in knowing what is going on for me, so this is how I use Gradle and Android.

TL;DR Full Example - https://github.com/ethankhall/driving-time-tracker/

Disclaimer: This is a project I am/was working on.

Gradle has a defined structure ( that you can change, link at the bottom tells you how ) that is very similar to Maven if you have ever used it.

Project Root
+-- src
|   +-- main (your project)
|   |   +-- java (where your java code goes)
|   |   +-- res  (where your res go)
|   |   +-- assets (where your assets go)
|   |   \-- AndroidManifest.xml
|   \-- instrumentTest (test project)
|       \-- java (where your java code goes)
+-- build.gradle
\-- settings.gradle

If you only have the one project, the settings.gradle file isn't needed. However you want to add more projects, so we need it.

Now let's take a peek at that build.gradle file. You are going to need this in it (to add the android tools)

build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.3'
    }
}

Now we need to tell Gradle about some of the Android parts. It's pretty simple. A basic one (that works in most of my cases) looks like the following. I have a comment in this block, it will allow me to specify the version name and code when generating the APK.

build.gradle

apply plugin: "android"
android {
        compileSdkVersion 17
        /*
        defaultConfig {
            versionCode = 1
            versionName = "0.0.0"
        }
        */
    }

Something we are going to want to add, to help out anyone that hasn't seen the light of Gradle yet, a way for them to use the project without installing it.

build.gradle

task wrapper(type: org.gradle.api.tasks.wrapper.Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '1.4'
}

So now we have one project to build. Now we are going to add the others. I put them in a directory, maybe call it deps, or subProjects. It doesn't really matter, but you will need to know where you put it. To tell Gradle where the projects are you are going to need to add them to the settings.gradle.

Directory Structure:

Project Root
+-- src (see above)
+-- subProjects (where projects are held)
|   +-- reallyCoolProject1 (your first included project)
|       \-- See project structure for a normal app
|   \-- reallyCoolProject2 (your second included project)
|       \-- See project structure for a normal app
+-- build.gradle
\-- settings.gradle

settings.gradle:

include ':subProjects:reallyCoolProject1'
include ':subProjects:reallyCoolProject2'

The last thing you should make sure of is the subProjects/reallyCoolProject1/build.gradle has apply plugin: "android-library" instead of apply plugin: "android".

Like every Gradle project (and Maven) we now need to tell the root project about it's dependency. This can also include any normal Java dependencies that you want.

build.gradle

dependencies{
    compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.1.4'
    compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.1.4'
    compile project(":subProjects:reallyCoolProject1")
    compile project(':subProjects:reallyCoolProject2')
}

I know this seems like a lot of steps, but they are pretty easy once you do it once or twice. This way will also allow you to build on a CI server assuming you have the Android SDK installed there.

NDK Side Note: If you are going to use the NDK you are going to need something like below. Example build.gradle file can be found here: https://gist.github.com/khernyo/4226923

build.gradle

task copyNativeLibs(type: Copy) {
    from fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '**/*.so' )  into  'build/native-libs'
}
tasks.withType(Compile) { compileTask -> compileTask.dependsOn copyNativeLibs }

clean.dependsOn 'cleanCopyNativeLibs'

tasks.withType(com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageApplication) { pkgTask ->
  pkgTask.jniDir new File('build/native-libs')
}

Sources:

  1. http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide
  2. https://gist.github.com/khernyo/4226923
  3. https://github.com/ethankhall/driving-time-tracker/

git reset --hard HEAD leaves untracked files behind

User interactive approach:

git clean -i -fd

Remove .classpath [y/N]? N
Remove .gitignore [y/N]? N
Remove .project [y/N]? N
Remove .settings/ [y/N]? N
Remove src/com/amazon/arsdumpgenerator/inspector/ [y/N]? y
Remove src/com/amazon/arsdumpgenerator/manifest/ [y/N]? y
Remove src/com/amazon/arsdumpgenerator/s3/ [y/N]? y
Remove tst/com/amazon/arsdumpgenerator/manifest/ [y/N]? y
Remove tst/com/amazon/arsdumpgenerator/s3/ [y/N]? y

-i for interactive
-f for force
-d for directory
-x for ignored files(add if required)

Note: Add -n or --dry-run to just check what it will do.

How to scroll page in flutter

You can use this one and it's best practice.

SingleChildScrollView(
  child: Column(
    children: <Widget>[
      //Your Widgets
      //Your Widgets,
      //Your Widgets
    ],
  ),
);

What is the difference between association, aggregation and composition?

I'd like to illustrate how the three terms are implemented in Rails. ActiveRecord calls any type of relationship between two models an association. One would not find very often the terms composition and aggregation, when reading documentation or articles, related to ActiveRecord. An association is created by adding one of the association class macros to the body of the class. Some of these macros are belongs_to, has_one, has_many etc..

If we want to set up a composition or aggregation, we need to add belongs_to to the owned model (also called child) and has_one or has_many to the owning model (also called parent). Wether we set up composition or aggregation depends on the options we pass to the belongs_to call in the child model. Prior to Rails 5, setting up belongs_to without any options created an aggregation, the child could exist without a parent. If we wanted a composition, we needed to explicitly declare this by adding the option required: true:

class Room < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :house, required: true
end

In Rails 5 this was changed. Now, declaring a belongs_to association creates a composition by default, the child cannot exist without a parent. So the above example can be re-written as:

class Room < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :house
end

If we want to allow the child object to exist without a parent, we need to declare this explicitly via the option optional

class Product < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :category, optional: true
end

Scrolling to element using webdriver?

There is another option to scroll page to required element if element has "id" attribute

If you want to navigate to page and scroll down to element with @id, it can be done automatically by adding #element_id to URL...

Example

Let's say we need to navigate to Selenium Waits documentation and scroll page down to "Implicit Wait" section. We can do

driver.get('https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html')

and add code for scrolling...OR use

driver.get('https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html#implicit-waits')

to navigate to page AND scroll page automatically to element with id="implicit-waits" (<div class="section" id="implicit-waits">...</div>)

Angular 4: no component factory found,did you add it to @NgModule.entryComponents?

Place components which are created dynamically to entryComponents under @NgModuledecorator function.

@NgModule({
    imports: [
        FormsModule,
        CommonModule,
        DashbaordRoutingModule
    ],
    declarations: [
        MainComponent,
        TestDialog
    ],
    entryComponents: [
        TestDialog
    ]
})

Get the _id of inserted document in Mongo database in NodeJS

Now you can use insertOne method and in promise's result.insertedId

Fully backup a git repo?

Whats about just make a clone of it?

git clone --mirror other/repo.git

Every repository is a backup of its remote.

GoogleMaps API KEY for testing

There seems no way to have google maps api key free without credit card. To test the functionality of google map you can use it while leaving the api key field "EMPTY". It will show a message saying "For Development Purpose Only". And that way you can test google map functionality without putting billing information for google map api key.

<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=&callback=initMap" async defer></script>

Must issue a STARTTLS command first

smtp port and socketFactory has to be change

    String to = "[email protected]";
    String subject = "subject"
    String msg ="email text...."
    final String from ="[email protected]"
    final  String password ="senderPassword"


    Properties props = new Properties();  
    props.setProperty("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp");     
    props.setProperty("mail.host", "smtp.gmail.com");  
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");  
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465");  
    props.put("mail.debug", "true");  
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");  
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class","javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");  
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");  
    Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props,  
    new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
       protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {  
       return new PasswordAuthentication(from,password);  
   }  
   });  

   //session.setDebug(true);  
   Transport transport = session.getTransport();  
   InternetAddress addressFrom = new InternetAddress(from);  

   MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);  
   message.setSender(addressFrom);  
   message.setSubject(subject);  
   message.setContent(msg, "text/plain");  
   message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to));  

   transport.connect();  
   Transport.send(message);  
   transport.close();
   }  

hope it will work for you..

How to both read and write a file in C#

Don't forget the easy route:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var text = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\words.txt");
        File.WriteAllText(@"C:\words.txt", text + "DERP");
    }

Class has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Environment

Refreshing gradle dependencies works for me: Right click over the project -> Gradle -> Refresh Gradle Project.

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

See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_accept.asp:

The accept attribute is supported in all major browsers, except Internet Explorer and Safari. Definition and Usage

The accept attribute specifies the types of files that the server accepts (that can be submitted through a file upload).

Note: The accept attribute can only be used with <input type="file">.

Tip: Do not use this attribute as a validation tool. File uploads should be validated on the server.

Syntax <input accept="audio/*|video/*|image/*|MIME_type" />

Tip: To specify more than one value, separate the values with a comma (e.g. <input accept="audio/*,video/*,image/*" />.

Getting the error "Java.lang.IllegalStateException Activity has been destroyed" when using tabs with ViewPager

I had this issue and realized it was because I was calling setContentView(int id) twice in my Activity's onCreate

How to convert hex string to Java string?

You can go from String (hex) to byte array to String as UTF-8(?). Make sure your hex string does not have leading spaces and stuff.

public static byte[] hexStringToByteArray(String hex) {
    int l = hex.length();
    byte[] data = new byte[l / 2];
    for (int i = 0; i < l; i += 2) {
        data[i / 2] = (byte) ((Character.digit(hex.charAt(i), 16) << 4)
                + Character.digit(hex.charAt(i + 1), 16));
    }
    return data;
}

Usage:

String b = "0xfd00000aa8660b5b010006acdc0100000101000100010000";
byte[] bytes = hexStringToByteArray(b);
String st = new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
System.out.println(st);

Dependency Injection vs Factory Pattern

I know this question is old but i would like to add my five cents,

I think that dependency injection (DI) is in many ways like a configurable Factory Pattern (FP), and in that sense anything that you could do with DI you will be able to do it with such factory.

Actually, if you use spring for example, you have the option of autowiring resources (DI) or doing something like this:

MyBean mb = ctx.getBean("myBean");

And then use that 'mb' instance to do anything. Isn't that a call to a factory that will return you an instance??

The only real difference I notice between most of the FP examples is that you can configure what "myBean" is in an xml or in another class, and a framework will work as the factory, but other than that is the same thing, and you can have a certainly have a Factory that reads a config file or gets the implementation as it needs.

And if you ask me for my opinion (And I know you didn't), I believe that DI does the same thing but just adds more complexity to the development, why?

well, for one thing, for you to know what is the implementation being used for any bean you autowire with DI, you have to go to the configuration itself.

but... what about that promise that you will not have to know the implementation of the object you are using? pfft! seriously? when you use an approach like this... aren't you the same that writes the implementation?? and even if you don't, arent you almost all the time looking at how the implementation does what it is supposed to do??

and for one last thing, it doesn't matter how much a DI framework promises you that you will build things decoupled from it, with no dependencies to their classes, if you are using a framework you build everything aroud it, if you have to change the approach or the framework it will not be an easy task... EVER!... but, since you buil everything around that particular framework instead of worrying of whats the best solution for your business, then you will face a biiig problen when doing that.

In fact, the only real business application for a FP or DI approach that I can see is if you need to change the implementations being used at runtime, but at least the frameworks I know do not allow you to do that, you have to leave everything perfect in the configuration at development time an if you need that use another approach.

So, if I have a class that performs differently in two scopes in the same application (lets say, two companies of a holding) I have to configure the framework to create two different beans, and adapt my code to use each. Isn't that the same as if I would just write something like this:

MyBean mb = MyBeanForEntreprise1(); //In the classes of the first enterprise
MyBean mb = MyBeanForEntreprise2(); //In the classes of the second enterprise

the same as this:

@Autowired MyBean mbForEnterprise1; //In the classes of the first enterprise
@Autowired MyBean mbForEnterprise2; //In the classes of the second enterprise

And this:

MyBean mb = (MyBean)MyFactory.get("myBeanForEntreprise1"); //In the classes of the first enterprise
MyBean mb = (MyBean)MyFactory.get("myBeanForEntreprise2"); //In the classes of the second enterprise

In any case you will have to change something in your application, whether classes or configuration files, but you will have to do it an redeploy it.

Wouldn't it be nice to do just something like this:

MyBean mb = (MyBean)MyFactory.get("mb"); 

And that way, you set the code of the factory to get the right implementation at runtime depending on the logged user enterprise?? Now THAT would be helpful. You could just add a new jar with the new classes and set the rules maybe even also at runtime (or add a new config file if you leave this option open), no changes to existing classes. This would be a Dynamic factory!

wouldn't that be more helpful than having to write two configurations for each enterprise, and maybe even having two different applications for each??

You can tell me, I don't need to do the switch at runtime ever, so I configure the app, and if I inherit the class or use another implementation I just change the config and redeploy. Ok, that can also be done with a factory. And be honest, how many times do you do this? maybe only when you have an app that's going to be used somewhere else in your company, and you are going to pass the code to another team, and they will do things like this. But hey, that can also be done with the factory, and would be even better with a dynamic factory!!

Anyway, the comment section if open for you to kill me.

Difference between virtual and abstract methods

First of all you should know the difference between a virtual and abstract method.

Abstract Method

  • Abstract Method resides in abstract class and it has no body.
  • Abstract Method must be overridden in non-abstract child class.

Virtual Method

  • Virtual Method can reside in abstract and non-abstract class.
  • It is not necessary to override virtual method in derived but it can be.
  • Virtual method must have body ....can be overridden by "override keyword".....

How can I create Min stl priority_queue?

Multiply values with -1 and use max heap to get the effect of min heap

Newline in string attribute

<TextBlock Text="Stuff on line1&#x0a;Stuff on line 2"/>

You can use any hexadecimally encoded value to represent a literal. In this case, I used the line feed (char 10). If you want to do "classic" vbCrLf, then you can use &#x0d;&#x0a;

By the way, note the syntax: It's the ampersand, a pound, the letter x, then the hex value of the character you want, and then finally a semi-colon.

ALSO: For completeness, you can bind to a text that already has the line feeds embedded in it like a constant in your code behind, or a variable constructed at runtime.

How do I create a comma delimited string from an ArrayList?

So far I found this is a good and quick solution

//CPID[] is the array
string cps = "";
if (CPID.Length > 0)
{   
    foreach (var item in CPID)
    {
        cps += item.Trim() + ",";
    }
}
//Use the string cps

How to POST URL in data of a curl request

Perhaps you don't have to include the single quotes:

curl --request POST 'http://localhost/Service' --data "path=/xyz/pqr/test/&fileName=1.doc"

Update: Reading curl's manual, you could actually separate both fields with two --data:

curl --request POST 'http://localhost/Service' --data "path=/xyz/pqr/test/" --data "fileName=1.doc"

You could also try --data-binary:

curl --request POST 'http://localhost/Service' --data-binary "path=/xyz/pqr/test/" --data-binary "fileName=1.doc"

And --data-urlencode:

curl --request POST 'http://localhost/Service' --data-urlencode "path=/xyz/pqr/test/" --data-urlencode "fileName=1.doc"

How can I make a div not larger than its contents?

What works for me is:

display: table;

in the div. (Tested on Firefox and Google Chrome).

How do you get the file size in C#?

MSDN FileInfo.Length says that it is "the size of the current file in bytes."

My typical Google search for something like this is: msdn FileInfo

How to determine equality for two JavaScript objects?

Depends on what you mean by equality. And therefore it is up to you, as the developer of the classes, to define their equality.

There's one case used sometimes, where two instances are considered 'equal' if they point to the same location in memory, but that is not always what you want. For instance, if I have a Person class, I might want to consider two Person objects 'equal' if they have the same Last Name, First Name, and Social Security Number (even if they point to different locations in memory).

On the other hand, we can't simply say that two objects are equal if the value of each of their members is the same, since, sometimes, you don't want that. In other words, for each class, it's up to the class developer to define what members make up the objects 'identity' and develop a proper equality operator (be it via overloading the == operator or an Equals method).

Saying that two objects are equal if they have the same hash is one way out. However you then have to wonder how the hash is calculated for each instance. Going back to the Person example above, we could use this system if the hash was calculated by looking at the values of the First Name, Last Name, and Social Security Number fields. On top of that, we are then relying on the quality of the hashing method (that's a huge topic on its own, but suffice it to say that not all hashes are created equal, and bad hashing methods can lead to more collisions, which in this case would return false matches).

Determine on iPhone if user has enabled push notifications

Call enabledRemoteNotificationsTypes and check the mask.

For example:

UIRemoteNotificationType types = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] enabledRemoteNotificationTypes];
if (types == UIRemoteNotificationTypeNone) 
   // blah blah blah

iOS8 and above:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] isRegisteredForRemoteNotifications]

How to do relative imports in Python?

On top of what John B said, it seems like setting the __package__ variable should help, instead of changing __main__ which could screw up other things. But as far as I could test, it doesn't completely work as it should.

I have the same problem and neither PEP 328 or 366 solve the problem completely, as both, by the end of the day, need the head of the package to be included in sys.path, as far as I could understand.

I should also mention that I did not find how to format the string that should go into those variables. Is it "package_head.subfolder.module_name" or what?

The type initializer for 'System.Data.Entity.Internal.AppConfig' threw an exception

I needed to change by defaultConnectionFactory to be SqlConnectionFactory instead of the default

<entityFramework>
  <defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.SqlConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">
    <parameters>
      <parameter value="<My Connection String>" />
    </parameters>
  </defaultConnectionFactory>
</entityFramework>

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidobando/archive/2012/08/14/changing-ef-s-default-provider-from-localdb-to-sql-server.aspx

Validating parameters to a Bash script

You can validate point a and b compactly by doing something like the following:

#!/bin/sh
MYVAL=$(echo ${1} | awk '/^[0-9]+$/')
MYVAL=${MYVAL:?"Usage - testparms <number>"}
echo ${MYVAL}

Which gives us ...

$ ./testparams.sh 
Usage - testparms <number>

$ ./testparams.sh 1234
1234

$ ./testparams.sh abcd
Usage - testparms <number>

This method should work fine in sh.

Getting the name of a variable as a string

>> my_var = 5
>> my_var_name = [ k for k,v in locals().items() if v == my_var][0]
>> my_var_name 
'my_var'

In case you get an error if myvar points to another variable, try this (suggested by @mherzog)-

 >> my_var = 5
>> my_var_name = [ k for k,v in locals().items() if v is my_var][0]
>> my_var_name 
'my_var'

locals() - Return a dictionary containing the current scope's local variables. by iterating through this dictionary we can check the key which has a value equal to the defined variable, just extracting the key will give us the text of variable in string format.

from (after a bit changes) https://www.tutorialspoint.com/How-to-get-a-variable-name-as-a-string-in-Python

Remove duplicate rows in MySQL

This will delete the duplicate rows with same values for title, company and site. The first occurrence will be kept and rest all duplicates will be deleted

DELETE t1 FROM tablename t1
INNER JOIN tablename t2 
WHERE 
    t1.id < t2.id AND
    t1.title = t2.title AND
    t1.company=t2.company AND
    t1.site_ID=t2.site_ID;

Manually map column names with class properties

Messing with mapping is borderline moving into real ORM land. Instead of fighting with it and keeping Dapper in its true simple (fast) form, just modify your SQL slightly like so:

var sql = @"select top 1 person_id as PersonId,FirstName,LastName from Person";

Show/Hide Div on Scroll

<div>
  <div class="a">
    A
  </div>
</div>?


$(window).scroll(function() {
  if ($(this).scrollTop() > 0) {
    $('.a').fadeOut();
  } else {
    $('.a').fadeIn();
  }
});

Sample

Any way to make plot points in scatterplot more transparent in R?

Transparency can be coded in the color argument as well. It is just two more hex numbers coding a transparency between 0 (fully transparent) and 255 (fully visible). I once wrote this function to add transparency to a color vector, maybe it is usefull here?

addTrans <- function(color,trans)
{
  # This function adds transparancy to a color.
  # Define transparancy with an integer between 0 and 255
  # 0 being fully transparant and 255 being fully visable
  # Works with either color and trans a vector of equal length,
  # or one of the two of length 1.

  if (length(color)!=length(trans)&!any(c(length(color),length(trans))==1)) stop("Vector lengths not correct")
  if (length(color)==1 & length(trans)>1) color <- rep(color,length(trans))
  if (length(trans)==1 & length(color)>1) trans <- rep(trans,length(color))

  num2hex <- function(x)
  {
    hex <- unlist(strsplit("0123456789ABCDEF",split=""))
    return(paste(hex[(x-x%%16)/16+1],hex[x%%16+1],sep=""))
  }
  rgb <- rbind(col2rgb(color),trans)
  res <- paste("#",apply(apply(rgb,2,num2hex),2,paste,collapse=""),sep="")
  return(res)
}

Some examples:

cols <- sample(c("red","green","pink"),100,TRUE)

# Fully visable:
plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100),col=cols,pch=16,cex=4)

# Somewhat transparant:
plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100),col=addTrans(cols,200),pch=16,cex=4)

# Very transparant:
plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100),col=addTrans(cols,100),pch=16,cex=4)

How can I create tests in Android Studio?

I would suggest to use gradle.build file.

  1. Add a src/androidTest/java directory for the tests (Like Chris starts to explain)

  2. Open gradle.build file and specify there:

    android {
    
        compileSdkVersion rootProject.compileSdkVersion
        buildToolsVersion rootProject.buildToolsVersion
    
        sourceSets {
    
            androidTest {
                java.srcDirs = ['androidTest/java']
            }
        }
    }
    
  3. Press "Sync Project with Gradle file" (at the top panel). You should see now a folder "java" (inside "androidTest") is a green color.

  4. Now You are able to create there any test files and execute they.

Richtextbox wpf binding

I can give you an ok solution and you can go with it, but before I do I'm going to try to explain why Document is not a DependencyProperty to begin with.

During the lifetime of a RichTextBox control, the Document property generally doesn't change. The RichTextBox is initialized with a FlowDocument. That document is displayed, can be edited and mangled in many ways, but the underlying value of the Document property remains that one instance of the FlowDocument. Therefore, there is really no reason it should be a DependencyProperty, ie, Bindable. If you have multiple locations that reference this FlowDocument, you only need the reference once. Since it is the same instance everywhere, the changes will be accessible to everyone.

I don't think FlowDocument supports document change notifications, though I am not sure.

That being said, here's a solution. Before you start, since RichTextBox doesn't implement INotifyPropertyChanged and Document is not a DependencyProperty, we have no notifications when the RichTextBox's Document property changes, so the binding can only be OneWay.

Create a class that will provide the FlowDocument. Binding requires the existence of a DependencyProperty, so this class inherits from DependencyObject.

class HasDocument : DependencyObject
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty DocumentProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("Document", 
                                    typeof(FlowDocument), 
                                    typeof(HasDocument), 
                                    new PropertyMetadata(new PropertyChangedCallback(DocumentChanged)));

    private static void DocumentChanged(DependencyObject obj, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("Document has changed");
    }

    public FlowDocument Document
    {
        get { return GetValue(DocumentProperty) as FlowDocument; }
        set { SetValue(DocumentProperty, value); }
    }
}

Create a Window with a rich text box in XAML.

<Window x:Class="samples.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Flow Document Binding" Height="300" Width="300"
    >
    <Grid>
      <RichTextBox Name="richTextBox" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

Give the Window a field of type HasDocument.

HasDocument hasDocument;

Window constructor should create the binding.

hasDocument = new HasDocument();

InitializeComponent();

Binding b = new Binding("Document");
b.Source = richTextBox;
b.Mode = BindingMode.OneWay;
BindingOperations.SetBinding(hasDocument, HasDocument.DocumentProperty, b);

If you want to be able to declare the binding in XAML, you would have to make your HasDocument class derive from FrameworkElement so that it can be inserted into the logical tree.

Now, if you were to change the Document property on HasDocument, the rich text box's Document will also change.

FlowDocument d = new FlowDocument();
Paragraph g = new Paragraph();
Run a = new Run();
a.Text = "I showed this using a binding";
g.Inlines.Add(a);
d.Blocks.Add(g);

hasDocument.Document = d;

AndroidStudio: Failed to sync Install build tools

I had the same issue, with Build Tools revision 24.0.0-rc4. The fix was to install the package using the command line.

~/Android/Sdk| ls -1 build-tools/
23.0.3
24.0.0-rc4
~/Android/Sdk| ./tools/android list sdk -a | grep "SDK Build-tools"
   4- Android SDK Build-tools, revision 24 rc4
   5- Android SDK Build-tools, revision 23.0.3
   6- Android SDK Build-tools, revision 23.0.2
   7- Android SDK Build-tools, revision 23.0.1
   8- Android SDK Build-tools, revision 23 (Obsolete)
   ...
~/Android/Sdk| ./tools/android update sdk -a -u -t 4
   ...
~/Android/Sdk| ls -1 build-tools/
23.0.3
24.0.0-preview
24.0.0-rc4

(note that 4 in the android update sdk command above refers to the preceding list's number for the desired version, found at the beginning of the line).

The directory build-tools/24.0.0-rc4/ had been created when I installed the package from Android Studio's SDK Manager. The above method created build-tools/24.0.0-preview/.

My app-level build.gradle script uses the -rc4 version, as specified in the setup guide:

android {
    compileSdkVersion 'android-N'
    buildToolsVersion '24.0.0-rc4'
}

I do not understand the correlation between -rc4 and -preview or why specifying 24.0.0-rc4 picks up the -preview package, but it did fix the issue for me.

Using BufferedReader to read Text File

You can assign the result of br.readLine() to a variable and use that both for processing and for checking, like so:

String line = br.readLine();
while (line != null) { // You might also want to check for empty?
    System.out.println(line);
    line = br.readLine();
}

Show / hide div on click with CSS

You can find <div> by id, look at it's style.display property and toggle it from none to block and vice versa.

_x000D_
_x000D_
function showDiv(Div) {_x000D_
    var x = document.getElementById(Div);_x000D_
    if(x.style.display=="none") {_x000D_
        x.style.display = "block";_x000D_
    } else {_x000D_
        x.style.display = "none";_x000D_
    }_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="welcomeDiv" style="display:none;" class="answer_list">WELCOME</div>_x000D_
<input type="button" name="answer" value="Show Div" onclick="showDiv('welcomeDiv')" />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Is there a difference between /\s/g and /\s+/g?

In a match situation the first would return one match per whitespace, when the second would return a match for each group of whitespaces.

The result is the same because you're replacing it with an empty string. If you replace it with 'x' for instance, the results would differ.

str.replace(/\s/g, '') will return 'xxAxBxxCxxxDxEF '

while str.replace(/\s+/g, '') will return 'xAxBxCxDxEF '

because \s matches each whitespace, replacing each one with 'x', and \s+ matches groups of whitespaces, replacing multiple sequential whitespaces with a single 'x'.

How can I get the nth character of a string?

char* str = "HELLO";
char c = str[1];

Keep in mind that arrays and strings in C begin indexing at 0 rather than 1, so "H" is str[0], "E" is str[1], the first "L" is str[2] and so on.

What is the best way to implement nested dictionaries?

I have a similar thing going. I have a lot of cases where I do:

thedict = {}
for item in ('foo', 'bar', 'baz'):
  mydict = thedict.get(item, {})
  mydict = get_value_for(item)
  thedict[item] = mydict

But going many levels deep. It's the ".get(item, {})" that's the key as it'll make another dictionary if there isn't one already. Meanwhile, I've been thinking of ways to deal with this better. Right now, there's a lot of

value = mydict.get('foo', {}).get('bar', {}).get('baz', 0)

So instead, I made:

def dictgetter(thedict, default, *args):
  totalargs = len(args)
  for i,arg in enumerate(args):
    if i+1 == totalargs:
      thedict = thedict.get(arg, default)
    else:
      thedict = thedict.get(arg, {})
  return thedict

Which has the same effect if you do:

value = dictgetter(mydict, 0, 'foo', 'bar', 'baz')

Better? I think so.

VB.Net: Dynamically Select Image from My.Resources

Found the solution:

UltraPictureBox1.Image = _
    My.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject(object_name_as_string)

Entity Framework code first unique column

From your code it becomes apparent that you use POCO. Having another key is unnecessary: you can add an index as suggested by juFo.
If you use Fluent API instead of attributing UserName property your column annotation should look like this:

this.Property(p => p.UserName)
    .HasColumnAnnotation("Index", new IndexAnnotation(new[] { 
        new IndexAttribute("Index") { IsUnique = true } 
    }
));

This will create the following SQL script:

CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [Index] ON [dbo].[Users]
(
    [UserName] ASC
)
WITH (
    PAD_INDEX = OFF, 
    STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, 
    SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, 
    IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, 
    DROP_EXISTING = OFF, 
    ONLINE = OFF, 
    ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, 
    ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON
) ON [PRIMARY]

If you attempt to insert multiple Users having the same UserName you'll get a DbUpdateException with the following message:

Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.Users' with unique index 'Index'. 
The duplicate key value is (...).
The statement has been terminated.

Again, column annotations are not available in Entity Framework prior to version 6.1.

How to see which flags -march=native will activate?

You can use the -Q --help=target options:

gcc -march=native -Q --help=target ...

The -v option may also be of use.

You can see the documentation on the --help option here.

Filtering Table rows using Jquery

Have a look at this jsfiddle.

The idea is to filter rows with function which will loop through words.

jo.filter(function (i, v) {
    var $t = $(this);
    for (var d = 0; d < data.length; ++d) {
        if ($t.is(":contains('" + data[d] + "')")) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
})
//show the rows that match.
.show();

EDIT: Note that case insensitive filtering cannot be achieved using :contains() selector but luckily there's text() function so filter string should be uppercased and condition changed to if ($t.text().toUpperCase().indexOf(data[d]) > -1). Look at this jsfiddle.

Dynamic SELECT TOP @var In SQL Server

SELECT TOP (@count) * FROM SomeTable

This will only work with SQL 2005+

How do I get the different parts of a Flask request's url?

you should try:

request.url 

It suppose to work always, even on localhost (just did it).

What column type/length should I use for storing a Bcrypt hashed password in a Database?

I don't think that there are any neat tricks you can do storing this as you can do for example with an MD5 hash.

I think your best bet is to store it as a CHAR(60) as it is always 60 chars long

Validation failed for one or more entities. See 'EntityValidationErrors' property for more details

You can do it from Visual Studio during debugging without writing any code, not even a catch block.

Just add a watch with the name:

((System.Data.Entity.Validation.DbEntityValidationException)$exception).EntityValidationErrors

The watch expression $exception displays any exception thrown in the current context, even if it has not been caught and assigned to a variable.

Based on http://mattrandle.me/viewing-entityvalidationerrors-in-visual-studio/

Show Curl POST Request Headers? Is there a way to do this?

You can see the information regarding the transfer by doing:

curl_setopt($curl_exect, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);

before the request, and

$information = curl_getinfo($curl_exect);

after the request

View: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php

You can also use the CURLOPT_HEADER in your curl_setopt

curl_setopt($curl_exect, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);

$httpcode = curl_getinfo($c, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

return $httpcode == 200;

These are just some methods of using the headers.