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Programs & Examples On #Urlopen

Let JSON object accept bytes or let urlopen output strings

Just found this simple method to make HttpResponse content as a json

import json

request = RequestFactory() # ignore this, this just like your request object

response = MyView.as_view()(request) # got response as HttpResponse object

response.render() # call this so we could call response.content after

json_response = json.loads(response.content.decode('utf-8'))

print(json_response) # {"your_json_key": "your json value"}

Hope that helps you

Web-scraping JavaScript page with Python

EDIT 30/Dec/2017: This answer appears in top results of Google searches, so I decided to update it. The old answer is still at the end.

dryscape isn't maintained anymore and the library dryscape developers recommend is Python 2 only. I have found using Selenium's python library with Phantom JS as a web driver fast enough and easy to get the work done.

Once you have installed Phantom JS, make sure the phantomjs binary is available in the current path:

phantomjs --version
# result:
2.1.1

Example

To give an example, I created a sample page with following HTML code. (link):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Javascript scraping test</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p id='intro-text'>No javascript support</p>
  <script>
     document.getElementById('intro-text').innerHTML = 'Yay! Supports javascript';
  </script> 
</body>
</html>

without javascript it says: No javascript support and with javascript: Yay! Supports javascript

Scraping without JS support:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
response = requests.get(my_url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text)
soup.find(id="intro-text")
# Result:
<p id="intro-text">No javascript support</p>

Scraping with JS support:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get(my_url)
p_element = driver.find_element_by_id(id_='intro-text')
print(p_element.text)
# result:
'Yay! Supports javascript'

You can also use Python library dryscrape to scrape javascript driven websites.

Scraping with JS support:

import dryscrape
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
session = dryscrape.Session()
session.visit(my_url)
response = session.body()
soup = BeautifulSoup(response)
soup.find(id="intro-text")
# Result:
<p id="intro-text">Yay! Supports javascript</p>

Parsing HTTP Response in Python

json works with Unicode text in Python 3 (JSON format itself is defined only in terms of Unicode text) and therefore you need to decode bytes received in HTTP response. r.headers.get_content_charset('utf-8') gets your the character encoding:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import io
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen('https://httpbin.org/get') as r, \
     io.TextIOWrapper(r, encoding=r.headers.get_content_charset('utf-8')) as file:
    result = json.load(file)
print(result['headers']['User-Agent'])

It is not necessary to use io.TextIOWrapper here:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen('https://httpbin.org/get') as r:
    result = json.loads(r.read().decode(r.headers.get_content_charset('utf-8')))
print(result['headers']['User-Agent'])

Python check if website exists

You can use HEAD request instead of GET. It will only download the header, but not the content. Then you can check the response status from the headers.

For python 2.7.x, you can use httplib:

import httplib
c = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.example.com')
c.request("HEAD", '')
if c.getresponse().status == 200:
   print('web site exists')

or urllib2:

import urllib2
try:
    urllib2.urlopen('http://www.example.com/some_page')
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    print(e.code)
except urllib2.URLError, e:
    print(e.args)

or for 2.7 and 3.x, you can install requests

import requests
request = requests.get('http://www.example.com')
if request.status_code == 200:
    print('Web site exists')
else:
    print('Web site does not exist')

How to display databases in Oracle 11g using SQL*Plus

You can think of a MySQL "database" as a schema/user in Oracle. If you have the privileges, you can query the DBA_USERS view to see the list of schemas:

SELECT * FROM DBA_USERS;

What does the line "#!/bin/sh" mean in a UNIX shell script?

#!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash has to be first line of the script because if you don't use it on the first line then the system will treat all the commands in that script as different commands. If the first line is #!/bin/sh then it will consider all commands as a one script and it will show the that this file is running in ps command and not the commands inside the file.

./echo.sh

ps -ef |grep echo
trainee   3036  2717  0 16:24 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/sh ./echo.sh
root      3042  2912  0 16:24 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto echo

Convert String to Calendar Object in Java

Parse a time with timezone, Z in pattern is for time zone

String aTime = "2017-10-25T11:39:00+09:00";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ", Locale.getDefault());
try {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(sdf.parse(aTime));
    Log.i(TAG, "time = " + cal.getTimeInMillis()); 
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Output: it will return the UTC time

1508899140000

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If we don't set the time zone in pattern like yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss. SimpleDateFormat will use the time zone which have set in Setting

Android: how to parse URL String with spaces to URI object?

 
URL url = Test.class.getResource(args[0]);  // reading demo file path from                                                   
                                            // same location where class                                    
File input=null;
try {
    input = new File(url.toURI());
} catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e1.printStackTrace();
}

'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I have installed python 3.7.4. First, I tried python in my command prompt. It was saying that 'Python is not recognized command......'. Then I tried 'py' command and it works.

My sample command is:

py hacker.py

Plotting a 3d cube, a sphere and a vector in Matplotlib

For drawing just the arrow, there is an easier method:-

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
ax.set_aspect("equal")

#draw the arrow
ax.quiver(0,0,0,1,1,1,length=1.0)

plt.show()

quiver can actually be used to plot multiple vectors at one go. The usage is as follows:- [ from http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/tutorial.html?highlight=quiver#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.quiver]

quiver(X, Y, Z, U, V, W, **kwargs)

Arguments:

X, Y, Z: The x, y and z coordinates of the arrow locations

U, V, W: The x, y and z components of the arrow vectors

The arguments could be array-like or scalars.

Keyword arguments:

length: [1.0 | float] The length of each quiver, default to 1.0, the unit is the same with the axes

arrow_length_ratio: [0.3 | float] The ratio of the arrow head with respect to the quiver, default to 0.3

pivot: [ ‘tail’ | ‘middle’ | ‘tip’ ] The part of the arrow that is at the grid point; the arrow rotates about this point, hence the name pivot. Default is ‘tail’

normalize: [False | True] When True, all of the arrows will be the same length. This defaults to False, where the arrows will be different lengths depending on the values of u,v,w.

Import an Excel worksheet into Access using VBA

Pass the sheet name with the Range parameter of the DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet Method. See the box titled "Worksheets in the Range Parameter" near the bottom of that page.

This code imports from a sheet named "temp" in a workbook named "temp.xls", and stores the data in a table named "tblFromExcel".

Dim strXls As String
strXls = CurrentProject.Path & Chr(92) & "temp.xls"
DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, , "tblFromExcel", _
    strXls, True, "temp!"

How to hide the Google Invisible reCAPTCHA badge

I have tested all approaches and:

WARNING: display: none DISABLES the spam checking!

visibility: hidden and opacity: 0 do NOT disable the spam checking.

Code to use:

.grecaptcha-badge { 
    visibility: hidden;
}

When you hide the badge icon, Google wants you to reference their service on your form by adding this:

<small>This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google 
    <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy">Privacy Policy</a> and
    <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms">Terms of Service</a> apply.
</small>

Example result

Using Gulp to Concatenate and Uglify files

My gulp file produces a final compiled-bundle-min.js, hope this helps someone.

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//Gulpfile.js

var gulp = require("gulp");
var watch = require("gulp-watch");

var concat = require("gulp-concat");
var rename = require("gulp-rename");
var uglify = require("gulp-uglify");
var del = require("del");
var minifyCSS = require("gulp-minify-css");
var copy = require("gulp-copy");
var bower = require("gulp-bower");
var sourcemaps = require("gulp-sourcemaps");

var path = {
    src: "bower_components/",
    lib: "lib/"
}

var config = {
    jquerysrc: [
        path.src + "jquery/dist/jquery.js",
        path.src + "jquery-validation/dist/jquery.validate.js",
        path.src + "jquery-validation/dist/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js"
    ],
    jquerybundle: path.lib + "jquery-bundle.js",
    ngsrc: [
        path.src + "angular/angular.js",
         path.src + "angular-route/angular-route.js",
         path.src + "angular-resource/angular-resource.js"
    ],
    ngbundle: path.lib + "ng-bundle.js",

    //JavaScript files that will be combined into a Bootstrap bundle
    bootstrapsrc: [
        path.src + "bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"
    ],
    bootstrapbundle: path.lib + "bootstrap-bundle.js"
}

// Synchronously delete the output script file(s)
gulp.task("clean-scripts", function (cb) {
    del(["lib","dist"], cb);
});

//Create a jquery bundled file
gulp.task("jquery-bundle", ["clean-scripts", "bower-restore"], function () {
    return gulp.src(config.jquerysrc)
     .pipe(concat("jquery-bundle.js"))
     .pipe(gulp.dest("lib"));
});

//Create a angular bundled file
gulp.task("ng-bundle", ["clean-scripts", "bower-restore"], function () {
    return gulp.src(config.ngsrc)
     .pipe(concat("ng-bundle.js"))
     .pipe(gulp.dest("lib"));
});

//Create a bootstrap bundled file
gulp.task("bootstrap-bundle", ["clean-scripts", "bower-restore"], function     () {
    return gulp.src(config.bootstrapsrc)
     .pipe(concat("bootstrap-bundle.js"))
     .pipe(gulp.dest("lib"));
});


// Combine and the vendor files from bower into bundles (output to the Scripts folder)
gulp.task("bundle-scripts", ["jquery-bundle", "ng-bundle", "bootstrap-bundle"], function () {

});

//Restore all bower packages
gulp.task("bower-restore", function () {
    return bower();
});

//build lib scripts
gulp.task("compile-lib", ["bundle-scripts"], function () {
    return gulp.src("lib/*.js")
        .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
        .pipe(concat("compiled-bundle.js"))
        .pipe(gulp.dest("dist"))
        .pipe(rename("compiled-bundle.min.js"))
        .pipe(uglify())
        .pipe(sourcemaps.write("./"))
        .pipe(gulp.dest("dist"));
});

How do I find an element position in std::vector?

You probably should not use your own function here. Use find() from STL.

Example: 

list L;
L.push_back(3);
L.push_back(1);
L.push_back(7);


list::iterator result = find(L.begin(), L.end(), 7);
assert(result == L.end() || *result == 7);

Onclick on bootstrap button

You can use 'onclick' attribute like this :

<a ... href="javascript: onclick();" ...>...</a>

using if else with eval in aspx page

 
 <%if (System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["OperationalMode"] != "live") {%>
                        &nbsp;[<%=System.Environment.MachineName%>]
                        <%}%>

No grammar constraints (DTD or XML schema) detected for the document

I can't really say why you get the "No grammar constraints..." warning, but I can provoke it in Eclipse by completely removing the DOCTYPE declaration. When I put the declaration back and validate again, I get this error message:

The content of element type "template" must match "(description+,variation?,variation-field?,allow-multiple-variation?,class-pattern?,getter-setter?,allowed-file-extensions?,template-body+).

And that is correct, I believe (the "number-required-classes" element is not allowed).

How to check if an object is an array?

In modern browsers you can do:

Array.isArray(obj)

(Supported by Chrome 5, Firefox 4.0, IE 9, Opera 10.5 and Safari 5)

For backward compatibility you can add the following:

// only implement if no native implementation is available
if (typeof Array.isArray === 'undefined') {
  Array.isArray = function(obj) {
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === '[object Array]';
  }
};

If you use jQuery you can use jQuery.isArray(obj) or $.isArray(obj). If you use underscore you can use _.isArray(obj).

If you don't need to detect arrays created in different frames you can also just use instanceof:

obj instanceof Array

Append values to a set in Python

 
keep.update((0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10))

Or 

keep.update(np.arange(11))

In C#, why is String a reference type that behaves like a value type?

This is a late answer to an old question, but all other answers are missing the point, which is that .NET did not have generics until .NET 2.0 in 2005.

String is a reference type instead of a value type because it was of crucial importance for Microsoft to ensure that strings could be stored in the most efficient way in non-generic collections, such as System.Collections.ArrayList.

Storing a value-type in a non-generic collection requires a special conversion to the type object which is called boxing. When the CLR boxes a value type, it wraps the value inside a System.Object and stores it on the managed heap.

Reading the value from the collection requires the inverse operation which is called unboxing.

Both boxing and unboxing have non-negligible cost: boxing requires an additional allocation, unboxing requires type checking.

Some answers claim incorrectly that string could never have been implemented as a value type because its size is variable. Actually it is easy to implement string as a fixed-length data structure containing two fields: an integer for the length of the string, and a pointer to a char array. You can also use a Small String Optimization strategy on top of that.

If generics had existed from day one I guess having string as a value type would probably have been a better solution, with simpler semantics, better memory usage and better cache locality. A List<string> containing only small strings could have been a single contiguous block of memory.

Adding link a href to an element using css

You cannot simply add a link using CSS. CSS is used for styling.

You can style your using CSS.

If you want to give a link dynamically to then I will advice you to use jQuery or Javascript.

You can accomplish that very easily using jQuery.

I have done a sample for you. You can refer that.

URL : http://jsfiddle.net/zyk9w/

$('#link').attr('href','http://www.google.com');

This single line will do the trick.

requestFeature() must be called before adding content

Doesn't the error exactly tell you what's wrong? You're calling requestWindowFeature and setFeatureInt after you're calling setContentView.

By the way, why are you calling setContentView twice?

Use a JSON array with objects with javascript

This is your dataArray: 

[
   {
      "id":28,
      "Title":"Sweden"
   },
   {
      "id":56,
      "Title":"USA"
   },
   {
      "id":89,
      "Title":"England"
   }
]

Then parseJson can be used:

$(jQuery.parseJSON(JSON.stringify(dataArray))).each(function() {  
    var ID = this.id;
    var TITLE = this.Title;
});

Artificially create a connection timeout error

You might install Microsoft Loopback driver that will create a separate interface for you. Then you can connect on it to some service of yours (your own host). Then in Network Connections you can disable/enable such interface...

failed to open stream: No such file or directory in

Failed to open stream error occurs because the given path is wrong such as:

$uploadedFile->saveAs(Yii::app()->request->baseUrl.'/images/'.$model->user_photo);

It will give an error if the images folder will not allow you to store images, be sure your folder is readable

how to configure apache server to talk to HTTPS backend server?

Your server tells you exactly what you need : [Hint: SSLProxyEngine]

You need to add that directive to your VirtualHost before the Proxy directives :

SSLProxyEngine on
ProxyPass /primary/store https://localhost:9763/store/
ProxyPassReverse /primary/store https://localhost:9763/store/

See the doc for more detail.

Git for Windows: .bashrc or equivalent configuration files for Git Bash shell

1) Start by opening up git-bash.exe in Administrator mode. (Right click the file and select "Run as Administrator", or change settings in Properties → Compatibility → Run this program as administrator.)

2) Run cd ~. It will take you to C:/Users/<Your-Username>.

3) Run vi .bashrc. This will open you up into the editor. Hit INSERT and then start entering the following info:

alias ll="ls -la" # this changes the default ll on git bash to see hidden files.
cd "C:\directory\to\your\work\path\"
ll # this shows your your directory before you even type anything.

Opposite of append in jquery

The opposite of .append() is .prepend().

From the jQuery documentation for prepend…

The .prepend() method inserts the specified content as the first child of each element in the jQuery collection (To insert it as the last child, use .append()).

I realize this doesn’t answer the OP’s specific case. But it does answer the question heading. :) And it’s the first hit on Google for “jquery opposite append”.

What is unexpected T_VARIABLE in PHP?

There might be a semicolon or bracket missing a line before your pasted line.

It seems fine to me; every string is allowed as an array index.

What is newline character -- '\n'

NewLine (\n) is 10 (0xA) and CarriageReturn (\r) is 13 (0xD).

Different operating systems picked different end of line representations for files. Windows uses CRLF (\r\n). Unix uses LF (\n). Older Mac OS versions use CR (\r), but OS X switched to the Unix character.

Here is a relatively useful FAQ.

Custom bullet symbol for <li> elements in <ul> that is a regular character, and not an image

try this

_x000D_
_x000D_ 
    ul.a {_x000D_
        list-style-type: circle;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    _x000D_
    ul.b {_x000D_
        list-style-type: square;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    _x000D_
    ol.c {_x000D_
        list-style-type: upper-roman;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    _x000D_
    ol.d {_x000D_
        list-style-type: lower-alpha;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
_x000D_ 
<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
    <html>_x000D_
    <head>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    </head>_x000D_
    <body>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    <p>Example of unordered lists:</p>_x000D_
    <ul class="a">_x000D_
      <li>Coffee</li>_x000D_
      <li>Tea</li>_x000D_
      <li>Coca Cola</li>_x000D_
    </ul>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    <ul class="b">_x000D_
      <li>Coffee</li>_x000D_
      <li>Tea</li>_x000D_
      <li>Coca Cola</li>_x000D_
    </ul>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    <p>Example of ordered lists:</p>_x000D_
    <ol class="c">_x000D_
      <li>Coffee</li>_x000D_
      <li>Tea</li>_x000D_
      <li>Coca Cola</li>_x000D_
    </ol>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    <ol class="d">_x000D_
      <li>Coffee</li>_x000D_
      <li>Tea</li>_x000D_
      <li>Coca Cola</li>_x000D_
    </ol>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    </body>_x000D_
    </html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Replacing a fragment with another fragment inside activity group

Use this code using v4 

 ExampleFragment newFragment = new ExampleFragment();     
 FragmentTransaction transaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();  
 // Replace whatever is in the fragment_container view with this fragment,  
 // and add the transaction to the back stack so the user can navigate back   
 transaction.replace(R.id.container, newFragment);
 transaction.addToBackStack(null);  
 // Commit the transaction   
 transaction.commit();

How can I check if a string is null or empty in PowerShell?

Personally, I do not accept a whitespace ($STR3) as being 'not empty'.

When a variable that only contains whitespaces is passed onto a parameter, it will often error that the parameters value may not be '$null', instead of saying it may not be a whitespace, some remove commands might remove a root folder instead of a subfolder if the subfolder name is a "white space", all the reason not to accept a string containing whitespaces in many cases.

I find this is the best way to accomplish it:

$STR1 = $null
IF ([string]::IsNullOrWhitespace($STR1)){'empty'} else {'not empty'}

Empty

$STR2 = ""
IF ([string]::IsNullOrWhitespace($STR2)){'empty'} else {'not empty'}

Empty

$STR3 = " "
IF ([string]::IsNullOrWhitespace($STR3)){'empty !! :-)'} else {'not Empty :-('}

Empty!! :-)

$STR4 = "Nico"
IF ([string]::IsNullOrWhitespace($STR4)){'empty'} else {'not empty'}

Not empty

Expand Python Search Path to Other Source

I read this question looking for an answer, and didn't like any of them.

So I wrote a quick and dirty solution. Just put this somewhere on your sys.path, and it'll add any directory under folder (from the current working directory), or under abspath:

#using.py

import sys, os.path

def all_from(folder='', abspath=None):
    """add all dirs under `folder` to sys.path if any .py files are found.
    Use an abspath if you'd rather do it that way.

    Uses the current working directory as the location of using.py. 
    Keep in mind that os.walk goes *all the way* down the directory tree.
    With that, try not to use this on something too close to '/'

    """
    add = set(sys.path)
    if abspath is None:
        cwd = os.path.abspath(os.path.curdir)
        abspath = os.path.join(cwd, folder)
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(abspath):
        for f in files:
            if f[-3:] in '.py':
                add.add(root)
                break
    for i in add: sys.path.append(i)

>>> import using, sys, pprint
>>> using.all_from('py') #if in ~, /home/user/py/
>>> pprint.pprint(sys.path)
[
#that was easy
]

And I like it because I can have a folder for some random tools and not have them be a part of packages or anything, and still get access to some (or all) of them in a couple lines of code.

Closing Excel Application Process in C# after Data Access

 
xlBook.Save();
xlBook.Close(true);
xlApp.Quit();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(xlApp);

try this.. it worked for me... you should release that xl application object to stop the process.

TypeError: 'dict_keys' object does not support indexing

Why you need to implement shuffle when it already exists? Stay on the shoulders of giants.

import random

d1 = {0:'zero', 1:'one', 2:'two', 3:'three', 4:'four',
     5:'five', 6:'six', 7:'seven', 8:'eight', 9:'nine'}

keys = list(d1)
random.shuffle(keys)

d2 = {}
for key in keys: d2[key] = d1[key]

print(d1)
print(d2)

Change Circle color of radio button

Update: 1. use this one instead

   <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
        android:id="@+id/rbtn_test"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:buttonTint="@color/primary" />

2. Then add this line into parent layout or Alt + Enter in Android Studio to auto-add xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Minimum Example should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
        android:id="@+id/rbtn_test"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:buttonTint="@color/primary" />

</LinearLayout>

3. In your program, should call like this. AppCompatRadioButton radioButton = (AppCompatRadioButton) view.findViewById(R.id.rbtn_test);

Basically, this kind of pattern can be applied for all AppCompact types such as AppCompatCheckBox, AppCompatButton and so on.

Old Answer:

In order to support below android API 21, you can use AppCompatRadioButton. Then use setSupportButtonTintList method to change the color. This is my code snippet to create a radio button . 

    AppCompatRadioButton rb;
    rb = new AppCompatRadioButton(mContext);

    ColorStateList colorStateList = new ColorStateList(
            new int[][]{
                    new int[]{-android.R.attr.state_checked},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_checked}
            },
            new int[]{

                    Color.DKGRAY
                    , Color.rgb (242,81,112),
            }
    );
    rb.setSupportButtonTintList(colorStateList);

Tested result at API 19:

This one is tested on API 19

See the android reference link for more detail.

Python find min max and average of a list (array)

Return min and max value in tuple:

def side_values(num_list):
    results_list = sorted(num_list)
    return results_list[0], results_list[-1]


somelist = side_values([1,12,2,53,23,6,17])
print(somelist)

Change onclick action with a Javascript function

You could try changing the button attribute like this:

element.setAttribute( "onClick", "javascript: Boo();" );

How to change port number for apache in WAMP

Click on the WAMP server icon and from the menu under Config Files select httpd.conf. A long text file will open up in notepad. In this file scroll down to the line that reads Port 80 and change this to read Port 8080, Save the file and close notepad. Once again click on the wamp server icon and select restart all services. One more change needs to be made before we are done. In Windows Explorer find the location where WAMP server was installed which is by Default C:\Wamp.

Update : On a newer version of WAMP, click the WAMP server icon > Apache > httpd.conf, then change the line Listen 80 to Listen 8080 or any port you want.

Update: On 3.1.6 version of WAMP , right click on the wamp server icon in the taskbar ,select "tools"-> "Port used by Apache:80" -> "use a port other than 80", an input box will pop up , input a new port in it,click confirm button , then restart wamp .

How to disable Paste (Ctrl+V) with jQuery?

I have tested the issue on chrome browser and it is working for me.Below is a solution for preventing the paste code in your textbox and also prevent the right click.

   $(".element-container").find('input[type="text"]').live("contextmenu paste", function (e) {

    e.preventDefault();
});

Excel Formula to SUMIF date falls in particular month

 
=SUMPRODUCT( (MONTH($A$2:$A$6)=1) * ($B$2:$B$6) )

Explanation:

  • (MONTH($A$2:$A$6)=1) creates an array of 1 and 0, it's 1 when the month is january, thus in your example the returned array would be [1, 1, 1, 0, 0]

  • SUMPRODUCT first multiplies each value of the array created in the above step with values of the array ($B$2:$B$6), then it sums them. Hence in your example it does this: (1 * 430) + (1 * 96) + (1 * 440) + (0 * 72.10) + (0 * 72.30)

This works also in OpenOffice and Google Spreadsheets

Saving changes after table edit in SQL Server Management Studio

Go into Tools -> Options -> Designers-> Uncheck "Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation". Voila.

That happens because sometimes it is necessary to drop and recreate a table in order to change something. This can take a while, since all data must be copied to a temp table and then re-inserted in the new table. Since SQL Server by default doesn't trust you, you need to say "OK, I know what I'm doing, now let me do my work."

Convenient C++ struct initialisation

Yet another way in C++ is

struct Point
{
private:

 int x;
 int y;

public:
    Point& setX(int xIn) { x = Xin; return *this;}
    Point& setY(int yIn) { y = Yin; return *this;}

}

Point pt;
pt.setX(20).setY(20);

How to plot time series in python

Convert your x-axis data from text to datetime.datetime, use datetime.strptime:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime("2012-may-31 19:00", "%Y-%b-%d %H:%M")
 datetime.datetime(2012, 5, 31, 19, 0)

This is an example of how to plot data once you have an array of datetimes:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import datetime
import numpy as np

x = np.array([datetime.datetime(2013, 9, 28, i, 0) for i in range(24)])
y = np.random.randint(100, size=x.shape)

plt.plot(x,y)
plt.show()

enter image description here

What is android:ems attribute in Edit Text?

Taken from: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units:

The em is simply the font size. In an element with a 2in font, 1em thus means 2in. Expressing sizes, such as margins and paddings, in em means they are related to the font size, and if the user has a big font (e.g., on a big screen) or a small font (e.g., on a handheld device), the sizes will be in proportion. Declarations such as 'text-indent: 1.5em' and 'margin: 1em' are extremely common in CSS.

em is basically CSS property for font sizes.

How do I pass variables and data from PHP to JavaScript?

PHP

$fruits = array("apple" => "yellow", "strawberry" => "red", "kiwi" => "green");
<script>
    var color = <?php echo json_encode($fruits) ?>;
</script>
<script src="../yourexternal.js"></script>

JS (yourexternal.js)

alert("The apple color is" + color['apple'] + ", the strawberry color is " + color['strawberry'] + " and the kiwi color is " + color['kiwi'] + ".");

OUTPUT

The apple color is yellow, the strawberry color is red and the kiwi color is green.

Increasing the Command Timeout for SQL command

Since it takes 2 mins to respond, you can increase the timeout to 3 mins by adding the below code

scGetruntotals.CommandTimeout = 180;

Note : the parameter value is in seconds.

Bootstrap 3: Text overlay on image

try the following example. Image overlay with text on image. demo 

<div class="thumbnail">
  <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/discount_now_staging/uploads/ed964a11-e089-4c61-b927-9623a3fe9dcb/direct_uploader_2F50cc1daf-465f-48f0-8417-b04ac68a999d_2FN_19_jewelry.jpg" alt="..."   />
  <div class="caption post-content">  
  </div> 
  <div class="details">
    <h3>Robots!</h3>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>   
  </div>  
</div>

css

.post-content {
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7) none repeat scroll 0 0;
    opacity: 0.5;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    min-width: 500px;
    min-height: 500px; 
    position: absolute;
    color: #ffffff; 
}

.thumbnail{
    position:relative;

}
.details {
    position: absolute; 
    z-index: 2; 
    top: 0;
    color: #ffffff; 
}

How to loop over a Class attributes in Java?

Simple way to iterate over class fields and obtain values from object:

 Class<?> c = obj.getClass();
 Field[] fields = c.getDeclaredFields();
 Map<String, Object> temp = new HashMap<String, Object>();

 for( Field field : fields ){
      try {
           temp.put(field.getName().toString(), field.get(obj));
      } catch (IllegalArgumentException e1) {
      } catch (IllegalAccessException e1) {
      }
 }

Replace \n with actual new line in Sublime Text

On Mac, Shift+CMD+F for search and replace. Search for '\n' and replace with Shift+Enter.

List file using ls command in Linux with full path

For listing everything with full path, only in current directory

find $PWD -maxdepth 1

Same as above but only matches a particular extension, case insensitive (.sh files in this case)

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -iregex '.+\.sh'

$PWD is for current directory, it can be replaced with any directory

mydir="/etc/sudoers.d/" ; find $mydir -maxdepth 1

maxdepth prevents find from going into subdirectories, for example you can set it to "2" for listing items in children as well. Simply remove it if you need it recursive.

To limit it to only files, can use -type f option.

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -type f

How do I make a newline after a twitter bootstrap element?

I believe Twitter Bootstrap has a class called clearfix that you can use to clear the floating.

<ul class="nav nav-tabs span2 clearfix">

Create a file from a ByteArrayOutputStream

You can use a FileOutputStream for this.

FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
    fos = new FileOutputStream(new File("myFile")); 
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    // Put data in your baos

    baos.writeTo(fos);
} catch(IOException ioe) {
    // Handle exception here
    ioe.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    fos.close();
}

Slick.js: Get current and total slides (ie. 3/5)

You need to bind init before initialization.

$('.slider-for').on('init', function(event, slick){
        $(this).append('<div class="slider-count"><p><span id="current">1</span> von <span id="total">'+slick.slideCount+'</span></p></div>');
    });
    $('.slider-for').slick({
      slidesToShow: 1,
      slidesToScroll: 1,
      arrows: true,
      fade: true
    });
    $('.slider-for')
        .on('afterChange', function(event, slick, currentSlide, nextSlide){
            // finally let's do this after changing slides
            $('.slider-count #current').html(currentSlide+1);
        });

Where is NuGet.Config file located in Visual Studio project?

There are multiple nuget packages read in the following order:

  1. First the NuGetDefaults.Config file. You will find this in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\NuGet\Config.
  2. The computer-level file.
  3. The user-level file. You will find this in %APPDATA%\NuGet\nuget.config.
  4. Any file named nuget.config beginning from the root of your drive up to the directory where nuget.exe is called.
  5. The config file you specify in the -configfile option when calling nuget.exe

You can find more information here.

In Python, is there an elegant way to print a list in a custom format without explicit looping?

Another:

>>> lst=[10,11,12]
>>> fmt="%i: %i"
>>> for d in enumerate(lst):
...    print(fmt%d)
... 
0: 10
1: 11
2: 12

Yet another form:

>>> for i,j in enumerate(lst): print "%i: %i"%(i,j)

That method is nice since the individual elements in tuples produced by enumerate can be modified such as: 

>>> for i,j in enumerate([3,4,5],1): print "%i^%i: %i "%(i,j,i**j)
... 
1^3: 1 
2^4: 16 
3^5: 243

Of course, don't forget you can get a slice from this like so:

>>> for i,j in list(enumerate(lst))[1:2]: print "%i: %i"%(i,j)
... 
1: 11

How to use Selenium with Python?

There are a lot of sources for selenium - here is good one for simple use Selenium, and here is a example snippet too Selenium Examples

You can find a lot of good sources to use selenium, it's not too hard to get it set up and start using it.

In Javascript/jQuery what does (e) mean?

DISCLAIMER: This is a very late response to this particular post but as I've been reading through various responses to this question, it struck me that most of the answers use terminology that can only be understood by experienced coders. This answer is an attempt to address the original question with a novice audience in mind.

Intro

The little '(e)' thing is actually part of broader scope of something in Javascript called an event handling function. Every event handling function receives an event object. For the purpose of this discussion, think of an object as a "thing" that holds a bunch of properties (variables) and methods (functions), much like objects in other languages. The handle, the 'e' inside the little (e) thing, is like a variable that allows you to interact with the object (and I use the term variable VERY loosely).

Consider the following jQuery examples:

$("#someLink").on("click", function(e){ // My preferred method
    e.preventDefault();
});

$("#someLink").click(function(e){ // Some use this method too
    e.preventDefault();
});

Explanation

  • "#someLink" is your element selector (which HTML tag will trigger this).
  • "click" is an event (when the selected element is clicked).
  • "function(e)" is the event handling function (on event, object is created).
  • "e" is the object handler (object is made accessible).
  • "preventDefault()" is a method (function) provided by the object.

What's happening?
When a user clicks on the element with the id "#someLink" (probably an anchor tag), call an anonymous function, "function(e)", and assign the resulting object to a handler, "e". Now take that handler and call one of its methods, "e.preventDefault()", which should prevent the browser from performing the default action for that element.

Note: The handle can pretty much be named anything you want (i.e. 'function(billybob)'). The 'e' stands for 'event', which seems to be pretty standard for this type of function.

Although 'e.preventDefault()' is probably the most common use of the event handler, the object itself contains many properties and methods that can be accessed via the event handler.

Some really good information on this topic can be found at jQuery's learning site, http://learn.jquery.com. Pay special attention to the Using jQuery Core and Events sections.

How are ssl certificates verified?

You said that

the browser gets the certificate's issuer information from that certificate, then uses that to contact the issuerer, and somehow compares certificates for validity.

The client doesn't have to check with the issuer because two things :

  1. all browsers have a pre-installed list of all major CAs public keys
  2. the certificate is signed, and that signature itself is enough proof that the certificate is valid because the client can make sure, by his own, and without contacting the issuer's server, that that certificate is authentic. That's the beauty of asymmetric encryption.

Notice that 2. can't be done without 1.

This is better explained in this big diagram I made some time ago

(skip to "what's a signature ?" at the bottom)

blob

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock?

Hai sridhar, I found an answer for your prob 

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(GetType(), "sas", "<script> alert('Inserted successfully');</script>", true);

change false to true

or try this 

ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(ursavebuttonID, typeof(LinkButton or button), "sas", "<script> alert('Inserted successfully');</script>", true);

How can I clear an HTML file input with JavaScript?

 
document.getElementById('your_input_id').value=''

Edit:
This one doesn't work in IE and opera, but seems to work for firefox, safari and chrome.

Multiple models in a view

I want to say that my solution was like the answer provided on this stackoverflow page: ASP.NET MVC 4, multiple models in one view?

However, in my case, the linq query they used in their Controller did not work for me.

This is said query:

var viewModels = 
        (from e in db.Engineers
         select new MyViewModel
         {
             Engineer = e,
             Elements = e.Elements,
         })
        .ToList();

Consequently, "in your view just specify that you're using a collection of view models" did not work for me either.

However, a slight variation on that solution did work for me. Here is my solution in case this helps anyone.

Here is my view model in which I know I will have just one team but that team may have multiple boards (and I have a ViewModels folder within my Models folder btw, hence the namespace):

namespace TaskBoard.Models.ViewModels
{
    public class TeamBoards
    {
        public Team Team { get; set; }
        public List<Board> Boards { get; set; }
    }
}

Now this is my controller. This is the most significant difference from the solution in the link referenced above. I build out the ViewModel to send to the view differently.

public ActionResult Details(int? id)
        {
            if (id == null)
            {
                return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
            }

            TeamBoards teamBoards = new TeamBoards();
            teamBoards.Boards = (from b in db.Boards
                                 where b.TeamId == id
                                 select b).ToList();
            teamBoards.Team = (from t in db.Teams
                               where t.TeamId == id
                               select t).FirstOrDefault();

            if (teamBoards == null)
            {
                return HttpNotFound();
            }
            return View(teamBoards);
        }

Then in my view I do not specify it as a list. I just do "@model TaskBoard.Models.ViewModels.TeamBoards" Then I only need a for each when I iterate over the Team's boards. Here is my view:

@model TaskBoard.Models.ViewModels.TeamBoards

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Details";
}

<h2>Details</h2>

<div>
    <h4>Team</h4>
    <hr />


    @Html.ActionLink("Create New Board", "Create", "Board", new { TeamId = @Model.Team.TeamId}, null)
    <dl class="dl-horizontal">
        <dt>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => Model.Team.Name)
        </dt>

        <dd>
            @Html.DisplayFor(model => Model.Team.Name)
            <ul>
                @foreach(var board in Model.Boards)
                { 
                    <li>@Html.DisplayFor(model => board.BoardName)</li>
                }
            </ul>
        </dd>

    </dl>
</div>
<p>
    @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id = Model.Team.TeamId }) |
    @Html.ActionLink("Back to List", "Index")
</p>

I am fairly new to ASP.NET MVC so it took me a little while to figure this out. So, I hope this post helps someone figure it out for their project in a shorter timeframe. :-)

Explicit vs implicit SQL joins

Performance wise, they are exactly the same (at least in SQL Server) but be aware that they are deprecating this join syntax and it's not supported by sql server2005 out of the box.

I think you are thinking of the deprecated *= and =* operators vs. "outer join".

I have just now tested the two formats given, and they work properly on a SQL Server 2008 database. In my case they yielded identical execution plans, but I couldn't confidently say that this would always be true.

How can I apply a border only inside a table?

this works for me:

table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-style: hidden;
}

table td, table th {
    border: 1px solid black;
}

view example ...

tested in FF 3.6 and Chromium 5.0, IE lacks support; from W3C:

Borders with the 'border-style' of 'hidden' take precedence over all other conflicting borders. Any border with this value suppresses all borders at this location.

JSON.Parse,'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o

 
var jsonStringNoQuotes = [{"Id":"10","Name":"Matt"},{"Id":"1","Name":"Rock"}];

it will create json object. no need to parse.

jsonStringQuotes = "'" + jsonStringNoQuotes + "'";

will return '[object]'

thats why it(below) is causing error 

var myData = JSON.parse(jsonStringQuotes);

What are Unwind segues for and how do you use them?

Unwind segues are used to "go back" to some view controller from which, through a number of segues, you got to the "current" view controller.

Imagine you have something a MyNavController with A as its root view controller. Now you use a push segue to B. Now the navigation controller has A and B in its viewControllers array, and B is visible. Now you present C modally.

With unwind segues, you could now unwind "back" from C to B (i.e. dismissing the modally presented view controller), basically "undoing" the modal segue. You could even unwind all the way back to the root view controller A, undoing both the modal segue and the push segue.

Unwind segues make it easy to backtrack. For example, before iOS 6, the best practice for dismissing presented view controllers was to set the presenting view controller as the presented view controller’s delegate, then call your custom delegate method, which then dismisses the presentedViewController. Sound cumbersome and complicated? It was. That’s why unwind segues are nice.

How to save python screen output to a text file

Let me summarize all the answers and add some more.

  • To write to a file from within your script, user file I/O tools that are provided by Python (this is the f=open('file.txt', 'w') stuff.

  • If don't want to modify your program, you can use stream redirection (both on windows and on Unix-like systems). This is the python myscript > output.txt stuff.

  • If you want to see the output both on your screen and in a log file, and if you are on Unix, and you don't want to modify your program, you may use the tee command (windows version also exists, but I have never used it)

  • Even better way to send the desired output to screen, file, e-mail, twitter, whatever is to use the logging module. The learning curve here is the steepest among all the options, but in the long run it will pay for itself.

Required request body content is missing: org.springframework.web.method.HandlerMethod$HandlerMethodParameter

You shouldn't send a request body with an HTTP GET request. You should modify addDepartment() so that it only supports POST, and POST your JSON to that endpoint. If you want to GET information about a department, you should create a separate controller method that does that (and does not require a request body).

Also, double-check your endpoint definitions since you have misspelled "reimbursement" in the $.ajax call.

How to rename HTML "browse" button of an input type=file?

You can also use Uploadify, which is a great jQuery upload plugin, it let's you upload multiple files, and also style the file fields easily. http://www.uploadify.com

Count unique values using pandas groupby

I know it has been a while since this was posted, but I think this will help too. I wanted to count unique values and filter the groups by number of these unique values, this is how I did it:

df.groupby('group').agg(['min','max','count','nunique']).reset_index(drop=False)

jQuery.ajax handling continue responses: "success:" vs ".done"?

If you need async: false in your ajax, you should use success instead of .done. Else you better to use .done. This is from jQuery official site:

As of jQuery 1.8, the use of async: false with jqXHR ($.Deferred) is deprecated; you must use the success/error/complete callback options instead of the corresponding methods of the jqXHR object such as jqXHR.done().

forward declaration of a struct in C?

A struct (without a typedef) often needs to (or should) be with the keyword struct when used.

struct A;                      // forward declaration
void function( struct A *a );  // using the 'incomplete' type only as pointer

If you typedef your struct you can leave out the struct keyword.

typedef struct A A;          // forward declaration *and* typedef
void function( A *a );

Note that it is legal to reuse the struct name

Try changing the forward declaration to this in your code:

typedef struct context context;

It might be more readable to do add a suffix to indicate struct name and type name:

typedef struct context_s context_t;

Detecting when Iframe content has loaded (Cross browser)

See this blog post. It uses jQuery, but it should help you even if you are not using it.

Basically you add this to your document.ready()

$('iframe').load(function() {
    RunAfterIFrameLoaded();
});

How to make child element higher z-index than parent?

To achieve what you want without removing any styles you have to make the z-index of the '.parent' class bigger then the '.wholePage' class.

.parent {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 4; /*matters since it's sibling to wholePage*/
}

.child {
    position: relative;
    z-index:1; /*doesn't matter */
    background-color: white;
    padding: 5px;
}

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ZjXMR/2/

Spring Boot: Is it possible to use external application.properties files in arbitrary directories with a fat jar?

This may be coming in Late but I think I figured out a better way to load external configurations especially when you run your spring-boot app using java jar myapp.war instead of @PropertySource("classpath:some.properties")

The configuration would be loaded form the root of the project or from the location the war/jar file is being run from

public class Application implements EnvironmentAware {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }

    @Override
    public void setEnvironment(Environment environment) {
        //Set up Relative path of Configuration directory/folder, should be at the root of the project or the same folder where the jar/war is placed or being run from
        String configFolder = "config";
        //All static property file names here
        List<String> propertyFiles = Arrays.asList("application.properties","server.properties");
        //This is also useful for appending the profile names
        Arrays.asList(environment.getActiveProfiles()).stream().forEach(environmentName -> propertyFiles.add(String.format("application-%s.properties", environmentName))); 
        for (String configFileName : propertyFiles) {
            File configFile = new File(configFolder, configFileName);
            LOGGER.info("\n\n\n\n");
            LOGGER.info(String.format("looking for configuration %s from %s", configFileName, configFolder));
            FileSystemResource springResource = new FileSystemResource(configFile);
            LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, "Config file : {0}", (configFile.exists() ? "FOund" : "Not Found"));
            if (configFile.exists()) {
                try {
                    LOGGER.info(String.format("Loading configuration file %s", configFileName));
                    PropertiesFactoryBean pfb = new PropertiesFactoryBean();
                    pfb.setFileEncoding("UTF-8");
                    pfb.setLocation(springResource);
                    pfb.afterPropertiesSet();
                    Properties properties = pfb.getObject();
                    PropertiesPropertySource externalConfig = new PropertiesPropertySource("externalConfig", properties);
                    ((ConfigurableEnvironment) environment).getPropertySources().addFirst(externalConfig);
                } catch (IOException ex) {
                    LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
                }
            } else {
                LOGGER.info(String.format("Cannot find Configuration file %s... \n\n\n\n", configFileName));

            }

        }
    }

}

Hope it helps.

Bootstrap dropdown menu not working (not dropping down when clicked)

i faced the same problem , the solution worked for me , hope it will work for you too.

<script src="content/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="content/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $('.dropdown-toggle').dropdown();
    });
</script>

Please include the "jquery.min.js" file before "bootstrap.min.js" file, if you shuffle the order it will not work.

How can I open a website in my web browser using Python?

Actually it depends on what kind of uses. If you want to use it in a test-framework I highly recommend selenium-python. It is a great tool for testing automation related to web-browsers.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")

Start a fragment via Intent within a Fragment

You cannot open new fragments. Fragments need to be always hosted by an activity. If the fragment is in the same activity (eg tabs) then the back key navigation is going to be tricky I am assuming that you want to open a new screen with that fragment.

So you would simply create a new activity and put the new fragment in there. That activity would then react to the intent either explicitly via the activity class or implicitly via intent filters.

How do you use youtube-dl to download live streams (that are live)?

Before, this could be downloaded with streamlink but YouTube changed HLS rewinding with DASH. Therefore the way to do it below (that Prashant Adlinge commented) no longer works for YouTube:

streamlink --hls-live-restart STREAMURL best

More info here

What is the meaning of "__attribute__((packed, aligned(4))) "
  • packed means it will use the smallest possible space for struct Ball - i.e. it will cram fields together without padding
  • aligned means each struct Ball will begin on a 4 byte boundary - i.e. for any struct Ball, its address can be divided by 4

These are GCC extensions, not part of any C standard.

Implode an array with JavaScript?

We can create alternative of implode of in javascript: 

function my_implode_js(separator,array){
       var temp = '';
       for(var i=0;i<array.length;i++){
           temp +=  array[i] 
           if(i!=array.length-1){
                temp += separator  ; 
           }
       }//end of the for loop

       return temp;
}//end of the function

var array = new Array("One", "Two", "Three");


var str = my_implode_js('-',array);
alert(str);

react-native :app:installDebug FAILED

On MIUI , inside developer option by default "Install via USB" is disabled.Enable it and than it allows installing app via usb.

Uncaught ReferenceError: React is not defined

I was able to reproduce this error when I was using webpack to build my javascript with the following chunk in my webpack.config.json:

externals: {
    'react': 'React'
},

This above configuration tells webpack to not resolve require('react') by loading an npm module, but instead to expect a global variable (i.e. on the window object) called React. The solution is to either remove this piece of configuration (so React will be bundled with your javascript) or load the React framework externally before this file is executed (so that window.React exists).

How to show "Done" button on iPhone number pad

The simplest way is:

Create custom transparent button and place it in left down corner, which will have same CGSize as empty space in UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad. Toggle (show / hide) this button on textField becomeFirstResponder, on button click respectively.

Click outside menu to close in jquery

Take a look at the approach this question used:

How do I detect a click outside an element?

Attach a click event to the document body which closes the window. Attach a separate click event to the window which stops propagation to the document body. 
$('html').click(function() {
  //Hide the menus if visible
});

$('#menucontainer').click(function(event){
    event.stopPropagation();
});

android ellipsize multiline textview

Here is a solution to the problem. It is a subclass of TextView that actually works for ellipsizing. The android-textview-multiline-ellipse code listed in an earlier answer I have found to be buggy in certain circumstances, as well as being under GPL, which doesn't really work for most of us. Feel free to use this code freely and without attribution, or under the Apache license if you would prefer. Note that there is a listener to notify you when the text becomes ellipsized, which I found quite useful myself.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.Layout.Alignment;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.text.TextUtils.TruncateAt;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class EllipsizingTextView extends TextView {
    private static final String ELLIPSIS = "...";

    public interface EllipsizeListener {
        void ellipsizeStateChanged(boolean ellipsized);
    }

    private final List<EllipsizeListener> ellipsizeListeners = new ArrayList<EllipsizeListener>();
    private boolean isEllipsized;
    private boolean isStale;
    private boolean programmaticChange;
    private String fullText;
    private int maxLines = -1;
    private float lineSpacingMultiplier = 1.0f;
    private float lineAdditionalVerticalPadding = 0.0f;

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public void addEllipsizeListener(EllipsizeListener listener) {
        if (listener == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException();
        }
        ellipsizeListeners.add(listener);
    }

    public void removeEllipsizeListener(EllipsizeListener listener) {
        ellipsizeListeners.remove(listener);
    }

    public boolean isEllipsized() {
        return isEllipsized;
    }

    @Override
    public void setMaxLines(int maxLines) {
        super.setMaxLines(maxLines);
        this.maxLines = maxLines;
        isStale = true;
    }

    public int getMaxLines() {
        return maxLines;
    }

    @Override
    public void setLineSpacing(float add, float mult) {
        this.lineAdditionalVerticalPadding = add;
        this.lineSpacingMultiplier = mult;
        super.setLineSpacing(add, mult);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onTextChanged(CharSequence text, int start, int before, int after) {
        super.onTextChanged(text, start, before, after);
        if (!programmaticChange) {
            fullText = text.toString();
            isStale = true;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        if (isStale) {
            super.setEllipsize(null);
            resetText();
        }
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }

    private void resetText() {
        int maxLines = getMaxLines();
        String workingText = fullText;
        boolean ellipsized = false;
        if (maxLines != -1) {
            Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(workingText);
            if (layout.getLineCount() > maxLines) {
                workingText = fullText.substring(0, layout.getLineEnd(maxLines - 1)).trim();
                while (createWorkingLayout(workingText + ELLIPSIS).getLineCount() > maxLines) {
                    int lastSpace = workingText.lastIndexOf(' ');
                    if (lastSpace == -1) {
                        break;
                    }
                    workingText = workingText.substring(0, lastSpace);
                }
                workingText = workingText + ELLIPSIS;
                ellipsized = true;
            }
        }
        if (!workingText.equals(getText())) {
            programmaticChange = true;
            try {
                setText(workingText);
            } finally {
                programmaticChange = false;
            }
        }
        isStale = false;
        if (ellipsized != isEllipsized) {
            isEllipsized = ellipsized;
            for (EllipsizeListener listener : ellipsizeListeners) {
                listener.ellipsizeStateChanged(ellipsized);
            }
        }
    }

    private Layout createWorkingLayout(String workingText) {
        return new StaticLayout(workingText, getPaint(), getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight(),
                Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, lineSpacingMultiplier, lineAdditionalVerticalPadding, false);
    }

    @Override
    public void setEllipsize(TruncateAt where) {
        // Ellipsize settings are not respected
    }
}

ggplot2 legend to bottom and horizontal

Here is how to create the desired outcome:

library(reshape2); library(tidyverse)
melt(outer(1:4, 1:4), varnames = c("X1", "X2")) %>%
ggplot() + 
  geom_tile(aes(X1, X2, fill = value)) + 
  scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_legend()) +
  theme(legend.position="bottom",
        legend.spacing.x = unit(0, 'cm'))+
  guides(fill = guide_legend(label.position = "bottom"))

Created on 2019-12-07 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Edit: no need for these imperfect options anymore, but I'm leaving them here for reference.

Two imperfect options that don't give you exactly what you were asking for, but pretty close (will at least put the colours together).

library(reshape2); library(tidyverse)
df <- melt(outer(1:4, 1:4), varnames = c("X1", "X2"))
p1 <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value))
p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_legend()) +
 theme(legend.position="bottom", legend.direction="vertical")


p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = "colorbar") + theme(legend.position="bottom")

Created on 2019-02-28 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)

Node.js - Find home directory in platform agnostic way

Well, it would be more accurate to rely on the feature and not a variable value. Especially as there are 2 possible variables for Windows.

function getUserHome() {
  return process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE;
}

EDIT: as mentioned in a more recent answer, https://stackoverflow.com/a/32556337/103396 is the right way to go (require('os').homedir()).

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2

Python 2

The error is caused because ElementTree did not expect to find non-ASCII strings set the XML when trying to write it out. You should use Unicode strings for non-ASCII instead. Unicode strings can be made either by using the u prefix on strings, i.e. u'€' or by decoding a string with mystr.decode('utf-8') using the appropriate encoding.

The best practice is to decode all text data as it's read, rather than decoding mid-program. The io module provides an open() method which decodes text data to Unicode strings as it's read.

ElementTree will be much happier with Unicodes and will properly encode it correctly when using the ET.write() method.

Also, for best compatibility and readability, ensure that ET encodes to UTF-8 during write() and adds the relevant header.

Presuming your input file is UTF-8 encoded (0xC2 is common UTF-8 lead byte), putting everything together, and using the with statement, your code should look like:

with io.open('myText.txt', "r", encoding='utf-8') as f:
    data = f.read()

root = ET.Element("add")
doc = ET.SubElement(root, "doc")

field = ET.SubElement(doc, "field")
field.set("name", "text")
field.text = data

tree = ET.ElementTree(root)
tree.write("output.xml", encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True)

Output:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<add><doc><field name="text">data€</field></doc></add>

How do I "Add Existing Item" an entire directory structure in Visual Studio?

Below is the icon for the 'Show All Files', just for easy reference.

Enter image description here

Find element in List<> that contains a value

Either use LINQ:

var value = MyList.First(item => item.name == "foo").value;

(This will just find the first match, of course. There are lots of options around this.)

Or use Find instead of FindIndex:

var value = MyList.Find(item => item.name == "foo").value;

I'd strongly suggest using LINQ though - it's a much more idiomatic approach these days.

(I'd also suggest following the .NET naming conventions.)

How do I right align div elements?

I know this is an old post but couldn't you just use <div id=xyz align="right"> for right.

You can just replace right with left, center and justify.

Worked on my site:)

ASP.NET MVC 4 Custom Authorize Attribute with Permission Codes (without roles)

Maybe this is useful to anyone in the future, I have implemented a custom Authorize Attribute like this:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = true, Inherited = true)]
public class ClaimAuthorizeAttribute : AuthorizeAttribute, IAuthorizationFilter
{
    private readonly string _claim;

    public ClaimAuthorizeAttribute(string Claim)
    {
        _claim = Claim;
    }

    public void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationFilterContext context)
    {
        var user = context.HttpContext.User;
        if(user.Identity.IsAuthenticated && user.HasClaim(ClaimTypes.Name, _claim))
        {
            return;
        }

        context.Result = new ForbidResult();
    }
}

Function for 'does matrix contain value X?'

Many ways to do this. ismember is the first that comes to mind, since it is a set membership action you wish to take. Thus

X = primes(20);
ismember([15 17],X)
ans =
      0    1

Since 15 is not prime, but 17 is, ismember has done its job well here.

Of course, find (or any) will also work. But these are not vectorized in the sense that ismember was. We can test to see if 15 is in the set represented by X, but to test both of those numbers will take a loop, or successive tests.

~isempty(find(X == 15))
~isempty(find(X == 17))

or,

any(X == 15)
any(X == 17)

Finally, I would point out that tests for exact values are dangerous if the numbers may be true floats. Tests against integer values as I have shown are easy. But tests against floating point numbers should usually employ a tolerance.

tol = 10*eps;
any(abs(X - 3.1415926535897932384) <= tol)

Purpose of Unions in C and C++

The purpose of unions is rather obvious, but for some reason people miss it quite often.

The purpose of union is to save memory by using the same memory region for storing different objects at different times. That's it.

It is like a room in a hotel. Different people live in it for non-overlapping periods of time. These people never meet, and generally don't know anything about each other. By properly managing the time-sharing of the rooms (i.e. by making sure different people don't get assigned to one room at the same time), a relatively small hotel can provide accommodations to a relatively large number of people, which is what hotels are for.

That's exactly what union does. If you know that several objects in your program hold values with non-overlapping value-lifetimes, then you can "merge" these objects into a union and thus save memory. Just like a hotel room has at most one "active" tenant at each moment of time, a union has at most one "active" member at each moment of program time. Only the "active" member can be read. By writing into other member you switch the "active" status to that other member.

For some reason, this original purpose of the union got "overridden" with something completely different: writing one member of a union and then inspecting it through another member. This kind of memory reinterpretation (aka "type punning") is not a valid use of unions. It generally leads to undefined behavior is described as producing implementation-defined behavior in C89/90.

EDIT: Using unions for the purposes of type punning (i.e. writing one member and then reading another) was given a more detailed definition in one of the Technical Corrigenda to the C99 standard (see DR#257 and DR#283). However, keep in mind that formally this does not protect you from running into undefined behavior by attempting to read a trap representation.

What is the difference between DTR/DSR and RTS/CTS flow control?

The difference between them is that they use different pins. Seriously, that's it. The reason they both exist is that RTS/CTS wasn't supposed to ever be a flow control mechanism, originally; it was for half-duplex modems to coordinate who was sending and who was receiving. RTS and CTS got misused for flow control so often that it became standard.

Could not find tools.jar. Please check that C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151 contains a valid JDK installation

In my case, i had installed only the JRE so you could check to make sure you actually have a valid jdk. if not i advise you to uninstall whatever java is installed and download a correct jdk from here (the jdk comes with a jre so no need to download anything else) after set the environment variable and your done

Calculate number of hours between 2 dates in PHP

First, you should create an interval object from a range of dates. By the wording used in this sentence alone, one can easily identify basic abstractions needed. There is an interval as a concept, and a couple of more ways to implement it, include the one already mentioned -- from a range of dates. Thus, an interval looks like that:

$interval =
    new FromRange(
        new FromISO8601('2017-02-14T14:27:39+00:00'),
        new FromISO8601('2017-03-14T14:27:39+00:00')
    );

FromISO8601 has the same semantics: it's a datetime object created from iso8601-formatted string, hence the name.

When you have an interval, you can format it however you like. If you need a number of full hours, you can have

(new TotalFullHours($interval))->value();

If you want a ceiled total hours, here you go:

(new TotalCeiledHours($interval))->value();

For more about this approach and some examples, check out this entry.

Adjust UILabel height to text

You can also use sizeThatFits function.

For example:

label.sizeThatFits(superView.frame.size).height

Abstract Class:-Real Time Example

Here, Something about abstract class...

  1. Abstract class is an incomplete class so we can't instantiate it.
  2. If methods are abstract, class must be abstract.
  3. In abstract class, we use abstract and concrete method both.
  4. It is illegal to define a class abstract and final both.

Real time example--

If you want to make a new car(WagonX) in which all the another car's properties are included like color,size, engine etc.and you want to add some another features like model,baseEngine in your car.Then simply you create a abstract class WagonX where you use all the predefined functionality as abstract and another functionalities are concrete, which is is defined by you.
Another sub class which extend the abstract class WagonX,By default it also access the abstract methods which is instantiated in abstract class.SubClasses also access the concrete methods by creating the subclass's object.
For reusability the code, the developers use abstract class mostly.

abstract class WagonX
{
   public abstract void model();
   public abstract void color();
   public static void baseEngine()
    {
     // your logic here
    }
   public static void size()
   {
   // logic here
   }
}
class Car extends WagonX
{
public void model()
{
// logic here
}
public void color()
{
// logic here
}
}

How to tell whether a point is to the right or left side of a line

Here's a version, again using the cross product logic, written in Clojure. 

(defn is-left? [line point]
  (let [[[x1 y1] [x2 y2]] (sort line)
        [x-pt y-pt] point]
    (> (* (- x2 x1) (- y-pt y1)) (* (- y2 y1) (- x-pt x1)))))

Example usage:

(is-left? [[-3 -1] [3 1]] [0 10])
true

Which is to say that the point (0, 10) is to the left of the line determined by (-3, -1) and (3, 1).

NOTE: This implementation solves a problem that none of the others (so far) does! Order matters when giving the points that determine the line. I.e., it's a "directed line", in a certain sense. So with the above code, this invocation also produces the result of true:

(is-left? [[3 1] [-3 -1]] [0 10])
true

That's because of this snippet of code:

(sort line)

Finally, as with the other cross product based solutions, this solution returns a boolean, and does not give a third result for collinearity. But it will give a result that makes sense, e.g.:

(is-left? [[1 1] [3 1]] [10 1])
false

Simple way to compare 2 ArrayLists

As far as I understand it correctly, I think it's easiest to work with 4 lists: - Your sourceList - Your destinationList - A removedItemsList - A newlyAddedItemsList

Seeing the underlying SQL in the Spring JdbcTemplate?

I'm not 100% sure what you're getting at since usually you will pass in your SQL queries (parameterized or not) to the JdbcTemplate, in which case you would just log those. If you have PreparedStatements and you don't know which one is being executed, the toString method should work fine. But while we're on the subject, there's a nice Jdbc logger package here which will let you automatically log your queries as well as see the bound parameters each time. Very useful. The output looks something like this:

executing PreparedStatement: 'insert into ECAL_USER_APPT
(appt_id, user_id, accepted, scheduler, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, null)'
     with bind parameters: {1=25, 2=49, 3=1, 4=1}

Installing Java on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

The right place to download the JDK for Java 7 is Java SE Downloads.

All the other links provided above, as far as I can tell, either provide the JRE or Java 6 downloads (incidentally, if you want to run Eclipse or other IDEs, like IntelliJ IDEA, you will need the JDK, not the JRE).

Regarding IntelliJ IDEA - that will still ask you to install Java 6 as it apparently needs an older class loader or something: just follow the instructions when the dialog pop-up appears and it will install the JDK 6 in the right place.

Afterwards, you will need to do the sudo ln -snf mentioned in the answer above:

sudo ln -nsf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents \
    /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK

(copied here as it was mentioned that "above" may eventually not make sense as answers are re-sorted).

I also set my JAVA_HOME to point to where jdk_1.7.0_xx.jdk was installed:

export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home"

Then add that to your PATH:

export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

The alternative is to fuzz around with Apple's insane maze of hyperlinks, but honestly life is too short to bother.

Elegant way to create empty pandas DataFrame with NaN of type float

Hope this can help!

 pd.DataFrame(np.nan, index = np.arange(<num_rows>), columns = ['A'])

HTML text-overflow ellipsis detection

I think the better way to detect it is use getClientRects(), it seems each rect has the same height, so we can caculate lines number with the number of different top value.

getClientRects work like this

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

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

getRowRects work like this

you can detect like this

Least common multiple for 3 or more numbers

We have working implementation of Least Common Multiple on Calculla which works for any number of inputs also displaying the steps.

What we do is:

0: Assume we got inputs[] array, filled with integers. So, for example:
   inputsArray = [6, 15, 25, ...]
   lcm = 1

1: Find minimal prime factor for each input.
   Minimal means for 6 it's 2, for 25 it's 5, for 34 it's 17
   minFactorsArray = []

2: Find lowest from minFactors:
   minFactor = MIN(minFactorsArray)

3: lcm *= minFactor

4: Iterate minFactorsArray and if the factor for given input equals minFactor, then divide the input by it:
  for (inIdx in minFactorsArray)
    if minFactorsArray[inIdx] == minFactor
      inputsArray[inIdx] \= minFactor

5: repeat steps 1-4 until there is nothing to factorize anymore. 
   So, until inputsArray contains only 1-s.

And that's it - you got your lcm.

How to run Spring Boot web application in Eclipse itself?

In my case, I had to select the "src/main/java" and select the "Run As" menu Just like this, so that "Spring Boot App" would be displayed as here.

How to get browser width using JavaScript code?

An important addition to Travis' answer; you need to put the getWidth() up in your document body to make sure that the scrollbar width is counted, else scrollbar width of the browser subtracted from getWidth(). What i did ;

<body>
<script>
function getWidth(){
return Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth,
document.documentElement.scrollWidth,
document.body.offsetWidth,
document.documentElement.offsetWidth,
document.documentElement.clientWidth);
}
var aWidth=getWidth();
</script>
</body>

and call aWidth variable anywhere afterwards.

Why has it failed to load main-class manifest attribute from a JAR file?

You can run with:

java -cp .;app.jar package.MainClass

It works for me if there is no manifest in the JAR file.

Mapping object to dictionary and vice versa

I think you should use reflection. Something like this:

private T ConvertDictionaryTo<T>(IDictionary<string, object> dictionary) where T : new()
{
    Type type = typeof (T);
    T ret = new T();

    foreach (var keyValue in dictionary)
    {
        type.GetProperty(keyValue.Key).SetValue(ret, keyValue.Value, null);
    }

    return ret;
}

It takes your dictionary and loops through it and sets the values. You should make it better but it's a start. You should call it like this:

SomeClass someClass = ConvertDictionaryTo<SomeClass>(a);

How to "inverse match" with regex?

If you want to do this in RegexBuddy, there are two ways to get a list of all lines not matching a regex.

On the toolbar on the Test panel, set the test scope to "Line by line". When you do that, an item List All Lines without Matches will appear under the List All button on the same toolbar. (If you don't see the List All button, click the Match button in the main toolbar.)

On the GREP panel, you can turn on the "line-based" and the "invert results" checkboxes to get a list of non-matching lines in the files you're grepping through.

Delete everything in a MongoDB database

I followed the db.dropDatabase() route for a long time, however if you're trying to use this for wiping the database in between test cases you may eventually find problems with index constraints not being honored after the database drop. As a result, you'll either need to mess about with ensureIndexes, or a simpler route would be avoiding the dropDatabase alltogether and just removing from each collection in a loop such as:

db.getCollectionNames().forEach(
  function(collection_name) {
    db[collection_name].remove()
  }
);

In my case I was running this from the command-line using:

mongo [database] --eval "db.getCollectionNames().forEach(function(n){db[n].remove()});"

The most accurate way to check JS object's type?

Old question I know. You don't need to convert it. See this function:

function getType( oObj )
{
    if( typeof oObj === "object" )
    {
          return ( oObj === null )?'Null':
          // Check if it is an alien object, for example created as {world:'hello'}
          ( typeof oObj.constructor !== "function" )?'Object':
          // else return object name (string)
          oObj.constructor.name;              
    }   

    // Test simple types (not constructed types)
    return ( typeof oObj === "boolean")?'Boolean':
           ( typeof oObj === "number")?'Number':
           ( typeof oObj === "string")?'String':
           ( typeof oObj === "function")?'Function':false;

};

Examples:

function MyObject() {}; // Just for example

console.log( getType( new String( "hello ") )); // String
console.log( getType( new Function() );         // Function
console.log( getType( {} ));                    // Object
console.log( getType( [] ));                    // Array
console.log( getType( new MyObject() ));        // MyObject

var bTest = false,
    uAny,  // Is undefined
    fTest  function() {};

 // Non constructed standard types
console.log( getType( bTest ));                 // Boolean
console.log( getType( 1.00 ));                  // Number
console.log( getType( 2000 ));                  // Number
console.log( getType( 'hello' ));               // String
console.log( getType( "hello" ));               // String
console.log( getType( fTest ));                 // Function
console.log( getType( uAny ));                  // false, cannot produce
                                                // a string

Low cost and simple.

Convert categorical data in pandas dataframe

@Quickbeam2k1 ,see below -

dataset=pd.read_csv('Data2.csv')
np.set_printoptions(threshold=np.nan)
X = dataset.iloc[:,:].values

Using sklearn enter image description here

from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
labelencoder_X=LabelEncoder()
X[:,0] = labelencoder_X.fit_transform(X[:,0])

sorting a vector of structs

Just make a comparison function/functor:

bool my_cmp(const data& a, const data& b)
{
    // smallest comes first
    return a.word.size() < b.word.size();
}

std::sort(info.begin(), info.end(), my_cmp);

Or provide an bool operator<(const data& a) const in your data class:

struct data {
    string word;
    int number;

    bool operator<(const data& a) const
    {
        return word.size() < a.word.size();
    }
};

or non-member as Fred said:

struct data {
    string word;
    int number;
};

bool operator<(const data& a, const data& b)
{
    return a.word.size() < b.word.size();
}

and just call std::sort():

std::sort(info.begin(), info.end());

How to escape comma and double quote at same time for CSV file?

Thanks to both Tony and Paul for the quick feedback, its very helpful. I actually figure out a solution through POJO. Here it is:

if (cell_value.indexOf("\"") != -1 || cell_value.indexOf(",") != -1) {
    cell_value = cell_value.replaceAll("\"", "\"\"");
    row.append("\"");
    row.append(cell_value);
    row.append("\"");
} else {
    row.append(cell_value);
}

in short if there is special character like comma or double quote within the string in side the cell, then first escape the double quote("\"") by adding additional double quote (like "\"\""), then put the whole thing into a double quote (like "\""+theWholeThing+"\"" )

Text file with 0D 0D 0A line breaks

Apple mail has also been known to make an encoding error on text and csv attachments outbound. In essence it replaces line terminators with soft line breaks on each line, which look like =0D in the encoding. If the attachment is emailed to Outlook, Outlook sees the soft line breaks, removes the = then appends real line breaks i.e. 0D0A so you get 0D0D0A (cr cr lf) at the end of each line. The encoding should be =0D= if it is a mac format file (or any other flavour of unix) or =0D0A= if it is a windows format file.

If you are emailing out from apple mail (in at least mavericks or yosemite), making the attachment not a text or csv file is an acceptable workaround e.g. compress it.

The bug also exists if you are running a windows VM under parallels and email a txt file from there using apple mail. It is the email encoding. Form previous comments here, it looks like netscape had the same issue.

How do I find my host and username on mysql?

You should be able to access the local database by using the name localhost. There is also a way to determine the hostname of the computer you're running on, but it doesn't sound like you need that. As for the username, you can either (1) give permissions to the account that PHP runs under to access the database without a password, or (2) store the username and password that you need to connect with (hard-coded or stored in a config file), and pass those as arguments to mysql_connect. See http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php.

How to add app icon within phonegap projects?

FAQ: ICON / SPLASH SCREEN (Cordova 5.x / 2015)

I present my answer as a general FAQ that may help you to solve many problems I've encountered while dealing with icons/splash screens. You may find out like me that the documentation is not always very clear nor up to date. This will probably go to StackOverflow documentation when available.

First: answering the question

How can I add custom app icons for iOS and Android with phonegap?

In your version of Cordova the icon tag is useless. It is not even documented in Cordova 3.0.0. You should use the documentation version that fits the cli you are using and not the latest one!

The icon tag does not work for Android at all before the version 3.5.0 according to what I can see in the different versions of the documentation. In 3.4.0 they still advice to manually copy the files

In newer versions: your config.xml looks better for newer Cordova versions. However there are still many things you may want to know. If you decide to upgrade here are some useful things to modify:

  • You don't need the gap: namespace
  • You need <preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen" /> for Android

Here are more details of the questions you might ask yourself when trying to deal with icons and splash screen:

Can I use an old version of Cordova / Phonegap

No, the icon/splashscreen feature was not in former versions of Cordova so you must use a recent version. In former versions, only Phonegap Build did handle the icons/splash screen so building locally and handling icons was only possible with a hook. I don't know the minimum version to use this feature but with 5.1.1 it works fine in both Cordova/Phonegap cli. With Cordova 3.5 it didn't work for me.

Edit: for Android you must use at least 3.5.0

How can I debug the build process about icons?

The cli use a CP command. If you provide an invalid icon path, it will show a cp error:

sebastien@sebastien-xps:cordova (dev *+$%)$ cordova run android --device
cp: no such file or directory: /home/sebastien/Desktop/Stample-react/cordova/res/www/stample_splash.png

Edit: you have use cordova build <platform> --verbose to get logs of cp command usage to see where your icons gets copied

The icons should go in a folder according to the config. For me it goes in many subfolders in : platforms/android/build/intermediates/res/armv7/debug/drawable-hdpi-v4/icon.png

Then you can find the APK, and open it as a zip archive to check the icons are present. They must be in a res/drawable* folder because it's a special folder for Android.

Where should I put the icons/splash screens in my project?

In many examples you will find the icons/splash screens are declared inside a res folder. This res is a special Android folder in the output APK, but it does not mean you have to use a res folder in your project.

You can put your icon anywhere, but the path you use must be relative to the root of the project, and not www so take care! This is documented, but not clearly because all the examples are using res and you don't know where this folder is :(

I mean if you put the icon in www/icon.png you absolutly must include www in your path.

Edit Mars 2016: after upgrading my versions, now it seems that icons are relative to www folder but documentation has not been changed (issue)

Does <icon src="icon.png"/> work?

No it does not!.

On Android, it seems it used to work before (when the density attribute was not supported yet?) but not anymore. See this Cordova issue

On iOS, it seems using this global declaration may override more specific declarations so take care and build with --verbose to ensure everything works as expected.

Can I use the same icon/splash screen file for all the densities.

Yes you can. You can even use the same file for both the icon, and splash screen (just to test!). I have used a "big" icon file of 65kb without any problem.

What's the difference when using the platform tag vs the platform attribute

<icon src="icon.png" platform="android" density="ldpi" />

is the same as

<platform name="android">
    <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" density="ldpi" />
</platform>

Should I use the gap: namespace if using Phonegap?

In my experience new versions of Phonegap or Cordova are both able to understand icon declarations without using any gap: xml namespace.

However I'm still waiting for a valid answer here: cordova/phonegap plugin add VS config.xml

As far as I understand, some features with the gap: namespace may be available earlier in PhonegapBuild, then in Phonegap and then being ported to Cordova (?)

Is <preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen" /> required?

At least for Android yes it is. I opened an issue with additional explainations.

Does icon declaration order matters?

Yes it does! It may not have any impact on Android but it has on iOS according to my tests. This is unexpected and undocumented behavior so I opened another issue.

Do I need cordova-plugin-splashscreen?

Yes this is absolutly required if you want the splash screen to work. The documentation is not clear (issue) and let us think that the plugin is required only to offer a splash screen javascript API.

How can I resize the images for all width/height/densities fastly

There are tools to help you do that. The best one for me is http://makeappicon.com/ but it requires to provide an email address.

Other possible solutions are:

Can you give me an example config?

Yes. Here's my real config.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="co.x" version="0.2.6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:gap="http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0">
    <name>x</name>
    <description>
        x
    </description>
    <author email="[email protected]" href="https://x.co">
        x
    </author>
    <content src="index.html" />
    <preference name="permissions"                  value="none" />
    <preference name="webviewbounce"                value="false" />
    <preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView"     value="false" />
    <preference name="StatusBarBackgroundColor"     value="#0177C6" />
    <preference name="detect-data-types"            value="true" />
    <preference name="stay-in-webview"              value="false" />
    <preference name="android-minSdkVersion"        value="14" />
    <preference name="android-targetSdkVersion"     value="22" />
    <preference name="phonegap-version"             value="cli-5.1.1" />

    <preference name="SplashScreenDelay"            value="10000" />
    <preference name="SplashScreen"                 value="screen" />


    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-device"                spec="1.0.1" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-console"               spec="1.0.1" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist"             spec="1.1.0" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview"     spec="1.2.0" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-statusbar"             spec="1.0.1" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-screen-orientation"    spec="1.3.6" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-splashscreen"          spec="2.1.0" />

    <access origin="http://*" />
    <access origin="https://*" />

    <access launch-external="yes" origin="tel:*" />
    <access launch-external="yes" origin="geo:*" />
    <access launch-external="yes" origin="mailto:*" />
    <access launch-external="yes" origin="sms:*" />
    <access launch-external="yes" origin="market:*" />

    <platform name="android">
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" density="ldpi" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" density="mdpi" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" density="hdpi" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" density="xhdpi" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" density="xxhdpi" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" density="xxxhdpi" />
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="land-hdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="land-ldpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="land-mdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="land-xhdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="land-xhdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="land-xhdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="port-hdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="port-ldpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="port-mdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="port-xhdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="port-xxhdpi"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" density="port-xxxhdpi"/>
    </platform>

    <platform name="ios">
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="180" height="180" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="60" height="60" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="120" height="120" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="76" height="76" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="152" height="152" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="40" height="40" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="80" height="80" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="57" height="57" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="114" height="114" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="72" height="72" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="144" height="144" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="29" height="29" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="58" height="58" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="50" height="50" />
        <icon src="www/stample_icon.png" width="100" height="100" />
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="320" height="480"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="640" height="960"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="768" height="1024"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="1536" height="2048"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="1024" height="768"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="2048" height="1536"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="640" height="1136"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="750" height="1334"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="1242" height="2208"/>
        <splash src="www/stample_splash.png" width="2208" height="1242"/>
    </platform>

    <allow-intent href="*" />
    <engine name="browser" spec="^3.6.0" />
    <engine name="android" spec="^4.0.2" />
</widget>

A good source of examples are starter kits. Like phonegap-start or Ionic starter

How much faster is C++ than C#?

.NET languages can be as fast as C++ code, or even faster, but C++ code will have a more constant throughput as the .NET runtime has to pause for GC, even if it's very clever about its pauses.

So if you have some code that has to consistently run fast without any pause, .NET will introduce latency at some point, even if you are very careful with the runtime GC.

Change the size of a JTextField inside a JBorderLayout

From the api on GridLayout:

The container is divided into equal-sized rectangles, and one component is placed in each rectangle.

Try using FlowLayout or GridBagLayout for your set size to be meaningful. Also, @Serplat is correct. You need to use setPreferredSize( Dimension ) instead of setSize( int, int ).

    JPanel displayPanel = new JPanel();
    // JPanel displayPanel = new JPanel( new GridLayout( 4, 2 ) );
    // JPanel displayPanel = new JPanel( new BorderLayout() );
    // JPanel displayPanel = new JPanel( new GridBagLayout() );

    JTextField titleText = new JTextField( "title" );

    titleText.setPreferredSize( new Dimension( 200, 24 ) );

    // For FlowLayout and GridLayout, uncomment:
    displayPanel.add( titleText );

    // For BorderLayout, uncomment:
    // displayPanel.add( titleText, BorderLayout.NORTH );

    // For GridBagLayout, uncomment:
    // displayPanel.add( titleText, new GridBagConstraints( 0, 0, 1, 1, 1.0,
    // 1.0, GridBagConstraints.CENTER, GridBagConstraints.NONE,
    // new Insets( 0, 0, 0, 0 ), 0, 0 ) );

How to change css property using javascript

This is really easy using jQuery.

For instance:

$(".left").mouseover(function(){$(".left1").show()});
$(".left").mouseout(function(){$(".left1").hide()});

I've update your fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/TqDe9/2/

Float sum with javascript

 
(parseFloat('2.3') + parseFloat('2.4')).toFixed(1);

its going to give you solution i suppose

Android/Eclipse: how can I add an image in the res/drawable folder?

Just copy the image and paste into Eclipse in the res/drawable directory. Note that the image name should be in lowercase, otherwise it will end up with an error.

Is calling destructor manually always a sign of bad design?

There are cases when they are necessary:

In code I work on I use explicit destructor call in allocators, I have implementation of simple allocator that uses placement new to return memory blocks to stl containers. In destroy I have:

  void destroy (pointer p) {
    // destroy objects by calling their destructor
    p->~T();
  }

while in construct:

  void construct (pointer p, const T& value) {
    // initialize memory with placement new
    #undef new
    ::new((PVOID)p) T(value);
  }

there is also allocation being done in allocate() and memory deallocation in deallocate(), using platform specific alloc and dealloc mechanisms. This allocator was used to bypass doug lea malloc and use directly for example LocalAlloc on windows.

Why is `input` in Python 3 throwing NameError: name... is not defined

If we setaside the syntax error of print, then the way to use input in multiple scenarios are -

If using python 2.x :

then for evaluated input use "input"
example: number = input("enter a number")

and for string use "raw_input"
example: name = raw_input("enter your name")

If using python 3.x :

then for evaluated result use "eval" and "input"
example: number = eval(input("enter a number"))

for string use "input"
example: name = input("enter your name")

Password masking console application

Here's a version that adds support for the Escape key (which returns a null string)

public static string ReadPassword()
{
    string password = "";
    while (true)
    {
        ConsoleKeyInfo key = Console.ReadKey(true);
        switch (key.Key)
        {
            case ConsoleKey.Escape:
                return null;
            case ConsoleKey.Enter:
                return password;
            case ConsoleKey.Backspace:
                if (password.Length > 0) 
                {
                    password = password.Substring(0, (password.Length - 1));
                    Console.Write("\b \b");
                }
                break;
            default:
                password += key.KeyChar;
                Console.Write("*");
                break;
        }
    }
}

MySQL: Error dropping database (errno 13; errno 17; errno 39)

In my case it was due to 'lower_case_table_names' parameter.

The error number 39 thrown out when I tried to drop the databases which consists upper case table names with lower_case_table_names parameter is enabled.

This is fixed by reverting back the lower case parameter changes to the previous state.

Setting UILabel text to bold

Use font property of UILabel: 

label.font = UIFont(name:"HelveticaNeue-Bold", size: 16.0)

or use default system font to bold text: 

label.font = UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 16.0)

Should functions return null or an empty object?

I like not to return null from any method, but to use Option functional type instead. Methods that can return no result return an empty Option, rather than null.

Also, such methods that can return no result should indicate that through their name. I normally put Try or TryGet or TryFind at the beginning of the method's name to indicate that it may return an empty result (e.g. TryFindCustomer, TryLoadFile, etc.).

That lets the caller apply different techniques, like collection pipelining (see Martin Fowler's Collection Pipeline) on the result.

Here is another example where returning Option instead of null is used to reduce code complexity: How to Reduce Cyclomatic Complexity: Option Functional Type

How to drop a unique constraint from table column?

To find all system generated unique constraint names and other information related to it on any database.

You may use below query and enhance it as per your need:

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE WHERE CONSTRAINT_NAME LIKE '%UQ%'

Final query to drop all unique constraint through database. You may add where clause to restrict it to one table:

    DECLARE @uqQuery NVARCHAR(MAX)
    SET @uqQuery = SUBSTRING( (SELECT '; ' + 'ALTER TABLE [' + Table_Schema+'].['+Table_Name
        +']  DROP CONSTRAINT ['+CONSTRAINT_NAME+']'

    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE WHERE CONSTRAINT_NAME LIKE '%UQ%'
    FOR XML PATH('')), 2,  2000000)
    SELECT @uqQuery

How do I apply the for-each loop to every character in a String?

The easiest way to for-each every char in a String is to use toCharArray():

for (char ch: "xyz".toCharArray()) {
}

This gives you the conciseness of for-each construct, but unfortunately String (which is immutable) must perform a defensive copy to generate the char[] (which is mutable), so there is some cost penalty.

From the documentation:

[toCharArray() returns] a newly allocated character array whose length is the length of this string and whose contents are initialized to contain the character sequence represented by this string.

There are more verbose ways of iterating over characters in an array (regular for loop, CharacterIterator, etc) but if you're willing to pay the cost toCharArray() for-each is the most concise.

Different ways of adding to Dictionary

The performance is almost a 100% identical. You can check this out by opening the class in Reflector.net

This is the This indexer:

public TValue this[TKey key]
{
    get
    {
        int index = this.FindEntry(key);
        if (index >= 0)
        {
            return this.entries[index].value;
        }
        ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException();
        return default(TValue);
    }
    set
    {
        this.Insert(key, value, false);
    }
}

And this is the Add method:

public void Add(TKey key, TValue value)
{
    this.Insert(key, value, true);
}

I won't post the entire Insert method as it's rather long, however the method declaration is this:

private void Insert(TKey key, TValue value, bool add)

And further down in the function, this happens:

if ((this.entries[i].hashCode == num) && this.comparer.Equals(this.entries[i].key, key))
{
    if (add)
    {
        ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource.Argument_AddingDuplicate);
    }

Which checks if the key already exists, and if it does and the parameter add is true, it throws the exception.

So for all purposes and intents the performance is the same.

Like a few other mentions, it's all about whether you need the check, for attempts at adding the same key twice.

Sorry for the lengthy post, I hope it's okay.

Load and execute external js file in node.js with access to local variables?

Just do a require('./yourfile.js');

Declare all the variables that you want outside access as global variables. So instead of

var a = "hello" it will be

GLOBAL.a="hello" or just

a = "hello"

This is obviously bad. You don't want to be polluting the global scope. Instead the suggest method is to export your functions/variables.

If you want the MVC pattern take a look at Geddy.

Removing numbers from string

And, just to throw it in the mix, is the oft-forgotten str.translate which will work a lot faster than looping/regular expressions:

For Python 2:

from string import digits

s = 'abc123def456ghi789zero0'
res = s.translate(None, digits)
# 'abcdefghizero'

For Python 3:

from string import digits

s = 'abc123def456ghi789zero0'
remove_digits = str.maketrans('', '', digits)
res = s.translate(remove_digits)
# 'abcdefghizero'

Is there a "not equal" operator in Python?

There are two operators in Python for the "not equal" condition -

a.) != If values of the two operands are not equal, then the condition becomes true. (a != b) is true.

b.) <> If values of the two operands are not equal, then the condition becomes true. (a <> b) is true. This is similar to the != operator.

Casting a variable using a Type variable

I will never understand why you need up to 50 reputation to leave a comment but I just had to say that @Curt answer is exactly what I was looking and hopefully someone else.

In my example, I have an ActionFilterAttribute that I was using to update the values of a json patch document. I didn't what the T model was for the patch document to I had to serialize & deserialize it to a plain JsonPatchDocument, modify it, then because I had the type, serialize & deserialize it back to the type again.

Type originalType = //someType that gets passed in to my constructor.

var objectAsString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(myObjectWithAGenericType);
var plainPatchDocument = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JsonPatchDocument>(objectAsString);

var plainPatchDocumentAsString= JsonConvert.SerializeObject(plainPatchDocument);
var modifiedObjectWithGenericType = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(plainPatchDocumentAsString, originalType );

How to divide flask app into multiple py files?

You can use simple trick which is import flask app variable from main inside another file, like:

test-routes.py

from __main__ import app

@app.route('/test', methods=['GET'])
def test():
    return 'it works!'

and in your main files, where you declared flask app, import test-routes, like:

app.py

from flask import Flask, request, abort

app = Flask(__name__)

# import declared routes
import test-routes

It works from my side.

What is PECS (Producer Extends Consumer Super)?

This is the clearest, simplest way for me think of extends vs. super:

  • extends is for reading

  • super is for writing

I find "PECS" to be a non-obvious way to think of things regarding who is the "producer" and who is the "consumer". "PECS" is defined from the perspective of the data collection itself – the collection "consumes" if objects are being written to it (it is consuming objects from calling code), and it "produces" if objects are being read from it (it is producing objects to some calling code). This is counter to how everything else is named though. Standard Java APIs are named from the perspective of the calling code, not the collection itself. For example, a collection-centric view of java.util.List should have a method named "receive()" instead of "add()" – after all, the calling code adds the element, but the list itself receives the element.

I think it's more intuitive, natural and consistent to think of things from the perspective of the code that interacts with the collection – does the code "read from" or "write to" the collection? Following that, any code writing to the collection would be the "producer", and any code reading from the collection would be the "consumer".

Java ArrayList - how can I tell if two lists are equal, order not mattering?

If you don't hope to sort the collections and you need the result that ["A" "B" "C"] is not equals to ["B" "B" "A" "C"],

l1.containsAll(l2)&&l2.containsAll(l1)

is not enough, you propably need to check the size too :

    List<String> l1 =Arrays.asList("A","A","B","C");
    List<String> l2 =Arrays.asList("A","B","C");
    List<String> l3 =Arrays.asList("A","B","C");

    System.out.println(l1.containsAll(l2)&&l2.containsAll(l1));//cautions, this will be true
    System.out.println(isListEqualsWithoutOrder(l1,l2));//false as expected

    System.out.println(l3.containsAll(l2)&&l2.containsAll(l3));//true as expected
    System.out.println(isListEqualsWithoutOrder(l2,l3));//true as expected


    public static boolean isListEqualsWithoutOrder(List<String> l1, List<String> l2) {
        return l1.size()==l2.size() && l1.containsAll(l2)&&l2.containsAll(l1);
}

How to retrieve inserted id after inserting row in SQLite using Python?

You could use cursor.lastrowid (see "Optional DB API Extensions"):

connection=sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
cursor=connection.cursor()
cursor.execute('''CREATE TABLE foo (id integer primary key autoincrement ,
                                    username varchar(50),
                                    password varchar(50))''')
cursor.execute('INSERT INTO foo (username,password) VALUES (?,?)',
               ('test','test'))
print(cursor.lastrowid)
# 1

If two people are inserting at the same time, as long as they are using different cursors, cursor.lastrowid will return the id for the last row that cursor inserted:

cursor.execute('INSERT INTO foo (username,password) VALUES (?,?)',
               ('blah','blah'))

cursor2=connection.cursor()
cursor2.execute('INSERT INTO foo (username,password) VALUES (?,?)',
               ('blah','blah'))

print(cursor2.lastrowid)        
# 3
print(cursor.lastrowid)
# 2

cursor.execute('INSERT INTO foo (id,username,password) VALUES (?,?,?)',
               (100,'blah','blah'))
print(cursor.lastrowid)
# 100

Note that lastrowid returns None when you insert more than one row at a time with executemany:

cursor.executemany('INSERT INTO foo (username,password) VALUES (?,?)',
               (('baz','bar'),('bing','bop')))
print(cursor.lastrowid)
# None

Getting a Request.Headers value

 
string strHeader = Request.Headers["XYZComponent"]
bool bHeader = Boolean.TryParse(strHeader, out bHeader ) && bHeader;

if "true" than true
if "false" or anything else ("fooBar") than false

or

string strHeader = Request.Headers["XYZComponent"]
bool b;
bool? bHeader = Boolean.TryParse(strHeader, out b) ? b : default(bool?);

if "true" than true
if "false" than false
else ("fooBar") than null

Convert string to Date in java

it went OK when i used Locale.US parametre in SimpleDateFormat

String dateString = "15 May 2013 17:38:34 +0300";
System.out.println(dateString);

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.US);
DateFormat targetFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm", Locale.getDefault());
String formattedDate = null;
Date convertedDate = new Date();
try {
     convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(dateString);
System.out.println(dateString);
formattedDate = targetFormat.format(convertedDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
 System.out.println(convertedDate);

Why did my Git repo enter a detached HEAD state?

A simple accidental way is to do a git checkout head as a typo of HEAD.

Try this:

git init
touch Readme.md
git add Readme.md
git commit
git checkout head

which gives

Note: checking out 'head'.

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:

  git checkout -b <new-branch-name>

HEAD is now at 9354043... Readme

Upgrade python in a virtualenv

How to upgrade the Python version for an existing virtualenvwrapper project and keep the same name

I'm adding an answer for anyone using Doug Hellmann's excellent virtualenvwrapper specifically since the existing answers didn't do it for me.

Some context:

  • I work on some projects that are Python 2 and some that are Python 3; while I'd love to use python3 -m venv, it doesn't support Python 2 environments
  • When I start a new project, I use mkproject which creates the virtual environment, creates an empty project directory, and cds into it
  • I want to continue using virtualenvwrapper's workon command to activate any project irrespective of Python version

Directions:

Let's say your existing project is named foo and is currently running Python 2 (mkproject -p python2 foo), though the commands are the same whether upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, 3.6.0 to 3.6.1, etc. I'm also assuming you're currently inside the activated virtual environment.

1. Deactivate and remove the old virtual environment:

$ deactivate
$ rmvirtualenv foo

Note that if you've added any custom commands to the hooks (e.g., bin/postactivate) you'd need to save those before removing the environment.

2. Stash the real project in a temp directory:

$ cd ..
$ mv foo foo-tmp

3. Create the new virtual environment (and project dir) and activate:

$ mkproject -p python3 foo

4. Replace the empty generated project dir with real project, change back into project dir:

$ cd ..
$ mv -f foo-tmp foo
$ cdproject

5. Re-install dependencies, confirm new Python version, etc:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python --version

If this is a common use case, I'll consider opening a PR to add something like $ upgradevirtualenv / $ upgradeproject to virtualenvwrapper.

grep using a character vector with multiple patterns

I suggest writing a little script and doing multiple searches with Grep. I've never found a way to search for multiple patterns, and believe me, I've looked!

Like so, your shell file, with an embedded string:

 #!/bin/bash 
 grep *A6* "Alex A1 Alex A6 Alex A7 Bob A1 Chris A9 Chris A6";
 grep *A7* "Alex A1 Alex A6 Alex A7 Bob A1 Chris A9 Chris A6";
 grep *A8* "Alex A1 Alex A6 Alex A7 Bob A1 Chris A9 Chris A6";

Then run by typing myshell.sh.

If you want to be able to pass in the string on the command line, do it like this, with a shell argument--this is bash notation btw:

 #!/bin/bash 
 $stingtomatch = "${1}";
 grep *A6* "${stingtomatch}";
 grep *A7* "${stingtomatch}";
 grep *A8* "${stingtomatch}";

And so forth.

If there are a lot of patterns to match, you can put it in a for loop.

com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: UnknownHostKey

I would either:

  1. Try to ssh from the command line and accept the public key (the host will be added to ~/.ssh/known_hosts and everything should then work fine from Jsch) -OR-

  2. Configure JSch to not use "StrictHostKeyChecking" (this introduces insecurities and should only be used for testing purposes), using the following code:

    java.util.Properties config = new java.util.Properties(); 
config.put("StrictHostKeyChecking", "no");
session.setConfig(config);

Option #1 (adding the host to the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file) has my preference.

Getting current date and time in JavaScript

This question is quite old and the answers are too. Instead of those monstrous functions, we now can use moment.js to get the current date, which actually makes it very easy. All that has to be done is including moment.js in our project and get a well formated date, for example, by:

moment().format("dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a");

I think that makes it way easier to handle dates in javascript.

How to list all dates between two dates

Create a stored procedure that does something like the following:

declare @startDate date;
declare @endDate date;

select @startDate = '20150528';
select @endDate = '20150531';

with dateRange as
(
  select dt = dateadd(dd, 1, @startDate)
  where dateadd(dd, 1, @startDate) < @endDate
  union all
  select dateadd(dd, 1, dt)
  from dateRange
  where dateadd(dd, 1, dt) < @endDate
)
select *
from dateRange

SQL Fiddle with demo.

Or better still create a calendar table and just select from that.

In bash, how to store a return value in a variable?

The answer above suggests changing the function to echo data rather than return it so that it can be captured.

For a function or program that you can't modify where the return value needs to be saved to a variable (like test/[, which returns a 0/1 success value), echo $? within the command substitution:

# Test if we're remote.
isRemote="$(test -z "$REMOTE_ADDR"; echo $?)"
# Or:
isRemote="$([ -z "$REMOTE_ADDR" ]; echo $?)"

# Additionally you may want to reverse the 0 (success) / 1 (error) values
# for your own sanity, using arithmetic expansion:
remoteAddrIsEmpty="$([ -z "$REMOTE_ADDR" ]; echo $((1-$?)))"

E.g.

$ echo $REMOTE_ADDR

$ test -z "$REMOTE_ADDR"; echo $?
0
$ REMOTE_ADDR=127.0.0.1
$ test -z "$REMOTE_ADDR"; echo $?
1
$ retval="$(test -z "$REMOTE_ADDR"; echo $?)"; echo $retval
1
$ unset REMOTE_ADDR
$ retval="$(test -z "$REMOTE_ADDR"; echo $?)"; echo $retval
0

For a program which prints data but also has a return value to be saved, the return value would be captured separately from the output:

# Two different files, 1 and 2.
$ cat 1
1
$ cat 2
2
$ diffs="$(cmp 1 2)"
$ haveDiffs=$?
$ echo "Have differences? [$haveDiffs] Diffs: [$diffs]"
Have differences? [1] Diffs: [1 2 differ: char 1, line 1]
$ diffs="$(cmp 1 1)"
$ haveDiffs=$?
$ echo "Have differences? [$haveDiffs] Diffs: [$diffs]"
Have differences? [0] Diffs: []

# Or again, if you just want a success variable, reverse with arithmetic expansion:
$ cmp -s 1 2; filesAreIdentical=$((1-$?))
$ echo $filesAreIdentical
0

What are the differences between git remote prune, git prune, git fetch --prune, etc

I don't blame you for getting frustrated about this. The best way to look at is this. There are potentially three versions of every remote branch:

  1. The actual branch on the remote repository
    (e.g., remote repo at https://example.com/repo.git, refs/heads/master)
  2. Your snapshot of that branch locally (stored under refs/remotes/...)
    (e.g., local repo, refs/remotes/origin/master)
  3. And a local branch that might be tracking the remote branch
    (e.g., local repo, refs/heads/master)

Let's start with git prune. This removes objects that are no longer being referenced, it does not remove references. In your case, you have a local branch. That means there's a ref named random_branch_I_want_deleted that refers to some objects that represent the history of that branch. So, by definition, git prune will not remove random_branch_I_want_deleted. Really, git prune is a way to delete data that has accumulated in Git but is not being referenced by anything. In general, it doesn't affect your view of any branches.

git remote prune origin and git fetch --prune both operate on references under refs/remotes/... (I'll refer to these as remote references). It doesn't affect local branches. The git remote version is useful if you only want to remove remote references under a particular remote. Otherwise, the two do exactly the same thing. So, in short, git remote prune and git fetch --prune operate on number 2 above. For example, if you deleted a branch using the git web GUI and don't want it to show up in your local branch list anymore (git branch -r), then this is the command you should use.

To remove a local branch, you should use git branch -d (or -D if it's not merged anywhere). FWIW, there is no git command to automatically remove the local tracking branches if a remote branch disappears.

Left Join With Where Clause

The result is correct based on the SQL statement. Left join returns all values from the right table, and only matching values from the left table.

ID and NAME columns are from the right side table, so are returned.

Score is from the left table, and 30 is returned, as this value relates to Name "Flow". The other Names are NULL as they do not relate to Name "Flow".

The below would return the result you were expecting:

    SELECT  a.*, b.Score
FROM    @Table1 a
    LEFT JOIN @Table2 b
       ON a.ID = b.T1_ID 
WHERE 1=1
AND a.Name = 'Flow'

The SQL applies a filter on the right hand table.

Mockito - difference between doReturn() and when()

Both approaches behave differently if you use a spied object (annotated with @Spy) instead of a mock (annotated with @Mock):

  • when(...) thenReturn(...) makes a real method call just before the specified value will be returned. So if the called method throws an Exception you have to deal with it / mock it etc. Of course you still get your result (what you define in thenReturn(...))

  • doReturn(...) when(...) does not call the method at all.

Example:

public class MyClass {
     protected String methodToBeTested() {
           return anotherMethodInClass();
     }

     protected String anotherMethodInClass() {
          throw new NullPointerException();
     }
}

Test:

@Spy
private MyClass myClass;

// ...

// would work fine
doReturn("test").when(myClass).anotherMethodInClass();

// would throw a NullPointerException
when(myClass.anotherMethodInClass()).thenReturn("test");

Where is my .vimrc file?

For whatever reason, these answers didn't quite work for me. This is what worked for me instead:

In Vim, the :version command gives you the paths of system and user vimrc and gvimrc files (among other things), and the output looks something like this:

 system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
   user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
    user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
  user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"

The one you want is user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"

So to edit the file: vim $HOME/.vimrc

Source: Open vimrc file

Please help me convert this script to a simple image slider

Problems only surface when I am I trying to give the first loaded content an active state

Does this mean that you want to add a class to the first button?

$('.o-links').click(function(e) {   // ... }).first().addClass('O_Nav_Current');

instead of using IDs for the slider's items and resetting html contents you can use classes and indexes:

CSS:

.image-area {     width: 100%;     height: auto;     display: none; }  .image-area:first-of-type {     display: block; }

JavaScript:

var $slides = $('.image-area'),     $btns = $('a.o-links');  $btns.on('click', function (e) {     var i = $btns.removeClass('O_Nav_Current').index(this);     $(this).addClass('O_Nav_Current');      $slides.filter(':visible').fadeOut(1000, function () {         $slides.eq(i).fadeIn(1000);     });      e.preventDefault();  }).first().addClass('O_Nav_Current');

http://jsfiddle.net/RmF57/

How do I skip a header from CSV files in Spark?

Working in 2018 (Spark 2.3)

Python

df = spark.read
    .option("header", "true")
    .format("csv")
    .schema(myManualSchema)
    .load("mycsv.csv")

Scala

val myDf = spark.read
  .option("header", "true")
  .format("csv")
  .schema(myManualSchema)
  .load("mycsv.csv")

PD1: myManualSchema is a predefined schema written by me, you could skip that part of code

UPDATE 2021 The same code works for Spark 3.x

df = spark.read
    .option("header", "true")
    .option("inferSchema", "true")
    .format("csv")
    .csv("mycsv.csv")

Dropping connected users in Oracle database

Here's how I "automate" Dropping connected users in Oracle database:

# A shell script to Drop a Database Schema, forcing off any Connected Sessions (for example, before an Import) 
# Warning! With great power comes great responsibility.
# It is often advisable to take an Export before Dropping a Schema

if [ "$1" = "" ] 
then
    echo "Which Schema?"
    read schema
else
    echo "Are you sure? (y/n)"
    read reply
    [ ! $reply = y ] && return 1
    schema=$1
fi

sqlplus / as sysdba <<EOF
set echo on
alter user $schema account lock;
-- Exterminate all sessions!
begin     
  for x in ( select sid, serial# from v\$session where username=upper('$schema') )
  loop  
   execute immediate ( 'alter system kill session '''|| x.Sid || ',' || x.Serial# || ''' immediate' );  
  end loop;  
  dbms_lock.sleep( seconds => 2 ); -- Prevent ORA-01940: cannot drop a user that is currently connected
end;
/
drop user $schema cascade;
quit
EOF

Index Error: list index out of range (Python)

Generally it means that you are providing an index for which a list element does not exist.

E.g, if your list was [1, 3, 5, 7], and you asked for the element at index 10, you would be well out of bounds and receive an error, as only elements 0 through 3 exist.

'nuget' is not recognized but other nuget commands working

In Visual Studio:

Tools -> Nuget Package Manager -> Package Manager Console.

In PM:

Install-Package NuGet.CommandLine

Close Visual Studio and open it again.

Push JSON Objects to array in localStorage

There are a few steps you need to take to properly store this information in your localStorage. Before we get down to the code however, please note that localStorage (at the current time) cannot hold any data type except for strings. You will need to serialize the array for storage and then parse it back out to make modifications to it.

Step 1:

The First code snippet below should only be run if you are not already storing a serialized array in your localStorage session variable.
To ensure your localStorage is setup properly and storing an array, run the following code snippet first:

var a = [];
a.push(JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('session')));
localStorage.setItem('session', JSON.stringify(a));

The above code should only be run once and only if you are not already storing an array in your localStorage session variable. If you are already doing this skip to step 2.

Step 2:

Modify your function like so:

function SaveDataToLocalStorage(data)
{
    var a = [];
    // Parse the serialized data back into an aray of objects
    a = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('session')) || [];
    // Push the new data (whether it be an object or anything else) onto the array
    a.push(data);
    // Alert the array value
    alert(a);  // Should be something like [Object array]
    // Re-serialize the array back into a string and store it in localStorage
    localStorage.setItem('session', JSON.stringify(a));
}

This should take care of the rest for you. When you parse it out, it will become an array of objects.

Hope this helps.

Two divs side by side - Fluid display

Make both divs like this. This will align both divs side-by-side.

.my-class {
  display : inline-flex;
}

Redirecting Output from within Batch file

There is a cool little program you can use to redirect the output to a file and the console

some_command  ^|  TEE.BAT  [ -a ]  filename

_x000D_
_x000D_ 
@ECHO OFF_x000D_
:: Check Windows version_x000D_
IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO Syntax_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Keep variables local_x000D_
SETLOCAL_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Check command line arguments_x000D_
SET Append=0_x000D_
IF /I [%1]==[-a] (_x000D_
 SET Append=1_x000D_
 SHIFT_x000D_
)_x000D_
IF     [%1]==[] GOTO Syntax_x000D_
IF NOT [%2]==[] GOTO Syntax_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Test for invalid wildcards_x000D_
SET Counter=0_x000D_
FOR /F %%A IN ('DIR /A /B %1 2^>NUL') DO CALL :Count "%%~fA"_x000D_
IF %Counter% GTR 1 (_x000D_
 SET Counter=_x000D_
 GOTO Syntax_x000D_
)_x000D_
_x000D_
:: A valid filename seems to have been specified_x000D_
SET File=%1_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Check if a directory with the specified name exists_x000D_
DIR /AD %File% >NUL 2>NUL_x000D_
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (_x000D_
 SET File=_x000D_
 GOTO Syntax_x000D_
)_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Specify /Y switch for Windows 2000 / XP COPY command_x000D_
SET Y=_x000D_
VER | FIND "Windows NT" > NUL_x000D_
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 SET Y=/Y_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Flush existing file or create new one if -a wasn't specified_x000D_
IF %Append%==0 (COPY %Y% NUL %File% > NUL 2>&1)_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Actual TEE_x000D_
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=]" %%A IN ('FIND /N /V ""') DO (_x000D_
 >  CON    ECHO.%%B_x000D_
 >> %File% ECHO.%%B_x000D_
)_x000D_
_x000D_
:: Done_x000D_
ENDLOCAL_x000D_
GOTO:EOF_x000D_
_x000D_
:Count_x000D_
SET /A Counter += 1_x000D_
SET File=%1_x000D_
GOTO:EOF_x000D_
_x000D_
:Syntax_x000D_
ECHO._x000D_
ECHO Tee.bat,  Version 2.11a for Windows NT 4 / 2000 / XP_x000D_
ECHO Display text on screen and redirect it to a file simultaneously_x000D_
ECHO._x000D_
IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO Usage:  some_command  ³  TEE.BAT  [ -a ]  filename_x000D_
IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO Skip_x000D_
ECHO Usage:  some_command  ^|  TEE.BAT  [ -a ]  filename_x000D_
:Skip_x000D_
ECHO._x000D_
ECHO Where:  "some_command" is the command whose output should be redirected_x000D_
ECHO         "filename"     is the file the output should be redirected to_x000D_
ECHO         -a             appends the output of the command to the file,_x000D_
ECHO                        rather than overwriting the file_x000D_
ECHO._x000D_
ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude_x000D_
ECHO http://www.robvanderwoude.com_x000D_
ECHO Modified by Kees Couprie_x000D_
ECHO http://kees.couprie.org_x000D_
ECHO and Andrew Cameron
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Visual Studio 2008 Product Key in Registry?

Just delete key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/VCExpress/9.0/Registration

Or run in command line:

reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VCExpress\9.0\Registration /f

jQuery: load txt file and insert into div

Try

$(".text").text(data);

Or to convert the data received to a string.

Remove all whitespace from C# string with regex

Regex.Replace does not modify its first argument (recall that strings are immutable in .NET) so the call

Regex.Replace(LastName, @"\s+", "");

leaves the LastName string unchanged. You need to call it like this:

LastName = Regex.Replace(LastName, @"\s+", "");

All three of your regular expressions would have worked. However, the first regex would remove all plus characters as well, which I imagine would be unintentional.

How do I make an Android EditView 'Done' button and hide the keyboard when clicked?

For getting the done Button

editText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE);

and

android:inputType="text" in the xml

For handling on done clicked from keyboard

    editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event){
            if(actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE){
                // Your action on done
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

`

How to generate XML from an Excel VBA macro?

Here is the example macro to convert the Excel worksheet to XML file.

#'vba code to convert excel to xml

Sub vba_code_to_convert_excel_to_xml()
Set wb = Workbooks.Open("C:\temp\testwb.xlsx")
wb.SaveAs fileName:="C:\temp\testX.xml", FileFormat:= _
        xlXMLSpreadsheet, ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, CreateBackup:=False

End Sub

This macro will open an existing Excel workbook from the C drive and Convert the file into XML and Save the file with .xml extension in the specified Folder. We are using Workbook Open method to open a file. SaveAs method to Save the file into destination folder. This example will be help full, if you wan to convert all excel files in a directory into XML (xlXMLSpreadsheet format) file.

How can I get the number of records affected by a stored procedure?

Register an out parameter for the stored procedure, and set the value based on @@ROWCOUNT if using SQL Server. Use SQL%ROWCOUNT if you are using Oracle.

Mind that if you have multiple INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, you'll need a variable to store the result from @@ROWCOUNT for each operation.

Get refresh token google api

It is access_type=offline that you want.

This will return the refresh token the first time the user authorises the app. Subsequent calls do not force you to re-approve the app (approval_prompt=force).

See further detail: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2WebServer#offline

jQueryUI modal dialog does not show close button (x)

Just check the close button image path in your jquery-ui.css:

.ui-icon { 
    width: 16px; 
    height: 16px; 
    background-image: url**(../img/ui-icons_222222_256x240.png)**/*{iconsContent}*/; 
}
.ui-widget-content .ui-icon {
    background-image: url(../img/ui-icons_222222_256x240.png)/*{iconsContent}*/; 
}
.ui-widget-header .ui-icon {
    background-image: url(../img/ui-icons_222222_256x240.png)/*{iconsHeader}*/; 
}
.ui-state-default .ui-icon { 
    background-image: url(images/ui-icons_888888_256x240.png)/*{iconsDefault}*/; 
}
.ui-state-hover .ui-icon, .ui-state-focus .ui-icon {
    background-image: url(../img/ui-icons_454545_256x240.png)/*{iconsHover}*/; 
}
.ui-state-active .ui-icon {
    background-image: url(../img/ui-icons_454545_256x240.png)/*{iconsActive}*/; 
}

Correct the path of icons_222222_256x240.png and ui-icons_454545_256x240.png

JavaScript: How to pass object by value?

If you are using lodash or npm, use lodash's merge function to deep copy all of the object's properties to a new empty object like so:

var objectCopy = lodash.merge({}, originalObject);

https://lodash.com/docs#merge

https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash.merge

Typescript: React event types

The SyntheticEvent interface is generic:

interface SyntheticEvent<T> {
    ...
    currentTarget: EventTarget & T;
    ...
}

(Technically the currentTarget property is on the parent BaseSyntheticEvent type.)

And the currentTarget is an intersection of the generic constraint and EventTarget.
Also, since your events are caused by an input element you should use the ChangeEvent (in definition file, the react docs).

Should be:

update = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>): void => {
    this.props.login[e.currentTarget.name] = e.currentTarget.value
}

(Note: This answer originally suggested using React.FormEvent. The discussion in the comments is related to this suggestion, but React.ChangeEvent should be used as shown above.)

How can I count the number of elements of a given value in a matrix?

Here's a list of all the ways I could think of to counting unique elements:

M = randi([1 7], [1500 1]);

Option 1: tabulate

t = tabulate(M);
counts1 = t(t(:,2)~=0, 2);

Option 2: hist/histc

counts2_1 = hist( M, numel(unique(M)) );
counts2_2 = histc( M, unique(M) );

Option 3: accumarray

counts3 = accumarray(M, ones(size(M)), [], @sum);
%# or simply: accumarray(M, 1);

Option 4: sort/diff

[MM idx] = unique( sort(M) );
counts4 = diff([0;idx]);

Option 5: arrayfun

counts5 = arrayfun( @(x)sum(M==x), unique(M) );

Option 6: bsxfun

counts6 = sum( bsxfun(@eq, M, unique(M)') )';

Option 7: sparse

counts7 = full(sparse(M,1,1));

How to customize listview using baseadapter

 
private class ObjectAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    private Context context;
    private List<Object>objects;

    public ObjectAdapter(Context context, List<Object> objects) {
        this.context = context;
        this.objects = objects;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return objects.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position) {
        return objects.get(position);
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        ViewHolder holder;

        if(convertView==null){
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            convertView = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, parent, false);
            holder.text = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
            convertView.setTag(holder);
        }else{
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        holder.text.setText(getItem(position).toString()));
        return convertView;
    }

    class ViewHolder {
        TextView text;
    }
}

Fastest way to update 120 Million records

If you have the disk space, you could use SELECT INTO and create a new table. It's minimally logged, so it would go much faster

select t.*, int_field = CAST(-1 as int)
into mytable_new 
from mytable t

-- create your indexes and constraints

GO

exec sp_rename mytable, mytable_old
exec sp_rename mytable_new, mytable

drop table mytable_old

Why does ENOENT mean "No such file or directory"?

It's simply “No such directory entry”. Since directory entries can be directories or files (or symlinks, or sockets, or pipes, or devices), the name ENOFILE would have been too narrow in its meaning.

On duplicate key ignore?

Mysql has this handy UPDATE INTO command ;)

edit Looks like they renamed it to REPLACE

REPLACE works exactly like INSERT, except that if an old row in the table has the same value as a new row for a PRIMARY KEY or a UNIQUE index, the old row is deleted before the new row is inserted

Is #pragma once a safe include guard?

If we use msvc or Qt (up to Qt 4.5), since GCC(up to 3.4) , msvc both support #pragma once, I can see no reason for not using #pragma once.

Source file name usually same equal class name, and we know, sometime we need refactor, to rename class name, then we had to change the #include XXXX also, so I think manual maintain the #include xxxxx is not a smart work. even with Visual Assist X extension, maintain the "xxxx" is not a necessary work.

Angular 2 - Checking for server errors from subscribe

You can achieve with following way

    this.projectService.create(project)
    .subscribe(
        result => {
         console.log(result);
        },
        error => {
            console.log(error);
            this.errors = error
        }
    ); 
}

if (!this.errors) {
    //route to new page
}

Removing html5 required attribute with jQuery

If you want to set required to true

$(document).ready(function(){
$('#edit-submitted-first-name').prop('required',true);
});

if you want to set required to false

$(document).ready(function(){
$('#edit-submitted-first-name').prop('required',false);
});

How to get function parameter names/values dynamically?

 
function getArgs(args) {
    var argsObj = {};

    var argList = /\(([^)]*)/.exec(args.callee)[1];
    var argCnt = 0;
    var tokens;

    while (tokens = /\s*([^,]+)/g.exec(argList)) {
        argsObj[tokens[1]] = args[argCnt++];
    }

    return argsObj;
}

Display all views on oracle database

Open a new worksheet on the related instance (Alt-F10) and run the following query

SELECT view_name, owner
FROM sys.all_views 
ORDER BY owner, view_name

Python Flask, how to set content type

You can try the following method(python3.6.2):

case one:

@app.route('/hello')
def hello():

    headers={ 'content-type':'text/plain' ,'location':'http://www.stackoverflow'}
    response = make_response('<h1>hello world</h1>',301)
    response.headers = headers
    return response

case two:

@app.route('/hello')
def hello():

    headers={ 'content-type':'text/plain' ,'location':'http://www.stackoverflow.com'}
    return '<h1>hello world</h1>',301,headers

I am using Flask .And if you want to return json,you can write this:

import json # 
@app.route('/search/<keyword>')
def search(keyword):

    result = Book.search_by_keyword(keyword)
    return json.dumps(result),200,{'content-type':'application/json'}


from flask import jsonify
@app.route('/search/<keyword>')
def search(keyword):

    result = Book.search_by_keyword(keyword)
    return jsonify(result)

How can I convert a series of images to a PDF from the command line on linux?

Use convert from http://www.imagemagick.org. (Readily supplied as a package in most Linux distributions.)

Turn off warnings and errors on PHP and MySQL

Prepend functions with the '@' symbol to suppress certain errors, as opposed to turning off all error reporting.

More information: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php

PHP supports one error control operator: the at sign (@). When prepended to an expression in PHP, any error messages that might be generated by that expression will be ignored.

@fsockopen();

Wait for Angular 2 to load/resolve model before rendering view/template

A nice solution that I've found is to do on UI something like:

<div *ngIf="vendorServicePricing && quantityPricing && service">
 ...Your page...
</div

Only when: vendorServicePricing, quantityPricing and service are loaded the page is rendered.

sqlplus error on select from external table: ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout

Keep in mind that it's the user that is running the oracle database that must have write permissions to the /defaultdir directory, not the user logged into oracle. Typically you're running the database as the user "Oracle". It's not the same user (necessarily) that you created the external table with.

Check your directory permissions, too.

How to get a vCard (.vcf file) into Android contacts from website

I had problems with importing a VERSION:4.0 vcard file on Android 7 (LineageOS) with the standard Contacts app.

Since this is on the top search hits for "android vcard format not supported", I just wanted to note that I was able to import them with the Simple Contacts app (Play or F-Droid).

How to get a list of column names

Use a recursive query. Given

create table t (a int, b int, c int);

Run:

with recursive
  a (cid, name) as (select cid, name from pragma_table_info('t')),
  b (cid, name) as (
    select cid, '|' || name || '|' from a where cid = 0
    union all
    select a.cid, b.name || a.name || '|' from a join b on a.cid = b.cid + 1
  )
select name
from b
order by cid desc
limit 1;

Alternatively, just use group_concat:

select '|' || group_concat(name, '|') || '|' from pragma_table_info('t')

Both yield:

|a|b|c|

How to instantiate, initialize and populate an array in TypeScript?

There isn't a field initialization syntax like that for objects in JavaScript or TypeScript.

Option 1:

class bar {
    // Makes a public field called 'length'
    constructor(public length: number) { }
}

bars = [ new bar(1) ];

Option 2:

interface bar {
    length: number;
}

bars = [ {length: 1} ];

coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found when rendering in django admin

This error happens when you have a __unicode__ method that is a returning a field that is not entered. Any blank field is None and Python cannot convert None, so you get the error.

In your case, the problem most likely is with the PCE model's __unicode__ method, specifically the field its returning.

You can prevent this by returning a default value:

def __unicode__(self):
   return self.some_field or u'None'

How do I parse a URL into hostname and path in javascript?

Use https://www.npmjs.com/package/uri-parse-lib for this

var t = parserURI("http://user:[email protected]:8080/directory/file.ext?query=1&next=4&sed=5#anchor");

Press Keyboard keys using a batch file

Just to be clear, you are wanting to launch a program from a batch file and then have the batch file press keys (in your example, the arrow keys) within that launched program?

If that is the case, you aren't going to be able to do that with simply a ".bat" file as the launched would stop the batch file from continuing until it terminated--

My first recommendation would be to use something like AutoHotkey or AutoIt if possible, simply because they both have active forums where you'd find countless examples of people launching applications and sending key presses not to mention tools to simply "record" what you want to do. However you said this is a work computer and you may not be able to load a 3rd party program.. but you aren't without options.

You can use Windows Scripting Host from something like a .vbs file to launch a program and send keys to that process. If you're running a version of Windows that includes PowerShell 2.0 (Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, Windows 7, etc.) you can use Windows Scripting Host as a COM object from your PS script or use VB's Intereact class.

The specifics of how to do it are outside the scope of this answer but you can find numerous examples using the methods I just described by searching on SO or Google.

edit: Just to help you get started you can look here:

  1. Automate tasks with Windows Script Host's SendKeys method
  2. A useful thread about SendKeys

Computed / calculated / virtual / derived columns in PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL 12 supports generated columns:

PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released!

Generated Columns

PostgreSQL 12 allows the creation of generated columns that compute their values with an expression using the contents of other columns. This feature provides stored generated columns, which are computed on inserts and updates and are saved on disk. Virtual generated columns, which are computed only when a column is read as part of a query, are not implemented yet.

Generated Columns

A generated column is a special column that is always computed from other columns. Thus, it is for columns what a view is for tables. 

CREATE TABLE people (
    ...,
    height_cm numeric,
    height_in numeric GENERATED ALWAYS AS (height_cm * 2.54) STORED
);

db<>fiddle demo

Passing functions with arguments to another function in Python?

This is what lambda is for:

def perform(f):
    f()

perform(lambda: action1())
perform(lambda: action2(p))
perform(lambda: action3(p, r))

"&" meaning after variable type

The & means that the function accepts the address (or reference) to a variable, instead of the value of the variable.

For example, note the difference between this:

void af(int& g)
{
    g++;
    cout<<g;
}

int main()
{
    int g = 123;
    cout << g;
    af(g);
    cout << g;
    return 0;
}

And this (without the &):

void af(int g)
{
    g++;
    cout<<g;
}

int main()
{
    int g = 123;
    cout << g;
    af(g);
    cout << g;
    return 0;
}

How to check if C string is empty

First replace the scanf() with fgets() ...

do {
    if (!fgets(url, sizeof url, stdin)) /* error */;
    /* ... */
} while (*url != '\n');

What is the difference between parseInt() and Number()?

I always use parseInt, but beware of leading zeroes that will force it into octal mode.

MySQL: Curdate() vs Now()

CURDATE() will give current date while NOW() will give full date time.

Run the queries, and you will find out whats the difference between them.

SELECT NOW();     -- You will get 2010-12-09 17:10:18
SELECT CURDATE(); -- You will get 2010-12-09