Programs & Examples On #User controls

A UserControl is a separate, reusable input control that allows a user to interact with an application. User controls can be buttons, checkboxes, input text boxes, mice, keyboards, etc.

Disposing WPF User Controls

You have to be careful using the destructor. This will get called on the GC Finalizer thread. In some cases the resources that your freeing may not like being released on a different thread from the one they were created on.

Add a user control to a wpf window

You need to add a reference inside the window tag. Something like:

xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:YourCustomNamespace.Controls;assembly=YourAssemblyName"

(When you add xmlns:controls=" intellisense should kick in to make this bit easier)

Then you can add the control with:

<controls:CustomControlClassName ..... />

How do I make an Event in the Usercontrol and have it handled in the Main Form?

For those looking to do this in VB, here's how I got mine to work with a checkbox.

Background: I was trying to make my own checkbox that is a slider/switch control. I've only included the relevant code for this question.

In User control MyCheckbox.ascx

<asp:CheckBox ID="checkbox" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" />

In User control MyCheckbox.ascx.vb

Create an EventHandler (OnCheckChanged). When an event fires on the control (ID="checkbox") inside your usercontrol (MyCheckBox.ascx), then fire your EventHandler (OnCheckChanged).

Public Event OnCheckChanged As EventHandler

Private Sub checkbox_CheckedChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles checkbox.CheckedChanged
    RaiseEvent OnCheckChanged(Me, e)
End Sub

In Page MyPage.aspx

<uc:MyCheckbox runat="server" ID="myCheck" OnCheckChanged="myCheck_CheckChanged" />

Note: myCheck_CheckChanged didn't fire until I added the Handles clause below

In Page MyPage.aspx.vb

Protected Sub myCheck_CheckChanged (sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles scTransparentVoting.OnCheckChanged
    'Do some page logic here
End Sub

User Control - Custom Properties

You do this via attributes on the properties, like this:

[Description("Test text displayed in the textbox"),Category("Data")] 
public string Text {
  get => myInnerTextBox.Text;
  set => myInnerTextBox.Text = value;
}

The category is the heading under which the property will appear in the Visual Studio Properties box. Here's a more complete MSDN reference, including a list of categories.

Get access to parent control from user control - C#

A generic way to get a parent of a control that I have used is:

public static T GetParentOfType<T>(this Control control)
{
    const int loopLimit = 100; // could have outside method
    var current = control;
    var i = 0;

    do
    {
        current = current.Parent;

        if (current == null) throw new Exception("Could not find parent of specified type");
        if (i++ > loopLimit) throw new Exception("Exceeded loop limit");

    } while (current.GetType() != typeof(T));

    return (T)Convert.ChangeType(current, typeof(T));
}

It needs a bit of work (e.g. returning null if not found or error) ... but hopefully could help someone.

Usage:

var parent = currentControl.GetParentOfType<TypeWanted>();

Enjoy!

"The Controls collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks"

In my case I got this error because I was wrongly setting InnerText to a div with html inside it.

Example:

SuccessMessagesContainer.InnerText = "";

   <div class="SuccessMessages ui-state-success" style="height: 25px; display: none;" id="SuccessMessagesContainer" runat="server">
      <table>
         <tr>
            <td style="width: 80px; vertical-align: middle; height: 18px; text-align: center;">
               <img src="<%=Image_success_icn %>" style="margin: 0 auto; height: 18px;
                  width: 18px;" />
            </td>
            <td id="SuccessMessage" style="vertical-align: middle;" class="SuccessMessage" runat="server" >
            </td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </div>

How to calculate the sum of the datatable column in asp.net?

  public decimal Total()
    {
      decimal decTotal=(datagridview1.DataSource as DataTable).Compute("Sum(FieldName)","");
      return decTotal;
    }

How do I add my new User Control to the Toolbox or a new Winform?

One user control can't be applied to it ownself. So open another winform and the one will appear in the toolbox.

Android replace the current fragment with another fragment

Use android.support.v4.app for FragmentManager & FragmentTransaction in your code, it has worked for me.

DetailsFragment detailsFragment = new DetailsFragment();
android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.replace(R.id.details,detailsFragment);
fragmentTransaction.commit();

Load text file as strings using numpy.loadtxt()

Use genfromtxt instead. It's a much more general method than loadtxt:

import numpy as np
print np.genfromtxt('col.txt',dtype='str')

Using the file col.txt:

foo bar
cat dog
man wine

This gives:

[['foo' 'bar']
 ['cat' 'dog']
 ['man' 'wine']]

If you expect that each row has the same number of columns, read the first row and set the attribute filling_values to fix any missing rows.

LINQ Group By and select collection

you may also like this

var Grp = Model.GroupBy(item => item.Order.Customer)
      .Select(group => new 
        { 
             Customer = Model.First().Customer, 
             CustomerId= group.Key,  
             Orders= group.ToList() 
       })
      .ToList();

Failed to load ApplicationContext (with annotation)

In my case, I had to do the following while running with Junit5

@SpringBootTest(classes = {abc.class}) @ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class

Here abc.class was the class that was being tested

A server with the specified hostname could not be found

That fixed the problem for me, when trying to upgrade to El Capitan:

sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog

jQuery Ajax error handling, show custom exception messages

ServerSide:

     doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response){ 
            try{ //logic
            }catch(ApplicationException exception){ 
               response.setStatus(400);
               response.getWriter().write(exception.getMessage());
               //just added semicolon to end of line

           }
 }

ClientSide:

 jQuery.ajax({// just showing error property
           error: function(jqXHR,error, errorThrown) {  
               if(jqXHR.status&&jqXHR.status==400){
                    alert(jqXHR.responseText); 
               }else{
                   alert("Something went wrong");
               }
          }
    }); 

Generic Ajax Error Handling

If I need to do some generic error handling for all the ajax requests. I will set the ajaxError handler and display the error on a div named errorcontainer on the top of html content.

$("div#errorcontainer")
    .ajaxError(
        function(e, x, settings, exception) {
            var message;
            var statusErrorMap = {
                '400' : "Server understood the request, but request content was invalid.",
                '401' : "Unauthorized access.",
                '403' : "Forbidden resource can't be accessed.",
                '500' : "Internal server error.",
                '503' : "Service unavailable."
            };
            if (x.status) {
                message =statusErrorMap[x.status];
                                if(!message){
                                      message="Unknown Error \n.";
                                  }
            }else if(exception=='parsererror'){
                message="Error.\nParsing JSON Request failed.";
            }else if(exception=='timeout'){
                message="Request Time out.";
            }else if(exception=='abort'){
                message="Request was aborted by the server";
            }else {
                message="Unknown Error \n.";
            }
            $(this).css("display","inline");
            $(this).html(message);
                 });

invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript

What to change? Aside from the 3 or 4 dimensional array problem, you should get rid of the magic numbers (10 and 9).

const int DIM_SIZE = 10;
int myArray[DIM_SIZE][DIM_SIZE][DIM_SIZE];

for (int i = 0; i < DIM_SIZE; ++i){
    for (int t = 0; t < DIM_SIZE; ++t){            
        for (int x = 0; x < DIM_SIZE; ++x){

How to run a single test with Mocha?

npm test <filepath>

eg :

npm test test/api/controllers/test.js

here 'test/api/controllers/test.js' is filepath.

Getting the textarea value of a ckeditor textarea with javascript

I'm still having problems figuring out exactly how I find out what a user is typing into a ckeditor textarea.

Ok, this is fairly easy. Assuming your editor is named "editor1", this will give you an alert with your its contents:

alert(CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.getData());

The harder part is detecting when the user types. From what I can tell, there isn't actually support to do that (and I'm not too impressed with the documentation btw). See this article: http://alfonsoml.blogspot.com/2011/03/onchange-event-for-ckeditor.html

Instead, I would suggest setting a timer that is going to continuously update your second div with the value of the textarea:

timer = setInterval(updateDiv,100);
function updateDiv(){
    var editorText = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.getData();
    $('#trackingDiv').html(editorText);
}

This seems to work just fine. Here's the entire thing for clarity:

<textarea id="editor1" name="editor1">This is sample text</textarea>

<div id="trackingDiv" ></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1' );

    timer = setInterval(updateDiv,100);
    function updateDiv(){
        var editorText = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.getData();
        $('#trackingDiv').html(editorText);
    }
</script>

What is the difference between signed and unsigned variables?

unsigned is used when ur value must be positive, no negative value here, if signed for int range -32768 to +32767 if unsigned for int range 0 to 65535

How to inspect Javascript Objects

Here is my object inspector that is more readable. Because the code takes to long to write down here you can download it at http://etto-aa-js.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/inspector.js

Use like this :

document.write(inspect(object));

How to force browser to download file?

Set content-type and other headers before you write the file out. For small files the content is buffered, and the browser gets the headers first. For big ones the data come first.

Proper use of const for defining functions in JavaScript

It has been three years since this question was asked, but I am just now coming across it. Since this answer is so far down the stack, please allow me to repeat it:

Q: I am interested if there are any limits to what types of values can be set using const in JavaScript—in particular functions. Is this valid? Granted it does work, but is it considered bad practice for any reason?

I was motivated to do some research after observing one prolific JavaScript coder who always uses const statement for functions, even when there is no apparent reason/benefit.

In answer to "is it considered bad practice for any reason?" let me say, IMO, yes it is, or at least, there are advantages to using function statement.

It seems to me that this is largely a matter of preference and style. There are some good arguments presented above, but none so clear as is done in this article:

Constant confusion: why I still use JavaScript function statements by medium.freecodecamp.org/Bill Sourour, JavaScript guru, consultant, and teacher.

I urge everyone to read that article, even if you have already made a decision.

Here's are the main points:

Function statements have two clear advantages over [const] function expressions:

Advantage #1: Clarity of intent

When scanning through thousands of lines of code a day, it’s useful to be able to figure out the programmer’s intent as quickly and easily as possible.

Advantage #2: Order of declaration == order of execution

Ideally, I want to declare my code more or less in the order that I expect it will get executed.

This is the showstopper for me: any value declared using the const keyword is inaccessible until execution reaches it.

What I’ve just described above forces us to write code that looks upside down. We have to start with the lowest level function and work our way up.

My brain doesn’t work that way. I want the context before the details.

Most code is written by humans. So it makes sense that most people’s order of understanding roughly follows most code’s order of execution.

Where am I? - Get country

/**
 * Get ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for this device (or null if not available)
 * @param context Context reference to get the TelephonyManager instance from
 * @return country code or null
 */
public static String getUserCountry(Context context) {
    try {
        final TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
        final String simCountry = tm.getSimCountryIso();
        if (simCountry != null && simCountry.length() == 2) { // SIM country code is available
            return simCountry.toLowerCase(Locale.US);
        }
        else if (tm.getPhoneType() != TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_CDMA) { // device is not 3G (would be unreliable)
            String networkCountry = tm.getNetworkCountryIso();
            if (networkCountry != null && networkCountry.length() == 2) { // network country code is available
                return networkCountry.toLowerCase(Locale.US);
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e) { }
    return null;
}

Remove Item in Dictionary based on Value

Are you trying to remove a single value or all matching values?

If you are trying to remove a single value, how do you define the value you wish to remove?

The reason you don't get a key back when querying on values is because the dictionary could contain multiple keys paired with the specified value.

If you wish to remove all matching instances of the same value, you can do this:

foreach(var item in dic.Where(kvp => kvp.Value == value).ToList())
{
    dic.Remove(item.Key);
}

And if you wish to remove the first matching instance, you can query to find the first item and just remove that:

var item = dic.First(kvp => kvp.Value == value);

dic.Remove(item.Key);

Note: The ToList() call is necessary to copy the values to a new collection. If the call is not made, the loop will be modifying the collection it is iterating over, causing an exception to be thrown on the next attempt to iterate after the first value is removed.

How to send a POST request in Go?

I know this is old but this answer came up in search results. For the next guy - the proposed and accepted answer works, however the code initially submitted in the question is lower-level than it needs to be. Nobody got time for that.

//one-line post request/response...
response, err := http.PostForm(APIURL, url.Values{
    "ln": {c.ln},
    "ip": {c.ip},
    "ua": {c.ua}})

//okay, moving on...
if err != nil {
  //handle postform error
}

defer response.Body.Close()
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)

if err != nil {
  //handle read response error
}

fmt.Printf("%s\n", string(body))

https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#pkg-overview

How to scanf only integer?

I know how this can be done using fgets and strtol, I would like to know how this can be done using scanf() (if possible).

As the other answers say, scanf isn't really suitable for this, fgets and strtol is an alternative (though fgets has the drawback that it's hard to detect a 0-byte in the input and impossible to tell what has been input after a 0-byte, if any).

For sake of completeness (and assuming valid input is an integer followed by a newline):

while(scanf("%d%1[\n]", &n, (char [2]){ 0 }) < 2)

Alternatively, use %n before and after %*1[\n] with assignment-suppression. Note, however (from the Debian manpage):

This is not a conversion, although it can be suppressed with the * assignment-suppression character. The C standard says: "Execution of a %n directive does not increment the assignment count returned at the completion of execution" but the Corrigendum seems to contradict this. Probably it is wise not to make any assumptions on the effect of %n conversions on the return value.

How to filter JSON Data in JavaScript or jQuery?

No need for jQuery unless you target old browsers and don't want to use shims.

var yahooOnly = JSON.parse(jsondata).filter(function (entry) {
    return entry.website === 'yahoo';
});

In ES2015:

const yahooOnly = JSON.parse(jsondata).filter(({website}) => website === 'yahoo');

Bind failed: Address already in use

I was also facing that problem, but I resolved it. Make sure that both the programs for client-side and server-side are on different projects in your IDE, in my case NetBeans. Then assuming you're using localhost, I recommend you to implement both the programs as two different projects.

Entity Framework (EF) Code First Cascade Delete for One-to-Zero-or-One relationship

You will have to use the fluent API to do this.

Try adding the following to your DbContext:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{   
    modelBuilder.Entity<User>()
        .HasOptional(a => a.UserDetail)
        .WithOptionalDependent()
        .WillCascadeOnDelete(true);
}

When do you use Git rebase instead of Git merge?

TL;DR

If you have any doubt, use merge.

Short Answer

The only differences between a rebase and a merge are:

  • The resulting tree structure of the history (generally only noticeable when looking at a commit graph) is different (one will have branches, the other won't).
  • Merge will generally create an extra commit (e.g. node in the tree).
  • Merge and rebase will handle conflicts differently. Rebase will present conflicts one commit at a time where merge will present them all at once.

So the short answer is to pick rebase or merge based on what you want your history to look like.

Long Answer

There are a few factors you should consider when choosing which operation to use.

Is the branch you are getting changes from shared with other developers outside your team (e.g. open source, public)?

If so, don't rebase. Rebase destroys the branch and those developers will have broken/inconsistent repositories unless they use git pull --rebase. This is a good way to upset other developers quickly.

How skilled is your development team?

Rebase is a destructive operation. That means, if you do not apply it correctly, you could lose committed work and/or break the consistency of other developer's repositories.

I've worked on teams where the developers all came from a time when companies could afford dedicated staff to deal with branching and merging. Those developers don't know much about Git and don't want to know much. In these teams I wouldn't risk recommending rebasing for any reason.

Does the branch itself represent useful information

Some teams use the branch-per-feature model where each branch represents a feature (or bugfix, or sub-feature, etc.) In this model the branch helps identify sets of related commits. For example, one can quickly revert a feature by reverting the merge of that branch (to be fair, this is a rare operation). Or diff a feature by comparing two branches (more common). Rebase would destroy the branch and this would not be straightforward.

I've also worked on teams that used the branch-per-developer model (we've all been there). In this case the branch itself doesn't convey any additional information (the commit already has the author). There would be no harm in rebasing.

Might you want to revert the merge for any reason?

Reverting (as in undoing) a rebase is considerably difficult and/or impossible (if the rebase had conflicts) compared to reverting a merge. If you think there is a chance you will want to revert then use merge.

Do you work on a team? If so, are you willing to take an all or nothing approach on this branch?

Rebase operations need to be pulled with a corresponding git pull --rebase. If you are working by yourself you may be able to remember which you should use at the appropriate time. If you are working on a team this will be very difficult to coordinate. This is why most rebase workflows recommend using rebase for all merges (and git pull --rebase for all pulls).

Common Myths

Merge destroys history (squashes commits)

Assuming you have the following merge:

    B -- C
   /      \
  A--------D

Some people will state that the merge "destroys" the commit history because if you were to look at the log of only the master branch (A -- D) you would miss the important commit messages contained in B and C.

If this were true we wouldn't have questions like this. Basically, you will see B and C unless you explicitly ask not to see them (using --first-parent). This is very easy to try for yourself.

Rebase allows for safer/simpler merges

The two approaches merge differently, but it is not clear that one is always better than the other and it may depend on the developer workflow. For example, if a developer tends to commit regularly (e.g. maybe they commit twice a day as they transition from work to home) then there could be a lot of commits for a given branch. Many of those commits might not look anything like the final product (I tend to refactor my approach once or twice per feature). If someone else was working on a related area of code and they tried to rebase my changes it could be a fairly tedious operation.

Rebase is cooler / sexier / more professional

If you like to alias rm to rm -rf to "save time" then maybe rebase is for you.

My Two Cents

I always think that someday I will come across a scenario where Git rebase is the awesome tool that solves the problem. Much like I think I will come across a scenario where Git reflog is an awesome tool that solves my problem. I have worked with Git for over five years now. It hasn't happened.

Messy histories have never really been a problem for me. I don't ever just read my commit history like an exciting novel. A majority of the time I need a history I am going to use Git blame or Git bisect anyway. In that case, having the merge commit is actually useful to me, because if the merge introduced the issue, that is meaningful information to me.

Update (4/2017)

I feel obligated to mention that I have personally softened on using rebase although my general advice still stands. I have recently been interacting a lot with the Angular 2 Material project. They have used rebase to keep a very clean commit history. This has allowed me to very easily see what commit fixed a given defect and whether or not that commit was included in a release. It serves as a great example of using rebase correctly.

T-SQL stored procedure that accepts multiple Id values

A superfast XML Method, if you want to use a stored procedure and pass the comma separated list of Department IDs :

Declare @XMLList xml
SET @XMLList=cast('<i>'+replace(@DepartmentIDs,',','</i><i>')+'</i>' as xml)
SELECT x.i.value('.','varchar(5)') from @XMLList.nodes('i') x(i))

All credit goes to Guru Brad Schulz's Blog

How are environment variables used in Jenkins with Windows Batch Command?

I should this On Windows, environment variable expansion is %BUILD_NUMBER%

What is an optional value in Swift?

Lets Experiment with below code Playground.I Hope will clear idea what is optional and reason of using it.

var sampleString: String? ///Optional, Possible to be nil

sampleString = nil ////perfactly valid as its optional

sampleString = "some value"  //Will hold the value

if let value = sampleString{ /// the sampleString is placed into value with auto force upwraped.

    print(value+value)  ////Sample String merged into Two
}

sampleString = nil // value is nil and the

if let value = sampleString{

    print(value + value)  ///Will Not execute and safe for nil checking
}

//   print(sampleString! + sampleString!)  //this line Will crash as + operator can not add nil

Can't use Swift classes inside Objective-C

My issue was that the auto-generation of the -swift.h file was not able to understand a subclass of CustomDebugStringConvertible. I changed class to be a subclass of NSObject instead. After that, the -swift.h file now included the class properly.

Installing RubyGems in Windows

I use scoop as command-liner installer for Windows... scoop rocks!
The quick answer (use PowerShell):

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop install ruby

Longer answer:

Just searching for ruby:

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop search ruby
'main' bucket:
    jruby (9.2.7.0)
    ruby (2.6.3-1)

'versions' bucket:
    ruby19 (1.9.3-p551)
    ruby24 (2.4.6-1)
    ruby25 (2.5.5-1)

Check the installation info :

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop info ruby
Name: ruby
Version: 2.6.3-1
Website: https://rubyinstaller.org
Manifest:
  C:\Users\myuser\scoop\buckets\main\bucket\ruby.json
Installed: No
Environment: (simulated)
  GEM_HOME=C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\gems
  GEM_PATH=C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\gems
  PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\bin
  PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\gems\bin

Output from installation:

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop install ruby
Updating Scoop...
Updating 'extras' bucket...
Installing 'ruby' (2.6.3-1) [64bit]
rubyinstaller-2.6.3-1-x64.7z (10.3 MB) [============================= ... ===========] 100%
Checking hash of rubyinstaller-2.6.3-1-x64.7z ... ok.
Extracting rubyinstaller-2.6.3-1-x64.7z ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\ruby\current => ~\scoop\apps\ruby\2.6.3-1
Persisting gems
Running post-install script...
Fetching rake-12.3.3.gem
Successfully installed rake-12.3.3
Parsing documentation for rake-12.3.3
Installing ri documentation for rake-12.3.3
Done installing documentation for rake after 1 seconds
1 gem installed
'ruby' (2.6.3-1) was installed successfully!
Notes
-----
Install MSYS2 via 'scoop install msys2' and then run 'ridk install' to install the toolchain!
'ruby' suggests installing 'msys2'.
PS C:\Users\myuser>

Excel formula to get week number in month (having Monday)

Finding of week number for each date of a month (considering Monday as beginning of the week)

Keep the first date of month contant $B$13

=WEEKNUM(B18,2)-WEEKNUM($B$13,2)+1

WEEKNUM(B18,2) - returns the week number of the date mentioned in cell B18

WEEKNUM($B$13,2) - returns the week number of the 1st date of month in cell B13

Calling functions in a DLL from C++

You can either go the LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress route (as Harper mentioned in his answer, here's link to the run-time dynamic linking MSDN sample again) or you can link your console application to the .lib produced from the DLL project and include the hea.h file with the declaration of your function (as described in the load-time dynamic linking MSDN sample)

In both cases, you need to make sure your DLL exports the function you want to call properly. The easiest way to do it is by using __declspec(dllexport) on the function declaration (as shown in the creating a simple dynamic-link library MSDN sample), though you can do it also through the corresponding .def file in your DLL project.

For more information on the topic of DLLs, you should browse through the MSDN About Dynamic-Link Libraries topic.

Python basics printing 1 to 100

The answers here have pointed out that because after incrementing count it doesn't equal exactly 100, then it keeps going as the criteria isn't met (it's likely you want < to say less than 100).

I'll just add that you should really be looking at Python's builtin range function which generates a sequence of integers from a starting value, up to (but not including) another value, and an optional step - so you can adjust from adding 1 or 3 or 9 at a time...

0-100 (but not including 100, defaults starting from 0 and stepping by 1):

for number in range(100):
    print(number)

0-100 (but not including and makes sure number doesn't go above 100) in steps of 3:

for number in range(0, 100, 3):
    print(number)

Convert varchar dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy datetime

I think that more accurate is this syntax:

SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(10), GETDATE(), 103)

I add SELECT and GETDATE() for instant testing purposes :)

How do you use $sce.trustAsHtml(string) to replicate ng-bind-html-unsafe in Angular 1.2+

JavaScript

$scope.get_pre = function(x) {
    return $sce.trustAsHtml(x);
};

HTML

<pre ng-bind-html="get_pre(html)"></pre>

How can I set the request header for curl?

To pass multiple headers in a curl request you simply add additional -H or --header to your curl command.

Example

//Simplified
$ curl -v -H 'header1:val' -H 'header2:val' URL

//Explanatory
$ curl -v -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  https://www.example.com

Going Further

For standard HTTP header fields such as User-Agent, Cookie, Host, there is actually another way to setting them. The curl command offers designated options for setting these header fields:

  • -A (or --user-agent): set "User-Agent" field.
  • -b (or --cookie): set "Cookie" field.
  • -e (or --referer): set "Referer" field.
  • -H (or --header): set "Header" field

For example, the following two commands are equivalent. Both of them change "User-Agent" string in the HTTP header.

    $ curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "User-Agent: UserAgentString" https://www.example.com
    $ curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -A "UserAgentString" https://www.example.com

Defining a percentage width for a LinearLayout?

*You can use layout_weight properties. If you want to take 70% of parent width you must set child layout_width property value 0dp, like android:layout_width="0dp"*

A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found for debug mode

Click Your app from Xcode Under Targets. (Under project.) Here you see Summary info, build settings, Build phases, build rules.

Okay go to Build Settings. Go down to Code Signing.

You see you have two fields Debug and Release. You have two profiles to choose from in each of those fields, Distributing and developing.

Let distributing be the one from the Release field. Let Developing be the one from the Debug field.

Doing this solved this problem, and let that error message go away. Now I can run my application fine.

How to include !important in jquery

It is also possible to add more important properties:

inputObj.attr('style', 'color:black !important; background-color:#428bca !important;');

Finding the type of an object in C++

Your description is a little confusing.

Generally speaking, though some C++ implementations have mechanisms for it, you're not supposed to ask about the type. Instead, you are supposed to do a dynamic_cast on the pointer to A. What this will do is that at runtime, the actual contents of the pointer to A will be checked. If you have a B, you'll get your pointer to B. Otherwise, you'll get an exception or null.

How to schedule a periodic task in Java?

If your application is already using Spring framework, you have Scheduling built in

Sending credentials with cross-domain posts?

In jQuery 3 and perhaps earlier versions, the following simpler config also works for individual requests:

$.ajax(
        'https://foo.bar.com,
        {
            dataType: 'json',
            xhrFields: {
                withCredentials: true
            },
            success: successFunc
        }
    );

The full error I was getting in Firefox Dev Tools -> Network tab (in the Security tab for an individual request) was:

An error occurred during a connection to foo.bar.com.SSL peer was unable to negotiate an acceptable set of security parameters.Error code: SSL_ERROR_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE_ALERT

Nothing was returned from render. This usually means a return statement is missing. Or, to render nothing, return null

Got the answer: I should not use parentheses after return (). This works:

return  <div> <Search_Bar /> </div>

If you want to write multiline, then return ( ...

Your starting parenthesis should be on the same line as return.

SQL Server Management Studio, how to get execution time down to milliseconds

I don't know about expanding the information bar.

But you can get the timings set as a default for all queries showing in the "Messages" tab.

When in a Query window, go to the Query Menu item, select "query options" then select "advanced" in the "Execution" group and check the "set statistics time" / "set statistics IO" check boxes. These values will then show up in the messages area for each query without having to remember to put in the set stats on and off.

You could also use Shift + Alt + S to enable client statistics at any time

Switch in Laravel 5 - Blade

IN LARAVEL 5.2 AND UP:

Write your usual code between the opening and closing PHP statements.

@php
switch (x) {
    case 1:
        //code to be executed
        break;
    default:
        //code to be executed
}
@endphp

What is a clearfix?

The other (and perhaps simplest) option for acheiving a clearfix is to use overflow:hidden; on the containing element. For example

_x000D_
_x000D_
.parent {_x000D_
  background: red;_x000D_
  overflow: hidden;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.segment-a {_x000D_
  float: left;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.segment-b {_x000D_
  float: right;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="parent">_x000D_
  <div class="segment-a">_x000D_
    Float left_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
  <div class="segment-b">_x000D_
    Float right_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Of course this can only be used in instances where you never wish the content to overflow.

Twig ternary operator, Shorthand if-then-else

You can use shorthand syntax as of Twig 1.12.0

{{ foo ?: 'no' }} is the same as {{ foo ? foo : 'no' }}
{{ foo ? 'yes' }} is the same as {{ foo ? 'yes' : '' }}

SOAP or REST for Web Services?

I'm sure Don Box created SOAP as a joke - 'look you can call RPC methods over the web' and today groans when he realises what a bloated nightmare of web standards it has become :-)

REST is good, simple, implemented everywhere (so more a 'standard' than the standards) fast and easy. Use REST.

What causes a TCP/IP reset (RST) flag to be sent?

Run a packet sniffer (e.g., Wireshark) also on the peer to see whether it's the peer who's sending the RST or someone in the middle.

Datatables - Setting column width

If you ever need to set your datatable column's width using CSS ONLY, following css will help you :-)

HTML

<table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover table-checkable" id="datatable">
    <thead>
    <tr role="row" class="heading">
        <th width="2%">
            <label class="mt-checkbox mt-checkbox-single mt-checkbox-outline">
                <input type="checkbox" class="group-checkable" data-set="#sample_2 .checkboxes" />
                <span></span>
            </label>
        </th>
        <th width=""> Col 1 </th>
        <th width=""> Col 2 </th>
        <th width=""> Col 3 </th>
        <th width=""> Actions </th>
    </tr>
    <tr role="row" class="filter">
        <td> </td>
        <td><input type="text" class="form-control form-filter input-sm" name="col_1"></td>
        <td><input type="text" class="form-control form-filter input-sm" name="col_2"></td>
        <td><input type="text" class="form-control form-filter input-sm" name="col_3"></td>
        <td>
            <div class="margin-bottom-5">
                <button class="btn btn-sm btn-success filter-submit margin-bottom"><i class="fa fa-search"></i> Search</button>
            </div>
            <button class="btn btn-sm btn-default filter-cancel"><i class="fa fa-times"></i> Reset</button>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody> </tbody> 
</table>

Using metronic admin theme and my table id is #datatable as above.

CSS

#datatable > thead > tr.heading > th:nth-child(2),
#datatable > thead > tr.heading > th:nth-child(3) { width: 120px; min-width: 120px; }

How to beautifully update a JPA entity in Spring Data?

This is more an object initialzation question more than a jpa question, both methods work and you can have both of them at the same time , usually if the data member value is ready before the instantiation you use the constructor parameters, if this value could be updated after the instantiation you should have a setter.

Does Python SciPy need BLAS?

I guess you are talking about installation in Ubuntu. Just use:

apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy

That should take care of the BLAS libraries compiling as well. Else, compiling the BLAS libraries is very difficult.

How should I use Outlook to send code snippets?

Would sending the mail as plain-text sort this?

"How to Send a Plain Text Message in Outlook":

  • Select Actions | New Mail Message Using | Plain Text from the menu in Outlook.
  • Create your message as usual.
  • Click Send to deliver it.

Being plain text it shouldn't screw up your code, with "smart" quotes, auto-capitalisation and such.

Another possible option, if this is a common problem within the company perhaps you could setup an internal code-paste site, there's plenty of open-source ones around, like Open Pastebin

Updating and committing only a file's permissions using git version control

Not working for me.

The mode is true, the file perms have been changed, but git says there's no work to do.

git init
git add dir/file
chmod 440 dir/file
git commit -a

The problem seems to be that git recognizes only certain permission changes.

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.

How to comment and uncomment blocks of code in the Office VBA Editor

An easy way to add buttons to Comment or Un-Comment a code block is:

  • Go to View-Toolbars-Customise
  • Select the Command tab
  • Select the Edit Category on the left
  • Drag the “Comment Block” and “Uncomment Block” icons onto your toolbar.

What is the difference between Session.Abandon() and Session.Clear()

this code works and dont throw any exception:

Session.Abandon();  
Session["tempKey1"] = "tempValue1";

It's because when the Abandon method is called, the current Session object is queued for deletion but is not actually deleted until all of the script commands on the current page have been processed. This means that you can access variables stored in the Session object on the same page as the call to the Abandon method but not in any subsequent Web pages.

For example, in the following script, the third line prints the value Mary. This is because the Session object is not destroyed until the server has finished processing the script.

<% 
  Session.Abandon  
  Session("MyName") = "Mary" 
  Reponse.Write(Session("MyName")) 
%>

If you access the variable MyName on a subsequent Web page, it is empty. This is because MyName was destroyed with the previous Session object when the page containing the previous example finished processing.

from MSDN Session.Abandon

Android: how to convert whole ImageView to Bitmap?

You could just use the imageView's image cache. It will render the entire view as it is layed out (scaled,bordered with a background etc) to a new bitmap.

just make sure it built.

imageView.buildDrawingCache();
Bitmap bmap = imageView.getDrawingCache();

there's your bitmap as the screen saw it.

How do I ignore files in Subversion?

Also, if you use Tortoise SVN you can do this:

  1. In context menu select "TortoiseSVN", then "Properties"
  2. In appeared window click "New", then "Advanced"
  3. In appeared window opposite to "Property name" select or type "svn:ignore", opposite to "Property value" type desired file name or folder name or file mask (in my case it was "*/target"), click "Apply property recursively"
  4. Ok. Ok.
  5. Commit

How to obtain the start time and end time of a day?

tl;dr

LocalDate                       // Represents an entire day, without time-of-day and without time zone.
.now(                           // Capture the current date.
    ZoneId.of( "Asia/Tokyo" )   // Returns a `ZoneId` object.
)                               // Returns a `LocalDate` object.
.atStartOfDay(                  // Determines the first moment of the day as seen on that date in that time zone. Not all days start at 00:00!
    ZoneId.of( "Asia/Tokyo" ) 
)                               // Returns a `ZonedDateTime` object.

Start of day

Get the full length of the today as seen in a time zone.

Using Half-Open approach, where the beginning is inclusive while the ending is exclusive. This approach solves the flaw in your code that fails to account for the very last second of the day.

ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of( "Africa/Tunis" ) ;
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now( zoneId  ) ;

ZonedDateTime zdtStart = today.atStartOfDay( zoneId ) ;
ZonedDateTime zdtStop = today.plusDays( 1 ).atStartOfDay( zoneId ) ;

zdtStart.toString() = 2020-01-30T00:00+01:00[Africa/Tunis]

zdtStop.toString() = 2020-01-31T00:00+01:00[Africa/Tunis]

See the same moments in UTC.

Instant start = zdtStart.toInstant() ;
Instant stop = zdtStop.toInstant() ;

start.toString() = 2020-01-29T23:00:00Z

stop.toString() = 2020-01-30T23:00:00Z

If you want the entire day of a date as seen in UTC rather than in a time zone, use OffsetDateTime.

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now( ZoneOffset.UTC  ) ;

OffsetDateTime odtStart = today.atTime( OffsetTime.MIN ) ;
OffsetDateTime odtStop = today.plusDays( 1 ).atTime( OffsetTime.MIN ) ;

odtStart.toString() = 2020-01-30T00:00+18:00

odtStop.toString() = 2020-01-31T00:00+18:00

These OffsetDateTime objects will already be in UTC, but you can call toInstant if you need such objects which are always in UTC by definition.

Instant start = odtStart.toInstant() ;
Instant stop = odtStop.toInstant() ;

start.toString() = 2020-01-29T06:00:00Z

stop.toString() = 2020-01-30T06:00:00Z

Tip: You may be interested in adding the ThreeTen-Extra library to your project to use its Interval class to represent this pair of Instant objects. This class offers useful methods for comparison such as abuts, overlaps, contains, and more.

Interval interval = Interval.of( start , stop ) ;

interval.toString() = 2020-01-29T06:00:00Z/2020-01-30T06:00:00Z

Half-Open

The answer by mprivat is correct. His point is to not try to obtain end of a day, but rather compare to "before start of next day". His idea is known as the "Half-Open" approach where a span of time has a beginning that is inclusive while the ending is exclusive.

  • The current date-time frameworks of Java (java.util.Date/Calendar and Joda-Time) both use milliseconds from the epoch. But in Java 8, the new JSR 310 java.time.* classes use nanoseconds resolution. Any code you wrote based on forcing the milliseconds count of last moment of day would be incorrect if switched to the new classes.
  • Comparing data from other sources becomes faulty if they employ other resolutions. For example, Unix libraries typically employ whole seconds, and databases such as Postgres resolve date-time to microseconds.
  • Some Daylight Saving Time changes happen over midnight which might further confuse things.

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Joda-Time 2.3 offers a method for this very purpose, to obtain first moment of the day: withTimeAtStartOfDay(). Similarly in java.time, LocalDate::atStartOfDay.

Search StackOverflow for "joda half-open" to see more discussion and examples.

See this post, Time intervals and other ranges should be half-open, by Bill Schneider.

Avoid legacy date-time classes

The java.util.Date and .Calendar classes are notoriously troublesome. Avoid them.

Use java.time classes. The java.time framework is the official successor of the highly successful Joda-Time library.

java.time

The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. Back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in the ThreeTen-Backport project, further adapted to Android in the ThreeTenABP project.

An Instant is a moment on the timeline in UTC with a resolution of nanoseconds.

Instant instant = Instant.now();

Apply a time zone to get the wall-clock time for some locality.

ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant( instant , zoneId );

To get the first moment of the day go through the LocalDate class and its atStartOfDay method.

ZonedDateTime zdtStart = zdt.toLocalDate().atStartOfDay( zoneId );

Using Half-Open approach, get first moment of following day.

ZonedDateTime zdtTomorrowStart = zdtStart.plusDays( 1 );

Table of all date-time types in Java, both modern and legacy

Currently the java.time framework lacks an Interval class as described below for Joda-Time. However, the ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is the proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. Among its classes is Interval. Construct an Interval by passing a pair of Instant objects. We can extract an Instant from our ZonedDateTime objects.

Interval today = Interval.of( zdtStart.toInstant() , zdtTomorrowStart.toInstant() );

About java.time

The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.

To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.

The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.

You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes. Hibernate 5 & JPA 2.2 support java.time.

Where to obtain the java.time classes?


Joda-Time

UPDATE: The Joda-Time project is now in maintenance-mode, and advises migration to the java.time classes. I am leaving this section intact for history.

Joda-Time has three classes to represent a span of time in various ways: Interval, Period, and Duration. An Interval has a specific beginning and ending on the timeline of the Universe. This fits our need to represent "a day".

We call the method withTimeAtStartOfDay rather than set time of day to zeros. Because of Daylight Saving Time and other anomalies the first moment of the day may not be 00:00:00.

Example code using Joda-Time 2.3.

DateTimeZone timeZone = DateTimeZone.forID( "America/Montreal" );
DateTime now = DateTime.now( timeZone );
DateTime todayStart = now.withTimeAtStartOfDay();
DateTime tomorrowStart = now.plusDays( 1 ).withTimeAtStartOfDay();
Interval today = new Interval( todayStart, tomorrowStart );

If you must, you can convert to a java.util.Date.

java.util.Date date = todayStart.toDate();

Find closest previous element jQuery

see http://api.jquery.com/prev/

var link = $("#me").parent("div").prev("h3").find("b");
alert(link.text());

see http://jsfiddle.net/gBwLq/

Is Laravel really this slow?

I use Laravel quite a bit and I simply do not believe the numbers it tells me because end-to-end rendering as measured by my browser shows LOWER total time from request to ready.

Further, I get slightly higher numbers on my machine at work, which does execute the page noticeably faster than my machine at home.

I don't know how those numbers are getting calculated, but they are not corroborated by observation, or browser tools like Firebug...

Laravel is not actually all that slow, especially when optimized. It is memory-hungry however. Even a heavy CMS like Drupal which is very slow, appears to have about 1/3rd the memory footprint of a bare bones Laravel request.

Thus to run Laravel in production, I would deploy to memory-optimized servers before CPU-optimized servers.

When does socket.recv(recv_size) return?

It'll have the same behavior as the underlying recv libc call see the man page for an official description of behavior (or read a more general description of the sockets api).

Nested rows with bootstrap grid system?

Adding to what @KyleMit said, consider using:

  • col-md-* classes for the larger outer columns
  • col-xs-* classes for the smaller inner columns

This will be useful when you view the page on different screen sizes.

On a small screen, the wrapping of larger outer columns will then happen while maintaining the smaller inner columns, if possible

How to set time to midnight for current day?

I believe you are looking for DateTime.Today. The documentation states:

An object that is set to today's date, with the time component set to 00:00:00.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.today.aspx

Your code would be

DateTime _Begin = DateTime.Today;

Make anchor link go some pixels above where it's linked to

Eric's answer is great, but you really don't need that timeout. If you're using jQuery, you can just wait for the page to load. So I'd suggest changing the code to:

// The function actually applying the offset
function offsetAnchor() {
    if (location.hash.length !== 0) {
        window.scrollTo(window.scrollX, window.scrollY - 100);
    }
}

// This will capture hash changes while on the page
$(window).on("hashchange", function () {
    offsetAnchor();
});

// Let the page finish loading.
$(document).ready(function() {
    offsetAnchor();
});

This also gets us rid of that arbitrary factor.

What's the difference between ConcurrentHashMap and Collections.synchronizedMap(Map)?

ConcurrentHashMap was presented as alternative to Hashtable in Java 1.5 as part of concurrency package. With ConcurrentHashMap, you have a better choice not only if it can be safely used in the concurrent multi-threaded environment but also provides better performance than Hashtable and synchronizedMap. ConcurrentHashMap performs better because it locks a part of Map. It allows concurred read operations and the same time maintains integrity by synchronizing write operations.

How ConcurrentHashMap is implemented

ConcurrentHashMap was developed as alternative of Hashtable and support all functionality of Hashtable with additional ability, so called concurrency level. ConcurrentHashMap allows multiple readers to read simultaneously without using blocks. It becomes possible by separating Map to different parts and blocking only part of Map in updates. By default, concurrency level is 16, so Map is spitted to 16 parts and each part is managed by separated block. It means, that 16 threads can work with Map simultaneously, if they work with different parts of Map. It makes ConcurrentHashMap hight productive, and not to down thread-safety.

If you are interested in some important features of ConcurrentHashMap and when you should use this realization of Map - I just put a link to a good article - How to use ConcurrentHashMap in Java

socket connect() vs bind()

Too Long; Don't Read: The difference is whether the source (local) or the destination address/port is being set. In short, bind() set the source and connect() set the destination. Regardless of TCP or UDP.

bind()

bind() set the socket's local (source) address. This is the address where packets are received. Packets sent by the socket carry this as the source address, so the other host will know where to send back its packets.

If receive is not needed the socket source address is useless. Protocols like TCP require receiving enabled in order to send properly, as the destination host send back a confirmation when one or more packets have arrived (i.e. acknowledgement).

connect()

  • TCP has a "connected" state. connect() triggers the TCP code to try to establish a connection to the other side.
  • UDP has no "connected" state. connect() only set a default address to where packets are sent when no address is specified. When connect() is not used, sendto() or sendmsg() must be used containing the destination address.

When connect() or a send function is called, and no address is bound, Linux automatically bind the socket to a random port. For technical details, take a look at inet_autobind() in Linux kernel source code.

Side notes

  • listen() is TCP only.
  • In AF_INET family, the socket's source or destination address (struct sockaddr_in) is composed by an IP address (see IP header), and TCP or UDP port (see TCP and UDP header).

Comments in Markdown

I believe that all the previously proposed solutions (apart from those that require specific implementations) result in the comments being included in the output HTML, even if they are not displayed.

If you want a comment that is strictly for yourself (readers of the converted document should not be able to see it, even with "view source") you could (ab)use the link labels (for use with reference style links) that are available in the core Markdown specification:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link

That is:

[comment]: <> (This is a comment, it will not be included)
[comment]: <> (in  the output file unless you use it in)
[comment]: <> (a reference style link.)

Or you could go further:

[//]: <> (This is also a comment.)

To improve platform compatibility (and to save one keystroke) it is also possible to use # (which is a legitimate hyperlink target) instead of <>:

[//]: # (This may be the most platform independent comment)

For maximum portability it is important to insert a blank line before and after this type of comments, because some Markdown parsers do not work correctly when definitions brush up against regular text. The most recent research with Babelmark shows that blank lines before and after are both important. Some parsers will output the comment if there is no blank line before, and some parsers will exclude the following line if there is no blank line after.

In general, this approach should work with most Markdown parsers, since it's part of the core specification. (even if the behavior when multiple links are defined, or when a link is defined but never used, is not strictly specified).

How to remove focus border (outline) around text/input boxes? (Chrome)

this remove orange frame in chrome from all and any element no matter what and where is it

*:focus {
    outline: none;
}

Is there any way to debug chrome in any IOS device

Old Answer (July 2016):

You can't directly debug Chrome for iOS due to restrictions on the published WKWebView apps, but there are a few options already discussed in other SO threads:

  1. If you can reproduce the issue in Safari as well, then use Remote Debugging with Safari Web Inspector. This would be the easiest approach.

  2. WeInRe allows some simple debugging, using a simple client-server model. It's not fully featured, but it may well be enough for your problem. See instructions on set up here.

  3. You could try and create a simple WKWebView browser app (some instructions here), or look for an existing one on GitHub. Since Chrome uses the same rendering engine, you could debug using that, as it will be close to what Chrome produces.

There's a "bug" opened up for WebKit: Allow Web Inspector usage for release builds of WKWebView. If and when we get an API to WKWebView, Chrome for iOS would be debuggable.

Update January 2018:

Since my answer back in 2016, some work has been done to improve things.

There is a recent project called RemoteDebug iOS WebKit Adapter, by some of the Microsoft team. It's an adapter that handles the API differences between Webkit Remote Debugging Protocol and Chrome Debugging Protocol, and this allows you to debug iOS WebViews in any app that supports the protocol - Chrome DevTools, VS Code etc.

Check out the getting started guide in the repo, which is quite detailed.

If you are interesting, you can read up on the background and architecture here.

How to continue a Docker container which has exited

If you want to do it in multiple, easy-to-remember commands:

  1. list stopped containers:

docker ps -a

  1. copy the name or the container id of the container you want to attach to, and start the container with:

docker start -i <name/id>

The -i flag tells docker to attach to the container's stdin.

If the container wasn't started with an interactive shell to connect to, you need to do this to run a shell:

docker start <name/id>
docker exec -it <name/id> /bin/sh

The /bin/sh is the shell usually available with alpine-based images.

unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION

check that you entered a variable as argument with the '$' symbol

Java: How To Call Non Static Method From Main Method?

You simply need to create an instance of ReportHandler:

ReportHandler rh = new ReportHandler(/* constructor args here */);
rh.executeBatchInsert(); // Having fixed name to follow conventions

The important point of instance methods is that they're meant to be specific to a particular instance of the class... so you'll need to create an instance first. That way the instance will have access to the right connection and prepared statement in your case. Just calling ReportHandler.executeBatchInsert, there isn't enough context.

It's really important that you understand that:

  • Instance methods (and fields etc) relate to a particular instance
  • Static methods and fields relate to the type itself, not a particular instance

Once you understand that fundamental difference, it makes sense that you can't call an instance method without creating an instance... For example, it makes sense to ask, "What is the height of that person?" (for a specific person) but it doesn't make sense to ask, "What is the height of Person?" (without specifying a person).

Assuming you're leaning Java from a book or tutorial, you should read up on more examples of static and non-static methods etc - it's a vital distinction to understand, and you'll have all kinds of problems until you've understood it.

AngularJS: How to clear query parameters in the URL?

Need to make it work when html5mode = false?

All of the other answers work only when Angular's html5mode is true. If you're working outside of html5mode, then $location refers only to the "fake" location that lives in your hash -- and so $location.search can't see/edit/fix the actual page's search params.

Here's a workaround, to be inserted in the HTML of the page before angular loads:

<script>
  if (window.location.search.match("code=")){
    var newHash = "/after-auth" + window.location.search;
    if (window.history.replaceState){
      window.history.replaceState( {}, "", window.location.toString().replace(window.location.search, ""));
    }
    window.location.hash = newHash;
  }
</script>

How can I expose more than 1 port with Docker?

Step1

In your Dockerfile, you can use the verb EXPOSE to expose multiple ports.
e.g.

EXPOSE 3000 80 443 22

Step2

You then would like to build an new image based on above Dockerfile.
e.g.

docker build -t foo:tag .

Step3

Then you can use the -p to map host port with the container port, as defined in above EXPOSE of Dockerfile.
e.g.

docker run -p 3001:3000 -p 23:22

In case you would like to expose a range of continuous ports, you can run docker like this:

docker run -it -p 7100-7120:7100-7120/tcp 

Adobe Acrobat Pro make all pages the same dimension

  • Open the PDF in MacOS´ Preview App
  • Chose File menu –> Export as PDF
  • In the export dialog klick the Details button an select your page size
  • Click save

All pages of the resulting document will be scaled to that size. The resulting file size is nearly identical to the original PDF, so I conclude, that image resolutions/compressions are not changed.

Hints:

  1. I am not sure whether the "Export as PDF" menu item is available by default or only if Adobe Acrobat is installed.

  2. My first trial was to use Preview App and print (!) into a new PDF, but this leads to additional margins around the page content.

'names' attribute must be the same length as the vector

Depending on what you're doing in the loop, the fact that the %in% operator returns a vector might be an issue; consider a simple example:

c1 <- c("one","two","three","more","more")
c2 <- c("seven","five","three")

if(c1%in%c2) {
    print("hello")
}

then the following warning is issued:

Warning message:
In if (c1 %in% c2) { :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

if something in your if statement is dependent on a specific number of elements, and they don't match, then it is possible to obtain the error you see

Why not use Double or Float to represent currency?

I'll risk being downvoted, but I think the unsuitability of floating point numbers for currency calculations is overrated. As long as you make sure you do the cent-rounding correctly and have enough significant digits to work with in order to counter the binary-decimal representation mismatch explained by zneak, there will be no problem.

People calculating with currency in Excel have always used double precision floats (there is no currency type in Excel) and I have yet to see anyone complaining about rounding errors.

Of course, you have to stay within reason; e.g. a simple webshop would probably never experience any problem with double precision floats, but if you do e.g. accounting or anything else that requires adding a large (unrestricted) amount of numbers, you wouldn't want to touch floating point numbers with a ten foot pole.

Learning to write a compiler

If you have little time, I recommend Niklaus Wirth's "Compiler Construction" (Addison-Wesley. 1996), a tiny little booklet that you can read in a day, but it explains the basics (including how to implement lexers, recursive descent parsers, and your own stack-based virtual machines). After that, if you want a deep dive, there's no way around the Dragon book as other commenters suggest.

Decoding UTF-8 strings in Python

You need to properly decode the source text. Most likely the source text is in UTF-8 format, not ASCII.

Because you do not provide any context or code for your question it is not possible to give a direct answer.

I suggest you study how unicode and character encoding is done in Python:

http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html

How to start and stop/pause setInterval?

You can't stop a timer function mid-execution. You can only catch it after it completes and prevent it from triggering again.

When to use IMG vs. CSS background-image?

Browsers aren't always set to print background images by default; if you intend to have people print your page :)

Check if number is decimal

The function you posted is just not PHP.

Have a look at is_float [docs].

Edit: I missed the "user entered value" part. In this case you can actually use a regular expression:

^\d+\.\d+$

Android: remove left margin from actionbar's custom layout

If you check the documentation of toolbar, by default it has style defined and there is an item contentInsetStart.

<item name="contentInsetStart">16dp</item>

If you want to override this padding then it can be done in two ways.

1.Override the style and add your own style with contentInsetStart and contentInsetEnd values

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
    <item name="contentInsetStart">0dp</item>
    <item name="contentInsetEnd">0dp</item>
</style>

2.In XML you can directly define the contentInsetStart and contentInsetEnd values

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
    app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize">

    <!--Add your views here-->

</androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>

Why std::cout instead of simply cout?

Everything in the Standard Template/Iostream Library resides in namespace std. You've probably used:

using namespace std;

In your classes, and that's why it worked.

Should I mix AngularJS with a PHP framework?

It seems you may be more comfortable with developing in PHP you let this hold you back from utilizing the full potential with web applications.

It is indeed possible to have PHP render partials and whole views, but I would not recommend it.

To fully utilize the possibilities of HTML and javascript to make a web application, that is, a web page that acts more like an application and relies heavily on client side rendering, you should consider letting the client maintain all responsibility of managing state and presentation. This will be easier to maintain, and will be more user friendly.

I would recommend you to get more comfortable thinking in a more API centric approach. Rather than having PHP output a pre-rendered view, and use angular for mere DOM manipulation, you should consider having the PHP backend output the data that should be acted upon RESTFully, and have Angular present it.

Using PHP to render the view:

/user/account

if($loggedIn)
{
    echo "<p>Logged in as ".$user."</p>";
}
else
{
    echo "Please log in.";
}

How the same problem can be solved with an API centric approach by outputting JSON like this:

api/auth/

{
  authorized:true,
  user: {
      username: 'Joe', 
      securityToken: 'secret'
  }
}

and in Angular you could do a get, and handle the response client side.

$http.post("http://example.com/api/auth", {})
.success(function(data) {
    $scope.isLoggedIn = data.authorized;
});

To blend both client side and server side the way you proposed may be fit for smaller projects where maintainance is not important and you are the single author, but I lean more towards the API centric way as this will be more correct separation of conserns and will be easier to maintain.

How do you programmatically update query params in react-router?

It can also be written this way

this.props.history.push(`${window.location.pathname}&page=${pageNumber}`)

Share cookie between subdomain and domain

I'm not sure @cmbuckley answer is showing the full picture. What I read is:

Unless the cookie's attributes indicate otherwise, the cookie is returned only to the origin server (and not, for example, to any subdomains), and it expires at the end of the current session (as defined by the user agent). User agents ignore unrecognized cookie.

RFC 6265

Also

8.6.  Weak Integrity

   Cookies do not provide integrity guarantees for sibling domains (and
   their subdomains).  For example, consider foo.example.com and
   bar.example.com.  The foo.example.com server can set a cookie with a
   Domain attribute of "example.com" (possibly overwriting an existing
   "example.com" cookie set by bar.example.com), and the user agent will
   include that cookie in HTTP requests to bar.example.com.  In the
   worst case, bar.example.com will be unable to distinguish this cookie
   from a cookie it set itself.  The foo.example.com server might be
   able to leverage this ability to mount an attack against
   bar.example.com.

To me that means you can protect cookies from being read by subdomain/domain but cannot prevent writing cookies to the other domains. So somebody may rewrite your site cookies by controlling another subdomain visited by the same browser. Which might not be a big concern.

Awesome cookies test site provided by @cmbuckley /for those that missed it in his answer like me; worth scrolling up and upvoting/:

Making PHP var_dump() values display one line per value

var_export will give you a nice output. Examples from the docs:

$a = array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c"));
echo '<pre>' . var_export($a, true) . '</pre>';

Will output:

array (
  0 => 1,
  1 => 2,
  2 => 
  array (
    0 => 'a',
    1 => 'b',
    2 => 'c',
  ),
)

Console.log not working at all

Just you need to select right option to show the log messages from the option provided in left side under the console tab. You can refer the screen shot. screenshot

How to downgrade or install an older version of Cocoapods

Actually, you don't need to downgrade – if you need to use older version in some projects, just specify the version that you need to use after pod command.

pod _0.37.2_ setup

Proper way to concatenate variable strings

As simple as joining lists in python itself.

ansible -m debug -a msg="{{ '-'.join(('list', 'joined', 'together')) }}" localhost

localhost | SUCCESS => {
  "msg": "list-joined-together" }

Works the same way using variables:

ansible -m debug -a msg="{{ '-'.join((var1, var2, var3)) }}" localhost

ASP.Net Download file to client browser

Just a slight addition to the above solution if you are having problem with downloaded file's name...

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" + file.Name + "\"");

This will return the exact file name even if it contains spaces or other characters.

Static constant string (class member)

In C++11 you can do now:

class A {
 private:
  static constexpr const char* STRING = "some useful string constant";
};

Select row and element in awk

To print the second line:

awk 'FNR == 2 {print}'

To print the second field:

awk '{print $2}'

To print the third field of the fifth line:

awk 'FNR == 5 {print $3}'

Here's an example with a header line and (redundant) field descriptions:

awk 'BEGIN {print "Name\t\tAge"}  FNR == 5 {print "Name: "$3"\tAge: "$2}'

There are better ways to align columns than "\t\t" by the way.

Use exit to stop as soon as you've printed the desired record if there's no reason to process the whole file:

awk 'FNR == 2 {print; exit}'

LDAP: error code 49 - 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C0903A9, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 52e, v1db1

When you use Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION as "simple", you need to supply the userPrincipalName attribute value (user@domain_base).

Get user's current location

Try this code using the hostip.info service:

$country=file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=');
echo $country;

// Reformat the data returned (Keep only country and country abbr.)
$only_country=explode (" ", $country);

echo "Country : ".$only_country[1]." ".substr($only_country[2],0,4);

Accessing the web page's HTTP Headers in JavaScript

Allain Lalonde's link made my day. Just adding some simple working html code here.
Works with any reasonable browser since ages plus IE9+ and Presto-Opera 12.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>(XHR) Show all response headers</title>

<h1>All Response Headers with XHR</h1>
<script>
 var X= new XMLHttpRequest();
 X.open("HEAD", location);
 X.send();
 X.onload= function() { 
   document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("pre")).textContent= X.getAllResponseHeaders();
 }
</script>

Note: You get headers of a second request, the result may differ from the initial request.


Another way
is the more modern fetch() API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope/fetch
Per caniuse.com it's supported by Firefox 40, Chrome 42, Edge 14, Safari 11
Working example code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>fetch() all Response Headers</title>

<h1>All Response Headers with fetch()</h1>
<script>
 var x= "";
 if(window.fetch)
    fetch(location, {method:'HEAD'})
    .then(function(r) {
       r.headers.forEach(
          function(Value, Header) { x= x + Header + "\n" + Value + "\n\n"; }
       );
    })
    .then(function() {
       document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("pre")).textContent= x;
    });
 else
   document.write("This does not work in your browser - no support for fetch API");
</script>

How to get the public IP address of a user in C#

just use this..................

public string GetIP()
{
   string externalIP = "";
   externalIP = (new WebClient()).DownloadString("http://checkip.dyndns.org/");
   externalIP = (new Regex(@"\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}")).Matches(externalIP)[0].ToString();
   return externalIP;
}

GridView VS GridLayout in Android Apps

A GridView is a ViewGroup that displays items in two-dimensional scrolling grid. The items in the grid come from the ListAdapter associated with this view.

This is what you'd want to use (keep using). Because a GridView gets its data from a ListAdapter, the only data loaded in memory will be the one displayed on screen. GridViews, much like ListViews reuse and recycle their views for better performance.

Whereas a GridLayout is a layout that places its children in a rectangular grid.

It was introduced in API level 14, and was recently backported in the Support Library. Its main purpose is to solve alignment and performance problems in other layouts. Check out this tutorial if you want to learn more about GridLayout.

How can you customize the numbers in an ordered list?

Quick and dirt alternative solution. You can use a tabulation character along with preformatted text. Here's a possibility:

<style type="text/css">
ol {
    list-style-position: inside;
}
li:first-letter {
    white-space: pre;
}
</style>

and your html:

<ol>
<li>    an item</li>
<li>    another item</li>
...
</ol>

Note that the space between the li tag and the beggining of the text is a tabulation character (what you get when you press the tab key inside notepad).

If you need to support older browsers, you can do this instead:

<style type="text/css">
ol {
    list-style-position: inside;
}
</style>

<ol>
    <li><pre>   </pre>an item</li>
    <li><pre>   </pre>another item</li>
    ...
</ol>

How to check if a std::thread is still running?

An easy solution is to have a boolean variable that the thread sets to true on regular intervals, and that is checked and set to false by the thread wanting to know the status. If the variable is false for to long then the thread is no longer considered active.

A more thread-safe way is to have a counter that is increased by the child thread, and the main thread compares the counter to a stored value and if the same after too long time then the child thread is considered not active.

Note however, there is no way in C++11 to actually kill or remove a thread that has hanged.

Edit How to check if a thread has cleanly exited or not: Basically the same technique as described in the first paragraph; Have a boolean variable initialized to false. The last thing the child thread does is set it to true. The main thread can then check that variable, and if true do a join on the child thread without much (if any) blocking.

Edit2 If the thread exits due to an exception, then have two thread "main" functions: The first one have a try-catch inside which it calls the second "real" main thread function. This first main function sets the "have_exited" variable. Something like this:

bool thread_done = false;

void *thread_function(void *arg)
{
    void *res = nullptr;

    try
    {
        res = real_thread_function(arg);
    }
    catch (...)
    {
    }

    thread_done = true;

    return res;
}

How to decode viewstate

Here's another decoder that works well as of 2014: http://viewstatedecoder.azurewebsites.net/

This worked on an input on which the Ignatu decoder failed with "The serialized data is invalid" (although it leaves the BinaryFormatter-serialized data undecoded, showing only its length).

Setting environment variables in Linux using Bash

VAR=value sets VAR to value.

After that export VAR will give it to child processes too.

export VAR=value is a shorthand doing both.

Comparing two .jar files

  1. Rename .jar to .zip
  2. Extract
  3. Decompile class files with jad
  4. Recursive diff

Alternative to Intersect in MySQL

Your query would always return an empty recordset since cut_name= '?????' and cut_name='??' will never evaluate to true.

In general, INTERSECT in MySQL should be emulated like this:

SELECT  *
FROM    mytable m
WHERE   EXISTS
        (
        SELECT  NULL
        FROM    othertable o
        WHERE   (o.col1 = m.col1 OR (m.col1 IS NULL AND o.col1 IS NULL))
                AND (o.col2 = m.col2 OR (m.col2 IS NULL AND o.col2 IS NULL))
                AND (o.col3 = m.col3 OR (m.col3 IS NULL AND o.col3 IS NULL))
        )

If both your tables have columns marked as NOT NULL, you can omit the IS NULL parts and rewrite the query with a slightly more efficient IN:

SELECT  *
FROM    mytable m
WHERE   (col1, col2, col3) IN
        (
        SELECT  col1, col2, col3
        FROM    othertable o
        )

How to undo a git pull?

This worked for me.

git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD 

Undo a merge or pull:

$ git pull                         (1)
Auto-merging nitfol
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in nitfol
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
$ git reset --hard                 (2)
$ git pull . topic/branch          (3)
Updating from 41223... to 13134...
Fast-forward
$ git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD       (4)

Checkout this: HEAD and ORIG_HEAD in Git for more.

Spring Boot War deployed to Tomcat

This guide explains in detail how to deploy Spring Boot app on Tomcat:
http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#howto-create-a-deployable-war-file

Essentially I needed to add following class:

public class WebInitializer extends SpringBootServletInitializer {   
    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(App.class);
    }    
}

Also I added following property to POM:

<properties>        
    <start-class>mypackage.App</start-class>
</properties>

Xcode Product -> Archive disabled

Change the active scheme Device from Simulator to Generic iOS Device

Adding blank spaces to layout

I strongly disagree with CaspNZ's approach.

First of all, this invisible view will be measured because it is "fill_parent". Android will try to calculate the right width of it. Instead, a small constant number (1dp) is recommended here.

Secondly, View should be replaced by a simpler class Space, a class dedicated to create empty spaces between UI component for fastest speed.

how can I copy a conditional formatting in Excel 2010 to other cells, which is based on a other cells content?

I, too, have need for this! My situation involves comparing actuals with budget for cost centers, where expenses may have been mis-applied and therefore need to be re-allocated to the correct cost center so as to match how they were budgeted. It is very time consuming to try and scan row-by-row to see if each expense item has been correctly allocated. I decided that I should apply conditional formatting to highlight any cells where the actuals did not match the budget. I set up the conditional formatting to change the background color if the actual amount under the cost center did not match the budgeted amount.

Here's what I did:

Start in cell A1 (or the first cell you want to have the formatting). Open the Conditional Formatting dialogue box and select Apply formatting based on a formula. Then, I wrote a formula to compare one cell to another to see if they match:

=A1=A50

If the contents of cells A1 and A50 are equal, the conditional formatting will be applied. NOTICE: no $$, so the cell references are RELATIVE! Therefore, you can copy the formula from cell A1 and PasteSpecial (format). If you only click on the cells that you reference as you write your conditional formatting formula, the cells are by default locked, so then you wouldn't be able to apply them anywhere else (you would have to write out a new rule for each line- YUK!)

What is really cool about this is that if you insert rows under the conditionally formatted cell, the conditional formatting will be applied to the inserted rows as well!

Something else you could also do with this: Use ISBLANK if the amounts are not going to be exact matches, but you want to see if there are expenses showing up in columns where there are no budgeted amounts (i.e., BLANK) .

This has been a real time-saver for me. Give it a try and enjoy!

ld.exe: cannot open output file ... : Permission denied

I had the same behaviour, and fixed it by running Code::Blocks as administrator.

how to zip a folder itself using java

I would use Apache Ant, which has an API to call tasks from Java code rather than from an XML build file.

Project p = new Project();
p.init();
Zip zip = new Zip();
zip.setProject(p);
zip.setDestFile(zipFile); // a java.io.File for the zip you want to create
zip.setBasedir(new File("D:\\reports"));
zip.setIncludes("january/**");
zip.perform();

Here I'm telling it to start from the base directory D:\reports and zip up the january folder and everything inside it. The paths in the resulting zip file will be the same as the original paths relative to D:\reports, so they will include the january prefix.

Creating a simple login form

Check it - You can try this code for your login form design as you ask thank you.

Explain css -

First, we define property font style and width And after that I have defined form id to set background image and the border And after that I have to define the header text in tag and after that I have added new and define by.New to set background properties and width. Thanks

Create a file index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
   </head>
   <body>
      <div id="login_form">
         <div class="new"><span>enter login details</span></div>
         <!-- This is your header text-->
         <form name="f1" method="post" action="login.php" id="f1">
            <table>
               <tr>
                  <td class="f1_label">User Name :</td>
                  <!-- This is your first Input Box Label-->
                  <td>
                     <input type="text" name="username" value="" /><!-- This is your first Input Box-->
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td class="f1_label">Password  :</td>
                  <!-- This is your Second Input Box Label-->
                  <td>
                     <input type="password" name="password" value=""  /><!-- This is your Second Input Box -->
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <input type="submit" name="login" value="Log In" style="font-size:18px; " /><!-- This is your submit button -->
                  </td>
               </tr>
            </table>
         </form>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Create css file style.css

body {
    font-style: italic;
    width: 50%;
    margin: 0px auto;
}

#login_form {}

#f1 {
    background-color: #FFF;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    padding: 23px 1px 20px 114px;
}

.f1_label {
    white-space: nowrap;
}

span {
    color: white;
}

.new {
    background: black;
    text-align: center;
}

Compile a DLL in C/C++, then call it from another program

Here is how you do it:

In .h

#ifdef BUILD_DLL
#define EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define EXPORT __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

extern "C" // Only if you are using C++ rather than C
{    
  EXPORT int __stdcall add2(int num);
  EXPORT int __stdcall mult(int num1, int num2);
}

in .cpp

extern "C" // Only if you are using C++ rather than C
{    
EXPORT int __stdcall add2(int num)
{
  return num + 2;
}


EXPORT int __stdcall mult(int num1, int num2)
{
  int product;
  product = num1 * num2;
  return product;
}
}

The macro tells your module (i.e your .cpp files) that they are providing the dll stuff to the outside world. People who incude your .h file want to import the same functions, so they sell EXPORT as telling the linker to import. You need to add BUILD_DLL to the project compile options, and you might want to rename it to something obviously specific to your project (in case a dll uses your dll).

You might also need to create a .def file to rename the functions and de-obfuscate the names (C/C++ mangles those names). This blog entry might be an interesting launching off point about that.

Loading your own custom dlls is just like loading system dlls. Just ensure that the DLL is on your system path. C:\windows\ or the working dir of your application are an easy place to put your dll.

Modify request parameter with servlet filter

I had the same problem (changing a parameter from the HTTP request in the Filter). I ended up by using a ThreadLocal<String>. In the Filter I have:

class MyFilter extends Filter {
    public static final ThreadLocal<String> THREAD_VARIABLE = new ThreadLocal<>();
    public void doFilter(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) {
        THREAD_VARIABLE.set("myVariableValue");
        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    }
}

In my request processor (HttpServlet, JSF controller or any other HTTP request processor), I get the current thread value back:

...
String myVariable = MyFilter.THREAD_VARIABLE.get();
...

Advantages:

  • more versatile than passing HTTP parameters (you can pass POJO objects)
  • slightly faster (no need to parse the URL to extract the variable value)
  • more elegant thant the HttpServletRequestWrapper boilerplate
  • the variable scope is wider than just the HTTP request (the scope you have when doing request.setAttribute(String,Object), i.e. you can access the variable in other filtrers.

Disadvantages:

  • You can use this method only when the thread which process the filter is the same as the one which process the HTTP request (this is the case in all Java-based servers I know). Consequently, this will not work when
    • doing a HTTP redirect (because the browser does a new HTTP request and there is no way to guarantee that it will be processed by the same thread)
    • processing data in separate threads, e.g. when using java.util.stream.Stream.parallel, java.util.concurrent.Future, java.lang.Thread.
  • You must be able to modify the request processor/application

Some side notes:

  • The server has a Thread pool to process the HTTP requests. Since this is pool:

    1. a Thread from this thread pool will process many HTTP requests, but only one at a time (so you need either to cleanup you variable after usage or to define it for each HTTP request = pay attention to code such as if (value!=null) { THREAD_VARIABLE.set(value);} because you will reuse the value from the previous HTTP request when value is null : side effects are guaranteed).
    2. There is no guarantee that two requests will be processed by the same thread (it may be the case but you have no guarantee). If you need to keep user data from one request to another request, it would be better to use HttpSession.setAttribute()
  • The JEE @RequestScoped internally uses a ThreadLocal, but using the ThreadLocal is more versatile: you can use it in non JEE/CDI containers (e.g. in multithreaded JRE applications)

Is there any standard for JSON API response format?

For what it's worth I do this differently. A successful call just has the JSON objects. I don't need a higher level JSON object that contains a success field indicating true and a payload field that has the JSON object. I just return the appropriate JSON object with a 200 or whatever is appropriate in the 200 range for the HTTP status in the header.

However, if there is an error (something in the 400 family) I return a well-formed JSON error object. For example, if the client is POSTing a User with an email address and phone number and one of these is malformed (i.e. I cannot insert it into my underlying database) I will return something like this:

{
  "description" : "Validation Failed"
  "errors" : [ {
    "field" : "phoneNumber",
    "message" : "Invalid phone number."
  } ],
}

Important bits here are that the "field" property must match the JSON field exactly that could not be validated. This allows clients to know exactly what went wrong with their request. Also, "message" is in the locale of the request. If both the "emailAddress" and "phoneNumber" were invalid then the "errors" array would contain entries for both. A 409 (Conflict) JSON response body might look like this:

{
  "description" : "Already Exists"
  "errors" : [ {
    "field" : "phoneNumber",
    "message" : "Phone number already exists for another user."
  } ],
}

With the HTTP status code and this JSON the client has all they need to respond to errors in a deterministic way and it does not create a new error standard that tries to complete replace HTTP status codes. Note, these only happen for the range of 400 errors. For anything in the 200 range I can just return whatever is appropriate. For me it is often a HAL-like JSON object but that doesn't really matter here.

The one thing I thought about adding was a numeric error code either in the the "errors" array entries or the root of the JSON object itself. But so far we haven't needed it.

Remove the newline character in a list read from a file

You want the String.strip(s[, chars]) function, which will strip out whitespace characters or whatever characters (such as '\n') you specify in the chars argument.

See http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/lib/module-string.html

CSS3 Transition not working

HTML:

<div class="foo">
    /* whatever is required */
</div>

CSS:

.foo {
    top: 0;
    transition: top ease 0.5s;
}

.foo:hover{
    top: -10px;
}

This is just a basic transition to ease the div tag up by 10px when it is hovered on. The transition property's values can be edited along with the class.hover properties to determine how the transition works.

Quick Way to Implement Dictionary in C

Create a simple hash function and some linked lists of structures , depending on the hash , assign which linked list to insert the value in . Use the hash for retrieving it as well .

I did a simple implementation some time back :

...
#define K 16 // chaining coefficient

struct dict
{
    char *name; /* name of key */
    int val;   /*  value */
    struct dict *next; /* link field */
};

typedef struct dict dict;
dict *table[K];
int initialized = 0;


void  putval ( char *,int);

void init_dict()
{   
    initialized = 1;
    int i;  
    for(i=0;iname = (char *) malloc (strlen(key_name)+1);
    ptr->val = sval;
    strcpy (ptr->name,key_name);


    ptr->next = (struct dict *)table[hsh];
    table[hsh] = ptr;

}


int getval ( char *key_name )
{   
    int hsh = hash(key_name);   
    dict *ptr;
    for (ptr = table[hsh]; ptr != (dict *) 0;
        ptr = (dict *)ptr->next)
    if (strcmp (ptr->name,key_name) == 0)
        return ptr->val;
    return -1;
}

How do I detect when someone shakes an iPhone?

You need to check the accelerometer via accelerometer:didAccelerate: method which is part of the UIAccelerometerDelegate protocol and check whether the values go over a threshold for the amount of movement needed for a shake.

There is decent sample code in the accelerometer:didAccelerate: method right at the bottom of AppController.m in the GLPaint example which is available on the iPhone developer site.

Adding headers to requests module

From http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/

url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'
payload = {'some': 'data'}
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}

r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)

You just need to create a dict with your headers (key: value pairs where the key is the name of the header and the value is, well, the value of the pair) and pass that dict to the headers parameter on the .get or .post method.

So more specific to your question:

headers = {'foobar': 'raboof'}
requests.get('http://himom.com', headers=headers)

Creating a new empty branch for a new project

You can create a branch as an orphan:

git checkout --orphan <branchname>

This will create a new branch with no parents. Then, you can clear the working directory with:

git rm --cached -r .

and add the documentation files, commit them and push them up to github.

A pull or fetch will always update the local information about all the remote branches. If you only want to pull/fetch the information for a single remote branch, you need to specify it.

How to add google-services.json in Android?

It should be on Project -> app folder

Please find the screenshot from Firebase website

enter image description here

How to program a fractal?

The Sierpinski triangle and the Koch curve are special types of flame fractals. Flame fractals are a very generalized type of Iterated function system, since it uses non-linear functions.

An algorithm for IFS:es are as follows:

Start with a random point.

Repeat the following many times (a million at least, depending on final image size):

Apply one of N predefined transformations (matrix transformations or similar) to the point. An example would be that multiply each coordinate with 0.5. Plot the new point on the screen.

If the point is outside the screen, choose randomly a new one inside the screen instead.

If you want nice colors, let the color depend on the last used transformation.

How do I center content in a div using CSS?

By using transform: works like a charm!

<div class="parent">
    <span>center content using transform</span>
    </div>

    //CSS
    .parent {
        position: relative;
        height: 200px;
        border: 1px solid;
    }
    .parent span {
        position: absolute;
        top: 50%;
        left: 50%;
        -webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
        transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
    }

Countdown timer in React

Basic idea showing counting down using Date.now() instead of subtracting one which will drift over time.

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class Example extends React.Component {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = {
      time: {
        hours: 0,
        minutes: 0,
        seconds: 0,
        milliseconds: 0,
      },
      duration: 2 * 60 * 1000,
      timer: null
    };
    this.startTimer = this.start.bind(this);
  }

  msToTime(duration) {
    let milliseconds = parseInt((duration % 1000));
    let seconds = Math.floor((duration / 1000) % 60);
    let minutes = Math.floor((duration / (1000 * 60)) % 60);
    let hours = Math.floor((duration / (1000 * 60 * 60)) % 24);

    hours = hours.toString().padStart(2, '0');
    minutes = minutes.toString().padStart(2, '0');
    seconds = seconds.toString().padStart(2, '0');
    milliseconds = milliseconds.toString().padStart(3, '0');

    return {
      hours,
      minutes,
      seconds,
      milliseconds
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {}

  start() {
    if (!this.state.timer) {
      this.state.startTime = Date.now();
      this.timer = window.setInterval(() => this.run(), 10);
    }
  }

  run() {
    const diff = Date.now() - this.state.startTime;
    
    // If you want to count up
    // this.setState(() => ({
    //  time: this.msToTime(diff)
    // }));
    
    // count down
    let remaining = this.state.duration - diff;
    if (remaining < 0) {
      remaining = 0;
    }
    this.setState(() => ({
      time: this.msToTime(remaining)
    }));
    if (remaining === 0) {
      window.clearTimeout(this.timer);
      this.timer = null;
    }
  }

  render() {
    return ( <
      div >
      <
      button onClick = {
        this.startTimer
      } > Start < /button> {
        this.state.time.hours
      }: {
        this.state.time.minutes
      }: {
        this.state.time.seconds
      }. {
        this.state.time.milliseconds
      }:
      <
      /div>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render( < Example / > , document.getElementById('View'));
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<div id="View"></div>
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How can I get the list of files in a directory using C or C++?

I hope this code help you.

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

string wchar_t2string(const wchar_t *wchar)
{
    string str = "";
    int index = 0;
    while(wchar[index] != 0)
    {
        str += (char)wchar[index];
        ++index;
    }
    return str;
}

wchar_t *string2wchar_t(const string &str)
{
    wchar_t wchar[260];
    int index = 0;
    while(index < str.size())
    {
        wchar[index] = (wchar_t)str[index];
        ++index;
    }
    wchar[index] = 0;
    return wchar;
}

vector<string> listFilesInDirectory(string directoryName)
{
    WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;
    wchar_t * FileName = string2wchar_t(directoryName);
    HANDLE hFind = FindFirstFile(FileName, &FindFileData);

    vector<string> listFileNames;
    listFileNames.push_back(wchar_t2string(FindFileData.cFileName));

    while (FindNextFile(hFind, &FindFileData))
        listFileNames.push_back(wchar_t2string(FindFileData.cFileName));

    return listFileNames;
}

void main()
{
    vector<string> listFiles;
    listFiles = listFilesInDirectory("C:\\*.txt");
    for each (string str in listFiles)
        cout << str << endl;
}

How do I test which class an object is in Objective-C?

What means about isKindOfClass in Apple Documentation

Be careful when using this method on objects represented by a class cluster. Because of the nature of class clusters, the object you get back may not always be the type you expected. If you call a method that returns a class cluster, the exact type returned by the method is the best indicator of what you can do with that object. For example, if a method returns a pointer to an NSArray object, you should not use this method to see if the array is mutable, as shown in the following code:

// DO NOT DO THIS!
if ([myArray isKindOfClass:[NSMutableArray class]])
{
    // Modify the object
}

If you use such constructs in your code, you might think it is alright to modify an object that in reality should not be modified. Doing so might then create problems for other code that expected the object to remain unchanged.

Generate a random number in the range 1 - 10

This stored procedure inserts a rand number into a table. Look out, it inserts an endless numbers. Stop executing it when u get enough numbers.

create a table for the cursor:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SearchIndex](
[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Cursor] [nvarchar](255) NULL) 

GO

Create a table to contain your numbers:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ID](
[IDN] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[ID] [int] NULL)

INSERTING THE SCRIPT :

INSERT INTO [SearchIndex]([Cursor])  SELECT N'INSERT INTO ID  SELECT   FLOOR(rand() * 9 + 1)  SELECT COUNT (ID) FROM ID

CREATING AND EXECUTING THE PROCEDURE:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[RandNumbers] AS
BEGIN
Declare  CURSE  CURSOR  FOR (SELECT  [Cursor] FROM [dbo].[SearchIndex]  WHERE [Cursor] IS NOT NULL)
DECLARE @RandNoSscript NVARCHAR (250)
OPEN CURSE
FETCH NEXT FROM CURSE
INTO @RandNoSscript 
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS IS NOT NULL 
BEGIN
Print @RandNoSscript
EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL @RandNoSscript;  
 END
 END
GO

Fill your table:

EXEC RandNumbers

Limit file format when using <input type="file">?

Use input tag with accept attribute

<input type="file" name="my-image" id="image" accept="image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png" />

Click here for the latest browser compatibility table

Live demo here

To select only image files, you can use this accept="image/*"

<input type="file" name="my-image" id="image" accept="image/*" />

Live demo here

Only gif, jpg and png will be shown, screen grab from Chrome version 44 Only gif, jpg and png will be shown, screen grab from Chrome version 44

Android - setOnClickListener vs OnClickListener vs View.OnClickListener

Please note that for the sake of simplicity I have made reference to only the first code snippet i.e.,

// Create an anonymous implementation of OnClickListener
private OnClickListener mCorkyListener = new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
      // do something when the button is clicked
    }
};

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedValues) {
    ...
    // Capture our button from layout
    Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.corky);
    // Register the onClick listener with the implementation above
    button.setOnClickListener(mCorkyListener);
    ...
}

setOnClickListener(View.OnClickListener l) is a public method of View class. Button class extends the View class and can therefore call setOnClickListener(View.OnClickListener l) method.

setOnClickListener registers a callback to be invoked when the view (button in your case) is clicked. This answers should answer your first two questions:

1. Where does setOnClickListener fit in the above logic?

Ans. It registers a callback when the button is clicked. (Explained in detail in the next paragraph).

2. Which one actually listens to the button click?

Ans. setOnClickListener method is the one that actually listens to the button click.

When I say it registers a callback to be invoked, what I mean is it will run the View.OnClickListener l that is the input parameter for the method. In your case, it will be mCorkyListener mentioned in button.setOnClickListener(mCorkyListener); which will then execute the method onClick(View v) mentioned within

// Create an anonymous implementation of OnClickListener
private OnClickListener mCorkyListener = new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
      // do something when the button is clicked
    }
};

Moving on further, OnClickListener is an Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a view (button in your case) is clicked. Simply saying, when you click that button, the methods within mCorkyListener (because it is an implementation of OnClickListener) are executed. But, OnClickListener has just one method which is OnClick(View v). Therefore, whatever action that needs to be performed on clicking the button must be coded within this method.

Now that you know what setOnClickListener and OnClickListener mean, I'm sure you'll be able to differentiate between the two yourself. The third term View.OnClickListener is actually OnClickListener itself. The only reason you have View.preceding it is because of the difference in the import statment in the beginning of the program. If you have only import android.view.View; as the import statement you will have to use View.OnClickListener. If you mention either of these import statements: import android.view.View.*; or import android.view.View.OnClickListener; you can skip the View. and simply use OnClickListener.

How to start an application using android ADB tools?

Try this, for opening an android photo app & with specific image file to open as parameter.

adb shell am start -n com.google.android.apps.photos/.home.HomeActivity -d file:///mnt/user/0/primary/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot.png

It will work on latest android, no pop up will come to select an application to open as you are giving specific app to which you want to open your image with

How to require a controller in an angularjs directive

I got lucky and answered this in a comment to the question, but I'm posting a full answer for the sake of completeness and so we can mark this question as "Answered".


It depends on what you want to accomplish by sharing a controller; you can either share the same controller (though have different instances), or you can share the same controller instance.

Share a Controller

Two directives can use the same controller by passing the same method to two directives, like so:

app.controller( 'MyCtrl', function ( $scope ) {
  // do stuff...
});

app.directive( 'directiveOne', function () {
  return {
    controller: 'MyCtrl'
  };
});

app.directive( 'directiveTwo', function () {
  return {
    controller: 'MyCtrl'
  };
});

Each directive will get its own instance of the controller, but this allows you to share the logic between as many components as you want.

Require a Controller

If you want to share the same instance of a controller, then you use require.

require ensures the presence of another directive and then includes its controller as a parameter to the link function. So if you have two directives on one element, your directive can require the presence of the other directive and gain access to its controller methods. A common use case for this is to require ngModel.

^require, with the addition of the caret, checks elements above directive in addition to the current element to try to find the other directive. This allows you to create complex components where "sub-components" can communicate with the parent component through its controller to great effect. Examples could include tabs, where each pane can communicate with the overall tabs to handle switching; an accordion set could ensure only one is open at a time; etc.

In either event, you have to use the two directives together for this to work. require is a way of communicating between components.

Check out the Guide page of directives for more info: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive

How to add screenshot to READMEs in github repository?

Add ![ScreenShot](screenshot.png) in the readme markdown as mentioned by many above. Replace screenshot.png with the name of the image you uploaded in your repository.

But here is a newbie tip when you upload the image (as I made this mistake myself):

ensure that your image name does not contain spaces. My original image was saved as "Screenshot day month year id.png". If you don't change the name to something like contentofimage.png, it won't appear as an image in your readme file.

Override body style for content in an iframe

give the body of your iframe page an ID (or class if you wish)

<html>
<head></head>
<body id="myId">
</body>
</html>

then, also within the iframe's page, assign a background to that in CSS

#myId {
    background-color: white;
}

ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection. The connection's current state is Connecting

Sorry for only commenting in the first place, but i'm posting almost every day a similar comment since many people think that it would be smart to encapsulate ADO.NET functionality into a DB-Class(me too 10 years ago). Mostly they decide to use static/shared objects since it seems to be faster than to create a new object for any action.

That is neither a good idea in terms of peformance nor in terms of fail-safety.

Don't poach on the Connection-Pool's territory

There's a good reason why ADO.NET internally manages the underlying Connections to the DBMS in the ADO-NET Connection-Pool:

In practice, most applications use only one or a few different configurations for connections. This means that during application execution, many identical connections will be repeatedly opened and closed. To minimize the cost of opening connections, ADO.NET uses an optimization technique called connection pooling.

Connection pooling reduces the number of times that new connections must be opened. The pooler maintains ownership of the physical connection. It manages connections by keeping alive a set of active connections for each given connection configuration. Whenever a user calls Open on a connection, the pooler looks for an available connection in the pool. If a pooled connection is available, it returns it to the caller instead of opening a new connection. When the application calls Close on the connection, the pooler returns it to the pooled set of active connections instead of closing it. Once the connection is returned to the pool, it is ready to be reused on the next Open call.

So obviously there's no reason to avoid creating,opening or closing connections since actually they aren't created,opened and closed at all. This is "only" a flag for the connection pool to know when a connection can be reused or not. But it's a very important flag, because if a connection is "in use"(the connection pool assumes), a new physical connection must be openend to the DBMS what is very expensive.

So you're gaining no performance improvement but the opposite. If the maximum pool size specified (100 is the default) is reached, you would even get exceptions(too many open connections ...). So this will not only impact the performance tremendously but also be a source for nasty errors and (without using Transactions) a data-dumping-area.

If you're even using static connections you're creating a lock for every thread trying to access this object. ASP.NET is a multithreading environment by nature. So theres a great chance for these locks which causes performance issues at best. Actually sooner or later you'll get many different exceptions(like your ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection).

Conclusion:

  • Don't reuse connections or any ADO.NET objects at all.
  • Don't make them static/shared(in VB.NET)
  • Always create, open(in case of Connections), use, close and dispose them where you need them(f.e. in a method)
  • use the using-statement to dispose and close(in case of Connections) implicitely

That's true not only for Connections(although most noticable). Every object implementing IDisposable should be disposed(simplest by using-statement), all the more in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace.

All the above speaks against a custom DB-Class which encapsulates and reuse all objects. That's the reason why i commented to trash it. That's only a problem source.


Edit: Here's a possible implementation of your retrievePromotion-method:

public Promotion retrievePromotion(int promotionID)
{
    Promotion promo = null;
    var connectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MainConnStr"].ConnectionString;
    using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
    {
        var queryString = "SELECT PromotionID, PromotionTitle, PromotionURL FROM Promotion WHERE PromotionID=@PromotionID";
        using (var da = new SqlDataAdapter(queryString, connection))
        {
            // you could also use a SqlDataReader instead
            // note that a DataTable does not need to be disposed since it does not implement IDisposable
            var tblPromotion = new DataTable();
            // avoid SQL-Injection
            da.SelectCommand.Parameters.Add("@PromotionID", SqlDbType.Int);
            da.SelectCommand.Parameters["@PromotionID"].Value = promotionID;
            try
            {
                connection.Open(); // not necessarily needed in this case because DataAdapter.Fill does it otherwise 
                da.Fill(tblPromotion);
                if (tblPromotion.Rows.Count != 0)
                {
                    var promoRow = tblPromotion.Rows[0];
                    promo = new Promotion()
                    {
                        promotionID    = promotionID,
                        promotionTitle = promoRow.Field<String>("PromotionTitle"),
                        promotionUrl   = promoRow.Field<String>("PromotionURL")
                    };
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                // log this exception or throw it up the StackTrace
                // we do not need a finally-block to close the connection since it will be closed implicitely in an using-statement
                throw;
            }
        }
    }
    return promo;
}

How to get HTTP Response Code using Selenium WebDriver

I was also having same issue and stuck for some days, but after some research i figured out that we can actually use chrome's "--remote-debugging-port" to intercept requests in conjunction with selenium web driver. Use following Pseudocode as a reference:-

create instance of chrome driver with remote debugging

int freePort = findFreePort();

chromeOptions.addArguments("--remote-debugging-port=" + freePort);

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);`

make a get call to http://127.0.0.1:freePort

String response = makeGetCall( "http://127.0.0.1" + freePort  + "/json" );

Extract chrome's webSocket Url to listen, you can see response and figure out how to extract

String webSocketUrl = response.substring(response.indexOf("ws://127.0.0.1"), response.length() - 4);

Connect to this socket, u can use asyncHttp

socket = maketSocketConnection( webSocketUrl );

Enable network capture

socket.send( { "id" : 1, "method" : "Network.enable" } );

Now chrome will send all network related events and captures them as follows

socket.onMessageReceived( String message ){

    Json responseJson = toJson(message);
    if( responseJson.method == "Network.responseReceived" ){
       //extract status code
    }
}

driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com");

you can do everything mentioned in dev tools site. see https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ Note:- use chromedriver 2.39 or above.

I hope it helps someone.

reference : Using Google Chrome remote debugging protocol

How to position a table at the center of div horizontally & vertically

I discovered that I had to include

body { width:100%; }

for "margin: 0 auto" to work for tables.

open() in Python does not create a file if it doesn't exist

Use:

import os

f_loc = r"C:\Users\Russell\Desktop\myfile.dat"

# Create the file if it does not exist
if not os.path.exists(f_loc):
    open(f_loc, 'w').close()

# Open the file for appending and reading
with open(f_loc, 'a+') as f:
    #Do stuff

Note: Files have to be closed after you open them, and the with context manager is a nice way of letting Python take care of this for you.

What is the regular expression to allow uppercase/lowercase (alphabetical characters), periods, spaces and dashes only?

Check out the basics of regular expressions in a tutorial. All it requires is two anchors and a repeated character class:

^[a-zA-Z ._-]*$

If you use the case-insensitive modifier, you can shorten this to

^[a-z ._-]*$

Note that the space is significant (it is just a character like any other).

IIS Express Windows Authentication

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and 2012 added support for IIS Express eliminating the need to edit angle brackets.

  1. If you haven't already, right-click a web-flavored project and select "Use IIS Express...".
  2. Once complete, select the web project and press F4 to focus the Properties panel.
  3. Set the "Windows Authentication" property to Enabled, and the "Anonymous Authentication" property to Disabled.

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I believe this solution is superior to the vikomall's options.

  • Option #1 is a global change for all IIS Express sites.
  • Option #2 leaves development cruft in the web.config.
    • Further, it will probably lead to an error when deployed to IIS 7.5 unless you follow the "unlock" procedure on your IIS server's applicationHost.config.

The UI-based solution above uses site-specific location elements in IIS Express's applicationHost.config leaving the app untouched.

More information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh288080.aspx

How do I bind the enter key to a function in tkinter?

Try running the following program. You just have to be sure your window has the focus when you hit Return--to ensure that it does, first click the button a couple of times until you see some output, then without clicking anywhere else hit Return.

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("300x200")

def func(event):
    print("You hit return.")
root.bind('<Return>', func)

def onclick():
    print("You clicked the button")

button = tk.Button(root, text="click me", command=onclick)
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

Then you just have tweak things a little when making both the button click and hitting Return call the same function--because the command function needs to be a function that takes no arguments, whereas the bind function needs to be a function that takes one argument(the event object):

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("300x200")

def func(event):
    print("You hit return.")

def onclick(event=None):
    print("You clicked the button")

root.bind('<Return>', onclick)

button = tk.Button(root, text="click me", command=onclick)
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

Or, you can just forgo using the button's command argument and instead use bind() to attach the onclick function to the button, which means the function needs to take one argument--just like with Return:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("300x200")

def func(event):
    print("You hit return.")

def onclick(event):
    print("You clicked the button")

root.bind('<Return>', onclick)

button = tk.Button(root, text="click me")
button.bind('<Button-1>', onclick)
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

Here it is in a class setting:

import tkinter as tk

class Application(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        self.root = tk.Tk()
        self.root.geometry("300x200")

        tk.Frame.__init__(self, self.root)
        self.create_widgets()

    def create_widgets(self):
        self.root.bind('<Return>', self.parse)
        self.grid()

        self.submit = tk.Button(self, text="Submit")
        self.submit.bind('<Button-1>', self.parse)
        self.submit.grid()

    def parse(self, event):
        print("You clicked?")

    def start(self):
        self.root.mainloop()


Application().start()

View content of H2 or HSQLDB in-memory database

I've a problem with H2 version 1.4.190 remote connection to inMemory (as well as in file) with Connection is broken: "unexpected status 16843008" until do not downgrade to 1.3.176. See Grails accessing H2 TCP server hangs

How to convert Milliseconds to "X mins, x seconds" in Java?

Joda-Time

Using Joda-Time:

DateTime startTime = new DateTime();

// do something

DateTime endTime = new DateTime();
Duration duration = new Duration(startTime, endTime);
Period period = duration.toPeriod().normalizedStandard(PeriodType.time());
System.out.println(PeriodFormat.getDefault().print(period));

How to move the layout up when the soft keyboard is shown android

I solve this by adding code into manifest:

<activity android:name=".Login"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"
</activity>

Confused about Service vs Factory

Very simply:

.service - registered function will be invoked as a constructor (aka 'newed')

.factory - registered function will be invoked as a simple function

Both get invoked once resulting in a singleton object that gets injected into other components of your app.

How to urlencode a querystring in Python?

Try this:

urllib.pathname2url(stringToURLEncode)

urlencode won't work because it only works on dictionaries. quote_plus didn't produce the correct output.

How to insert programmatically a new line in an Excel cell in C#?

You need to insert the character code that Excel uses, which IIRC is 10 (ten).


EDIT: OK, here's some code. Note that I was able to confirm that the character-code used is indeed 10, by creating a cell containing:

A

B

...and then selecting it and executing this in the VBA immediate window:

?Asc(Mid(Activecell.Value,2,1))

So, the code you need to insert that value into another cell in VBA would be:

ActiveCell.Value = "A" & vbLf & "B"

(since vbLf is character code 10).

I know you're using C# but I find it's much easier to figure out what to do if you first do it in VBA, since you can try it out "interactively" without having to compile anything. Whatever you do in C# is just replicating what you do in VBA so there's rarely any difference. (Remember that the C# interop stuff is just using the same underlying COM libraries as VBA).

Anyway, the C# for this would be:

oCell.Value = "A\nB";

Spot the difference :-)


EDIT 2: Aaaargh! I just re-read the post and saw that you're using the Aspose library. Sorry, in that case I've no idea.

What's with the dollar sign ($"string")

String Interpolation

is a concept that languages like Perl have had for quite a while, and now we’ll get this ability in C# as well. In String Interpolation, we simply prefix the string with a $ (much like we use the @ for verbatim strings). Then, we simply surround the expressions we want to interpolate with curly braces (i.e. { and }):

It looks a lot like the String.Format() placeholders, but instead of an index, it is the expression itself inside the curly braces. In fact, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it looks like String.Format() because that’s really all it is – syntactical sugar that the compiler treats like String.Format() behind the scenes.

A great part is, the compiler now maintains the placeholders for you so you don’t have to worry about indexing the right argument because you simply place it right there in the string.

C# string interpolation is a method of concatenating,formatting and manipulating strings. This feature was introduced in C# 6.0. Using string interpolation, we can use objects and expressions as a part of the string interpolation operation.

Syntax of string interpolation starts with a ‘$’ symbol and expressions are defined within a bracket {} using the following syntax.

{<interpolatedExpression>[,<alignment>][:<formatString>]}  

Where:

  • interpolatedExpression - The expression that produces a result to be formatted
  • alignment - The constant expression whose value defines the minimum number of characters in the string representation of the result of the interpolated expression. If positive, the string representation is right-aligned; if negative, it's left-aligned.
  • formatString - A format string that is supported by the type of the expression result.

The following code example concatenates a string where an object, author as a part of the string interpolation.

string author = "Mohit";  
string hello = $"Hello {author} !";  
Console.WriteLine(hello);  // Hello Mohit !

Read more on C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Interpolation in C# 6

Use the auto keyword in C++ STL

auto keyword is intended to use in such situation, it is absolutely safe. But unfortunately it available only in C++0x so you will have portability issues with it.

Loading .sql files from within PHP

Since I can't comment on answer, beware to use following solution:

$db = new PDO($dsn, $user, $password);

$sql = file_get_contents('file.sql');

$qr = $db->exec($sql);

There is a bug in PHP PDO https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61613

db->exec('SELECT 1; invalidstatement; SELECT 2');

won't error out or return false (tested on PHP 5.5.14).

Xampp Access Forbidden php

Did you change any thing on the virtual-host before it stop working ?

Add this line to xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost localhost:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
    ServerAdmin localhost
    <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

How to obtain the query string from the current URL with JavaScript?

Try this one

/**
 * Get the value of a querystring
 * @param  {String} field The field to get the value of
 * @param  {String} url   The URL to get the value from (optional)
 * @return {String}       The field value
 */
var getQueryString = function ( field, url ) {
    var href = url ? url : window.location.href;
    var reg = new RegExp( '[?&]' + field + '=([^&#]*)', 'i' );
    var string = reg.exec(href);
    return string ? string[1] : null;
};

Let’s say your URL is http://example.com&this=chicken&that=sandwich. You want to get the value of this, that, and another.

var thisOne = getQueryString('this'); // returns 'chicken'
var thatOne = getQueryString('that'); // returns 'sandwich'
var anotherOne = getQueryString('another'); // returns null

If you want to use a URL other than the one in the window, you can pass one in as a second argument.

var yetAnotherOne = getQueryString('example', 'http://another-example.com&example=something'); // returns 'something'

Reference

Color picker utility (color pipette) in Ubuntu

You can install the package gcolor2 for this:

sudo apt-get install gcolor2

Then:

Applications -> Graphics -> GColor2

Phonegap + jQuery Mobile, real world sample or tutorial

This is a nice 5-part tutorial that covers a lot of useful material: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/phonegap/phonegap-from-scratch/
(Anyone else noticing a trend forming here??? hehehee )

And this will definitely be of use to all developers:
http://blip.tv/mobiletuts/weinre-demonstration-5922038
=)
Todd

Edit I just finished a nice four part tutorial building an app to write, save, edit, & delete notes using jQuery mobile (only), it was very practical & useful, but it was also only for jQM. So, I looked to see what else they had on DZone.

I'm now going to start sorting through these search results. At a glance, it looks really promising. I remembered this post; so I thought I'd steer people to it. ?

Add two numbers and display result in textbox with Javascript

<script>

function sum()
{
    var value1= parseInt(document.getElementById("txtfirst").value);
    var value2=parseInt(document.getElementById("txtsecond").value);
    var sum=value1+value2;
    document.getElementById("result").value=sum;

}
 </script>

npm install -g less does not work: EACCES: permission denied

For my mac environment

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules

solve the issue

Mockito How to mock and assert a thrown exception?

If you want to test the exception message as well you can use JUnit's ExpectedException with Mockito:

@Rule
public ExpectedException expectedException = ExpectedException.none();

@Test
public void testExceptionMessage() throws Exception {
    expectedException.expect(AnyException.class);
    expectedException.expectMessage("The expected message");

    given(foo.bar()).willThrow(new AnyException("The expected message"));
}

Java out.println() how is this possible?

out is a PrintStream type of static variable(object) of System class and println() is function of the PrintStream class.

class PrintStream
{
    public void println(){}    //member function
    ...
}

class System
{
    public static final PrintStream out;   //data member
    ...
}

That is why the static variable(object) out is accessed with the class name System which further invokes the method println() of it's type PrintStream (which is a class).

What is sys.maxint in Python 3?

As pointed out by others, Python 3's int does not have a maximum size, but if you just need something that's guaranteed to be higher than any other int value, then you can use the float value for Infinity, which you can get with float("inf").

When to use AtomicReference in Java?

An atomic reference is ideal to use when you need to share and change the state of an immutable object between multiple threads. That is a super dense statement so I will break it down a bit.

First, an immutable object is an object that is effectively not changed after construction. Frequently an immutable object's methods return new instances of that same class. Some examples include the wrapper classes of Long and Double, as well as String, just to name a few. (According to Programming Concurrency on the JVM immutable objects are a critical part of modern concurrency).

Next, why AtomicReference is better than a volatile object for sharing that shared value. A simple code example will show the difference.

volatile String sharedValue;
static final Object lock=new Object();
void modifyString(){
  synchronized(lock){
    sharedValue=sharedValue+"something to add";
  }
}

Every time you want to modify the string referenced by that volatile field based on its current value, you first need to obtain a lock on that object. This prevents some other thread from coming in during the meantime and changing the value in the middle of the new string concatenation. Then when your thread resumes, you clobber the work of the other thread. But honestly that code will work, it looks clean, and it would make most people happy.

Slight problem. It is slow. Especially if there is a lot of contention of that lock Object. Thats because most locks require an OS system call, and your thread will block and be context switched out of the CPU to make way for other processes.

The other option is to use an AtomicRefrence.

public static AtomicReference<String> shared = new AtomicReference<>();
String init="Inital Value";
shared.set(init);
//now we will modify that value
boolean success=false;
while(!success){
  String prevValue=shared.get();
  // do all the work you need to
  String newValue=shared.get()+"lets add something";
  // Compare and set
  success=shared.compareAndSet(prevValue,newValue);
}

Now why is this better? Honestly that code is a little less clean than before. But there is something really important that happens under the hood in AtomicRefrence, and that is compare and swap. It is a single CPU instruction, not an OS call, that makes the switch happen. That is a single instruction on the CPU. And because there are no locks, there is no context switch in the case where the lock gets exercised which saves even more time!

The catch is, for AtomicReferences, this does not use a .equals() call, but instead an == comparison for the expected value. So make sure the expected is the actual object returned from get in the loop.

How to detect when an Android app goes to the background and come back to the foreground

This is the modified version of @d60402's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15573121/4747587

Do everything mentioned there. But instead of having a Base Activity and making that as a parent for every activity and the overriding the onResume() and onPause, do the below:

In your application class, add the line:

registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks callback);

This callback has all the activity lifecycle methods and you can now override onActivityResumed() and onActivityPaused().

Take a look at this Gist: https://gist.github.com/thsaravana/1fa576b6af9fc8fff20acfb2ac79fa1b

How to bind an enum to a combobox control in WPF?

Universal apps seem to work a bit differently; it doesn't have all the power of full-featured XAML. What worked for me is:

  1. I created a list of the enum values as the enums (not converted to strings or to integers) and bound the ComboBox ItemsSource to that
  2. Then I could bind the ComboBox ItemSelected to my public property whose type is the enum in question

Just for fun I whipped up a little templated class to help with this and published it to the MSDN Samples pages. The extra bits let me optionally override the names of the enums and to let me hide some of the enums. My code looks an awful like like Nick's (above), which I wish I had seen earlier.

Running the sample; it includes multiple twoway bindings to the enum

CodeIgniter PHP Model Access "Unable to locate the model you have specified"

I resolve this with this way:

  1. I rename file do Page_model.php
  2. Class name to Page_model extends...
  3. I call on autoload: $autoload['model'] = array('Page_model'=>'page');

Works fine.. I hope help.

For div to extend full height

Did you remember setting the height of the html and body tags in your CSS? This is generally how I've gotten DIVs to extend to full height:


<html>
  <head>
    <style type="text/css">

      html,body { height: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
      #full { background: #0f0; height: 100% }

    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="full">
    </div>
  </body>
</html>



Get Android Phone Model programmatically

On many popular devices the market name of the device is not available. For example, on the Samsung Galaxy S6 the value of Build.MODEL could be "SM-G920F", "SM-G920I", or "SM-G920W8".

I created a small library that gets the market (consumer friendly) name of a device. It gets the correct name for over 10,000 devices and is constantly updated. If you wish to use my library click the link below:

AndroidDeviceNames Library on Github


If you do not want to use the library above, then this is the best solution for getting a consumer friendly device name:

/** Returns the consumer friendly device name */
public static String getDeviceName() {
  String manufacturer = Build.MANUFACTURER;
  String model = Build.MODEL;
  if (model.startsWith(manufacturer)) {
    return capitalize(model);
  }
  return capitalize(manufacturer) + " " + model;
}

private static String capitalize(String str) {
  if (TextUtils.isEmpty(str)) {
    return str;
  }
  char[] arr = str.toCharArray();
  boolean capitalizeNext = true;

  StringBuilder phrase = new StringBuilder();
  for (char c : arr) {
    if (capitalizeNext && Character.isLetter(c)) {
      phrase.append(Character.toUpperCase(c));
      capitalizeNext = false;
      continue;
    } else if (Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
      capitalizeNext = true;
    }
    phrase.append(c);
  }

  return phrase.toString();
}

Example from my Verizon HTC One M8:

// using method from above
System.out.println(getDeviceName());
// Using https://github.com/jaredrummler/AndroidDeviceNames
System.out.println(DeviceName.getDeviceName());

Result:

HTC6525LVW

HTC One (M8)

R Error in x$ed : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

The reason you are getting this error is that you have a vector.

If you want to use the $ operator, you simply need to convert it to a data.frame. But since you only have one row in this particular case, you would also need to transpose it; otherwise bob and ed will become your row names instead of your column names which is what I think you want.

x <- c(1, 2)
x
names(x) <- c("bob", "ed")
x <- as.data.frame(t(x))
x$ed
[1] 2

fatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch

For me, I was pushing the changes to a private repo to which I didn't had the write access. Make sure you have the valid access rights while performing push or pull operations.

You can directly verify via

What's the point of the X-Requested-With header?

A good reason is for security - this can prevent CSRF attacks because this header cannot be added to the AJAX request cross domain without the consent of the server via CORS.

Only the following headers are allowed cross domain:

  • Accept
  • Accept-Language
  • Content-Language
  • Last-Event-ID
  • Content-Type

any others cause a "pre-flight" request to be issued in CORS supported browsers.

Without CORS it is not possible to add X-Requested-With to a cross domain XHR request.

If the server is checking that this header is present, it knows that the request didn't initiate from an attacker's domain attempting to make a request on behalf of the user with JavaScript. This also checks that the request wasn't POSTed from a regular HTML form, of which it is harder to verify it is not cross domain without the use of tokens. (However, checking the Origin header could be an option in supported browsers, although you will leave old browsers vulnerable.)

New Flash bypass discovered

You may wish to combine this with a token, because Flash running on Safari on OSX can set this header if there's a redirect step. It appears it also worked on Chrome, but is now remediated. More details here including different versions affected.

OWASP Recommend combining this with an Origin and Referer check:

This defense technique is specifically discussed in section 4.3 of Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery. However, bypasses of this defense using Flash were documented as early as 2008 and again as recently as 2015 by Mathias Karlsson to exploit a CSRF flaw in Vimeo. But, we believe that the Flash attack can't spoof the Origin or Referer headers so by checking both of them we believe this combination of checks should prevent Flash bypass CSRF attacks. (NOTE: If anyone can confirm or refute this belief, please let us know so we can update this article)

However, for the reasons already discussed checking Origin can be tricky.

Update

Written a more in depth blog post on CORS, CSRF and X-Requested-With here.

Accessing Websites through a Different Port?

You can use ssh to forward ports onto somewhere else.

If you have two computers, one you browse from, and one which is free to access websites, and is not logged (ie. you own it and it's sitting at home), then you can set up a tunnel between them to forward http traffic over.

For example, I connect to my home computer from work using ssh, with port forwarding, like this:

ssh -L 22222:<target_website>:80 <home_computer>

Then I can point my browser to

http://localhost:22222/

And this request will be forwarded over ssh. Since the work computer is first contacting the home computer, and then contacting the target website, it will be hard to log.

However, this is all getting into 'how to bypass web proxies' and the like, and I suggest you create a new question asking what exactly you want to do.

Ie. "How do I bypass web proxies to avoid my traffic being logged?"

Error "package android.support.v7.app does not exist"

Using Android Studio you have to add the dependency of the support library that was not indicated in the tutorial

dependencies {

    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.0'
}

In Firebase, is there a way to get the number of children of a node without loading all the node data?

This is a little late in the game as several others have already answered nicely, but I'll share how I might implement it.

This hinges on the fact that the Firebase REST API offers a shallow=true parameter.

Assume you have a post object and each one can have a number of comments:

{
 "posts": {
  "$postKey": {
   "comments": {
     ...  
   }
  }
 }
}

You obviously don't want to fetch all of the comments, just the number of comments.

Assuming you have the key for a post, you can send a GET request to https://yourapp.firebaseio.com/posts/[the post key]/comments?shallow=true.

This will return an object of key-value pairs, where each key is the key of a comment and its value is true:

{
 "comment1key": true,
 "comment2key": true,
 ...,
 "comment9999key": true
}

The size of this response is much smaller than requesting the equivalent data, and now you can calculate the number of keys in the response to find your value (e.g. commentCount = Object.keys(result).length).

This may not completely solve your problem, as you are still calculating the number of keys returned, and you can't necessarily subscribe to the value as it changes, but it does greatly reduce the size of the returned data without requiring any changes to your schema.

Android marshmallow request permission?

I went through all answers, but doesn't satisfied my exact needed answer, so here is an example that I wrote and perfectly works, even user clicks the Don't ask again checkbox.

  1. Create a method that will be called when you want to ask for runtime permission like readContacts() or you can also have openCamera() as shown below:

    private void readContacts() {
        if (!askContactsPermission()) {
            return;
        } else {
            queryContacts();
        } }
    

Now we need to make askContactsPermission(), you can also name it as askCameraPermission() or whatever permission you are going to ask.

    private boolean askContactsPermission() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
        return true;
    }
    if (checkSelfPermission(READ_CONTACTS) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
        return true;
    }
    if (shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(READ_CONTACTS)) {
        Snackbar.make(parentLayout, R.string.permission_rationale, Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE)
                .setAction(android.R.string.ok, new View.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.M)
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        requestPermissions(new String[]{READ_CONTACTS}, REQUEST_READ_CONTACTS);
                    }
                }).show();
    } else if (contactPermissionNotGiven) {
        openPermissionSettingDialog();
    } else {
        requestPermissions(new String[]{READ_CONTACTS}, REQUEST_READ_CONTACTS);
        contactPermissionNotGiven = true;

    }
    return false;
}

Before writing this function make sure you have defined the below instance variable as shown:

    private View parentLayout;
    private boolean contactPermissionNotGiven;;


/**
 * Id to identity READ_CONTACTS permission request.
 */
private static final int REQUEST_READ_CONTACTS = 0;

Now final step to override the onRequestPermissionsResult method as shown below:

/**
 * Callback received when a permissions request has been completed.
 */
@RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.M)
@Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, @NonNull String[] permissions,
                                       @NonNull int[] grantResults) {
    if (requestCode == REQUEST_READ_CONTACTS) {
        if (grantResults.length == 1 && grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            queryContacts();
        }
    }
}

Here we are done with the RunTime permissions, the addon is the openPermissionSettingDialog() which simply open the Setting screen if user have permanently disable the permission by clicking Don't ask again checkbox. below is the method:

    private void openPermissionSettingDialog() {
    String message = getString(R.string.message_permission_disabled);
    AlertDialog alertDialog =
            new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this, AlertDialog.THEME_DEVICE_DEFAULT_LIGHT)
                    .setMessage(message)
                    .setPositiveButton(getString(android.R.string.ok),
                            new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                                @Override
                                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                                    Intent intent = new Intent();
                                    intent.setAction(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
                                    Uri uri = Uri.fromParts("package", getPackageName(), null);
                                    intent.setData(uri);
                                    startActivity(intent);
                                    dialog.cancel();
                                }
                            }).show();
    alertDialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);
}

What we missed ? 1. Defining the used strings in strings.xml

_x000D_
_x000D_
<string name="permission_rationale">"Contacts permissions are needed to display Contacts."</string>_x000D_
    <string name="message_permission_disabled">You have disabled the permissions permanently,_x000D_
        To enable the permissions please go to Settings -> Permissions and enable the required Permissions,_x000D_
        pressing OK you will be navigated to Settings screen</string>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

  1. Initializing the parentLayout variable inside onCreate method

    parentLayout = findViewById(R.id.content);

  2. Defining the required permission in AndroidManifest.xml

_x000D_
_x000D_
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

  1. The queryContacts method, based on your need or the runtime permission you can call your method before which the permission was needed. in my case I simply use the loader to fetch the contact as shown below:

    private void queryContacts() {
    getLoaderManager().initLoader(0, null, this);}
    

This works great happy coding :)

Programmatically center TextView text

this will work for sure..

RelativeLayout layout = new RelativeLayout(R.layout.your_layour); 
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT);
params.addRule(LinearLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT);
textView.setLayoutParams(params);
textView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);

layout.addView(textView);

setcontentView(layout);

How to avoid .pyc files?

As far as I know python will compile all modules you "import". However python will NOT compile a python script run using: "python script.py" (it will however compile any modules that the script imports).

The real questions is why you don't want python to compile the modules? You could probably automate a way of cleaning these up if they are getting in the way.

Java Minimum and Maximum values in Array

You are doing two mistakes here.
1. calling getMaxValue(),getMinValue() methods before array initialization completes.
2.Not storing return value returned by the getMaxValue(),getMinValue() methods.
So try this code

   for (int i = 0 ; i < array.length; i++ ) 
  {
       int next = input.nextInt();
       // sentineil that will stop loop when 999 is entered
       if (next == 999)
       break;
       array[i] = next;
  }
  // get biggest number
  int maxValue = getMaxValue(array);
  System.out.println(maxValue );

  // get smallest number
  int minValue = getMinValue(array);
  System.out.println(minValue);

VBA general way for pulling data out of SAP

This all depends on what sort of access you have to your SAP system. An ABAP program that exports the data and/or an RFC that your macro can call to directly get the data or have SAP create the file is probably best.

However as a general rule people looking for this sort of answer are looking for an immediate solution that does not require their IT department to spend months customizing their SAP system.

In that case you probably want to use SAP GUI Scripting. SAP GUI scripting allows you to automate the Windows SAP GUI in much the same way as you automate Excel. In fact you can call the SAP GUI directly from an Excel macro. Read up more on it here. The SAP GUI has a macro recording tool much like Excel does. It records macros in VBScript which is nearly identical to Excel VBA and can usually be copied and pasted into an Excel macro directly.

Example Code

Here is a simple example based on a SAP system I have access to.

Public Sub SimpleSAPExport()
  Set SapGuiAuto  = GetObject("SAPGUI") 'Get the SAP GUI Scripting object
  Set SAPApp = SapGuiAuto.GetScriptingEngine 'Get the currently running SAP GUI 
  Set SAPCon = SAPApp.Children(0) 'Get the first system that is currently connected
  Set session = SAPCon.Children(0) 'Get the first session (window) on that connection

  'Start the transaction to view a table
  session.StartTransaction "SE16"

  'Select table T001
  session.findById("wnd[0]/usr/ctxtDATABROWSE-TABLENAME").Text = "T001"
  session.findById("wnd[0]/tbar[1]/btn[7]").Press

  'Set our selection criteria
  session.findById("wnd[0]/usr/txtMAX_SEL").text = "2"
  session.findById("wnd[0]/tbar[1]/btn[8]").press

  'Click the export to file button
  session.findById("wnd[0]/tbar[1]/btn[45]").press

  'Choose the export format
  session.findById("wnd[1]/usr/subSUBSCREEN_STEPLOOP:SAPLSPO5:0150/sub:SAPLSPO5:0150/radSPOPLI-SELFLAG[1,0]").select
  session.findById("wnd[1]/tbar[0]/btn[0]").press

  'Choose the export filename
  session.findById("wnd[1]/usr/ctxtDY_FILENAME").text = "test.txt"
  session.findById("wnd[1]/usr/ctxtDY_PATH").text = "C:\Temp\"

  'Export the file
  session.findById("wnd[1]/tbar[0]/btn[0]").press
End Sub

Script Recording

To help find the names of elements such aswnd[1]/tbar[0]/btn[0] you can use script recording. Click the customize local layout button, it probably looks a bit like this: Customize Local Layout
Then find the Script Recording and Playback menu item.
Script Recording and Playback
Within that the More button allows you to see/change the file that the VB Script is recorded to. The output format is a bit messy, it records things like selecting text, clicking inside a text field, etc.

Edit: Early and Late binding

The provided script should work if copied directly into a VBA macro. It uses late binding, the line Set SapGuiAuto = GetObject("SAPGUI") defines the SapGuiAuto object.

If however you want to use early binding so that your VBA editor might show the properties and methods of the objects you are using, you need to add a reference to sapfewse.ocx in the SAP GUI installation folder.

How add spaces between Slick carousel item

With the help of pseudo classes removed margins from first and last child, and used adaptive height true in the script. Try this fiddle

One more Demo

 $('.single-item').slick({
        initialSlide: 3,
        infinite: false,
        adaptiveHeight: true
    });

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock?

The method System.Web.UI.Page.RegisterClientScriptBlock has been deprecated for some time (along with the other Page.Register* methods), ever since .NET 2.0 as shown by MSDN.

Instead use the .NET 2.0 Page.ClientScript.Register* methods. - (The ClientScript property expresses an instance of the ClientScriptManager class )

Guessing the problem

If you are saying your JavaScript alert box occurs before the page's content is visibly rendered, and therefore the page remains white (or still unrendered) when the alert box is dismissed by the user, then try using the Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(..) method instead because it runs the given client-side code when the page finishes loading - and its arguments are similar to what you're using already.

Also check for general JavaScript errors in the page - this is often seen by an error icon in the browser's status bar. Sometimes a JavaScript error will hold up or disturb unrelated elements on the page.

Python, creating objects

Create a class and give it an __init__ method:

class Student:
    def __init__(self, name, age, major):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
        self.major = major

    def is_old(self):
        return self.age > 100

Now, you can initialize an instance of the Student class:

>>> s = Student('John', 88, None)
>>> s.name
    'John'
>>> s.age
    88

Although I'm not sure why you need a make_student student function if it does the same thing as Student.__init__.

Must issue a STARTTLS command first

I also faced the same issue while I was building email notification application. you just need to add one line. Below one saved my day.

props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");

com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. h13-v6sm10627790pgp.13 - gsmtp

at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:2108)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.mailFrom(SMTPTransport.java:1609)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:1117)
at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:195)
at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:124)
at com.smruti.email.EmailProject.EmailSend.main(EmailSend.java:99)

Hope this helps you.

convert string to date in sql server

if you datatype is datetime of the table.col , then database store data contain two partial : 1 (date) 2 (time)

Just in display data use convert or cast.

Example:

create table #test(part varchar(10),lastTime datetime)
go

insert into #test (part ,lastTime )
values('A','2012-11-05 ')

insert into #test (part ,lastTime )
values('B','2012-11-05 10:30')


go

select * from #test 

A   2012-11-05 00:00:00.000
B   2012-11-05 10:30:00.000

select part,CONVERT (varchar,lastTime,111) from #test

A   2012/11/05
B   2012/11/05

select part,CONVERT (varchar(10),lastTime,20) from #test 

A   2012-11-05
B   2012-11-05

SELECT data from another schema in oracle

Depending on the schema/account you are using to connect to the database, I would suspect you are missing a grant to the account you are using to connect to the database.

Connect as PCT account in the database, then grant the account you are using select access for the table.

grant select on pi_int to Account_used_to_connect

Why do I get a "Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of" error message when using HibernateCriteriaBuilder in Grails

@Dinh Nhat, your setter method looks wrong because you put a primitive type there again and it should be:

public void setClient_os_id(Integer clientOsId) {
client_os_id = clientOsId;
}

seek() function?

When you open a file, the system points to the beginning of the file. Any read or write you do will happen from the beginning. A seek() operation moves that pointer to some other part of the file so you can read or write at that place.

So, if you want to read the whole file but skip the first 20 bytes, open the file, seek(20) to move to where you want to start reading, then continue with reading the file.

Or say you want to read every 10th byte, you could write a loop that does seek(9, 1) (moves 9 bytes forward relative to the current positions), read(1) (reads one byte), repeat.

Move a view up only when the keyboard covers an input field

Here is My 2 cents:

Have you tried: https://github.com/hackiftekhar/IQKeyboardManager

Extremely easy to install Swift or Objective-C.

Here how it works:

IQKeyboardManager (Swift):- IQKeyboardManagerSwift is available through CocoaPods, to install it simply add the following line to your Podfile: (#236)

pod 'IQKeyboardManagerSwift'

In AppDelegate.swift, just import IQKeyboardManagerSwift framework and enable IQKeyboardManager.

import IQKeyboardManagerSwift

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {

    var window: UIWindow?

    func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {

    IQKeyboardManager.sharedManager().enable = true
    // For Swift 4, use this instead
    // IQKeyboardManager.shared.enable = true


    return true
    }
}

And that is all. Easy!

lexers vs parsers

There are a number of reasons why the analysis portion of a compiler is normally separated into lexical analysis and parsing ( syntax analysis) phases.

  1. Simplicity of design is the most important consideration. The separation of lexical and syntactic analysis often allows us to simplify at least one of these tasks. For example, a parser that had to deal with comments and white space as syntactic units would be. Considerably more complex than one that can assume comments and white space have already been removed by the lexical analyzer. If we are designing a new language, separating lexical and syntactic concerns can lead to a cleaner overall language design.
  2. Compiler efficiency is improved. A separate lexical analyzer allows us to apply specialized techniques that serve only the lexical task, not the job of parsing. In addition, specialized buffering techniques for reading input characters can speed up the compiler significantly.
  3. Compiler portability is enhanced. Input-device-specific peculiarities can be restricted to the lexical analyzer.

resource___Compilers (2nd Edition) written by- Alfred V. Abo Columbia University Monica S. Lam Stanford University Ravi Sethi Avaya Jeffrey D. Ullman Stanford University

Find maximum value of a column and return the corresponding row values using Pandas

I'd recommend using nlargest for better performance and shorter code. import pandas

df[col_name].value_counts().nlargest(n=1)

Passing Multiple route params in Angular2

OK realized a mistake .. it has to be /:id/:id2

Anyway didn't find this in any tutorial or other StackOverflow question.

@RouteConfig([{path: '/component/:id/:id2',name: 'MyCompB', component:MyCompB}])
export class MyCompA {
    onClick(){
        this._router.navigate( ['MyCompB', {id: "someId", id2: "another ID"}]);
    }
}

SQL Server Creating a temp table for this query

DECLARE #MyTempTable TABLE (SiteName varchar(50), BillingMonth varchar(10), Consumption float)

INSERT INTO #MyTempTable (SiteName, BillingMonth, Consumption)
SELECT  tblMEP_Sites.Name AS SiteName, convert(varchar(10),BillingMonth ,101) AS BillingMonth, SUM(Consumption) AS Consumption
FROM tblMEP_Projects.......  --your joining statements

Here, # - use this to create table inside tempdb
@ - use this to create table as variable.

How to declare an array inside MS SQL Server Stored Procedure?

Is there a reason why you aren't using a table variable and the aggregate SUM operator, instead of a cursor? SQL excels at set-oriented operations. 99.87% of the time that you find yourself using a cursor, there's a set-oriented alternative that's more efficient:

declare @MonthsSale table
(
MonthNumber int,
MonthName varchar(9),
MonthSale decimal(18,2)
)

insert into @MonthsSale
select
    1, 'January', 100.00
union select    
    2, 'February', 200.00
union select    
    3, 'March', 300.00
union select    
    4, 'April', 400.00
union select    
    5, 'May', 500.00
union select    
    6, 'June', 600.00
union select    
    7, 'July', 700.00
union select    
    8, 'August', 800.00
union select    
    9, 'September', 900.00
union select    
    10, 'October', 1000.00
union select    
    11, 'November', 1100.00
union select    
    12, 'December', 1200.00

select * from @MonthsSale   
select SUM(MonthSale) as [TotalSales] from @MonthsSale

Adding values to Arraylist

Two last variants are the same, int is wrapped to Integer automatically where you need an Object. If you not write any class in <> it will be Object by default. So there is no difference, but it will be better to understanding if you write Object.

How can I view the Git history in Visual Studio Code?

I strongly recommend using a combination of GitLens & GitGraph.

Below snapshot highlights how gitlens is showing commit over time

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And the below picture is for the the amazing vivid GitGraph

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Installed Ruby 1.9.3 with RVM but command line doesn't show ruby -v

I ran into a similar issue today - my ruby version didn't match my rvm installs.

> ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p481

> rvm list
rvm rubies
   ruby-2.1.2 [ x86_64 ]
=* ruby-2.2.1 [ x86_64 ]
   ruby-2.2.3 [ x86_64 ]

Also, rvm current failed.

> rvm current
Warning! PATH is not properly set up, '/Users/randallreed/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/bin' is not at first place...

The error message recommended this useful command, which resolved the issue for me:

> rvm get stable --auto-dotfiles

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

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

First the actual accounts:

  • LocalService account (preferred)

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

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

     

  • NetworkService account

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

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

     

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

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

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

     

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

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

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

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


In Windows Server 2003 you cannot run a scheduled task as

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

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

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

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Vim multiline editing like in sublimetext?

I'm not sure what vim is doing, but it is an interesting effect. The way you're describing what you want sounds more like how macros work (:help macro). Something like this would do what you want with macros (starting in normal-mode):

  1. qa: Record macro to a register.
  2. 0w: 0 goto start of line, w jump one word.
  3. i"<Esc>: Enter insert-mode, insert a " and return to normal-mode.
  4. 2e: Jump to end of second word.
  5. a"<Esc>: Append a ".
  6. jq Move to next line and end macro recording.

Taken together: qa0wi"<Esc>2ea"<Esc>

Now you can execute the macro with @a, repeat last macro with @@. To apply to the rest of the file, do something like 99@a which assumes you do not have more than 99 lines, macro execution will end when it reaches end of file.

Here is how to achieve what you want with visual-block-mode (starting in normal mode):

  1. Navigate to where you want the first quote to be.
  2. Enter visual-block-mode, select the lines you want to affect, G to go to the bottom of the file.
  3. Hit I"<Esc>.
  4. Move to the next spot you want to insert a ".
  5. You want to repeat what you just did so a simple . will suffice.

Difference between "read commited" and "repeatable read"

I think this picture can also be useful, it helps me as a reference when I want to quickly remember the differences between isolation levels (thanks to kudvenkat on youtube)

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How to rollback or commit a transaction in SQL Server

The good news is a transaction in SQL Server can span multiple batches (each exec is treated as a separate batch.)

You can wrap your EXEC statements in a BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT but you'll need to go a step further and rollback if any errors occur.

Ideally you'd want something like this:

BEGIN TRY
    BEGIN TRANSACTION 
        exec( @sqlHeader)
        exec(@sqlTotals)
        exec(@sqlLine)
    COMMIT
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH

    IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
        ROLLBACK
END CATCH

The BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT I believe you are already familiar with. The BEGIN TRY and BEGIN CATCH blocks are basically there to catch and handle any errors that occur. If any of your EXEC statements raise an error, the code execution will jump to the CATCH block.

Your existing SQL building code should be outside the transaction (above) as you always want to keep your transactions as short as possible.

Multidimensional Array [][] vs [,]

double[][] are called jagged arrays , The inner dimensions aren’t specified in the declaration. Unlike a rectangular array, each inner array can be an arbitrary length. Each inner array is implicitly initialized to null rather than an empty array. Each inner array must be created manually: Reference [C# 4.0 in nutshell The definitive Reference]

for (int i = 0; i < matrix.Length; i++)
{
    matrix[i] = new int [3]; // Create inner array
    for (int j = 0; j < matrix[i].Length; j++)
        matrix[i][j] = i * 3 + j;
}

double[,] are called rectangular arrays, which are declared using commas to separate each dimension. The following piece of code declares a rectangular 3-by-3 two-dimensional array, initializing it with numbers from 0 to 8:

int [,] matrix = new int [3, 3];
for (int i = 0; i < matrix.GetLength(0); i++)
    for (int j = 0; j < matrix.GetLength(1); j++)
        matrix [i, j] = i * 3 + j;

'ls' in CMD on Windows is not recognized

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First

Make a dir c:\command

Second Make a ll.bat

ll.bat

dir

Third Add to Path C:/commands enter image description here