Programs & Examples On #Windows 7 x64

for questions specifically about the x64 version of Windows 7.

Taskkill /f doesn't kill a process

Some of the Exe files Dependents on Some services,

So you need find the respective service and stop first.

wamp server does not start: Windows 7, 64Bit

You just need Visual C++ runtime 2015 installed, if you change your php version to the newest version you will get the error for it. this is why apache has php dependency error.

Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (10061) (2003)

I simply used mysql installer to reconfigure the server instance http://prntscr.com/wcl3p9

Error Message : Cannot find or open the PDB file

I'm also a newbie to CUDA/Visual studio and encountered the same problem with a couple of the samples. If you run DEBUG-> Start Debugging, then repeatedly step over (F10) you'll see the output window appear and get populated. Normal execution returns nomal completion status 0x0 (as you observed) and the output window is closed.

Install Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 7

your log files shows it is stopping on error "0x8004C000"

From MS Website (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15716.visual-studio-2012-and-the-error-code-2147205120.aspx):

Setup Status
Block

Restart not required
0x80044000 [-2147205120]

Restart required
0x8004C000 [-2147172352]

Description
If the only block to be reported is “Reboot Pending,” the returned value is the Incomplete-Reboot Required value (0x80048bc7).

Installing PIL (Python Imaging Library) in Win7 64 bits, Python 2.6.4

Compiling PIL on Windows x64 is apparently a bit of a pain. (Well, compiling anything on Windows is a bit of a pain in my experience. But still.) As well as PIL itself you'll need to build many dependencies. See these notes from the mailing list too.

There's an unofficial precompiled binary for x64 linked from this message, but I haven't tried it myself. Might be worth a go if you don't mind the download being from one of those slightly dodgy file-upload sites. Other than that... well, you could always give up and instead the 32-bit Python binary instead.

Register .NET Framework 4.5 in IIS 7.5

Hosting asp.net 4.5/4.5.1 Web application on Local IIS 1)Be Sure IIS Installation before Visual Installation Installataion then aspnet_regiis will already registerd with IIS

If Not Install IIS and then Register aspnet_regiis with IIS by cmd Editor

For VS2012 and 32 bit OS Run Below code on command editor :

1)Install IIS First & then

2)

cd C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319   

  C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319> aspnet_regiis -i

For VS2012 and 64 bit OS Below code on command editor:

1)Install IIS First & then

2)

cd C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319    
  C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319> aspnet_regiis -i

BY Following Above Steps Current Version of VS2012 registered with IIS Hosting (VS2012 Web APP)

Create VS2012 Web Application(WebForm/MVC) then Build Application Right Click On WebApplication(WebForm/MVC) go to 'Properties' Click On 'Web' Tab on then 'Use Local IIS Web Server' Then Uncheck 'Use IIS Express' (If Visul Studio 2013 Select 'Local IIS' from Dropdown) Provide Project Url like "http://localhost/MvcDemoApp" Then Click On 'Create Virtual Directory' Button Then Open IIS by Prssing 'Window + R' Run Command and type 'inetmgr' and 'Enter' (or 'OK' Button) Then Expand 'Sites->Default Web Site' you Hosted Successfully. If Still Gets any Server Error like 'The resource cannot be found.' Then Include following code in web.config

 <configuration>
     <system.webServer>
         <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"></modules>

And Run Application

If still problem occurs Check application pool by : In iis Right click on application->Manage Application->Advanced setting->General. you see the application pool. then close advance setting window. click on 'Application Pools' you will see the all application pools in middle window. Right click on application pool in which application hosted(DefaultAppPool). click 'Basic Setting' -> Change .Net FrameWork Version to->.Net FrameWork v4.0.30349

how to get program files x86 env variable?

On a Windows 64 bit machine, echo %programfiles(x86)% does print C:\Program Files (x86)

ImportError: No module named enum

Or run a pip install --upgrade pip enum34

How to completely remove node.js from Windows

I actually had a failure in the Microsoft uninstall. I had installed node-v8.2.1-x64 and needed to run version node-v6.11.1-x64.

The uninstalled was failing with the error: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file" or similar.

I ended up going to the Downloads folder right clicking the node-v8.2.1-x64 MSI and selecting uninstall.. this worked.

Regards, Jon

The service cannot accept control messages at this time

This helped me: just wait about a minute or two.

Wait a few minutes, then retry your operation.

Ref: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms833805.aspx

How to fix 'Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents'

If none of the above worked, try these as well:

  • In Component services >Computes >My Computer>Dcom config>Microsoft Excel Application>Properties, go to security tab, click on customize on all three sections and add the user that want to run the application, and give full permissions to the user.

  • Go to C:\Windows\Temp make sure it exists and it doesn't prompt you for entering.

Android SDK installation doesn't find JDK

I found the solution and it's beautifully stupid. I found Android SDK cannot detect JDK.

Press the Back button on the SDK error screen that tells you that the EXE couldn't detect the JDK. Then press Next.

Who would have thought that would happen?

Creating self signed certificate for domain and subdomains - NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

As Rahul stated, it is a common Chrome and an OSX bug. I was having similar issues in the past. In fact I finally got tired of making the 2 [yes I know it is not many] additional clicks when testing a local site for work.

As for a possible workaround to this issue [using Windows], I would using one of the many self signing certificate utilities available.

Recommended Steps:

  1. Create a Self Signed Cert
  2. Import Certificate into Windows Certificate Manager
  3. Import Certificate in Chrome Certificate Manager
    NOTE: Step 3 will resolve the issue experienced once Google addresses the bug...considering the time in has been stale there is no ETA in the foreseeable future.**

    As much as I prefer to use Chrome for development, I have found myself in Firefox Developer Edition lately. which does not have this issue.

    Hope this helps :)

How do I start Mongo DB from Windows?

Clearly many people have answered upon your query of how to make mongoDb work, I'd answer the second part: Regarding an appropriate GUI for mongoDB

My suggestion is, go for MongoChef (now Studio 3T)

You can easily install and use it.

You might want want to refer to (from 03:10- to 08:50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ws3oIyqieY&index=2&list=PLS1QulWo1RIZtR6bncmSaH8fB81oRl6MP

For a step by step guide to the GUI tool.

Nexus 7 (2013) and Win 7 64 - cannot install USB driver despite checking many forums and online resources

The universal adb driver installer worked for me. I went from an HTC to a Samsung to a LG Nexus. The drivers are all over the place for me.

http://adbdriver.com/

How does BitLocker affect performance?

The difference is substantial for many applications. If you are currently constrained by storage throughput, particularly when reading data, BitLocker will slow you down.

It would be useful to compare with other software based whole disk or whole partition encryption like TrueCrypt (which has the advantage if you dual boot with Linux since it works for both Windows and Linux).

A much better option is to use hardware encryption, which is available in many SSDs as well as in Hitachi 7200 RPM HDD. The performance of encrypted v. not is undetectable, and the encryption is invisible to operating systems. If you have a decent laptop, you can use the built-in security functions to generate and store the key, which your password unlocks from the encrypted key storage of the laptop.

Can't start hostednetwork

The hosted network won't start if there are other active wifi adapters.

Disable the others whilst you're starting the hosted network.

How to update Python?

The best solution is to install the different Python versions in multiple paths.

eg. C:\Python27 for 2.7, and C:\Python33 for 3.3.

Read this for more info: How to run multiple Python versions on Windows

Windows 7 - Add Path

Try this in cmd:

cd address_of_sumatrapdf.exe_file && sumatrapdf.exe

Where you should put the address of your .exe file instead of adress_of_sumatrapdf.exe_file.

"The following SDK components were not installed: sys-img-x86-addon-google_apis-google-22 and addon-google_apis-google-22"

I am having the same issue when trying to upgrade Android Studio from 1.1 to 1.2 on Mac OS 10.10. I solved the problem by selecting custom installation instead of standard. Also we need to select the Android SDK Platform (Lollipop 5.1).

Edit a text file on the console using Powershell

You can install nano in powershell via choco - It's a low friction way to get text editing capabilities into powershell:

  1. Install Choco
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
  1. Install Nano
choco install nano
  1. Profit
nano myfile.txt

Best part is it becomes part of the path, and stays working across reboots etc :)

How to Install Windows Phone 8 SDK on Windows 7

Here is a link from developer.nokia.com wiki pages, which explains how to install Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator

And another link here

AFAIK, it is not possible to directly install WP8 SDK in Windows 7, because WP8 sdk is VS 2012 supported and also its emulator works on a Hyper-V (which is integrated into the Windows 8).

Git credential helper - update password

Solution using command line for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

If you have updated your GitHub password on the GitHub server, in the first attempt of the git fetch/pull/push command it generates the authentication failed message.

Execute the same git fetch/pull/push command a second time and it prompts for credentials (username and password). Enter the username and the new updated password of the GitHub server and login will be successful.

Even I had this problem, and I performed the above steps and done!!

ArrayBuffer to base64 encoded string

There is another asynchronous way use Blob and FileReader.

I didn't test the performance. But it is a different way of thinking.

function arrayBufferToBase64( buffer, callback ) {
    var blob = new Blob([buffer],{type:'application/octet-binary'});
    var reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = function(evt){
        var dataurl = evt.target.result;
        callback(dataurl.substr(dataurl.indexOf(',')+1));
    };
    reader.readAsDataURL(blob);
}

//example:
var buf = new Uint8Array([11,22,33]);
arrayBufferToBase64(buf, console.log.bind(console)); //"CxYh"

Check if an element is present in an array

I benchmarked it multiple times on Google Chrome 52, but feel free to copypaste it into any other browser's console.


~ 1500 ms, includes (~ 2700 ms when I used the polyfill)

var array = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]; 
var result = 0;

var start = new Date().getTime();
for(var i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
{
  if(array.includes("test") === true){ result++; }
}
console.log(new Date().getTime() - start);

~ 1050 ms, indexOf

var array = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]; 
var result = 0;

var start = new Date().getTime();
for(var i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
{
  if(array.indexOf("test") > -1){ result++; }
}
console.log(new Date().getTime() - start);

~ 650 ms, custom function

function inArray(target, array)
{

/* Caching array.length doesn't increase the performance of the for loop on V8 (and probably on most of other major engines) */

  for(var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) 
  {
    if(array[i] === target)
    {
      return true;
    }
  }

  return false; 
}

var array = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]; 
var result = 0;

var start = new Date().getTime();
for(var i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
{
  if(inArray("test", array) === true){ result++; }
}
console.log(new Date().getTime() - start);

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.

How to store phone numbers on MySQL databases?

You should never store values with format. Formatting should be done in the view depending on user preferences.

Searching for phone nunbers with mixed formatting is near impossible.

For this case I would split into fields and store as integer. Numbers are faster than texts and splitting them and putting index on them makes all kind of queries ran fast.

Leading 0 could be a problem but probably not. In Sweden all area codes start with 0 and that is removed if also a country code is dialed. But the 0 isn't really a part of the number, it's a indicator used to tell that I'm adding an area code. Same for country code, you add 00 to say that you use a county code.

Leading 0 shouldn't be stored, they should be added when needed. Say you store 00 in the database and you use a server that only works with + they you have to replace 00 with + for that application.

So, store numbers as numbers.

Upgrade Node.js to the latest version on Mac OS

Easy nad Safe Steps

Step 1: Install NVM

brew install nvm

Step 2: Create a directory for NVM

mkdir ~/.nvm/

Step 3: Configure your environmental variables

nano ~/.bash_profile

PASTE BELOW CODE

export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh

source ~/.bash_profile

Step 4: Double check your work

nvm ls

Step 5: Install Node

nvm install 9.x.x

Step6: Upgrade

nvm ls-remote

   v10.16.2   (LTS: Dubnium)
   v10.16.3   (Latest LTS: Dubnium) ..........

nvm install v10.16.3

Troubleshooting

Error Example #1
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules
brew uninstall node
brew install node --without-npm
echo prefix=~/.npm-packages >> ~/.npmrc
curl -L https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sh

https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2018/02/07/install/

How to see local history changes in Visual Studio Code?

I think there is no out-of-the-box support for that in VS Code.

You can install a plugin to give you similar functionality. Eg.:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=micnil.vscode-checkpoints

Or the more famous:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xyz.local-history

Some details may need to be configured: The VS Code search gets confused sometimes because of additional folders created by this type of plugins. You can configure it to ignore such folders or change their locations (adding such folders to your .gitignore file also solves this problem).

How to deserialize xml to object

The comments above are correct. You're missing the decorators. If you want a generic deserializer you can use this.

public static T DeserializeXMLFileToObject<T>(string XmlFilename)
{
    T returnObject = default(T);
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(XmlFilename)) return default(T);

    try
    {
        StreamReader xmlStream = new StreamReader(XmlFilename);
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        returnObject = (T)serializer.Deserialize(xmlStream);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        ExceptionLogger.WriteExceptionToConsole(ex, DateTime.Now);
    }
    return returnObject;
}

Then you'd call it like this:

MyObjType MyObj = DeserializeXMLFileToObject<MyObjType>(FilePath);

Row numbers in query result using Microsoft Access

Thanks for your solutions above! DCount did the trick for me too!

I had to use a combination of date columns and a unique identifier for the sorting portion of it (as well as some additional conditions), so here is what I ended up doing: 1) I had to check if DateColumnA was null, then check if DateColumnB was null, then use DateColumnC; then, if multiple records have the same date value, they all end up with the same id! 2) So, I figured I would use the integer unique ID of the table, and add it up to the time as "minutes". This will always provide different results 3) Finally, the logic above results in the count starting in 0... so just add 1!

SELECT 
 1+DCount("[RequestID]","[Request]","Archived=0 and ProjectPhase <> 2 and iif(isnull(DateColumnA)=true,iif(isnull(DateColumnB)=true,DateColumnC,DateColumnB),DateColumnA)+(RequestID/3600) < #" & if(isnull(DateColumnA)=true,iif(isnull(DateColumnB)=true,DateColumnC,DateColumnB),DateColumnA) + (RequestID/3600) & "#") AS RowID, 
FROM 
 Request
ORDER BY 1

I hope this helps you out!

What is the meaning of git reset --hard origin/master?

In newer version of git (2.23+) you can use:

git switch -C master origin/master

-C is same as --force-create. Related Reference Docs

Django: Redirect to previous page after login

You can also do this

<input type="hidden" name="text" value="{% url 'dashboard' %}" />

Compare every item to every other item in ArrayList

This code helped me get this behaviour: With a list a,b,c, I should get compared ab, ac and bc, but any other pair would be excess / not needed.

import java.util.*;
import static java.lang.System.out;

// rl = rawList; lr = listReversed
ArrayList<String> rl = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> lr = new ArrayList<String>();
rl.add("a");
rl.add("b");
rl.add("c");
rl.add("d");
rl.add("e");
rl.add("f");

lr.addAll(rl);
Collections.reverse(lr);

for (String itemA : rl) {
    lr.remove(lr.size()-1);
        for (String itemZ : lr) {
        System.out.println(itemA + itemZ);
    }
}

The loop goes as like in this picture: Triangular comparison visual example

or as this:

   |   f    e    d    c    b   a
   ------------------------------
a  |  af   ae   ad   ac   ab   ·
b  |  bf   be   bd   bc   ·   
c  |  cf   ce   cd   ·      
d  |  df   de   ·         
e  |  ef   ·            
f  |  ·               

total comparisons is a triangular number (n * n-1)/2

Run ssh and immediately execute command

ssh -t 'command; bash -l'

will execute the command and then start up a login shell when it completes. For example:

ssh -t [email protected] 'cd /some/path; bash -l'

python: create list of tuples from lists

You're looking for the zip builtin function. From the docs:

>>> x = [1, 2, 3]
>>> y = [4, 5, 6]
>>> zipped = zip(x, y)
>>> zipped
[(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]

C# looping through an array

Just increment i by 3 in each step:

  Debug.Assert((theData.Length % 3) == 0);  // 'theData' will always be divisible by 3

  for (int i = 0; i < theData.Length; i += 3)
  {
       //grab 3 items at a time and do db insert, 
       // continue until all items are gone..
       string item1 = theData[i+0];
       string item2 = theData[i+1];
       string item3 = theData[i+2];
       // use the items
  }

To answer some comments, it is a given that theData.Length is a multiple of 3 so there is no need to check for theData.Length-2 as an upperbound. That would only mask errors in the preconditions.

Create a root password for PHPMyAdmin

  • Go tohttp://localhost/security/index.php
  • Select language, it redirects to http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php
  • You will find an option to change the password here

How to animate the change of image in an UIImageView?

[UIView transitionWithView:textFieldimageView
                  duration:0.2f
                   options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCrossDissolve
                animations:^{
                    imageView.image = newImage;
                } completion:nil];

is another possibility

Find the smallest positive integer that does not occur in a given sequence

package Consumer;


import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

public class codility {
public static void main(String a[])
    {
        int[] A = {1,9,8,7,6,4,2,3};
        int B[]= {-7,-5,-9};
        int C[] ={1,-2,3};
        int D[] ={1,2,3};
        int E[] = {-1};
        int F[] = {0};
        int G[] = {-1000000};
        System.out.println(getSmall(F));
    }
    public static int getSmall(int[] A)
    {
        int j=0;
        if(A.length < 1 || A.length > 100000) return -1;
        List<Integer> intList = Arrays.stream(A).boxed().sorted().collect(Collectors.toList());
         if(intList.get(0) < -1000000 || intList.get(intList.size()-1) > 1000000) return -1;
         if(intList.get(intList.size()-1) < 0) return 1;
        int count=0;         
         for(int i=1; i<=intList.size();i++)
         {
             if(!intList.contains(i))return i;
             count++;
         }
         if(count==intList.size()) return ++count;
        return -1;
    } 
}

Undefined reference to main - collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

One possibility which has not been mentioned so far is that you might not be editing the file you think you are. i.e. your editor might have a different cwd than you had in mind.

Run 'more' on the file you're compiling to double check that it does indeed have the contents you hope it does. Hope that helps!

What EXACTLY is meant by "de-referencing a NULL pointer"?

A NULL pointer points to memory that doesn't exist. This may be address 0x00000000 or any other implementation-defined value (as long as it can never be a real address). Dereferencing it means trying to access whatever is pointed to by the pointer. The * operator is the dereferencing operator:

int a, b, c; // some integers
int *pi;     // a pointer to an integer

a = 5;
pi = &a; // pi points to a
b = *pi; // b is now 5
pi = NULL;
c = *pi; // this is a NULL pointer dereference

This is exactly the same thing as a NullReferenceException in C#, except that pointers in C can point to any data object, even elements inside an array.

Apache Spark: The number of cores vs. the number of executors

From the excellent resources available at RStudio's Sparklyr package page:

SPARK DEFINITIONS:

It may be useful to provide some simple definitions for the Spark nomenclature:

Node: A server

Worker Node: A server that is part of the cluster and are available to run Spark jobs

Master Node: The server that coordinates the Worker nodes.

Executor: A sort of virtual machine inside a node. One Node can have multiple Executors.

Driver Node: The Node that initiates the Spark session. Typically, this will be the server where sparklyr is located.

Driver (Executor): The Driver Node will also show up in the Executor list.

Named regular expression group "(?P<group_name>regexp)": what does "P" stand for?

Pattern! The group names a (sub)pattern for later use in the regex. See the documentation here for details about how such groups are used.

jQuery - Disable Form Fields

try this

$("#inp").focus(function(){$("#sel").attr('disabled','true');});

$("#inp").blur(function(){$("#sel").removeAttr('disabled');});

vice versa for the select also.

make iframe height dynamic based on content inside- JQUERY/Javascript

I found the answer from Troy didn't work. This is the same code reworked for ajax:

$.ajax({                                      
    url: 'data.php',    
    dataType: 'json',                             

    success: function(data)
    {
        // Put the data onto the page

        // Resize the iframe
        var iframe = $(window.top.document).find("#iframe");
        iframe.height( iframe[0].contentDocument.body.scrollHeight+'px' );
    }
});

How to determine if Javascript array contains an object with an attribute that equals a given value?

No loop necessary. Three methods that come to mind:

Array.prototype.some()

This is the most exact answer for your question, i.e. "check if something exists", implying a bool result. This will be true if there are any 'Magenic' objects, false otherwise:

let hasMagenicVendor = vendors.some( vendor => vendor['Name'] === 'Magenic' )

Array.prototype.filter()

This will return an array of all 'Magenic' objects, even if there is only one (will return a one-element array):

let magenicVendors = vendors.filter( vendor => vendor['Name'] === 'Magenic' )

If you try to coerce this to a boolean, it will not work, as an empty array (no 'Magenic' objects) is still truthy. So just use magenicVendors.length in your conditional.

Array.prototype.find()

This will return the first 'Magenic' object (or undefined if there aren't any):

let magenicVendor = vendors.find( vendor => vendor['Name'] === 'Magenic' );

This coerces to a boolean okay (any object is truthy, undefined is falsy).


Note: I'm using vendor["Name"] instead of vendor.Name because of the weird casing of the property names.

Note 2: No reason to use loose equality (==) instead of strict equality (===) when checking the name.

Convert HTML Character Back to Text Using Java Standard Library

Or you can use unescapeHtml4:

    String miCadena="GU&#205;A TELEF&#211;NICA";
    System.out.println(StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4(miCadena));

This code print the line: GUÍA TELEFÓNICA

How to keep form values after post

you can save them into a $_SESSION variable and then when the user calls that page again populate all the inputs with their respective session variables.

what is the difference between XSD and WSDL

If someone is looking for analogy , this answer might be helpful.

WSDL is like 'SHOW TABLE STATUS' command in mysql. It defines all the elements(request type, response type, format of URL to hit request,etc.,) which should be part of XML. By definition I mean: 1) Names of request or response 2) What should be treated as input , what should be treated as output.

XSD is like DESCRIBE command in mysql. It tells what all variables and their types, a request and response contains.

How to calculate moving average without keeping the count and data-total?

Here's yet another answer offering commentary on how Muis, Abdullah Al-Ageel and Flip's answer are all mathematically the same thing except written differently.

Sure, we have José Manuel Ramos's analysis explaining how rounding errors affect each slightly differently, but that's implementation dependent and would change based on how each answer were applied to code.

There is however a rather big difference

It's in Muis's N, Flip's k, and Abdullah Al-Ageel's n. Abdullah Al-Ageel doesn't quite explain what n should be, but N and k differ in that N is "the number of samples where you want to average over" while k is the count of values sampled. (Although I have doubts to whether calling N the number of samples is accurate.)

And here we come to the answer below. It's essentially the same old exponential weighted moving average as the others, so if you were looking for an alternative, stop right here.

Exponential weighted moving average

Initially:

average = 0
counter = 0

For each value:

counter += 1
average = average + (value - average) / min(counter, FACTOR)

The difference is the min(counter, FACTOR) part. This is the same as saying min(Flip's k, Muis's N).

FACTOR is a constant that affects how quickly the average "catches up" to the latest trend. Smaller the number the faster. (At 1 it's no longer an average and just becomes the latest value.)

This answer requires the running counter counter. If problematic, the min(counter, FACTOR) can be replaced with just FACTOR, turning it into Muis's answer. The problem with doing this is the moving average is affected by whatever average is initiallized to. If it was initialized to 0, that zero can take a long time to work its way out of the average.

How it ends up looking

Exponential moving average

How to create a new file in unix?

The command is lowercase: touch filename.

Keep in mind that touch will only create a new file if it does not exist! Here's some docs for good measure: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?touch

If you always want an empty file, one way to do so would be to use:

echo "" > filename

How to do a SOAP Web Service call from Java class?

I found a much simpler alternative way to generating soap message. Given a Person Object:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public class Person {
  private String name;
  private int age;
  private String address; //setter and getters below
}

Below is a simple Soap Message Generator:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JavaTimeModule;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;

@Slf4j
public class SoapGenerator {

  protected static final ObjectMapper XML_MAPPER = new XmlMapper()
      .enable(DeserializationFeature.READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_AS_NULL)
      .configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
      .configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false)
      .registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());

  private static final String SOAP_BODY_OPEN = "<soap:Body>";
  private static final String SOAP_BODY_CLOSE = "</soap:Body>";
  private static final String SOAP_ENVELOPE_OPEN = "<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">";
  private static final String SOAP_ENVELOPE_CLOSE = "</soap:Envelope>";

  public static String soapWrap(String xml) {
    return SOAP_ENVELOPE_OPEN + SOAP_BODY_OPEN + xml + SOAP_BODY_CLOSE + SOAP_ENVELOPE_CLOSE;
  }

  public static String soapUnwrap(String xml) {
    return StringUtils.substringBetween(xml, SOAP_BODY_OPEN, SOAP_BODY_CLOSE);
  }
}

You can use by:

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        Person p = new Person();
        p.setName("Test");
        p.setAge(12);

        String xml = SoapGenerator.soapWrap(XML_MAPPER.writeValueAsString(p));
        log.info("Generated String");
        log.info(xml);
      }

Ranges of floating point datatype in C?

As dasblinkenlight already answered, the numbers come from the way that floating point numbers are represented in IEEE-754, and Andreas has a nice breakdown of the maths.

However - be careful that the precision of floating point numbers isn't exactly 6 or 15 significant decimal digits as the table suggests, since the precision of IEEE-754 numbers depends on the number of significant binary digits.

  • float has 24 significant binary digits - which depending on the number represented translates to 6-8 decimal digits of precision.

  • double has 53 significant binary digits, which is approximately 15 decimal digits.

Another answer of mine has further explanation if you're interested.

TCPDF Save file to folder?

nick's example saves it to your localhost.
But you can also save it to your local drive.
if you use doublebackslashes:

 $filename= "Invoice.pdf"; 
 $filelocation = "C:\\invoices";  

 $fileNL = $filelocation."\\".$filename;
 $pdf->Output($fileNL,'F');

 $pdf->Output($filename,'D'); // you cannot add file location here

P.S. In Firefox (optional) Tools> Options > General tab> Download >Always ask me where to save files

How to escape special characters in building a JSON string?

Most of these answers either does not answer the question or is unnecessarily long in the explanation.

OK so JSON only uses double quotation marks, we get that!

I was trying to use JQuery AJAX to post JSON data to server and then later return that same information. The best solution to the posted question I found was to use:

var d = {
    name: 'whatever',
    address: 'whatever',
    DOB: '01/01/2001'
}
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: 'some/url',
    dataType: 'json',
    data: JSON.stringify(d),
    ...
}

This will escape the characters for you.

This was also suggested by Mark Amery, Great answer BTW

Hope this helps someone.

How do you detect/avoid Memory leaks in your (Unmanaged) code?

Working on Motorola cell phones operating system, we hijacked memory allocation library to observe all memory allocations. It helped to find a lot of problems with memory allocations. Since prevention is better then curing, I would recommend to use static analysis tool like Klockwork or PC-Lint

Why a function checking if a string is empty always returns true?

PHP evaluates an empty string to false, so you can simply use:

if (trim($userinput['phoneNumber'])) {
  // validate the phone number
} else {
  echo "Phone number not entered<br/>";
}

Python: Find a substring in a string and returning the index of the substring

late to the party, was searching for same, as "in" is not valid, I had just created following.

def find_str(full, sub):
    index = 0
    sub_index = 0
    position = -1
    for ch_i,ch_f in enumerate(full) :
        if ch_f.lower() != sub[sub_index].lower():
            position = -1
            sub_index = 0
        if ch_f.lower() == sub[sub_index].lower():
            if sub_index == 0 :
                position = ch_i

            if (len(sub) - 1) <= sub_index :
                break
            else:
                sub_index += 1

    return position

print(find_str("Happy birthday", "py"))
print(find_str("Happy birthday", "rth"))
print(find_str("Happy birthday", "rh"))

which produces

3
8
-1

remove lower() in case case insensitive find not needed.

ASP.NET MVC - Extract parameter of an URL

public ActionResult Index(int id,string value)

This function get values form URL After that you can use below function

Request.RawUrl - Return complete URL of Current page

RouteData.Values - Return Collection of Values of URL

Request.Params - Return Name Value Collections

What does "export" do in shell programming?

Well, it generally depends on the shell. For bash, it marks the variable as "exportable" meaning that it will show up in the environment for any child processes you run.

Non-exported variables are only visible from the current process (the shell).

From the bash man page:

export [-fn] [name[=word]] ...
export -p

The supplied names are marked for automatic export to the environment of subsequently executed commands.

If the -f option is given, the names refer to functions. If no names are given, or if the -p option is supplied, a list of all names that are exported in this shell is printed.

The -n option causes the export property to be removed from each name.

If a variable name is followed by =word, the value of the variable is set to word.

export returns an exit status of 0 unless an invalid option is encountered, one of the names is not a valid shell variable name, or -f is supplied with a name that is not a function.

You can also set variables as exportable with the typeset command and automatically mark all future variable creations or modifications as such, with set -a.

JavaScript string encryption and decryption?

I created an insecure but simple text cipher/decipher util. No dependencies with any external library.

These are the functions

const cipher = salt => {
    const textToChars = text => text.split('').map(c => c.charCodeAt(0));
    const byteHex = n => ("0" + Number(n).toString(16)).substr(-2);
    const applySaltToChar = code => textToChars(salt).reduce((a,b) => a ^ b, code);

    return text => text.split('')
        .map(textToChars)
        .map(applySaltToChar)
        .map(byteHex)
        .join('');
}

const decipher = salt => {
    const textToChars = text => text.split('').map(c => c.charCodeAt(0));
    const applySaltToChar = code => textToChars(salt).reduce((a,b) => a ^ b, code);
    return encoded => encoded.match(/.{1,2}/g)
        .map(hex => parseInt(hex, 16))
        .map(applySaltToChar)
        .map(charCode => String.fromCharCode(charCode))
        .join('');
}

And you can use them as follows:

// To create a cipher
const myCipher = cipher('mySecretSalt')

//Then cipher any text:
myCipher('the secret string')   // --> "7c606d287b6d6b7a6d7c287b7c7a61666f"

//To decipher, you need to create a decipher and use it:
const myDecipher = decipher('mySecretSalt')
myDecipher("7c606d287b6d6b7a6d7c287b7c7a61666f")    // --> 'the secret string'

How to replace a character from a String in SQL?

This will replace all ? with ':

UPDATE dbo.authors    
SET    city = replace(city, '?', '''')
WHERE city LIKE '%?%'

If you need to update more than one column, you can either change city each time you execute to a different column name, or list the columns like so:

UPDATE dbo.authors    
SET    city = replace(city, '?', '''')
      ,columnA = replace(columnA, '?', '''')
WHERE city LIKE '%?%'
OR columnA LIKE '%?%'

Failed to resolve: com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.+ (Dependency Error)

If you are using Android Studio 3.0 or above make sure your project build.gradle should have content similar to-

buildscript {                 
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {            
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'

    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
}

Note- position really matters add google() before jcenter()

And for below Android Studio 3.0 and starting from support libraries 26.+ your project build.gradle must look like this-

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com"
        }
    }
}

check these links below for more details-

1- Building Android Apps

2- Add Build Dependencies

3- Configure Your Build

How to extract elements from a list using indices in Python?

Perhaps use this:

[a[i] for i in (1,2,5)]
# [11, 12, 15]

Find all zero-byte files in directory and subdirectories

Bash 4+ tested - This is the correct way to search for size 0:

find /path/to/dir -size 0 -type f -name "*.xml"

Search for multiple file extensions of size 0:

find /path/to/dir -size 0 -type f \( -iname \*.css -o -iname \*.js \)

Note: If you removed the \( ... \) the results would be all of the files that meet this requirement hence ignoring the size 0.

Java Hashmap: How to get key from value?

There is no unambiguous answer, because multiple keys can map to the same value. If you are enforcing unique-ness with your own code, the best solution is to create a class that uses two Hashmaps to track the mappings in both directions.

Select all contents of textbox when it receives focus (Vanilla JS or jQuery)

Like @Travis and @Mari, I wanted to autoselect when the user clicked in, which means preventing the default behaviour of a mouseup event, but not prevent the user from clicking around. The solution I came up with, which works in IE11, Chrome 45, Opera 32 and Firefox 29 (these are the browsers I currently have installed), is based on the sequence of events involved in a mouse click.

When you click on a text input that does not have focus, you get these events (among others):

  • mousedown: In response to your click. Default handling raises focus if necessary and sets selection start.
  • focus: As part of the default handling of mousedown.
  • mouseup: The completion of your click, whose default handling will set the selection end.

When you click on a text input that already has focus, the focus event is skipped. As @Travis and @Mari both astutely noticed, the default handling of mouseup needs to be prevented only if the focus event occurs. However, as there is no "focus didn't happen" event, we need to infer this, which we can do within the mousedown handler.

@Mari's solution requires that jQuery be imported, which I want to avoid. @Travis's solution does this by inspecting document.activeElement. I don't know why exactly his solution doesn't work across browsers, but there is another way to track whether the text input has focus: simply follow its focus and blur events.

Here is the code that works for me:

    var blockMouseUp = false;
    var customerInputFocused = false;

    txtCustomer.onfocus =
      function ()
      {
        try
        {
          txtCustomer.selectionStart = 0;
          txtCustomer.selectionEnd = txtCustomer.value.length;
        }
        catch (error)
        {
          txtCustomer.select();
        }

        customerInputFocused = true;
      };

    txtCustomer.onblur =
      function ()
      {
        customerInputFocused = false;
      };

    txtCustomer.onmousedown =
      function ()
      {
        blockMouseUp = !customerInputFocused;
      };

    txtCustomer.onmouseup =
      function ()
      {
        if (blockMouseUp)
          return false;
      };

I hope this is of help to someone. :-)

This action could not be completed. Try Again (-22421)

In my case it was caused by lack of some of the app icons in the Images.xcassets

How to check if String is null

You can use the null coalescing double question marks to test for nulls in a string or other nullable value type:

textBox1.Text = s ?? "Is null";

The operator '??' asks if the value of 's' is null and if not it returns 's'; if it is null it returns the value on the right of the operator.

More info here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173224.aspx

And also worth noting there's a null-conditional operator ?. and ?[ introduced in C# 6.0 (and VB) in VS2015

textBox1.Text = customer?.orders?[0].description ?? "n/a";

This returns "n/a" if description is null, or if the order is null, or if the customer is null, else it returns the value of description.

More info here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx

OWIN Security - How to Implement OAuth2 Refresh Tokens

Just implemented my OWIN Service with Bearer (called access_token in the following) and Refresh Tokens. My insight into this is that you can use different flows. So it depends on the flow you want to use how you set your access_token and refresh_token expiration times.

I will describe two flows A and B in the follwing (I suggest what you want to have is flow B):

A) expiration time of access_token and refresh_token are the same as it is per default 1200 seconds or 20 minutes. This flow needs your client first to send client_id and client_secret with login data to get an access_token, refresh_token and expiration_time. With the refresh_token it is now possible to get a new access_token for 20 minutes (or whatever you set the AccessTokenExpireTimeSpan in the OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions to). For the reason that the expiration time of access_token and refresh_token are the same, your client is responsible to get a new access_token before the expiration time! E.g. your client could send a refresh POST call to your token endpoint with the body (remark: you should use https in production)

grant_type=refresh_token&client_id=xxxxxx&refresh_token=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx

to get a new token after e.g. 19 minutes to prevent the tokens from expiration.

B) in this flow you want to have a short term expiration for your access_token and a long term expiration for your refresh_token. Lets assume for test purpose you set the access_token to expire in 10 seconds (AccessTokenExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)) and the refresh_token to 5 Minutes. Now it comes to the interesting part setting the expiration time of refresh_token: You do this in your createAsync function in SimpleRefreshTokenProvider class like this:

var guid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();


        //copy properties and set the desired lifetime of refresh token
        var refreshTokenProperties = new AuthenticationProperties(context.Ticket.Properties.Dictionary)
        {
            IssuedUtc = context.Ticket.Properties.IssuedUtc,
            ExpiresUtc = DateTime.UtcNow.AddMinutes(5) //SET DATETIME to 5 Minutes
            //ExpiresUtc = DateTime.UtcNow.AddMonths(3) 
        };
        /*CREATE A NEW TICKET WITH EXPIRATION TIME OF 5 MINUTES 
         *INCLUDING THE VALUES OF THE CONTEXT TICKET: SO ALL WE 
         *DO HERE IS TO ADD THE PROPERTIES IssuedUtc and 
         *ExpiredUtc to the TICKET*/
        var refreshTokenTicket = new AuthenticationTicket(context.Ticket.Identity, refreshTokenProperties);

        //saving the new refreshTokenTicket to a local var of Type ConcurrentDictionary<string,AuthenticationTicket>
        // consider storing only the hash of the handle
        RefreshTokens.TryAdd(guid, refreshTokenTicket);            
        context.SetToken(guid);

Now your client is able to send a POST call with a refresh_token to your token endpoint when the access_token is expired. The body part of the call may look like this: grant_type=refresh_token&client_id=xxxxxx&refresh_token=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx

One important thing is that you may want to use this code not only in your CreateAsync function but also in your Create function. So you should consider to use your own function (e.g. called CreateTokenInternal) for the above code. Here you can find implementations of different flows including refresh_token flow(but without setting the expiration time of the refresh_token)

Here is one sample implementation of IAuthenticationTokenProvider on github (with setting the expiration time of the refresh_token)

I am sorry that I can't help out with further materials than the OAuth Specs and the Microsoft API Documentation. I would post the links here but my reputation doesn't let me post more than 2 links....

I hope this may help some others to spare time when trying to implement OAuth2.0 with refresh_token expiration time different to access_token expiration time. I couldn't find an example implementation on the web (except the one of thinktecture linked above) and it took me some hours of investigation until it worked for me.

New info: In my case I have two different possibilities to receive tokens. One is to receive a valid access_token. There I have to send a POST call with a String body in format application/x-www-form-urlencoded with the following data

client_id=YOURCLIENTID&grant_type=password&username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD

Second is if access_token is not valid anymore we can try the refresh_token by sending a POST call with a String body in format application/x-www-form-urlencoded with the following data grant_type=refresh_token&client_id=YOURCLIENTID&refresh_token=YOURREFRESHTOKENGUID

Catch KeyError in Python

Try print(e.message) this should be able to print your exception.

try:
    connection = manager.connect("I2Cx")
except Exception, e:
    print(e.message)

How to Use Content-disposition for force a file to download to the hard drive?

On the HTTP Response where you are returning the PDF file, ensure the content disposition header looks like:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=quot.pdf;

See content-disposition on the wikipedia MIME page.

Making HTTP Requests using Chrome Developer tools

_x000D_
_x000D_
$.post(_x000D_
    'dom/data-home.php',_x000D_
    {_x000D_
    type : "home", id : "0"_x000D_
    },function(data){_x000D_
        console.log(data)_x000D_
    })
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Send raw ZPL to Zebra printer via USB

Found amazing simple solution - working for Chrome (Windows, not tested on Mac)

Zebra ZP 450

  1. Go here Zebra Generic Text
  2. Go precisely by the manual
  3. No COM1 or any other ports needed - USB is enough
  4. When done (named the printer ZTEXT), does not matter if it won't print a test page
  5. Turn of Spooling and enable direct printing in Printer Preferences - 1 note here 1 printer is ZP450 CPT and other ZP450 only - on the other one I do not even need to turn off spooling and it worked.
  6. Go to Chrome and printing ZPL from there with Chrome Print Dialog Box by selecting the ZTEXT printer (Generic / Text) Printer (Do not choose Windows Dialog Box) - we needed this for Chrome to be working

builtins.TypeError: must be str, not bytes

The outfile should be in binary mode.

outFile = open('output.xml', 'wb')

Working around MySQL error "Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction"

The idea of retrying the query in case of Deadlock exception is good, but it can be terribly slow, since mysql query will keep waiting for locks to be released. And incase of deadlock mysql is trying to find if there is any deadlock, and even after finding out that there is a deadlock, it waits a while before kicking out a thread in order to get out from deadlock situation.

What I did when I faced this situation is to implement locking in your own code, since it is the locking mechanism of mysql is failing due to a bug. So I implemented my own row level locking in my java code:

private HashMap<String, Object> rowIdToRowLockMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
private final Object hashmapLock = new Object();
public void handleShortCode(Integer rowId)
{
    Object lock = null;
    synchronized(hashmapLock)
    {
      lock = rowIdToRowLockMap.get(rowId);
      if (lock == null)
      {
          rowIdToRowLockMap.put(rowId, lock = new Object());
      }
    }
    synchronized (lock)
    {
        // Execute your queries on row by row id
    }
}

Removing header column from pandas dataframe

I had the same problem but solved it in this way:

df = pd.read_csv('your-array.csv', skiprows=[0])

Cannot bulk load because the file could not be opened. Operating System Error Code 3

Using SQL connection via Windows Authentication: A "Kerberos double hop" is happening: one hop is your client application connecting to the SQL Server, a second hop is the SQL Server connecting to the remote "\\NETWORK_MACHINE\". Such a double hop falls under the restrictions of Constrained Delegation and you end up accessing the share as Anonymous Login and hence the Access Denied.

To resolve the issue you need to enable constrained delegation for the SQL Server service account. See here for a good post that explains it quite well

SQL Server using SQL Authentication You need to create a credential for your SQL login and use that to access that particular network resource. See here

How to remove td border with html?

<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td>one</td>
                    <td>two</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>one</td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

How to solve ADB device unauthorized in Android ADB host device?

You need to allow Allow USB debugging when the popup shows up when you first connect to the computer!

Find full path of the Python interpreter?

sys.executable contains full path of the currently running Python interpreter.

import sys

print(sys.executable)

which is now documented here

CSV in Python adding an extra carriage return, on Windows

While @john-machin gives a good answer, it's not always the best approach. For example, it doesn't work on Python 3 unless you encode all of your inputs to the CSV writer. Also, it doesn't address the issue if the script wants to use sys.stdout as the stream.

I suggest instead setting the 'lineterminator' attribute when creating the writer:

import csv
import sys

doc = csv.writer(sys.stdout, lineterminator='\n')
doc.writerow('abc')
doc.writerow(range(3))

That example will work on Python 2 and Python 3 and won't produce the unwanted newline characters. Note, however, that it may produce undesirable newlines (omitting the LF character on Unix operating systems).

In most cases, however, I believe that behavior is preferable and more natural than treating all CSV as a binary format. I provide this answer as an alternative for your consideration.

Using setImageDrawable dynamically to set image in an ImageView

If You cannot get Resources object like this in a class which is not an Activity, you have to add getContext() method for getResources() for example

ImageView image = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.item_image);
int id = getContext().getResources().getIdentifier(imageName, "drawable", getContext().getPackageName());
image.setImageResource(id);

How to resolve git error: "Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind"

I had this issue and I realized that .gitignore file is changed. So, I changed .gitignore and I could pull the changes.

Declaring array of objects

You can use fill().

let arr = new Array(5).fill('lol');

let arr2 = new Array(5).fill({ test: 'a' });
// or if you want different objects
let arr3 = new Array(5).fill().map((_, i) => ({ id: i }));

Will create an array of 5 items. Then you can use forEach for example.

arr.forEach(str => console.log(str));

Note that when doing new Array(5) it's just an object with length 5 and the array is empty. When you use fill() you fill each individual spot with whatever you want.

HQL ERROR: Path expected for join

select u from UserGroup ug inner join ug.user u 
where ug.group_id = :groupId 
order by u.lastname

As a named query:

@NamedQuery(
  name = "User.findByGroupId",
  query =
    "SELECT u FROM UserGroup ug " +
    "INNER JOIN ug.user u WHERE ug.group_id = :groupId ORDER BY u.lastname"
)

Use paths in the HQL statement, from one entity to the other. See the Hibernate documentation on HQL and joins for details.

bash export command

SHELL is an environment variable, and so it's not the most reliable for what you're trying to figure out. If your tool is using a shell which doesn't set it, it will retain its old value.

Use ps to figure out what's really going on.

How do I link to a library with Code::Blocks?

At a guess, you used Code::Blocks to create a Console Application project. Such a project does not link in the GDI stuff, because console applications are generally not intended to do graphics, and TextOut is a graphics function. If you want to use the features of the GDI, you should create a Win32 Gui Project, which will be set up to link in the GDI for you.

Spring security CORS Filter

I had a similar problem but with the specific requirement to have the CORS header set from decorators in our endpoints, like this:

@CrossOrigin(origins = "*", allowCredentials = "true")
@PostMapping(value = "/login")

Or

@CrossOrigin(origins = "*")
@GetMapping(value = "/verificationState")

So simply intercepting the request, setting the CORS header manually and sending 200 back was not an option, because allowCredentials was needed to be true in some cases and wildcards are not allowed then. Sure, a CORS registry would have helped, but since our clients are angular in capacitor on android and iOS, there is no specific domain to register. So the clean way to do - in my opinion - is to pipe preflights directly to the endpoints to let them handle it. I solved it with this:

@Component
public class PreflightFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PreflightFilter.class);

    @Override
    protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request,
                                    HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
            throws ServletException, IOException {

        if (CorsUtils.isPreFlightRequest(request)) {
            logger.info("Preflight request accepted");
            SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(createPreflightToken(request));
        }
        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    }

    private UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken createPreflightToken(HttpServletRequest request) {
        UserDetails userDetails = new User("Preflight", "",
                true, true, true, true,
                Stream.of(new SimpleGrantedAuthority("AppUser")).collect(Collectors.toSet()));
        UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken preflightToken =
                new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(
                        userDetails, null, userDetails.getAuthorities());
        preflightToken
                .setDetails(new WebAuthenticationDetailsSource().buildDetails(request));
        return preflightToken;
    }
}

Keep in mind that the endpoint decorators don't work like wildcards here as one would expect!

Using msbuild to execute a File System Publish Profile

FYI: I had the same issue with Visual Studio 2015. After many of hours trying, I can now do msbuild myproject.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=myprofile.

I had to edit my .csproj file to get it working. It contained a line like this:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" 
  Condition="false" />

I changed this line as follows:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />

(I changed 10.0 to 14.0, not sure whether this was necessary. But I definitely had to remove the condition part.)

How can I get the count of line in a file in an efficient way?

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.txt"));
int lines = 0;
while (reader.readLine() != null) lines++;
reader.close();

Update: To answer the performance-question raised here, I made a measurement. First thing: 20.000 lines are too few, to get the program running for a noticeable time. I created a text-file with 5 million lines. This solution (started with java without parameters like -server or -XX-options) needed around 11 seconds on my box. The same with wc -l (UNIX command-line-tool to count lines), 11 seconds. The solution reading every single character and looking for '\n' needed 104 seconds, 9-10 times as much.

Jquery UI Datepicker not displaying

I have been similar problems. It would launch once and not a 2nd time under different tabs. I used a class instead of an id, and used the same class name everywhere. To me it appears datepicker activates once and the original initialization has to be used everywhere. One can probably code around this with the destroy api, but for me it was easy to simply use the same class everywhere.

How to get the Mongo database specified in connection string in C#

The answer below is apparently obsolete now, but works with older drivers. See comments.

If you have the connection string you could also use MongoDatabase directly:

var db =  MongoDatabase.Create(connectionString);
var coll = db.GetCollection("MyCollection");

How can I make all images of different height and width the same via CSS?

You can do it this way:

 .container{
position: relative;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 1;
}

img{
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
-ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
-webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
-moz-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
max-width: 100%;
}

PHP code to remove everything but numbers

You would need to enclose the pattern in a delimiter - typically a slash (/) is used. Try this:

echo preg_replace("/[^0-9]/","",'604-619-5135');

Can I install/update WordPress plugins without providing FTP access?

Yes, directly install the plugin in WordPress.

  1. Copy the plugin folder and paste in WordPress plugin folder.
  2. go to admin side (/test/wp-admin) then after go to on the plugin link and check the name of the plugin.
  3. Activate the plugin so Install the plugin easily.

other Option

  1. create the zip file for the plugin code.
  2. go to admin side (/test/wp-admin) then after go to on the plugin link and then click on the add new then browse the plugin zip folder and install the plugin then come out the option activate plugin so so do activate plugin and activate plugin.

JavaScript seconds to time string with format hh:mm:ss

It's pretty easy,

function toTimeString(seconds) {
  return (new Date(seconds * 1000)).toUTCString().match(/(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)/)[0];
}

How to remove gaps between subplots in matplotlib?

Without resorting gridspec entirely, the following might also be used to remove the gaps by setting wspace and hspace to zero:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.clf()
f, axarr = plt.subplots(4, 4, gridspec_kw = {'wspace':0, 'hspace':0})

for i, ax in enumerate(f.axes):
    ax.grid('on', linestyle='--')
    ax.set_xticklabels([])
    ax.set_yticklabels([])

plt.show()
plt.close()

Resulting in:

.

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow

In case you are using Docker, make sure you have

FROM python:x.y.z

instead of

FROM python:x.y.z-alpine.

SQL - How to select a row having a column with max value

You can use this function, ORACLE DB

 public string getMaximumSequenceOfUser(string columnName, string tableName, string username)
    {
        string result = "";
        var query = string.Format("Select MAX ({0})from {1} where CREATED_BY = {2}", columnName, tableName, username.ToLower());

        OracleConnection conn = new OracleConnection(_context.Database.Connection.ConnectionString);
        OracleCommand cmd = new OracleCommand(query, conn);
        try
        {
            conn.Open();
            OracleDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
            dr.Read();
            result = dr[0].ToString();
            dr.Dispose();
        }
        finally
        {
            conn.Close();
        }
        return result;
    }

How to enable loglevel debug on Apache2 server

Do note that on newer Apache versions the RewriteLog and RewriteLogLevel have been removed, and in fact will now trigger an error when trying to start Apache (at least on my XAMPP installation with Apache 2.4.2):

AH00526: Syntax error on line xx of path/to/config/file.conf: Invalid command 'RewriteLog', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration`

Instead, you're now supposed to use the general LogLevel directive, with a level of trace1 up to trace8. 'debug' didn't display any rewrite messages in the log for me.

Example: LogLevel warn rewrite:trace3

For the official documentation, see here.

Of course this also means that now your rewrite logs will be written in the general error log file and you'll have to sort them out yourself.

How to use sbt from behind proxy?

Add both http and https configuration:

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dhttp.proxyHost=yourserver -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyUser=username -Dhttp.proxyPassword=password"

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dhttps.proxyHost=yourserver -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttps.proxyUser=username -Dhttps.proxyPassword=password"

(https config is must, since many urls referred by the sbt libraries are https)

In fact, I even had an extra setting 'http.proxySet' to 'true' in both configuration entries.

VueJs get url query

You can also get them with pure javascript.

For example:

new URL(location.href).searchParams.get('page')

For this url: websitename.com/user/?page=1, it would return a value of 1

WAMP 403 Forbidden message on Windows 7

I faced this issue with wamp on windows 7. Adding following code to httpd-vhosts.conf solved the issue for me.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "F:/wamp_server/www/"
  ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

How can I pass a file argument to my bash script using a Terminal command in Linux?

Bash supports a concept called "Positional Parameters". These positional parameters represent arguments that are specified on the command line when a Bash script is invoked.

Positional parameters are referred to by the names $0, $1, $2 ... and so on. $0 is the name of the script itself, $1 is the first argument to the script, $2 the second, etc. $* represents all of the positional parameters, except for $0 (i.e. starting with $1).

An example:

#!/bin/bash
FILE="$1"
externalprogram "$FILE" <other-parameters>

Is there are way to make a child DIV's width wider than the parent DIV using CSS?

you can try position: absolute. and give width and height , top: 'y axis from the top' and left: 'x-axis'

ubuntu "No space left on device" but there is tons of space

It's possible that you've run out of memory or some space elsewhere and it prompted the system to mount an overflow filesystem, and for whatever reason, it's not going away.

Try unmounting the overflow partition:

umount /tmp

or

umount overflow

How to break lines at a specific character in Notepad++?

If the text contains \r\n that need to be converted into new lines use the 'Extended' or 'Regular expression' modes and escape the backslash character in 'Find what':

Find what: \\r\\n

Replace with: \r\n

Force add despite the .gitignore file

See man git-add:

   -f, --force
       Allow adding otherwise ignored files.

So run this

git add --force my/ignore/file.foo

Check if null Boolean is true results in exception

as your variable bool is pointing to a null, you will always get a NullPointerException, you need to initialize the variable first somewhere with a not null value, and then modify it.

Compilation error: stray ‘\302’ in program etc

With me this error ocurred when I copied and pasted a code in text format to my editor (gedit). The code was in a text document (.odt) and I copied it and pasted it into gedit. If you did the same, you have manually rewrite the code.

How to delete a workspace in Perforce (using p4v)?

In P4V click View > Workspaces

If the workspace to be deleted is not visible in the list you may have to uncheck the box Show only workspaces available for use on this computer

Right-click the workspace to be deleted and choose Edit Workspace 'My_workspace'

On the Advanced tab uncheck the box Locked: only the owner can edit workspace settings > then click OK

Now back on the Workspaces tab of Perforce right-click the workspace to be deleted and choose Delete Workspace 'My_workspace'

P4V should remove the item from the drop-down list when clicking on it.

There is a case where a previously deleted workspace remains in the drop-down list, and P4V displays the following error:

P4V Workspace Switch Error. This workspace cannot be used on this computer either because the host field does not match your computer name or the workspace root cannot be used on this computer.

If this error occurs, the workspace(possibly on another host) may have only been unloaded. Click the P4V Workspaces Recycle bin

P4V Recycle

In the resulting Unloaded Workspaces window right-click the offending workspace and choose Delete Workspace 'My_workspace'. P4V should now remove the workspace item from the drop-down list.

How do I remove carriage returns with Ruby?

Just another variant:

lines.delete(" \n")

How to get index of object by its property in JavaScript?

Using underscore:

var index = _.indexOf(_.pluck(item , 'name'), 'Nick');

Is it a good practice to use try-except-else in Python?

Just because no-one else has posted this opinion, I would say

avoid else clauses in try/excepts because they're unfamiliar to most people

Unlike the keywords try, except, and finally, the meaning of the else clause isn't self-evident; it's less readable. Because it's not used very often, it'll cause people that read your code to want to double-check the docs to be sure they understand what's going on.

(I'm writing this answer precisely because I found a try/except/else in my codebase and it caused a wtf moment and forced me to do some googling).

So, wherever I see code like the OP example:

try:
    try_this(whatever)
except SomeException as the_exception:
    handle(the_exception)
else:
    # do some more processing in non-exception case
    return something

I would prefer to refactor to

try:
    try_this(whatever)
except SomeException as the_exception:
    handle(the_exception)
    return  # <1>
# do some more processing in non-exception case  <2>
return something
  • <1> explicit return, clearly shows that, in the exception case, we are finished working

  • <2> as a nice minor side-effect, the code that used to be in the else block is dedented by one level.

How to POST using HTTPclient content type = application/x-www-form-urlencoded

I was using a .Net Core 2.1 API with the [FromBody] attribute and I had to use the following solution to successfully Post to it:

_apiClient =  new HttpClient();
_apiClient.BaseAddress = new Uri(<YOUR API>);
var MyObject myObject = new MyObject(){
    FirstName = "Me",
    LastName = "Myself"
};

var stringified = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(myObject);
var result = await _apiClient.PostAsync("api/appusers", new StringContent(stringified, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"));

"CASE" statement within "WHERE" clause in SQL Server 2008

 select 
d.DISTNAME,e.BLKNAME,a.childid,a.studyingclass 
from Tbl_AdmissionRegister a
inner join District_master b on a.Schooid=b.Schooid
where 
case when len('3601')=4   then c.distcd 
           when len('3601')=6   then c.blkcd  
           when len('3601')=11  then c.schcd   end = '3601'

Case insensitive comparison NSString

An alternative if you want more control than just case insensitivity is:

[someString compare:otherString options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];

Numeric search and diacritical insensitivity are two handy options.

"psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused" Error when connecting to remote database

Mine was quite straightforward if you are on a Mac try:

brew install postgres

This will tell you if you have it already install and what version or install the latest version for you if not then run

brew upgrade postgresql

This will make sure you have the latest version installed then finally

brew services start postgresql

This will start the service again. I hope this helps someone.

Access index of last element in data frame

Pandas supports NumPy syntax which allows:

df[len(df) -1:].index[0]

Which is a better way to check if an array has more than one element?

I do my array looping and getting filled defaults accordingly in Swift 4/5

   for index in 0..<3
    {
        let isIndexValid = allObjects.indices.contains(index)
        var yourObject:Class = Class()
        if isIndexValid { yourObject = allObjects[index]}
        resultArray.append(yourObject)
    }

How to insert new row to database with AUTO_INCREMENT column without specifying column names?

Even better, use DEFAULT instead of NULL. You want to store the default value, not a NULL that might trigger a default value.

But you'd better name all columns, with a piece of SQL you can create all the INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE's you need. Just check the information_schema and construct the queries you need. There is no need to do it all by hand, SQL can help you out.

How to make an image center (vertically & horizontally) inside a bigger div

I have a gallery of images for which I don't know the exact heights or widths of images beforhand, I just know that they are smaller than the div in which they are going to be contained.

By doing a combination of line-height settings on the container and using vertical-align:middle on the image element, I finally got it to work on FF 3.5, Safari 4.0 and IE7.0 using the following HTML markup and the following CSS.

The HTML Markup

<div id="gallery">
    <div class="painting">
        <a href="Painting/Details/2">
            <img src="/Content/Images/Paintings/Thumbnail/painting_00002.jpg" />
        </a>
    </div>
    <div class="painting">
        ...
    </div>
    ...
 </div>

The CSS

div.painting
{
    float:left;

    height:138px; /* fixed dimensions */
    width: 138px;

    border: solid 1px white;
    background-color:#F5F5F5;


    line-height:138px;    
    text-align:center;

}

    div.painting a img
    {
        border:none;
        vertical-align:middle;

    }

How to customize the background/border colors of a grouped table view cell?

Much thanks to all who posted their code. This is very useful.

I derived a similar solution to change the highlight color for grouped table view cells. Basically the UITableViewCell's selectedBackgroundView (not the backgroundView). Which even on iPhone OS 3.0 still needs this PITA solution, as far as I can tell...

The code below has the changes for rendering the highlight with a gradient instead of one solid color. Also the border rendering is removed. Enjoy.

//
//  CSCustomCellBackgroundView.h
//

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

typedef enum  
{
    CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionTop, 
    CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionMiddle, 
    CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionBottom,
    CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionSingle,
    CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionPlain
} CustomCellBackgroundViewPosition;

@interface CSCustomCellBackgroundView : UIView 
{
    CustomCellBackgroundViewPosition position;
 CGGradientRef gradient;
}

@property(nonatomic) CustomCellBackgroundViewPosition position;

@end



//
//  CSCustomCellBackgroundView.m
//

#import "CSCustomCellBackgroundView.h"



#define ROUND_SIZE 10


static void addRoundedRectToPath(CGContextRef context, CGRect rect,
         float ovalWidth,float ovalHeight);


@implementation CSCustomCellBackgroundView


@synthesize position;

- (BOOL) isOpaque 
{
    return NO;
}

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame 
{
    if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame]) 
 {
        // Initialization code
  const float* topCol = CGColorGetComponents([[UIColor redColor] CGColor]);
  const float* bottomCol = CGColorGetComponents([[UIColor blueColor] CGColor]);

  CGColorSpaceRef rgb = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
  /*
  CGFloat colors[] =
  {
   5.0 / 255.0, 140.0 / 255.0, 245.0 / 255.0, 1.00,
   1.0 / 255.0,  93.0 / 255.0, 230.0 / 255.0, 1.00,
  };*/
  CGFloat colors[]=
  {
   topCol[0], topCol[1], topCol[2], topCol[3],
   bottomCol[0], bottomCol[1], bottomCol[2], bottomCol[3]
  };
  gradient = CGGradientCreateWithColorComponents(rgb, colors, NULL, sizeof(colors)/(sizeof(colors[0])*4));
  CGColorSpaceRelease(rgb);
    }
    return self;
}


-(void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect 
{
    // Drawing code

    CGContextRef c = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    if (position == CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionTop) 
 {

        CGFloat minx = CGRectGetMinX(rect) , midx = CGRectGetMidX(rect), maxx = CGRectGetMaxX(rect) ;
        CGFloat miny = CGRectGetMinY(rect) , maxy = CGRectGetMaxY(rect) ;
        minx = minx + 1;
        miny = miny + 1;

        maxx = maxx - 1;
        maxy = maxy ;

        CGContextMoveToPoint(c, minx, maxy);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, minx, miny, midx, miny, ROUND_SIZE);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, maxx, miny, maxx, maxy, ROUND_SIZE);
        CGContextAddLineToPoint(c, maxx, maxy);

        // Close the path
        CGContextClosePath(c);

  CGContextSaveGState(c);
  CGContextClip(c);
  CGContextDrawLinearGradient(c, gradient, CGPointMake(minx,miny), CGPointMake(minx,maxy), kCGGradientDrawsBeforeStartLocation | kCGGradientDrawsAfterEndLocation);
  CGContextRestoreGState(c);

        return;
    } 
 else if (position == CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionBottom) 
 {

        CGFloat minx = CGRectGetMinX(rect) , midx = CGRectGetMidX(rect), maxx = CGRectGetMaxX(rect) ;
        CGFloat miny = CGRectGetMinY(rect) , maxy = CGRectGetMaxY(rect) ;
        minx = minx + 1;
        miny = miny + 1;

        maxx = maxx - 1;
        maxy = maxy - 1;

        CGContextMoveToPoint(c, minx, miny);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, minx, maxy, midx, maxy, ROUND_SIZE);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, maxx, maxy, maxx, miny, ROUND_SIZE);
        CGContextAddLineToPoint(c, maxx, miny);
        // Close the path
        CGContextClosePath(c);

  CGContextSaveGState(c);
  CGContextClip(c);
  CGContextDrawLinearGradient(c, gradient, CGPointMake(minx,miny), CGPointMake(minx,maxy), kCGGradientDrawsBeforeStartLocation | kCGGradientDrawsAfterEndLocation);
  CGContextRestoreGState(c);

        return;
    } 
 else if (position == CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionMiddle) 
 {
        CGFloat minx = CGRectGetMinX(rect) , maxx = CGRectGetMaxX(rect) ;
        CGFloat miny = CGRectGetMinY(rect) , maxy = CGRectGetMaxY(rect) ;
        minx = minx + 1;
        miny = miny + 1;

        maxx = maxx - 1;
        maxy = maxy ;

        CGContextMoveToPoint(c, minx, miny);
        CGContextAddLineToPoint(c, maxx, miny);
        CGContextAddLineToPoint(c, maxx, maxy);
        CGContextAddLineToPoint(c, minx, maxy);
  // Close the path
        CGContextClosePath(c);

  CGContextSaveGState(c);
  CGContextClip(c);
  CGContextDrawLinearGradient(c, gradient, CGPointMake(minx,miny), CGPointMake(minx,maxy), kCGGradientDrawsBeforeStartLocation | kCGGradientDrawsAfterEndLocation);
  CGContextRestoreGState(c);

        return;
    }
 else if (position == CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionSingle)
 {
        CGFloat minx = CGRectGetMinX(rect) , midx = CGRectGetMidX(rect), maxx = CGRectGetMaxX(rect) ;
        CGFloat miny = CGRectGetMinY(rect) , midy = CGRectGetMidY(rect) , maxy = CGRectGetMaxY(rect) ;
        minx = minx + 1;
        miny = miny + 1;

        maxx = maxx - 1;
        maxy = maxy - 1;

        CGContextMoveToPoint(c, minx, midy);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, minx, miny, midx, miny, ROUND_SIZE);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, maxx, miny, maxx, midy, ROUND_SIZE);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, maxx, maxy, midx, maxy, ROUND_SIZE);
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(c, minx, maxy, minx, midy, ROUND_SIZE);
        // Close the path
        CGContextClosePath(c);              

  CGContextSaveGState(c);
  CGContextClip(c);
  CGContextDrawLinearGradient(c, gradient, CGPointMake(minx,miny), CGPointMake(minx,maxy), kCGGradientDrawsBeforeStartLocation | kCGGradientDrawsAfterEndLocation);
  CGContextRestoreGState(c);

        return;         
 } 
 else if (position == CustomCellBackgroundViewPositionPlain) {
    CGFloat minx = CGRectGetMinX(rect);
    CGFloat miny = CGRectGetMinY(rect), maxy = CGRectGetMaxY(rect) ;
    CGContextDrawLinearGradient(c, gradient, CGPointMake(minx,miny), CGPointMake(minx,maxy), kCGGradientDrawsBeforeStartLocation | kCGGradientDrawsAfterEndLocation);
    return;
}

}

- (void)dealloc 
{
    CGGradientRelease(gradient);
    [super dealloc];
}


- (void) setPosition:(CustomCellBackgroundViewPosition)inPosition
{
 if(position != inPosition)
 {
  position = inPosition;
  [self setNeedsDisplay];
 }
}

@end


static void addRoundedRectToPath(CGContextRef context, CGRect rect,
         float ovalWidth,float ovalHeight)

{
    float fw, fh;

    if (ovalWidth == 0 || ovalHeight == 0) {// 1
        CGContextAddRect(context, rect);
        return;
    }

    CGContextSaveGState(context);// 2

    CGContextTranslateCTM (context, CGRectGetMinX(rect),// 3
         CGRectGetMinY(rect));
    CGContextScaleCTM (context, ovalWidth, ovalHeight);// 4
    fw = CGRectGetWidth (rect) / ovalWidth;// 5
    fh = CGRectGetHeight (rect) / ovalHeight;// 6

    CGContextMoveToPoint(context, fw, fh/2); // 7
    CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, fw, fh, fw/2, fh, 1);// 8
    CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, 0, fh, 0, fh/2, 1);// 9
    CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, 0, 0, fw/2, 0, 1);// 10
    CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, fw, 0, fw, fh/2, 1); // 11
    CGContextClosePath(context);// 12

    CGContextRestoreGState(context);// 13
}

How can I get a collection of keys in a JavaScript dictionary?

Simply use Object.keys():

_x000D_
_x000D_
var driversCounter = {_x000D_
                      "one": 1,_x000D_
                      "two": 2,_x000D_
                      "three": 3,_x000D_
                      "four": 4,_x000D_
                      "five": 5_x000D_
                     }_x000D_
console.log(Object.keys(driversCounter));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to sort by Date with DataTables jquery plugin?

Date Sort - with a hidden element

Convert the date to the format YYYYMMDD and prepend to the actual value (MM/DD/YYYY) in the <td>, wrap it in an element, set style display:none; to the elements. Now the date sort will work as a normal sort. The same can be applied to date-time sort.

HTML

<table id="data-table">
   <tr>
     <td><span>YYYYMMDD</span>MM/DD/YYYY</td>
   </tr>
</table>

CSS

#data-table span {
    display:none; 
}

How could I put a border on my grid control in WPF?

If nesting your grid in a border control

<Border>
    <Grid>
    </Grid>
</Border>

does not do what you want, then you are going to have to make your own control template for the grid (or border) that DOES do what you want.

How to convert a String into an ArrayList?

Option1:

List<String> list = Arrays.asList("hello");

Option2:

List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList("hello"));

In my opinion, Option1 is better because

  1. we can reduce the number of ArrayList objects being created from 2 to 1. asList method creates and returns an ArrayList Object.
  2. its performance is much better (but it returns a fixed-size list).

Please refer to the documentation here

What is the backslash character (\\)?

\ is used as for escape sequence in many programming languages, including Java.

If you want to

  • go to next line then use \n or \r,
  • for tab use \t
  • likewise to print a \ or " which are special in string literal you have to escape it with another \ which gives us \\ and \"

How to make a simple popup box in Visual C#?

Why not make use of a tooltip?

private void ShowToolTip(object sender, string message)
{
  new ToolTip().Show(message, this, Cursor.Position.X - this.Location.X, Cursor.Position.Y - this.Location.Y, 1000);
}

The code above will show message for 1000 milliseconds (1 second) where you clicked.

To call it, you can use the following in your button click event:

ShowToolTip("Hello World");

How to duplicate sys.stdout to a log file?

Here is another solution, which is more general than the others -- it supports splitting output (written to sys.stdout) to any number of file-like objects. There's no requirement that __stdout__ itself is included.

import sys

class multifile(object):
    def __init__(self, files):
        self._files = files
    def __getattr__(self, attr, *args):
        return self._wrap(attr, *args)
    def _wrap(self, attr, *args):
        def g(*a, **kw):
            for f in self._files:
                res = getattr(f, attr, *args)(*a, **kw)
            return res
        return g

# for a tee-like behavior, use like this:
sys.stdout = multifile([ sys.stdout, open('myfile.txt', 'w') ])

# all these forms work:
print 'abc'
print >>sys.stdout, 'line2'
sys.stdout.write('line3\n')

NOTE: This is a proof-of-concept. The implementation here is not complete, as it only wraps methods of the file-like objects (e.g. write), leaving out members/properties/setattr, etc. However, it is probably good enough for most people as it currently stands.

What I like about it, other than its generality, is that it is clean in the sense it doesn't make any direct calls to write, flush, os.dup2, etc.

ldconfig error: is not a symbolic link

I ran into this issue with the Oracle 11R2 client. Not sure if the Oracle installer did this or someone did it here before i arrived. It was not 64-bit vs 32-bit, all was 64-bit.

The error was that libexpat.so.1 was not a symbolic link.

It turned out that there were two identical files, libexpat.so.1.5.2 and libexpat.so.1. Removing the offending file and making it a symlink to the 1.5.2 version caused the error to go away.

Makes sense that you'd want the well-known name to be a symlink to the current version. If you do this, it's less likely that you'll end up with a stale library.

Simulate user input in bash script

Here is a snippet I wrote; to ask for users' password and set it in /etc/passwd. You can manipulate it a little probably to get what you need:

echo -n " Please enter the password for the given user: "
read userPass
useradd $userAcct && echo -e "$userPass\n$userPass\n" | passwd $userAcct > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo " User account has been created." || echo " ERR -- User account creation failed!"

Compare two DataFrames and output their differences side-by-side

Extending answer of @cge, which is pretty cool for more readability of result:

a[a != b][np.any(a != b, axis=1)].join(pd.DataFrame('a<->b', index=a.index, columns=['a<=>b'])).join(
        b[a != b][np.any(a != b, axis=1)]
        ,rsuffix='_b', how='outer'
).fillna('')

Full demonstration example:

import numpy as np, pandas as pd

a = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(7,3), columns=list('ABC'))
b = a.copy()
b.iloc[0,2] = np.nan
b.iloc[1,0] = 7
b.iloc[3,1] = 77
b.iloc[4,2] = 777

a[a != b][np.any(a != b, axis=1)].join(pd.DataFrame('a<->b', index=a.index, columns=['a<=>b'])).join(
        b[a != b][np.any(a != b, axis=1)]
        ,rsuffix='_b', how='outer'
).fillna('')

Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences

Some reading to get you started on character encodings: Joel on Software: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

By the way - ASP.NET has nothing to do with it. Encodings are universal.

How to make Twitter bootstrap modal full screen

I've came up with a "responsive" solution for fullscreen modals:

Fullscreen Modals that can be enabled only on certain breakpoints. In this way the modal will display "normal" on wider (desktop) screens and fullscreen on smaller (tablet or mobile) screens, giving it the feeling of a native app.

Implemented for Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4. Included by default in Bootstrap 5.


Bootstrap v5

Fullscreen modals are included by default in Bootstrap 5: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/modal/#fullscreen-modal


Bootstrap v4

The following generic code should work:

.modal {
  padding: 0 !important; // override inline padding-right added from js
}
.modal .modal-dialog {
  width: 100%;
  max-width: none;
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
}
.modal .modal-content {
  height: 100%;
  border: 0;
  border-radius: 0;
}
.modal .modal-body {
  overflow-y: auto;
}

By including the scss code below, it generates the following classes that need to be added to the .modal element:

+---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|               |   xs    |   sm    |   md    |   lg    |   xl    | 
|               | <576px  | =576px  | =768px  | =992px  | =1200px |
+---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|.fullscreen    |  100%   | default | default | default | default | 
+---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|.fullscreen-sm |  100%   |  100%   | default | default | default | 
+---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|.fullscreen-md |  100%   |  100%   |  100%   | default | default |
+---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|.fullscreen-lg |  100%   |  100%   |  100%   |  100%   | default |
+---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|.fullscreen-xl |  100%   |  100%   |  100%   |  100%   |  100%   |
+---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+

The scss code is:

@mixin modal-fullscreen() {
  padding: 0 !important; // override inline padding-right added from js

  .modal-dialog {
    width: 100%;
    max-width: none;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
  }

  .modal-content {
    height: 100%;
    border: 0;
    border-radius: 0;
  }

  .modal-body {
    overflow-y: auto;
  }

}

@each $breakpoint in map-keys($grid-breakpoints) {
  @include media-breakpoint-down($breakpoint) {
    $infix: breakpoint-infix($breakpoint, $grid-breakpoints);

    .modal-fullscreen#{$infix} {
      @include modal-fullscreen();
    }
  }
}

Demo on Codepen: https://codepen.io/andreivictor/full/MWYNPBV/


Bootstrap v3

Based on previous responses to this topic (@Chris J, @kkarli), the following generic code should work:

.modal {
  padding: 0 !important; // override inline padding-right added from js
}

.modal .modal-dialog {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.modal .modal-content {
  height: auto;
  min-height: 100%;
  border: 0 none;
  border-radius: 0;
  box-shadow: none;
}

If you want to use responsive fullscreen modals, use the following classes that need to be added to .modal element:

  • .modal-fullscreen-md-down - the modal is fullscreen for screens smaller than 1200px.
  • .modal-fullscreen-sm-down - the modal is fullscreen for screens smaller than 922px.
  • .modal-fullscreen-xs-down - the modal is fullscreen for screen smaller than 768px.

Take a look at the following code:

/* Extra small devices (less than 768px) */
@media (max-width: 767px) {
  .modal-fullscreen-xs-down {
    padding: 0 !important;
  }
  .modal-fullscreen-xs-down .modal-dialog {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
  }
  .modal-fullscreen-xs-down .modal-content {
    height: auto;
    min-height: 100%;
    border: 0 none;
    border-radius: 0;
    box-shadow: none;
  } 
}

/* Small devices (less than 992px) */
@media (max-width: 991px) {
  .modal-fullscreen-sm-down {
    padding: 0 !important;
  }
  .modal-fullscreen-sm-down .modal-dialog {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
  }
  .modal-fullscreen-sm-down .modal-content {
    height: auto;
    min-height: 100%;
    border: 0 none;
    border-radius: 0;
    box-shadow: none;
  }
}

/* Medium devices (less than 1200px) */
@media (max-width: 1199px) {
  .modal-fullscreen-md-down {
    padding: 0 !important;
  }
  .modal-fullscreen-md-down .modal-dialog {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
  }
  .modal-fullscreen-md-down .modal-content {
    height: auto;
    min-height: 100%;
    border: 0 none;
    border-radius: 0;
    box-shadow: none;
  }
}

Demo is available on Codepen: https://codepen.io/andreivictor/full/KXNdoO.

Those who use Sass as a preprocessor can take advantage of the following mixin:

@mixin modal-fullscreen() {
  padding: 0 !important; // override inline padding-right added from js

  .modal-dialog {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
  }

  .modal-content {
    height: auto;
    min-height: 100%;
    border: 0 none;
    border-radius: 0;
    box-shadow: none;
  }

}

MySql Error: 1364 Field 'display_name' doesn't have default value

I got this error when I forgot to add new form fields/database columns to the $fillable array in the Laravel model - the model was stripping them out.

XMLHttpRequest (Ajax) Error

I see 2 possible problems:

Problem 1

  • the XMLHTTPRequest object has not finished loading the data at the time you are trying to use it

Solution: assign a callback function to the objects "onreadystatechange" -event and handle the data in that function

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = callbackFunctionName;

Once the state has reached DONE (4), the response content is ready to be read.

Problem 2

  • the XMLHTTPRequest object does not exist in all browsers (by that name)

Solution: Either use a try-catch for creating the correct object for correct browser ( ActiveXObject in IE) or use a framework, for example jQuery ajax-method

Note: if you decide to use jQuery ajax-method, you assign the callback-function with jqXHR.done()

'if' in prolog?

There are essentially three different ways how to express something like if-then-else in Prolog. To compare them consider char_class/2. For a and b the class should be ab and other for all other terms. One could write this clumsily like so:

char_class(a, ab).
char_class(b, ab).
char_class(X, other) :-
   dif(X, a),
   dif(X, b).

?- char_class(Ch, Class).
   Ch = a, Class = ab
;  Ch = b, Class = ab
;  Class = other,
   dif(Ch, a), dif(Ch, b).

To write things more compactly, an if-then-else construct is needed. Prolog has a built-in one:

?- ( ( Ch = a ; Ch = b ) -> Class = ab ; Class = other ).
   Ch = a, Class = ab.

While this answer is sound, it is incomplete. Just the first answer from ( Ch = a ; Ch = b ) is given. The other answers are chopped away. Not very relational, indeed.

A better construct, often called a "soft cut" (don't believe the name, a cut is a cut is a cut), gives slightly better results (this is in YAP):

?- ( ( Ch = a ; Ch = b ) *-> Class = ab ; Class = other ).
   Ch = a, Class = ab
;  Ch = b, Class = ab.

Alternatively, SICStus has if/3 with very similar semantics:

?- if( ( Ch = a ; Ch = b ), Class = ab , Class = other ).
   Ch = a, Class = ab
;  Ch = b, Class = ab.

So the last answer is still suppressed. Now enter library(reif) for SICStus, YAP, and SWI. Install it and say:

?- use_module(library(reif)).

?- if_( ( Ch = a ; Ch = b ), Class = ab , Class = other ).
   Ch = a, Class = ab
;  Ch = b, Class = ab
;  Class = other,
   dif(Ch, a), dif(Ch, b).

Note that all the if_/3 is compiled away to a wildly nested if-then-else for

char_class(Ch, Class) :-
   if_( ( Ch = a ; Ch = b ), Class = ab , Class = other ).

which expands in YAP 6.3.4 to:

char_class(A,B) :-
   ( A\=a
   ->
     ( A\=b
     ->
       B=other
     ;
       ( A==b
       ->
         B=ab
       )
     ;
       A=b,
       B=ab
     ;
       dif(A,b),
       B=other
     )
   ;
     ( A==a
     ->
       B=ab
     )
   ;
     A=a,
     B=ab
   ;
     dif(A,a),
     ( A\=b
     ->
       B=other
     ;
       ( A==b
       ->
         B=ab
       )
     ;
       A=b,
       B=ab
     ;
       dif(A,b),
       B=other
     )
   ).

SQL Bulk Insert with FIRSTROW parameter skips the following line

I found it easiest to just read the entire line into one column then parse out the data using XML.

IF (OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#data') IS NOT NULL) DROP TABLE #data
CREATE TABLE #data (data VARCHAR(MAX))

BULK INSERT #data FROM 'E:\filefromabove.txt' WITH (FIRSTROW = 2, ROWTERMINATOR = '\n')

IF (OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#dataXml') IS NOT NULL) DROP TABLE #dataXml
CREATE TABLE #dataXml (ID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, data XML)

INSERT #dataXml (data)
SELECT CAST('<r><d>' + REPLACE(data, '|', '</d><d>') + '</d></r>' AS XML)
FROM #data

SELECT  d.data.value('(/r//d)[1]', 'varchar(max)') AS col1,
        d.data.value('(/r//d)[2]', 'varchar(max)') AS col2,
        d.data.value('(/r//d)[3]', 'varchar(max)') AS col3
FROM #dataXml d

How to send a correct authorization header for basic authentication

Per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowBase64/Base64_encoding_and_decoding and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication , here is how to do Basic auth with a header instead of putting the username and password in the URL. Note that this still doesn't hide the username or password from anyone with access to the network or this JS code (e.g. a user executing it in a browser):

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: http://theappurl.com/api/v1/method/,
  data: {},
  crossDomain: true,
  beforeSend: function(xhr) {
    xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(YOUR_USERNAME + ':' + YOUR_PASSWORD))))
  }
});

Setting a Sheet and cell as variable

Yes, set the cell as a RANGE object one time and then use that RANGE object in your code:

Sub RangeExample()
Dim MyRNG As Range

Set MyRNG = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(23, 4)

Debug.Print MyRNG.Value

End Sub

Alternately you can simply store the value of that cell in memory and reference the actual value, if that's all you really need. That variable can be Long or Double or Single if numeric, or String:

Sub ValueExample()
Dim MyVal As String

MyVal = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(23, 4).Value

Debug.Print MyVal

End Sub

How to get all table names from a database?

You need to iterate over your ResultSet calling next().

This is an example from java2s.com:

DatabaseMetaData md = conn.getMetaData();
ResultSet rs = md.getTables(null, null, "%", null);
while (rs.next()) {
  System.out.println(rs.getString(3));
}

Column 3 is the TABLE_NAME (see documentation of DatabaseMetaData::getTables).

How to call a parent class function from derived class function?

If your base class is called Base, and your function is called FooBar() you can call it directly using Base::FooBar()

void Base::FooBar()
{
   printf("in Base\n");
}

void ChildOfBase::FooBar()
{
  Base::FooBar();
}

Adding Google Play services version to your app's manifest?

In my case i had to install google repository from the SDK manager.

What is App.config in C#.NET? How to use it?

At its simplest, the app.config is an XML file with many predefined configuration sections available and support for custom configuration sections. A "configuration section" is a snippet of XML with a schema meant to store some type of information.

Settings can be configured using built-in configuration sections such as connectionStrings or appSettings. You can add your own custom configuration sections; this is an advanced topic, but very powerful for building strongly-typed configuration files.

Web applications typically have a web.config, while Windows GUI/service applications have an app.config file.

Application-level config files inherit settings from global configuration files, e.g. the machine.config.

Reading from the App.Config

Connection strings have a predefined schema that you can use. Note that this small snippet is actually a valid app.config (or web.config) file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>   
        <add name="MyKey" 
             connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=ABC;"
             providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
    </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

Once you have defined your app.config, you can read it in code using the ConfigurationManager class. Don't be intimidated by the verbose MSDN examples; it's actually quite simple.

string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyKey"].ConnectionString;

Writing to the App.Config

Frequently changing the *.config files is usually not a good idea, but it sounds like you only want to perform one-time setup.

See: Change connection string & reload app.config at run time which describes how to update the connectionStrings section of the *.config file at runtime.

Note that ideally you would perform such configuration changes from a simple installer.

Location of the App.Config at Runtime

Q: Suppose I manually change some <value> in app.config, save it and then close it. Now when I go to my bin folder and launch the .exe file from here, why doesn't it reflect the applied changes?

A: When you compile an application, its app.config is copied to the bin directory1 with a name that matches your exe. For example, if your exe was named "test.exe", there should be a "text.exe.config" in your bin directory. You can change the configuration without a recompile, but you will need to edit the config file that was created at compile time, not the original app.config.

1: Note that web.config files are not moved, but instead stay in the same location at compile and deployment time. One exception to this is when a web.config is transformed.

.NET Core

New configuration options were introduced with .NET Core. The way that *.config files works does not appear to have changed, but developers are free to choose new, more flexible configuration paradigms.

Unable to Connect to GitHub.com For Cloning

You are probably behind a firewall. Try cloning via https – that has a higher chance of not being blocked:

git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git

set font size in jquery

You can try another way like that:

<div class="content">
        Australia
    </div>

jQuery code:

$(".content").css({
    background: "#d1d1d1",
    fontSize: "30px"
})

Now you can add more css property as you want.

jquery beforeunload when closing (not leaving) the page?

Try javascript into your Ajax

window.onbeforeunload = function(){
  return 'Are you sure you want to leave?';
};

Reference link

Example 2:

document.getElementsByClassName('eStore_buy_now_button')[0].onclick = function(){
    window.btn_clicked = true;
};
window.onbeforeunload = function(){
    if(!window.btn_clicked){
        return 'You must click "Buy Now" to make payment and finish your order. If you leave now your order will be canceled.';
    }
};

Here it will alert the user every time he leaves the page, until he clicks on the button.

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/GSWbB/show/

How do I get a PHP class constructor to call its parent's parent's constructor?

Ok, Yet another ugly solution:

Create a function in Papa like:

protected function call2Granpa() {
     return parent::__construct();
}

Then in Kiddo you use:

parent::call2Granpa(); //instead of calling constructor in Papa.

I think it could work... I haven't test it, so I'm not sure if the objects are created correctly.

I used this approach but with non-constructor functions.

How to declare a local variable in Razor?

I think you were pretty close, try this:

@{bool isUserConnected = string.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.CreatorFullName);}
@if (isUserConnected)
{ // meaning that the viewing user has not been saved so continue
    <div>
        <div> click to join us </div>
        <a id="login" href="javascript:void(0);" style="display: inline; ">join here</a>
    </div>
}

Selenium and xpath: finding a div with a class/id and verifying text inside

For class and text xpath-

//div[contains(@class,'Caption') and (text(),'Model saved')]

and

For class and id xpath-

//div[contains(@class,'gwt-HTML') and @id="alertLabel"]

How to delete shared preferences data from App in Android

You can always do it programmatically as suggested by the other answers over here. But for development purpose, I find this Plugin very helpful as it speeds up my development significantly.

PLUGIN: ADB Idea

It provides you with features to Clear App Data and Revoke Permission from your Android Studio itself, just with click of a button.

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Android studio Gradle icon error, Manifest Merger

For me, this issue occurred after updating Google Play Services. One of the libraries I was using incorporated this library using the "+" in its gradel reference, like

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:+'

This created an issue because the min version targeted by that library was less than what was targeted by the current version of Google Play Services. I found this by simply looking in the logs.

Python style - line continuation with strings?

I've gotten around this with

mystr = ' '.join(
        ["Why, hello there",
         "wonderful stackoverflow people!"])

in the past. It's not perfect, but it works nicely for very long strings that need to not have line breaks in them.

Use jQuery to get the file input's selected filename without the path

Here is how I do it, it works pretty well.

In your HTML do:

<input type="file" name="Att_AttributeID" onchange="fileSelect(event)" class="inputField" />

Then in your js file create a simple function:

function fileSelect(id, e){
    console.log(e.target.files[0].name);
}

If you're doing multiple files, you should also be able to get the list by looping over this:

e.target.files[0].name

How can multiple rows be concatenated into one in Oracle without creating a stored procedure?

Easy:

SELECT question_id, wm_concat(element_id) as elements
FROM   questions
GROUP BY question_id;

Pesonally tested on 10g ;-)

From http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/StringAggregationTechniques.php

How to check if an integer is within a range?

Using comparison operators is way, way faster than calling any function. I'm not 100% sure if this exists, but I think it doesn't.

How do I find out what version of WordPress is running?

Just go to follow link domain.com/wp-admin/about.php

`require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)

This is the answer that worked for me. Was in the comments above, but deserves its rightful place as answer for ubuntu 12.04 ruby 1.8.7

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
# if above doesnt work make sure you have build essential
sudo apt-get install build-essential

is vs typeof

Does it matter which is faster, if they don't do the same thing? Comparing the performance of statements with different meaning seems like a bad idea.

is tells you if the object implements ClassA anywhere in its type heirarchy. GetType() tells you about the most-derived type.

Not the same thing.

Resource interpreted as stylesheet but transferred with MIME type text/html (seems not related with web server)

I have the same exact problem and after a few minutes fooling around I deciphered that I missed to add the file extension to my header. so I changed the following line :

<link uic-remove rel="stylesheet" href="css/bahblahblah">

to

<link uic-remove rel="stylesheet" href="css/bahblahblah.css"> 

How do I read text from the clipboard?

A not very direct trick:

Use pyautogui hotkey:

Import pyautogui
pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl', 'v')

Therefore, you can paste the clipboard data as you like.

Installing lxml module in python

You need to install Python's header files (python-dev package in debian/ubuntu) to compile lxml. As well as libxml2, libxslt, libxml2-dev, and libxslt-dev:

apt-get install python-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

Elegant way to check for missing packages and install them?

Dason K. and I have the pacman package that can do this nicely. The function p_load in the package does this. The first line is just to ensure that pacman is installed.

if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
pacman::p_load(package1, package2, package_n)

JavaScript - Hide a Div at startup (load)

Using CSS you can just set display:none for the element in a CSS file or in a style attribute

#div { display:none; }
<div id="div"></div>



<div style="display:none"></div>

or having the js just after the div might be fast enough too, but not as clean

How to pass the password to su/sudo/ssh without overriding the TTY?

You can provide password as parameter to expect script.

How to do Base64 encoding in node.js?

You can do base64 encoding and decoding with simple javascript.

    $("input").keyup(function () {
     var value = $(this).val(),
         hash = Base64.encode(value);
     $(".test").html(hash);

     var decode = Base64.decode(hash);

     $(".decode").html(decode);
 });

var Base64={_keyStr:"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",encode:function(e){var t="";var n,r,i,s,o,u,a;var f=0;e=Base64._utf8_encode(e);while(f<e.length){n=e.charCodeAt(f++);r=e.charCodeAt(f++);i=e.charCodeAt(f++);s=n>>2;o=(n&3)<<4|r>>4;u=(r&15)<<2|i>>6;a=i&63;if(isNaN(r)){u=a=64}else if(isNaN(i)){a=64}t=t+this._keyStr.charAt(s)+this._keyStr.charAt(o)+this._keyStr.charAt(u)+this._keyStr.charAt(a)}return t},decode:function(e){var t="";var n,r,i;var s,o,u,a;var f=0;e=e.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9+/=]/g,"");while(f<e.length){s=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));o=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));u=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));a=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));n=s<<2|o>>4;r=(o&15)<<4|u>>2;i=(u&3)<<6|a;t=t+String.fromCharCode(n);if(u!=64){t=t+String.fromCharCode(r)}if(a!=64){t=t+String.fromCharCode(i)}}t=Base64._utf8_decode(t);return t},_utf8_encode:function(e){e=e.replace(/rn/g,"n");var t="";for(var n=0;n<e.length;n++){var r=e.charCodeAt(n);if(r<128){t+=String.fromCharCode(r)}else if(r>127&&r<2048){t+=String.fromCharCode(r>>6|192);t+=String.fromCharCode(r&63|128)}else{t+=String.fromCharCode(r>>12|224);t+=String.fromCharCode(r>>6&63|128);t+=String.fromCharCode(r&63|128)}}return t},_utf8_decode:function(e){var t="";var n=0;var r=c1=c2=0;while(n<e.length){r=e.charCodeAt(n);if(r<128){t+=String.fromCharCode(r);n++}else if(r>191&&r<224){c2=e.charCodeAt(n+1);t+=String.fromCharCode((r&31)<<6|c2&63);n+=2}else{c2=e.charCodeAt(n+1);c3=e.charCodeAt(n+2);t+=String.fromCharCode((r&15)<<12|(c2&63)<<6|c3&63);n+=3}}return t}}

// Define the string
var string = 'Hello World!';

// Encode the String
var encodedString = Base64.encode(string);
console.log(encodedString); // Outputs: "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh"

// Decode the String
var decodedString = Base64.decode(encodedString);
console.log(decodedString); // Outputs: "Hello World!"</script></div>

This is implemented in this Base64 encoder decoder

How to add class active on specific li on user click with jQuery

You specified both jQuery and Javascript in the tags so here's both approaches.

jQuery

var selector = '.nav li';

$(selector).on('click', function(){
    $(selector).removeClass('active');
    $(this).addClass('active');
});

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bvf9u/


Pure Javascript:

var selector, elems, makeActive;

selector = '.nav li';

elems = document.querySelectorAll(selector);

makeActive = function () {
    for (var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++)
        elems[i].classList.remove('active');

    this.classList.add('active');
};

for (var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++)
    elems[i].addEventListener('mousedown', makeActive);

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rn3nc/1


jQuery with event delegation:

Please note that in approach 1, the handler is directly bound to that element. If you're expecting the DOM to update and new lis to be injected, it's better to use event delegation and delegate to the next element that will remain static, in this case the .nav:

$('.nav').on('click', 'li', function(){
    $('.nav li').removeClass('active');
    $(this).addClass('active');
});

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bvf9u/1/

The subtle difference is that the handler is bound to the .nav now, so when you click the li the event bubbles up the DOM to the .nav which invokes the handler if the element clicked matches your selector argument. This means new elements won't need a new handler bound to them, because it's already bound to an ancestor.

It's really quite interesting. Read more about it here: http://api.jquery.com/on/

How to kill an application with all its activities?

When the user wishes to exit all open activities, they should press a button which loads the first Activity that runs when your app starts, in my case "LoginActivity".

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), LoginActivity.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
intent.putExtra("EXIT", true);
startActivity(intent);

The above code clears all the activities except for LoginActivity. LoginActivity is the first activity that is brought up when the user runs the program. Then put this code inside the LoginActivity's onCreate, to signal when it should self destruct when the 'Exit' message is passed.

    if (getIntent().getBooleanExtra("EXIT", false)) {
         finish();
    }

The answer you get to this question from the Android platform is: "Don't make an exit button. Finish activities the user no longer wants, and the Activity manager will clean them up as it sees fit."

Adding IN clause List to a JPA Query

When using IN with a collection-valued parameter you don't need (...):

@NamedQuery(name = "EventLog.viewDatesInclude", 
    query = "SELECT el FROM EventLog el WHERE el.timeMark >= :dateFrom AND " 
    + "el.timeMark <= :dateTo AND " 
    + "el.name IN :inclList") 

Windows service start failure: Cannot start service from the command line or debugger

To install your service manually

To install or uninstall windows service manually (which was created using .NET Framework) use utility InstallUtil.exe. This tool can be found in the following path (use appropriate framework version number).

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe

To install

installutil yourproject.exe

To uninstall

installutil /u yourproject.exe

See: How to: Install and Uninstall Services (Microsoft)

Install service programmatically

To install service programmatically using C# see the following class ServiceInstaller (c-sharpcorner).

Comparing strings in Java

You need both getText() - which returns an Editable and toString() - to convert that to a String for matching. So instead of: passw1.toString().equalsIgnoreCase("1234") you need passw1.getText().toString().equalsIgnoreCase("1234").

What is the point of "final class" in Java?

think of FINAL as the "End of the line" - that guy cannot produce offspring anymore. So when you see it this way, there are ton of real world scenarios that you will come across that requires you to flag an 'end of line' marker to the class. It is Domain Driven Design - if your domain demands that a given ENTITY (class) cannot create sub-classes, then mark it as FINAL.

I should note that there is nothing stopping you from inheriting a "should be tagged as final" class. But that is generally classified as "abuse of inheritance", and done because most often you would like to inherit some function from the base class in your class.

The best approach is to look at the domain and let it dictate your design decisions.

Rails Model find where not equal

In Rails 4.x (See http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#not-conditions)

GroupUser.where.not(user_id: me)

In Rails 3.x

GroupUser.where(GroupUser.arel_table[:user_id].not_eq(me))

To shorten the length, you could store GroupUser.arel_table in a variable or if using inside the model GroupUser itself e.g., in a scope, you can use arel_table[:user_id] instead of GroupUser.arel_table[:user_id]

Rails 4.0 syntax credit to @jbearden's answer

Angular 2 - Checking for server errors from subscribe

You can achieve with following way

    this.projectService.create(project)
    .subscribe(
        result => {
         console.log(result);
        },
        error => {
            console.log(error);
            this.errors = error
        }
    ); 
}

if (!this.errors) {
    //route to new page
}

Difference between add(), replace(), and addToBackStack()

Example an activity have 2 fragments and we use FragmentManager to replace/add with addToBackstack each fragment to a layout in activity

Use replace

Go Fragment1

Fragment1: onAttach
Fragment1: onCreate
Fragment1: onCreateView
Fragment1: onActivityCreated
Fragment1: onStart
Fragment1: onResume

Go Fragment2

Fragment2: onAttach
Fragment2: onCreate
Fragment1: onPause
Fragment1: onStop
Fragment1: onDestroyView
Fragment2: onCreateView
Fragment2: onActivityCreated
Fragment2: onStart
Fragment2: onResume

Pop Fragment2

Fragment2: onPause
Fragment2: onStop
Fragment2: onDestroyView
Fragment2: onDestroy
Fragment2: onDetach
Fragment1: onCreateView
Fragment1: onStart
Fragment1: onResume

Pop Fragment1

Fragment1: onPause
Fragment1: onStop
Fragment1: onDestroyView
Fragment1: onDestroy
Fragment1: onDetach

Use add

Go Fragment1

Fragment1: onAttach
Fragment1: onCreate
Fragment1: onCreateView
Fragment1: onActivityCreated
Fragment1: onStart
Fragment1: onResume

Go Fragment2

Fragment2: onAttach
Fragment2: onCreate
Fragment2: onCreateView
Fragment2: onActivityCreated
Fragment2: onStart
Fragment2: onResume

Pop Fragment2

Fragment2: onPause
Fragment2: onStop
Fragment2: onDestroyView
Fragment2: onDestroy
Fragment2: onDetach

Pop Fragment1

Fragment1: onPause
Fragment1: onStop
Fragment1: onDestroyView
Fragment1: onDestroy
Fragment1: onDetach

Sample project

onClick function of an input type="button" not working

You have to change the ID of the button to be different from the function name JSFiddle

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var counter = 0;_x000D_
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function moreFields() {_x000D_
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  var newFields = document.getElementById('readroot').cloneNode(true);_x000D_
  newFields.id = '';_x000D_
  newFields.style.display = 'block';_x000D_
  var newField = newFields.childNodes;_x000D_
  for (var i = 0; i < newField.length; i++) {_x000D_
    var theName = newField[i].name_x000D_
    if (theName) newField[i].name = theName + counter;_x000D_
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  var insertHere = document.getElementById('writeroot');_x000D_
  insertHere.parentNode.insertBefore(newFields, insertHere);_x000D_
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window.onload = moreFields();
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<div id="readroot" style="display: none">_x000D_
  <input type="button" value="Remove review" onclick="this.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild(this.parentNode);" />_x000D_
  <br />_x000D_
  <br />_x000D_
  <input name="cd" value="title" />_x000D_
  <select name="rankingsel">_x000D_
    <option>Rating</option>_x000D_
    <option value="excellent">Excellent</option>_x000D_
    <option value="good">Good</option>_x000D_
    <option value="ok">OK</option>_x000D_
    <option value="poor">Poor</option>_x000D_
    <option value="bad">Bad</option>_x000D_
  </select>_x000D_
  <br />_x000D_
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  <textarea rows="5" cols="20" name="review">Short review</textarea>_x000D_
  <br />Radio buttons included to test them in Explorer:_x000D_
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  <input type="radio" name="something" value="test1" />Test 1_x000D_
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  <input type="radio" name="something" value="test2" />Test 2</div>_x000D_
<form method="post" action="index1.php"> <span id="writeroot"></span>_x000D_
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  <input type="button" onclick="moreFields();" id="moreFieldsButton" value="Give me more fields!" />_x000D_
  <input type="submit" value="Send form" />_x000D_
</form>
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How to easily map c++ enums to strings

I suggest a mix of using X-macros are the best solution and the following template functions:

To borrow off marcinkoziukmyopenidcom and extended

enum Colours {
#   define X(a) a,
#   include "colours.def"
#   undef X
    ColoursCount
};

char const* const colours_str[] = {
#   define X(a) #a,
#   include "colours.def"
#   undef X
    0
};

template <class T> T str2enum( const char* );
template <class T> const char* enum2str( T );

#define STR2ENUM(TYPE,ARRAY) \
template <> \
TYPE str2enum<TYPE>( const char* str ) \
    { \
    for( int i = 0; i < (sizeof(ARRAY)/sizeof(ARRAY[0])); i++ ) \
        if( !strcmp( ARRAY[i], str ) ) \
            return TYPE(i); \
    return TYPE(0); \
    }

#define ENUM2STR(TYPE,ARRAY) \
template <> \
const char* enum2str<TYPE>( TYPE v ) \
    { \
    return ARRAY[v]; \
    }

#define ENUMANDSTR(TYPE,ARRAY)\
    STR2ENUM(TYPE,ARRAY) \
    ENUM2STR(TYPE,ARRAY)

ENUMANDSTR(Colours,colours_str)

colour.def

X(Red)
X(Green)
X(Blue)
X(Cyan)
X(Yellow)
X(Magenta)

HTML&CSS + Twitter Bootstrap: full page layout or height 100% - Npx

I know it's late in the day but might help someone else!

body,html {
  height: 100%;
}

.contentarea {

 /* 
  * replace 160px with the sum of height of all other divs 
  * inc padding, margins etc 
  */
  min-height: calc(100% - 160px); 
}

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc'

I've did a "Update-Package –reinstall Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc" to fix it in Visual Studio 2015.

How do I automatically scroll to the bottom of a multiline text box?

This only worked for me...

txtSerialLogging->Text = "";

txtSerialLogging->AppendText(s);

I tried all the cases above, but the problem is in my case text s can decrease, increase and can also remain static for a long time. static means , static length(lines) but content is different.

So, I was facing one line jumping situation at the end when the length(lines) remains same for some times...

AngularJS: How do I manually set input to $valid in controller?

You cannot directly change a form's validity. If all the descendant inputs are valid, the form is valid, if not, then it is not.

What you should do is to set the validity of the input element. Like so;

addItem.capabilities.$setValidity("youAreFat", false);

Now the input (and so the form) is invalid. You can also see which error causes invalidation.

addItem.capabilities.errors.youAreFat == true;

MySQL show current connection info

There are MYSQL functions you can use. Like this one that resolves the user:

SELECT USER();

This will return something like root@localhost so you get the host and the user.

To get the current database run this statement:

SELECT DATABASE();

Other useful functions can be found here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-functions.html

How do you create a Swift Date object?

Personally I think it should be a failable initialiser:

extension Date {

    init?(dateString: String) {
        let dateStringFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateStringFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
        if let d = dateStringFormatter.date(from: dateString) {
            self.init(timeInterval: 0, since: d)
        } else {
            return nil
        }
    }
}

Otherwise a string with an invalid format will raise an exception.

How to get text and a variable in a messagebox

As has been suggested, using the string.format method is nice and simple and very readable.

In vb.net the " + " is used for addition and the " & " is used for string concatenation.

In your example:

MsgBox("Variable = " + variable)

becomes:

MsgBox("Variable = " & variable)

I may have been a bit quick answering this as it appears these operators can both be used for concatenation, but recommended use is the "&", source http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/te2585xw(v=VS.100).aspx

maybe call

variable.ToString()

update:

Use string interpolation (vs2015 onwards I believe):

MsgBox($"Variable = {variable}")

Left align and right align within div in Bootstrap

Instead of using pull-right class, it is better to use text-right class in the column, because pull-right creates problems sometimes while resizing the page.

Convert an integer to a byte array

Sorry, this might be a bit late. But I think I found a better implementation on the go docs.

buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
var num uint16 = 1234
err := binary.Write(buf, binary.LittleEndian, num)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("binary.Write failed:", err)
}
fmt.Printf("% x", buf.Bytes())

Clear History and Reload Page on Login/Logout Using Ionic Framework

As pointed out by @ezain reload controllers only when its necessary. Another cleaner way of updating data when changing states rather than reloading the controller is using broadcast events and listening to such events in controllers that need to update data on views.

Example: in your login/logout functions you can do something like so:

$scope.login = function(){
    //After login logic then send a broadcast
    $rootScope.$broadcast("user-logged-in");
    $state.go("mainPage");
};
$scope.logout = function(){
   //After logout logic then send a broadcast
   $rootScope.$broadcast("user-logged-out");
   $state.go("mainPage");
};

Now in your mainPage controller trigger the changes in the view by using the $on function to listen to broadcast within the mainPage Controller like so:

$scope.$on("user-logged-in", function(){
     //update mainPage view data here eg. $scope.username = 'John';
});

$scope.$on("user-logged-out", function(){
    //update mainPage view data here eg. $scope.username = '';
});

Qt: resizing a QLabel containing a QPixmap while keeping its aspect ratio

I have polished this missing subclass of QLabel. It is awesome and works well.

aspectratiopixmaplabel.h

#ifndef ASPECTRATIOPIXMAPLABEL_H
#define ASPECTRATIOPIXMAPLABEL_H

#include <QLabel>
#include <QPixmap>
#include <QResizeEvent>

class AspectRatioPixmapLabel : public QLabel
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit AspectRatioPixmapLabel(QWidget *parent = 0);
    virtual int heightForWidth( int width ) const;
    virtual QSize sizeHint() const;
    QPixmap scaledPixmap() const;
public slots:
    void setPixmap ( const QPixmap & );
    void resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *);
private:
    QPixmap pix;
};

#endif // ASPECTRATIOPIXMAPLABEL_H

aspectratiopixmaplabel.cpp

#include "aspectratiopixmaplabel.h"
//#include <QDebug>

AspectRatioPixmapLabel::AspectRatioPixmapLabel(QWidget *parent) :
    QLabel(parent)
{
    this->setMinimumSize(1,1);
    setScaledContents(false);
}

void AspectRatioPixmapLabel::setPixmap ( const QPixmap & p)
{
    pix = p;
    QLabel::setPixmap(scaledPixmap());
}

int AspectRatioPixmapLabel::heightForWidth( int width ) const
{
    return pix.isNull() ? this->height() : ((qreal)pix.height()*width)/pix.width();
}

QSize AspectRatioPixmapLabel::sizeHint() const
{
    int w = this->width();
    return QSize( w, heightForWidth(w) );
}

QPixmap AspectRatioPixmapLabel::scaledPixmap() const
{
    return pix.scaled(this->size(), Qt::KeepAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation);
}

void AspectRatioPixmapLabel::resizeEvent(QResizeEvent * e)
{
    if(!pix.isNull())
        QLabel::setPixmap(scaledPixmap());
}

Hope that helps! (Updated resizeEvent, per @dmzl's answer)

Git update submodules recursively

As it may happens that the default branch of your submodules are not master (which happens a lot in my case), this is how I automate the full Git submodules upgrades:

git submodule init
git submodule update
git submodule foreach 'git fetch origin; git checkout $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); git reset --hard origin/$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); git submodule update --recursive; git clean -dfx'

Select rows from a data frame based on values in a vector

Similar to above, using filter from dplyr:

filter(df, fct %in% vc)

Read file from resources folder in Spring Boot

Very short answer: you are looking for your property in the scope of a particular class loader instead of you target class. This should work:

File file = new File(getClass().getResource("jsonschema.json").getFile());
JsonNode mySchema = JsonLoader.fromFile(file);

Also, see this:

P.S. there can be an issue if the project has been compiled on one machine and after that has been launched on another or you run your app in Docker. In this case, paths to your resource folder can be invalid. In this case it would be better to determine paths to your resources at runtime:

ClassPathResource res = new ClassPathResource("jsonschema.json");    
File file = new File(res.getPath());
JsonNode mySchema = JsonLoader.fromFile(file);

Update from 2020

On top of that if you want to read resource file as a String in your tests, for example, you can use these static utils methods:

public static String getResourceFileAsString(String fileName) {
    InputStream is = getResourceFileAsInputStream(fileName);
    if (is != null) {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        return (String)reader.lines().collect(Collectors.joining(System.lineSeparator()));
    } else {
        throw new RuntimeException("resource not found");
    }
}

public static InputStream getResourceFileAsInputStream(String fileName) {
    ClassLoader classLoader = {CurrentClass}.class.getClassLoader();
    return classLoader.getResourceAsStream(fileName);
}

Example of usage:

String soapXML = getResourceFileAsString("some_folder_in_resources/SOPA_request.xml");

What does %~dp0 mean, and how does it work?

The variable %0 in a batch script is set to the name of the executing batch file.

The ~dp special syntax between the % and the 0 basically says to expand the variable %0 to show the drive letter and path, which gives you the current directory containing the batch file!

Help = Link

How do I open a new fragment from another fragment?

This is more described code of @Narendra's code,

First you need an instance of the 2nd fragment. Then you should have objects of FragmentManager and FragmentTransaction. The complete code is as below,

Fragment2 fragment2=new Fragment2();
FragmentManager fragmentManager=getActivity().getFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction=fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.replace(R.id.content_main,fragment2,"tag");
fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack(null);
fragmentTransaction.commit();

Hope this will work. In case you use androidx, you need getSupportFragmentManager() instead of getFragmentManager().

delete all from table

This should be faster:

DELETE * FROM table_name;

because RDBMS don't have to look where is what.

You should be fine with truncate though:

truncate table table_name

How to place a div below another div?

what about changing the position: relative on your #content #text div to position: absolute

#content #text {
   position:absolute;
   width:950px;
   height:215px;
   color:red;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/CaZY7/12/

then you can use the css properties left and top to position within the #content div

How to disable registration new users in Laravel

I found this to be the easiest solution in laravel 5.6! It redirects anyone who tries to go to yoursite.com/register to yoursite.com

routes/web.php

// redirect from register page to home page
Route::get('/register', function () {
    return redirect('/');
});

How do I record audio on iPhone with AVAudioRecorder?

This is from Multimedia programming guide...

- (IBAction) recordOrStop: (id) sender {
if (recording) {
    [soundRecorder stop];
    recording = NO;
    self.soundRecorder = nil;
    [recordOrStopButton setTitle: @"Record" forState:
     UIControlStateNormal];
    [recordOrStopButton setTitle: @"Record" forState:
     UIControlStateHighlighted];
    [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive: NO error:nil];
} 
else {
    [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance]
     setCategory: AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord
     error: nil];
    NSDictionary *recordSettings =
    [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber numberWithFloat: 44100.0], AVSampleRateKey,
     [NSNumber numberWithInt: kAudioFormatAppleLossless], AVFormatIDKey,
     [NSNumber numberWithInt: 1], AVNumberOfChannelsKey,
     [NSNumber numberWithInt: AVAudioQualityMax],
     AVEncoderAudioQualityKey,
     nil];
    AVAudioRecorder *newRecorder =
    [[AVAudioRecorder alloc] initWithURL: soundFileURL
                                settings: recordSettings
                                   error: nil];
    [recordSettings release];
    self.soundRecorder = newRecorder;
    [newRecorder release];
    soundRecorder.delegate = self;
    [soundRecorder prepareToRecord];
    [soundRecorder record];
    [recordOrStopButton setTitle: @"Stop" forState: UIControlStateNormal];
    [recordOrStopButton setTitle: @"Stop" forState: UIControlStateHighlighted];
    recording = YES;
}
}

Django: TemplateSyntaxError: Could not parse the remainder

This error usually means you've forgotten a closing quote somewhere in the template you're trying to render. For example: {% url 'my_view %} (wrong) instead of {% url 'my_view' %} (correct). In this case it's the colon that's causing the problem. Normally you'd edit the template to use the correct {% url %} syntax.

But there's no reason why the django admin site would throw this, since it would know it's own syntax. My best guess is therefore that grapelli is causing your problem since it changes the admin templates. Does removing grappelli from installed apps help?

Select statement to find duplicates on certain fields

try this query to have sepratley count of each SELECT statements :

select field1,count(field1) as field1Count,field2,count(field2) as field2Counts,field3, count(field3) as field3Counts
from table_name
group by field1,field2,field3
having count(*) > 1

How to Query an NTP Server using C#?

This is a optimized version of the function which removes dependency on BitConverter function and makes it compatible with NETMF (.NET Micro Framework)

public static DateTime GetNetworkTime()
{
    const string ntpServer = "pool.ntp.org";
    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);
    var socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp);

    socket.Connect(ipEndPoint);
    socket.Send(ntpData);
    socket.Receive(ntpData);
    socket.Close();

    ulong intPart = (ulong)ntpData[40] << 24 | (ulong)ntpData[41] << 16 | (ulong)ntpData[42] << 8 | (ulong)ntpData[43];
    ulong fractPart = (ulong)ntpData[44] << 24 | (ulong)ntpData[45] << 16 | (ulong)ntpData[46] << 8 | (ulong)ntpData[47];

    var milliseconds = (intPart * 1000) + ((fractPart * 1000) / 0x100000000L);
    var networkDateTime = (new DateTime(1900, 1, 1)).AddMilliseconds((long)milliseconds);

    return networkDateTime;
}

How to create a secure random AES key in Java?

Lots of good advince in the other posts. This is what I use:

Key key;
SecureRandom rand = new SecureRandom();
KeyGenerator generator = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
generator.init(256, rand);
key = generator.generateKey();

If you need another randomness provider, which I sometime do for testing purposes, just replace rand with

MySecureRandom rand = new MySecureRandom();

Including .cpp files

You should just include header file(s).

If you include header file, header file automatically finds .cpp file. --> This process is done by LINKER.

Writing BMP image in pure c/c++ without other libraries

Here is a C++ variant of the code that works for me. Note I had to change the size computation to account for the line padding.

// mimeType = "image/bmp";

unsigned char file[14] = {
    'B','M', // magic
    0,0,0,0, // size in bytes
    0,0, // app data
    0,0, // app data
    40+14,0,0,0 // start of data offset
};
unsigned char info[40] = {
    40,0,0,0, // info hd size
    0,0,0,0, // width
    0,0,0,0, // heigth
    1,0, // number color planes
    24,0, // bits per pixel
    0,0,0,0, // compression is none
    0,0,0,0, // image bits size
    0x13,0x0B,0,0, // horz resoluition in pixel / m
    0x13,0x0B,0,0, // vert resolutions (0x03C3 = 96 dpi, 0x0B13 = 72 dpi)
    0,0,0,0, // #colors in pallete
    0,0,0,0, // #important colors
    };

int w=waterfallWidth;
int h=waterfallHeight;

int padSize  = (4-(w*3)%4)%4;
int sizeData = w*h*3 + h*padSize;
int sizeAll  = sizeData + sizeof(file) + sizeof(info);

file[ 2] = (unsigned char)( sizeAll    );
file[ 3] = (unsigned char)( sizeAll>> 8);
file[ 4] = (unsigned char)( sizeAll>>16);
file[ 5] = (unsigned char)( sizeAll>>24);

info[ 4] = (unsigned char)( w   );
info[ 5] = (unsigned char)( w>> 8);
info[ 6] = (unsigned char)( w>>16);
info[ 7] = (unsigned char)( w>>24);

info[ 8] = (unsigned char)( h    );
info[ 9] = (unsigned char)( h>> 8);
info[10] = (unsigned char)( h>>16);
info[11] = (unsigned char)( h>>24);

info[20] = (unsigned char)( sizeData    );
info[21] = (unsigned char)( sizeData>> 8);
info[22] = (unsigned char)( sizeData>>16);
info[23] = (unsigned char)( sizeData>>24);

stream.write( (char*)file, sizeof(file) );
stream.write( (char*)info, sizeof(info) );

unsigned char pad[3] = {0,0,0};

for ( int y=0; y<h; y++ )
{
    for ( int x=0; x<w; x++ )
    {
        long red = lround( 255.0 * waterfall[x][y] );
        if ( red < 0 ) red=0;
        if ( red > 255 ) red=255;
        long green = red;
        long blue = red;

        unsigned char pixel[3];
        pixel[0] = blue;
        pixel[1] = green;
        pixel[2] = red;

        stream.write( (char*)pixel, 3 );
    }
    stream.write( (char*)pad, padSize );
}

What is use of c_str function In c++

c_str returns a const char* that points to a null-terminated string (i.e. a C-style string). It is useful when you want to pass the "contents"¹ of an std::string to a function that expects to work with a C-style string.

For example, consider this code:

std::string str("Hello world!");
int pos1 = str.find_first_of('w');

int pos2 = strchr(str.c_str(), 'w') - str.c_str();

if (pos1 == pos2) {
    printf("Both ways give the same result.\n");
}

See it in action.

Notes:

¹ This is not entirely true because an std::string (unlike a C string) can contain the \0 character. If it does, the code that receives the return value of c_str() will be fooled into thinking that the string is shorter than it really is, since it will interpret \0 as the end of the string.

Installing mcrypt extension for PHP on OSX Mountain Lion

With recent changes in brew (deprecation of homebrew/php) you now install php with mcrypt with the following.

brew install [email protected] -with-mcrypt=mcrypt

You may have to uninstall previous installs of php

How do I get the different parts of a Flask request's url?

you should try:

request.url 

It suppose to work always, even on localhost (just did it).

Getting error "No such module" using Xcode, but the framework is there

For me, I fixed it be replacing any tilde (~) characters in my Custom Paths with $(HOME). Custom Paths are located in the Xcode preferences under the Locations tab.

Auto Resize Image in CSS FlexBox Layout and keeping Aspect Ratio?

In the second image it looks like you want the image to fill the box, but the example you created DOES keep the aspect ratio (the pets look normal, not slim or fat).

I have no clue if you photoshopped those images as example or the second one is "how it should be" as well (you said IS, while the first example you said "should")

Anyway, I have to assume:

If "the images are not resized keeping the aspect ration" and you show me an image which DOES keep the aspect ratio of the pixels, I have to assume you are trying to accomplish the aspect ratio of the "cropping" area (the inner of the green) WILE keeping the aspect ratio of the pixels. I.e. you want to fill the cell with the image, by enlarging and cropping the image.

If that's your problem, the code you provided does NOT reflect "your problem", but your starting example.

Given the previous two assumptions, what you need can't be accomplished with actual images if the height of the box is dynamic, but with background images. Either by using "background-size: contain" or these techniques (smart paddings in percents that limit the cropping or max sizes anywhere you want): http://fofwebdesign.co.uk/template/_testing/scale-img/scale-img.htm

The only way this is possible with images is if we FORGET about your second iimage, and the cells have a fixed height, and FORTUNATELY, judging by your sample images, the height stays the same!

So if your container's height doesn't change, and you want to keep your images square, you just have to set the max-height of the images to that known value (minus paddings or borders, depending on the box-sizing property of the cells)

Like this:

<div class="content">
  <div class="row">    
      <div class="cell">    
          <img src="http://lorempixel.com/output/people-q-c-320-320-2.jpg"/>
      </div>
      <div class="cell">    
          <img src="http://lorempixel.com/output/people-q-c-320-320-7.jpg"/>
      </div>
    </div>
</div>

And the CSS:

.content {
    background-color: green;
}

.row {
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: -moz-box;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: -webkit-flex;
    display: flex;

    -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; 
    -moz-box-orient: horizontal;
    box-orient: horizontal;
    flex-direction: row;

    -webkit-box-pack: center;
    -moz-box-pack: center;
    box-pack: center;
    justify-content: center;

    -webkit-box-align: center;
    -moz-box-align: center;
    box-align: center;  
    align-items: center;

}

.cell {
    -webkit-box-flex: 1;
    -moz-box-flex: 1;
    box-flex: 1;
    -webkit-flex: 1 1 auto;
    flex: 1 1 auto;
    padding: 10px;
    border: solid 10px red;
    text-align: center;
    height: 300px;
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    box-sizing: content-box;
}
img {
    margin: auto;
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 300px;
    max-height:100%
}

http://jsfiddle.net/z25heocL/

Your code is invalid (opening tags are instead of closing ones, so they output NESTED cells, not siblings, he used a SCREENSHOT of your images inside the faulty code, and the flex box is not holding the cells but both examples in a column (you setup "row" but the corrupt code nesting one cell inside the other resulted in a flex inside a flex, finally working as COLUMNS. I have no idea what you wanted to accomplish, and how you came up with that code, but I'm guessing what you want is this.

I added display: flex to the cells too, so the image gets centered (I think display: table could have been used here as well with all this markup)

Contains case insensitive

To do a better search use the following code,

var myFav   = "javascript";
var theList = "VB.NET, C#, PHP, Python, JavaScript, and Ruby";

// Check for matches with the plain vanilla indexOf() method:
alert( theList.indexOf( myFav ) );

// Now check for matches in lower-cased strings:
alert( theList.toLowerCase().indexOf( myFav.toLowerCase() ) );

In the first alert(), JavaScript returned "-1" - in other words, indexOf() did not find a match: this is simply because "JavaScript" is in lowercase in the first string, and properly capitalized in the second. To perform case-insensitive searches with indexOf(), you can make both strings either uppercase or lowercase. This means that, as in the second alert(), JavaScript will only check for the occurrence of the string you are looking for, capitalization ignored.

Reference, http://freewebdesigntutorials.com/javaScriptTutorials/jsStringObject/indexOfMethod.htm

Convert UTF-8 with BOM to UTF-8 with no BOM in Python

You can use codecs.

import codecs
with open("test.txt",'r') as filehandle:
    content = filehandle.read()
if content[:3] == codecs.BOM_UTF8:
    content = content[3:]
print content.decode("utf-8")

How do I show a message in the foreach loop?

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

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

Accessing a matrix element in the "Mat" object (not the CvMat object) in OpenCV C++

The ideas provided above are good. For fast access (in case you would like to make a real time application) you could try the following:

//suppose you read an image from a file that is gray scale
Mat image = imread("Your path", CV_8UC1);
//...do some processing
uint8_t *myData = image.data;
int width = image.cols;
int height = image.rows;
int _stride = image.step;//in case cols != strides
for(int i = 0; i < height; i++)
{
    for(int j = 0; j < width; j++)
    {
        uint8_t val = myData[ i * _stride + j];
        //do whatever you want with your value
    }
}

Pointer access is much faster than the Mat.at<> accessing. Hope it helps!

How do I get column datatype in Oracle with PL-SQL with low privileges?

You can try this.

SELECT *
  FROM (SELECT column_name,
               data_type,
               data_type
               || CASE
                     WHEN data_precision IS NOT NULL
                          AND NVL (data_scale, 0) > 0
                     THEN
                        '(' || data_precision || ',' || data_scale || ')'
                     WHEN data_precision IS NOT NULL
                          AND NVL (data_scale, 0) = 0
                     THEN
                        '(' || data_precision || ')'
                     WHEN data_precision IS NULL AND data_scale IS NOT NULL
                     THEN
                        '(*,' || data_scale || ')'
                     WHEN char_length > 0
                     THEN
                        '(' || char_length
                        || CASE char_used
                              WHEN 'B' THEN ' Byte'
                              WHEN 'C' THEN ' Char'
                              ELSE NULL
                           END
                        || ')'
                  END
               || DECODE (nullable, 'N', ' NOT NULL')
                  DataTypeWithLength
          FROM user_tab_columns
         WHERE table_name = 'CONTRACT')
 WHERE DataTypeWithLength = 'CHAR(1 Byte)';

Height of an HTML select box (dropdown)

You can change the height of one. Don't use height="500"(Just an example number). Use the style. You can use <style>tag or just use this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
  <select id="option" style="height: 100px;">
    <option value="1">Option 1
    <option value="2">Option 2
  </select>
</body>
</html>

I spotlight the change:

  <select id="option" style="height: 100px;">

And even better...

style="height: 100px;">

You see that?

Please up vote if it's helpful!

Make a borderless form movable?

I'm expanding the solution from jay_t55 with one more method ToolStrip1_MouseLeave that handles the event of the mouse moving quickly and leaving the region.

private bool mouseDown;
private Point lastLocation;

private void ToolStrip1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
    mouseDown = true;
    lastLocation = e.Location;
}

private void ToolStrip1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
    if (mouseDown) {
        this.Location = new Point(
            (this.Location.X - lastLocation.X) + e.X, (this.Location.Y - lastLocation.Y) + e.Y);

        this.Update();
    }
}

private void ToolStrip1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
    mouseDown = false;
}

private void ToolStrip1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    mouseDown = false;
}

Why is JavaFX is not included in OpenJDK 8 on Ubuntu Wily (15.10)?

I use ubuntu 16.04 and because I already had openJDK installed, this command have solved the problem. Don't forget that JavaFX is part of OpenJDK.

sudo apt-get install openjfx

How to overwrite existing files in batch?

You can refer Windows command prompt help using following command : xcopy /?

How to change color of the back arrow in the new material theme?

Unless there's a better solution...

What I did is to take the @drawable/abc_ic_ab_back_mtrl_am_alpha images, which seem to be white, and paint them in the color I desire using a photo editor.

Failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt

I had this issue and I solved it with this thread

disable incremental linking, by going to

    Project Properties 
       -> Configuration Properties 
           -> Linker (General) 
              -> Enable Incremental Linking -> "No (/INCREMENTAL:NO)"