Programs & Examples On #Webkit

WebKit is an open-source Web content engine for browsers and other applications, such as Apple Safari, Mail, App Store and several mobile browsers including the pre-installed browsers for Android, iOS, RIM Blackberry, Symbian, and WebOS.

CSS full screen div with text in the middle

text-align: center will center it horizontally as for vertically put it in a span and give it a css of margin:auto 0; (you will probably also have to give the span a display: block property)

Video auto play is not working in Safari and Chrome desktop browser

On safari iPhone when battery is low and iPhone is on Low Power Mode it won`t autoplay, even if you have the following attributes: autoplay, loop, muted, playsinline set on your video html tag.

Walk around I found working is to have user gesture event to trigger video play:

document.body.addEventListener("touchstart", function () {
    var allVideos = document.querySelectorAll('video');
    for (var i = 0; i < allVideos.length; i++) {
        allVideos[i].play();
    }
},{ once: true });

You can read more about user gesture and Video Policies for iOS in webkit site:

https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

HTML5 Video autoplay on iPhone

Does playsinline attribute help?

Here's what I have:

<video autoplay loop muted playsinline class="video-background ">
  <source src="videos/intro-video3.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

See the comment on playsinline here: https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

css3 transition animation on load?

CSS only with a delay of 3s

a few points to take here:

  • multiple animations in one call
  • we create a wait animation that just delays the actual one (the second one in our case).

Code:

header {
    animation: 3s ease-out 0s 1 wait, 0.21s ease-out 3s 1 slideInFromBottom;
}

@keyframes wait {
    from { transform: translateY(20px); }
    to { transform: translateY(20px); }
}

@keyframes slideInFromBottom {
  from { transform: translateY(20px); opacity: 0; }
  to { transform: translateY(0); opacity: 1; }
}

How to set the style -webkit-transform dynamically using JavaScript?

The JavaScript style names are WebkitTransformOrigin and WebkitTransform

element.style.webkitTransform = "rotate(-2deg)";

Check the DOM extension reference for WebKit here.

Chrome/jQuery Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

Mine was more of a mistake, what happened was loop click(i guess) basically by clicking on the login the parent was also clicked which ended up causing Maximum call stack size exceeded.

$('.clickhere').click(function(){
   $('.login').click();
});

<li class="clickhere">
  <a href="#" class="login">login</a>
</li>

Convert Data URI to File then append to FormData

This one works in iOS and Safari.

You need to use Stoive's ArrayBuffer solution but you can't use BlobBuilder, as vava720 indicates, so here's the mashup of both.

function dataURItoBlob(dataURI) {
    var byteString = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
    var ab = new ArrayBuffer(byteString.length);
    var ia = new Uint8Array(ab);
    for (var i = 0; i < byteString.length; i++) {
        ia[i] = byteString.charCodeAt(i);
    }
    return new Blob([ab], { type: 'image/jpeg' });
}

Is there an embeddable Webkit component for Windows / C# development?

The Windows version of Qt 4 includes both WebKit and classes to create ActiveX components. It probably isn't an ideal solution if you aren't already using Qt though.

HTML5 placeholder css padding

I had similar issue, my problem was with the side padding, and the solution was with, text-indent, I wasn't realize that text indent effect the placeholder side position.

input{
  text-indent: 10px;
}

Firing a Keyboard Event in Safari, using JavaScript

I am working on DOM Keyboard Event Level 3 polyfill . In latest browsers or with this polyfill you can do something like this:

element.addEventListener("keydown", function(e){ console.log(e.key, e.char, e.keyCode) })

var e = new KeyboardEvent("keydown", {bubbles : true, cancelable : true, key : "Q", char : "Q", shiftKey : true});
element.dispatchEvent(e);

//If you need legacy property "keyCode"
// Note: In some browsers you can't overwrite "keyCode" property. (At least in Safari)
delete e.keyCode;
Object.defineProperty(e, "keyCode", {"value" : 666})

UPDATE:

Now my polyfill supports legacy properties "keyCode", "charCode" and "which"

var e = new KeyboardEvent("keydown", {
    bubbles : true,
    cancelable : true,
    char : "Q",
    key : "q",
    shiftKey : true,
    keyCode : 81
});

Examples here

Additionally here is cross-browser initKeyboardEvent separately from my polyfill: (gist)

Polyfill demo

Custom CSS Scrollbar for Firefox

As of late 2018, there is now limited customization available in Firefox!

See these answers:

And this for background info: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460109


There's no Firefox equivalent to ::-webkit-scrollbar and friends.

You'll have to stick with JavaScript.

Plenty of people would like this feature, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790


As far as JavaScript replacements go, you can try:

Removing rounded corners from a <select> element in Chrome/Webkit

While the top answer removes the border, it also removes the arrow which makes it extremely difficult if not impossible for the user to identify the element as a select.

My solution was to just stick a white div (with border-radius:0px) behind the select. Set its position to absolute, its height to the height of the select, and you should be good to go!

Chrome / Safari not filling 100% height of flex parent

Solution

Use nested flex containers.

Get rid of percentage heights. Get rid of table properties. Get rid of vertical-align. Avoid absolute positioning. Just stick with flexbox all the way through.

Apply display: flex to the flex item (.item), making it a flex container. This automatically sets align-items: stretch, which tells the child (.item-inner) to expand the full height of the parent.

Important: Remove specified heights from flex items for this method to work. If a child has a height specified (e.g. height: 100%), then it will ignore the align-items: stretch coming from the parent. For the stretch default to work, the child's height must compute to auto (full explanation).

Try this (no changes to HTML):

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.container {_x000D_
    display: flex;_x000D_
    flex-direction: column;_x000D_
    height: 20em;_x000D_
    border: 5px solid black_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.item {_x000D_
    display: flex;                      /* new; nested flex container */_x000D_
    flex: 1;_x000D_
    border-bottom: 1px solid white;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.item-inner {_x000D_
    display: flex;                      /* new; nested flex container */_x000D_
    flex: 1;                            /* new */_x000D_
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    /* height: 100%;                    <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
    /* width: 100%;                     <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
    /* display: table;                  <-- remove; unnecessary */  _x000D_
}_x000D_
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a {_x000D_
    display: flex;                      /* new; nested flex container */_x000D_
    flex: 1;                            /* new */_x000D_
    align-items: center;                /* new; vertically center text */_x000D_
    background: orange;_x000D_
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    /* display: table-cell;             <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
    /* vertical-align: middle;          <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
}
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<div class="container">_x000D_
  <div class="item">_x000D_
    <div class="item-inner">_x000D_
      <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
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  <div class="item">_x000D_
    <div class="item-inner">_x000D_
      <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
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  <div class="item">_x000D_
    <div class="item-inner">_x000D_
      <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>
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jsFiddle demo


Explanation

My problem is that .item-inner { height: 100% } is not working in webkit (Chrome).

It's not working because you're using percentage height in a way that doesn't conform with the traditional implementation of the spec.

10.5 Content height: the height property

percentage
Specifies a percentage height. The percentage is calculated with respect to the height of the generated box's containing block. If the height of the containing block is not specified explicitly and this element is not absolutely positioned, the value computes to auto.

auto
The height depends on the values of other properties.

In other words, for percentage height to work on an in-flow child, the parent must have a set height.

In your code, the top-level container has a defined height: .container { height: 20em; }

The third-level container has a defined height: .item-inner { height: 100%; }

But between them, the second-level container – .itemdoes not have a defined height. Webkit sees that as a missing link.

.item-inner is telling Chrome: give me height: 100%. Chrome looks to the parent (.item) for reference and responds: 100% of what? I don't see anything (ignoring the flex: 1 rule that is there). As a result, it applies height: auto (content height), in accordance with the spec.

Firefox, on the other hand, now accepts a parent's flex height as a reference for the child's percentage height. IE11 and Edge accept flex heights, as well.

Also, Chrome will accept flex-grow as an adequate parent reference if used in conjunction with flex-basis (any numerical value works (auto won't), including flex-basis: 0). As of this writing, however, this solution fails in Safari.

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#outer {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: column;_x000D_
  height: 300px;_x000D_
  background-color: white;_x000D_
  border: 1px solid red;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#middle {_x000D_
  flex-grow: 1;_x000D_
  flex-basis: 1px;_x000D_
  background-color: yellow;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#inner {_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
  background-color: lightgreen;_x000D_
}
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<div id="outer">_x000D_
  <div id="middle">_x000D_
    <div id="inner">_x000D_
      INNER_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>
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Four Solutions

1. Specify a height on all parent elements

A reliable cross-browser solution is to specify a height on all parent elements. This prevents missing links, which Webkit-based browsers consider a violation of the spec.

Note that min-height and max-height are not acceptable. It must be the height property.

More details here: Working with the CSS height property and percentage values

2. CSS Relative & Absolute Positioning

Apply position: relative to the parent and position: absolute to the child.

Size the child with height: 100% and width: 100%, or use the offset properties: top: 0, right: 0, bottom: 0, left: 0.

With absolute positioning, percentage height works without a specified height on the parent.

3. Remove unnecessary HTML containers (recommended)

Is there a need for two containers around button? Why not remove .item or .item-inner, or both? Although button elements sometimes fail as flex containers, they can be flex items. Consider making button a child of .container or .item, and removing gratuitous mark-up.

Here's an example:

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.container {_x000D_
    height: 20em;_x000D_
    display: flex;_x000D_
    flex-direction: column;_x000D_
    border: 5px solid black_x000D_
}_x000D_
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a {_x000D_
    flex: 1;_x000D_
    background: orange;_x000D_
    border-bottom: 1px solid white;_x000D_
    display: flex;                   /* nested flex container (for aligning text) */_x000D_
    align-items: center;             /* center text vertically */_x000D_
    justify-content: center;         /* center text horizontally */_x000D_
}
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<div class="container">_x000D_
    <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    <a>Button</a>_x000D_
</div>
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4. Nested Flex Containers (recommended)

Get rid of percentage heights. Get rid of table properties. Get rid of vertical-align. Avoid absolute positioning. Just stick with flexbox all the way through.

Apply display: flex to the flex item (.item), making it a flex container. This automatically sets align-items: stretch, which tells the child (.item-inner) to expand the full height of the parent.

Important: Remove specified heights from flex items for this method to work. If a child has a height specified (e.g. height: 100%), then it will ignore the align-items: stretch coming from the parent. For the stretch default to work, the child's height must compute to auto (full explanation).

Try this (no changes to HTML):

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.container {_x000D_
    display: flex;_x000D_
    flex-direction: column;_x000D_
    height: 20em;_x000D_
    border: 5px solid black_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.item {_x000D_
    display: flex;                      /* new; nested flex container */_x000D_
    flex: 1;_x000D_
    border-bottom: 1px solid white;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.item-inner {_x000D_
    display: flex;                      /* new; nested flex container */_x000D_
    flex: 1;                            /* new */_x000D_
_x000D_
    /* height: 100%;                    <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
    /* width: 100%;                     <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
    /* display: table;                  <-- remove; unnecessary */  _x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
a {_x000D_
    display: flex;                      /* new; nested flex container */_x000D_
    flex: 1;                            /* new */_x000D_
    align-items: center;                /* new; vertically center text */_x000D_
    background: orange;_x000D_
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    /* display: table-cell;             <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
    /* vertical-align: middle;          <-- remove; unnecessary */_x000D_
}
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<div class="container">_x000D_
  <div class="item">_x000D_
    <div class="item-inner">_x000D_
      <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
_x000D_
  <div class="item">_x000D_
    <div class="item-inner">_x000D_
      <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
_x000D_
  <div class="item">_x000D_
    <div class="item-inner">_x000D_
      <a>Button</a>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>
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jsFiddle

How to remove the border highlight on an input text element

I tried all the answers and I still couldn't get mine to work on Mobile, until I found -webkit-tap-highlight-color.

So, what worked for me is...

* { -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; }

Interpreting segfault messages

This is a segfault due to following a null pointer trying to find code to run (that is, during an instruction fetch).

If this were a program, not a shared library

Run addr2line -e yourSegfaultingProgram 00007f9bebcca90d (and repeat for the other instruction pointer values given) to see where the error is happening. Better, get a debug-instrumented build, and reproduce the problem under a debugger such as gdb.

Since it's a shared library

You're hosed, unfortunately; it's not possible to know where the libraries were placed in memory by the dynamic linker after-the-fact. Reproduce the problem under gdb.

What the error means

Here's the breakdown of the fields:

  • address (after the at) - the location in memory the code is trying to access (it's likely that 10 and 11 are offsets from a pointer we expect to be set to a valid value but which is instead pointing to 0)
  • ip - instruction pointer, ie. where the code which is trying to do this lives
  • sp - stack pointer
  • error - An error code for page faults; see below for what this means on x86.

    /*
     * Page fault error code bits:
     *
     *   bit 0 ==    0: no page found       1: protection fault
     *   bit 1 ==    0: read access         1: write access
     *   bit 2 ==    0: kernel-mode access  1: user-mode access
     *   bit 3 ==                           1: use of reserved bit detected
     *   bit 4 ==                           1: fault was an instruction fetch
     */
    

Rotate and translate

I can't comment so here goes. About @David Storey answer.

Be careful on the "order of execution" in CSS3 chains! The order is right to left, not left to right.

transformation: translate(0,10%) rotate(25deg);

The rotate operation is done first, then the translate.

See: CSS3 transform order matters: rightmost operation first

What is the correct "-moz-appearance" value to hide dropdown arrow of a <select> element

In Mac OS -moz-appearance: window; will remove the arrow accrding to the MDN docs here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/-moz-appearance. Tested on Firefox 13 on Mac OS X 10.8.2. Also see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649849#c21.

Detect rotation of Android phone in the browser with JavaScript

A little contribution to the two-bit-fool's answer:

As described on the table on droid phones "orientationchange" event gets fired earlier than "resize" event thus blocking the next resize call (because of the if statement). Width property is still not set.

A workaround though maybe not a perfect one could be to not fire the "orientationchange" event. That can be archived by wrapping "orientationchange" event binding in "if" statement:

if (!navigator.userAgent.match(/android/i))
{
    window.addEventListener("orientationchange", checkOrientation, false);
}

Hope it helps

(tests were done on Nexus S)

jQuery get the location of an element relative to window

Try the bounding box. It's simple:

var leftPos  = $("#element")[0].getBoundingClientRect().left   + $(window)['scrollLeft']();
var rightPos = $("#element")[0].getBoundingClientRect().right  + $(window)['scrollLeft']();
var topPos   = $("#element")[0].getBoundingClientRect().top    + $(window)['scrollTop']();
var bottomPos= $("#element")[0].getBoundingClientRect().bottom + $(window)['scrollTop']();

Blurry text after using CSS transform: scale(); in Chrome

you can use css filter to fix this.

.element {
    filter: blur(0);
}

about vendor-prefix, please do it by yourself.-webkit-filter,-ms-filter. detail is here http://browser.colla.me/show/css_transformation_scale_cause_blurring

How to create a pulse effect using -webkit-animation - outward rings

Or if you want a ripple pulse effect, you could use this:

http://jsfiddle.net/Fy8vD/3041/

.gps_ring {
     border: 2px solid #fff;
     -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
     height: 18px;
     width: 18px;
     position: absolute;
     left:20px;
    top:214px;
    -webkit-animation: pulsate 1s ease-out;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite; 
    opacity: 0.0;
}
.gps_ring:before {
    content:"";
    display:block;
    border: 2px solid #fff;
    -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
    height: 30px;
    width: 30px;
    position: absolute;
    left:-8px;
    top:-8px;
    -webkit-animation: pulsate 1s ease-out;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite; 
    -webkit-animation-delay: 0.1s;
    opacity: 0.0;
}
.gps_ring:after {
    content:"";
    display:block;
    border:2px solid #fff;
    -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
    height: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    position: absolute;
    left:-18px;
    top:-18px;
    -webkit-animation: pulsate 1s ease-out;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite; 
    -webkit-animation-delay: 0.2s;
    opacity: 0.0;
}
@-webkit-keyframes pulsate {
    0% {-webkit-transform: scale(0.1, 0.1); opacity: 0.0;}
    50% {opacity: 1.0;}
    100% {-webkit-transform: scale(1.2, 1.2); opacity: 0.0;}
}

How can I force WebKit to redraw/repaint to propagate style changes?

I've found this method to be useful when working with transitions

$element[0].style.display = 'table'; 
$element[0].offsetWidth; // force reflow
$element.one($.support.transition.end, function () { 
    $element[0].style.display = 'block'; 
});

How can I debug javascript on Android?

Chrome has a wonderful feature that simply takes the actual Android Chrome contents (incl. inspection etc.) onto the PC screen...

  • Enable USB debugging on the device, maybe you also need to connect once via adb devices to trigger the "allow communication with..." dialogue on the mobile device,
  • connect the Android device to the PC,
  • start Chrome on both, and
  • then navigate to chrome://inspect/#devices on the PC.
  • Here, the tabs from the mobile phone Chrome are listed and can be inspected.

There's also a detailled manual on the net: https://www.till.net/technologie/html-javascript/remote-web-debugging-unter-android-und-chrome

(found that after adb logcat showed nothing from the browser)

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

Perhaps the below method could be the cause if you've set it to

func webView(_ webView: WebView!,decidePolicyForNavigationAction actionInformation: [AnyHashable : Any]!, request: URLRequest!, frame: WebFrame!, decisionListener listener: WebPolicyDecisionListener!) 

ends with

decisionHandler(.cancel)

for the default navigationAction.request.url

Hope it works!

How to style HTML5 range input to have different color before and after slider?

A small update to this one:

if you use the following it will update on the fly rather than on mouse release.

"change mousemove", function"

<script>
$('input[type="range"]').on("change mousemove", function () {
    var val = ($(this).val() - $(this).attr('min')) / ($(this).attr('max') - $(this).attr('min'));

    $(this).css('background-image',
                '-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, '
                + 'color-stop(' + val + ', #2f466b), '
                + 'color-stop(' + val + ', #d3d3db)'
                + ')'
                );
});</script>

How do I print an IFrame from javascript in Safari/Chrome

You can also use

top.iframeName.print();

or

parent.iframeName.print();

JavaScript: Is there a way to get Chrome to break on all errors?

Edit: The original link I answered with is now invalid.The newer URL would be https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/javascript/add-breakpoints#exceptions as of 2016-11-11.

I realize this question has an answer, but it's no longer accurate. Use the link above ^


(link replaced by edited above) - you can now set it to break on all exceptions or just unhandled ones. (Note that you need to be in the Sources tab to see the button.)

Chrome's also added some other really useful breakpoint capabilities now, such as breaking on DOM changes or network events.

Normally I wouldn't re-answer a question, but I had the same question myself, and I found this now-wrong answer, so I figured I'd put this information in here for people who came along later in searching. :)

Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL

I was getting the same error message when I tried to change the domain for iframe.src.

For me, the answer was to change the iframe.src to a url on the same domain, but which was actually an html re-direct page to the desired domain. The other domain then showed up in my iframe without any errors.

Worked like a charm.:)

CSS3 Continuous Rotate Animation (Just like a loading sundial)

Your code seems correct. I would presume it is something to do with the fact you are using a .png and the way the browser redraws the object upon rotation is inefficient, causing the hang (what browser are you testing under?)

If possible replace the .png with something native.

see; http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/css-xhtml/css3-loading-spinners-without-images/

Chrome gives me no pauses using this method.

text-align: right on <select> or <option>

You could try using the "dir" attribute, but I'm not sure that would produce the desired effect?

<select dir="rtl">
    <option>Foo</option>    
    <option>bar</option>
    <option>to the right</option>
</select>

Demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/fparent/YSJU7/

Custom bullet symbol for <li> elements in <ul> that is a regular character, and not an image

I prefer to use negative margin, gives you more control

ul {
  margin-left: 0;
  padding-left: 20px;
  list-style: none;
}

li:before {
  content: "*";
  display: inline;
  float: left;
  margin-left: -18px;
}

CSS endless rotation animation

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@-webkit-keyframes rotating /* Safari and Chrome */ {_x000D_
  from {_x000D_
    -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
    -o-transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
    transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  to {_x000D_
    -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
    -o-transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
    transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
@keyframes rotating {_x000D_
  from {_x000D_
    -ms-transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
    -moz-transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
    -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
    -o-transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
    transform: rotate(0deg);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  to {_x000D_
    -ms-transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
    -moz-transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
    -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
    -o-transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
    transform: rotate(360deg);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
.rotating {_x000D_
  -webkit-animation: rotating 2s linear infinite;_x000D_
  -moz-animation: rotating 2s linear infinite;_x000D_
  -ms-animation: rotating 2s linear infinite;_x000D_
  -o-animation: rotating 2s linear infinite;_x000D_
  animation: rotating 2s linear infinite;_x000D_
}
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<div _x000D_
  class="rotating"_x000D_
  style="width: 100px; height: 100px; line-height: 100px; text-align: center;" _x000D_
 >Rotate</div>
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Background color not showing in print preview

I used purgatory101's answer but had trouble keeping all colours (icons, backgrounds, text colours etc...), especially that CSS stylesheets cannot be used with libraries which dynamically change DOM element's colours. Therefore here is a script that changes element's styles (background-colour and colour) before printing and clears styles once printing is done. It is useful to avoid writing a lot of CSS in a @media print stylesheet as it works whatever the page structure.

There is a part of the script that is specially made to keep FontAwesome icons color (or any element that uses a :before selector to insert coloured content).

JSFiddle showing the script in action

Compatibility: works in Chrome, I did not test other browsers.

function setColors(selector) {
  var elements = $(selector);
  for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
    var eltBackground = $(elements[i]).css('background-color');
    var eltColor = $(elements[i]).css('color');

    var elementStyle = elements[i].style;
    if (eltBackground) {
      elementStyle.oldBackgroundColor = {
        value: elementStyle.backgroundColor,
        importance: elementStyle.getPropertyPriority('background-color'),
      };
      elementStyle.setProperty('background-color', eltBackground, 'important');
    }
    if (eltColor) {
      elementStyle.oldColor = {
        value: elementStyle.color,
        importance: elementStyle.getPropertyPriority('color'),
      };
      elementStyle.setProperty('color', eltColor, 'important');
    }
  }
}

function resetColors(selector) {
  var elements = $(selector);
  for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
    var elementStyle = elements[i].style;

    if (elementStyle.oldBackgroundColor) {
      elementStyle.setProperty('background-color', elementStyle.oldBackgroundColor.value, elementStyle.oldBackgroundColor.importance);
      delete elementStyle.oldBackgroundColor;
    } else {
      elementStyle.setProperty('background-color', '', '');
    }
    if (elementStyle.oldColor) {
      elementStyle.setProperty('color', elementStyle.oldColor.value, elementStyle.oldColor.importance);
      delete elementStyle.oldColor;
    } else {
      elementStyle.setProperty('color', '', '');
    }
  }
}

function setIconColors(icons) {
  var css = '';
  $(icons).each(function (k, elt) {
    var selector = $(elt)
      .parents()
      .map(function () { return this.tagName; })
      .get()
      .reverse()
      .concat([this.nodeName])
      .join('>');

    var id = $(elt).attr('id');
    if (id) {
      selector += '#' + id;
    }

    var classNames = $(elt).attr('class');
    if (classNames) {
      selector += '.' + $.trim(classNames).replace(/\s/gi, '.');
    }

    css += selector + ':before { color: ' + $(elt).css('color') + ' !important; }';
  });
  $('head').append('<style id="print-icons-style">' + css + '</style>');
}

function resetIconColors() {
  $('#print-icons-style').remove();
}

And then modify the window.print function to make it set the styles before printing and resetting them after.

window._originalPrint = window.print;
window.print = function() {
  setColors('body *');
  setIconColors('body .fa');
  window._originalPrint();
  setTimeout(function () {
    resetColors('body *');
    resetIconColors();
  }, 100);
}

The part that finds icons paths to create CSS for :before elements is a copy from this SO answer

Add custom headers to WebView resource requests - android

Maybe my response quite late, but it covers API below and above 21 level.

To add headers we should intercept every request and create new one with required headers.

So we need to override shouldInterceptRequest method called in both cases: 1. for API until level 21; 2. for API level 21+

    webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

        // Handle API until level 21
        @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
        @Override
        public WebResourceResponse shouldInterceptRequest(WebView view, String url) {

            return getNewResponse(url);
        }

        // Handle API 21+
        @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
        @Override
        public WebResourceResponse shouldInterceptRequest(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {

            String url = request.getUrl().toString();

            return getNewResponse(url);
        }

        private WebResourceResponse getNewResponse(String url) {

            try {
                OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient();

                Request request = new Request.Builder()
                        .url(url.trim())
                        .addHeader("Authorization", "YOU_AUTH_KEY") // Example header
                        .addHeader("api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY") // Example header
                        .build();

                Response response = httpClient.newCall(request).execute();

                return new WebResourceResponse(
                        null,
                        response.header("content-encoding", "utf-8"),
                        response.body().byteStream()
                );

            } catch (Exception e) {
                return null;
            }

        }
   });

If response type should be processed you could change

        return new WebResourceResponse(
                null, // <- Change here
                response.header("content-encoding", "utf-8"),
                response.body().byteStream()
        );

to

        return new WebResourceResponse(
                getMimeType(url), // <- Change here
                response.header("content-encoding", "utf-8"),
                response.body().byteStream()
        );

and add method

        private String getMimeType(String url) {
            String type = null;
            String extension = MimeTypeMap.getFileExtensionFromUrl(url);

            if (extension != null) {

                switch (extension) {
                    case "js":
                        return "text/javascript";
                    case "woff":
                        return "application/font-woff";
                    case "woff2":
                        return "application/font-woff2";
                    case "ttf":
                        return "application/x-font-ttf";
                    case "eot":
                        return "application/vnd.ms-fontobject";
                    case "svg":
                        return "image/svg+xml";
                }

                type = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension(extension);
            }

            return type;
        }

Preventing scroll bars from being hidden for MacOS trackpad users in WebKit/Blink

Here is a shorter bit of code that reenables scroll bars across your entire website. I'm not sure if it's much different than the current most popular answer but here it is:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    width: 7px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    border-radius: 4px;
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
    box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.5);
}

Found at this link: http://simurai.com/blog/2011/07/26/webkit-scrollbar

Get the real width and height of an image with JavaScript? (in Safari/Chrome)

Check out this repository in github!

Great Example to check the Width and Height using Javascript

https://github.com/AzizAK/ImageRealSize

---Edited is requested from some comments ..

Javascript code:

 function CheckImageSize(){
var image = document.getElementById("Image").files[0];
           createReader(image, function (w, h) {

                alert("Width is: " + w + " And Height is: "+h);
});            
}


  function  createReader(file, whenReady) {
        var reader = new FileReader;
        reader.onload = function (evt) {
            var image = new Image();
            image.onload = function (evt) {
                var width = this.width;
                var height = this.height;
                if (whenReady) whenReady(width, height);
            };
            image.src = evt.target.result;
        };
        reader.readAsDataURL(file);
    }

and HTML code :

<html>
<head>
<title>Image Real Size</title>
<script src="ImageSize.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="file" id="Image"/>
<input type="button" value="Find the dimensions" onclick="CheckImageSize()"/>
</body>
<html>

Twitter Bootstrap modal on mobile devices

Albeit this question is quite old, some people still may stumble upon it when looking for solution to improve UX of modals on mobile phones.

I've made a lib to improve Bootrsrap modals' behavior on phones.

Bootstrap 3: https://github.com/keaukraine/bootstrap-fs-modal

Bootstrap 4: https://github.com/keaukraine/bootstrap4-fs-modal

Javascript / Chrome - How to copy an object from the webkit inspector as code

So,. I had this issue,. except I got [object object]

I'm sure you could do this with recursion but this worked for me:

Here is what I did in my console:

var object_that_is_not_shallow = $("all_obects_with_this_class_name");
var str = '';
object_that_is_not_shallow.map(function(_,e){
    str += $(e).html();
});
copy(str);

Then paste into your editor.

CSS media query to target iPad and iPad only?

<html>
<head>
    <title>orientation and device detection in css3</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (max-device-width: 480px) and (orientation:portrait)" href="iphone-portrait.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (max-device-width: 480px) and (orientation:landscape)" href="iphone-landscape.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 768px) and (device-height: 1024px) and (orientation:portrait)" href="ipad-portrait.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 768px) and (device-height: 1024px) and (orientation:landscape)" href="ipad-landscape.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 800px) and (device-height: 1184px) and (orientation:portrait)" href="htcdesire-portrait.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 800px) and (device-height: 390px) and (orientation:landscape)" href="htcdesire-landscape.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (min-device-width: 1025px)" href="desktop.css" />

</head>
<body>
    <div id="iphonelandscape">iphone landscape</div>
    <div id="iphoneportrait">iphone portrait</div>
    <div id="ipadlandscape">ipad landscape</div>
    <div id="ipadportrait">ipad portrait</div>
    <div id="htcdesirelandscape">htc desire landscape</div>
    <div id="htcdesireportrait">htc desire portrait</div>
    <div id="desktop">desktop</div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function res() { document.write(screen.width + ', ' + screen.height); }
        res();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Disable webkit's spin buttons on input type="number"?

You can also hide spinner with following trick :

input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button,
input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button {
  opacity:0;
  pointer-events:none;
}

CSS transition shorthand with multiple properties?

This helped me understand / streamline, only what I needed to animate:

// SCSS - Multiple Animation: Properties | durations | etc.
// on hover, animate div (width/opacity) - from: {0px, 0} to: {100vw, 1}

.base {
  max-width: 0vw;
  opacity: 0;

  transition-property: max-width, opacity; // relative order
  transition-duration: 2s, 4s; // effects relatively ordered animation properties
  transition-delay: 6s; // effects delay of all animation properties
  animation-timing-function: ease;

  &:hover {
    max-width: 100vw;
    opacity: 1;

    transition-duration: 5s; // effects duration of all aniomation properties
    transition-delay: 2s, 7s; // effects relatively ordered animation properties
  }
}

~ This applies for all transition properties (duration, transition-timing-function, etc.) within the '.base' class

What does the shrink-to-fit viewport meta attribute do?

As stats on iOS usage, indicating that iOS 9.0-9.2.x usage is currently at 0.17%. If these numbers are truly indicative of global use of these versions, then it’s even more likely to be safe to remove shrink-to-fit from your viewport meta tag.

After 9.2.x. IOS remove this tag check on its' browser.

You can check this page https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2018/12/11/shrink-to-fit.html

What are -moz- and -webkit-?

What are -moz- and -webkit-?

CSS properties starting with -webkit-, -moz-, -ms- or -o- are called vendor prefixes.


Why do different browsers add different prefixes for the same effect?

A good explanation of vendor prefixes comes from Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode:

Originally, the point of vendor prefixes was to allow browser makers to start supporting experimental CSS declarations.

Let's say a W3C working group is discussing a grid declaration (which, incidentally, wouldn't be such a bad idea). Let's furthermore say that some people create a draft specification, but others disagree with some of the details. As we know, this process may take ages.

Let's furthermore say that Microsoft as an experiment decides to implement the proposed grid. At this point in time, Microsoft cannot be certain that the specification will not change. Therefore, instead of adding the grid to its CSS, it adds -ms-grid.

The vendor prefix kind of says "this is the Microsoft interpretation of an ongoing proposal." Thus, if the final definition of the grid is different, Microsoft can add a new CSS property grid without breaking pages that depend on -ms-grid.


UPDATE AS OF THE YEAR 2016

As this post 3 years old, it's important to mention that now most vendors do understand that these prefixes are just creating un-necessary duplicate code and that the situation where you need to specify 3 different CSS rules to get one effect working in all browser is an unwanted one.

As mentioned in this glossary about Mozilla's view on Vendor Prefix on May 3, 2016,

Browser vendors are now trying to get rid of vendor prefix for experimental features. They noticed that Web developers were using them on production Web sites, polluting the global space and making it more difficult for underdogs to perform well.

For example, just a few years ago, to set a rounded corner on a box you had to write:

-moz-border-radius: 10px 5px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 10px 5px;

But now that browsers have come to fully support this feature, you really only need the standardized version:

border-radius: 10px 5px;

Finding the right rules for all browsers

As still there's no standard for common CSS rules that work on all browsers, you can use tools like caniuse.com to check support of a rule across all major browsers.

You can also use pleeease.io/play. Pleeease is a Node.js application that easily processes your CSS. It simplifies the use of preprocessors and combines them with best postprocessors. It helps create clean stylesheets, support older browsers and offers better maintainability.

Input:

a {
  column-count: 3;
  column-gap: 10px;
  column-fill: auto;
}

Output:

a {
  -webkit-column-count: 3;
     -moz-column-count: 3;
          column-count: 3;
  -webkit-column-gap: 10px;
     -moz-column-gap: 10px;
          column-gap: 10px;
  -webkit-column-fill: auto;
     -moz-column-fill: auto;
          column-fill: auto;
}

Maximum call stack size exceeded error

In my case, two jQuery modals were showing stacked on top of each other. Preventing that solved my problem.

Submitting a form on 'Enter' with jQuery?

Don't know if it will help, but you can try simulating a submit button click, instead of directly submitting the form. I have the following code in production, and it works fine:

    $('.input').keypress(function(e) {
        if(e.which == 13) {
            jQuery(this).blur();
            jQuery('#submit').focus().click();
        }
    });

Note: jQuery('#submit').focus() makes the button animate when enter is pressed.

What is WebKit and how is it related to CSS?

-webkit- is simply a group that Chrome, Safari, Opera and iOS browsers fit into. They all have a common ancestor, so often their capabilities/limitations (when it comes to running CSS and Javascript) are confined to the group.

A developer will place -webkit- followed by some code, meaning that the code will only run on Chrome, Safari, Opera and iOS browsers. Here is a complete list:

-webkit- (Chrome, Safari, newer versions of Opera, almost all iOS browsers (including Firefox for iOS); basically, any WebKit based browser)

-moz- (Firefox)

-o- (Old, pre-WebKit, versions of Opera)

-ms- (Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge)

Http Get using Android HttpURLConnection

A more contemporary way of doing it on a separate thread using Tasks and Kotlin

private val mExecutor: Executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()

private fun createHttpTask(u:String): Task<String> {
    return Tasks.call(mExecutor, Callable<String>{
        val url = URL(u)
        val conn: HttpURLConnection = url.openConnection() as HttpURLConnection
        conn.requestMethod = "GET"
        conn.connectTimeout = 3000
        conn.readTimeout = 3000
        val rc = conn.responseCode
        if ( rc != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
            throw java.lang.Exception("Error: ${rc}")
        }
        val inp: InputStream = BufferedInputStream(conn.inputStream)
        val resp: String = inp.bufferedReader(UTF_8).use{ it.readText() }
        return@Callable resp
    })
}

and now you can use it like below in many places:

            createHttpTask("https://google.com")
                    .addOnSuccessListener {
                        Log.d("HTTP", "Response: ${it}") // 'it' is a response string here
                    }
                    .addOnFailureListener {
                        Log.d("HTTP", "Error: ${it.message}") // 'it' is an Exception object here
                    }

Find out if string ends with another string in C++

Use std::equal algorithm from <algorithms> with reverse iteration:

std::string LogExt = ".log";
if (std::equal(LogExt.rbegin(), LogExt.rend(), filename.rbegin())) {
   …
}

In practice, what are the main uses for the new "yield from" syntax in Python 3.3?

This code defines a function fixed_sum_digits returning a generator enumerating all six digits numbers such that the sum of digits is 20.

def iter_fun(sum, deepness, myString, Total):
    if deepness == 0:
        if sum == Total:
            yield myString
    else:  
        for i in range(min(10, Total - sum + 1)):
            yield from iter_fun(sum + i,deepness - 1,myString + str(i),Total)

def fixed_sum_digits(digits, Tot):
    return iter_fun(0,digits,"",Tot) 

Try to write it without yield from. If you find an effective way to do it let me know.

I think that for cases like this one: visiting trees, yield from makes the code simpler and cleaner.

How to write a file or data to an S3 object using boto3

A cleaner and concise version which I use to upload files on the fly to a given S3 bucket and sub-folder-

import boto3

BUCKET_NAME = 'sample_bucket_name'
PREFIX = 'sub-folder/'

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

# Creating an empty file called "_DONE" and putting it in the S3 bucket
s3.Object(BUCKET_NAME, PREFIX + '_DONE').put(Body="")

Note: You should ALWAYS put your AWS credentials (aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key) in a separate file, for example- ~/.aws/credentials

Download File Using Javascript/jQuery

Using anchor tag and PHP it can be done, Check this answer

JQuery Ajax call for PDF file download

HTML
    <a href="www.example.com/download_file.php?file_source=example.pdf">Download pdf here</a>

PHP
<?php
$fullPath = $_GET['fileSource'];
if($fullPath) {
    $fsize = filesize($fullPath);
    $path_parts = pathinfo($fullPath);
    $ext = strtolower($path_parts["extension"]);
    switch ($ext) {
        case "pdf":
        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$path_parts["basename"]."\""); // use 'attachment' to force a download
        header("Content-type: application/pdf"); // add here more headers for diff. extensions
        break;
        default;
        header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
        header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"".$path_parts["basename"]."\"");
    }
    if($fsize) {//checking if file size exist
      header("Content-length: $fsize");
    }
    readfile($fullPath);
    exit;
}
?>

I am checking for file size because if you load pdf from CDN cloudfront, you won`t get the size of document which forces the document to download in 0kb, To avoid this i am checking with this condition

 if($fsize) {//checking if file size exist
      header("Content-length: $fsize");
    }

Turning a Comma Separated string into individual rows

As of Feb 2016 - see the TALLY Table Example - very likely to outperform my TVF below, from Feb 2014. Keeping original post below for posterity:


Too much repeated code for my liking in the above examples. And I dislike the performance of CTEs and XML. Also, an explicit Id so that consumers that are order specific can specify an ORDER BY clause.

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Split
(
    @Line nvarchar(MAX),
    @SplitOn nvarchar(5) = ','
)
RETURNS @RtnValue table
(
    Id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
    Data nvarchar(100) NOT NULL
)
AS
BEGIN
    IF @Line IS NULL RETURN

    DECLARE @split_on_len INT = LEN(@SplitOn)
    DECLARE @start_at INT = 1
    DECLARE @end_at INT
    DECLARE @data_len INT

    WHILE 1=1
    BEGIN
        SET @end_at = CHARINDEX(@SplitOn,@Line,@start_at)
        SET @data_len = CASE @end_at WHEN 0 THEN LEN(@Line) ELSE @end_at-@start_at END
        INSERT INTO @RtnValue (data) VALUES( SUBSTRING(@Line,@start_at,@data_len) );
        IF @end_at = 0 BREAK;
        SET @start_at = @end_at + @split_on_len
    END

    RETURN
END

Copy a file from one folder to another using vbscripting

Please find the below code:

If ComboBox21.Value = "Delimited file" Then
    'Const txtFldrPath As String = "C:\Users\513090.CTS\Desktop\MACRO"      'Change to folder path containing text files
    Dim myValue2 As String
    myValue2 = ComboBox22.Value
    Dim txtFldrPath As Variant
    txtFldrPath = InputBox("Give the file path")
    'Dim CurrentFile As String: CurrentFile = Dir(txtFldrPath & "\" & "LL.txt")
    Dim strLine() As String
    Dim LineIndex As Long
    Dim myValue As Variant
    On Error GoTo Errhandler
    myValue = InputBox("Give the DELIMITER")

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    While txtFldrPath <> vbNullString
        LineIndex = 0
        Close #1
        'Open txtFldrPath & "\" & CurrentFile For Input As #1
        Open txtFldrPath For Input As #1
        While Not EOF(1)
            LineIndex = LineIndex + 1
            ReDim Preserve strLine(1 To LineIndex)
            Line Input #1, strLine(LineIndex)
        Wend
        Close #1

        With ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(myValue2).Range("A1").Resize(LineIndex, 1)
            .Value = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(strLine)
            .TextToColumns Other:=True, OtherChar:=myValue
        End With

        'ActiveSheet.UsedRange.EntireColumn.AutoFit
        'ActiveSheet.Copy
        'ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs xlsFldrPath & "\" & Replace(CurrentFile, ".txt", ".xls"), xlNormal
        'ActiveWorkbook.Close False
       ' ActiveSheet.UsedRange.ClearContents

        CurrentFile = Dir
    Wend
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End If

Disable scrolling in webview?

My dirty, but easy-to-implement and well working solution:

Simply put the webview inside a scrollview. Make the webview to be far too bigger than the possible content (in one or both dimensions, depending on the requirements). ..and set up the scrollview's scrollbar(s) as you wish.

Example to disable the horizontal scrollbar on a webview:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
>
    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/mywebview"
        android:layout_width="1000dip"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    />
</ScrollView>

I hope this helps ;)

Google Play error "Error while retrieving information from server [DF-DFERH-01]"

I had the same issue. Solved it simply; I have (2) google accounts linked to my Play Store. It just so happens that I installed "an" app from "account B", and I was trying to rate it from "account A". So, switched accounts, and voilá.

HTTP GET Request in Node.js Express

Unirest is the best library I've come across for making HTTP requests from Node. It's aiming at being a multiplatform framework, so learning how it works on Node will serve you well if you need to use an HTTP client on Ruby, PHP, Java, Python, Objective C, .Net or Windows 8 as well. As far as I can tell the unirest libraries are mostly backed by existing HTTP clients (e.g. on Java, the Apache HTTP client, on Node, Mikeal's Request libary) - Unirest just puts a nicer API on top.

Here are a couple of code examples for Node.js:

var unirest = require('unirest')

// GET a resource
unirest.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
  .query({'foo': 'bar'})
  .query({'stack': 'overflow'})
  .end(function(res) {
    if (res.error) {
      console.log('GET error', res.error)
    } else {
      console.log('GET response', res.body)
    }
  })

// POST a form with an attached file
unirest.post('http://httpbin.org/post')
  .field('foo', 'bar')
  .field('stack', 'overflow')
  .attach('myfile', 'examples.js')
  .end(function(res) {
    if (res.error) {
      console.log('POST error', res.error)
    } else {
      console.log('POST response', res.body)
    }
  })

You can jump straight to the Node docs here

Code coverage with Mocha

You need an additional library for code coverage, and you are going to be blown away by how powerful and easy istanbul is. Try the following, after you get your mocha tests to pass:

npm install nyc

Now, simply place the command nyc in front of your existing test command, for example:

{
  "scripts": {
    "test": "nyc mocha"
  }
}

Overlapping Views in Android

Yes, that is possible. The challenge, however, is to do their layout properly. The easiest way to do it would be to have an AbsoluteLayout and then put the two images where you want them to be. You don't need to do anything special for the transparent png except having it added later to the layout.

PHP remove special character from string

You want str replace, because performance-wise it's much cheaper and still fits your needs!

$title = str_replace( array( '\'', '"', ',' , ';', '<', '>' ), ' ', $rawtitle);

(Unless this is all about security and sql injection, in that case, I'd rather to go with a POSITIVE list of ALLOWED characters... even better, stick with tested, proven routines.)

Btw, since the OP talked about title-setting: I wouldn't replace special chars with nothing, but with a space. A superficious space is less of a problem than two words glued together...

Login credentials not working with Gmail SMTP

I had the same issue. The Authentication Error can be because of your security settings, the 2-step verification for instance. It wont allow third party apps to override the authentication.

Log in to your Google account, and use these links:

Step 1 [Link of Disabling 2-step verification]:

https://myaccount.google.com/security?utm_source=OGB&utm_medium=act#signin

Step 2: [Link for Allowing less secure apps]

https://myaccount.google.com/u/1/lesssecureapps?pli=1&pageId=none

It should be all good now.

oracle diff: how to compare two tables?

For this kind of question I think you have to be very specific about what you are looking for, as there are many ways of interpreting it and many different approaches. Some approaches are going to be too big a hammer if your question does not warrant it.

At the simplest level, there is "Is the table data exactly the same or not?", which you might attempt to answer with a simple count comparison before moving on to anything more complex.

At the other end of the scale there is "show me the rows from each table for which there is not an equivalent row in the other table" or "show me where rows have the same identifying key but different data values".

If you actually want to sync Table A with Table B then that might be relatively straightforward, using a MERGE command.

jQuery Datepicker localization

datepicker in Finnish (Käännös suomeksi)

$.datepicker.regional['fi'] = {
  closeText: "Valmis", // Display text for close link
  prevText: "Edel", // Display text for previous month link
  nextText: "Seur", // Display text for next month link
  currentText: "Tänään", // Display text for current month link
  monthNames: [ "Tammikuu","Helmikuu","Maaliskuu","Huhtikuu","Toukokuu","Kesäkuu",
  "Heinäkuu","Elokuu","Syyskuu","Lokakuu","Marraskuu","Joulukuu" ], // Names of months for drop-down and formatting
  monthNamesShort: [ "Tam", "Hel", "Maa", "Huh", "Tou", "Kes", "Hei", "Elo", "Syy", "Lok", "Mar", "Jou" ], // For formatting
  dayNames: [ "Sunnuntai", "Maanantai", "Tiistai", "Keskiviikko", "Torstai", "Perjantai", "Lauantai" ], // For formatting
  dayNamesShort: [ "Sun", "Maa", "Tii", "Kes", "Tor", "Per", "Lau" ], // For formatting
  dayNamesMin: [ "Su","Ma","Ti","Ke","To","Pe","La" ], // Column headings for days starting at Sunday
  weekHeader: "Vk", // Column header for week of the year
  dateFormat: "mm/dd/yy", // See format options on parseDate
  firstDay: 0, // The first day of the week, Sun = 0, Mon = 1, ...
  isRTL: false, // True if right-to-left language, false if left-to-right
  showMonthAfterYear: false, // True if the year select precedes month, false for month then year
  yearSuffix: "" // Additional text to append to the year in the month headers
  };

Jquery DatePicker Set default date

First you need to get the current date

var currentDate = new Date();

Then you need to place it in the arguments of datepicker like given below

$("#datepicker").datepicker("setDate", currentDate);

Check the following jsfiddle.

The value violated the integrity constraints for the column

Teradata table or view stores NULL as "?" and SQL considers it as a character or string. This is the main reason for the error "The value violated the integrity constraints for the column." when data is ported from Teradata source to SQL destination. Solution 1: Allow the destination table to hold NULL Solution 2: Convert the '?' character to be stored as some value in the destination table.

How to part DATE and TIME from DATETIME in MySQL

You can achieve that using DATE_FORMAT() (click the link for more other formats)

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(colName, '%Y-%m-%d') DATEONLY, 
       DATE_FORMAT(colName,'%H:%i:%s') TIMEONLY

SQLFiddle Demo

Thymeleaf using path variables to th:href

"List" is an object getting from backend and using iterator to display in table

"minAmount" , "MaxAmount" is an object variable "mrr" is an just temporary var to get value and iterate mrr to get data.

<table class="table table-hover">
<tbody>
<tr th:each="mrr,iterStat : ${list}">
        <td th:text="${mrr.id}"></td>
        <td th:text="${mrr.minAmount}"></td>
        <td th:text="${mrr.maxAmount}"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Random word generator- Python

get the words online

from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
url="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/share/dict/words?revision=61569&view=co"
req = Request(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

web_byte = urlopen(req).read()

webpage = web_byte.decode('utf-8')
print(webpage)

Randomizing the first 500 words

from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
import random


url="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/share/dict/words?revision=61569&view=co"
req = Request(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

web_byte = urlopen(req).read()

webpage = web_byte.decode('utf-8')
first500 = webpage[:500].split("\n")
random.shuffle(first500)
print(first500)

Output

['abnegation', 'able', 'aborning', 'Abigail', 'Abidjan', 'ablaze', 'abolish', 'abbe', 'above', 'abort', 'aberrant', 'aboriginal', 'aborigine', 'Aberdeen', 'Abbott', 'Abernathy', 'aback', 'abate', 'abominate', 'AAA', 'abc', 'abed', 'abhorred', 'abolition', 'ablate', 'abbey', 'abbot', 'Abelson', 'ABA', 'Abner', 'abduct', 'aboard', 'Abo', 'abalone', 'a', 'abhorrent', 'Abelian', 'aardvark', 'Aarhus', 'Abe', 'abjure', 'abeyance', 'Abel', 'abetting', 'abash', 'AAAS', 'abdicate', 'abbreviate', 'abnormal', 'abject', 'abacus', 'abide', 'abominable', 'abode', 'abandon', 'abase', 'Ababa', 'abdominal', 'abet', 'abbas', 'aberrate', 'abdomen', 'abetted', 'abound', 'Aaron', 'abhor', 'ablution', 'abeyant', 'about']

C# Create New T()

Another way is to use reflection:

protected T GetObject<T>(Type[] signature, object[] args)
{
    return (T)typeof(T).GetConstructor(signature).Invoke(args);
}

How to pass table value parameters to stored procedure from .net code

Further to Ryan's answer you will also need to set the DataColumn's Ordinal property if you are dealing with a table-valued parameter with multiple columns whose ordinals are not in alphabetical order.

As an example, if you have the following table value that is used as a parameter in SQL:

CREATE TYPE NodeFilter AS TABLE (
  ID int not null
  Code nvarchar(10) not null,
);

You would need to order your columns as such in C#:

table.Columns["ID"].SetOrdinal(0);
// this also bumps Code to ordinal of 1
// if you have more than 2 cols then you would need to set more ordinals

If you fail to do this you will get a parse error, failed to convert nvarchar to int.

How can I solve the error 'TS2532: Object is possibly 'undefined'?

For others facing a similar problem to mine, where you know a particular object property cannot be null, you can use the non-null assertion operator (!) after the item in question. This was my code:

  const naciStatus = dataToSend.naci?.statusNACI;
  if (typeof naciStatus != "undefined") {
    switch (naciStatus) {
      case "AP":
        dataToSend.naci.certificateStatus = "FALSE";
        break;
      case "AS":
      case "WR":
        dataToSend.naci.certificateStatus = "TRUE";
        break;
      default:
        dataToSend.naci.certificateStatus = "";
    }
  }

And because dataToSend.naci cannot be undefined in the switch statement, the code can be updated to include exclamation marks as follows:

  const naciStatus = dataToSend.naci?.statusNACI;
  if (typeof naciStatus != "undefined") {
    switch (naciStatus) {
      case "AP":
        dataToSend.naci!.certificateStatus = "FALSE";
        break;
      case "AS":
      case "WR":
        dataToSend.naci!.certificateStatus = "TRUE";
        break;
      default:
        dataToSend.naci!.certificateStatus = "";
    }
  }

How to combine two vectors into a data frame

This should do the trick, to produce the data frame you asked for, using only base R:

df <- data.frame(cond=c(rep("x", times=length(x)), 
                        rep("y", times=length(y))), 
                 rating=c(x, y))

df
  cond rating
1    x      1
2    x      2
3    x      3
4    y    100
5    y    200
6    y    300

However, from your initial description, I'd say that this is perhaps a more likely usecase:

df2 <- data.frame(x, y)
colnames(df2) <- c(x_name, y_name)

df2
  cond rating
1    1    100
2    2    200
3    3    300

[edit: moved parentheses in example 1]

In a URL, should spaces be encoded using %20 or +?

This confusion is because URL is still 'broken' to this day

Take "http://www.google.com" for instance. This is a URL. A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator and is really a pointer to a web page (in most cases). URLs actually have a very well-defined structure since the first specification in 1994.

We can extract detailed information about the "http://www.google.com" URL:

+---------------+-------------------+   
|      Part     |      Data         |   
+---------------+-------------------+   
|  Scheme       | http              |   
|  Host address | www.google.com    |   
+---------------+-------------------+  

If we look at a more complex URL such as "https://bob:[email protected]:8080/file;p=1?q=2#third" we can extract the following information:

+-------------------+---------------------+
|        Part       |       Data          |
+-------------------+---------------------+
|  Scheme           | https               |
|  User             | bob                 |
|  Password         | bobby               |
|  Host address     | www.lunatech.com    |
|  Port             | 8080                |
|  Path             | /file               |
|  Path parameters  | p=1                 |
|  Query parameters | q=2                 |
|  Fragment         | third               |
+-------------------+---------------------+

The reserved characters are different for each part

For HTTP URLs, a space in a path fragment part has to be encoded to "%20" (not, absolutely not "+"), while the "+" character in the path fragment part can be left unencoded.

Now in the query part, spaces may be encoded to either "+" (for backwards compatibility: do not try to search for it in the URI standard) or "%20" while the "+" character (as a result of this ambiguity) has to be escaped to "%2B".

This means that the "blue+light blue" string has to be encoded differently in the path and query parts: "http://example.com/blue+light%20blue?blue%2Blight+blue". From there you can deduce that encoding a fully constructed URL is impossible without a syntactical awareness of the URL structure.

What this boils down to is

you should have %20 before the ? and + after

Source

How to get JSON from URL in JavaScript?

With Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Webview you can natively use the fetch API which makes this a lot easier, and much more terse.

If you need support for IE or older browsers, you can also use the fetch polyfill.

let url = 'https://example.com';

fetch(url)
.then(res => res.json())
.then((out) => {
  console.log('Checkout this JSON! ', out);
})
.catch(err => { throw err });

MDN: Fetch API

Even though Node.js does not have this method built-in, you can use node-fetch which allows for the exact same implementation.

How do I get the entity that represents the current user in Symfony2?

Well, first you need to request the username of the user from the session in your controller action like this:

$username=$this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser()->getUserName();

then do a query to the db and get your object with regular dql like

$em = $this->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager');    
"SELECT u FROM Acme\AuctionBundle\Entity\User u where u.username=".$username;
$q=$em->createQuery($query);
$user=$q->getResult();

the $user should now hold the user with this username ( you could also use other fields of course)

...but you will have to first configure your /app/config/security.yml configuration to use the appropriate field for your security provider like so:

security:
 provider:
  example:
   entity: {class Acme\AuctionBundle\Entity\User, property: username}

hope this helps!

how to parse JSONArray in android

getJSONArray(attrname) will get you an array from the object of that given attribute name in your case what is happening is that for

{"abridged_cast":["name": blah...]}
^ its trying to search for a value "characters"

but you need to get into the array and then do a search for "characters"

try this

String json="{'abridged_cast':[{'name':'JeffBridges','id':'162655890','characters':['JackPrescott']},{'name':'CharlesGrodin','id':'162662571','characters':['FredWilson']},{'name':'JessicaLange','id':'162653068','characters':['Dwan']},{'name':'JohnRandolph','id':'162691889','characters':['Capt.Ross']},{'name':'ReneAuberjonois','id':'162718328','characters':['Bagley']}]}";

    JSONObject jsonResponse;
    try {
        ArrayList<String> temp = new ArrayList<String>();
        jsonResponse = new JSONObject(json);
        JSONArray movies = jsonResponse.getJSONArray("abridged_cast");
        for(int i=0;i<movies.length();i++){
            JSONObject movie = movies.getJSONObject(i);
            JSONArray characters = movie.getJSONArray("characters");
            for(int j=0;j<characters.length();j++){
                temp.add(characters.getString(j));
            }
        }
        Toast.makeText(this, "Json: "+temp, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

checked it :)

Selecting only first-level elements in jquery

You can also use $("ul li:first-child") to only get the direct children of the UL.

I agree though, you need an ID or something else to identify the main UL otherwise it will just select them all. If you had a div with an ID around the UL the easiest thing to do would be$("#someDiv > ul > li")

How to convert InputStream to FileInputStream

Use ClassLoader#getResource() instead if its URI represents a valid local disk file system path.

URL resource = classLoader.getResource("resource.ext");
File file = new File(resource.toURI());
FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(file);
// ...

If it doesn't (e.g. JAR), then your best bet is to copy it into a temporary file.

Path temp = Files.createTempFile("resource-", ".ext");
Files.copy(classLoader.getResourceAsStream("resource.ext"), temp, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(temp.toFile());
// ...

That said, I really don't see any benefit of doing so, or it must be required by a poor helper class/method which requires FileInputStream instead of InputStream. If you can, just fix the API to ask for an InputStream instead. If it's a 3rd party one, by all means report it as a bug. I'd in this specific case also put question marks around the remainder of that API.

JavaScript onclick redirect

There are several issues in your code :

  • You are handling the click event of a submit button, whose default behavior is to post a request to the server and reload the page. You have to inhibit this behavior by returning false from your handler:

    onclick="SubmitFrm(); return false;"
    
  • value cannot be called because it is a property, not a method:

    var Searchtxt = document.getElementById("txtSearch").value;
    
  • The search query you are sending in the query string has to be encoded:

    window.location = "http://www.mysite.com/search/?Query="
        + encodeURIComponent(Searchtxt);
    

Use a normal link to submit a form

You can't really do this without some form of scripting to the best of my knowledge.

<form id="my_form">
<!-- Your Form -->    
<a href="javascript:{}" onclick="document.getElementById('my_form').submit(); return false;">submit</a>
</form>

Example from Here.

Escaping quotes and double quotes

I found myself in a similar predicament today while trying to run a command through a Node.js module:

I was using the PowerShell and trying to run:

command -e 'func($a)'

But with the extra symbols, PowerShell was mangling the arguments. To fix, I back-tick escaped double-quote marks:

command -e `"func($a)`"

Registry key Error: Java version has value '1.8', but '1.7' is required

The error is explicit ...

Error: Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment'\CurrentVersion' has value '1.8', but '1.7' is required.

Error: could not find java.dll

Error: Could not find Java SE Runtime Environment.

... you are attempting to use the java.exe 1.7 executable while the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment > CurrentVersion registry key has the value 1.8.

The recurring theme to proposed solutions is that the error is a configuration error. The error can be solved in various different manners (e.g. reconfiguration of the users environment or removal of java executables with fingers-crossed and hope that there exists another fallback java.exe in the users %PATH% and that the fallback java.exe is the correct executable).

The correct solution depends on what you're trying to achieve: "are you trying to downgrade from jdk-8 to jdk-7? Are trying to upgrade to jdk-8? ..."

Reproduction steps

  1. install jdk-7u80-windows-x64.exe

notes:

  • the java.exe executable available in the users %PATH% is installed in C:\Windows\System32
  • the installation does not update the users %PATH%
  • the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment > CurrentVersion string registry entry is created (among others) with the value 1.7
  1. install jdk-8u191-windows-x64.exe

notes:

  • the users %PATH% is updated to include C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath as the first entry
  • the the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment > CurrentVersion string registry entries value is updated to 1.8
  1. update the users %PATH% environment variable, remove C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath

  2. in a new command prompt java -version

Error: Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment'\CurrentVersion' has value '1.8', but '1.7' is required.

Error: could not find java.dll

Error: Could not find Java SE Runtime Environment.

Solution(s)

  1. OP's solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/29769311/1423507 is a "fingers-crossed and hope that there exists a fallback java.exe in the users %PATH% and that the fallback executable is correct" approach to the error. Given the reproduction steps, removing the java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe executables from C:\Windows\System32 (only in my case) will result in no longer having any java.exe present in the users %PATH% resulting in the error 'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. which is not so much of a solution.

  2. answers https://stackoverflow.com/a/35775493/1423507 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/36516620/1423507 work however you're reverting to using java.exe 1.7 (e.g. update the CurrentVersion registry key's value to match the java.exe version found in the users %PATH%).

  3. make surejava.exe 1.8 is the first found in the users %PATH% (how you do that is irrelevant) i.e.:

    • update the users %PATH% to include C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath first (ensure that the executables in that directory are correct)
    • update the users %PATH% to include the absolute path of your java binaries first (set PATH="C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_191\bin;%PATH%")
    • set java specific environment variables and update the users %PATH% with them (set JAVA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Java"; set JRE_HOME=%JAVA_HOME%\jre1.8.0_191; set PATH=%JRE_HOME%\bin;%PATH%)

How to get week number in Python?

Generally to get the current week number (starts from Sunday):

from datetime import *
today = datetime.today()
print today.strftime("%U")

How to append a date in batch files

Sure.

FOR %%A IN (%Date:/=%) DO SET Today=%%A
7z a QuickBackup%TODAY%.zip *.backup

That is DDMMYYYY format.

Here's YYYYDDMM:

FOR %%A IN (%Date%) DO (
    FOR /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/-" %%B in ("%%~A") DO (
        SET Today=%%D%%B%%C
    )
)
7z a QuickBackup%TODAY%.zip *.backup

download and install visual studio 2008

For Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, not the general Visual Studio (go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7729279?)

Google Visual Studio 2008 Express instead of just Visual Studio 2008. Click to the first link that appears which is a download link from Microsoft mentioned above.

How to get htaccess to work on MAMP

The problem I was having with the rewrite is that some .htaccess files for Codeigniter, etc come with

RewriteBase /

Which doesn't seem to work in MAMP...at least for me.

Conditional Formatting using Excel VBA code

I think I just discovered a way to apply overlapping conditions in the expected way using VBA. After hours of trying out different approaches I found that what worked was changing the "Applies to" range for the conditional format rule, after every single one was created!

This is my working example:

Sub ResetFormatting()
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Written by..: Julius Getz Mørk
' Purpose.....: If conditional formatting ranges are broken it might cause a huge increase
'               in duplicated formatting rules that in turn will significantly slow down
'               the spreadsheet.
'               This macro is designed to reset all formatting rules to default.
' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

On Error GoTo ErrHandler

' Make sure we are positioned in the correct sheet
WS_PROMO.Select

' Disable Events
Application.EnableEvents = False

' Delete all conditional formatting rules in sheet
Cells.FormatConditions.Delete

' CREATE ALL THE CONDITIONAL FORMATTING RULES:

' (1) Make negative values red
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.add(xlCellValue, xlLess, "=0")
    .Font.Color = -16776961
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' (2) Highlight defined good margin as green values
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.add(xlCellValue, xlGreater, "=CP_HIGH_MARGIN_DEFINITION")
    .Font.Color = -16744448
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' (3) Make article strategy "D" red
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.add(xlCellValue, xlEqual, "=""D""")
    .Font.Bold = True
    .Font.Color = -16776961
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' (4) Make article strategy "A" blue
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.add(xlCellValue, xlEqual, "=""A""")
    .Font.Bold = True
    .Font.Color = -10092544
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' (5) Make article strategy "W" green
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.add(xlCellValue, xlEqual, "=""W""")
    .Font.Bold = True
    .Font.Color = -16744448
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' (6) Show special cost in bold green font
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.add(xlCellValue, xlNotEqual, "=0")
    .Font.Bold = True
    .Font.Color = -16744448
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' (7) Highlight duplicate heading names. There can be none.
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.AddUniqueValues
    .DupeUnique = xlDuplicate
    .Font.Color = -16383844
    .Interior.Color = 13551615
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' (8) Make heading rows bold with yellow background
With Cells(1, 1).FormatConditions.add(Type:=xlExpression, Formula1:="=IF($B8=""H"";TRUE;FALSE)")
    .Font.Bold = True
    .Interior.Color = 13434879
    .StopIfTrue = False
End With

' Modify the "Applies To" ranges
Cells.FormatConditions(1).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("O8:P507")
Cells.FormatConditions(2).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("O8:O507")
Cells.FormatConditions(3).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("B8:B507")
Cells.FormatConditions(4).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("B8:B507")
Cells.FormatConditions(5).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("B8:B507")
Cells.FormatConditions(6).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("E8:E507")
Cells.FormatConditions(7).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("A7:AE7")
Cells.FormatConditions(8).ModifyAppliesToRange Range("B8:L507")


ErrHandler:
Application.EnableEvents = False

End Sub

Angular exception: Can't bind to 'ngForIn' since it isn't a known native property

Q:Can't bind to 'pSelectableRow' since it isn't a known property of 'tr'.

A:you need to configure the primeng tabulemodule in ngmodule

Is the buildSessionFactory() Configuration method deprecated in Hibernate

A better way to create SessionFactory object in Latest hibernate release 4.3.0 onward is as follow:

Configuration configuration = new Configuration().configure();
StandardServiceRegistryBuilder builder = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().
applySettings(configuration.getProperties());
SessionFactory factory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(builder.build());

How to check if a std::string is set or not?

The default constructor for std::string always returns an object that is set to a null string.

How do I use extern to share variables between source files?

The correct interpretation of extern is that you tell something to the compiler. You tell the compiler that, despite not being present right now, the variable declared will somehow be found by the linker (typically in another object (file)). The linker will then be the lucky guy to find everything and put it together, whether you had some extern declarations or not.

How to Query an NTP Server using C#?

A modified version to compensate network times and calculate with DateTime-Ticks (more precise than milliseconds)

public static DateTime GetNetworkTime()
{
  const string NtpServer = "pool.ntp.org";

  const int DaysTo1900 = 1900 * 365 + 95; // 95 = offset for leap-years etc.
  const long TicksPerSecond = 10000000L;
  const long TicksPerDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * TicksPerSecond;
  const long TicksTo1900 = DaysTo1900 * TicksPerDay;

  var ntpData = new byte[48];
  ntpData[0] = 0x1B; // LeapIndicator = 0 (no warning), VersionNum = 3 (IPv4 only), Mode = 3 (Client Mode)

  var addresses = Dns.GetHostEntry(NtpServer).AddressList;
  var ipEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(addresses[0], 123);
  long pingDuration = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp(); // temp access (JIT-Compiler need some time at first call)
  using (var socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp))
  {
    socket.Connect(ipEndPoint);
    socket.ReceiveTimeout = 5000;
    socket.Send(ntpData);
    pingDuration = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp(); // after Send-Method to reduce WinSocket API-Call time

    socket.Receive(ntpData);
    pingDuration = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() - pingDuration;
  }

  long pingTicks = pingDuration * TicksPerSecond / Stopwatch.Frequency;

  // optional: display response-time
  // Console.WriteLine("{0:N2} ms", new TimeSpan(pingTicks).TotalMilliseconds);

  long intPart = (long)ntpData[40] << 24 | (long)ntpData[41] << 16 | (long)ntpData[42] << 8 | ntpData[43];
  long fractPart = (long)ntpData[44] << 24 | (long)ntpData[45] << 16 | (long)ntpData[46] << 8 | ntpData[47];
  long netTicks = intPart * TicksPerSecond + (fractPart * TicksPerSecond >> 32);

  var networkDateTime = new DateTime(TicksTo1900 + netTicks + pingTicks / 2);

  return networkDateTime.ToLocalTime(); // without ToLocalTime() = faster
}

Authenticate Jenkins CI for Github private repository

An alternative to the answer from sergey_mo is to create multiple ssh keys on the jenkins server.

(Though as the first commenter to sergey_mo's answer said, this may end up being more painful than managing a single key-pair.)

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen'

For python 3, try something like this:

import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve('http://crcv.ucf.edu/THUMOS14/UCF101/UCF101/v_YoYo_g19_c02.avi', "video_name.avi")

It will download the video to the current working directory

I got help from HERE

What does 'Unsupported major.minor version 52.0' mean, and how do I fix it?

Actually you have a code compiled targeting a higher JDK (JDK 1.8 in your case) but at runtime you are supplying a lower JRE(JRE 7 or below).

you can fix this problem by adding target parameter while compilation
e.g. if your runtime target is 1.7, you should use 1.7 or below

javac -target 1.7 *.java

if you are using eclipse, you can sent this parameter at Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Compiler -> set "Compiler compliance level" = choose your runtime jre version or lower.

Create iOS Home Screen Shortcuts on Chrome for iOS

The is no API for adding a shortcut to the home screen in iOS, so no third-party browser is capable of providing that functionality.

Different CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and SYSDATE in oracle

CURRENT_DATE and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP return the current date and time in the session time zone.

SYSDATE and SYSTIMESTAMP return the system date and time - that is, of the system on which the database resides.

If your client session isn't in the same timezone as the server the database is on (or says it isn't anyway, via your NLS settings), mixing the SYS* and CURRENT_* functions will return different values. They are all correct, they just represent different things. It looks like your server is (or thinks it is) in a +4:00 timezone, while your client session is in a +4:30 timezone.

You might also see small differences in the time if the clocks aren't synchronised, which doesn't seem to be an issue here.

How to iterate through property names of Javascript object?

Use for...in loop:

for (var key in obj) {
   console.log(' name=' + key + ' value=' + obj[key]);

   // do some more stuff with obj[key]
}

How to implement a queue using two stacks?

Let queue to be implemented be q and stacks used to implement q be stack1 and stack2.

q can be implemented in two ways:

Method 1 (By making enQueue operation costly)

This method makes sure that newly entered element is always at the top of stack 1, so that deQueue operation just pops from stack1. To put the element at top of stack1, stack2 is used.

enQueue(q, x)
1) While stack1 is not empty, push everything from stack1 to stack2.
2) Push x to stack1 (assuming size of stacks is unlimited).
3) Push everything back to stack1.
deQueue(q)
1) If stack1 is empty then error
2) Pop an item from stack1 and return it.

Method 2 (By making deQueue operation costly)

In this method, in en-queue operation, the new element is entered at the top of stack1. In de-queue operation, if stack2 is empty then all the elements are moved to stack2 and finally top of stack2 is returned.

enQueue(q,  x)
 1) Push x to stack1 (assuming size of stacks is unlimited).

deQueue(q)
 1) If both stacks are empty then error.
 2) If stack2 is empty
   While stack1 is not empty, push everything from stack1 to stack2.
 3) Pop the element from stack2 and return it.

Method 2 is definitely better than method 1. Method 1 moves all the elements twice in enQueue operation, while method 2 (in deQueue operation) moves the elements once and moves elements only if stack2 empty.

SELECT list is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column .... incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by

only_full_group_by = on tells MySQL engine: Do not apply GROUP BY when you have doubt about what results to show and throw an error. only apply it if the command specifically tells you what to do. i.e. when the command is full and complete!

only_full_group_by = off tells MySQL engine: always apply GROUP BY and if you have doubt about what results to choose, just pick one randomly!

You don't have to turn it off if you use GROUP BY properly!

Example:

Table: users

 id   |  name
----------------
  1      ali
  2      john
  3      ali

When you use GROUP BY on the name column:

SELECT * FROM users GROUP BY name;

There are two possible results:

  1      ali
  2      john     

OR

  2      john
  3      ali

MYSQL does not know what result to choose! Because there are different ids but both have name=ali.

Solution1:

only selecting the name field:

SELECT name FROM users GROUP BY name;

result:

  ali
  john     

This is a perfect solution. removing columns that makes GROUP BY confused. This means you know what you're doing. Usually, you do not need
those columns, but if you need them, go to solution3!

Solution2:

Turning off only_full_group_by. MYSQL will show you one of the two possible results RANDOMLY!! (It's ok if you do not really care what id it will choose)

Solution3

Use an Aggregate function like MIN(), MAX() to help MYSQL to decide what it must choose.

For example, I want the minimum id:

SELECT MIN(id), name FROM users GROUP BY name;

result:

  1      ali
  2      john     

It will choose the ali row which has the minimum id.

Is there a performance difference between CTE , Sub-Query, Temporary Table or Table Variable?

There is no rule. I find CTEs more readable, and use them unless they exhibit some performance problem, in which case I investigate the actual problem rather than guess that the CTE is the problem and try to re-write it using a different approach. There is usually more to the issue than the way I chose to declaratively state my intentions with the query.

There are certainly cases when you can unravel CTEs or remove subqueries and replace them with a #temp table and reduce duration. This can be due to various things, such as stale stats, the inability to even get accurate stats (e.g. joining to a table-valued function), parallelism, or even the inability to generate an optimal plan because of the complexity of the query (in which case breaking it up may give the optimizer a fighting chance). But there are also cases where the I/O involved with creating a #temp table can outweigh the other performance aspects that may make a particular plan shape using a CTE less attractive.

Quite honestly, there are way too many variables to provide a "correct" answer to your question. There is no predictable way to know when a query may tip in favor of one approach or another - just know that, in theory, the same semantics for a CTE or a single subquery should execute the exact same. I think your question would be more valuable if you present some cases where this is not true - it may be that you have discovered a limitation in the optimizer (or discovered a known one), or it may be that your queries are not semantically equivalent or that one contains an element that thwarts optimization.

So I would suggest writing the query in a way that seems most natural to you, and only deviate when you discover an actual performance problem the optimizer is having. Personally I rank them CTE, then subquery, with #temp table being a last resort.

I want to add a JSONObject to a JSONArray and that JSONArray included in other JSONObject

JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();

for (loop) {
    JSONObject jsonObj= new JSONObject();
    jsonObj.put("srcOfPhoto", srcOfPhoto);
    jsonObj.put("username", "name"+count);
    jsonObj.put("userid", "userid"+count);

    jsonArray.put(jsonObj.valueToString());
}

JSONObject parameters = new JSONObject();

parameters.put("action", "remove");

parameters.put("datatable", jsonArray );

parameters.put(Constant.MSG_TYPE , Constant.SUCCESS);

Why were you using an Hashmap if what you wanted was to put it into a JSONObject?

EDIT: As per http://www.json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONArray.html

EDIT2: On the JSONObject method used, I'm following the code available at: https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/blob/master/JSONObject.java#L2327 , that method is not deprecated.

We're storing a string representation of the JSONObject, not the JSONObject itself

What does ==$0 (double equals dollar zero) mean in Chrome Developer Tools?

This is Chrome's hint to tell you that if you type $0 on the console, it will be equivalent to that specific element.

Internally, Chrome maintains a stack, where $0 is the selected element, $1 is the element that was last selected, $2 would be the one that was selected before $1 and so on.

Here are some of its applications:

  • Accessing DOM elements from console: $0
  • Accessing their properties from console: $0.parentElement
  • Updating their properties from console: $1.classList.add(...)
  • Updating CSS elements from console: $0.styles.backgroundColor="aqua"
  • Triggering CSS events from console: $0.click()
  • And doing a lot more complex stuffs, like: $0.appendChild(document.createElement("div"))

Watch all of this in action:

enter image description here

Backing statement:

Yes, I agree there are better ways to perform these actions, but this feature can come out handy in certain intricate scenarios, like when a DOM element needs to be clicked but it is not possible to do so from the UI because it is covered by other elements or, for some reason, is not visible on UI at that moment.

How to implement a FSM - Finite State Machine in Java

I design & implemented a simple finite state machine example with java.

IFiniteStateMachine: The public interface to manage the finite state machine
such as add new states to the finite state machine or transit to next states by
specific actions.

interface IFiniteStateMachine {
    void setStartState(IState startState);

    void setEndState(IState endState);

    void addState(IState startState, IState newState, Action action);

    void removeState(String targetStateDesc);

    IState getCurrentState();

    IState getStartState();

    IState getEndState();

    void transit(Action action);
}

IState: The public interface to get state related info
such as state name and mappings to connected states.

interface IState {
    // Returns the mapping for which one action will lead to another state
    Map<String, IState> getAdjacentStates();

    String getStateDesc();

    void addTransit(Action action, IState nextState);

    void removeTransit(String targetStateDesc);
}

Action: the class which will cause the transition of states.

public class Action {
    private String mActionName;

    public Action(String actionName) {
        mActionName = actionName;
    }

    String getActionName() {
        return mActionName;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return mActionName;
    }

}

StateImpl: the implementation of IState. I applied data structure such as HashMap to keep Action-State mappings.

public class StateImpl implements IState {
    private HashMap<String, IState> mMapping = new HashMap<>();
    private String mStateName;

    public StateImpl(String stateName) {
        mStateName = stateName;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, IState> getAdjacentStates() {
        return mMapping;
    }

    @Override
    public String getStateDesc() {
        return mStateName;
    }

    @Override
    public void addTransit(Action action, IState state) {
        mMapping.put(action.toString(), state);
    }

    @Override
    public void removeTransit(String targetStateDesc) {
        // get action which directs to target state
        String targetAction = null;
        for (Map.Entry<String, IState> entry : mMapping.entrySet()) {
            IState state = entry.getValue();
            if (state.getStateDesc().equals(targetStateDesc)) {
                targetAction = entry.getKey();
            }
        }
        mMapping.remove(targetAction);
    }

}

FiniteStateMachineImpl: Implementation of IFiniteStateMachine. I use ArrayList to keep all the states.

public class FiniteStateMachineImpl implements IFiniteStateMachine {
    private IState mStartState;
    private IState mEndState;
    private IState mCurrentState;
    private ArrayList<IState> mAllStates = new ArrayList<>();
    private HashMap<String, ArrayList<IState>> mMapForAllStates = new HashMap<>();

    public FiniteStateMachineImpl(){}
    @Override
    public void setStartState(IState startState) {
        mStartState = startState;
        mCurrentState = startState;
        mAllStates.add(startState);
        // todo: might have some value
        mMapForAllStates.put(startState.getStateDesc(), new ArrayList<IState>());
    }

    @Override
    public void setEndState(IState endState) {
        mEndState = endState;
        mAllStates.add(endState);
        mMapForAllStates.put(endState.getStateDesc(), new ArrayList<IState>());
    }

    @Override
    public void addState(IState startState, IState newState, Action action) {
        // validate startState, newState and action

        // update mapping in finite state machine
        mAllStates.add(newState);
        final String startStateDesc = startState.getStateDesc();
        final String newStateDesc = newState.getStateDesc();
        mMapForAllStates.put(newStateDesc, new ArrayList<IState>());
        ArrayList<IState> adjacentStateList = null;
        if (mMapForAllStates.containsKey(startStateDesc)) {
            adjacentStateList = mMapForAllStates.get(startStateDesc);
            adjacentStateList.add(newState);
        } else {
            mAllStates.add(startState);
            adjacentStateList = new ArrayList<>();
            adjacentStateList.add(newState);
        }
        mMapForAllStates.put(startStateDesc, adjacentStateList);

        // update mapping in startState
        for (IState state : mAllStates) {
            boolean isStartState = state.getStateDesc().equals(startState.getStateDesc());
            if (isStartState) {
                startState.addTransit(action, newState);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void removeState(String targetStateDesc) {
        // validate state
        if (!mMapForAllStates.containsKey(targetStateDesc)) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Don't have state: " + targetStateDesc);
        } else {
            // remove from mapping
            mMapForAllStates.remove(targetStateDesc);
        }

        // update all state
        IState targetState = null;
        for (IState state : mAllStates) {
            if (state.getStateDesc().equals(targetStateDesc)) {
                targetState = state;
            } else {
                state.removeTransit(targetStateDesc);
            }
        }

        mAllStates.remove(targetState);

    }

    @Override
    public IState getCurrentState() {
        return mCurrentState;
    }

    @Override
    public void transit(Action action) {
        if (mCurrentState == null) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Please setup start state");
        }
        Map<String, IState> localMapping = mCurrentState.getAdjacentStates();
        if (localMapping.containsKey(action.toString())) {
            mCurrentState = localMapping.get(action.toString());
        } else {
            throw new RuntimeException("No action start from current state");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public IState getStartState() {
        return mStartState;
    }

    @Override
    public IState getEndState() {
        return mEndState;
    }
}

example:

public class example {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Finite state machine!!!");
        IState startState = new StateImpl("start");
        IState endState = new StateImpl("end");
        IFiniteStateMachine fsm = new FiniteStateMachineImpl();
        fsm.setStartState(startState);
        fsm.setEndState(endState);
        IState middle1 = new StateImpl("middle1");
        middle1.addTransit(new Action("path1"), endState);
        fsm.addState(startState, middle1, new Action("path1"));
        System.out.println(fsm.getCurrentState().getStateDesc());
        fsm.transit(new Action(("path1")));
        System.out.println(fsm.getCurrentState().getStateDesc());
        fsm.addState(middle1, endState, new Action("path1-end"));
        fsm.transit(new Action(("path1-end")));
        System.out.println(fsm.getCurrentState().getStateDesc());
        fsm.addState(endState, middle1, new Action("path1-end"));
    }

}

Full example on Github

Model summary in pytorch

Simplest to remember (not as pretty as Keras):

print(model)

This also work:

repr(model)

If you just want the number of parameters:

sum([param.nelement() for param in model.parameters()])

From: Is there similar pytorch function as model.summary() as keras? (forum.PyTorch.org)

Javascript isnull

Why not try .test() ? ... Try its and best boolean (true or false):

$.urlParam = function(name){
    var results = new RegExp('[\\?&]' + name + '=([^&#]*)');
    return results.test(window.location.href);
}

Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_regexp_test.asp

Change a Rails application to production

As others have posted: rails server -e production

Or, my personal fave: RAILS_ENV=production rails s

TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, and LONGTEXT maximum storage sizes

Rising to @Ankan-Zerob's challenge, this is my estimate of the maximum length which can be stored in each text type measured in words:

      Type |         Bytes | English words | Multi-byte words
-----------+---------------+---------------+-----------------
  TINYTEXT |           255 |           ±44 |              ±23
      TEXT |        65,535 |       ±11,000 |           ±5,900
MEDIUMTEXT |    16,777,215 |    ±2,800,000 |       ±1,500,000
  LONGTEXT | 4,294,967,295 |  ±740,000,000 |     ±380,000,000

In English, 4.8 letters per word is probably a good average (eg norvig.com/mayzner.html), though word lengths will vary according to domain (e.g. spoken language vs. academic papers), so there's no point being too precise. English is mostly single-byte ASCII characters, with very occasional multi-byte characters, so close to one-byte-per-letter. An extra character has to be allowed for inter-word spaces, so I've rounded down from 5.8 bytes per word. Languages with lots of accents such as say Polish would store slightly fewer words, as would e.g. German with longer words.

Languages requiring multi-byte characters such as Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, etc, etc typically require two bytes per character in UTF-8. Guessing wildly at 5 letters per word, I've rounded down from 11 bytes per word.

CJK scripts (Hanzi, Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, etc) I know nothing of; I believe characters mostly require 3 bytes in UTF-8, and (with massive simplification) they might be considered to use around 2 characters per word, so they would be somewhere between the other two. (CJK scripts are likely to require less storage using UTF-16, depending).

This is of course ignoring storage overheads etc.

How can I split and parse a string in Python?

Python string parsing walkthrough

Split a string on space, get a list, show its type, print it out:

el@apollo:~/foo$ python
>>> mystring = "What does the fox say?"

>>> mylist = mystring.split(" ")

>>> print type(mylist)
<type 'list'>

>>> print mylist
['What', 'does', 'the', 'fox', 'say?']

If you have two delimiters next to each other, empty string is assumed:

el@apollo:~/foo$ python
>>> mystring = "its  so   fluffy   im gonna    DIE!!!"

>>> print mystring.split(" ")
['its', '', 'so', '', '', 'fluffy', '', '', 'im', 'gonna', '', '', '', 'DIE!!!']

Split a string on underscore and grab the 5th item in the list:

el@apollo:~/foo$ python
>>> mystring = "Time_to_fire_up_Kowalski's_Nuclear_reactor."

>>> mystring.split("_")[4]
"Kowalski's"

Collapse multiple spaces into one

el@apollo:~/foo$ python
>>> mystring = 'collapse    these       spaces'

>>> mycollapsedstring = ' '.join(mystring.split())

>>> print mycollapsedstring.split(' ')
['collapse', 'these', 'spaces']

When you pass no parameter to Python's split method, the documentation states: "runs of consecutive whitespace are regarded as a single separator, and the result will contain no empty strings at the start or end if the string has leading or trailing whitespace".

Hold onto your hats boys, parse on a regular expression:

el@apollo:~/foo$ python
>>> mystring = 'zzzzzzabczzzzzzdefzzzzzzzzzghizzzzzzzzzzzz'
>>> import re
>>> mylist = re.split("[a-m]+", mystring)
>>> print mylist
['zzzzzz', 'zzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzz', 'zzzzzzzzzzzz']

The regular expression "[a-m]+" means the lowercase letters a through m that occur one or more times are matched as a delimiter. re is a library to be imported.

Or if you want to chomp the items one at a time:

el@apollo:~/foo$ python
>>> mystring = "theres coffee in that nebula"

>>> mytuple = mystring.partition(" ")

>>> print type(mytuple)
<type 'tuple'>

>>> print mytuple
('theres', ' ', 'coffee in that nebula')

>>> print mytuple[0]
theres

>>> print mytuple[2]
coffee in that nebula

Dynamically adding properties to an ExpandoObject

As explained here by Filip - http://www.filipekberg.se/2011/10/02/adding-properties-and-methods-to-an-expandoobject-dynamicly/

You can add a method too at runtime.

x.Add("Shout", new Action(() => { Console.WriteLine("Hellooo!!!"); }));
x.Shout();

SQL Server Group by Count of DateTime Per Hour?

You can also achieve this by using following SQL with date and hour in same columns and proper date time format and ordered by date time

SELECT  dateadd(hour, datediff(hour, 0, StartDate), 0) as 'ForDate', 
    COUNT(*) as 'Count' 
FROM #Events
GROUP BY dateadd(hour, datediff(hour, 0, LogTime), 0)
ORDER BY ForDate

Trying to detect browser close event

Following script will give message on Chrome and IE:

<script>
window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
// Your logic to prepare for 'Stay on this Page' goes here 

    return "Please click 'Stay on this Page' and we will give you candy";
};
</script>

Chrome
enter image description here

IE
enter image description here

on Firefox you will get generic message

enter image description here

Mechanism is synchronous so no server calls to delay will work, you still can prepare a mechanism like modal window that is shown if user decides to stay on page, but no way to prevent him from leaving.

Response to question in comment

F5 will fire event again, so will Atl+F4.

MVC 4 - Return error message from Controller - Show in View

You can add this to your _Layout.cshtml:

@using MyProj.ViewModels;
...
    @if (TempData["UserMessage"] != null)
    {
        var message = (MessageViewModel)TempData["UserMessage"];
        <div class="alert @message.CssClassName" role="alert">
            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close">
                <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
            </button>
            <strong>@message.Title</strong>
            @message.Message
        </div>
    }

Then if you want to throw an error message in your controller:

    TempData["UserMessage"] = new MessageViewModel() { CssClassName = "alert-danger  alert-dismissible", Title = "Error", Message = "This is an error message" };

MessageViewModel.cs:

public class MessageViewModel
    {
        public string CssClassName { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Message { get; set; }
    }

Note: Using Bootstrap 4 classes.

How to implement a secure REST API with node.js

If you want to have a completely locked down area of your webapplication which can only be accessed by administrators from your company, then SSL authorization maybe for you. It will insure that no one can make a connection to the server instance unless they have an authorized certificate installed in their browser. Last week I wrote an article on how to setup the server: Article

This is one of the most secure setups you will find as there are no username/passwords involved so no one can gain access unless one of your users hands the key files to a potential hacker.

how to make log4j to write to the console as well

Your log4j File should look something like below read comments.

# Define the types of logger and level of logging    
log4j.rootLogger = DEBUG,console, FILE

# Define the File appender    
log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender    

# Define Console Appender    
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender    

# Define the layout for console appender. If you do not 
# define it, you will get an error    
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

# Set the name of the file    
log4j.appender.FILE.File=log.out

# Set the immediate flush to true (default)    
log4j.appender.FILE.ImmediateFlush=true

# Set the threshold to debug mode    
log4j.appender.FILE.Threshold=debug

# Set the append to false, overwrite    
log4j.appender.FILE.Append=false

# Define the layout for file appender    
log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout    
log4j.appender.FILE.layout.conversionPattern=%m%n

Guzzle 6: no more json() method for responses

If you guys still interested, here is my workaround based on Guzzle middleware feature:

  1. Create JsonAwaraResponse that will decode JSON response by Content-Type HTTP header, if not - it will act as standard Guzzle Response:

    <?php
    
    namespace GuzzleHttp\Psr7;
    
    
    class JsonAwareResponse extends Response
    {
        /**
         * Cache for performance
         * @var array
         */
        private $json;
    
        public function getBody()
        {
            if ($this->json) {
                return $this->json;
            }
            // get parent Body stream
            $body = parent::getBody();
    
            // if JSON HTTP header detected - then decode
            if (false !== strpos($this->getHeaderLine('Content-Type'), 'application/json')) {
                return $this->json = \json_decode($body, true);
            }
            return $body;
        }
    }
    
  2. Create Middleware which going to replace Guzzle PSR-7 responses with above Response implementation:

    <?php
    
    $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
    
    /** @var HandlerStack $handler */
    $handler = $client->getConfig('handler');
    $handler->push(\GuzzleHttp\Middleware::mapResponse(function (\Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface $response) {
        return new \GuzzleHttp\Psr7\JsonAwareResponse(
            $response->getStatusCode(),
            $response->getHeaders(),
            $response->getBody(),
            $response->getProtocolVersion(),
            $response->getReasonPhrase()
        );
    }), 'json_decode_middleware');
    

After this to retrieve JSON as PHP native array use Guzzle as always:

$jsonArray = $client->get('http://httpbin.org/headers')->getBody();

Tested with guzzlehttp/guzzle 6.3.3

Batch script: how to check for admin rights

Here's my 2-pennies worth:

I needed a batch to run within a Domain environment during the user login process, within a 'workroom' environment, seeing users adhere to a "lock-down" policy and restricted view (mainly distributed via GPO sets).

A Domain GPO set is applied before an AD user linked login script Creating a GPO login script was too per-mature as the users "new" profile hadn't been created/loaded/or ready in time to apply a "remove and/or Pin" taskbar and Start Menu items vbscript + add some local files.

e.g.: The proposed 'default-user' profile environment requires a ".URL' (.lnk) shortcut placed within the "%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs*MyNewOWA.url*", and the "C:\Users\Public\Desktop\*MyNewOWA.url*" locations, amongst other items

The users have multiple machines within the domain, where only these set 'workroom' PCs require these policies.

These folders require 'Admin' rights to modify, and although the 'Domain User' is part of the local 'Admin' group - UAC was the next challenge.

Found various adaptations and amalgamated here. I do have some users with BYOD devices as well that required other files with perm issues. Have not tested on XP (a little too old an OS), but the code is present, would love feed back.

    :: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    :: You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce and distribute
    :: the Sample Application Files (and/or any modified version) in any way
    :: you find useful, provided that you agree that the author provides
    :: no warranty, obligations or liability for any Sample Application Files.
    :: ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    :: ********************************************************************************
    ::* Sample batch script to demonstrate the usage of RunAs.cmd
    ::*
    ::* File:           RunAs.cmd
    ::* Date:           12/10/2013
    ::* Version:        1.0.2
    ::*
    ::* Main Function:  Verifies status of 'bespoke' Scripts ability to 'Run As - Admin'
    ::*                 elevated privileges and without UAC prompt
    ::*
    ::* Usage:          Run RunAs.cmd from desired location
    ::*         Bespoke.cmd will be created and called from C:\Utilities location
    ::*         Choose whether to delete the script after its run by removing out-comment
    ::*                 (::) before the 'Del /q Bespoke.cmd' command
    ::*
    ::* Distributed under a "GNU GPL" type basis.
    ::*
    ::* Revisions:
    ::* 1.0.0 - 08/10/2013 - Created.
    ::* 1.0.1 - 09/10/2013 - Include new path creation.
    ::* 1.0.2 - 12/10/2013 - Modify/shorten UAC disable process for Admins
    ::*
    ::* REFERENCES:
    ::* Sample "*.inf" secpol.msc export from Wins 8 x64 @ bottom, 
    ::* Would be default but for 'no password complexities'
    ::*
    ::* To recreate UAC default: 
    ::* Goto:Secpol, edit out Exit, modify .inf set, export as "Wins8x64.inf" 
    ::* and import using secedit cmd provided
    ::*
    :: ********************************************************************************

    @echo off & cls
    color 9F
    Title RUN AS
    Setlocal
    :: Verify local folder availability for script
    IF NOT EXIST C:\Utilities (
        mkdir C:\Utilities & GOTO:GenBatch
    ) ELSE (
        Goto:GenBatch
    )
    :GenBatch
    c:
    cd\
    cd C:\Utilities
    IF NOT EXIST C:\Utilities\Bespoke.cmd (
        GOTO:CreateBatch
    ) ELSE (
        Goto:RunBatch
    )
    :CreateBatch
    Echo. >Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce and distribute >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: the Sample Application Files (and/or any modified version) in any way >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: you find useful, provided that you agree that the author provides >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: has no warranty, obligations or liability for any Sample Application Files. >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo. >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: ******************************************************************************** >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Sample batch script to demonstrate the usage of Bespoke.cmd >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* File:           Bespoke.cmd >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Date:           10/10/2013 >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Version:        1.0.1 >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Main Function:  Allows for running of Bespoke batch with elevated rights and no future UAC 'pop-up' >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Usage:          Called and created by RunAs.cmd run from desired location >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::*                 Found in the C:\Utilities folder >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Distributed under a "GNU GPL" type basis. >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Revisions: >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* 1.0.0 - 09/10/2013 - Created. >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* 1.0.1 - 10/10/2013 - Modified, added ability to temp disable UAC pop-up warning. >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* REFERENCES: >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Exit code (%%^ErrorLevel%%) 0 - No errors have occurred, i.e. immediate previous command ran successfully >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Exit code (%%^ErrorLevel%%) 1 - Errors occurred, i.e. immediate previous command ran Unsuccessfully >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* MS OS version check >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724833%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Copying to certain folders and running certain apps require elevated perms >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Even with 'Run As ...' perms, UAC still pops up. >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* To run a script or application in the Windows Shell >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* http://ss64.com/vb/shellexecute.html >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Machines joined to a corporate Domain should have the UAC feature set from, and >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* pushed out from a DC GPO policy >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* e.g.: 'Computer Configuration - Policies - Windows Settings - Security Settings -  >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Local Policies/Security Options - User Account Control -  >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* Policy: User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::*         in Admin Approval Mode  Setting: Elevate without prompting >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ::* >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: ******************************************************************************** >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo @Echo off ^& cls>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo color 9F>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Title RUN AS ADMIN>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Setlocal>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Set "_OSVer=">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Set "_OSVer=UAC">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo VER ^| FINDSTR /IL "5." ^>NUL>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo IF %%^ErrorLevel%%==0 SET "_OSVer=PreUAC">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo IF %%^_OSVer%%==PreUAC Goto:XPAdmin>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: Check if machine part of a Domain or within a Workgroup environment >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Set "_DomainStat=">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Set "_DomainStat=%%USERDOMAIN%%">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo If /i %%^_DomainStat%% EQU %%^computername%% (>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Goto:WorkgroupMember>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ) ELSE (>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Set "_DomainStat=DomMember" ^& Goto:DomainMember>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo )>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :WorkgroupMember>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: Verify status of Secpol.msc 'ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin' Reg key >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin ^| Find /i "0x0">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo If %%^ErrorLevel%%==0 (>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    Goto:BespokeBuild>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ) Else (>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    Goto:DisUAC>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo )>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :DisUAC>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :XPAdmin>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :DomainMember>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: Get ADMIN Privileges, Start batch again, modify UAC ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin reg if needed >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ^>nul ^2^>^&1 ^"^%%^SYSTEMROOT%%\system32\cacls.exe^"^ ^"^%%^SYSTEMROOT%%\system32\config\system^">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo IF ^'^%%^Errorlevel%%^'^ NEQ '0' (>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    echo Set objShell = CreateObject^^("Shell.Application"^^) ^> ^"^%%^temp%%\getadmin.vbs^">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    echo objShell.ShellExecute ^"^%%~s0^"^, "", "", "runas", 1 ^>^> ^"^%%^temp%%\getadmin.vbs^">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    ^"^%%^temp%%\getadmin.vbs^">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    del ^"^%%^temp%%\getadmin.vbs^">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    exit /B>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo ) else (>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    pushd ^"^%%^cd%%^">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    cd /d ^"^%%~dp0^">>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo    @echo off>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo )>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo IF %%^_OSVer%%==PreUAC Goto:BespokeBuild>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo IF %%^_DomainStat%%==DomMember Goto:BespokeBuild>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :BespokeBuild>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :: Add your script requiring elevated perm and no UAC below: >>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo.>>Bespoke.cmd

    :: PROVIDE BRIEF EXPLINATION AS TO WHAT YOUR SCRIPT WILL ACHIEVE
    Echo ::

    :: ADD THE "PAUSE" BELOW ONLY IF YOU SET TO SEE RESULTS FROM YOUR SCRIPT
    Echo Pause>>Bespoke.cmd

    Echo Goto:EOF>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo :EOF>>Bespoke.cmd
    Echo Exit>>Bespoke.cmd

    Timeout /T 1 /NOBREAK >Nul
    :RunBatch
    call "Bespoke.cmd"
    :: Del /F /Q "Bespoke.cmd"

    :Secpol
    :: Edit out the 'Exit (rem or ::) to run & import default wins 8 security policy provided below
    Exit

    :: Check if machine part of a Domain or within a Workgroup environment
    Set "_DomainStat="
    Set _DomainStat=%USERDOMAIN%
    If /i %_DomainStat% EQU %computername% (
        Goto:WorkgroupPC
    ) ELSE (
        Echo PC Member of a Domain, Security Policy determined by GPO
        Pause
        Goto:EOF
    )

    :WorkgroupPC

    reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin | Find /i "0x5"
    Echo.
    If %ErrorLevel%==0 (
        Echo Machine already set for UAC 'Prompt'
        Pause
        Goto:EOF
    ) else (
        Goto:EnableUAC
    )
    :EnableUAC
    IF NOT EXIST C:\Utilities\Wins8x64Def.inf (
        GOTO:CreateInf
    ) ELSE (
        Goto:RunInf
    )
    :CreateInf
    :: This will create the default '*.inf' file and import it into the 
    :: local security policy for the Wins 8 machine
    Echo [Unicode]>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo Unicode=yes>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo [System Access]>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MinimumPasswordAge = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MaximumPasswordAge = ^-1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MinimumPasswordLength = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo PasswordComplexity = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo PasswordHistorySize = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo LockoutBadCount = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo RequireLogonToChangePassword = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo ForceLogoffWhenHourExpire = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo NewAdministratorName = ^"^Administrator^">>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo NewGuestName = ^"^Guest^">>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo ClearTextPassword = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo LSAAnonymousNameLookup = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo EnableAdminAccount = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo EnableGuestAccount = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo [Event Audit]>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditSystemEvents = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditLogonEvents = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditObjectAccess = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditPrivilegeUse = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditPolicyChange = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditAccountManage = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditProcessTracking = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditDSAccess = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo AuditAccountLogon = ^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo [Registry Values]>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole\SecurityLevel=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole\SetCommand=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\CachedLogonsCount=1,"10">>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ForceUnlockLogon=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\PasswordExpiryWarning=4,5>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ScRemoveOption=1,"0">>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin=4,5>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorUser=4,3>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableCAD=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DontDisplayLastUserName=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableInstallerDetection=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableSecureUIAPaths=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableUIADesktopToggle=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableVirtualization=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\FilterAdministratorToken=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\LegalNoticeCaption=1,"">>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\LegalNoticeText=7,>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\PromptOnSecureDesktop=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ScForceOption=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ShutdownWithoutLogon=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UndockWithoutLogon=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ValidateAdminCodeSignatures=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Safer\CodeIdentifiers\AuthenticodeEnabled=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\AuditBaseObjects=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\CrashOnAuditFail=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\DisableDomainCreds=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\EveryoneIncludesAnonymous=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FIPSAlgorithmPolicy\Enabled=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\ForceGuest=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FullPrivilegeAuditing=3,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LimitBlankPasswordUse=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0\NTLMMinClientSec=4,536870912>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0\NTLMMinServerSec=4,536870912>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\NoLMHash=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\RestrictAnonymous=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\RestrictAnonymousSAM=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers\LanMan Print Services\Servers\AddPrinterDrivers=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\Winreg\AllowedExactPaths\Machine=7,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Server Applications,Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\Winreg\AllowedPaths\Machine=7,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers,System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog,Software\Microsoft\OLAP Server,Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print,Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\UserConfig,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\DefaultUserConfiguration,Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib,System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysmonLog>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Kernel\ObCaseInsensitive=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\ProtectionMode=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems\optional=7,Posix>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters\AutoDisconnect=4,15>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters\EnableForcedLogOff=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters\EnableSecuritySignature=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters\NullSessionPipes=7,>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters\RequireSecuritySignature=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters\RestrictNullSessAccess=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters\EnablePlainTextPassword=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters\EnableSecuritySignature=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters\RequireSecuritySignature=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LDAP\LDAPClientIntegrity=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\DisablePasswordChange=4,^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\MaximumPasswordAge=4,30>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\RequireSignOrSeal=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\RequireStrongKey=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\SealSecureChannel=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\SignSecureChannel=4,1>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo [Privilege Rights]>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeNetworkLogonRight = *S-1-1-0,*S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-545,*S-1-5-32-551>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeBackupPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-551>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeChangeNotifyPrivilege = *S-1-1-0,*S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-20,*S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-545,*S-1-5-32-551,*S-1-5-90-^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeSystemtimePrivilege = *S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeCreatePagefilePrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeDebugPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeAuditPrivilege = *S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-20>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege = *S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-20,*S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeLoadDriverPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeBatchLogonRight = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-551,*S-1-5-32-559>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeServiceLogonRight = *S-1-5-80-0,*S-1-5-83-^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeInteractiveLogonRight = Guest,*S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-545,*S-1-5-32-551>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeSecurityPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeProfileSingleProcessPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeSystemProfilePrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-80-3139157870-2983391045-3678747466-658725712-1809340420>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege = *S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-20>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeRestorePrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-551>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeShutdownPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-545,*S-1-5-32-551>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeDenyNetworkLogonRight = Guest>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight = Guest>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeUndockPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-545>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeManageVolumePrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeRemoteInteractiveLogonRight = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-555>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeImpersonatePrivilege = *S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-20,*S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-6>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeCreateGlobalPrivilege = *S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-20,*S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-6>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-545,*S-1-5-90-^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeTimeZonePrivilege = *S-1-5-19,*S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-545>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-83-^0>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo [Version]>>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo signature="$CHICAGO$">>Wins8x64Def.inf
    Echo Revision=1>>Wins8x64Def.inf

    :RunInf
    :: Import 'Wins8x64Def.inf' with ADMIN Privileges, to modify UAC ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin reg
    >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%%\system32\config\system"
    IF '%Errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
        echo Set objShell = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
        echo objShell.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
       "%temp%%\getadmin.vbs"
        del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
        exit /B
        Secedit /configure /db secedit.sdb /cfg C:\Utilities\Wins8x64Def.inf /overwrite
        Goto:CheckUAC
    ) else (
        Secedit /configure /db secedit.sdb /cfg C:\Utilities\Wins8x64Def.inf /overwrite
        @echo off
    )
    :CheckUAC
    reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin | Find /i "0x5"
    Echo.
    If %ErrorLevel%==0 (
        Echo ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin set to 'Prompt'
        Pause
        Del /Q C:\Utilities\Wins8x64Def.inf
        Goto:EOF
    ) else (
        Echo ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin NOT set to default
        Pause
    )
    ENDLOCAL
    :EOF
    Exit

Domain PC's should be governed as much as possible by GPO sets. Workgroup/Standalone machines can be governed by this script.

Remember, a UAC prompt will pop-up at least once with a BYOD workgroup PC (as soon as the first elevating to 'Admin perms' is required), but as the local security policy is modified for admin use from this point on, the pop-ups will disappear.

A Domain PC should have the GPO "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin" policy set within your 'already' created "Lock-down" policy - as explained in the script 'REFERENCES' section.

Again, run the secedit.exe import of the default '.inf' file if you are stuck on the whole "To UAC or Not to UAC" debate :-).

btw: @boileau Do check your failure on the:

>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

By running only "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" or "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system" or both from the command prompt - elevated or not, check the result across the board.

How to call javascript function on page load in asp.net

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function GetTimeZoneOffset() {
    var d = new Date()
    var gmtOffSet = -d.getTimezoneOffset();
    var gmtHours = Math.floor(gmtOffSet / 60);
    var GMTMin = Math.abs(gmtOffSet % 60);
    var dot = ".";
    var retVal = "" + gmtHours + dot + GMTMin;
    document.getElementById('<%= offSet.ClientID%>').value = retVal;
}

</script>
</head>
<body onload="GetTimeZoneOffset()">
    <asp:HiddenField ID="clientDateTime" runat="server" />
    <asp:HiddenField ID="offSet" runat="server" />
    <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</body>
</html>

key point to notice here is,body has an attribute onload. Just give it a function name and that function will be called on page load.


Alternatively, you can also call the function on page load event like this

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

window.onload = load();

function load() {
    var d = new Date()
    var gmtOffSet = -d.getTimezoneOffset();
    var gmtHours = Math.floor(gmtOffSet / 60);
    var GMTMin = Math.abs(gmtOffSet % 60);
    var dot = ".";
    var retVal = "" + gmtHours + dot + GMTMin;
    document.getElementById('<%= offSet.ClientID%>').value = retVal;
}

</script>
</head>
<body >
    <asp:HiddenField ID="clientDateTime" runat="server" />
    <asp:HiddenField ID="offSet" runat="server" />
    <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox></body>
</body>
</html>

How do files get into the External Dependencies in Visual Studio C++?

The External Dependencies folder is populated by IntelliSense: the contents of the folder do not affect the build at all (you can in fact disable the folder in the UI).

You need to actually include the header (using a #include directive) to use it. Depending on what that header is, you may also need to add its containing folder to the "Additional Include Directories" property and you may need to add additional libraries and library folders to the linker options; you can set all of these in the project properties (right click the project, select Properties). You should compare the properties with those of the project that does build to determine what you need to add.

Accessing Imap in C#

I haven't tried it myself, but this is a free library you could try (I not so sure about the SSL part on this one):

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/imaplibrary.aspx

Also, there is xemail, which has parameters for SSL:

http://xemail-net.sourceforge.net/

[EDIT] If you (or the client) have the money for a professional mail-client, this thread has some good recommendations:

Recommendations for a .NET component to access an email inbox

How to abort an interactive rebase if --abort doesn't work?

Try to follow the advice you see on the screen, and first reset your master's HEAD to the commit it expects.

git update-ref refs/heads/master b918ac16a33881ce00799bea63d9c23bf7022d67

Then, abort the rebase again.

How do I convert an enum to a list in C#?

private List<SimpleLogType> GetLogType()
{
  List<SimpleLogType> logList = new List<SimpleLogType>();
  SimpleLogType internalLogType;
  foreach (var logtype in Enum.GetValues(typeof(Log)))
  {
    internalLogType = new SimpleLogType();
    internalLogType.Id = (int) (Log) Enum.Parse(typeof (Log), logtype.ToString(), true);
    internalLogType.Name = (Log)Enum.Parse(typeof(Log), logtype.ToString(), true);
    logList.Add(internalLogType);
  }
  return logList;
}

in top Code , Log is a Enum and SimpleLogType is a structure for logs .

public enum Log
{
  None = 0,
  Info = 1,
  Warning = 8,
  Error = 3
}

How to log a method's execution time exactly in milliseconds?

You can get really fine timing (seconds.parts of seconds) using this StopWatch class. It uses the high-precision timer in the iPhone. Using NSDate will only get you second(s) accuracy. This version is designed specifically for autorelease and objective-c. I have a c++ version as well if needed. You can find the c++ version here.

StopWatch.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>


@interface StopWatch : NSObject 
{
    uint64_t _start;
    uint64_t _stop;
    uint64_t _elapsed;
}

-(void) Start;
-(void) Stop;
-(void) StopWithContext:(NSString*) context;
-(double) seconds;
-(NSString*) description;
+(StopWatch*) stopWatch;
-(StopWatch*) init;
@end

StopWatch.m

#import "StopWatch.h"
#include <mach/mach_time.h>

@implementation StopWatch

-(void) Start
{
    _stop = 0;
    _elapsed = 0;
    _start = mach_absolute_time();
}
-(void) Stop
{
    _stop = mach_absolute_time();   
    if(_stop > _start)
    {
        _elapsed = _stop - _start;
    }
    else 
    {
        _elapsed = 0;
    }
    _start = mach_absolute_time();
}

-(void) StopWithContext:(NSString*) context
{
    _stop = mach_absolute_time();   
    if(_stop > _start)
    {
        _elapsed = _stop - _start;
    }
    else 
    {
        _elapsed = 0;
    }
    NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:@"[%@] Stopped at %f",context,[self seconds]]);

    _start = mach_absolute_time();
}


-(double) seconds
{
    if(_elapsed > 0)
    {
        uint64_t elapsedTimeNano = 0;

        mach_timebase_info_data_t timeBaseInfo;
        mach_timebase_info(&timeBaseInfo);
        elapsedTimeNano = _elapsed * timeBaseInfo.numer / timeBaseInfo.denom;
        double elapsedSeconds = elapsedTimeNano * 1.0E-9;
        return elapsedSeconds;
    }
    return 0.0;
}
-(NSString*) description
{
    return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f secs.",[self seconds]];
}
+(StopWatch*) stopWatch
{
    StopWatch* obj = [[[StopWatch alloc] init] autorelease];
    return obj;
}
-(StopWatch*) init
{
    [super   init];
    return self;
}

@end

The class has a static stopWatch method that returns an autoreleased object.

Once you call start, use the seconds method to get the elapsed time. Call start again to restart it. Or stop to stop it. You can still read the time (call seconds) anytime after calling stop.

Example In A Function (Timing call of execution)

-(void)SomeFunc
{
   StopWatch* stopWatch = [StopWatch stopWatch];
   [stopWatch Start];

   ... do stuff

   [stopWatch StopWithContext:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Created %d Records",[records count]]];
}

How to return temporary table from stored procedure

The return type of a procedure is int.

You can also return result sets (as your code currently does) (okay, you can also send messages, which are strings)

Those are the only "returns" you can make. Whilst you can add table-valued parameters to a procedure (see BOL), they're input only.

Edit:

(Or as another poster mentioned, you could also use a Table Valued Function, rather than a procedure)

Converting byte array to String (Java)

The byte array contains characters in a special encoding (that you should know). The way to convert it to a String is:

String decoded = new String(bytes, "UTF-8");  // example for one encoding type

By The Way - the raw bytes appear may appear as negative decimals just because the java datatype byte is signed, it covers the range from -128 to 127.


-109 = 0x93: Control Code "Set Transmit State"

The value (-109) is a non-printable control character in UNICODE. So UTF-8 is not the correct encoding for that character stream.

0x93 in "Windows-1252" is the "smart quote" that you're looking for, so the Java name of that encoding is "Cp1252". The next line provides a test code:

System.out.println(new String(new byte[]{-109}, "Cp1252")); 

How to undo "git commit --amend" done instead of "git commit"

Find your amended commits by:

git log --reflog

Note: You may add --patch to see the body of the commits for clarity. Same as git reflog.

then reset your HEAD to any previous commit at the point it was fine by:

git reset SHA1 --hard

Note: Replace SHA1 with your real commit hash. Also note that this command will lose any uncommitted changes, so you may stash them before. Alternatively, use --soft instead to retain the latest changes and then commit them.

Then cherry-pick the other commit that you need on top of it:

git cherry-pick SHA1

Command line tool to dump Windows DLL version?

You can also look at filever.exe, which can be downloaded as part of the Windows XP SP2 Support Tools package - only 4.7MB of download.

Change key pair for ec2 instance

If below steps are followed it will save lot of time and there will be no need to stop the running instance.

  1. Start new t1.micro EC2 instance, using new key pair. Make sure you create it in the same subnet, otherwise you will have to terminate the instance and create it again.
  2. SSH to the new micro instance and copy content of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys somewhere on your computer.
  3. Login to main instance with old ssh key.
  4. Copy & replace the file content from point 2 to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
  5. Now you can login again only with new key. Old key will not work anymore.

That is it. Enjoy :)

Javascript / Chrome - How to copy an object from the webkit inspector as code

If you've sent the object over a request you can copy it from the Chrome -> Network tab.

Request Payload - > View Source

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Cannot find Microsoft.Office.Interop Visual Studio

I had the same issue with Visual Studio Community 2013, I fixed it downloading and installing the latest update of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013. Now I am able to see the whole Microsoft.Office.Interop.* list when I go to

Add References > Assemblies > Extensions

you can download it from here:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2013-update4-rtm-vs.aspx#Office
http://aka.ms/OfficeDevToolsForVS2013

user authentication libraries for node.js?

Looks like the connect-auth plugin to the connect middleware is exactly what I need

I'm using express [ http://expressjs.com ] so the connect plugin fits in very nicely since express is subclassed (ok - prototyped) from connect

C# - Print dictionary

There's more than one way to skin this problem so here's my solution:

  1. Use Select() to convert the key-value pair to a string;
  2. Convert to a list of strings;
  3. Write out to the console using ForEach().
dict.Select(i => $"{i.Key}: {i.Value}").ToList().ForEach(Console.WriteLine);

Convert list of dictionaries to a pandas DataFrame

The easiest way I have found to do it is like this:

dict_count = len(dict_list)
df = pd.DataFrame(dict_list[0], index=[0])
for i in range(1,dict_count-1):
    df = df.append(dict_list[i], ignore_index=True)

How to set value to form control in Reactive Forms in Angular

In Reactive Form, there are 2 primary solutions to update value(s) of form field(s).

setValue:

  • Initialize Model Structure in Constructor:

    this.newForm = this.formBuilder.group({  
       firstName: ['', [Validators.required, Validators.minLength(3), Validators.maxLength(8)]],
       lastName: ['', [Validators.required, Validators.minLength(3), Validators.maxLength(8)]]
    });
    
  • If you want to update all fields of form:

    this.newForm.setValue({
       firstName: 'abc',
       lastName: 'def'
    });
    
  • If you want to update specific field of form:

    this.newForm.controls.firstName.setValue('abc');
    

Note: It’s mandatory to provide complete model structure for all form field controls within the FormGroup. If you miss any property or subset collections, then it will throw an exception.

patchValue:

  • If you want to update some/ specific fields of form:

    this.newForm.patchValue({
       firstName: 'abc'
    });
    

Note: It’s not mandatory to provide model structure for all/ any form field controls within the FormGroup. If you miss any property or subset collections, then it will not throw any exception.

Cannot resolve symbol AppCompatActivity - Support v7 libraries aren't recognized?

Delete .idea folder in your project which is hidden folder. Goto your project in the system and Click ctrl+H it will be visible then delete it. Now restart your android studio.I will resolve. Its working for me.

How do I return the response from an asynchronous call?

There is no way by which you can return the result of an ajax response from a function, the reason why this is not possible is because Ajax call ($.get() or $.post()) is an async call and calling the function that encapsulates the Ajax call returns even before the response is rendered.

In such scenarios, the only option is to return a promise object, which will resolve when the response arrives.

There are 2 ways by which the above issue can be resolved, in both cases it makes use of promise.

Both the code snippets provided are working including the josn url and can be directly copied to jsfiddle and tested.

Option #1: Return the Ajax call directly from the foo method, in the latest version of Jquery ajax call returns a promise object, which can be resolved using a .then function. the input parameter to the .then function is the call back to the resolve function.

    //decalre function foo
   function foo(url)
   {
     return $.get(url);
   }

   //invoke foo function, which returns a promise object
   //the then function accepts the call back to the resolve function
   foo('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1')
   .then(function(response)
   {
    console.log(response);
   })

Option #2 - declare a promise object inside the function and encapsulate the Ajax call within that promise function and return the promise object.

   function foo1() {

   var promise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject)
   {

     $.ajax({
    url: 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1',
    success: function(response) {
        console.log(response);

        resolve(response);
        // return response; // <- I tried that one as well
      }
    });

   });



   return promise;
   }

   foo1()
   .then(function(response)
   {
     console.log('Promise Resolved');
     console.log(response);
   })

How can I get the DateTime for the start of the week?

Here is a combination of a few of the answers. It uses an extension method that allows the culture to be passed in, if one is not passed in, the current culture is used. This will give it max flexibility and re-use.

/// <summary>
/// Gets the date of the first day of the week for the date.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="date">The date to be used</param>
/// <param name="cultureInfo">If none is provided, the current culture is used</param>
/// <returns>The date of the beggining of the week based on the culture specifed</returns>
public static DateTime StartOfWeek(this DateTime date, CultureInfo cultureInfo=null) =>         
             date.AddDays(-1 * (7 + (date.DayOfWeek - (cultureInfo??CultureInfo.CurrentCulture).DateTimeFormat.FirstDayOfWeek)) % 7).Date;

Example Usage:

public static void TestFirstDayOfWeekExtension() {          
        DateTime date = DateTime.Now;
        foreach(System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture in CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.UserCustomCulture | CultureTypes.SpecificCultures)) {
            Console.WriteLine($"{culture.EnglishName}: {date.ToShortDateString()} First Day of week: {date.StartOfWeek(culture).ToShortDateString()}");
        }
    }

Jquery, set value of td in a table?

$("#button_id").click(function(){ $("#detailInfo").html("WHAT YOU WANT") })

Virtualbox "port forward" from Guest to Host

Network communication Host -> Guest

Connect to the Guest and find out the ip address:

ifconfig 

example of result (ip address is 10.0.2.15):

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:AE:36:99
          inet addr:10.0.2.15  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

Go to Vbox instance window -> Menu -> Network adapters:

  • adapter should be NAT
  • click on "port forwarding"
  • insert new record (+ icon)
    • for host ip enter 127.0.0.1, and for guest ip address you got from prev. step (in my case it is 10.0.2.15)
    • in your case port is 8000 - put it on both, but you can change host port if you prefer

Go to host system and try it in browser:

http://127.0.0.1:8000

or your network ip address (find out on the host machine by running: ipconfig).

Network communication Guest -> Host

In this case port forwarding is not needed, the communication goes over the LAN back to the host.

On the host machine - find out your netw ip address:

ipconfig

example of result:

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.5.1

On the guest machine you can communicate directly with the host, e.g. check it with ping:

# ping 192.168.5.1
PING 192.168.5.1 (192.168.5.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.5.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=2.30 ms
...

Firewall issues?

@Stranger suggested that in some cases it would be necessary to open used port (8000 or whichever is used) in firewall like this (example for ufw firewall, I haven't tested):

sudo ufw allow 8000 

Swift extract regex matches

Most of the solutions above only give the full match as a result ignoring the capture groups e.g.: ^\d+\s+(\d+)

To get the capture group matches as expected you need something like (Swift4) :

public extension String {
    public func capturedGroups(withRegex pattern: String) -> [String] {
        var results = [String]()

        var regex: NSRegularExpression
        do {
            regex = try NSRegularExpression(pattern: pattern, options: [])
        } catch {
            return results
        }
        let matches = regex.matches(in: self, options: [], range: NSRange(location:0, length: self.count))

        guard let match = matches.first else { return results }

        let lastRangeIndex = match.numberOfRanges - 1
        guard lastRangeIndex >= 1 else { return results }

        for i in 1...lastRangeIndex {
            let capturedGroupIndex = match.range(at: i)
            let matchedString = (self as NSString).substring(with: capturedGroupIndex)
            results.append(matchedString)
        }

        return results
    }
}

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:582 throw err

same happen to me i just resolved by deleting "dist" file and re run the app.

Error message 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.'

I solved this issue by setting the Copy Local attribute of my project's references to true.

google map API zoom range

Available Zoom Levels

Zoom level 0 is the most zoomed out zoom level available and each integer step in zoom level halves the X and Y extents of the view and doubles the linear resolution.

Google Maps was built on a 256x256 pixel tile system where zoom level 0 was a 256x256 pixel image of the whole earth. A 256x256 tile for zoom level 1 enlarges a 128x128 pixel region from zoom level 0.

As correctly stated by bkaid, the available zoom range depends on where you are looking and the kind of map you are using:

  • Road maps - seem to go up to zoom level 22 everywhere
  • Hybrid and satellite maps - the max available zoom levels depend on location. Here are some examples:
  • Remote regions of Antarctica: 13
  • Gobi Desert: 17
  • Much of the U.S. and Europe: 21
  • "Deep zoom" locations: 22-23 (see bkaid's link)

Note that these values are for the Google Static Maps API which seems to give one more zoom level than the Javascript API. It appears that the extra zoom level available for Static Maps is just an upsampled version of the max-resolution image from the Javascript API.

Map Scale at Various Zoom Levels

Google Maps uses a Mercator projection so the scale varies substantially with latitude. A formula for calculating the correct scale based on latitude is:

meters_per_pixel = 156543.03392 * Math.cos(latLng.lat() * Math.PI / 180) / Math.pow(2, zoom)

Formula is from Chris Broadfoot's comment.


Google Maps basics

Zoom Level - zoom

0 - 19

0 lowest zoom (whole world)

19 highest zoom (individual buildings, if available) Retrieve current zoom level using mapObject.getZoom()


What you're looking for are the scales for each zoom level. Use these:

20 : 1128.497220
19 : 2256.994440
18 : 4513.988880
17 : 9027.977761
16 : 18055.955520
15 : 36111.911040
14 : 72223.822090
13 : 144447.644200
12 : 288895.288400
11 : 577790.576700
10 : 1155581.153000
9  : 2311162.307000
8  : 4622324.614000
7  : 9244649.227000
6  : 18489298.450000
5  : 36978596.910000
4  : 73957193.820000
3  : 147914387.600000
2  : 295828775.300000
1  : 591657550.500000

jQuery: get data attribute

You could use the .attr() function:

$(this).attr('data-fullText')

or if you lowercase the attribute name:

data-fulltext="This is a span element"

then you could use the .data() function:

$(this).data('fulltext')

The .data() function expects and works only with lowercase attribute names.

How to make this Header/Content/Footer layout using CSS?

Try this

CSS

.header{
    height:30px;
}
.Content{
    height: 100%; 
    overflow: auto;
    padding-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 40px;
}
.Footer{
    position: relative;
    margin-top: -30px; /* negative value of footer height */
    height: 30px;
    clear:both;
}

HTML

  <body>
    <div class="Header">Header</div>
    <div class="Content">Content</div>
    <div class="Footer">Footer</div>
  </body>

Text that shows an underline on hover

Fairly simple process I am using SCSS obviously but you don't have to as it's just CSS in the end!

HTML

<span class="menu">Menu</span>

SCSS

.menu {
    position: relative;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: 400;
    color: blue;
    transition: all .35s ease;

    &::before {
        content: "";
        position: absolute;
        width: 100%;
        height: 2px;
        bottom: 0;
        left: 0;
        background-color: yellow;
        visibility: hidden;
        -webkit-transform: scaleX(0);
        transform: scaleX(0);
        -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;
        transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;
    }

    &:hover {
        color: yellow;

        &::before {
            visibility: visible;
            -webkit-transform: scaleX(1);
            transform: scaleX(1);
        }
    }
}

pip installing in global site-packages instead of virtualenv

I had a similar problem on Windows. It was caused by renaming folder structures in my project within a virtualenv folder name. The paths in files didn't change but stayed as they were when virtual env was created. As Chase Ries mentioned I've changed the paths to VIRTUAL_ENV and python.exe in files

  1. ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat, set "VIRTUAL_ENV=path_to_venv\venv" 11 line in file
  2. ./venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1, $env:VIRTUAL_ENV="path_to_venv\venv" 30 line in file
  3. ./venv/Scripts/pip.exe, #!d:\path_to_env\venv\scripts\python.exe this line is at the end of a file, in my case moved to the right in 667 line, I am working on disc d so at the begining of the path is the letter of it
  4. ./venv/Scripts/pip3.7.exe, #!d:\path_to_env\venv\scripts\python.exe this line is at the end of a file, in my case moved to the right in 667 line
  5. ./venv/Scripts/pip3.exe, #!d:\path_to_env\venv\scripts\python.exe this line is at the end of a file, in my case moved to the right in 667 line

Allow scroll but hide scrollbar

Try this:

HTML:

<div id="container">
    <div id="content">
        // Content here
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

#container{
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
}

#content{
    width: 100%;
    height: 99%;
    overflow: auto;
    padding-right: 15px;
}

html, body{
    height: 99%;
    overflow:hidden;
}

JSFiddle Demo

Tested on FF and Safari.

Normal arguments vs. keyword arguments

Positional Arguments

They have no keywords before them. The order is important!

func(1,2,3, "foo")

Keyword Arguments

They have keywords in the front. They can be in any order!

func(foo="bar", baz=5, hello=123)

func(baz=5, foo="bar", hello=123)

You should also know that if you use default arguments and neglect to insert the keywords, then the order will then matter!

def func(foo=1, baz=2, hello=3): ...
func("bar", 5, 123)

Add another class to a div

Use Element.classList

document.getElementById('hello').classList.add('someClass');

The .add method will only add the class if it doesn't already exist on the element. So no need to worry about duplicate class names.

Java unsupported major minor version 52.0

Your code was compiled with Java Version 1.8 while it is being executed with Java Version 1.7 or below.

In your case it seems that two different Java installations are used, the newer to compile and the older to execute your code.

Try recompiling your code with Java 1.7 or upgrade your Java Plugin.

Which is the correct C# infinite loop, for (;;) or while (true)?

while(true)
{

}

Is always what I've used and what I've seen others use for a loop that has to be broken manually.

How do I update a formula with Homebrew?

I prefer to upgrade all homebrew formulae and homebrew cask formulae.

I added a Bourne shell function to my environment for this one (I load a .bashrc)

function updatebrew() {
set -x;
brew update;
brew cleanup;
brew cask upgrade --greedy
)
}
  • set -x for transparency: So that the terminal outputs whatever Homebrew is doing in the background.
  • brew update to update homebrew formulas
  • brew cleanup to remove any change left over after installations
  • brew cask upgrade --greedy will install all casks; both those with versioning information and those without

Possible to restore a backup of SQL Server 2014 on SQL Server 2012?

Sure it's possible... use Export Wizard in source option use SQL SERVER NATIVE CLIENT 11, later your source server ex.192.168.100.65\SQLEXPRESS next step select your new destination server ex.192.168.100.65\SQL2014

Just be sure to be using correct instance and connect each other

Just pay attention in Stored procs must be recompiled

How does HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name know which usernames exist?

Assume a network environment where a "user" (aka you) has to logon. Usually this is a User ID (UID) and a Password (PW). OK then, what is your Identity, or who are you? You are the UID, and this gleans that "name" from your logon session. Simple! It should also work in an internet application that needs you to login, like Best Buy and others.

This will pull my UID, or "Name", from my session when I open the default page of the web application I need to use. Now, in my instance, I am part of a Domain, so I can use initial Windows authentication, and it needs to verify who I am, thus the 2nd part of the code. As for Forms Authentication, it would rely on the ticket (aka cookie most likely) sent to your workstation/computer. And the code would look like:

string id = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;

// Strip the domain off of the result
id = id.Substring(id.LastIndexOf(@"\", StringComparison.InvariantCulture) + 1);

Now it has my business name (aka UID) and can display it on the screen.

How to remove item from a python list in a loop?

This stems from the fact that on deletion, the iteration skips one element as it semms only to work on the index.

Workaround could be:

x = ["ok", "jj", "uy", "poooo", "fren"]
for item in x[:]: # make a copy of x
    if len(item) != 2:
        print "length of %s is: %s" %(item, len(item))
        x.remove(item)

VBA Date as integer

Date is not an Integer in VB(A), it is a Double.

You can get a Date's value by passing it to CDbl().

CDbl(Now())      ' 40877.8052662037 

From the documentation:

The 1900 Date System

In the 1900 date system, the first day that is supported is January 1, 1900. When you enter a date, the date is converted into a serial number that represents the number of elapsed days starting with 1 for January 1, 1900. For example, if you enter July 5, 1998, Excel converts the date to the serial number 35981.

So in the 1900 system, 40877.805... represents 40,876 days after January 1, 1900 (29 November 2011), and ~80.5% of one day (~19:19h). There is a setting for 1904-based system in Excel, numbers will be off when this is in use (that's a per-workbook setting).

To get the integer part, use

Int(CDbl(Now())) ' 40877

which would return a LongDouble with no decimal places (i.e. what Floor() would do in other languages).

Using CLng() or Round() would result in rounding, which will return a "day in the future" when called after 12:00 noon, so don't do that.

Select Tag Helper in ASP.NET Core MVC

You can also use IHtmlHelper.GetEnumSelectList.

    // Summary:
    //     Returns a select list for the given TEnum.
    //
    // Type parameters:
    //   TEnum:
    //     Type to generate a select list for.
    //
    // Returns:
    //     An System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1 containing the select list for the
    //     given TEnum.
    //
    // Exceptions:
    //   T:System.ArgumentException:
    //     Thrown if TEnum is not an System.Enum or if it has a System.FlagsAttribute.
    IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetEnumSelectList<TEnum>() where TEnum : struct;

When to use SELECT ... FOR UPDATE?

Short answers:

Q1: Yes.

Q2: Doesn't matter which you use.

Long answer:

A select ... for update will (as it implies) select certain rows but also lock them as if they have already been updated by the current transaction (or as if the identity update had been performed). This allows you to update them again in the current transaction and then commit, without another transaction being able to modify these rows in any way.

Another way of looking at it, it is as if the following two statements are executed atomically:

select * from my_table where my_condition;

update my_table set my_column = my_column where my_condition;

Since the rows affected by my_condition are locked, no other transaction can modify them in any way, and hence, transaction isolation level makes no difference here.

Note also that transaction isolation level is independent of locking: setting a different isolation level doesn't allow you to get around locking and update rows in a different transaction that are locked by your transaction.

What transaction isolation levels do guarantee (at different levels) is the consistency of data while transactions are in progress.

How do I filter an array with AngularJS and use a property of the filtered object as the ng-model attribute?

If you are using ES6 you can:

var sample = [1, 2, 3]

var result = sample.filter(elem => elem !== 2)

/* output */
[1, 3]

Also take notice filter does not update the existing array it will return a new filtered array every time.

How to Turn Off Showing Whitespace Characters in Visual Studio IDE

In Visual Studio 2010 the key sequence CTRL+E, S will also toggle display of whitespace characters.

error TS1086: An accessor cannot be declared in an ambient context in Angular 9

Adding skipLibCheck: true in compilerOptions inside tsconfig.json file fixed my issue.

"compilerOptions": {
   "skipLibCheck": true,
},

Failed to load resource under Chrome

Kabir's solution is correct. My image URL was

/images/ads/homepage/small-banners01.png, 

and this was tripping up AdBlock. This wasn't a cross-domain issue for me, and it failed on both localhost and on the web.

I was using Chrome's network tab to debug and finding very confusing results for these specific images that failed to load. The first request would return no response (Status "(pending)"). Later down the line, there was a second request that listed the original URL and then "Redirect" as the Initiator. The redirect request headers were all for this identical short line of base64-encoded data, and each returned no response, although the status was "Successful":

GET      data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAACklEQVR4nGMAAQAABQABDQottAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== HTTP/1.1

Later I noticed that these inline styles were added to all the image elements:

    display: none !important;
    visibility: hidden !important;
    opacity: 0 !important;

Finally, I did not receive any "failed to load resource" messages in the console, but rather this:

Port error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.

If any of these things is happening to you, it probably has something to do with AdBlock. Turn it off and/or rename your image files.

Also, because of the inline CSS created by AdBlock, the layout of my promotions slider was being thrown off. While I was able to fix the layout issues with CSS before finding Kabir's solution, the CSS was somewhat unnecessary and affected the flexibility of the slider to handle images of multiple sizes.

I guess the lesson is: Be careful what you name your images. These images weren't malicious or annoying as much as they were alerting visitors to current promotions and specials in an unobtrusive way.

Converts scss to css

This is an online/offline solution and very easy to convert. SCSS to CSS converter

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How can I stop .gitignore from appearing in the list of untracked files?

Of course the .gitignore file is showing up on the status, because it's untracked, and git sees it as a tasty new file to eat!

Since .gitignore is an untracked file however, it is a candidate to be ignored by git when you put it in .gitignore!

So, the answer is simple: just add the line:

.gitignore # Ignore the hand that feeds!

to your .gitignore file!

And, contrary to August's response, I should say that it's not that the .gitignore file should be in your repository. It just happens that it can be, which is often convenient. And it's probably true that this is the reason .gitignore was created as an alternative to .git/info/exclude, which doesn't have the option to be tracked by the repository. At any rate, how you use your .gitignore file is totally up to you.

For reference, check out the gitignore(5) manpage on kernel.org.

Error: Jump to case label

C++11 standard on jumping over some initializations

JohannesD gave an explanation, now for the standards.

The C++11 N3337 standard draft 6.7 "Declaration statement" says:

3 It is possible to transfer into a block, but not in a way that bypasses declarations with initialization. A program that jumps (87) from a point where a variable with automatic storage duration is not in scope to a point where it is in scope is ill-formed unless the variable has scalar type, class type with a trivial default constructor and a trivial destructor, a cv-qualified version of one of these types, or an array of one of the preceding types and is declared without an initializer (8.5).

87) The transfer from the condition of a switch statement to a case label is considered a jump in this respect.

[ Example:

void f() {
   // ...
  goto lx;    // ill-formed: jump into scope of a
  // ...
ly:
  X a = 1;
  // ...
lx:
  goto ly;    // OK, jump implies destructor
              // call for a followed by construction
              // again immediately following label ly
}

— end example ]

As of GCC 5.2, the error message now says:

crosses initialization of

C

C allows it: c99 goto past initialization

The C99 N1256 standard draft Annex I "Common warnings" says:

2 A block with initialization of an object that has automatic storage duration is jumped into

How to add a button dynamically in Android?

public void add_btn() {

    lin_btn.setWeightSum(3f);
    for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
        LinearLayout.LayoutParams params1 = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
                LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        params1.setMargins(10, 0, 0, 10);
        params1.weight = 1.0f;

        LinearLayout ll;
        ll = new LinearLayout(this);
        ll.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);
        ll.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);
        ll.setLayoutParams(params1);

        final Button btn;
        btn = new Button(DynamicActivity.this);

        btn.setText("A"+(j+1));
        btn.setTextSize(15);
        btn.setId(j);
        btn.setPadding(10, 8, 10, 10);

        ll.addView(btn);

        lin_btn.addView(ll);


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

                if(v.getId()==0)
                {
                    txt_text.setText("Hii");
                }else if(v.getId()==1)
                {
                    txt_text.setText("hello");
                }else if(v.getId()==2)
                {
                    txt_text.setText("how r u");
                }



            }
        });
    }

}

What is the proper way to check if a string is empty in Perl?

  1. Due to the way that strings are stored in Perl, getting the length of a string is optimized.
    if (length $str) is a good way of checking that a string is non-empty.

  2. If you're in a situation where you haven't already guarded against undef, then the catch-all for "non-empty" that won't warn is if (defined $str and length $str).

Reason to Pass a Pointer by Reference in C++?

50% of C++ programmers like to set their pointers to null after a delete:

template<typename T>    
void moronic_delete(T*& p)
{
    delete p;
    p = nullptr;
}

Without the reference, you would only be changing a local copy of the pointer, not affecting the caller.

Getting a File's MD5 Checksum in Java

Here is a simple function that wraps around Sunil's code so that it takes a File as a parameter. The function does not need any external libraries, but it does require Java 7.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;

public class Checksum {

    /**
     * Generates an MD5 checksum as a String.
     * @param file The file that is being checksummed.
     * @return Hex string of the checksum value.
     * @throws NoSuchAlgorithmException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static String generate(File file) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException,IOException {

        MessageDigest messageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        messageDigest.update(Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()));
        byte[] hash = messageDigest.digest();

        return DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(hash).toUpperCase();
    }

    public static void main(String argv[]) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {
        File file = new File("/Users/foo.bar/Documents/file.jar");          
        String hex = Checksum.generate(file);
        System.out.printf("hex=%s\n", hex);            
    }


}

Example output:

hex=B117DD0C3CBBD009AC4EF65B6D75C97B

Not able to start Genymotion device

This problem keeps cropping up intermittently on my computer and usually, it happens when my computer is running low on system resources (mostly available RAM) and a sure-fire way to fix this (this at least has always worked for me) is to disable the VirtualBox Host-Only Network adapter and re-enable it.

If you have multiple virtual adapters, you'll have to find out which of those is used by Genymotion's virtual device and disable and re-enable it. You can find that out by starting VirtualBox and looking here: screenshot of VirtualBox running a Genymotion virtual device

You can read about enabling/disabling virtual adapters here

Slicing of a NumPy 2d array, or how do I extract an mxm submatrix from an nxn array (n>m)?

I have a similar question here: Writting in sub-ndarray of a ndarray in the most pythonian way. Python 2 .

Following the solution of previous post for your case the solution looks like:

columns_to_keep = [1,3] 
rows_to_keep = [1,3]

An using ix_:

x[np.ix_(rows_to_keep, columns_to_keep)] 

Which is:

array([[ 5,  7],
       [13, 15]])

How to make function decorators and chain them together?

A decorator takes the function definition and creates a new function that executes this function and transforms the result.

@deco
def do():
    ...

is equivalent to:

do = deco(do)

Example:

def deco(func):
    def inner(letter):
        return func(letter).upper()  #upper
    return inner

This

@deco
def do(number):
    return chr(number)  # number to letter

is equivalent to this

def do2(number):
    return chr(number)

do2 = deco(do2)

65 <=> 'a'

print(do(65))
print(do2(65))
>>> B
>>> B

To understand the decorator, it is important to notice, that decorator created a new function do which is inner that executes function and transforms the result.

How do you disable browser Autocomplete on web form field / input tag?

Use a non-standard name and id for the fields, so rather than "name" have "name_". Browsers will then not see it as being the name field. The best part about it is that you can do this to some but not all fields and it will autocomplete some but not all fields.

Ruby send JSON request

uri = URI('https://myapp.com/api/v1/resource')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, 'Content-Type' => 'application/json')
req.body = {param1: 'some value', param2: 'some other value'}.to_json
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end

Android how to use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()

To get the directory, you can use the code below:

File cacheDir = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + File.separator + "");

JavaScript: How to find out if the user browser is Chrome?

var is_chrome = /chrome/.test( navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase() );

JavaScriptSerializer - JSON serialization of enum as string

The combination of Omer Bokhari and uri 's answers is alsways my solution since the values that I want to provide is usually different from what I have in my enum specially that I would like to be able to change my enums if I need to.

So if anyone is interested, it is something like this:

public enum Gender
{
   [EnumMember(Value = "male")] 
   Male,
   [EnumMember(Value = "female")] 
   Female
}

class Person
{
    int Age { get; set; }
    [JsonConverter(typeof(StringEnumConverter))]
    Gender Gender { get; set; }
}

Get table column names in MySQL?

I made a PDO function which returns all the column names in an simple array.

public function getColumnNames($table){
    $sql = "SELECT COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = :table";
    try {
        $core = Core::getInstance();
        $stmt = $core->dbh->prepare($sql);
        $stmt->bindValue(':table', $table, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stmt->execute();
        $output = array();
        while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
            $output[] = $row['COLUMN_NAME'];                
        }
        return $output; 
    }

    catch(PDOException $pe) {
        trigger_error('Could not connect to MySQL database. ' . $pe->getMessage() , E_USER_ERROR);
    }
}

The output will be an array:

Array (
[0] => id
[1] => name
[2] => email
[3] => shoe_size
[4] => likes
... )

Sorry for the necro but I like my function ;)

P.S. I have not included the class Core but you can use your own class.. D.S.

How to convert an XML file to nice pandas dataframe?

You can easily use xml (from the Python standard library) to convert to a pandas.DataFrame. Here's what I would do (when reading from a file replace xml_data with the name of your file or file object):

import pandas as pd
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import io

def iter_docs(author):
    author_attr = author.attrib
    for doc in author.iter('document'):
        doc_dict = author_attr.copy()
        doc_dict.update(doc.attrib)
        doc_dict['data'] = doc.text
        yield doc_dict

xml_data = io.StringIO(u'''\
<author type="XXX" language="EN" gender="xx" feature="xx" web="foobar.com">
    <documents count="N">
        <document KEY="e95a9a6c790ecb95e46cf15bee517651" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="bc360cfbafc39970587547215162f0db" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="19e71144c50a8b9160b3f0955e906fce" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="21d4af9021a174f61b884606c74d9e42" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="28a45eb2460899763d709ca00ddbb665" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="a0c0712a6a351f85d9f5757e9fff8946" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="626726ba8d34d15d02b6d043c55fe691" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="2cb473e0f102e2e4a40aa3006e412ae4" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...] [...]
]]>
        </document>
    </documents>
</author>
''')

etree = ET.parse(xml_data) #create an ElementTree object 
doc_df = pd.DataFrame(list(iter_docs(etree.getroot())))

If there are multiple authors in your original document or the root of your XML is not an author, then I would add the following generator:

def iter_author(etree):
    for author in etree.iter('author'):
        for row in iter_docs(author):
            yield row

and change doc_df = pd.DataFrame(list(iter_docs(etree.getroot()))) to doc_df = pd.DataFrame(list(iter_author(etree)))

Have a look at the ElementTree tutorial provided in the xml library documentation.

How do I declare a namespace in JavaScript?

I like Jaco Pretorius' solution, but I wanted to make the "this" keyword a bit more useful by pointing it to the module/namespace object. My version of skillet:

(function ($, undefined) {

    console.log(this);

}).call(window.myNamespace = window.myNamespace || {}, jQuery);

Installing cmake with home-brew

  1. Download the latest CMake Mac binary distribution here: https://cmake.org/download/ (current latest is: https://cmake.org/files/v3.17/cmake-3.17.1-Darwin-x86_64.dmg)

  2. Double click the downloaded .dmg file to install it. In the window that pops up, drag the CMake icon into the Application folder.

  3. Add this line to your .bashrc file: PATH="/Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin":"$PATH"

  4. Reload your .bashrc file: source ~/.bashrc

  5. Verify the latest cmake version is installed: cmake --version

  6. You can launch the CMake GUI by clicking on LaunchPad and typing cmake. Click on the CMake icon that appears.

Can Android Studio be used to run standard Java projects?

Tested on Android Studio 0.8.6 - 3.5

Using this method you can have Java modules and Android modules in the same project and also have the ability to compile and run Java modules as stand alone Java projects.

  1. Open your Android project in Android Studio. If you do not have one, create one.
  2. Click File > New Module. Select Java Library and click Next.
  3. Fill in the package name, etc and click Finish. You should now see a Java module inside your Android project.
  4. Add your code to the Java module you've just created.
  5. Click on the drop down to the left of the run button. Click Edit Configurations...
  6. In the new window, click on the plus sign at the top left of the window and select Application
  7. A new application configuration should appear, enter in the details such as your main class and classpath of your module.
  8. Click OK.

Now if you click run, this should compile and run your Java module.

If you get the error Error: Could not find or load main class..., just enter your main class (as you've done in step 7) again even if the field is already filled in. Click Apply and then click Ok.

My usage case: My Android app relies on some precomputed files to function. These precomputed files are generated by some Java code. Since these two things go hand in hand, it makes the most sense to have both of these modules in the same project.

NEW - How to enable Kotlin in your standalone project

If you want to enable Kotlin inside your standalone project, do the following.

  1. Continuing from the last step above, add the following code to your project level build.gradle (lines to add are denoted by >>>):

    buildscript {
        >>> ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.51'
        repositories {
            google()
            jcenter()
        }
        dependencies {
            classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.3'
            >>> classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
    
            // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
            // in the individual module build.gradle files
        }
    }
    ...
    
  2. Add the following code to your module level build.gradle (lines to add are denoted by >>>):

    apply plugin: 'java-library'
    >>> apply plugin: 'kotlin'
    
    dependencies {
        implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
        >>> implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
        >>> runtimeClasspath files(compileKotlin.destinationDir)
    }
    ...
    
  3. Bonus step: Convert your main function to Kotlin! Simply change your main class to:

    object Main {
        ...
        @JvmStatic
        fun main(args: Array<String>) {
            // do something
        }
        ...
    }
    

How to create an android app using HTML 5

Here is a starting point for developing Android apps with HTML5. The HTML code will be stored in the "assets/www" folder in your Android project.

https://github.com/jakewp11/HTML5_Android_Template.git

How to determine a Python variable's type?

Examples of simple type checking in Python:

assert type(variable_name) == int

assert type(variable_name) == bool

assert type(variable_name) == list

Check file extension in upload form in PHP

pathinfo is cool but your code can be improved:

$filename = $_FILES['video_file']['name'];
$ext = pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
$allowed = array('jpg','png','gif');
if( ! in_array( $ext, $allowed ) ) {echo 'error';}

Of course simply checking the extension of the filename would not guarantee the file type as a valid image. You may consider using a function like getimagesize to validate uploaded image files.

How can I print each command before executing?

set -o xtrace

or

bash -x myscript.sh

This works with standard /bin/sh as well IIRC (it might be a POSIX thing then)

And remember, there is bashdb (bash Shell Debugger, release 4.0-0.4)


To revert to normal, exit the subshell or

set +o xtrace

SQL Server dynamic PIVOT query?

I know this question is older but I was looking thru the answers and thought that I might be able to expand on the "dynamic" portion of the problem and possibly help someone out.

First and foremost I built this solution to solve a problem a couple of coworkers were having with inconstant and large data sets needing to be pivoted quickly.

This solution requires the creation of a stored procedure so if that is out of the question for your needs please stop reading now.

This procedure is going to take in the key variables of a pivot statement to dynamically create pivot statements for varying tables, column names and aggregates. The Static column is used as the group by / identity column for the pivot(this can be stripped out of the code if not necessary but is pretty common in pivot statements and was necessary to solve the original issue), the pivot column is where the end resultant column names will be generated from, and the value column is what the aggregate will be applied to. The Table parameter is the name of the table including the schema (schema.tablename) this portion of the code could use some love because it is not as clean as I would like it to be. It worked for me because my usage was not publicly facing and sql injection was not a concern. The Aggregate parameter will accept any standard sql aggregate 'AVG', 'SUM', 'MAX' etc. The code also defaults to MAX as an aggregate this is not necessary but the audience this was originally built for did not understand pivots and were typically using max as an aggregate.

Lets start with the code to create the stored procedure. This code should work in all versions of SSMS 2005 and above but I have not tested it in 2005 or 2016 but I can not see why it would not work.

create PROCEDURE [dbo].[USP_DYNAMIC_PIVOT]
    (
        @STATIC_COLUMN VARCHAR(255),
        @PIVOT_COLUMN VARCHAR(255),
        @VALUE_COLUMN VARCHAR(255),
        @TABLE VARCHAR(255),
        @AGGREGATE VARCHAR(20) = null
    )

AS


BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;
declare @AVAIABLE_TO_PIVOT NVARCHAR(MAX),
        @SQLSTRING NVARCHAR(MAX),
        @PIVOT_SQL_STRING NVARCHAR(MAX),
        @TEMPVARCOLUMNS NVARCHAR(MAX),
        @TABLESQL NVARCHAR(MAX)

if isnull(@AGGREGATE,'') = '' 
    begin
        SET @AGGREGATE = 'MAX'
    end


 SET @PIVOT_SQL_STRING =    'SELECT top 1 STUFF((SELECT distinct '', '' + CAST(''[''+CONVERT(VARCHAR,'+ @PIVOT_COLUMN+')+'']''  AS VARCHAR(50)) [text()]
                            FROM '+@TABLE+'
                            WHERE ISNULL('+@PIVOT_COLUMN+','''') <> ''''
                            FOR XML PATH(''''), TYPE)
                            .value(''.'',''NVARCHAR(MAX)''),1,2,'' '') as PIVOT_VALUES
                            from '+@TABLE+' ma
                            ORDER BY ' + @PIVOT_COLUMN + ''

declare @TAB AS TABLE(COL NVARCHAR(MAX) )

INSERT INTO @TAB EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL  @PIVOT_SQL_STRING, @AVAIABLE_TO_PIVOT 

SET @AVAIABLE_TO_PIVOT = (SELECT * FROM @TAB)


SET @TEMPVARCOLUMNS = (SELECT replace(@AVAIABLE_TO_PIVOT,',',' nvarchar(255) null,') + ' nvarchar(255) null')


SET @SQLSTRING = 'DECLARE @RETURN_TABLE TABLE ('+@STATIC_COLUMN+' NVARCHAR(255) NULL,'+@TEMPVARCOLUMNS+')  
                    INSERT INTO @RETURN_TABLE('+@STATIC_COLUMN+','+@AVAIABLE_TO_PIVOT+')

                    select * from (
                    SELECT ' + @STATIC_COLUMN + ' , ' + @PIVOT_COLUMN + ', ' + @VALUE_COLUMN + ' FROM '+@TABLE+' ) a

                    PIVOT
                    (
                    '+@AGGREGATE+'('+@VALUE_COLUMN+')
                    FOR '+@PIVOT_COLUMN+' IN ('+@AVAIABLE_TO_PIVOT+')
                    ) piv

                    SELECT * FROM @RETURN_TABLE'



EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL @SQLSTRING

END

Next we will get our data ready for the example. I have taken the data example from the accepted answer with the addition of a couple of data elements to use in this proof of concept to show the varied outputs of the aggregate change.

create table temp
(
    date datetime,
    category varchar(3),
    amount money
)

insert into temp values ('1/1/2012', 'ABC', 1000.00)
insert into temp values ('1/1/2012', 'ABC', 2000.00) -- added
insert into temp values ('2/1/2012', 'DEF', 500.00)
insert into temp values ('2/1/2012', 'DEF', 1500.00) -- added
insert into temp values ('2/1/2012', 'GHI', 800.00)
insert into temp values ('2/10/2012', 'DEF', 700.00)
insert into temp values ('2/10/2012', 'DEF', 800.00) -- addded
insert into temp values ('3/1/2012', 'ABC', 1100.00)

The following examples show the varied execution statements showing the varied aggregates as a simple example. I did not opt to change the static, pivot, and value columns to keep the example simple. You should be able to just copy and paste the code to start messing with it yourself

exec [dbo].[USP_DYNAMIC_PIVOT] 'date','category','amount','dbo.temp','sum'
exec [dbo].[USP_DYNAMIC_PIVOT] 'date','category','amount','dbo.temp','max'
exec [dbo].[USP_DYNAMIC_PIVOT] 'date','category','amount','dbo.temp','avg'
exec [dbo].[USP_DYNAMIC_PIVOT] 'date','category','amount','dbo.temp','min'

This execution returns the following data sets respectively.

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Handling urllib2's timeout? - Python

In Python 2.7.3:

import urllib2
import socket

class MyException(Exception):
    pass

try:
    urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com", timeout = 1)
except urllib2.URLError as e:
    print type(e)    #not catch
except socket.timeout as e:
    print type(e)    #catched
    raise MyException("There was an error: %r" % e)

AngularJS - Value attribute on an input text box is ignored when there is a ng-model used?

Update: My original answer involved having the controller contain DOM-aware code, which breaks Angular conventions in favor of HTML. @dmackerman mentioned directives in a comment on my answer, and I completely missed that until just now. With that input, here's the right way to do this without breaking Angular or HTML conventions:


There's also a way to get both - grab the value of the element and use that to update the model in a directive:

<div ng-controller="Main">
    <input type="text" id="rootFolder" ng-model="rootFolders" disabled="disabled" value="Bob" size="40" />
</div>

and then:

app.directive('input', ['$parse', function ($parse) {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        require: '?ngModel',
        link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
            if(attrs.value) {
                $parse(attrs.ngModel).assign(scope, attrs.value);
            }
        }
    };
}]);

You can of course modify the above directive to do more with the value attribute before setting the model to its value, including using $parse(attrs.value, scope) to treat the value attribute as an Angular expression (though I'd probably use a different [custom] attribute for that, personally, so the standard HTML attributes are consistently treated as constants).

Also, there is a similar question over at Making data templated in available to ng-model which may also be of interest.

How to declare variable and use it in the same Oracle SQL script?

Sometimes you need to use a macro variable without asking the user to enter a value. Most often this has to be done with optional script parameters. The following code is fully functional

column 1 noprint new_value 1
select '' "1" from dual where 2!=2;
select nvl('&&1', 'VAH') "1" from dual;
column 1 clear
define 1

Similar code was somehow found in the rdbms/sql directory.

json and empty array

"location" : null // this is not really an array it's a null object
"location" : []   // this is an empty array

It looks like this API returns null when there is no location defined - instead of returning an empty array, not too unusual really - but they should tell you if they're going to do this.

How to get the selected date of a MonthCalendar control in C#

Using SelectionRange you will get the Start and End date.

private void monthCalendar1_DateSelected(object sender, DateRangeEventArgs e)
{
    var startDate = monthCalendar1.SelectionRange.Start.ToString("dd MMM yyyy");
    var endDate = monthCalendar1.SelectionRange.End.ToString("dd MMM yyyy");
}

If you want to update the maximum number of days that can be selected, then set MaxSelectionCount property. The default is 7.

// Only allow 21 days to be selected at the same time.
monthCalendar1.MaxSelectionCount = 21;

What is DOM Event delegation?

A delegate in C# is similar to a function pointer in C or C++. Using a delegate allows the programmer to encapsulate a reference to a method inside a delegate object. The delegate object can then be passed to code which can call the referenced method, without having to know at compile time which method will be invoked.

See this link --> http://www.akadia.com/services/dotnet_delegates_and_events.html

Run MySQLDump without Locking Tables

For InnoDB tables use flag --single-transaction

it dumps the consistent state of the database at the time when BEGIN was issued without blocking any applications

MySQL DOCS

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html#option_mysqldump_single-transaction

Parse string to DateTime in C#

DateTime.Parse() will try figure out the format of the given date, and it usually does a good job. If you can guarantee dates will always be in a given format then you can use ParseExact():

string s = "2011-03-21 13:26";

DateTime dt = 
    DateTime.ParseExact(s, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

(But note that it is usually safer to use one of the TryParse methods in case a date is not in the expected format)

Make sure to check Custom Date and Time Format Strings when constructing format string, especially pay attention to number of letters and case (i.e. "MM" and "mm" mean very different things).

Another useful resource for C# format strings is String Formatting in C#

Where's my JSON data in my incoming Django request?

Using Angular you should add header to request or add it to module config headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}

$http({
    url: url,
    method: method,
    timeout: timeout,
    data: data,
    headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
})

How can I make a JUnit test wait?

You could also use the CountDownLatch object like explained here.

Getting the index of a particular item in array

The previous answers will only work if you know the exact value you are searching for - the question states that only a partial value is known.

Array.FindIndex(authors, author => author.Contains("xyz"));

This will return the index of the first item containing "xyz".

linux find regex

Well, you may try this '.*[0-9]'

How do I concatenate a string with a variable?

It's just like you did. And I'll give you a small tip for these kind of silly things: just use the browser url box to try js syntax. for example, write this: javascript:alert("test"+5) and you have your answer. The problem in your code is probably that this element does not exist in your document... maybe it's inside a form or something. You can test this too by writing in the url: javascript:alert(document.horseThumb_5) to check where your mistake is.

How can I output UTF-8 from Perl?

You also want to say, that strings in your code are utf-8. See Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?. So set not only PERL_UNICODE=SDAL but also PERL5OPT=-Mutf8.

How to stop process from .BAT file?

To terminate a process you know the name of, try:

taskkill /IM notepad.exe

This will ask it to close, but it may refuse, offer to "save changes", etc. If you want to forcibly kill it, try:

taskkill /F /IM notepad.exe

What's the easiest way to call a function every 5 seconds in jQuery?

you can use window.setInterval and time must to be define in miliseconds, in below case the function will call after every single second (1000 miliseconds)

<script>
  var time = 3670;
window.setInterval(function(){

  // Time calculations for days, hours, minutes and seconds
    var h = Math.floor(time / 3600);
    var m = Math.floor(time % 3600 / 60);
    var s = Math.floor(time % 3600 % 60);

  // Display the result in the element with id="demo"
  document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =  h + "h "
  + m + "m " + s + "s ";

  // If the count down is finished, write some text 
  if (time < 0) {
    clearInterval(x);
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "EXPIRED";
  }

  time--;
}, 1000);


</script>

Is there a version of JavaScript's String.indexOf() that allows for regular expressions?

RexExp instances have a lastIndex property already (if they are global) and so what I'm doing is copying the regular expression, modifying it slightly to suit our purposes, exec-ing it on the string and looking at the lastIndex. This will inevitably be faster than looping on the string. (You have enough examples of how to put this onto the string prototype, right?)

function reIndexOf(reIn, str, startIndex) {
    var re = new RegExp(reIn.source, 'g' + (reIn.ignoreCase ? 'i' : '') + (reIn.multiLine ? 'm' : ''));
    re.lastIndex = startIndex || 0;
    var res = re.exec(str);
    if(!res) return -1;
    return re.lastIndex - res[0].length;
};

function reLastIndexOf(reIn, str, startIndex) {
    var src = /\$$/.test(reIn.source) && !/\\\$$/.test(reIn.source) ? reIn.source : reIn.source + '(?![\\S\\s]*' + reIn.source + ')';
    var re = new RegExp(src, 'g' + (reIn.ignoreCase ? 'i' : '') + (reIn.multiLine ? 'm' : ''));
    re.lastIndex = startIndex || 0;
    var res = re.exec(str);
    if(!res) return -1;
    return re.lastIndex - res[0].length;
};

reIndexOf(/[abc]/, "tommy can eat");  // Returns 6
reIndexOf(/[abc]/, "tommy can eat", 8);  // Returns 11
reLastIndexOf(/[abc]/, "tommy can eat"); // Returns 11

You could also prototype the functions onto the RegExp object:

RegExp.prototype.indexOf = function(str, startIndex) {
    var re = new RegExp(this.source, 'g' + (this.ignoreCase ? 'i' : '') + (this.multiLine ? 'm' : ''));
    re.lastIndex = startIndex || 0;
    var res = re.exec(str);
    if(!res) return -1;
    return re.lastIndex - res[0].length;
};

RegExp.prototype.lastIndexOf = function(str, startIndex) {
    var src = /\$$/.test(this.source) && !/\\\$$/.test(this.source) ? this.source : this.source + '(?![\\S\\s]*' + this.source + ')';
    var re = new RegExp(src, 'g' + (this.ignoreCase ? 'i' : '') + (this.multiLine ? 'm' : ''));
    re.lastIndex = startIndex || 0;
    var res = re.exec(str);
    if(!res) return -1;
    return re.lastIndex - res[0].length;
};


/[abc]/.indexOf("tommy can eat");  // Returns 6
/[abc]/.indexOf("tommy can eat", 8);  // Returns 11
/[abc]/.lastIndexOf("tommy can eat"); // Returns 11

A quick explanation of how I am modifying the RegExp: For indexOf I just have to ensure that the global flag is set. For lastIndexOf of I am using a negative look-ahead to find the last occurrence unless the RegExp was already matching at the end of the string.

How to use template module with different set of variables?

I had a similar problem to solve, here is a simple solution of how to pass variables to template files, the trick is to write the template file taking advantage of the variable. You need to create a dictionary (list is also possible), which holds the set of variables corresponding to each of the file. Then within the template file access them.

see below:

the template file: test_file.j2
# {{ ansible_managed }} created by [email protected]

{% set dkey  = (item | splitext)[0]  %}
{% set fname = test_vars[dkey].name  %}
{% set fip   = test_vars[dkey].ip    %}
{% set fport = test_vars[dkey].port  %}
filename: {{ fname }}
ip address: {{ fip }}
port: {{ fport }}

the playbook

---
#
# file: template_test.yml
# author: [email protected]
#
# description: playbook to demonstrate passing variables to template files
#
# this playbook will create 3 files from a single template, with different
# variables passed for each of the invocation
#
# usage:
# ansible-playbook -i "localhost," template_test.yml

- name: template variables testing
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: false

  vars:
    ansible_connection: local
    dest_dir: "/tmp/ansible_template_test/"
    test_files:
      - file_01.txt
      - file_02.txt
      - file_03.txt
    test_vars:
      file_01:
        name: file_01.txt
        ip: 10.0.0.1
        port: 8001
      file_02:
        name: file_02.txt
        ip: 10.0.0.2
        port: 8002
      file_03:
        name: file_03.txt
        ip: 10.0.0.3
        port: 8003

  tasks:
    - name: copy the files
      template:
        src: test_file.j2
        dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/{{ item }}"
      with_items:
        - "{{ test_files }}"

Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.2:java (default-cli)

I had a similar problem.

As it turned out, I ran mvn clean package install.

Correct way is mvn clean install

iPhone app signing: A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain

I solved it by

a) go to provisioning profile page on the portal

b) Click on Edit on the provisioning profile you are having trouble (right hand side).

c) Check the Appropriate Certificate box (not checked by default) and select the correct App ID (my old one was expired)

d) Download and use the new provisioning profile. Delete the old one(s).

Apparently there are 4 different causes of this problem:

  1. Your Keychain is missing the private key associated with your iPhone Developer or iPhone Distribution certificate.
  2. Your Keychain is missing the Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Intermediate Certificate.
  3. Your certificate was revoked or has expired.
  4. Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) or Certificate Revocation List (CRL) are turned on in Keychain Access preferences

.

Import an Excel worksheet into Access using VBA

Pass the sheet name with the Range parameter of the DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet Method. See the box titled "Worksheets in the Range Parameter" near the bottom of that page.

This code imports from a sheet named "temp" in a workbook named "temp.xls", and stores the data in a table named "tblFromExcel".

Dim strXls As String
strXls = CurrentProject.Path & Chr(92) & "temp.xls"
DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, , "tblFromExcel", _
    strXls, True, "temp!"

Update date + one year in mysql

For multiple interval types use a nested construction as in:

 UPDATE table SET date = DATE_ADD(DATE_ADD(date, INTERVAL 1 YEAR), INTERVAL 1 DAY)

For updating a given date in the column date to 1 year + 1 day

object==null or null==object?

It is Yoda condition writing in different manner

In java

String myString = null;
if (myString.equals("foobar")) { /* ... */ } //Will give u null pointer

yoda condition

String myString = null;
if ("foobar".equals(myString)) { /* ... */ } // will be false 

Jenkins - how to build a specific branch

I don't think you can both within the same jenkins job, what you need to do is to configure a new jenkins job which will have access to your github to retrieve branches and then you can choose which one to manually build.

Just mark it as a parameterized build, specify a name, and a parameter configured as git parameter

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and now you can configure git options:

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Calculate the mean by group

aggregate(speed~dive,data=df,FUN=mean)
   dive     speed
1 dive1 0.7059729
2 dive2 0.5473777

Why can't overriding methods throw exceptions broader than the overridden method?

The subclass's overriding method can only throw multiple checked exceptions that are subclasses of the superclass's method's checked exception, but cannot throw multiple checked exceptions that are unrelated to the superclass's method's checked exception

Android studio- "SDK tools directory is missing"

I had this issue when I was trying to reinstall Android Studio through its wizard. I already had a "tools" folder though.

In my case, while the "tools" directory already existed, it will deliver the "sdk tools directory is missing" error for its subfolders also. Somehow my sdk folder only had a libs subdirectory.

When I pasted in sdk/ant, sdk/apps, sdk/proguard, sdk/qemu, sdk/support, and sdk/templates the wizard was finally happy with this configuration and went to download some more files.

Truncating a table in a stored procedure

try the below code

execute immediate 'truncate table tablename' ;

How to enable Ad Hoc Distributed Queries

sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

How to find files recursively by file type and copy them to a directory while in ssh?

Something like this should work.

ssh [email protected] 'find -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec cp {} ./pdfsfolder \;'

Stack smashing detected

Stack Smashing here is actually caused due to a protection mechanism used by gcc to detect buffer overflow errors. For example in the following snippet:

#include <stdio.h>

void func()
{
    char array[10];
    gets(array);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    func();
}

The compiler, (in this case gcc) adds protection variables (called canaries) which have known values. An input string of size greater than 10 causes corruption of this variable resulting in SIGABRT to terminate the program.

To get some insight, you can try disabling this protection of gcc using option -fno-stack-protector while compiling. In that case you will get a different error, most likely a segmentation fault as you are trying to access an illegal memory location. Note that -fstack-protector should always be turned on for release builds as it is a security feature.

You can get some information about the point of overflow by running the program with a debugger. Valgrind doesn't work well with stack-related errors, but like a debugger, it may help you pin-point the location and reason for the crash.

What does Visual Studio mean by normalize inconsistent line endings?

Some lines end with \n.

Some other lines end with \r\n.

Visual Studio suggests you to make all lines end the same.

No Such Element Exception?

I Know this question was aked 3 years ago, but I just had the same problem, and what solved it was instead of putting:

 while (i.hasNext()) {
    // code goes here 
}

I did one iteration at the start, and then checked for condition using:

do {
   // code goes here
} while (i.hasNext());

I hope this will help some people at some stage.

How to write to a CSV line by line?

To complement the previous answers, I whipped up a quick class to write to CSV files. It makes it easier to manage and close open files and achieve consistency and cleaner code if you have to deal with multiple files.

class CSVWriter():

    filename = None
    fp = None
    writer = None

    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.filename = filename
        self.fp = open(self.filename, 'w', encoding='utf8')
        self.writer = csv.writer(self.fp, delimiter=';', quotechar='"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL, lineterminator='\n')

    def close(self):
        self.fp.close()

    def write(self, elems):
        self.writer.writerow(elems)

    def size(self):
        return os.path.getsize(self.filename)

    def fname(self):
        return self.filename

Example usage:

mycsv = CSVWriter('/tmp/test.csv')
mycsv.write((12,'green','apples'))
mycsv.write((7,'yellow','bananas'))
mycsv.close()
print("Written %d bytes to %s" % (mycsv.size(), mycsv.fname()))

Have fun

Using iFrames In ASP.NET

You can think of an iframe as an embedded browser window that you can put on an HTML page to show another URL inside it. This URL can be totally distinct from your web site/app.

You can put an iframe in any HTML page, so you could put one inside a contentplaceholder in a webform that has a Masterpage and it will appear with whatever URL you load into it (via Javascript, or C# if you turn your iframe into a server-side control (runat='server') on the final HTML page that your webform produces when requested.

And you can load a URL into your iframe that is a .aspx page.

But - iframes have nothing to do with the ASP.net mechanism. They are HTML elements that can be made to run server-side, but they are essentially 'dumb' and unmanaged/unconnected to the ASP.Net mechanisms - don't confuse a Contentplaceholder with an iframe.

Incidentally, the use of iframes is still contentious - do you really need to use one? Can you afford the negative trade-offs associated with them e.g. lack of navigation history ...?

How can I kill a process by name instead of PID?

Strange, but I haven't seen the solution like this:

kill -9 `pidof firefox`

it can also kill multiple processes (multiple pids) like:

kill -9 `pgrep firefox`

I prefer pidof since it has single line output:

> pgrep firefox
6316
6565
> pidof firefox
6565 6316

Angular 4 Pipe Filter

The transform method signature changed somewhere in an RC of Angular 2. Try something more like this:

export class FilterPipe implements PipeTransform {
    transform(items: any[], filterBy: string): any {
        return items.filter(item => item.id.indexOf(filterBy) !== -1);
    }
}

And if you want to handle nulls and make the filter case insensitive, you may want to do something more like the one I have here:

export class ProductFilterPipe implements PipeTransform {

    transform(value: IProduct[], filterBy: string): IProduct[] {
        filterBy = filterBy ? filterBy.toLocaleLowerCase() : null;
        return filterBy ? value.filter((product: IProduct) =>
            product.productName.toLocaleLowerCase().indexOf(filterBy) !== -1) : value;
    }
}

And NOTE: Sorting and filtering in pipes is a big issue with performance and they are NOT recommended. See the docs here for more info: https://angular.io/guide/pipes#appendix-no-filterpipe-or-orderbypipe

How to change heatmap.2 color range in R?

I got the color range to be asymmetric simply by changing the symkey argument to FALSE

symm=F,symkey=F,symbreaks=T, scale="none"

Solved the color issue with colorRampPalette with the breaks argument to specify the range of each color, e.g.

colors = c(seq(-3,-2,length=100),seq(-2,0.5,length=100),seq(0.5,6,length=100))

my_palette <- colorRampPalette(c("red", "black", "green"))(n = 299)

Altogether

heatmap.2(as.matrix(SeqCountTable), col=my_palette, 
    breaks=colors, density.info="none", trace="none", 
        dendrogram=c("row"), symm=F,symkey=F,symbreaks=T, scale="none")

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent

This solution can help :

public class FragmentItem extends Android.Support.V4.App.Fragment
{
    View rootView;
    TextView textView;

    public override View OnCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        if (rootView != null) 
        {
            ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup)rootView.Parent;
            parent.RemoveView(rootView);
        } else {
            rootView = inflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.FragmentItem, container, false);
            textView = rootView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.textViewDisplay);            
        }
        return rootView;
    }
}

Create a button programmatically and set a background image

Your code should look like below

let image = UIImage(named: "name") as UIImage?
let button   = UIButton(type: UIButtonType.Custom) as UIButton
button.frame = CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 100)
button.setImage(image, forState: .Normal)
button.addTarget(self, action: "btnTouched:", forControlEvents:.TouchUpInside)
self.view.addSubview(button)

Copy/duplicate database without using mysqldump

Actually i wanted to achieve exactly that in PHP but none of the answers here were very helpful so here's my – pretty straightforward – solution using MySQLi:

// Database variables

$DB_HOST = 'localhost';
$DB_USER = 'root';
$DB_PASS = '1234';

$DB_SRC = 'existing_db';
$DB_DST = 'newly_created_db';



// MYSQL Connect

$mysqli = new mysqli( $DB_HOST, $DB_USER, $DB_PASS ) or die( $mysqli->error );



// Create destination database

$mysqli->query( "CREATE DATABASE $DB_DST" ) or die( $mysqli->error );



// Iterate through tables of source database

$tables = $mysqli->query( "SHOW TABLES FROM $DB_SRC" ) or die( $mysqli->error );

while( $table = $tables->fetch_array() ): $TABLE = $table[0];


    // Copy table and contents in destination database

    $mysqli->query( "CREATE TABLE $DB_DST.$TABLE LIKE $DB_SRC.$TABLE" ) or die( $mysqli->error );
    $mysqli->query( "INSERT INTO $DB_DST.$TABLE SELECT * FROM $DB_SRC.$TABLE" ) or die( $mysqli->error );


endwhile;

Is SMTP based on TCP or UDP?

Seems the SMTP as internet standard uses only reliable Transport protocol. RFC821 has TCP, NCP, NITS as examples!

Replacing H1 text with a logo image: best method for SEO and accessibility?

How W3C does?

Simply have a look a look at https://www.w3.org/. The image has a z-index:1, the text is here but behind because of the z-index:0 coupled to the position: absolute;

The original HTML:

<h1 class="logo">
    <a tabindex="2" accesskey="1" href="/">
        <img src="/2008/site/images/logo-w3c-mobile-lg" width="90" height="53" alt="W3C">
    </a>
    <span class="alt-logo">W3C</span>
</h1>

The original CSS:

#w3c_mast h1 a {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    background: url(../images/logo-w3c-screen-lg) no-repeat top left;
    width: 100%;
    height: 107px;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
}
.alt-logo {
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    left: 20px;
    z-index: 0;
    background-color: #fff;
}

Can't specify the 'async' modifier on the 'Main' method of a console app

In my case I had a list of jobs that I wanted to run in async from my main method, have been using this in production for quite sometime and works fine.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Task.Run(async () => { await Task.WhenAll(jobslist.Select(nl => RunMulti(nl))); }).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
}
private static async Task RunMulti(List<string> joblist)
{
    await ...
}

Python equivalent to 'hold on' in Matlab

check pyplot docs. For completeness,

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

#evenly sampled time at 200ms intervals
t = np.arange(0., 5., 0.2)

# red dashes, blue squares and green triangles
plt.plot(t, t, 'r--', t, t**2, 'bs', t, t**3, 'g^')
plt.show()

Difference between static STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT on Django

STATIC_ROOT

The absolute path to the directory where ./manage.py collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: STATIC_ROOT="/var/www/example.com/static/"

now the command ./manage.py collectstatic will copy all the static files(ie in static folder in your apps, static files in all paths) to the directory /var/www/example.com/static/. now you only need to serve this directory on apache or nginx..etc.

STATIC_URL

The URL of which the static files in STATIC_ROOT directory are served(by Apache or nginx..etc). Example: /static/ or http://static.example.com/

If you set STATIC_URL = 'http://static.example.com/', then you must serve the STATIC_ROOT folder (ie "/var/www/example.com/static/") by apache or nginx at url 'http://static.example.com/'(so that you can refer the static file '/var/www/example.com/static/jquery.js' with 'http://static.example.com/jquery.js')

Now in your django-templates, you can refer it by:

{% load static %}
<script src="{% static "jquery.js" %}"></script>

which will render:

<script src="http://static.example.com/jquery.js"></script>

Can a java file have more than one class?

Besides anonymous inner classes, another use is private inner classes that implement a public interface (see this article). The outer class can access all private fields and methods of the inner class.

This lets you create two tightly-coupled classes, such as a model and its view, without exposing the implementations of either. Another example is a collection and its iterators.

How to center images on a web page for all screen sizes

<div style='width:200px;margin:0 auto;> sometext or image tag</div>

this works horizontally

Obtain form input fields using jQuery?

Same solution as given by nickf, but with array input names taken into account eg

<input type="text" name="array[]" />

values = {};
$("#something :input").each(function() {
  if (this.name.search(/\[\]/) > 0) //search for [] in name
  {
    if (typeof values[this.name] != "undefined") {
      values[this.name] = values[this.name].concat([$(this).val()])
    } else {
      values[this.name] = [$(this).val()];
    }
  } else {
    values[this.name] = $(this).val();
  }
});

Differences between CHMOD 755 vs 750 permissions set

0755 = User:rwx Group:r-x World:r-x

0750 = User:rwx Group:r-x World:--- (i.e. World: no access)

r = read
w = write
x = execute (traverse for directories)

Error QApplication: no such file or directory

Please make sure that the version of qmake you are using corresponds to the version of QT you want to use.

To be sure, you can just run :

$qmake -v

Your problem seems to be a symptom of a version conflict between QT 3 and 4, as can be seen here :

http://lists.trolltech.com/qt4-preview-feedback/2005-11/thread00013-0.html

To fix this, you can either delete your old install of QT, or specifically point to qmake-qt4 in your Makefile.

Why do we use __init__ in Python classes?

class Dog(object):

    # Class Object Attribute
    species = 'mammal'

    def __init__(self,breed,name):
        self.breed = breed
        self.name = name

In above example we use species as a global since it will be always same(Kind of constant you can say). when you call __init__ method then all the variable inside __init__ will be initiated(eg:breed,name).

class Dog(object):
    a = '12'

    def __init__(self,breed,name,a):
        self.breed = breed
        self.name = name
        self.a= a

if you print the above example by calling below like this

Dog.a
12

Dog('Lab','Sam','10')
Dog.a
10

That means it will be only initialized during object creation. so anything which you want to declare as constant make it as global and anything which changes use __init__

JavaScript code to stop form submission

I would recommend not using onsubmit and instead attaching an event in the script.

var submit = document.getElementById("submitButtonId");
if (submit.addEventListener) {
  submit.addEventListener("click", returnToPreviousPage);
} else {
  submit.attachEvent("onclick", returnToPreviousPage);
}

Then use preventDefault() (or returnValue = false for older browsers).

function returnToPreviousPage (e) {
  e = e || window.event;
  // validation code

  // if invalid
  if (e.preventDefault) {
    e.preventDefault();
  } else {
    e.returnValue = false;
  }
}

Adding placeholder text to textbox

Attached properties to the rescue:

public static class TextboxExtensions
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty PlaceholderProperty = 
        DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
            "Placeholder", 
            typeof(string), 
            typeof(TextboxExtensions), 
            new PropertyMetadata(default(string), propertyChangedCallback: PlaceholderChanged)
            );

    private static void PlaceholderChanged(DependencyObject dependencyObject, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs args)
    {
        var tb = dependencyObject as TextBox;

        if (tb == null)
            return;

        tb.LostFocus -= OnLostFocus;
        tb.GotFocus -= OnGotFocus;

        if (args.NewValue != null)
        {
            tb.GotFocus += OnGotFocus;
            tb.LostFocus += OnLostFocus;
        }

        SetPlaceholder(dependencyObject, args.NewValue as string);

        if (!tb.IsFocused)
            ShowPlaceholder(tb);
    }

    private static void OnLostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs routedEventArgs)
    {
        ShowPlaceholder(sender as TextBox);
    }

    private static void OnGotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs routedEventArgs)
    {
        HidePlaceholder(sender as TextBox);
    }

    [AttachedPropertyBrowsableForType(typeof(TextBox))]
    public static void SetPlaceholder(DependencyObject element, string value)
    {
        element.SetValue(PlaceholderProperty, value);
    }

    [AttachedPropertyBrowsableForType(typeof(TextBox))]
    public static string GetPlaceholder(DependencyObject element)
    {
        return (string)element.GetValue(PlaceholderProperty);
    }

    private static void ShowPlaceholder(TextBox textBox)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(textBox.Text))
        {
            textBox.Text = GetPlaceholder(textBox);
        }
    }

    private static void HidePlaceholder(TextBox textBox)
    {
        string placeholderText = GetPlaceholder(textBox);

        if (textBox.Text == placeholderText)
            textBox.Text = string.Empty;
    }
}

Usage:

<TextBox Text="hi" local:TextboxExtensions.Placeholder="Hello there"></TextBox>

How to import a jar in Eclipse

In eclipse I included a compressed jar file i.e. zip file. Eclipse allowed me to add this zip file as an external jar but when I tried to access the classes in the jar they weren't showing up.

After a lot of trial and error I found that using a zip format doesn't work. When I added a jar file then it worked for me.

Changing the space between each item in Bootstrap navbar

Just remember that modifying the padding or margins on any bootstrap grid elements is likely to create overflowing elements at some point at lower screen-widths.

If that happens just remember to use CSS media queries and only include the margins at screen-widths that can handle it.

In keeping with the mobile-first approach of the framework you are working within (bootstrap) it is better to add the padding at widths which can handle it, rather than excluding it at widths which can't.

@media (min-width: 992px){
    .navbar li {
        margin-left : 1em;
        margin-right : 1em;
    }
}