Programs & Examples On #Web controls

Web controls are classes that allow you to create Web server controls on a Web page

Multi-select dropdown list in ASP.NET

jQuery Dropdown Check List can be used to transform a regular multiple select html element into a dropdown checkbox list, it works on client so can be used with any server side technology:

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(source: googlecode.com)

How to restore a SQL Server 2012 database to SQL Server 2008 R2?

Merge replication. You can create the subscriber (2008) from the distributor (2008). After the database has fully synchronized, drop the subscription and the publication.

How to get all options of a select using jQuery?

For multiselect option:

$('#test').val() returns list of selected values. $('#test option').length returns total number of options (both selected and not selected)

Set encoding and fileencoding to utf-8 in Vim

set encoding=utf-8  " The encoding displayed.
set fileencoding=utf-8  " The encoding written to file.

You may as well set both in your ~/.vimrc if you always want to work with utf-8.

Make REST API call in Swift

Swift 4

Create an app using Alamofire with Api Post method

Install pod file -pod 'Alamofire', '~> 4.0' for Swift 3 with Xcode 9

Create Webservices.swift class, import Alamofire

Design storyBoard ,Login View

insert following Code for the ViewControllerClass

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet var usernameTextField: UITextField!

    @IBOutlet var passwordTextField: UITextField!
    var usertypeStr :String = "-----------"
    var loginDictionary : NSDictionary?
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }

    @IBAction func loginButtonClicked(_ sender: Any) {
        WebServices.userLogin(userName: usernameTextField.text!, password: passwordTextField.text!,userType: usertypeStr) {(result, message, status )in
            if status {
                let loginDetails = result as? WebServices
                self.loginDictionary = loginDetails?.loginData
                if self.loginDictionary?["status"] as? String == "error"
                {
                    self.alertMessage(alerttitle: "Login Error", (self.loginDictionary?["message"] as? String)!)
                } else if self.loginDictionary?["status"] as? String == "ok" {
                    self.alertMessage(alerttitle: "", "Success")

                }else {
                    self.alertMessage(alerttitle: "", (self.loginDictionary?["message"] as? String)!)
                }
            } else {
                self.alertMessage(alerttitle: "", "Sorry")
            }
        }
    }

    func alertMessage(alerttitle:String,_ message : String){
        let alertViewController = UIAlertController(title:alerttitle,  message:message, preferredStyle: .alert)
        alertViewController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: nil))
        present(alertViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

}

Insert Following Code For WebserviceClass

import Foundation
import Alamofire
class WebServices: NSObject {
    enum WebServiceNames: String {
        case baseUrl = "https://---------------"
        case UserLogin = "------------"
    }

    // MARK: - Login Variables
    var loginData : NSDictionary?

    class func userLogin(userName: String,password : String,userType : String, completion : @escaping (_ response : AnyObject?, _ message: String?, _ success : Bool)-> ()) {
        let url = WebServiceNames.baseUrl.rawValue + WebServiceNames.UserLogin.rawValue
        let params = ["USER": userName,"PASS":password,"API_Key" : userType]
        WebServices.postWebService(urlString: url, params: params as [String : AnyObject]) { (response, message, status) in
            print(response ?? "Error")
            let result = WebServices()
            if let data = response as? NSDictionary {
                print(data)
                result.loginData = data
                completion(result, "Success", true)

            }else {
                completion("" as AnyObject?, "Failed", false)
            }
        }
    }
    //MARK :- Post
    class func postWebService(urlString: String, params: [String : AnyObject], completion : @escaping (_ response : AnyObject?, _ message: String?, _ success : Bool)-> Void) {
        alamofireFunction(urlString: urlString, method: .post, paramters: params) { (response, message, success) in
            if response != nil {
                completion(response as AnyObject?, "", true)
            }else{
                completion(nil, "", false)
            }
        }
    }

    class func alamofireFunction(urlString : String, method : Alamofire.HTTPMethod, paramters : [String : AnyObject], completion : @escaping (_ response : AnyObject?, _ message: String?, _ success : Bool)-> Void){

        if method == Alamofire.HTTPMethod.post {
            Alamofire.request(urlString, method: .post, parameters: paramters, encoding: URLEncoding.default, headers: nil).responseJSON { (response:DataResponse<Any>) in

                print(urlString)

                if response.result.isSuccess{
                    completion(response.result.value as AnyObject?, "", true)
                }else{
                    completion(nil, "", false)
                }
            }

        }else {
            Alamofire.request(urlString).responseJSON { (response) in

                if response.result.isSuccess{
                    completion(response.result.value as AnyObject?, "", true)
                }else{
                    completion(nil, "", false)
                }
            }
        }
    }



    //Mark:-Cancel
    class func cancelAllRequests()
    {
        Alamofire.SessionManager.default.session.getTasksWithCompletionHandler { dataTasks, uploadTasks, downloadTasks in
            dataTasks.forEach { $0.cancel() }
            uploadTasks.forEach { $0.cancel() }
            downloadTasks.forEach { $0.cancel() }
        }
    }
}

Javascript: Easier way to format numbers?

No, there is no built-in support for number formatting, but googling will turn up loads of code snippets that will do this for you.

EDIT: I missed the last sentence of your post. Try http://code.google.com/p/jquery-utils/wiki/StringFormat for a jQuery solution.

Angular2 http.get() ,map(), subscribe() and observable pattern - basic understanding

Here is where you went wrong:

this.result = http.get('friends.json')
                  .map(response => response.json())
                  .subscribe(result => this.result =result.json());

it should be:

http.get('friends.json')
                  .map(response => response.json())
                  .subscribe(result => this.result =result);

or

http.get('friends.json')
                  .subscribe(result => this.result =result.json());

You have made two mistakes:

1- You assigned the observable itself to this.result. When you actually wanted to assign the list of friends to this.result. The correct way to do it is:

  • you subscribe to the observable. .subscribe is the function that actually executes the observable. It takes three callback parameters as follow:

    .subscribe(success, failure, complete);

for example:

.subscribe(
    function(response) { console.log("Success Response" + response)},
    function(error) { console.log("Error happened" + error)},
    function() { console.log("the subscription is completed")}
);

Usually, you take the results from the success callback and assign it to your variable. the error callback is self explanatory. the complete callback is used to determine that you have received the last results without any errors. On your plunker, the complete callback will always be called after either the success or the error callback.

2- The second mistake, you called .json() on .map(res => res.json()), then you called it again on the success callback of the observable. .map() is a transformer that will transform the result to whatever you return (in your case .json()) before it's passed to the success callback you should called it once on either one of them.

How can I test a Windows DLL file to determine if it is 32 bit or 64 bit?

Gory details

A DLL uses the PE executable format, and it's not too tricky to read that information out of the file.

See this MSDN article on the PE File Format for an overview. You need to read the MS-DOS header, then read the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS structure. This contains the IMAGE_FILE_HEADER structure which contains the info you need in the Machine member which contains one of the following values

  • IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386 (0x014c)
  • IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_IA64 (0x0200)
  • IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64 (0x8664)

This information should be at a fixed offset in the file, but I'd still recommend traversing the file and checking the signature of the MS-DOS header and the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS to be sure you cope with any future changes.

Use ImageHelp to read the headers...

You can also use the ImageHelp API to do this - load the DLL with LoadImage and you'll get a LOADED_IMAGE structure which will contain a pointer to an IMAGE_NT_HEADERS structure. Deallocate the LOADED_IMAGE with ImageUnload.

...or adapt this rough Perl script

Here's rough Perl script which gets the job done. It checks the file has a DOS header, then reads the PE offset from the IMAGE_DOS_HEADER 60 bytes into the file.

It then seeks to the start of the PE part, reads the signature and checks it, and then extracts the value we're interested in.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# usage: petype <exefile>
#
$exe = $ARGV[0];

open(EXE, $exe) or die "can't open $exe: $!";
binmode(EXE);
if (read(EXE, $doshdr, 64)) {

   ($magic,$skip,$offset)=unpack('a2a58l', $doshdr);
   die("Not an executable") if ($magic ne 'MZ');

   seek(EXE,$offset,SEEK_SET);
   if (read(EXE, $pehdr, 6)){
       ($sig,$skip,$machine)=unpack('a2a2v', $pehdr);
       die("No a PE Executable") if ($sig ne 'PE');

       if ($machine == 0x014c){
            print "i386\n";
       }
       elsif ($machine == 0x0200){
            print "IA64\n";
       }
       elsif ($machine == 0x8664){
            print "AMD64\n";
       }
       else{
            printf("Unknown machine type 0x%lx\n", $machine);
       }
   }
}

close(EXE);

can you add HTTPS functionality to a python flask web server?

Don't use openssl or pyopenssl its now become obselete in python

Refer the Code below

from flask import Flask, jsonify
import os

ASSETS_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/')
def index():
    return 'Flask is running!'


@app.route('/data')
def names():
    data = {"names": ["John", "Jacob", "Julie", "Jennifer"]}
    return jsonify(data)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    context = ('local.crt', 'local.key')#certificate and key files
    app.run(debug=True, ssl_context=context)

How much does it cost to develop an iPhone application?

Appsamuck iPhone tutorials is aiming for 31 days of tutorials ending in 31 small apps developed for the iPhone all the source code for which is available to download. They also provide a commercial service to build apps!

If you want to know if you can do the coding, well at least you can download the code and see if anything there is helpful for your needs. On the flip side you can also get a quote from them for developing the app for you, so you can try both sides of the coin, outsource and in-house. Of course it all depends on how much time you have too! It's certainly worth a look!

(OK, after my last disastrous attempt to try and post a useful piece of help, I went off hunting around!)

How to get the selected radio button’s value?

    var value = $('input:radio[name="radiogroupname"]:checked').val();

How to get the last row of an Oracle a table

There is no such thing as the "last" row in a table, as an Oracle table has no concept of order.

However, assuming that you wanted to find the last inserted primary key and that this primary key is an incrementing number, you could do something like this:

select *
  from ( select a.*, max(pk) over () as max_pk
           from my_table a
                )
 where pk = max_pk

If you have the date that each row was created this would become, if the column is named created:

select *
  from ( select a.*, max(created) over () as max_created
           from my_table a
                )
 where created = max_created

Alternatively, you can use an aggregate query, for example:

select *
  from my_table
 where pk = ( select max(pk) from my_table )

Here's a little SQL Fiddle to demonstrate.

smtpclient " failure sending mail"

For us, everything was fine, emails are very small and not a lot of them are sent and sudently it gave this error. It appeared that a technicien installed ASTARO which was preventing email to be sent. and we were getting this error so yes the error is a bit cryptic but I hope this could help others.

What does "connection reset by peer" mean?

This means that a TCP RST was received and the connection is now closed. This occurs when a packet is sent from your end of the connection but the other end does not recognize the connection; it will send back a packet with the RST bit set in order to forcibly close the connection.

This can happen if the other side crashes and then comes back up or if it calls close() on the socket while there is data from you in transit, and is an indication to you that some of the data that you previously sent may not have been received.

It is up to you whether that is an error; if the information you were sending was only for the benefit of the remote client then it may not matter that any final data may have been lost. However you should close the socket and free up any other resources associated with the connection.

Unzip a file with php

I can only assume your code came from a tutorial somewhere online? In that case, good job trying to figure it out by yourself. On the other hand, the fact that this code could actually be published online somewhere as the correct way to unzip a file is a bit frightening.

PHP has built-in extensions for dealing with compressed files. There should be no need to use system calls for this. ZipArchivedocs is one option.

$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('file.zip');
if ($res === TRUE) {
  $zip->extractTo('/myzips/extract_path/');
  $zip->close();
  echo 'woot!';
} else {
  echo 'doh!';
}

Also, as others have commented, $HTTP_GET_VARS has been deprecated since version 4.1 ... which was a reeeeeally long time ago. Don't use it. Use the $_GET superglobal instead.

Finally, be very careful about accepting whatever input is passed to a script via a $_GET variable.

ALWAYS SANITIZE USER INPUT.


UPDATE

As per your comment, the best way to extract the zip file into the same directory in which it resides is to determine the hard path to the file and extract it specifically to that location. So, you could do:

// assuming file.zip is in the same directory as the executing script.
$file = 'file.zip';

// get the absolute path to $file
$path = pathinfo(realpath($file), PATHINFO_DIRNAME);

$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open($file);
if ($res === TRUE) {
  // extract it to the path we determined above
  $zip->extractTo($path);
  $zip->close();
  echo "WOOT! $file extracted to $path";
} else {
  echo "Doh! I couldn't open $file";
}

How to make canvas responsive

There's a better way to do this in modern browsers using the vh and vw units.

vh is the viewport height.

So you can try something like this:

<style>
canvas {
  border: solid 2px purple;
  background-color: green;
  width: 100%;
  height: 80vh;
}
</style>

This will distort the aspect ration.

You can keep the aspect ratio by using the same unit for each. Here's an example with a 2:1 aspect ratio:

<style>
canvas {
  width: 40vh;
  height: 80vh;
}
</style>

Removing object from array in Swift 3

This is official answer to find index of specific object, then you can easily remove any object using that index :

var students = ["Ben", "Ivy", "Jordell", "Maxime"]
if let i = students.firstIndex(of: "Maxime") {
     // students[i] = "Max"
     students.remove(at: i)
}
print(students)
// Prints ["Ben", "Ivy", "Jordell"]

Here is the link: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array/2994720-firstindex

Edit a text file on the console using Powershell

I agree with Sven Plath. Nano is a great alternative. If you have Chocolatey setup. Install nano by typing the following in Powershell:

PS C:\dev\> choco install nano

Then, to edit somefile.txt enter:

PS C:\dev\> nano somefile.txt

It's pretty neat!

Edit: Nano works well on my Windows 10 box but takes incredibly long to load the first time on my Windows 7 machine. That made me switch to vim (vi) on my Win 7 laptop

PS C:\dev\> choco install vim
PS C:\dev\> vim $profile

Add a line in the powershell profile to Set-Alias (sal)

sal vi vim

Esc - : - x - Enter :-)

How can I disable a specific LI element inside a UL?

If you still want to show the item but make it not clickable and look disabled with CSS:

CSS:

.disabled {
    pointer-events:none; //This makes it not clickable
    opacity:0.6;         //This grays it out to look disabled
}

HTML:

<li class="disabled">Disabled List Item</li>

Also, if you are using BootStrap, they already have a class called disabled for this purpose. See this example.

As @LV98 pointed out, users could change this on the client side and submit a selection you weren't expecting. You will want to validate at the server as well.

How to create a link for all mobile devices that opens google maps with a route starting at the current location, destinating a given place?

just bumped in this question and found here all the answers I took some of the codes above and made simple js function that works on android and iphone (it supports almost every android and iphones).

  function navigate(lat, lng) {
    // If it's an iPhone..
    if ((navigator.platform.indexOf("iPhone") !== -1) || (navigator.platform.indexOf("iPod") !== -1)) {
      function iOSversion() {
        if (/iP(hone|od|ad)/.test(navigator.platform)) {
          // supports iOS 2.0 and later
          var v = (navigator.appVersion).match(/OS (\d+)_(\d+)_?(\d+)?/);
          return [parseInt(v[1], 10), parseInt(v[2], 10), parseInt(v[3] || 0, 10)];
        }
      }
      var ver = iOSversion() || [0];

      var protocol = 'http://';
      if (ver[0] >= 6) {
        protocol = 'maps://';
      }
      window.location = protocol + 'maps.apple.com/maps?daddr=' + lat + ',' + lng + '&amp;ll=';
    }
    else {
      window.open('http://maps.google.com?daddr=' + lat + ',' + lng + '&amp;ll=');
    }
  }

The html:

 <a onclick="navigate(31.046051,34.85161199999993)" >Israel</a>

Asynchronous Process inside a javascript for loop

Any recommendation on how to fix this?

Several. You can use bind:

for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
    asycronouseProcess(function (i) {
        alert(i);
    }.bind(null, i));
}

Or, if your browser supports let (it will be in the next ECMAScript version, however Firefox already supports it since a while) you could have:

for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
    let k = i;
    asycronouseProcess(function() {
        alert(k);
    });
}

Or, you could do the job of bind manually (in case the browser doesn't support it, but I would say you can implement a shim in that case, it should be in the link above):

for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
    asycronouseProcess(function(i) {
        return function () {
            alert(i)
        }
    }(i));
}

I usually prefer let when I can use it (e.g. for Firefox add-on); otherwise bind or a custom currying function (that doesn't need a context object).

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource - Resteasy

After facing a similar issue, below is what I did :

  • Created a class extending javax.ws.rs.core.Application and added a Cors Filter to it.

To the CORS filter, I added corsFilter.getAllowedOrigins().add("http://localhost:4200");.

Basically, you should add the URL which you want to allow Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. Ans you can also use "*" instead of any specific URL to allow any URL.

public class RestApplication
    extends Application
{
    private Set<Object> singletons = new HashSet<Object>();

    public MessageApplication()
    {
        singletons.add(new CalculatorService()); //CalculatorService is your specific service you want to add/use.
        CorsFilter corsFilter = new CorsFilter();
        // To allow all origins for CORS add following, otherwise add only specific urls.
        // corsFilter.getAllowedOrigins().add("*");
        System.out.println("To only allow restrcited urls ");
        corsFilter.getAllowedOrigins().add("http://localhost:4200");
        singletons = new LinkedHashSet<Object>();
        singletons.add(corsFilter);
    }

    @Override
    public Set<Object> getSingletons()
    {
        return singletons;
    }
}
  • And here is my web.xml:
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
    <display-name>Restful Web Application</display-name>

    <!-- Auto scan rest service -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.scan</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.servlet.mapping.prefix</param-name>
        <param-value>/rest</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ResteasyBootstrap
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>resteasy-servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher
        </servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
            <param-value>com.app.RestApplication</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>resteasy-servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

The most important code which I was missing when I was getting this issue was, I was not adding my class extending javax.ws.rs.Application i.e RestApplication to the init-param of <servlet-name>resteasy-servlet</servlet-name>

   <init-param>
        <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
        <param-value>com.app.RestApplication</param-value>
    </init-param>

And therefore my Filter was not able to execute and thus the application was not allowing CORS from the URL specified.

java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method

I was getting same error because of configuration issue in intellij. As shown in screenshot. Main and test module was pointing to two different JDK. (Press F12 on the intellij project to open module settings)

Also all my dto's were using @lombok.Builder which I changed it to @Data.

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How to read one single line of csv data in Python?

To read only the first row of the csv file use next() on the reader object.

with open('some.csv', newline='') as f:
  reader = csv.reader(f)
  row1 = next(reader)  # gets the first line
  # now do something here 
  # if first row is the header, then you can do one more next() to get the next row:
  # row2 = next(f)

or :

with open('some.csv', newline='') as f:
  reader = csv.reader(f)
  for row in reader:
    # do something here with `row`
    break

Generating random numbers in Objective-C

There are some great, articulate answers already, but the question asks for a random number between 0 and 74. Use:

arc4random_uniform(75)

Create a Cumulative Sum Column in MySQL

MySQL 8.0/MariaDB supports windowed SUM(col) OVER():

SELECT *, SUM(cnt) OVER(ORDER BY id) AS cumulative_sum
FROM tab;

Output:

+-----------------------------+
¦ id  ¦ cnt  ¦ cumulative_sum ¦
+-----+------+----------------¦
¦  1  ¦ 100  ¦            100 ¦
¦  2  ¦  50  ¦            150 ¦
¦  3  ¦  10  ¦            160 ¦
+-----------------------------+

db<>fiddle

How should I call 3 functions in order to execute them one after the other?

I use a 'waitUntil' function based on javascript's setTimeout

/*
    funcCond : function to call to check whether a condition is true
    readyAction : function to call when the condition was true
    checkInterval : interval to poll <optional>
    timeout : timeout until the setTimeout should stop polling (not 100% accurate. It was accurate enough for my code, but if you need exact milliseconds, please refrain from using Date <optional>
    timeoutfunc : function to call on timeout <optional>
*/
function waitUntil(funcCond, readyAction, checkInterval, timeout, timeoutfunc) {
    if (checkInterval == null) {
        checkInterval = 100; // checkinterval of 100ms by default
    }
    var start = +new Date(); // use the + to convert it to a number immediatly
    if (timeout == null) {
        timeout = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY; // no timeout by default
    }
    var checkFunc = function() {
        var end = +new Date(); // rough timeout estimations by default

        if (end-start > timeout) {
            if (timeoutfunc){ // if timeout function was defined
                timeoutfunc(); // call timeout function
            }
        } else {
            if(funcCond()) { // if condition was met
                readyAction(); // perform ready action function
            } else {
                setTimeout(checkFunc, checkInterval); // else re-iterate
            }
        }
    };
    checkFunc(); // start check function initially
};

This would work perfectly if your functions set a certain condition to true, which you would be able to poll. Plus it comes with timeouts, which offers you alternatives in case your function failed to do something (even within time-range. Think about user feedback!)

eg

doSomething();
waitUntil(function() { return doSomething_value===1;}, doSomethingElse);
waitUntil(function() { return doSomethingElse_value===1;}, doSomethingUseful);

Notes

Date causes rough timeout estimates. For greater precision, switch to functions such as console.time(). Do take note that Date offers greater cross-browser and legacy support. If you don't need exact millisecond measurements; don't bother, or, alternatively, wrap it, and offer console.time() when the browser supports it

Using Excel as front end to Access database (with VBA)

Given the ease of use of Access, I don't see a compelling reason to use Excel at all other than to export data for number crunching. Access is designed to easily build data forms and, in my opinion, will be orders of magnitude easier and less time-consuming than using Excel. A few hours to learn the Access object model will pay for itself many times over in terms of time and effort.

Python: Pandas Dataframe how to multiply entire column with a scalar

Also it's possible to use numerical indeces with .iloc.

df.iloc[:,0]  *= -1

Determine whether a Access checkbox is checked or not

Checkboxes are a control type designed for one purpose: to ensure valid entry of Boolean values.

In Access, there are two types:

  1. 2-state -- can be checked or unchecked, but not Null. Values are True (checked) or False (unchecked). In Access and VBA, the value of True is -1 and the value of False is 0. For portability with environments that use 1 for True, you can always test for False or Not False, since False is the value 0 for all environments I know of.

  2. 3-state -- like the 2-state, but can be Null. Clicking it cycles through True/False/Null. This is for binding to an integer field that allows Nulls. It is of no use with a Boolean field, since it can never be Null.

Minor quibble with the answers:

There is almost never a need to use the .Value property of an Access control, as it's the default property. These two are equivalent:

  ?Me!MyCheckBox.Value
  ?Me!MyCheckBox

The only gotcha here is that it's important to be careful that you don't create implicit references when testing the value of a checkbox. Instead of this:

  If Me!MyCheckBox Then

...write one of these options:

  If (Me!MyCheckBox) Then  ' forces evaluation of the control

  If Me!MyCheckBox = True Then

  If (Me!MyCheckBox = True) Then

  If (Me!MyCheckBox = Not False) Then

Likewise, when writing subroutines or functions that get values from a Boolean control, always declare your Boolean parameters as ByVal unless you actually want to manipulate the control. In that case, your parameter's data type should be an Access control and not a Boolean value. Anything else runs the risk of implicit references.

Last of all, if you set the value of a checkbox in code, you can actually set it to any number, not just 0 and -1, but any number other than 0 is treated as True (because it's Not False). While you might use that kind of thing in an HTML form, it's not proper UI design for an Access app, as there's no way for the user to be able to see what value is actually be stored in the control, which defeats the purpose of choosing it for editing your data.

Change color inside strings.xml

For those who want to put color in String.xml directly and don't want to use color...

example

<string name="status_stop"><font fgcolor='#FF8E8E93'>Stopped</font></string> <!--gray-->
<string name="status_running"><font fgcolor='#FF4CD964'>Running</font></string> <!--green-->
<string name="status_error"><font fgcolor='#FFFF3B30'>Error</font></string> <!--red-->

as you see there is gray, red, and green, there is 8 characters, first two for transparency and other for color.

Example

This a description of color and transparency
#   FF               FF3B30    
    Opacity          Color

Note: Put color in text in the same string.xml will not work in Android 6.0 and above

Table of opacity

100% — FF
99% — FC
98% — FA
97% — F7
96% — F5
95% — F2
94% — F0
93% — ED
92% — EB
91% — E8
90% — E6
89% — E3
88% — E0
87% — DE
86% — DB
85% — D9
84% — D6
83% — D4
82% — D1
81% — CF
80% — CC
79% — C9
78% — C7
77% — C4
76% — C2
75% — BF
74% — BD
73% — BA
72% — B8
71% — B5
70% — B3
69% — B0
68% — AD
67% — AB
66% — A8
65% — A6
64% — A3
63% — A1
62% — 9E
61% — 9C
60% — 99
59% — 96
58% — 94
57% — 91
56% — 8F
55% — 8C
54% — 8A
53% — 87
52% — 85
51% — 82
50% — 80
49% — 7D
48% — 7A
47% — 78
46% — 75
45% — 73
44% — 70
43% — 6E
42% — 6B
41% — 69
40% — 66
39% — 63
38% — 61
37% — 5E
36% — 5C
35% — 59
34% — 57
33% — 54
32% — 52
31% — 4F
30% — 4D
29% — 4A
28% — 47
27% — 45
26% — 42
25% — 40
24% — 3D
23% — 3B
22% — 38
21% — 36
20% — 33
19% — 30
18% — 2E
17% — 2B
16% — 29
15% — 26
14% — 24
13% — 21
12% — 1F
11% — 1C
10% — 1A
9% — 17
8% — 14
7% — 12
6% — 0F
5% — 0D
4% — 0A
3% — 08
2% — 05
1% — 03
0% — 00

Reference: Understanding colors in Android (6 characters)


Update: 10/OCT/2016

This function is compatible with all version of android, I didn't test in android 7.0. Use this function to get color and set in textview

Example format xml in file string and colors

<!-- /res/values/strings.xml -->
<string name="status_stop">Stopped</string>
<string name="status_running">Running</string>
<string name="status_error">Error</string>

<!-- /res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="status_stop">#8E8E93</color>
<color name="status_running">#4CD964</color>
<color name="status_error">#FF3B30</color>

Function to get color from xml with validation for android 6.0 and above

public static int getColorWrapper(Context context, int id) {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {//if actual version is >= 6.0
            return context.getColor(id);
        } else {
            //noinspection deprecation
            return context.getResources().getColor(id);
        }
    }

Example:

TextView status = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvstatus);
status.setTextColor(getColorWrapper(myactivity.this,R.color.status_stop));

Reference: getColor(int id) deprecated on Android 6.0 Marshmallow (API 23)

Call An Asynchronous Javascript Function Synchronously

What you want is actually possible now. If you can run the asynchronous code in a service worker, and the synchronous code in a web worker, then you can have the web worker send a synchronous XHR to the service worker, and while the service worker does the async things, the web worker's thread will wait. This is not a great approach, but it could work.

How to update Android Studio automatically?

On the startup screen you can use the configure button to check for updates.

1) Choose configure > Check for Update enter image description here

2) Download the latest updates

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On select change, get data attribute value

document.querySelector('select').onchange = function(){   
   alert(this.selectedOptions[0].getAttribute('data-attr')); 
};

Convert UNIX epoch to Date object

Go via POSIXct and you want to set a TZ there -- here you see my (Chicago) default:

R> val <- 1352068320
R> as.POSIXct(val, origin="1970-01-01")
[1] "2012-11-04 22:32:00 CST"
R> as.Date(as.POSIXct(val, origin="1970-01-01"))
[1] "2012-11-05" 
R> 

Edit: A few years later, we can now use the anytime package:

R> library(anytime)
R> anytime(1352068320)
[1] "2012-11-04 16:32:00 CST"
R> anydate(1352068320)
[1] "2012-11-04"
R> 

Note how all this works without any format or origin arguments.

LINQ: combining join and group by

Once you've done this

group p by p.SomeId into pg  

you no longer have access to the range variables used in the initial from. That is, you can no longer talk about p or bp, you can only talk about pg.

Now, pg is a group and so contains more than one product. All the products in a given pg group have the same SomeId (since that's what you grouped by), but I don't know if that means they all have the same BaseProductId.

To get a base product name, you have to pick a particular product in the pg group (As you are doing with SomeId and CountryCode), and then join to BaseProducts.

var result = from p in Products                         
 group p by p.SomeId into pg                         
 // join *after* group
 join bp in BaseProducts on pg.FirstOrDefault().BaseProductId equals bp.Id         
 select new ProductPriceMinMax { 
       SomeId = pg.FirstOrDefault().SomeId, 
       CountryCode = pg.FirstOrDefault().CountryCode, 
       MinPrice = pg.Min(m => m.Price), 
       MaxPrice = pg.Max(m => m.Price),
       BaseProductName = bp.Name  // now there is a 'bp' in scope
 };

That said, this looks pretty unusual and I think you should step back and consider what you are actually trying to retrieve.

How to shift a column in Pandas DataFrame

This is how I do it:

df_ext = pd.DataFrame(index=pd.date_range(df.index[-1], periods=8, closed='right'))
df2 = pd.concat([df, df_ext], axis=0, sort=True)
df2["forecast"] = df2["some column"].shift(7)

Basically I am generating an empty dataframe with the desired index and then just concatenate them together. But I would really like to see this as a standard feature in pandas so I have proposed an enhancement to pandas.

How to get CSS to select ID that begins with a string (not in Javascript)?

I noticed that there is another CSS selector that does the same thing . The syntax is as follows :

[id|="name_id"]

This will select all elements ID which begins with the word enclosed in double quotes.

MySQL: selecting rows where a column is null

SQL NULL's special, and you have to do WHERE field IS NULL, as NULL cannot be equal to anything,

including itself (ie: NULL = NULL is always false).

See Rule 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s_12_rules

How to save a pandas DataFrame table as a png

The best solution to your problem is probably to first export your dataframe to HTML and then convert it using an HTML-to-image tool. The final appearance could be tweaked via CSS.

Popular options for HTML-to-image rendering include:


Let us assume we have a dataframe named df. We can generate one with the following code:

import string
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd


np.random.seed(0)  # just to get reproducible results from `np.random`
rows, cols = 5, 10
labels = list(string.ascii_uppercase[:cols])
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(0, 100, size=(5, 10)), columns=labels)
print(df)
#     A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J
# 0  44  47  64  67  67   9  83  21  36  87
# 1  70  88  88  12  58  65  39  87  46  88
# 2  81  37  25  77  72   9  20  80  69  79
# 3  47  64  82  99  88  49  29  19  19  14
# 4  39  32  65   9  57  32  31  74  23  35

Using WeasyPrint

This approach uses a pip-installable package, which will allow you to do everything using the Python ecosystem. One shortcoming of weasyprint is that it does not seem to provide a way of adapting the image size to its content. Anyway, removing some background from an image is relatively easy in Python / PIL, and it is implemented in the trim() function below (adapted from here). One also would need to make sure that the image will be large enough, and this can be done with CSS's @page size property.

The code follows:

import weasyprint as wsp
import PIL as pil


def trim(source_filepath, target_filepath=None, background=None):
    if not target_filepath:
        target_filepath = source_filepath
    img = pil.Image.open(source_filepath)
    if background is None:
        background = img.getpixel((0, 0))
    border = pil.Image.new(img.mode, img.size, background)
    diff = pil.ImageChops.difference(img, border)
    bbox = diff.getbbox()
    img = img.crop(bbox) if bbox else img
    img.save(target_filepath)


img_filepath = 'table1.png'
css = wsp.CSS(string='''
@page { size: 2048px 2048px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; }
table, td, tr, th { border: 1px solid black; }
td, th { padding: 4px 8px; }
''')
html = wsp.HTML(string=df.to_html())
html.write_png(img_filepath, stylesheets=[css])
trim(img_filepath)

table_weasyprint


Using wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage

This approach uses an external open source tool and this needs to be installed prior to the generation of the image. There is also a Python package, pdfkit, that serves as a front-end to it (it does not waive you from installing the core software yourself), but I will not use it.

wkhtmltoimage can be simply called using subprocess (or any other similar means of running an external program in Python). One would also need to output to disk the HTML file.

The code follows:

import subprocess


df.to_html('table2.html')
subprocess.call(
    'wkhtmltoimage -f png --width 0 table2.html table2.png', shell=True)

table_wkhtmltoimage

and its aspect could be further tweaked with CSS similarly to the other approach.


How do I sort a list of datetime or date objects?

You're getting None because list.sort() it operates in-place, meaning that it doesn't return anything, but modifies the list itself. You only need to call a.sort() without assigning it to a again.

There is a built in function sorted(), which returns a sorted version of the list - a = sorted(a) will do what you want as well.

How can I use Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold in CSS?

You would have to turn your font into a web font as shown in these SO questions:

However, you may run into copyright issues with this: Not every font allows distribution as a web font. Check your font license to see whether it is allowed.

One of the easiest free and legal ways to use web fonts is Google Web Fonts. However, sadly, they don't have Helvetica Neue in their portfolio.

One of the easiest non-free and legal ways is to purchase the font from a foundry that offers web licenses. I happen to know that the myFonts foundry does this; they even give you a full package with all the JavaScript and CSS pre-prepared. I'm sure other foundries do the same.

Edit: MyFonts have Helvetica neue in Stock, but apparently not with a web license. Check out this list of similar fonts of which some have a web license. Also, Ray Larabie has some nice fonts there, with web licenses, some of them are free.

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges when selecting view

Let me make a recap.

When you build a view containing object of different owners, those other owners have to grant "with grant option" to the owner of the view. So, the view owner can grant to other users or schemas....

Example: User_a is the owner of a table called mine_a User_b is the owner of a table called yours_b

Let's say user_b wants to create a view with a join of mine_a and yours_b

For the view to work fine, user_a has to give "grant select on mine_a to user_b with grant option"

Then user_b can grant select on that view to everybody.

Logging request/response messages when using HttpClient

The easiest solution would be to use Wireshark and trace the HTTP tcp flow.

Elasticsearch: Failed to connect to localhost port 9200 - Connection refused

Update your jdk to latest minimum version for your elasticsearch.

Call external javascript functions from java code

Let us say your jsfunctions.js file has a function "display" and this file is stored in C:/Scripts/Jsfunctions.js

jsfunctions.js

var display = function(name) {
print("Hello, I am a Javascript display function",name);
return "display function return"
}

Now, in your java code, I would recommend you to use Java8 Nashorn. In your java class,

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;

import javax.script.Invocable;
import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
import javax.script.ScriptException;

class Test {
public void runDisplay() {
ScriptEngine engine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("nashorn");
try {
  engine.eval(new FileReader("C:/Scripts/Jsfunctions.js"));
  Invocable invocable = (Invocable) engine;
  Object result;
  result = invocable.invokeFunction("display", helloWorld);
  System.out.println(result);
  System.out.println(result.getClass());
  } catch (FileNotFoundException | NoSuchMethodException | ScriptException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Note: Get the absolute path of your javascript file and replace in FileReader() and run the java code. It should work.

How can I print to the same line?

One could simply use \r to keep everything in the same line while erasing what was previously on that line.

Convert hex to binary

hex --> decimal then decimal --> binary

#decimal to binary 
def d2b(n):
    bStr = ''
    if n < 0: raise ValueError, "must be a positive integer"
    if n == 0: return '0'
    while n > 0:
        bStr = str(n % 2) + bStr
        n = n >> 1    
    return bStr

#hex to binary
def h2b(hex):
    return d2b(int(hex,16))

How to parse a string in JavaScript?

Use split on string:

var array = coolVar.split(/-/);

javascript code to check special characters

If you don't want to include any special character, then try this much simple way for checking special characters using RegExp \W Metacharacter.

var iChars = "~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>?";
if(!(iChars.match(/\W/g)) == "") {
    alert ("File name has special characters ~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>? \nThese are not allowed\n");
    return false;
}

Jenkins / Hudson environment variables

I tried /etc/profile, ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile and none of those worked. I found that editing ~/.bashrc for the jenkins slave account did.

Batch Files - Error Handling

I guess this feature was added since the OP but for future reference errors that would output in the command window can be redirected to a file independent of the standard output

command 1> file - Write the standard output of command to file

command 2> file - Write the standard error of command to file

how to calculate binary search complexity

For Binary Search, T(N) = T(N/2) + O(1) // the recurrence relation

Apply Masters Theorem for computing Run time complexity of recurrence relations : T(N) = aT(N/b) + f(N)

Here, a = 1, b = 2 => log (a base b) = 1

also, here f(N) = n^c log^k(n) //k = 0 & c = log (a base b)

So, T(N) = O(N^c log^(k+1)N) = O(log(N))

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_theorem

How to filter for multiple criteria in Excel?

You can pass an array as the first AutoFilter argument and use the xlFilterValues operator.

This will display PDF, DOC and DOCX filetypes.

Criteria1:=Array(".pdf", ".doc", ".docx"), Operator:=xlFilterValues

batch/bat to copy folder and content at once

The old way:

xcopy [source] [destination] /E

xcopy is deprecated. Robocopy replaces Xcopy. It comes with Windows 8, 8.1 and 10.

robocopy [source] [destination] /E

robocopy has several advantages:

  • copy paths exceeding 259 characters
  • multithreaded copying

More details here.

Current date without time

If you need exact your example, you should add format to ToString()

    string test = DateTime.ParseExact(DateTime.Now.ToString("dd.MM.yyyy"), "dd.MM.yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

But it's better to use straight formatting:

    string test = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

PHP: Read Specific Line From File

If you wanted to do it that way...

$line = 0;

while (($buffer = fgets($fh)) !== FALSE) {
   if ($line == 1) {
       // This is the second line.
       break;
   }   
   $line++;
}

Alternatively, open it with file() and subscript the line with [1].

How to iterate through XML in Powershell?

You can also do it without the [xml] cast. (Although xpath is a world unto itself. https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_xpath.asp)

$xml = (select-xml -xpath / -path stack.xml).node
$xml.objects.object.property

Or just this, xpath is case sensitive. Both have the same output:

$xml = (select-xml -xpath /Objects/Object/Property -path stack.xml).node
$xml


Name         Type                                                #text
----         ----                                                -----
DisplayName  System.String                                       SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)
ServiceState Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ServiceState Running
DisplayName  System.String                                       SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER)
ServiceState Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ServiceState Stopped

http://localhost:50070 does not work HADOOP

Since Hadoop 3.0.0 - Alpha 1 there was a Change in the port configuration:

http://localhost:50070

was moved to

http://localhost:9870

see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9427

Is there a "theirs" version of "git merge -s ours"?

Why doesn't it exist?

While I mention in "git command for making one branch like another" how to simulate git merge -s theirs, note that Git 2.15 (Q4 2017) is now clearer:

The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.

See commit c25d98b (25 Sep 2017) by Junio C Hamano (gitster).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 4da3e23, 28 Sep 2017)

merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists

The description of -Xours merge option has a parenthetical note that tells the readers that it is very different from -s ours, which is correct, but the description of -Xtheirs that follows it carelessly says "this is the opposite of ours", giving a false impression that the readers also need to be warned that it is very different from -s theirs, which in reality does not even exist.

-Xtheirs is a strategy option applied to recursive strategy. This means that recursive strategy will still merge anything it can, and will only fall back to "theirs" logic in case of conflicts.

That debate for the pertinence or not of a theirs merge strategy was brought back recently in this Sept. 2017 thread.
It acknowledges older (2008) threads

In short, the previous discussion can be summarized to "we don't want '-s theirs' as it encourages the wrong workflow".

It mentions the alias:

mtheirs = !sh -c 'git merge -s ours --no-commit $1 && git read-tree -m -u $1' -

Yaroslav Halchenko tries to advocate once more for that strategy, but Junio C. Hamano adds:

The reason why ours and theirs are not symmetric is because you are you and not them---the control and ownership of our history and their history is not symmetric.

Once you decide that their history is the mainline, you'd rather want to treat your line of development as a side branch and make a merge in that direction, i.e. the first parent of the resulting merge is a commit on their history and the second parent is the last bad one of your history. So you would end up using "checkout their-history && merge -s ours your-history" to keep the first-parenthood sensible.

And at that point, use of "-s ours" is no longer a workaround for lack of "-s theirs".
It is a proper part of the desired semantics, i.e. from the point of view of the surviving canonical history line, you want to preserve what it did, nullifying what the other line of history did.

Junio adds, as commented by Mike Beaton:

git merge -s ours <their-ref> effectively says 'mark commits made up to <their-ref> on their branch as commits to be permanently ignored';
and this matters because, if you subsequently merge from later states of their branch, their later changes will be brought in without the ignored changes ever being brought in.

Trigger an event on `click` and `enter`

$('#usersSearch').keyup(function() { // handle keyup event on search input field

    var key = e.which || e.keyCode;  // store browser agnostic keycode

    if(key == 13) 
        $(this).closest('form').submit(); // submit parent form
}

How do I get values from a SQL database into textboxes using C#?

The line reader.Read() is missing in your code. You should add it. It is the function which actually reads data from the database:

string conString = "Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=LoginScreen;Integrated Security=True";
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(conString);

string selectSql = "select * from Pending_Tasks";
SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand(selectSql, con);

try
{
    con.Open();

    using (SqlDataReader read = cmd.ExecuteReader())
    {
        while(reader.Read())
        {
            CustID.Text = (read["Customer_ID"].ToString());
            CustName.Text = (read["Customer_Name"].ToString());
            Add1.Text = (read["Address_1"].ToString());
            Add2.Text = (read["Address_2"].ToString());
            PostBox.Text = (read["Postcode"].ToString());
            PassBox.Text = (read["Password"].ToString());
            DatBox.Text = (read["Data_Important"].ToString());
            LanNumb.Text = (read["Landline"].ToString());
            MobNumber.Text = (read["Mobile"].ToString());
            FaultRep.Text = (read["Fault_Report"].ToString());
        }
    }
}
finally
{
    con.Close();
}

EDIT : This code works supposing you want to write the last record to your textboxes. If you want to apply a different scenario, like for example to read all the records from database and to change data in the texboxes when you click the Next button, you should create and use your own Model, or you can store data in the DataTable and refer to them later if you wish.

How to change text color of cmd with windows batch script every 1 second

This should fit the bill. Sounds like a super-annoying thing to have going on, but there you have it:

@echo off
set NUM=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
for %%x in (%NUM%) do ( 
    for %%y in (%NUM%) do (
        color %%x%%y
        timeout 1 >nul
    )
)

Open text file and program shortcut in a Windows batch file

"location of notepad file" > notepad Filename

C:\Users\Desktop\Anaconda> notepad myfile

works for me! :)

Java - remove last known item from ArrayList

clients.get will return a ClientThread and not a String, and it will bomb with an IndexOutOfBoundsException if it would compile as Java is zero based for indexing.

Similarly I think you should call remove on the clients list.

ClientThread hey = clients.get(clients.size()-1);
clients.remove(hey);
System.out.println(hey + " has logged out.");
System.out.println("CONNECTED PLAYERS: " + clients.size());

I would use the stack functions of a LinkedList in this case though.

ClientThread hey = clients.removeLast()

A required class was missing while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war

My solution below is for cases when default maven repositories are not accessible (e.g. due to firewalls).

In case the default repository is not accessible appropriate local <pluginRepository> has to be specified in the settings.xml. If it's the same as your local artifact repository it still needs to be added to the <pluginRepositories> section for plugin jars to be found. Regular <repositories> section is not used to fetch plugin jars.

In my case, however, the issue was caused by the fact that there were multiple plugin repositories defined in that section.

The first repository in the list did not contain the required maven-filtering jar.

I had to change the order of <pluginRepository> definitions to ensure the first one contains maven-filtering.

Changing of repository definitions typically requires to clean ~/.m2/repository and start fresh.

How to print colored text to the terminal?

You can use the Python implementation of the curses library: curses — Terminal handling for character-cell displays

Also, run this and you'll find your box:

for i in range(255):
    print i, chr(i)

How do I set up the database.yml file in Rails?

At first I would use http://ruby.railstutorial.org/.

And database.yml is place where you put setup for database your application use - username, password, host - for each database. With new application you dont need to change anything - simply use default sqlite setup.

Comparing two NumPy arrays for equality, element-wise

Usually two arrays will have some small numeric errors,

You can use numpy.allclose(A,B), instead of (A==B).all(). This returns a bool True/False

How to exclude subdirectories in the destination while using /mir /xd switch in robocopy

Rather than creating empty directories in source to exclude, you can supply the full destination path to the /XD switch to have the destination directories untouched

robocopy "%SOURCE_PATH%" "%DEST_PATH%" /MIR /XD "%DEST_PATH%"\hq04s2dba301

How to make a simple image upload using Javascript/HTML

<li class="list-group-item active"><h5>Feaured Image</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item">
                <div class="input-group mb-3">
                    <div class="custom-file ">
                        <input type="file"  class="custom-file-input" name="thumbnail" id="thumbnail">
                        <label class="custom-file-label" for="thumbnail">Choose file</label>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="img-thumbnail  text-center">
                    <img src="@if(isset($product)) {{asset('storage/'.$product->thumbnail)}} @else {{asset('images/no-thumbnail.jpeg')}} @endif" id="imgthumbnail" class="img-fluid" alt="">
                </div>
            </li>
<script>
$(function(){
$('#thumbnail').on('change', function() {
    var file = $(this).get(0).files;
    var reader = new FileReader();
    reader.readAsDataURL(file[0]);
    reader.addEventListener("load", function(e) {
    var image = e.target.result;
$("#imgthumbnail").attr('src', image);
});
});
}
</script>

How to find the Git commit that introduced a string in any branch?

While this doesn't directly answer you question, I think it might be a good solution for you in the future. I saw a part of my code, which was bad. Didn't know who wrote it or when. I could see all changes from the file, but it was clear that the code had been moved from some other file to this one. I wanted to find who actually added it in the first place.

To do this, I used Git bisect, which quickly let me find the sinner.

I ran git bisect start and then git bisect bad, because the revision checked out had the issue. Since I didn't know when the problem occured, I targetted the first commit for the "good", git bisect good <initial sha>.

Then I just kept searching the repo for the bad code. When I found it, I ran git bisect bad, and when it wasn't there: git bisect good.

In ~11 steps, I had covered ~1000 commits and found the exact commit, where the issue was introduced. Pretty great.

.attr("disabled", "disabled") issue

$("#vp_code").textinput("enable");
$("#vp_code").textinput("disable");

you can try it

how to format date in Component of angular 5

There is equally formatDate

const format = 'dd/MM/yyyy';
const myDate = '2019-06-29';
const locale = 'en-US';
const formattedDate = formatDate(myDate, format, locale);

According to the API it takes as param either a date string, a Date object, or a timestamp.

Gotcha: Out of the box, only en-US is supported.

If you need to add another locale, you need to add it and register it in you app.module, for example for Spanish:

import { registerLocaleData } from '@angular/common';
import localeES from "@angular/common/locales/es";
registerLocaleData(localeES, "es");

Don't forget to add corresponding import:

import { formatDate } from "@angular/common";

Anaconda-Navigator - Ubuntu16.04

OPEN TERMINAL

export PATH=/home/yourUserName/anaconda3/bin:$PATH
anaconda-navigator

This will get you going! cheers!

How to disable/enable select field using jQuery?

Disabled is a Boolean Attribute of the select element as stated by WHATWG, that means the RIGHT WAY TO DISABLE with jQuery would be

jQuery("#selectId").attr('disabled',true);

This would make this HTML

<select id="selectId" name="gender" disabled="disabled">
    <option value="-1">--Select a Gender--</option>
    <option value="0">Male</option>
    <option value="1">Female</option>
</select>

This works for both XHTML and HTML (W3School reference)

Yet it also can be done using it as property

jQuery("#selectId").prop('disabled', 'disabled');

getting

<select id="selectId" name="gender" disabled>

Which only works for HTML and not XTML

NOTE: A disabled element will not be submitted with the form as answered in this question: The disabled form element is not submitted

NOTE2: A disabled element may be greyed out.

NOTE3:

A form control that is disabled must prevent any click events that are queued on the user interaction task source from being dispatched on the element.

TL;DR

<script>
    var update_pizza = function () {
        if ($("#pizza").is(":checked")) {
            $('#pizza_kind').attr('disabled', false);
        } else {
            $('#pizza_kind').attr('disabled', true);
        }
    };
    $(update_pizza);
    $("#pizza").change(update_pizza);
</script>

How to create a notification with NotificationCompat.Builder?

You can try this code this works fine for me:

    NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder= new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);

    Intent i = new Intent(noti.this, Xyz_activtiy.class);
    PendingIntent pendingIntent= PendingIntent.getActivity(this,0,i,0);

    mBuilder.setAutoCancel(true);
    mBuilder.setDefaults(NotificationCompat.DEFAULT_ALL);
    mBuilder.setWhen(20000);
    mBuilder.setTicker("Ticker");
    mBuilder.setContentInfo("Info");
    mBuilder.setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
    mBuilder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.home);
    mBuilder.setContentTitle("New notification title");
    mBuilder.setContentText("Notification text");
    mBuilder.setSound(RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION));

    NotificationManager notificationManager= (NotificationManager)getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    notificationManager.notify(2,mBuilder.build());

The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application. JAVA

There's an architecture mismatch. Your JDBC Driver and your JDK should be of the same architecture. If your using 32bit Driver and your JDK is 64bits, you would get that error.

See this

Fix : Depends on your architecture.

You will need 64-bit drivers if your Java is 64-bit.

Download : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C06B8369-60DD-4B64-A44B-84B371EDE16D&displaylang=en

Global variables in R

As Christian's answer with assign() shows, there is a way to assign in the global environment. A simpler, shorter (but not better ... stick with assign) way is to use the <<- operator, ie

    a <<- "new" 

inside the function.

How to Ignore "Duplicate Key" error in T-SQL (SQL Server)

Expanding on your comment to SquareCog's reply, you could do:

INSERT INTO X VALUES(Y,Z)    WHERE Y  NOT IN (SELECT Y FROM X)
INSERT INTO X2 VALUES(Y2,Z2) WHERE Y2 NOT IN (SELECT Y FROM X2)
INSERT INTO X3 VALUES(Y3,Z3) WHERE Y3 NOT IN (SELECT Y FROM X3)

Here, I assume that column Y is present in all three tables. Note that performance will be poor if the tables are not indexed on Y.

Oh yeah, Y has a unique constraint on it--so they're indexed, and this should perform optimally.

Decimal separator comma (',') with numberDecimal inputType in EditText

You can use the following workaround to also include comma as a valid input:-

Through XML:

<EditText
    android:inputType="number"
    android:digits="0123456789.," />

Programmatically:

EditText input = new EditText(THE_CONTEXT);
input.setKeyListener(DigitsKeyListener.getInstance("0123456789.,"));

In this way Android system will show the numbers' keyboard and allow the input of comma. Hope this answers the question :)

How do I fetch lines before/after the grep result in bash?

Try this:

grep -i -A 10 "my_regex"

-A 10 means, print ten lines after match to "my_regex"

How to use a table type in a SELECT FROM statement?

In SQL you may only use table type which is defined at schema level (not at package or procedure level), and index-by table (associative array) cannot be defined at schema level. So - you have to define nested table like this

create type exch_row as object (
    currency_cd VARCHAR2(9),
    exch_rt_eur NUMBER,
    exch_rt_usd NUMBER);

create type exch_tbl as table of exch_row;

And then you can use it in SQL with TABLE operator, for example:

declare
   l_row     exch_row;
   exch_rt   exch_tbl;
begin
   l_row := exch_row('PLN', 100, 100);
   exch_rt  := exch_tbl(l_row);

   for r in (select i.*
               from item i, TABLE(exch_rt) rt
              where i.currency = rt.currency_cd) loop
      -- your code here
   end loop;
end;
/

x86 Assembly on a Mac

For a nice step-by-step x86 Mac-specific introduction see http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/assembly-hello-world-for-os-x. The other links I’ve tried have some non-Mac pitfalls.

Redirect within component Angular 2

callLog(){
    this.http.get('http://localhost:3000/getstudent/'+this.login.email+'/'+this.login.password)
    .subscribe(data => {
        this.getstud=data as string[];
        if(this.getstud.length!==0) {
            console.log(data)
            this.route.navigate(['home']);// used for routing after importing Router    
        }
    });
}

Select statement to find duplicates on certain fields

CREATE TABLE #tmp
(
    sizeId Varchar(MAX)
)

INSERT  #tmp 
    VALUES ('44'),
        ('44,45,46'),
        ('44,45,46'),
        ('44,45,46'),
        ('44,45,46'),
        ('44,45,46'),
        ('44,45,46')


SELECT * FROM #tmp
DECLARE @SqlStr VARCHAR(MAX)

SELECT @SqlStr = STUFF((SELECT ',' + sizeId
              FROM #tmp
              ORDER BY sizeId
              FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') 


SELECT TOP 1 * FROM (
select items, count(*)AS Occurrence
  FROM dbo.Split(@SqlStr,',')
  group by items
  having count(*) > 1
  )K
  ORDER BY K.Occurrence DESC    

textarea character limit

I think that doing this might be easier than most people think!

Try this:

var yourTextArea = document.getElementById("usertext").value;
// In case you want to limit the number of characters in no less than, say, 10
// or no more than 400.        
    if (yourTextArea.length < 10 || yourTextArea.length > 400) {
        alert("The field must have no less than 10 and no more than 400 characters.");
        return false;
    }

Please let me know it this was useful. And if so, vote up! Thx!

Daniel

MySQL "incorrect string value" error when save unicode string in Django

Simply alter your table, no need to any thing. just run this query on database. ALTER TABLE table_nameCONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8

it will definately work.

GoogleMaps API KEY for testing

Updated Answer

As of June11, 2018 it is now mandatory to have a billing account to get API key. You can still make keyless calls to the Maps JavaScript API and Street View Static API which will return low-resolution maps that can be used for development. Enabling billing still gives you $200 free credit monthly for your projects.

This answer is no longer valid

As long as you're using a testing API key it is free to register and use. But when you move your app to commercial level you have to pay for it. When you enable billing, google gives you $200 credit free each month that means if your app's map usage is low you can still use it for free even after the billing enabled, if it exceeds the credit limit now you have to pay for it.

How can I roll back my last delete command in MySQL?

If you didn't commit the transaction yet, try rollback. If you have already committed the transaction (by commit or by exiting the command line client), you must restore the data from your last backup.

Executing a shell script from a PHP script

It's a simple problem. When you are running from terminal, you are running the php file from terminal as a privileged user. When you go to the php from your web browser, the php script is being run as the web server user which does not have permissions to execute files in your home directory. In Ubuntu, the www-data user is the apache web server user. If you're on ubuntu you would have to do the following: chown yourusername:www-data /home/testuser/testscript chmod g+x /home/testuser/testscript

what the above does is transfers user ownership of the file to you, and gives the webserver group ownership of it. the next command gives the group executable permission to the file. Now the next time you go ahead and do it from the browser, it should work.

How to color System.out.println output?

I created a jar library called JCDP (Java Colored Debug Printer).

For Linux it uses the ANSI escape codes that WhiteFang mentioned, but abstracts them using words instead of codes which is much more intuitive.

For Windows it actually includes the JAnsi library but creates an abstraction layer over it, maintaining the intuitive and simple interface created for Linux.

This library is licensed under the MIT License so feel free to use it.

Have a look at JCDP's github repository.

How to know user has clicked "X" or the "Close" button?

I always use a Form Close method in my applications that catches alt + x from my exit Button, alt + f4 or another form closing event was initiated. All my classes have the class name defined as Private string mstrClsTitle = "grmRexcel" in this case, an Exit method that calls the Form Closing Method and a Form Closing Method. I also have a statement for the Form Closing Method - this.FormClosing = My Form Closing Form Closing method name.

The code for this:

namespace Rexcel_II
{
    public partial class frmRexcel : Form
    {
        private string mstrClsTitle = "frmRexcel";

        public frmRexcel()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            this.FormClosing += frmRexcel_FormClosing;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Handles the Button Exit Event executed by the Exit Button Click
        /// or Alt + x
        /// 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void btnExit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {            
            this.Close();        
        }


        /// <summary>
        /// Handles the Form Closing event
        /// 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void frmRexcel_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
        {

            // ---- If windows is shutting down, 
            // ---- I don't want to hold up the process
            if (e.CloseReason == CloseReason.WindowsShutDown) return;
            {

                // ---- Ok, Windows is not shutting down so
                // ---- either btnExit or Alt + x or Alt + f4 has been clicked or
                // ---- another form closing event was intiated
                //      *)  Confirm user wants to close the application
                switch (MessageBox.Show(this, 
                                    "Are you sure you want to close the Application?",
                                    mstrClsTitle + ".frmRexcel_FormClosing",
                                    MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question))
                {

                    // ---- *)  if No keep the application alive 
                    //----  *)  else close the application
                    case DialogResult.No:
                        e.Cancel = true;
                        break;
                    default:
                        break;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Printing leading 0's in C

If you need to store the ZIP Code in a character array, zipcode[], you can use this:

snprintf(zipcode, 6, "%05.5d", atoi(zipcode));

In CSS Flexbox, why are there no "justify-items" and "justify-self" properties?

I just found my own solution to this problem, or at least my problem.
I was using justify-content: space-around instead of justify-content: space-between;.

This way the end elements will stick to the top and bottom, and you could have custom margins if you wanted.

Get Multiple Values in SQL Server Cursor

This should work:

DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name, age, color FROM table; 
DECLARE @myName VARCHAR(256);
DECLARE @myAge INT;
DECLARE @myFavoriteColor VARCHAR(40);
OPEN db_cursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @myName, @myAge, @myFavoriteColor;
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0  
BEGIN  

       --Do stuff with scalar values

       FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @myName, @myAge, @myFavoriteColor;
END;
CLOSE db_cursor;
DEALLOCATE db_cursor;

How do you set CMAKE_C_COMPILER and CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER for building Assimp for iOS?

SOLUTIONS

  1. Sometimes the project is created before installing g++. So install g++ first and then recreate your project. This worked for me.
  2. Paste the following line in CMakeCache.txt: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/c++

Note the path to g++ depends on OS. I have used my fedora path obtained using which g++

Opening a CHM file produces: "navigation to the webpage was canceled"

Summary

Microsoft Security Updates 896358 & 840315 block display of CHM file contents when opened from a network drive (or a UNC path). This is Windows' attempt to stop attack vectors for viruses/malware from infecting your computer and has blocked out the .chm file that draw data over the "InfoTech" protocol, which this chm file uses.

Microsoft's summary of the problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054

Solutions

  1. If you are using Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, windows has created a quick fix. Right click the chm file, and you will get the "yourfile.chm Properties" dialog box, at the bottom, a button called "Unblock" appears. Click Unblock and press OK, and try to open the chm file again, it works correctly. This option is not available for earlier versions of Windows before WindowsXP (SP3).

  2. Solve the problem by moving your chm file OFF the network drive. You may be unaware you are using a network drive, double check now: Right click your .chm file, click properties and look at the "location" field. If it starts with two backslashes like this: \\epicserver\blah\, then you are using a networked drive. So to fix it, Copy the chm file, and paste it into a local drive, like C:\ or E:. Then try to reopen the chm file, windows does not freak out.

  3. Last resort, if you can't copy/move the file off the networked drive. If you must open it where it sits, and you are using a lesser version of windows like XP, Vista, ME or other, you will have to manually tell Windows not to freak out over this .chm file. HHReg (HTML Help Registration Utility) Utility Automates this Task. Basically you download the HHReg utility, load your .chm file, press OK, and it will create the necessary registry keys to tell Windows not to block it. For more info: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-cannot-view-chm-files-network-xp-2003-vista/

Windows 8 or 10? --> Upgrade to Windows XP.

Best way to get the max value in a Spark dataframe column

I believe the best solution will be using head()

Considering your example:

+---+---+
|  A|  B|
+---+---+
|1.0|4.0|
|2.0|5.0|
|3.0|6.0|
+---+---+

Using agg and max method of python we can get the value as following :

from pyspark.sql.functions import max df.agg(max(df.A)).head()[0]

This will return: 3.0

Make sure you have the correct import:
from pyspark.sql.functions import max The max function we use here is the pySPark sql library function, not the default max function of python.

How to make HTML element resizable using pure Javascript?

I have created a function that recieve an id of an html element and adds a border to it's right side the function is general and just recieves an id so you can copy it as it is and it will work

_x000D_
_x000D_
var myoffset;_x000D_
function resizeE(elem){_x000D_
    var borderDiv = document.createElement("div");_x000D_
    borderDiv.className = "border";_x000D_
    borderDiv.addEventListener("mousedown",myresize = function myrsize(e) {_x000D_
     myoffset = e.clientX - (document.getElementById(elem).offsetLeft + parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById(elem)).getPropertyValue("width")));_x000D_
     window.addEventListener("mouseup",mouseUp);_x000D_
     document.addEventListener("mousemove",mouseMove = function mousMove(e) {_x000D_
      document.getElementById(elem).style.width = `${e.clientX -  myoffset - document.getElementById(elem).offsetLeft}px`;_x000D_
  });_x000D_
 });_x000D_
    document.getElementById(elem).appendChild(borderDiv);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function mouseUp() {_x000D_
    document.removeEventListener("mousemove", mouseMove);_x000D_
    window.removeEventListener("mouseup",mouseUp);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function load() _x000D_
{_x000D_
 resizeE("resizeableDiv");_x000D_
 resizeE("anotherresizeableDiv");_x000D_
  resizeE("anotherresizeableDiv1");_x000D_
}
_x000D_
.border {_x000D_
_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  cursor: e-resize;_x000D_
  width: 9px;_x000D_
  right: -5px;_x000D_
  top: 0;_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
#resizeableDiv {_x000D_
  width: 30vw;_x000D_
  height: 30vh;_x000D_
  background-color: #84f4c6;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#anotherresizeableDiv {_x000D_
  width: 30vw;_x000D_
  height: 30vh;_x000D_
  background-color: #9394f4;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#anotherresizeableDiv1 {_x000D_
  width: 30vw;_x000D_
  height: 30vh;_x000D_
  background-color: #43f4f4;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#anotherresizeableDiv1 .border{_x000D_
  background-color: black;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#anotherresizeableDiv .border{_x000D_
  width: 30px;_x000D_
  right: -200px;_x000D_
  background-color: green;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<body onload="load()">_x000D_
_x000D_
  <div id="resizeableDiv">change my size with the east border</div>_x000D_
  <div id="anotherresizeableDiv1">with visible border</div>_x000D_
</body>_x000D_
  <div id="anotherresizeableDiv">with editted outside border</div>_x000D_
</body>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

resizeE("resizeableDiv"); //this calls a function that does the magic to the id inserted

jQuery multiselect drop down menu

Take a look at erichynds dropdown multiselect with huge amount of settings and tunings.

What is the quickest way to HTTP GET in Python?

Have a look at httplib2, which - next to a lot of very useful features - provides exactly what you want.

import httplib2

resp, content = httplib2.Http().request("http://example.com/foo/bar")

Where content would be the response body (as a string), and resp would contain the status and response headers.

It doesn't come included with a standard python install though (but it only requires standard python), but it's definitely worth checking out.

programmatically add column & rows to WPF Datagrid

If you already have the databinding in place John Myczek answer is complete. If not you have at least 2 options I know of if you want to specify the source of your data. (However I am not sure whether or not this is in line with most guidelines, like MVVM)

Then you just bind to Users collections and columns are autogenerated as you speficy them. Strings passed to property descriptors are names for column headers. At runtime you can add more PropertyDescriptors to 'Users' add another column to the grid.

How to display Woocommerce product price by ID number on a custom page?

Other answers work, but

To get the full/default price:

$product->get_price_html();

How does the keyword "use" work in PHP and can I import classes with it?

No, you can not import a class with the use keyword. You have to use include/require statement. Even if you use a PHP auto loader, still autoloader will have to use either include or require internally.

The Purpose of use keyword:

Consider a case where you have two classes with the same name; you'll find it strange, but when you are working with a big MVC structure, it happens. So if you have two classes with the same name, put them in different namespaces. Now consider when your auto loader is loading both classes (does by require), and you are about to use object of class. In this case, the compiler will get confused which class object to load among two. To help the compiler make a decision, you can use the use statement so that it can make a decision which one is going to be used on.

Nowadays major frameworks do use include or require via composer and psr

1) composer

2) PSR-4 autoloader

Going through them may help you further. You can also use an alias to address an exact class. Suppose you've got two classes with the same name, say Mailer with two different namespaces:

namespace SMTP;
class Mailer{}

and

namespace Mailgun;
class Mailer{}

And if you want to use both Mailer classes at the same time then you can use an alias.

use SMTP\Mailer as SMTPMailer;
use Mailgun\Mailer as MailgunMailer;

Later in your code if you want to access those class objects then you can do the following:

$smtp_mailer = new SMTPMailer;
$mailgun_mailer = new MailgunMailer;

It will reference the original class.

Some may get confused that then of there are not Similar class names then there is no use of use keyword. Well, you can use __autoload($class) function which will be called automatically when use statement gets executed with the class to be used as an argument and this can help you to load the class at run-time on the fly as and when needed.

Refer this answer to know more about class autoloader.

Have border wrap around text

Try putting it in a span element:

_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id='page' style='width: 600px'>_x000D_
  <h1><span style='border:2px black solid; font-size:42px;'>Title</span></h1>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can I write maven build to add resources to classpath?

By default maven does not include any files from "src/main/java".

You have two possible way to that.

  1. put all your resource files (different than java files) to "src/main/resources" - this is highly recommended

  2. Add to your pom (resource plugin):

?

 <resources>
       <resource>
           <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
        </resource>
            <resource>
                <directory>src/main/java</directory>
                <includes>
                    <include>**/*.xml</include>
                </includes>
            </resource>
  </resources>

How to get size in bytes of a CLOB column in Oracle?

Check the LOB segment name from dba_lobs using the table name.

select TABLE_NAME,OWNER,COLUMN_NAME,SEGMENT_NAME from dba_lobs where TABLE_NAME='<<TABLE NAME>>';

Now use the segment name to find the bytes used in dba_segments.

select s.segment_name, s.partition_name, bytes/1048576 "Size (MB)"
from dba_segments s, dba_lobs l
where s.segment_name = l.segment_name
and s.owner = '<< OWNER >> ' order by s.segment_name, s.partition_name;

ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher() vs ServletRequest.getRequestDispatcher()

Context is stored at the application level scope where as request is stored at page level i.e to say

Web Container brings up the applications one by one and run them inside its JVM. It stores a singleton object in its jvm where it registers anyobject that is put inside it.This singleton is shared across all applications running inside it as it is stored inside the JVM of the container itself.

However for requests, the container creates a request object that is filled with data from request and is passed along from one thread to the other (each thread is a new request that is coming to the server), also request is passed to the threads of same application.

jQuery: Uncheck other checkbox on one checked

I think the prop method is more convenient when it comes to boolean attribute. http://api.jquery.com/prop/

PHP: Calling another class' method

If they are separate classes you can do something like the following:

class A
{
    private $name;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->name = 'Some Name';
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return $this->name;
    }
}

class B
{
    private $a;

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

    function getNameOfA()
    {
        return $this->a->getName();
    }
}

$a = new A();
$b = new B($a);

$b->getNameOfA();

What I have done in this example is first create a new instance of the A class. And after that I have created a new instance of the B class to which I pass the instance of A into the constructor. Now B can access all the public members of the A class using $this->a.

Also note that I don't instantiate the A class inside the B class because that would mean I tighly couple the two classes. This makes it hard to:

  1. unit test your B class
  2. swap out the A class for another class

Is it possible to preview stash contents in git?

Beyond the gitk recommendation in Is it possible to preview stash contents in git? you can install tig and call tig stash. This free/open console program also allows you to choose which stash to compare

How to change an application icon programmatically in Android?

Applying the suggestions mentioned, I've faced the issue of app getting killed whenever default icon gets changed to new icon. So have implemented the code with some tweaks. Step 1). In file AndroidManifest.xml, create for default activity with android:enabled="true" & other alias with android:enabled="false". Your will not contain but append those in with android:enabled="true".

       <activity
        android:name=".activities.SplashActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:theme="@style/SplashTheme">

    </activity>
    <!-- <activity-alias used to change app icon dynamically>   : default icon, set enabled true    -->
    <activity-alias
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:name=".SplashActivityAlias1" <!--put any random name started with dot-->
        android:enabled="true"
        android:targetActivity=".activities.SplashActivity"> <!--target activity class path will be same for all alias-->
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity-alias>
    <!-- <activity-alias used to change app icon dynamically>  : sale icon, set enabled false initially -->
    <activity-alias
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_store_marker"
        android:roundIcon="@drawable/ic_store_marker"
        android:name=".SplashActivityAlias" <!--put any random name started with dot-->
        android:enabled="false"
        android:targetActivity=".activities.SplashActivity"> <!--target activity class path will be same for all alias-->
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity-alias>

Step 2). Make a method that will be used to disable 1st activity-alias that contains default icon & enable 2nd alias that contains icon need to be changed.

/**
 * method to change the app icon dynamically
 *
 * @param context
 * @param isNewIcon  : true if new icon need to be set; false to set default 
 * icon
 */

public static void changeAppIconDynamically(Context context, boolean isNewIcon) {
    PackageManager pm = context.getApplicationContext().getPackageManager();
    if (isNewIcon) {
        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
                new ComponentName(context,
                        "com.example.dummy.SplashActivityAlias1"), //com.example.dummy will be your package
                PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED,
                PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
                new ComponentName(context,
                        "com.example.dummy.SplashActivityAlias"),
                PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,
                PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);
    } else {
        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
                new ComponentName(context,
                        "com.example.dummy.SplashActivityAlias1"),
                PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,
                PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
                new ComponentName(context,
                        "com.example.dummy.SplashActivityAlias"),
                PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED,
                PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);
    }
}

Step 3). Now call this method depending on your requirement, say on button click or date specific or occasion specific conditions, simply like -

// Switch app icon to new icon
    GeneralUtils.changeAppIconDynamically(EditProfileActivity.this, true);
// Switch app icon to default icon
            GeneralUtils.changeAppIconDynamically(EditProfileActivity.this, false);

Hope this will help those who face the issue of app getting killed on icon change. Happy Coding :)

How to create empty text file from a batch file?

type NUL > EmptyFile.txt

After reading the previous two posts, this blend of the two is what I came up with. It seems a little cleaner. There is no need to worry about redirecting the "1 file(s) copied." message to NUL, like the previous post does, and it looks nice next to the ECHO OutputLineFromLoop >> Emptyfile.txt that will usually follow in a batch file.

Real escape string and PDO

Use prepared statements. Those keep the data and syntax apart, which removes the need for escaping MySQL data. See e.g. this tutorial.

How to randomly pick an element from an array

You can also try this approach..

public static <E> E[] pickRandom_(int n,E ...item) {
        List<E> copy = Arrays.asList(item);
        Collections.shuffle(copy);
        if (copy.size() > n) {
            return (E[]) copy.subList(0, n).toArray();
        } else {
            return (E[]) copy.toArray();
        }

    }

Fix height of a table row in HTML Table

the bottom cell will grow as you enter more text ... setting the table width will help too

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
</head>
<body>
<table id="content" style="min-height:525px; height:525px; width:100%; border:0px; margin:0; padding:0; border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr><td style="height:10px; background-color:#900;">Upper</td></tr>
<tr><td style="min-height:515px; height:515px; background-color:#909;">lower<br/>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

How do I increase the cell width of the Jupyter/ipython notebook in my browser?

You can set the CSS of a notebook by calling a stylesheet from any cell. As an example, take a look at the 12 Steps to Navier Stokes course.

In particular, creating a file containing

<style>
    div.cell{
        width:100%;
        margin-left:1%;
        margin-right:auto;
    }
</style>

should give you a starting point. However, it may be necessary to also adjust e.g div.text_cell_render to deal with markdown as well as code cells.

If that file is custom.css then add a cell containing:

from IPython.core.display import HTML
def css_styling():
    styles = open("custom.css", "r").read()
    return HTML(styles)
css_styling()

This will apply all the stylings, and, in particular, change the cell width.

Node.js/Windows error: ENOENT, stat 'C:\Users\RT\AppData\Roaming\npm'

I recommend setting an alternative location for your npm modules.

npm config set prefix C:\Dev\npm-repository\npm --global 
npm config set cache C:\Dev\npm-repository\npm-cache --global  

Of course you can set the location to wherever best suits.

This has worked well for me and gets around any permissions issues that you may encounter.

android listview get selected item

final ListView lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.ListView01);

lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
      public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> myAdapter, View myView, int myItemInt, long mylng) {
        String selectedFromList =(String) (lv.getItemAtPosition(myItemInt));

      }                 
});

I hope this fixes your problem.

How to set the project name/group/version, plus {source,target} compatibility in the same file?

Apparently this would be possible in settings.gradle with something like this.

rootProject.name = 'someName'
gradle.rootProject {
    it.sourceCompatibility = '1.7'
}

I recently received advice that a project property can be set by using a closure which will be called later when the Project is available.

How to remove tab indent from several lines in IDLE?

Depends on your editor.

Have you tried Shift+Tab?

How do you get the footer to stay at the bottom of a Web page?

For me the nicest way of displaying it (the footer) is sticking to the bottom but not covering content all the time:

#my_footer {
    position: static
    fixed; bottom: 0
}

Adding a new entry to the PATH variable in ZSH

Actually, using ZSH allows you to use special mapping of environment variables. So you can simply do:

# append
path+=('/home/david/pear/bin')
# or prepend
path=('/home/david/pear/bin' $path)
# export to sub-processes (make it inherited by child processes)
export PATH

For me that's a very neat feature which can be propagated to other variables. Example:

typeset -T LD_LIBRARY_PATH ld_library_path :

Extracting Nupkg files using command line

NuPKG files are just zip files, so anything that can process a zip file should be able to process a nupkg file, i.e, 7zip.

What is AndroidX?

AndroidX - Android Extension Library

From AndroidX documentation

We are rolling out a new package structure to make it clearer which packages are bundled with the Android operating system, and which are packaged with your app's APK. Going forward, the android.* package hierarchy will be reserved for Android packages that ship with the operating system. Other packages will be issued in the new androidx.* package hierarchy as part of the AndroidX library.

Need of AndroidX

AndroidX is a redesigned library to make package names more clear. So from now on android hierarchy will be for only android default classes, which comes with android operating system and other library/dependencies will be part of androidx (makes more sense). So from now on all the new development will be updated in androidx.

com.android.support.** : androidx.
com.android.support:appcompat-v7 : androidx.appcompat:appcompat com.android.support:recyclerview-v7 : androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview com.android.support:design : com.google.android.material:material

Complete Artifact mappings for AndroidX packages

AndroidX uses Semantic-version

Previously, support library used the SDK version but AndroidX uses the Semantic-version. It’s going to re-version from 28.0.0 ? 1.0.0.

How to migrate current project

In Android Studio 3.2 (September 2018), there is a direct option to migrate existing project to AndroidX. This refactor all packages automatically.

Before you migrate, it is strongly recommended to backup your project.

Existing project

  • Android Studio > Refactor Menu > Migrate to AndroidX...
  • It will analyze and will open Refractor window in bottom. Accept changes to be done.

image

New project

Put these flags in your gradle.properties

android.enableJetifier=true
android.useAndroidX=true

Check @Library mappings for equal AndroidX package.

Check @Official page of Migrate to AndroidX

What is Jetifier?

Bugs of migrating

  • If you build app, and find some errors after migrating, then you need to fix those minor errors. You will not get stuck there, because that can be easily fixed.
  • 3rd party libraries are not converted to AndroidX in directory, but they get converted at run time by Jetifier, so don't worry about compile time errors, your app will run perfectly.

Support 28.0.0 is last release?

From Android Support Revision 28.0.0

This will be the last feature release under the android.support packaging, and developers are encouraged to migrate to AndroidX 1.0.0

So go with AndroidX, because Android will update only androidx package from now.

Further Reading

https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/androidx-overview

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/05/hello-world-androidx.html

Emulator error: This AVD's configuration is missing a kernel file

If you know the kernel file is installed on your machine, then problem is getting emulator.exe to find it.

My fix was based on the post by user2789389. I could launch the AVD from the AVD Manager, but not from the command line. So, using AVD Manager, I selected the avd I wanted to run and clicked "Details". That showed me the path to the avd definition file. Within a folder of the same name, next to this .avd file, I found a config.ini file. In the ini, I found the following line:

image.sysdir.1=system-images\android-19\default\armeabi-v7a\

I looked in the folder C:\Users\XXXX\android-sdks\system-images\android-19, and found that the image.sysdir.1 path was invalid. I had to remove the "default" sub folder, thus changing it to the following:

image.sysdir.1=system-images\android-19\armeabi-v7a\

I saved the ini and tried again to launch the AVD. That fixed the problem!

Convert Map<String,Object> to Map<String,String>

The following will transform your existing entries.

TransformedMap.decorateTransform(params, keyTransformer, valueTransformer)

Where as

MapUtils.transformedMap(java.util.Map map, keyTransformer, valueTransformer)

only transforms new entries into your map

What does the 'standalone' directive mean in XML?

  • The standalone directive is an optional attribute on the XML declaration.
  • Valid values are yes and no, where no is the default value.
  • The attribute is only relevant when a DTD is used. (The attribute is irrelevant when using a schema instead of a DTD.)
  • standalone="yes" means that the XML processor must use the DTD for validation only. In that case it will not be used for:
    • default values for attributes
    • entity declarations
    • normalization
  • Note that standalone="yes" may add validity constraints if the document uses an external DTD. When the document contains things that would require modification of the XML, such as default values for attributes, and standalone="yes" is used then the document is invalid.
  • standalone="yes" may help to optimize performance of document processing.

Source: The standalone pseudo-attribute is only relevant if a DTD is used

Write to file, but overwrite it if it exists

If your environment doesn't allow overwriting with >, use pipe | and tee instead as follows:

echo "text" | tee 'Users/Name/Desktop/TheAccount.txt'

Note this will also print to the stdout. In case this is unwanted, you can redirect the output to /dev/null as follows:

echo "text" | tee 'Users/Name/Desktop/TheAccount.txt' > /dev/null

Java : Convert formatted xml file to one line string

In java 1.8 and above

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath));
String content = br.lines().collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));

How to export JavaScript array info to csv (on client side)?

Working for all languages

        function convertToCsv(fName, rows) {
        var csv = '';
        for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
            var row = rows[i];
            for (var j = 0; j < row.length; j++) {
                var val = row[j] === null ? '' : row[j].toString();
                val = val.replace(/\t/gi, " ");
                if (j > 0)
                    csv += '\t';
                csv += val;
            }
            csv += '\n';
        }

        // for UTF-16
        var cCode, bArr = [];
        bArr.push(255, 254);
        for (var i = 0; i < csv.length; ++i) {
            cCode = csv.charCodeAt(i);
            bArr.push(cCode & 0xff);
            bArr.push(cCode / 256 >>> 0);
        }

        var blob = new Blob([new Uint8Array(bArr)], { type: 'text/csv;charset=UTF-16LE;' });
        if (navigator.msSaveBlob) {
            navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, fName);
        } else {
            var link = document.createElement("a");
            if (link.download !== undefined) {
                var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
                link.setAttribute("href", url);
                link.setAttribute("download", fName);
                link.style.visibility = 'hidden';
                document.body.appendChild(link);
                link.click();
                document.body.removeChild(link);
                window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
            }
        }
    }



    convertToCsv('download.csv', [
        ['Order', 'Language'],
        ['1', 'English'],
        ['2', 'Español'],
        ['3', 'Français'],
        ['4', 'Português'],
        ['5', 'ceština'],
        ['6', 'Slovenšcina'],
        ['7', 'Ti?ng Vi?t'],
        ['8', 'Türkçe'],
        ['9', 'Norsk bokmål'],
        ['10', '????????'],
        ['11', '?????????'],
        ['12', '???????'],
        ['13', '??????????'],
        ['14', '???????'],
        ['15', '???????'],
        ['16', '????'],
        ['17', '??????'],
        ['18', '?????'],
        ['19', '???'],
        ['20', '???????'],
        ['21', '??'],
        ['22', '???'],
        ['23', '???'],
    ])

How do I move a redis database from one server to another?

I just published a command line interface utility to npm and github that allows you to copy keys that match a given pattern (even *) from one Redis database to another.

You can find the utility here:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/redis-utils-cli

Animate element to auto height with jQuery

Here's one that works with BORDER-BOX ...

Hi guys. Here is a jQuery plugin I wrote to do the same, but also account for the height differences that will occur when you have box-sizing set to border-box.

I also included a "yShrinkOut" plugin that hides the element by shrinking it along the y-axis.


// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Function to show an object by allowing it to grow to the given height value.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
$.fn.yGrowIn = function (growTo, duration, whenComplete) {

    var f = whenComplete || function () { }, // default function is empty
        obj = this,
        h = growTo || 'calc', // default is to calculate height
        bbox = (obj.css('box-sizing') == 'border-box'), // check box-sizing
        d = duration || 200; // default duration is 200 ms

    obj.css('height', '0px').removeClass('hidden invisible');
    var padTop = 0 + parseInt(getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).paddingTop), // get the starting padding-top
        padBottom = 0 + parseInt(getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).paddingBottom), // get the starting padding-bottom
        padLeft = 0 + parseInt(getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).paddingLeft), // get the starting padding-left
        padRight = 0 + parseInt(getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).paddingRight); // get the starting padding-right
    obj.css('padding-top', '0px').css('padding-bottom', '0px'); // Set the padding to 0;

    // If no height was given, then calculate what the height should be.
    if(h=='calc'){ 
        var p = obj.css('position'); // get the starting object "position" style. 
        obj.css('opacity', '0'); // Set the opacity to 0 so the next actions aren't seen.
        var cssW = obj.css('width') || 'auto'; // get the CSS width if it exists.
        var w = parseInt(getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).width || 0) // calculate the computed inner-width with regard to box-sizing.
            + (!bbox ? parseInt((getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).borderRightWidth || 0)) : 0) // remove these values if using border-box.
            + (!bbox ? parseInt((getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).borderLeftWidth || 0)) : 0) // remove these values if using border-box.
            + (!bbox ? (padLeft + padRight) : 0); // remove these values if using border-box.
        obj.css('position', 'fixed'); // remove the object from the flow of the document.
        obj.css('width', w); // make sure the width remains the same. This prevents content from throwing off the height.
        obj.css('height', 'auto'); // set the height to auto for calculation.
        h = parseInt(0); // calculate the auto-height
        h += obj[0].clientHeight // calculate the computed height with regard to box-sizing.
            + (bbox ? parseInt((getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).borderTopWidth || 0)) : 0) // add these values if using border-box.
            + (bbox ? parseInt((getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).borderBottomWidth || 0)) : 0) // add these values if using border-box.
            + (bbox ? (padTop + padBottom) : 0); // add these values if using border-box.
        obj.css('height', '0px').css('position', p).css('opacity','1'); // reset the height, position, and opacity.
    };

    // animate the box. 
    //  Note: the actual duration of the animation will change depending on the box-sizing.
    //      e.g., the duration will be shorter when using padding and borders in box-sizing because
    //      the animation thread is growing (or shrinking) all three components simultaneously.
    //      This can be avoided by retrieving the calculated "duration per pixel" based on the box-sizing type,
    //      but it really isn't worth the effort.
    obj.animate({ 'height': h, 'padding-top': padTop, 'padding-bottom': padBottom }, d, 'linear', (f)());
};

// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Function to hide an object by shrinking its height to zero.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
$.fn.yShrinkOut = function (d,whenComplete) {
    var f = whenComplete || function () { },
        obj = this,
        padTop = 0 + parseInt(getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).paddingTop),
        padBottom = 0 + parseInt(getComputedStyle(obj[0], null).paddingBottom),
        begHeight = 0 + parseInt(obj.css('height'));

    obj.animate({ 'height': '0px', 'padding-top': 0, 'padding-bottom': 0 }, d, 'linear', function () {
            obj.addClass('hidden')
                .css('height', 0)
                .css('padding-top', padTop)
                .css('padding-bottom', padBottom);
            (f)();
        });
};

Any of the parameters I used can be omitted or set to null in order to accept default values. The parameters I used:

  • growTo: If you want to override all the calculations and set the CSS height to which the object will grow, use this parameter.
  • duration: The duration of the animation (obviously).
  • whenComplete: A function to run when the animation is complete.

Difference between \b and \B in regex

\b is a zero-width word boundary. Specifically:

Matches at the position between a word character (anything matched by \w) and a non-word character (anything matched by [^\w] or \W) as well as at the start and/or end of the string if the first and/or last characters in the string are word characters.

Example: .\b matches c in abc

\B is a zero-width non-word boundary. Specifically:

Matches at the position between two word characters (i.e the position between \w\w) as well as at the position between two non-word characters (i.e. \W\W).

Example: \B.\B matches b in abc

See regular-expressions.info for more great regex info

Should switch statements always contain a default clause?

I would always use a default clause, no matter what language you are working in.

Things can and do go wrong. Values will not be what you expect, and so on.

Not wanting to include a default clause implies you are confident that you know the set of possible values. If you believe you know the set of possible values then, if the value is outside this set of possible values, you'd want to be informed of it - it's certainly an error.

That's the reason why you should always use a default clause and throw an error, for example in Java:

switch (myVar) {
   case 1: ......; break;
   case 2: ......; break;
   default: throw new RuntimeException("unreachable");
}

There's no reason to include more information than just the "unreachable" string; if it actually happens, you're going to need to look at the source and the values of the variables etc anyway, and the exception stacktrace will include that line number, so no need to waste your time writing more text into the exception message.

Objective-C: Reading a file line by line

from @Adam Rosenfield's answer, the formatting string of fscanf would be changed like below:

"%4095[^\r\n]%n%*[\n\r]"

it will work in osx, linux, windows line endings.

Changing nav-bar color after scrolling?

How about the Intersection Observer API? This avoids the potential sluggishness from using the scroll event.

HTML

<nav class="navbar-fixed-top">Navbar</nav>
<main>
  <div class="content">Some content</div>
</main>

CSS

.navbar-fixed-top--scrolled changes the nav bar background color. It's added to the nav bar when the content div is no longer 100% visible as we scroll down.

.navbar-fixed-top {
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
  height: 60px;
}

.navbar-fixed-top--scrolled {
  /* change background-color to whatever you want */
  background-color: grey;
}

JS

Create the observer to determine when the content div fully intersects with the browser viewport.

The callback function is called:

  • the first time the observer is initially asked to watch the target element
  • when content div is no longer fully visible (due to threshold: 1)
  • when content div becomes fully visible (due to threshold: 1)

isIntersecting indicates whether the content div (the target element) is fully intersecting with the observer's root (the browser viewport by default).

// callback function to be run whenever threshold is crossed in one direction or the other
const callback = (entries, observer) => {
  const entry = entries[0];
  
  // toggle class depending on if content div intersects with viewport
  const navBar = document.querySelector('.navbar-fixed-top');
  navBar.classList.toggle('navbar-fixed-top--scrolled', !entry.isIntersecting);
}

// options controls circumstances under which the observer's callback is invoked
const options = {
  // no root provided - by default browser viewport used to check target visibility
  // only detect if target element is fully visible or not
  threshold: [1]
};

const io = new IntersectionObserver(callback, options);

// observe content div 
const target = document.querySelector('.content');
io.observe(target);

IntersectionObserver options

The nav bar currently changes background color when the content div starts moving off the screen.

If we want the background to change as soon as the user scrolls, we can use the rootMargin property (top, right, bottom, left) and set the top margin to negative the height of the nav bar (60px in our case).

const options = {
  rootMargin: "-60px 0px 0px 0px",
  threshold: [1]
};

You can see all the above in action on CodePen. Kevin Powell also has a good explanation on this (Github & YouTube).

How to view kafka message

You can use console consumer to view messages produced on some topic:

bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning

How to add footnotes to GitHub-flavoured Markdown?

Expanding on the previous answers even further, you can add an id attribute to your footnote's link:

 Bla bla <sup id="a1">[1](#f1)</sup>

Then from within the footnote, link back to it.

<b id="f1">1</b> Footnote content here. [?](#a1)

This will add a little ? at the end of your footnote's content, which takes your readers back to the line containing the footnote's link.

What is .htaccess file?

It is not so easy to give out specific addresses to people say for a conference or a specific project or product. It could be more secure to prevent hacking such as SQL injection attacks etc.

How to debug apk signed for release?

In case of you decided the debug your apk which is already in market but not assigned to be debuggable and you do not want to publish it again. So follow the below steps;

  1. Decompile the Apk with ApkTool(eg. apktool d <APK_PATH>)
  2. Open the AndroidManifest.xml from decompiled files
  3. Set android:debuggable="true" in application tag
  4. Compile the modified source with ApkTool (eg. apktool b <MODIFIED_PATH>)
  5. Debuggable apk ready(which unsigned means cannot publish store). You can debug as you wish.

Python speed testing - Time Difference - milliseconds

You could use timeit like this to test a script named module.py

$ python -mtimeit -s 'import module'

Plotting 4 curves in a single plot, with 3 y-axes

I know of plotyy that allows you to have two y-axes, but no "plotyyy"!

Perhaps you can normalize the y values to have the same scale (min/max normalization, zscore standardization, etc..), then you can just easily plot them using normal plot, hold sequence.

Here's an example:

%# random data
x=1:20;
y = [randn(20,1)*1 + 0 , randn(20,1)*5 + 10 , randn(20,1)*0.3 + 50];

%# plotyy
plotyy(x,y(:,1), x,y(:,3))

%# orginial
figure
subplot(221), plot(x,y(:,1), x,y(:,2), x,y(:,3))
title('original'), legend({'y1' 'y2' 'y3'})

%# normalize: (y-min)/(max-min) ==> [0,1]
yy = bsxfun(@times, bsxfun(@minus,y,min(y)), 1./range(y));
subplot(222), plot(x,yy(:,1), x,yy(:,2), x,yy(:,3))
title('minmax')

%# standarize: (y - mean) / std ==> N(0,1)
yy = zscore(y);
subplot(223), plot(x,yy(:,1), x,yy(:,2), x,yy(:,3))
title('zscore')

%# softmax normalization with logistic sigmoid ==> [0,1]
yy = 1 ./ ( 1 + exp( -zscore(y) ) );
subplot(224), plot(x,yy(:,1), x,yy(:,2), x,yy(:,3))
title('softmax')

plotyy normalization

Handling a timeout error in python sockets

When you do from socket import * python is loading a socket module to the current namespace. Thus you can use module's members as if they are defined within your current python module.

When you do import socket, a module is loaded in a separate namespace. When you are accessing its members, you should prefix them with a module name. For example, if you want to refer to a socket class, you will need to write client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_DGRAM).

As for the problem with timeout - all you need to do is to change except socket.Timeouterror: to except timeout:, since timeout class is defined inside socket module and you have imported all its members to your namespace.

Is there an equivalent to e.PageX position for 'touchstart' event as there is for click event?

If you're not using jQuery... you need to access one of the event's TouchLists to get a Touch object which has pageX/Y clientX/Y etc.

Here are links to the relevant docs:

I'm using e.targetTouches[0].pageX in my case.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver

team! For execute SQL-query from your Servlet you should add JDBC jar library in folder

WEB-INF/lib

After this you could call driver, example :

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");

Now Y can use connection to DB-server

==> 73!

IntelliJ: Never use wildcard imports

This applies for "Intellij Idea- 2020.1.2" on window

Navigate to "IntelliJ IDEA->File->Settings->Editor->Code Style->java".

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How do I run Python script using arguments in windows command line

I found this thread looking for information about dealing with parameters; this easy guide was so cool:

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Script so useful.')
parser.add_argument("--opt1", type=int, default=1)
parser.add_argument("--opt2")

args = parser.parse_args()

opt1_value = args.opt1
opt2_value = args.opt2

run like:

python myScript.py --opt2 = 'hi'

Best Python IDE on Linux

I haven't played around with it much but eclipse/pydev feels nice.

What is WEB-INF used for in a Java EE web application?

When you deploy a Java EE web application (using frameworks or not),its structure must follow some requirements/specifications. These specifications come from :

  • The servlet container (e.g Tomcat)
  • Java Servlet API
  • Your application domain
  1. The Servlet container requirements
    If you use Apache Tomcat, the root directory of your application must be placed in the webapp folder. That may be different if you use another servlet container or application server.

  2. Java Servlet API requirements
    Java Servlet API states that your root application directory must have the following structure :

    ApplicationName
    |
    |--META-INF
    |--WEB-INF
          |_web.xml       <-- Here is the configuration file of your web app(where you define servlets, filters, listeners...)
          |_classes       <--Here goes all the classes of your webapp, following the package structure you defined. Only 
          |_lib           <--Here goes all the libraries (jars) your application need
    

These requirements are defined by Java Servlet API.

3. Your application domain
Now that you've followed the requirements of the Servlet container(or application server) and the Java Servlet API requirements, you can organize the other parts of your webapp based upon what you need.
- You can put your resources (JSP files, plain text files, script files) in your application root directory. But then, people can access them directly from their browser, instead of their requests being processed by some logic provided by your application. So, to prevent your resources being directly accessed like that, you can put them in the WEB-INF directory, whose contents is only accessible by the server.
-If you use some frameworks, they often use configuration files. Most of these frameworks (struts, spring, hibernate) require you to put their configuration files in the classpath (the "classes" directory).

Arraylist swap elements

for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
        if (i < list.size() - 1) {
            if (list.get(i) > list.get(i + 1)) {
                int j = list.get(i);
                list.remove(i);
                list.add(i, list.get(i));
                list.remove(i + 1);
                list.add(j);
                i = -1;
            }
        }
    }

How can I use a for each loop on an array?

Element needs to be a variant, so you can't declare it as a string. Your function should accept a variant if it is a string though as long as you pass it ByVal.

Public Sub example()
    Dim sArray(4) As string
    Dim element As variant

    For Each element In sArray
        do_something (element)
    Next element
End Sub


Sub do_something(ByVal e As String)

End Sub

The other option is to convert the variant to a string before passing it.

  do_something CStr(element)

Read lines from a file into a Bash array

#!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\n' read  -d'' -r -a inlines  < testinput
IFS=$'\n' read  -d'' -r -a  outlines < testoutput
counter=0
cat testinput | while read line; 
do
    echo "$((${inlines[$counter]}-${outlines[$counter]}))"
    counter=$(($counter+1))
done
# OR Do like this
counter=0
readarray a < testinput
readarray b < testoutput
cat testinput | while read myline; 
do
    echo value is: $((${a[$counter]}-${b[$counter]}))
    counter=$(($counter+1))
done

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysqli_connect()

I followed below link to fix this problem. Make sure to enable following Module.
php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep -i mysqli
Link : https://askubuntu.com/questions/773601/php-mysqli-extension-in-ubuntu-16-04-not-working-after-upgrade-to-version-7-0-6

MySQL root access from all hosts

Run the following query:

use mysql;
update user set host='%' where host='localhost'

NOTE: Not recommended for production use.

How can I display an RTSP video stream in a web page?

VLC also comes with an ActiveX plugin that can display the feed in a web page:

http://wiki.videolan.org/ActiveX/HTML

<OBJECT classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921"
     codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab"
     width="640" height="480" id="vlc" events="True">
   <param name="Src" value="rtsp://cameraipaddress" />
   <param name="ShowDisplay" value="True" />
   <param name="AutoLoop" value="False" />
   <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
   <embed id="vlcEmb"  type="application/x-google-vlc-plugin" version="VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2" autoplay="yes" loop="no" width="640" height="480"
     target="rtsp://cameraipaddress" ></embed>
</OBJECT>

How can I extract the folder path from file path in Python?

WITH PATHLIB MODULE (UPDATED ANSWER)

One should consider using pathlib for new development. It is in the stdlib for Python3.4, but available on PyPI for earlier versions. This library provides a more object-orented method to manipulate paths <opinion> and is much easier read and program with </opinion>.

>>> import pathlib
>>> existGDBPath = pathlib.Path(r'T:\Data\DBDesign\DBDesign_93_v141b.mdb')
>>> wkspFldr = existGDBPath.parent
>>> print wkspFldr
Path('T:\Data\DBDesign')

WITH OS MODULE

Use the os.path module:

>>> import os
>>> existGDBPath = r'T:\Data\DBDesign\DBDesign_93_v141b.mdb'
>>> wkspFldr = os.path.dirname(existGDBPath)
>>> print wkspFldr 
'T:\Data\DBDesign'

You can go ahead and assume that if you need to do some sort of filename manipulation it's already been implemented in os.path. If not, you'll still probably need to use this module as the building block.

How to use multiprocessing pool.map with multiple arguments?

How to take multiple arguments:

def f1(args):
    a, b, c = args[0] , args[1] , args[2]
    return a+b+c

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import multiprocessing
    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(4) 

    result1 = pool.map(f1, [ [1,2,3] ])
    print(result1)

Order a MySQL table by two columns

ORDER BY article_rating, article_time DESC

will sort by article_time only if there are two articles with the same rating. From all I can see in your example, this is exactly what happens.

? primary sort                         secondary sort ?
1.  50 | This article rocks          | Feb 4, 2009    3.
2.  35 | This article is pretty good | Feb 1, 2009    2.
3.  5  | This Article isn't so hot   | Jan 25, 2009   1.

but consider:

? primary sort                         secondary sort ?
1.  50 | This article rocks          | Feb 2, 2009    3.
1.  50 | This article rocks, too     | Feb 4, 2009    4.
2.  35 | This article is pretty good | Feb 1, 2009    2.
3.  5  | This Article isn't so hot   | Jan 25, 2009   1.

How to increment datetime by custom months in python without using library

This is what I came up with

from calendar  import monthrange

def same_day_months_after(start_date, months=1):
    target_year = start_date.year + ((start_date.month + months) / 12)
    target_month = (start_date.month + months) % 12
    num_days_target_month = monthrange(target_year, target_month)[1]
    return start_date.replace(year=target_year, month=target_month, 
        day=min(start_date.day, num_days_target_month))

How do I use .woff fonts for my website?

You need to declare @font-face like this in your stylesheet

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Awesome-Font';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: local('Awesome-Font'), local('Awesome-Font-Regular'), url(path/Awesome-Font.woff) format('woff');
}

Now if you want to apply this font to a paragraph simply use it like this..

p {
font-family: 'Awesome-Font', Arial;
}

More Reference

Is there a way to define a min and max value for EditText in Android?

here's the way I've used, it's working for negative number

First, create MinMaxFIlter.java class with the following code :

import android.text.InputFilter;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.util.Log;

/**
* Created by 21 on 4/5/2016.
*/
public class MinMaxFilter implements InputFilter {

private double mIntMin, mIntMax;

public MinMaxFilter(double minValue, double maxValue) {
    this.mIntMin = minValue;
    this.mIntMax = maxValue;
}

public MinMaxFilter(String minValue, String maxValue) {
    this.mIntMin = Double.parseDouble(minValue);
    this.mIntMax = Double.parseDouble(maxValue);
}

@Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
    try {
        Boolean isNeg = false;
        String provi = dest.toString() + source.toString();
        if("-".equals(provi.substring(0,1))){
            if(provi.length()>1) {
                provi = provi.substring(1, provi.length());
                isNeg = true;
            }
            else{
                if("".equals(source)){
                    return null;
                }
                return "-";
            }
        }

        double input = Double.parseDouble(provi); 
        if(isNeg){input = input * (-1);}

        if (isInRange(mIntMin, mIntMax, input)) {
            return null;
        }
    } catch (Exception nfe) {}
    return "";
}

private boolean isInRange(double a, double b, double c) {
    if((c>=a && c<=b)){
        return true;
    }
    else{
        return false;
    }
}
}

Then, create and set your filter to your edittext like this :

EditText edittext = new EditText(context);
editext.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER | InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_SIGNED);
eInt.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new MinMaxFilter(min, max)});

How to change the interval time on bootstrap carousel?

The best way to get rid on it is adding or modifying the data-interval attribute like this:

<div data-ride="carousel" class="carousel slide" data-interval="10000" id="myCarousel">

It's specified on ms like it's usually on js, so 1000 = 1s, 3000 = 3s... 10000 = 10s.

By the way you can also specify it at 0 for not sliding automatically. It's useful when showing product images on mobile for example.

<div data-ride="carousel" class="carousel slide" data-interval="0" id="myCarousel">

ListView with OnItemClickListener

Hey check this, works for me... hope it work for u too

If list item contains ImageButton

Problem: OnItemClickListener just doesn’t repond any at all!

Reason: No idea

Solution: in code, set ImageButton's focus to “false”

1: ImageButton button = (ImageButton) convertView.findViewById(R.id.imageButton);

2: button.setFocusable(false);

How to change language settings in R

You can set this using the Sys.setenv() function. My R session defaults to English, so I'll set it to French and then back again:

> Sys.setenv(LANG = "fr")
> 2 + x
Erreur : objet 'x' introuvable
> Sys.setenv(LANG = "en")
> 2 + x
Error: object 'x' not found

A list of the abbreviations can be found here.

Sys.getenv() gives you a list of all the environment variables that are set.

Create a tar.xz in one command

Use the -J compression option for xz. And remember to man tar :)

tar cfJ <archive.tar.xz> <files>

Edit 2015-08-10:

If you're passing the arguments to tar with dashes (ex: tar -cf as opposed to tar cf), then the -f option must come last, since it specifies the filename (thanks to @A-B-B for pointing that out!). In that case, the command looks like:

tar -cJf <archive.tar.xz> <files>

How to get named excel sheets while exporting from SSRS

Necromancing, just in case all the links go dark:

  1. Add a group to your report
    Also, be advised to set the sort order of the group expression here, so the tabs will be alphabetically sorted (or however you want it sorted).

    1. Add a group to your report

    • 'Zeilengruppe' means 'Target group'
    • 'Gruppeneigenschaften' means 'Group properties'
  2. Set the page break in the group properties 2. Set the page break in the group properties

    • 'Seitenumbruche' means 'Page break'
    • 'Zwischen den einzelnen Instanzen einer Gruppe' means 'Between the individual instances of a group'
  3. Now you need to set the PageName of the Tablix Member (group), NOT the PageName of the Tablix itselfs.
    If you got the right object, if will say "Tablix Member" (Tablix-Element in German) in the title box of the properties grid. If it's the wrong object, it will say only "table/tablix" (without member) in the property grid's title box.

  4. Note: If you get the tablix instead of the tablix member, it will put the same tab name in every tab, followed by a (tabNum)! If that happens, you now know what the problem is. Tablix Member

MultiTabExcelFile

Referencing a string in a string array resource with xml

Another way of doing it is defining a resources array in strings.xml like below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE resources [
    <!ENTITY supportDefaultSelection "Choose your issue">
    <!ENTITY issueOption1 "Support">
    <!ENTITY issueOption2 "Feedback">
    <!ENTITY issueOption3 "Help">
    ]>

and then defining a string array using the above resources

<string-array name="support_issues_array">
        <item>&supportDefaultSelection;</item>
        <item>&issueOption1;</item>
        <item>&issueOption2;</item>
        <item>&issueOption3;</item>
    </string-array>

You could refer the same string into other xmls too keeping DRY intact. The advantage I see is, with a single value change it would effect all the references in the code.

How to filter a dictionary according to an arbitrary condition function?

dict((k, v) for (k, v) in points.iteritems() if v[0] < 5 and v[1] < 5)

What is the difference between server side cookie and client side cookie?

  1. Yes you can create cookies that can only be read on the server-side. These are called "HTTP Only" -cookies, as explained in other answers already

  2. No, there is no way (I know of) to create "cookies" that can be read only on the client-side. Cookies are meant to facilitate client-server communication.

  3. BUT, if you want something LIKE "client-only-cookies" there is a simple answer: Use "Local Storage".

Local Storage is actually syntactically simpler to use than cookies. A good simple summary of cookies vs. local storage can be found at:

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse154/12au/lectures/slides/lecture21-client-storage.shtml#slide8

A point: You might use cookies created in JavaScript to store GUI-related things you only need on the client-side. BUT the cookie is sent to the server for EVERY request made, it becomes part of the http-request headers thus making the request contain more data and thus slower to send.

If your page has 50 resources like images and css-files and scripts then the cookie is (typically) sent with each request. More on this in Does every web request send the browser cookies?

Local storage does not have those data-transfer related disadvantages, it sends no data. It is great.

Controller not a function, got undefined, while defining controllers globally

I am a beginner with Angular and I did the basic mistake of not including the app name in the angular root element. So, changing the code from

<html data-ng-app> 

to

<html data-ng-app="myApp"> 

worked for me. @PSL, has covered this already in his answer above.

How to change Angular CLI favicon

Make a icon image with the extension .ico and copy and replace it with default favicon file in src folder.

index.html:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />

angular.json:

**"assets": [
          "src/favicon.ico",
          "src/assets"
        ],**

Serialize and Deserialize Json and Json Array in Unity

you have to add [System.Serializable] to PlayerItem class ,like this:

using System;
[System.Serializable]
public class PlayerItem   {
    public string playerId;
    public string playerLoc;
    public string playerNick;
}

jQuery: Get height of hidden element in jQuery

Here's a script I wrote to handle all of jQuery's dimension methods for hidden elements, even descendants of hidden parents. Note that, of course, there's a performance hit using this.

// Correctly calculate dimensions of hidden elements
(function($) {
    var originals = {},
        keys = [
            'width',
            'height',
            'innerWidth',
            'innerHeight',
            'outerWidth',
            'outerHeight',
            'offset',
            'scrollTop',
            'scrollLeft'
        ],
        isVisible = function(el) {
            el = $(el);
            el.data('hidden', []);

            var visible = true,
                parents = el.parents(),
                hiddenData = el.data('hidden');

            if(!el.is(':visible')) {
                visible = false;
                hiddenData[hiddenData.length] = el;
            }

            parents.each(function(i, parent) {
                parent = $(parent);
                if(!parent.is(':visible')) {
                    visible = false;
                    hiddenData[hiddenData.length] = parent;
                }
            });
            return visible;
        };

    $.each(keys, function(i, dimension) {
        originals[dimension] = $.fn[dimension];

        $.fn[dimension] = function(size) {
            var el = $(this[0]);

            if(
                (
                    size !== undefined &&
                    !(
                        (dimension == 'outerHeight' || 
                            dimension == 'outerWidth') &&
                        (size === true || size === false)
                    )
                ) ||
                isVisible(el)
            ) {
                return originals[dimension].call(this, size);
            }

            var hiddenData = el.data('hidden'),
                topHidden = hiddenData[hiddenData.length - 1],
                topHiddenClone = topHidden.clone(true),
                topHiddenDescendants = topHidden.find('*').andSelf(),
                topHiddenCloneDescendants = topHiddenClone.find('*').andSelf(),
                elIndex = topHiddenDescendants.index(el[0]),
                clone = topHiddenCloneDescendants[elIndex],
                ret;

            $.each(hiddenData, function(i, hidden) {
                var index = topHiddenDescendants.index(hidden);
                $(topHiddenCloneDescendants[index]).show();
            });
            topHidden.before(topHiddenClone);

            if(dimension == 'outerHeight' || dimension == 'outerWidth') {
                ret = $(clone)[dimension](size ? true : false);
            } else {
                ret = $(clone)[dimension]();
            }

            topHiddenClone.remove();
            return ret;
        };
    });
})(jQuery);

initializing a Guava ImmutableMap

"put" has been deprecated, refrain from using it, use .of instead

ImmutableMap<String, String> myMap = ImmutableMap.of(
    "city1", "Seattle",
    "city2", "Delhi"
);

How to clear cache of Eclipse Indigo

I think you can find the answer you want in these two posts. They are mentioning Flash Builder, but essentially, the talk is about its Eclipse base.

Clear improperly cached compile errors in FlexBuilder: http://blog.aherrman.com/2010/05/clear-improperly-cached-compile-errors.html

How to fix Flash Builder broken workspace: http://va.lent.in/how-to-fix-flash-builder-broken-workspace/

Inserting Data into Hive Table

What ever data you have inserted into one text file or log file that can put on one path in hdfs and then write a query as follows in hive

  hive>load data inpath<<specify inputpath>> into table <<tablename>>;

EXAMPLE:

hive>create table foo (id int, name string)
row format delimited
fields terminated by '\t' or '|'or ','
stored as text file;
table created..
    DATA INSERTION::
    hive>load data inpath '/home/hive/foodata.log' into table foo;

Check if value is zero or not null in python

Zero and None both treated as same for if block, below code should work fine.

if number or number==0:
    return True

RegEx for Javascript to allow only alphanumeric

Alphanumeric with case sensitive:

if (/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/.test("SoS007")) {
  alert("match")
}

How to check if an integer is within a range?

There is no builtin function, but you can easily achieve it by calling the functions min() and max() appropriately.

// Limit integer between 1 and 100000
$var = max(min($var, 100000), 1);

Changing precision of numeric column in Oracle

By setting the scale, you decrease the precision. Try NUMBER(16,2).

Java JTable setting Column Width

No need for the option, just make the preferred width of the last column the maximum and it will take all the extra space.

table.getColumnModel().getColumn(0).setPreferredWidth(27);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(1).setPreferredWidth(120);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(2).setPreferredWidth(100);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(3).setPreferredWidth(90);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(4).setPreferredWidth(90);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(6).setPreferredWidth(120);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(7).setPreferredWidth(100);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(8).setPreferredWidth(95);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(9).setPreferredWidth(40);
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(10).setPreferredWidth(Integer.MAX_INT);

Convert Java string to Time, NOT Date

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:MM");
simpleDateFormat.format(fajr_prayertime);

How to leave space in HTML

After, or in-between your text, use the &nbsp; (non-breaking space) extended HTML character.

  • EG 1 :

    This is an example paragraph. &nbsp;&nbsp; This is the next line.

show distinct column values in pyspark dataframe: python

you could do

distinct_column = 'somecol' 

distinct_column_vals = df.select(distinct_column).distinct().collect()
distinct_column_vals = [v[distinct_column] for v in distinct_column_vals]

How to check if an user is logged in Symfony2 inside a controller?

If you are using security annotation from the SensioFrameworkExtraBundle, you can use a few expressions (that are defined in \Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authorization\ExpressionLanguageProvider):

  • @Security("is_authenticated()"): to check that the user is authed and not anonymous
  • @Security("is_anonymous()"): to check if the current user is the anonymous user
  • @Security("is_fully_authenticated()"): equivalent to is_granted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY')
  • @Security("is_remember_me()"): equivalent to is_granted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_REMEMBERED')

Determine if string is in list in JavaScript

Looks like you need to use in_array function.

jQuery -> inArray

Prototype -> Array.indexOf

Or, see these examples if you are not using jQuery or Prototype:

Stylistic note: variables named thisthing thatthing, should be named to tell you something about what they contain (noun).

Self-references in object literals / initializers

Creating new function on your object literal and invoking a constructor seems a radical departure from the original problem, and it's unnecessary.

You cannot reference a sibling property during object literal initialization.

var x = { a: 1, b: 2, c: a + b } // not defined 
var y = { a: 1, b: 2, c: y.a + y.b } // not defined 

The simplest solution for computed properties follows (no heap, no functions, no constructor):

var x = { a: 1, b: 2 };

x.c = x.a + x.b; // apply computed property

QtCreator: No valid kits found

In my case, it goes well after I installed CMake in my system:)

sudo pacman -S cmake

for manjaro operating system.

"continue" in cursor.forEach()

Each iteration of the forEach() will call the function that you have supplied. To stop further processing within any given iteration (and continue with the next item) you just have to return from the function at the appropriate point:

elementsCollection.forEach(function(element){
  if (!element.shouldBeProcessed)
    return; // stop processing this iteration

  // This part will be avoided if not neccessary
  doSomeLengthyOperation();
});

Permutation of array

Here is how you can print all permutations in 10 lines of code:

public class Permute{
    static void permute(java.util.List<Integer> arr, int k){
        for(int i = k; i < arr.size(); i++){
            java.util.Collections.swap(arr, i, k);
            permute(arr, k+1);
            java.util.Collections.swap(arr, k, i);
        }
        if (k == arr.size() -1){
            System.out.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(arr.toArray()));
        }
    }
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Permute.permute(java.util.Arrays.asList(3,4,6,2,1), 0);
    }
}

You take first element of an array (k=0) and exchange it with any element (i) of the array. Then you recursively apply permutation on array starting with second element. This way you get all permutations starting with i-th element. The tricky part is that after recursive call you must swap i-th element with first element back, otherwise you could get repeated values at the first spot. By swapping it back we restore order of elements (basically you do backtracking).

Iterators and Extension to the case of repeated values

The drawback of previous algorithm is that it is recursive, and does not play nicely with iterators. Another issue is that if you allow repeated elements in your input, then it won't work as is.

For example, given input [3,3,4,4] all possible permutations (without repetitions) are

[3, 3, 4, 4]
[3, 4, 3, 4]
[3, 4, 4, 3]
[4, 3, 3, 4]
[4, 3, 4, 3]
[4, 4, 3, 3]

(if you simply apply permute function from above you will get [3,3,4,4] four times, and this is not what you naturally want to see in this case; and the number of such permutations is 4!/(2!*2!)=6)

It is possible to modify the above algorithm to handle this case, but it won't look nice. Luckily, there is a better algorithm (I found it here) which handles repeated values and is not recursive.

First note, that permutation of array of any objects can be reduced to permutations of integers by enumerating them in any order.

To get permutations of an integer array, you start with an array sorted in ascending order. You 'goal' is to make it descending. To generate next permutation you are trying to find the first index from the bottom where sequence fails to be descending, and improves value in that index while switching order of the rest of the tail from descending to ascending in this case.

Here is the core of the algorithm:

//ind is an array of integers
for(int tail = ind.length - 1;tail > 0;tail--){
    if (ind[tail - 1] < ind[tail]){//still increasing

        //find last element which does not exceed ind[tail-1]
        int s = ind.length - 1;
        while(ind[tail-1] >= ind[s])
            s--;

        swap(ind, tail-1, s);

        //reverse order of elements in the tail
        for(int i = tail, j = ind.length - 1; i < j; i++, j--){
            swap(ind, i, j);
        }
        break;
    }
}

Here is the full code of iterator. Constructor accepts an array of objects, and maps them into an array of integers using HashMap.

import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.util.*;
class Permutations<E> implements  Iterator<E[]>{

    private E[] arr;
    private int[] ind;
    private boolean has_next;

    public E[] output;//next() returns this array, make it public

    Permutations(E[] arr){
        this.arr = arr.clone();
        ind = new int[arr.length];
        //convert an array of any elements into array of integers - first occurrence is used to enumerate
        Map<E, Integer> hm = new HashMap<E, Integer>();
        for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
            Integer n = hm.get(arr[i]);
            if (n == null){
                hm.put(arr[i], i);
                n = i;
            }
            ind[i] = n.intValue();
        }
        Arrays.sort(ind);//start with ascending sequence of integers


        //output = new E[arr.length]; <-- cannot do in Java with generics, so use reflection
        output = (E[]) Array.newInstance(arr.getClass().getComponentType(), arr.length);
        has_next = true;
    }

    public boolean hasNext() {
        return has_next;
    }

    /**
     * Computes next permutations. Same array instance is returned every time!
     * @return
     */
    public E[] next() {
        if (!has_next)
            throw new NoSuchElementException();

        for(int i = 0; i < ind.length; i++){
            output[i] = arr[ind[i]];
        }


        //get next permutation
        has_next = false;
        for(int tail = ind.length - 1;tail > 0;tail--){
            if (ind[tail - 1] < ind[tail]){//still increasing

                //find last element which does not exceed ind[tail-1]
                int s = ind.length - 1;
                while(ind[tail-1] >= ind[s])
                    s--;

                swap(ind, tail-1, s);

                //reverse order of elements in the tail
                for(int i = tail, j = ind.length - 1; i < j; i++, j--){
                    swap(ind, i, j);
                }
                has_next = true;
                break;
            }

        }
        return output;
    }

    private void swap(int[] arr, int i, int j){
        int t = arr[i];
        arr[i] = arr[j];
        arr[j] = t;
    }

    public void remove() {

    }
}

Usage/test:

    TCMath.Permutations<Integer> perm = new TCMath.Permutations<Integer>(new Integer[]{3,3,4,4,4,5,5});
    int count = 0;
    while(perm.hasNext()){
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(perm.next()));
        count++;
    }
    System.out.println("total: " + count);

Prints out all 7!/(2!*3!*2!)=210 permutations.

PHP Remove elements from associative array

Your array is quite strange : why not just use the key as index, and the value as... the value ?

Wouldn't it be a lot easier if your array was declared like this :

$array = array(
    1 => 'Awaiting for Confirmation', 
    2 => 'Asssigned', 
    3 => 'In Progress', 
    4 => 'Completed', 
    5 => 'Mark As Spam', 
);

That would allow you to use your values of key as indexes to access the array...

And you'd be able to use functions to search on the values, such as array_search() :

$indexCompleted = array_search('Completed', $array);
unset($array[$indexCompleted]);

$indexSpam = array_search('Mark As Spam', $array);
unset($array[$indexSpam]);

var_dump($array);

Easier than with your array, no ?



Instead, with your array that looks like this :

$array = array(
    array('key' => 1, 'value' => 'Awaiting for Confirmation'), 
    array('key' => 2, 'value' => 'Asssigned'), 
    array('key' => 3, 'value' => 'In Progress'), 
    array('key' => 4, 'value' => 'Completed'), 
    array('key' => 5, 'value' => 'Mark As Spam'), 
);

You'll have to loop over all items, to analyse the value, and unset the right items :

foreach ($array as $index => $data) {
    if ($data['value'] == 'Completed' || $data['value'] == 'Mark As Spam') {
        unset($array[$index]);
    }
}
var_dump($array);

Even if do-able, it's not that simple... and I insist : can you not change the format of your array, to work with a simpler key/value system ?

Extract time from moment js object

If you read the docs (http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/) you can find this format:

moment("2015-01-16T12:00:00").format("hh:mm:ss a")

See JS Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Bjolja/6mn32xhu/

Choosing the default value of an Enum type without having to change values

The default is the first one in the definition. For example:

public enum MyEnum{His,Hers,Mine,Theirs}

Enum.GetValues(typeOf(MyEnum)).GetValue(0);

This will return His

How to fix "Referenced assembly does not have a strong name" error?

How to sign an unsigned third-party assembly

  1. Open up Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio. This tool is available in your Window programs and can be found using the default Windows search.
  2. Ensure your prompt has access to the following tools by executing them once: sn ildasm and ilasm
  3. Navigate to the folder where your Cool.Library.dll is located
  4. sn –k Cool.Library.snk to create a new key pair
  5. ildasm Cool.Library.dll /out:Cool.Library.il to disassemble the library
  6. move Cool.Library.dll Cool.Library.unsigned.dll to keep the original library as a back-up
  7. ilasm Cool.Library.il /dll /resource=Cool.Library.res /key=Cool.Library.snk to reassemble the library with a strong name
  8. powershell -command "& {[System.Reflection.AssemblyName]::GetAssemblyName($args).FullName} Cool.Library.dll" to get the assembly fully qualified name. You will need this bit if you have to reference the DLL in external configuration files like web.config or app.config.

How do I show a message in the foreach loop?

You are looking to see if a single value is in an array. Use in_array.

However note that case is important, as are any leading or trailing spaces. Use var_dump to find out the length of the strings too, and see if they fit.

Programmatically Add CenterX/CenterY Constraints

If you don't care about this question being specifically about a tableview, and you'd just like to center one view on top of another view here's to do it:

    let horizontalConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: newView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterX, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal, toItem: parentView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterX, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)
    parentView.addConstraint(horizontalConstraint)

    let verticalConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: newView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterY, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal, toItem: parentView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.CenterY, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)
    parentView.addConstraint(verticalConstraint)

How to Solve Max Connection Pool Error

Before you begin to curse your application you need to check this:

  1. Is your application the only one using that instance of SQL Server. a. If the answer to that is NO then you need to investigate how the other applications are consuming resources on your SQl Server.run b. If the answer is yes then you must investigate your application.

  2. Run SQL Server Profiler and check what activity is happening in other applications (1a) using SQL Server and check your application as well (1b).

  3. If indeed your application is starved off of resources then you need to make farther investigations. For more read on this http://sqlserverplanet.com/troubleshooting/sql-server-slowness