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C# get string from textbox

if in string:

string yourVar = yourTextBoxname.Text;

if in numbers:

int yourVar = int.Parse(yourTextBoxname.Text);

Add one day to date in javascript

Note that Date.getDate only returns the day of the month. You can add a day by calling Date.setDate and appending 1.

// Create new Date instance
var date = new Date()

// Add a day
date.setDate(date.getDate() + 1)

JavaScript will automatically update the month and year for you.

EDIT:
Here's a link to a page where you can find all the cool stuff about the built-in Date object, and see what's possible: Date.

Generating random numbers with normal distribution in Excel

Use the NORMINV function together with RAND():

=NORMINV(RAND(),10,7)

To keep your set of random values from changing, select all the values, copy them, and then paste (special) the values back into the same range.


Sample output (column A), 500 numbers generated with this formula:

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google-services.json for different productFlavors

I'm currently using two GCM Project Id in the same app package. I put the google-service.json of my first GCM project but I switch from the first to the second one only changing the SENDER_ID:

    String token = instanceID.getToken(SENDER_ID,GoogleCloudMessaging.INSTANCE_ID_SCOPE, null);

(At this point I think that the google-services.json isn't mandatory )

Constraint Layout Vertical Align Center

It's possible to set the center aligned view as an anchor for other views. In the example below "@+id/stat_2" centered horizontally in parent and it serves as an anchor for other views in this layout.

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/stat_1"
        android:layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="10"
        android:textColor="#777"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/stat_2"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/divider_1" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/stat_detail_1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Streak"
        android:textColor="#777"
        android:textSize="12sp"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/stat_1"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/stat_1"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/stat_1" />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/divider_1"
        android:layout_width="1dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
        android:background="#ccc"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/stat_2"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/stat_2"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/stat_detail_2" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/stat_2"
        android:layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="243"
        android:textColor="#777"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/stat_detail_2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="Calories Burned"
        android:textColor="#777"
        android:textSize="12sp"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/stat_2"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/stat_2"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/stat_2" />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/divider_2"
        android:layout_width="1dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
        android:background="#ccc"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/stat_detail_2"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/stat_2"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/stat_2" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/stat_3"
        android:layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="3200"
        android:textColor="#777"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/stat_2"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/divider_2" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/stat_detail_3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="Steps"
        android:textColor="#777"
        android:textSize="12sp"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/stat_3"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/stat_3"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/stat_3" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Here's how it works on smallest smartphone (3.7 480x800 Nexus One) vs largest smartphone (5.5 1440x2560 Pixel XL)

Result view

Plugin with id 'com.google.gms.google-services' not found

In the app build.gradle dependency, you must add the following code

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:$last_version'

And then please check the Google Play Service SDK tools installing status.

How to find the size of a table in SQL?

Combining the answers from ratty's and Haim's posts (including comments) I've come up with this, which for SQL Server seems to be the most elegant so far:

-- DROP TABLE #tmpTableSizes
CREATE TABLE #tmpTableSizes
(
    tableName varchar(100),
    numberofRows varchar(100),
    reservedSize varchar(50),
    dataSize varchar(50),
    indexSize varchar(50),
    unusedSize varchar(50)
)
insert #tmpTableSizes
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="EXEC sp_spaceused '?'"


select  * from #tmpTableSizes
order by cast(LEFT(reservedSize, LEN(reservedSize) - 4) as int)  desc

This gives you a list of all your tables in order of reserved size, ordered from largest to smallest.

I want to use CASE statement to update some records in sql server 2005

If you don't want to repeat the list twice (as per @J W's answer), then put the updates in a table variable and use a JOIN in the UPDATE:

declare @ToDo table (FromName varchar(10), ToName varchar(10))
insert into @ToDo(FromName,ToName) values
 ('AAA','BBB'),
 ('CCC','DDD'),
 ('EEE','FFF')

update ts set LastName = ToName
from dbo.TestStudents ts
       inner join
     @ToDo t
       on
         ts.LastName = t.FromName

Find out who is locking a file on a network share

Just in case someone looking for a solution to this for a Windows based system or NAS:

There is a built-in function in Windows that shows you what files on the local computer are open/locked by remote computer (which has the file open through a file share):

  • Select "Manage Computer" (Open "Computer Management")
  • click "Shared Folders"
  • choose "Open Files"

There you can even close the file forcefully.

Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'TestMvcApplication.MvcApplication'

I have also faced the same issue and somehow IIS Express's config file is not pointing to the correct bin directory for the website. So editing the Config file which will be in Documents/IISExpress/config fixed the issue. Just point to the correct physical path in Site tag as shown below.

     <site name="MYWEBSITE" id="4">
            <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
                <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="D:\MYWEBSITE" />
            </application>
            <bindings>
                <binding protocol="https" bindingInformation="*:44305:localhost" />
                <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:6689:localhost" />
            </bindings>
        </site>

How to handle authentication popup with Selenium WebDriver using Java

If you have to deal with NTLM proxy authentication a good alternative is to use a configure a local proxy using CNTLM.

The credentials and domain are configured in /etc/cntlm.conf.

Afterwards you can just use you own proxy that handles all the NTLM stuff.

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
proxy.setHttpProxy("localhost:3128");
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);

driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

How to open a new HTML page using jQuery?

You need to use ajax.

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

<code>
$.ajax({
  url: 'ajax/test.html',
  success: function(data) {
    $('.result').html(data);
    alert('Load was performed.');
  }
});
</code>

create table in postgreSQL

Replace bigint(20) not null auto_increment by bigserial not null and datetime by timestamp

Spring Data JPA Update @Query not updating?

I struggled with the same problem where I was trying to execute an update query like the same as you did-

@Modifying
@Transactional
@Query(value = "UPDATE SAMPLE_TABLE st SET st.status=:flag WHERE se.referenceNo in :ids")
public int updateStatus(@Param("flag")String flag, @Param("ids")List<String> references);

This will work if you have put @EnableTransactionManagement annotation on the main class. Spring 3.1 introduces the @EnableTransactionManagement annotation to be used in on @Configuration classes and enable transactional support.

SVN- How to commit multiple files in a single shot

Same as the answer by Dmitry Yudakov, but without an intermediate file, using process substitution:

svn commit --targets <(echo "MyFile1.txt\nMyFile2.txt\n")

Check list of words in another string

Easiest and Simplest method of solving this problem is using re

import re

search_list = ['one', 'two', 'there']
long_string = 'some one long two phrase three'
if re.compile('|'.join(search_list),re.IGNORECASE).search(long_string): #re.IGNORECASE is used to ignore case
    # Do Something if word is present
else:
    # Do Something else if word is not present

Adjust width of input field to its input

Based off Michael's answer, I have created my own version of this using jQuery. I think it is a cleaner/shorter version of most answers here and it seems to get the job done.

I am doing the same thing as most of the people here by using a span to write the input text into then getting the width. Then I am setting the width when the actions keyup and blur are called.

Here is a working codepen. This codepen shows how this can be used with multiple input fields.

HTML Structure:

<input type="text" class="plain-field" placeholder="Full Name">
<span style="display: none;"></span>

jQuery:

function resizeInputs($text) {
    var text = $text.val().replace(/\s+/g, ' '),
        placeholder = $text.attr('placeholder'),
        span = $text.next('span');
        span.text(placeholder);
    var width = span.width();

    if(text !== '') {
        span.text(text);
    var width = span.width();
    }

    $text.css('width', width + 5);
};

The function above gets the inputs value, trims the extra spaces and sets the text into the span to get the width. If there is no text, it instead gets the placeholder and enters that into the span instead. Once it enters the text into the span it then sets the width of the input. The + 5 on the width is because without that the input gets cut off a tiny bit in the Edge Browser.

$('.plain-field').each(function() {
    var $text = $(this);
    resizeInputs($text);
});

$('.plain-field').on('keyup blur', function() {
    var $text = $(this);
    resizeInputs($text);
});

$('.plain-field').on('blur', function() {
    var $text = $(this).val().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
    $(this).val($text);
});

If this could be improved please let me know as this is the cleanest solution I could come up with.

Driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property

  1. You will need InternetExplorer driver executable on your system. So download it from the hinted source (http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/) unpack it and place somewhere you can find it. In my example, I will assume you will place it to C:\Selenium\iexploredriver.exe

  2. Then you have to set it up in the system. Here is the Java code pasted from my Selenium project:

    File file = new File("C:/Selenium/iexploredriver.exe");
    System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());
    WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
    

Basically, you have to set this property before you initialize driver

How to clear a textbox using javascript

For my coffeescript peeps!

#disable Delete button until reason is entered
$("#delete_event_button").prop("disabled", true)
$('#event_reason_is_deleted').click ->
    $('#event_reason_is_deleted').val('')
    $("#delete_event_button").prop("disabled", false)

Return generated pdf using spring MVC

You were on the right track with response.getOutputStream(), but you're not using its output anywhere in your code. Essentially what you need to do is to stream the PDF file's bytes directly to the output stream and flush the response. In Spring you can do it like this:

@RequestMapping(value="/getpdf", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public ResponseEntity<byte[]> getPDF(@RequestBody String json) {
    // convert JSON to Employee 
    Employee emp = convertSomehow(json);

    // generate the file
    PdfUtil.showHelp(emp);

    // retrieve contents of "C:/tmp/report.pdf" that were written in showHelp
    byte[] contents = (...);

    HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
    headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_PDF);
    // Here you have to set the actual filename of your pdf
    String filename = "output.pdf";
    headers.setContentDispositionFormData(filename, filename);
    headers.setCacheControl("must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
    ResponseEntity<byte[]> response = new ResponseEntity<>(contents, headers, HttpStatus.OK);
    return response;
}

Notes:

  • use meaningful names for your methods: naming a method that writes a PDF document showHelp is not a good idea
  • reading a file into a byte[]: example here
  • I'd suggest adding a random string to the temporary PDF file name inside showHelp() to avoid overwriting the file if two users send a request at the same time

PHP order array by date?

I recommend using DateTime objects instead of strings, because you cannot easily compare strings, which is required for sorting. You also get additional advantages for working with dates.

Once you have the DateTime objects, sorting is quite easy:

usort($array, function($a, $b) {
  return ($a['date'] < $b['date']) ? -1 : 1;
});

How can I clear the SQL Server query cache?

Note that neither DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS; nor DBCC FREEPROCCACHE; is supported in SQL Azure / SQL Data Warehouse.

However, if you need to reset the plan cache in SQL Azure, you can alter one of the tables in the query (for instance, just add then remove a column), this will have the side-effect of removing the plan from the cache.

I personally do this as a way of testing query performance without having to deal with cached plans.

More details about SQL Azure Procedure Cache here

Log4j2 configuration - No log4j2 configuration file found

In my case I had to put it in the bin folder of my project even the fact that my classpath is set to the src folder. I have no idea why, but it's worth a try.

JPA EntityManager: Why use persist() over merge()?

If you're using the assigned generator, using merge instead of persist can cause a redundant SQL statement, therefore affecting performance.

Also, calling merge for managed entities is also a mistake since managed entities are automatically managed by Hibernate, and their state is synchronized with the database record by the dirty checking mechanism upon flushing the Persistence Context.

To understand how all this works, you should first know that Hibernate shifts the developer mindset from SQL statements to entity state transitions.

Once an entity is actively managed by Hibernate, all changes are going to be automatically propagated to the database.

Hibernate monitors currently attached entities. But for an entity to become managed, it must be in the right entity state.

To understand the JPA state transitions better, you can visualize the following diagram:

JPA entity state transitions

Or if you use the Hibernate specific API:

Hibernate entity state transitions

As illustrated by the above diagrams, an entity can be in one of the following four states:

  • New (Transient)

A newly created object that hasn’t ever been associated with a Hibernate Session (a.k.a Persistence Context) and is not mapped to any database table row is considered to be in the New (Transient) state.

To become persisted we need to either explicitly call the EntityManager#persist method or make use of the transitive persistence mechanism.

  • Persistent (Managed)

    A persistent entity has been associated with a database table row and it’s being managed by the currently running Persistence Context. Any change made to such an entity is going to be detected and propagated to the database (during the Session flush-time). With Hibernate, we no longer have to execute INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements. Hibernate employs a transactional write-behind working style and changes are synchronized at the very last responsible moment, during the current Session flush-time.

  • Detached

Once the currently running Persistence Context is closed all the previously managed entities become detached. Successive changes will no longer be tracked and no automatic database synchronization is going to happen.

To associate a detached entity to an active Hibernate Session, you can choose one of the following options:

  • Reattaching

    Hibernate (but not JPA 2.1) supports reattaching through the Session#update method.

    A Hibernate Session can only associate one Entity object for a given database row. This is because the Persistence Context acts as an in-memory cache (first level cache) and only one value (entity) is associated with a given key (entity type and database identifier).

    An entity can be reattached only if there is no other JVM object (matching the same database row) already associated with the current Hibernate Session.

  • Merging

    The merge is going to copy the detached entity state (source) to a managed entity instance (destination). If the merging entity has no equivalent in the current Session, one will be fetched from the database.

    The detached object instance will continue to remain detached even after the merge operation.

  • Remove

    Although JPA demands that managed entities only are allowed to be removed, Hibernate can also delete detached entities (but only through a Session#delete method call).

    A removed entity is only scheduled for deletion and the actual database DELETE statement will be executed during Session flush-time.

Resize image proportionally with MaxHeight and MaxWidth constraints

Like this?

public static void Test()
{
    using (var image = Image.FromFile(@"c:\logo.png"))
    using (var newImage = ScaleImage(image, 300, 400))
    {
        newImage.Save(@"c:\test.png", ImageFormat.Png);
    }
}

public static Image ScaleImage(Image image, int maxWidth, int maxHeight)
{
    var ratioX = (double)maxWidth / image.Width;
    var ratioY = (double)maxHeight / image.Height;
    var ratio = Math.Min(ratioX, ratioY);

    var newWidth = (int)(image.Width * ratio);
    var newHeight = (int)(image.Height * ratio);

    var newImage = new Bitmap(newWidth, newHeight);

    using (var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(newImage))
        graphics.DrawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);

    return newImage;
}

AngularJS multiple filter with custom filter function

Hope below answer in this link will help, Multiple Value Filter

And take a look into the fiddle with example

arrayOfObjectswithKeys | filterMultiple:{key1:['value1','value2','value3',...etc],key2:'value4',key3:[value5,value6,...etc]}

fiddle

Python "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file"

I had the same issue and just added this to the top of my file (in Python 3 I didn't have the problem but do in Python 2

#!/usr/local/bin/python
# coding: latin-1

Is this the proper way to do boolean test in SQL?

With Postgres, you may use

select * from users where active

or

select * from users where active = 't'

If you want to use integer value, you have to consider it as a string. You can't use integer value.

select * from users where active = 1   -- Does not work

select * from users where active = '1' -- Works 

Creating a .dll file in C#.Net

You need to change project settings. Right click your project, go to properites. In Application tab change output type to class library instead of Windows application.

What is the difference between compare() and compareTo()?

The methods do not have to give the same answers. That depends on which objects/classes you call them.

If you are implementing your own classes which you know you want to compare at some stage, you may have them implement the Comparable interface and implement the compareTo() method accordingly.

If you are using some classes from an API which do not implement the Comparable interface, but you still want to compare them. I.e. for sorting. You may create your own class which implements the Comparator interface and in its compare() method you implement the logic.

Android refresh current activity

You can use:

startActivity(MyClass.this, MyClass.class).setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);

Single Page Application: advantages and disadvantages

Disadvantages: Technically, design and initial development of SPA is complex and can be avoided. Other reasons for not using this SPA can be:

  • a) Security: Single Page Application is less secure as compared to traditional pages due to cross site scripting(XSS).
  • b) Memory Leak: Memory leak in JavaScript can even cause powerful Computer to slow down. As traditional websites encourage to navigate among pages, thus any memory leak caused by previous page is almost cleansed leaving less residue behind.
  • c) Client must enable JavaScript to run SPA, but in multi-page application JavaScript can be completely avoided.
  • d) SPA grows to optimal size, cause long waiting time. Eg: Working on Gmail with slower connection.

Apart from above, other architectural limitations are Navigational Data loss, No log of Navigational History in browser and difficulty in Automated Functional Testing with selenium.

This link explain Single Page Application's Advantages and Disadvantages.

Using "Object.create" instead of "new"

Another possible usage of Object.create is to clone immutable objects in a cheap and effective way.

var anObj = {
    a: "test",
    b: "jest"
};

var bObj = Object.create(anObj);

bObj.b = "gone"; // replace an existing (by masking prototype)
bObj.c = "brand"; // add a new to demonstrate it is actually a new obj

// now bObj is {a: test, b: gone, c: brand}

Notes: The above snippet creates a clone of an source object (aka not a reference, as in cObj = aObj). It benefits over the copy-properties method (see 1), in that it does not copy object member properties. Rather it creates another -destination- object with it's prototype set on the source object. Moreover when properties are modified on the dest object, they are created "on the fly", masking the prototype's (src's) properties.This constitutes a fast an effective way of cloning immutable objects.

The caveat here is that this applies to source objects that should not be modified after creation (immutable). If the source object is modified after creation, all the clone's unmasked properties will be modified, too.

Fiddle here(http://jsfiddle.net/y5b5q/1/) (needs Object.create capable browser).

How to enable Google Play App Signing

Do the following :

"CREATE APPLICATION" having the same name which you want to upload before.
Click create.
After creation of the app now click on the "App releases"
Click on the "MANAGE PRODUCTION"
Click on the "CREATE RELEASE"
Here you see "Google Play App Signing" dialog.
Just click on the "OPT-OUT" button.
It will ask you to confirm it. Just click on the "confirm" button

Laravel Escaping All HTML in Blade Template

Include the content in {! <content> !} .

HTML/Javascript change div content

change onClick to onClick="changeDivContent(this)" and try

function changeDivContent(btn) {
  content.innerHTML = btn.value
}

_x000D_
_x000D_
function changeDivContent(btn) {_x000D_
  content.innerHTML = btn.value_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<input type="radio" name="radiobutton" value="A" onClick="changeDivContent(this)">_x000D_
<input type="radio" name="radiobutton" value="B" onClick="changeDivContent(this)">_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="content"></div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Difference between two dates in Python

Another short solution:

from datetime import date

def diff_dates(date1, date2):
    return abs(date2-date1).days

def main():
    d1 = date(2013,1,1)
    d2 = date(2013,9,13)
    result1 = diff_dates(d2, d1)
    print '{} days between {} and {}'.format(result1, d1, d2)
    print ("Happy programmer's day!")

main()

minimize app to system tray

This is the method I use in my applications, it's fairly simple and self explanatory but I'm happy to give more details in answer to your comments.

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        // When window state changed, trigger state update.
        this.Resize += SetMinimizeState;

        // When tray icon clicked, trigger window state change.       
        systemTrayIcon.Click += ToggleMinimizeState;
    }      

    // Toggle state between Normal and Minimized.
    private void ToggleMinimizeState(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {    
        bool isMinimized = this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized;
        this.WindowState = (isMinimized) ? FormWindowState.Normal : FormWindowState.Minimized;
    }

    // Show/Hide window and tray icon to match window state.
    private void SetMinimizeState(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {    
        bool isMinimized = this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized;

        this.ShowInTaskbar = !isMinimized;           
        systemTrayIcon.Visible = isMinimized;
        if (isMinimized) systemTrayIcon.ShowBalloonTip(500, "Application", "Application minimized to tray.", ToolTipIcon.Info);
    }

Border around specific rows in a table?

An easier way is to make the table a server side control. You could use something similar to this:

Dim x As Integer
table1.Border = "1"

'Change the first 10 rows to have a black border
 For x = 1 To 10
     table1.Rows(x).BorderColor = "Black"
 Next

'Change the rest of the rows to white
 For x = 11 To 22
     table1.Rows(x).BorderColor = "White"
 Next

RESTful Authentication via Spring

Why don't you start using OAuth with JSON WebTokens

http://projects.spring.io/spring-security-oauth/

OAuth2 is an standardized authorization protocol/framework. As per Official OAuth2 Specification:

You can find more info here

How do I use floating-point division in bash?

It's perfect time to try zsh, an (almost) bash superset, with many additional nice features including floating point math. Here is what your example would be like in zsh:

% IMG_WIDTH=1080
% IMG2_WIDTH=640
% result=$((IMG_WIDTH*1.0/IMG2_WIDTH))
% echo $result
1.6875

This post may help you: bash - Worth switching to zsh for casual use?

What is TypeScript and why would I use it in place of JavaScript?

"TypeScript Fundamentals" -- a Pluralsight video-course by Dan Wahlin and John Papa is a really good, presently (March 25, 2016) updated to reflect TypeScript 1.8, introduction to Typescript.

For me the really good features, beside the nice possibilities for intellisense, are the classes, interfaces, modules, the ease of implementing AMD, and the possibility to use the Visual Studio Typescript debugger when invoked with IE.

To summarize: If used as intended, Typescript can make JavaScript programming more reliable, and easier. It can increase the productivity of the JavaScript programmer significantly over the full SDLC.

Find the line number where a specific word appears with "grep"

Use grep -n to get the line number of a match.

I don't think there's a way to get grep to start on a certain line number. For that, use sed. For example, to start at line 10 and print the line number and line for matching lines, use:

sed -n '10,$ { /regex/ { =; p; } }' file

To get only the line numbers, you could use

grep -n 'regex' | sed 's/^\([0-9]\+\):.*$/\1/'

Or you could simply use sed:

sed -n '/regex/=' file

Combining the two sed commands, you get:

sed -n '10,$ { /regex/= }' file

Using Apache httpclient for https

I put together this test app to reproduce the issue using the HTTP testing framework from the Apache HttpClient package:

ClassLoader cl = HCTest.class.getClassLoader();
URL url = cl.getResource("test.keystore");
KeyStore keystore  = KeyStore.getInstance("jks");
char[] pwd = "nopassword".toCharArray();
keystore.load(url.openStream(), pwd);

TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(
        TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
tmf.init(keystore);
TrustManager[] tm = tmf.getTrustManagers();

KeyManagerFactory kmfactory = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance(
        KeyManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
kmfactory.init(keystore, pwd);
KeyManager[] km = kmfactory.getKeyManagers();

SSLContext sslcontext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
sslcontext.init(km, tm, null);

LocalTestServer localServer = new LocalTestServer(sslcontext);
localServer.registerDefaultHandlers();

localServer.start();
try {

    DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    TrustStrategy trustStrategy = new TrustStrategy() {

        public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
            for (X509Certificate cert: chain) {
                System.err.println(cert);
            }
            return false;
        }

    };

    SSLSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLSocketFactory("TLS", null, null, keystore, null,
            trustStrategy, new AllowAllHostnameVerifier());
    Scheme https = new Scheme("https", 443, sslsf);
    httpclient.getConnectionManager().getSchemeRegistry().register(https);

    InetSocketAddress address = localServer.getServiceAddress();
    HttpHost target1 = new HttpHost(address.getHostName(), address.getPort(), "https");
    HttpGet httpget1 = new HttpGet("/random/100");
    HttpResponse response1 = httpclient.execute(target1, httpget1);
    System.err.println(response1.getStatusLine());
    HttpEntity entity1 = response1.getEntity();
    EntityUtils.consume(entity1);
    HttpHost target2 = new HttpHost("www.verisign.com", 443, "https");
    HttpGet httpget2 = new HttpGet("/");
    HttpResponse response2 = httpclient.execute(target2, httpget2);
    System.err.println(response2.getStatusLine());
    HttpEntity entity2 = response2.getEntity();
    EntityUtils.consume(entity2);
} finally {
    localServer.stop();
}

Even though, Sun's JSSE implementation appears to always read the trust material from the default trust store for some reason, it does not seem to get added to the SSL context and to impact the process of trust verification during the SSL handshake.

Here's the output of the test app. As you can see, the first request succeeds whereas the second fails as the connection to www.verisign.com is rejected as untrusted.

[
[
  Version: V1
  Subject: CN=Simple Test Http Server, OU=Jakarta HttpClient Project, O=Apache Software Foundation, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=Unknown
  Signature Algorithm: SHA1withDSA, OID = 1.2.840.10040.4.3

  Key:  Sun DSA Public Key
    Parameters:DSA
    p:     fd7f5381 1d751229 52df4a9c 2eece4e7 f611b752 3cef4400 c31e3f80 b6512669
    455d4022 51fb593d 8d58fabf c5f5ba30 f6cb9b55 6cd7813b 801d346f f26660b7
    6b9950a5 a49f9fe8 047b1022 c24fbba9 d7feb7c6 1bf83b57 e7c6a8a6 150f04fb
    83f6d3c5 1ec30235 54135a16 9132f675 f3ae2b61 d72aeff2 2203199d d14801c7
    q:     9760508f 15230bcc b292b982 a2eb840b f0581cf5
    g:     f7e1a085 d69b3dde cbbcab5c 36b857b9 7994afbb fa3aea82 f9574c0b 3d078267
    5159578e bad4594f e6710710 8180b449 167123e8 4c281613 b7cf0932 8cc8a6e1
    3c167a8b 547c8d28 e0a3ae1e 2bb3a675 916ea37f 0bfa2135 62f1fb62 7a01243b
    cca4f1be a8519089 a883dfe1 5ae59f06 928b665e 807b5525 64014c3b fecf492a

  y:
    f0cc639f 702fd3b1 03fa8fa6 676c3756 ea505448 23cd1147 fdfa2d7f 662f7c59
    a02ddc1a fd76673e 25210344 cebbc0e7 6250fff1 a814a59f 30ff5c7e c4f186d8
    f0fd346c 29ea270d b054c040 c74a9fc0 55a7020f eacf9f66 a0d86d04 4f4d23de
    7f1d681f 45c4c674 5762b71b 808ded17 05b74baf 8de3c4ab 2ef662e3 053af09e

  Validity: [From: Sat Dec 11 14:48:35 CET 2004,
               To: Tue Dec 09 14:48:35 CET 2014]
  Issuer: CN=Simple Test Http Server, OU=Jakarta HttpClient Project, O=Apache Software Foundation, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=Unknown
  SerialNumber: [    41bafab3]

]
  Algorithm: [SHA1withDSA]
  Signature:
0000: 30 2D 02 15 00 85 BE 6B   D0 91 EF 34 72 05 FF 1A  0-.....k...4r...
0010: DB F6 DE BF 92 53 9B 14   27 02 14 37 8D E8 CB AC  .....S..'..7....
0020: 4E 6C 93 F2 1F 7D 20 A1   2D 6F 80 5F 58 AE 33     Nl.... .-o._X.3

]
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[
[
  Version: V3
  Subject: CN=www.verisign.com, OU=" Production Security Services", O="VeriSign, Inc.", STREET=487 East Middlefield Road, L=Mountain View, ST=California, OID.2.5.4.17=94043, C=US, SERIALNUMBER=2497886, OID.2.5.4.15="V1.0, Clause 5.(b)", OID.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=Delaware, OID.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US
  Signature Algorithm: SHA1withRSA, OID = 1.2.840.113549.1.1.5

  Key:  Sun RSA public key, 2048 bits
  modulus: 20699622354183393041832954221256409980425015218949582822286196083815087464214375375678538878841956356687753084333860738385445545061253653910861690581771234068858443439641948884498053425403458465980515883570440998475638309355278206558031134532548167239684215445939526428677429035048018486881592078320341210422026566944903775926801017506416629554190534665876551381066249522794321313235316733139718653035476771717662585319643139144923795822646805045585537550376512087897918635167815735560529881178122744633480557211052246428978388768010050150525266771462988042507883304193993556759733514505590387262811565107773578140271
  public exponent: 65537
  Validity: [From: Wed May 26 02:00:00 CEST 2010,
               To: Sat May 26 01:59:59 CEST 2012]
  Issuer: CN=VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL SGC CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)06, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US
  SerialNumber: [    53d2bef9 24a7245e 83ca01e4 6caa2477]

Certificate Extensions: 10
[1]: ObjectId: 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.1.1 Criticality=false
AuthorityInfoAccess [
  [accessMethod: 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1
   accessLocation: URIName: http://EVIntl-ocsp.verisign.com, accessMethod: 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.2
   accessLocation: URIName: http://EVIntl-aia.verisign.com/EVIntl2006.cer]
]

...

]
Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSessionImpl.getPeerCertificates(SSLSessionImpl.java:345)
    at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.AbstractVerifier.verify(AbstractVerifier.java:128)
    at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.createLayeredSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:446)
...

How to open a folder in Windows Explorer from VBA?

The easiest way is

Application.FollowHyperlink [path]

Which only takes one line!

How do I multiply each element in a list by a number?

I found it interesting to use list comprehension or map with just one object name x. Note that whenever x is reassigned, its id(x) changes, i.e. points to a different object.

x = [1, 2, 3]
id(x)
2707834975552
x = [1.5 * x for x in x]
id(x)
2707834976576
x
[1.5, 3.0, 4.5]
list(map(lambda x : 2 * x / 3, x))
[1.0, 2.0, 3.0]
id(x) # not reassigned
2707834976576
x = list(map(lambda x : 2 * x / 3, x))
x
[1.0, 2.0, 3.0]
id(x)
2707834980928

What is middleware exactly?

I always thought of it as the oldest software I have had to install. The total app used a web server, a database server, and an application server. The web server being the middleware between the data and the app.

Logging framework incompatibility

SLF4J 1.5.11 and 1.6.0 versions are not compatible (see compatibility report) because the argument list of org.slf4j.spi.LocationAwareLogger.log method has been changed (added Object[] p5):

SLF4J 1.5.11:

LocationAwareLogger.log ( org.slf4j.Marker p1, String p2, int p3,
                          String p4, Throwable p5 )

SLF4J 1.6.0:

LocationAwareLogger.log ( org.slf4j.Marker p1, String p2, int p3,
                          String p4, Object[] p5, Throwable p6 )

See compatibility reports for other SLF4J versions on this page.

You can generate such reports by the japi-compliance-checker tool.

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Matrix Transpose in Python

def transpose(matrix):
   x=0
   trans=[]
   b=len(matrix[0])
   while b!=0:
       trans.append([])
       b-=1
   for list in matrix:
       for element in list:
          trans[x].append(element)
          x+=1
       x=0
   return trans

How do I install g++ on MacOS X?

Type g++(or make) on terminal.

This will prompt for you to install the developer tools, if they are missing.

Also the size will be very less when compared to xcode

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

I had the same issue with importing matplotlib.pylab with Python 3.5.1 on Win 64. Installing the Visual C++ Redistributable für Visual Studio 2015 from this links: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145 fixed the missing DLLs.

I find it better and easier than downloading and pasting DLLs.

What are the differences between JSON and JSONP?

JSONP allows you to specify a callback function that is passed your JSON object. This allows you to bypass the same origin policy and load JSON from an external server into the JavaScript on your webpage.

Ansible: deploy on multiple hosts in the same time

I played a long time with things like ls -1 | xargs -P to parallelize my playbooks runs. But to get a prettier display, and simplicity I wrote a simple Python tool to do it, ansible-parallel.

It goes like this:

pip install ansible-parallel
ansible-parallel *.yml

To answer precisely to the original question (how to run some tasks first, and the rest in parallel), it can be solved by removing the 3 includes and running:

ansible-playbook say_hi.yml
ansible-parallel load_balancers.yml webservers.yml dbservers.yml

How to achieve ripple animation using support library?

sometimes will b usable this line on any layout or components.

 android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground"

Like as.

 <RelativeLayout
                android:id="@+id/relative_ticket_checkin"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground">

Redirect using AngularJS

If you need to redirect out of your angular application use $window.location. That was my case; hopefully someone will find it useful.

com.apple.WebKit.WebContent drops 113 error: Could not find specified service

Mine was different again. I was setting the user-agent like so:

    NSString *jScript = @"var meta = document.createElement('meta'); meta.setAttribute('name', 'viewport'); meta.setAttribute('content', 'width=device-width'); document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(meta);";
    WKUserScript *wkUScript = [[WKUserScript alloc] initWithSource:jScript injectionTime:WKUserScriptInjectionTimeAtDocumentEnd forMainFrameOnly:YES];

This was causing something on the web page to freak out and leak memory. Not sure why but removing this sorted the issue for me.

How do I make CMake output into a 'bin' dir?

Regardless of whether I define this in the main CMakeLists.txt or in the individual ones, it still assumes I want all the libs and bins off the main path, which is the least useful assumption of all.

Remove innerHTML from div

To remove all child elements from your div:

$('#mysweetdiv').empty();

.removeData() and the corresponding .data() function are used to attach data behind an element, say if you wanted to note that a specific list element referred to user ID 25 in your database:

var $li = $('<li>Joe</li>').data('id', 25);

In MS DOS copying several files to one file

make sure you have mapped the y: drive, or copy all the files to local dir c:/local

c:/local> copy *.* c:/newfile.txt

JavaScript math, round to two decimal places

I think the best way I've seen it done is multiplying by 10 to the power of the number of digits, then doing a Math.round, then finally dividing by 10 to the power of digits. Here is a simple function I use in typescript:

function roundToXDigits(value: number, digits: number) {
    value = value * Math.pow(10, digits);
    value = Math.round(value);
    value = value / Math.pow(10, digits);
    return value;
}

Or plain javascript:

function roundToXDigits(value, digits) {
    if(!digits){
        digits = 2;
    }
    value = value * Math.pow(10, digits);
    value = Math.round(value);
    value = value / Math.pow(10, digits);
    return value;
}

How do I parse JSON into an int?

Non of them worked for me. I did this and it worked:

To encode as a json:

JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
obj.put("productId", 100);

To decode:

long temp = (Long) obj.get("productId");

How to return PDF to browser in MVC?

You would normally do a Response.Flush followed by a Response.Close, but for some reason the iTextSharp library doesn't seem to like this. The data doesn't make it through and Adobe thinks the PDF is corrupt. Leave out the Response.Close function and see if your results are better:

Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AppendHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=file.pdf"); // open in a new window
Response.OutputStream.Write(outStream.GetBuffer(), 0, outStream.GetBuffer().Length);
Response.Flush();

// For some reason, if we close the Response stream, the PDF doesn't make it through
//Response.Close();

Yii2 data provider default sorting

you can modify search model like this

$dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider([
        'query' => $query,
        'sort' => [
            'defaultOrder' => ['user_id ASC, document_id ASC']
        ]
    ]);

Run a Python script from another Python script, passing in arguments

SubProcess module:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/subprocess.html#using-the-subprocess-module

import subprocess
subprocess.Popen("script2.py 1", shell=True)

With this, you can also redirect stdin, stdout, and stderr.

How do I add a auto_increment primary key in SQL Server database?

If you have the column it's very easy.

Using the designer, you could set the column as an identity (1,1): right click on the table ? design ? in part left (right click) ? properties ? in identity columns, select #column.


Properties:

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Identity column:

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Datatable date sorting dd/mm/yyyy issue

use this snippet!

$(document).ready(function() {
 $.fn.dataTable.moment = function ( format, locale ) {
    var types = $.fn.dataTable.ext.type;

    // Add type detection
    types.detect.unshift( function ( d ) {
        return moment( d, format, locale, true ).isValid() ?
            'moment-'+format :
            null;
    } );

    // Add sorting method - use an integer for the sorting
    types.order[ 'moment-'+format+'-pre' ] = function ( d ) {
        return moment( d, format, locale, true ).unix();
    };
};

$.fn.dataTable.moment('DD/MM/YYYY');

$('#example').DataTable();
});

the moment js works well for all date and time formats, add this snipper before you initialize the datatable like i've done earlier.

Also remember to load the http://momentjs.com/

How do I call ::CreateProcess in c++ to launch a Windows executable?

Bear in mind that using WaitForSingleObject can get you into trouble in this scenario. The following is snipped from a tip on my website:

The problem arises because your application has a window but isn't pumping messages. If the spawned application invokes SendMessage with one of the broadcast targets (HWND_BROADCAST or HWND_TOPMOST), then the SendMessage won't return to the new application until all applications have handled the message - but your app can't handle the message because it isn't pumping messages.... so the new app locks up, so your wait never succeeds.... DEADLOCK.

If you have absolute control over the spawned application, then there are measures you can take, such as using SendMessageTimeout rather than SendMessage (e.g. for DDE initiations, if anybody is still using that). But there are situations which cause implicit SendMessage broadcasts over which you have no control, such as using the SetSysColors API for instance.

The only safe ways round this are:

  1. split off the Wait into a separate thread, or
  2. use a timeout on the Wait and use PeekMessage in your Wait loop to ensure that you pump messages, or
  3. use the MsgWaitForMultipleObjects API.

How to change Android version and code version number?

Open your build.gradle file and make sure you have versionCode and versionName inside defaultConfig element. If not, add them. Refer to this link for more details.

Importing a Maven project into Eclipse from Git

Direct answer: Go to Files>>Import>>Git>>Project From Git (you should have GIT installed on Eclips)

Open another page in php

header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' );

in your process.php file

How can I get input radio elements to horizontally align?

In your case, you just need to remove the line breaks (<br> tags) between the elements - input elements are inline-block by default (in Chrome at least). (updated example).

<input type="radio" name="editList" value="always">Always
<input type="radio" name="editList" value="never">Never
<input type="radio" name="editList" value="costChange">Cost Change

I'd suggest using <label> elements, though. In doing so, clicking on the label will check the element too. Either associate the <label>'s for attribute with the <input>'s id: (example)

<input type="radio" name="editList" id="always" value="always"/>
<label for="always">Always</label>

<input type="radio" name="editList" id="never" value="never"/>
<label for="never">Never</label>

<input type="radio" name="editList" id="change" value="costChange"/>
<label for="change">Cost Change</label>

..or wrap the <label> elements around the <input> elements directly: (example)

<label>
    <input type="radio" name="editList" value="always"/>Always
</label>
<label>
    <input type="radio" name="editList" value="never"/>Never
</label>
<label>
    <input type="radio" name="editList" value="costChange"/>Cost Change
</label>

You can also get fancy and use the :checked pseudo class.

Singleton in Android

Tip: To create singleton class In Android Studio, right click in your project and open menu:

New -> Java Class -> Choose Singleton from dropdown menu

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How do I test axios in Jest?

I could do that following the steps:

  1. Create a folder __mocks__/ (as pointed by @Januartha comment)
  2. Implement an axios.js mock file
  3. Use my implemented module on test

The mock will happen automatically

Example of the mock module:

module.exports = {
    get: jest.fn((url) => {
        if (url === '/something') {
            return Promise.resolve({
                data: 'data'
            });
        }
    }),
    post: jest.fn((url) => {
        if (url === '/something') {
            return Promise.resolve({
                data: 'data'
            });
        }
        if (url === '/something2') {
            return Promise.resolve({
                data: 'data2'
            });
        }
    }),
    create: jest.fn(function () {
        return this;
    })
};

How do you do a deep copy of an object in .NET?

I have a simpler idea. Use LINQ with a new selection.

public class Fruit
{
  public string Name {get; set;}
  public int SeedCount {get; set;}
}

void SomeMethod()
{
  List<Fruit> originalFruits = new List<Fruit>();
  originalFruits.Add(new Fruit {Name="Apple", SeedCount=10});
  originalFruits.Add(new Fruit {Name="Banana", SeedCount=0});

  //Deep Copy
  List<Fruit> deepCopiedFruits = from f in originalFruits
              select new Fruit {Name=f.Name, SeedCount=f.SeedCount};
}

NameError: global name 'unicode' is not defined - in Python 3

Python 3 renamed the unicode type to str, the old str type has been replaced by bytes.

if isinstance(unicode_or_str, str):
    text = unicode_or_str
    decoded = False
else:
    text = unicode_or_str.decode(encoding)
    decoded = True

You may want to read the Python 3 porting HOWTO for more such details. There is also Lennart Regebro's Porting to Python 3: An in-depth guide, free online.

Last but not least, you could just try to use the 2to3 tool to see how that translates the code for you.

How to display special characters in PHP

Try This

Input:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<?php
$str = "This is some <b>bold</b> text.";
echo htmlspecialchars($str);
?>

<p>Converting &lt; and &gt; into entities are often used to prevent browsers from using it as an HTML element. <br />This can be especially useful to prevent code from running when users have access to display input on your homepage.</p>

</body>
</html>

Output:

This is some <b>bold</b> text.

Converting < and > into entities are often used to prevent browsers from using it as an HTML element. This can be especially useful to prevent code from running when users have access to display input on your homepage.

What is difference between png8 and png24

Basic difference : a 8-bit PNG comprises a max. of 256 colors. PNG-24 is a loss-less format and can contain up to 16 million colors.

Impacts:

  1. If you are using any round corner image then edges might visible in png8 format.
  2. ie6 doesnt support png24 format.

How to get device make and model on iOS?

#import <sys/utsname.h>

#define HARDWARE @{@"i386": @"Simulator",@"x86_64": @"Simulator",@"iPod1,1": @"iPod Touch",@"iPod2,1": @"iPod Touch 2nd Generation",@"iPod3,1": @"iPod Touch 3rd Generation",@"iPod4,1": @"iPod Touch 4th Generation",@"iPhone1,1": @"iPhone",@"iPhone1,2": @"iPhone 3G",@"iPhone2,1": @"iPhone 3GS",@"iPhone3,1": @"iPhone 4",@"iPhone4,1": @"iPhone 4S",@"iPhone5,1": @"iPhone 5",@"iPhone5,2": @"iPhone 5",@"iPhone5,3": @"iPhone 5c",@"iPhone5,4": @"iPhone 5c",@"iPhone6,1": @"iPhone 5s",@"iPhone6,2": @"iPhone 5s",@"iPad1,1": @"iPad",@"iPad2,1": @"iPad 2",@"iPad3,1": @"iPad 3rd Generation ",@"iPad3,4": @"iPad 4th Generation ",@"iPad2,5": @"iPad Mini",@"iPad4,4": @"iPad Mini 2nd Generation - Wifi",@"iPad4,5": @"iPad Mini 2nd Generation - Cellular",@"iPad4,1": @"iPad Air 5th Generation - Wifi",@"iPad4,2": @"iPad Air 5th Generation - Cellular"}

@interface ViewController ()
@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    struct utsname systemInfo;
    uname(&systemInfo);
    NSLog(@"hardware: %@",[HARDWARE objectForKey:[NSString stringWithCString: systemInfo.machine encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]);
}

PHP Composer update "cannot allocate memory" error (using Laravel 4)

Here are the steps to fix the problem: (instant fast SWAP file allocation method used)

Server SWAP Setup (Ubuntu 16.04 SWAP to Fix Out of Memory Errors)

Check if you have swap already, memory and disk size:

    sudo swapon -s
    free -m
    df -h

Make swap file: (change 1G to 4G if you want 4GB SWAP memory)

    sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile 

Check swap file:

    ls -lh /swapfile

Assign Swap File:

    sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
    sudo mkswap /swapfile
    sudo swapon /swapfile

Check if swap OK, memory and disk size:

    sudo swapon -s
    free -m
    df -h

Attach Swap File on System Restart:

    sudo nano /etc/fstab
        /swapfile   none    swap    sw    0   0

Adjust Swap File Settings:

    cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
    cat /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

    sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
    sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

    sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

SWAP File Priority: (0-100% => 0: Don't put to swap, 100: Put on SWAP and free the RAM)

        vm.swappiness=10

Remove inode from cache: (100: system removes inode information from the cache too quickly)

        vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50

Calling Non-Static Method In Static Method In Java

It is not possible to call non-static method within static method. The logic behind it is we do not create an object to instantiate static method, but we must create an object to instantiate non-static method. So non-static method will not get object for its instantiation inside static method, thus making it incapable for being instantiated.

java.net.ConnectException :connection timed out: connect?

Number (1): The IP was incorrect - is the correct answer. The /etc/hosts file (a.k.a. C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ) had an incorrect entry for the local machine name. Corrected the 'hosts' file and Camel runs very well. Thanks for the pointer.

Insert variable into Header Location PHP

like this?

<?php
$url_endpoint = get_permalink();
$url_endpoint = parse_url( $url_endpoint );
$url_endpoint = $url_endpoint['path'];

header('Location: http://linkhere.com/'. $url_endpoint);

?>

StringBuilder vs String concatenation in toString() in Java

See the example below:

static final int MAX_ITERATIONS = 50000;
static final int CALC_AVG_EVERY = 10000;

public static void main(String[] args) {
    printBytecodeVersion();
    printJavaVersion();
    case1();//str.concat
    case2();//+=
    case3();//StringBuilder
}

static void case1() {
    System.out.println("[str1.concat(str2)]");
    List<Long> savedTimes = new ArrayList();
    long startTimeAll = System.currentTimeMillis();
    String str = "";
    for (int i = 0; i < MAX_ITERATIONS; i++) {
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        str = str.concat(UUID.randomUUID() + "---");
        saveTime(savedTimes, startTime);
    }
    System.out.println("Created string of length:" + str.length() + " in " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTimeAll) + " ms");
}

static void case2() {
    System.out.println("[str1+=str2]");
    List<Long> savedTimes = new ArrayList();
    long startTimeAll = System.currentTimeMillis();
    String str = "";
    for (int i = 0; i < MAX_ITERATIONS; i++) {
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        str += UUID.randomUUID() + "---";
        saveTime(savedTimes, startTime);
    }
    System.out.println("Created string of length:" + str.length() + " in " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTimeAll) + " ms");
}

static void case3() {
    System.out.println("[str1.append(str2)]");
    List<Long> savedTimes = new ArrayList();
    long startTimeAll = System.currentTimeMillis();
    StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder("");
    for (int i = 0; i < MAX_ITERATIONS; i++) {
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        str.append(UUID.randomUUID() + "---");
        saveTime(savedTimes, startTime);
    }
    System.out.println("Created string of length:" + str.length() + " in " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTimeAll) + " ms");

}

static void saveTime(List<Long> executionTimes, long startTime) {
    executionTimes.add(System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime);
    if (executionTimes.size() % CALC_AVG_EVERY == 0) {
        out.println("average time for " + executionTimes.size() + " concatenations: "
                + NumberFormat.getInstance().format(executionTimes.stream().mapToLong(Long::longValue).average().orElseGet(() -> 0))
                + " ms avg");
        executionTimes.clear();
    }
}

Output:

java bytecode version:8
java.version: 1.8.0_144
[str1.concat(str2)]
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.096 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.185 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.327 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.501 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.656 ms avg
Created string of length:1950000 in 17745 ms
[str1+=str2]
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.21 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.652 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 1.129 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 1.727 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 2.302 ms avg
Created string of length:1950000 in 60279 ms
[str1.append(str2)]
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.002 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.002 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.002 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.002 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.002 ms avg
Created string of length:1950000 in 100 ms

As the string length increases, so does the concatenation time.
That is where the StringBuilder is definitely needed.
As you see, the concatenation: UUID.randomUUID()+"---", does not really affect the time.

P.S.: I don't think When to use StringBuilder in Java is really a duplicate of this.
This question talks about toString() which most of the times does not perform concatenations of huge strings.


2019 Update

Since java8 times, things have changed a bit. It seems that now(java13), the concatenation time of += is practically the same as str.concat(). However StringBuilder concatenation time is still constant. (Original post above was slightly edited to add more verbose output)

java bytecode version:13
java.version: 13.0.1
[str1.concat(str2)]
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.047 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.1 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.17 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.255 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.336 ms avg
Created string of length:1950000 in 9147 ms
[str1+=str2]
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.037 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.097 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.249 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.298 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.326 ms avg
Created string of length:1950000 in 10191 ms
[str1.append(str2)]
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.001 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.001 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.001 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.001 ms avg
average time for 10000 concatenations: 0.001 ms avg
Created string of length:1950000 in 43 ms

Worth noting also bytecode:8/java.version:13 combination has a good performance benefit compared to bytecode:8/java.version:8

scrollIntoView Scrolls just too far

Assuming you want to scroll to the divs that are all at the same level in DOM and have class name "scroll-with-offset", then this CSS will solve the issue:

.scroll-with-offset {    
  padding-top: 100px;
  margin-bottom: -100px;
}

The offset from the top of the page is 100px. It will only work as intended with block: 'start':

element.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'start' });

What's happening is that the divs' top point is at the normal location but their inner contents start 100px below the normal location. That's what padding-top:100px is for. margin-bottom: -100px is to offset the below div's extra margin. To make the solution complete also add this CSS to offset the margins/paddings for the top-most and bottom-most divs:

.top-div {
  padding-top: 0;
}
.bottom-div {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

Keep getting No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' error with XMLHttpRequest

We see this a lot with OAuth2 integrations. We provide API services to our Customers, and they'll naively try to put their private key into an AJAX call. This is really poor security. And well-coded API Gateways, backends for frontend, and other such proxies, do not allow this. You should get this error.

I will quote @aspillers comment and change a single word: "Access-Control-Allow-Origin is a header sent in a server response which indicates IF the client is allowed to see the contents of a result".

ISSUE: The problem is that a developer is trying to include their private key inside a client-side (browser) JavaScript request. They will get an error, and this is because they are exposing their client secret.

SOLUTION: Have the JavaScript web application talk to a backend service that holds the client secret securely. That backend service can authenticate the web app to the OAuth2 provider, and get an access token. Then the web application can make the AJAX call.

What are the differences between C, C# and C++ in terms of real-world applications?

C is the core language that most closely resembles and directly translates into CPU machine code. CPUs follow instructions that move, add, logically combine, compare, jump, push and pop. C does exactly this using much easier syntax. If you study the disassembly, you can learn to write C code that is just as fast and compact as assembly. It is my preferred language on 8 bit micro controllers with limited memory. If you write a large PC program in C you will get into trouble because of its limited organization. That is where object oriented programming becomes powerful. The ability of C++ and C# classes to contain data and functions together enforces organization which in turn allows more complex operability over C. C++ was essential for quick processing in the past when CPUs only had one core. I am beginning to learn C# now. Its class only structure appears to enforce a higher degree of organization than C++ which should ultimately lead to faster development and promote code sharing. C# is not interpreted like VB. It is partially compiled at development time and then further translated at run time to become more platform friendly.

How can I get the root domain URI in ASP.NET?

--Adding the port can help when running IIS Express

Request.Url.Scheme + "://" + Request.Url.Host + ":" + Request.Url.Port

Which ChromeDriver version is compatible with which Chrome Browser version?

I found, that chrome and chromedriver versions support policy has changed recently.

As stated on downloads page:

There is general guide to select version of crhomedriver for specific chrome version: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads/version-selection

Here is excerpt:

  • First, find out which version of Chrome you are using. Let's say you have Chrome 72.0.3626.81.
  • Take the Chrome version number, remove the last part, and append the result to URL "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_". For example, with Chrome version 72.0.3626.81, you'd get a URL "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_72.0.3626".
  • Use the URL created in the last step to retrieve a small file containing the version of ChromeDriver to use. For example, the above URL will get your a file containing "72.0.3626.69". (The actual number may change in the future, of course.)
  • Use the version number retrieved from the previous step to construct the URL to download ChromeDriver. With version 72.0.3626.69, the URL would be "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=72.0.3626.69/".
  • After the initial download, it is recommended that you occasionally go through the above process again to see if there are any bug fix releases.

Note, that this version selection algorithm can be easily automated. For example, simple powershell script in another answer has automated chromedriver updating on windows platform.

Git merge with force overwrite

You can try "ours" option in git merge,

git merge branch -X ours

This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by favoring our version. Changes from the other tree that do not conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result. For a binary file, the entire contents are taken from our side.

Convert a JSON string to object in Java ME?

Jackson for big files, GSON for small files, and JSON.simple for handling both.

Getting Data from Android Play Store

Disclaimer: I am from 42matters, who provides this data already on https://42matters.com/api , feel free to check it out or drop us a line.

As lenik mentioned there are open-source libraries that already help with obtaining some data from GPlay. If you want to build one yourself you can try to parse the Google Play App page, but you should pay attention to the following:

  • Make sure the URL you are trying to parse is not blocked in robots.txt - e.g. https://play.google.com/robots.txt
  • Make sure that you are not doing it too often, Google will throttle and potentially blacklist you if you are doing it too much.
  • Send a correct User-Agent header to actually show you are a bot
  • The page of an app is big - make sure you accept gzip and request the mobile version
  • GPlay website is not an API, it doesn't care that you parse it so it will change over time. Make sure you handle changes - e.g. by having test to make sure you get what you expected.

So that in mind getting one page metadata is a matter of fetching the page html and parsing it properly. With JSoup you can try:

      HttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
      HttpGet request = new HttpGet(crawlUrl);
      HttpResponse rsp = httpClient.execute(request);

      int statusCode = rsp.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

      if (statusCode == 200) {
           String content = EntityUtils.toString(rsp.getEntity());    
           Document doc = Jsoup.parse(content);
           //parse content, whatever you need
           Element price = doc.select("[itemprop=price]").first();
      }      

For that very simple use case that should get you started. However, the moment you want to do more interesting stuff, things get complicated:

  • Search is forbidden in robots.
  • Keeping app metadata up-to-date is hard to do. There are more than 2.2m apps, if you want to refresh their metadata daily there are 2.2 requests/day, which will 1) get blocked immediately, 2) costs a lot of money - pessimistic 220gb data transfer per day if one app is 100k
  • How do you discover new apps
  • How do you get pricing in each country, translations of each language

The list goes on. If you don't want to do all this by yourself, you can consider 42matters API, which supports lookup and search, top google charts, advanced queries and filters. And this for 35 languages and more than 50 countries.

[2]:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request

You have more than one form tags with runat="server" on your template, most probably you have one in your master page, remove one on your aspx page, it is not needed if already have form in master page file which is surrounding your content place holders.

Try to remove that tag:

<form id="formID" runat="server">

and of course closing tag:

</form>

How to dynamic filter options of <select > with jQuery?

I had a similar problem to this, so I altered the accepted answer to make a more generic version of the function. I thought I'd leave it here.

var filterSelectOptions = function($select, callback) {

    var options = null,
        dataOptions = $select.data('options');

    if (typeof dataOptions === 'undefined') {
        options = [];
        $select.children('option').each(function() {
            var $this = $(this);
            options.push({value: $this.val(), text: $this.text()});
        });
        $select.data('options', options);
    } else {
        options = dataOptions;
    }

    $select.empty();

    $.each(options, function(i) {
        var option = options[i];
        if(callback(option)) {
            $select.append(
                $('<option/>').text(option.text).val(option.value)
            );
        }
    });
};

Call An Asynchronous Javascript Function Synchronously

You can force asynchronous JavaScript in NodeJS to be synchronous with sync-rpc.

It will definitely freeze your UI though, so I'm still a naysayer when it comes to whether what it's possible to take the shortcut you need to take. It's not possible to suspend the One And Only Thread in JavaScript, even if NodeJS lets you block it sometimes. No callbacks, events, anything asynchronous at all will be able to process until your promise resolves. So unless you the reader have an unavoidable situation like the OP (or, in my case, are writing a glorified shell script with no callbacks, events, etc.), DO NOT DO THIS!

But here's how you can do this:

./calling-file.js

var createClient = require('sync-rpc');
var mySynchronousCall = createClient(require.resolve('./my-asynchronous-call'), 'init data');

var param1 = 'test data'
var data = mySynchronousCall(param1);
console.log(data); // prints: received "test data" after "init data"

./my-asynchronous-call.js

function init(initData) {
  return function(param1) {
    // Return a promise here and the resulting rpc client will be synchronous
    return Promise.resolve('received "' + param1 + '" after "' + initData + '"');
  };
}
module.exports = init;

LIMITATIONS:

These are both a consequence of how sync-rpc is implemented, which is by abusing require('child_process').spawnSync:

  1. This will not work in the browser.
  2. The arguments to your function must be serializable. Your arguments will pass in and out of JSON.stringify, so functions and non-enumerable properties like prototype chains will be lost.

How to resolve a Java Rounding Double issue

Although you should not use doubles for precise calculations the following trick helped me if you are rounding the results anyway.

public static int round(Double i) {
    return (int) Math.round(i + ((i > 0.0) ? 0.00000001 : -0.00000001));
}

Example:

    Double foo = 0.0;
    for (int i = 1; i <= 150; i++) {
        foo += 0.00010;
    }
    System.out.println(foo);
    System.out.println(Math.round(foo * 100.0) / 100.0);
    System.out.println(round(foo*100.0) / 100.0);

Which prints:

0.014999999999999965
0.01
0.02

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_precision

Is there a way to specify how many characters of a string to print out using printf()?

Using printf you can do

printf("Here are the first 8 chars: %.8s\n", "A string that is more than 8 chars");

If you're using C++, you can achieve the same result using the STL:

using namespace std; // for clarity
string s("A string that is more than 8 chars");
cout << "Here are the first 8 chars: ";
copy(s.begin(), s.begin() + 8, ostream_iterator<char>(cout));
cout << endl;

Or, less efficiently:

cout << "Here are the first 8 chars: " <<
        string(s.begin(), s.begin() + 8) << endl;

Are there any Java method ordering conventions?

40 methods in a single class is a bit much.

Would it make sense to move some of the functionality into other - suitably named - classes. Then it is much easier to make sense of.

When you have fewer, it is much easier to list them in a natural reading order. A frequent paradigm is to list things either before or after you need them , in the order you need them.

This usually means that main() goes on top or on bottom.

Find the most popular element in int[] array

import java.util.Scanner;


public class Mostrepeatednumber
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        int most = 0;
        int temp=0;
        int count=0,tempcount;
        Scanner in=new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Enter any number");
        int n=in.nextInt();
        int arr[]=new int[n];
        System.out.print("Enter array value:");
        for(int i=0;i<=n-1;i++)
        {
            int n1=in.nextInt();
            arr[i]=n1;
        }
        //!!!!!!!! user input concept closed
        //logic can be started
        for(int j=0;j<=n-1;j++)
        {
        temp=arr[j];
        tempcount=0;
            for(int k=1;k<=n-1;k++)
                {
                if(temp==arr[k])
                    {
                        tempcount++;
                    }   
                        if(count<tempcount)
                            {
                                most=arr[k];
                                    count=tempcount;
                            }
                }

        }
        System.out.println(most);
    }

}

How to remove square brackets in string using regex?

Use this regular expression to match square brackets or single quotes:

/[\[\]']+/g

Replace with the empty string.

_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log("['abc','xyz']".replace(/[\[\]']+/g,''));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

HTML5 and frameborder

HTML 5 doesn't support attributes such as frameborder, scrolling, marginwidth, and marginheight (which were supported in HTML 4.01). Instead, the HTML 5 specification has introduced the seamless attribute. The seamless attribute allows the inline frame to appear as though it is being rendered as part of the containing document. For example, borders and scrollbars will not appear.

According to MDN

frameborder Obsolete since HTML5

The value 1 (the default) draws a border around this frame. The value 0 removes the border around this frame, but you should instead use the CSS property border to control borders.

Like the quote above says, you should remove the border with CSS;
either inline (style="border: none;") or in your stylesheet (iframe { border: none; }).

That being said, there doesn't seem to be a single iframe provider that doesn't use frameborder="0". Even YouTube still uses the attribute and doesn't even provide a style attribute to make iframes backwards compatible for when frameborder isn't supported anymore. It's safe to say that the attribute isn't going anywhere soon. This leaves you with 3 options:

  1. Keep using frameborder, just to be sure it works (for now)
  2. Use CSS, to do the "right" thing
  3. Use both. Although this doesn't resolve the incompatibility problem (just like option 1), it does and will work in every browser that has been and will be

As for the previous state of this decade-old answer:

The seamless attribute has been supported for such a short time (or not at all by some browsers), that MDN doesn't even list it as a deprecated feature. Don't use it and don't get confused by the comments below.

Getting value from a cell from a gridview on RowDataBound event

Label lblSecret = ((Label)e.Row.FindControl("lblSecret"));

Best way to store data locally in .NET (C#)

I'd store the file as JSON. Since you're storing a dictionary which is just a name/value pair list then this is pretty much what json was designed for.
There a quite a few decent, free .NET json libraries - here's one but you can find a full list on the first link.

How to efficiently concatenate strings in go

Expanding on cd1's answer: You might use append() instead of copy(). append() makes ever bigger advance provisions, costing a little more memory, but saving time. I added two more benchmarks at the top of yours. Run locally with

go test -bench=. -benchtime=100ms

On my thinkpad T400s it yields:

BenchmarkAppendEmpty    50000000         5.0 ns/op
BenchmarkAppendPrealloc 50000000         3.5 ns/op
BenchmarkCopy           20000000        10.2 ns/op

How to SFTP with PHP?

I found that "phpseclib" should help you with this (SFTP and many more features). http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/

To Put the file to the server, simply call (Code example from http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/sftp/examples.html#put)

<?php
include('Net/SFTP.php');

$sftp = new Net_SFTP('www.domain.tld');
if (!$sftp->login('username', 'password')) {
    exit('Login Failed');
}

// puts a three-byte file named filename.remote on the SFTP server
$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'xxx');
// puts an x-byte file named filename.remote on the SFTP server,
// where x is the size of filename.local
$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'filename.local', NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE);

Initialising a multidimensional array in Java

 int[][] myNums = { {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, {5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11} };
 for (int x = 0; x < myNums.length; ++x) {
    for(int y = 0; y < myNums[i].length; ++y) {
       System.out.print(myNums[x][y]);
    }
 }

Output

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Relative imports in Python 3

if both packages are in your import path (sys.path), and the module/class you want is in example/example.py, then to access the class without relative import try:

from example.example import fkt

source of historical stock data

You can use yahoo to get daily data (a much more managable dataset) but you have to structure the urls. See this link. You are not making lots of little requests you are making a fewer large requests. Lot of free software uses this so they shouldn't shut you down.

EDIT: This guy does it, maybe you can have a look at the calls his software makes.

How to get the id of the element clicked using jQuery

Since you are loading in the spans via ajax you will have to attach delegate handlers to the events to catch them as they bubble up.

$(document).on('click','span',function(e){
    console.log(e.target.id)
})

you will want to attach the event to the closest static member you can to increase efficiency.

$('#main_div').on('click','span',function(e){
    console.log(e.target.id)
})

is better than binding to the document for instance.

This question may help you understand

Direct vs. Delegated - jQuery .on()

How do I sort an observable collection?

To improve a little bit the extension method on xr280xr answer I added an optional bool parameter to determine whether the sorting is descending or not. I also included the suggestion made by Carlos P in the comment to that answer. Please see below.

public static void Sort<TSource, TKey>(this ObservableCollection<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector, bool desc = false)
    {
        if (source == null) return;

        Comparer<TKey> comparer = Comparer<TKey>.Default;

        for (int i = source.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
        {
            for (int j = 1; j <= i; j++)
            {
                TSource o1 = source[j - 1];
                TSource o2 = source[j];
                int comparison = comparer.Compare(keySelector(o1), keySelector(o2));
                if (desc && comparison < 0)
                    source.Move(j, j - 1);
                else if (!desc && comparison > 0)
                    source.Move(j - 1, j);
            }
        }
    }

hide div tag on mobile view only?

You can be guided by this example. On your css file:

.deskContent {
    background-image: url(../img/big-pic.png);
    width: 100%;
    height: 400px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-size: contain; 
}

.phoneContent {
    background-image: url(../img/small-pic.png);
    width: 100%;
    height: 100px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-size: contain;
}

@media all and (max-width: 959px) {
    .deskContent {display:block;}
    .phoneContent {display:none;}
}

@media all and (max-width: 479px) {
    .deskContent {display:none;}
    .phoneContent {display:block;}
}

On your html file:

<div class="deskContent">Content for desktop</div>
<div class="phoneContent">Content for mobile</div>

Best way to display data via JSON using jQuery

Something like this:

$.getJSON("http://mywebsite.com/json/get.php?cid=15",
        function(data){
          $.each(data.products, function(i,product){
            content = '<p>' + product.product_title + '</p>';
            content += '<p>' + product.product_short_description + '</p>';
            content += '<img src="' + product.product_thumbnail_src + '"/>';
            content += '<br/>';
            $(content).appendTo("#product_list");
          });
        });

Would take a json object made from a PHP array returned with the key of products. e.g:

Array('products' => Array(0 => Array('product_title' => 'Product 1',
                                     'product_short_description' => 'Product 1 is a useful product',
                                     'product_thumbnail_src' => '/images/15/1.jpg'
                                    )
                          1 => Array('product_title' => 'Product 2',
                                     'product_short_description' => 'Product 2 is a not so useful product',
                                     'product_thumbnail_src' => '/images/15/2.jpg'
                                    )
                         )
     )

To reload the list you would simply do:

$("#product_list").empty();

And then call getJSON again with new parameters.

Is it possible to import modules from all files in a directory, using a wildcard?

If you are using webpack. This imports files automatically and exports as api namespace.

So no need to update on every file addition.

import camelCase from "lodash-es";
const requireModule = require.context("./", false, /\.js$/); // 
const api = {};

requireModule.keys().forEach(fileName => {
  if (fileName === "./index.js") return;
  const moduleName = camelCase(fileName.replace(/(\.\/|\.js)/g, ""));
  api[moduleName] = {
    ...requireModule(fileName).default
  };
});

export default api;

For Typescript users;

import { camelCase } from "lodash-es"
const requireModule = require.context("./folderName", false, /\.ts$/)

interface LooseObject {
  [key: string]: any
}

const api: LooseObject = {}

requireModule.keys().forEach(fileName => {
  if (fileName === "./index.ts") return
  const moduleName = camelCase(fileName.replace(/(\.\/|\.ts)/g, ""))
  api[moduleName] = {
    ...requireModule(fileName).default,
  }
})

export default api

How to get first record in each group using Linq

Use it to achieve what you want. Then decide which properties you want to return.

yourList.OrderBy(l => l.Id).GroupBy(l => new { GroupName = l.F1}).Select(r => r.Key.GroupName)

Content-Disposition:What are the differences between "inline" and "attachment"?

If it is inline, the browser should attempt to render it within the browser window. If it cannot, it will resort to an external program, prompting the user.

With attachment, it will immediately go to the user, and not try to load it in the browser, whether it can or not.

Example of a strong and weak entity types

Weak Entity Type: An entity whose instances cannot exits without being linked with instances of some other entity is called weak entity type. It cannot exist independently. For example: Our PC is depend on us it will not open or close with its own.

Strong Entity Type: An entity whose linked to the instances of any other entity type is called strong entity type. It can exit independently. For example: A person can do every thing can go everywhere and use ever thing

Ruby get object keys as array

Like taro said, keys returns the array of keys of your Hash:

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Hash.html#method-i-keys

You'll find all the different methods available for each class.

If you don't know what you're dealing with:

 puts my_unknown_variable.class.to_s

This will output the class name.

How to Correctly handle Weak Self in Swift Blocks with Arguments

From Swift 5.3, you do not have to unwrap self in closure if you pass [self] before in in closure.

Refer someFunctionWithEscapingClosure { [self] in x = 100 } in this swift doc

How to copy Outlook mail message into excel using VBA or Macros

New introduction 2

In the previous version of macro "SaveEmailDetails" I used this statement to find Inbox:

Set FolderTgt = CreateObject("Outlook.Application"). _
              GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

I have since installed a newer version of Outlook and I have discovered that it does not use the default Inbox. For each of my email accounts, it created a separate store (named for the email address) each with its own Inbox. None of those Inboxes is the default.

This macro, outputs the name of the store holding the default Inbox to the Immediate Window:

Sub DsplUsernameOfDefaultStore()

  Dim NS As Outlook.NameSpace
  Dim DefaultInboxFldr As MAPIFolder

  Set NS = CreateObject("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
  Set DefaultInboxFldr = NS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

  Debug.Print DefaultInboxFldr.Parent.Name

End Sub

On my installation, this outputs: "Outlook Data File".

I have added an extra statement to macro "SaveEmailDetails" that shows how to access the Inbox of any store.

New introduction 1

A number of people have picked up the macro below, found it useful and have contacted me directly for further advice. Following these contacts I have made a few improvements to the macro so I have posted the revised version below. I have also added a pair of macros which together will return the MAPIFolder object for any folder with the Outlook hierarchy. These are useful if you wish to access other than a default folder.

The original text referenced one question by date which linked to an earlier question. The first question has been deleted so the link has been lost. That link was to Update excel sheet based on outlook mail (closed)

Original text

There are a surprising number of variations of the question: "How do I extract data from Outlook emails to Excel workbooks?" For example, two questions up on [outlook-vba] the same question was asked on 13 August. That question references a variation from December that I attempted to answer.

For the December question, I went overboard with a two part answer. The first part was a series of teaching macros that explored the Outlook folder structure and wrote data to text files or Excel workbooks. The second part discussed how to design the extraction process. For this question Siddarth has provided an excellent, succinct answer and then a follow-up to help with the next stage.

What the questioner of every variation appears unable to understand is that showing us what the data looks like on the screen does not tell us what the text or html body looks like. This answer is an attempt to get past that problem.

The macro below is more complicated than Siddarth’s but a lot simpler that those I included in my December answer. There is more that could be added but I think this is enough to start with.

The macro creates a new Excel workbook and outputs selected properties of every email in Inbox to create this worksheet:

Example of worksheet created by macro

Near the top of the macro there is a comment containing eight hashes (#). The statement below that comment must be changed because it identifies the folder in which the Excel workbook will be created.

All other comments containing hashes suggest amendments to adapt the macro to your requirements.

How are the emails from which data is to be extracted identified? Is it the sender, the subject, a string within the body or all of these? The comments provide some help in eliminating uninteresting emails. If I understand the question correctly, an interesting email will have Subject = "Task Completed".

The comments provide no help in extracting data from interesting emails but the worksheet shows both the text and html versions of the email body if they are present. My idea is that you can see what the macro will see and start designing the extraction process.

This is not shown in the screen image above but the macro outputs two versions on the text body. The first version is unchanged which means tab, carriage return, line feed are obeyed and any non-break spaces look like spaces. In the second version, I have replaced these codes with the strings [TB], [CR], [LF] and [NBSP] so they are visible. If my understanding is correct, I would expect to see the following within the second text body:

Activity[TAB]Count[CR][LF]Open[TAB]35[CR][LF]HCQA[TAB]42[CR][LF]HCQC[TAB]60[CR][LF]HAbst[TAB]50 45 5 2 2 1[CR][LF] and so on

Extracting the values from the original of this string should not be difficult.

I would try amending my macro to output the extracted values in addition to the email’s properties. Only when I have successfully achieved this change would I attempt to write the extracted data to an existing workbook. I would also move processed emails to a different folder. I have shown where these changes must be made but give no further help. I will respond to a supplementary question if you get to the point where you need this information.

Good luck.

Latest version of macro included within the original text

Option Explicit
Public Sub SaveEmailDetails()

  ' This macro creates a new Excel workbook and writes to it details
  ' of every email in the Inbox.

  ' Lines starting with hashes either MUST be changed before running the
  ' macro or suggest changes you might consider appropriate.

  Dim AttachCount As Long
  Dim AttachDtl() As String
  Dim ExcelWkBk As Excel.Workbook
  Dim FileName As String
  Dim FolderTgt As MAPIFolder
  Dim HtmlBody As String
  Dim InterestingItem As Boolean
  Dim InxAttach As Long
  Dim InxItemCrnt As Long
  Dim PathName As String
  Dim ReceivedTime As Date
  Dim RowCrnt As Long
  Dim SenderEmailAddress As String
  Dim SenderName As String
  Dim Subject As String
  Dim TextBody As String
  Dim xlApp As Excel.Application

  ' The Excel workbook will be created in this folder.
  ' ######## Replace "C:\DataArea\SO" with the name of a folder on your disc.
  PathName = "C:\DataArea\SO"

  ' This creates a unique filename.
  ' #### If you use a version of Excel 2003, change the extension to "xls".
  FileName = Format(Now(), "yymmdd hhmmss") & ".xlsx"

  ' Open own copy of Excel
  Set xlApp = Application.CreateObject("Excel.Application")
  With xlApp
    ' .Visible = True         ' This slows your macro but helps during debugging
    .ScreenUpdating = False ' Reduces flash and increases speed
    ' Create a new workbook
    ' #### If updating an existing workbook, replace with an
    ' #### Open workbook statement.
    Set ExcelWkBk = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
    With ExcelWkBk
      ' #### None of this code will be useful if you are adding
      ' #### to an existing workbook.  However, it demonstrates a
      ' #### variety of useful statements.
      .Worksheets("Sheet1").Name = "Inbox"    ' Rename first worksheet
      With .Worksheets("Inbox")
        ' Create header line
        With .Cells(1, "A")
          .Value = "Field"
          .Font.Bold = True
        End With
        With .Cells(1, "B")
          .Value = "Value"
          .Font.Bold = True
        End With
        .Columns("A").ColumnWidth = 18
        .Columns("B").ColumnWidth = 150
      End With
    End With
    RowCrnt = 2
  End With

  ' FolderTgt is the folder I am going to search.  This statement says
  ' I want to seach the Inbox.  The value "olFolderInbox" can be replaced
  ' to allow any of the standard folders to be searched.
  ' See FindSelectedFolder() for a routine that will search for any folder.
  Set FolderTgt = CreateObject("Outlook.Application"). _
              GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
  ' #### Use the following the access a non-default Inbox.
  ' #### Change "Xxxx" to name of one of your store you want to access.
  Set FolderTgt = Session.Folders("Xxxx").Folders("Inbox")

  ' This examines the emails in reverse order. I will explain why later.
  For InxItemCrnt = FolderTgt.Items.Count To 1 Step -1
    With FolderTgt.Items.Item(InxItemCrnt)
      ' A folder can contain several types of item: mail items, meeting items,
      ' contacts, etc.  I am only interested in mail items.
      If .Class = olMail Then
        ' Save selected properties to variables
        ReceivedTime = .ReceivedTime
        Subject = .Subject
        SenderName = .SenderName
        SenderEmailAddress = .SenderEmailAddress
        TextBody = .Body
        HtmlBody = .HtmlBody
        AttachCount = .Attachments.Count
        If AttachCount > 0 Then
          ReDim AttachDtl(1 To 7, 1 To AttachCount)
          For InxAttach = 1 To AttachCount
            ' There are four types of attachment:
            '  *   olByValue       1
            '  *   olByReference   4
            '  *   olEmbeddedItem  5
            '  *   olOLE           6
            Select Case .Attachments(InxAttach).Type
              Case olByValue
            AttachDtl(1, InxAttach) = "Val"
              Case olEmbeddeditem
            AttachDtl(1, InxAttach) = "Ebd"
              Case olByReference
            AttachDtl(1, InxAttach) = "Ref"
              Case olOLE
            AttachDtl(1, InxAttach) = "OLE"
              Case Else
            AttachDtl(1, InxAttach) = "Unk"
            End Select
            ' Not all types have all properties.  This code handles
            ' those missing properties of which I am aware.  However,
            ' I have never found an attachment of type Reference or OLE.
            ' Additional code may be required for them.
            Select Case .Attachments(InxAttach).Type
              Case olEmbeddeditem
                AttachDtl(2, InxAttach) = ""
              Case Else
                AttachDtl(2, InxAttach) = .Attachments(InxAttach).PathName
            End Select
            AttachDtl(3, InxAttach) = .Attachments(InxAttach).FileName
            AttachDtl(4, InxAttach) = .Attachments(InxAttach).DisplayName
            AttachDtl(5, InxAttach) = "--"
            ' I suspect Attachment had a parent property in early versions
            ' of Outlook. It is missing from Outlook 2016.
            On Error Resume Next
            AttachDtl(5, InxAttach) = .Attachments(InxAttach).Parent
            On Error GoTo 0
            AttachDtl(6, InxAttach) = .Attachments(InxAttach).Position
            ' Class 5 is attachment.  I have never seen an attachment with
            ' a different class and do not see the purpose of this property.
            ' The code will stop here if a different class is found.
            Debug.Assert .Attachments(InxAttach).Class = 5
            AttachDtl(7, InxAttach) = .Attachments(InxAttach).Class
          Next
        End If
        InterestingItem = True
      Else
        InterestingItem = False
      End If
    End With
    ' The most used properties of the email have been loaded to variables but
    ' there are many more properies.  Press F2.  Scroll down classes until
    ' you find MailItem.  Look through the members and note the name of
    ' any properties that look useful.  Look them up using VB Help.

    ' #### You need to add code here to eliminate uninteresting items.
    ' #### For example:
    'If SenderEmailAddress <> "[email protected]" Then
    '  InterestingItem = False
    'End If
    'If InStr(Subject, "Accounts payable") = 0 Then
    '  InterestingItem = False
    'End If
    'If AttachCount = 0 Then
    '  InterestingItem = False
    'End If

    ' #### If the item is still thought to be interesting I
    ' #### suggest extracting the required data to variables here.

    ' #### You should consider moving processed emails to another
    ' #### folder.  The emails are being processed in reverse order
    ' #### to allow this removal of an email from the Inbox without
    ' #### effecting the index numbers of unprocessed emails.

    If InterestingItem Then
      With ExcelWkBk
        With .Worksheets("Inbox")
          ' #### This code creates a dividing row and then
          ' #### outputs a property per row.  Again it demonstrates
          ' #### statements that are likely to be useful in the final
          ' #### version
          ' Create dividing row between emails
          .Rows(RowCrnt).RowHeight = 5
          .Range(.Cells(RowCrnt, "A"), .Cells(RowCrnt, "B")) _
                                      .Interior.Color = RGB(0, 255, 0)
          RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
          .Cells(RowCrnt, "A").Value = "Sender name"
          .Cells(RowCrnt, "B").Value = SenderName
          RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
          .Cells(RowCrnt, "A").Value = "Sender email address"
          .Cells(RowCrnt, "B").Value = SenderEmailAddress
          RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
          .Cells(RowCrnt, "A").Value = "Received time"
          With .Cells(RowCrnt, "B")
            .NumberFormat = "@"
            .Value = Format(ReceivedTime, "mmmm d, yyyy h:mm")
          End With
          RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
          .Cells(RowCrnt, "A").Value = "Subject"
          .Cells(RowCrnt, "B").Value = Subject
          RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
          If AttachCount > 0 Then
            .Cells(RowCrnt, "A").Value = "Attachments"
            .Cells(RowCrnt, "B").Value = "Inx|Type|Path name|File name|Display name|Parent|Position|Class"
            RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
            For InxAttach = 1 To AttachCount
              .Cells(RowCrnt, "B").Value = InxAttach & "|" & _
                                           AttachDtl(1, InxAttach) & "|" & _
                                           AttachDtl(2, InxAttach) & "|" & _
                                           AttachDtl(3, InxAttach) & "|" & _
                                           AttachDtl(4, InxAttach) & "|" & _
                                           AttachDtl(5, InxAttach) & "|" & _
                                           AttachDtl(6, InxAttach) & "|" & _
                                           AttachDtl(7, InxAttach)
              RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
            Next
          End If
          If TextBody <> "" Then

            ' ##### This code was in the original version of the macro
            ' ##### but I did not find it as useful as the other version of
            ' ##### the text body.  See below
            ' This outputs the text body with CR, LF and TB obeyed
            'With .Cells(RowCrnt, "A")
            '  .Value = "text body"
            '  .VerticalAlignment = xlTop
            'End With
            'With .Cells(RowCrnt, "B")
            '  ' The maximum size of a cell 32,767
            '  .Value = Mid(TextBody, 1, 32700)
            '  .WrapText = True
            'End With
            'RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1

            ' This outputs the text body with NBSP, CR, LF and TB
            ' replaced by strings.
            With .Cells(RowCrnt, "A")
              .Value = "text body"
              .VerticalAlignment = xlTop
            End With
            TextBody = Replace(TextBody, Chr(160), "[NBSP]")
            TextBody = Replace(TextBody, vbCr, "[CR]")
            TextBody = Replace(TextBody, vbLf, "[LF]")
            TextBody = Replace(TextBody, vbTab, "[TB]")
            With .Cells(RowCrnt, "B")
              ' The maximum size of a cell 32,767
              .Value = Mid(TextBody, 1, 32700)
              .WrapText = True
            End With
            RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1
          End If

          If HtmlBody <> "" Then

            ' ##### This code was in the original version of the macro
            ' ##### but I did not find it as useful as the other version of
            ' ##### the html body.  See below
            ' This outputs the html body with CR, LF and TB obeyed
            'With .Cells(RowCrnt, "A")
            '  .Value = "Html body"
            '  .VerticalAlignment = xlTop
            'End With
            'With .Cells(RowCrnt, "B")
            '  .Value = Mid(HtmlBody, 1, 32700)
            '  .WrapText = True
            'End With
            'RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1

            ' This outputs the html body with NBSP, CR, LF and TB
            ' replaced by strings.
            With .Cells(RowCrnt, "A")
              .Value = "Html body"
              .VerticalAlignment = xlTop
            End With
            HtmlBody = Replace(HtmlBody, Chr(160), "[NBSP]")
            HtmlBody = Replace(HtmlBody, vbCr, "[CR]")
            HtmlBody = Replace(HtmlBody, vbLf, "[LF]")
            HtmlBody = Replace(HtmlBody, vbTab, "[TB]")
            With .Cells(RowCrnt, "B")
              .Value = Mid(HtmlBody, 1, 32700)
              .WrapText = True
            End With
            RowCrnt = RowCrnt + 1

          End If
        End With
      End With
    End If
  Next

  With xlApp
    With ExcelWkBk
      ' Write new workbook to disc
      If Right(PathName, 1) <> "\" Then
        PathName = PathName & "\"
      End If
      .SaveAs FileName:=PathName & FileName
      .Close
    End With
    .Quit   ' Close our copy of Excel
  End With

  Set xlApp = Nothing       ' Clear reference to Excel

End Sub

Macros not included in original post but which some users of above macro have found useful.

Public Sub FindSelectedFolder(ByRef FolderTgt As MAPIFolder, _
                              ByVal NameTgt As String, ByVal NameSep As String)

  ' This routine (and its sub-routine) locate a folder within the hierarchy and
  ' returns it as an object of type MAPIFolder

  ' NameTgt   The name of the required folder in the format:
  '              FolderName1 NameSep FolderName2 [ NameSep FolderName3 ] ...
  '           If NameSep is "|", an example value is "Personal Folders|Inbox"
  '           FolderName1 must be an outer folder name such as
  '           "Personal Folders". The outer folder names are typically the names
  '           of PST files.  FolderName2 must be the name of a folder within
  '           Folder1; in the example "Inbox".  FolderName2 is compulsory.  This
  '           routine cannot return a PST file; only a folder within a PST file.
  '           FolderName3, FolderName4 and so on are optional and allow a folder
  '           at any depth with the hierarchy to be specified.
  ' NameSep   A character or string used to separate the folder names within
  '           NameTgt.
  ' FolderTgt On exit, the required folder.  Set to Nothing if not found.

  ' This routine initialises the search and finds the top level folder.
  ' FindSelectedSubFolder() is used to find the target folder within the
  ' top level folder.

  Dim InxFolderCrnt As Long
  Dim NameChild As String
  Dim NameCrnt As String
  Dim Pos As Long
  Dim TopLvlFolderList As Folders

  Set FolderTgt = Nothing   ' Target folder not found

  Set TopLvlFolderList = _
          CreateObject("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI").Folders

  ' Split NameTgt into the name of folder at current level
  ' and the name of its children
  Pos = InStr(NameTgt, NameSep)
  If Pos = 0 Then
    ' I need at least a level 2 name
    Exit Sub
  End If
  NameCrnt = Mid(NameTgt, 1, Pos - 1)
  NameChild = Mid(NameTgt, Pos + 1)

  ' Look for current name.  Drop through and return nothing if name not found.
  For InxFolderCrnt = 1 To TopLvlFolderList.Count
    If NameCrnt = TopLvlFolderList(InxFolderCrnt).Name Then
      ' Have found current name. Call FindSelectedSubFolder() to
      ' look for its children
      Call FindSelectedSubFolder(TopLvlFolderList.Item(InxFolderCrnt), _
                                            FolderTgt, NameChild, NameSep)
      Exit For
    End If
  Next

End Sub
Public Sub FindSelectedSubFolder(FolderCrnt As MAPIFolder, _
                      ByRef FolderTgt As MAPIFolder, _
                      ByVal NameTgt As String, ByVal NameSep As String)

  ' See FindSelectedFolder() for an introduction to the purpose of this routine.
  ' This routine finds all folders below the top level

  ' FolderCrnt The folder to be seached for the target folder.
  ' NameTgt    The NameTgt passed to FindSelectedFolder will be of the form:
  '               A|B|C|D|E
  '            A is the name of outer folder which represents a PST file.
  '            FindSelectedFolder() removes "A|" from NameTgt and calls this
  '            routine with FolderCrnt set to folder A to search for B.
  '            When this routine finds B, it calls itself with FolderCrnt set to
  '            folder B to search for C.  Calls are nested to whatever depth are
  '            necessary.
  ' NameSep    As for FindSelectedSubFolder
  ' FolderTgt  As for FindSelectedSubFolder

  Dim InxFolderCrnt As Long
  Dim NameChild As String
  Dim NameCrnt As String
  Dim Pos As Long

  ' Split NameTgt into the name of folder at current level
  ' and the name of its children
  Pos = InStr(NameTgt, NameSep)
  If Pos = 0 Then
    NameCrnt = NameTgt
    NameChild = ""
  Else
    NameCrnt = Mid(NameTgt, 1, Pos - 1)
    NameChild = Mid(NameTgt, Pos + 1)
  End If

  ' Look for current name.  Drop through and return nothing if name not found.
  For InxFolderCrnt = 1 To FolderCrnt.Folders.Count
    If NameCrnt = FolderCrnt.Folders(InxFolderCrnt).Name Then
      ' Have found current name.
      If NameChild = "" Then
        ' Have found target folder
        Set FolderTgt = FolderCrnt.Folders(InxFolderCrnt)
      Else
        'Recurse to look for children
        Call FindSelectedSubFolder(FolderCrnt.Folders(InxFolderCrnt), _
                                            FolderTgt, NameChild, NameSep)
      End If
      Exit For
    End If
  Next

  ' If NameCrnt not found, FolderTgt will be returned unchanged.  Since it is
  ' initialised to Nothing at the beginning, that will be the returned value.

End Sub

ng-change get new value and original value

You can use a scope watch:

$scope.$watch('user', function(newValue, oldValue) {
  // access new and old value here
  console.log("Your former user.name was "+oldValue.name+", you're current user name is "+newValue.name+".");
});

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/type/$rootScope.Scope#$watch

How to check the Angular version?

I think the answer given by D. Squire was accurate, but possibly only a tad vague. If you change directories to a project and then type ng --version, it will display the angular version in the project. If done from a default directory (not within a project), you will only get the Angular CLI version, which is probably not what you are looking for and will give the output shown by Vik2696.

$ cd my-project
$ ng --version   // done within project directory

Angular CLI: 1.6.8
Node: 8.9.4
OS: win32 x64
Angular: 5.2.5
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

@angular/cli: 1.6.8
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer: 0.0.42
@angular-devkit/core: 0.0.29
@angular-devkit/schematics: 0.0.52
@ngtools/json-schema: 1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack: 1.9.8
@schematics/angular: 0.1.17
typescript: 2.5.3
webpack: 3.10.0

Large Numbers in Java

Use the BigInteger class that is a part of the Java library.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html

Difference between "move" and "li" in MIPS assembly language

The move instruction copies a value from one register to another. The li instruction loads a specific numeric value into that register.

For the specific case of zero, you can use either the constant zero or the zero register to get that:

move $s0, $zero
li   $s0, 0

There's no register that generates a value other than zero, though, so you'd have to use li if you wanted some other number, like:

li $s0, 12345678

How do operator.itemgetter() and sort() work?

You are asking a lot of questions that you could answer yourself by reading the documentation, so I'll give you a general advice: read it and experiment in the python shell. You'll see that itemgetter returns a callable:

>>> func = operator.itemgetter(1)
>>> func(a)
['Paul', 22, 'Car Dealer']
>>> func(a[0])
8

To do it in a different way, you can use lambda:

a.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])

And reverse it:

a.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)

Sort by more than one column:

a.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(1,2))

See the sorting How To.

How to validate a credit card number

I hope the following two links help to solve your problem.

FYI, various credit cards are available in the world. So, your thought is wrong. Credit cards have some format. See the following links. The first one is pure JavaScript and the second one is using jQuery.

Demo:

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function testCreditCard() {_x000D_
  myCardNo = document.getElementById('CardNumber').value;_x000D_
  myCardType = document.getElementById('CardType').value;_x000D_
  if (checkCreditCard(myCardNo, myCardType)) {_x000D_
    alert("Credit card has a valid format")_x000D_
  } else {_x000D_
    alert(ccErrors[ccErrorNo])_x000D_
  };_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<script src="https://www.braemoor.co.uk/software/_private/creditcard.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<!-- COPIED THE DEMO CODE FROM THE SOURCE WEBSITE (https://www.braemoor.co.uk/software/creditcard.shtml) -->_x000D_
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<table>_x000D_
  <tbody>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td style="padding-right: 30px;">American Express</td>_x000D_
      <td>3400 0000 0000 009</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Carte Blanche</td>_x000D_
      <td>3000 0000 0000 04</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Discover</td>_x000D_
      <td>6011 0000 0000 0004</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Diners Club</td>_x000D_
      <td>3852 0000 0232 37</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>enRoute</td>_x000D_
      <td>2014 0000 0000 009</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>JCB</td>_x000D_
      <td>3530 111333300000</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>MasterCard</td>_x000D_
      <td>5500 0000 0000 0004</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Solo</td>_x000D_
      <td>6334 0000 0000 0004</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Switch</td>_x000D_
      <td>4903 0100 0000 0009</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Visa</td>_x000D_
      <td>4111 1111 1111 1111</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Laser</td>_x000D_
      <td>6304 1000 0000 0008</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
  </tbody>_x000D_
</table>_x000D_
<hr /> Card Number:_x000D_
<select tabindex="11" id="CardType" style="margin-left: 10px;">_x000D_
  <option value="AmEx">American Express</option>_x000D_
  <option value="CarteBlanche">Carte Blanche</option>_x000D_
  <option value="DinersClub">Diners Club</option>_x000D_
  <option value="Discover">Discover</option>_x000D_
  <option value="EnRoute">enRoute</option>_x000D_
  <option value="JCB">JCB</option>_x000D_
  <option value="Maestro">Maestro</option>_x000D_
  <option value="MasterCard">MasterCard</option>_x000D_
  <option value="Solo">Solo</option>_x000D_
  <option value="Switch">Switch</option>_x000D_
  <option value="Visa">Visa</option>_x000D_
  <option value="VisaElectron">Visa Electron</option>_x000D_
  <option value="LaserCard">Laser</option>_x000D_
</select> <input type="text" id="CardNumber" maxlength="24" size="24" style="margin-left: 10px;"> <button id="mybutton" type="button" onclick="testCreditCard();" style="margin-left: 10px; color: #f00;">Check</button>_x000D_
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<p style="color: red; font-size: 10px;"> COPIED THE DEMO CODE FROM TEH SOURCE WEBSITE (https://www.braemoor.co.uk/software/creditcard.shtml) </p>
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Declaring variables inside loops, good practice or bad practice?

This is excellent practice.

By creating variables inside loops, you ensure their scope is restricted to inside the loop. It cannot be referenced nor called outside of the loop.

This way:

  • If the name of the variable is a bit "generic" (like "i"), there is no risk to mix it with another variable of same name somewhere later in your code (can also be mitigated using the -Wshadow warning instruction on GCC)

  • The compiler knows that the variable scope is limited to inside the loop, and therefore will issue a proper error message if the variable is by mistake referenced elsewhere.

  • Last but not least, some dedicated optimization can be performed more efficiently by the compiler (most importantly register allocation), since it knows that the variable cannot be used outside of the loop. For example, no need to store the result for later re-use.

In short, you are right to do it.

Note however that the variable is not supposed to retain its value between each loop. In such case, you may need to initialize it every time. You can also create a larger block, encompassing the loop, whose sole purpose is to declare variables which must retain their value from one loop to another. This typically includes the loop counter itself.

{
    int i, retainValue;
    for (i=0; i<N; i++)
    {
       int tmpValue;
       /* tmpValue is uninitialized */
       /* retainValue still has its previous value from previous loop */

       /* Do some stuff here */
    }
    /* Here, retainValue is still valid; tmpValue no longer */
}

For question #2: The variable is allocated once, when the function is called. In fact, from an allocation perspective, it is (nearly) the same as declaring the variable at the beginning of the function. The only difference is the scope: the variable cannot be used outside of the loop. It may even be possible that the variable is not allocated, just re-using some free slot (from other variable whose scope has ended).

With restricted and more precise scope come more accurate optimizations. But more importantly, it makes your code safer, with less states (i.e. variables) to worry about when reading other parts of the code.

This is true even outside of an if(){...} block. Typically, instead of :

    int result;
    (...)
    result = f1();
    if (result) then { (...) }
    (...)
    result = f2();
    if (result) then { (...) }

it's safer to write :

    (...)
    {
        int const result = f1();
        if (result) then { (...) }
    }
    (...)
    {
        int const result = f2();
        if (result) then { (...) }
    }

The difference may seem minor, especially on such a small example. But on a larger code base, it will help : now there is no risk to transport some result value from f1() to f2() block. Each result is strictly limited to its own scope, making its role more accurate. From a reviewer perspective, it's much nicer, since he has less long range state variables to worry about and track.

Even the compiler will help better : assuming that, in the future, after some erroneous change of code, result is not properly initialized with f2(). The second version will simply refuse to work, stating a clear error message at compile time (way better than run time). The first version will not spot anything, the result of f1() will simply be tested a second time, being confused for the result of f2().

Complementary information

The open-source tool CppCheck (a static analysis tool for C/C++ code) provides some excellent hints regarding optimal scope of variables.

In response to comment on allocation: The above rule is true in C, but might not be for some C++ classes.

For standard types and structures, the size of variable is known at compilation time. There is no such thing as "construction" in C, so the space for the variable will simply be allocated into the stack (without any initialization), when the function is called. That's why there is a "zero" cost when declaring the variable inside a loop.

However, for C++ classes, there is this constructor thing which I know much less about. I guess allocation is probably not going to be the issue, since the compiler shall be clever enough to reuse the same space, but the initialization is likely to take place at each loop iteration.

How to declare and display a variable in Oracle

If you're talking about PL/SQL, you should put it in an anonymous block.

DECLARE
    v_text VARCHAR2(10); -- declare
BEGIN
    v_text := 'Hello';  --assign
    dbms_output.Put_line(v_text); --display
END; 

Convert String to Calendar Object in Java

tl;dr

The modern approach uses the java.time classes.

YearMonth.from(
    ZonedDateTime.parse( 
        "Mon Mar 14 16:02:37 GMT 2011" , 
        DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "E MMM d HH:mm:ss z uuuu" )
     )
).toString()

2011-03

Avoid legacy date-time classes

The modern way is with java.time classes. The old date-time classes such as Calendar have proven to be poorly-designed, confusing, and troublesome.

Define a custom formatter to match your string input.

String input = "Mon Mar 14 16:02:37 GMT 2011";
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "E MMM d HH:mm:ss z uuuu" );

Parse as a ZonedDateTime.

ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse( input , f );

You are interested in the year and month. The java.time classes include YearMonth class for that purpose.

YearMonth ym = YearMonth.from( zdt );

You can interrogate for the year and month numbers if needed.

int year = ym.getYear();
int month = ym.getMonthValue();

But the toString method generates a string in standard ISO 8601 format.

String output = ym.toString();

Put this all together.

String input = "Mon Mar 14 16:02:37 GMT 2011";
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "E MMM d HH:mm:ss z uuuu" );
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse( input , f );
YearMonth ym = YearMonth.from( zdt );
int year = ym.getYear();
int month = ym.getMonthValue();

Dump to console.

System.out.println( "input: " + input );
System.out.println( "zdt: " + zdt );
System.out.println( "ym: " + ym );

input: Mon Mar 14 16:02:37 GMT 2011

zdt: 2011-03-14T16:02:37Z[GMT]

ym: 2011-03

Live code

See this code running in IdeOne.com.

Conversion

If you must have a Calendar object, you can convert to a GregorianCalendar using new methods added to the old classes.

GregorianCalendar gc = GregorianCalendar.from( zdt );

About java.time

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

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

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

Where to obtain the java.time classes?

  • Java SE 8 and SE 9 and later
    • Built-in.
    • Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
    • Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
  • Java SE 6 and SE 7
    • Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
  • Android

The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.

Python: printing a file to stdout

My shortened version in Python3

print(open('file.txt').read())

HTML Form: Select-Option vs Datalist-Option

There is another important difference between select and datalist. Here comes the browser support factor.

select is widely supported by browsers compared to datalist. Please take a look at this page for complete browser support of datalist--

Datalist browser support

Where as select is supported in effectively all browsers (since IE6+, Firefox 2+, Chrome 1+ etc)

Getting the button into the top right corner inside the div box

Just add position:absolute; top:0; right:0; to the CSS for your button.

 #button {
     line-height: 12px;
     width: 18px;
     font-size: 8pt;
     font-family: tahoma;
     margin-top: 1px;
     margin-right: 2px;
     position:absolute;
     top:0;
     right:0;
 }

jsFiddle example

Convert date to datetime in Python

You can use easy_date to make it easy:

import date_converter
my_datetime = date_converter.date_to_datetime(my_date)

continuous page numbering through section breaks

You can check out this post on SuperUser.

Word starts page numbering over for each new section by default.

I do it slightly differently than the post above that goes through the ribbon menus, but in both methods you have to go through the document to each section's beginning.

My method:

  • open up the footer (or header if that's where your page number is)
  • drag-select the page number
  • right-click on it
  • hit Format Page Numbers
  • click on the Continue from Previous Section radio button under Page numbering

I find this right-click method to be a little faster. Also, usually if I insert the page numbers first before I start making any new sections, this problem doesn't happen in the first place.

C++ Array Of Pointers

What you want is:

Foo *array[10]; // array of 10 Foo pointers

Not to be confused with:

Foo (*array)[10]; // pointer to array of 10 Foos

In either case, nothing will be automatically initialized because these represent pointers to Foos that have yet to be assigned to something (e.g. with new).

I finally "got" pointer/array declaration syntax in C when I realized that it describes how you access the base type. Foo *array[5][10]; means that *array[0..4][0..9] (subscript on an array of 5 items, then subscript on an array of 10 items, then dereference as a pointer) will access a Foo object (note that [] has higher precedence than *).

This seems backwards. You would think that int array[5][10]; (a.k.a. int (array[5])[10];) is an array of 10 int array[5]. Suppose this were the case. Then you would access the last element of the array by saying array[9][4]. Doesn't that look backwards too? Because a C array declaration is a pattern indicating how to get to the base type (rather than a composition of array expressions like one might expect), array declarations and code using arrays don't have to be flipflopped.

Create a git patch from the uncommitted changes in the current working directory

We could also specify the files, to include just the files with relative changes, particularly when they span multiple directories e.x.

git diff ~/path1/file1.ext ~/path2/file2.ext...fileN.ext > ~/whatever_path/whatever_name.patch

I found this to be not specified in the answers or comments, which are all relevant and correct, so chose to add it. Explicit is better than implicit!

How to generate UML diagrams (especially sequence diagrams) from Java code?

There is a Free tool named binarydoc which can generate UML Sequence Diagram, or Control Flow Graph (CFG) from the bytecode (instead of source code) of a Java method.

Here is an sample diagram binarydoc generated for the java method java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.getInputStream:

  • Control Flow Graph of method java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.getInputStream:

Control Flow Graph

  • UML Sequence Diagram of method java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.getInputStream:

UML Sequence Diagram

Initialize array of strings

Its fine to just do char **strings;, char **strings = NULL, or char **strings = {NULL}

but to initialize it you'd have to use malloc:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(){
    // allocate space for 5 pointers to strings
    char **strings = (char**)malloc(5*sizeof(char*));
    int i = 0;
    //allocate space for each string
    // here allocate 50 bytes, which is more than enough for the strings
    for(i = 0; i < 5; i++){
        printf("%d\n", i);
        strings[i] = (char*)malloc(50*sizeof(char));
    }
    //assign them all something
    sprintf(strings[0], "bird goes tweet");
    sprintf(strings[1], "mouse goes squeak");
    sprintf(strings[2], "cow goes moo");
    sprintf(strings[3], "frog goes croak");
    sprintf(strings[4], "what does the fox say?");
    // Print it out
    for(i = 0; i < 5; i++){
        printf("Line #%d(length: %lu): %s\n", i, strlen(strings[i]),strings[i]);
    } 
    //Free each string
    for(i = 0; i < 5; i++){
        free(strings[i]);
    }
    //finally release the first string
    free(strings);
    return 0;
}

Converting from a string to boolean in Python?

Use:

bool(distutils.util.strtobool(some_string))

True values are y, yes, t, true, on and 1; false values are n, no, f, false, off and 0. Raises ValueError if val is anything else.

Be aware that distutils.util.strtobool() returns integer representations and thus it needs to be wrapped with bool() to get Boolean values.

Output of git branch in tree like fashion

For those who use Github, they have a branch network viewer that seems easier to read

How to generate a random string of 20 characters

I'd use this approach:

String randomString(final int length) {
    Random r = new Random(); // perhaps make it a class variable so you don't make a new one every time
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        char c = (char)(r.nextInt((int)(Character.MAX_VALUE)));
        sb.append(c);
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

If you want a byte[] you can do this:

byte[] randomByteString(final int length) {
    Random r = new Random();
    byte[] result = new byte[length];
    for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        result[i] = r.nextByte();
    }
    return result;
}

Or you could do this

byte[] randomByteString(final int length) {
    Random r = new Random();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        char c = (char)(r.nextInt((int)(Character.MAX_VALUE)));
        sb.append(c);
    }
    return sb.toString().getBytes();
}

How to take off line numbers in Vi?

Display line numbers:

:set nu

Stop showing the line numbers:

:set nonu

Its short for :set nonumber

ps. These commands are to be run in normal mode.

UML class diagram enum

If your UML modeling tool has support for specifying an Enumeration, you should use that. It will likely be easier to do and it will give your model stronger semantics. Visually the result will be very similar to a Class with an <<enumeration>> Stereotype, but in the UML metamodel, an Enumeration is actually a separate (meta)type.

+---------------------+
|   <<enumeration>>   |
|    DayOfTheWeek     |
|_____________________|
| Sunday              |
| Monday              |
| Tuesday             |
| ...                 |
+---------------------+

Once it is defined, you can use it as the type of an Attribute just like you would a Datatype or the name one of your own Classes.

+---------------------+
|        Event        |
|_____________________|
| day : DayOfTheWeek  |
| ...                 |
+---------------------+

If you're using ArgoEclipse or ArgoUML, there's a pulldown menu on the toolbar which selects among Datatype, Enumeration, Signal, etc that will allow you to create your own Enumerations. The compartment that normally contains Attributes can then be populated with EnumerationLiterals for the values of your enumeration.

Here's a picture of a slightly different example in ArgoUML: enter image description here

Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration Facebook application error

I found Valid OAuth Redirect URIs under PRODUCTS then Facebook Login > Settings not as everyone is stating above. I am supposing this is a version issue.

It still didn't work for me. I guess I really have to add Android Platform rather than just the Website. This is annoying because my app is still in development mode :(

UPDATE: I'm using Expo to develop my react-native app and used info provided here: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/131491964294190/settings/basic/ to set up the Android and iOS platforms. This resolved the issue for me.

What's the difference between using CGFloat and float?

Objective-C

From the Foundation source code, in CoreGraphics' CGBase.h:

/* Definition of `CGFLOAT_TYPE', `CGFLOAT_IS_DOUBLE', `CGFLOAT_MIN', and
   `CGFLOAT_MAX'. */

#if defined(__LP64__) && __LP64__
# define CGFLOAT_TYPE double
# define CGFLOAT_IS_DOUBLE 1
# define CGFLOAT_MIN DBL_MIN
# define CGFLOAT_MAX DBL_MAX
#else
# define CGFLOAT_TYPE float
# define CGFLOAT_IS_DOUBLE 0
# define CGFLOAT_MIN FLT_MIN
# define CGFLOAT_MAX FLT_MAX
#endif

/* Definition of the `CGFloat' type and `CGFLOAT_DEFINED'. */

typedef CGFLOAT_TYPE CGFloat;
#define CGFLOAT_DEFINED 1

Copyright (c) 2000-2011 Apple Inc.

This is essentially doing:

#if defined(__LP64__) && __LP64__
typedef double CGFloat;
#else
typedef float CGFloat;
#endif

Where __LP64__ indicates whether the current architecture* is 64-bit.

Note that 32-bit systems can still use the 64-bit double, it just takes more processor time, so CoreGraphics does this for optimization purposes, not for compatibility. If you aren't concerned about performance but are concerned about accuracy, simply use double.

Swift

In Swift, CGFloat is a struct wrapper around either Float on 32-bit architectures or Double on 64-bit ones (You can detect this at run- or compile-time with CGFloat.NativeType) and cgFloat.native.

From the CoreGraphics source code, in CGFloat.swift.gyb:

public struct CGFloat {
#if arch(i386) || arch(arm)
  /// The native type used to store the CGFloat, which is Float on
  /// 32-bit architectures and Double on 64-bit architectures.
  public typealias NativeType = Float
#elseif arch(x86_64) || arch(arm64)
  /// The native type used to store the CGFloat, which is Float on
  /// 32-bit architectures and Double on 64-bit architectures.
  public typealias NativeType = Double
#endif

*Specifically, longs and pointers, hence the LP. See also: http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

What is the syntax for Typescript arrow functions with generics?

If you're in a .tsx file you cannot just write <T>, but this works:

const foo = <T, >(x: T) => x;

As opposed to the extends {} hack, this hack at least preserves the intent.

How to create .ipa file using Xcode?

You will need to Build and Archive your project. You may need to check what code signing settings you have in the project and executable.

Use the Organiser to select your archive version and then you can Share that version of your project. You will need to select the correct code signing again. It will allow you to save the .ipa file where you want.

Drag and drop the .ipa file into iTunes and then sync with your iPhone.

EDIT: Here are some more detailed instructions including screenshots;

How to distribute ad hoc build with XCode 4

'innerText' works in IE, but not in Firefox

jQuery provides a .text() method that can be used in any browser. For example:

$('#myElement').text("Foo");

How do I delete NuGet packages that are not referenced by any project in my solution?

Solution 1

Use the powershell pipeline to get packages and remove in single statement like this

Get-Package | Uninstall-Package

Solution 2

if you want to uninstall selected packages follow these steps

  1. Use GetPackages to get the list of packages
  2. Download Nimble text software
  3. Copy the output of GetPackages in NimbleText(For each row in the list window)
  4. Set Column Seperator to ( if required
  5. Type Uninstall-Package $0 (Substitute using pattern window)
  6. Copy the results and paste them in Package Manage Console

That be all folks.

Inject service in app.config

Alex provided the correct reason for not being able to do what you're trying to do, so +1. But you are encountering this issue because you're not quite using resolves how they're designed.

resolve takes either the string of a service or a function returning a value to be injected. Since you're doing the latter, you need to pass in an actual function:

resolve: {
  data: function (dbService) {
    return dbService.getData();
  }
}

When the framework goes to resolve data, it will inject the dbService into the function so you can freely use it. You don't need to inject into the config block at all to accomplish this.

Bon appetit!

What are the date formats available in SimpleDateFormat class?

Date and time formats are well described below

SimpleDateFormat (Java Platform SE 7) - Date and Time Patterns

There could be n Number of formats you can possibly make. ex - dd/MM/yyyy or YYYY-'W'ww-u or you can mix and match the letters to achieve your required pattern. Pattern letters are as follow.

  • G - Era designator (AD)
  • y - Year (1996; 96)
  • Y - Week Year (2009; 09)
  • M - Month in year (July; Jul; 07)
  • w - Week in year (27)
  • W - Week in month (2)
  • D - Day in year (189)
  • d - Day in month (10)
  • F - Day of week in month (2)
  • E - Day name in week (Tuesday; Tue)
  • u - Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday)
  • a - AM/PM marker
  • H - Hour in day (0-23)
  • k - Hour in day (1-24)
  • K - Hour in am/pm (0-11)
  • h - Hour in am/pm (1-12)
  • m - Minute in hour (30)
  • s - Second in minute (55)
  • S - Millisecond (978)
  • z - General time zone (Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00)
  • Z - RFC 822 time zone (-0800)
  • X - ISO 8601 time zone (-08; -0800; -08:00)

To parse:

2000-01-23T04:56:07.000+0000

Use: new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");

Best way to include CSS? Why use @import?

Sometimes you have to use @import as opposed to inline . If you are working on a complex application that has 32 or more css files and you must support IE9 there is no choice. IE9 ignores any css file after the first 31 and this includes and inline css. However, each sheet can import 31 others.

How to use WHERE IN with Doctrine 2

I found that, despite what the docs indicate, the only way to get this to work is like this:

$ids = array(...); // Array of your values
$qb->add('where', $qb->expr()->in('r.winner', $ids));

http://groups.google.com/group/doctrine-dev/browse_thread/thread/fbf70837293676fb

Excluding files/directories from Gulp task

Quick answer

On src, you can always specify files to ignore using "!".

Example (you want to exclude all *.min.js files on your js folder and subfolder:

gulp.src(['js/**/*.js', '!js/**/*.min.js'])

You can do it as well for individual files.

Expanded answer:

Extracted from gulp documentation:

gulp.src(globs[, options])

Emits files matching provided glob or an array of globs. Returns a stream of Vinyl files that can be piped to plugins.

glob refers to node-glob syntax or it can be a direct file path.

So, looking to node-glob documentation we can see that it uses the minimatch library to do its matching.

On minimatch documentation, they point out the following:

if the pattern starts with a ! character, then it is negated.

And that is why using ! symbol will exclude files / directories from a gulp task

SQL query to get most recent row for each instance of a given key

Both of the above answers assume that you only have one row for each user and time_stamp. Depending on the application and the granularity of your time_stamp this may not be a valid assumption. If you need to deal with ties of time_stamp for a given user, you'd need to extend one of the answers given above.

To write this in one query would require another nested sub-query - things will start getting more messy and performance may suffer.

I would have loved to have added this as a comment but I don't yet have 50 reputation so sorry for posting as a new answer!

Entity Framework Queryable async

Long story short,
IQueryable is designed to postpone RUN process and firstly build the expression in conjunction with other IQueryable expressions, and then interprets and runs the expression as a whole.
But ToList() method (or a few sort of methods like that), are ment to run the expression instantly "as is".
Your first method (GetAllUrlsAsync), will run imediately, because it is IQueryable followed by ToListAsync() method. hence it runs instantly (asynchronous), and returns a bunch of IEnumerables.
Meanwhile your second method (GetAllUrls), won't get run. Instead, it returns an expression and CALLER of this method is responsible to run the expression.

MongoDB Aggregation: How to get total records count?

If you don't want to group, then use the following method:

db.collection.aggregate( [ { $match : { score : { $gt : 70, $lte : 90 } } }, { $count: 'count' } ] );

Calling an API from SQL Server stored procedure

I'd recommend using a CLR user defined function, if you already know how to program in C#, then the code would be;

using System.Data.SqlTypes;
using System.Net;

public partial class UserDefinedFunctions
{
 [Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction]
 public static SqlString http(SqlString url)
 {
  var wc = new WebClient();
  var html = wc.DownloadString(url.Value);
  return new SqlString (html);
 }
}

And here's installation instructions; https://blog.dotnetframework.org/2019/09/17/make-a-http-request-from-sqlserver-using-a-clr-udf/

How to run a command in the background on Windows?

If you take 5 minutes to download visual studio and make a Console Application for this, your problem is solved.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;

namespace BgRunner
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Starting: " + String.Join(" ", args));
            String arguments = String.Join(" ", args.Skip(1).ToArray());
            String command = args[0];

            Process p = new Process();
            p.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(command);
            p.StartInfo.Arguments = arguments;
            p.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(command);
            p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
            p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            p.Start();
        }
    }
}

Examples of usage:

BgRunner.exe php/php-cgi -b 9999
BgRunner.exe redis/redis-server --port 3000
BgRunner.exe nginx/nginx

ASP.net vs PHP (What to choose)

There are a couple of topics that might provide you with an answer. You could also run some tests yourself. Doesn't see too hard to get some loops started and adding a timer to calculate the execution time ;-)

How to make a WPF window be on top of all other windows of my app (not system wide)?

use the Activate() method. This attempts to bring the window to the foreground and activate it. e.g. Window wnd = new xyz(); wnd.Activate();

css divide width 100% to 3 column

Just to present an alternative way to fix this problem (if you don't really care about supporting IE):

A soft coded solution would be to use display: table (no support in IE7) along with table-layout: fixed (to ensure equal width columns).

Read more about this here.

Example of waitpid() in use?

Syntax of waitpid():

pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *status, int options);

The value of pid can be:

  • < -1: Wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of pid.
  • -1: Wait for any child process.
  • 0: Wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to that of the calling process.
  • > 0: Wait for the child whose process ID is equal to the value of pid.

The value of options is an OR of zero or more of the following constants:

  • WNOHANG: Return immediately if no child has exited.
  • WUNTRACED: Also return if a child has stopped. Status for traced children which have stopped is provided even if this option is not specified.
  • WCONTINUED: Also return if a stopped child has been resumed by delivery of SIGCONT.

For more help, use man waitpid.

How to set the default value for radio buttons in AngularJS?

In Angular 2 this is how we can set the default value for radio button:

HTML:

<label class="form-check-label">
          <input type="radio" class="form-check-input" name="gender" 
          [(ngModel)]="gender" id="optionsRadios1" value="male">
          Male
</label>

In the Component Class set the value of 'gender' variable equal to the value of radio button:

gender = 'male';

Is Fortran easier to optimize than C for heavy calculations?

Using modern standards and compiler, no!

Some of the folks here have suggested that FORTRAN is faster because the compiler doesn't need to worry about aliasing (and hence can make more assumptions during optimisation). However, this has been dealt with in C since the C99 (I think) standard with the inclusion of the restrict keyword. Which basically tells the compiler, that within a give scope, the pointer is not aliased. Furthermore C enables proper pointer arithmetic, where things like aliasing can be very useful in terms of performance and resource allocation. Although I think more recent version of FORTRAN enable the use of "proper" pointers.

For modern implementations C general outperforms FORTRAN (although it is very fast too).

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/fortran.html

EDIT:

A fair criticism of this seems to be that the benchmarking may be biased. Here is another source (relative to C) that puts result in more context:

http://julialang.org/benchmarks/

You can see that C typically outperforms Fortran in most instances (again see criticisms below that apply here too); as others have stated, benchmarking is an inexact science that can be easily loaded to favour one language over others. But it does put in context how Fortran and C have similar performance.

How to iterate over columns of pandas dataframe to run regression

I landed on this question as I was looking for a clean iterator of columns only (Series, no names).

Unless I am mistaken, there is no such thing, which, if true, is a bit annoying. In particular, one would sometimes like to assign a few individual columns (Series) to variables, e.g.:

x, y = df[['x', 'y']]  # does not work

There is df.items() that gets close, but it gives an iterator of tuples (column_name, column_series). Interestingly, there is a corresponding df.keys() which returns df.columns, i.e. the column names as an Index, so a, b = df[['x', 'y']].keys() assigns properly a='x' and b='y'. But there is no corresponding df.values(), and for good reason, as df.values is a property and returns the underlying numpy array.

One (inelegant) way is to do:

x, y = (v for _, v in df[['x', 'y']].items())

but it's less pythonic than I'd like.

How to disable Python warnings?

This is an old question but there is some newer guidance in PEP 565 that to turn off all warnings if you're writing a python application you should use:

import sys
import warnings

if not sys.warnoptions:
    warnings.simplefilter("ignore")

The reason this is recommended is that it turns off all warnings by default but crucially allows them to be switched back on via python -W on the command line or PYTHONWARNINGS.

How to extract the hostname portion of a URL in JavaScript

Check this:

alert(window.location.hostname);

this will return host name as www.domain.com

and:

window.location.host

will return domain name with port like www.example.com:80

For complete reference check Mozilla developer site.

How to plot all the columns of a data frame in R

You can jump through hoops and convert your solution to a lapply, sapply or apply call. (I see @jonw shows one way to do this.) Other than that what you have already is perfectly acceptable code.

If these are all a time series or similar then the following might be a suitable alternative, which plots each series in it's own panel on a single plotting region. We use the zoo package as it handles ordered data like this very well indeed.

require(zoo)
set.seed(1)
## example data
dat <- data.frame(X = cumsum(rnorm(100)), Y = cumsum(rnorm(100)),
                  Z = cumsum(rnorm(100)))
## convert to multivariate zoo object
datz <- zoo(dat)
## plot it
plot(datz)

Which gives: Example of zoo plotting capabilities

Android Studio Gradle DSL method not found: 'android()' -- Error(17,0)

I have tried to manage this issue via below steps :

Delete android { ... } block in top level root gradle file

Look into

 compileSdkVersion 22
 buildToolsVersion "22.0.0"

lines of code in app/gradle file here only one of the version persent in below dropdown should be present else it would give provide option to downloaad the same.

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Sending event when AngularJS finished loading

If you don't use ngRoute module, i.e. you don't have $viewContentLoaded event.

You can use another directive method:

    angular.module('someModule')
        .directive('someDirective', someDirective);

    someDirective.$inject = ['$rootScope', '$timeout']; //Inject services

    function someDirective($rootScope, $timeout){
        return {
            restrict: "A",
            priority: Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER, //Lowest priority
            link    : function(scope, element, attr){
                $timeout(
                    function(){
                        $rootScope.$emit("Some:event");
                    }
                );
            }
        };
    }

Accordingly to trusktr's answer it has lowest priority. Plus $timeout will cause Angular to run through an entire event loop before callback execution.

$rootScope used, because it allow to place directive in any scope of the application and notify only necessary listeners.

$rootScope.$emit will fire an event for all $rootScope.$on listeners only. The interesting part is that $rootScope.$broadcast will notify all $rootScope.$on as well as $scope.$on listeners Source

Converting a string to a date in JavaScript

I have created parseDateTime function to convert the string to date object and it is working in all browser (including IE browser), check if anyone required, reference https://github.com/Umesh-Markande/Parse-String-to-Date-in-all-browser

    function parseDateTime(datetime) {
            var monthNames = [
                "January", "February", "March",
                "April", "May", "June", "July",
                "August", "September", "October",
                "November", "December"
              ];
            if(datetime.split(' ').length == 3){
                var date = datetime.split(' ')[0];
                var time = datetime.split(' ')[1].replace('.00','');
                var timearray = time.split(':');
                var hours = parseInt(time.split(':')[0]);
                var format = datetime.split(' ')[2];
                var bits = date.split(/\D/);
                date = new Date(bits[0], --bits[1], bits[2]); /* if you change format of datetime which is passed to this function, you need to change bits e.x ( bits[0], bits[1], bits[2 ]) position as per date, months and year it represent bits array.*/
                var day = date.getDate();
                var monthIndex = date.getMonth();
                var year = date.getFullYear();
                if ((format === 'PM' || format === 'pm') && hours !== 12) {
                    hours += 12;
                    try{  time = hours+':'+timearray[1]+':'+timearray[2] }catch(e){ time = hours+':'+timearray[1] }
                } 
                var formateddatetime = new Date(monthNames[monthIndex] + ' ' + day + '  ' + year + ' ' + time);
                return formateddatetime;
            }else if(datetime.split(' ').length == 2){
                var date = datetime.split(' ')[0];
                var time = datetime.split(' ')[1];
                var bits = date.split(/\D/);
                var datetimevalue = new Date(bits[0], --bits[1], bits[2]); /* if you change format of datetime which is passed to this function, you need to change bits e.x ( bits[0], bits[1], bits[2 ]) position as per date, months and year it represent bits array.*/
                var day = datetimevalue.getDate();
                var monthIndex = datetimevalue.getMonth();
                var year = datetimevalue.getFullYear();
                var formateddatetime = new Date(monthNames[monthIndex] + ' ' + day + '  ' + year + ' ' + time);
                return formateddatetime;
            }else if(datetime != ''){
                var bits = datetime.split(/\D/);
                var date = new Date(bits[0], --bits[1], bits[2]); /* if you change format of datetime which is passed to this function, you need to change bits e.x ( bits[0], bits[1], bits[2 ]) position as per date, months and year it represent bits array.*/
                return date;
            }
            return datetime;
        }

    var date1 = '2018-05-14 05:04:22 AM';   // yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss A
    var date2 = '2018/05/14 05:04:22 AM';   // yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss A
    var date3 = '2018/05/04';   // yyyy/mm/dd
    var date4 = '2018-05-04';   // yyyy-mm-dd
    var date5 = '2018-05-14 15:04:22';   // yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss
    var date6 = '2018/05/14 14:04:22';   // yyyy/mm/dd HH:mm:ss

    console.log(parseDateTime(date1))
    console.log(parseDateTime(date2))
    console.log(parseDateTime(date3))
    console.log(parseDateTime(date4))
    console.log(parseDateTime(date5))
    console.log(parseDateTime(date6))

**Output---**
Mon May 14 2018 05:04:22 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Mon May 14 2018 05:04:22 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Fri May 04 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Fri May 04 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Mon May 14 2018 15:04:22 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Mon May 14 2018 14:04:22 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

Run JavaScript in Visual Studio Code

It's very simple, when you create a new file in VS Code and run it, if you already don't have a configuration file it creates one for you, the only thing you need to setup is the "program" value, and set it to the path of your main JS file, looks like this:

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    // List of configurations. Add new configurations or edit existing ones.  
    // ONLY "node" and "mono" are supported, change "type" to switch.
    // ABSOLUTE paths are required for no folder workspaces.
    "configurations": [
        {
            // Name of configuration; appears in the launch configuration drop down menu.
            "name": "Launch",
            // Type of configuration. Possible values: "node", "mono".
            "type": "node",
            // ABSOLUTE path to the program.
            "program": "C:\\test.js", //HERE YOU PLACE THE MAIN JS FILE
            // Automatically stop program after launch.
            "stopOnEntry": false,
            // Command line arguments passed to the program.
            "args": [],
            // ABSOLUTE path to the working directory of the program being debugged. Default is the directory of the program.
            "cwd": "",
            // ABSOLUTE path to the runtime executable to be used. Default is the runtime executable on the PATH.
            "runtimeExecutable": null,
            // Optional arguments passed to the runtime executable.
            "runtimeArgs": [],
            // Environment variables passed to the program.
            "env": { },
            // Use JavaScript source maps (if they exist).
            "sourceMaps": false,
            // If JavaScript source maps are enabled, the generated code is expected in this directory.
            "outDir": null
        }, 
        {
            "name": "Attach",
            "type": "node",
            // TCP/IP address. Default is "localhost".
            "address": "localhost",
            // Port to attach to.
            "port": 5858,
            "sourceMaps": false
        }
    ]
}

Creating a button in Android Toolbar

You can actually put anything inside a toolbar. See the below code.

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary">

</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Between the above toolbar tag you can put almost anything. That is the benefit of using a Toolbar.

Source: Android Toolbar Example

Getting the number of filled cells in a column (VBA)

If you want to find the last populated cell in a particular column, the best method is:

Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

This code uses the very last cell in the entire column (65536 for Excel 2003, 1048576 in later versions), and then find the first populated cell above it. This has the ability to ignore "breaks" in your data and find the true last row.

Make a simple fade in animation in Swift?

0x7ffffff's answer is ok and definitely exhaustive.

As a plus, I suggest you to make an UIView extension, in this way:

public extension UIView {

  /**
  Fade in a view with a duration

  - parameter duration: custom animation duration
  */
  func fadeIn(duration duration: NSTimeInterval = 1.0) {
    UIView.animateWithDuration(duration, animations: {
        self.alpha = 1.0
    })
  }

  /**
  Fade out a view with a duration

  - parameter duration: custom animation duration
  */
  func fadeOut(duration duration: NSTimeInterval = 1.0) {
    UIView.animateWithDuration(duration, animations: {
        self.alpha = 0.0
    })
  }

}

Swift-3

/// Fade in a view with a duration
/// 
/// Parameter duration: custom animation duration
func fadeIn(withDuration duration: TimeInterval = 1.0) {
    UIView.animate(withDuration: duration, animations: {
        self.alpha = 1.0
    })
}

/// Fade out a view with a duration
///
/// - Parameter duration: custom animation duration
func fadeOut(withDuration duration: TimeInterval = 1.0) {
    UIView.animate(withDuration: duration, animations: {
        self.alpha = 0.0
    })
}

In this way you can do this wherever in your code:

let newImage = UIImage(named: "")
newImage.alpha = 0 // or newImage.fadeOut(duration: 0.0)
self.view.addSubview(newImage)
... 
newImage.fadeIn()

Code reuse is important!

Removing Spaces from a String in C?

I assume the C string is in a fixed memory, so if you replace spaces you have to shift all characters.

The easiest seems to be to create new string and iterate over the original one and copy only non space characters.

Disable sorting for a particular column in jQuery DataTables

Here is what you can use to disable certain column to be disabled:

 $('#tableId').dataTable({           
            "columns": [
                { "data": "id"},
                { "data": "sampleSortableColumn" },
                { "data": "otherSortableColumn" },
                { "data": "unsortableColumn", "orderable": false}
           ]
});

So all you have to do is add the "orderable": false to the column you don't want to be sortable.

How to write DataFrame to postgres table?

For Python 2.7 and Pandas 0.24.2 and using Psycopg2

Psycopg2 Connection Module

def dbConnect (db_parm, username_parm, host_parm, pw_parm):
    # Parse in connection information
    credentials = {'host': host_parm, 'database': db_parm, 'user': username_parm, 'password': pw_parm}
    conn = psycopg2.connect(**credentials)
    conn.autocommit = True  # auto-commit each entry to the database
    conn.cursor_factory = RealDictCursor
    cur = conn.cursor()
    print ("Connected Successfully to DB: " + str(db_parm) + "@" + str(host_parm))
    return conn, cur

Connect to the database

conn, cur = dbConnect(databaseName, dbUser, dbHost, dbPwd)

Assuming dataframe to be present already as df

output = io.BytesIO() # For Python3 use StringIO
df.to_csv(output, sep='\t', header=True, index=False)
output.seek(0) # Required for rewinding the String object
copy_query = "COPY mem_info FROM STDOUT csv DELIMITER '\t' NULL ''  ESCAPE '\\' HEADER "  # Replace your table name in place of mem_info
cur.copy_expert(copy_query, output)
conn.commit()

How to resolve TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object

This is very useful to avoid errors when accessing properties of null or undefined objects.

null to undefined object

const obj = null;
const newObj = obj || undefined;
// newObj = undefined

undefined to empty object

const obj; 
const newObj = obj || {};
// newObj = {}     
// newObj.prop = undefined, but no error here

null to empty object

const obj = null;
const newObj = obj || {};
// newObj = {}  
// newObj.prop = undefined, but no error here

How to read a file in Groovy into a string?

The shortest way is indeed just

String fileContents = new File('/path/to/file').text

but in this case you have no control on how the bytes in the file are interpreted as characters. AFAIK groovy tries to guess the encoding here by looking at the file content.

If you want a specific character encoding you can specify a charset name with

String fileContents = new File('/path/to/file').getText('UTF-8')

See API docs on File.getText(String) for further reference.

Matplotlib different size subplots

Probably the simplest way is using subplot2grid, described in Customizing Location of Subplot Using GridSpec.

ax = plt.subplot2grid((2, 2), (0, 0))

is equal to

import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec
gs = gridspec.GridSpec(2, 2)
ax = plt.subplot(gs[0, 0])

so bmu's example becomes:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# generate some data
x = np.arange(0, 10, 0.2)
y = np.sin(x)

# plot it
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
ax0 = plt.subplot2grid((1, 3), (0, 0), colspan=2)
ax0.plot(x, y)
ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((1, 3), (0, 2))
ax1.plot(y, x)

plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig('grid_figure.pdf')

program cant start because php5.dll is missing

Download php5.dll (http://windows.php.net/download/) and copy it to apache/bin folder. That solved it for me (Win 7 64 bit apache 32 bit)

EDIT: Start with the non-thread safe version.

How do I view the full content of a text or varchar(MAX) column in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio?

It sounds like the Xml may not be well formed. If that is the case, then you will not be able to cast it as Xml and given that, you are limited in how much text you can return in Management Studio. However, you could break up the text into smaller chunks like so:

With Tally As
    (
        Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY s1.object_id ) - 1 As Num
        From sys.sysobjects As s1
            Cross Join sys.sysobjects As s2
    )
Select Substring(T1.textCol, T2.Num * 8000 + 1, 8000)
From Table As T1
    Cross Join Tally As T2
Where T2.Num <= Ceiling(Len(T1.textCol) / 8000)
Order By T2.Num

You would then need to manually combine them again.

EDIT

It sounds like there are some characters in the text data that the Xml parser does not like. You could try converting those values to entities and then try the Convert(xml, data) trick. So something like:

Update Table
Set Data = Replace(Cast(Data As varchar(max)),'<','&lt;')

(I needed to cast to varchar(max) because the replace function will not work on text columns. There should not be any reason you couldn't convert those text columns to varchar(max).)

I can pass a variable from a JSP scriptlet to JSTL but not from JSTL to a JSP scriptlet without an error

@skaffman nailed it down. They live each in its own context. However, I wouldn't consider using scriptlets as the solution. You'd like to avoid them. If all you want is to concatenate strings in EL and you discovered that the + operator fails for strings in EL (which is correct), then just do:

<c:out value="abc${test}" />

Or if abc is to obtained from another scoped variable named ${resp}, then do:

<c:out value="${resp}${test}" />

How to close a GUI when I push a JButton?

Create a method and call it to close the JFrame, for example:

public void CloseJframe(){
    super.dispose();
}

Hashing a string with Sha256

In the PHP version you can send 'true' in the last parameter, but the default is 'false'. The following algorithm is equivalent to the default PHP's hash function when passing 'sha256' as the first parameter:

public static string GetSha256FromString(string strData)
    {
        var message = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strData);
        SHA256Managed hashString = new SHA256Managed();
        string hex = "";

        var hashValue = hashString.ComputeHash(message);
        foreach (byte x in hashValue)
        {
            hex += String.Format("{0:x2}", x);
        }
        return hex;
    }

How to insert multiple rows from a single query using eloquent/fluent

using Eloquent

$data = array(
    array('user_id'=>'Coder 1', 'subject_id'=> 4096),
    array('user_id'=>'Coder 2', 'subject_id'=> 2048),
    //...
);

Model::insert($data);

ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one

What worked for me (youtube-dl version 2018.03.03, ffprobe 0.5, no avprobe, 3.4.1-tessus, in Hi-Sierra/iMac) was:

brew install libav

(thanks to marciovsena's post on GitHub).

I saw elsewhere that libav might be deprecated in the future, but I'll worry about it when we get there.

How to stretch a table over multiple pages

You should \usepackage{longtable}.

Casting variables in Java

The right way is this:

Integer i = Integer.class.cast(obj);

The method cast() is a much safer alternative to compile-time casting.

How to search images from private 1.0 registry in docker?

Currently there's no search support for Docker Registry v2.

There was a long-running thread on the topic. The current plan is to support search with an extension in the end, which should be ready by v2.1.

As a workaround, execute the following on the machine where your registry v2 is running:

> docker exec -it <your_registry_container_id> bash
> ls /var/lib/registry/docker/registry/v2/repositories/

The images are in subdirectories corresponding to their namespace, e.g. jwilder/nginx-proxy

Android Location Providers - GPS or Network Provider?

GPS is generally more accurate than network but sometimes GPS is not available, therefore you might need to switch between the two.

A good start might be to look at the android dev site. They had a section dedicated to determining user location and it has all the code samples you need.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/obtaining-user-location.html

How to horizontally align ul to center of div?

You can check this solved your problem...

    #headermenu ul{ 
        text-align: center;
    }
    #headermenu li { 
list-style-type: none;
        display: inline-block;
    }
    #headermenu ul li a{
        float: left;
    }

http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/VCZgW/

How to run Maven from another directory (without cd to project dir)?

I don't think maven supports this. If you're on Unix, and don't want to leave your current directory, you could use a small shell script, a shell function, or just a sub-shell:

user@host ~/project$ (cd ~/some/location; mvn install)
[ ... mvn build ... ]
user@host ~/project$

As a bash function (which you could add to your ~/.bashrc):

function mvn-there() {
  DIR="$1"
  shift
  (cd $DIR; mvn "$@")     
} 

user@host ~/project$ mvn-there ~/some/location install)
[ ... mvn build ... ]
user@host ~/project$

I realize this doesn't answer the specific question, but may provide you with what you're after. I'm not familiar with the Windows shell, though you should be able to reach a similar solution there as well.

Regards

Create <div> and append <div> dynamically

Well, I don't know how dynamic this is is, but sometimes this might save your debugging life:

var daString="<div id=\'block\' class=\'block\'><div class=\'block-2\'></div></div>";
var daParent=document.getElementById("the ID of whatever your parent is goes in here");
daParent.innerHTML=daString;

"Rat javascript" If I did it correctly. Works for me directly when the div and contents are not themselves dynamic of course, or you can even manipulate the string to change that too, though the string manipulating is complex than the "element.property=bla" approach, this gives some very welcome flexibility, and is a great debugging tool too :) Hope it helps.

Upgrade version of Pandas

According to an article on Medium, this will work:

install --upgrade pandas==1.0.0rc0

android: how to use getApplication and getApplicationContext from non activity / service class

The getApplication() method is located in the Activity class, that's why you can't access it from your helper class.

If you really need to access your application context from your helper, you should hold a reference to the activity's context and pass it on invocation to the helper.

How to commit and rollback transaction in sql server?

Don't use @@ERROR, use BEGIN TRY/BEGIN CATCH instead. See this article: Exception handling and nested transactions for a sample procedure:

create procedure [usp_my_procedure_name]
as
begin
    set nocount on;
    declare @trancount int;
    set @trancount = @@trancount;
    begin try
        if @trancount = 0
            begin transaction
        else
            save transaction usp_my_procedure_name;

        -- Do the actual work here

lbexit:
        if @trancount = 0   
            commit;
    end try
    begin catch
        declare @error int, @message varchar(4000), @xstate int;
        select @error = ERROR_NUMBER(), @message = ERROR_MESSAGE(), @xstate = XACT_STATE();
        if @xstate = -1
            rollback;
        if @xstate = 1 and @trancount = 0
            rollback
        if @xstate = 1 and @trancount > 0
            rollback transaction usp_my_procedure_name;

        raiserror ('usp_my_procedure_name: %d: %s', 16, 1, @error, @message) ;
        return;
    end catch   
end

How do I get a python program to do nothing?

you can use pass inside if statement.