Programs & Examples On #Verlet integration

iOS8 Beta Ad-Hoc App Download (itms-services)

Specify a 'display-image' and 'full-size-image' as described here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1829415&seqNum=16

iOS8 requires these images

Wait for shell command to complete

Add the following Sub:

Sub SyncShell(ByVal Cmd As String, ByVal WindowStyle As VbAppWinStyle)
VBA.CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run Cmd, WindowStyle, True
End Sub

If you add a reference to C:\Windows\system32\wshom.ocx you can also use:

Sub SyncShell(ByVal Cmd As String, ByVal WindowStyle As VbAppWinStyle)
Static wsh As New WshShell
wsh.Run Cmd, WindowStyle, True
End Sub

This version should be more efficient.

Maven version with a property

See the Maven - Users forum 'version' contains an expression but should be a constant. Better way to add a new version?:

here is why this is a bad plan.

the pom that gets deployed will not have the property value resolved, so anyone depending on that pom will pick up the dependency as being the string uninterpolated with the ${ } and much hilarity will ensue in your build process.

in maven 2.1.0 and/or 2.2.0 an attempt was made to deploy poms with resolved properties... this broke more than expected, which is why those two versions are not recommended, 2.2.1 being the recommended 2.x version.

Java: convert List<String> to a String

You can do this:

String aToString = java.util.Arrays.toString(anArray);
// Do not need to do this if you are OK with '[' and ']'
aToString = aToString.substring(1, aToString.length() - 1);

Or a one-liner (only when you do not want '[' and ']')

String aToString = java.util.Arrays.toString(anArray).substring(1).replaceAll("\\]$", "");

Hope this helps.

bootstrap button shows blue outline when clicked

this will solve button with a text, button only a icon or a button is a link:

 <!--1. button with a text -->
 <button type="button" class="btn btn-success" id="newWord">Save</button>

 <!--2. button only with a close icon -->
 <button type="button" class="close"></button>

 <!--3. button is a link -->
 <a class="btn btn-success btn-xs" href="#">Save</a>



button,
button:active,
button:focus, 
button:hover,
.btn,
.btn:active, 
.btn:focus, 
.btn:hover{   
    outline:none !important;
}

if you add border:none !important;

{
    border:none !important;
    outline:none !important;
}

then the button will become smaller size when clicked.

What does "async: false" do in jQuery.ajax()?

One use case is to make an ajax call before the user closes the window or leaves the page. This would be like deleting some temporary records in the database before the user can navigate to another site or closes the browser.

 $(window).unload(
        function(){
            $.ajax({
            url: 'your url',
            global: false,
            type: 'POST',
            data: {},
            async: false, //blocks window close
            success: function() {}
        });
    });

Conversion from Long to Double in Java

You can try something like this:

long x = somevalue;

double y = Double.longBitsToDouble(x);

How do I convert hh:mm:ss.000 to milliseconds in Excel?

Using some text manipulation we can separate each unit of time and then sum them together with their millisecond coefficients.

To show the formulas in the cells use CTRL + `


Raw data view


Formula view

How do I deserialize a JSON string into an NSDictionary? (For iOS 5+)

I've made a category from @Abizern answer

@implementation NSString (Extensions)
- (NSDictionary *) json_StringToDictionary {
    NSError *error;
    NSData *objectData = [self dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    NSDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:objectData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
    return (!json ? nil : json);
}
@end

Use it like this,

NSString *jsonString = @"{\"2\":\"3\"}";
NSLog(@"%@",[jsonString json_StringToDictionary]);

How to replace substrings in windows batch file

To avoid blank line skipping (give readability in conf file) I combine aflat and jeb answer (here) to something like this:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set INTEXTFILE=test.txt
set OUTTEXTFILE=test_out.txt
set SEARCHTEXT=bath
set REPLACETEXT=hello
set OUTPUTLINE=

for /f "tokens=1,* delims=¶" %%A in ( '"findstr /n ^^ %INTEXTFILE%"') do (
   SET string=%%A
   for /f "delims=: tokens=1,*" %%a in ("!string!") do set "string=%%b"
   if  "!string!" == "" (
       echo.>>%OUTTEXTFILE%
   ) else (
      SET modified=!string:%SEARCHTEXT%=%REPLACETEXT%!
      echo !modified! >> %OUTTEXTFILE%
  )
)
del %INTEXTFILE%
rename %OUTTEXTFILE% %INTEXTFILE%

How to read a single character from the user?

The curses package in python can be used to enter "raw" mode for character input from the terminal with just a few statements. Curses' main use is to take over the screen for output, which may not be what you want. This code snippet uses print() statements instead, which are usable, but you must be aware of how curses changes line endings attached to output.

#!/usr/bin/python3
# Demo of single char terminal input in raw mode with the curses package.
import sys, curses

def run_one_char(dummy):
    'Run until a carriage return is entered'
    char = ' '
    print('Welcome to curses', flush=True)
    while ord(char) != 13:
        char = one_char()

def one_char():
    'Read one character from the keyboard'
    print('\r? ', flush= True, end = '')

    ## A blocking single char read in raw mode. 
    char = sys.stdin.read(1)
    print('You entered %s\r' % char)
    return char

## Must init curses before calling any functions
curses.initscr()
## To make sure the terminal returns to its initial settings,
## and to set raw mode and guarantee cleanup on exit. 
curses.wrapper(run_one_char)
print('Curses be gone!')

How to force child div to be 100% of parent div's height without specifying parent's height?

You use CSS Flexbox

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.flex-container {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  background-color: DodgerBlue;_x000D_
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.flex-container > div {_x000D_
  background-color: #f1f1f1;_x000D_
  margin: 10px;_x000D_
  padding: 20px;_x000D_
  font-size: 30px;_x000D_
}
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<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
<html>_x000D_
<head>_x000D_
</head>_x000D_
<body>_x000D_
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<div class="flex-container">_x000D_
  <div>1</div>_x000D_
  <div>2</div>_x000D_
  <div>3</div>  _x000D_
</div>_x000D_
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<p>A Flexible Layout must have a parent element with the <em>display</em> property set to <em>flex</em>.</p>_x000D_
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<p>Direct child elements(s) of the flexible container automatically becomes flexible items.</p>_x000D_
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</body>_x000D_
</html>
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Wait until an HTML5 video loads

call function on load:

<video onload="doWhatYouNeedTo()" src="demo.mp4" id="video">

get video duration

var video = document.getElementById("video");
var duration = video.duration;

What is JSON and why would I use it?

In the Java context, one reason why JSON might want to be used, is that it provides a very good alternative to Java's Serialization framework, which has been shown (historically) to be subject to some fairly serious vulnerabilities.

Joshua Bloch discusses this in depth in Item 85 "Prefer Alternatives to Java Serialization" (Effective Java 3rd Edition)

Java's Serialization was initially meant to translate data structures into a format that could be easily transmitted or stored. JSON meets this requirement, without the serious exploits referred to above.

What are naming conventions for MongoDB?

  1. Keep'em short: Optimizing Storage of Small Objects, SERVER-863. Silly but true.

  2. I guess pretty much the same rules that apply to relation databases should apply here. And after so many decades there is still no agreement whether RDBMS tables should be named singular or plural...

  3. MongoDB speaks JavaScript, so utilize JS naming conventions of camelCase.

  4. MongoDB official documentation mentions you may use underscores, also built-in identifier is named _id (but this may be be to indicate that _id is intended to be private, internal, never displayed or edited.

Entity Framework vs LINQ to SQL

I think the quick and dirty answer is that

  • LINQ to SQL is the quick-and-easy way to do it. This means you will get going quicker, and deliver quicker if you are working on something smaller.
  • Entity Framework is the all-out, no-holds-barred way to do it. This means you will take more time up-front, develop slower, and have more flexibility if you are working on something larger.

JavaScript Adding an ID attribute to another created Element

You set an element's id by setting its corresponding property:

myPara.id = ID;

Username and password in https url

When you put the username and password in front of the host, this data is not sent that way to the server. It is instead transformed to a request header depending on the authentication schema used. Most of the time this is going to be Basic Auth which I describe below. A similar (but significantly less often used) authentication scheme is Digest Auth which nowadays provides comparable security features.

With Basic Auth, the HTTP request from the question will look something like this:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Authorization: Basic Zm9vOnBhc3N3b3Jk

The hash like string you see there is created by the browser like this: base64_encode(username + ":" + password).

To outsiders of the HTTPS transfer, this information is hidden (as everything else on the HTTP level). You should take care of logging on the client and all intermediate servers though. The username will normally be shown in server logs, but the password won't. This is not guaranteed though. When you call that URL on the client with e.g. curl, the username and password will be clearly visible on the process list and might turn up in the bash history file.

When you send passwords in a GET request as e.g. http://example.com/login.php?username=me&password=secure the username and password will always turn up in server logs of your webserver, application server, caches, ... unless you specifically configure your servers to not log it. This only applies to servers being able to read the unencrypted http data, like your application server or any middleboxes such as loadbalancers, CDNs, proxies, etc. though.

Basic auth is standardized and implemented by browsers by showing this little username/password popup you might have seen already. When you put the username/password into an HTML form sent via GET or POST, you have to implement all the login/logout logic yourself (which might be an advantage and allows you to more control over the login/logout flow for the added "cost" of having to implement this securely again). But you should never transfer usernames and passwords by GET parameters. If you have to, use POST instead. The prevents the logging of this data by default.

When implementing an authentication mechanism with a user/password entry form and a subsequent cookie-based session as it is commonly used today, you have to make sure that the password is either transported with POST requests or one of the standardized authentication schemes above only.

Concluding I could say, that transfering data that way over HTTPS is likely safe, as long as you take care that the password does not turn up in unexpected places. But that advice applies to every transfer of any password in any way.

C++ class forward declaration

I had this:

class paulzSprite;
...

struct spriteFrame
{
    spriteFrame(int, int, paulzSprite*, int, int);
    paulzSprite* pSprite; //points to the sprite class this struct frames
    static paulzSprite* pErase; //pointer to blanking sprite
    int x, y;
    int Xmin, Xmax, Ymin, Ymax; //limits, leave these to individual child classes, according to bitmap size
    bool move(int, int);
    bool DrawAt(int, int);
    bool dead;
};

spriteFrame::spriteFrame(int initx, int inity, paulzSprite* pSpr, int winWidth, int winHeight)
{
    x = initx;
    y= inity;
    pSprite = pSpr;
    Xmin = Ymin = 0;
    Xmax = winWidth - pSpr->width;
    Ymax = winHeight - pSpr->height;
    dead = false;
}

...

Got the same grief as in the original question. Only solved by moving the definition of paulzSprite to after that of spriteFrame. Shouldn't the compiler be smarter than this (VC++, VS 11 Beta)?

And btw, I wholeheartedly agree with Clifford's remark above "Pointers don't cause memory leaks, poor coding causes memory leaks". IMHO this is true of many other new "smart coding" features, which should not become a substitute for understanding what you are actually asking the computer to do.

How to get a URL parameter in Express?

If you want to grab the query parameter value in the URL, follow below code pieces

//url.localhost:8888/p?tagid=1234
req.query.tagid
OR
req.param.tagid

If you want to grab the URL parameter using Express param function

Express param function to grab a specific parameter. This is considered middleware and will run before the route is called.

This can be used for validations or grabbing important information about item.

An example for this would be:

// parameter middleware that will run before the next routes
app.param('tagid', function(req, res, next, tagid) {

// check if the tagid exists
// do some validations
// add something to the tagid
var modified = tagid+ '123';

// save name to the request
req.tagid= modified;

next();
});

// http://localhost:8080/api/tags/98
app.get('/api/tags/:tagid', function(req, res) {
// the tagid was found and is available in req.tagid
res.send('New tag id ' + req.tagid+ '!');
});

What does character set and collation mean exactly?

From MySQL docs:

A character set is a set of symbols and encodings. A collation is a set of rules for comparing characters in a character set. Let's make the distinction clear with an example of an imaginary character set.

Suppose that we have an alphabet with four letters: 'A', 'B', 'a', 'b'. We give each letter a number: 'A' = 0, 'B' = 1, 'a' = 2, 'b' = 3. The letter 'A' is a symbol, the number 0 is the encoding for 'A', and the combination of all four letters and their encodings is a character set.

Now, suppose that we want to compare two string values, 'A' and 'B'. The simplest way to do this is to look at the encodings: 0 for 'A' and 1 for 'B'. Because 0 is less than 1, we say 'A' is less than 'B'. Now, what we've just done is apply a collation to our character set. The collation is a set of rules (only one rule in this case): "compare the encodings." We call this simplest of all possible collations a binary collation.

But what if we want to say that the lowercase and uppercase letters are equivalent? Then we would have at least two rules: (1) treat the lowercase letters 'a' and 'b' as equivalent to 'A' and 'B'; (2) then compare the encodings. We call this a case-insensitive collation. It's a little more complex than a binary collation.

In real life, most character sets have many characters: not just 'A' and 'B' but whole alphabets, sometimes multiple alphabets or eastern writing systems with thousands of characters, along with many special symbols and punctuation marks. Also in real life, most collations have many rules: not just case insensitivity but also accent insensitivity (an "accent" is a mark attached to a character as in German 'ö') and multiple-character mappings (such as the rule that 'ö' = 'OE' in one of the two German collations).

Quickest way to find missing number in an array of numbers

simple solution with test data :

class A{

  public static void main(String[] args){
    int[] array = new int[200];
    for(int i=0;i<100;i++){
      if(i != 51){
        array[i] = i;  
      }
    }

    for(int i=100;i<200;i++){
      array[i] = i;  
    }

    int temp = 0;
    for(int i=0;i<200;i++){
      temp ^= array[i];
    }

    System.out.println(temp);
  }
} 

Why should you use strncpy instead of strcpy?

strncpy is NOT safer than strcpy, it just trades one type of bugs with another. In C, when handling C strings, you need to know the size of your buffers, there is no way around it. strncpy was justified for the directory thing mentioned by others, but otherwise, you should never use it:

  • if you know the length of your string and buffer, why using strncpy ? It is a waste of computing power at best (adding useless 0)
  • if you don't know the lengths, then you risk silently truncating your strings, which is not much better than a buffer overflow

phpmyadmin - count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

This is fixed in later versions of PHPMyAdmin. The Ubuntu Software Repositories for Ubuntu 18.04.2 holds version 4.6.6.5, while they're currently at 4.9.0.1. Updating your PHPMyAdmin installation will fix this problem, but might prove to be riskier than just editing that one line of code. Here's how I did it on my Ubuntu Server. Steps are essentially the same (with a different path) for all operating systems.

  1. Download PHPMyAdmin.
wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.9.0.1/phpMyAdmin-4.9.0.1-all-languages.zip
unzip phpMyAdmin-4.9.0.1-all-languages.zip
  1. Backup your old PHPMyAdmin installation.
cp -r /usr/share/phpmyadmin ~/phpmyadmin-backup
  1. Drop your new PHPMyAdmin on your old PHPMyAdmin
cd phpMyAdmin-4.9.0.1-all-languages
rm -r /usr/share/phpmyadmin/doc/html
cp -R * /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

Verify that it works. If it doesn't, welll... You have a backup, so restore it and manually edit the faulty line. In my own personal experience, I discovered after doing this that version 4.6.6.5 was not only riddled with bugs, but also incredibly slow compared to the new 4.9.0.1. The speed increase was pure magic for something I though was of "WordPress" quality.

How to "grep" for a filename instead of the contents of a file?

You can also do:

tree | grep filename

This pipes the output of the tree command to grep for a search. This will only tell you whether the file exists though.

VBA Public Array : how to?

Well, basically what I found is that you can declare the array, but when you set it vba shows you an error.

So I put an special sub to declare global variables and arrays, something like:

Global example(10) As Variant

Sub set_values()

example(1) = 1
example(2) = 1
example(3) = 1
example(4) = 1
example(5) = 1
example(6) = 1
example(7) = 1
example(8) = 1
example(9) = 1
example(10) = 1

End Sub

And whenever I want to use the array, I call the sub first, just in case

call set_values

Msgbox example(5)

Perhaps is not the most correct way, but I hope it works for you

jquery get height of iframe content when loaded

This's a jQuery free solution that can work with SPA inside the iframe

document.getElementById('iframe-id').addEventListener('load', function () {
  let that = this;
  setTimeout(function () {
    that.style.height = that.contentWindow.document.body.offsetHeight + 'px';
  }, 2000) // if you're having SPA framework (angularjs for example) inside the iframe, some delay is needed for the content to populate
});

Replace only some groups with Regex

go through the below coding to get the separate group replacement.

new_bib = Regex.Replace(new_bib, @"(?s)(\\bibitem\[[^\]]+\]\{" + pat4 + @"\})[\s\n\v]*([\\\{\}a-zA-Z\.\s\,\;\\\#\\\$\\\%\\\&\*\@\\\!\\\^+\-\\\=\\\~\\\:\\\" + dblqt + @"\\\;\\\`\\\']{20,70})", delegate(Match mts)
                    {
                           var fg = mts.Groups[0].Value.ToString(); 
                           var fs = mts.Groups[1].Value.ToString();
                           var fss = mts.Groups[2].Value.ToString();
                               fss = Regex.Replace(fss, @"[\\\{\}\\\#\\\$\\\%\\\&\*\@\\\!\\\^+\-\\\=\\\~\\\:\\\" + dblqt + @"\\\;\\\`\\\']+", "");
                           return "<augroup>" + fss + "</augroup>" + fs;
                    }, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

COUNT DISTINCT with CONDITIONS

You can try this:

select
  count(distinct tag) as tag_count,
  count(distinct (case when entryId > 0 then tag end)) as positive_tag_count
from
  your_table_name;

The first count(distinct...) is easy. The second one, looks somewhat complex, is actually the same as the first one, except that you use case...when clause. In the case...when clause, you filter only positive values. Zeros or negative values would be evaluated as null and won't be included in count.

One thing to note here is that this can be done by reading the table once. When it seems that you have to read the same table twice or more, it can actually be done by reading once, in most of the time. As a result, it will finish the task a lot faster with less I/O.

What is the best way to extract the first word from a string in Java?

like this:

final String str = "This is a long sentence";
final String[] arr = str.split(" ", 2);
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(arr));

arr[0] is the first word, arr[1] is the rest

How to set layout_gravity programmatically?

If you want to put a view in the center of parent, you can do with following code..

public class myLayout extends LinearLayout {

    public myLayout(Context context) {
      super(context);

      RelativeLayout vi = (RelativeLayout) ((LayoutInflater) context
            .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)).inflate(
            R.layout.activity_main, null);
      LinearLayout.LayoutParams cc = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
            LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
      cc.gravity = Gravity.CENTER;
      this.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
      this.addView(vi);
  }
}

these code section make LinearLayout put the first view elements in the center of parent. So, we system don't consider the initial width and high to arrange view in the center . I do the code section well.

ActiveRecord find and only return selected columns

pluck(column_name)

This method is designed to perform select by a single column as direct SQL query Returns Array with values of the specified column name The values has same data type as column.

Examples:

Person.pluck(:id) # SELECT people.id FROM people
Person.uniq.pluck(:role) # SELECT DISTINCT role FROM people
Person.where(:confirmed => true).limit(5).pluck(:id)

see http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Calculations.html#method-i-pluck

Its introduced rails 3.2 onwards and accepts only single column. In rails 4, it accepts multiple columns

Can I calculate z-score with R?

if x is a vector with raw scores then scale(x) is a vector with standardized scores.

Or manually: (x-mean(x))/sd(x)

Public free web services for testing soap client

There is a bunch on here:

http://www.webservicex.net/WS/wscatlist.aspx

Just google for "Free WebService" or "Open WebService" and you'll find tons of open SOAP endpoints.

Remember, you can get a WSDL from any ASMX endpoint by adding ?WSDL to the url.

Is there a function to copy an array in C/C++?

I like the answer of Ed S., but this only works for fixed size arrays and not when the arrays are defined as pointers.

So, the C++ solution where the arrays are defined as pointers:

#include<algorithm>
...
const int bufferSize = 10;
char* origArray, newArray;
std::copy(origArray, origArray + bufferSize, newArray);

Note: No need to deduct buffersize with 1:

  1. Copies all elements in the range [first, last) starting from first and proceeding to last - 1

See: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/copy

HTML 5 Favicon - Support?

The answers provided (at the time of this post) are link only answers so I thought I would summarize the links into an answer and what I will be using.

When working to create Cross Browser Favicons (including touch icons) there are several things to consider.

The first (of course) is Internet Explorer. IE does not support PNG favicons until version 11. So our first line is a conditional comment for favicons in IE 9 and below:

<!--[if IE]><link rel="shortcut icon" href="path/to/favicon.ico"><![endif]-->

To cover the uses of the icon create it at 32x32 pixels. Notice the rel="shortcut icon" for IE to recognize the icon it needs the word shortcut which is not standard. Also we wrap the .ico favicon in a IE conditional comment because Chrome and Safari will use the .ico file if it is present, despite other options available, not what we would like.

The above covers IE up to IE 9. IE 11 accepts PNG favicons, however, IE 10 does not. Also IE 10 does not read conditional comments thus IE 10 won't show a favicon. With IE 11 and Edge available I don't see IE 10 in widespread use, so I ignore this browser.

For the rest of the browsers we are going to use the standard way to cite a favicon:

<link rel="icon" href="path/to/favicon.png">

This icon should be 196x196 pixels in size to cover all devices that may use this icon.

To cover touch icons on mobile devices we are going to use Apple's proprietary way to cite a touch icon:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png">

Using rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" will not apply the reflective shine when bookmarked on iOS. To have iOS apply the shine use rel="apple-touch-icon". This icon should be sized to 180x180 pixels as that is the current size recommend by Apple for the latest iPhones and iPads. I have read Blackberry will also use rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed".

As a note: Chrome for Android states:

The apple-touch-* are deprecated, and will be supported only for a short time. (Written as of beta for m31 of Chrome).

Custom Tiles for IE 11+ on Windows 8.1+

IE 11+ on Windows 8.1+ does offer a way to create pinned tiles for your site.

Microsoft recommends creating a few tiles at the following size:

Small: 128 x 128

Medium: 270 x 270

Wide: 558 x 270

Large: 558 x 558

These should be transparent images as we will define a color background next.

Once these images are created you should create an xml file called browserconfig.xml with the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<browserconfig>
  <msapplication>
    <tile>
      <square70x70logo src="images/smalltile.png"/>
      <square150x150logo src="images/mediumtile.png"/>
      <wide310x150logo src="images/widetile.png"/>
      <square310x310logo src="images/largetile.png"/>
      <TileColor>#009900</TileColor>
    </tile>
  </msapplication>
</browserconfig>

Save this xml file in the root of your site. When a site is pinned IE will look for this file. If you want to name the xml file something different or have it in a different location add this meta tag to the head:

<meta name="msapplication-config" content="path-to-browserconfig/custom-name.xml" />

For additional information on IE 11+ custom tiles and using the XML file visit Microsoft's website.

Putting it all together:

To put it all together the above code would look like this:

<!-- For IE 9 and below. ICO should be 32x32 pixels in size -->
<!--[if IE]><link rel="shortcut icon" href="path/to/favicon.ico"><![endif]-->

<!-- Touch Icons - iOS and Android 2.1+ 180x180 pixels in size. --> 
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png">

<!-- Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE 11+ and Opera. 196x196 pixels in size. -->
<link rel="icon" href="path/to/favicon.png">

Windows Phone Live Tiles

If a user is using a Windows Phone they can pin a website to the start screen of their phone. Unfortunately, when they do this it displays a screenshot of your phone, not a favicon (not even the MS specific code referenced above). To make a "Live Tile" for Windows Phone Users for your website one must use the following code:

Here are detailed instructions from Microsoft but here is a synopsis:

Step 1

Create a square image for your website, to support hi-res screens create it at 768x768 pixels in size.

Step 2

Add a hidden overlay of this image. Here is example code from Microsoft:

<div id="TileOverlay" onclick="ToggleTileOverlay()" style='background-color: Highlight; height: 100%; width: 100%; top: 0px; left: 0px; position: fixed; color: black; visibility: hidden'>
  <img src="customtile.png" width="320" height="320" />
  <div style='margin-top: 40px'>
     Add text/graphic asking user to pin to start using the menu...
  </div>
</div>

Step 3

You then can add thew following line to add a pin to start link:

<a href="javascript:ToggleTileOverlay()">Pin this site to your start screen</a>

Microsoft recommends that you detect windows phone and only show that link to those users since it won't work for other users.

Step 4

Next you add some JS to toggle the overlay visibility

<script>
function ToggleTileOverlay() {
 var newVisibility =     (document.getElementById('TileOverlay').style.visibility == 'visible') ? 'hidden' : 'visible';
 document.getElementById('TileOverlay').style.visibility =    newVisibility;
}
</script>

Note on Sizes

I am using one size as every browser will scale down the image as necessary. I could add more HTML to specify multiple sizes if desired for those with a lower bandwidth but I am already compressing the PNG files heavily using TinyPNG and I find this unnecessary for my purposes. Also, according to philippe_b's answer Chrome and Firefox have bugs that cause the browser to load all sizes of icons. Using one large icon may be better than multiple smaller ones because of this.

Further Reading

For those who would like more details see the links below:

How do I link to Google Maps with a particular longitude and latitude?

To open the google maps app in android:-

geo:<lat>,<lng>?z=<zoom>

open app with marker for give location:-

geo:<lat>,<lng>?q=<lat>,<lng>(Label,Name)

open google map in ios:-

comgooglemaps://?q=<lat>,<lng>

open google maps in browser with following parameters:-

http://maps.google.com/maps?z=12&t=m&q=<lat>,<lng>
  • z is the zoom level (1-21)
  • t is the map type ("m" map, "k" satellite, "h" hybrid, "p" terrain, "e" GoogleEarth)
  • q is the search query

Convert JSON String to Pretty Print JSON output using Jackson

The new way using Jackson 1.9+ is the following:

Object json = OBJECT_MAPPER.readValue(diffResponseJson, Object.class);
String indented = OBJECT_MAPPER.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter()
                               .writeValueAsString(json);

The output will be correctly formatted!

How to use support FileProvider for sharing content to other apps?

In my app FileProvider works just fine, and I am able to attach internal files stored in files directory to email clients like Gmail,Yahoo etc.

In my manifest as mentioned in the Android documentation I placed:

<provider
        android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider"
        android:authorities="com.package.name.fileprovider"
        android:grantUriPermissions="true"
        android:exported="false">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
            android:resource="@xml/filepaths" />
    </provider>

And as my files were stored in the root files directory, the filepaths.xml were as follows:

 <paths>
<files-path path="." name="name" />

Now in the code:

 File file=new File(context.getFilesDir(),"test.txt");

 Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);

 shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,
                                     "Test");

 shareIntent.setType("text/plain");

 shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,
                                 new String[] {"email-address you want to send the file to"});

   Uri uri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(context,"com.package.name.fileprovider",
                                                   file);

                ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
                uris.add(uri);

                shareIntent .putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
                                                        uris);


                try {
                   context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent , "Email:").addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK));                                                      


                }
                catch(ActivityNotFoundException e) {
                    Toast.makeText(context,
                                   "Sorry No email Application was found",
                                   Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            }

This worked for me.Hope this helps :)

OWIN Startup Class Missing

In my case, I had renamed the project and changed it's folder structure. I found that updating the RootNameSpace and AssemblyName in the .csproj file where the error was being thrown resolved the error. If you have modified paths of your project I'd recommend checking this as well.

<RootNamespace>Company.Product.WebAPI</RootNamespace>
<AssemblyName>Company.Product.WebAPI</AssemblyName>

How to call a function, PostgreSQL

I had this same issue while trying to test a very similar function that uses a SELECT statement to decide if a INSERT or an UPDATE should be done. This function was a re-write of a T-SQL stored procedure.
When I tested the function from the query window I got the error "query has no destination for result data". I finally figured out that because I used a SELECT statement inside the function that I could not test the function from the query window until I assigned the results of the SELECT to a local variable using an INTO statement. This fixed the problem.

If the original function in this thread was changed to the following it would work when called from the query window,

$BODY$
DECLARE
   v_temp integer;
BEGIN
SELECT 1 INTO v_temp
FROM "USERS"
WHERE "userID" = $1;

Send private messages to friends

For mobile application i did a solution by injecting javascript in the dialog view. There is a hidden web view in my ios app. That load the fb message send dialog api .. then i inject some javascript to set the "to" and "message" field and submit the form.. So that end user need not to do anything. Message sent to facebook inbox silently...

Pycharm and sys.argv arguments

Notice that for some unknown reason, it is not possible to add command line arguments in the PyCharm Edu version. It can be only done in Professional and Community editions.

jQuery - Fancybox: But I don't want scrollbars!

I did this to get rid of the overflow (scrollbar) ...

by the end of the jquery.fancybox....js file there are onStart, onCancel, onComplete etc. functions, and they are all empty ... so just go ahead and fill into the curly brackets of onStart with "$('body').css('overflow','hidden')" and onClosed "$('body').css('overflow','visible')" ... should look like this ...

onStart:function(){$('body').css('overflow','hidden')},
onClosed:function(){$('body').css('overflow','visible')},

peace

Javascript to convert UTC to local time

/*
 * convert server time to local time
 *  simbu
*/
function convertTime(serverdate) {
    var date = new Date(serverdate);
    // convert to utc time
    var toutc = date.toUTCString();
    //convert to local time
    var locdat = new Date(toutc + " UTC");
    return locdat;
}

Inserting an item in a Tuple

def tuple_insert(tup,pos,ele):
    tup = tup[:pos]+(ele,)+tup[pos:]
    return tup

tuple_insert(tup,pos,9999)

tup: tuple
pos: Position to insert
ele: Element to insert

Double Iteration in List Comprehension

Gee, I guess I found the anwser: I was not taking care enough about which loop is inner and which is outer. The list comprehension should be like:

[x for b in a for x in b]

to get the desired result, and yes, one current value can be the iterator for the next loop.

Media Queries: How to target desktop, tablet, and mobile?

IMO these are the best breakpoints:

@media (min-width:320px)  { /* smartphones, portrait iPhone, portrait 480x320 phones (Android) */ }
@media (min-width:480px)  { /* smartphones, Android phones, landscape iPhone */ }
@media (min-width:600px)  { /* portrait tablets, portrait iPad, e-readers (Nook/Kindle), landscape 800x480 phones (Android) */ }
@media (min-width:801px)  { /* tablet, landscape iPad, lo-res laptops ands desktops */ }
@media (min-width:1025px) { /* big landscape tablets, laptops, and desktops */ }
@media (min-width:1281px) { /* hi-res laptops and desktops */ }

Edit: Refined to work better with 960 grids:

@media (min-width:320px)  { /* smartphones, iPhone, portrait 480x320 phones */ }
@media (min-width:481px)  { /* portrait e-readers (Nook/Kindle), smaller tablets @ 600 or @ 640 wide. */ }
@media (min-width:641px)  { /* portrait tablets, portrait iPad, landscape e-readers, landscape 800x480 or 854x480 phones */ }
@media (min-width:961px)  { /* tablet, landscape iPad, lo-res laptops ands desktops */ }
@media (min-width:1025px) { /* big landscape tablets, laptops, and desktops */ }
@media (min-width:1281px) { /* hi-res laptops and desktops */ }

In practice, many designers convert pixels to ems, largely because ems afford better zooming. At standard zoom 1em === 16px, multiply pixels by 1em/16px to get ems. For example, 320px === 20em.

In response to the comment, min-width is standard in "mobile-first" design, wherein you start by designing for your smallest screens, and then add ever-increasing media queries, working your way onto larger and larger screens.

Regardless of whether you prefer min-, max-, or combinations thereof, be cognizant of the order of your rules, keeping in mind that if multiple rules match the same element, the later rules will override the earlier rules.

Split a String into an array in Swift?

Expounding off of Don Vaughn's Answer, I liked the use of Regular Expressions. I'm surprised that this is only the 2nd Regex answer. However, if we could solve this in just one split method, instead of multiple methods, that would be great.

I was also inspired by Mithra Singam's Answer to exclude all punctuation as well as whitespace. However, having to create a list of disallowed characters didn't vibe with me.

  • \w - Regular Expression for a Letter or Number symbol. No punctuation.
let foo = "(..#   Hello,,(---- World   ".split {
    String($0).range(of: #"\w"#, options: .regularExpression) == nil
}
print(foo) // Prints "Hello World"

Let's say you aren't comfortable will all of Unicode. How about just ASKII Letters and Numbers?

let bar = "(..#   Hello,,(---- World   ".split {
    !($0.isASCII && ($0.isLetter || $0.isNumber))
}
print(bar) // Prints "Hello World"

Switch statement for string matching in JavaScript

Might be too late and all, but I liked this in case assignment :)

function extractParameters(args) {
    function getCase(arg, key) {
        return arg.match(new RegExp(`${key}=(.*)`)) || {};
    }

    args.forEach((arg) => {
        console.log("arg: " + arg);
        let match;
        switch (arg) {
            case (match = getCase(arg, "--user")).input:
            case (match = getCase(arg, "-u")).input:
                userName = match[1];
                break;

            case (match = getCase(arg, "--password")).input:
            case (match = getCase(arg, "-p")).input:
                password = match[1];
                break;

            case (match = getCase(arg, "--branch")).input:
            case (match = getCase(arg, "-b")).input:
                branch = match[1];
                break;
        }
    });
};

you could event take it further, and pass a list of option and handle the regex with |

Unable to locate tools.jar

Make sure that your classpath is set correctly and pointing to the correct version of the JDK that you have installed. Also, are you using Open JDK? I have had this issue before after I tried to move from open JDK to Suns JDK. This is an example of how that issue could be fixed.

How to config Tomcat to serve images from an external folder outside webapps?

You can deploy an images folder as a separate webapp and define the location of that folder to be anywhere in the file system.

Create a Context element in an XML file in the directory $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ where enginename might be 'Catalina' and hostname might be 'localhost'.

Name the file based on the path URL you want the images to be viewed from, so if your webapp has path 'blog', you might name the XML file blog#images.xml and so that your images would be visible at example.com/blog/images/

The content of the XML file should be <Context docBase="/filesystem/path/to/images"/>

Be careful not to undeploy this webapp, as that could delete all your images!

error: package javax.servlet does not exist

In my case, migrating a Spring 3.1 app up to 3.2.7, my solution was similar to Matthias's but a bit different -- thus why I'm documenting it here:

In my POM I found this dependency and changed it from 6.0 to 7.0:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
        <version>7.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

Then later in the POM I upgraded this plugin from 6.0 to 7.0:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    ...
                    <configuration>
                        ...
                        <artifactItems>
                            <artifactItem>
                                <groupId>javax</groupId>
                                <artifactId>javaee-endorsed-api</artifactId>
                                <version>7.0</version>
                                <type>jar</type>
                            </artifactItem>
                        </artifactItems>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Getting full URL of action in ASP.NET MVC

As Paddy mentioned: if you use an overload of UrlHelper.Action() that explicitly specifies the protocol to use, the generated URL will be absolute and fully qualified instead of being relative.

I wrote a blog post called How to build absolute action URLs using the UrlHelper class in which I suggest to write a custom extension method for the sake of readability:

/// <summary>
/// Generates a fully qualified URL to an action method by using
/// the specified action name, controller name and route values.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="url">The URL helper.</param>
/// <param name="actionName">The name of the action method.</param>
/// <param name="controllerName">The name of the controller.</param>
/// <param name="routeValues">The route values.</param>
/// <returns>The absolute URL.</returns>
public static string AbsoluteAction(this UrlHelper url,
    string actionName, string controllerName, object routeValues = null)
{
    string scheme = url.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Url.Scheme;

    return url.Action(actionName, controllerName, routeValues, scheme);
}

You can then simply use it like that in your view:

@Url.AbsoluteAction("Action", "Controller")

How to prevent long words from breaking my div?

Update: Handling this in CSS is wonderfully simple and low overhead, but you have no control over where breaks occur when they do. That's fine if you don't care, or your data has long alphanumeric runs without any natural breaks. We had lots of long file paths, URLs, and phone numbers, all of which have places it's significantly better to break at than others.

Our solution was to first use a regex replacement to put a zero-width space (&#8203;) after every 15 (say) characters that aren't whitespace or one of the special characters where we'd prefer breaks. We then do another replacement to put a zero-width space after those special characters.

Zero-width spaces are nice, because they aren't ever visible on screen; shy hyphens were confusing when they showed, because the data has significant hyphens. Zero-width spaces also aren't included when you copy text out of the browser.

The special break characters we're currently using are period, forward slash, backslash, comma, underscore, @, |, and hyphen. You wouldn't think you'd need do anything to encourage breaking after hyphens, but Firefox (3.6 and 4 at least) doesn't break by itself at hyphens surrounded by numbers (like phone numbers).

We also wanted to control the number of characters between artificial breaks, based on the layout space available. That meant that the regex to match long non-breaking runs needed to be dynamic. This gets called a lot, and we didn't want to be creating the same identical regexes over and over for performance reasons, so we used a simple regex cache, keyed by the regex expression and its flags.

Here's the code; you'd probably namespace the functions in a utility package:

makeWrappable = function(str, position)
{
    if (!str)
        return '';
    position = position || 15; // default to breaking after 15 chars
    // matches every requested number of chars that's not whitespace or one of the special chars defined below
    var longRunsRegex = cachedRegex('([^\\s\\.\/\\,_@\\|-]{' + position + '})(?=[^\\s\\.\/\\,_@\\|-])', 'g');
    return str
                .replace(longRunsRegex, '$1&#8203;') // put a zero-width space every requested number of chars that's not whitespace or a special char
                .replace(makeWrappable.SPECIAL_CHARS_REGEX, '$1&#8203;'); // and one after special chars we want to allow breaking after
};
makeWrappable.SPECIAL_CHARS_REGEX = /([\.\/\\,_@\|-])/g; // period, forward slash, backslash, comma, underscore, @, |, hyphen


cachedRegex = function(reString, reFlags)
{
    var key = reString + (reFlags ? ':::' + reFlags : '');
    if (!cachedRegex.cache[key])
        cachedRegex.cache[key] = new RegExp(reString, reFlags);
    return cachedRegex.cache[key];
};
cachedRegex.cache = {};

Test like this:

makeWrappable('12345678901234567890 12345678901234567890 1234567890/1234567890')

Update 2: It appears that zero-width spaces in fact are included in copied text in at least some circumstances, you just can't see them. Obviously, encouraging people to copy text with hidden characters in it is an invitation to have data like that entered into other programs or systems, even your own, where it may cause problems. For instance, if it ends up in a database, searches against it may fail, and search strings like this are likely to fail too. Using arrow keys to move through data like this requires (rightly) an extra keypress to move across the character you can't see, somewhat bizarre for users if they notice.

In a closed system, you can filter that character out on input to protect yourself, but that doesn't help other programs and systems.

All told, this technique works well, but I'm not certain what the best choice of break-causing character would be.

Update 3: Having this character end up in data is no longer a theoretical possibility, it's an observed problem. Users submit data copied off the screen, it gets saved in the db, searches break, things sort weirdly etc..

We did two things:

  1. Wrote a utility to remove them from all columns of all tables in all datasources for this app.
  2. Added filtering to remove it to our standard string input processor, so it's gone by the time any code sees it.

This works well, as does the technique itself, but it's a cautionary tale.

Update 4: We're using this in a context where the data fed to this may be HTML escaped. Under the right circumstances, it can insert zero-width spaces in the middle of HTML entities, with funky results.

Fix was to add ampersand to the list of characters we don't break on, like this:

var longRunsRegex = cachedRegex('([^&\\s\\.\/\\,_@\\|-]{' + position + '})(?=[^&\\s\\.\/\\,_@\\|-])', 'g');

How can I extract all values from a dictionary in Python?

If you want all of the values, use this:

dict_name_goes_here.values()

Spring MVC UTF-8 Encoding

In addition to Benjamin's answer - in case if you are using Spring Security, placing the CharacterEncodingFilter in web.xml might not always work. In this case you need to create a custom filter and add it to the filter chain as the first filter. To make sure it's the first filter in the chain, you need to add it before ChannelProcessingFilter, using addFilterBefore in your WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity 
public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {


    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

        //add your custom encoding filter as the first filter in the chain
        http.addFilterBefore(new EncodingFilter(), ChannelProcessingFilter.class);

        http.authorizeRequests()
            .and()
            // your code here ...
    }
}

The ordering of all filters in Spring Security is available here: HttpSecurityBuilder - addFilter()

Your custom UTF-8 encoding filter can look like following:

public class EncodingFilter extends GenericFilterBean {

    @Override
    public void doFilter(
            ServletRequest request, 
            ServletResponse response,
            FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {

        request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    }
}

Don't forget to add in your jsp files:

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

And remove the CharacterEncodingFilter from web.xml if it's there.

Binding objects defined in code-behind

One way would be to create an ObservableCollection (System.Collections.ObjectModel) and have your dictionary data in there. Then you should be able to bind the ObservableCollection to your ListBox.

In your XAML you should have something like this:

<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Name_of_your_ObservableCollection" />

Set transparent background of an imageview on Android

Or, as an alternate, parse the resource ID with the following code:

  mComponentName.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent));

How to order results with findBy() in Doctrine

$ens = $em->getRepository('AcmeBinBundle:Marks')
              ->findBy(
                 array(), 
                 array('id' => 'ASC')
               );

Integrate ZXing in Android Studio

buttion.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                new com.google.zxing.integration.android.IntentIntegrator(Fragment.this).initiateScan();
            }
        });

    public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        IntentResult result = IntentIntegrator.parseActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        if(result != null) {
            if(result.getContents() == null) {
                Log.d("MainActivity", "Cancelled scan");
                Toast.makeText(this, "Cancelled", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            } else {
                Log.d("MainActivity", "Scanned");
                Toast.makeText(this, "Scanned: " + result.getContents(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }
        } else {
            // This is important, otherwise the result will not be passed to the fragment
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        }
    }



dependencies {
    compile 'com.journeyapps:zxing-android-embedded:3.2.0@aar'
    compile 'com.google.zxing:core:3.2.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.0'
}

Create a <ul> and fill it based on a passed array

You may also consider the following solution:

let sum = options.set0.concat(options.set1);
const codeHTML = '<ol>' + sum.reduce((html, item) => {
    return html + "<li>" + item + "</li>";
        }, "") + '</ol>';
document.querySelector("#list").innerHTML = codeHTML;

Best way to store password in database

In your scenario, you can have a look at asp.net membership, it is good practice to store user's password as hashed string in the database. you can authenticate the user by comparing the hashed incoming password with the one stored in the database.

Everything has been built for this purposes, check out asp.net membership

How to use ArrayAdapter<myClass>

Implement custom adapter for your class:

public class MyClassAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<MyClass> {

    private static class ViewHolder {
        private TextView itemView;
    }

    public MyClassAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId, ArrayList<MyClass> items) {
        super(context, textViewResourceId, items);
    }

    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

        if (convertView == null) {
            convertView = LayoutInflater.from(this.getContext())
            .inflate(R.layout.listview_association, parent, false);

            viewHolder = new ViewHolder();
            viewHolder.itemView = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.ItemView);

            convertView.setTag(viewHolder);
        } else {
            viewHolder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        MyClass item = getItem(position);
        if (item!= null) {
            // My layout has only one TextView
                // do whatever you want with your string and long
            viewHolder.itemView.setText(String.format("%s %d", item.reason, item.long_val));
        }

        return convertView;
    }
}

For those not very familiar with the Android framework, this is explained in better detail here: https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Using-an-ArrayAdapter-with-ListView.

Gson: Directly convert String to JsonObject (no POJO)

The JsonParser constructor has been deprecated. Use the static method instead:

JsonObject asJsonObject = JsonParser.parseString(request.schema).getAsJsonObject();

Which selector do I need to select an option by its text?

Use following

$('#select option:contains(ABC)').val();

Using sed to mass rename files

The parentheses capture particular strings for use by the backslashed numbers.

How to restore the permissions of files and directories within git if they have been modified?

Try git config core.fileMode false

From the git config man page:

core.fileMode

If false, the executable bit differences between the index and the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. See git-update-index(1).

The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate when the repository is created.

Print the address or pointer for value in C

char c = 'A';
printf("ptr: %p,\tvalue: %c,\tand also address: %zu", &c, c, &c);

Result:

ptr: 0x7ffc48e5105f,    value: A,    and also address: 140721531457631

JavaScript post request like a form submit

Here is how I do it.

function redirectWithPost(url, data){
        var form = document.createElement('form');
        form.method = 'POST';
        form.action = url;

        for(var key in data){
            var input = document.createElement('input');
            input.name = key;
            input.value = data[key];
            input.type = 'hidden';
            form.appendChild(input)
        }
        document.body.appendChild(form);
        form.submit();
    }

How to convert XML to JSON in Python?

I think the XML format can be so diverse that it's impossible to write a code that could do this without a very strict defined XML format. Here is what I mean:

<persons>
    <person>
        <name>Koen Bok</name>
        <age>26</age>
    </person>
    <person>
        <name>Plutor Heidepeen</name>
        <age>33</age>
    </person>
</persons>

Would become

{'persons': [
    {'name': 'Koen Bok', 'age': 26},
    {'name': 'Plutor Heidepeen', 'age': 33}]
}

But what would this be:

<persons>
    <person name="Koen Bok">
        <locations name="defaults">
            <location long=123 lat=384 />
        </locations>
    </person>
</persons>

See what I mean?

Edit: just found this article: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/05/31/converting-between-xml-and-json.html

How to get MAC address of your machine using a C program?

Much nicer than all this socket or shell madness is simply using sysfs for this:

the file /sys/class/net/eth0/address carries your mac adress as simple string you can read with fopen()/fscanf()/fclose(). Nothing easier than that.

And if you want to support other network interfaces than eth0 (and you probably want), then simply use opendir()/readdir()/closedir() on /sys/class/net/.

How do I install chkconfig on Ubuntu?

sysv-rc-conf is an alternate option for Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

sysv-rc-conf --list xxxx

smtpclient " failure sending mail"

I experienced the same issue when sending high volume email. Setting the deliveryMethod property to PickupDirectoryFromIis fixed it for me. Also don't create a new SmtpClient everytime.

How can I use/create dynamic template to compile dynamic Component with Angular 2.0?

I have a simple example to show how to do angular 2 rc6 dynamic component.

Say, you have a dynamic html template = template1 and want to dynamic load, firstly wrap into component

@Component({template: template1})
class DynamicComponent {}

here template1 as html, may be contains ng2 component

From rc6, have to have @NgModule wrap this component. @NgModule, just like module in anglarJS 1, it decouple different part of ng2 application, so:

@Component({
  template: template1,

})
class DynamicComponent {

}
@NgModule({
  imports: [BrowserModule,RouterModule],
  declarations: [DynamicComponent]
})
class DynamicModule { }

(Here import RouterModule as in my example there is some route components in my html as you can see later on)

Now you can compile DynamicModule as: this.compiler.compileModuleAndAllComponentsAsync(DynamicModule).then( factory => factory.componentFactories.find(x => x.componentType === DynamicComponent))

And we need put above in app.moudule.ts to load it, please see my app.moudle.ts. For more and full details check: https://github.com/Longfld/DynamicalRouter/blob/master/app/MyRouterLink.ts and app.moudle.ts

and see demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/1fdAYP5PAbiHdJfTKgWo?p=preview

Add CSS to iFrame

Based on solution You've already found How to apply CSS to iframe?:

var cssLink = document.createElement("link") 
cssLink.href = "file://path/to/style.css"; 
cssLink .rel = "stylesheet"; 
cssLink .type = "text/css"; 
frames['iframe'].document.body.appendChild(cssLink);

or more jqueryish (from Append a stylesheet to an iframe with jQuery):

var $head = $("iframe").contents().find("head");                
$head.append($("<link/>", 
    { rel: "stylesheet", href: "file://path/to/style.css", type: "text/css" }));

as for security issues: Disabling same-origin policy in Safari

What characters can be used for up/down triangle (arrow without stem) for display in HTML?

Sorry but they are only in Unicode. :(

Big ones:

  • U+25B2 (Black up-pointing triangle ?)
  • U+25BC (Black down-pointing triangle ?)
  • U+25C0 (Black left-pointing triangle ?)
  • U+25B6 (Black right-pointing triangle ?)

Big white ones:

  • U+25B3 (White up-pointing triangle ?)
  • U+25BD (White down-pointing triangle ?)
  • U+25C1 (White left-pointing triangle ?)
  • U+25B7 (White right-pointing triangle ?)

There is also some smalller triangles:

  • U+25B4 (Black up-pointing small triangle ?)
  • U+25C2 (Black left-pointing small triangle ?)
  • U+25BE (Black down-pointing small triangle ?)
  • U+25B8 (Black right-pointing small triangle ?)

Also some white ones:

  • U+25C3 (White left-pointing small triangle ?)
  • U+25BF (White down-pointing small triangle ?)
  • U+25B9 (White right-pointing small triangle ?)
  • U+25B5 (White up-pointing small triangle ?)

There are also some "pointy" triangles. You can read more here in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes

But unfortunately, they are all Unicode instead of ASCII. If you still want to use ASCII, then you can use an image file for it of just use ^ and v. (Just like the Google Maps in the mobile version this was referring to the ancient mobile Google Maps)


As others also suggested, you can also create triangles with HTML, either with CSS borders or SVG shapes or even JavaScript canvases.

CSS

div{
    width: 0px;
    height: 0px;
    border-top: 10px solid black;
    border-left: 8px solid transparent;
    border-right: 8px solid transparent;
    border-bottom: none;
}

SVG

<svg width="16" height="10">
    <polygon points="0,0 16,0 8,10"/>
</svg>

JavaScript

var ctx = document.querySelector("canvas").getContext("2d");

// do not use with() outside of this demo!
with(ctx){
    beginPath();
    moveTo(0,0);
    lineTo(16,0);
    lineTo(8,10);
    fill();
    endPath();
}

Demo

How to check if a String contains any letter from a to z?

Replace your for loop by this :

errorCounter = Regex.Matches(yourstring,@"[a-zA-Z]").Count;

Remember to use Regex class, you have to using System.Text.RegularExpressions; in your import

Pandas percentage of total with groupby

I know that this is an old question, but exp1orer's answer is very slow for datasets with a large number unique groups (probably because of the lambda). I built off of their answer to turn it into an array calculation so now it's super fast! Below is the example code:

Create the test dataframe with 50,000 unique groups

import random
import string
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(0)

# This is the total number of groups to be created
NumberOfGroups = 50000

# Create a lot of groups (random strings of 4 letters)
Group1     = [''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(4)) for x in range(NumberOfGroups/10)]*10
Group2     = [''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(4)) for x in range(NumberOfGroups/2)]*2
FinalGroup = [''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(4)) for x in range(NumberOfGroups)]

# Make the numbers
NumbersForPercents = [np.random.randint(100, 999) for _ in range(NumberOfGroups)]

# Make the dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({'Group 1': Group1,
                   'Group 2': Group2,
                   'Final Group': FinalGroup,
                   'Numbers I want as percents': NumbersForPercents})

When grouped it looks like:

                             Numbers I want as percents
Group 1 Group 2 Final Group                            
AAAH    AQYR    RMCH                                847
                XDCL                                182
        DQGO    ALVF                                132
                AVPH                                894
        OVGH    NVOO                                650
                VKQP                                857
        VNLY    HYFW                                884
                MOYH                                469
        XOOC    GIDS                                168
                HTOY                                544
AACE    HNXU    RAXK                                243
                YZNK                                750
        NOYI    NYGC                                399
                ZYCI                                614
        QKGK    CRLF                                520
                UXNA                                970
        TXAR    MLNB                                356
                NMFJ                                904
        VQYG    NPON                                504
                QPKQ                                948
...
[50000 rows x 1 columns]

Array method of finding percentage:

# Initial grouping (basically a sorted version of df)
PreGroupby_df = df.groupby(["Group 1","Group 2","Final Group"]).agg({'Numbers I want as percents': 'sum'}).reset_index()
# Get the sum of values for the "final group", append "_Sum" to it's column name, and change it into a dataframe (.reset_index)
SumGroup_df = df.groupby(["Group 1","Group 2"]).agg({'Numbers I want as percents': 'sum'}).add_suffix('_Sum').reset_index()
# Merge the two dataframes
Percents_df = pd.merge(PreGroupby_df, SumGroup_df)
# Divide the two columns
Percents_df["Percent of Final Group"] = Percents_df["Numbers I want as percents"] / Percents_df["Numbers I want as percents_Sum"] * 100
# Drop the extra _Sum column
Percents_df.drop(["Numbers I want as percents_Sum"], inplace=True, axis=1)

This method takes about ~0.15 seconds

Top answer method (using lambda function):

state_office = df.groupby(['Group 1','Group 2','Final Group']).agg({'Numbers I want as percents': 'sum'})
state_pcts = state_office.groupby(level=['Group 1','Group 2']).apply(lambda x: 100 * x / float(x.sum()))

This method takes about ~21 seconds to produce the same result.

The result:

      Group 1 Group 2 Final Group  Numbers I want as percents  Percent of Final Group
0        AAAH    AQYR        RMCH                         847               82.312925
1        AAAH    AQYR        XDCL                         182               17.687075
2        AAAH    DQGO        ALVF                         132               12.865497
3        AAAH    DQGO        AVPH                         894               87.134503
4        AAAH    OVGH        NVOO                         650               43.132050
5        AAAH    OVGH        VKQP                         857               56.867950
6        AAAH    VNLY        HYFW                         884               65.336290
7        AAAH    VNLY        MOYH                         469               34.663710
8        AAAH    XOOC        GIDS                         168               23.595506
9        AAAH    XOOC        HTOY                         544               76.404494

How to execute a Windows command on a remote PC?

If you are in a domain environment, you can also use:

winrs -r:PCNAME cmd

This will open a remote command shell.

'this' is undefined in JavaScript class methods

This question has been answered, but maybe this might someone else coming here.

I also had an issue where this is undefined, when I was foolishly trying to destructure the methods of a class when initialising it:

import MyClass from "./myClass"

// 'this' is not defined here:
const { aMethod } = new MyClass()
aMethod() // error: 'this' is not defined

// So instead, init as you would normally:
const myClass = new MyClass()
myClass.aMethod() // OK

Where is git.exe located?

I am working with GitHub Desktop 1.0.13 and I wanted to add git.exe to my Intellij ennvironment. I have found it in C:\Users\Adam\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\app-1.0.13\resources\app\git\mingw64\bin\git.exe

Is JavaScript a pass-by-reference or pass-by-value language?

In a low-level language, if you want to pass a variable by reference, you have to use a specific syntax in the creation of the function:

int myAge = 14;
increaseAgeByRef(myAge);
function increaseAgeByRef(int &age) {
  *age = *age + 1;
}

The &age is a reference to myAge, but if you want the value you have to convert the reference, using *age.

JavaScript is a high level language that does this conversion for you.

So, although objects are passed by reference, the language converts the reference parameter to the value. You don't need to use &, on the function definition, to pass it by reference, neither *, on the function body, to convert the reference to the value, JavaScript does it for you.

That's why when you try to change an object inside a function, by replacing it's value (i.e. age = {value:5}), the change doesn't persist, but if you change it's properties (i.e. age.value = 5), it does.

Learn more

Converting double to integer in Java

For the datatype Double to int, you can use the following:

Double double = 5.00;

int integer = double.intValue();

How do C++ class members get initialized if I don't do it explicitly?

You can also initialize data members at the point you declare them:

class another_example{
public:
    another_example();
    ~another_example();
private:
    int m_iInteger=10;
    double m_dDouble=10.765;
};

I use this form pretty much exclusively, although I have read some people consider it 'bad form', perhaps because it was only recently introduced - I think in C++11. To me it is more logical.

Another useful facet to the new rules is how to initialize data-members that are themselves classes. For instance suppose that CDynamicString is a class that encapsulates string handling. It has a constructor that allows you specify its initial value CDynamicString(wchat_t* pstrInitialString). You might very well use this class as a data member inside another class - say a class that encapsulates a windows registry value which in this case stores a postal address. To 'hard code' the registry key name to which this writes you use braces:

class Registry_Entry{
public:
    Registry_Entry();
    ~Registry_Entry();
    Commit();//Writes data to registry.
    Retrieve();//Reads data from registry;
private:
    CDynamicString m_cKeyName{L"Postal Address"};
    CDynamicString m_cAddress;
};

Note the second string class which holds the actual postal address does not have an initializer so its default constructor will be called on creation - perhaps automatically setting it to a blank string.

Global keyboard capture in C# application

My rep is too low to comment, but concerning the CallbackOnCollectedDelegate exception, I modified the public void SetupKeyboardHooks() in C4d's answer to look like this:

public void SetupKeyboardHooks(out object hookProc)
{
  _globalKeyboardHook = new GlobalKeyboardHook();
  _globalKeyboardHook.KeyboardPressed += OnKeyPressed;


  hookProc = _globalKeyboardHook.GcSafeHookProc;
}

where GcSafeHookProc is just a public getter for _hookProc in OPs

_hookProc = LowLevelKeyboardProc; // we must keep alive _hookProc, because GC is not aware about SetWindowsHookEx behaviour.

and stored the hookProc as a private field in the class calling the SetupKeyboardHooks(...), therefore keeping the reference alive, save from garbage collection, no more CallbackOnCollectedDelegate exception. Seems having this additional reference in the GlobalKeyboardHook class is not sufficient. Maybe make sure that this reference is also disposed when closing your app.

What is the easiest way to parse an INI file in Java?

Another option is Apache Commons Config also has a class for loading from INI files. It does have some runtime dependencies, but for INI files it should only require Commons collections, lang, and logging.

I've used Commons Config on projects with their properties and XML configurations. It is very easy to use and supports some pretty powerful features.

How to add label in chart.js for pie chart

Rachel's solution is working fine, although you need to use the third party script from raw.githubusercontent.com

By now there is a feature they show on the landing page when advertisng the "modular" script. You can see a legend there with this structure:

<div class="labeled-chart-container">
    <div class="canvas-holder">
        <canvas id="modular-doughnut" width="250" height="250" style="width: 250px; height: 250px;"></canvas>
    </div>

<ul class="doughnut-legend">
    <li><span style="background-color:#5B90BF"></span>Core</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#96b5b4"></span>Bar</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#a3be8c"></span>Doughnut</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#ab7967"></span>Radar</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#d08770"></span>Line</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#b48ead"></span>Polar Area</li>
</ul>
</div>

To achieve this they use the chart configuration option legendTemplate

legendTemplate : "<ul class=\"<%=name.toLowerCase()%>-legend\"><% for (var i=0; i<segments.length; i++){%><li><span style=\"background-color:<%=segments[i].fillColor%>\"></span><%if(segments[i].label){%><%=segments[i].label%><%}%></li><%}%></ul>"

You can find the doumentation here on chartjs.org This works for all the charts although it is not part of the global chart configuration.

Then they create the legend and add it to the DOM like this:

var legend = myPie.generateLegend();
$("#legend").html(legend);

Sample See also my JSFiddle sample

the MySQL service on local computer started and then stopped

I had this issue after my database was working fine for long time. It turned out it was some data corruption.

In the error log I had:

2017-02-07T10:11:42.270567Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Ignoring the redo log due to missing MLOG_CHECKPOINT between the checkpoint 44002250712 and the end 44002250240.
2017-02-07T10:11:42.270606Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Plugin initialization aborted with error Generic error
2017-02-07T10:11:42.577436Z 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
2017-02-07T10:11:42.577470Z 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
2017-02-07T10:11:42.577484Z 0 [ERROR] Failed to initialize plugins.
2017-02-07T10:11:42.577488Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting

Then I had to delete the 2 ib_logfile* files, and it restarted again.

Build the full path filename in Python

If you are fortunate enough to be running Python 3.4+, you can use pathlib:

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> dirname = '/home/reports'
>>> filename = 'daily'
>>> suffix = '.pdf'
>>> Path(dirname, filename).with_suffix(suffix)
PosixPath('/home/reports/daily.pdf')

Pull new updates from original GitHub repository into forked GitHub repository

If there is nothing to lose you could also just delete your fork just go to settings... go to danger zone section below and click delete repository. It will ask you to input the repository name and your password after. After that you just fork the original again.

Visual Studio: Relative Assembly References Paths

I might be off here, but it seems that the answer is quite obvious: Look at reference paths in the project properties. In our setup I added our common repository folder, to the ref path GUI window, like so

Reference Paths in VS20xx

That way I can copy my dlls (ready for publish) to this folder and every developer now gets the updated DLL every time it builds from this folder.

If the dll is found in the Solution, the builder should prioritize the local version over the published team version.

How to display the function, procedure, triggers source code in postgresql?

For function:

you can query the pg_proc view , just as the following

select proname,prosrc from pg_proc where proname= your_function_name; 

Another way is that just execute the commont \df and \ef which can list the functions.

skytf=> \df           
                                             List of functions
 Schema |         Name         | Result data type |              Argument data types               |  Type  
--------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------------------------------+--------
 public | pg_buffercache_pages | SETOF record     |                                                | normal


skytf=> \ef  pg_buffercache_pages

It will show the source code of the function.

For triggers:

I dont't know if there is a direct way to get the source code. Just know the following way, may be it will help you!

  • step 1 : Get the table oid of the trigger:
    skytf=> select tgrelid from pg_trigger  where tgname='insert_tbl_tmp_trigger';
      tgrelid
    ---------
       26599
    (1 row)
  • step 2: Get the table name of the above oid !
    skytf=> select oid,relname  from pg_class where oid=26599;
      oid  |           relname           
    -------+-----------------------------
     26599 | tbl_tmp
    (1 row)
  • step 3: list the table information
    skytf=> \d tbl_tmp

It will show you the details of the trigger of the table . Usually a trigger uses a function. So you can get the source code of the trigger function just as the above that I pointed out !

.htaccess or .htpasswd equivalent on IIS?

This is the documentation that you want: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292114(VS.71).aspx

I guess the answer is, yes, there is an equivalent that will accomplish the same thing, integrated with Windows security.

Escape quote in web.config connection string

Use &quot; instead of " to escape it.

web.config is an XML file so you should use XML escaping.

connectionString="Server=dbsrv;User ID=myDbUser;Password=somepass&quot;word"

See this forum thread.

Update:

&quot; should work, but as it doesn't, have you tried some of the other string escape sequences for .NET? \" and ""?

Update 2:

Try single quotes for the connectionString:

connectionString='Server=dbsrv;User ID=myDbUser;Password=somepass"word'

Or:

connectionString='Server=dbsrv;User ID=myDbUser;Password=somepass&quot;word'

Update 3:

From MSDN (SqlConnection.ConnectionString Property):

To include values that contain a semicolon, single-quote character, or double-quote character, the value must be enclosed in double quotation marks. If the value contains both a semicolon and a double-quote character, the value can be enclosed in single quotation marks.

So:

connectionString="Server=dbsrv;User ID=myDbUser;Password='somepass&quot;word'"

The issue is not with web.config, but the format of the connection string. In a connection string, if you have a " in a value (of the key-value pair), you need to enclose the value in '. So, while Password=somepass"word does not work, Password='somepass"word' does.

How to get the full path of running process?

Here is a reliable solution that works with both 32bit and 64bit applications.

Add these references:

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Management;

Add this method to your project:

public static string GetProcessPath(int processId)
{
    string MethodResult = "";
    try
    {
        string Query = "SELECT ExecutablePath FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = " + processId;

        using (ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher(Query))
        {
            using (ManagementObjectCollection moc = mos.Get())
            {
                string ExecutablePath = (from mo in moc.Cast<ManagementObject>() select mo["ExecutablePath"]).First().ToString();

                MethodResult = ExecutablePath;

            }

        }

    }
    catch //(Exception ex)
    {
        //ex.HandleException();
    }
    return MethodResult;
}

Now use it like so:

int RootProcessId = Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id;

GetProcessPath(RootProcessId);

Notice that if you know the id of the process, then this method will return the corresponding ExecutePath.

Extra, for those interested:

Process.GetProcesses() 

...will give you an array of all the currently running processes, and...

Process.GetCurrentProcess()

...will give you the current process, along with their information e.g. Id, etc. and also limited control e.g. Kill, etc.*

using batch echo with special characters

Here's one more approach by using SET and FOR /F

@echo off

set "var=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>"

for /f "tokens=1* delims==" %%a in ('set var') do echo %%b

and you can beautify it like:

@echo off
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
set "print{[=for /f "tokens=1* delims==" %%a in ('set " & set "]}=') do echo %%b"
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


set "xml_line.1=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>"
set "xml_line.2=<root>"
set "xml_line.3=</root>"

%print{[% xml_line %]}%

How to vertically center an image inside of a div element in HTML using CSS?

There are five possible ways for centering an image with any size with pure CSS.

  1. Using flex and making the img tag be inside (best solution for modern browsers):

    div {
        display: flex;
        align-items: center;
        justify-content: center
    }
    
  2. Putting the image in background-image and using background-position (as @pixeline explained):

    div {
        background-image: url(...);
        background-position:center center
    }
    
  3. Using display: table for parent element, and using display: table-cell with vertical-align: middle for child element:

    div.parent {
        display: table;
    }
    div.child {
        display: table-cell;
        vertical-align: middle;
    }
    
  4. Using position:absolute with transform for the image and parent element position be not unset:

    div {
        position: relative;
    }
    div > img {
        position: absolute;
        left: 50%;
        top: 50%;
        transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
    }
    
  5. Using line-height as same height of the element, then using vertical-align (in my opinion, the best solution for supporting more browsers like IE9>).

    Note: In some old browsers, sometimes for using this way safely, you need to have at least one character in the line that the image exist. For fixing this issue, I used a non-breakable space in a pseudo-element of the parent.

    As in the following example:

    _x000D_
    _x000D_
    div {
        display: block;
        height: 200px;
        width: 200px;
        background-color: purple;
        line-height: 200px;
        text-align: center;
    }
    div:after {
      content: "\a0";
    }
    div > img {
        vertical-align: middle;
    }
    _x000D_
    <div><img src="https://via.placeholder.com/100.png/09f/fff" /></div>
    _x000D_
    _x000D_
    _x000D_

How do I select between the 1st day of the current month and current day in MySQL?

I had some what similar requirement - to find first day of the month but based on year end month selected by user in their profile page.

Problem statement - find all the txns done by the user in his/her financial year. Financial year is determined using year end month value where month can be any valid month - 1 for Jan, 2 for Feb, 3 for Mar,....12 for Dec.

For some clients financial year ends on March and some observe it on December.

Scenarios - (Today is `08 Aug, 2018`)
   1. If `financial year` ends on `July` then query should return `01 Aug 2018`.
   2. If `financial year` ends on `December` then query should return `01 January 2018`.
   3. If `financial year` ends on `March` then query should return `01 April 2018`.
   4. If `financial year` ends on `September` then query should return `01 October 2017`.

And, finally below is the query. -

select @date := (case when ? >= month(now()) 
then date_format((subdate(subdate(now(), interval (12 - ? + month(now()) - 1) month), interval day(now()) - 2 day)) ,'%Y-%m-01')
else date_format((subdate(now(), interval month(now()) - ? - 1 month)), '%Y-%m-01') end)

where ? is year end month (values from 1 to 12).

Why does sudo change the PATH?

This is an annoying function a feature of sudo on many distributions.

To work around this "problem" on ubuntu I do the following in my ~/.bashrc

alias sudo='sudo env PATH=$PATH'

Note the above will work for commands that don't reset the $PATH themselves. However `su' resets it's $PATH so you must use -p to tell it not to. I.E.:

sudo su -p

Handle ModelState Validation in ASP.NET Web API

Or, if you are looking for simple collection of errors for your apps.. here is my implementation of this:

public override void OnActionExecuting(HttpActionContext actionContext)
    {
        var modelState = actionContext.ModelState;

        if (!modelState.IsValid) 
        {

            var errors = new List<string>();
            foreach (var state in modelState)
            {
                foreach (var error in state.Value.Errors)
                {
                    errors.Add(error.ErrorMessage);
                }
            }

            var response = new { errors = errors };

            actionContext.Response = actionContext.Request
                .CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, response, JsonMediaTypeFormatter.DefaultMediaType);
        }
    }

Error Message Response will look like:

{
  "errors": [
    "Please enter a valid phone number (7+ more digits)",
    "Please enter a valid e-mail address"
  ]
}

How to use a SQL SELECT statement with Access VBA

Here is another way to use SQL SELECT statement in VBA:

 sSQL = "SELECT Variable FROM GroupTable WHERE VariableCode = '" & Me.comboBox & "'" 
 Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(sSQL)
 On Error GoTo resultsetError 
 dbValue = rs!Variable
 MsgBox dbValue, vbOKOnly, "RS VALUE"
resultsetError:
 MsgBox "Error Retrieving value from database",VbOkOnly,"Database Error"

sqlplus how to find details of the currently connected database session

Try:

select * from v$session where sid = SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','SID');

You might also be interested in this AskTom post

After seing your comment, you can do:

SELECT * FROM global_name;

foreach vs someList.ForEach(){}

For fun, I popped List into reflector and this is the resulting C#:

public void ForEach(Action<T> action)
{
    if (action == null)
    {
        ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentNullException(ExceptionArgument.match);
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < this._size; i++)
    {
        action(this._items[i]);
    }
}

Similarly, the MoveNext in Enumerator which is what is used by foreach is this:

public bool MoveNext()
{
    if (this.version != this.list._version)
    {
        ThrowHelper.ThrowInvalidOperationException(ExceptionResource.InvalidOperation_EnumFailedVersion);
    }
    if (this.index < this.list._size)
    {
        this.current = this.list._items[this.index];
        this.index++;
        return true;
    }
    this.index = this.list._size + 1;
    this.current = default(T);
    return false;
}

The List.ForEach is much more trimmed down than MoveNext - far less processing - will more likely JIT into something efficient..

In addition, foreach() will allocate a new Enumerator no matter what. The GC is your friend, but if you're doing the same foreach repeatedly, this will make more throwaway objects, as opposed to reusing the same delegate - BUT - this is really a fringe case. In typical usage you will see little or no difference.

How do I get rid of the "cannot empty the clipboard" error?

I got rid of the problem by unchecking the option for "Alert before overwriting cells" in Excel options. I'm using Excel 2007

How does the ARM architecture differ from x86?

Additional to Jerry Coffin's first paragraph. Ie, ARM design gives lower power consumption.

The company ARM, only licenses the CPU technology. They don't make physical chips. This allows other companies to add various peripheral technologies, typically called SOC or system-on-chip. Whether the device is a tablet, a cell phone, or an in-car entertainment system. This allows chip vendors to tailor the rest of the chip to a particular application. This has additional benefits,

  1. Lower board cost
  2. Lower power (note1)
  3. Easier manufacture
  4. Smaller form factor

ARM supports SOC vendors with AMBA, allowing SOC implementers to purchase off the shelf 3rd party modules; like an Ethernet, memory and interrupt controllers. Some other CPU platforms support this, like MIPS, but MIPS is not as power conscious.

All of these are beneficial to a handheld/battery operated design. Some are just good all around. As well, ARM has a history of battery operated devices; Apple Newton, Psion Organizers. The PDA software infra-structure was leveraged by some companies to create smart phone type devices. Although, more success was had by those who re-invented the GUI for use with a smart phone.

The rise of Open source tool sets and operating systems also facilitated the various SOC chips. A closed organization would have issues trying to support all the various devices available for the ARM. The two most popular cellular platforms, Andriod and OSx/IOS, are based up Linux and FreeBSD, Mach and NetBSD os's. Open Source helps SOC vendors provide software support for their chip sets.

Hopefully, why x86 is used for the keyboard is self-evident. It has the software, and more importantly people trained to use that software. Netwinder is one ARM system that was originally designed for the keyboard. Also, manufacturer's are currently looking at ARM64 for the server market. Power/heat is a concern at 24/7 data centers.

So I would say that the ecosystem that grows around these chips is as important as features like low power consumption. ARM has been striving for low power, higher performance computing for some time (mid to late 1980's) and they have a lot of people on board.

Note1: Multiple chips need bus drivers to inter-communicate at known voltages and drive. Also, typically separate chips need support capacitors and other power components which can be shared in an SOC system.

jQuery UI Dialog with ASP.NET button postback

Move the dialog the right way, but you should do it only in the button opening the dialog. Here is some additional code in jQuery UI sample:

$('#create-user').click(function() {
    $("#dialog").parent().appendTo($("form:first"))
    $('#dialog').dialog('open');
})

Add your asp:button inside the dialog, and it runs well.

Note: you should change the <button> to <input type=button> to prevent postback after you click the "create user" button.

Importing text file into excel sheet

There are many ways you can import Text file to the current sheet. Here are three (including the method that you are using above)

  1. Using a QueryTable
  2. Open the text file in memory and then write to the current sheet and finally applying Text To Columns if required.
  3. If you want to use the method that you are currently using then after you open the text file in a new workbook, simply copy it over to the current sheet using Cells.Copy

Using a QueryTable

Here is a simple macro that I recorded. Please amend it to suit your needs.

Sub Sample()
    With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
        "TEXT;C:\Sample.txt", Destination:=Range("$A$1") _
        )
        .Name = "Sample"
        .FieldNames = True
        .RowNumbers = False
        .FillAdjacentFormulas = False
        .PreserveFormatting = True
        .RefreshOnFileOpen = False
        .RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
        .SavePassword = False
        .SaveData = True
        .AdjustColumnWidth = True
        .RefreshPeriod = 0
        .TextFilePromptOnRefresh = False
        .TextFilePlatform = 437
        .TextFileStartRow = 1
        .TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
        .TextFileTextQualifier = xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote
        .TextFileConsecutiveDelimiter = False
        .TextFileTabDelimiter = True
        .TextFileSemicolonDelimiter = False
        .TextFileCommaDelimiter = True
        .TextFileSpaceDelimiter = False
        .TextFileColumnDataTypes = Array(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
        .TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers = True
        .Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
    End With
End Sub

Open the text file in memory

Sub Sample()
    Dim MyData As String, strData() As String

    Open "C:\Sample.txt" For Binary As #1
    MyData = Space$(LOF(1))
    Get #1, , MyData
    Close #1
    strData() = Split(MyData, vbCrLf)
End Sub

Once you have the data in the array you can export it to the current sheet.

Using the method that you are already using

Sub Sample()
    Dim wbI As Workbook, wbO As Workbook
    Dim wsI As Worksheet

    Set wbI = ThisWorkbook
    Set wsI = wbI.Sheets("Sheet1") '<~~ Sheet where you want to import

    Set wbO = Workbooks.Open("C:\Sample.txt")

    wbO.Sheets(1).Cells.Copy wsI.Cells

    wbO.Close SaveChanges:=False
End Sub

FOLLOWUP

You can use the Application.GetOpenFilename to choose the relevant file. For example...

Sub Sample()
    Dim Ret

    Ret = Application.GetOpenFilename("Prn Files (*.prn), *.prn")

    If Ret <> False Then
        With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
        "TEXT;" & Ret, Destination:=Range("$A$1"))

            '~~> Rest of the code

        End With
    End If
End Sub

How to convert xml into array in php?

Another option is the SimpleXML extension (I believe it comes standard with most php installs.)

http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php

The syntax looks something like this for your example

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString);
echo $xml->bbb->cccc->dddd['Id'];
echo $xml->bbb->cccc->eeee['name'];
// or...........
foreach ($xml->bbb->cccc as $element) {
  foreach($element as $key => $val) {
   echo "{$key}: {$val}";
  }
}

Display unescaped HTML in Vue.js

You have to use v-html directive for displaying html content inside a vue component

<div v-html="html content data property"></div>

Getting list of lists into pandas DataFrame

Call the pd.DataFrame constructor directly:

df = pd.DataFrame(table, columns=headers)
df

   Heading1  Heading2
0         1         2
1         3         4

div background color, to change onhover

Using Javascript

   <div id="mydiv" style="width:200px;background:white" onmouseover="this.style.background='gray';" onmouseout="this.style.background='white';">
    Jack and Jill went up the hill 
    To fetch a pail of water. 
    Jack fell down and broke his crown, 
    And Jill came tumbling after. 
    </div>

Write to Windows Application Event Log

As stated in MSDN (eg. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.eventlog(v=vs.110).aspx ), checking an non existing source and creating a source requires admin privilege.

It is however possible to use the source "Application" without. In my test under Windows 2012 Server r2, I however get the following log entry using "Application" source:

The description for Event ID xxxx from source Application cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer. If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event. The following information was included with the event: {my event entry message} the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table

I defined the following method to create the source:

    private string CreateEventSource(string currentAppName)
    {
        string eventSource = currentAppName;
        bool sourceExists;
        try
        {
            // searching the source throws a security exception ONLY if not exists!
            sourceExists = EventLog.SourceExists(eventSource);
            if (!sourceExists)
            {   // no exception until yet means the user as admin privilege
                EventLog.CreateEventSource(eventSource, "Application");
            }
        }
        catch (SecurityException)
        {
            eventSource = "Application";
        }

        return eventSource;
    }

I am calling it with currentAppName = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName

It might be possible to use the EventLogPermission class instead of this try/catch but not sure we can avoid the catch.

It is also possible to create the source externally, e.g in elevated Powershell:

New-EventLog -LogName Application -Source MyApp

Then, using 'MyApp' in the method above will NOT generate exception and the EventLog can be created with that source.

Is this very likely to create a memory leak in Tomcat?

The key "Transactional Resources" looks like you are talking to the database without a proper transaction. Make sure transaction management is configured properly and no invocation path to the DAO exists that doesn't run under a @Transactional annotation. This can easily happen when you configured transaction management on the Controller level but are invoking DAOs in a timer or are using @PostConstruct annotations. I wrote it up here http://georgovassilis.blogspot.nl/2014/01/tomcat-spring-and-memory-leaks-when.html

Edit: It looks like this is (also?) a bug with spring-data-jpa which has been fixed with v1.4.3. I looked it up in the spring-data-jpa sources of LockModeRepositoryPostProcessor which sets the "Transactional Resources" key. In 1.4.3 it also clears the key again.

Convert date to another timezone in JavaScript

People familiar with the java 8 java.time package, or joda-time will probably love the new kid on the block: the js-joda library.

Install

npm install js-joda js-joda-timezone --save

Example

<script src="node_modules/js-joda/dist/js-joda.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/js-joda-timezone/dist/js-joda-timezone.js"></script>
<script>
var dateStr = '2012/04/10 10:10:30 +0000';
JSJoda.use(JSJodaTimezone);
var j = JSJoda;
// https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/esdoc/class/src/format/DateTimeFormatter.js~DateTimeFormatter.html#static-method-of-pattern
var zonedDateTime = j.ZonedDateTime.parse(dateStr, j.DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern('yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss xx'));
var adjustedZonedDateTime = zonedDateTime.withZoneSameInstant(j.ZoneId.of('America/New_York'));
console.log(zonedDateTime.toString(), '=>', adjustedZonedDateTime.toString());
// 2012-04-10T10:10:30Z => 2012-04-10T06:10:30-04:00[America/New_York]
</script>

In true java nature, it's pretty verbose lol. But, being a ported java library, especially considering they ported 1800'ish test cases, it also probably works superbly accurately.

Chrono manipulation is hard. That's why many other libraries are buggy in edge cases. Moment.js seems to get timezones right, but the other js libs I've seen, including timezone-js, don't seem trustworthy.

Instantiating a generic class in Java

For Java 8 ....

There is a good solution at https://stackoverflow.com/a/36315051/2648077 post.

This uses Java 8 Supplier functional interface

How do I convert strings in a Pandas data frame to a 'date' data type?

Another way to do this and this works well if you have multiple columns to convert to datetime.

cols = ['date1','date2']
df[cols] = df[cols].apply(pd.to_datetime)

How to equalize the scales of x-axis and y-axis in Python matplotlib?

See the documentation on plt.axis(). This:

plt.axis('equal')

doesn't work because it changes the limits of the axis to make circles appear circular. What you want is:

plt.axis('square')

This creates a square plot with equal axes.

WCF - How to Increase Message Size Quota

I found the easy way

--- right click the webconfig or app config file and click EDIT WCF CONFIGURATION and got to bingdigs ans select yore service and right side show maxReciveMessageSize give a large number ---

How to get rid of the "No bootable medium found!" error in Virtual Box?

Follow the steps below:

1) Select your VM Instance. Go to Settings->Storage

2) Under the storage tree select the default image or "Empty"(which ever is present)

3) Under the attributes frame, click on the CD image and select "Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file"

4) Browse and select the image file(iso or what ever format) from the system

5) Select OK.

Abishek's solution is correct. But the highlighted area in 2nd image could be misleading.

Set default option in mat-select

Normally you are going to do this in your template with FormGroup, Reactive Forms, etc...

    this.myForm = this.fb.group({
      title: ['', Validators.required],
      description: ['', Validators.required],
      isPublished: ['false',Validators.required]
    });

CURL to access a page that requires a login from a different page

Also you might want to log in via browser and get the command with all headers including cookies:

Open the Network tab of Developer Tools, log in, navigate to the needed page, use "Copy as cURL".

screenshot

MySQL: Insert datetime into other datetime field

If you don't need the DATETIME value in the rest of your code, it'd be more efficient, simple and secure to use an UPDATE query with a sub-select, something like

UPDATE products SET t=(SELECT f FROM products WHERE id=17) WHERE id=42;

or in case it's in the same row in a single table, just

UPDATE products SET t=f WHERE id=42;

Internal vs. Private Access Modifiers

internal is for assembly scope (i.e. only accessible from code in the same .exe or .dll)

private is for class scope (i.e. accessible only from code in the same class).

What does the term "Tuple" Mean in Relational Databases?

It's a shortened "N-tuple" (like in quadruple, quintuple etc.)

It's a row of a rowset taken as a whole.

If you issue:

SELECT  col1, col2
FROM    mytable

, whole result will be a ROWSET, and each pair of col1, col2 will be a tuple.

Some databases can work with a tuple as a whole.

Like, you can do this:

SELECT  col1, col2
FROM    mytable
WHERE   (col1, col2) =
        (
        SELECT  col3, col4
        FROM    othertable
        )

, which checks that a whole tuple from one rowset matches a whole tuple from another rowset.

mysqli_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in

That query is failing and returning false.

Put this after mysqli_query() to see what's going on.

if (!$check1_res) {
    printf("Error: %s\n", mysqli_error($con));
    exit();
}

For more information:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.error.php

Centering the pagination in bootstrap

To centered the pagination in BS4, should add justify-content-center in ul:

_x000D_
_x000D_
 <nav aria-label="Page navigation example">
    <ul class="pagination justify-content-center">
      <li class="page-item disabled">
        <a class="page-link" href="#" tabindex="-1">Previous</a>
      </li>
      <li class="page-item"><a class="page-link" href="#">1</a></li>
      <li class="page-item"><a class="page-link" href="#">2</a></li>
      <li class="page-item"><a class="page-link" href="#">3</a></li>
      <li class="page-item">
        <a class="page-link" href="#">Next</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </nav>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-JcKb8q3iqJ61gNV9KGb8thSsNjpSL0n8PARn9HuZOnIxN0hoP+VmmDGMN5t9UJ0Z" crossorigin="anonymous">
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

See Pagination Bootstrap 4 for further information.

How do I find out what is hammering my SQL Server?

You can find some useful query here:

Investigating the Cause of SQL Server High CPU

For me this helped a lot:

SELECT s.session_id,
    r.status,
    r.blocking_session_id 'Blk by',
    r.wait_type,
    wait_resource,
    r.wait_time / (1000 * 60) 'Wait M',
    r.cpu_time,
    r.logical_reads,
    r.reads,
    r.writes,
    r.total_elapsed_time / (1000 * 60) 'Elaps M',
    Substring(st.TEXT,(r.statement_start_offset / 2) + 1,
    ((CASE r.statement_end_offset
WHEN -1
THEN Datalength(st.TEXT)
ELSE r.statement_end_offset
END - r.statement_start_offset) / 2) + 1) AS statement_text,
    Coalesce(Quotename(Db_name(st.dbid)) + N'.' + Quotename(Object_schema_name(st.objectid, st.dbid)) + N'.' +
    Quotename(Object_name(st.objectid, st.dbid)), '') AS command_text,
    r.command,
    s.login_name,
    s.host_name,
    s.program_name,
    s.last_request_end_time,
    s.login_time,
    r.open_transaction_count
FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions AS s
    JOIN sys.dm_exec_requests AS r
ON r.session_id = s.session_id
    CROSS APPLY sys.Dm_exec_sql_text(r.sql_handle) AS st
WHERE r.session_id != @@SPID
ORDER BY r.cpu_time desc

In the fields of status, wait_type and cpu_time you can find the most cpu consuming task that is running right now.

getting the reason why websockets closed with close code 1006

This may be your websocket URL you are using in device are not same(You are hitting different websocket URL from android/iphonedevice )

What is the meaning of @_ in Perl?

Also if a function returns an array, but the function is called without assigning its returned data to any variable like below. Here split() is called, but it is not assigned to any variable. We can access its returned data later through @_:

$str = "Mr.Bond|Chewbaaka|Spider-Man";
split(/\|/, $str);

print @_[0]; # 'Mr.Bond'

This will split the string $str and set the array @_.

How to pass props to {this.props.children}

You no longer need {this.props.children}. Now you can wrap your child component using render in Route and pass your props as usual:

<BrowserRouter>
  <div>
    <ul>
      <li><Link to="/">Home</Link></li>
      <li><Link to="/posts">Posts</Link></li>
      <li><Link to="/about">About</Link></li>
    </ul>

    <hr/>

    <Route path="/" exact component={Home} />
    <Route path="/posts" render={() => (
      <Posts
        value1={1}
        value2={2}
        data={this.state.data}
      />
    )} />
    <Route path="/about" component={About} />
  </div>
</BrowserRouter>

How to redirect to Index from another controller?

Use the overloads that take the controller name too...

return RedirectToAction("Index", "MyController");

and

@Html.ActionLink("Link Name","Index", "MyController", null, null)

Python Timezone conversion

For Python 3.2+ simple-date is a wrapper around pytz that tries to simplify things.

If you have a time then

SimpleDate(time).convert(tz="...")

may do what you want. But timezones are quite complex things, so it can get significantly more complicated - see the the docs.

Comment shortcut Android Studio

Comment method like pro developers:

Windows/linux:

Line Comment : Ctrl + /

Block Comment : Ctrl + Shift

Method Commenting:

Type `/**` and press `Enter Key`

it will add the comment snippet like we see in standard documentation, give it a try this once.

/**
 * 
 * @param addOpacity
 */
public void setOpacityOnUserImage(boolean addOpacity) {
// Your business logic. 
}

Show which git tag you are on?

This worked for me git describe --tags --abbrev=0

Edit 2020: As mentioned by some of the comments below, this might, or might not work for you, so be careful!

OpenJDK availability for Windows OS

Red Hat announces they will distribute an OpenJDK for Windows platform: http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/06/27/openjdk-now-available-for-windows/

EDITED (thx to CaseyB comment): there is no PRODUCTION support on Windows. From the documentation:

All Red Hat distributions of OpenJDK 8 on Windows are supported for development of applications that work in conjunction with JBoss Middleware, so that you have the convenience and confidence to develop and test in Windows or Linux-based environments and deploy your solution to a 100% compatible, fully supported, OpenJDK 8 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Permission denied at hdfs

I solved this problem temporary by disabling the dfs permission.By adding below property code to conf/hdfs-site.xml

<property>
  <name>dfs.permissions</name>
  <value>false</value>
</property>

How to align footer (div) to the bottom of the page?

I am a newbie and these methods are not working for me. However, I tried a margin-top property in css and simply added the value of content pixels +5.

Example: my content layout had a height of 1000px so I put a margin-top value of 1005px in the footer css which gave me a 5px border and a footer that sits delightfully at the bottom of my site.

Probably an amateur way of doing it, but EFFECTIVE!!!

enum - getting value of enum on string conversion

I implemented access using the following

class D(Enum):
    x = 1
    y = 2

    def __str__(self):
        return '%s' % self.value

now I can just do

print(D.x) to get 1 as result.

You can also use self.name in case you wanted to print x instead of 1.

Pandas Replace NaN with blank/empty string

df = df.fillna('')

or just

df.fillna('', inplace=True)

This will fill na's (e.g. NaN's) with ''.

If you want to fill a single column, you can use:

df.column1 = df.column1.fillna('')

One can use df['column1'] instead of df.column1.

Print a variable in hexadecimal in Python

Another answer with later print/format style is:

res[0]=12
res[1]=23
print("my num is 0x{0:02x}{1:02x}".format(res[0],res[1]))

Suppress command line output

Use this script instead:

@taskkill/f /im test.exe >nul 2>&1
@pause

What the 2>&1 part actually does, is that it redirects the stderr output to stdout. I will explain it better below:

@taskkill/f /im test.exe >nul 2>&1

Kill the task "test.exe". Redirect stderr to stdout. Then, redirect stdout to nul.

@pause

Show the pause message Press any key to continue . . . until someone presses a key.

NOTE: The @ symbol is hiding the prompt for each command. You can save up to 8 bytes this way.

The shortest version of your script could be:
@taskkill/f /im test.exe >nul 2>&1&pause
The & character is used for redirection the first time, and for separating the commands the second time.
An @ character is not needed twice in a line. This code is just 40 bytes, despite the one you've posted being 49 bytes! I actually saved 9 bytes. For a cleaner code look above.

How to make an executable JAR file?

It's too late to answer for this question. But if someone is searching for this answer now I've made it to run with no errors.

First of all make sure to download and add maven to path. [ mvn --version ] will give you version specifications of it if you have added to the path correctly.

Now , add following code to the maven project [ pom.xml ] , in the following code replace with your own main file entry point for eg [ com.example.test.Test ].

      <plugin>
            <!-- Build an executable JAR -->
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
            <configuration>
                <archive>
                    <manifest>
                    <mainClass>
            your_package_to_class_that_contains_main_file .MainFileName</mainClass>
                    </manifest>
                </archive>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

Now go to the command line [CMD] in your project and type mvn package and it will generate a jar file as something like ProjectName-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar under target directory.

Now navigate to the target directory by cd target.

Finally type java -jar jar-file-name.jar and yes this should work successfully if you don't have any errors in your program.

exception.getMessage() output with class name

I think you are wrapping your exception in another exception (which isn't in your code above). If you try out this code:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        throw new RuntimeException("Cannot move file");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Error: " + ex.getMessage());
    }
}

...you will see a popup that says exactly what you want.


However, to solve your problem (the wrapped exception) you need get to the "root" exception with the "correct" message. To do this you need to create a own recursive method getRootCause:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        throw new Exception(new RuntimeException("Cannot move file"));
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
                                      "Error: " + getRootCause(ex).getMessage());
    }
}

public static Throwable getRootCause(Throwable throwable) {
    if (throwable.getCause() != null)
        return getRootCause(throwable.getCause());

    return throwable;
}

Note: Unwrapping exceptions like this however, sort of breaks the abstractions. I encourage you to find out why the exception is wrapped and ask yourself if it makes sense.

How to use aria-expanded="true" to change a css property

If you were open to using JQuery, you could modify the background color for any link that has the property aria-expanded set to true by doing the following...

$("a[aria-expanded='true']").css("background-color", "#42DCA3");

Depending on how specific you want to be regarding which links this applies to, you may have to slightly modify your selector.

How to refresh Android listview?

For me after changing information in sql database nothing could refresh list view( to be specific expandable list view) so if notifyDataSetChanged() doesn't help, you can try to clear your list first and add it again after that call notifyDataSetChanged(). For example

private List<List<SomeNewArray>> arrayList;
List<SomeNewArray> array1= getArrayList(...);
List<SomeNewArray> array2= getArrayList(...);
arrayList.clear();
arrayList.add(array1);
arrayList.add(array2);
notifyDataSetChanged();

Hope it makes sense for you.

jQuery - Getting form values for ajax POST

var username = $('#username').val();
var email= $('#email').val();
var password= $('#password').val();

How can I see an the output of my C programs using Dev-C++?

I put a getchar() at the end of my programs as a simple "pause-method". Depending on your particular details, investigate getchar, getch, or getc

How to compare two JSON have the same properties without order?

Due to @zerkems comment:

i should convert my strings to JSON object and then call the equal method:

var x = eval("(" + remoteJSON + ')');
var y = eval("(" + localJSON + ')');

function jsonequals(x, y) {
    // If both x and y are null or undefined and exactly the same
    if ( x === y ) {
        return true;
    }

    // If they are not strictly equal, they both need to be Objects
    if ( ! ( x instanceof Object ) || ! ( y instanceof Object ) ) {
        return false;
    }

    // They must have the exact same prototype chain, the closest we can do is
    // test the constructor.
    if ( x.constructor !== y.constructor ) {
        return false;
    }

    for ( var p in x ) {
        // Inherited properties were tested using x.constructor === y.constructor
        if ( x.hasOwnProperty( p ) ) {
            // Allows comparing x[ p ] and y[ p ] when set to undefined
            if ( ! y.hasOwnProperty( p ) ) {
                return false;
            }

            // If they have the same strict value or identity then they are equal
            if ( x[ p ] === y[ p ] ) {
                continue;
            }

            // Numbers, Strings, Functions, Booleans must be strictly equal
            if ( typeof( x[ p ] ) !== "object" ) {
                return false;
            }

            // Objects and Arrays must be tested recursively
            if ( !equals( x[ p ],  y[ p ] ) ) {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }

    for ( p in y ) {
        // allows x[ p ] to be set to undefined
        if ( y.hasOwnProperty( p ) && ! x.hasOwnProperty( p ) ) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem bundler (>= 0.a) (Gem::GemNotFoundException)

The reason is your current ruby environment, you got a different version of bundler with the version in Gemfile.lock.

  • Safe way, install bundler with the same version in Gemfile.lock, this won't break anything if there is some incampatibly thing happened.
  • Hard way, just remove Gemfile.lock, and run bundle install.

cv2.imshow command doesn't work properly in opencv-python

I faced the same issue. I tried to read an image from IDLE and tried to display it using cv2.imshow(), but the display window freezes and shows pythonw.exe is not responding when trying to close the window.

The post below gives a possible explanation for why this is happening

pythonw.exe is not responding

"Basically, don't do this from IDLE. Write a script and run it from the shell or the script directly if in windows, by naming it with a .pyw extension and double clicking it. There is apparently a conflict between IDLE's own event loop and the ones from GUI toolkits."

When I used imshow() in a script and execute it rather than running it directly over IDLE, it worked.

Windows 7, 64 bit, DLL problems

This problem is related to missing the Visual Studio "redistributable package." It is not obvious which one is missing based on the dependency walk, but I would try the one that corresponds with your compiler version first and see if things run properly:

Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2008

I ran into this problem because I am using the Visual Studio compilers, but not the full Visual Studio environment.


Going to dare to inject a new link here: The latest supported Visual C++ downloads. Stein Åsmul, 29.11.2018.

SVN 405 Method Not Allowed

This means that the folder/file that you are trying to put on svn already exists there. My advice is that before doing anything just right click on the folder/file and click on repo-browser. By doing this you will be able to see all the files/sub-folders etc that are already present on svn. If the required file/folder is not present on the svn then you just delete(after taking backup) the file that you you want to add and then run an update.

Include PHP inside JavaScript (.js) files

This is somewhat tricky since PHP gets evaluated server-side and javascript gets evaluated client side.

I would call your PHP file using an AJAX call from inside javascript and then use JS to insert the returned HTML somewhere on your page.

What is the difference between a generative and a discriminative algorithm?

A generative algorithm models how the data was generated in order to categorize a signal. It asks the question: based on my generation assumptions, which category is most likely to generate this signal?

A discriminative algorithm does not care about how the data was generated, it simply categorizes a given signal.

How do I get into a non-password protected Java keystore or change the password?

Mac Mountain Lion has the same password now it uses Oracle.

Sql server - log is full due to ACTIVE_TRANSACTION

Restarting the SQL Server will clear up the log space used by your database. If this however is not an option, you can try the following:

* Issue a CHECKPOINT command to free up log space in the log file.

* Check the available log space with DBCC SQLPERF('logspace'). If only a small 
  percentage of your log file is actually been used, you can try a DBCC SHRINKFILE 
  command. This can however possibly introduce corruption in your database. 

* If you have another drive with space available you can try to add a file there in 
  order to get enough space to attempt to resolve the issue.

Hope this will help you in finding your solution.

Select values of checkbox group with jQuery

You can have a javascript variable which stores the number of checkboxes that are emitted, i.e in the <head> of the page:

<script type="text/javascript">
var num_cboxes=<?php echo $number_of_checkboxes;?>;
</script>

So if there are 10 checkboxes, starting from user_group-1 to user_group-10, in the javascript code you would get their value in this way:

var values=new Array();
for (x=1; x<=num_cboxes; x++)
{
   values[x]=$("#user_group-" + x).val();
}

HTML - Arabic Support

As mentioned above, by default text editors will not use UTF-8 as the standard encoding for documents. However most editors will allow you to change that in the settings. Even for each specific document.

How to do a redirect to another route with react-router?

For the simple answer, you can use Link component from react-router, instead of button. There is ways to change the route in JS, but seems you don't need that here.

<span className="input-group-btn">
  <Link to="/login" />Click to login</Link>
</span>

To do it programmatically in 1.0.x, you do like this, inside your clickHandler function:

this.history.pushState(null, 'login');

Taken from upgrade doc here

You should have this.history placed on your route handler component by react-router. If it child component beneath that mentioned in routes definition, you may need pass that down further

How do I interpret precision and scale of a number in a database?

Precision of a number is the number of digits.

Scale of a number is the number of digits after the decimal point.

What is generally implied when setting precision and scale on field definition is that they represent maximum values.

Example, a decimal field defined with precision=5 and scale=2 would allow the following values:

  • 123.45 (p=5,s=2)
  • 12.34 (p=4,s=2)
  • 12345 (p=5,s=0)
  • 123.4 (p=4,s=1)
  • 0 (p=0,s=0)

The following values are not allowed or would cause a data loss:

  • 12.345 (p=5,s=3) => could be truncated into 12.35 (p=4,s=2)
  • 1234.56 (p=6,s=2) => could be truncated into 1234.6 (p=5,s=1)
  • 123.456 (p=6,s=3) => could be truncated into 123.46 (p=5,s=2)
  • 123450 (p=6,s=0) => out of range

Note that the range is generally defined by the precision: |value| < 10^p ...

CSS Circular Cropping of Rectangle Image

The object-fit property provides a non-hackish way for doing this (with image centered). It has been supported in major browsers for a few years now (Chrome/Safari since 2013, Firefox since 2015, and Edge since 2015) with the exception of Internet Explorer.

_x000D_
_x000D_
img.rounded {_x000D_
  object-fit: cover;_x000D_
  border-radius: 50%;_x000D_
  height: 100px;_x000D_
  width: 100px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<img src="http://www.electricvelocity.com.au/Upload/Blogs/smart-e-bike-side_2.jpg" class="rounded">
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

What is the use of "assert"?

format : assert Expression[,arguments] When assert encounters a statement,Python evaluates the expression.If the statement is not true,an exception is raised(assertionError). If the assertion fails, Python uses ArgumentExpression as the argument for the AssertionError. AssertionError exceptions can be caught and handled like any other exception using the try-except statement, but if not handled, they will terminate the program and produce a traceback. Example:

def KelvinToFahrenheit(Temperature):    
    assert (Temperature >= 0),"Colder than absolute zero!"    
    return ((Temperature-273)*1.8)+32    
print KelvinToFahrenheit(273)    
print int(KelvinToFahrenheit(505.78))    
print KelvinToFahrenheit(-5)    

When the above code is executed, it produces the following result:

32.0
451
Traceback (most recent call last):    
  File "test.py", line 9, in <module>    
    print KelvinToFahrenheit(-5)    
  File "test.py", line 4, in KelvinToFahrenheit    
    assert (Temperature >= 0),"Colder than absolute zero!"    
AssertionError: Colder than absolute zero!    

navbar color in Twitter Bootstrap

An excellent resource to see how to theme bootstrap is: bootswatch.com. It has nice examples and shows code as well. In short, they use lessc to recompile the bootstrap.css to your new color-theme.css. The nice thing of their approach is that is build on top of bootstrap, so when bootstrap is updated, you just recompile.

Links about using lessc and bootstrap:

Php $_POST method to get textarea value

it is very simply. Just write your php value code between textarea tag.

<textarea id="contact_list"> <?php echo isset($_POST['contact_list']) ? $_POST['contact_list'] : '' ; ?> </textarea>

C# MessageBox dialog result

This answer was not working for me so I went on to MSDN. There I found that now the code should look like this:

//var is of MessageBoxResult type
var result = MessageBox.Show(message, caption,
                             MessageBoxButtons.YesNo,
                             MessageBoxIcon.Question);

// If the no button was pressed ... 
if (result == DialogResult.No)
{
    ...
}

Hope it helps

Where is the web server root directory in WAMP?

Everything suggested by user "mins" is correct, and excellent information.

WAMP 2.5 provides a default Server Configuration display when you enter localhost into your browser. This maps to c:\wamp\www, as described in previous posts. Creating subdirectories under www will cause Projects to appear on this display. A click and you're in your project.

I have various projects under different directory structures, sometimes on shared drives which makes this centralized location of files inconvenient. Luckily, there is a second feature of WAMP 2.5, an Alias, which makes specifying the location of one (or more) disparate web directories quite easy. No editing of configuration files. Using the WAMP menu, choose Apache > Alias directories > Add an Alias.

WAMP has evolved nicely to provide support for a variety of developer preferences.

How to check if anonymous object has a method?

One way to do it must be if (typeof myObj.prop1 != "undefined") {...}

Create html documentation for C# code

This page might interest you: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd722812.aspx

You can generate the XML documentation file using either the command-line compiler or through the Visual Studio interface. If you are compiling with the command-line compiler, use options /doc or /doc+. That will generate an XML file by the same name and in the same path as the assembly. To specify a different file name, use /doc:file.

If you are using the Visual Studio interface, there's a setting that controls whether the XML documentation file is generated. To set it, double-click My Project in Solution Explorer to open the Project Designer. Navigate to the Compile tab. Find "Generate XML documentation file" at the bottom of the window, and make sure it is checked. By default this setting is on. It generates an XML file using the same name and path as the assembly.

SQL select join: is it possible to prefix all columns as 'prefix.*'?

If concerned about schema changes this might work for you: 1. Run a 'DESCRIBE table' query on all tables involved. 2. Use the returned field names to dynamically construct a string of column names prefixed with your chosen alias.

AttributeError: 'DataFrame' object has no attribute

value_counts work only for series. It won't work for entire DataFrame. Try selecting only one column and using this attribute. For example:

df['accepted'].value_counts()

It also won't work if you have duplicate columns. This is because when you select a particular column, it will also represent the duplicate column and will return dataframe instead of series. At that time remove duplicate column by using

df = df.loc[:,~df.columns.duplicated()]
df['accepted'].value_counts()

In a Git repository, how to properly rename a directory?

Basic rename (or move):

git mv <old name> <new name>

Case sensitive rename—eg. from casesensitive to CaseSensitive—you must use a two step:

git mv casesensitive tmp
git mv tmp CaseSensitive

(More about case sensitivity in Git…)

…followed by commit and push would be the simplest way to rename a directory in a git repo.

Splitting a Java String by the pipe symbol using split("|")

Use this code:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String test = "A|B|C||D";

    String[] result = test.split("\\|");

    for (String s : result) {
        System.out.println(">" + s + "<");
    }
}

How to layout multiple panels on a jFrame? (java)

You'll want to use a number of layout managers to help you achieve the basic results you want.

Check out A Visual Guide to Layout Managers for a comparision.

You could use a GridBagLayout but that's one of the most complex (and powerful) layout managers available in the JDK.

You could use a series of compound layout managers instead.

I'd place the graphics component and text area on a single JPanel, using a BorderLayout, with the graphics component in the CENTER and the text area in the SOUTH position.

I'd place the text field and button on a separate JPanel using a GridBagLayout (because it's the simplest I can think of to achieve the over result you want)

I'd place these two panels onto a third, master, panel, using a BorderLayout, with the first panel in the CENTER and the second at the SOUTH position.

But that's me

How to avoid "cannot load such file -- utils/popen" from homebrew on OSX

After updating to El Capitan, /usr/local has root:wheel rights.

Change the rights back to the user using:

sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local

and:

brew doctor && brew update

This helped me to get Homebrew working again.

Alternate background colors for list items

You can do it by specifying alternating class names on the rows. I prefer using row0 and row1, which means you can easily add them in, if the list is being built programmatically:

for ($i = 0; $i < 10; ++$i) {
    echo '<tr class="row' . ($i % 2) . '">...</tr>';
}

Another way would be to use javascript. jQuery is being used in this example:

$('table tr:odd').addClass('row1');

Edit: I don't know why I gave examples using table rows... replace tr with li and table with ul and it applies to your example

React: Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression

You are not returning anything, at least from your snippet and comment.

const def = (props) => { <div></div> };

This is not returning anything, you are wrapping the body of the arrow function with curly braces but there is no return value.

const def = (props) => { return (<div></div>); }; OR const def = (props) => <div></div>;

These two solutions on the other hand are returning a valid React component. Keep also in mind that inside your jsx (as mentioned by @Adam) you can't have if ... else ... but only ternary operators.

Expression must be a modifiable L-value

lvalue means "left value" -- it should be assignable. You cannot change the value of text since it is an array, not a pointer.

Either declare it as char pointer (in this case it's better to declare it as const char*):

const char *text;
if(number == 2) 
    text = "awesome"; 
else 
    text = "you fail";

Or use strcpy:

char text[60];
if(number == 2) 
    strcpy(text, "awesome"); 
else 
    strcpy(text, "you fail");

Download File to server from URL

Use a simple method in php copy()

copy($source_url, $local_path_with_file_name);

Note: if the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten

PHP copy() Function

Note: You need to set permission 777 for the destination folder. Use this method when you are downloading to your local machine.

Special Note: 777 is a permission in Unix based system with full read/write/execute permission to owner, group and everyone. In general we give this permission to assets which are not much needed to be hidden from public on a web server. Example: images folder.

In Jenkins, how to checkout a project into a specific directory (using GIT)

In the new Jenkins 2.0 pipeline (previously named the Workflow Plugin), this is done differently for:

  • The main repository
  • Other additional repositories

Here I am specifically referring to the Multibranch Pipeline version 2.9.

Main repository

This is the repository that contains your Jenkinsfile.

In the Configure screen for your pipeline project, enter your repository name, etc.

Do not use Additional Behaviors > Check out to a sub-directory. This will put your Jenkinsfile in the sub-directory where Jenkins cannot find it.

In Jenkinsfile, check out the main repository in the subdirectory using dir():

dir('subDir') {
    checkout scm
}

Additional repositories

If you want to check out more repositories, use the Pipeline Syntax generator to automatically generate a Groovy code snippet.

In the Configure screen for your pipeline project:

  1. Select Pipeline Syntax. In the Sample Step drop down menu, choose checkout: General SCM.
  2. Select your SCM system, such as Git. Fill in the usual information about your repository or depot.
  3. Note that in the Multibranch Pipeline, environment variable env.BRANCH_NAME contains the branch name of the main repository.
  4. In the Additional Behaviors drop down menu, select Check out to a sub-directory
  5. Click Generate Groovy. Jenkins will display the Groovy code snippet corresponding to the SCM checkout that you specified.
  6. Copy this code into your pipeline script or Jenkinsfile.

JavaScript Number Split into individual digits

var num = 111,
 separateDigits = num.toString().split(""), i, l = separateDigits.length;

for( i = 0; i < l; ++i ) {
someObject.someMethod( +separateDigits[i] );
}

How to avoid page refresh after button click event in asp.net

if you have some codes in your Page_Load method and you don't want that those execute after button click use if(!IsPostBack) on Page_Load

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!IsPostBack)
    {
       // put codes here
    }
}

asp:Button is a server control and for send request to server and get response need page refresh. You can use JQuery and Ajax to prevent full Page refresh

Ignoring a class property in Entity Framework 4.1 Code First

You can use the NotMapped attribute data annotation to instruct Code-First to exclude a particular property

public class Customer
{
    public int CustomerID { set; get; }
    public string FirstName { set; get; } 
    public string LastName{ set; get; } 
    [NotMapped]
    public int Age { set; get; }
}

[NotMapped] attribute is included in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace.

You can alternatively do this with Fluent API overriding OnModelCreating function in your DBContext class:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
   modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>().Ignore(t => t.LastName);
   base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh295847(v=vs.103).aspx

The version I checked is EF 4.3, which is the latest stable version available when you use NuGet.


Edit : SEP 2017

Asp.NET Core(2.0)

Data annotation

If you are using asp.net core (2.0 at the time of this writing), The [NotMapped] attribute can be used on the property level.

public class Customer
{
    public int Id { set; get; }
    public string FirstName { set; get; } 
    public string LastName { set; get; } 
    [NotMapped]
    public int FullName { set; get; }
}

Fluent API

public class SchoolContext : DbContext
{
    public SchoolContext(DbContextOptions<SchoolContext> options) : base(options)
    {
    }
    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>().Ignore(t => t.FullName);
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
    }
    public DbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }
}

Merge or combine by rownames

Use match to return your desired vector, then cbind it to your matrix

cbind(t, z[, "symbol"][match(rownames(t), rownames(z))])

             [,1]         [,2]         [,3]         [,4]   
GO.ID        "GO:0002009" "GO:0030334" "GO:0015674" NA     
LEVEL        "8"          "6"          "7"          NA     
Annotated    "342"        "343"        "350"        NA     
Significant  "1"          "1"          "1"          NA     
Expected     "0.07"       "0.07"       "0.07"       NA     
resultFisher "0.679"      "0.065"      "0.065"      NA     
ILMN_1652464 "0"          "0"          "1"          "PLAC8"
ILMN_1651838 "0"          "0"          "0"          "RND1" 
ILMN_1711311 "1"          "1"          "0"          NA     
ILMN_1653026 "0"          "0"          "0"          "GRA"  

PS. Be warned that t is base R function that is used to transpose matrices. By creating a variable called t, it can lead to confusion in your downstream code.

What are the RGB codes for the Conditional Formatting 'Styles' in Excel?

For anyone who stumbles across this in the future, this is how you do it:

xl.Range("A1:A1").Style := "Bad"
xl.Range("A1:A1").Style := "Good"
xl.Range("A1:A1").Style := "Neutral"

An easy way to check on things like this is to open excel and record a macro. In this case I recorded a macro where I just formatted the cell to "Bad". Once you've recorded the macro, just go in and edit it and it will essentially give you the code. It will require a little translation on your part, but here is what the macro looks like when I edit it:

 Selection.Style = "Bad"

As you can see, it's pretty easy to make the jump to AHK from what excel provides.

How do I programmatically change file permissions?

In addition to erickson's suggestions, there's also jna, which allows you to call native libraries without using jni. It's shockingly easy to use, and I've used it on a couple of projects with great success.

The only caveat is that it's slower than jni, so if you're doing this to a very large number of files that might be an issue for you.

(Editing to add example)

Here's a complete jna chmod example:

import com.sun.jna.Library;
import com.sun.jna.Native;

public class Main {
    private static CLibrary libc = (CLibrary) Native.loadLibrary("c", CLibrary.class);

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        libc.chmod("/path/to/file", 0755);
    }
}

interface CLibrary extends Library {
    public int chmod(String path, int mode);
}

Play/pause HTML 5 video using JQuery

I like this one:

$('video').click(function(){
    this[this.paused ? 'play' : 'pause']();
});

Hope it helps.

How do I capture the output into a variable from an external process in PowerShell?

I got the following to work:

$Command1="C:\\ProgramData\Amazon\Tools\ebsnvme-id.exe"
$result = & invoke-Expression $Command1 | Out-String

$result gives you the needful

How to check if AlarmManager already has an alarm set?

I made a simple (stupid or not) bash script, that extracts the longs from the adb shell, converts them to timestamps and shows it in red.

echo "Please set a search filter"
read search

adb shell dumpsys alarm | grep $search | (while read i; do echo $i; _DT=$(echo $i | grep -Eo 'when\s+([0-9]{10})' | tr -d '[[:alpha:][:space:]]'); if [ $_DT ]; then echo -e "\e[31m$(date -d @$_DT)\e[0m"; fi; done;)

try it ;)

How to update column value in laravel

You may try this:

Page::where('id', $id)->update(array('image' => 'asdasd'));

There are other ways too but no need to use Page::find($id); in this case. But if you use find() then you may try it like this:

$page = Page::find($id);

// Make sure you've got the Page model
if($page) {
    $page->image = 'imagepath';
    $page->save();
}

Also you may use:

$page = Page::findOrFail($id);

So, it'll throw an exception if the model with that id was not found.

How to get the separate digits of an int number?

neither chars() nor codePoints() — the other lambda

String number = Integer.toString( 1100 );

IntStream.range( 0, number.length() ).map( i -> Character.digit( number.codePointAt( i ), 10 ) ).toArray();  // [1, 1, 0, 0]

Are PHP Variables passed by value or by reference?

It seems a lot of people get confused by the way objects are passed to functions and what passing by reference means. Object are still passed by value, it's just the value that is passed in PHP5 is a reference handle. As proof:

<?php
class Holder {
    private $value;

    public function __construct($value) {
        $this->value = $value;
    }

    public function getValue() {
        return $this->value;
    }
}

function swap($x, $y) {
    $tmp = $x;
    $x = $y;
    $y = $tmp;
}

$a = new Holder('a');
$b = new Holder('b');
swap($a, $b);

echo $a->getValue() . ", " . $b->getValue() . "\n";

Outputs:

a, b

To pass by reference means we can modify the variables that are seen by the caller, which clearly the code above does not do. We need to change the swap function to:

<?php
function swap(&$x, &$y) {
    $tmp = $x;
    $x = $y;
    $y = $tmp;
}

$a = new Holder('a');
$b = new Holder('b');
swap($a, $b);

echo $a->getValue() . ", " . $b->getValue() . "\n";

Outputs:

b, a

in order to pass by reference.

Checking for an empty file in C++

How about (not elegant way though )

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
    std::ifstream file;
    file.open("example.txt");

    bool isEmpty(true);
    std::string line;

    while( file >> line ) 
        isEmpty = false;

        std::cout << isEmpty << std::endl;
}

How can I pass an Integer class correctly by reference?

There are 2 ways to pass by reference

  1. Use org.apache.commons.lang.mutable.MutableInt from Apache Commons library.
  2. Create custom class as shown below

Here's a sample code to do it:

public class Test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        Integer a = new Integer(1);
        Integer b = a;
        Test.modify(a);
        System.out.println(a);
        System.out.println(b);

        IntegerObj ao = new IntegerObj(1);
        IntegerObj bo = ao;
        Test.modify(ao);
        System.out.println(ao.value);
        System.out.println(bo.value);
    }


    static void modify(Integer x) {
        x=7;
    }
    static void modify(IntegerObj x) {
        x.value=7;
    }   
}

class IntegerObj {
    int value;
    IntegerObj(int val) {
        this.value = val;
    }
}

Output:

1
1
7
7