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Link error "undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'" and g++

If g++ still gives error Try using:

g++ file.c -lstdc++

Look at this post: What is __gxx_personality_v0 for?

Make sure -lstdc++ is at the end of the command. If you place it at the beginning (i.e. before file.c), you still can get this same error.

How to set a default Value of a UIPickerView

I too had this problem. But apparently there is an issue of the order of method calls. You must call:

[self.picker selectRow:2 inComponent:0 animated:YES];

after calling

[self.view addSubview:self.picker];

Can I start the iPhone simulator without "Build and Run"?

To follow up on that the new command from @jimbojw to create a shortcut with the new Xcode (installing through preferences) is:

ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app /Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app

Which will create a shortcut in the applications folder for you.

How to set default font family in React Native?

The recommended way is to create your own component, such as MyAppText. MyAppText would be a simple component that renders a Text component using your universal style and can pass through other props, etc.

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/text.html#limited-style-inheritance

Excel column number from column name

While you were looking for a VBA solution, this was my top result on google when looking for a formula solution, so I'll add this for anyone who came here for that like I did:

Excel formula to return the number from a column letter (From @A. Klomp's comment above), where cell A1 holds your column letter(s):

=column(indirect(A1&"1"))

As the indirect function is volatile, it recalculates whenever any cell is changed, so if you have a lot of these it could slow down your workbook. Consider another solution, such as the 'code' function, which gives you the number for an ASCII character, starting with 'A' at 65. Note that to do this you would need to check how many digits are in the column name, and alter the result depending on 'A', 'BB', or 'CCC'.

Excel formula to return the column letter from a number (From this previous question How to convert a column number (eg. 127) into an excel column (eg. AA), answered by @Ian), where A1 holds your column number:

=substitute(address(1,A1,4),"1","")

Note that both of these methods work regardless of how many letters are in the column name.

Hope this helps someone else.

Page unload event in asp.net

There is an event Page.Unload. At that moment page is already rendered in HTML and HTML can't be modified. Still, all page objects are available.

What is the opposite of evt.preventDefault();

I would suggest the following pattern:

document.getElementById("foo").onsubmit = function(e) {
    if (document.getElementById("test").value == "test") {
        return true;
    } else {
        e.preventDefault();
    }
}

<form id="foo">
    <input id="test"/>
    <input type="submit"/>
</form>

...unless I'm missing something.

http://jsfiddle.net/DdvcX/

Batch - Echo or Variable Not Working

Try the following (note that there should not be a space between the VAR, =, and GREG).

SET VAR=GREG
ECHO %VAR%
PAUSE

cURL error 60: SSL certificate: unable to get local issuer certificate

If you are using PHP 5.6 with Guzzle, Guzzle has switched to using the PHP libraries autodetect for certificates rather than it's process (ref). PHP outlines the changes here.

Finding out Where PHP/Guzzle is Looking for Certificates

You can dump where PHP is looking using the following PHP command:

 var_dump(openssl_get_cert_locations());

Getting a Certificate Bundle

For OS X testing, you can use homebrew to install openssl brew install openssl and then use openssl.cafile=/usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem in your php.ini or Zend Server settings (under OpenSSL).

A certificate bundle is also available from curl/Mozilla on the curl website: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

Telling PHP Where the Certificates Are

Once you have a bundle, either place it where PHP is already looking (which you found out above) or update openssl.cafile in php.ini. (Generally, /etc/php.ini or /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini or /etc/php/php.ini on Unix.)

How to create a timer using tkinter?

from tkinter import *

from tkinter import messagebox

root = Tk()

root.geometry("400x400")

root.resizable(0, 0)

root.title("Timer")

seconds = 21

def timer():

    global seconds
    if seconds > 0:
        seconds = seconds - 1
        mins = seconds // 60
        m = str(mins)

        if mins < 10:
            m = '0' + str(mins)
        se = seconds - (mins * 60)
        s = str(se)

        if se < 10:
            s = '0' + str(se)
        time.set(m + ':' + s)
        timer_display.config(textvariable=time)
        # call this function again in 1,000 milliseconds
        root.after(1000, timer)

    elif seconds == 0:
        messagebox.showinfo('Message', 'Time is completed')
        root.quit()


frames = Frame(root, width=500, height=500)

frames.pack()

time = StringVar()

timer_display = Label(root, font=('Trebuchet MS', 30, 'bold'))

timer_display.place(x=145, y=100)

timer()  # start the timer

root.mainloop()

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient

I solved this problem by removing --deploy-mode cluster from spark-submit code. By default , spark submit takes client mode which has following advantage :

1. It opens up Netty HTTP server and distributes all jars to the worker nodes.
2. Driver program runs on master node , which means dedicated resources to driver process.

While in cluster mode :

 1.  It runs on worker node.
 2. All the jars need to be placed in a common folder of the cluster so that it is accessible to all the worker nodes or in folder of each worker node.

Here it's not able to access hive metastore due to unavailability of hive jar to any of the nodes in cluster. enter image description here

How can the error 'Client found response content type of 'text/html'.. be interpreted

I had this happen as a result of a configuration error in web.config. Checking the connection string etc might be the answer for the time out.

How do I view the SQL generated by the Entity Framework?

My answer addresses EF core. I reference this github issue, and the docs on configuring DbContext:

Simple

Override the OnConfiguring method of your DbContext class (YourCustomDbContext) as shown here to use a ConsoleLoggerProvider; your queries should log to the console:

public class YourCustomDbContext : DbContext
{
    #region DefineLoggerFactory
    public static readonly LoggerFactory MyLoggerFactory
        = new LoggerFactory(new[] {new ConsoleLoggerProvider((_, __) => true, true)});
    #endregion


    #region RegisterLoggerFactory
    protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
        => optionsBuilder
            .UseLoggerFactory(MyLoggerFactory); // Warning: Do not create a new ILoggerFactory instance each time                
    #endregion
}

Complex

This Complex case avoids overriding the DbContext OnConfiguring method. , which is discouraged in the docs: "This approach does not lend itself to testing, unless the tests target the full database."

This Complex case uses:

  • The IServiceCollection in Startup class ConfigureServices method (instead of overriding the OnConfiguring method; the benefit is a looser coupling between the DbContext and the ILoggerProvider you want to use)
  • An implementation of ILoggerProvider (instead of using the ConsoleLoggerProvider implementation shown above; benefit is our implementation shows how we would log to File (I don't see a File Logging Provider shipped with EF Core))

Like this:

public class Startup

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        ...
        var lf = new LoggerFactory();
        lf.AddProvider(new MyLoggerProvider());

        services.AddDbContext<YOUR_DB_CONTEXT>(optionsBuilder => optionsBuilder
                .UseSqlServer(connection_string)
                //Using the LoggerFactory 
                .UseLoggerFactory(lf));
        ...
    }
}

Here's the implementation of a MyLoggerProvider (and its MyLogger which appends its logs to a File you can configure; your EF Core queries will appear in the file.)

public class MyLoggerProvider : ILoggerProvider
{
    public ILogger CreateLogger(string categoryName)
    {
        return new MyLogger();
    }

    public void Dispose()
    { }

    private class MyLogger : ILogger
    {
        public bool IsEnabled(LogLevel logLevel)
        {
            return true;
        }

        public void Log<TState>(LogLevel logLevel, EventId eventId, TState state, Exception exception, Func<TState, Exception, string> formatter)
        {
            File.AppendAllText(@"C:\temp\log.txt", formatter(state, exception));
            Console.WriteLine(formatter(state, exception));
        }

        public IDisposable BeginScope<TState>(TState state)
        {
            return null;
        }
    } 
}

How to use curl in a shell script?

Firstly, your example is looking quite correct and works well on my machine. You may go another way.

curl $CURLARGS $RVMHTTP > ./install.sh

All output now storing in ./install.sh file, which you can edit and execute.

Changes in import statement python3

Added another case to Michal Górny's answer:

Note that relative imports are based on the name of the current module. Since the name of the main module is always "__main__", modules intended for use as the main module of a Python application must always use absolute imports.

Get names of all files from a folder with Ruby

While getting all the file names in a directory, this snippet can be used to reject both directories [., ..] and hidden files which start with a .

files = Dir.entries("your/folder").reject {|f| File.directory?(f) || f[0].include?('.')}

jquery background-color change on focus and blur

in code there should be coma"," not colon ":"

the code must be $(this).css({'background-color' , '#FFFFEE'});

i hope it helps.

regards Saleha

Where can I get a list of Countries, States and Cities?

The UN maintains a list of countries and "states" / regions for economic trade. That DB is available here: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/welcome.html

CSS endless rotation animation

Rotation on add class .active

  .myClassName.active {
                -webkit-animation: spin 4s linear infinite;
                -moz-animation: spin 4s linear infinite;
                animation: spin 4s linear infinite;
              }



@-moz-keyframes spin {
       100% {
        -moz-transform: rotate(360deg);
      }
     }
     @-webkit-keyframes spin {
      100% {
         -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);
       }
     }
     @keyframes spin {
       100% {
         -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);
         transform: rotate(360deg);
       }
     }

How does python numpy.where() work?

How do they achieve internally that you are able to pass something like x > 5 into a method?

The short answer is that they don't.

Any sort of logical operation on a numpy array returns a boolean array. (i.e. __gt__, __lt__, etc all return boolean arrays where the given condition is true).

E.g.

x = np.arange(9).reshape(3,3)
print x > 5

yields:

array([[False, False, False],
       [False, False, False],
       [ True,  True,  True]], dtype=bool)

This is the same reason why something like if x > 5: raises a ValueError if x is a numpy array. It's an array of True/False values, not a single value.

Furthermore, numpy arrays can be indexed by boolean arrays. E.g. x[x>5] yields [6 7 8], in this case.

Honestly, it's fairly rare that you actually need numpy.where but it just returns the indicies where a boolean array is True. Usually you can do what you need with simple boolean indexing.

Angular2 get clicked element id

If you want to have access to the id attribute of the button in angular 6 follow this code

`@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `
    <button (click)="clicked($event)" id="myId">Click Me</button>
  `
})
export class AppComponent {
  clicked(event) {
    const target = event.target || event.srcElement || event.currentTarget;
    const idAttr = target.attributes.id;
    const value = idAttr.nodeValue;
  }
}`

your id in the value,

the value of value is myId.

Should I use <i> tag for icons instead of <span>?

I thought this looked pretty bad - because I was working on a Joomla template recently and I kept getting the template failing W3C because it was using the <i> tag and that had deprecated, as it's original use was to italicize something, which is now done through CSS not HTML any more.

It does make really bad practice because when I saw it I went through the template and changed all the <i> tags to <span style="font-style:italic"> instead and then wondered why the entire template looked strange.

This is the main reason it is a bad idea to use the <i> tag in this way - you never know who is going to look at your work afterwards and "assume" that what you were really trying to do is italicize the text rather than display an icon. I've just put some icons in a website and I did it with the following code

<img class="icon" src="electricity.jpg" alt="Electricity" title="Electricity">

that way I've got all my icons in one class so any changes I make affects all the icons (say I wanted them larger or smaller, or rounded borders, etc), the alt text gives screen readers the chance to tell the person what the icon is rather than possibly getting just "text in italics, end of italics" (I don't exactly know how screen readers read screens but I guess it's something like that), and the title also gives the user a chance to mouse over the image and get a tooltip telling them what the icon is in case they can't figure it out. Much better than using <i> - and also it passes W3C standard.

How can I determine whether a 2D Point is within a Polygon?

Surprised nobody brought this up earlier, but for the pragmatists requiring a database: MongoDB has excellent support for Geo queries including this one.

What you are looking for is:

db.neighborhoods.findOne({ geometry: { $geoIntersects: { $geometry: { type: "Point", coordinates: [ "longitude", "latitude" ] } } } })

Neighborhoods is the collection that stores one or more polygons in standard GeoJson format. If the query returns null it is not intersected otherwise it is.

Very well documented here: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/geospatial-tutorial/

The performance for more than 6,000 points classified in a 330 irregular polygon grid was less than one minute with no optimization at all and including the time to update documents with their respective polygon.

WAITING at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)

I had a similar issue, and following previous answers (thanks!), I was able to search and find how to handle correctly the ThreadPoolExecutor terminaison.

In my case, that just fix my progressive increase of similar blocked threads:

  • I've used ExecutorService::awaitTermination(x, TimeUnit) and ExecutorService::shutdownNow() (if necessary) in my finally clause.
  • For information, I've used the following commands to detect thread count & list locked threads:

    ps -u javaAppuser -L|wc -l

    jcmd `ps -C java -o pid=` Thread.print >> threadPrintDayA.log

    jcmd `ps -C java -o pid=` Thread.print >> threadPrintDayAPlusOne.log

    cat threadPrint*.log |grep "pool-"|wc -l

Reading a text file using OpenFileDialog in windows forms

for this approach, you will need to add system.IO to your references by adding the next line of code below the other references near the top of the c# file(where the other using ****.** stand).

using System.IO;

this next code contains 2 methods of reading the text, the first will read single lines and stores them in a string variable, the second one reads the whole text and saves it in a string variable(including "\n" (enters))

both should be quite easy to understand and use.


    string pathToFile = "";//to save the location of the selected object
    private void openToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        OpenFileDialog theDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
        theDialog.Title = "Open Text File";
        theDialog.Filter = "TXT files|*.txt";
        theDialog.InitialDirectory = @"C:\";
        if (theDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(theDialog.FileName.ToString());
            pathToFile = theDialog.FileName;//doesn't need .tostring because .filename returns a string// saves the location of the selected object

        }

        if (File.Exists(pathToFile))// only executes if the file at pathtofile exists//you need to add the using System.IO reference at the top of te code to use this
        {
            //method1
            string firstLine = File.ReadAllLines(pathToFile).Skip(0).Take(1).First();//selects first line of the file
            string secondLine = File.ReadAllLines(pathToFile).Skip(1).Take(1).First();

            //method2
            string text = "";
            using(StreamReader sr =new StreamReader(pathToFile))
            {
                text = sr.ReadToEnd();//all text wil be saved in text enters are also saved
            }
        }
    }

To split the text you can use .Split(" ") and use a loop to put the name back into one string. if you don't want to use .Split() then you could also use foreach and ad an if statement to split it where needed.


to add the data to your class you can use the constructor to add the data like:

  public Employee(int EMPLOYEENUM, string NAME, string ADRESS, double WAGE, double HOURS)
        {
            EmployeeNum = EMPLOYEENUM;
            Name = NAME;
            Address = ADRESS;
            Wage = WAGE;
            Hours = HOURS;
        }

or you can add it using the set by typing .variablename after the name of the instance(if they are public and have a set this will work). to read the data you can use the get by typing .variablename after the name of the instance(if they are public and have a get this will work).

What does ECU units, CPU core and memory mean when I launch a instance

ECU = EC2 Compute Unit. More from here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_is_an_EC2_Compute_Unit_and_why_did_you_introduce_it

Amazon EC2 uses a variety of measures to provide each instance with a consistent and predictable amount of CPU capacity. In order to make it easy for developers to compare CPU capacity between different instance types, we have defined an Amazon EC2 Compute Unit. The amount of CPU that is allocated to a particular instance is expressed in terms of these EC2 Compute Units. We use several benchmarks and tests to manage the consistency and predictability of the performance from an EC2 Compute Unit. One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor. This is also the equivalent to an early-2006 1.7 GHz Xeon processor referenced in our original documentation. Over time, we may add or substitute measures that go into the definition of an EC2 Compute Unit, if we find metrics that will give you a clearer picture of compute capacity.

How to retrieve all keys (or values) from a std::map and put them into a vector?

Your solution is fine but you can use an iterator to do it:

std::map<int, int> m;
m.insert(std::pair<int, int>(3, 4));
m.insert(std::pair<int, int>(5, 6));
for(std::map<int, int>::const_iterator it = m.begin(); it != m.end(); it++)
{
    int key = it->first;
    int value = it->second;
    //Do something
}

PHP Function with Optional Parameters

function yourFunction($var1, $var2, $optional = Null){
   ... code
}

You can make a regular function and then add your optional variables by giving them a default Null value.

A Null is still a value, if you don't call the function with a value for that variable, it won't be empty so no error.

How to call code behind server method from a client side JavaScript function?

In my projects, we usually call server side method like this:

in JavaScript:

document.getElementById("UploadButton").click();

Server side control:

<asp:Button runat="server" ID="UploadButton" Text="" style="display:none;" OnClick="UploadButton_Click" />

C#:

protected void Upload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

How do I execute multiple SQL Statements in Access' Query Editor?

"I hoped (and still hope) that there is something like my beloved SQL*Plus for Oracle that can execute a file with all kinds of SQL Statements."

If you're looking for a simple program that can import a file and execute the SQL statements in it, take a look at DBWConsole (freeware). I have used it to process DDL scripts (table schema) as well as action queries. It does not return data sets so it's not useful for SELECT queries. It supports single line comments prefixed by -- but not multi-line comments wrapped in /* */. It supports command line parameters.

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If you want an interactive UI like Oracle SQL Developer or SSMS for Access then Matthew Lock's reference to WinSQL is what you should try.

How to connect Bitbucket to Jenkins properly

In order to build your repo after new commits, use Bitbucket Plugin.

There is just one thing to notice: When creating a POST Hook (notice that it is POST hook, not Jenkins hook), the URL works when it has a "/" in the end. Like:

URL: JENKINS_URL/bitbucket-hook/
e.g. someAddress:8080/bitbucket-hook/

Do not forget to check "Build when a change is pushed to Bitbucket" in your job configuration.

How to merge a transparent png image with another image using PIL

Had a similar question and had difficulty finding an answer. The following function allows you to paste an image with a transparency parameter over another image at a specific offset.

import Image

def trans_paste(fg_img,bg_img,alpha=1.0,box=(0,0)):
    fg_img_trans = Image.new("RGBA",fg_img.size)
    fg_img_trans = Image.blend(fg_img_trans,fg_img,alpha)
    bg_img.paste(fg_img_trans,box,fg_img_trans)
    return bg_img

bg_img = Image.open("bg.png")
fg_img = Image.open("fg.png")
p = trans_paste(fg_img,bg_img,.7,(250,100))
p.show()

Find child element in AngularJS directive

jQlite (angular's "jQuery" port) doesn't support lookup by classes.

One solution would be to include jQuery in your app.

Another is using QuerySelector or QuerySelectorAll:

link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
   console.log(element[0].querySelector('.list-scrollable'))
}

We use the first item in the element array, which is the HTML element. element.eq(0) would yield the same.

FIDDLE

Oracle (ORA-02270) : no matching unique or primary key for this column-list error

The data type in the Job table (Varchar2(20)) does not match the data type in the USER table (NUMBER NOT NULL).

Android read text raw resource file

Well with Kotlin u can do it just in one line of code:

resources.openRawResource(R.raw.rawtextsample).bufferedReader().use { it.readText() }

Or even declare extension function:

fun Resources.getRawTextFile(@RawRes id: Int) =
        openRawResource(id).bufferedReader().use { it.readText() }

And then just use it straightaway:

val txtFile = resources.getRawTextFile(R.raw.rawtextsample)

How can I hide or encrypt JavaScript code?

You can obfuscate it, but there's no way of protecting it completely.

example obfuscator: https://obfuscator.io

Pass entire form as data in jQuery Ajax function

serialize() is not a good idea if you want to send a form with post method. For example if you want to pass a file via ajax its not gonna work.

Suppose that we have a form with this id : "myform".

the better solution is to make a FormData and send it:

    var myform = document.getElementById("myform");
    var fd = new FormData(myform );
    $.ajax({
        url: "example.php",
        data: fd,
        cache: false,
        processData: false,
        contentType: false,
        type: 'POST',
        success: function (dataofconfirm) {
            // do something with the result
        }
    });

How do you run a single query through mysql from the command line?

mysql -u <user> -p -e "select * from schema.table"

DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues when I move my script to another server

The use of the deprecated new Buffer() constructor (i.E. as used by Yarn) can cause deprecation warnings. Therefore one should NOT use the deprecated/unsafe Buffer constructor.

According to the deprecation warning new Buffer() should be replaced with one of:

  • Buffer.alloc()
  • Buffer.allocUnsafe() or
  • Buffer.from()

Another option in order to avoid this issue would be using the safe-buffer package instead.

You can also try (when using yarn..):

yarn global add yarn

as mentioned here: Link

Another suggestion from the comments (thx to gkiely): self-update

Note: self-update is not available. See policies for enforcing versions within a project

In order to update your version of Yarn, run

curl --compressed -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash

The difference between the 'Local System' account and the 'Network Service' account?

Since there is so much confusion about functionality of standard service accounts, I'll try to give a quick run down.

First the actual accounts:

  • LocalService account (preferred)

    A limited service account that is very similar to Network Service and meant to run standard least-privileged services. However, unlike Network Service it accesses the network as an Anonymous user.

    • Name: NT AUTHORITY\LocalService
    • the account has no password (any password information you provide is ignored)
    • HKCU represents the LocalService user account
    • has minimal privileges on the local computer
    • presents anonymous credentials on the network
    • SID: S-1-5-19
    • has its own profile under the HKEY_USERS registry key (HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19)

     

  • NetworkService account

    Limited service account that is meant to run standard privileged services. This account is far more limited than Local System (or even Administrator) but still has the right to access the network as the machine (see caveat above).

    • NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService
    • the account has no password (any password information you provide is ignored)
    • HKCU represents the NetworkService user account
    • has minimal privileges on the local computer
    • presents the computer's credentials (e.g. MANGO$) to remote servers
    • SID: S-1-5-20
    • has its own profile under the HKEY_USERS registry key (HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20)
    • If trying to schedule a task using it, enter NETWORK SERVICE into the Select User or Group dialog

     

  • LocalSystem account (dangerous, don't use!)

    Completely trusted account, more so than the administrator account. There is nothing on a single box that this account cannot do, and it has the right to access the network as the machine (this requires Active Directory and granting the machine account permissions to something)

    • Name: .\LocalSystem (can also use LocalSystem or ComputerName\LocalSystem)
    • the account has no password (any password information you provide is ignored)
    • SID: S-1-5-18
    • does not have any profile of its own (HKCU represents the default user)
    • has extensive privileges on the local computer
    • presents the computer's credentials (e.g. MANGO$) to remote servers

     

Above when talking about accessing the network, this refers solely to SPNEGO (Negotiate), NTLM and Kerberos and not to any other authentication mechanism. For example, processing running as LocalService can still access the internet.

The general issue with running as a standard out of the box account is that if you modify any of the default permissions you're expanding the set of things everything running as that account can do. So if you grant DBO to a database, not only can your service running as Local Service or Network Service access that database but everything else running as those accounts can too. If every developer does this the computer will have a service account that has permissions to do practically anything (more specifically the superset of all of the different additional privileges granted to that account).

It is always preferable from a security perspective to run as your own service account that has precisely the permissions you need to do what your service does and nothing else. However, the cost of this approach is setting up your service account, and managing the password. It's a balancing act that each application needs to manage.

In your specific case, the issue that you are probably seeing is that the the DCOM or COM+ activation is limited to a given set of accounts. In Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003, and above the Activation permission was restricted significantly. You should use the Component Services MMC snapin to examine your specific COM object and see the activation permissions. If you're not accessing anything on the network as the machine account you should seriously consider using Local Service (not Local System which is basically the operating system).


In Windows Server 2003 you cannot run a scheduled task as

  • NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService (aka the Local Service account), or
  • NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService (aka the Network Service account).

That capability only was added with Task Scheduler 2.0, which only exists in Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 and newer.

A service running as NetworkService presents the machine credentials on the network. This means that if your computer was called mango, it would present as the machine account MANGO$:

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What is the best way to convert seconds into (Hour:Minutes:Seconds:Milliseconds) time?

In VB.NET, but it's the same in C#:

Dim x As New TimeSpan(0, 0, 80)
debug.print(x.ToString())
' Will print 00:01:20

How can I disable an <option> in a <select> based on its value in JavaScript?

I would like to give you also the idea to disable an <option> with a given defined value (not innerhtml). I recommend to it with jQuery to get the simplest way. See my sample below.

HTML

Status:  
<div id="option">
   <select class="status">
      <option value="hand" selected>Hand</option>
      <option value="simple">Typed</option>
      <option value="printed">Printed</option>
   </select>
</div>

Javascript

The idea here is how to disable Printed option when current Status is Hand

var status = $('#option').find('.status');//to get current the selected value
var op = status.find('option');//to get the elements for disable attribute
(status.val() == 'hand')? op[2].disabled = true: op[2].disabled = false;

You may see how it works here:

https://jsfiddle.net/chetabahana/f7ejxhnk/28/

Bash command line and input limit

The limit for the length of a command line is not imposed by the shell, but by the operating system. This limit is usually in the range of hundred kilobytes. POSIX denotes this limit ARG_MAX and on POSIX conformant systems you can query it with

$ getconf ARG_MAX    # Get argument limit in bytes

E.g. on Cygwin this is 32000, and on the different BSDs and Linux systems I use it is anywhere from 131072 to 2621440.

If you need to process a list of files exceeding this limit, you might want to look at the xargs utility, which calls a program repeatedly with a subset of arguments not exceeding ARG_MAX.

To answer your specific question, yes, it is possible to attempt to run a command with too long an argument list. The shell will error with a message along "argument list too long".

Note that the input to a program (as read on stdin or any other file descriptor) is not limited (only by available program resources). So if your shell script reads a string into a variable, you are not restricted by ARG_MAX. The restriction also does not apply to shell-builtins.

How to show and update echo on same line

If I have understood well, you can get it replacing your echo with the following line:

echo -ne "Movie $movies - $dir ADDED! \033[0K\r"

Here is a small example that you can run to understand its behaviour:

#!/bin/bash
for pc in $(seq 1 100); do
    echo -ne "$pc%\033[0K\r"
    sleep 1
done
echo

the easiest way to convert matrix to one row vector

You can use the function RESHAPE:

B = reshape(A.',1,[]);

Get host domain from URL?

Use Uri class and use Host property

Uri url = new Uri(@"http://support.domain.com/default.aspx?id=12345");
Console.WriteLine(url.Host);

How can I display a pdf document into a Webview?

Here load with progressDialog. Need to give WebClient otherwise it force to open in browser:

final ProgressDialog pDialog = new ProgressDialog(context);
    pDialog.setTitle(context.getString(R.string.app_name));
    pDialog.setMessage("Loading...");
    pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
    pDialog.setCancelable(false);
    WebView webView = (WebView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.web_view);
    webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
            pDialog.show();
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            super.onPageFinished(view, url);
            pDialog.dismiss();
        }
    });
    String pdf = "http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf";
    webView.loadUrl("https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=" + pdf);

How to ALTER multiple columns at once in SQL Server

Doing multiple ALTER COLUMN actions inside a single ALTER TABLE statement is not possible.

See the ALTER TABLE syntax here

You can do multiple ADD or multiple DROP COLUMN, but just one ALTER COLUMN.

Easiest way to use SVG in Android?

1)Right Click On drawable directory then go to new then go to vector assets 2)change asset type from clip art to local 3)browse your file 4)give size 5)then click next then done Your usable svg will be generated in drawable directory

How to jump to top of browser page

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// When the user scrolls down 20px from the top of the document, show the button_x000D_
window.onscroll = function() {scrollFunction()};_x000D_
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function scrollFunction() {_x000D_
    if (document.body.scrollTop > 20 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 20) {_x000D_
        document.getElementById("myBtn").style.display = "block";_x000D_
    } else {_x000D_
        document.getElementById("myBtn").style.display = "none";_x000D_
    }_x000D_
   _x000D_
}_x000D_
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// When the user clicks on the button, scroll to the top of the document_x000D_
function topFunction() {_x000D_
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     $('html, body').animate({scrollTop:0}, 'slow');_x000D_
}
_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;_x000D_
  font-size: 20px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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#myBtn {_x000D_
  display: none;_x000D_
  position: fixed;_x000D_
  bottom: 20px;_x000D_
  right: 30px;_x000D_
  z-index: 99;_x000D_
  font-size: 18px;_x000D_
  border: none;_x000D_
  outline: none;_x000D_
  background-color: red;_x000D_
  color: white;_x000D_
  cursor: pointer;_x000D_
  padding: 15px;_x000D_
  border-radius: 4px;_x000D_
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#myBtn:hover {_x000D_
  background-color: #555;_x000D_
}
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<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>_x000D_
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<button onclick="topFunction()" id="myBtn" title="Go to top">Top</button>_x000D_
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<div style="background-color:black;color:white;padding:30px">Scroll Down</div>_x000D_
<div style="background-color:lightgrey;padding:30px 30px 2500px">This example demonstrates how to create a "scroll to top" button that becomes visible when the user starts to scroll the page.</div>
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accepting HTTPS connections with self-signed certificates

The first thing you need to do is to set the level of verification. Such levels is not so much:

  • ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER
  • BROWSER_COMPATIBLE_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER
  • STRICT_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER

Although the method setHostnameVerifier() is obsolete for new library apache, but for version in Android SDK is normal. And so we take ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER and set it in the method factory SSLSocketFactory.setHostnameVerifier().

Next, You need set our factory for the protocol to https. To do this, simply call the SchemeRegistry.register() method.

Then you need to create a DefaultHttpClient with SingleClientConnManager. Also in the code below you can see that on default will also use our flag (ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER) by the method HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier()

Below code works for me:

HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER;

DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

SchemeRegistry registry = new SchemeRegistry();
SSLSocketFactory socketFactory = SSLSocketFactory.getSocketFactory();
socketFactory.setHostnameVerifier((X509HostnameVerifier) hostnameVerifier);
registry.register(new Scheme("https", socketFactory, 443));
SingleClientConnManager mgr = new SingleClientConnManager(client.getParams(), registry);
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(mgr, client.getParams());

// Set verifier     
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hostnameVerifier);

// Example send http request
final String url = "https://encrypted.google.com/";
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

Programmatically saving image to Django ImageField

I have some code that fetches an image off the web and stores it in a model. The important bits are:

from django.core.files import File  # you need this somewhere
import urllib


# The following actually resides in a method of my model

result = urllib.urlretrieve(image_url) # image_url is a URL to an image

# self.photo is the ImageField
self.photo.save(
    os.path.basename(self.url),
    File(open(result[0], 'rb'))
    )

self.save()

That's a bit confusing because it's pulled out of my model and a bit out of context, but the important parts are:

  • The image pulled from the web is not stored in the upload_to folder, it is instead stored as a tempfile by urllib.urlretrieve() and later discarded.
  • The ImageField.save() method takes a filename (the os.path.basename bit) and a django.core.files.File object.

Let me know if you have questions or need clarification.

Edit: for the sake of clarity, here is the model (minus any required import statements):

class CachedImage(models.Model):
    url = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)
    photo = models.ImageField(upload_to=photo_path, blank=True)

    def cache(self):
        """Store image locally if we have a URL"""

        if self.url and not self.photo:
            result = urllib.urlretrieve(self.url)
            self.photo.save(
                    os.path.basename(self.url),
                    File(open(result[0], 'rb'))
                    )
            self.save()

How to add and get Header values in WebApi

For WEB API 2.0:

I had to use Request.Content.Headers instead of Request.Headers

and then i declared an extestion as below

  /// <summary>
    /// Returns an individual HTTP Header value
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="headers"></param>
    /// <param name="key"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string GetHeader(this HttpContentHeaders headers, string key, string defaultValue)
    {
        IEnumerable<string> keys = null;
        if (!headers.TryGetValues(key, out keys))
            return defaultValue;

        return keys.First();
    }

And then i invoked it by this way.

  var headerValue = Request.Content.Headers.GetHeader("custom-header-key", "default-value");

I hope it might be helpful

Java naming convention for static final variables

There is no "right" way -- there are only conventions. You've stated the most common convention, and the one that I follow in my own code: all static finals should be in all caps. I imagine other teams follow other conventions.

Uninstall all installed gems, in OSX?

Use either

$ gem list --no-version | xargs gem uninstall -ax

or

$ sudo gem list --no-version | xargs sudo gem uninstall -ax

Depending on what you want, you may need to execute both, because "gem list" and "sudo gem list" provide independent lists.

Do not mix a normal "gem list" with a sudo-ed "gem uninstall" nor the other way around otherwise you may end up uninstalling sudo-installed gems (former) or getting a lot of errors (latter).

Maximum packet size for a TCP connection

The absolute limitation on TCP packet size is 64K (65535 bytes), but in practicality this is far larger than the size of any packet you will see, because the lower layers (e.g. ethernet) have lower packet sizes.

The MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) for Ethernet, for instance, is 1500 bytes. Some types of networks (like Token Ring) have larger MTUs, and some types have smaller MTUs, but the values are fixed for each physical technology.

How do I remove a CLOSE_WAIT socket connection

I'm also having the same issue with a very latest Tomcat server (7.0.40). It goes non-responsive once for a couple of days.

To see open connections, you may use:

sudo netstat -tonp | grep jsvc | grep --regexp="127.0.0.1:443" --regexp="127.0.0.1:80" | grep CLOSE_WAIT

As mentioned in this post, you may use /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time to view the values. The value seems to be in seconds and defaults to 7200 (i.e. 2 hours).

To change them, you need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf.

Open/create `/etc/sysctl.conf`
Add `net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 120` and save the file
Invoke `sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf`
Verify using `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time`

How to install a Notepad++ plugin offline?

  • Download and extract .zip file having all .dll plugin files under the path

    C:\ProgramData\Notepad++\plugins\

  • Make sure to create a separated folder for each plugin

  • Plugin (.dll) must be compatible with installed Notepad++ version (32 bit or 64 bit)

What is the maximum value for an int32?

If you think the value is too hard to remember in base 10, try base 2: 1111111111111111111111111111111

Convert a video to MP4 (H.264/AAC) with ffmpeg

Try This one:: Libav in Linux

Installation: run command  
               sudo apt-get install libav-tools 

Video conversion command::Go to folder contains the video and run in terminal
               avconv -i oldvideo.flv -ar 22050 convertedvideo.mp4

Detect HTTP or HTTPS then force HTTPS in JavaScript

Functional way

window.location.protocol === 'http:' && (location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, 'https:'));

Python unicode equal comparison failed

You may use the == operator to compare unicode objects for equality.

>>> s1 = u'Hello'
>>> s2 = unicode("Hello")
>>> type(s1), type(s2)
(<type 'unicode'>, <type 'unicode'>)
>>> s1==s2
True
>>> 
>>> s3='Hello'.decode('utf-8')
>>> type(s3)
<type 'unicode'>
>>> s1==s3
True
>>> 

But, your error message indicates that you aren't comparing unicode objects. You are probably comparing a unicode object to a str object, like so:

>>> u'Hello' == 'Hello'
True
>>> u'Hello' == '\x81\x01'
__main__:1: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
False

See how I have attempted to compare a unicode object against a string which does not represent a valid UTF8 encoding.

Your program, I suppose, is comparing unicode objects with str objects, and the contents of a str object is not a valid UTF8 encoding. This seems likely the result of you (the programmer) not knowing which variable holds unicide, which variable holds UTF8 and which variable holds the bytes read in from a file.

I recommend http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html, especially the advice to create a "Unicode Sandwich."

JFrame: How to disable window resizing?

Simply write one line in the constructor:

setResizable(false);

This will make it impossible to resize the frame.

Oracle 11g Express Edition for Windows 64bit?

I just installed the 32bit 11g R2 Express edition version on 64bit windows, created a new database and performed some queries. Seems to work like it should work! :-) I followed the following easy guide!

Pass Javascript Array -> PHP

AJAX requests are no different from GET and POST requests initiated through a <form> element. Which means you can use $_GET and $_POST to retrieve the data.

When you're making an AJAX request (jQuery example):

// JavaScript file

elements = [1, 2, 9, 15].join(',')
$.post('/test.php', {elements: elements})

It's (almost) equivalent to posting this form:

<form action="/test.php" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="elements" value="1,2,9,15">
</form>

In both cases, on the server side you can read the data from the $_POST variable:

// test.php file

$elements = $_POST['elements'];
$elements = explode(',', $elements);

For the sake of simplicity I'm joining the elements with comma here. JSON serialization is a more universal solution, though.

Detect if a page has a vertical scrollbar?

var hasScrollbar = window.innerWidth > document.documentElement.clientWidth;

How to add Apache HTTP API (legacy) as compile-time dependency to build.grade for Android M?

it should help:

android {
    ...
    useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
    ...
}

To avoid missing link errors add to dependencies

dependencies {
    provided 'org.jbundle.util.osgi.wrapped:org.jbundle.util.osgi.wrapped.org.apache.http.client:4.1.2'
}

or

dependencies {
    compileOnly 'org.jbundle.util.osgi.wrapped:org.jbundle.util.osgi.wrapped.org.apache.http.client:4.1.2'
}

because

Warning: Configuration 'provided' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'compileOnly'.

Aligning label and textbox on same line (left and right)

You should use CSS to align the textbox. The reason your code above does not work is because by default a div's width is the same as the container it's in, therefore in your example it is pushed below.

The following would work.

<td  colspan="2" class="cell">
                <asp:Label ID="Label6" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>        
                <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server" CssClass="righttextbox"></asp:TextBox>       
</td>

In your CSS file:

.cell
{
text-align:left;
}

.righttextbox
{
float:right;
}

How to implement band-pass Butterworth filter with Scipy.signal.butter

The filter design method in accepted answer is correct, but it has a flaw. SciPy bandpass filters designed with b, a are unstable and may result in erroneous filters at higher filter orders.

Instead, use sos (second-order sections) output of filter design.

from scipy.signal import butter, sosfilt, sosfreqz

def butter_bandpass(lowcut, highcut, fs, order=5):
        nyq = 0.5 * fs
        low = lowcut / nyq
        high = highcut / nyq
        sos = butter(order, [low, high], analog=False, btype='band', output='sos')
        return sos

def butter_bandpass_filter(data, lowcut, highcut, fs, order=5):
        sos = butter_bandpass(lowcut, highcut, fs, order=order)
        y = sosfilt(sos, data)
        return y

Also, you can plot frequency response by changing

b, a = butter_bandpass(lowcut, highcut, fs, order=order)
w, h = freqz(b, a, worN=2000)

to

sos = butter_bandpass(lowcut, highcut, fs, order=order)
w, h = sosfreqz(sos, worN=2000)

Spring cron expression for every day 1:01:am

Try with:

@Scheduled(cron = "0 1 1 * * ?")

Below you can find the example patterns from the spring forum:

* "0 0 * * * *" = the top of every hour of every day.
* "*/10 * * * * *" = every ten seconds.
* "0 0 8-10 * * *" = 8, 9 and 10 o'clock of every day.
* "0 0 8,10 * * *" = 8 and 10 o'clock of every day.
* "0 0/30 8-10 * * *" = 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30 and 10 o'clock every day.
* "0 0 9-17 * * MON-FRI" = on the hour nine-to-five weekdays
* "0 0 0 25 12 ?" = every Christmas Day at midnight

Cron expression is represented by six fields:

second, minute, hour, day of month, month, day(s) of week

(*) means match any

*/X means "every X"

? ("no specific value") - useful when you need to specify something in one of the two fields in which the character is allowed, but not the other. For example, if I want my trigger to fire on a particular day of the month (say, the 10th), but I don't care what day of the week that happens to be, I would put "10" in the day-of-month field and "?" in the day-of-week field.

PS: In order to make it work, remember to enable it in your application context: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/scheduling.html#scheduling-annotation-support

how to realize countifs function (excel) in R

Easy peasy. Your data frame will look like this:

df <- data.frame(sex=c('M','F','M'),
                 occupation=c('Student','Analyst','Analyst'))

You can then do the equivalent of a COUNTIF by first specifying the IF part, like so:

df$sex == 'M'

This will give you a boolean vector, i.e. a vector of TRUE and FALSE. What you want is to count the observations for which the condition is TRUE. Since in R TRUE and FALSE double as 1 and 0 you can simply sum() over the boolean vector. The equivalent of COUNTIF(sex='M') is therefore

sum(df$sex == 'M')

Should there be rows in which the sex is not specified the above will give back NA. In that case, if you just want to ignore the missing observations use

sum(df$sex == 'M', na.rm=TRUE)

Android global variable

There are a few different ways you can achieve what you are asking for.

1.) Extend the application class and instantiate your controller and model objects there.

public class FavoriteColorsApplication extends Application {

    private static FavoriteColorsApplication application;
    private FavoriteColorsService service;

    public FavoriteColorsApplication getInstance() {
        return application;
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        application = this;
        application.initialize();
    }

    private void initialize() {
        service = new FavoriteColorsService();
    }

    public FavoriteColorsService getService() {
        return service;
    }

}

Then you can call the your singleton from your custom Application object at any time:

public class FavoriteColorsActivity extends Activity {

private FavoriteColorsService service = null;
private ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;
private List<String> favoriteColors = new ArrayList<String>();

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

    service = ((FavoriteColorsApplication) getApplication()).getService();
    favoriteColors = service.findAllColors();

    ListView lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.favoriteColorsListView);
    adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.favorite_colors_list_item,
            favoriteColors);
    lv.setAdapter(adapter);
}

2.) You can have your controller just create a singleton instance of itself:

public class Controller {
    private static final String TAG = "Controller";
    private static sController sController;
    private Dao mDao;

    private Controller() {
        mDao = new Dao();    
    }

    public static Controller create() {
        if (sController == null) {
            sController = new Controller();
        }
        return sController;
    }
}

Then you can just call the create method from any Activity or Fragment and it will create a new controller if one doesn't already exist, otherwise it will return the preexisting controller.

3.) Finally, there is a slick framework created at Square which provides you dependency injection within Android. It is called Dagger. I won't go into how to use it here, but it is very slick if you need that sort of thing.

I hope I gave enough detail in regards to how you can do what you are hoping for.

Where should my npm modules be installed on Mac OS X?

Second Thomas David Kehoe, with the following caveat --

If you are using node version manager (nvm), your global node modules will be stored under whatever version of node you are using at the time you saved the module.

So ~/.nvm/versions/node/{version}/lib/node_modules/.

Tensorflow import error: No module named 'tensorflow'

Visual Studio in left panel is Python "interactive Select karnel"

Pyton 3.7.x anaconda3/python.exe ('base':conda) I'm this fixing

Getting path of captured image in Android using camera intent

Try this method to get path of original image captured by camera.

public String getOriginalImagePath() {
        String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
        Cursor cursor = getActivity().managedQuery(
                MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                projection, null, null, null);
        int column_index_data = cursor
                .getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
        cursor.moveToLast();

        return cursor.getString(column_index_data);
    }

This method will return path of the last image captured by camera. So this path would be of original image not of thumbnail bitmap.

SQL Server Management Studio missing

In SQL Server 2016 it has its own link:

enter image description here

Just download it here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx

How to log request and response body with Retrofit-Android?

If you are using Retrofit2 and okhttp3 then you need to know that Interceptor works by queue. So add loggingInterceptor at the end, after your other Interceptors:

HttpLoggingInterceptor loggingInterceptor = new HttpLoggingInterceptor();
        if (BuildConfig.DEBUG)
            loggingInterceptor.setLevel(HttpLoggingInterceptor.Level.HEADERS);

 new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                .connectTimeout(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                .readTimeout(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                .writeTimeout(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                .addInterceptor(new CatalogInterceptor(context))
                .addInterceptor(new OAuthInterceptor(context))
                .authenticator(new BearerTokenAuthenticator(context))
                .addInterceptor(loggingInterceptor)//at the end
                .build();

Multi-statement Table Valued Function vs Inline Table Valued Function

Another case to use a multi line function would be to circumvent sql server from pushing down the where clause.

For example, I have a table with a table names and some table names are formatted like C05_2019 and C12_2018 and and all tables formatted that way have the same schema. I wanted to merge all that data into one table and parse out 05 and 12 to a CompNo column and 2018,2019 into a year column. However, there are other tables like ACA_StupidTable which I cannot extract CompNo and CompYr and would get a conversion error if I tried. So, my query was in two part, an inner query that returned only tables formatted like 'C_______' then the outer query did a sub-string and int conversion. ie Cast(Substring(2, 2) as int) as CompNo. All looks good except that sql server decided to put my Cast function before the results were filtered and so I get a mind scrambling conversion error. A multi statement table function may prevent that from happening, since it is basically a "new" table.

How does the SQL injection from the "Bobby Tables" XKCD comic work?

The '); ends the query, it doesn't start a comment. Then it drops the students table and comments the rest of the query that was supposed to be executed.

How can we redirect a Java program console output to multiple files?

You could use a "variable" inside the output filename, for example:

/tmp/FetchBlock-${current_date}.txt

current_date:

Returns the current system time formatted as yyyyMMdd_HHmm. An optional argument can be used to provide alternative formatting. The argument must be valid pattern for java.util.SimpleDateFormat.

Or you can also use a system_property or an env_var to specify something dynamic (either one needs to be specified as arguments)

Why are you not able to declare a class as static in Java?

The only classes that can be static are inner classes. The following code works just fine:

public class whatever {
    static class innerclass {
    }
}

The point of static inner classes is that they don't have a reference to the outer class object.

how to change language for DataTable

Tradução para Português Brasil

    $('#table_id').DataTable({
    "language": {
        "sProcessing":    "Procesando...",
        "sLengthMenu":    "Exibir _MENU_ registros por página",
        "sZeroRecords":   "Nenhum resultado encontrado",
        "sEmptyTable":    "Nenhum resultado encontrado",
        "sInfo":          "Exibindo do _START_ até _END_ de um total de _TOTAL_ registros",
        "sInfoEmpty":     "Exibindo do 0 até 0 de um total de 0 registros",
        "sInfoFiltered":  "(Filtrado de um total de _MAX_ registros)",
        "sInfoPostFix":   "",
        "sSearch":        "Buscar:",
        "sUrl":           "",
        "sInfoThousands":  ",",
        "sLoadingRecords": "Cargando...",
        "oPaginate": {
            "sFirst":    "Primero",
            "sLast":    "Último",
            "sNext":    "Próximo",
            "sPrevious": "Anterior"
        },
        "oAria": {
            "sSortAscending":  ": Ativar para ordenar a columna de maneira ascendente",
            "sSortDescending": ": Ativar para ordenar a columna de maneira descendente"
        }
    }
});

How do I convert an Array to a List<object> in C#?

You can also initialize the list with an array directly:

List<int> mylist= new List<int>(new int[]{6, 1, -5, 4, -2, -3, 9});

Convert stdClass object to array in PHP

Using the ArrayObject from Std or building your own

(new \ArrayObject($existingStdClass))

you can use the build in method on the new class:

getArrayCopy()

or pass the new object to

iterator_to_array

Return zero if no record is found

You could:

SELECT COALESCE(SUM(columnA), 0) FROM my_table WHERE columnB = 1
INTO res;

This happens to work, because your query has an aggregate function and consequently always returns a row, even if nothing is found in the underlying table.

Plain queries without aggregate would return no row in such a case. COALESCE would never be called and couldn't save you. While dealing with a single column we can wrap the whole query instead:

SELECT COALESCE( (SELECT columnA FROM my_table WHERE ID = 1), 0)
INTO res;

Works for your original query as well:

SELECT COALESCE( (SELECT SUM(columnA) FROM my_table WHERE columnB = 1), 0)
INTO res;

More about COALESCE() in the manual.
More about aggregate functions in the manual.
More alternatives in this later post:

How could others, on a local network, access my NodeJS app while it's running on my machine?

your node.js server is running on a port determined at the end of the script usually. Sometimes 3000. but can be anything. The correct way for others to access is as you say...

http://your.network.ip.address:port/ e.g. http://192.168.0.3:3000

check you have the correct port - and the ip address on the network - not internet ip.

Otherwise, maybe the ports are being blocked by your router. Try using 8080 or 80 to get around this - otherwise re-configure your router.

Dart: mapping a list (list.map)

I try this same method, but with a different list with more values in the function map. My problem was to forget a return statement. This is very important :)

 bottom: new TabBar(
      controller: _controller,
      isScrollable: true,
      tabs:
        moviesTitles.map((title) { return Tab(text: title)}).toList()
      ,
    ),

How do I list one filename per output line in Linux?

Ls is designed for human consumption, and you should not parse its output.

In shell scripts, there are a few cases where parsing the output of ls does work is the simplest way of achieving the desired effect. Since ls might mangle non-ASCII and control characters in file names, these cases are a subset of those that do not require obtaining a file name from ls.

In python, there is absolutely no reason to invoke ls. Python has all of ls's functionality built-in. Use os.listdir to list the contents of a directory and os.stat or os to obtain file metadata. Other functions in the os modules are likely to be relevant to your problem as well.


If you're accessing remote files over ssh, a reasonably robust way of listing file names is through sftp:

echo ls -1 | sftp remote-site:dir

This prints one file name per line, and unlike the ls utility, sftp does not mangle nonprintable characters. You will still not be able to reliably list directories where a file name contains a newline, but that's rarely done (remember this as a potential security issue, not a usability issue).

In python (beware that shell metacharacters must be escapes in remote_dir):

command_line = "echo ls -1 | sftp " + remote_site + ":" + remote_dir
remote_files = os.popen(command_line).read().split("\n")

For more complex interactions, look up sftp's batch mode in the documentation.

On some systems (Linux, Mac OS X, perhaps some other unices, but definitely not Windows), a different approach is to mount a remote filesystem through ssh with sshfs, and then work locally.

Maven "build path specifies execution environment J2SE-1.5", even though I changed it to 1.7

I was facing the same issue. In pom.xml I have specified maven compiler plugin to pick 1.7 as source and target. Even then when I would import the git project in eclipse it would pick 1.5 as compile version for the project. To be noted that the eclipse has installed runtime set to JDK 1.8

I also checked that none of the .classpath .impl or .project file is checked in git repository.

Solution that worked for me: I simply deleted .classpath files and did a 'maven-update project'. .classpath file was regenerated and it picked up 1.7 as compile version from pom file.

Using ExcelDataReader to read Excel data starting from a particular cell

One way to do it :

FileStream stream = File.Open(@"c:\working\test.xls", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

IExcelDataReader excelReader = ExcelReaderFactory.CreateBinaryReader(stream);

excelReader.IsFirstRowAsColumnNames = true;

DataSet result = excelReader.AsDataSet();

The result.Tables contains the sheets and the result.tables[0].Rows contains the cell rows.

What is fastest children() or find() in jQuery?

None of the other answers dealt with the case of using .children() or .find(">") to only search for immediate children of a parent element. So, I created a jsPerf test to find out, using three different ways to distinguish children.

As it happens, even when using the extra ">" selector, .find() is still a lot faster than .children(); on my system, 10x so.

So, from my perspective, there does not appear to be much reason to use the filtering mechanism of .children() at all.

How to find the php.ini file used by the command line?

In your php.ini file set your extension directory, e.g:

extension_dir = "C:/php/ext/"

You will see in you PHP folder there is an ext folder with all the dll's and extensions.

How to serialize/deserialize to `Dictionary<int, string>` from custom XML not using XElement?

Based on L.B.'s answer.

Usage:

var serializer = new DictionarySerializer<string, string>();
serializer.Serialize("dictionary.xml", _dictionary);
_dictionary = _titleDictSerializer.Deserialize("dictionary.xml");

Generic class:

public class DictionarySerializer<TKey, TValue>
{
    [XmlType(TypeName = "Item")]
    public class Item
    {
        [XmlAttribute("key")]
        public TKey Key;
        [XmlAttribute("value")]
        public TValue Value;
    }

    private XmlSerializer _serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Item[]), new XmlRootAttribute("Dictionary"));

    public Dictionary<TKey, TValue> Deserialize(string filename)
    {
        using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open))
        using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(stream))
        {
            return ((Item[])_serializer.Deserialize(reader)).ToDictionary(p => p.Key, p => p.Value);
        }
    }

    public void Serialize(string filename, Dictionary<TKey, TValue> dictionary)
    {
        using (var writer = new StreamWriter(filename))
        {
            _serializer.Serialize(writer, dictionary.Select(p => new Item() { Key = p.Key, Value = p.Value }).ToArray());
        }
    }
}

Passing string parameter in JavaScript function

You can pass string parameters to JavaScript functions like below code:

I passed three parameters where the third one is a string parameter.

var btn ="<input type='button' onclick='RoomIsReadyFunc(" + ID + "," + RefId + ",\"" + YourString + "\");'  value='Room is Ready' />";

// Your JavaScript function

function RoomIsReadyFunc(ID, RefId, YourString)
{
    alert(ID);
    alert(RefId);
    alert(YourString);
}

How to generate a number of most distinctive colors in R?

You can use colorRampPalette from base or RColorBrewer package:

With colorRampPalette, you can specify colours as follows:

colorRampPalette(c("red", "green"))(5)
# [1] "#FF0000" "#BF3F00" "#7F7F00" "#3FBF00" "#00FF00"

You can alternatively provide hex codes as well:

colorRampPalette(c("#3794bf", "#FFFFFF", "#df8640"))(5)
# [1] "#3794BF" "#9BC9DF" "#FFFFFF" "#EFC29F" "#DF8640"
# Note that the mid color is the mid value...

With RColorBrewer you could use colors from pre-existing palettes:

require(RColorBrewer)
brewer.pal(9, "Set1")
# [1] "#E41A1C" "#377EB8" "#4DAF4A" "#984EA3" "#FF7F00" "#FFFF33" "#A65628" "#F781BF"
# [9] "#999999"

Look at RColorBrewer package for other available palettes. Hope this helps.

Datatable select with multiple conditions

Do you have to use DataTable.Select()? I prefer to write a linq query for this kind of thing.

var dValue=  from row in myDataTable.AsEnumerable()
             where row.Field<int>("A") == 1 
                   && row.Field<int>("B") == 2 
                   && row.Field<int>("C") == 3
             select row.Field<string>("D");

Is String.Contains() faster than String.IndexOf()?

Tried it today on a 1.3 GB text file. Amongst others every line is checked for existence of a '@' char. 17.000.000 calls to Contains/IndexOf are made. Result: 12.5 sec for all Contains('@') calls, 2.5 sec for all IndexOf('@') calls. => IndexOf performs 5 times faster!! (.Net 4.8)

ReactJS - Get Height of an element

Here is another one if you need window resize event:

class DivSize extends React.Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props)

    this.state = {
      width: 0,
      height: 0
    }
    this.resizeHandler = this.resizeHandler.bind(this);
  }

  resizeHandler() {
    const width = this.divElement.clientWidth;
    const height = this.divElement.clientHeight;
    this.setState({ width, height });
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.resizeHandler();
    window.addEventListener('resize', this.resizeHandler);
  }

  componentWillUnmount(){
    window.removeEventListener('resize', this.resizeHandler);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div 
        className="test"
        ref={ (divElement) => { this.divElement = divElement } }
      >
        Size: widht: <b>{this.state.width}px</b>, height: <b>{this.state.height}px</b>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<DivSize />, document.querySelector('#container'))

code pen

android: changing option menu items programmatically

using the following lines i have done to add the values in menu

getActivity().invalidateOptionsMenu();

try this work like a charm to me.

Send POST request using NSURLSession

Motivation

Sometimes I have been getting some errors when you want to pass httpBody serialized to Data from Dictionary, which on most cases is due to the wrong encoding or malformed data due to non NSCoding conforming objects in the Dictionary.

Solution

Depending on your requirements one easy solution would be to create a String instead of Dictionary and convert it to Data. You have the code samples below written on Objective-C and Swift 3.0.

Objective-C

// Create the URLSession on the default configuration
NSURLSessionConfiguration *defaultSessionConfiguration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];
NSURLSession *defaultSession = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:defaultSessionConfiguration];

// Setup the request with URL
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"yourURL"];
NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

// Convert POST string parameters to data using UTF8 Encoding
NSString *postParams = @"api_key=APIKEY&[email protected]&password=password";
NSData *postData = [postParams dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

// Convert POST string parameters to data using UTF8 Encoding
[urlRequest setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[urlRequest setHTTPBody:postData];

// Create dataTask
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [defaultSession dataTaskWithRequest:urlRequest completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
    // Handle your response here
}];

// Fire the request
[dataTask resume];

Swift

// Create the URLSession on the default configuration
let defaultSessionConfiguration = URLSessionConfiguration.default
let defaultSession = URLSession(configuration: defaultSessionConfiguration)

// Setup the request with URL
let url = URL(string: "yourURL")
var urlRequest = URLRequest(url: url!)  // Note: This is a demo, that's why I use implicitly unwrapped optional

// Convert POST string parameters to data using UTF8 Encoding
let postParams = "api_key=APIKEY&[email protected]&password=password"
let postData = postParams.data(using: .utf8)

// Set the httpMethod and assign httpBody
urlRequest.httpMethod = "POST"
urlRequest.httpBody = postData

// Create dataTask
let dataTask = defaultSession.dataTask(with: urlRequest) { (data, response, error) in
    // Handle your response here
}

// Fire the request
dataTask.resume()

Scroll event listener javascript

I was looking a lot to find a solution for sticy menue with old school JS (without JQuery). So I build small test to play with it. I think it can be helpfull to those looking for solution in js. It needs improvments of unsticking the menue back, and making it more smooth. Also I find a nice solution with JQuery that clones the original div instead of position fixed, its better since the rest of page element dont need to be replaced after fixing. Anyone know how to that with JS ? Please remark, correct and improve.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<script>

// addEvent function by John Resig:
// http://ejohn.org/projects/flexible-javascript-events/

function addEvent( obj, type, fn ) {

    if ( obj.attachEvent ) {

        obj['e'+type+fn] = fn;
        obj[type+fn] = function(){obj['e'+type+fn]( window.event );};
        obj.attachEvent( 'on'+type, obj[type+fn] );
    } else {
        obj.addEventListener( type, fn, false );
    }
}
function getScrollY() {
    var  scrOfY = 0;
    if( typeof( window.pageYOffset ) == 'number' ) {
        //Netscape compliant
        scrOfY = window.pageYOffset;

    } else if( document.body && document.body.scrollTop )  {
        //DOM compliant
        scrOfY = document.body.scrollTop;
    } 
    return scrOfY;
}
</script>
<style>
#mydiv {
    height:100px;
    width:100%;
}
#fdiv {
    height:100px;
    width:100%;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<!-- HTML for example event goes here -->

<div id="fdiv" style="background-color:red;position:fix">
</div>
<div id="mydiv" style="background-color:yellow">
</div>
<div id="fdiv" style="background-color:green">
</div>

<script>

// Script for example event goes here

addEvent(window, 'scroll', function(event) {

    var x = document.getElementById("mydiv");

    var y = getScrollY();      
    if (y >= 100) {
        x.style.position = "fixed"; 
        x.style.top= "0";
    } 
});

</script>
</body>
</html>

Why XML-Serializable class need a parameterless constructor

The answer is: for no good reason whatsoever.

Contrary to its name, the XmlSerializer class is used not only for serialization, but also for deserialization. It performs certain checks on your class to make sure that it will work, and some of those checks are only pertinent to deserialization, but it performs them all anyway, because it does not know what you intend to do later on.

The check that your class fails to pass is one of the checks that are only pertinent to deserialization. Here is what happens:

  • During deserialization, the XmlSerializer class will need to create instances of your type.

  • In order to create an instance of a type, a constructor of that type needs to be invoked.

  • If you did not declare a constructor, the compiler has already supplied a default parameterless constructor, but if you did declare a constructor, then that's the only constructor available.

  • So, if the constructor that you declared accepts parameters, then the only way to instantiate your class is by invoking that constructor which accepts parameters.

  • However, XmlSerializer is not capable of invoking any constructor except a parameterless constructor, because it does not know what parameters to pass to constructors that accept parameters. So, it checks to see if your class has a parameterless constructor, and since it does not, it fails.

So, if the XmlSerializer class had been written in such a way as to only perform the checks pertinent to serialization, then your class would pass, because there is absolutely nothing about serialization that makes it necessary to have a parameterless constructor.

As others have already pointed out, the quick solution to your problem is to simply add a parameterless constructor. Unfortunately, it is also a dirty solution, because it means that you cannot have any readonly members initialized from constructor parameters.

In addition to all this, the XmlSerializer class could have been written in such a way as to allow even deserialization of classes without parameterless constructors. All it would take would be to make use of "The Factory Method Design Pattern" (Wikipedia). From the looks of it, Microsoft decided that this design pattern is far too advanced for DotNet programmers, who apparently should not be unnecessarily confused with such things. So, DotNet programmers should better stick to parameterless constructors, according to Microsoft.

Pass props to parent component in React.js

Update (9/1/15): The OP has made this question a bit of a moving target. It’s been updated again. So, I feel responsible to update my reply.

First, an answer to your provided example:

Yes, this is possible.

You can solve this by updating Child’s onClick to be this.props.onClick.bind(null, this):

var Child = React.createClass({
  render: function () {
    return <a onClick={this.props.onClick.bind(null, this)}>Click me</a>;
  }
});

The event handler in your Parent can then access the component and event like so:

  onClick: function (component, event) {
    // console.log(component, event);
  },

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But the question itself is misleading

Parent already knows Child’s props.

This isn’t clear in the provided example because no props are actually being provided. This sample code might better support the question being asked:

var Child = React.createClass({
  render: function () {
    return <a onClick={this.props.onClick}> {this.props.text} </a>;
  }
});

var Parent = React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function () {
    return { text: "Click here" };
  },
  onClick: function (event) {
    // event.component.props ?why is this not available? 
  },
  render: function() {
    return <Child onClick={this.onClick} text={this.state.text} />;
  }
});

It becomes much clearer in this example that you already know what the props of Child are.

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If it’s truly about using a Child’s props…

If it’s truly about using a Child’s props, you can avoid any hookup with Child altogether.

JSX has a spread attributes API I often use on components like Child. It takes all the props and applies them to a component. Child would look like this:

var Child = React.createClass({
  render: function () {
    return <a {...this.props}> {this.props.text} </a>;
  }
});

Allowing you to use the values directly in the Parent:

var Parent = React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function () {
    return { text: "Click here" };
  },
  onClick: function (text) {
    alert(text);
  },
  render: function() {
    return <Child onClick={this.onClick.bind(null, this.state.text)} text={this.state.text} />;
  }
});

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And there's no additional configuration required as you hookup additional Child components

var Parent = React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function () {
    return {
      text: "Click here",
      text2: "No, Click here",
    };
  },
  onClick: function (text) {
    alert(text);
  },
  render: function() {
    return <div>
      <Child onClick={this.onClick.bind(null, this.state.text)} text={this.state.text} />
      <Child onClick={this.onClick.bind(null, this.state.text2)} text={this.state.text2} />
    </div>;
  }
});

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But I suspect that’s not your actual use case. So let’s dig further…


A robust practical example

The generic nature of the provided example is a hard to talk about. I’ve created a component that demonstrations a practical use for the question above, implemented in a very Reacty way:

DTServiceCalculator working example
DTServiceCalculator repo

This component is a simple service calculator. You provide it with a list of services (with names and prices) and it will calculate a total the selected prices.

Children are blissfully ignorant

ServiceItem is the child-component in this example. It doesn’t have many opinions about the outside world. It requires a few props, one of which is a function to be called when clicked.

<div onClick={this.props.handleClick.bind(this.props.index)} />

It does nothing but to call the provided handleClick callback with the provided index[source].

Parents are Children

DTServicesCalculator is the parent-component is this example. It’s also a child. Let’s look.

DTServiceCalculator creates a list of child-component (ServiceItems) and provides them with props [source]. It’s the parent-component of ServiceItem but it`s the child-component of the component passing it the list. It doesn't own the data. So it again delegates handling of the component to its parent-component source

<ServiceItem chosen={chosen} index={i} key={id} price={price} name={name} onSelect={this.props.handleServiceItem} />

handleServiceItem captures the index, passed from the child, and provides it to its parent [source]

handleServiceClick (index) {
  this.props.onSelect(index);
}

Owners know everything

The concept of “Ownership” is an important one in React. I recommend reading more about it here.

In the example I’ve shown, I keep delegating handling of an event up the component tree until we get to the component that owns the state.

When we finally get there, we handle the state selection/deselection like so [source]:

handleSelect (index) {
  let services = […this.state.services];
  services[index].chosen = (services[index].chosen) ? false : true;
  this.setState({ services: services });
}


Conclusion

Try keeping your outer-most components as opaque as possible. Strive to make sure that they have very few preferences about how a parent-component might choose to implement them.

Keep aware of who owns the data you are manipulating. In most cases, you will need to delegate event handling up the tree to the component that owns that state.

Aside: The Flux pattern is a good way to reduce this type of necessary hookup in apps.

Android: How to Programmatically set the size of a Layout

Java

This should work:

// Gets linearlayout
LinearLayout layout = findViewById(R.id.numberPadLayout);
// Gets the layout params that will allow you to resize the layout
LayoutParams params = layout.getLayoutParams();
// Changes the height and width to the specified *pixels*
params.height = 100;
params.width = 100;
layout.setLayoutParams(params);

If you want to convert dip to pixels, use this:

int height = (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, <HEIGHT>, getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

Kotlin

Generating Request/Response XML from a WSDL

Try this online tool: https://www.wsdl-analyzer.com. It appears to be free and does a lot more than just generate XML for requests and response.

There is also this: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/wsdl_soap_analyzer.html, which can be downloaded, but not free.

Highlight a word with jQuery

Is it possible to get this above example:

jQuery.fn.highlight = function (str, className)
{
    var regex = new RegExp(str, "g");

    return this.each(function ()
    {
        this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(
            regex,
            "<span class=\"" + className + "\">" + str + "</span>"
        );
    });
};

not to replace text inside html-tags like , this otherwise breakes the page.

Can I send a ctrl-C (SIGINT) to an application on Windows?

I guess I'm a bit late on this question but I'll write something anyway for anyone having the same problem. This is the same answer as I gave to this question.

My problem was that I'd like my application to be a GUI application but the processes executed should be run in the background without any interactive console window attached. I think this solution should also work when the parent process is a console process. You may have to remove the "CREATE_NO_WINDOW" flag though.

I managed to solve this using GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent() with a wrapper app. The tricky part is just that the documentation is not really clear on exactly how it can be used and the pitfalls with it.

My solution is based on what is described here. But that didn't really explain all the details either and with an error, so here is the details on how to get it working.

Create a new helper application "Helper.exe". This application will sit between your application (parent) and the child process you want to be able to close. It will also create the actual child process. You must have this "middle man" process or GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent() will fail.

Use some kind of IPC mechanism to communicate from the parent to the helper process that the helper should close the child process. When the helper get this event it calls "GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent(CTRL_BREAK, 0)" which closes down itself and the child process. I used an event object for this myself which the parent completes when it wants to cancel the child process.

To create your Helper.exe create it with CREATE_NO_WINDOW and CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP. And when creating the child process create it with no flags (0) meaning it will derive the console from its parent. Failing to do this will cause it to ignore the event.

It is very important that each step is done like this. I've been trying all different kinds of combinations but this combination is the only one that works. You can't send a CTRL_C event. It will return success but will be ignored by the process. CTRL_BREAK is the only one that works. Doesn't really matter since they will both call ExitProcess() in the end.

You also can't call GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent() with a process groupd id of the child process id directly allowing the helper process to continue living. This will fail as well.

I spent a whole day trying to get this working. This solution works for me but if anyone has anything else to add please do. I went all over the net finding lots of people with similar problems but no definite solution to the problem. How GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent() works is also a bit weird so if anyone knows more details on it please share.

How to initialize an array of custom objects

Here is a concise way to initialize an array of custom objects in PowerShell.

> $body = @( @{ Prop1="1"; Prop2="2"; Prop3="3" }, @{ Prop1="1"; Prop2="2"; Prop3="3" } )
> $body

Name                           Value
----                           -----
Prop2                          2
Prop1                          1
Prop3                          3
Prop2                          2
Prop1                          1
Prop3                          3  

How to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH?

To put this folder on the PATH environment variable type

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"

This appends the folder to your existing PATH, however, it is only active for your current terminal session.

If you want it to be automatically set, it depends on the shell you are using. For bash, you can append this line to $HOME/.bashrc using your favorite editor or type the following on the shell

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

In order to check if it worked, logout and login again or execute

source ~/.bashrc

on the shell.

PS: For other systems where there is no ~/.bashrc, you can also put this into ~/.bash_profile

PSS: For more recent laravel you need to put $HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin on the PATH.

PSSS: If you want to put this folder on the path also for other shells or on the GUI, you should append the said export command to ~/.profile (cf. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables).

What is and how to fix System.TypeInitializationException error?

System.TypeInitializationException happens when the code that gets executed during the process of loading the type throws an exception.

When .NET loads the type, it must prepare all its static fields before the first time that you use the type. Sometimes, initialization requires running code. It is when that code fails that you get a System.TypeInitializationException.

In your specific case, the following three static fields run some code:

private static string s_bstCommonAppData = Path.Combine(s_commonAppData, "XXXX");
private static string s_bstUserDataDir = Path.Combine(s_bstCommonAppData, "UserData");
private static string s_commonAppData = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData);

Note that s_bstCommonAppData depends on s_commonAppData, but it is declared ahead of its dependency. Therefore, the value of s_commonAppData is null at the time that the Path.Combine is called, resulting in ArgumentNullException. Same goes for the s_bstUserDataDir and s_bstCommonAppData: they are declared in reverse order to the desired order of initialization.

Re-order the lines to fix this problem:

private static string s_commonAppData = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData);
private static string s_bstCommonAppData = Path.Combine(s_commonAppData, "XXXX");
private static string s_bstUserDataDir = Path.Combine(s_bstCommonAppData, "UserData");

How can I solve "Either the parameter @objname is ambiguous or the claimed @objtype (COLUMN) is wrong."?

This works

EXEC sp_rename 
@objname = 'ENG_TEst."[ENG_Test_A/C_TYPE]"', 
@newname = 'ENG_Test_A/C_TYPE', 
@objtype = 'COLUMN'

Using JQuery hover with HTML image map

You should check out this plugin:

https://github.com/kemayo/maphilight

and the demo:

http://davidlynch.org/js/maphilight/docs/demo_usa.html

if anything, you might be able to borrow some code from it to fix yours.

Twitter Bootstrap: Print content of modal window

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@media print{_x000D_
 body{_x000D_
  visibility: hidden; /* no print*/_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 .print{_x000D_
  _x000D_
  visibility:visible; /*print*/_x000D_
 }_x000D_
}
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<body>_x000D_
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  <div class="noprint"> <!---no print--->_x000D_
  <div class="print">   <!---print--->_x000D_
  <div class="print">   <!---print--->_x000D_
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How to return multiple values?

You can only return one value, but it can be an object that has multiple fields - ie a "value object". Eg

public class MyResult {
    int returnCode;
    String errorMessage;
    // etc
}

public MyResult someMethod() {
    // impl here
}

What is the Sign Off feature in Git for?

git 2.7.1 (February 2016) clarifies that in commit b2c150d (05 Jan 2016) by David A. Wheeler (david-a-wheeler).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 7aae9ba, 05 Feb 2016)

git commit man page now includes:

-s::
--signoff::

Add Signed-off-by line by the committer at the end of the commit log message.
The meaning of a signoff depends on the project, but it typically certifies that committer has the rights to submit this work under the same license and agrees to a Developer Certificate of Origin (see https://developercertificate.org for more information).


Expand documentation describing --signoff

Modify various document (man page) files to explain in more detail what --signoff means.

This was inspired by "lwn article 'Bottomley: A modest proposal on the DCO'" (Developer Certificate of Origin) where paulj noted:

The issue I have with DCO is that there adding a "-s" argument to git commit doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO (the git commit man page makes no mention of the DCO anywhere), never mind actually seen it.

So how can the presence of "signed-off-by" in any way imply the sender is agreeing to and committing to the DCO? Combined with fact I've seen replies on lists to patches without SOBs that say nothing more than "Resend this with signed-off-by so I can commit it".

Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue that developers understood --signoff when they use it.


Note that this signoff is now (for Git 2.15.x/2.16, Q1 2018) available for git pull as well.

See commit 3a4d2c7 (12 Oct 2017) by W. Trevor King (wking).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit fb4cd88, 06 Nov 2017)

pull: pass --signoff/--no-signoff to "git merge"

merge can take --signoff, but without pull passing --signoff down, it is inconvenient to use; allow 'pull' to take the option and pass it through.

Is there Unicode glyph Symbol to represent "Search"

There is U+1F50D LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS () and U+1F50E RIGHT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS ().

You should use (in HTML) &#x1F50D; or &#x1F50E;

They are, however not supported by many fonts (fileformat.info only lists a few fonts as supporting the Codepoint with a proper glyph).

Also note that they are outside of the BMP, so some Unicode-capable software might have problems rendering them, even if they have fonts that support them.

Generally Unicode Glyphs can be searched using a site such as fileformat.info. This searches "only" in the names and properties of the Unicode glyphs, but they usually contain enough metadata to allow for good search results (for this answer I searched for "glass" and browsed the resulting list, for example)

Confused about stdin, stdout and stderr?

Standard input - this is the file handle that your process reads to get information from you.

Standard output - your process writes conventional output to this file handle.

Standard error - your process writes diagnostic output to this file handle.

That's about as dumbed-down as I can make it :-)

Of course, that's mostly by convention. There's nothing stopping you from writing your diagnostic information to standard output if you wish. You can even close the three file handles totally and open your own files for I/O.

When your process starts, it should already have these handles open and it can just read from and/or write to them.

By default, they're probably connected to your terminal device (e.g., /dev/tty) but shells will allow you to set up connections between these handles and specific files and/or devices (or even pipelines to other processes) before your process starts (some of the manipulations possible are rather clever).

An example being:

my_prog <inputfile 2>errorfile | grep XYZ

which will:

  • create a process for my_prog.
  • open inputfile as your standard input (file handle 0).
  • open errorfile as your standard error (file handle 2).
  • create another process for grep.
  • attach the standard output of my_prog to the standard input of grep.

Re your comment:

When I open these files in /dev folder, how come I never get to see the output of a process running?

It's because they're not normal files. While UNIX presents everything as a file in a file system somewhere, that doesn't make it so at the lowest levels. Most files in the /dev hierarchy are either character or block devices, effectively a device driver. They don't have a size but they do have a major and minor device number.

When you open them, you're connected to the device driver rather than a physical file, and the device driver is smart enough to know that separate processes should be handled separately.

The same is true for the Linux /proc filesystem. Those aren't real files, just tightly controlled gateways to kernel information.

How to extract one column of a csv file

I needed proper CSV parsing, not cut / awk and prayer. I'm trying this on a mac without csvtool, but macs do come with ruby, so you can do:

echo "require 'csv'; CSV.read('new.csv').each {|data| puts data[34]}" | ruby

How to write ternary operator condition in jQuery?

The Ternary operator is just written as a boolean expression followed by a questionmark and then two further expressions separated by a colon.

The first thing that I can see that you have got wrong is that your first expression isn't returning a boolean or anything sensible that could be converted to a boolean. Your first expression is always going to return a jQuery object that has no sensible interpretation as a boolean and what it does convert to is probably an unchanging interpretation. You are always best off returning something that has a well known boolean interpretation, if nothign else for the sake of readability.

The second thing is that you are putting a semicolon after each of your expressions which is wrong. In effect this is saying "end of construct" and so is breaking your ternary operator.

In this situation though you probably can do this a more easy way. If you use classes and the toggleClass method then you can easily get it to switch a class on and off and then you can put your styles in that class definition (Kudos to @yoavmatchulsky for suggesting use of classes up there in comments).

A fiddle of this is found here: http://jsfiddle.net/chrisvenus/wSMnV/ (based on the original)

How to format a number as percentage in R?

I did some benchmarking for speed on these answers and was surprised to see percent in the scales package so touted, given its sluggishness. I imagine the advantage is its automatic detector for for proper formatting, but if you know what your data looks like it seems clear to be avoided.

Here are the results from trying to format a list of 100,000 percentages in (0,1) to a percentage in 2 digits:

library(microbenchmark)
x = runif(1e5)
microbenchmark(times = 100L, andrie1(), andrie2(), richie(), krlmlr())
# Unit: milliseconds
#   expr       min        lq      mean    median        uq       max
# 1 andrie1()  91.08811  95.51952  99.54368  97.39548 102.75665 126.54918 #paste(round())
# 2 andrie2()  43.75678  45.56284  49.20919  47.42042  51.23483  69.10444 #sprintf()
# 3  richie()  79.35606  82.30379  87.29905  84.47743  90.38425 112.22889 #paste(formatC())
# 4  krlmlr() 243.19699 267.74435 304.16202 280.28878 311.41978 534.55904 #scales::percent()

So sprintf emerges as a clear winner when we want to add a percent sign. On the other hand, if we only want to multiply the number and round (go from proportion to percent without "%", then round() is fastest:

# Unit: milliseconds
#        expr      min        lq      mean    median        uq       max
# 1 andrie1()  4.43576  4.514349  4.583014  4.547911  4.640199  4.939159 # round()
# 2 andrie2() 42.26545 42.462963 43.229595 42.960719 43.642912 47.344517 # sprintf()
# 3  richie() 64.99420 65.872592 67.480730 66.731730 67.950658 96.722691 # formatC()

Java error: Only a type can be imported. XYZ resolves to a package

Got this exception as well.

Environment: Mac with Eclipse running Tomcat from inside Eclipse using Servers view.

For any reason Eclipse does not copy classes folder to WEB-INF. After classes folder was manually copied, everything works fine.

Don't know, or it is Eclipse bug or I missed something.

Make HTML5 video poster be same size as video itself

You can use a transparent poster image in combination with a CSS background image to achieve this (example); however, to have a background stretched to the height and the width of a video, you'll have to use an absolutely positioned <img> tag (example).

It is also possible to set background-size to 100% 100% in browsers that support background-size (example).


Update

A better way to do this would be to use the object-fit CSS property as @Lars Ericsson suggests.

Use

object-fit: cover;

if you don't want to display those parts of the image that don't fit the video's aspect ratio, and

object-fit: fill;

to stretch the image to fit your video's aspect ratio

Example

Removing "NUL" characters

Try Find and Replace. type \x00 in Find text box, check the Regular expression option. Leave Replace textbox blank and click on replace all. short cut key for find and replace is ctrl+H.

Getting SyntaxError for print with keyword argument end=' '

I think he's using Python 3.0 and you're using Python 2.6.

How get total sum from input box values using Javascript?

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  //iterate through each textboxes and add keyup_x000D_
  //handler to trigger sum event_x000D_
  $(".txt").each(function() {_x000D_
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   $(this).keyup(function(){_x000D_
    calculateSum();_x000D_
   });_x000D_
  });_x000D_
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 });_x000D_
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 function calculateSum() {_x000D_
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  var sum = 0;_x000D_
  //iterate through each textboxes and add the values_x000D_
  $(".txt").each(function() {_x000D_
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   if(!isNaN(this.value) && this.value.length!=0) {_x000D_
    sum += parseFloat(this.value);_x000D_
   }_x000D_
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  });_x000D_
  //.toFixed() method will roundoff the final sum to 2 decimal places_x000D_
  $("#sum").html(sum.toFixed(2));_x000D_
 }
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body {_x000D_
    font-family: sans-serif;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
   #summation {_x000D_
    font-size: 18px;_x000D_
    font-weight: bold;_x000D_
    color:#174C68;_x000D_
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   .txt {_x000D_
    background-color: #FEFFB0;_x000D_
    font-weight: bold;_x000D_
    text-align: right;_x000D_
   }
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
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 <tr>_x000D_
  <td width="40px">1</td>_x000D_
  <td>Butter</td>_x000D_
  <td><input class="txt" type="text" name="txt"/></td>_x000D_
 </tr>_x000D_
 <tr>_x000D_
  <td>2</td>_x000D_
  <td>Cheese</td>_x000D_
  <td><input class="txt" type="text" name="txt"/></td>_x000D_
 </tr>_x000D_
 <tr>_x000D_
  <td>3</td>_x000D_
  <td>Eggs</td>_x000D_
  <td><input class="txt" type="text" name="txt"/></td>_x000D_
 </tr>_x000D_
 <tr>_x000D_
  <td>4</td>_x000D_
  <td>Milk</td>_x000D_
  <td><input class="txt" type="text" name="txt"/></td>_x000D_
 </tr>_x000D_
 <tr>_x000D_
  <td>5</td>_x000D_
  <td>Bread</td>_x000D_
  <td><input class="txt" type="text" name="txt"/></td>_x000D_
 </tr>_x000D_
 <tr>_x000D_
  <td>6</td>_x000D_
  <td>Soap</td>_x000D_
  <td><input class="txt" type="text" name="txt"/></td>_x000D_
 </tr>_x000D_
 <tr id="summation">_x000D_
  <td>&nbsp;</td>_x000D_
  <td align="right">Sum :</td>_x000D_
  <td align="center"><span id="sum">0</span></td>_x000D_
 </tr>_x000D_
</table>
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Hibernate HQL Query : How to set a Collection as a named parameter of a Query?

Use Query.setParameterList(), Javadoc here.

There are four variants to pick from.

how to check for null with a ng-if values in a view with angularjs?

You should check for !test, here is a fiddle showing that.

<span ng-if="!test">null</span>

Is there a better way to refresh WebView?

Override onFormResubmission in WebViewClient

@Override
public void onFormResubmission(WebView view, Message dontResend, Message resend){
   resend.sendToTarget();
}

How to create a GUID/UUID in Python

This function is fully configurable and generates unique uid based on the format specified

eg:- [8, 4, 4, 4, 12] , this is the format mentioned and it will generate the following uuid

LxoYNyXe-7hbQ-caJt-DSdU-PDAht56cMEWi

 import random as r

 def generate_uuid():
        random_string = ''
        random_str_seq = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
        uuid_format = [8, 4, 4, 4, 12]
        for n in uuid_format:
            for i in range(0,n):
                random_string += str(random_str_seq[r.randint(0, len(random_str_seq) - 1)])
            if n != 12:
                random_string += '-'
        return random_string

Where to change the value of lower_case_table_names=2 on windows xampp

Also works in Wampserver. Click on the Green Wampserver Icon, choose MySql, then my.ini. This will allow you to open the my.ini file. Then -

  1. look up for: # The MySQL server [mysqld]
  2. add this right below it: lower_case_table_names = 2
  3. save the file and restart MySQL service

Important Note - add the lower_case_table_names = 2 statement NOT under the [mysql] statement, but under the [mysqld] statement

Reference - http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/installation/windows-wamp

Excel VBA - read cell value from code

I think you need this ..

Dim n as Integer   

For n = 5 to 17
  msgbox cells(n,3) '--> sched waste
  msgbox cells(n,4) '--> type of treatm
  msgbox format(cells(n,5),"dd/MM/yyyy") '--> Lic exp
  msgbox cells(n,6) '--> email col
Next

iOS 8 Snapshotting a view that has not been rendered results in an empty snapshot

I found the same issue and tried everything. I have two different apps, one in objective-C and one in swift - both have the same problem. The error message comes in the debugger and the screen goes black after the first photo. This only happens in iOS >= 8.0, obviously it is a bug.

I found a difficult workaround. Shut off the camera controls with imagePicker.showsCameraControls = false and create your own overlayView that has the missing buttons. There are various tutorials around how to do this. The strange error message stays, but at least the screen doesn't go black and you have a working app.

Get selected option text with JavaScript

React / Latest JavaScript

onChange = { e => e.currentTarget.option[e.selectedIndex].text }

will give you exact value if values are inside a loop.

Styling a disabled input with css only

A space in a CSS selector selects child elements.

.btn input

This is basically what you wrote and it would select <input> elements within any element that has the btn class.

I think you're looking for

input[disabled].btn:hover, input[disabled].btn:active, input[disabled].btn:focus

This would select <input> elements with the disabled attribute and the btn class in the three different states of hover, active and focus.

Embed image in a <button> element

The topic is 'Embed image in a button element', and the question using plain HTML. I do this using the span tag in the same way that glyphicons are used in bootstrap. My image is 16 x 16px and can be any format.

Here's the plain HTML that answers the question:

<button type="button"><span><img src="images/xxx.png" /></span>&nbsp;Click Me</button>

Bootstrap Collapse not Collapsing

Add jQuery and make sure only one link for jQuery cause more than one doesn't work...

How to get image size (height & width) using JavaScript?

This is an alternative answer for Node.js, that isn't likely what the OP meant, but could come in handy and seems to be in the scope of the question.

This is a solution with Node.js, the example uses Next.js framework but would work with any Node.js framework. It uses probe-image-size NPM package to resolve the image attributes from the server side.

Example use case: I used the below code to resolve the size of an image from an Airtable Automation script, which calls my own analyzeImage API and returns the image's props.

import {
  NextApiRequest,
  NextApiResponse,
} from 'next';
import probe from 'probe-image-size';

export const analyzeImage = async (req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse): Promise<void> => {
  try {
    const result = await probe('http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif');

    res.json(result);
  } catch (e) {
    res.json({
      error: true,
      message: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? undefined : e.message,
    });
  }
};

export default analyzeImage;

Yields:

{
"width": 276,
"height": 110,
"type": "gif",
"mime": "image/gif",
"wUnits": "px",
"hUnits": "px",
"length": 8558,
"url": "http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif"
}

creating a new list with subset of list using index in python

Suppose

a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 3, 4, 'd', 6, 7, 8]

and the list of indexes is stored in

b= [0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8]

then a simple one-line solution will be

c = [a[i] for i in b]

Max or Default?

int max = list.Any() ? list.Max(i => i.MyCounter) : 0;

If the list has any elements (ie. not empty), it will take the max of the MyCounter field, else will return 0.

html5 audio player - jquery toggle click play/pause?

I did it inside of a jQuery accordion.

$(function() {
        /*video controls*/
            $("#player_video").click(function() {
              if (this.paused == false) {
                  this.pause();
              }
            });
        /*end video controls*/

        var stop = false;
        $("#accordion h3").click(function(event) {
            if (stop) {
                event.stopImmediatePropagation();
                event.preventDefault();
                stop = false;
            }
            $("#player_video").click();
        });

    });

ORA-29283: invalid file operation ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 536

On Windows also check whether the file is not encrypted using EFS. I had the same problem untill I decrypted the file manualy.

'Source code does not match the bytecode' when debugging on a device

My app is compiled on API LEVEL 29, but debugging on real device on API LEVEL 28.I got the warning source code does not match the bytecode in AndroidStudio.I fixed it thought these steps:

  1. Go to Preferences>Instant Run: uncheck the instant run

  2. Go to Build>Clean Build

  3. Re-RUN the app

Now, the debug runs normal.

How to Handle Button Click Events in jQuery?

 $("#btnSubmit").click(function(){
        alert("button");
    });    

gem install: Failed to build gem native extension (can't find header files)

MAC users may face this issue when xcode tools are not installed properly. Below is the command to get rid of the issue.

xcode-select --install

Compare a string using sh shell

Of the 4 shells that I've tested, ABC -eq XYZ evaluates to true in the test builtin for zsh and ksh. The expression evaluates to false under /usr/bin/test and the builtins for dash and bash. In ksh and zsh, the strings are converted to numerical values and are equal since they are both 0. IMO, the behavior of the builtins for ksh and zsh is incorrect, but the spec for test is ambiguous on this.

Sending SMS from PHP

You need to subscribe to a SMS gateway. There are thousands of those (try searching with google) and they are usually not free. For example this one has support for PHP.

How to get the Mongo database specified in connection string in C#

With version 1.7 of the official 10gen driver, this is the current (non-obsolete) API:

const string uri = "mongodb://localhost/mydb";
var client = new MongoClient(uri);
var db = client.GetServer().GetDatabase(new MongoUrl(uri).DatabaseName);
var collection = db.GetCollection("mycollection");

Saving a text file on server using JavaScript

You must have a server-side script to handle your request, it can't be done using javascript.

To send raw data without URIencoding or escaping special characters to the php and save it as new txt file you can send ajax request using post method and FormData like:

JS:

var data = new FormData();
data.append("data" , "the_text_you_want_to_save");
var xhr = (window.XMLHttpRequest) ? new XMLHttpRequest() : new activeXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
xhr.open( 'post', '/path/to/php', true );
xhr.send(data);

PHP:

if(!empty($_POST['data'])){
$data = $_POST['data'];
$fname = mktime() . ".txt";//generates random name

$file = fopen("upload/" .$fname, 'w');//creates new file
fwrite($file, $data);
fclose($file);
}

Edit:

As Florian mentioned below, the XHR fallback is not required since FormData is not supported in older browsers (formdata browser compatibiltiy), so you can declare XHR variable as:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

Also please note that this works only for browsers that support FormData such as IE +10.

UITableView - scroll to the top

For tables that have a contentInset, setting the content offset to CGPointZero will not work. It'll scroll to the content top vs. scrolling to the table top.

Taking content inset into account produces this instead:

[tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, -tableView.contentInset.top) animated:NO];

Is there a way to check which CSS styles are being used or not used on a web page?

Google Chrome has a two ways to check for unused CSS.

1. Audit Tab: > Right Click + Inspect Element on the page, find the "Audit" tab, and run the audit, making sure "Web Page Performance" is checked.

Lists all unused CSS tags - see image below.

Screen Shot of Chrome's Audit Tool

Update: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OR - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

2. Coverage Tab: > Right Click + Inspect Element on the page, find the three dots on the far right (circled in image) and open Console Drawer (or hit Esc), finally click the three dots left side in the drawer (circled in image) to open Coverage tool.

Chrome launched a tool to see unused CSS and JS - Chrome 59 Update Allows you to start and stop a recording (red square in image) to allow better coverage of a user experience on the page.

Shows all used and unused CSS/JS in the files - see image below.

Example of Coverage tool in Chrome

Pass variables to Ruby script via command line

tl;dr

I know this is old, but getoptlong wasn't mentioned here and it's probably the best way to parse command line arguments today.


Parsing command line arguments

I strongly recommend getoptlong. It's pretty easy to use and works like a charm. Here is an example extracted from the link above

require 'getoptlong'

opts = GetoptLong.new(
    [ '--help', '-h', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
    [ '--repeat', '-n', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT ],
    [ '--name', GetoptLong::OPTIONAL_ARGUMENT ]
)

dir = nil
name = nil
repetitions = 1
opts.each do |opt, arg|
    case opt
        when '--help'
            puts <<-EOF
hello [OPTION] ... DIR

-h, --help:
     show help

--repeat x, -n x:
     repeat x times

--name [name]:
     greet user by name, if name not supplied default is John

DIR: The directory in which to issue the greeting.
            EOF
        when '--repeat'
            repetitions = arg.to_i
        when '--name'
            if arg == ''
                name = 'John'
            else
                name = arg
            end
    end
end

if ARGV.length != 1
    puts "Missing dir argument (try --help)"
    exit 0
end

dir = ARGV.shift

Dir.chdir(dir)
for i in (1..repetitions)
    print "Hello"
    if name
        print ", #{name}"
    end
    puts
end

You can call it like this ruby hello.rb -n 6 --name -- /tmp

What OP is trying to do

In this case I think the best option is to use YAML files as suggested in this answer

Add 'x' number of hours to date

You can use strtotime() to achieve this:

$new_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+3 hours', $now)); // $now + 3 hours

Titlecase all entries into a form_for text field

You don't want to take care of normalizing your data in a view - what if the user changes the data that gets submitted? Instead you could take care of it in the model using the before_save (or the before_validation) callback. Here's an example of the relevant code for a model like yours:

class Place < ActiveRecord::Base   before_save do |place|     place.city = place.city.downcase.titleize     place.country = place.country.downcase.titleize   end end 

You can also check out the Ruby on Rails guide for more info.


To answer you question more directly, something like this would work:

<%= f.text_field :city, :value => (f.object.city ? f.object.city.titlecase : '') %>   

This just means if f.object.city exists, display the titlecase version of it, and if it doesn't display a blank string.

How can I match multiple occurrences with a regex in JavaScript similar to PHP's preg_match_all()?

Source:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp/exec

Finding successive matches

If your regular expression uses the "g" flag, you can use the exec() method multiple times to find successive matches in the same string. When you do so, the search starts at the substring of str specified by the regular expression's lastIndex property (test() will also advance the lastIndex property). For example, assume you have this script:

var myRe = /ab*/g;
var str = 'abbcdefabh';
var myArray;
while ((myArray = myRe.exec(str)) !== null) {
  var msg = 'Found ' + myArray[0] + '. ';
  msg += 'Next match starts at ' + myRe.lastIndex;
  console.log(msg);
}

This script displays the following text:

Found abb. Next match starts at 3
Found ab. Next match starts at 912

Note: Do not place the regular expression literal (or RegExp constructor) within the while condition or it will create an infinite loop if there is a match due to the lastIndex property being reset upon each iteration. Also be sure that the global flag is set or a loop will occur here also.

replace \n and \r\n with <br /> in java

A little more robust version of what you're attempting:

str = str.replaceAll("(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)", "<br />");

Add carriage return to a string

string s2 = s1.Replace(",", ",\n");

How to make a div fill a remaining horizontal space?

If you don't need compatibility with older versions of certain browsers (IE 10 8 or less for example) you can use the calc() CSS function:

#left {
   float:left;
   width:180px;
   background-color:#ff0000;
}

#right {
   float: left;
   width: calc(100% - 180px);
   background-color:#00FF00;
}

Installing Python library from WHL file

First open a console then cd to where you've downloaded your file like some-package.whl and use

pip install some-package.whl

Note: if pip.exe is not recognized, you may find it in the "Scripts" directory from where python has been installed. I have multiple Python installations, and needed to use the pip associated with Python 3 to install a version 3 wheel.

If pip is not installed, and you are using Windows: How to install pip on Windows?

How to check if a json key exists?

I am just adding another thing, In case you just want to check whether anything is created in JSONObject or not you can use length(), because by default when JSONObject is initialized and no key is inserted, it just has empty braces {} and using has(String key) doesn't make any sense.

So you can directly write if (jsonObject.length() > 0) and do your things.

Happy learning!

Listview Scroll to the end of the list after updating the list

The transcript mode is what you want and is used by Google Talk and the SMS/MMS application. Are you correctly calling notifyDatasetChanged() on your adapter when you add items?

Bootstrap: Position of dropdown menu relative to navbar item

Boostrap has a class for that called navbar-right. So your code will look as follows:

<ul class="nav navbar-right">
    <li class="dropdown">
      <a class="dropdown-toggle" href="#" data-toggle="dropdown">Link</a>
      <ul class="dropdown-menu">
         <li>...</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
</ul>

TypeError: $ is not a function when calling jQuery function

var $=jQuery.noConflict();

$(document).ready(function(){
    // jQuery code is in here
});

Credit to Ashwani Panwar and Cyssoo answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29341144/3010027

XSL substring and indexOf

I want to select the text of a string that is located after the occurrence of substring

You could use:

substring-after($string,$match)

If you want a subtring of the above with some length then use:

substring(substring-after($string,$match),1,$length)

But problems begin if there is no ocurrence of the matching substring... So, if you want a substring with specific length located after the occurrence of a substring, or from the whole string if there is no match, you could use:

substring(substring-after($string,substring-before($string,$match)),
          string-length($match) * contains($string,$match) + 1,
          $length) 

How to convert float to varchar in SQL Server

Useful topic thanks.

If you want like me remove leadings zero you can use that :

DECLARE @MyFloat [float];
SET @MyFloat = 1000109360.050;
SELECT REPLACE(RTRIM(REPLACE(REPLACE(RTRIM(LTRIM(REPLACE(STR(@MyFloat, 38, 16), '0', ' '))), ' ', '0'),'.',' ')),' ',',')

"Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index, or single-parameter custom indexer expressions" error

I ran into a similar problem with the same error message using following code:

@Html.DisplayFor(model => model.EndDate.Value.ToShortDateString())

I found a good answer here

Turns out you can decorate the property in your model with a displayformat then apply a dataformatstring.

Be sure to import the following lib into your model:

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

Call int() function on every list element?

Thought I'd consolidate the answers and show some timeit results.

Python 2 sucks pretty bad at this, but map is a bit faster than comprehension.

Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 20:42:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> import timeit
>>> setup = """import random
random.seed(10)
l = [str(random.randint(0, 99)) for i in range(100)]"""
>>> timeit.timeit('[int(v) for v in l]', setup)
116.25092001434314
>>> timeit.timeit('map(int, l)', setup)
106.66044823117454

Python 3 is over 4x faster by itself, but converting the map generator object to a list is still faster than comprehension, and creating the list by unpacking the map generator (thanks Artem!) is slightly faster still.

Python 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5, Mar 21 2017, 17:54:52) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> import timeit
>>> setup = """import random
random.seed(10)
l = [str(random.randint(0, 99)) for i in range(100)]"""
>>> timeit.timeit('[int(v) for v in l]', setup)
25.133059591551955
>>> timeit.timeit('list(map(int, l))', setup)
19.705547827217515
>>> timeit.timeit('[*map(int, l)]', setup)
19.45838406513076

Note: In Python 3, 4 elements seems to be the crossover point (3 in Python 2) where comprehension is slightly faster, though unpacking the generator is still faster than either for lists with more than 1 element.

How to use a class from one C# project with another C# project

I had an issue with different target frameworks.

I was doing everything right, but just couldn't use the reference in P2. After I set the same target framework for P1 and P2, it worked like a charm.

Hope it will help someone

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust anchor for certification path not found

The SSL is not properly configured. Those trustAnchor errors usually mean that the trust store cannot be found. Check your configuration and make sure you are actually pointing to the trust store and that it is in place.

Make sure you have a -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore system property set and then check that the path actually leads to the trust store.

You can also enable SSL debugging by setting this system property -Djavax.net.debug=all. Within the debug output you will notice it states that it cannot find the trust store.

How would you implement an LRU cache in Java?

I like lots of these suggestions, but for now I think I'll stick with LinkedHashMap + Collections.synchronizedMap. If I do revisit this in the future, I'll probably work on extending ConcurrentHashMap in the same way LinkedHashMap extends HashMap.

UPDATE:

By request, here's the gist of my current implementation.

private class LruCache<A, B> extends LinkedHashMap<A, B> {
    private final int maxEntries;

    public LruCache(final int maxEntries) {
        super(maxEntries + 1, 1.0f, true);
        this.maxEntries = maxEntries;
    }

    /**
     * Returns <tt>true</tt> if this <code>LruCache</code> has more entries than the maximum specified when it was
     * created.
     *
     * <p>
     * This method <em>does not</em> modify the underlying <code>Map</code>; it relies on the implementation of
     * <code>LinkedHashMap</code> to do that, but that behavior is documented in the JavaDoc for
     * <code>LinkedHashMap</code>.
     * </p>
     *
     * @param eldest
     *            the <code>Entry</code> in question; this implementation doesn't care what it is, since the
     *            implementation is only dependent on the size of the cache
     * @return <tt>true</tt> if the oldest
     * @see java.util.LinkedHashMap#removeEldestEntry(Map.Entry)
     */
    @Override
    protected boolean removeEldestEntry(final Map.Entry<A, B> eldest) {
        return super.size() > maxEntries;
    }
}

Map<String, String> example = Collections.synchronizedMap(new LruCache<String, String>(CACHE_SIZE));

Javascript Uncaught Reference error Function is not defined

Change the wrapping from "onload" to "No wrap - in <body>"

The function defined has a different scope.

How to detect the physical connected state of a network cable/connector?

I use this command to check a wire is connected:

cd /sys/class/net/
grep "" eth0/operstate

If the result will be up or down. Sometimes it shows unknown, then you need to check

eth0/carrier

It shows 0 or 1

This compilation unit is not on the build path of a Java project

For those who still have problems after attempting the suggestions above: I solved the issue by updating the maven project.

How can I specify the required Node.js version in package.json?

A Mocha test case example:

describe('Check version of node', function () {
    it('Should test version assert', async function () {

            var version = process.version;
            var check = parseFloat(version.substr(1,version.length)) > 12.0;
            console.log("version: "+version);
            console.log("check: " +check);         
            assert.equal(check, true);
    });});

Twitter bootstrap progress bar animation on page load

While Tats_innit's answer has a nice touch to it, I had to do it a bit differently since I have more than one progress bar on the page.

here's my solution:

JSfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/vacNJ/

HTML (example):

<div class="progress progress-success">
<div class="bar" style="float: left; width: 0%; " data-percentage="60"></div>
</div>

<div class="progress progress-success">
<div class="bar" style="float: left; width: 0%; " data-percentage="50"></div>
</div>

<div class="progress progress-success">
<div class="bar" style="float: left; width: 0%; " data-percentage="40"></div>
</div>

?

JavaScript:

setTimeout(function(){

    $('.progress .bar').each(function() {
        var me = $(this);
        var perc = me.attr("data-percentage");

        var current_perc = 0;

        var progress = setInterval(function() {
            if (current_perc>=perc) {
                clearInterval(progress);
            } else {
                current_perc +=1;
                me.css('width', (current_perc)+'%');
            }

            me.text((current_perc)+'%');

        }, 50);

    });

},300);

@Tats_innit: Using setInterval() to dynamically recalc the progress is a nice solution, thx mate! ;)

EDIT:

A friend of mine wrote a nice jquery plugin for custom twitter bootstrap progress bars. Here's a demo: http://minddust.github.com/bootstrap-progressbar/

Here's the Github repo: https://github.com/minddust/bootstrap-progressbar

How to catch SQLServer timeout exceptions

To check for a timeout, I believe you check the value of ex.Number. If it is -2, then you have a timeout situation.

-2 is the error code for timeout, returned from DBNETLIB, the MDAC driver for SQL Server. This can be seen by downloading Reflector, and looking under System.Data.SqlClient.TdsEnums for TIMEOUT_EXPIRED.

Your code would read:

if (ex.Number == -2)
{
     //handle timeout
}

Code to demonstrate failure:

try
{
    SqlConnection sql = new SqlConnection(@"Network Library=DBMSSOCN;Data Source=YourServer,1433;Initial Catalog=YourDB;Integrated Security=SSPI;");
    sql.Open();

    SqlCommand cmd = sql.CreateCommand();
    cmd.CommandText = "DECLARE @i int WHILE EXISTS (SELECT 1 from sysobjects) BEGIN SELECT @i = 1 END";
    cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); // This line will timeout.

    cmd.Dispose();
    sql.Close();
}
catch (SqlException ex)
{
    if (ex.Number == -2) {
        Console.WriteLine ("Timeout occurred");
    }
}

What does auto do in margin:0 auto?

From the CSS specification on Calculating widths and margins for Block-level, non-replaced elements in normal flow:

If both 'margin-left' and 'margin-right' are 'auto', their used values are equal. This horizontally centers the element with respect to the edges of the containing block.

In Objective-C, how do I test the object type?

When you want to differ between a superClass and the inheritedClass you can use:

if([myTestClass class] == [myInheritedClass class]){
   NSLog(@"I'm the inheritedClass);
} 
if([myTestClass class] == [mySuperClass class]){
   NSLog(@"I'm the superClass);
} 

Using - (BOOL)isKindOfClass:(Class)aClass in this case would result in TRUE both times because the inheritedClass is also a kind of the superClass.

Python threading. How do I lock a thread?

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

import threading
import time
import inspect

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

count = 0
lock = threading.Lock()

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

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

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

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


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Sample output:

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

If Radio Button is selected, perform validation on Checkboxes

You need to use == or === for comparison. = assigns a new value.

Besides that, using == is pointless when dealing with booleans only. Just use if(foo) instead of if(foo == true).

join on multiple columns

tableB.col1 = tableA.col1 
OR tableB.col2 = tableA.col1  
OR tableB.col1 = tableA.col2  
OR tableB.col1 = tableA.col2

how to convert milliseconds to date format in android?

Convert the millisecond value to Date instance and pass it to the choosen formatter.

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); 
String dateString = formatter.format(new Date(dateInMillis)));

How to remove unused dependencies from composer?

In fact, it is very easy.

composer update

will do all this for you, but it will also update the other packages.

To remove a package without updating the others, specifiy that package in the command, for instance:

composer update monolog/monolog

will remove the monolog/monolog package.

Nevertheless, there may remain some empty folders or files that cannot be removed automatically, and that have to be removed manually.

how to make a whole row in a table clickable as a link?

Achieved using standard Bootstrap 4.3+ as follows - no jQuery nor any extra css classes needed!

The key is to use stretched-link on the text within the cell and defining <tr> as a containing block.

_x000D_
_x000D_
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>_x000D_
_x000D_
<table class="table table-hover">_x000D_
  <tbody>_x000D_
    <tr style="transform: rotate(0);">_x000D_
    <th scope="row"><a href="#" class="stretched-link">1</a></th>_x000D_
      <td>Mark</td>_x000D_
      <td>Otto</td>_x000D_
      <td>@mdo</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <th scope="row">2</th>_x000D_
      <td>Jacob</td>_x000D_
      <td>Thornton</td>_x000D_
      <td>@fat</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <th scope="row">3</th>_x000D_
      <td>Larry</td>_x000D_
      <td>the Bird</td>_x000D_
      <td>@twitter</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
  </tbody>_x000D_
</table>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

You can define containing block in different ways for example setting transform to not none value (as in example above).

For more information read here's the Bootstrap documentation for stretched-link.

Run .php file in Windows Command Prompt (cmd)

If running Windows 10:

  1. Open the start menu
  2. Type path
  3. Click Edit the system environment variables (usually, it's the top search result) and continue on step 6 below.

If on older Windows:

  1. Show Desktop.

  2. Right Click My Computer shortcut in the desktop.

  3. Click Properties.

  4. You should see a section of control Panel - Control Panel\System and Security\System.

  5. Click Advanced System Settings on the Left menu.

  6. Click Enviornment Variables towards the bottom of the System Properties window.

  7. Select PATH in the user variables list.

  8. Append your PHP Path (C:\myfolder\php) to your PATH variable, separated from the already existing string by a semi colon.

  9. Click OK

  10. Open your "cmd"

  11. Type PATH, press enter

  12. Make sure that you see your PHP folder among the list.

That should work.

Note: Make sure that your PHP folder has the php.exe. It should have the file type CLI. If you do not have the php.exe, go ahead and check the installation guidelines at - http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php - and download the installation file from there.

How to disable a ts rule for a specific line?

You can use /* tslint:disable-next-line */ to locally disable tslint. However, as this is a compiler error disabling tslint might not help.

You can always temporarily cast $ to any:

delete ($ as any).summernote.options.keyMap.pc.TAB

which will allow you to access whatever properties you want.


Edit: As of Typescript 2.6, you can now bypass a compiler error/warning for a specific line:

if (false) {
    // @ts-ignore: Unreachable code error
    console.log("hello");
}

Note that the official docs "recommend you use [this] very sparingly". It is almost always preferable to cast to any instead as that better expresses intent.

How to get the path of current worksheet in VBA?

Always nice to have:

Dim myPath As String     
Dim folderPath As String 

folderPath = Application.ActiveWorkbook.Path    
myPath = Application.ActiveWorkbook.FullName

Classes vs. Modules in VB.NET

I think it's a good idea to keep avoiding modules unless you stick them into separate namespaces. Because in Intellisense methods in modules will be visible from everywhere in that namespace.

So instead of ModuleName.MyMethod() you end up with MyMethod() popups in anywhere and this kind of invalidates the encapsulation. (at least in the programming level).

That's why I always try to create Class with shared methods, seems so much better.

Display HTML form values in same page after submit using Ajax

One more way to do it (if you use form), note that input type is button

<input type="button" onclick="showMessage()" value="submit" />

Complete code is:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>HTML JavaScript output on same page</title>
    <script type="text/JavaScript">
        function showMessage(){
            var message = document.getElementById("message").value;
            display_message.innerHTML= message;
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
Enter message: <input type="text" id = "message">
<input type="button" onclick="showMessage()" value="submit" />
</form>
<p> Message is: <span id = "display_message"></span> </p>
</body>
</html>

But you can do it even without form:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>HTML JavaScript output on same page</title>
    <script type="text/JavaScript">
        function showMessage(){
            var message = document.getElementById("message").value;
            display_message.innerHTML= message;
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
Enter message: <input type="text" id = "message">
<input type="submit" onclick="showMessage()" value="submit" />
<p> Message is: <span id = "display_message"></span> </p>
</body>
</html>

Here you can use either submit or button:

<input type="submit" onclick="showMessage()" value="submit" />

No need to set

return false;

from JavaScript function for neither of those two examples.

Can we open pdf file using UIWebView on iOS?

UIWebView *pdfWebView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 200, 200)];

NSURL *targetURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://unec.edu.az/application/uploads/2014/12/pdf-sample.pdf"];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:targetURL];
    [pdfWebView loadRequest:request];
    [self.view addSubview:pdfWebView];

Expanding tuples into arguments

Note that you can also expand part of argument list:

myfun(1, *("foo", "bar"))

Is there a performance difference between CTE , Sub-Query, Temporary Table or Table Variable?

SQL is a declarative language, not a procedural language. That is, you construct a SQL statement to describe the results that you want. You are not telling the SQL engine how to do the work.

As a general rule, it is a good idea to let the SQL engine and SQL optimizer find the best query plan. There are many person-years of effort that go into developing a SQL engine, so let the engineers do what they know how to do.

Of course, there are situations where the query plan is not optimal. Then you want to use query hints, restructure the query, update statistics, use temporary tables, add indexes, and so on to get better performance.

As for your question. The performance of CTEs and subqueries should, in theory, be the same since both provide the same information to the query optimizer. One difference is that a CTE used more than once could be easily identified and calculated once. The results could then be stored and read multiple times. Unfortunately, SQL Server does not seem to take advantage of this basic optimization method (you might call this common subquery elimination).

Temporary tables are a different matter, because you are providing more guidance on how the query should be run. One major difference is that the optimizer can use statistics from the temporary table to establish its query plan. This can result in performance gains. Also, if you have a complicated CTE (subquery) that is used more than once, then storing it in a temporary table will often give a performance boost. The query is executed only once.

The answer to your question is that you need to play around to get the performance you expect, particularly for complex queries that are run on a regular basis. In an ideal world, the query optimizer would find the perfect execution path. Although it often does, you may be able to find a way to get better performance.

Trim Cells using VBA in Excel

I would try to solve this without VBA. Just select this space and use replace (change to nothing) on that worksheet you're trying to get rid off those spaces.

If you really want to use VBA I believe you could select first character

strSpace = left(range("A1").Value,1)

and use replace function in VBA the same way

Range("A1").Value = Replace(Range("A1").Value, strSpace, "")

or

for each cell in selection.cells
 cell.value = replace(cell.value, strSpace, "")
next

Typescript: TS7006: Parameter 'xxx' implicitly has an 'any' type

In your tsconfig.json file set the parameter "noImplicitAny": false under compilerOptions to get rid of this error.

How can I know if a process is running?

Maybe (probably) I am reading the question wrongly, but are you looking for the HasExited property that will tell you that the process represented by your Process object has exited (either normally or not).

If the process you have a reference to has a UI you can use the Responding property to determine if the UI is currently responding to user input or not.

You can also set EnableRaisingEvents and handle the Exited event (which is sent asychronously) or call WaitForExit() if you want to block.

Function or sub to add new row and data to table

Is this what you are looking for?

Option Explicit

Public Sub addDataToTable(ByVal strTableName As String, ByVal strData As String, ByVal col As Integer)
    Dim lLastRow As Long
    Dim iHeader As Integer

    With ActiveSheet.ListObjects(strTableName)
        'find the last row of the list
        lLastRow = ActiveSheet.ListObjects(strTableName).ListRows.Count
        'shift from an extra row if list has header
        If .Sort.Header = xlYes Then
            iHeader = 1
        Else
            iHeader = 0
        End If
    End With
    'add the data a row after the end of the list
    ActiveSheet.Cells(lLastRow + 1 + iHeader, col).Value = strData
End Sub

It handles both cases whether you have header or not.

HTML5 File API read as text and binary

Note in 2018: readAsBinaryString is outdated. For use cases where previously you'd have used it, these days you'd use readAsArrayBuffer (or in some cases, readAsDataURL) instead.


readAsBinaryString says that the data must be represented as a binary string, where:

...every byte is represented by an integer in the range [0..255].

JavaScript originally didn't have a "binary" type (until ECMAScript 5's WebGL support of Typed Array* (details below) -- it has been superseded by ECMAScript 2015's ArrayBuffer) and so they went with a String with the guarantee that no character stored in the String would be outside the range 0..255. (They could have gone with an array of Numbers instead, but they didn't; perhaps large Strings are more memory-efficient than large arrays of Numbers, since Numbers are floating-point.)

If you're reading a file that's mostly text in a western script (mostly English, for instance), then that string is going to look a lot like text. If you read a file with Unicode characters in it, you should notice a difference, since JavaScript strings are UTF-16** (details below) and so some characters will have values above 255, whereas a "binary string" according to the File API spec wouldn't have any values above 255 (you'd have two individual "characters" for the two bytes of the Unicode code point).

If you're reading a file that's not text at all (an image, perhaps), you'll probably still get a very similar result between readAsText and readAsBinaryString, but with readAsBinaryString you know that there won't be any attempt to interpret multi-byte sequences as characters. You don't know that if you use readAsText, because readAsText will use an encoding determination to try to figure out what the file's encoding is and then map it to JavaScript's UTF-16 strings.

You can see the effect if you create a file and store it in something other than ASCII or UTF-8. (In Windows you can do this via Notepad; the "Save As" as an encoding drop-down with "Unicode" on it, by which looking at the data they seem to mean UTF-16; I'm sure Mac OS and *nix editors have a similar feature.) Here's a page that dumps the result of reading a file both ways:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<title>Show File Data</title>
<style type='text/css'>
body {
    font-family: sans-serif;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>

    function loadFile() {
        var input, file, fr;

        if (typeof window.FileReader !== 'function') {
            bodyAppend("p", "The file API isn't supported on this browser yet.");
            return;
        }

        input = document.getElementById('fileinput');
        if (!input) {
            bodyAppend("p", "Um, couldn't find the fileinput element.");
        }
        else if (!input.files) {
            bodyAppend("p", "This browser doesn't seem to support the `files` property of file inputs.");
        }
        else if (!input.files[0]) {
            bodyAppend("p", "Please select a file before clicking 'Load'");
        }
        else {
            file = input.files[0];
            fr = new FileReader();
            fr.onload = receivedText;
            fr.readAsText(file);
        }

        function receivedText() {
            showResult(fr, "Text");

            fr = new FileReader();
            fr.onload = receivedBinary;
            fr.readAsBinaryString(file);
        }

        function receivedBinary() {
            showResult(fr, "Binary");
        }
    }

    function showResult(fr, label) {
        var markup, result, n, aByte, byteStr;

        markup = [];
        result = fr.result;
        for (n = 0; n < result.length; ++n) {
            aByte = result.charCodeAt(n);
            byteStr = aByte.toString(16);
            if (byteStr.length < 2) {
                byteStr = "0" + byteStr;
            }
            markup.push(byteStr);
        }
        bodyAppend("p", label + " (" + result.length + "):");
        bodyAppend("pre", markup.join(" "));
    }

    function bodyAppend(tagName, innerHTML) {
        var elm;

        elm = document.createElement(tagName);
        elm.innerHTML = innerHTML;
        document.body.appendChild(elm);
    }

</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action='#' onsubmit="return false;">
<input type='file' id='fileinput'>
<input type='button' id='btnLoad' value='Load' onclick='loadFile();'>
</form>
</body>
</html>

If I use that with a "Testing 1 2 3" file stored in UTF-16, here are the results I get:

Text (13):

54 65 73 74 69 6e 67 20 31 20 32 20 33

Binary (28):

ff fe 54 00 65 00 73 00 74 00 69 00 6e 00 67 00 20 00 31 00 20 00 32 00 20 00 33 00

As you can see, readAsText interpreted the characters and so I got 13 (the length of "Testing 1 2 3"), and readAsBinaryString didn't, and so I got 28 (the two-byte BOM plus two bytes for each character).


* XMLHttpRequest.response with responseType = "arraybuffer" is supported in HTML 5.

** "JavaScript strings are UTF-16" may seem like an odd statement; aren't they just Unicode? No, a JavaScript string is a series of UTF-16 code units; you see surrogate pairs as two individual JavaScript "characters" even though, in fact, the surrogate pair as a whole is just one character. See the link for details.

Why are elementwise additions much faster in separate loops than in a combined loop?

It's because the CPU doesn't have so many cache misses (where it has to wait for the array data to come from the RAM chips). It would be interesting for you to adjust the size of the arrays continually so that you exceed the sizes of the level 1 cache (L1), and then the level 2 cache (L2), of your CPU and plot the time taken for your code to execute against the sizes of the arrays. The graph shouldn't be a straight line like you'd expect.

Remove a fixed prefix/suffix from a string in Bash

Using sed:

$ echo "$string" | sed -e "s/^$prefix//" -e "s/$suffix$//"
o-wor

Within the sed command, the ^ character matches text beginning with $prefix, and the trailing $ matches text ending with $suffix.

Adrian Frühwirth makes some good points in the comments below, but sed for this purpose can be very useful. The fact that the contents of $prefix and $suffix are interpreted by sed can be either good OR bad- as long as you pay attention, you should be fine. The beauty is, you can do something like this:

$ prefix='^.*ll'
$ suffix='ld$'
$ echo "$string" | sed -e "s/^$prefix//" -e "s/$suffix$//"
o-wor

which may be what you want, and is both fancier and more powerful than bash variable substitution. If you remember that with great power comes great responsibility (as Spiderman says), you should be fine.

A quick introduction to sed can be found at http://evc-cit.info/cit052/sed_tutorial.html

A note regarding the shell and its use of strings:

For the particular example given, the following would work as well:

$ echo $string | sed -e s/^$prefix// -e s/$suffix$//

...but only because:

  1. echo doesn't care how many strings are in its argument list, and
  2. There are no spaces in $prefix and $suffix

It's generally good practice to quote a string on the command line because even if it contains spaces it will be presented to the command as a single argument. We quote $prefix and $suffix for the same reason: each edit command to sed will be passed as one string. We use double quotes because they allow for variable interpolation; had we used single quotes the sed command would have gotten a literal $prefix and $suffix which is certainly not what we wanted.

Notice, too, my use of single quotes when setting the variables prefix and suffix. We certainly don't want anything in the strings to be interpreted, so we single quote them so no interpolation takes place. Again, it may not be necessary in this example but it's a very good habit to get into.

Mocking methods of local scope objects with Mockito

The answer from @edutesoy points to the documentation of PowerMockito and mentions constructor mocking as a hint but doesn't mention how to apply that to the current problem in the question.

Here is a solution based on that. Taking the code from the question:

public class MyClass {
    void method1 {
        MyObject obj1 = new MyObject();
        obj1.method1();
    }
}

The following test will create a mock of the MyObject instance class via preparing the class that instantiates it (in this example I am calling it MyClass) with PowerMock and letting PowerMockito to stub the constructor of MyObject class, then letting you stub the MyObject instance method1() call:

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(MyClass.class)
public class MyClassTest {
    @Test
    public void testMethod1() {      
        MyObject myObjectMock = mock(MyObject.class);
        when(myObjectMock.method1()).thenReturn(<whatever you want to return>);   
        PowerMockito.whenNew(MyObject.class).withNoArguments().thenReturn(myObjectMock);
        
        MyClass objectTested = new MyClass();
        objectTested.method1();
        
        ... // your assertions or verification here 
    }
}

With that your internal method1() call will return what you want.

If you like the one-liners you can make the code shorter by creating the mock and the stub inline:

MyObject myObjectMock = when(mock(MyObject.class).method1()).thenReturn(<whatever you want>).getMock();   

generate days from date range

if you will ever need more then a couple days, you need a table.

Create a date range in mysql

then,

select from days.day, count(mytable.field) as fields from days left join mytable on day=date where date between x and y;