Programs & Examples On #User customization

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?

Syntax is not a minor thing, it has a direct impact on how we think. It also has a direct effect on the rules we create for the systems we use. As an example we have the order of operations because of the way we write mathematical equations or sentences. The standard notation for mathematics allows people to read it more than one way and arrive at different answers given the same equation. If we had used prefix or postfix notation we would have created rules to distinguish what the numbers to be manipulated were rather than only having rules for the order in which to compute values.

The standard notation makes it plain what numbers we are talking about while making the order in which to compute them ambiguous. Prefix and postfix notation make the order in which to compute plain while making the numbers ambiguous. Python would already have multiline lambdas if it were not for the difficulties caused by the syntactic whitespace. (Proposals do exist for pulling this kind of thing off without necessarily adding explicit block delimiters.)

I find it easier to write conditions where I want something to occur if a condition is false much easier to write with the unless statement in Ruby than the semantically equivalent "if-not" construction in Ruby or other languages for example. If most of the languages that people are using today are equal in power, how can the syntax of each language be considered a trivial thing? After specific features like blocks and inheritance mechanisms etc. syntax is the most important part of a language,hardly a superficial thing.

What is superficial are the aesthetic qualities of beauty that we ascribe to syntax. Aesthetics have nothing to do with how our cognition works, syntax does.

How to position a div in the middle of the screen when the page is bigger than the screen

Try this one.

.centered {
  position: fixed;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

How to return a list of keys from a Hash Map?

Since Java 8:

List<String> myList = map.keySet().stream().collect(Collectors.toList());

Flutter Circle Design

You can use CustomMultiChildLayout to draw this kind of layouts. Here you can find a tutorial: How to Create Custom Layout Widgets in Flutter.

How to merge rows in a column into one cell in excel?

I use the CONCATENATE method to take the values of a column and wrap quotes around them with columns in between in order to quickly populate the WHERE IN () clause of a SQL statement.

I always just type =CONCATENATE("'",B2,"'",",") and then select that and drag it down, which creates =CONCATENATE("'",B3,"'",","), =CONCATENATE("'",B4,"'",","), etc. then highlight that whole column, copy paste to a plain text editor and paste back if needed, thus stripping the row separation. It works, but again, just as a one time deal, this is not a good solution for someone who needs this all the time.

Bash command line and input limit

Ok, Denizens. So I have accepted the command line length limits as gospel for quite some time. So, what to do with one's assumptions? Naturally- check them.

I have a Fedora 22 machine at my disposal (meaning: Linux with bash4). I have created a directory with 500,000 inodes (files) in it each of 18 characters long. The command line length is 9,500,000 characters. Created thus:

seq 1 500000 | while read digit; do
    touch $(printf "abigfilename%06d\n" $digit);
done

And we note:

$ getconf ARG_MAX
2097152

Note however I can do this:

$ echo * > /dev/null

But this fails:

$ /bin/echo * > /dev/null
bash: /bin/echo: Argument list too long

I can run a for loop:

$ for f in *; do :; done

which is another shell builtin.

Careful reading of the documentation for ARG_MAX states, Maximum length of argument to the exec functions. This means: Without calling exec, there is no ARG_MAX limitation. So it would explain why shell builtins are not restricted by ARG_MAX.

And indeed, I can ls my directory if my argument list is 109948 files long, or about 2,089,000 characters (give or take). Once I add one more 18-character filename file, though, then I get an Argument list too long error. So ARG_MAX is working as advertised: the exec is failing with more than ARG_MAX characters on the argument list- including, it should be noted, the environment data.

How to switch a user per task or set of tasks?

With Ansible 1.9 or later

Ansible uses the become, become_user, and become_method directives to achieve privilege escalation. You can apply them to an entire play or playbook, set them in an included playbook, or set them for a particular task.

- name: checkout repo
  git: repo=https://github.com/some/repo.git version=master dest={{ dst }}
  become: yes
  become_user: some_user

You can use become_with to specify how the privilege escalation is achieved, the default being sudo.

The directive is in effect for the scope of the block in which it is used (examples).

See Hosts and Users for some additional examples and Become (Privilege Escalation) for more detailed documentation.

In addition to the task-scoped become and become_user directives, Ansible 1.9 added some new variables and command line options to set these values for the duration of a play in the absence of explicit directives:

As of Ansible 2.0.2.0, the older sudo/sudo_user syntax described below still works, but the deprecation notice states, "This feature will be removed in a future release."


Previous syntax, deprecated as of Ansible 1.9 and scheduled for removal:

- name: checkout repo
  git: repo=https://github.com/some/repo.git version=master dest={{ dst }}
  sudo: yes
  sudo_user: some_user

Android turn On/Off WiFi HotSpot programmatically

APManager - Access Point Manager

Step 1 : Add the jcenter repository to your build file
allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        jcenter()
    }
}
Step 2 : Add the dependency
dependencies {
    implementation 'com.vkpapps.wifimanager:APManager:1.0.0'
}
Step 3 use in your app
APManager apManager = APManager.getApManager(this);
apManager.turnOnHotspot(this, new APManager.OnSuccessListener() {

    @Override
    public void onSuccess(String ssid, String password) {
        //write your logic
    }

}, new APManager.OnFailureListener() {

    @Override
    public void onFailure(int failureCode, @Nullable Exception e) {
        //handle error like give access to location permission,write system setting permission,
        //disconnect wifi,turn off already created hotspot,enable GPS provider
        
        //or use DefaultFailureListener class to handle automatically
    }

});

check out source code https://github.com/vijaypatidar/AndroidWifiManager

Deserialize from string instead TextReader

1-liner, takes a XML string text and YourType as the expected object type. not very different from other answers, just compressed to 1 line:

var result =  (YourType)new XmlSerializer(typeof(YourType)).Deserialize(new StringReader(text));

How to perform Unwind segue programmatically?

Swift 4.2, Xcode 10+

For those wondering how to do this with VCs not set up via the storyboard (those coming to this question from searching "programmatically" + "unwind segue").

Given that you cannot set up an unwind segue programatically, the simplest solely programmatic solution is to call:

navigationController?.popToRootViewController(animated: true)

which will pop all view controllers on the stack back to your root view controller.


To pop just the topmost view controller from the navigation stack, use:

navigationController?.popViewController(animated: true)

How to convert string to Title Case in Python?

Note: Why am I providing yet another answer? This answer is based on the title of the question and the notion that camelcase is defined as: a series of words that have been concatenated (no spaces!) such that each of the original words start with a capital letter (the rest being lowercase) excepting the first word of the series (which is completely lowercase). Also it is assumed that "all strings" refers to ASCII character set; unicode would not work with this solution).

simple

Given the above definition, this function

import re
word_regex_pattern = re.compile("[^A-Za-z]+")

def camel(chars):
  words = word_regex_pattern.split(chars)
  return "".join(w.lower() if i is 0 else w.title() for i, w in enumerate(words))

, when called, would result in this manner

camel("San Francisco")  # sanFrancisco
camel("SAN-FRANCISCO")  # sanFrancisco
camel("san_francisco")  # sanFrancisco

less simple

Note that it fails when presented with an already camel cased string!

camel("sanFrancisco")   # sanfrancisco  <-- noted limitation

even less simple

Note that it fails with many unicode strings

camel("México City")    # mXicoCity     <-- can't handle unicode

I don't have a solution for these cases(or other ones that could be introduced with some creativity). So, as in all things that have to do with strings, cover your own edge cases and good luck with unicode!

Quickest way to compare two generic lists for differences

Maybe it's funny, but this works for me:

string.Join("",List1) != string.Join("", List2)

How to stretch children to fill cross-axis?

  • The children of a row-flexbox container automatically fill the container's vertical space.

  • Specify flex: 1; for a child if you want it to fill the remaining horizontal space:

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_x000D_
.wrapper {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: row;_x000D_
  align-items: stretch;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 5em;_x000D_
  background: #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .left_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #fcc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .right_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #ccf;_x000D_
  flex: 1; _x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="wrapper">_x000D_
  <div class="left">Left</div>_x000D_
  <div class="right">Right</div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
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  • Specify flex: 1; for both children if you want them to fill equal amounts of the horizontal space:

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_x000D_
.wrapper {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: row;_x000D_
  align-items: stretch;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 5em;_x000D_
  background: #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > div _x000D_
{_x000D_
  flex: 1; _x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .left_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #fcc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .right_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #ccf;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="wrapper">_x000D_
  <div class="left">Left</div>_x000D_
  <div class="right">Right</div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Adding new column to existing DataFrame in Python pandas

I got the dreaded SettingWithCopyWarning, and it wasn't fixed by using the iloc syntax. My DataFrame was created by read_sql from an ODBC source. Using a suggestion by lowtech above, the following worked for me:

df.insert(len(df.columns), 'e', pd.Series(np.random.randn(sLength),  index=df.index))

This worked fine to insert the column at the end. I don't know if it is the most efficient, but I don't like warning messages. I think there is a better solution, but I can't find it, and I think it depends on some aspect of the index.
Note. That this only works once and will give an error message if trying to overwrite and existing column.
Note As above and from 0.16.0 assign is the best solution. See documentation http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.assign.html#pandas.DataFrame.assign Works well for data flow type where you don't overwrite your intermediate values.

Is there a way to detach matplotlib plots so that the computation can continue?

Try

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.show(block=False)
# other code
# [...]

# Put
plt.show()
# at the very end of your script to make sure Python doesn't bail out
# before you finished examining.

The show() documentation says:

In non-interactive mode, display all figures and block until the figures have been closed; in interactive mode it has no effect unless figures were created prior to a change from non-interactive to interactive mode (not recommended). In that case it displays the figures but does not block.

A single experimental keyword argument, block, may be set to True or False to override the blocking behavior described above.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function sqlsrv_connect()

First check that the extension is properly loaded in phpinfo(); (something like sqlsrv should appear). If not, the extension isn't properly loaded. You also need to restart apache after installing an extension.

How to check type of files without extensions in python?

Only works for Linux but Using the "sh" python module you can simply call any shell command

https://pypi.org/project/sh/

pip install sh

import sh

sh.file("/root/file")

Output: /root/file: ASCII text

How do I use $rootScope in Angular to store variables?

http://astutejs.blogspot.in/2015/07/angularjs-what-is-rootscope.html

 app.controller('AppCtrl2', function ($scope, $rootScope) {
     $scope.msg = 'SCOPE';
     $rootScope.name = 'ROOT SCOPE';
 });

How to implement "select all" check box in HTML?

I'm not sure anyone hasn't answered in this way (using jQuery):

  $( '#container .toggle-button' ).click( function () {
    $( '#container input[type="checkbox"]' ).prop('checked', this.checked)
  })

It's clean, has no loops or if/else clauses and works as a charm.

Create Django model or update if exists

If you're looking for "update if exists else create" use case, please refer to @Zags excellent answer


Django already has a get_or_create, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#get-or-create

For you it could be :

id = 'some identifier'
person, created = Person.objects.get_or_create(identifier=id)

if created:
   # means you have created a new person
else:
   # person just refers to the existing one

Error:(9, 5) error: resource android:attr/dialogCornerRadius not found

This Is Because compileSdkVersion , buildToolsVersion and Dependecies implementations are not match You Have to done like this i have 28 library then

compileSdkVersion 28
targetSdkVersion   28
buildToolsVersion  28.0.3
implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0'

If we You Use Any where less than 28 this error should occured so please try match library in all.

Entity Framework Join 3 Tables

This is untested, but I believe the syntax should work for a lambda query. As you join more tables with this syntax you have to drill further down into the new objects to reach the values you want to manipulate.

var fullEntries = dbContext.tbl_EntryPoint
    .Join(
        dbContext.tbl_Entry,
        entryPoint => entryPoint.EID,
        entry => entry.EID,
        (entryPoint, entry) => new { entryPoint, entry }
    )
    .Join(
        dbContext.tbl_Title,
        combinedEntry => combinedEntry.entry.TID,
        title => title.TID,
        (combinedEntry, title) => new 
        {
            UID = combinedEntry.entry.OwnerUID,
            TID = combinedEntry.entry.TID,
            EID = combinedEntry.entryPoint.EID,
            Title = title.Title
        }
    )
    .Where(fullEntry => fullEntry.UID == user.UID)
    .Take(10);

Should I use Python 32bit or Python 64bit

Machine learning packages like tensorflow 2.x are designed to work only on 64 bit Python as they are memory intensive.

How to hide axes and gridlines in Matplotlib (python)

Turn the axes off with:

plt.axis('off')

And gridlines with:

plt.grid(b=None)

Curl command line for consuming webServices?

For a SOAP 1.2 Webservice, I normally use

curl --header "content-type: application/soap+xml" --data @filetopost.xml http://domain/path

Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?

There's a truly horrifying amount of ancient code out there in the wild, much of it in the form of common CPAN modules. I've found I have to be fairly careful enabling Unicode if I use external modules that might be affected by it, and am still trying to identify and fix some Unicode-related failures in several Perl scripts I use regularly (in particular, iTiVo fails badly on anything that's not 7-bit ASCII due to transcoding issues).

How to initailize byte array of 100 bytes in java with all 0's

byte[] bytes = new byte[100];

Initializes all byte elements with default values, which for byte is 0. In fact, all elements of an array when constructed, are initialized with default values for the array element's type.

How to use the 'main' parameter in package.json?

To answer your first question, the way you load a module is depending on the module entry point and the main parameter of the package.json.

Let's say you have the following file structure:

my-npm-module
|-- lib
|   |-- module.js
|-- package.json

Without main parameter in the package.json, you have to load the module by giving the module entry point: require('my-npm-module/lib/module.js').

If you set the package.json main parameter as follows "main": "lib/module.js", you will be able to load the module this way: require('my-npm-module').

SQLAlchemy ORDER BY DESCENDING?

You can try: .order_by(ClientTotal.id.desc())

session = Session()
auth_client_name = 'client3' 
result_by_auth_client = session.query(ClientTotal).filter(ClientTotal.client ==
auth_client_name).order_by(ClientTotal.id.desc()).all()

for rbac in result_by_auth_client:
    print(rbac.id) 
session.close()

What is Turing Complete?

A Turing Machine requires that any program can perform condition testing. That is fundamental.

Consider a player piano roll. The player piano can play a highly complicated piece of music, but there is never any conditional logic in the music. It is not Turing Complete.

Conditional logic is both the power and the danger of a machine that is Turing Complete.

The piano roll is guaranteed to halt every time. There is no such guarantee for a TM. This is called the “halting problem.”

How to add and remove item from array in components in Vue 2

There are few mistakes you are doing:

  1. You need to add proper object in the array in addRow method
  2. You can use splice method to remove an element from an array at particular index.
  3. You need to pass the current row as prop to my-item component, where this can be modified.

You can see working code here.

addRow(){
   this.rows.push({description: '', unitprice: '' , code: ''}); // what to push unto the rows array?
},
removeRow(index){
   this. itemList.splice(index, 1)
}

How to avoid .pyc files?

import sys

sys.dont_write_bytecode = True

How can I create objects while adding them into a vector?

To answer the first part of your question, you must create an object of type Player before you can use it. When you say push_back(Player), it means "add the Player class to the vector", not "add an object of type Player to the vector" (which is what you meant).

You can create the object on the stack like this:

Player player;
vectorOfGamers.push_back(player);    // <-- name of variable, not type

Or you can even create a temporary object inline and push that (it gets copied when it's put in the vector):

vectorOfGamers.push_back(Player());    // <-- parentheses create a "temporary"

To answer the second part, you can create a vector of the base type, which will allow you to push back objects of any subtype; however, this won't work as expected:

vector<Gamer> gamers;
gamers.push_back(Dealer());    // Doesn't work properly!

since when the dealer object is put into the vector, it gets copied as a Gamer object -- this means only the Gamer part is copied effectively "slicing" the object. You can use pointers, however, since then only the pointer would get copied, and the object is never sliced:

vector<Gamer*> gamers;
gamers.push_back(new Dealer());    // <-- Allocate on heap with `new`, since we
                                   // want the object to persist while it's
                                   // pointed to

Typing the Enter/Return key using Python and Selenium

Now that Selenium 2 has been released, it's a bit easier to send an Enter key, since you can do it with the send_keys method of the selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement class (this example code is in Python, but the same method exists in Java):

>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> wd = webdriver.Firefox()
>>> wd.get("http://localhost/example/page")
>>> textbox = wd.find_element_by_css_selector("input")
>>> textbox.send_keys("Hello World\n")

Angular: How to update queryParams without changing route

Try

this.router.navigate([], { 
  queryParams: {
    query: value
  }
});

will work for same route navigation other than single quotes.

How do I use IValidatableObject?

I liked cocogza's answer except that calling base.IsValid resulted in a stack overflow exception as it would re-enter the IsValid method again and again. So I modified it to be for a specific type of validation, in my case it was for an e-mail address.

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property)]
class ValidEmailAddressIfTrueAttribute : ValidationAttribute
{
    private readonly string _nameOfBoolProp;

    public ValidEmailAddressIfTrueAttribute(string nameOfBoolProp)
    {
        _nameOfBoolProp = nameOfBoolProp;
    }

    protected override ValidationResult IsValid(object value, ValidationContext validationContext)
    {
        if (validationContext == null)
        {
            return null;
        }

        var property = validationContext.ObjectType.GetProperty(_nameOfBoolProp);
        if (property == null)
        {
            return new ValidationResult($"{_nameOfBoolProp} not found");
        }

        var boolVal = property.GetValue(validationContext.ObjectInstance, null);

        if (boolVal == null || boolVal.GetType() != typeof(bool))
        {
            return new ValidationResult($"{_nameOfBoolProp} not boolean");
        }

        if ((bool)boolVal)
        {
            var attribute = new EmailAddressAttribute {ErrorMessage = $"{value} is not a valid e-mail address."};
            return attribute.GetValidationResult(value, validationContext);
        }
        return null;
    }
}

This works much better! It doesn't crash and produces a nice error message. Hope this helps someone!

Any way (or shortcut) to auto import the classes in IntelliJ IDEA like in Eclipse?

Can't import all at once but can use following combination:

ALT + Enter --> Show intention actions and quick-fixes.

F2 --> Next highlighted error.

How to select first and last TD in a row?

You can use the following snippet:

  tr td:first-child {text-decoration: underline;}
  tr td:last-child {color: red;}

Using the following pseudo classes:

:first-child means "select this element if it is the first child of its parent".

:last-child means "select this element if it is the last child of its parent".

Only element nodes (HTML tags) are affected, these pseudo-classes ignore text nodes.

C++ Fatal Error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

Well it seems that you are missing a reference to some library. I had the similar error solved it by adding a reference to the #pragma comment(lib, "windowscodecs.lib")

Android: Internet connectivity change listener

ConnectivityAction is deprecated in api 28+. Instead you can use registerDefaultNetworkCallback as long as you support api 24+.

In Kotlin:

val connectivityManager = context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE) as ConnectivityManager
connectivityManager?.let {
    it.registerDefaultNetworkCallback(object : ConnectivityManager.NetworkCallback() {
        override fun onAvailable(network: Network) {
            //take action when network connection is gained
        }
        override fun onLost(network: Network?) {
            //take action when network connection is lost
        }
    })
}

How to select distinct rows in a datatable and store into an array

DataTable dt = new DataTable("EMPLOYEE_LIST");

DataColumn eeCode = dt.Columns.Add("EMPLOYEE_CODE", typeof(String));
DataColumn taxYear = dt.Columns.Add("TAX_YEAR", typeof(String));
DataColumn intData = dt.Columns.Add("INT_DATA", typeof(int));
DataColumn textData = dt.Columns.Add("TEXT_DATA", typeof(String));

dt.PrimaryKey = new DataColumn[] { eeCode, taxYear };

It filters data table with eecode and taxyear combinedly considered as unique

How to call a function from another controller in angularjs?

You may use events to provide your data. Code like that:

app.controller('One', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
         $scope.parentmethod=function(){
                 $scope.$emit('one', res);// res - your data
         }
    }]);
    app.controller('two', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
         $scope.$on('updateMiniBasket', function (event, data) {
                ...
         });             
    }]);

How to get current language code with Swift?

you may use the below code it works fine with swift 3

var preferredLanguage : String = Bundle.main.preferredLocalizations.first!

How to install JSON.NET using NuGet?

I have Had the same issue and the only Solution i found was open Package manager> Select Microsoft and .Net as Package Source and You will install it..

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What is the significance of load factor in HashMap?

If the buckets get too full, then we have to look through

a very long linked list.

And that's kind of defeating the point.

So here's an example where I have four buckets.

I have elephant and badger in my HashSet so far.

This is a pretty good situation, right?

Each element has zero or one elements.

Now we put two more elements into our HashSet.

     buckets      elements
      -------      -------
        0          elephant
        1          otter
         2          badger
         3           cat

This isn't too bad either.

Every bucket only has one element . So if I wanna know, does this contain panda?

I can very quickly look at bucket number 1 and it's not

there and

I known it's not in our collection.

If I wanna know if it contains cat, I look at bucket

number 3,

I find cat, I very quickly know if it's in our

collection.

What if I add koala, well that's not so bad.

             buckets      elements
      -------      -------
        0          elephant
        1          otter -> koala 
         2          badger
         3           cat

Maybe now instead of in bucket number 1 only looking at

one element,

I need to look at two.

But at least I don't have to look at elephant, badger and

cat.

If I'm again looking for panda, it can only be in bucket

number 1 and

I don't have to look at anything other then otter and

koala.

But now I put alligator in bucket number 1 and you can

see maybe where this is going.

That if bucket number 1 keeps getting bigger and bigger and

bigger, then I'm basically having to look through all of

those elements to find

something that should be in bucket number 1.

            buckets      elements
      -------      -------
        0          elephant
        1          otter -> koala ->alligator
         2          badger
         3           cat

If I start adding strings to other buckets,

right, the problem just gets bigger and bigger in every

single bucket.

How do we stop our buckets from getting too full?

The solution here is that

          "the HashSet can automatically

        resize the number of buckets."

There's the HashSet realizes that the buckets are getting

too full.

It's losing this advantage of this all of one lookup for

elements.

And it'll just create more buckets(generally twice as before) and

then place the elements into the correct bucket.

So here's our basic HashSet implementation with separate

chaining. Now I'm going to create a "self-resizing HashSet".

This HashSet is going to realize that the buckets are

getting too full and

it needs more buckets.

loadFactor is another field in our HashSet class.

loadFactor represents the average number of elements per

bucket,

above which we want to resize.

loadFactor is a balance between space and time.

If the buckets get too full then we'll resize.

That takes time, of course, but

it may save us time down the road if the buckets are a

little more empty.

Let's see an example.

Here's a HashSet, we've added four elements so far.

Elephant, dog, cat and fish.

          buckets      elements
      -------      -------
        0          
        1          elephant
         2          cat ->dog
         3           fish
          4         
           5

At this point, I've decided that the loadFactor, the

threshold,

the average number of elements per bucket that I'm okay

with, is 0.75.

The number of buckets is buckets.length, which is 6, and

at this point our HashSet has four elements, so the

current size is 4.

We'll resize our HashSet, that is we'll add more buckets,

when the average number of elements per bucket exceeds

the loadFactor.

That is when current size divided by buckets.length is

greater than loadFactor.

At this point, the average number of elements per bucket

is 4 divided by 6.

4 elements, 6 buckets, that's 0.67.

That's less than the threshold I set of 0.75 so we're

okay.

We don't need to resize.

But now let's say we add woodchuck.

                  buckets      elements
      -------      -------
        0          
        1          elephant
         2        woodchuck-> cat ->dog
         3           fish
          4         
           5

Woodchuck would end up in bucket number 3.

At this point, the currentSize is 5.

And now the average number of elements per bucket

is the currentSize divided by buckets.length.

That's 5 elements divided by 6 buckets is 0.83.

And this exceeds the loadFactor which was 0.75.

In order to address this problem, in order to make the

buckets perhaps a little

more empty so that operations like determining whether a

bucket contains

an element will be a little less complex, I wanna resize

my HashSet.

Resizing the HashSet takes two steps.

First I'll double the number of buckets, I had 6 buckets,

now I'm going to have 12 buckets.

Note here that the loadFactor which I set to 0.75 stays the same.

But the number of buckets changed is 12,

the number of elements stayed the same, is 5.

5 divided by 12 is around 0.42, that's well under our

loadFactor,

so we're okay now.

But we're not done because some of these elements are in

the wrong bucket now.

For instance, elephant.

Elephant was in bucket number 2 because the number of

characters in elephant

was 8.

We have 6 buckets, 8 minus 6 is 2.

That's why it ended up in number 2.

But now that we have 12 buckets, 8 mod 12 is 8, so

elephant does not belong in bucket number 2 anymore.

Elephant belongs in bucket number 8.

What about woodchuck?

Woodchuck was the one that started this whole problem.

Woodchuck ended up in bucket number 3.

Because 9 mod 6 is 3.

But now we do 9 mod 12.

9 mod 12 is 9, woodchuck goes to bucket number 9.

And you see the advantage of all this.

Now bucket number 3 only has two elements whereas before it had 3.

So here's our code,

where we had our HashSet with separate chaining that

didn't do any resizing.

Now, here's a new implementation where we use resizing.

Most of this code is the same,

we're still going to determine whether it contains the

value already.

If it doesn't, then we'll figure it out which bucket it

should go into and

then add it to that bucket, add it to that LinkedList.

But now we increment the currentSize field.

currentSize was the field that kept track of the number

of elements in our HashSet.

We're going to increment it and then we're going to look

at the average load,

the average number of elements per bucket.

We'll do that division down here.

We have to do a little bit of casting here to make sure

that we get a double.

And then, we'll compare that average load to the field

that I've set as

0.75 when I created this HashSet, for instance, which was

the loadFactor.

If the average load is greater than the loadFactor,

that means there's too many elements per bucket on

average, and I need to reinsert.

So here's our implementation of the method to reinsert

all the elements.

First, I'll create a local variable called oldBuckets.

Which is referring to the buckets as they currently stand

before I start resizing everything.

Note I'm not creating a new array of linked lists just yet.

I'm just renaming buckets as oldBuckets.

Now remember buckets was a field in our class, I'm going

to now create a new array

of linked lists but this will have twice as many elements

as it did the first time.

Now I need to actually do the reinserting,

I'm going to iterate through all of the old buckets.

Each element in oldBuckets is a LinkedList of strings

that is a bucket.

I'll go through that bucket and get each element in that

bucket.

And now I'm gonna reinsert it into the newBuckets.

I will get its hashCode.

I will figure out which index it is.

And now I get the new bucket, the new LinkedList of

strings and

I'll add it to that new bucket.

So to recap, HashSets as we've seen are arrays of Linked

Lists, or buckets.

A self resizing HashSet can realize using some ratio or

Common CSS Media Queries Break Points

I'm using 4 break points but as ralph.m said each site is unique. You should experiment. There are no magic breakpoints due to so many devices, screens, and resolutions.

Here is what I use as a template. I'm checking the website for each breakpoint on different mobile devices and updating CSS for each element (ul, div, etc.) not displaying correctly for that breakpoint.

So far that was working on multiple responsive websites I've made.

/* SMARTPHONES PORTRAIT */
@media only screen and (min-width: 300px) {


}

/* SMARTPHONES LANDSCAPE */
@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) {


}

/* TABLETS PORTRAIT */
@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {


}


/* TABLET LANDSCAPE / DESKTOP */
@media only screen and (min-width: 1024px) {


}    

UPDATE

As per September 2015, I'm using a better one. I find out that these media queries breakpoints match many more devices and desktop screen resolutions.

Having all CSS for desktop on style.css

All media queries on responsive.css: all CSS for responsive menu + media break points

@media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 479px){ ... }

@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 767px){ ... }

@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 991px){ ... }

@media only screen and (min-width: 992px){ ... }

Update 2019: As per Hugo comment below, I removed max-width 1999px because of the new very wide screens.

What are Aggregates and PODs and how/why are they special?

POD in C++11 was basically split into two different axes here: triviality and layout. Triviality is about the relationship between an object's conceptual value and the bits of data within its storage. Layout is about... well, the layout of an object's subobjects. Only class types have layout, while all types have triviality relationships.

So here is what the triviality axis is about:

  1. Non-trivially copyable: The value of objects of such types may be more than just the binary data that are stored directly within the object.

    For example, unique_ptr<T> stores a T*; that is the totality of the binary data within the object. But that's not the totality of the value of a unique_ptr<T>. A unique_ptr<T> stores either a nullptr or a pointer to an object whose lifetime is managed by the unique_ptr<T> instance. That management is part of the value of a unique_ptr<T>. And that value is not part of the binary data of the object; it is created by the various member functions of that object.

    For example, to assign nullptr to a unique_ptr<T> is to do more than just change the bits stored in the object. Such an assignment must destroy any object managed by the unique_ptr. To manipulate the internal storage of a unique_ptr without going through its member functions would damage this mechanism, to change its internal T* without destroying the object it currently manages, would violate the conceptual value that the object possesses.

  2. Trivially copyable: The value of such objects are exactly and only the contents of their binary storage. This is what makes it reasonable to allow copying that binary storage to be equivalent to copying the object itself.

    The specific rules that define trivial copyability (trivial destructor, trivial/deleted copy/move constructors/assignment) are what is required for a type to be binary-value-only. An object's destructor can participate in defining the "value" of an object, as in the case with unique_ptr. If that destructor is trivial, then it doesn't participate in defining the object's value.

    Specialized copy/move operations also can participate in an object's value. unique_ptr's move constructor modifies the source of the move operation by null-ing it out. This is what ensures that the value of a unique_ptr is unique. Trivial copy/move operations mean that such object value shenanigans are not being played, so the object's value can only be the binary data it stores.

  3. Trivial: This object is considered to have a functional value for any bits that it stores. Trivially copyable defines the meaning of the data store of an object as being just that data. But such types can still control how data gets there (to some extent). Such a type can have default member initializers and/or a default constructor that ensures that a particular member always has a particular value. And thus, the conceptual value of the object can be restricted to a subset of the binary data that it could store.

    Performing default initialization on a type that has a trivial default constructor will leave that object with completely uninitialized values. As such, a type with a trivial default constructor is logically valid with any binary data in its data storage.

The layout axis is really quite simple. Compilers are given a lot of leeway in deciding how the subobjects of a class are stored within the class's storage. However, there are some cases where this leeway is not necessary, and having more rigid ordering guarantees is useful.

Such types are standard layout types. And the C++ standard doesn't even really do much with saying what that layout is specifically. It basically says three things about standard layout types:

  1. The first subobject is at the same address as the object itself.

  2. You can use offsetof to get a byte offset from the outer object to one of its member subobjects.

  3. unions get to play some games with accessing subobjects through an inactive member of a union if the active member is (at least partially) using the same layout as the inactive one being accessed.

Compilers generally permit standard layout objects to map to struct types with the same members in C. But there is no statement of that in the C++ standard; that's just what compilers feel like doing.

POD is basically a useless term at this point. It is just the intersection of trivial copyability (the value is only its binary data) and standard layout (the order of its subobjects is more well-defined). One can infer from such things that the type is C-like and could map to similar C objects. But the standard has no statements to that effect.


can you please elaborate following rules:

I'll try:

a) standard-layout classes must have all non-static data members with the same access control

That's simple: all non-static data members must all be public, private, or protected. You can't have some public and some private.

The reasoning for them goes to the reasoning for having a distinction between "standard layout" and "not standard layout" at all. Namely, to give the compiler the freedom to choose how to put things into memory. It's not just about vtable pointers.

Back when they standardized C++ in 98, they had to basically predict how people would implement it. While they had quite a bit of implementation experience with various flavors of C++, they weren't certain about things. So they decided to be cautious: give the compilers as much freedom as possible.

That's why the definition of POD in C++98 is so strict. It gave C++ compilers great latitude on member layout for most classes. Basically, POD types were intended to be special cases, something you specifically wrote for a reason.

When C++11 was being worked on, they had a lot more experience with compilers. And they realized that... C++ compiler writers are really lazy. They had all this freedom, but they didn't do anything with it.

The rules of standard layout are more or less codifying common practice: most compilers didn't really have to change much if anything at all to implement them (outside of maybe some stuff for the corresponding type traits).

Now, when it came to public/private, things are different. The freedom to reorder which members are public vs. private actually can matter to the compiler, particularly in debugging builds. And since the point of standard layout is that there is compatibility with other languages, you can't have the layout be different in debug vs. release.

Then there's the fact that it doesn't really hurt the user. If you're making an encapsulated class, odds are good that all of your data members will be private anyway. You generally don't expose public data members on fully encapsulated types. So this would only be a problem for those few users who do want to do that, who want that division.

So it's no big loss.

b) only one class in the whole inheritance tree can have non-static data members,

The reason for this one comes back to why they standardized standard layout again: common practice.

There's no common practice when it comes to having two members of an inheritance tree that actually store things. Some put the base class before the derived, others do it the other way. Which way do you order the members if they come from two base classes? And so on. Compilers diverge greatly on these questions.

Also, thanks to the zero/one/infinity rule, once you say you can have two classes with members, you can say as many as you want. This requires adding a lot of layout rules for how to handle this. You have to say how multiple inheritance works, which classes put their data before other classes, etc. That's a lot of rules, for very little material gain.

You can't make everything that doesn't have virtual functions and a default constructor standard layout.

and the first non-static data member cannot be of a base class type (this could break aliasing rules).

I can't really speak to this one. I'm not educated enough in C++'s aliasing rules to really understand it. But it has something to do with the fact that the base member will share the same address as the base class itself. That is:

struct Base {};
struct Derived : Base { Base b; };

Derived d;
static_cast<Base*>(&d) == &d.b;

And that's probably against C++'s aliasing rules. In some way.

However, consider this: how useful could having the ability to do this ever actually be? Since only one class can have non-static data members, then Derived must be that class (since it has a Base as a member). So Base must be empty (of data). And if Base is empty, as well as a base class... why have a data member of it at all?

Since Base is empty, it has no state. So any non-static member functions will do what they do based on their parameters, not their this pointer.

So again: no big loss.

Adding up BigDecimals using Streams

If you don't mind a third party dependency, there is a class named Collectors2 in Eclipse Collections which contains methods returning Collectors for summing and summarizing BigDecimal and BigInteger. These methods take a Function as a parameter so you can extract a BigDecimal or BigInteger value from an object.

List<BigDecimal> list = mList(
        BigDecimal.valueOf(0.1),
        BigDecimal.valueOf(1.1),
        BigDecimal.valueOf(2.1),
        BigDecimal.valueOf(0.1));

BigDecimal sum =
        list.stream().collect(Collectors2.summingBigDecimal(e -> e));
Assert.assertEquals(BigDecimal.valueOf(3.4), sum);

BigDecimalSummaryStatistics statistics =
        list.stream().collect(Collectors2.summarizingBigDecimal(e -> e));
Assert.assertEquals(BigDecimal.valueOf(3.4), statistics.getSum());
Assert.assertEquals(BigDecimal.valueOf(0.1), statistics.getMin());
Assert.assertEquals(BigDecimal.valueOf(2.1), statistics.getMax());
Assert.assertEquals(BigDecimal.valueOf(0.85), statistics.getAverage());

Note: I am a committer for Eclipse Collections.

Sending and receiving data over a network using TcpClient

Be warned - this is a very old and cumbersome "solution".

By the way, you can use serialization technology to send strings, numbers or any objects which are support serialization (most of .NET data-storing classes & structs are [Serializable]). There, you should at first send Int32-length in four bytes to the stream and then send binary-serialized (System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter) data into it.

On the other side or the connection (on both sides actually) you definetly should have a byte[] buffer which u will append and trim-left at runtime when data is coming.

Something like that I am using:

namespace System.Net.Sockets
{
    public class TcpConnection : IDisposable
    {
        public event EvHandler<TcpConnection, DataArrivedEventArgs> DataArrive = delegate { };
        public event EvHandler<TcpConnection> Drop = delegate { };

        private const int IntSize = 4;
        private const int BufferSize = 8 * 1024;

        private static readonly SynchronizationContext _syncContext = SynchronizationContext.Current;
        private readonly TcpClient _tcpClient;
        private readonly object _droppedRoot = new object();
        private bool _dropped;
        private byte[] _incomingData = new byte[0];
        private Nullable<int> _objectDataLength;

        public TcpClient TcpClient { get { return _tcpClient; } }
        public bool Dropped { get { return _dropped; } }

        private void DropConnection()
        {
            lock (_droppedRoot)
            {
                if (Dropped)
                    return;

                _dropped = true;
            }

            _tcpClient.Close();
            _syncContext.Post(delegate { Drop(this); }, null);
        }

        public void SendData(PCmds pCmd) { SendDataInternal(new object[] { pCmd }); }
        public void SendData(PCmds pCmd, object[] datas)
        {
            datas.ThrowIfNull();
            SendDataInternal(new object[] { pCmd }.Append(datas));
        }
        private void SendDataInternal(object data)
        {
            if (Dropped)
                return;

            byte[] bytedata;

            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
            {
                BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

                try { bf.Serialize(ms, data); }
                catch { return; }

                bytedata = ms.ToArray();
            }

            try
            {
                lock (_tcpClient)
                {
                    TcpClient.Client.BeginSend(BitConverter.GetBytes(bytedata.Length), 0, IntSize, SocketFlags.None, EndSend, null);
                    TcpClient.Client.BeginSend(bytedata, 0, bytedata.Length, SocketFlags.None, EndSend, null);
                }
            }
            catch { DropConnection(); }
        }
        private void EndSend(IAsyncResult ar)
        {
            try { TcpClient.Client.EndSend(ar); }
            catch { }
        }

        public TcpConnection(TcpClient tcpClient)
        {
            _tcpClient = tcpClient;
            StartReceive();
        }

        private void StartReceive()
        {
            byte[] buffer = new byte[BufferSize];

            try
            {
                _tcpClient.Client.BeginReceive(buffer, 0, buffer.Length, SocketFlags.None, DataReceived, buffer);
            }
            catch { DropConnection(); }
        }

        private void DataReceived(IAsyncResult ar)
        {
            if (Dropped)
                return;

            int dataRead;

            try { dataRead = TcpClient.Client.EndReceive(ar); }
            catch
            {
                DropConnection();
                return;
            }

            if (dataRead == 0)
            {
                DropConnection();
                return;
            }

            byte[] byteData = ar.AsyncState as byte[];
            _incomingData = _incomingData.Append(byteData.Take(dataRead).ToArray());
            bool exitWhile = false;

            while (exitWhile)
            {
                exitWhile = true;

                if (_objectDataLength.HasValue)
                {
                    if (_incomingData.Length >= _objectDataLength.Value)
                    {
                        object data;
                        BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

                        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(_incomingData, 0, _objectDataLength.Value))
                            try { data = bf.Deserialize(ms); }
                            catch
                            {
                                SendData(PCmds.Disconnect);
                                DropConnection();
                                return;
                            }

                        _syncContext.Post(delegate(object T)
                        {
                            try { DataArrive(this, new DataArrivedEventArgs(T)); }
                            catch { DropConnection(); }
                        }, data);

                        _incomingData = _incomingData.TrimLeft(_objectDataLength.Value);
                        _objectDataLength = null;
                        exitWhile = false;
                    }
                }
                else
                    if (_incomingData.Length >= IntSize)
                    {
                        _objectDataLength = BitConverter.ToInt32(_incomingData.TakeLeft(IntSize), 0);
                        _incomingData = _incomingData.TrimLeft(IntSize);
                        exitWhile = false;
                    }
            }
            StartReceive();
        }


        public void Dispose() { DropConnection(); }
    }
}

That is just an example, you should edit it for your use.

Unable to add window -- token android.os.BinderProxy is not valid; is your activity running?

After execute the thread, add these two line of code, and that will solve the issue.

Looper.loop();
Looper.myLooper().quit();

Display a tooltip over a button using Windows Forms

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    ToolTip toolTip1 = new ToolTip();
    toolTip1.AutoPopDelay = 5000;
    toolTip1.InitialDelay = 1000;
    toolTip1.ReshowDelay = 500;
    toolTip1.ShowAlways = true;
    toolTip1.SetToolTip(this.button1, "My button1");
    toolTip1.SetToolTip(this.checkBox1, "My checkBox1");
}

Twitter - share button, but with image

I used this code to solve this problem.

<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=myUrl&text=myTitle" target="_blank"><img src="path_to_my_image"/></a>

You can check the tweet-button documentation here tweet-button

How to detect escape key press with pure JS or jQuery?

pure JS (no JQuery)

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
    if(e.keyCode == 27){
      //add your code here
    }
});

Plotting categorical data with pandas and matplotlib

To plot multiple categorical features as bar charts on the same plot, I would suggest:

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "colour": ["red", "blue", "green", "red", "red", "yellow", "blue"],
        "direction": ["up", "up", "down", "left", "right", "down", "down"],
    }
)

categorical_features = ["colour", "direction"]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, len(categorical_features))
for i, categorical_feature in enumerate(df[categorical_features]):
    df[categorical_feature].value_counts().plot("bar", ax=ax[i]).set_title(categorical_feature)
fig.show()

enter image description here

How to show another window from mainwindow in QT

  1. Implement a slot in your QMainWindow where you will open your new Window,
  2. Place a widget on your QMainWindow,
  3. Connect a signal from this widget to a slot from the QMainWindow (for example: if the widget is a QPushButton connect the signal click() to the QMainWindow custom slot you have created).

Code example:

MainWindow.h

// ...
include "newwindow.h"
// ...
public slots:
   void openNewWindow();
// ...
private:
   NewWindow *mMyNewWindow;
// ...
}

MainWindow.cpp

// ...
   MainWindow::MainWindow()
   {
      // ...
      connect(mMyButton, SIGNAL(click()), this, SLOT(openNewWindow()));
      // ...
   }
// ...
void MainWindow::openNewWindow()
{
   mMyNewWindow = new NewWindow(); // Be sure to destroy your window somewhere
   mMyNewWindow->show();
   // ...
}

This is an example on how display a custom new window. There are a lot of ways to do this.

get client time zone from browser

Here is a version that works well in September 2020 using fetch and https://worldtimeapi.org/api

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  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data.timezone,data.datetime,data.dst));
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Testing socket connection in Python

You should really post:

  1. The complete source code of your example
  2. The actual result of it, not a summary

Here is my code, which works:

import socket, sys

def alert(msg):
    print >>sys.stderr, msg
    sys.exit(1)

(family, socktype, proto, garbage, address) = \
         socket.getaddrinfo("::1", "http")[0] # Use only the first tuple
s = socket.socket(family, socktype, proto)

try:
    s.connect(address) 
except Exception, e:
    alert("Something's wrong with %s. Exception type is %s" % (address, e))

When the server listens, I get nothing (this is normal), when it doesn't, I get the expected message:

Something's wrong with ('::1', 80, 0, 0). Exception type is (111, 'Connection refused')

ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading authorization packet', system error: 0

This is usually caused by an aborted connect. You can verify this by checking the status:

mysql> SHOW GLOBAL STATUS LIKE 'Aborted_connects';

If this counter keeps increasing as you get the lost connections, that's a sign you're having a problem during connect.

One remedy that seems to work in many cases is to increase the timeout. A suggested value is 10 seconds:

mysql> SET GLOBAL connect_timeout = 10;

Another common cause of connect timeouts is the reverse-DNS lookup that is necessary when authenticating clients. It is recommended to run MySQL with the config variable in my.cnf:

[mysqld]
skip-name-resolve

This means that your GRANT statements need to be based on IP address rather than hostname.


I also found this report from 2012 at the f5.com site (now protected by login, but I got it through Google cache)

It is likely the proxy will not work unless you are running BIG-IP 11.1 and MySQL 5.1, which were the versions I tested against. The MySQL protocol has a habit of changing.

I suggest you contact F5 Support and confirm that you are using a supported combination of versions.

Fill remaining vertical space - only CSS

Flexbox solution

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  flex-direction: column;_x000D_
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  height: 50px;_x000D_
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.second {_x000D_
  flex-grow: 1;_x000D_
}
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<div class="wrapper">_x000D_
  <div class="first" style="background:#b2efd8">First</div>_x000D_
  <div class="second" style="background:#80c7cd">Second</div>_x000D_
</div>
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CakePHP find method with JOIN

Otro example, custom Data Pagination for JOIN

CODE in Controller CakePHP 2.6 is OK:

$this->SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds->recursive = -1;
    // Filtro
    $where = array(
        'joins' => array(
            array(
                'table' => 'usuarios',
                'alias' => 'Usuarios',
                'type' => 'INNER',
                'conditions' => array(
                    'Usuarios.usuario_id = SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.usuarios_id'
                )
            ),
            array(
                'table' => 'senasa_pedidos',
                'alias' => 'SenasaPedidos',
                'type' => 'INNER',
                'conditions' => array(
                    'SenasaPedidos.id = SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.senasa_pedidos_id'
                )
            ),
            array(
                'table' => 'clientes',
                'alias' => 'Clientes',
                'type' => 'INNER',
                'conditions' => array(
                    'Clientes.id_cliente = SenasaPedidos.clientes_id'
                )
            ),
        ),
        'fields'=>array(
            'SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.*',
            'Usuarios.usuario_id',
            'Usuarios.apellido_nombre',
            'Usuarios.senasa_establecimientos_id',
            'Clientes.id_cliente',
            'Clientes.consolida_doc_sanitaria',
            'Clientes.requiere_senasa',
            'Clientes.razon_social',
            'SenasaPedidos.id',
            'SenasaPedidos.domicilio_entrega',
            'SenasaPedidos.sds',
            'SenasaPedidos.pt_ptr'
        ),
        'conditions'=>array(
            'Clientes.requiere_senasa'=>1
        ),
        'order' => 'SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.created DESC',
        'limit'=>100
    );
    $this->paginate = $where;
    // Get datos
    $data = $this->Paginator->paginate();
    exit(debug($data));

OR Example 2, NOT active conditions:

$this->SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds->recursive = -1;
    // Filtro
    $where = array(
        'joins' => array(
            array(
                'table' => 'usuarios',
                'alias' => 'Usuarios',
                'type' => 'INNER',
                'conditions' => array(
                    'Usuarios.usuario_id = SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.usuarios_id'
                )
            ),
            array(
                'table' => 'senasa_pedidos',
                'alias' => 'SenasaPedidos',
                'type' => 'INNER',
                'conditions' => array(
                    'SenasaPedidos.id = SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.senasa_pedidos_id'
                )
            ),
            array(
                'table' => 'clientes',
                'alias' => 'Clientes',
                'type' => 'INNER',
                'conditions' => array(
                    'Clientes.id_cliente = SenasaPedidos.clientes_id',
                    'Clientes.requiere_senasa = 1'
                )
            ),
        ),
        'fields'=>array(
            'SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.*',
            'Usuarios.usuario_id',
            'Usuarios.apellido_nombre',
            'Usuarios.senasa_establecimientos_id',
            'Clientes.id_cliente',
            'Clientes.consolida_doc_sanitaria',
            'Clientes.requiere_senasa',
            'Clientes.razon_social',
            'SenasaPedidos.id',
            'SenasaPedidos.domicilio_entrega',
            'SenasaPedidos.sds',
            'SenasaPedidos.pt_ptr'
        ),
        //'conditions'=>array(
        //    'Clientes.requiere_senasa'=>1
        //),
        'order' => 'SenasaPedidosFacturadosSds.created DESC',
        'limit'=>100
    );
    $this->paginate = $where;
    // Get datos
    $data = $this->Paginator->paginate();
    exit(debug($data));

Using scp to copy a file to Amazon EC2 instance?

I tried all the suggestions mentioned above and nothing worked. I terminated the current instance, launched another one and repeated the same exact process. This time no problems. Sometimes it might be the remote ami's fault.

Disabling contextual LOB creation as createClob() method threw error

Looking at the comments in the source:

Basically here we are simply checking whether we can call the java.sql.Connection methods for LOB creation added in JDBC 4. We not only check whether the java.sql.Connection declares these methods, but also whether the actual java.sql.Connection instance implements them (i.e. can be called without simply throwing an exception).

So, it's trying to determine if it can use some new JDBC 4 methods. I guess your driver may not support the new LOB creation method.

Difference between WebStorm and PHPStorm

In my own experience, even though theoretically many JetBrains products share the same functionalities, the new features that get introduced in some apps don't get immediately introduced in the others. In particular, IntelliJ IDEA has a new version once per year, while WebStorm and PHPStorm get 2 to 3 per year I think. Keep that in mind when choosing an IDE. :)

Static methods in Python?

Yes, check out the staticmethod decorator:

>>> class C:
...     @staticmethod
...     def hello():
...             print "Hello World"
...
>>> C.hello()
Hello World

Removing elements by class name?

If you prefer not to use JQuery:

function removeElementsByClass(className){
    var elements = document.getElementsByClassName(className);
    while(elements.length > 0){
        elements[0].parentNode.removeChild(elements[0]);
    }
}

Babel 6 regeneratorRuntime is not defined

babel-regenerator-runtime is now deprecated, instead one should use regenerator-runtime.

To use the runtime generator with webpack and babel v7:

install regenerator-runtime:

npm i -D regenerator-runtime

And then add within webpack configuration :

entry: [
  'regenerator-runtime/runtime',
  YOUR_APP_ENTRY
]

Oracle SQL Query for listing all Schemas in a DB

How about :

SQL> select * from all_users;

it will return list of all users/schemas, their ID's and date created in DB :

USERNAME                          USER_ID CREATED
------------------------------ ---------- ---------
SCHEMA1                         120 09-SEP-15
SCHEMA2                         119 09-SEP-15
SCHEMA3                         118 09-SEP-15

What are the benefits of learning Vim?

I learned to like vi after watching someone who was very skilled with it navigate around to make edits at an insanely fast clip. You really can code quickly with it. Another reason I like it is that sometimes I find that mousing around in an IDE really hurts my hands after a while and vi provides a nice change. As others have mentioned it's also almost always available on unix systems and works well even over lousy connections.

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is that knowing vi has the added benefit of "geek cred" in some circles. I can think of at least a few people who chuckle when they see a new programmer fire up nedit to make some changes to a file.

Cross-Origin Request Headers(CORS) with PHP headers

add this code in .htaccess

add custom authentication key's in header like app_key,auth_key..etc

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers: "customKey1,customKey2, headers, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization"

How to send SMS in Java

if all you want is simple notifications, many carriers support SMS via email; see SMS through E-Mail

CXF: No message body writer found for class - automatically mapping non-simple resources

If you are using jaxrs:client route of configuring, you can choose to use the JacksonJsonProvider to provide

<jaxrs:client id="serviceId"
    serviceClass="classname"
    address="">
    <jaxrs:providers>
        <bean class="org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider">
            <property name="mapper" ref="jacksonMapper" />
        </bean>
    </jaxrs:providers>
</jaxrs:client>

<bean id="jacksonMapper" class="org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper">
</bean>

You need to include the jackson-mapper-asl and jackson-jaxr artifacts in your classpath

Best way to format multiple 'or' conditions in an if statement (Java)

If the set of possibilities is "compact" (i.e. largest-value - smallest-value is, say, less than 200) you might consider a lookup table. This would be especially useful if you had a structure like

if (x == 12 || x == 16 || x == 19 || ...)
else if (x==34 || x == 55 || ...)
else if (...)

Set up an array with values identifying the branch to be taken (1, 2, 3 in the example above) and then your tests become

switch(dispatchTable[x])
{
    case 1:
        ...
        break;
    case 2:
        ...
        break;
    case 3:
        ...
        break;
}

Whether or not this is appropriate depends on the semantics of the problem.

If an array isn't appropriate, you could use a Map<Integer,Integer>, or if you just want to test membership for a single statement, a Set<Integer> would do. That's a lot of firepower for a simple if statement, however, so without more context it's kind of hard to guide you in the right direction.

how do you pass images (bitmaps) between android activities using bundles?

You can pass image in short without using bundle like this This is the code of sender .class file

Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.ic_launcher;
Intent intent = new Intent();
Intent.setClass(<Sender_Activity>.this, <Receiver_Activity.class);
Intent.putExtra("Bitmap", bitmap);
startActivity(intent);

and this is receiver class file code.

Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap)this.getIntent().getParcelableExtra("Bitmap");
ImageView viewBitmap = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.bitmapview);
viewBitmap.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

No need to compress. that's it

Push commits to another branch

_x000D_
_x000D_
git init _x000D_
#git remote remove origin_x000D_
git remote add origin  <http://...git>_x000D_
echo "This is for demo" >> README.md _x000D_
git add README.md_x000D_
git commit -m "Initail Commit" _x000D_
git checkout -b branch1 _x000D_
git branch --list_x000D_
****add files***_x000D_
git add -A_x000D_
git status_x000D_
git commit -m "Initial - branch1"_x000D_
git push --set-upstream origin branch1_x000D_
#git push origin --delete  branch1_x000D_
#git branch --unset-upstream  
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

HTTP Error 404 when running Tomcat from Eclipse

Check the server configuration and folders' routes:

  1. Open servers view (Window -> Open view... -> Others... -> Search for 'servers'.

  2. Right click on server (mine is Tomcat v6.0) -> properties -> Click on 'Swicth Location' (check that location's like /servers...

  3. Double click on the server. This will open a new servers page. In the 'Servers Locations' area, check the 'Use Tomcat Installation (takes control of Tomcat Installation)' option.

  4. Restart your server.

  5. Enjoy!

retrieve links from web page using python and BeautifulSoup

Under the hood BeautifulSoup now uses lxml. Requests, lxml & list comprehensions makes a killer combo.

import requests
import lxml.html

dom = lxml.html.fromstring(requests.get('http://www.nytimes.com').content)

[x for x in dom.xpath('//a/@href') if '//' in x and 'nytimes.com' not in x]

In the list comp, the "if '//' and 'url.com' not in x" is a simple method to scrub the url list of the sites 'internal' navigation urls, etc.

Httpd returning 503 Service Unavailable with mod_proxy for Tomcat 8

On CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804, we were able to make this work by editing /etc/selinux/config and changing the setting of SELINUX like so:

SELINUX=disabled

Make Error 127 when running trying to compile code

Error 127 means one of two things:

  1. file not found: the path you're using is incorrect. double check that the program is actually in your $PATH, or in this case, the relative path is correct -- remember that the current working directory for a random terminal might not be the same for the IDE you're using. it might be better to just use an absolute path instead.
  2. ldso is not found: you're using a pre-compiled binary and it wants an interpreter that isn't on your system. maybe you're using an x86_64 (64-bit) distro, but the prebuilt is for x86 (32-bit). you can determine whether this is the answer by opening a terminal and attempting to execute it directly. or by running file -L on /bin/sh (to get your default/native format) and on the compiler itself (to see what format it is).

if the problem is (2), then you can solve it in a few diff ways:

  1. get a better binary. talk to the vendor that gave you the toolchain and ask them for one that doesn't suck.
  2. see if your distro can install the multilib set of files. most x86_64 64-bit distros allow you to install x86 32-bit libraries in parallel.
  3. build your own cross-compiler using something like crosstool-ng.
  4. you could switch between an x86_64 & x86 install, but that seems a bit drastic ;).

Declare an empty two-dimensional array in Javascript?

One line solution:

var x = 3, y = 4;

var ar = new Array(x).fill(new Array(y).fill(0));

It creates matrix array with values = 0

Make div fill remaining space along the main axis in flexbox

Use the flex-grow property to make a flex item consume free space on the main axis.

This property will expand the item as much as possible, adjusting the length to dynamic environments, such as screen re-sizing or the addition / removal of other items.

A common example is flex-grow: 1 or, using the shorthand property, flex: 1.

Hence, instead of width: 96% on your div, use flex: 1.


You wrote:

So at the moment, it's set to 96% which looks OK until you really squash the screen - then the right hand div gets a bit starved of the space it needs.

The squashing of the fixed-width div is related to another flex property: flex-shrink

By default, flex items are set to flex-shrink: 1 which enables them to shrink in order to prevent overflow of the container.

To disable this feature use flex-shrink: 0.

For more details see The flex-shrink factor section in the answer here:


Learn more about flex alignment along the main axis here:

Learn more about flex alignment along the cross axis here:

Could not resolve '...' from state ''

This kind of error usually means that some parts of (JS) code were not loaded. That the state which is inside of ui-sref is missing.

There is a working example

I am not an expert in ionic, so this example should show that it would be working, but I used some more tricks (parent for tabs)

This is a bit adjusted state def:

.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider){
  $urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/index.html");

    $stateProvider

    .state('app', {
      abstract: true,
      templateUrl: "tpl.menu.html",
    })

  $stateProvider.state('index', {
    url: '/',
    templateUrl: "tpl.index.html",
    parent: "app",
  });


  $stateProvider.state('register', {
    url: "/register",
    templateUrl: "tpl.register.html",
    parent: "app",
  });

  $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');
}) 

And here we have the parent view with tabs, and their content:

<ion-tabs class="tabs-icon-top">

  <ion-tab title="Index" icon="icon ion-home" ui-sref="index">
    <ion-nav-view name=""></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-tab>

  <ion-tab title="Register" icon="icon ion-person" ui-sref="register">
    <ion-nav-view name=""></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-tab>

</ion-tabs>

Take it more than an example of how to make it running and later use ionic framework the right way...Check that example here

Here is similar Q & A with an example using the named views (for sure better solution) ionic routing issue, shows blank page

Improved version with named views in a tab is here: http://plnkr.co/edit/Mj0rUxjLOXhHIelt249K?p=preview

  <ion-tab title="Index" icon="icon ion-home" ui-sref="index">
    <ion-nav-view name="index"></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-tab>

  <ion-tab title="Register" icon="icon ion-person" ui-sref="register">
    <ion-nav-view name="register"></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-tab>

targeting named views:

  $stateProvider.state('index', {
    url: '/',
    views: { "index" : { templateUrl: "tpl.index.html" } },
    parent: "app",
  });


  $stateProvider.state('register', {
    url: "/register",
    views: { "register" : { templateUrl: "tpl.register.html", } },
    parent: "app",
  });

How to skip the first n rows in sql query

For SQL Server 2012 and later versions, the best method is @MajidBasirati's answer.

I also loved @CarlosToledo's answer, it's not limited to any SQL Server version but it's missing Order By Clauses. Without them, it may return wrong results.

For SQL Server 2008 and later I would use Common Table Expressions for better performance.

-- This example omits first 10 records and select next 5 records
;WITH MyCTE(Id) as
(
    SELECT TOP (10) Id 
    FROM MY_TABLE
    ORDER BY Id
)
SELECT TOP (5) * 
FROM MY_TABLE
    INNER JOIN MyCTE ON (MyCTE.Id <> MY_TABLE.Id) 
ORDER BY Id

How can I view the allocation unit size of a NTFS partition in Vista?

Use diskpart.exe.

Once you are in diskpart select volume <VolumeNumber> then type filesystems.

It should tell you the file system type and the allocation unit size. It will also tell you the supported sizes etc. Previously mentioned fsutil does work, but answer isn't as clear and I couldn't find a syntax to get the same information for a junction point.

Finding duplicate values in a SQL table

How we can count the duplicated values?? either it is repeated 2 times or greater than 2. just count them, not group wise.

as simple as

select COUNT(distinct col_01) from Table_01

Amazon S3 and Cloudfront cache, how to clear cache or synchronize their cache

Use Invalidations to clear the cache, you can put the path to the files you want to clear, or simply use wild cards to clear everything.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Invalidation.html#invalidating-objects-api

This can also be done using the API! http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/API_CreateInvalidation.html

The AWS PHP SDK now has the methods but if you want to use something lighter check out this library: http://www.subchild.com/2010/09/17/amazon-cloudfront-php-invalidator/

user3305600's solution doesn't work as setting it to zero is the equivalent of Using the Origin Cache Headers.

How do I check particular attributes exist or not in XML?

Just for the newcomers: the recent versions of C# allows the use of ? operator to check nulls assignments

parentSplit = xNode.ParentNode.Attributes["split"]?.Value;

How can I install a local gem?

If you want to work on a locally modified fork of a gem, the best way to do so is

gem 'pry', path: './pry'

in a Gemfile.

... where ./pry would be the clone of your repository. Simply run bundle install once, and any changes in the gem sources you make are immediately reflected. With gem install pry/pry.gem, the sources are still moved into GEM_PATH and you'll always have to run both bundle gem pry and gem update to test.

What is SOA "in plain english"?

A traditional application architecture is:

  • A user interface
  • Undefined stuff (implementation) that's encapsulated/hidden behind the user interface

If you want to access the data programmatically, you might need to resort to screen-scraping.

SOA seems to me to be an architecture which focus on exposing machine-readable data and/or APIs, instead of on exposing UIs.

How to center a View inside of an Android Layout?

If you want to center one view, use this one. In this case TextView must be the lowermost view in your XML because it's layout_height is match_parent.

<TextView 
    android:id="@+id/tv_to_be_centered"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:text="Some text"
/>

Split a String into an array in Swift?

Here is an algorithm I just build, which will split a String by any Character from the array and if there is any desire to keep the substrings with splitted characters one could set the swallow parameter to true.

Xcode 7.3 - Swift 2.2:

extension String {

    func splitBy(characters: [Character], swallow: Bool = false) -> [String] {

        var substring = ""
        var array = [String]()
        var index = 0

        for character in self.characters {

            if let lastCharacter = substring.characters.last {

                // swallow same characters
                if lastCharacter == character {

                    substring.append(character)

                } else {

                    var shouldSplit = false

                    // check if we need to split already
                    for splitCharacter in characters {
                        // slit if the last character is from split characters or the current one
                        if character == splitCharacter || lastCharacter == splitCharacter {

                            shouldSplit = true
                            break
                        }
                    }

                    if shouldSplit {

                        array.append(substring)
                        substring = String(character)

                    } else /* swallow characters that do not equal any of the split characters */ {

                        substring.append(character)
                    }
                }
            } else /* should be the first iteration */ {

                substring.append(character)
            }

            index += 1

            // add last substring to the array
            if index == self.characters.count {

                array.append(substring)
            }
        }

        return array.filter {

            if swallow {

                return true

            } else {

                for splitCharacter in characters {

                    if $0.characters.contains(splitCharacter) {

                        return false
                    }
                }
                return true
            }
        }
    }
}

Example:

"test text".splitBy([" "]) // ["test", "text"]
"test++text--".splitBy(["+", "-"], swallow: true) // ["test", "++" "text", "--"]

Run Executable from Powershell script with parameters

Just adding an example that worked fine for me:

$sqldb = [string]($sqldir) + '\bin\MySQLInstanceConfig.exe'
$myarg = '-i ConnectionUsage=DSS Port=3311 ServiceName=MySQL RootPassword= ' + $rootpw
Start-Process $sqldb -ArgumentList $myarg

TypeError: Missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'

You can also get this error by prematurely taking PyCharm's advice to annotate a method @staticmethod. Remove the annotation.

SQL Query Multiple Columns Using Distinct on One Column Only

You must use an aggregate function on the columns against which you are not grouping. In this example, I arbitrarily picked the Min function. You are combining the rows with the same FruitType value. If I have two rows with the same FruitType value but different Fruit_Id values for example, what should the system do?

Select Min(tblFruit_id) As tblFruit_id
    , tblFruit_FruitType
From tblFruit
Group By tblFruit_FruitType

SQL Fiddle example

Evaluate empty or null JSTL c tags

if you check only null or empty then you can use the with default option for this: <c:out default="var1 is empty or null." value="${var1}"/>

How can I schedule a job to run a SQL query daily?

if You want daily backup // following sql script store in C:\Users\admin\Desktop\DBScript\DBBackUpSQL.sql

DECLARE @pathName NVARCHAR(512),
 @databaseName NVARCHAR(512) SET @databaseName = 'Databasename' SET @pathName = 'C:\DBBackup\DBData\DBBackUp' + Convert(varchar(8), GETDATE(), 112) + '_' + Replace((Convert(varchar(8), GETDATE(), 108)),':','-')+ '.bak' BACKUP DATABASE @databaseName TO DISK = @pathName WITH NOFORMAT, 
INIT, 
NAME = N'', 
SKIP, 
NOREWIND, 
NOUNLOAD, 
STATS = 10 
GO

open the Task scheduler

create task-> select Triggers tab Select New .

Button Select Daily Radio button

click Ok Button

then click Action tab Select New.

Button Put "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE" -S ADMIN-PC -i "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\DBScript\DBBackUpSQL.sql" in the program/script text box(make sure Match your files path and Put the double quoted path in start-> search box and if it find then click it and see the backup is there or not)

-- the above path may be insted 100 write 90 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE" -S ADMIN-PC -i "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\DBScript\DBBackUpSQL.sql"

then click ok button

the Script will execute on time which you select on Trigger tab on daily basis

enjoy it.............

Background Image for Select (dropdown) does not work in Chrome

Generally, it's considered a bad practice to style standard form controls because the output looks so different on each browser. See: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/styling-form-controls-revisited/select-single/ for some rendered examples.

That being said, I've had some luck making the background color an RGBA value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <style>
      body {
        background: #d00;
      }
      select {
        background: rgba(255,255,255,0.1) url('http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo6g.png') repeat-x 0 0; 
        padding:4px; 
        line-height: 21px;
        border: 1px solid #fff;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <select>
      <option>Foo</option>
      <option>Bar</option>      
      <option>Something longer</option>     
  </body>
</html>

Google Chrome still renders a gradient on top of the background image in the color that you pass to rgba(r,g,b,0.1) but choosing a color that compliments your image and making the alpha 0.1 reduces the effect of this.

Making a Bootstrap table column fit to content

This solution is not good every time. But i have only two columns and I want second column to take all the remaining space. This worked for me

 <tr>
    <td class="text-nowrap">A</td>
    <td class="w-100">B</td>
 </tr>

Check folder size in Bash

To check the size of all of the directories within a directory, you can use:

du -h --max-depth=1

How do I add a ToolTip to a control?

Drag a tooltip control from the toolbox onto your form. You don't really need to give it any properties other than a name. Then, in the properties of the control you wish to have a tooltip on, look for a new property with the name of the tooltip control you just added. It will by default give you a tooltip when the cursor hovers the control.

JSON.Net Self referencing loop detected

You must set Preserving Object References:

var jsonSerializerSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings
{
    PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects
};

Then call your query var q = (from a in db.Events where a.Active select a).ToList(); like

string jsonStr = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(q, jsonSerializerSettings);

See: https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/PreserveObjectReferences.htm

How to parse JSON Array (Not Json Object) in Android

I'll just give a little Jackson example:

First create a data holder which has the fields from JSON string

// imports
// ...
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class MyDataHolder {
    @JsonProperty("name")
    public String mName;

    @JsonProperty("url")
    public String mUrl;
}

And parse list of MyDataHolders

String jsonString = // your json
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
List<MyDataHolder> list = mapper.readValue(jsonString, 
    new TypeReference<ArrayList<MyDataHolder>>() {});

Using list items

String firstName = list.get(0).mName;
String secondName = list.get(1).mName;

How can I create 2 separate log files with one log4j config file?

Modify your log4j.properties file accordingly:

log4j.rootLogger=TRACE,stdout
...
log4j.logger.debugLog=TRACE,debugLog
log4j.logger.reportsLog=DEBUG,reportsLog

Change the log levels for each logger depending to your needs.

In .NET, which loop runs faster, 'for' or 'foreach'?

I would suggest reading this for a specific answer. The conclusion of the article is that using for loop is generally better and faster than the foreach loop.

SQL Server query - Selecting COUNT(*) with DISTINCT

This is a good example where you want to get count of Pincode which stored in the last of address field

SELECT DISTINCT
    RIGHT (address, 6),
    count(*) AS count
FROM
    datafile
WHERE
    address IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY
    RIGHT (address, 6)

C++ int float casting

he does an integer divide, which means 3 / 4 = 0. cast one of the brackets to float

 (float)(a.y - b.y) / (a.x - b.x);

Duplicate / Copy records in the same MySQL table

You KNOW for sure, that the DUPLICATE KEY will trigger, thus you can select the MAX(ID)+1 beforehand:

INSERT INTO invoices SELECT MAX(ID)+1, ... other fields ... FROM invoices AS iv WHERE iv.ID=XXXXX 

How to change the default port of mysql from 3306 to 3360

When server first starts the my.ini may not be created where everyone has stated. I was able to find mine in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6

This location has the defaults for every setting.

# CLIENT SECTION
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# The following options will be read by MySQL client applications.
# Note that only client applications shipped by MySQL are guaranteed
# to read this section. If you want your own MySQL client program to
# honor these values, you need to specify it as an option during the
# MySQL client library initialization.
#
[client]

# pipe
# socket=0.0
port=4306  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Change this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mysql]
no-beep

default-character-set=utf8

How can I know if a branch has been already merged into master?

git branch --merged master lists branches merged into master

git branch --merged lists branches merged into HEAD (i.e. tip of current branch)

git branch --no-merged lists branches that have not been merged

By default this applies to only the local branches. The -a flag will show both local and remote branches, and the -r flag shows only the remote branches.

Include jQuery in the JavaScript Console

Per this answer:

fetch('https://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js').then(r => r.text()).then(r => eval(r))

For some reason I have to execute it twice to get the new '$' (which I have to do with the other methods as well), but it works.

This is the equivalent if your browser isn't so modern:

fetch('http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js').then(function(r){return r.text()}).then(function(r){eval(r)})

Need to make a clickable <div> button

Just use an <a> by itself, set it to display: block; and set width and height. Get rid of the <span> and <div>. This is the semantic way to do it. There is no need to wrap things in <divs> (or any element) for layout. That is what CSS is for.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/89Enq/

HTML:

<a id="music" href="Music.html">Music I Like</a>

CSS:

#music {
    background-color: black;
    color: white;
    display: block;
    height: 40px;
    line-height: 40px;
    text-decoration: none;
    width: 100px;
    text-align: center;
}

Output:

enter image description here

C dynamically growing array

There are a couple of options I can think of.

  1. Linked List. You can use a linked list to make a dynamically growing array like thing. But you won't be able to do array[100] without having to walk through 1-99 first. And it might not be that handy for you to use either.
  2. Large array. Simply create an array with more than enough space for everything
  3. Resizing array. Recreate the array once you know the size and/or create a new array every time you run out of space with some margin and copy all the data to the new array.
  4. Linked List Array combination. Simply use an array with a fixed size and once you run out of space, create a new array and link to that (it would be wise to keep track of the array and the link to the next array in a struct).

It is hard to say what option would be best in your situation. Simply creating a large array is ofcourse one of the easiest solutions and shouldn't give you much problems unless it's really large.

Why does SSL handshake give 'Could not generate DH keypair' exception?

If the server supports a cipher that does not include DH, you can force the client to select that cipher and avoid the DH error. Such as:

String pickedCipher[] ={"TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA"};
sslsocket.setEnabledCipherSuites(pickedCipher);

Keep in mind that specifying an exact cipher is prone to breakage in the long run.

%matplotlib line magic causes SyntaxError in Python script

Because line magics are only supported by the IPython command line not by Python cl, use: 'exec(%matplotlib inline)' instead of %matplotlib inline

How does one get started with procedural generation?

Procedural content generation is now all written for the GPU, so you'll need to know a shader language. That means GLSL or HLSL. These are languages tied to OpenGL and DirectX respectively.

While my personal preference is for Dx11 / HLSL due to speed, an easier learning curve and Frank D Luna, OpenGL is supported on more platforms.

You should also check out WebGL if you want to jump right into writing shaders without having to spend the (considerable) time it takes to setup an OpenGL / DirectX game engine.

Procedural content starts with noise.

So you'll need to learn about Perlin noise (and its successor Simplex noise).

Shadertoy is a superb reference for learning about shader programming. I would recommend you come to it once you've given shader coding a go yourself, as the code there is not for the mathematically squeamish, but that is how procedural content is done.

Shadertoy was created by a procedural genius, Inigo Quilez, a product of the demo scene who works at Pixar. He has some youtube videos (great example) of live coding sessions and I can also recommend these.

Mysql Compare two datetime fields

You can use the following SQL to compare both date and time -

Select * From temp where mydate > STR_TO_DATE('2009-06-29 04:00:44', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s');

Attached mysql output when I used same SQL on same kind of table and field that you mentioned in the problem-

enter image description here

It should work perfect.

Excel VBA Check if directory exists error

To be certain that a folder exists (and not a file) I use this function:

Public Function FolderExists(strFolderPath As String) As Boolean
    On Error Resume Next
    FolderExists = ((GetAttr(strFolderPath) And vbDirectory) = vbDirectory)
    On Error GoTo 0
End Function

It works both, with \ at the end and without.

What is the difference between SQL Server 2012 Express versions?

Scroll down on that page and you'll see:

Express with Tools (with LocalDB) Includes the database engine and SQL Server Management Studio Express)
This package contains everything needed to install and configure SQL Server as a database server. Choose either LocalDB or Express depending on your needs above.

That's the SQLEXPRWT_x64_ENU.exe download.... (WT = with tools)


Express with Advanced Services (contains the database engine, Express Tools, Reporting Services, and Full Text Search)
This package contains all the components of SQL Express. This is a larger download than “with Tools,” as it also includes both Full Text Search and Reporting Services.

That's the SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe download ... (ADV = Advanced Services)


The SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe file is just the database engine - no tools, no Reporting Services, no fulltext-search - just barebones engine.

Angular 2 How to redirect to 404 or other path if the path does not exist

My preferred option on 2.0.0 and up is to create a 404 route and also allow a ** route path to resolve to the same component. This allows you to log and display more information about the invalid route rather than a plain redirect which can act to hide the error.

Simple 404 example:

{ path '/', component: HomeComponent },
// All your other routes should come first    
{ path: '404', component: NotFoundComponent },
{ path: '**', component: NotFoundComponent }

To display the incorrect route information add in import to router within NotFoundComponent:

import { Router } from '@angular/router';

Add it to the constructior of NotFoundComponent:

constructor(public router: Router) { }

Then you're ready to reference it from your HTML template e.g.

The page <span style="font-style: italic">{{router.url}}</span> was not found.

Select rows of a matrix that meet a condition

This is easier to do if you convert your matrix to a data frame using as.data.frame(). In that case the previous answers (using subset or m$three) will work, otherwise they will not.

To perform the operation on a matrix, you can define a column by name:

m[m[, "three"] == 11,]

Or by number:

m[m[,3] == 11,]

Note that if only one row matches, the result is an integer vector, not a matrix.

Filter items which array contains any of given values

For those looking at this in 2020, you may notice that accepted answer is deprecated in 2020, but there is a similar approach available using terms_set and minimum_should_match_script combination.

Please see the detailed answer here in the SO thread

How to make the HTML link activated by clicking on the <li>?

Or you can create an empty link at the end of your <li>:

<a href="link"></a>

.menu li{position:relative;padding:0;}
.link{
     bottom: 0;
     left: 0;
     position: absolute;
     right: 0;
     top: 0;
}

This will create a full clickable <li> and keep your formatting on your real link. It could be useful for <div> tag as well

How can I convert JSON to a HashMap using Gson?

Below is supported since gson 2.8.0

public static Type getMapType(Class keyType, Class valueType){
    return TypeToken.getParameterized(HashMap.class, keyType, valueType).getType();
}

public static  <K,V> HashMap<K,V> fromMap(String json, Class<K> keyType, Class<V> valueType){
    return gson.fromJson(json, getMapType(keyType,valueType));
}

How to enumerate an object's properties in Python?

for property, value in vars(theObject).items():
    print(property, ":", value)

Be aware that in some rare cases there's a __slots__ property, such classes often have no __dict__.

How to call a vue.js function on page load

You need to do something like this (If you want to call the method on page load):

new Vue({
    // ...
    methods:{
        getUnits: function() {...}
    },
    created: function(){
        this.getUnits()
    }
});

Android java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

I fixed the issue by just adding private libraries of the main project to export here:

Project Properties->Java Build Path->Order And Export

And make sure Android Private Libraries are checked.

Screenshot:

enter image description here

Make sure google-play-services_lib.jar and google-play-services.jar are checked. Clean the project and re-run and the classNotfound exception goes away.

How to verify CuDNN installation?

When installing on ubuntu via .deb you can use sudo apt search cudnn | grep installed

Best way to encode Degree Celsius symbol into web page?

  1. The degree sign belongs to the number, and not to the "C". You can regard the degree sign as a number symbol, just like the minus sign.
  2. There shall not be any space between the digits and the degree sign.
  3. There shall be a non-breaking space between the degree sign and the "C".

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

You can simply print it.

@a = qw(abc def hij);

print "@a";

You will got:

abc def hij

How to determine equality for two JavaScript objects?

Pulling out from my personal library, which i use for my work repeatedly. The following function is a lenient recursive deep equal, which does not check

  • Class equality
  • Inherited values
  • Values strict equality

I mainly use this to check if i get equal replies against various API implementation. Where implementation difference (like string vs number) and additional null values, can occur.

Its implementation is quite straightforward and short (if all the comments is stripped off)

_x000D_
_x000D_
/** Recursively check if both objects are equal in value_x000D_
***_x000D_
*** This function is designed to use multiple methods from most probable _x000D_
*** (and in most cases) valid, to the more regid and complex method._x000D_
***_x000D_
*** One of the main principles behind the various check is that while_x000D_
*** some of the simpler checks such as == or JSON may cause false negatives,_x000D_
*** they do not cause false positives. As such they can be safely run first._x000D_
***_x000D_
*** # !Important Note:_x000D_
*** as this function is designed for simplified deep equal checks it is not designed_x000D_
*** for the following_x000D_
***_x000D_
*** - Class equality, (ClassA().a = 1) maybe valid to (ClassB().b = 1)_x000D_
*** - Inherited values, this actually ignores them_x000D_
*** - Values being strictly equal, "1" is equal to 1 (see the basic equality check on this)_x000D_
*** - Performance across all cases. This is designed for high performance on the_x000D_
***   most probable cases of == / JSON equality. Consider bench testing, if you have_x000D_
***   more 'complex' requirments_x000D_
***_x000D_
*** @param  objA : First object to compare_x000D_
*** @param  objB : 2nd object to compare_x000D_
*** @param  .... : Any other objects to compare_x000D_
***_x000D_
*** @returns true if all equals, or false if invalid_x000D_
***_x000D_
*** @license Copyright by [email protected], 2012._x000D_
***          Licensed under the MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT_x000D_
**/_x000D_
function simpleRecusiveDeepEqual(objA, objB) {_x000D_
 // Multiple comparision check_x000D_
 //--------------------------------------------_x000D_
 var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);_x000D_
 if(args.length > 2) {_x000D_
  for(var a=1; a<args.length; ++a) {_x000D_
   if(!simpleRecusiveDeepEqual(args[a-1], args[a])) {_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  return true;_x000D_
 } else if(args.length < 2) {_x000D_
  throw "simpleRecusiveDeepEqual, requires atleast 2 arguments";_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // basic equality check,_x000D_
 //--------------------------------------------_x000D_
 // if this succed the 2 basic values is equal,_x000D_
 // such as numbers and string._x000D_
 //_x000D_
 // or its actually the same object pointer. Bam_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 // Note that if string and number strictly equal is required_x000D_
 // change the equality from ==, to ===_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 if(objA == objB) {_x000D_
  return true;_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // If a value is a bsic type, and failed above. This fails_x000D_
 var basicTypes = ["boolean", "number", "string"];_x000D_
 if( basicTypes.indexOf(typeof objA) >= 0 || basicTypes.indexOf(typeof objB) >= 0 ) {_x000D_
  return false;_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // JSON equality check,_x000D_
 //--------------------------------------------_x000D_
 // this can fail, if the JSON stringify the objects in the wrong order_x000D_
 // for example the following may fail, due to different string order:_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 // JSON.stringify( {a:1, b:2} ) == JSON.stringify( {b:2, a:1} )_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 if(JSON.stringify(objA) == JSON.stringify(objB)) {_x000D_
  return true;_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // Array equality check_x000D_
 //--------------------------------------------_x000D_
 // This is performed prior to iteration check,_x000D_
 // Without this check the following would have been considered valid_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 // simpleRecusiveDeepEqual( { 0:1963 }, [1963] );_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 // Note that u may remove this segment if this is what is intended_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 if( Array.isArray(objA) ) {_x000D_
  //objA is array, objB is not an array_x000D_
  if( !Array.isArray(objB) ) {_x000D_
   return false;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
 } else if( Array.isArray(objB) ) {_x000D_
  //objA is not array, objB is an array_x000D_
  return false;_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // Nested values iteration_x000D_
 //--------------------------------------------_x000D_
 // Scan and iterate all the nested values, and check for non equal values recusively_x000D_
 //_x000D_
 // Note that this does not check against null equality, remove the various "!= null"_x000D_
 // if this is required_x000D_
 _x000D_
 var i; //reuse var to iterate_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // Check objA values against objB_x000D_
 for (i in objA) {_x000D_
  //Protect against inherited properties_x000D_
  if(objA.hasOwnProperty(i)) {_x000D_
   if(objB.hasOwnProperty(i)) {_x000D_
    // Check if deep equal is valid_x000D_
    if(!simpleRecusiveDeepEqual( objA[i], objB[i] )) {_x000D_
     return false;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
   } else if(objA[i] != null) {_x000D_
    //ignore null values in objA, that objB does not have_x000D_
    //else fails_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
  }_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // Check if objB has additional values, that objA do not, fail if so_x000D_
 for (i in objB) {_x000D_
  if(objB.hasOwnProperty(i)) {_x000D_
   if(objB[i] != null && !objA.hasOwnProperty(i)) {_x000D_
    //ignore null values in objB, that objA does not have_x000D_
    //else fails_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
  }_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // End of all checks_x000D_
 //--------------------------------------------_x000D_
 // By reaching here, all iteration scans have been done._x000D_
 // and should have returned false if it failed_x000D_
 return true;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// Sanity checking of simpleRecusiveDeepEqual_x000D_
(function() {_x000D_
 if(_x000D_
  // Basic checks_x000D_
  !simpleRecusiveDeepEqual({}, {}) ||_x000D_
  !simpleRecusiveDeepEqual([], []) ||_x000D_
  !simpleRecusiveDeepEqual(['a'], ['a']) ||_x000D_
  // Not strict checks_x000D_
  !simpleRecusiveDeepEqual("1", 1) ||_x000D_
  // Multiple objects check_x000D_
  !simpleRecusiveDeepEqual( { a:[1,2] }, { a:[1,2] }, { a:[1,2] } ) ||_x000D_
  // Ensure distinction between array and object (the following should fail)_x000D_
  simpleRecusiveDeepEqual( [1963], { 0:1963 } ) ||_x000D_
  // Null strict checks_x000D_
  simpleRecusiveDeepEqual( 0, null ) ||_x000D_
  simpleRecusiveDeepEqual( "", null ) ||_x000D_
  // Last "false" exists to make the various check above easy to comment in/out_x000D_
  false_x000D_
 ) {_x000D_
  alert("FATAL ERROR: simpleRecusiveDeepEqual failed basic checks");_x000D_
 } else { _x000D_
  //added this last line, for SO snippet alert on success_x000D_
  alert("simpleRecusiveDeepEqual: Passed all checks, Yays!");_x000D_
 }_x000D_
})();
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Firebase onMessageReceived not called when app in background

If app is in the background mode or inactive(killed), and you click on Notification, you should check for the payload in LaunchScreen(in my case launch screen is MainActivity.java).

So in MainActivity.java on onCreate check for Extras:

    if (getIntent().getExtras() != null) {
        for (String key : getIntent().getExtras().keySet()) {
            Object value = getIntent().getExtras().get(key);
            Log.d("MainActivity: ", "Key: " + key + " Value: " + value);
        }
    }

Powershell folder size of folders without listing Subdirectories

Interesting how powerful yet how helpless PS can be in the same time, coming from a Nix learning PS. after install crgwin/gitbash, you can do any combination in one commands:

size of current folder: du -sk .

size of all files and folders under current directory du -sk *

size of all subfolders (including current folders) find ./ -type d -exec du -sk {} \;

Validating Phone Numbers Using Javascript

<html>
<title>Practice Session</title>
<body>           
<form name="RegForm" onsubmit="return validate()" method="post">  
<p>Name: <input type="text" name="Name"> </p><br>        
<p>Contact: <input type="text" name="Telephone"> </p><br>   
<p><input type="submit" value="send" name="Submit"></p>          
</form> 
</body>
<script> 
function validate()                                    
{ 
var name = document.forms["RegForm"]["Name"];                
var phone = document.forms["RegForm"]["Telephone"];  
if (name.value == "")                                  
{ 
window.alert("Please enter your name."); 
name.focus();
return false;
}
else if(isNaN(name.value) /*"%d[10]"*/)
{
alert("name confirmed");
}
else{ 
window.alert("please enter character"); 
}   
if (phone.value == "")                           
{ 
window.alert("Please enter your telephone number."); 
phone.focus();
return false; 
} 
else if(!isNaN(phone.value) /*phone.value == isNaN(phone.value)*/)
{
alert("number confirmed");
}
else{
window.alert("please enter numbers only");
}   
}
</script> 
</html>

Switch: Multiple values in one case?

you can try this.

switch (Valor)
            {
                case (Valor1 & Valor2):

                    break;               
            }

How to redirect stdout to both file and console with scripting?

I've tried a few solutions here and didn't find the one that writes into file and into console at the same time. So here is what I did (based on this answer)

class Logger(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.terminal = sys.stdout

    def write(self, message):
        with open ("logfile.log", "a", encoding = 'utf-8') as self.log:            
            self.log.write(message)
        self.terminal.write(message)

    def flush(self):
        #this flush method is needed for python 3 compatibility.
        #this handles the flush command by doing nothing.
        #you might want to specify some extra behavior here.
        pass
sys.stdout = Logger()   

This solution uses more computing power, but reliably saves all of the data from stdout into logger file and uses less memeory. For my needs I've added time stamp into self.log.write(message) aswell. Works great.

Linux error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Here are a few solutions you can try:

ldconfig

As AbiusX pointed out: If you have just now installed the library, you may simply need to run ldconfig.

sudo ldconfig

ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache to the most recent shared libraries found in the directories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories (/lib and /usr/lib).

Usually your package manager will take care of this when you install a new library, but not always, and it won't hurt to run ldconfig even if that is not your issue.

Dev package or wrong version

If that doesn't work, I would also check out Paul's suggestion and look for a "-dev" version of the library. Many libraries are split into dev and non-dev packages. You can use this command to look for it:

apt-cache search <libraryname>

This can also help if you simply have the wrong version of the library installed. Some libraries are published in different versions simultaneously, for example, Python.

Library location

If you are sure that the right package is installed, and ldconfig didn't find it, it may just be in a nonstandard directory. By default, ldconfig looks in /lib, /usr/lib, and directories listed in /etc/ld.so.conf and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If your library is somewhere else, you can either add the directory on its own line in /etc/ld.so.conf, append the library's path to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or move the library into /usr/lib. Then run ldconfig.

To find out where the library is, try this:

sudo find / -iname *libraryname*.so*

(Replace libraryname with the name of your library)

If you go the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH route, you'll want to put that into your ~/.bashrc file so it will run every time you log in:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/library

Ruby array to string conversion

> puts "'"+['12','34','35','231']*"','"+"'"
'12','34','35','231'

> puts ['12','34','35','231'].inspect[1...-1].gsub('"',"'")
'12', '34', '35', '231'

How do I save a String to a text file using Java?

In Java 7 you can do this:

String content = "Hello File!";
String path = "C:/a.txt";
Files.write( Paths.get(path), content.getBytes());

There is more info here: http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/java-se-7-new-file-io/231600403

Getting the first character of a string with $str[0]

In case of multibyte (unicode) strings using str[0] can cause a trouble. mb_substr() is a better solution. For example:

$first_char = mb_substr($title, 0, 1);

Some details here: Get first character of UTF-8 string

Getting Hour and Minute in PHP

Try this:

$hourMin = date('H:i');

This will be 24-hour time with an hour that is always two digits. For all options, see the PHP docs for date().

IIS Express gives Access Denied error when debugging ASP.NET MVC

Hosting on IIS Express: 1. Click on your project in the Solution Explorer to select the project. 2. If the Properties pane is not open, open it (F4). 3. In the Properties pane for your project: a) Set "Anonymous Authentication" to "Disabled". b) Set "Windows Authentication" to "Enabled".

Intellij IDEA Java classes not auto compiling on save

Please follow both steps:

1 - Enable Automake from the compiler

  • Press: ctrl + shift + A (For Mac ? + shift + A)
  • Type: make project automatically
  • Hit: Enter
  • Enable Make Project automatically feature

2 - Enable Automake when the application is running

  • Press: ctrl + shift + A (For Mac ? + shift + A)
  • Type: Registry
  • Find the key compiler.automake.allow.when.app.running and enable it or click the checkbox next to it

Note: Restart your application now :)

Note: This should also allow live reload with spring boot devtools.

Get first key in a (possibly) associative array?

Interestingly enough, the foreach loop is actually the most efficient way of doing this.

Since the OP specifically asked about efficiency, it should be pointed out that all the current answers are in fact much less efficient than a foreach.

I did a benchmark on this with php 5.4, and the reset/key pointer method (accepted answer) seems to be about 7 times slower than a foreach. Other approaches manipulating the entire array (array_keys, array_flip) are obviously even slower than that and become much worse when working with a large array.

Foreach is not inefficient at all, feel free to use it!

Edit 2015-03-03:

Benchmark scripts have been requested, I don't have the original ones but made some new tests instead. This time I found the foreach only about twice as fast as reset/key. I used a 100-key array and ran each method a million times to get some noticeable difference, here's code of the simple benchmark:

$array = [];
for($i=0; $i < 100; $i++)
    $array["key$i"] = $i;

for($i=0, $start = microtime(true); $i < 1000000; $i++) {
    foreach ($array as $firstKey => $firstValue) {
        break;
    }
}
echo "foreach to get first key and value: " . (microtime(true) - $start) . " seconds <br />";

for($i=0, $start = microtime(true); $i < 1000000; $i++) {
    $firstValue = reset($array);
    $firstKey = key($array);
}
echo "reset+key to get first key and value: " . (microtime(true) - $start) . " seconds <br />";

for($i=0, $start = microtime(true); $i < 1000000; $i++) {
    reset($array);
    $firstKey = key($array);
}
echo "reset+key to get first key: " . (microtime(true) - $start) . " seconds <br />";


for($i=0, $start = microtime(true); $i < 1000000; $i++) {
    $firstKey = array_keys($array)[0];
}
echo "array_keys to get first key: " . (microtime(true) - $start) . " seconds <br />";

On my php 5.5 this outputs:

foreach to get first key and value: 0.15501809120178 seconds 
reset+key to get first key and value: 0.29375791549683 seconds 
reset+key to get first key: 0.26421809196472 seconds 
array_keys to get first key: 10.059751987457 seconds

reset+key http://3v4l.org/b4DrN/perf#tabs
foreach http://3v4l.org/gRoGD/perf#tabs

How to obtain the chat_id of a private Telegram channel?

No need to convert the channel to public then make it private.

  1. find the id of your private channel. (There are numerous methods to do this, for example see this SO answer)

  2. curl -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/botxxxxxx:yyyyyyyyyyy/sendMessage" -d "chat_id=-100CHAT_ID&text=my sample text"

    replace xxxxxx:yyyyyyyyyyy with your bot id, and replace CHAT_ID with the channel id found in step 1. So if channel id is 1234 it would be chat_id=-1001234.

All done!

Dynamic Web Module 3.0 -- 3.1

I was running on Win7, Tomcat7 with maven-pom setup on Eclipse Mars with maven project enabled. On a NOT running server I only had to change from 3.1 to 3.0 on this screen: enter image description here

For me it was important to have Dynamic Web Module disabled! Then change the version and then enable Dynamic Web Module again.

Converting NumPy array into Python List structure?

tolist() works fine even if encountered a nested array, say a pandas DataFrame;

my_list = [0,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1,0]
my_dt = pd.DataFrame(my_list)
new_list = [i[0] for i in my_dt.values.tolist()]

print(type(my_list),type(my_dt),type(new_list))

How to do a "Save As" in vba code, saving my current Excel workbook with datestamp?

Easiest way to use this function is to start by 'Recording a Macro'. Once you start recording, save the file to the location you want, with the name you want, and then of course set the file type, most likely 'Excel Macro Enabled Workbook' ~ 'XLSM'

Stop recording and you can start inspecting your code.

I wrote the code below which allows you to save a workbook using the path where the file was originally located, naming it as "Event [date in cell "A1"]"

Option Explicit

Sub SaveFile()

Dim fdate As Date
Dim fname As String
Dim path As String

fdate = Range("A1").Value
path = Application.ActiveWorkbook.path

If fdate > 0 Then
    fname = "Event " & fdate
    Application.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=path & "\" & fname, _
        FileFormat:=xlOpenXMLWorkbookMacroEnabled, CreateBackup:=False
Else
    MsgBox "Chose a date for the event", vbOKOnly
End If

End Sub

Copy the code into a new module and then write a date in cell "A1" e.g. 01-01-2016 -> assign the sub to a button and run. [Note] you need to make a save file before this script will work, because a new workbook is saved to the default autosave location!

Isn't the size of character in Java 2 bytes?

In ASCII text file each character is just one byte

Adding and removing style attribute from div with jquery

If you are using jQuery, use css to add CSS

$("#voltaic_holder").css({'position': 'absolute',
    'top': '-75px'});

To remove CSS attributes

$("#voltaic_holder").css({'position': '',
    'top': ''});

How to use nanosleep() in C? What are `tim.tv_sec` and `tim.tv_nsec`?

POSIX 7

First find the function: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/nanosleep.html

That contains a link to a time.h, which as a header should be where structs are defined:

The header shall declare the timespec structure, which shall > include at least the following members:

time_t  tv_sec    Seconds. 
long    tv_nsec   Nanoseconds.

man 2 nanosleep

Pseudo-official glibc docs which you should always check for syscalls:

struct timespec {
    time_t tv_sec;        /* seconds */
    long   tv_nsec;       /* nanoseconds */
};

How to enable GZIP compression in IIS 7.5

Sometimes no matter what you do or follow whole internet posts. Try on the MIMETYPES of applicationhost.config of the server.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.webserver/httpcompression/#configuration-sample

bypass invalid SSL certificate in .net core

In .NetCore, you can add the following code snippet at services configure method , I added a check to make sure only that we by pass the SSL certificate in development environment only

services.AddHttpClient("HttpClientName", client => {
// code to configure headers etc..
}).ConfigurePrimaryHttpMessageHandler(() => {
                  var handler = new HttpClientHandler();
                  if (hostingEnvironment.IsDevelopment())
                  {
                      handler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback = (message, cert, chain, errors) => { return true; };
                  }
                  return handler;
              });

How to set image name in Dockerfile?

Here is another version if you have to reference a specific docker file:

version: "3"
services:
  nginx:
    container_name: nginx
    build:
      context: ../..
      dockerfile: ./docker/nginx/Dockerfile
    image: my_nginx:latest

Then you just run

docker-compose build

Matplotlib make tick labels font size smaller

Alternatively, you can just do:

import matplotlib as mpl
label_size = 8
mpl.rcParams['xtick.labelsize'] = label_size 

jQuery UI Dialog OnBeforeUnload

For ASP.NET MVC if you want to make an exception for leaving the page via submitting a particular form:

Set a form id:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Create", "MgtJob", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "createjob" }))
{
  // Your code
}



<script type="text/javascript">

  // Without submit form
   $(window).bind('beforeunload', function () {
        if ($('input').val() !== '') {
            return "It looks like you have input you haven't submitted."
        }
    });

    // this will call before submit; and it will unbind beforeunload
    $(function () {
        $("#createjob").submit(function (event) {
            $(window).unbind("beforeunload");
        });
    });

</script>

jQuery to retrieve and set selected option value of html select element

to get/set the actual selectedIndex property of the select element use:

$("#select-id").prop("selectedIndex");

$("#select-id").prop("selectedIndex",1);

Disable submit button when form invalid with AngularJS

If you are using Reactive Forms you can use this:

<button [disabled]="!contactForm.valid" type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn primary" (click)="printSomething()">Submit</button>

Validating input using java.util.Scanner

For checking Strings for letters you can use regular expressions for example:

someString.matches("[A-F]");

For checking numbers and stopping the program crashing, I have a quite simple class you can find below where you can define the range of values you want. Here

    public int readInt(String prompt, int min, int max)
    {
    Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

    int number = 0;

    //Run once and loop until the input is within the specified range.
    do 
    {
        //Print users message.
        System.out.printf("\n%s > ", prompt);

        //Prevent string input crashing the program.
        while (!scan.hasNextInt()) 
        {
            System.out.printf("Input doesn't match specifications. Try again.");
            System.out.printf("\n%s > ", prompt);
            scan.next(); 
        }

        //Set the number.
        number = scan.nextInt();

        //If the number is outside range print an error message.
        if (number < min || number > max)
            System.out.printf("Input doesn't match specifications. Try again.");

    } while (number < min || number > max);

    return number;
}

How to use orderby with 2 fields in linq?

VB.NET

 MyList.OrderBy(Function(f) f.StartDate).ThenByDescending(Function(f) f.EndDate)

OR

  From l In MyList Order By l.StartDate Ascending, l.EndDate Descending

How to check if element in groovy array/hash/collection/list?

.contains() is the best method for lists, but for maps you will need to use .containsKey() or .containsValue()

[a:1,b:2,c:3].containsValue(3)
[a:1,b:2,c:3].containsKey('a')

Merge trunk to branch in Subversion

Is there something that prevents you from merging all revisions on trunk since the last merge?

svn merge -rLastRevisionMergedFromTrunkToBranch:HEAD url/of/trunk path/to/branch/wc

should work just fine. At least if you want to merge all changes on trunk to your branch.

Regex to match only uppercase "words" with some exceptions

Maybe you can run this regex first to see if the line is all caps:

^[A-Z \d\W]+$

That will match only if it's a line like THING P1 MUST CONNECT TO X2.

Otherwise, you should be able to pull out the individual uppercase phrases with this:

[A-Z][A-Z\d]+

That should match "P1" and "J236" in The thing P1 must connect to the J236 thing in the Foo position.

JPA & Criteria API - Select only specific columns

First of all, I don't really see why you would want an object having only ID and Version, and all other props to be nulls. However, here is some code which will do that for you (which doesn't use JPA Em, but normal Hibernate. I assume you can find the equivalence in JPA or simply obtain the Hibernate Session obj from the em delegate Accessing Hibernate Session from EJB using EntityManager ):

List<T> results = session.createCriteria(entityClazz)
    .setProjection( Projections.projectionList()
        .add( Property.forName("ID") )
        .add( Property.forName("VERSION") )
    )
    .setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(entityClazz); 
    .list();

This will return a list of Objects having their ID and Version set and all other props to null, as the aliasToBean transformer won't be able to find them. Again, I am uncertain I can think of a situation where I would want to do that.

How can I decode HTML characters in C#?

Write static a method into some utility class, which accept string as parameter and return the decoded html string.

Include the using System.Web.HttpUtility into your class

public static string HtmlEncode(string text)
    {
        if(text.length > 0){

           return HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(text);
        }else{

         return text;
        }

    }

Download large file in python with requests

It's much easier if you use Response.raw and shutil.copyfileobj():

import requests
import shutil

def download_file(url):
    local_filename = url.split('/')[-1]
    with requests.get(url, stream=True) as r:
        with open(local_filename, 'wb') as f:
            shutil.copyfileobj(r.raw, f)

    return local_filename

This streams the file to disk without using excessive memory, and the code is simple.

Refresh a page using JavaScript or HTML

Here are 535 ways to reload a page using javascript, very cool:

Here are the first 20:

location = location
location = location.href
location = window.location
location = self.location
location = window.location.href
location = self.location.href
location = location['href']
location = window['location']
location = window['location'].href
location = window['location']['href']
location = window.location['href']
location = self['location']
location = self['location'].href
location = self['location']['href']
location = self.location['href']
location.assign(location)
location.replace(location)
window.location.assign(location)
window.location.replace(location)
self.location.assign(location)

and the last 10:

self['location']['replace'](self.location['href'])
location.reload()
location['reload']()
window.location.reload()
window['location'].reload()
window.location['reload']()
window['location']['reload']()
self.location.reload()
self['location'].reload()
self.location['reload']()
self['location']['reload']()

Original Article

How to float 3 divs side by side using CSS?

try to add "display: block" to the style

<style>
   .left{
          display: block;
          float:left; 
          width:33%;
    }
</style>


<div class="left">...</div>
<div class="left">...</div>
<div class="left">...</div>

How does "cat << EOF" work in bash?

Using tee instead of cat

Not exactly as an answer to the original question, but I wanted to share this anyway: I had the need to create a config file in a directory that required root rights.

The following does not work for that case:

$ sudo cat <<EOF >/etc/somedir/foo.conf
# my config file
foo=bar
EOF

because the redirection is handled outside of the sudo context.

I ended up using this instead:

$ sudo tee <<EOF /etc/somedir/foo.conf >/dev/null
# my config file
foo=bar
EOF

Chrome DevTools Devices does not detect device when plugged in

I've worked with six different Android devices and multiple cables and I have to say that debugger works unstably. Sometimes it can see the device, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes restarting Chrome helps. Here is a related bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=788161, may be you can contribute with your evidence.

Actual meaning of 'shell=True' in subprocess

The other answers here adequately explain the security caveats which are also mentioned in the subprocess documentation. But in addition to that, the overhead of starting a shell to start the program you want to run is often unnecessary and definitely silly for situations where you don't actually use any of the shell's functionality. Moreover, the additional hidden complexity should scare you, especially if you are not very familiar with the shell or the services it provides.

Where the interactions with the shell are nontrivial, you now require the reader and maintainer of the Python script (which may or may not be your future self) to understand both Python and shell script. Remember the Python motto "explicit is better than implicit"; even when the Python code is going to be somewhat more complex than the equivalent (and often very terse) shell script, you might be better off removing the shell and replacing the functionality with native Python constructs. Minimizing the work done in an external process and keeping control within your own code as far as possible is often a good idea simply because it improves visibility and reduces the risks of -- wanted or unwanted -- side effects.

Wildcard expansion, variable interpolation, and redirection are all simple to replace with native Python constructs. A complex shell pipeline where parts or all cannot be reasonably rewritten in Python would be the one situation where perhaps you could consider using the shell. You should still make sure you understand the performance and security implications.

In the trivial case, to avoid shell=True, simply replace

subprocess.Popen("command -with -options 'like this' and\\ an\\ argument", shell=True)

with

subprocess.Popen(['command', '-with','-options', 'like this', 'and an argument'])

Notice how the first argument is a list of strings to pass to execvp(), and how quoting strings and backslash-escaping shell metacharacters is generally not necessary (or useful, or correct). Maybe see also When to wrap quotes around a shell variable?

If you don't want to figure this out yourself, the shlex.split() function can do this for you. It's part of the Python standard library, but of course, if your shell command string is static, you can just run it once, during development, and paste the result into your script.

As an aside, you very often want to avoid Popen if one of the simpler wrappers in the subprocess package does what you want. If you have a recent enough Python, you should probably use subprocess.run.

  • With check=True it will fail if the command you ran failed.
  • With stdout=subprocess.PIPE it will capture the command's output.
  • With text=True (or somewhat obscurely, with the synonym universal_newlines=True) it will decode output into a proper Unicode string (it's just bytes in the system encoding otherwise, on Python 3).

If not, for many tasks, you want check_output to obtain the output from a command, whilst checking that it succeeded, or check_call if there is no output to collect.

I'll close with a quote from David Korn: "It's easier to write a portable shell than a portable shell script." Even subprocess.run('echo "$HOME"', shell=True) is not portable to Windows.

Simple way to calculate median with MySQL

MySQL has supported window functions since version 8.0, you can use ROW_NUMBER or DENSE_RANK (DO NOT use RANK as it assigns the same rank to same values, like in sports ranking):

SELECT AVG(t1.val) AS median_val
  FROM (SELECT val, 
               ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY val) AS rownum
          FROM data) t1,
       (SELECT COUNT(*) AS num_records FROM data) t2
 WHERE t1.row_num IN
       (FLOOR((t2.num_records + 1) / 2), 
        FLOOR((t2.num_records + 2) / 2));

How can I mock requests and the response?

Try using the responses library. Here is an example from their documentation:

import responses
import requests

@responses.activate
def test_simple():
    responses.add(responses.GET, 'http://twitter.com/api/1/foobar',
                  json={'error': 'not found'}, status=404)

    resp = requests.get('http://twitter.com/api/1/foobar')

    assert resp.json() == {"error": "not found"}

    assert len(responses.calls) == 1
    assert responses.calls[0].request.url == 'http://twitter.com/api/1/foobar'
    assert responses.calls[0].response.text == '{"error": "not found"}'

It provides quite a nice convenience over setting up all the mocking yourself.

There's also HTTPretty:

It's not specific to requests library, more powerful in some ways though I found it doesn't lend itself so well to inspecting the requests that it intercepted, which responses does quite easily

There's also httmock.

Get enum values as List of String in Java 8

You could also do something as follow

public enum DAY {MON, TUES, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN};
EnumSet.allOf(DAY.class).stream().map(e -> e.name()).collect(Collectors.toList())

or

EnumSet.allOf(DAY.class).stream().map(DAY::name).collect(Collectors.toList())

The main reason why I stumbled across this question is that I wanted to write a generic validator that validates whether a given string enum name is valid for a given enum type (Sharing in case anyone finds useful).

For the validation, I had to use Apache's EnumUtils library since the type of enum is not known at compile time.

@SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
public static void isValidEnumsValid(Class clazz, Set<String> enumNames) {
    Set<String> notAllowedNames = enumNames.stream()
            .filter(enumName -> !EnumUtils.isValidEnum(clazz, enumName))
            .collect(Collectors.toSet());

    if (notAllowedNames.size() > 0) {
        String validEnumNames = (String) EnumUtils.getEnumMap(clazz).keySet().stream()
            .collect(Collectors.joining(", "));

        throw new IllegalArgumentException("The requested values '" + notAllowedNames.stream()
                .collect(Collectors.joining(",")) + "' are not valid. Please select one more (case-sensitive) "
                + "of the following : " + validEnumNames);
    }
}

I was too lazy to write an enum annotation validator as shown in here https://stackoverflow.com/a/51109419/1225551

Is it possible to deserialize XML into List<T>?

You can encapsulate the list trivially:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

[XmlRoot("user_list")]
public class UserList
{
    public UserList() {Items = new List<User>();}
    [XmlElement("user")]
    public List<User> Items {get;set;}
}
public class User
{
    [XmlElement("id")]
    public Int32 Id { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("name")]
    public String Name { get; set; }
}

static class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        XmlSerializer ser= new XmlSerializer(typeof(UserList));
        UserList list = new UserList();
        list.Items.Add(new User { Id = 1, Name = "abc"});
        list.Items.Add(new User { Id = 2, Name = "def"});
        list.Items.Add(new User { Id = 3, Name = "ghi"});
        ser.Serialize(Console.Out, list);
    }
}

Check if list contains element that contains a string and get that element

Many good answers here, but I use a simple one using Exists, as below:

foreach (var setting in FullList)
{
    if(cleanList.Exists(x => x.ProcedureName == setting.ProcedureName)) 
       setting.IsActive = true; // do you business logic here 
    else
       setting.IsActive = false;
    updateList.Add(setting);
}

Determining if an Object is of primitive type

commons-lang ClassUtils has relevant methods.

The new version has:

boolean isPrimitiveOrWrapped = 
    ClassUtils.isPrimitiveOrWrapper(object.getClass());

The old versions have wrapperToPrimitive(clazz) method, which will return the primitive correspondence.

boolean isPrimitiveOrWrapped = 
    clazz.isPrimitive() || ClassUtils.wrapperToPrimitive(clazz) != null;

Set up Python simpleHTTPserver on Windows

From Stack Overflow question What is the Python 3 equivalent of "python -m SimpleHTTPServer":

The following works for me:

python -m http.server [<portNo>]

Because I am using Python 3 the module SimpleHTTPServer has been replaced by http.server, at least in Windows.

Can the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel plugin fade in and out on slide transition

Yes. Bootstrap uses CSS transitions so it can be done easily without any Javascript. Just use CSS3. Please take a look at

carousel.carousel-fade

in the CSS of the following examples:

(413) Request Entity Too Large | uploadReadAheadSize

For me, setting the uploadReadAheadSize to int.MaxValue also fixed the problem, after also increasing the limits on the WCF binding.

It seems that, when using SSL, the entire request entity body is preloaded, for which this metabase property is used.

For more info, see:

The page was not displayed because the request entity is too large. iis7

How can I detect when an Android application is running in the emulator?

You may check if deviceId (IMEI) is "000000000000000" (15 zeroes)

Referring to a table in LaTeX

You must place the label after a caption in order to for label to store the table's number, not the chapter's number.

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{| p{5cm} | p{5cm} | p{5cm} |}
  -- cut --
\end{tabular}
\caption{My table}
\label{table:kysymys}
\end{table}

Table \ref{table:kysymys} on page \pageref{table:kysymys} refers to the ...

How to solve PHP error 'Notice: Array to string conversion in...'

<?php
ob_start();
var_dump($_POST['C']);
$result = ob_get_clean();
?>

if you want to capture the result in a variable

How to change navbar/container width? Bootstrap 3

Hello this working you try! in your case is .navbar-fixed-top{}

.navbar-fixed-bottom{
    width:1200px;
    left:20%;
}

Error "There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first" when using 2 distinct commands

  1. The optimal solution could be to try to transform your solution into a form where you don't need to have two readers open at a time. Ideally it could be a single query. I don't have time to do that now.
  2. If your problem is so special that you really need to have more readers open simultaneously, and your requirements allow not older than SQL Server 2005 DB backend, then the magic word is MARS (Multiple Active Result Sets). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345109%28v=SQL.90%29.aspx. Bob Vale's linked topic's solution shows how to enable it: specify MultipleActiveResultSets=true in your connection string. I just tell this as an interesting possibility, but you should rather transform your solution.

    • in order to avoid the mentioned SQL injection possibility, set the parameters to the SQLCommand itself instead of embedding them into the query string. The query string should only contain the references to the parameters what you pass into the SqlCommand.

How to disable HTML links

Just add a css property:

<style>   
a {
 pointer-events: none;
}
</style>

Doing so you can disable the anchor tag.

Postgresql query between date ranges

Read the documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-datetime.html

I used a query like that:

WHERE
(
    date_trunc('day',table1.date_eval) = '2015-02-09'
)

or

WHERE(date_trunc('day',table1.date_eval) >='2015-02-09'AND date_trunc('day',table1.date_eval) <'2015-02-09')    

Juanitos Ingenier.

fetch gives an empty response body

This requires changes to the frontend JS and the headers sent from the backend.

Frontend

Remove "mode":"no-cors" in the fetch options.

fetch(
  "http://example.com/api/docs", 
  {
    // mode: "no-cors",
    method: "GET"
  }
)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(data => console.log(data))

Backend

When your server responds to the request, include the CORS headers specifying the origin from where the request is coming. If you don't care about the origin, specify the * wildcard.

The raw response should include a header like this.

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

How can I wait for 10 second without locking application UI in android

You can use this:

Handler handler = new Handler();
handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
     // Actions to do after 10 seconds
    }
}, 10000);

For Stop the Handler, You can try this: handler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null);

What exactly are iterator, iterable, and iteration?

Here's my cheat sheet:

 sequence
  +
  |
  v
   def __getitem__(self, index: int):
  +    ...
  |    raise IndexError
  |
  |
  |              def __iter__(self):
  |             +     ...
  |             |     return <iterator>
  |             |
  |             |
  +--> or <-----+        def __next__(self):
       +        |       +    ...
       |        |       |    raise StopIteration
       v        |       |
    iterable    |       |
           +    |       |
           |    |       v
           |    +----> and +-------> iterator
           |                               ^
           v                               |
   iter(<iterable>) +----------------------+
                                           |
   def generator():                        |
  +    yield 1                             |
  |                 generator_expression +-+
  |                                        |
  +-> generator() +-> generator_iterator +-+

Quiz: Do you see how...

  1. every iterator is an iterable?
  2. a container object's __iter__() method can be implemented as a generator?
  3. an iterable that has a __next__ method is not necessarily an iterator?

Answers:

  1. Every iterator must have an __iter__ method. Having __iter__ is enough to be an iterable. Therefore every iterator is an iterable.
  2. When __iter__ is called it should return an iterator (return <iterator> in the diagram above). Calling a generator returns a generator iterator which is a type of iterator.

    class Iterable1:
        def __iter__(self):
            # a method (which is a function defined inside a class body)
            # calling iter() converts iterable (tuple) to iterator
            return iter((1,2,3))
    
    class Iterable2:
        def __iter__(self):
            # a generator
            for i in (1, 2, 3):
                yield i
    
    class Iterable3:
        def __iter__(self):
            # with PEP 380 syntax
            yield from (1, 2, 3)
    
    # passes
    assert list(Iterable1()) == list(Iterable2()) == list(Iterable3()) == [1, 2, 3]
    
  3. Here is an example:

    class MyIterable:
    
        def __init__(self):
            self.n = 0
    
        def __getitem__(self, index: int):
            return (1, 2, 3)[index]
    
        def __next__(self):
            n = self.n = self.n + 1
            if n > 3:
                raise StopIteration
            return n
    
    # if you can iter it without raising a TypeError, then it's an iterable.
    iter(MyIterable())
    
    # but obviously `MyIterable()` is not an iterator since it does not have
    # an `__iter__` method.
    from collections.abc import Iterator
    assert isinstance(MyIterable(), Iterator)  # AssertionError
    

Detecting when a div's height changes using jQuery

This is how I recently handled this problem:

$('#your-resizing-div').bind('getheight', function() {
    $('#your-resizing-div').height();
});

function your_function_to_load_content() {
    /*whatever your thing does*/
    $('#your-resizing-div').trigger('getheight');
}

I know I'm a few years late to the party, just think my answer may help some people in the future, without having to download any plugins.

How to convert latitude or longitude to meters?

Based on average distance for degress in the Earth.

1° = 111km;

Converting this for radians and dividing for meters, take's a magic number for the RAD, in meters: 0.000008998719243599958;

then:

const RAD = 0.000008998719243599958;
Math.sqrt(Math.pow(lat1 - lat2, 2) + Math.pow(long1 - long2, 2)) / RAD;

Sorting 1 million 8-decimal-digit numbers with 1 MB of RAM

Have you tried converting to hex?

I can see a big reduction on filesize after and before; then, work by part with the free space. Maybe, converting to dec again, order, hex, another chunk,convert to dec, order...

Sorry.. I don't know if could work

# for i in {1..10000};do echo $(od -N1 -An -i /dev/urandom) ; done > 10000numbers
# for i in $(cat 10000numbers ); do printf '%x\n' $i; done > 10000numbers_hex
# ls -lah total 100K
drwxr-xr-x  2 diego diego 4,0K oct 22 22:32 .
drwx------ 39 diego diego  12K oct 22 22:31 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 diego diego  29K oct 22 22:33 10000numbers_hex
-rw-r--r--  1 diego diego  35K oct 22 22:31 10000numbers

Difference between agile and iterative and incremental development

  • Iterative - you don't finish a feature in one go. You are in a code >> get feedback >> code >> ... cycle. You keep iterating till done.
  • Incremental - you build as much as you need right now. You don't over-engineer or add flexibility unless the need is proven. When the need arises, you build on top of whatever already exists. (Note: differs from iterative in that you're adding new things.. vs refining something).
  • Agile - you are agile if you value the same things as listed in the agile manifesto. It also means that there is no standard template or checklist or procedure to "do agile". It doesn't overspecify.. it just states that you can use whatever practices you need to "be agile". Scrum, XP, Kanban are some of the more prescriptive 'agile' methodologies because they share the same set of values. Continuous and early feedback, frequent releases/demos, evolve design, etc.. hence they can be iterative and incremental.

How can one develop iPhone apps in Java?

If you've completed your other projects, why not take the time to learn Objective-C? There is a ton of material out on the web to help you get started. Honestly, it won't be that hard and learning to do some memory management will be a great learning exercise. Have you programmed in C before?

Most cross compilers won't do a great job in converting your code, and debugging your project may become much more difficult if you develop them this way.

How to deserialize a list using GSON or another JSON library in Java?

I recomend this one-liner

List<Video> videos = Arrays.asList(new Gson().fromJson(json, Video[].class));

Warning: the list of videos, returned by Arrays.asList is immutable - you can't insert new values. If you need to modify it, wrap in new ArrayList<>(...).


Reference:

  1. Method Arrays#asList
  2. Constructor Gson
  3. Method Gson#fromJson (source json may be of type JsonElement, Reader, or String)
  4. Interface List
  5. JLS - Arrays
  6. JLS - Generic Interfaces

Pass in an array of Deferreds to $.when()

You can apply the when method to your array:

var arr = [ /* Deferred objects */ ];

$.when.apply($, arr);

How do you work with an array of jQuery Deferreds?

How to check if any Checkbox is checked in Angular

If you don't want to use a watcher, you can do something like this:

<input type='checkbox' ng-init='checkStatus=false' ng-model='checkStatus' ng-click='doIfChecked(checkStatus)'>