Programs & Examples On #Xdebug

XDebug is a PHP extension for profiling, interactive debugging and gathering code coverage information.

How do you debug PHP scripts?

Xdebug and the DBGp plugin for Notepad++ for heavy duty bug hunting, FirePHP for lightweight stuff. Quick and dirty? Nothing beats dBug.

Solution for "Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting!" in PHP

<?php
ini_set('xdebug.max_nesting_level', 9999);
... your code ...

P.S. Change 9999 to any number you want.

Increasing nesting function calls limit

Do you have Zend, IonCube, or xDebug installed? If so, that is probably where you are getting this error from.

I ran into this a few years ago, and it ended up being Zend putting that limit there, not PHP. Of course removing it will let you go past the 100 iterations, but you will eventually hit the memory limits.

How to get xdebug var_dump to show full object/array

I'd like to recommend var_export($array) - it doesn't show types, but it generates syntax you can use in your code :)

How to disable XDebug

An easy solution working on Linux distributions similar to Ubuntu

sudo php5dismod xdebug
sudo service apache2 restart

Check if xdebug is working

you can run this small php code

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Copy the whole output page, paste it in this link. Then analyze. It will show if Xdebug is installed or not. And it will give instructions to complete the installation.

Can I use an image from my local file system as background in HTML?

Jeff Bridgman is correct. All you need is
background: url('pic.jpg')
and this assumes that pic is in the same folder as your html.

Also, Roberto's answer works fine. Tested in Firefox, and IE. Thanks to Raptor for adding formatting that displays full picture fit to screen, and without scrollbars... In a folder f, on the desktop is this html and a picture, pic.jpg, using your userid. Make those substitutions in the below:

<html>
<head>
    <style>
        body {

        background: url('file:///C:/Users/userid/desktop/f/pic.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;

        background-size: cover; /* for IE9+, Safari 4.1+, Chrome 3.0+, Firefox 3.6+ */
        -webkit-background-size: cover; /* for Safari 3.0 - 4.0 , Chrome 1.0 - 3.0 */
        -moz-background-size: cover; /* optional for Firefox 3.6 */ 
        -o-background-size: cover; /* for Opera 9.5 */
        margin: 0; /* to remove the default white margin of body */
        padding: 0; /* to remove the default white margin of body */
        overflow: hidden;
             }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
hello
</body>
</html>

Finding all objects that have a given property inside a collection

You could try some of the generic code in the Apache Commons project. The Collections subproject provides code for finding objects that match a particular Predicate, as well as a large number of predicates (equals, null, instanceof, etc). The BeanUtils subproject allows you to make predicates that test properties of beans.

Use the CollectionUtils class to search within a collection. There are a few methods for this, but check out the select() method, in particular. Use the following classes to construct predicates, or write your own: Predicate, PredicateUtils, BeanPredicate.

This is all sometimes a bit cumbersome, but at least it's generic! :-)

Why am I getting string does not name a type Error?

Try a using namespace std; at the top of game.h or use the fully-qualified std::string instead of string.

The namespace in game.cpp is after the header is included.

How to write multiple conditions in Makefile.am with "else if"

I would accept ldav1s' answer if I were you, but I just want to point out that 'else if' can be written in terms of 'else's and 'if's in any language:

if HAVE_CLIENT
  libtest_LIBS = $(top_builddir)/libclient.la
else
  if HAVE_SERVER
    libtest_LIBS = $(top_builddir)/libserver.la
  else
    libtest_LIBS = 
  endif
endif

(The indentation is for clarity. Don't indent the lines, they won't work.)

Android splash screen image sizes to fit all devices

Some time ago i created an excel file with supported dimensions
Hope this will be helpful for somebody

To be honest i lost the idea, but it refers another screen feature as size (not only density)
https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
Please inform me if there are some mistakes

Link1: dimensions.xlsx

Link2: dimensions.xlsx

Threading Example in Android

One of Androids powerful feature is the AsyncTask class.

To work with it, you have to first extend it and override doInBackground(...). doInBackground automatically executes on a worker thread, and you can add some listeners on the UI Thread to get notified about status update, those functions are called: onPreExecute(), onPostExecute() and onProgressUpdate()

You can find a example here.

Refer to below post for other alternatives:

Handler vs AsyncTask vs Thread

Postgres Error: More than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression

The result produced by the Query is having no of rows that need proper handling this issue can be resolved if you provide the valid handler in the query like 1. limiting the query to return one single row 2. this can also be done by providing "select max(column)" that will return the single row

SQL Server dynamic PIVOT query?

Dynamic SQL PIVOT:

create table temp
(
    date datetime,
    category varchar(3),
    amount money
)

insert into temp values ('1/1/2012', 'ABC', 1000.00)
insert into temp values ('2/1/2012', 'DEF', 500.00)
insert into temp values ('2/1/2012', 'GHI', 800.00)
insert into temp values ('2/10/2012', 'DEF', 700.00)
insert into temp values ('3/1/2012', 'ABC', 1100.00)


DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
    @query  AS NVARCHAR(MAX);

SET @cols = STUFF((SELECT distinct ',' + QUOTENAME(c.category) 
            FROM temp c
            FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
            ).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)') 
        ,1,1,'')

set @query = 'SELECT date, ' + @cols + ' from 
            (
                select date
                    , amount
                    , category
                from temp
           ) x
            pivot 
            (
                 max(amount)
                for category in (' + @cols + ')
            ) p '


execute(@query)

drop table temp

Results:

Date                        ABC         DEF    GHI
2012-01-01 00:00:00.000     1000.00     NULL    NULL
2012-02-01 00:00:00.000     NULL        500.00  800.00
2012-02-10 00:00:00.000     NULL        700.00  NULL
2012-03-01 00:00:00.000     1100.00     NULL    NULL

SELECT last id, without INSERT

I think to add timestamp to every record and get the latest. In this situation you can get any ids, pack rows and other ops.

invalid new-expression of abstract class type

Another possible cause for future Googlers

I had this issue because a method I was trying to implement required a std::unique_ptr<Queue>(myQueue) as a parameter, but the Queue class is abstract. I solved that by using a QueuePtr(myQueue) constructor like so:

using QueuePtr = std::unique_ptr<Queue>;

and used that in the parameter list instead. This fixes it because the initializer tries to create a copy of Queue when you make a std::unique_ptr of its type, which can't happen.

AWS S3 - How to fix 'The request signature we calculated does not match the signature' error?

In my case I was calling s3request.promise().then() incorreclty which caused two executions of the request happening when only one call was done.

What I mean is that I was iterating through 6 objects but 12 requests were made (you can check by logging in the console or debuging network in the browser)

Since the timestamp for the second, unwanted, request did not match the signture of the firs one this produced this issue.

Is it possible to run .php files on my local computer?

Sure you just need to setup a local web server. Check out XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

That will get you up and running in about 10 minutes.

There is now a way to run php locally without installing a server: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21872484/672229


Yes but the files need to be processed. For example you can install test servers like mamp / lamp / wamp depending on your plateform.

Basically you need apache / php running.

VSCode: How to Split Editor Vertically

The key bindings has been changed with version 1.20:

SHIFT+ALT+0 for Linux.

Presumably the same works for Windows also and CMD+OPT+0 for Mac.

Matrix Multiplication in pure Python?

This is incorrect initialization. You interchanged row with col!

C = [[0 for row in range(len(A))] for col in range(len(B[0]))]

Correct initialization would be

C = [[0 for col in range(len(B[0]))] for row in range(len(A))]

Also I would suggest using better naming conventions. Will help you a lot in debugging. For example:

def matrixmult (A, B):
    rows_A = len(A)
    cols_A = len(A[0])
    rows_B = len(B)
    cols_B = len(B[0])

    if cols_A != rows_B:
      print "Cannot multiply the two matrices. Incorrect dimensions."
      return

    # Create the result matrix
    # Dimensions would be rows_A x cols_B
    C = [[0 for row in range(cols_B)] for col in range(rows_A)]
    print C

    for i in range(rows_A):
        for j in range(cols_B):
            for k in range(cols_A):
                C[i][j] += A[i][k] * B[k][j]
    return C

You can do a lot more, but you get the idea...

How to use Spring Boot with MySQL database and JPA?

Your code is in the default package, i.e. you have source all files in src/main/java with no custom package. I strongly suggest u to create package n then place your source file in it.

Ex-
 src->
     main->
          java->
                com.myfirst.example
                   Example.java
                com.myfirst.example.controller
                   PersonController.java
                com.myfirst.example.repository
                  PersonRepository.java
                com.myfirst.example.model
                   Person.java

I hope it will resolve your problem.

Allowing the "Enter" key to press the submit button, as opposed to only using MouseClick

You can use the top level containers root pane to set a default button, which will allow it to respond to the enter.

SwingUtilities.getRootPane(submitButton).setDefaultButton(submitButton);

This, of course, assumes you've added the button to a valid container ;)

UPDATED

This is a basic example using the JRootPane#setDefaultButton and key bindings API

public class DefaultButton {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new DefaultButton();
    }

    public DefaultButton() {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
                }

                JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
                frame.add(new TestPane());
                frame.pack();
                frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }

        });
    }

    public class TestPane extends JPanel {

        private JButton button;
        private JLabel label;
        private int count;

        public TestPane() {

            label = new JLabel("Press the button");
            button = new JButton("Press me");

            setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
            GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
            gbc.gridy = 0;
            add(label, gbc);
            gbc.gridy++;
            add(button, gbc);
            gbc.gridy++;
            add(new JButton("No Action Here"), gbc);

            button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    doButtonPressed(e);
                }

            });

            InputMap im = button.getInputMap(WHEN_ANCESTOR_OF_FOCUSED_COMPONENT);
            ActionMap am = button.getActionMap();

            im.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE, 0), "spaced");
            am.put("spaced", new AbstractAction() {
                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    doButtonPressed(e);
                }

            });

        }

        @Override
        public void addNotify() {
            super.addNotify();
            SwingUtilities.getRootPane(button).setDefaultButton(button);
        }

        protected void doButtonPressed(ActionEvent evt) {
            count++;
            label.setText("Pressed " + count + " times");
        }

    }

}

This of course, assumes that the component with focus does not consume the key event in question (like the second button consuming the space or enter keys

Reading a key from the Web.Config using ConfigurationManager

Sorry I've not tested this but I think it's done like this:

var filemap = new System.Configuration.ExeConfigurationFileMap();            
System.Configuration.Configuration config =  System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(filemap, System.Configuration.ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

//usage: config.AppSettings["xxx"]

Remove Last Comma from a string

First, one should check if the last character is a comma. If it exists, remove it.

if (str.indexOf(',', this.length - ','.length) !== -1) {
    str = str.substring(0, str.length - 1);
}

NOTE str.indexOf(',', this.length - ','.length) can be simplified to str.indexOf(',', this.length - 1)

Convert Enum to String

As of C#6 the best way to get the name of an enum is the new nameof operator:

nameof(MyEnum.EnumValue);

// Ouputs
> "EnumValue"

This works at compile time, with the enum being replaced by the string in the compiled result, which in turn means this is the fastest way possible.

Any use of enum names does interfere with code obfuscation, if you consider obfuscation of enum names to be worthwhile or important - that's probably a whole other question.

OS specific instructions in CMAKE: How to?

You have some special words from CMAKE, take a look:

if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} STREQUAL "Linux")
    // do something for Linux
else
    // do something for other OS

Capture iOS Simulator video for App Preview

I'm actually surprised no one provided my answer. This is what you do (this will work if you have at least 1 eligible device):

  1. Record, edit and finish the App Preview with the device you have.
  2. Export as a file.
  3. Go to your Simulators and print screen 1 shot on each the different sizes of iPhone.
  4. Create new App Preview in iMovie.
  5. Insert the screenshot of the desired size FIRST, then add the file of the App Preview you've already made.
  6. Export using Share -> App Preview
  7. Repeat step 4 to 6 for new sizes.

You should be able to get your App Preview in the desired resolution.

Run php function on button click

You are trying to call a javascript function. If you want to call a PHP function, you have to use for example a form:

    <form action="action_page.php">
       First name:<br>
       <input type="text" name="firstname" value="Mickey">
       <br>
       Last name:<br>
       <input type="text" name="lastname" value="Mouse">
       <br><br>
       <input type="submit" value="Submit">
     </form> 

(Original Code from: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp)

So if you want do do a asynchron call, you could use 'Ajax' - and yeah, that's the Javascript-Way. But I think, that my code example is enough for this time :)

Eclipse "Invalid Project Description" when creating new project from existing source

Today I accidentally solved the issue:

Below 2 steps may not be involved but not sure:

  1. Call from (Eclipse menu)* "/Window/Android SDK Manager" and update a) "Android SDK Tools" b) "Android SDK Platform-tools" packages
  2. Call from Eclipse menu "/Help/Check for Updates" and update Eclipse. Restart Eclipse.

Steps below are necessary:

  1. From eclipse menu "/File/Import/Android/Existing Android Code Into Workspace"
  2. Browse and select problematic project/or problematic projectS parent directory.
  3. Check "Copy projects into workspace".
  4. Check "Add projects into working sets".
  5. Press finish.

  6. [Optional scenario]: If project(s) and their containing folders have been renamed with the fully qualified package names then simply click on project node parent (where you see project package name instead of project's old name) in Eclipse and rename project with old name. Eclipse will rename folder too.

P.S. Tested on Eclipse Juno.

Edit: Many times have passed since this answer and new Eclipse and Android SDK arrived. They have no much more problems during importing existing projects. The only thing one has to consider before importing is to move project folders(those ones one is willing to import) outside of eclipse workspace dir and then check checkboxes ("copy projects into working sets", "add projects into wokring sets") in import wizard dialog. Also I recommend doing this with latest Android SDK because it no more imports projects with dummy names and does not rename folders as it did in some custom cases.

Contains case insensitive

If referrer is an array, you can use findIndex()

 if(referrer.findIndex(item => 'ral' === item.toLowerCase()) == -1) {...}

How to get SQL from Hibernate Criteria API (*not* for logging)

For those using NHibernate, this is a port of [ram]'s code

public static string GenerateSQL(ICriteria criteria)
    {
        NHibernate.Impl.CriteriaImpl criteriaImpl = (NHibernate.Impl.CriteriaImpl)criteria;
        NHibernate.Engine.ISessionImplementor session = criteriaImpl.Session;
        NHibernate.Engine.ISessionFactoryImplementor factory = session.Factory;

        NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaQueryTranslator translator = 
            new NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaQueryTranslator(
                factory, 
                criteriaImpl, 
                criteriaImpl.EntityOrClassName, 
                NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaQueryTranslator.RootSqlAlias);

        String[] implementors = factory.GetImplementors(criteriaImpl.EntityOrClassName);

        NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaJoinWalker walker = new NHibernate.Loader.Criteria.CriteriaJoinWalker(
            (NHibernate.Persister.Entity.IOuterJoinLoadable)factory.GetEntityPersister(implementors[0]),
                                translator,
                                factory,
                                criteriaImpl,
                                criteriaImpl.EntityOrClassName,
                                session.EnabledFilters);

        return walker.SqlString.ToString();
    }

Java ElasticSearch None of the configured nodes are available

Check your elasticsearch.yml, "transport.host" property must be "0.0.0.0" not "127.0.0.1" or "localhost"

permission denied - php unlink

The file permission is okay (0777) but i think your on the shared server, so to delete your file correctly use; 1. create a correct path to your file

// delete from folder
$filename = 'test.txt';
$ifile = '/newy/made/link/uploads/'. $filename; // this is the actual path to the file you want to delete.
unlink($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .$ifile); // use server document root
// your file will be removed from the folder

That small code will do the magic and remove any selected file you want from any folder provided the actual file path is collect.

How can I get a precise time, for example in milliseconds in Objective-C?

CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() returns the absolute time as a double value, but I don't know what its precision is -- it might only update every dozen milliseconds, or it might update every microsecond, I don't know.

How to find files modified in last x minutes (find -mmin does not work as expected)

I can reproduce your problem if there are no files in the directory that were modified in the last hour. In that case, find . -mmin -60 returns nothing. The command find . -mmin -60 |xargs ls -l, however, returns every file in the directory which is consistent with what happens when ls -l is run without an argument.

To make sure that ls -l is only run when a file is found, try:

find . -mmin -60 -type f -exec ls -l {} +

creating Hashmap from a JSON String

This is simple operation no need to use any external library.

You can use this class instead :) (handles even lists , nested lists and json)

public class Utility {

    public static Map<String, Object> jsonToMap(Object json) throws JSONException {

        if(json instanceof JSONObject)
            return _jsonToMap_((JSONObject)json) ;

        else if (json instanceof String)
        {
            JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject((String)json) ;
            return _jsonToMap_(jsonObject) ;
        }
        return null ;
    }


   private static Map<String, Object> _jsonToMap_(JSONObject json) throws JSONException {
        Map<String, Object> retMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();

        if(json != JSONObject.NULL) {
            retMap = toMap(json);
        }
        return retMap;
    }


    private static Map<String, Object> toMap(JSONObject object) throws JSONException {
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();

        Iterator<String> keysItr = object.keys();
        while(keysItr.hasNext()) {
            String key = keysItr.next();
            Object value = object.get(key);

            if(value instanceof JSONArray) {
                value = toList((JSONArray) value);
            }

            else if(value instanceof JSONObject) {
                value = toMap((JSONObject) value);
            }
            map.put(key, value);
        }
        return map;
    }


    public static List<Object> toList(JSONArray array) throws JSONException {
        List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();
        for(int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {
            Object value = array.get(i);
            if(value instanceof JSONArray) {
                value = toList((JSONArray) value);
            }

            else if(value instanceof JSONObject) {
                value = toMap((JSONObject) value);
            }
            list.add(value);
        }
        return list;
    }
}

To convert your JSON string to hashmap use this :

HashMap<String, Object> hashMap = new HashMap<>(Utility.jsonToMap(response)) ;

how to get the 30 days before date from Todays Date

SELECT (column name) FROM (table name) WHERE (column name) < DATEADD(Day,-30,GETDATE());

Example.

SELECT `name`, `phone`, `product` FROM `tbmMember` WHERE `dateofServicw` < (Day,-30,GETDATE()); 

Please initialize the log4j system properly. While running web service

Well, if you had already created the log4j.properties you would add its path to the classpath so it would be found during execution.
Yes, the thingy will search for this file in the classpath.
Since you said you looked into axis and didnt find one, I am assuming you dont have a log4j.properties, so here's a crude but complete example.
Create it somewhere and add to your classpath. Put it for example, in c:/proj/resources/log4j.properties

In your classpath you simple add .......;c:/proj/resources

# Root logger option
log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout, file

# Redirect log messages to console
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

# Redirect log messages to a log file, support file rolling.
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.File=c:/project/resources/t-output/log4j-application.log
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=5MB
log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

Destroy or remove a view in Backbone.js

I think this should work

destroyView : function () {
    this.$el.remove();
}

Why can't non-default arguments follow default arguments?

All required parameters must be placed before any default arguments. Simply because they are mandatory, whereas default arguments are not. Syntactically, it would be impossible for the interpreter to decide which values match which arguments if mixed modes were allowed. A SyntaxError is raised if the arguments are not given in the correct order:

Let us take a look at keyword arguments, using your function.

def fun1(a="who is you", b="True", x, y):
...     print a,b,x,y

Suppose its allowed to declare function as above, Then with the above declarations, we can make the following (regular) positional or keyword argument calls:

func1("ok a", "ok b", 1)  # Is 1 assigned to x or ?
func1(1)                  # Is 1 assigned to a or ?
func1(1, 2)               # ?

How you will suggest the assignment of variables in the function call, how default arguments are going to be used along with keyword arguments.

>>> def fun1(x, y, a="who is you", b="True"):
...     print a,b,x,y
... 

Reference O'Reilly - Core-Python
Where as this function make use of the default arguments syntactically correct for above function calls. Keyword arguments calling prove useful for being able to provide for out-of-order positional arguments, but, coupled with default arguments, they can also be used to "skip over" missing arguments as well.

Change limit for "Mysql Row size too large"

The question has been asked on serverfault too.

You may want to take a look at this article which explains a lot about MySQL row sizes. It's important to note that even if you use TEXT or BLOB fields, your row size could still be over 8K (limit for InnoDB) because it stores the first 768 bytes for each field inline in the page.

The simplest way to fix this is to use the Barracuda file format with InnoDB. This basically gets rid of the problem altogether by only storing the 20 byte pointer to the text data instead of storing the first 768 bytes.


The method that worked for the OP there was:

  1. Add the following to the my.cnf file under [mysqld] section.

    innodb_file_per_table=1
    innodb_file_format = Barracuda
    
  2. ALTER the table to use ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED.

    ALTER TABLE nombre_tabla
        ENGINE=InnoDB
        ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED 
        KEY_BLOCK_SIZE=8;
    

There is a possibility that the above still does not resolve your issues. It is a known (and verified) bug with the InnoDB engine, and a temporary fix for now is to fallback to MyISAM engine as temporary storage. So, in your my.cnf file:

internal_tmp_disk_storage_engine=MyISAM

This API project is not authorized to use this API. Please ensure that this API is activated in the APIs Console

I experienced the same issue on a Drupal site. After enabling the Geocoding API on the Google Cloud Platform, works for me. On my setup I require two APIs, Geocoding and Maps Javascript APIs.

Insert string at specified position

function insSubstr($str, $sub, $posStart, $posEnd){
  return mb_substr($str, 0, $posStart) . $sub . mb_substr($str, $posEnd + 1);
}

npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Nuwanst\package.json'

we need to create package.json by entering npm init and enter package name as package.json and optionally fill other requirements else press enter and at last enter yes to confirm. Great!! Now install any npm package without any error.

npm install <package_name>

Windows10

When should I use the Visitor Design Pattern?

The Visitor design pattern works really well for "recursive" structures like directory trees, XML structures, or document outlines.

A Visitor object visits each node in the recursive structure: each directory, each XML tag, whatever. The Visitor object doesn't loop through the structure. Instead Visitor methods are applied to each node of the structure.

Here's a typical recursive node structure. Could be a directory or an XML tag. [If your a Java person, imagine of a lot of extra methods to build and maintain the children list.]

class TreeNode( object ):
    def __init__( self, name, *children ):
        self.name= name
        self.children= children
    def visit( self, someVisitor ):
        someVisitor.arrivedAt( self )
        someVisitor.down()
        for c in self.children:
            c.visit( someVisitor )
        someVisitor.up()

The visit method applies a Visitor object to each node in the structure. In this case, it's a top-down visitor. You can change the structure of the visit method to do bottom-up or some other ordering.

Here's a superclass for visitors. It's used by the visit method. It "arrives at" each node in the structure. Since the visit method calls up and down, the visitor can keep track of the depth.

class Visitor( object ):
    def __init__( self ):
        self.depth= 0
    def down( self ):
        self.depth += 1
    def up( self ):
        self.depth -= 1
    def arrivedAt( self, aTreeNode ):
        print self.depth, aTreeNode.name

A subclass could do things like count nodes at each level and accumulate a list of nodes, generating a nice path hierarchical section numbers.

Here's an application. It builds a tree structure, someTree. It creates a Visitor, dumpNodes.

Then it applies the dumpNodes to the tree. The dumpNode object will "visit" each node in the tree.

someTree= TreeNode( "Top", TreeNode("c1"), TreeNode("c2"), TreeNode("c3") )
dumpNodes= Visitor()
someTree.visit( dumpNodes )

The TreeNode visit algorithm will assure that every TreeNode is used as an argument to the Visitor's arrivedAt method.

Find IP address of directly connected device

Mmh ... there are many ways. I answer another network discovery question, and I write a little getting started.

Some tcpip stacks reply to icmp broadcasts. So you can try a PING to your network broadcast address.

For example, you have ip 192.168.1.1 and subnet 255.255.255.0

  1. ping 192.168.1.255
  2. stop the ping after 5 seconds
  3. watch the devices replies : arp -a

Note : on step 3. you get the lists of the MAC-to-IP cached entries, so there are also the hosts in your subnet you exchange data to in the last minutes, even if they don't reply to icmp_get.

Note (2) : now I am on linux. I am not sure, but it can be windows doesn't reply to icm_get via broadcast.

Is it the only one device attached to your pc ? Is it a router or another simple pc ?

How can I initialise a static Map?

I would use:

public class Test {
    private static final Map<Integer, String> MY_MAP = createMap();

    private static Map<Integer, String> createMap() {
        Map<Integer, String> result = new HashMap<>();
        result.put(1, "one");
        result.put(2, "two");
        return Collections.unmodifiableMap(result);
    }
}
  1. it avoids an anonymous class, which I personally consider to be a bad style, and avoid
  2. it makes the creation of map more explicit
  3. it makes map unmodifiable
  4. as MY_MAP is constant, I would name it like constant

What is a "cache-friendly" code?

Be aware that caches do not just cache continuous memory. They have multiple lines (at least 4) so discontinous and overlapping memory can often be stored just as efficiently.

What is missing from all the above examples is measured benchmarks. There are many myths about performance. Unless you measure it you do not know. Do not complicate your code unless you have a measured improvement.

How to send a Post body in the HttpClient request in Windows Phone 8?

I implemented it in the following way. I wanted a generic MakeRequest method that could call my API and receive content for the body of the request - and also deserialise the response into the desired type. I create a Dictionary<string, string> object to house the content to be submitted, and then set the HttpRequestMessage Content property with it:

Generic method to call the API:

    private static T MakeRequest<T>(string httpMethod, string route, Dictionary<string, string> postParams = null)
    {
        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            HttpRequestMessage requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(new HttpMethod(httpMethod), $"{_apiBaseUri}/{route}");

            if (postParams != null)
                requestMessage.Content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(postParams);   // This is where your content gets added to the request body


            HttpResponseMessage response = client.SendAsync(requestMessage).Result;

            string apiResponse = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
            try
            {
                // Attempt to deserialise the reponse to the desired type, otherwise throw an expetion with the response from the api.
                if (apiResponse != "")
                    return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(apiResponse);
                else
                    throw new Exception();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw new Exception($"An error ocurred while calling the API. It responded with the following message: {response.StatusCode} {response.ReasonPhrase}");
            }
        }
    }

Call the method:

    public static CardInformation ValidateCard(string cardNumber, string country = "CAN")
    { 
        // Here you create your parameters to be added to the request content
        var postParams = new Dictionary<string, string> { { "cardNumber", cardNumber }, { "country", country } };
        // make a POST request to the "cards" endpoint and pass in the parameters
        return MakeRequest<CardInformation>("POST", "cards", postParams);
    }

How do I draw a circle in iOS Swift?

A much easier and resource friendly approach would be.

import UIKit

@IBDesignable
class CircleDrawView: UIView {

    @IBInspectable var borderColor: UIColor = UIColor.red;

    @IBInspectable var borderSize: CGFloat = 4

    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect)
    {
        layer.borderColor = borderColor.cgColor
        layer.borderWidth = borderSize
        layer.cornerRadius = self.frame.height/2
    }

}

With Border Color and Border Size and the default Background property you can define the appearance of the circle.

enter image description here

Please note, to draw a circle the view's height and width have to be equal in size.

The code is working for Swift >= 4 and Xcode >= 9.

How to use "raise" keyword in Python

raise causes an exception to be raised. Some other languages use the verb 'throw' instead.

It's intended to signal an error situation; it flags that the situation is exceptional to the normal flow.

Raised exceptions can be caught again by code 'upstream' (a surrounding block, or a function earlier on the stack) to handle it, using a try, except combination.

Print Pdf in C#

It is also possible to do it with an embedded web browser, note however that since this might be a local file, and also because it is not actually the browser directly and there is no DOM so there is no ready state.

Here is the code for the approach I worked out on a win form web browser control:

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        webBrowser1.Navigate(@"path\to\file");
    }  

    private void webBrowser1_Navigated(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs e)
    {   
        //Progress Changed fires multiple times, however after the Navigated event it is fired only once,
        //and at this point it is ready to print
        webBrowser1.ProgressChanged += (o, args) => 
        {
            webBrowser1.Print();//Note this does not print only brings up the print preview dialog
            //Should be on a separate task to ensure the main thread 
            //can fully initialize the print dialog 
            Task.Factory.StartNew(() => 
            {
                Thread.Sleep(1000);//We need to wait before we can send enter
                //This assumes that the print preview is still in focus
                Action g = () =>
                {
                    SendKeys.SendWait("{ENTER}");
                };
                this.Invoke(g);
            });
        };
    }

delete image from folder PHP

You can try this code. This is Simple PHP Image Deleting code from the server.

<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="photoname"> // You can type your image name here...
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete">
</form>

<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) 
{
$photoname = $_POST['photoname'];
if (!unlink($photoname))
  {
  echo ("Error deleting $photoname");
  }
else
  {
  echo ("Deleted $photoname");
  }
}
?>

How to change a nullable column to not nullable in a Rails migration?

If you do it in a migration then you could probably do it like this:

# Make sure no null value exist
MyModel.where(date_column: nil).update_all(date_column: Time.now)

# Change the column to not allow null
change_column :my_models, :date_column, :datetime, null: false

Twitter bootstrap progress bar animation on page load

Bootstrap uses CSS3 transitions so progress bars are automatically animated when you set the width of .bar trough javascript / jQuery.

http://jsfiddle.net/3j5Je/ ..see?

Time part of a DateTime Field in SQL

This should strip away the date part:

select convert(datetime,convert(float, getdate()) - convert(int,getdate())), getdate()

and return a datetime with a default date of 1900-01-01.

Undefined symbols for architecture i386

well i found a solution to this problem for who want to work with xCode 4. All what you have to do is importing frameworks from the SimulatorSDK folder /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.3.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks

i don't know if it works when you try to test your app on a real iDevice, but i'm sure that it works on simulator.

ENJOY

Simple prime number generator in Python

If you wanted to find all the primes in a range you could do this:

def is_prime(num):
"""Returns True if the number is prime
else False."""
if num == 0 or num == 1:
    return False
for x in range(2, num):
    if num % x == 0:
        return False
else:
    return True
num = 0
itr = 0
tot = ''
while itr <= 100:
    itr = itr + 1
    num = num + 1
    if is_prime(num) == True:
        print(num)
        tot = tot + ' ' + str(num)
print(tot)

Just add while its <= and your number for the range.
OUTPUT:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101

How to display PDF file in HTML?

you can display easly in a html page like this

_x000D_
_x000D_
<embed src="path_of_your_pdf/your_pdf_file.pdf" type="application/pdf"   height="700px" width="500">
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

difference between iframe, embed and object elements

iframe have "sandbox" attribute that may block pop up etc

How do you detect the clearing of a "search" HTML5 input?

Here's one way of achieving this. You need to add incremental attribute to your html or it won't work.

_x000D_
_x000D_
window.onload = function() {_x000D_
  var tf = document.getElementById('textField');_x000D_
  var button = document.getElementById('b');_x000D_
  button.disabled = true;_x000D_
  var onKeyChange = function textChange() {_x000D_
    button.disabled = (tf.value === "") ? true : false;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  tf.addEventListener('keyup', onKeyChange);_x000D_
  tf.addEventListener('search', onKeyChange);_x000D_
_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<input id="textField" type="search" placeholder="search" incremental="incremental">_x000D_
<button id="b">Go!</button>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

scatter plot in matplotlib

Maybe something like this:

import matplotlib.pyplot
import pylab

x = [1,2,3,4]
y = [3,4,8,6]

matplotlib.pyplot.scatter(x,y)

matplotlib.pyplot.show()

EDIT:

Let me see if I understand you correctly now:

You have:

       test1 | test2 | test3
test3 |   1   |   0  |  1

test4 |   0   |   1  |  0

test5 |   1   |   1  |  0

Now you want to represent the above values in in a scatter plot, such that value of 1 is represented by a dot.

Let's say you results are stored in a 2-D list:

results = [[1, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0], [1, 1, 0]]

We want to transform them into two variables so we are able to plot them.

And I believe this code will give you what you are looking for:

import matplotlib
import pylab


results = [[1, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0], [1, 1, 0]]

x = []
y = []

for ind_1, sublist in enumerate(results):
    for ind_2, ele in enumerate(sublist):
        if ele == 1:
            x.append(ind_1)
            y.append(ind_2)       


matplotlib.pyplot.scatter(x,y)

matplotlib.pyplot.show()

Notice that I do need to import pylab, and you would have play around with the axis labels. Also this feels like a work around, and there might be (probably is) a direct method to do this.

What is C# equivalent of <map> in C++?

.NET Framework provides many collection classes too. You can use Dictionary in C#. Please find the below msdn link for details and samples http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xfhwa508.aspx

IF Statement multiple conditions, same statement

if (columnname != a && columnname != b && columnname != c 
        && (columnname != A2 || checkbox.checked))
    {
      "statement 1"
    }

What is the best way to detect a mobile device?

Crude, but sufficient for restricting loading larger resources such as video files on phones vs tablet/desktop - simply look for small width or height to cover both orientations. Obviously, if the desktop browser has been resized the below could erroneously detect a phone, but that's fine / close enough for my use case.

Why 480, bcs that's what looks about right based on the info I've found re phone device dimensions.

if(document.body.clientWidth < 480 || document.body.clientHeight < 480) {
  //this is a mobile device
}

How to use SharedPreferences in Android to store, fetch and edit values

To store values in shared preferences:

SharedPreferences sp = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sp.edit();
editor.putString("Name","Jayesh");
editor.commit();

To retrieve values from shared preferences:

SharedPreferences sp = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
String name = sp.getString("Name", ""); // Second parameter is the default value.

How to pass a querystring or route parameter to AWS Lambda from Amazon API Gateway

exports.handler = async (event) => {
    let query = event.queryStringParameters;
    console.log(`id: ${query.id}`);
    const response = {
        statusCode: 200,
        body: "Hi",
    };
    return response;
};

100% width table overflowing div container

Well, given your constraints, I think setting overflow: scroll; on the .page div is probably your only option. 280 px is pretty narrow, and given your font size, word wrapping alone isn't going to do it. Some words are just long and can't be wrapped. You can either reduce your font size drastically or go with overflow: scroll.

Twitter Bootstrap add active class to li

If you are using an MVC framework with routes and actions:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('a[href="' + this.location.pathname + '"]').parent().addClass('active');
});

As illustrated in this answer by Christian Landgren: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13375529/101662

Text overflow ellipsis on two lines

Base on an answer I saw in stackoveflow, I created this LESS mixin (use this link to generate the CSS code):

.max-lines(@lines: 3; @line-height: 1.2) {
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  display: -webkit-box;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  -webkit-line-clamp: @lines;
  line-height: @line-height;
  max-height: @line-height * @lines;
}

Usage

.example-1 {
    .max-lines();
}

.example-2 {
    .max-lines(3);
}

.example-3 {
    .max-lines(3, 1.5);
}

Convert generic list to dataset in C#

Have you tried binding the list to the datagridview directly? If not, try that first because it will save you lots of pain. If you have tried it already, please tell us what went wrong so we can better advise you. Data binding gives you different behaviour depending on what interfaces your data object implements. For example, if your data object only implements IEnumerable (e.g. List), you will get very basic one-way binding, but if it implements IBindingList as well (e.g. BindingList, DataView), then you get two-way binding.

Laravel 5 Failed opening required bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php

Just run the following commands,

composer update

Or

composer install

Execute bash script from URL

Use:

curl -s -L URL_TO_SCRIPT_HERE | bash

For example:

curl -s -L http://bitly/10hA8iC | bash

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

The web site likely uses cookies to store your session information. When you run

curl --user user:pass https://xyz.com/a  #works ok
curl https://xyz.com/b #doesn't work

curl is run twice, in two separate sessions. Thus when the second command runs, the cookies set by the 1st command are not available; it's just as if you logged in to page a in one browser session, and tried to access page b in a different one.

What you need to do is save the cookies created by the first command:

curl --user user:pass --cookie-jar ./somefile https://xyz.com/a

and then read them back in when running the second:

curl --cookie ./somefile https://xyz.com/b

Alternatively you can try downloading both files in the same command, which I think will use the same cookies.

How to fix SSL certificate error when running Npm on Windows?

set the below property:

"npm config set strict-ssl false"

Fastest way to convert Image to Byte array

There is a RawFormat property of Image parameter which returns the file format of the image. You might try the following:

// extension method
public static byte[] imageToByteArray(this System.Drawing.Image image)
{
    using(var ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        image.Save(ms, image.RawFormat);
        return ms.ToArray();
    }
}

Difference between string and char[] types in C++

A char array is just that - an array of characters:

  • If allocated on the stack (like in your example), it will always occupy eg. 256 bytes no matter how long the text it contains is
  • If allocated on the heap (using malloc() or new char[]) you're responsible for releasing the memory afterwards and you will always have the overhead of a heap allocation.
  • If you copy a text of more than 256 chars into the array, it might crash, produce ugly assertion messages or cause unexplainable (mis-)behavior somewhere else in your program.
  • To determine the text's length, the array has to be scanned, character by character, for a \0 character.

A string is a class that contains a char array, but automatically manages it for you. Most string implementations have a built-in array of 16 characters (so short strings don't fragment the heap) and use the heap for longer strings.

You can access a string's char array like this:

std::string myString = "Hello World";
const char *myStringChars = myString.c_str();

C++ strings can contain embedded \0 characters, know their length without counting, are faster than heap-allocated char arrays for short texts and protect you from buffer overruns. Plus they're more readable and easier to use.


However, C++ strings are not (very) suitable for usage across DLL boundaries, because this would require any user of such a DLL function to make sure he's using the exact same compiler and C++ runtime implementation, lest he risk his string class behaving differently.

Normally, a string class would also release its heap memory on the calling heap, so it will only be able to free memory again if you're using a shared (.dll or .so) version of the runtime.

In short: use C++ strings in all your internal functions and methods. If you ever write a .dll or .so, use C strings in your public (dll/so-exposed) functions.

SQL Server: Make all UPPER case to Proper Case/Title Case

Copy and paste your data into MS Word and use built in text-conversion to "Capitalize Each Word". Compare against your original data to address exceptions. Can't see any way around manually sidestepping "MacDonald" and "IBM" type exceptions but this was how I got it done FWIW.

Multiple select statements in Single query

SELECT  (
    SELECT COUNT(*)
    FROM   user_table
) AS tot_user,
(
    SELECT COUNT(*)
    FROM   cat_table
) AS tot_cat,
(
    SELECT COUNT(*)
    FROM   course_table
) AS tot_course

Min/Max-value validators in asp.net mvc

jQuery Validation Plugin already implements min and max rules, we just need to create an adapter for our custom attribute:

public class MaxAttribute : ValidationAttribute, IClientValidatable
{
    private readonly int maxValue;

    public MaxAttribute(int maxValue)
    {
        this.maxValue = maxValue;
    }

    public IEnumerable<ModelClientValidationRule> GetClientValidationRules(ModelMetadata metadata, ControllerContext context)
    {
        var rule = new ModelClientValidationRule();

        rule.ErrorMessage = ErrorMessageString, maxValue;

        rule.ValidationType = "max";
        rule.ValidationParameters.Add("max", maxValue);
        yield return rule;
    }

    public override bool IsValid(object value)
    {
        return (int)value <= maxValue;
    }
}

Adapter:

$.validator.unobtrusive.adapters.add(
   'max',
   ['max'],
   function (options) {
       options.rules['max'] = parseInt(options.params['max'], 10);
       options.messages['max'] = options.message;
   });

Min attribute would be very similar.

How to break nested loops in JavaScript?

See Aaron's. Otherwise: j=5;i=5 instead of break.

How to print formatted BigDecimal values?

To set thousand separator, say 123,456.78 you have to use DecimalFormat:

     DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#,###.00");
     System.out.println(df.format(new BigDecimal(123456.75)));
     System.out.println(df.format(new BigDecimal(123456.00)));
     System.out.println(df.format(new BigDecimal(123456123456.78)));

Here is the result:

123,456.75
123,456.00
123,456,123,456.78

Although I set #,###.00 mask, it successfully formats the longer values too. Note that the comma(,) separator in result depends on your locale. It may be just space( ) for Russian locale.

Is there a limit on number of tcp/ip connections between machines on linux?

The quick answer is 2^16 TCP ports, 64K.

The issues with system imposed limits is a configuration issue, already touched upon in previous comments.

The internal implications to TCP is not so clear (to me). Each port requires memory for it's instantiation, goes onto a list and needs network buffers for data in transit.

Given 64K TCP sessions the overhead for instances of the ports might be an issue on a 32-bit kernel, but not a 64-bit kernel (correction here gladly accepted). The lookup process with 64K sessions can slow things a bit and every packet hits the timer queues, which can also be problematic. Storage for in transit data can theoretically swell to the window size times ports (maybe 8 GByte).

The issue with connection speed (mentioned above) is probably what you are seeing. TCP generally takes time to do things. However, it is not required. A TCP connect, transact and disconnect can be done very efficiently (check to see how the TCP sessions are created and closed).

There are systems that pass tens of gigabits per second, so the packet level scaling should be OK.

There are machines with plenty of physical memory, so that looks OK.

The performance of the system, if carefully configured should be OK.

The server side of things should scale in a similar fashion.

I would be concerned about things like memory bandwidth.

Consider an experiment where you login to the local host 10,000 times. Then type a character. The entire stack through user space would be engaged on each character. The active footprint would likely exceed the data cache size. Running through lots of memory can stress the VM system. The cost of context switches could approach a second!

This is discussed in a variety of other threads: https://serverfault.com/questions/69524/im-designing-a-system-to-handle-10000-tcp-connections-per-second-what-problems

Remove trailing spaces automatically or with a shortcut

Have a look at the EditorConfig plugin.

By using the plugin you can have settings specific for various projects. Visual Studio Code also has IntelliSense built-in for .editorconfig files.

Time in milliseconds in C

Modern processors are too fast to register the running time. Hence it may return zero. In this case, the time you started and ended is too small and therefore both the times are the same after round of.

TimeSpan to DateTime conversion

While the selected answer is strictly correct, I believe I understand what the OP is trying to get at here as I had a similar issue.

I had a TimeSpan which I wished to display in a grid control (as just hh:mm) but the grid didn't appear to understand TimeSpan, only DateTime . The OP has a similar scenario where only the TimeSpan is the relevant part but didn't consider the necessity of adding the DateTime reference point.

So, as indicated above, I simply added DateTime.MinValue (though any date will do) which is subsequently ignored by the grid when it renders the timespan as a time portion of the resulting date.

Change image source in code behind - Wpf

You are all wrong! Why? Because all you need is this code to work:

(image View) / C# Img is : your Image box

Keep this as is, without change ("ms-appx:///) this is code not your app name Images is your folder in your project you can change it. dog.png is your file in your folder, as well as i do my folder 'Images' and file 'dog.png' So the uri is :"ms-appx:///Images/dog.png" and my code :


private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
         img.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri("ms-appx:///Images/dog.png"));
    }

How to easily initialize a list of Tuples?

c# 7.0 lets you do this:

  var tupleList = new List<(int, string)>
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

If you don't need a List, but just an array, you can do:

  var tupleList = new(int, string)[]
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

And if you don't like "Item1" and "Item2", you can do:

  var tupleList = new List<(int Index, string Name)>
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

or for an array:

  var tupleList = new (int Index, string Name)[]
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

which lets you do: tupleList[0].Index and tupleList[0].Name

Framework 4.6.2 and below

You must install System.ValueTuple from the Nuget Package Manager.

Framework 4.7 and above

It is built into the framework. Do not install System.ValueTuple. In fact, remove it and delete it from the bin directory.

note: In real life, I wouldn't be able to choose between cow, chickens or airplane. I would be really torn.

How do I kill all the processes in Mysql "show processlist"?

I recently needed to do this and I came up with this

-- GROUP_CONCAT turns all the rows into 1
-- @q:= stores all the kill commands to a variable
select @q:=GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT('KILL ',ID) SEPARATOR ';')  
FROM information_schema.processlist 
-- If you don't need it, you can remove the WHERE command altogether
WHERE user = 'user';
-- Creates statement and execute it
PREPARE stmt FROM @q;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;

That way, you don't need to store to file and run all queries with a single command.

How can I autoformat/indent C code in vim?

Their is a tool called indent. You can download it with apt-get install indent, then run indent my_program.c.

float:left; vs display:inline; vs display:inline-block; vs display:table-cell;

I'd say it depends on what you need it for:

  1. If you need it just to get 3 columns layout, I'd suggest to do it with float.

  2. If you need it for menu, you can use inline-block. For the whitespace problem, you can use few tricks as described by Chris Coyier here http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/.

  3. If you need to make a multiple choice option, which the width needs to spread evenly inside a specified box, then I'd prefer display: table. This will not work correctly in some browsers, so it depends on your browser support.

Lastly, what might be the best method is using flexbox. The spec for this has changed few times, so it's not stable just yet. But once it has been finalized, this will be the best method I reckon.

Javascript: Extend a Function

Another option could be:

var initial = function() {
    console.log( 'initial function!' );
}

var iWantToExecuteThisOneToo = function () {
    console.log( 'the other function that i wanted to execute!' );
}

function extendFunction( oldOne, newOne ) {
    return (function() {
        oldOne();
        newOne();
    })();
}

var extendedFunction = extendFunction( initial, iWantToExecuteThisOneToo );

How to make a GridLayout fit screen size

Grid Layout

       <GridLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="3"
        android:columnCount="2"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:rowCount="3"
        android:background="@drawable/background_down"
        android:layout_height="0dp">


        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="15dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/user" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Users"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>

        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>
        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="15dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/addusers" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Add Users"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>


        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="15dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/newspaper" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Report"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>



        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>
        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="5dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/settings" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Settings"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>


        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

    </GridLayout>

Full tutorials can be found here .

[Android Grid Layout With CardView and OnItemClickListener][2]

CSS background opacity with rgba not working in IE 8

this worked for me to solve the problem in IE8:

-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=1)";

Cheers

Float and double datatype in Java

Floating-point numbers, also known as real numbers, are used when evaluating expressions that require fractional precision. For example, calculations such as square root, or transcendentals such as sine and cosine, result in a value whose precision requires a floating-point type. Java implements the standard (IEEE–754) set of floatingpoint types and operators. There are two kinds of floating-point types, float and double, which represent single- and double-precision numbers, respectively. Their width and ranges are shown here:


   Name     Width in Bits   Range 
    double  64              1 .7e–308 to 1.7e+308
    float   32              3 .4e–038 to 3.4e+038


float

The type float specifies a single-precision value that uses 32 bits of storage. Single precision is faster on some processors and takes half as much space as double precision, but will become imprecise when the values are either very large or very small. Variables of type float are useful when you need a fractional component, but don't require a large degree of precision.

Here are some example float variable declarations:

float hightemp, lowtemp;


double

Double precision, as denoted by the double keyword, uses 64 bits to store a value. Double precision is actually faster than single precision on some modern processors that have been optimized for high-speed mathematical calculations. All transcendental math functions, such as sin( ), cos( ), and sqrt( ), return double values. When you need to maintain accuracy over many iterative calculations, or are manipulating large-valued numbers, double is the best choice.

How do I tell what type of value is in a Perl variable?

A scalar always holds a single element. Whatever is in a scalar variable is always a scalar. A reference is a scalar value.

If you want to know if it is a reference, you can use ref. If you want to know the reference type, you can use the reftype routine from Scalar::Util.

If you want to know if it is an object, you can use the blessed routine from Scalar::Util. You should never care what the blessed package is, though. UNIVERSAL has some methods to tell you about an object: if you want to check that it has the method you want to call, use can; if you want to see that it inherits from something, use isa; and if you want to see it the object handles a role, use DOES.

If you want to know if that scalar is actually just acting like a scalar but tied to a class, try tied. If you get an object, continue your checks.

If you want to know if it looks like a number, you can use looks_like_number from Scalar::Util. If it doesn't look like a number and it's not a reference, it's a string. However, all simple values can be strings.

If you need to do something more fancy, you can use a module such as Params::Validate.

Bootstrap 3.0: How to have text and input on same line?

In Bootstrap 4 for Horizontal element you can use .row with .col-*-* classes to specify the width of your labels and controls. see this link.

And if you want to display a series of labels, form controls, and buttons on a single horizontal row you can use .form-inline for more info this link

jQuery date/time picker

@David, thanks for the recommendation! @fluid_chelsea, I've just released Any+Time(TM) version 3.x which uses jQuery instead of Prototype and has a much-improved interface, so I hope it now meets your needs:

http://www.ama3.com/anytime/

Any problems, please let me know via the comment link on my website!

exceeds the list view threshold 5000 items in Sharepoint 2010

I had the same problem.please do the following it may help you: By Default List View Threshold set at only 5,000 items this is because of Sharepoint server performance.

To Change the LVT:

  1. Click SharePoint Central Administration,
  2. Go to Application Management
  3. Manage Web Applications
  4. Select your application
  5. Click General Settings at the ribbon
  6. Select Resource Throttling
  7. List View Threshold limit --> change the value to your need.
  8. Also change the List View Threshold for Auditors and Administrators.if you are a administrator.

Click OK to save it.

Convert byte slice to io.Reader

To get a type that implements io.Reader from a []byte slice, you can use bytes.NewReader in the bytes package:

r := bytes.NewReader(byteData)

This will return a value of type bytes.Reader which implements the io.Reader (and io.ReadSeeker) interface.

Don't worry about them not being the same "type". io.Reader is an interface and can be implemented by many different types. To learn a little bit more about interfaces in Go, read Effective Go: Interfaces and Types.

Git submodule push

Note that since git1.7.11 ([ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.11.rc1 and release note, June 2012) mentions:

"git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out.

Probably done after this patch and the --on-demand option:

recurse-submodules=<check|on-demand>::

Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed are available on a remote tracking branch.

  • If check is used, it will be checked that all submodule commits that changed in the revisions to be pushed are available on a remote.
    Otherwise the push will be aborted and exit with non-zero status.
  • If on-demand is used, all submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be pushed.
    If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status.

So you could push everything in one go with (from the parent repo) a:

git push --recurse-submodules=on-demand

This option only works for one level of nesting. Changes to the submodule inside of another submodule will not be pushed.


With git 2.7 (January 2016), a simple git push will be enough to push the parent repo... and all its submodules.

See commit d34141c, commit f5c7cd9 (03 Dec 2015), commit f5c7cd9 (03 Dec 2015), and commit b33a15b (17 Nov 2015) by Mike Crowe (mikecrowe).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 5d35d72, 21 Dec 2015)

push: add recurseSubmodules config option

The --recurse-submodules command line parameter has existed for some time but it has no config file equivalent.

Following the style of the corresponding parameter for git fetch, let's invent push.recurseSubmodules to provide a default for this parameter.
This also requires the addition of --recurse-submodules=no to allow the configuration to be overridden on the command line when required.

The most straightforward way to implement this appears to be to make push use code in submodule-config in a similar way to fetch.

The git config doc now include:

push.recurseSubmodules:

Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed are available on a remote-tracking branch.

  • If the value is 'check', then Git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in the revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote of the submodule. If any commits are missing, the push will be aborted and exit with non-zero status.
  • If the value is 'on-demand' then all submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. -
  • If the value is 'no' then default behavior of ignoring submodules when pushing is retained.

You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying '--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no'.

So:

git config push.recurseSubmodules on-demand
git push

Git 2.12 (Q1 2017)

git push --dry-run --recurse-submodules=on-demand will actually work.

See commit 0301c82, commit 1aa7365 (17 Nov 2016) by Brandon Williams (mbrandonw).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 12cf113, 16 Dec 2016)

push run with --dry-run doesn't actually (Git 2.11 Dec. 2016 and lower/before) perform a dry-run when push is configured to push submodules on-demand.
Instead all submodules which need to be pushed are actually pushed to their remotes while any updates for the superproject are performed as a dry-run.
This is a bug and not the intended behaviour of a dry-run.

Teach push to respect the --dry-run option when configured to recursively push submodules 'on-demand'.
This is done by passing the --dry-run flag to the child process which performs a push for a submodules when performing a dry-run.


And still in Git 2.12, you now havea "--recurse-submodules=only" option to push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject.

See commit 225e8bf, commit 6c656c3, commit 14c01bd (19 Dec 2016) by Brandon Williams (mbrandonw).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 792e22e, 31 Jan 2017)

Find a value anywhere in a database

You might need to build an inverted index for your database. It is assured to be pretty fast.

Disable click outside of bootstrap modal area to close modal

if you want to change default:

for bootstrap 3.x:

$.fn.modal.prototype.constructor.Constructor.DEFAULTS.backdrop = 'static';
$.fn.modal.prototype.constructor.Constructor.DEFAULTS.keyboard =  false;

for bootstrap 4.x:

$.fn.modal.prototype.constructor.Constructor.Default.backdrop = 'static';
$.fn.modal.prototype.constructor.Constructor.Default.keyboard =  false;

Unable to locate tools.jar

Yes, you've downloaded and installed the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) instead of the Java Development Kit (JDK). The latter has the tools.jar, java.exe, javac.exe, etc.

Compiler error "archive for required library could not be read" - Spring Tool Suite

This happens when Eclipse screws up. To fix it, delete all the files in:

workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core

check android application is in foreground or not?

cesards's answer is correct, but only for API > 15. For lower API versions I decided to use getRunningTasks() method:

   private boolean isAppInForeground(Context context)
    {
        if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
        {
            ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
            ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo foregroundTaskInfo = am.getRunningTasks(1).get(0);
            String foregroundTaskPackageName = foregroundTaskInfo.topActivity.getPackageName();

            return foregroundTaskPackageName.toLowerCase().equals(context.getPackageName().toLowerCase());
        }
        else
        {
            ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo appProcessInfo = new ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo();
            ActivityManager.getMyMemoryState(appProcessInfo);
            if (appProcessInfo.importance == IMPORTANCE_FOREGROUND || appProcessInfo.importance == IMPORTANCE_VISIBLE)
            {
                return true;
            }

            KeyguardManager km = (KeyguardManager) context.getSystemService(Context.KEYGUARD_SERVICE);
            // App is foreground, but screen is locked, so show notification
            return km.inKeyguardRestrictedInputMode();
        }
    }

Please, let me know if it works for you all.

Print content of JavaScript object?

You can also use Prototype's Object.inspect() method, which "Returns the debug-oriented string representation of the object".

http://api.prototypejs.org/language/Object/inspect/

ORA-12516, TNS:listener could not find available handler

I fixed this problem with sql command line:

connect system/<password>
alter system set processes=300 scope=spfile;
alter system set sessions=300 scope=spfile;

Restart database.

500 Internal Server Error for php file not for html

I know this question is old, however I ran into this problem on Windows 8.1 while trying to use .htaccess files for rewriting. My solution was simple, I forgot to modify the following line in httpd.conf

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

to

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Restarted the apache monitor, now all works well. Just posting this as an answer because someone in the future may run across the same issue with a simple fix.

Good luck!

count distinct values in spreadsheet

Not exactly what the user asked, but an easy way to just count unique values:

Google introduced a new function to count unique values in just one step, and you can use this as an input for other formulas:

=COUNTUNIQUE(A1:B10)

how to convert String into Date time format in JAVA?

Using this,

        String s = "03/24/2013 21:54";
        SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm");
        try
        {
            Date date = simpleDateFormat.parse(s);

            System.out.println("date : "+simpleDateFormat.format(date));
        }
        catch (ParseException ex)
        {
            System.out.println("Exception "+ex);
        }

How can I get screen resolution in java?

Here's some functional code (Java 8) which returns the x position of the right most edge of the right most screen. If no screens are found, then it returns 0.

  GraphicsDevice devices[];

  devices = GraphicsEnvironment.
     getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().
     getScreenDevices();

  return Stream.
     of(devices).
     map(GraphicsDevice::getDefaultConfiguration).
     map(GraphicsConfiguration::getBounds).
     mapToInt(bounds -> bounds.x + bounds.width).
     max().
     orElse(0);

Here are links to the JavaDoc.

GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment()
GraphicsEnvironment.getScreenDevices()
GraphicsDevice.getDefaultConfiguration()
GraphicsConfiguration.getBounds()

How can I make window.showmodaldialog work in chrome 37?

I put the following javascript in the page header and it seems to work. It detects when the browser does not support showModalDialog and attaches a custom method that uses window.open, parses the dialog specs (height, width, scroll, etc.), centers on opener and sets focus back to the window (if focus is lost). Also, it uses the URL as the window name so that a new window is not opened each time. If you are passing window args to the modal you will need to write some additional code to fix that. The popup is not modal but at least you don't have to change a lot of code. Might need some work for your circumstances.

<script type="text/javascript">
  // fix for deprecated method in Chrome 37
  if (!window.showModalDialog) {
     window.showModalDialog = function (arg1, arg2, arg3) {

        var w;
        var h;
        var resizable = "no";
        var scroll = "no";
        var status = "no";

        // get the modal specs
        var mdattrs = arg3.split(";");
        for (i = 0; i < mdattrs.length; i++) {
           var mdattr = mdattrs[i].split(":");

           var n = mdattr[0];
           var v = mdattr[1];
           if (n) { n = n.trim().toLowerCase(); }
           if (v) { v = v.trim().toLowerCase(); }

           if (n == "dialogheight") {
              h = v.replace("px", "");
           } else if (n == "dialogwidth") {
              w = v.replace("px", "");
           } else if (n == "resizable") {
              resizable = v;
           } else if (n == "scroll") {
              scroll = v;
           } else if (n == "status") {
              status = v;
           }
        }

        var left = window.screenX + (window.outerWidth / 2) - (w / 2);
        var top = window.screenY + (window.outerHeight / 2) - (h / 2);
        var targetWin = window.open(arg1, arg1, 'toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=' + status + ', menubar=no, scrollbars=' + scroll + ', resizable=' + resizable + ', copyhistory=no, width=' + w + ', height=' + h + ', top=' + top + ', left=' + left);
        targetWin.focus();
     };
  }
</script>

Flutter position stack widget in center

The Problem is the Container that gets the smallest possible size.

Just give a width: to the Container (in red) and you are done.

width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width

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  new Positioned(
  bottom: 0.0,
  child: new Container(
    width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width,
    color: Colors.red,
    margin: const EdgeInsets.all(0.0),
    child: new Column(
      mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
      children: <Widget>[
        new Align(
          alignment: Alignment.bottomCenter,
          child: new ButtonBar(
            alignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children: <Widget>[
              new OutlineButton(
                onPressed: null,
                child: new Text(
                  "Login",
                  style: new TextStyle(color: Colors.white),
                ),
              ),
              new RaisedButton(
                color: Colors.white,
                onPressed: null,
                child: new Text(
                  "Register",
                  style: new TextStyle(color: Colors.black),
                ),
              )
            ],
          ),
        )
      ],
    ),
  ),
),

How can I check if a value is a json object?

If you want to test explicitly for valid JSON (as opposed to the absence of the returned value false), then you can use a parsing approach as described here.

Django optional url parameters

Use ? work well, you can check on pythex. Remember to add the parameters *args and **kwargs in the definition of the view methods

url('project_config/(?P<product>\w+)?(/(?P<project_id>\w+/)?)?', tool.views.ProjectConfig, name='project_config')

How to get the client IP address in PHP

Here is the one-liner version getting the client's IP address:

$ip = @$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'] ?: @$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] ?: @$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

Notes:

  • By using @, it suppresses the PHP notices.
  • Value from HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR may consist multiple addresses separated by comma, so if you prefer to get the first one, you can use the following method:

    current(explode(',', @$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))
    

Best Free Text Editor Supporting *More Than* 4GB Files?

HxD -- it's a hexeditor, but it allows in place edits, and doesn't barf on large files.

Return value from exec(@sql)

that's my procedure

CREATE PROC sp_count
    @CompanyId sysname,
    @codition sysname
    AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON
    CREATE TABLE #ctr
    ( NumRows int )

    DECLARE @intCount int
         , @vcSQL varchar(255)

    SELECT    @vcSQL = ' INSERT #ctr FROM dbo.Comm_Services 
                       WHERE CompanyId = '+@CompanyId+' and '+@condition+')'
    EXEC      (@vcSQL)

    IF @@ERROR = 0
    BEGIN
         SELECT    @intCount = NumRows
         FROM #ctr

         DROP TABLE #ctr
         RETURN @intCount
    END
    ELSE
    BEGIN
         DROP TABLE #ctr
         RETURN -1
    END
    GO

Where is the user's Subversion config file stored on the major operating systems?

@Baxter's is mostly correct but it is missing one important Windows-specific detail.

Subversion's runtime configuration area is stored in the %APPDATA%\Subversion\ directory. The files are config and servers.

However, in addition to text-based configuration files, Subversion clients can use Windows Registry to store the client settings. It makes it possible to modify the settings with PowerShell in a convenient manner, and also distribute these settings to user workstations in Active Directory environment via AD Group Policy. See SVNBook | Configuration and the Windows Registry (you can find examples and a sample *.reg file there).

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Auto-click button element on page load using jQuery

You can use that and adjust the time you want to launch 1= onload 2000= 2 sec

_x000D_
_x000D_
$(document).ready(function(){
 $('#click').click(function(){
        alert('button clicked');
    });
  // set time out 2 sec
     setTimeout(function(){
        $('#click').trigger('click');
    }, 2000);
});
_x000D_
.container{
padding-top:50px;
}
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="container">
<div class="col text-center">
<button id="click" class="btn btn-danger">Jquery Auto Click</button>
  </div>
   </div>
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_x000D_
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#ifdef in C#

#if DEBUG
bool bypassCheck=TRUE_OR_FALSE;//i will decide depending on what i am debugging
#else
bool bypassCheck = false; //NEVER bypass it
#endif

Make sure you have the checkbox to define DEBUG checked in your build properties.

How to make a phone call using intent in Android?

11-25 14:47:01.681: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(302): blah blah...requires android.permission.CALL_PHONE

^ The answer lies in the exception output "requires android.permission.CALL_PHONE" :)

Prevent jQuery UI dialog from setting focus to first textbox

I got the same problem.

The workaround I did is add the dummy textbox at the top of the dialog container.

<input type="text" style="width: 1px; height: 1px; border: 0px;" />

Create a file if one doesn't exist - C

You typically have to do this in a single syscall, or else you will get a race condition.

This will open for reading and writing, creating the file if necessary.

FILE *fp = fopen("scores.dat", "ab+");

If you want to read it and then write a new version from scratch, then do it as two steps.

FILE *fp = fopen("scores.dat", "rb");
if (fp) {
    read_scores(fp);
}

// Later...

// truncates the file
FILE *fp = fopen("scores.dat", "wb");
if (!fp)
    error();
write_scores(fp);

How to get UTC timestamp in Ruby?

The proper way is to do a Time.now.getutc.to_i to get the proper timestamp amount as simply displaying the integer need not always be same as the utc timestamp due to time zone differences.

SSIS Excel Connection Manager failed to Connect to the Source

My answer is very similar to the one from @biscoop, but I am going to elaborate a bit as it may apply to the question or to other people.

I had a .xls that was an extraction from one of our webapps. The Excel connection would not work (error message: "no tables or views could be loaded"). As a side note, when opening the file, there would be a warning stating that the file was from an online source and that the content needed activation.

I tried to save the same file as an .xlsx and it worked. I tried to save the same file with another name as an .xls and it worked too. So as a last test I only opened the source .xls file, clicking save and the connection worked.

Short answer: just try and see if opening the file and saving does the trick.

How to recursively download a folder via FTP on Linux

If you can, I strongly suggest you tar and bzip (or gzip, whatever floats your boat) the directory on the remote machine—for a directory of any significant size, the bandwidth savings will probably be worth the time to zip/unzip.

SSIS - Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page - Special Characters

If you go to the Flat file connection manager under Advanced and Look at the "OutputColumnWidth" description's ToolTip It will tell you that Composit characters may use more spaces. So the "é" in "Société" most likely occupies more than one character.

EDIT: Here's something about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character

getElementById returns null?

There could be many reason why document.getElementById doesn't work

  • You have an invalid ID

    ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods ("."). (resource: What are valid values for the id attribute in HTML?)

  • you used some id that you already used as <meta> name in your header (e.g. copyright, author... ) it looks weird but happened to me: if your 're using IE take a look at (resource: http://www.phpied.com/getelementbyid-description-in-ie/)

  • you're targeting an element inside a frame or iframe. In this case if the iframe loads a page within the same domain of the parent you should target the contentdocument before looking for the element (resource: Calling a specific id inside a frame)

  • you're simply looking to an element when the node is not effectively loaded in the DOM, or maybe it's a simple misspelling

I doubt you used same ID twice or more: in that case document.getElementById should return at least the first element

Build unsigned APK file with Android Studio

Step 1 Open android studio . Build -> Generate Signed APK… . now click on “Generate Signed APK”.

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Step 2

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Click Create new.

Step 3

Fill the details and click ok. enter image description here

jks key details,It will go back to previous window.

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Click Next, and give the password which you stored in key.

Step 4

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Now click Finish and wait to complete the building process.

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Now apk generated successfully. Click show in Explorer.

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If you need more details please visit and check the live demo http://javaant.com/how-to-make-apk-file-in-android-studio/#.VwzedZN96Hs

Scanner vs. BufferedReader

See this link, following is quoted from there:

A BufferedReader is a simple class meant to efficiently read from the underling stream. Generally, each read request made of a Reader like a FileReader causes a corresponding read request to be made to underlying stream. Each invocation of read() or readLine() could cause bytes to be read from the file, converted into characters, and then returned, which can be very inefficient. Efficiency is improved appreciably if a Reader is warped in a BufferedReader.

BufferedReader is synchronized, so read operations on a BufferedReader can safely be done from multiple threads.

A scanner on the other hand has a lot more cheese built into it; it can do all that a BufferedReader can do and at the same level of efficiency as well. However, in addition a Scanner can parse the underlying stream for primitive types and strings using regular expressions. It can also tokenize the underlying stream with the delimiter of your choice. It can also do forward scanning of the underlying stream disregarding the delimiter!

A scanner however is not thread safe, it has to be externally synchronized.

The choice of using a BufferedReader or a Scanner depends on the code you are writing, if you are writing a simple log reader Buffered reader is adequate. However if you are writing an XML parser Scanner is the more natural choice.

Even while reading the input, if want to accept user input line by line and say just add it to a file, a BufferedReader is good enough. On the other hand if you want to accept user input as a command with multiple options, and then intend to perform different operations based on the command and options specified, a Scanner will suit better.

window.onunload is not working properly in Chrome browser. Can any one help me?

The onunload event won't fire if the onload event did not fire. Unfortunately the onload event waits for all binary content (e.g. images) to load, and inline scripts run before the onload event fires. DOMContentLoaded fires when the page is visible, before onload does. And it is now standard in HTML 5, and you can test for browser support but note this requires the <!DOCTYPE html> (at least in Chrome). However, I can not find a corresponding event for unloading the DOM. And such a hypothetical event might not work because some browsers may keep the DOM around to perform the "restore tab" feature.

The only potential solution I found so far is the Page Visibility API, which appears to require the <!DOCTYPE html>.

SFTP in Python? (platform independent)

There are a bunch of answers that mention pysftp, so in the event that you want a context manager wrapper around pysftp, here is a solution that is even less code that ends up looking like the following when used

path = "sftp://user:p@[email protected]/path/to/file.txt"

# Read a file
with open_sftp(path) as f:
    s = f.read() 
print s

# Write to a file
with open_sftp(path, mode='w') as f:
    f.write("Some content.") 

The (fuller) example: http://www.prschmid.com/2016/09/simple-opensftp-context-manager-for.html

This context manager happens to have auto-retry logic baked in in the event you can't connect the first time around (which surprisingly happens more often than you'd expect in a production environment...)

The context manager gist for open_sftp: https://gist.github.com/prschmid/80a19c22012e42d4d6e791c1e4eb8515

'workbooks.worksheets.activate' works, but '.select' does not

You can't select a sheet in a non-active workbook.

You must first activate the workbook, then you can select the sheet.

workbooks("A").activate
workbooks("A").worksheets("B").select 

When you use Activate it automatically activates the workbook.

Note you can select >1 sheet in a workbook:

activeworkbook.sheets(array("sheet1","sheet3")).select

but only one sheet can be Active, and if you activate a sheet which is not part of a multi-sheet selection then those other sheets will become un-selected.

Getting the difference between two Dates (months/days/hours/minutes/seconds) in Swift

Use this code:

let registrationDateString = "2008-10-06 00:00:00"
    let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"
    if let registrationDate = dateFormatter.date(from: registrationDateString) {
        let currentDate = Date()
        let dateDifference = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day, .month, .year],
                                                               from: registrationDate,
                                                               to: currentDate)
        print("--------------------- Result: \(dateDifference.year ?? 0) years \(dateDifference.month ?? 0) months and \(dateDifference.day ?? 0) days")
    } else {
        print("--------------------- No result")
    }

Output is: Result: 10 years 1 months and 18 days

How to pass a list from Python, by Jinja2 to JavaScript

To add up on the selected answer, I have been testing a new option that is working too using jinja2 and flask:

@app.route('/')
def my_view():
    data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    return render_template('index.html', data=data)

The template:

<script>
    console.log( {{ data | tojson }} )
</script>

the output of the rendered template:

<script>
    console.log( [1, 2, 3, 4] )
</script>

The safe could be added but as well like {{ data | tojson | safe }} to avoid html escape but it is working without too.

jQuery multiple events to trigger the same function

This is how i do it.

$("input[name='title']").on({
    "change keyup": function(e) {
        var slug = $(this).val().split(" ").join("-").toLowerCase();
        $("input[name='slug']").val(slug);
    },
});

Global Events in Angular

We implemented a ngModelChange observable directive that sends all model changes through an event emitter that you instantiate in your own component. You simply have to bind your event emitter to the directive.

See: https://github.com/atomicbits/angular2-modelchangeobservable

In html, bind your event emitter (countryChanged in this example):

<input [(ngModel)]="country.name"
       [modelChangeObservable]="countryChanged" 
       placeholder="Country"
       name="country" id="country"></input>

In your typescript component, do some async operations on the EventEmitter:

import ...
import {ModelChangeObservable} from './model-change-observable.directive'


@Component({
    selector: 'my-component',
    directives: [ModelChangeObservable],
    providers: [],
    templateUrl: 'my-component.html'
})

export class MyComponent {

    @Input()
    country: Country

    selectedCountries:Country[]
    countries:Country[] = <Country[]>[]
    countryChanged:EventEmitter<string> = new EventEmitter<string>()


    constructor() {

        this.countryChanged
            .filter((text:string) => text.length > 2)
            .debounceTime(300)
            .subscribe((countryName:string) => {
                let query = new RegExp(countryName, 'ig')
                this.selectedCountries = this.countries.filter((country:Country) => {
                    return query.test(country.name)
                })
            })
    }
}

What is the Python equivalent of static variables inside a function?

Prompted by this question, may I present another alternative which might be a bit nicer to use and will look the same for both methods and functions:

@static_var2('seed',0)
def funccounter(statics, add=1):
    statics.seed += add
    return statics.seed

print funccounter()       #1
print funccounter(add=2)  #3
print funccounter()       #4

class ACircle(object):
    @static_var2('seed',0)
    def counter(statics, self, add=1):
        statics.seed += add
        return statics.seed

c = ACircle()
print c.counter()      #1
print c.counter(add=2) #3
print c.counter()      #4
d = ACircle()
print d.counter()      #5
print d.counter(add=2) #7
print d.counter()      #8    

If you like the usage, here's the implementation:

class StaticMan(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.__dict__['_d'] = {}

    def __getattr__(self, name):
        return self.__dict__['_d'][name]
    def __getitem__(self, name):
        return self.__dict__['_d'][name]
    def __setattr__(self, name, val):
        self.__dict__['_d'][name] = val
    def __setitem__(self, name, val):
        self.__dict__['_d'][name] = val

def static_var2(name, val):
    def decorator(original):
        if not hasattr(original, ':staticman'):    
            def wrapped(*args, **kwargs):
                return original(getattr(wrapped, ':staticman'), *args, **kwargs)
            setattr(wrapped, ':staticman', StaticMan())
            f = wrapped
        else:
            f = original #already wrapped

        getattr(f, ':staticman')[name] = val
        return f
    return decorator

Does Java support default parameter values?

As Scala was mentioned, Kotlin is also worth mentioning. In Kotlin function parameters can have default values as well and they can even refer to other parameters:

fun read(b: Array<Byte>, off: Int = 0, len: Int = b.size) {
    ...
}

Like Scala, Kotlin runs on the JVM and can be easily integrated into existing Java projects.

Find an element in DOM based on an attribute value

FindByAttributeValue("Attribute-Name", "Attribute-Value");   

p.s. if you know exact element-type, you add 3rd parameter (i.e.div, a, p ...etc...):

FindByAttributeValue("Attribute-Name", "Attribute-Value", "div");   

but at first, define this function:

function FindByAttributeValue(attribute, value, element_type)    {
  element_type = element_type || "*";
  var All = document.getElementsByTagName(element_type);
  for (var i = 0; i < All.length; i++)       {
    if (All[i].getAttribute(attribute) == value) { return All[i]; }
  }
}

p.s. updated per comments recommendations.

How can I return to a parent activity correctly?

In Java class :-

    toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.apptool_bar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

    getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Snapdeal");

    getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

In Manifest :-

<activity
            android:name=".SubActivity"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_sub"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
            <meta-data android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY" android:value=".MainActivity"></meta-data>
    </activity>

It will help you

connecting MySQL server to NetBeans

  1. Download XAMPP
  2. Run XAMPP server. Click on Start button in front of MY SQL. Now you can see that color is changed to green. Now, Click on Admin.The new browser window will be open. Copy the link from browser and paste to the Admin properties as shown in below. Set path in the admin properties of database connection. Click on OK. Now your database is connected. enter image description here

Getting a list of values from a list of dicts

A very simple way to do it is:

list1=['']
j=0
for i in com_list:
    if j==0:
        list1[0]=(i['value'])
    else:
        list1.append(i['value'])
    j+=1

Output:

['apple', 'banana', 'cars']

Excel formula to remove space between words in a cell

It is SUBSTITUTE(B1," ",""), not REPLACE(xx;xx;xx).

Get JSONArray without array name?

I've assumed a named JSONArray is a JSONObject and accessed the data from the server to populate an Android GridView. For what it is worth my method is:

private String[] fillTable( JSONObject jsonObject ) {
   String[] dummyData = new String[] {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7","1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7","1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", };
  if( jsonObject != null ) {
      ArrayList<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();
      try {
          // jsonArray looks like { "everything" : [{}, {},] }
          JSONArray jsonArray = jsonObject.getJSONArray( "everything" );
          int number = jsonArray.length(); //How many rows have got from the database?
          Log.i( Constants.INFORMATION, "Number of ows returned:  " + Integer.toString( number ) );
                  // Array elements look like this
          //{"success":1,"error":0,"name":"English One","owner":"Tutor","description":"Initial Alert","posted":"2013-08-09 15:35:40"}
          for( int element = 0; element < number; element++ ) { //visit each element
             JSONObject jsonObject_local = jsonArray.getJSONObject( element );
             //  Overkill on the error/success checking
             Log.e("JSON SUCCESS", Integer.toString( jsonObject_local.getInt(Constants.KEY_SUCCESS) ) );
             Log.e("JSON ERROR", Integer.toString( jsonObject_local.getInt(Constants.KEY_ERROR) ) );
                if ( jsonObject_local.getInt( Constants.KEY_SUCCESS) == Constants.JSON_SUCCESS ) {
                   String name = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_NAME );
                   data.add( name );
                   String owner = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_OWNER );
                   data.add( owner );
                   String description = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_DESCRIPTION );
                   Log.i( "DESCRIPTION", description );
                   data.add( description ); 
                   String date = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_DATE );
                   data.add( date );
                }
                else {
                    for( int i = 0; i < 4; i++ ) {
                        data.add( "ERROR" );
                    }
                }
          }
  }  //JSON object is null
  catch ( JSONException jsone) {
      Log.e( "JSON EXCEPTION", jsone.getMessage() );
  }
      dummyData = data.toArray( dummyData );
  }
  return dummyData;

}

SQL JOIN vs IN performance?

Each database's implementation but you can probably guess that they all solve common problems in more or less the same way. If you are using MSSQL have a look at the execution plan that is generated. You can do this by turning on the profiler and executions plans. This will give you a text version when you run the command.

I am not sure what version of MSSQL you are using but you can get a graphical one in SQL Server 2000 in the query analyzer. I am sure that this functionality is lurking some where in SQL Server Studio Manager in later versions.

Have a look at the exeuction plan. As far as possible avoid table scans unless of course your table is small in which case a table scan is faster than using an index. Read up on the different join operations that each different scenario produces.

Strip double quotes from a string in .NET

I didn't see my thoughts repeated already, so I will suggest that you look at string.Trim in the Microsoft documentation for C# you can add a character to be trimmed instead of simply trimming empty spaces:

string withQuotes = "\"hellow\"";
string withOutQotes = withQuotes.Trim('"');

should result in withOutQuotes being "hello" instead of ""hello""

What should be the sizeof(int) on a 64-bit machine?

Size of a pointer should be 8 byte on any 64-bit C/C++ compiler, but not necessarily size of int.

How can I open a .db file generated by eclipse(android) form DDMS-->File explorer-->data--->data-->packagename-->database?

If I Understood correctly you need to view the .db file that you extracted from internal storage of Emulator. If that's the case use this

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/

to view the db.

You can also use a firefox extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/

EDIT: For online tool use : https://sqliteonline.com/

How do I empty an array in JavaScript?

If you use constants then you have no choice:

const numbers = [1, 2, 3]

You can not reasign:

numbers = []

You can only truncate:

numbers.length = 0

How can I add a help method to a shell script?

here is a part I use it to start a VNC server

#!/bin/bash
start() {
echo "Starting vnc server with $resolution on Display $display"
#your execute command here mine is below
#vncserver :$display -geometry $resolution
}

stop() {
echo "Killing vncserver on display $display"
#vncserver -kill :$display
}

#########################
# The command line help #
#########################
display_help() {
    echo "Usage: $0 [option...] {start|stop|restart}" >&2
    echo
    echo "   -r, --resolution           run with the given resolution WxH"
    echo "   -d, --display              Set on which display to host on "
    echo
    # echo some stuff here for the -a or --add-options 
    exit 1
}

################################
# Check if parameters options  #
# are given on the commandline #
################################
while :
do
    case "$1" in
      -r | --resolution)
          if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
            resolution="$2"   # You may want to check validity of $2
          fi
          shift 2
          ;;
      -h | --help)
          display_help  # Call your function
          exit 0
          ;;
      -d | --display)
          display="$2"
           shift 2
           ;;

      -a | --add-options)
          # do something here call function
          # and write it in your help function display_help()
           shift 2
           ;;

      --) # End of all options
          shift
          break
          ;;
      -*)
          echo "Error: Unknown option: $1" >&2
          ## or call function display_help
          exit 1 
          ;;
      *)  # No more options
          break
          ;;
    esac
done

###################### 
# Check if parameter #
# is set too execute #
######################
case "$1" in
  start)
    start # calling function start()
    ;;
  stop)
    stop # calling function stop()
    ;;
  restart)
    stop  # calling function stop()
    start # calling function start()
    ;;
  *)
#    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" >&2
     display_help

     exit 1
     ;;
esac

It's a bit weird that I placed the start stop restart in a separate case but it should work

Chaining multiple filter() in Django, is this a bug?

From Django docs :

To handle both of these situations, Django has a consistent way of processing filter() calls. Everything inside a single filter() call is applied simultaneously to filter out items matching all those requirements. Successive filter() calls further restrict the set of objects, but for multi-valued relations, they apply to any object linked to the primary model, not necessarily those objects that were selected by an earlier filter() call.

  • It is clearly said that multiple conditions in a single filter() are applied simultaneously. That means that doing :
objs = Mymodel.objects.filter(a=True, b=False)

will return a queryset with raws from model Mymodel where a=True AND b=False.

  • Successive filter(), in some case, will provide the same result. Doing :
objs = Mymodel.objects.filter(a=True).filter(b=False)

will return a queryset with raws from model Mymodel where a=True AND b=False too. Since you obtain "first" a queryset with records which have a=True and then it's restricted to those who have b=False at the same time.

  • The difference in chaining filter() comes when there are multi-valued relations, which means you are going through other models (such as the example given in the docs, between Blog and Entry models). It is said that in that case (...) they apply to any object linked to the primary model, not necessarily those objects that were selected by an earlier filter() call.

Which means that it applies the successives filter() on the target model directly, not on previous filter()

If I take the example from the docs :

Blog.objects.filter(entry__headline__contains='Lennon').filter(entry__pub_date__year=2008)

remember that it's the model Blog that is filtered, not the Entry. So it will treat the 2 filter() independently.

It will, for instance, return a queryset with Blogs, that have entries that contain 'Lennon' (even if they are not from 2008) and entries that are from 2008 (even if their headline does not contain 'Lennon')

THIS ANSWER goes even further in the explanation. And the original question is similar.

Calculate the display width of a string in Java

And now for something completely different. The following assumes arial font, and makes a wild guess based on a linear interpolation of character vs width.

// Returns the size in PICA of the string, given space is 200 and 'W' is 1000.
// see https://p2p.wrox.com/access/32197-calculate-character-widths.html

static int picaSize(String s)
{
    // the following characters are sorted by width in Arial font
    String lookup = " .:,;'^`!|jl/\\i-()JfIt[]?{}sr*a\"ce_gFzLxkP+0123456789<=>~qvy$SbduEphonTBCXY#VRKZN%GUAHD@OQ&wmMW";
    int result = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i)
    {
        int c = lookup.indexOf(s.charAt(i));
        result += (c < 0 ? 60 : c) * 7 + 200;
    }
    return result;
}

Interesting, but perhaps not very practical.

How to find reason of failed Build without any error or warning

I had the same issue, I changed Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions/Build and Run -> MSBuild project build log file verbosity[Diagnostic]. This option shows error in log, due to some reasons my VS not showing Error in Errors tab!

enter image description here

Do above settings and in output copy in notepad/texteditor and search for error. It will show you all errors.

jQuery Call to WebService returns "No Transport" error

If your jQuery page isn't being loaded from http://localhost:54473 then this issue is probably because you're trying to make cross-domain request.

Update 1 Take a look at this blog post.

Update 2 If this is indeed the problem (and I suspect it is), you might want to check out JSONP as a solution. Here are a few links that might help you get started:

Core dump file analysis

Steps to debug coredump using GDB:

Some generic help:

gdb start GDB, with no debugging les

gdb program begin debugging program

gdb program core debug coredump core produced by program

gdb --help describe command line options

  1. First of all, find the directory where the corefile is generated.

  2. Then use ls -ltr command in the directory to find the latest generated corefile.

  3. To load the corefile use

    gdb binary path of corefile
    

    This will load the corefile.

  4. Then you can get the information using the bt command.

    For a detailed backtrace use bt full.

  5. To print the variables, use print variable-name or p variable-name

  6. To get any help on GDB, use the help option or use apropos search-topic

  7. Use frame frame-number to go to the desired frame number.

  8. Use up n and down n commands to select frame n frames up and select frame n frames down respectively.

  9. To stop GDB, use quit or q.

No module named _sqlite3

my python is build from source, the cause is missing options when exec configure python version:3.7.4

./configure --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions --enable-optimizations
make
make install

fixed

Find where python is installed (if it isn't default dir)

If you are using wiindows OS (I am using windows 10 ) just type

where python   

in command prompt ( cmd )

It will show you the directory where you have installed .

Template not provided using create-react-app

npm uninstall -g create-react-app could be an answer in some cases, but not in mine.

You should manually delete your create-react-app located at ~/.node/bin/ or /usr/bin/ (just type which create-react-app and remove it from locations you saw using rm -rf), next just run npm i -g create-react-app.

After that create-react-app will be working correctly.

How to position the form in the center screen?

Change this:

public FrameForm() { 
    initComponents(); 
}

to this:

public FrameForm() {
    initComponents();
    this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
}

How to display 3 buttons on the same line in css

You need to float all the buttons to left and make sure its width to fit within outer container.

CSS:

.btn{

   float:left;
}

HTML:

    <button type="submit" class="btn" onClick="return false;" >Save</button>
    <button type="submit" class="btn" onClick="return false;">Publish</button>
    <button class="btn">Back</button>

How do I completely remove root password

Did you try passwd -d root? Most likely, this will do what you want.


You can also manually edit /etc/shadow: (Create a backup copy. Be sure that you can log even if you mess up, for example from a rescue system.) Search for "root". Typically, the root entry looks similar to

root:$X$SK5xfLB1ZW:0:0...

There, delete the second field (everything between the first and second colon):

root::0:0...

Some systems will make you put an asterisk (*) in the password field instead of blank, where a blank field would allow no password (CentOS 8 for example)

root:*:0:0...

Save the file, and try logging in as root. It should skip the password prompt. (Like passwd -d, this is a "no password" solution. If you are really looking for a "blank password", that is "ask for a password, but accept if the user just presses Enter", look at the manpage of mkpasswd, and use mkpasswd to create the second field for the /etc/shadow.)

Load CSV data into MySQL in Python

using pymsql if it helps

import pymysql
import csv
db = pymysql.connect("localhost","root","12345678","data" )

cursor = db.cursor()
csv_data = csv.reader(open('test.csv'))
next(csv_data)
for row in csv_data:
    cursor.execute('INSERT INTO PM(col1,col2) VALUES(%s, %s)',row)

db.commit()
cursor.close()

Java: getMinutes and getHours

Try using Joda Time instead of standard java.util.Date classes. Joda Time library has much better API for handling dates.

DateTime dt = new DateTime();  // current time
int month = dt.getMonth();     // gets the current month
int hours = dt.getHourOfDay(); // gets hour of day

See this question for pros and cons of using Joda Time library.

Joda Time may also be included to some future version of Java as a standard component, see JSR-310.


If you must use traditional java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar classes, see their JavaDoc's for help (java.util.Calendar and java.util.Date).

You can use the traditional classes like this to fetch fields from given Date instance.

Date date = new Date();   // given date
Calendar calendar = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(); // creates a new calendar instance
calendar.setTime(date);   // assigns calendar to given date 
calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY); // gets hour in 24h format
calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR);        // gets hour in 12h format
calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);       // gets month number, NOTE this is zero based!

How to get absolute value from double - c-language

It's worth noting that Java can overload a method such as abs so that it works with an integer or a double. In C, overloading doesn't exist, so you need different functions for integer versus double.

Print array elements on separate lines in Bash?

Using for:

for each in "${alpha[@]}"
do
  echo "$each"
done

Using history; note this will fail if your values contain !:

history -p "${alpha[@]}"

Using basename; note this will fail if your values contain /:

basename -a "${alpha[@]}"

Using shuf; note that results might not come out in order:

shuf -e "${alpha[@]}"

How do I make the return type of a method generic?

You need to make it a generic method, like this:

public static T ConfigSetting<T>(string settingName)
{  
    return /* code to convert the setting to T... */
}

But the caller will have to specify the type they expect. You could then potentially use Convert.ChangeType, assuming that all the relevant types are supported:

public static T ConfigSetting<T>(string settingName)
{  
    object value = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[settingName];
    return (T) Convert.ChangeType(value, typeof(T));
}

I'm not entirely convinced that all this is a good idea, mind you...

Permission denied (publickey) when SSH Access to Amazon EC2 instance

I struggled with the same permission denied error apparently due to

key_parse_private2: missing begin marker 

In my situation the cause was the ssh config file of the current user (~/.ssh/config).

Using the following:

ssh -i ~/myKey.pem ec2-user@<IP address> -v 'exit'

The initial output showed:

debug1: Reading configuration data /home/ec2-user/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 56: Applying options for *
debug1: Hostname has changed; re-reading configuration
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/ec2-user/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config

... many debug lines cut here ...

debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/ec2-user/somekey.pem
debug1: key_parse_private2: missing begin marker
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.

The third line above is where the problem actual was identified; however, I looked for at the debug message four lines from the bottom (above) and was misled. There isn't a problem with the key but I tested it and compared other configurations.

My user ssh config file reset the host via an unintended global setting as shown below. The first Host line should not have been a comment.

$ cat config
StrictHostKeyChecking=no
#Host myAlias
        user ec2-user
        Hostname bitbucket.org
#        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/somekey
#        IdentitiesOnly yes

Host my2ndAlias
        user myOtherUser
        Hostname bitbucket.org
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my2ndKey
        IdentitiesOnly yes

I hope someone else finds this helpful.

bs4.FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: lxml. Do you need to install a parser library?

Run these three commands to make sure that you have all the relevant packages installed:

pip install bs4
pip install html5lib
pip install lxml

Then restart your Python IDE, if needed.

That should take care of anything related to this issue.

docker command not found even though installed with apt-get

sudo apt-get install docker # DO NOT do this

is a different library on ubuntu.

Use sudo apt-get install docker-ce to install the correct docker.

Reading a binary file with python

I too found Python lacking when it comes to reading and writing binary files, so I wrote a small module (for Python 3.6+).

With binaryfile you'd do something like this (I'm guessing, since I don't know Fortran):

import binaryfile

def particle_file(f):
    f.array('group_ids')  # Declare group_ids to be an array (so we can use it in a loop)
    f.skip(4)  # Bytes 1-4
    num_particles = f.count('num_particles', 'group_ids', 4)  # Bytes 5-8
    f.int('num_groups', 4)  # Bytes 9-12
    f.skip(8)  # Bytes 13-20
    for i in range(num_particles):
        f.struct('group_ids', '>f')  # 4 bytes x num_particles
    f.skip(4)

with open('myfile.bin', 'rb') as fh:
    result = binaryfile.read(fh, particle_file)
print(result)

Which produces an output like this:

{
    'group_ids': [(1.0,), (0.0,), (2.0,), (0.0,), (1.0,)],
    '__skipped': [b'\x00\x00\x00\x08', b'\x00\x00\x00\x08\x00\x00\x00\x14', b'\x00\x00\x00\x14'],
    'num_particles': 5,
    'num_groups': 3
}

I used skip() to skip the additional data Fortran adds, but you may want to add a utility to handle Fortran records properly instead. If you do, a pull request would be welcome.

SOAP Action WSDL

I have come across exactly the same problem when trying to write a client for the National Rail SOAP service with Perl.

The problem was caused because the Perl module that I'm using 'SOAP::Lite' inserts a '#' in the SOAPAction header ...

SOAPAction: "http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2008-02-20/ldb/#GetDepartureBoard"

This is not interpreted correctly by .NET servers. I found this out from Example 3-19 in O'Reilly's Programming Web Services with SOAP . The solution was given below in section 3-20, namely you need to explicitly specify the format of the header with the 'on_action' method.

print SOAP::Lite
  -> uri('urn:Example1')
  -> on_action(sub{sprintf '%s/%s', @_ })
  -> proxy('http://localhost:8080/helloworld/example1.asmx')
  -> sayHello($name)
  -> result . "\n\n";

My guess is that soapclient.com is using SOAP::Lite behind the scenes and so are hitting the same problem when talking to National Rail.

The solution is to write your own client so that you have control over the format of the SOAPAction header ... but you've probably done that already.

If WorkSheet("wsName") Exists

A version without error-handling:

Function sheetExists(sheetToFind As String) As Boolean
    sheetExists = False
    For Each sheet In Worksheets
        If sheetToFind = sheet.name Then
            sheetExists = True
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next sheet
End Function

Cannot set property 'innerHTML' of null

Here Is my snippet try it. I hope it will helpfull for u.

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How do I change the string representation of a Python class?

The closest equivalent to Java's toString is to implement __str__ for your class. Put this in your class definition:

def __str__(self):
     return "foo"

You may also want to implement __repr__ to aid in debugging.

See here for more information:

How do I revert a Git repository to a previous commit?

Caution! This command can cause losing commit history, if user put the wrong commit mistakenly. Always have en extra backup of your git some where else just in case if you do mistakes, than you are a bit safer. :)

I have had a similar issue and wanted to revert back to an earlier commit. In my case I was not interested to keep the newer commit, hence I used Hard.

This is how I did it:

git reset --hard CommitId && git clean -f

This will revert on the local repository, and here after using git push -f will update the remote repository.

git push -f

How do I reference the input of an HTML <textarea> control in codebehind?

Missed property runat="server" or in code use Request.Params["TextArea1"]

How can I consume a WSDL (SOAP) web service in Python?

Right now (as of 2008), all the SOAP libraries available for Python suck. I recommend avoiding SOAP if possible. The last time we where forced to use a SOAP web service from Python, we wrote a wrapper in C# that handled the SOAP on one side and spoke COM out the other.

How to show the text on a ImageButton?

ImageButton can't have text (or, at least, android:text isn't listed in its attributes).

The Trick is:

It looks like you need to use Button (and look at drawableTop or setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(int,int,int,int)).

How do I check out an SVN project into Eclipse as a Java project?

If it wasn't checked in as a Java Project, you can add the java nature as shown here.

How do I create a timeline chart which shows multiple events? Eg. Metallica Band members timeline on wiki

As mentioned in the earlier comment, stacked bar chart does the trick, though the data needs to be setup differently.(See image below)

Duration column = End - Start

  1. Once done, plot your stacked bar chart using the entire data.
  2. Mark start and end range to no fill.
  3. Right click on the X Axis and change Axis options manually. (This did cause me some issues, till I realized I couldn't manipulate them to enter dates, :) yeah I am newbie, excel masters! :))

enter image description here

Remove carriage return in Unix

The simplest way on Linux is, in my humble opinion,

sed -i 's/\r$//g' <filename>

The strong quotes around the substitution operator 's/\r//' are essential. Without them the shell will interpret \r as an escape+r and reduce it to a plain r, and remove all lower case r. That's why the answer given above in 2009 by Rob doesn't work.

And adding the /g modifier ensures that even multiple \r will be removed, and not only the first one.

List of installed gems?

A more modern version would be to use something akin to the following...

require 'rubygems'
puts Gem::Specification.all().map{|g| [g.name, g.version.to_s].join('-') }

NOTE: very similar the first part of an answer by Evgeny... but due to page formatting, it's easy to miss.

Why does Vim save files with a ~ extension?

Put this line into your vimrc:

set nobk nowb noswf noudf " nobackup nowritebackup noswapfile noundofile


In that would be the:

C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\_vimrc

file for system-wide vim configuration for all users.

Setting the last one noundofile is important in Windows to prevent the creation of *~ tilda files after editing.


I wish Vim had that line included by default. Nobody likes ugly directories.

Let the user choose if and how she wants to enable advanced backup/undo file features first.

This is the most annoying part of Vim.

The next step might be setting up:

set noeb vb t_vb= " errorbells visualbell

to disable beeping in as well :-)

Concatenate rows of two dataframes in pandas

Thanks to @EdChum I was struggling with same problem especially when indexes do not match. Unfortunatly in pandas guide this case is missed (when you for example delete some rows)

import pandas as pd
t=pd.DataFrame()
t['a']=[1,2,3,4]
t=t.loc[t['a']>1] #now index starts from 1

u=pd.DataFrame()
u['b']=[1,2,3] #index starts from 0

#option 1
#keep index of t
u.index = t.index 

#option 2
#index of t starts from 0
t.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)

#now concat will keep number of rows 
r=pd.concat([t,u], axis=1)

Access Https Rest Service using Spring RestTemplate

You need to configure a raw HttpClient with SSL support, something like this:

@Test
public void givenAcceptingAllCertificatesUsing4_4_whenUsingRestTemplate_thenCorrect() 
throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
    CloseableHttpClient httpClient
      = HttpClients.custom()
        .setSSLHostnameVerifier(new NoopHostnameVerifier())
        .build();
    HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory 
      = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
    requestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);

    ResponseEntity<String> response 
      = new RestTemplate(requestFactory).exchange(
      urlOverHttps, HttpMethod.GET, null, String.class);
    assertThat(response.getStatusCode().value(), equalTo(200));
}

font: Baeldung

Object passed as parameter to another class, by value or reference?

If you need to copy object please refer to object cloning, because objects are passed by reference, which is good for performance by the way, object creation is expensive.

Here is article to refer to: Deep cloning objects

How to change a single value in a NumPy array?

Is this what you are after? Just index the element and assign a new value.

A[2,1]=150

A
Out[345]: 
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4],
       [ 5,  6,  7,  8],
       [ 9, 150, 11, 12],
       [13, 14, 15, 16]])

Visual Studio 64 bit?

no, but it runs fine on win64, and can create win64 .EXEs

Sending message through WhatsApp

The following code is used by Google Now App and will NOT work for any other application.

I'm writing this post because it makes me angry, that WhatsApp does not allow any other developers to send messages directly except for Google.

And I want other freelance-developers to know, that this kind of cooperation is going on, while Google keeps talking about "open for anybody" and WhatsApp says they don't want to provide any access to developers.

Recently WhatsApp has added an Intent specially for Google Now, which should look like following:

Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.android.voicesearch.SEND_MESSAGE_TO_CONTACTS");
intent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.whatsapp", "com.whatsapp.VoiceMessagingActivity"));

intent.putExtra("com.google.android.voicesearch.extra.RECIPIENT_CONTACT_CHAT_ID", number);
intent.putExtra("android.intent.extra.TEXT", text);
intent.putExtra("search_action_token", ?????);

I could also find out that "search_action_token" is a PendingIntent that contains an IBinder-Object, which is sent back to Google App and checked, if it was created by Google Now.

Otherwise WhatsApp will not accept the message.

Extracting Nupkg files using command line

With PowerShell 5.1 (PackageManagement module)

Install-Package -Name MyPackage -Source (Get-Location).Path -Destination C:\outputdirectory

What does FETCH_HEAD in Git mean?

I have just discovered and used FETCH_HEAD. I wanted a local copy of some software from a server and I did

git fetch gitserver release_1

gitserver is the name of my machine that stores git repositories. release_1 is a tag for a version of the software. To my surprise, release_1 was then nowhere to be found on my local machine. I had to type

 git tag release_1 FETCH_HEAD 

to complete the copy of the tagged chain of commits (release_1) from the remote repository to the local one. Fetch had found the remote tag, copied the commit to my local machine, had not created a local tag, but had set FETCH_HEAD to the value of the commit, so that I could find and use it. I then used FETCH_HEAD to create a local tag which matched the tag on the remote. That is a practical illustration of what FETCH_HEAD is and how it can be used, and might be useful to someone else wondering why git fetch doesn't do what you would naively expect.

In my opinion it is best avoided for that purpose and a better way to achieve what I was trying to do is

git fetch gitserver release_1:release_1

i.e. to fetch release_1 and call it release_1 locally. (It is source:dest, see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-The-Refspec; just in case you'd like to give it a different name!)

You might want to use FETCH_HEAD at times though:-

git fetch gitserver bugfix1234
git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD

might be a nice way of using bug fix number 1234 from your Git server, and leaving Git's garbage collection to dispose of the copy from the server once the fix has been cherry-picked onto your current branch. (I am assuming that there is a nice clean tagged commit containing the whole of the bug fix on the server!)

Microsoft Azure: How to create sub directory in a blob container

To add on to what Egon said, simply create your blob called "folder/1.txt", and it will work. No need to create a directory.

Use VBA to Clear Immediate Window?

I had the same problem. Here is how I resolved the issue with help from the Microsoft link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg278655.aspx

Sub clearOutputWindow()
  Application.SendKeys "^g ^a"
  Application.SendKeys "^g ^x"
End Sub

Javascript Array Alert

If you want to see the array as an array, you can say

alert(JSON.stringify(aCustomers));

instead of all those document.writes.

http://jsfiddle.net/5b2eb/

However, if you want to display them cleanly, one per line, in your popup, do this:

alert(aCustomers.join("\n"));

http://jsfiddle.net/5b2eb/1/

X close button only using css

As a pure CSS solution for the close or 'times' symbol you can use the ISO code with the content property. I often use this for :after or :before pseudo selectors.

The content code is \00d7.

Example

div:after{
  display: inline-block;
  content: "\00d7"; /* This will render the 'X' */
}

You can then style and position the pseudo selector in any way you want. Hope this helps someone :).

What is the maximum length of a String in PHP?

The maximum length of a string variable is only 2GiB - (2^(32-1) bits). Variables can be addressed on a character (8 bits/1 byte) basis and the addressing is done by signed integers which is why the limit is what it is. Arrays can contain multiple variables that each follow the previous restriction but can have a total cumulative size up to memory_limit of which a string variable is also subject to.

Subtracting time.Duration from time in Go

Try AddDate:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    now := time.Now()

    fmt.Println("now:", now)

    then := now.AddDate(0, -1, 0)

    fmt.Println("then:", then)
}

Produces:

now: 2009-11-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC
then: 2009-10-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC

Playground: http://play.golang.org/p/QChq02kisT

AutoComplete TextBox in WPF

Nimgoble's is the version I used in 2015. Thought I'd put it here as this question was top of the list in google for "wpf autocomplete textbox"

  1. Install nuget package for project in Visual Studio

  2. Add a reference to the library in the xaml:
    xmlns:behaviors="clr-namespace:WPFTextBoxAutoComplete;assembly=WPFTextBoxAutoComplete"

  3. Create a textbox and bind the AutoCompleteBehaviour to List<String> (TestItems):
    <TextBox Text="{Binding TestText, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" behaviors:AutoCompleteBehavior.AutoCompleteItemsSource="{Binding TestItems}" />

IMHO this is much easier to get started and manage than the other options listed above.

How can I find the current OS in Python?

I usually use sys.platform (docs) to get the platform. sys.platform will distinguish between linux, other unixes, and OS X, while os.name is "posix" for all of them.

For much more detailed information, use the platform module. This has cross-platform functions that will give you information on the machine architecture, OS and OS version, version of Python, etc. Also it has os-specific functions to get things like the particular linux distribution.

How to create a Custom Dialog box in android?

You can try this simple android dialog popup library to cut the cluttered dialog code. It is very simple to use on your activity. after that you can have this code in your activity to show dialog

Pop.on(this).with().title(R.string.title).layout(R.layout.custom_pop).show();

where R.layout.custom_pop is your custom layout the way you want to decorate your dialog.

ASP.NET Background image

write code in body tag like this

<body style="background-image: url('Image URL');" >
</body>

How to load all the images from one of my folder into my web page, using Jquery/Javascript

Using Chrome, searching for the images files in links (as proposed previously) didn't work as it is generating something like:

(...) i18nTemplate.process(document, loadTimeData);
</script>
<script>start("current directory...")</script>
<script>addRow("..","..",1,"170 B","10/2/15, 8:32:45 PM");</script>
<script>addRow("fotos-interessantes-11.jpg","fotos-interessantes-> 11.jpg",false,"","");</script>

Maybe the most reliable way is to do something like this:

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        var patt1 = /"([^"]*\.(jpe?g|png|gif))"/gi;     // extract "*.jpeg" or "*.jpg" or "*.png" or "*.gif"_x000D_
        var result = data.match(patt1);_x000D_
        result = result.map(function(el) { return el.replace(/"/g, ""); });     // remove double quotes (") surrounding filename+extension // TODO: do this at regex!_x000D_
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        var uniqueNames = [];                               // this array will help to remove duplicate images_x000D_
        $.each(result, function(i, el){_x000D_
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            console.log("under analysis: " + el);_x000D_
            if($.inArray(el, uniqueNames) === -1  &&  $.inArray(el_url_encoded, uniqueNames) === -1){_x000D_
                console.log("adding " + el_url_encoded);_x000D_
                uniqueNames.push(el_url_encoded);_x000D_
                $("#slider").append( "<img src='" + el_url_encoded +"' alt=''>" );      // finaly add to HTML_x000D_
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    },_x000D_
    error: function(xhr, textStatus, err) {_x000D_
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       alert(textStatus);_x000D_
       alert(err);_x000D_
       alert("readyState: "+xhr.readyState+"\n xhrStatus: "+xhr.status);_x000D_
       alert("responseText: "+xhr.responseText);_x000D_
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