Programs & Examples On #Xmltextwriter

Modify XML existing content in C#

The XmlTextWriter is usually used for generating (not updating) XML content. When you load the xml file into an XmlDocument, you don't need a separate writer.

Just update the node you have selected and .Save() that XmlDocument.

How to connect HTML Divs with Lines?

You can use SVGs to connect two divs using only HTML and CSS:

<div id="div1" style="width: 100px; height: 100px; top:0; left:0; background:#777; position:absolute;"></div>
<div id="div2" style="width: 100px; height: 100px; top:300px; left:300px; background:#333; position:absolute;"></div>

(please use seperate css file for styling)

Create a svg line and use this line to connect above divs

<svg width="500" height="500"><line x1="50" y1="50" x2="350" y2="350" stroke="black"/></svg>

where,

x1,y1 indicates center of first div and
x2,y2 indicates center of second div

You can check how it looks in the snippet below

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<div id="div1" style="width: 100px; height: 100px; top:0; left:0; background:#777; position:absolute;"></div>_x000D_
<div id="div2" style="width: 100px; height: 100px; top:300px; left:300px; background:#333; position:absolute;"></div>_x000D_
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<svg width="500" height="500"><line x1="50" y1="50" x2="350" y2="350" stroke="black"/></svg>
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Proper way to use AJAX Post in jquery to pass model from strongly typed MVC3 view

This is the way it worked for me:

$.post("/Controller/Action", $("#form").serialize(), function(json) {       
        // handle response
}, "json");

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult TV(MyModel id)
{
    return Json(new { success = true });
}

Getting 400 bad request error in Jquery Ajax POST

In case anyone else runs into this. I have a web site that was working fine on the desktop browser but I was getting 400 errors with Android devices.

It turned out to be the anti forgery token.

$.ajax({
        url: "/Cart/AddProduct/",
        data: {
            __RequestVerificationToken: $("[name='__RequestVerificationToken']").val(),
            productId: $(this).data("productcode")
        },

The problem was that the .Net controller wasn't set up correctly.

I needed to add the attributes to the controller:

    [AllowAnonymous]
    [IgnoreAntiforgeryToken]
    [DisableCors]
    [HttpPost]
    public async Task<JsonResult> AddProduct(int productId)
    {

The code needs review but for now at least I know what was causing it. 400 error not helpful at all.

Move textfield when keyboard appears swift

For moving your view while editing textfield try this , I have applied this ,

Option 1 :- ** **Update in Swift 5.0 and iPhone X , XR , XS and XS Max Move using NotificationCenter

  • Register this Notification in func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool)

  • Deregister this Notification in func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool)

Note:- If you will not deregister than it will call from child class and will reason of crashing or else.

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver( self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillShow(notification:)), name:  UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil )
}
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
}

@objc func keyboardWillShow( notification: Notification) {
    if let keyboardFrame: NSValue = notification.userInfo?[UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue {
        var newHeight: CGFloat
        let duration:TimeInterval = (notification.userInfo![UIResponder.keyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] as? NSNumber)?.doubleValue ?? 0
        let animationCurveRawNSN = notification.userInfo![UIResponder.keyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] as? NSNumber
        let animationCurveRaw = animationCurveRawNSN?.uintValue ?? UIView.AnimationOptions.curveEaseInOut.rawValue
        let animationCurve:UIView.AnimationOptions = UIView.AnimationOptions(rawValue: animationCurveRaw)
        if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
            newHeight = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue.height - self.view.safeAreaInsets.bottom
        } else {
            newHeight = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue.height
        }
        let keyboardHeight = newHeight  + 10 // **10 is bottom margin of View**  and **this newHeight will be keyboard height**
        UIView.animate(withDuration: duration,
                       delay: TimeInterval(0),
                       options: animationCurve,
                       animations: {
                        self.view.textViewBottomConstraint.constant = keyboardHeight **//Here you can manage your view constraints for animated show**
                        self.view.layoutIfNeeded() },
                       completion: nil)
    }
}

Option 2 :- Its work fine

func textFieldDidBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) {
        self.animateViewMoving(up: true, moveValue: 100)
}
func textFieldDidEndEditing(textField: UITextField) {
        self.animateViewMoving(up: false, moveValue: 100)
}

func animateViewMoving (up:Bool, moveValue :CGFloat){
    var movementDuration:NSTimeInterval = 0.3
    var movement:CGFloat = ( up ? -moveValue : moveValue)
    UIView.beginAnimations( "animateView", context: nil)
    UIView.setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState(true)
    UIView.setAnimationDuration(movementDuration )
    self.view.frame = CGRectOffset(self.view.frame, 0,  movement)
    UIView.commitAnimations()
}

I got this answer from this source UITextField move up when keyboard appears in Swift

IN the Swift 4 ---

func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
        animateViewMoving(up: true, moveValue: 100)
    }

    func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
        animateViewMoving(up: false, moveValue: 100)
    }
    func animateViewMoving (up:Bool, moveValue :CGFloat){
        let movementDuration:TimeInterval = 0.3
        let movement:CGFloat = ( up ? -moveValue : moveValue)
        UIView.beginAnimations( "animateView", context: nil)
        UIView.setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState(true)
        UIView.setAnimationDuration(movementDuration ) 
        self.view.frame = self.view.frame.offsetBy(dx: 0, dy: movement)
        UIView.commitAnimations()
    }

Java ArrayList of Doubles

ArrayList list = new ArrayList<Double>(1.38, 2.56, 4.3);

needs to be changed to:

List<Double> list = new ArrayList<Double>();
list.add(1.38);
list.add(2.56);
list.add(4.3);

Why would you use String.Equals over ==?

There's a writeup on this article which you might find to be interesting, with some quotes from Jon Skeet. It seems like the use is pretty much the same.

Jon Skeet states that the performance of instance Equals "is slightly better when the strings are short—as the strings increase in length, that difference becomes completely insignificant."

How can I find WPF controls by name or type?

I edited CrimsonX's code as it was not working with superclass types:

public static T FindChild<T>(DependencyObject depObj, string childName)
   where T : DependencyObject
{
    // Confirm obj is valid. 
    if (depObj == null) return null;

    // success case
    if (depObj is T && ((FrameworkElement)depObj).Name == childName)
        return depObj as T;

    for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(depObj); i++)
    {
        DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(depObj, i);

        //DFS
        T obj = FindChild<T>(child, childName);

        if (obj != null)
            return obj;
    }

    return null;
}

Vue.js: Conditional class style binding

Use the object syntax.

v-bind:class="{'fa-checkbox-marked': content['cravings'],  'fa-checkbox-blank-outline': !content['cravings']}"

When the object gets more complicated, extract it into a method.

v-bind:class="getClass()"

methods:{
    getClass(){
        return {
            'fa-checkbox-marked': this.content['cravings'],  
            'fa-checkbox-blank-outline': !this.content['cravings']}
    }
}

Finally, you could make this work for any content property like this.

v-bind:class="getClass('cravings')"

methods:{
  getClass(property){
    return {
      'fa-checkbox-marked': this.content[property],
      'fa-checkbox-blank-outline': !this.content[property]
    }
  }
}

one line if statement in php

Something like this?

($var > 2 ? echo "greater" : echo "smaller")

Initializing an Array of Structs in C#

You cannot initialize reference types by default other than null. You have to make them readonly. So this could work;

    readonly MyStruct[] MyArray = new MyStruct[]{
      new MyStruct{ label = "a", id = 1},
      new MyStruct{ label = "b", id = 5},
      new MyStruct{ label = "c", id = 1}
    };

Breaking/exit nested for in vb.net

Make the outer loop a while loop, and "Exit While" in the if statement.

Print to standard printer from Python?

Unfortunately, there is no standard way to print using Python on all platforms. So you'll need to write your own wrapper function to print.

You need to detect the OS your program is running on, then:

For Linux -

import subprocess
lpr =  subprocess.Popen("/usr/bin/lpr", stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
lpr.stdin.write(your_data_here)

For Windows: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html

More resources:

Print PDF document with python's win32print module?

How do I print to the OS's default printer in Python 3 (cross platform)?

Laravel password validation rule

This doesn't quite match the OP requirements, though hopefully it helps. With Laravel you can define your rules in an easy-to-maintain format like so:

    $inputs = [
        'email'    => 'foo',
        'password' => 'bar',
    ];

    $rules = [
        'email'    => 'required|email',
        'password' => [
            'required',
            'string',
            'min:10',             // must be at least 10 characters in length
            'regex:/[a-z]/',      // must contain at least one lowercase letter
            'regex:/[A-Z]/',      // must contain at least one uppercase letter
            'regex:/[0-9]/',      // must contain at least one digit
            'regex:/[@$!%*#?&]/', // must contain a special character
        ],
    ];

    $validation = \Validator::make( $inputs, $rules );

    if ( $validation->fails() ) {
        print_r( $validation->errors()->all() );
    }

Would output:

    [
        'The email must be a valid email address.',
        'The password must be at least 10 characters.',
        'The password format is invalid.',
    ]

(The regex rules share an error message by default—i.e. four failing regex rules result in one error message)

Which is best data type for phone number in MySQL and what should Java type mapping for it be?

Strings & VARCHAR.

  • Do not try storing phone numbers as actual numbers. it will ruin the formatting, remove preceding 0s and other undesirable things.

  • You may, if you choose to, restrict user inputs to just numeric values but even in that case, keep your backing persisted data as characters/strings and not numbers.

  • Be aware of the wider world and how their number lengths and formatting differ before you try to implement any sort of length restrictions, validations or masks (eg XXX-XXXX-XX).

  • Non numeric characters can be valid in phone numbers. A prime example being + as a replacement for 00 at the start of an international number.

Edited in from conversation in comments:

  • It is one of the bigger UI mistakes that phone numbers have anything to do with numerics. It is much better to think of and treat them like addresses, it is closer to what they actually are and represent than phone "numbers".

Tkinter example code for multiple windows, why won't buttons load correctly?

#!/usr/bin/env python
import Tkinter as tk

from Tkinter import *

class windowclass():

        def __init__(self,master):
                self.master = master
                self.frame = tk.Frame(master)
                self.lbl = Label(master , text = "Label")
                self.lbl.pack()
                self.btn = Button(master , text = "Button" , command = self.command )
                self.btn.pack()
                self.frame.pack()

        def command(self):
                print 'Button is pressed!'

                self.newWindow = tk.Toplevel(self.master)
                self.app = windowclass1(self.newWindow)

class windowclass1():

        def __init__(self , master):
                self.master = master
                self.frame = tk.Frame(master)
                master.title("a")
                self.quitButton = tk.Button(self.frame, text = 'Quit', width = 25 , command = self.close_window)
                self.quitButton.pack()
                self.frame.pack()


        def close_window(self):
                self.master.destroy()


root = Tk()

root.title("window")

root.geometry("350x50")

cls = windowclass(root)

root.mainloop()

Styling every 3rd item of a list using CSS?

:nth-child is the answer you are looking for.

Git with SSH on Windows

I've found my ssh.exe in "C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin" directory

Rails migration for change column

To complete answers in case of editing default value :

In your rails console :

rails g migration MigrationName

In the migration :

  def change
    change_column :tables, :field_name, :field_type, default: value
  end

Will look like :

  def change
    change_column :members, :approved, :boolean, default: true
  end

Where are the Android icon drawables within the SDK?

Material icons provided by google can be found here: https://design.google.com/icons/

You can download them as PNG or SVG in light and dark theme.

Replace a value if null or undefined in JavaScript

?? should be preferred to || because it checks only for nulls and undefined.

All The expressions below are true:

(null || 'x') === 'x' ;
(undefined || 'x') === 'x' ;
//Most of the times you don't want the result below
('' || 'x') === 'x'  ;
(0 || 'x') === 'x' ;
(false || 'x') === 'x' ;
//-----

//Using ?? is preferred
(null ?? 'x') === 'x' ;
(undefined ?? 'x') === 'x' ;
//?? works only for null and undefined, which is in general safer
('' ?? 'x') === '' ;
(0 ?? 'x') === 0 ;
(false ?? 'x') === false ;

Bottom line:

int j=i ?? 10; is perfectly fine to use in javascript also. Just replace int with let.

Asterisk: Check browser compatibility and if you really need to support these other browsers use babel.

jQuery - Create hidden form element on the fly

$('#myformelement').append('<input type="hidden" name="myfieldname" value="myvalue" />');

How to list installed packages from a given repo using yum

On newer versions of yum, this information is stored in the "yumdb" when the package is installed. This is the only 100% accurate way to get the information, and you can use:

yumdb search from_repo repoid

(or repoquery and grep -- don't grep yum output). However the command "find-repos-of-install" was part of yum-utils for a while which did the best guess without that information:

http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/commands/find-repos-of-install.py

As floyd said, a lot of repos. include a unique "dist" tag in their release, and you can look for that ... however from what you said, I guess that isn't the case for you?

Difference between Build Solution, Rebuild Solution, and Clean Solution in Visual Studio?

Build Solution - Build solution will build your application with building the number of projects which are having any file change. And it does not clear any existing binary files and just replacing updated assemblies in bin or obj folder.

Rebuild Solution - Rebuild solution will build your entire application with building all the projects are available in your solution with cleaning them. Before building it clears all the binary files from bin and obj folder.

Clean Solution - Clean solution is just clears all the binary files from bin and obj folder.

Commenting out code blocks in Atom

Multi-line comment can be made by selecting the lines and by pressing Ctrl+/ . and Now you can have many plugins for comments

1) comment - https://atom.io/packages/comment
2) block-comment-lines - https://atom.io/packages/block-comment-lines

better one is block-comment try that..

Getting MAC Address

Sometimes we have more than one net interface.

A simple method to find out the mac address of a specific interface, is:

def getmac(interface):

  try:
    mac = open('/sys/class/net/'+interface+'/address').readline()
  except:
    mac = "00:00:00:00:00:00"

  return mac[0:17]

to call the method is simple

myMAC = getmac("wlan0")

How to send email from localhost WAMP Server to send email Gmail Hotmail or so forth?

For me Fake Sendmail works.

What to do:

1) Edit C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.ini:

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=465
[email protected]
auth_password=your_password

2) Edit php.ini and set sendmail_path

sendmail_path = "C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"

That's it. Now you can test a mail.

The tilde operator in Python

I was solving this leetcode problem and I came across this beautiful solution by a user named Zitao Wang.

The problem goes like this for each element in the given array find the product of all the remaining numbers without making use of divison and in O(n) time

The standard solution is:

Pass 1: For all elements compute product of all the elements to the left of it
Pass 2: For all elements compute product of all the elements to the right of it
        and then multiplying them for the final answer 

His solution uses only one for loop by making use of. He computes the left product and right product on the fly using ~

def productExceptSelf(self, nums):
    res = [1]*len(nums)
    lprod = 1
    rprod = 1
    for i in range(len(nums)):
        res[i] *= lprod
        lprod *= nums[i]
        res[~i] *= rprod
        rprod *= nums[~i]
    return res

get size of json object

Consider using underscore.js. It will allow you to check the size i.e. like that:

var data = {one : 1, two : 2, three : 3};
_.size(data);
//=> 3
_.keys(data);
//=> ["one", "two", "three"]
_.keys(data).length;
//=> 3

How to rename a class and its corresponding file in Eclipse?

Just right click on the class in the project explorer and select "Refactor" -> "Rename". That it is is under the "Refactor" submenu.

How to extract hours and minutes from a datetime.datetime object?

datetime has fields hour and minute. So to get the hours and minutes, you would use t1.hour and t1.minute.

However, when you subtract two datetimes, the result is a timedelta, which only has the days and seconds fields. So you'll need to divide and multiply as necessary to get the numbers you need.

Modify XML existing content in C#

Forming a XML file

XmlTextWriter xmlw = new XmlTextWriter(@"C:\WINDOWS\Temp\exm.xml",System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
xmlw.WriteStartDocument();            
xmlw.WriteStartElement("examtimes");
xmlw.WriteStartElement("Starttime");
xmlw.WriteString(DateTime.Now.AddHours(0).ToString());
xmlw.WriteEndElement();
xmlw.WriteStartElement("Changetime");
xmlw.WriteString(DateTime.Now.AddHours(0).ToString());
xmlw.WriteEndElement();
xmlw.WriteStartElement("Endtime");
xmlw.WriteString(DateTime.Now.AddHours(1).ToString());
xmlw.WriteEndElement();
xmlw.WriteEndElement();
xmlw.WriteEndDocument();  
xmlw.Close();           

To edit the Xml nodes use the below code

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); 
doc.Load(@"C:\WINDOWS\Temp\exm.xml"); 
XmlNode root = doc.DocumentElement["Starttime"]; 
root.FirstChild.InnerText = "First"; 
XmlNode root1 = doc.DocumentElement["Changetime"]; 
root1.FirstChild.InnerText = "Second"; 
doc.Save(@"C:\WINDOWS\Temp\exm.xml"); 

Try this. It's C# code.

Need a good hex editor for Linux

Personally, I use Emacs with hexl-mod.

Emacs is able to work with really huge files. You can use search/replace value easily. Finally, you can use 'ediff' to do some diffs.

What exactly does Perl's "bless" do?

bless associates a reference with a package.

It doesn't matter what the reference is to, it can be to a hash (most common case), to an array (not so common), to a scalar (usually this indicates an inside-out object), to a regular expression, subroutine or TYPEGLOB (see the book Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques by Damian Conway for useful examples) or even a reference to a file or directory handle (least common case).

The effect bless-ing has is that it allows you to apply special syntax to the blessed reference.

For example, if a blessed reference is stored in $obj (associated by bless with package "Class"), then $obj->foo(@args) will call a subroutine foo and pass as first argument the reference $obj followed by the rest of the arguments (@args). The subroutine should be defined in package "Class". If there is no subroutine foo in package "Class", a list of other packages (taken form the array @ISA in the package "Class") will be searched and the first subroutine foo found will be called.

Normal arguments vs. keyword arguments

There are two ways to assign argument values to function parameters, both are used.

  1. By Position. Positional arguments do not have keywords and are assigned first.

  2. By Keyword. Keyword arguments have keywords and are assigned second, after positional arguments.

Note that you have the option to use positional arguments.

If you don't use positional arguments, then -- yes -- everything you wrote turns out to be a keyword argument.

When you call a function you make a decision to use position or keyword or a mixture. You can choose to do all keywords if you want. Some of us do not make this choice and use positional arguments.

Oracle - Why does the leading zero of a number disappear when converting it TO_CHAR

Try this to avoid to_char limitations:

SELECT 
regexp_replace(regexp_replace(n,'^-\'||s,'-0'||s),'^\'||s,'0'||s)
FROM (SELECT -0.89 n,RTrim(1/2,5) s FROM dual);

How do I decompile a .NET EXE into readable C# source code?

Reflector and its add-in FileDisassembler.

Reflector will allow to see the source code. FileDisassembler will allow you to convert it into a VS solution.

how to load url into div tag

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
    $("#content").attr("src","http://vnexpress.net");
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe id="content"></div>
</body>
</html>

Find rows that have the same value on a column in MySQL

Thanks guys :-) I used the below because I only cared about those two columns and not so much about the rest. Worked great

  select email, login_id from table
    group by email, login_id
    having COUNT(email) > 1

Spring Boot without the web server

  • Through program :

    ConfigurableApplicationContext ctx =  new  SpringApplicationBuilder(YourApplicationMain.class)
    .web(WebApplicationType.NONE)
    .run(args);
    
  • Through application.properties file :

    spring.main.web-environment=false 
    
  • Through application.yml file :

    spring:
     main:
      web-environment:false
    

How can I get a specific number child using CSS?

For modern browsers, use td:nth-child(2) for the second td, and td:nth-child(3) for the third. Remember that these retrieve the second and third td for every row.

If you need compatibility with IE older than version 9, use sibling combinators or JavaScript as suggested by Tim. Also see my answer to this related question for an explanation and illustration of his method.

How do I get a Cron like scheduler in Python?

You could just use normal Python argument passing syntax to specify your crontab. For example, suppose we define an Event class as below:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import time

# Some utility classes / functions first
class AllMatch(set):
    """Universal set - match everything"""
    def __contains__(self, item): return True

allMatch = AllMatch()

def conv_to_set(obj):  # Allow single integer to be provided
    if isinstance(obj, (int,long)):
        return set([obj])  # Single item
    if not isinstance(obj, set):
        obj = set(obj)
    return obj

# The actual Event class
class Event(object):
    def __init__(self, action, min=allMatch, hour=allMatch, 
                       day=allMatch, month=allMatch, dow=allMatch, 
                       args=(), kwargs={}):
        self.mins = conv_to_set(min)
        self.hours= conv_to_set(hour)
        self.days = conv_to_set(day)
        self.months = conv_to_set(month)
        self.dow = conv_to_set(dow)
        self.action = action
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs

    def matchtime(self, t):
        """Return True if this event should trigger at the specified datetime"""
        return ((t.minute     in self.mins) and
                (t.hour       in self.hours) and
                (t.day        in self.days) and
                (t.month      in self.months) and
                (t.weekday()  in self.dow))

    def check(self, t):
        if self.matchtime(t):
            self.action(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

(Note: Not thoroughly tested)

Then your CronTab can be specified in normal python syntax as:

c = CronTab(
  Event(perform_backup, 0, 2, dow=6 ),
  Event(purge_temps, 0, range(9,18,2), dow=range(0,5))
)

This way you get the full power of Python's argument mechanics (mixing positional and keyword args, and can use symbolic names for names of weeks and months)

The CronTab class would be defined as simply sleeping in minute increments, and calling check() on each event. (There are probably some subtleties with daylight savings time / timezones to be wary of though). Here's a quick implementation:

class CronTab(object):
    def __init__(self, *events):
        self.events = events

    def run(self):
        t=datetime(*datetime.now().timetuple()[:5])
        while 1:
            for e in self.events:
                e.check(t)

            t += timedelta(minutes=1)
            while datetime.now() < t:
                time.sleep((t - datetime.now()).seconds)

A few things to note: Python's weekdays / months are zero indexed (unlike cron), and that range excludes the last element, hence syntax like "1-5" becomes range(0,5) - ie [0,1,2,3,4]. If you prefer cron syntax, parsing it shouldn't be too difficult however.

How to convert Set<String> to String[]?

I was facing the same situation.

I begin by declaring the structures I need:

Set<String> myKeysInSet = null; String[] myArrayOfString = null;

In my case, I have a JSON object and I need all the keys in this JSON to be stored in an array of strings. Using the GSON library, I use JSON.keySet() to get the keys and move to my Set :

myKeysInSet = json_any.keySet();

With this, I have a Set structure with all the keys, as I needed it. So I just need to the values to my Array of Strings. See the code below:

myArrayOfString = myKeysInSet.toArray(new String[myKeysInSet.size()]);

This was my first answer in StackOverflow. Sorry for any error :D

Linking a UNC / Network drive on an html page

To link to a UNC path from an HTML document, use file:///// (yes, that's five slashes).

file://///server/path/to/file.txt

Note that this is most useful in IE and Outlook/Word. It won't work in Chrome or Firefox, intentionally - the link will fail silently. Some words from the Mozilla team:

For security purposes, Mozilla applications block links to local files (and directories) from remote files.

And less directly, from Google:

Firefox and Chrome doesn't open "file://" links from pages that originated from outside the local machine. This is a design decision made by those browsers to improve security.

The Mozilla article includes a set of client settings you can use to override this behavior in Firefox, and there are extensions for both browsers to override this restriction.

Send push to Android by C# using FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging)

Based on Teste's code .. I can confirm the following works. I can't say whether or not this is "good" code, but it certainly works and could get you back up and running quickly if you ended up with GCM to FCM server problems!

public AndroidFCMPushNotificationStatus SendNotification(string serverApiKey, string senderId, string deviceId, string message)
{
    AndroidFCMPushNotificationStatus result = new AndroidFCMPushNotificationStatus();

    try
    {
        result.Successful = false;
        result.Error = null;

        var value = message;
        WebRequest tRequest = WebRequest.Create("https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send");
        tRequest.Method = "post";
        tRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8";
        tRequest.Headers.Add(string.Format("Authorization: key={0}", serverApiKey));
        tRequest.Headers.Add(string.Format("Sender: id={0}", senderId));

        string postData = "collapse_key=score_update&time_to_live=108&delay_while_idle=1&data.message=" + value + "&data.time=" + System.DateTime.Now.ToString() + "&registration_id=" + deviceId + "";

        Byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
        tRequest.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;

        using (Stream dataStream = tRequest.GetRequestStream())
        {
            dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);

            using (WebResponse tResponse = tRequest.GetResponse())
            {
                using (Stream dataStreamResponse = tResponse.GetResponseStream())
                {
                    using (StreamReader tReader = new StreamReader(dataStreamResponse))
                    {
                        String sResponseFromServer = tReader.ReadToEnd();
                        result.Response = sResponseFromServer;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        result.Successful = false;
        result.Response = null;
        result.Error = ex;
    }

    return result;
}


public class AndroidFCMPushNotificationStatus
{
    public bool Successful
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    public string Response
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
    public Exception Error
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

Java: Get month Integer from Date

Joda-Time

Alternatively, with the Joda-Time DateTime class.

//convert date to datetime
DateTime datetime = new DateTime(date);
int month = Integer.parseInt(datetime.toString("MM"))

…or…

int month = dateTime.getMonthOfYear();

Android ADB stop application command like "force-stop" for non rooted device

The first way
Needs root

Use kill:

adb shell ps => Will list all running processes on the device and their process ids
adb shell kill <PID> => Instead of <PID> use process id of your application

The second way
In Eclipse open DDMS perspective.
In Devices view you will find all running processes.
Choose the process and click on Stop.

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The third way
It will kill only background process of an application.

adb shell am kill [options] <PACKAGE> => Kill all processes associated with (the app's package name). This command kills only processes that are safe to kill and that will not impact the user experience.
Options are:

--user | all | current: Specify user whose processes to kill; all users if not specified.

The fourth way
Needs root

adb shell pm disable <PACKAGE> => Disable the given package or component (written as "package/class").

The fifth way
Note that run-as is only supported for apps that are signed with debug keys.

run-as <package-name> kill <pid>

The sixth way
Introduced in Honeycomb

adb shell am force-stop <PACKAGE> => Force stop everything associated with (the app's package name).

P.S.: I know that the sixth method didn't work for you, but I think that it's important to add this method to the list, so everyone will know it.

Git merge two local branches

Here's a clear picture:

Assuming we have branch-A and branch-B

We want to merge branch-B into branch-A

on branch-B -> A: switch to branch-A

on branch-A: git merge branch-B

Bind event to right mouse click

The function returns too early. I've added a comment to the code below:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
        return false;
        $('.alert').fadeToggle(); // this line never gets called
    });
});

Try swapping the return false; with the next line.

Each for object?

A javascript Object does not have a standard .each function. jQuery provides a function. See http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.each/ The below should work

$.each(object, function(index, value) {
    console.log(value);
}); 

Another option would be to use vanilla Javascript using the Object.keys() and the Array .map() functions like this

Object.keys(object).map(function(objectKey, index) {
    var value = object[objectKey];
    console.log(value);
});

See https://developer.mozilla.org/nl/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/keys and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/map

These are usually better than using a vanilla Javascript for-loop, unless you really understand the implications of using a normal for-loop and see use for it's specific characteristics like looping over the property chain.

But usually, a for-loop doesn't work better than jQuery or Object.keys().map(). I'll go into two potential issues with using a plain for-loop below.


Right, so also pointed out in other answers, a plain Javascript alternative would be

for(var index in object) { 
    var attr = object[index]; 
}

There are two potential issues with this:

1 . You want to check whether the attribute that you are finding is from the object itself and not from up the prototype chain. This can be checked with the hasOwnProperty function like so

for(var index in object) { 
   if (object.hasOwnProperty(index)) {
       var attr = object[index];
   }
}

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/hasOwnProperty for more information.

The jQuery.each and Object.keys functions take care of this automatically.

2 . Another potential issue with a plain for-loop is that of scope and non-closures. This is a bit complicated, but take for example the following code. We have a bunch of buttons with ids button0, button1, button2 etc, and we want to set an onclick on them and do a console.log like this:

<button id='button0'>click</button>
<button id='button1'>click</button>
<button id='button2'>click</button>

var messagesByButtonId = {"button0" : "clicked first!", "button1" : "clicked middle!", "button2" : "clicked last!"];
for(var buttonId in messagesByButtonId ) { 
   if (messagesByButtonId.hasOwnProperty(buttonId)) {
       $('#'+buttonId).click(function() {
           var message = messagesByButtonId[buttonId];
           console.log(message);
       });
   }
}

If, after some time, we click any of the buttons we will always get "clicked last!" in the console, and never "clicked first!" or "clicked middle!". Why? Because at the time that the onclick function is executed, it will display messagesByButtonId[buttonId] using the buttonId variable at that moment. And since the loop has finished at that moment, the buttonId variable will still be "button2" (the value it had during the last loop iteration), and so messagesByButtonId[buttonId] will be messagesByButtonId["button2"], i.e. "clicked last!".

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Closures for more information on closures. Especially the last part of that page that covers our example.

Again, jQuery.each and Object.keys().map() solve this problem automatically for us, because it provides us with a function(index, value) (that has closure) so we are safe to use both index and value and rest assured that they have the value that we expect.

Awaiting multiple Tasks with different results

Forward Warning

Just a quick headsup to those visiting this and other similar threads looking for a way to parallelize EntityFramework using async+await+task tool-set: The pattern shown here is sound, however, when it comes to the special snowflake of EF you will not achieve parallel execution unless and until you use a separate (new) db-context-instance inside each and every *Async() call involved.

This sort of thing is necessary due to inherent design limitations of ef-db-contexts which forbid running multiple queries in parallel in the same ef-db-context instance.


Capitalizing on the answers already given, this is the way to make sure that you collect all values even in the case that one or more of the tasks results in an exception:

  public async Task<string> Foobar() {
    async Task<string> Awaited(Task<Cat> a, Task<House> b, Task<Tesla> c) {
        return DoSomething(await a, await b, await c);
    }

    using (var carTask = BuyCarAsync())
    using (var catTask = FeedCatAsync())
    using (var houseTask = SellHouseAsync())
    {
        if (carTask.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion //triple
            && catTask.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion //cache
            && houseTask.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion) { //hits
            return Task.FromResult(DoSomething(catTask.Result, carTask.Result, houseTask.Result)); //fast-track
        }

        cat = await catTask;
        car = await carTask;
        house = await houseTask;
        //or Task.AwaitAll(carTask, catTask, houseTask);
        //or await Task.WhenAll(carTask, catTask, houseTask);
        //it depends on how you like exception handling better

        return Awaited(catTask, carTask, houseTask);
   }
 }

An alternative implementation that has more or less the same performance characteristics could be:

 public async Task<string> Foobar() {
    using (var carTask = BuyCarAsync())
    using (var catTask = FeedCatAsync())
    using (var houseTask = SellHouseAsync())
    {
        cat = catTask.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion ? catTask.Result : (await catTask);
        car = carTask.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion ? carTask.Result : (await carTask);
        house = houseTask.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion ? houseTask.Result : (await houseTask);

        return DoSomething(cat, car, house);
     }
 }

How to recover MySQL database from .myd, .myi, .frm files

For those that have Windows XP and have MySQL server 5.5 installed - the location for the database is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\data, unless you changed the location within the MySql Workbench installation GUI.

Turning error reporting off php

Read up on the configuration settings (e.g., display_errors, display_startup_errors, log_errors) and update your php.ini or .htaccess or .user.ini file, whichever is appropriate.

It works.

Mailx send html message

Well, the "-a" mail and mailx in Centos7 is "attach file" not "append header." My shortest path to a solution on Centos7 from here: stackexchange.com

Basically:

yum install mutt
mutt -e 'set content_type=text/html' -s 'My subject' [email protected] < msg.html

Git undo changes in some files

Source : http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Undoing-Things

git checkout -- modifiedfile.java


1)$ git status

you will see the modified file

2)$git checkout -- modifiedfile.java

3)$git status

The authorization mechanism you have provided is not supported. Please use AWS4-HMAC-SHA256

Code for Flask (boto3)

Don't forget to import Config. Also If you have your own config class, then change its name.

from botocore.client import Config

s3 = boto3.client('s3',config=Config(signature_version='s3v4'),region_name=app.config["AWS_REGION"],aws_access_key_id=app.config['AWS_ACCESS_KEY'], aws_secret_access_key=app.config['AWS_SECRET_KEY'])
s3.upload_fileobj(file,app.config["AWS_BUCKET_NAME"],file.filename)
url = s3.generate_presigned_url('get_object', Params = {'Bucket':app.config["AWS_BUCKET_NAME"] , 'Key': file.filename}, ExpiresIn = 10000)

Dynamically add data to a javascript map

Javascript now has a specific built in object called Map, you can call as follows :

   var myMap = new Map()

You can update it with .set :

   myMap.set("key0","value")

This has the advantage of methods you can use to handle look ups, like the boolean .has

  myMap.has("key1"); // evaluates to false 

You can use this before calling .get on your Map object to handle looking up non-existent keys

jQuery remove options from select

if your dropdown is in a table and you do not have id for it then you can use the following jquery:

var select_object = purchasing_table.rows[row_index].cells[cell_index].childNodes[1];
$(select_object).find('option[value='+site_name+']').remove();

Why do you have to link the math library in C?

As ephemient said, the C library libc is linked by default and this library contains the implementations of stdlib.h, stdio.h and several other standard header files. Just to add to it, according to "An Introduction to GCC" the linker command for a basic "Hello World" program in C is as below:

ld -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/lib/crt1.o 
/usr/lib/crti.o /usr/libgcc-lib /i686/3.3.1/crtbegin.o
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686/3.3.1 hello.o -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lc 
-lgcc -lgcc_eh /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686/3.3.1/crtend.o /usr/lib/crtn.o

Notice the option -lc in the third line that links the C library.

How to use log levels in java

Generally, you don't need all those levels, SEVERE, WARNING, INFO, FINE might be enough. We're using Log4J (not java.util.logging directly) and the following levels (which might differ in name from other logging frameworks):

  • ERROR: Any error/exception that is or might be critical. Our Logger automatically sends an email for each such message on our servers (usage: logger.error("message"); )

  • WARN: Any message that might warn us of potential problems, e.g. when a user tried to log in with wrong credentials - which might indicate an attack if that happens often or in short periods of time (usage: logger.warn("message"); )

  • INFO: Anything that we want to know when looking at the log files, e.g. when a scheduled job started/ended (usage: logger.info("message"); )

  • DEBUG: As the name says, debug messages that we only rarely turn on. (usage: logger.debug("message"); )

The beauty of this is that if you set the log level to WARN, info and debug messages have next to no performance impact. If you need to get additional information from a production system you just can lower the level to INFO or DEBUG for a short period of time (since you'd get much more log entries which make your log files bigger and harder to read). Adjusting log levels etc. can normally be done at runtime (our JBoss instance checks for changes in that config every minute or so).

Format date as dd/MM/yyyy using pipes

You can achieve this using by a simple custom pipe.

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';
import { DatePipe } from '@angular/common';

@Pipe({
    name: 'dateFormatPipe',
})
export class dateFormatPipe implements PipeTransform {
    transform(value: string) {
       var datePipe = new DatePipe("en-US");
        value = datePipe.transform(value, 'dd/MM/yyyy');
        return value;
    }
}


{{currentDate | dateFormatPipe }}

Advantage of using a custom pipe is that, if you want to update the date format in future, you can go and update your custom pipe and it will reflect every where.

Custom Pipe examples

Why use prefixes on member variables in C++ classes

I generally don't use a prefix for member variables.

I used to use a m prefix, until someone pointed out that "C++ already has a standard prefix for member access: this->.

So that's what I use now. That is, when there is ambiguity, I add the this-> prefix, but usually, no ambiguity exists, and I can just refer directly to the variable name.

To me, that's the best of both worlds. I have a prefix I can use when I need it, and I'm free to leave it out whenever possible.

Of course, the obvious counter to this is "yes, but then you can't see at a glance whether a variable is a class member or not".

To which I say "so what? If you need to know that, your class probably has too much state. Or the function is too big and complicated".

In practice, I've found that this works extremely well. As an added bonus it allows me to promote a local variable to a class member (or the other way around) easily, without having to rename it.

And best of all, it is consistent! I don't have to do anything special or remember any conventions to maintain consistency.


By the way, you shouldn't use leading underscores for your class members. You get uncomfortably close to names that are reserved by the implementation.

The standard reserves all names starting with double underscore or underscore followed by capital letter. It also reserves all names starting with a single underscore in the global namespace.

So a class member with a leading underscore followed by a lower-case letter is legal, but sooner or late you're going to do the same to an identifier starting with upper-case, or otherwise break one of the above rules.

So it's easier to just avoid leading underscores. Use a postfix underscore, or a m_ or just m prefix if you want to encode scope in the variable name.

How to convert DataTable to class Object?

Initialize DataTable:

DataTable dt = new DataTable(); 
dt.Columns.Add("id", typeof(String)); 
dt.Columns.Add("name", typeof(String)); 
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
    string index = i.ToString();
    dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { index, "name" + index });
}

Query itself:

IList<Class1> items = dt.AsEnumerable().Select(row => 
    new Class1
        {
            id = row.Field<string>("id"),
            name = row.Field<string>("name")
        }).ToList();

How do I use floating-point division in bash?

you can do this:

bc <<< 'scale=2; 100/3'
33.33

UPDATE 20130926 : you can use:

bc -l <<< '100/3' # saves a few hits
33.33333333333333333333

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

I added "Microsoft ASP.NET Razor" using Manage NuGet Packages.

With Add References, for some reason, I only had System.Web.Helpers 1.0.0 and 2.0.0... but not 3.0.0.

Another option, that worked form me was to delete the references to System.Web.Mvc and System.Web.Http... then re-add them browing to the package locations in the csproj file (you can most easily edit the project with a text editor):

<Reference Include="System.Web.Http">
  <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core.5.2.3\lib\net45\System.Web.Http.dll</HintPath>

<Reference Include="System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
  <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.5.2.3\lib\net45\System.Web.Mvc.dll</HintPath>

Rails: Check output of path helper from console

For Rails 5.2.4.1, I had to

app.extend app._routes.named_routes.path_helpers_module
app.whatever_path

Android Service needs to run always (Never pause or stop)

Add this in manifest.

      <service
        android:name=".YourServiceName"
        android:enabled="true"
        android:exported="false" />

Add a service class.

public class YourServiceName extends Service {


    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

      // Timer task makes your service will repeat after every 20 Sec.
       TimerTask doAsynchronousTask = new TimerTask() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                handler.post(new Runnable() {
                    public void run() {
                       // Add your code here.

                     }

               });
            }
        };
  //Starts after 20 sec and will repeat on every 20 sec of time interval.
        timer.schedule(doAsynchronousTask, 20000,20000);  // 20 sec timer 
                              (enter your own time)
    }
    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        // TODO do something useful

      return START_STICKY;
    }

}

How to return a html page from a restful controller in spring boot?

The most correct and modern form is to use IoC to put dependencies into the endpoint method, like the thymeleaf Model instance...

 @Controller 
 public class GreetingController {
        @GetMapping("/greeting") 
        public String greeting(
            @RequestParam(name="name", required=false, defaultValue="World") String name, Model model) {
             model.addAttribute("name", name); 
             return "greeting"; 
             // returns the already proccessed model from src/main/resources/templates/greeting.html 
      }
 }

See complete example at: https://spring.io/guides/gs/serving-web-content/

convert base64 to image in javascript/jquery

Html

<img id="imgElem"></img>

Js

string baseStr64="/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQE...";
imgElem.setAttribute('src', "data:image/jpg;base64," + baseStr64);

Want to make Font Awesome icons clickable

You can wrap those elements in anchor tag

like this

<a href="your link here"> <i class="fa fa-dribbble fa-4x"></i></a>
<a href="your link here"> <i class="fa fa-behance-square fa-4x"></i></a>
<a href="your link here"> <i class="fa fa-linkedin-square fa-4x"></i></a>
<a href="your link here"> <i class="fa fa-twitter-square fa-4x"></i></a>
<a href="your link here"> <i class="fa fa-facebook-square fa-4x"></i></a>

Note: Replace href="your link here" with your desired link e.g. href="https://www.stackoverflow.com".

Regular expression [Any number]

You can use the following function to find the biggest [number] in any string.

It returns the value of the biggest [number] as an Integer.

var biggestNumber = function(str) {
    var pattern = /\[([0-9]+)\]/g, match, biggest = 0;

    while ((match = pattern.exec(str)) !== null) {
        if (match.index === pattern.lastIndex) {
            pattern.lastIndex++;
        }
        match[1] = parseInt(match[1]);
        if(biggest < match[1]) {
            biggest = match[1];
        }
    }
    return biggest;
}

DEMO

The following demo calculates the biggest number in your textarea every time you click the button.

It allows you to play around with the textarea and re-test the function with a different text.

_x000D_
_x000D_
var biggestNumber = function(str) {_x000D_
    var pattern = /\[([0-9]+)\]/g, match, biggest = 0;_x000D_
_x000D_
    while ((match = pattern.exec(str)) !== null) {_x000D_
        if (match.index === pattern.lastIndex) {_x000D_
            pattern.lastIndex++;_x000D_
        }_x000D_
        match[1] = parseInt(match[1]);_x000D_
        if(biggest < match[1]) {_x000D_
            biggest = match[1];_x000D_
        }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return biggest;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
document.getElementById("myButton").addEventListener("click", function() {_x000D_
    alert(biggestNumber(document.getElementById("myTextArea").value));_x000D_
});
_x000D_
<div>_x000D_
    <textarea rows="6" cols="50" id="myTextArea">_x000D_
this is a test [1] also this [2] is a test_x000D_
and again [18] this is a test. _x000D_
items[14].items[29].firstname too is a test!_x000D_
items[4].firstname too is a test!_x000D_
    </textarea>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div>_x000D_
   <button id="myButton">Try me</button>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

See also this Fiddle!

What is object slicing?

Slicing means that the data added by a subclass are discarded when an object of the subclass is passed or returned by value or from a function expecting a base class object.

Explanation: Consider the following class declaration:

           class baseclass
          {
                 ...
                 baseclass & operator =(const baseclass&);
                 baseclass(const baseclass&);
          }
          void function( )
          {
                baseclass obj1=m;
                obj1=m;
          }

As baseclass copy functions don't know anything about the derived only the base part of the derived is copied. This is commonly referred to as slicing.

How to overwrite files with Copy-Item in PowerShell

Robocopy is designed for reliable copying with many copy options, file selection restart, etc.

/xf to excludes files and /e for subdirectories:

robocopy $copyAdmin $AdminPath /e /xf "web.config" "Deploy"

How do I 'git diff' on a certain directory?

If you want to exclude the sub-directories, you can use

git diff <ref1>..<ref2> -- $(git diff <ref1>..<ref2> --name-only | grep -v /)

Where does Visual Studio look for C++ header files?

If the project came with a Visual Studio project file, then that should already be configured to find the headers for you. If not, you'll have to add the include file directory to the project settings by right-clicking the project and selecting Properties, clicking on "C/C++", and adding the directory containing the include files to the "Additional Include Directories" edit box.

Handlebars.js Else If

Handlebars now supports {{else if}} as of 3.0.0. Therefore, your code should now work.

You can see an example under "conditionals" (slightly revised here with an added {{else}}:

    {{#if isActive}}
      <img src="star.gif" alt="Active">
    {{else if isInactive}}
      <img src="cry.gif" alt="Inactive">
    {{else}}
      <img src="default.gif" alt="default">
    {{/if}}

http://handlebarsjs.com/block_helpers.html

Android Studio and Gradle build error

Edit the gradle wrapper settings in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties and change gradle-1.6-bin.zip to gradle-2.4-bin.zip.

./gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties :

#Wed Apr 10 15:27:10 PDT 2013
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.8-bin.zip

It should compile without any error now.

Note: update version numbers with the most recent ones

Arraylist swap elements

You can use Collections.swap(List<?> list, int i, int j);

How to Resize image in Swift?

It's also possible to use AlamofireImage (https://github.com/Alamofire/AlamofireImage)

let size = CGSize(width: 30.0, height: 30.0)
let aspectScaledToFitImage = image.af_imageAspectScaled(toFit: size)

The function in the previous post gave me a blurry result.

Update Eclipse with Android development tools v. 23

If you install a new Eclipse version it will work. Here's what I did:

  1. Installed the new Eclipse version, Luna
  2. Made a backup of the current workspace.
  3. Ran the new Eclipse, Luna, and updated the workspace
  4. Installed the ADT plugin (Help -> Install New Software)
  5. Restarted Eclipse
  6. Done

What is the meaning of "POSIX"?

POSIX is a family of standards, specified by the IEEE, to clarify and make uniform the application programming interfaces (and ancillary issues, such as commandline shell utilities) provided by Unix-y operating systems. When you write your programs to rely on POSIX standards, you can be pretty sure to be able to port them easily among a large family of Unix derivatives (including Linux, but not limited to it!); if and when you use some Linux API that's not standardized as part of Posix, you will have a harder time if and when you want to port that program or library to other Unix-y systems (e.g., MacOSX) in the future.

Python: avoid new line with print command

You simply need to do:

print 'lakjdfljsdf', # trailing comma

However in:

print 'lkajdlfjasd', 'ljkadfljasf'

There is implicit whitespace (ie ' ').

You also have the option of:

import sys
sys.stdout.write('some data here without a new line')

Why should we typedef a struct so often in C?

From an old article by Dan Saks (http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184403396?pgno=3):


The C language rules for naming structs are a little eccentric, but they're pretty harmless. However, when extended to classes in C++, those same rules open little cracks for bugs to crawl through.

In C, the name s appearing in

struct s
    {
    ...
    };

is a tag. A tag name is not a type name. Given the definition above, declarations such as

s x;    /* error in C */
s *p;   /* error in C */

are errors in C. You must write them as

struct s x;     /* OK */
struct s *p;    /* OK */

The names of unions and enumerations are also tags rather than types.

In C, tags are distinct from all other names (for functions, types, variables, and enumeration constants). C compilers maintain tags in a symbol table that's conceptually if not physically separate from the table that holds all other names. Thus, it is possible for a C program to have both a tag and an another name with the same spelling in the same scope. For example,

struct s s;

is a valid declaration which declares variable s of type struct s. It may not be good practice, but C compilers must accept it. I have never seen a rationale for why C was designed this way. I have always thought it was a mistake, but there it is.

Many programmers (including yours truly) prefer to think of struct names as type names, so they define an alias for the tag using a typedef. For example, defining

struct s
    {
    ...
    };
typedef struct s S;

lets you use S in place of struct s, as in

S x;
S *p;

A program cannot use S as the name of both a type and a variable (or function or enumeration constant):

S S;    // error

This is good.

The tag name in a struct, union, or enum definition is optional. Many programmers fold the struct definition into the typedef and dispense with the tag altogether, as in:

typedef struct
    {
    ...
    } S;

The linked article also has a discussion about how the C++ behavior of not requireing a typedef can cause subtle name hiding problems. To prevent these problems, it's a good idea to typedef your classes and structs in C++, too, even though at first glance it appears to be unnecessary. In C++, with the typedef the name hiding become an error that the compiler tells you about rather than a hidden source of potential problems.

Statistics: combinations in Python

A literal translation of the mathematical definition is quite adequate in a lot of cases (remembering that Python will automatically use big number arithmetic):

from math import factorial

def calculate_combinations(n, r):
    return factorial(n) // factorial(r) // factorial(n-r)

For some inputs I tested (e.g. n=1000 r=500) this was more than 10 times faster than the one liner reduce suggested in another (currently highest voted) answer. On the other hand, it is out-performed by the snippit provided by @J.F. Sebastian.

Get pixel's RGB using PIL

With numpy :

im = Image.open('image.gif')
im_matrix = np.array(im)
print(im_matrix[0][0])

Give RGB vector of the pixel in position (0,0)

selenium - chromedriver executable needs to be in PATH

An answer from 2020. The following code solves this. A lot of people new to selenium seem to have to get past this step. Install the chromedriver and put it inside a folder on your desktop. Also make sure to put the selenium python project in the same folder as where the chrome driver is located.

Change USER_NAME and FOLDER in accordance to your computer.

For Windows

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:\Users\USER_NAME\Desktop\FOLDER\chromedriver")

For Linux/Mac

driver = webdriver.Chrome("/home/USER_NAME/FOLDER/chromedriver")

How to use Servlets and Ajax?

Normally you cant update a page from a servlet. Client (browser) has to request an update. Eiter client loads a whole new page or it requests an update to a part of an existing page. This technique is called Ajax.

What is the use of GO in SQL Server Management Studio & Transact SQL?

The GO command isn't a Transact-SQL statement, but a special command recognized by several MS utilities including SQL Server Management Studio code editor.

The GO command is used to group SQL commands into batches which are sent to the server together. The commands included in the batch, that is, the set of commands since the last GO command or the start of the session, must be logically consistent. For example, you can't define a variable in one batch and then use it in another since the scope of the variable is limited to the batch in which it's defined.

For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188037.aspx.

Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. localhost

One thing I found out is that your folder holding your php/html files cannot be named the same name as the folder in your HTDOCS carrying your project.

Syntax behind sorted(key=lambda: ...)

Simple and not time consuming answer with an example relevant to the question asked Follow this example:

 user = [{"name": "Dough", "age": 55}, 
            {"name": "Ben", "age": 44}, 
            {"name": "Citrus", "age": 33},
            {"name": "Abdullah", "age":22},
            ]
    print(sorted(user, key=lambda el: el["name"]))
    print(sorted(user, key= lambda y: y["age"]))

Look at the names in the list, they starts with D, B, C and A. And if you notice the ages, they are 55, 44, 33 and 22. The first print code

print(sorted(user, key=lambda el: el["name"]))

Results to:

[{'name': 'Abdullah', 'age': 22}, 
{'name': 'Ben', 'age': 44}, 
{'name': 'Citrus', 'age': 33}, 
{'name': 'Dough', 'age': 55}]

sorts the name, because by key=lambda el: el["name"] we are sorting the names and the names return in alphabetical order.

The second print code

print(sorted(user, key= lambda y: y["age"]))

Result:

[{'name': 'Abdullah', 'age': 22},
 {'name': 'Citrus', 'age': 33},
 {'name': 'Ben', 'age': 44}, 
 {'name': 'Dough', 'age': 55}]

sorts by age, and hence the list returns by ascending order of age.

Try this code for better understanding.

jQuery : select all element with custom attribute

As described by the link I've given in comment, this

$('p[MyTag]').each(function(index) {
  document.write(index + ': ' + $(this).text() + "<br>");});

works (playable example).

Read file data without saving it in Flask

In case we want to dump the in memory file to disk. This code can be used

  if isinstanceof(obj,SpooledTemporaryFile):
    obj.rollover()

Selenium IDE - Command to wait for 5 seconds

This will delay things for 5 seconds:

Command: pause
Target: 5000
Value:

This will delay things for 3 seconds:

Command: pause
Target: 3000
Value:

Documentation:

http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0/reference.html#pause

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How do I check if an object has a specific property in JavaScript?

Note: the following is nowadays largely obsolete thanks to strict mode, and hasOwnProperty. The correct solution is to use strict mode and to check for the presence of a property using obj.hasOwnProperty. This answer predates both these things, at least as widely implemented (yes, it is that old). Take the following as a historical note.


Bear in mind that undefined is (unfortunately) not a reserved word in JavaScript if you’re not using strict mode. Therefore, someone (someone else, obviously) could have the grand idea of redefining it, breaking your code.

A more robust method is therefore the following:

if (typeof(x.attribute) !== 'undefined')

On the flip side, this method is much more verbose and also slower. :-/

A common alternative is to ensure that undefined is actually undefined, e.g. by putting the code into a function which accepts an additional parameter, called undefined, that isn’t passed a value. To ensure that it’s not passed a value, you could just call it yourself immediately, e.g.:

(function (undefined) {
    … your code …
    if (x.attribute !== undefined)
        … mode code …
})();

Force download a pdf link using javascript/ajax/jquery

If htaccess is an option this will make all PDF links download instead of opening in browser

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

How to make script execution wait until jquery is loaded

Yet another way to do this, although Darbio's defer method is more flexible.

(function() {
  var nTimer = setInterval(function() {
    if (window.jQuery) {
      // Do something with jQuery
      clearInterval(nTimer);
    }
  }, 100);
})();

How can I get device ID for Admob

Another easiest way to show test ads is to use test device id for banner to show admob test ads for all devices. "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/6300978111" . This admob test ads id was noted in the admob tutorial of google: link. This is the quote from the above link: enter image description here

  • This is the test device id for interstitial "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/1033173712" . This also was used in interstitial tutorial

Select from table by knowing only date without time (ORACLE)

trunc(my_date,'DD') will give you just the date and not the time in Oracle.

Stop Excel from automatically converting certain text values to dates

Its not the Excel. Windows does recognize the formula, the data as a date and autocorrects. You have to change the Windows settings.

"Control Panel" (-> "Switch to Classic View") -> "Regional and Language Options" -> tab "Regional Options" -> "Customize..." -> tab "Numbers" -> And then change the symbols according to what you want.

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/enable-disable-auto-convert-number-date-t3791902.html

It will work on your computer, if these settings are not changed for example on your customers' computer they will see dates instead of data.

T-SQL CASE Clause: How to specify WHEN NULL

I tried casting to a string and testing for a zero-length string and it worked.

CASE 
   WHEN LEN(CAST(field_value AS VARCHAR(MAX))) = 0 THEN 
       DO THIS
END AS field 

How to convert webpage into PDF by using Python

WeasyPrint

pip install weasyprint  # No longer supports Python 2.x.

python
>>> import weasyprint
>>> pdf = weasyprint.HTML('http://www.google.com').write_pdf()
>>> len(pdf)
92059
>>> open('google.pdf', 'wb').write(pdf)

Make the size of a heatmap bigger with seaborn

You could alter the figsize by passing a tuple showing the width, height parameters you would like to keep.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10,10))         # Sample figsize in inches
sns.heatmap(df1.iloc[:, 1:6:], annot=True, linewidths=.5, ax=ax)

EDIT

I remember answering a similar question of yours where you had to set the index as TIMESTAMP. So, you could then do something like below:

df = df.set_index('TIMESTAMP')
df.resample('30min').mean()
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax = sns.heatmap(df.iloc[:, 1:6:], annot=True, linewidths=.5)
ax.set_yticklabels([i.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") for i in df.index], rotation=0)

For the head of the dataframe you posted, the plot would look like:

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How can I represent a range in Java?

I know this is quite an old question, but with Java 8's Streams you can get a range of ints like this:

// gives an IntStream of integers from 0 through Integer.MAX_VALUE
IntStream.rangeClosed(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE); 

Then you can do something like this:

if (IntStream.rangeClosed(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE).matchAny(n -> n == A)) {
    // do something
} else {
    // do something else 
}

Writing .csv files from C++

There is nothing special about a CSV file. You can create them using a text editor by simply following the basic rules. The RFC 4180 (tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180) accepted separator is the comma ',' not the semi-colon ';'. Programs like MS Excel expect a comma as a separator.

There are some programs that treat the comma as a decimal and the semi-colon as a separator, but these are technically outside of the "accepted" standard for CSV formatted files.

So, when creating a CSV you create your filestream and add your lines like so:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
      std::ofstream myfile;
      myfile.open ("example.csv");
      myfile << "This is the first cell in the first column.\n";
      myfile << "a,b,c,\n";
      myfile << "c,s,v,\n";
      myfile << "1,2,3.456\n";
      myfile << "semi;colon";
      myfile.close();
      return 0;
}

This will result in a CSV file that looks like this when opened in MS Excel:

Image of CSV file created with C++

Share application "link" in Android

Share application with title is you app_name, content is your application link

private static void shareApp(Context context) {
    final String appPackageName = BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID;
    final String appName = context.getString(R.string.app_name);
    Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
    String shareBodyText = "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" +
            appPackageName;
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, appName);
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, shareBodyText);
    context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, context.getString(R.string
            .share_with)));
}

Change :hover CSS properties with JavaScript

Pseudo classes like :hover never refer to an element, but to any element that satisfies the conditions of the stylesheet rule. You need to edit the stylesheet rule, append a new rule, or add a new stylesheet that includes the new :hover rule.

var css = 'table td:hover{ background-color: #00ff00 }';
var style = document.createElement('style');

if (style.styleSheet) {
    style.styleSheet.cssText = css;
} else {
    style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
}

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);

MySQL: How to set the Primary Key on phpMyAdmin?

MySQL can index the first x characters of a column,but a TEXT type is of variable length so mysql cant assure the uniqueness of the column.If you still want text column,use VARCHAR.

Char array to hex string C++

You could use std::hex

Eg.

std::cout << std::hex << packet;

How do I see the extensions loaded by PHP?

get_loaded_extensions() output the extensions list.

phpinfo(INFO_MODULES); output the extensions and their details.

Clear Application's Data Programmatically

Try this code

private void clearAppData() {
    try {
        if (Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT <= Build.VERSION.SDK_INT) {
            ((ActivityManager)getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE)).clearApplicationUserData();
        } else {
            Runtime.getRuntime().exec("pm clear " + getApplicationContext().getPackageName());
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

WPF: Setting the Width (and Height) as a Percentage Value

Typically, you'd use a built-in layout control appropriate for your scenario (e.g. use a grid as a parent if you want scaling relative to the parent). If you want to do it with an arbitrary parent element, you can create a ValueConverter do it, but it probably won't be quite as clean as you'd like. However, if you absolutely need it, you could do something like this:

public class PercentageConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, 
        Type targetType, 
        object parameter, 
        System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return System.Convert.ToDouble(value) * 
               System.Convert.ToDouble(parameter);
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, 
        Type targetType, 
        object parameter, 
        System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

Which can be used like this, to get a child textbox 10% of the width of its parent canvas:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1"
    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
    <Window.Resources>
        <local:PercentageConverter x:Key="PercentageConverter"/>
    </Window.Resources>
    <Canvas x:Name="canvas">
        <TextBlock Text="Hello"
                   Background="Red" 
                   Width="{Binding 
                       Converter={StaticResource PercentageConverter}, 
                       ElementName=canvas, 
                       Path=ActualWidth, 
                       ConverterParameter=0.1}"/>
    </Canvas>
</Window>

Swift performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: is unavailable

You could do this:

var timer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval(0.1, target: self, selector: Selector("someSelector"), userInfo: nil, repeats: false)

func someSelector() {
    // Something after a delay
}

SWIFT 3

let timer = Timer.scheduledTimer(timeInterval: 0.1, target: self, selector: #selector(someSelector), userInfo: nil, repeats: false)

func someSelector() {
    // Something after a delay
}

How to add Drop-Down list (<select>) programmatically?

Here's an ES6 version, conversion to vanilla JS shouldn't be too hard but I already have jQuery anyways:

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  return Object.entries(options).reduce((r, [k, v]) => r.append($('<option>').val(k).text(v)), $('<select>')).val(selected);_x000D_
}_x000D_
$('body').append(select({'option1': 'label 1', 'option2': 'label 2'}, 'option2'));
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
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How to find unused/dead code in java projects

I would instrument the running system to keep logs of code usage, and then start inspecting code that is not used for months or years.

For example if you are interested in unused classes, all classes could be instrumented to log when instances are created. And then a small script could compare these logs against the complete list of classes to find unused classes.

Of course, if you go at the method level you should keep performance in mind. For example, the methods could only log their first use. I dont know how this is best done in Java. We have done this in Smalltalk, which is a dynamic language and thus allows for code modification at runtime. We instrument all methods with a logging call and uninstall the logging code after a method has been logged for the first time, thus after some time no more performance penalties occur. Maybe a similar thing can be done in Java with static boolean flags...

LINQ Group By and select collection

you can achive it with group join

var result = (from c in Customers
          join oi in OrderItems on c.Id equals oi.Order.Customer.Id into g
          Select new { customer = c, orderItems = g});

c is Customer and g is the customers order items.

Resource from src/main/resources not found after building with maven

The resources you put in src/main/resources will be copied during the build process to target/classes which can be accessed using:

...this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/config.txt");

How to enable scrolling of content inside a modal?

When using Bootstrap modal with skrollr, the modal will become not scrollable.

Problem fixed with stop the touch event from propagating.

$('#modalFooter').on('touchstart touchmove touchend', function(e) {
    e.stopPropagation();
});

more details at Add scroll event to the element inside #skrollr-body

Fetching data from MySQL database to html dropdown list

# here database details      
mysql_connect('hostname', 'username', 'password');
mysql_select_db('database-name');

$sql = "SELECT username FROM userregistraton";
$result = mysql_query($sql);

echo "<select name='username'>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "<option value='" . $row['username'] ."'>" . $row['username'] ."</option>";
}
echo "</select>";

# here username is the column of my table(userregistration)
# it works perfectly

How to get a list of all files in Cloud Storage in a Firebase app?

So I had a project that required downloading assets from firebase storage, so I had to solve this problem myself. Here is How :

1- First, make a model data for example class Choice{}, In that class defines a String variable called image Name so it will be like that

class Choice {
    .....
    String imageName;
}

2- from a database/firebase database, go and hardcode the image names to the objects, so if you have image name called Apple.png, create the object to be

Choice myChoice = new Choice(...,....,"Apple.png");

3- Now, get the link for the assets in your firebase storage which will be something like that

gs://your-project-name.appspot.com/

like this one

4- finally, initialize your firebase storage reference and start getting the files by a loop like that

storageRef = storage.getReferenceFromUrl(firebaseRefURL).child(imagePath);

File localFile = File.createTempFile("images", "png");
storageRef.getFile(localFile).addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<FileDownloadTask.TaskSnapshot>() {

@Override
public void onSuccess(FileDownloadTask.TaskSnapshot taskSnapshot) {
    //Dismiss Progress Dialog\\
}

5- that's it

python how to "negate" value : if true return false, if false return true

Use the not boolean operator:

nyval = not myval

not returns a boolean value (True or False):

>>> not 1
False
>>> not 0
True

If you must have an integer, cast it back:

nyval = int(not myval)

However, the python bool type is a subclass of int, so this may not be needed:

>>> int(not 0)
1
>>> int(not 1)
0
>>> not 0 == 1
True
>>> not 1 == 0
True

How can I build XML in C#?

It depends on the scenario. XmlSerializer is certainly one way and has the advantage of mapping directly to an object model. In .NET 3.5, XDocument, etc. are also very friendly. If the size is very large, then XmlWriter is your friend.

For an XDocument example:

Console.WriteLine(
    new XElement("Foo",
        new XAttribute("Bar", "some & value"),
        new XElement("Nested", "data")));

Or the same with XmlDocument:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlElement el = (XmlElement)doc.AppendChild(doc.CreateElement("Foo"));
el.SetAttribute("Bar", "some & value");
el.AppendChild(doc.CreateElement("Nested")).InnerText = "data";
Console.WriteLine(doc.OuterXml);

If you are writing a large stream of data, then any of the DOM approaches (such as XmlDocument/XDocument, etc.) will quickly take a lot of memory. So if you are writing a 100 MB XML file from CSV, you might consider XmlWriter; this is more primitive (a write-once firehose), but very efficient (imagine a big loop here):

XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(Console.Out);
writer.WriteStartElement("Foo");
writer.WriteAttributeString("Bar", "Some & value");
writer.WriteElementString("Nested", "data");
writer.WriteEndElement();

Finally, via XmlSerializer:

[Serializable]
public class Foo
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string Bar { get; set; }
    public string Nested { get; set; }
}
...
Foo foo = new Foo
{
    Bar = "some & value",
    Nested = "data"
};
new XmlSerializer(typeof(Foo)).Serialize(Console.Out, foo);

This is a nice model for mapping to classes, etc.; however, it might be overkill if you are doing something simple (or if the desired XML doesn't really have a direct correlation to the object model). Another issue with XmlSerializer is that it doesn't like to serialize immutable types : everything must have a public getter and setter (unless you do it all yourself by implementing IXmlSerializable, in which case you haven't gained much by using XmlSerializer).

JOptionPane Yes or No window

You are always checking for a true condition, hence your message will always show.

You should replace your if (true) statement with if ( n == JOptionPane.YES_OPTION)

When one of the showXxxDialog methods returns an integer, the possible values are:

YES_OPTION NO_OPTION CANCEL_OPTION OK_OPTION CLOSED_OPTION

From here

Textarea Auto height

This using Pure JavaScript Code.

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function auto_grow(element) {_x000D_
    element.style.height = "5px";_x000D_
    element.style.height = (element.scrollHeight)+"px";_x000D_
}
_x000D_
textarea {_x000D_
    resize: none;_x000D_
    overflow: hidden;_x000D_
    min-height: 50px;_x000D_
    max-height: 100px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<textarea oninput="auto_grow(this)"></textarea>
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Pass variables by reference in JavaScript

Yet another approach to pass any (local, primitive) variables by reference is by wrapping variable with closure "on the fly" by eval. This also works with "use strict". (Note: be aware that eval is not friendly to JavaScript optimizers, and also missing quotes around variable name may cause unpredictive results)

"use strict"

// Return text that will reference variable by name (by capturing that variable to closure)
function byRef(varName){
    return "({get value(){return "+varName+";}, set value(v){"+varName+"=v;}})";
}

// Demo

// Assign argument by reference
function modifyArgument(argRef, multiplier){
    argRef.value = argRef.value * multiplier;
}

(function(){
    var x = 10;

    alert("x before: " + x);
    modifyArgument(eval(byRef("x")), 42);
    alert("x after: " + x);
})()

Live sample: https://jsfiddle.net/t3k4403w/

How to check if running as root in a bash script

Very simple way just put:

if [ "$(whoami)" == "root" ] ; then
    # you are root
else
    # you are not root
fi

The benefit of using this instead of id is that you can check whether a certain non-root user is running the command, too; eg.

if [ "$(whoami)" == "john" ] ; then
    # you are john
else
    # you are not john
fi

How do I implement JQuery.noConflict() ?

By default, jquery uses the variable jQuery and the $ is used for your convenience. If you want to avoid conflicts, a good way is to encapsulate jQuery like so:

(function($){

    $(function(){

        alert('$ is safe!');

    });

})(jQuery)

Python List & for-each access (Find/Replace in built-in list)

You could replace something in there by getting the index along with the item.

>>> foo = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'A', 'B', 'C']
>>> for index, item in enumerate(foo):
...     print(index, item)
...
(0, 'a')
(1, 'b')
(2, 'c')
(3, 'A')
(4, 'B')
(5, 'C')
>>> for index, item in enumerate(foo):
...     if item in ('a', 'A'):
...         foo[index] = 'replaced!'
...
>>> foo
['replaced!', 'b', 'c', 'replaced!', 'B', 'C']

Note that if you want to remove something from the list you have to iterate over a copy of the list, else you will get errors since you're trying to change the size of something you are iterating over. This can be done quite easily with slices.

Wrong:

>>> foo = ['a', 'b', 'c', 1, 2, 3]
>>> for item in foo:
...     if isinstance(item, int):
...         foo.remove(item)
...
>>> foo 
['a', 'b', 'c', 2]

The 2 is still in there because we modified the size of the list as we iterated over it. The correct way would be:

>>> foo = ['a', 'b', 'c', 1, 2, 3]
>>> for item in foo[:]:
...     if isinstance(item, int):
...         foo.remove(item)
...
>>> foo 
['a', 'b', 'c']

How To Accept a File POST

Here are two ways to accept a file. One using in memory provider MultipartMemoryStreamProvider and one using MultipartFormDataStreamProvider which saves to a disk. Note, this is only for one file upload at a time. You can certainty extend this to save multiple-files. The second approach can support large files. I've tested files over 200MB and it works fine. Using in memory approach does not require you to save to disk, but will throw out of memory exception if you exceed a certain limit.

private async Task<Stream> ReadStream()
{
    Stream stream = null;
    var provider = new MultipartMemoryStreamProvider();
    await Request.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync(provider);
    foreach (var file in provider.Contents)
    {
        var buffer = await file.ReadAsByteArrayAsync();
        stream = new MemoryStream(buffer);
    }

    return stream;
}

private async Task<Stream> ReadLargeStream()
{
    Stream stream = null;
    string root = Path.GetTempPath();
    var provider = new MultipartFormDataStreamProvider(root);
    await Request.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync(provider);
    foreach (var file in provider.FileData)
    {
        var path = file.LocalFileName;
        byte[] content = File.ReadAllBytes(path);
        File.Delete(path);
        stream = new MemoryStream(content);
    }

    return stream;
}

Return index of highest value in an array

Function taken from http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.max.php

function max_key($array) {
    foreach ($array as $key => $val) {
        if ($val == max($array)) return $key; 
    }
}

$arr = array (
    '11' => 14,
    '10' => 9,
    '12' => 7,
    '13' => 7,
    '14' => 4,
    '15' => 6
);

die(var_dump(max_key($arr)));

Works like a charm

Get JSONArray without array name?

You don't need to call json.getJSONArray() at all, because the JSON you're working with already is an array. So, don't construct an instance of JSONObject; use a JSONArray. This should suffice:

// ...
JSONArray json = new JSONArray(result);
// ...

for(int i=0;i<json.length();i++){                        
    HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();    
    JSONObject e = json.getJSONObject(i);

    map.put("id",  String.valueOf(i));
    map.put("name", "Earthquake name:" + e.getString("eqid"));
    map.put("magnitude", "Magnitude: " +  e.getString("magnitude"));
    mylist.add(map);            
}

You can't use exactly the same methods as in the tutorial, because the JSON you're dealing with needs to be parsed into a JSONArray at the root, not a JSONObject.

Xcode : Adding a project as a build dependency

To add it as a dependency do the following:

  • Highlight the added project in your file explorer within xcode. In the directory browser window to the right it should show a file with a .a extension. There is a checkbox under the target column (target icon), check it.
  • Right-Click on your Target (under the targets item in the file explorer) and choose Get Info
  • On the general tab is a Direct Dependencies section. Hit the plus button
  • Choose the project and click Add Target

Why Is Subtracting These Two Times (in 1927) Giving A Strange Result?

As others said, it's a time change in 1927 in Shanghai.

It was 23:54:07 in Shanghai, in the local standard time, but then after 5 minutes and 52 seconds, it turned to the next day at 00:00:00, and then local standard time changed back to 23:54:08. So, that's why the difference between the two times is 343 seconds, not 1 second, as you would have expected.

The time can also mess up in other places like the US. The US has Daylight Saving Time. When the Daylight Saving Time starts the time goes forward 1 hour. But after a while, the Daylight Saving Time ends, and it goes backward 1 hour back to the standard time zone. So sometimes when comparing times in the US the difference is about 3600 seconds not 1 second.

But there is something different about these two-time changes. The latter changes continuously and the former was just a change. It didn't change back or change again by the same amount.

It's better to use UTC unless if needed to use non-UTC time like in display.

Getting a "This application is modifying the autolayout engine from a background thread" error?

I had the same problem. Turns out I was using UIAlerts that needed the main queue. But, they've been deprecated.
When I changed the UIAlerts to the UIAlertController, I no longer had the problem and did not have to use any dispatch_async code. The lesson - pay attention to warnings. They help even when you don't expect it.

XAMPP keeps showing Dashboard/Welcome Page instead of the Configuration Page

This works in Windows; didn't check Linux but don't see why it wouldn't work. Download the zip files for 5.6.8 portable. Unzip the files and copy the xampp/htdocs to the xampp/htdocs in your install directory.

Determining Referer in PHP

The REFERER is sent by the client's browser as part of the HTTP protocol, and is therefore unreliable indeed. It might not be there, it might be forged, you just can't trust it if it's for security reasons.

If you want to verify if a request is coming from your site, well you can't, but you can verify the user has been to your site and/or is authenticated. Cookies are sent in AJAX requests so you can rely on that.

How to create two columns on a web page?

I agree with @haha on this one, for the most part. But there are several cross-browser related issues with using the "float:right" and could ultimately give you more of a headache than you want. If you know what the widths are going to be for each column use a float:left on both and save yourself the trouble. Another thing you can incorporate into your methodology is build column classes into your CSS.

So try something like this:

CSS

.col-wrapper{width:960px; margin:0 auto;}
.col{margin:0 10px; float:left; display:inline;}
.col-670{width:670px;}
.col-250{width:250px;}

HTML

<div class="col-wrapper">
    <div class="col col-670">[Page Content]</div>
    <div class="col col-250">[Page Sidebar]</div>
</div>

How do I get the information from a meta tag with JavaScript?

Here's a function that will return the content of any meta tag and will memoize the result, avoiding unnecessary querying of the DOM.

var getMetaContent = (function(){
        var metas = {};
        var metaGetter = function(metaName){
            var theMetaContent, wasDOMQueried = true;;
            if (metas[metaName]) {
                theMetaContent = metas[metaName];
                wasDOMQueried = false;
            }
            else {
                 Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.getElementsByTagName("meta"), function(el) {
                    if (el.name === metaName) theMetaContent = el.content;
                    metas[metaName] = theMetaContent;
                });
            }
            console.log("Q:wasDOMQueried? A:" + wasDOMQueried);
            return theMetaContent;
        }
        return metaGetter;
    })();

getMetaContent("description"); /* getMetaContent console.logs the content of the description metatag. If invoked a second time it confirms that the DOM  was only queried once */

And here's an extended version that also queries for open graph tags, and uses Array#some:

var getMetaContent = (function(){
        var metas = {};
        var metaGetter = function(metaName){
            wasDOMQueried = true;
            if (metas[metaName]) {
                wasDOMQueried = false;
            }
            else {
                 Array.prototype.some.call(document.getElementsByTagName("meta"), function(el) {
                        if(el.name === metaName){
                           metas[metaName] = el.content;
                           return true;
                        }
                        if(el.getAttribute("property") === metaName){
                           metas[metaName] = el.content;
                           return true;
                        }
                        else{
                          metas[metaName] = "meta tag not found";
                        }  
                    });
            }
            console.info("Q:wasDOMQueried? A:" + wasDOMQueried);
            console.info(metas);
            return metas[metaName];
        }
        return metaGetter;
    })();

getMetaContent("video"); // "http://video.com/video33353.mp4"

ComboBox: Adding Text and Value to an Item (no Binding Source)

You must create your own class type and override the ToString() method to return the text you want. Here is a simple example of a class you can use:

public class ComboboxItem
{
    public string Text { get; set; }
    public object Value { get; set; }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return Text;
    }
}

The following is a simple example of its usage:

private void Test()
{
    ComboboxItem item = new ComboboxItem();
    item.Text = "Item text1";
    item.Value = 12;

    comboBox1.Items.Add(item);

    comboBox1.SelectedIndex = 0;

    MessageBox.Show((comboBox1.SelectedItem as ComboboxItem).Value.ToString());
}

Getting the value of an attribute in XML

This is more of an xpath question, but like this, assuming the context is the parent element:

<xsl:value-of select="name/@attribute1" />

How to print a double with two decimals in Android?

use this one:

DecimalFormat form = new DecimalFormat("0.00");
etToll.setText(form.format(tvTotalAmount) );

Note: Data must be in decimal format (tvTotalAmount)

Where do I configure log4j in a JUnit test class?

I use system properties in log4j.xml:

...
<param name="File" value="${catalina.home}/logs/root.log"/>
...

and start tests with:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.16</version>
    <configuration>
        <systemProperties>
            <property>
                <name>catalina.home</name>
                <value>${project.build.directory}</value>
            </property>
        </systemProperties>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

How to convert int[] into List<Integer> in Java?

int[] arr = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };

List<Integer> list = Arrays.stream(arr)     // IntStream
                            .boxed()        // Stream<Integer>
                            .collect(Collectors.toList());

see this

The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Negotiate'. The authentication header received from the server was 'NTLM'

I had the same problem, to solve it set specific user from domain in iis -> action sidebar->Basic Settings -> Connect as... -> specific user

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Reset the database (purge all), then seed a database

As of Rails 5, the rake commandline tool has been aliased as rails so now

rails db:reset instead of rake db:reset

will work just as well

How to dismiss a Twitter Bootstrap popover by clicking outside?

Update: A slightly more robust solution: http://jsfiddle.net/mattdlockyer/C5GBU/72/

For buttons containing text only:

$('body').on('click', function (e) {
    //did not click a popover toggle or popover
    if ($(e.target).data('toggle') !== 'popover'
        && $(e.target).parents('.popover.in').length === 0) { 
        $('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover('hide');
    }
});

For buttons containing icons use (this code has a bug in Bootstrap 3.3.6, see the fix below in this answer)

$('body').on('click', function (e) {
        //did not click a popover toggle, or icon in popover toggle, or popover
        if ($(e.target).data('toggle') !== 'popover'
            && $(e.target).parents('[data-toggle="popover"]').length === 0
            && $(e.target).parents('.popover.in').length === 0) { 
            $('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover('hide');
        }
    });

For JS Generated Popovers Use '[data-original-title]' in place of '[data-toggle="popover"]'

Caveat: The solution above allows multiple popovers to be open at once.

One popover at a time please:

Update: Bootstrap 3.0.x, see code or fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/mattdlockyer/C5GBU/2/

$('body').on('click', function (e) {
    $('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function () {
        //the 'is' for buttons that trigger popups
        //the 'has' for icons within a button that triggers a popup
        if (!$(this).is(e.target) && $(this).has(e.target).length === 0 && $('.popover').has(e.target).length === 0) {
            $(this).popover('hide');
        }
    });
});

This handles closing of popovers already open and not clicked on or their links have not been clicked.


Update: Bootstrap 3.3.6, see fiddle

Fixes issue where after closing, takes 2 clicks to re-open

$(document).on('click', function (e) {
    $('[data-toggle="popover"],[data-original-title]').each(function () {
        //the 'is' for buttons that trigger popups
        //the 'has' for icons within a button that triggers a popup
        if (!$(this).is(e.target) && $(this).has(e.target).length === 0 && $('.popover').has(e.target).length === 0) {                
            (($(this).popover('hide').data('bs.popover')||{}).inState||{}).click = false  // fix for BS 3.3.6
        }

    });
});

Update: Using the conditional of the previous improvement, this solution was achieved. Fix the problem of double click and ghost popover:

$(document).on("shown.bs.popover",'[data-toggle="popover"]', function(){
    $(this).attr('someattr','1');
});
$(document).on("hidden.bs.popover",'[data-toggle="popover"]', function(){
    $(this).attr('someattr','0');
});
$(document).on('click', function (e) {
    $('[data-toggle="popover"],[data-original-title]').each(function () {
        //the 'is' for buttons that trigger popups
        //the 'has' for icons within a button that triggers a popup
        if (!$(this).is(e.target) && $(this).has(e.target).length === 0 && $('.popover').has(e.target).length === 0) {
            if($(this).attr('someattr')=="1"){
                $(this).popover("toggle");
            }
        }
    });
});

Get a substring of a char*

Assuming you know the position and the length of the substring:

char *buff = "this is a test string";
printf("%.*s", 4, buff + 10);

You could achieve the same thing by copying the substring to another memory destination, but it's not reasonable since you already have it in memory.

This is a good example of avoiding unnecessary copying by using pointers.

Swift: Testing optionals for nil

From swift programming guide

If Statements and Forced Unwrapping

You can use an if statement to find out whether an optional contains a value. If an optional does have a value, it evaluates to true; if it has no value at all, it evaluates to false.

So the best way to do this is

// swift > 3
if xyz != nil {}

and if you are using the xyz in if statement.Than you can unwrap xyz in if statement in constant variable .So you do not need to unwrap every place in if statement where xyz is used.

if let yourConstant = xyz{
      //use youtConstant you do not need to unwrap `xyz`
}

This convention is suggested by apple and it will be followed by devlopers.

Cannot set some HTTP headers when using System.Net.WebRequest

I ran into same issue below piece of code worked for me

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

request.Headers["UserAgent"] = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; 
Trident/5.0)"

Append Char To String in C?

In my case, this was the best solution I found:

snprintf(str, sizeof str, "%s%c", str, c);

How do I create a URL shortener?

I keep incrementing an integer sequence per domain in the database and use Hashids to encode the integer into a URL path.

static hashids = Hashids(salt = "my app rocks", minSize = 6)

I ran a script to see how long it takes until it exhausts the character length. For six characters it can do 164,916,224 links and then goes up to seven characters. Bitly uses seven characters. Under five characters looks weird to me.

Hashids can decode the URL path back to a integer but a simpler solution is to use the entire short link sho.rt/ka8ds3 as a primary key.

Here is the full concept:

function addDomain(domain) {
    table("domains").insert("domain", domain, "seq", 0)
}

function addURL(domain, longURL) {
    seq = table("domains").where("domain = ?", domain).increment("seq")
    shortURL = domain + "/" + hashids.encode(seq)
    table("links").insert("short", shortURL, "long", longURL)
    return shortURL
}

// GET /:hashcode
function handleRequest(req, res) {
    shortURL = req.host + "/" + req.param("hashcode")
    longURL = table("links").where("short = ?", shortURL).get("long")
    res.redirect(301, longURL)
}

How to Lock the data in a cell in excel using vba

Try using the Worksheet.Protect method, like so:

Sub ProtectActiveSheet()
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Set ws = ActiveSheet
    ws.Protect DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, _
        Scenarios:=True, Password="SamplePassword"
End Sub

You should, however, be concerned about including the password in your VBA code. You don't necessarily need a password if you're only trying to put up a simple barrier that keeps a user from making small mistakes like deleting formulas, etc.

Also, if you want to see how to do certain things in VBA in Excel, try recording a Macro and looking at the code it generates. That's a good way to get started in VBA.

How to randomly select an item from a list?

As of Python 3.6 you can use the secrets module, which is preferable to the random module for cryptography or security uses.

To print a random element from a list:

import secrets
foo = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
print(secrets.choice(foo))

To print a random index:

print(secrets.randbelow(len(foo)))

For details, see PEP 506.

Change input text border color without changing its height

Try this

<input type="text"/>

It will display same in all cross browser like mozilla , chrome and internet explorer.

<style>
    input{
       border:2px solid #FF0000;
    }
</style>

Dont add style inline because its not good practise, use class to add style for your input box.

How can I get query parameters from a URL in Vue.js?

As of this date, the correct way according to the dynamic routing docs is:

this.$route.params.yourProperty

instead of

this.$route.query.yourProperty

How do I overload the square-bracket operator in C#?

That would be the item property: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0ebtbkkc.aspx

Maybe something like this would work:

public T Item[int index, int y]
{ 
    //Then do whatever you need to return/set here.
    get; set; 
}

Pandas dataframe fillna() only some columns in place

You can select your desired columns and do it by assignment:

df[['a', 'b']] = df[['a','b']].fillna(value=0)

The resulting output is as expected:

     a    b    c
0  1.0  4.0  NaN
1  2.0  5.0  NaN
2  3.0  0.0  7.0
3  0.0  6.0  8.0

denied: requested access to the resource is denied : docker

Login from the app. I've been trying only from terminal with no luck.

This is version 17.06.1

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Fastest way to download a GitHub project

Updated July 2016

As of July 2016, the Download ZIP button has moved under Clone or download to extreme-right of header under the Code tab:

Download ZIP (2013)


If you don't see the button:

  • Make sure you've selected <> Code tab from right side navigation menu, or
  • Repo may not have a zip prepared. Add /archive/master.zip to the end of the repository URL and to generate a zipfile of the master branch.

    http://github.com/user/repository/

-to-

http://github.com/user/repository/archive/master.zip

to get the master branch source code in a zip file. You can do the same with tags and branch names, by replacing master in the URL above with the name of the branch or tag.

How to Delete a topic in apache kafka

Deletion of a topic has been supported since 0.8.2.x version. You have to enable topic deletion (setting delete.topic.enable to true) on all brokers first.

Note: Ever since 1.0.x, the functionality being stable, delete.topic.enable is by default true.

Follow this step by step process for manual deletion of topics

  1. Stop Kafka server
  2. Delete the topic directory, on each broker (as defined in the logs.dirs and log.dir properties) with rm -rf command
  3. Connect to Zookeeper instance: zookeeper-shell.sh host:port
  4. From within the Zookeeper instance:
    1. List the topics using: ls /brokers/topics
    2. Remove the topic folder from ZooKeeper using: rmr /brokers/topics/yourtopic
    3. Exit the Zookeeper instance (Ctrl+C)
  5. Restart Kafka server
  6. Confirm if it was deleted or not by using this command kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper host:port

how to end ng serve or firebase serve

Can use

killall -9 

The killall command can be used to send a signal to a particular process by using its name. It means if you have five versions of the same program running, the killall command will kill all five.

Or you can use

pgrep "ng serve"

which will find the process id of ng and then you can use following command.

kill -9 <process_id>

How to get current date time in milliseconds in android

I think leverage this functionality using Java

long time= System.currentTimeMillis();

this will return current time in milliseconds mode . this will surely work

long time= System.currentTimeMillis();
android.util.Log.i("Time Class ", " Time value in millisecinds "+time);

Here is my logcat using the above function

05-13 14:38:03.149: INFO/Time Class(301): Time value in millisecinds 1368436083157

If you got any doubt with millisecond value .Check Here

EDIT : Time Zone I used to demo the code IST(+05:30) ,So if you check milliseconds that mentioned in log to match with time in log you might get a different value based your system timezone

EDIT: This is easy approach .but if you need time zone or any other details I think this won't be enough Also See this approach using android api support

Printing a char with printf

In C char gets promoted to int in expressions. That pretty much explains every question, if you think about it.

Source: The C Programming Language by Brian W.Kernighan and Dennis M.Ritchie

A must read if you want to learn C.

Also see this stack overflow page, where people much more experienced then me can explain it much better then I ever can.

Is there a way to make npm install (the command) to work behind proxy?

Have you tried command-line options instead of the .npmrc file?

I think something like npm --proxy http://proxy-server:8080/ install {package-name} worked for me.

I've also seen the following: npm config set proxy http://proxy-server:8080/

What is IPV6 for localhost and 0.0.0.0?

IPv6 localhost

::1 is the loopback address in IPv6.

Within URLs

Within a URL, use square brackets []:

  • http://[::1]/
    Defaults to port 80.
  • http://[::1]:80/
    Specify port.

Enclosing the IPv6 literal in square brackets for use in a URL is defined in RFC 2732 – Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's.

How are POST and GET variables handled in Python?

suppose you're posting a html form with this:

<input type="text" name="username">

If using raw cgi:

import cgi
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
print form["username"]

If using Django, Pylons, Flask or Pyramid:

print request.GET['username'] # for GET form method
print request.POST['username'] # for POST form method

Using Turbogears, Cherrypy:

from cherrypy import request
print request.params['username']

Web.py:

form = web.input()
print form.username

Werkzeug:

print request.form['username']

If using Cherrypy or Turbogears, you can also define your handler function taking a parameter directly:

def index(self, username):
    print username

Google App Engine:

class SomeHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def post(self):
        name = self.request.get('username') # this will get the value from the field named username
        self.response.write(name) # this will write on the document

So you really will have to choose one of those frameworks.

forEach() in React JSX does not output any HTML

You need to pass an array of element to jsx. The problem is that forEach does not return anything (i.e it returns undefined). So it's better to use map because map returns an array:

class QuestionSet extends Component {
render(){ 
    <div className="container">
       <h1>{this.props.question.text}</h1>
       {this.props.question.answers.map((answer, i) => {     
           console.log("Entered");                 
           // Return the element. Also pass key     
           return (<Answer key={answer} answer={answer} />) 
        })}
}

export default QuestionSet;

How to get access to job parameters from ItemReader, in Spring Batch?

Did you declare the jobparameters as map properly as bean?

Or did you perhaps accidently instantiate a JobParameters object, which has no getter for the filename?

For more on expression language you can find information in Spring documentation here.

In R, dealing with Error: ggplot2 doesn't know how to deal with data of class numeric

The error happens because of you are trying to map a numeric vector to data in geom_errorbar: GVW[1:64,3]. ggplot only works with data.frame.

In general, you shouldn't subset inside ggplot calls. You are doing so because your standard errors are stored in four separate objects. Add them to your original data.frame and you will be able to plot everything in one call.

Here with a dplyr solution to summarise the data and compute the standard error beforehand.

library(dplyr)
d <- GVW %>% group_by(Genotype,variable) %>%
    summarise(mean = mean(value),se = sd(value) / sqrt(n()))

ggplot(d, aes(x = variable, y = mean, fill = Genotype)) + 
  geom_bar(position = position_dodge(), stat = "identity", 
      colour="black", size=.3) +
  geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = mean - se, ymax = mean + se), 
      size=.3, width=.2, position=position_dodge(.9)) +
  xlab("Time") +
  ylab("Weight [g]") +
  scale_fill_hue(name = "Genotype", breaks = c("KO", "WT"), 
      labels = c("Knock-out", "Wild type")) +
  ggtitle("Effect of genotype on weight-gain") +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0:20*4) +
  theme_bw()

Can't compare naive and aware datetime.now() <= challenge.datetime_end

Disable time zone. Use challenge.datetime_start.replace(tzinfo=None);

You can also use replace(tzinfo=None) for other datetime.

if challenge.datetime_start.replace(tzinfo=None) <= datetime.now().replace(tzinfo=None) <= challenge.datetime_end.replace(tzinfo=None):

continuous page numbering through section breaks

You can check out this post on SuperUser.

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

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

My method:

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

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

Javascript Regexp dynamic generation from variables?

Use the below:

var regEx = new RegExp(pattern1+'|'+pattern2, 'gi');

str.match(regEx);

how to make a div to wrap two float divs inside?

Float everything.

If you have a floated div inside a non-floated div, everything gets all screwy. That's why most CSS frameworks like Blueprint and 960.gs all use floated containers and divs.

To answer your particular question,

<div class="container">
<!--
.container {
  float: left;
  width: 100%;
}
-->
  <div class="sidebar">
  <!--
  .sidebar {
    float: left;
    width: 20%;
    height: auto;
  }
  -->
  </div>
  <div class="content">
  <!--
  .sidebar {
    float: left;
    width: 20%;
    height: auto;
  }
  -->
  </div>
</div>

should work just fine, as long as you float:left; all of your <div>s.

Does Index of Array Exist

You could check if the index is less than the length of the array. This doesn't check for nulls or other odd cases where the index can be assigned a value but hasn't been given one explicitly.

Android: Go back to previous activity

If you have setup correctly the AndroidManifest.xml file with activity parent, you can use :

NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(this);

Where this is your child activity.

SQL query to find record with ID not in another table

Keeping in mind the points made in @John Woo's comment/link above, this is how I typically would handle it:

SELECT t1.ID, t1.Name 
FROM   Table1 t1
WHERE  NOT EXISTS (
    SELECT TOP 1 NULL
    FROM Table2 t2
    WHERE t1.ID = t2.ID
)

Why do I get the "Unhandled exception type IOException"?

add "throws IOException" to your method like this:

public static void main(String args[]) throws  IOException{

        FileReader reader=new FileReader("db.properties");

        Properties p=new Properties();
        p.load(reader);


    }

Purpose of returning by const value?

In the hypothetical situation where you could perform a potentially expensive non-const operation on an object, returning by const-value prevents you from accidentally calling this operation on a temporary. Imagine that + returned a non-const value, and you could write:

(a + b).expensive();

In the age of C++11, however, it is strongly advised to return values as non-const so that you can take full advantage of rvalue references, which only make sense on non-constant rvalues.

In summary, there is a rationale for this practice, but it is essentially obsolete.

Array.Add vs +=

If you want a dynamically sized array, then you should make a list. Not only will you get the .Add() functionality, but as @frode-f explains, dynamic arrays are more memory efficient and a better practice anyway.

And it's so easy to use.

Instead of your array declaration, try this:

$outItems = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[System.Object]

Adding items is simple.

$outItems.Add(1)
$outItems.Add("hi")

And if you really want an array when you're done, there's a function for that too.

$outItems.ToArray()

Multiple github accounts on the same computer?

Simpler and Easy fix to avoid confusions..

For Windows users to use multiple or different git accounts for different projects.

Following steps: Go Control Panel and Search for Credential Manager. Then Go to Credential Manager -> Windows Credentials

Now remove the git:https//github.com node under Generic Credentials Heading

This will remove the current credentials. Now you can add any project through git pull it will ask for username and password.

When you face any issue with other account do the same process.

Thanks

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Removing duplicates from a SQL query (not just "use distinct")

If I understand you correctly, you want to list to exclude duplicates on one column only, inner join to a sub-select

select u.* [whatever joined values]
from users u
inner join
(select name from users group by name having count(*)=1) uniquenames
on uniquenames.name = u.name

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

The answers here do an excellent job in defining both monoids and monads, however, they still don't seem to answer the question:

And on a less important note, is this true and if so could you give an explanation (hopefully one that can be understood by someone who doesn't have much Haskell experience)?

The crux of the matter that is missing here, is the different notion of "monoid", the so-called categorification more precisely -- the one of monoid in a monoidal category. Sadly Mac Lane's book itself makes it very confusing:

All told, a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X, with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor.

Main confusion

Why is this confusing? Because it does not define what is "monoid in the category of endofunctors" of X. Instead, this sentence suggests taking a monoid inside the set of all endofunctors together with the functor composition as binary operation and the identity functor as a monoidal unit. Which works perfectly fine and turns into a monoid any subset of endofunctors that contains the identity functor and is closed under functor composition.

Yet this is not the correct interpretation, which the book fails to make clear at that stage. A Monad f is a fixed endofunctor, not a subset of endofunctors closed under composition. A common construction is to use f to generate a monoid by taking the set of all k-fold compositions f^k = f(f(...)) of f with itself, including k=0 that corresponds to the identity f^0 = id. And now the set S of all these powers for all k>=0 is indeed a monoid "with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor".

And yet:

  • This monoid S can be defined for any functor f or even literally for any self-map of X. It is the monoid generated by f.
  • The monoidal structure of S given by the functor composition and the identity functor has nothing do with f being or not being a monad.

And to make things more confusing, the definition of "monoid in monoidal category" comes later in the book as you can see from the table of contents. And yet understanding this notion is absolutely critical to understanding the connection with monads.

(Strict) monoidal categories

Going to Chapter VII on Monoids (which comes later than Chapter VI on Monads), we find the definition of the so-called strict monoidal category as triple (B, *, e), where B is a category, *: B x B-> B a bifunctor (functor with respect to each component with other component fixed) and e is a unit object in B, satisfying the associativity and unit laws:

(a * b) * c = a * (b * c)
a * e = e * a = a

for any objects a,b,c of B, and the same identities for any morphisms a,b,c with e replaced by id_e, the identity morphism of e. It is now instructive to observe that in our case of interest, where B is the category of endofunctors of X with natural transformations as morphisms, * the functor composition and e the identity functor, all these laws are satisfied, as can be directly verified.

What comes after in the book is the definition of the "relaxed" monoidal category, where the laws only hold modulo some fixed natural transformations satisfying so-called coherence relations, which is however not important for our cases of the endofunctor categories.

Monoids in monoidal categories

Finally, in section 3 "Monoids" of Chapter VII, the actual definition is given:

A monoid c in a monoidal category (B, *, e) is an object of B with two arrows (morphisms)

mu: c * c -> c
nu: e -> c

making 3 diagrams commutative. Recall that in our case, these are morphisms in the category of endofunctors, which are natural transformations corresponding to precisely join and return for a monad. The connection becomes even clearer when we make the composition * more explicit, replacing c * c by c^2, where c is our monad.

Finally, notice that the 3 commutative diagrams (in the definition of a monoid in monoidal category) are written for general (non-strict) monoidal categories, while in our case all natural transformations arising as part of the monoidal category are actually identities. That will make the diagrams exactly the same as the ones in the definition of a monad, making the correspondence complete.

Conclusion

In summary, any monad is by definition an endofunctor, hence an object in the category of endofunctors, where the monadic join and return operators satisfy the definition of a monoid in that particular (strict) monoidal category. Vice versa, any monoid in the monoidal category of endofunctors is by definition a triple (c, mu, nu) consisting of an object and two arrows, e.g. natural transformations in our case, satisfying the same laws as a monad.

Finally, note the key difference between the (classical) monoids and the more general monoids in monoidal categories. The two arrows mu and nu above are not anymore a binary operation and a unit in a set. Instead, you have one fixed endofunctor c. The functor composition * and the identity functor alone do not provide the complete structure needed for the monad, despite that confusing remark in the book.

Another approach would be to compare with the standard monoid C of all self-maps of a set A, where the binary operation is the composition, that can be seen to map the standard cartesian product C x C into C. Passing to the categorified monoid, we are replacing the cartesian product x with the functor composition *, and the binary operation gets replaced with the natural transformation mu from c * c to c, that is a collection of the join operators

join: c(c(T))->c(T)

for every object T (type in programming). And the identity elements in classical monoids, which can be identified with images of maps from a fixed one-point-set, get replaced with the collection of the return operators

return: T->c(T) 

But now there are no more cartesian products, so no pairs of elements and thus no binary operations.

How do I get a human-readable file size in bytes abbreviation using .NET?

My 2 cents:

  • The prefix for kilobyte is kB (lowercase K)
  • Since these functions are for presentation purposes, one should supply a culture, for example: string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "{0:0.##} {1}", fileSize, unit);
  • Depending on the context a kilobyte can be either 1000 or 1024 bytes. The same goes for MB, GB, etc.

Node.js - get raw request body using Express

BE CAREFUL with those other answers as they will not play properly with bodyParser if you're looking to also support json, urlencoded, etc. To get it to work with bodyParser you should condition your handler to only register on the Content-Type header(s) you care about, just like bodyParser itself does.

To get the raw body content of a request with Content-Type: "text/plain" into req.rawBody you can do:

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  var contentType = req.headers['content-type'] || ''
    , mime = contentType.split(';')[0];

  if (mime != 'text/plain') {
    return next();
  }

  var data = '';
  req.setEncoding('utf8');
  req.on('data', function(chunk) {
    data += chunk;
  });
  req.on('end', function() {
    req.rawBody = data;
    next();
  });
});

Best practices to test protected methods with PHPUnit

If you're using PHP5 (>= 5.3.2) with PHPUnit, you can test your private and protected methods by using reflection to set them to be public prior to running your tests:

protected static function getMethod($name) {
  $class = new ReflectionClass('MyClass');
  $method = $class->getMethod($name);
  $method->setAccessible(true);
  return $method;
}

public function testFoo() {
  $foo = self::getMethod('foo');
  $obj = new MyClass();
  $foo->invokeArgs($obj, array(...));
  ...
}

grep a file, but show several surrounding lines?

I use to do the compact way

grep -5 string file

That is the equivalent of

grep -A 5 -B 5 string file

Using momentjs to convert date to epoch then back to date

There are a few things wrong here:

  • First, terminology. "Epoch" refers to the starting point of something. The "Unix Epoch" is Midnight, January 1st 1970 UTC. You can't convert an arbitrary "date string to epoch". You probably meant "Unix Time", which is often erroneously called "Epoch Time".

  • .unix() returns Unix Time in whole seconds, but the default moment constructor accepts a timestamp in milliseconds. You should instead use .valueOf() to return milliseconds. Note that calling .unix()*1000 would also work, but it would result in a loss of precision.

  • You're parsing a string without providing a format specifier. That isn't a good idea, as values like 1/2/2014 could be interpreted as either February 1st or as January 2nd, depending on the locale of where the code is running. (This is also why you get the deprecation warning in the console.) Instead, provide a format string that matches the expected input, such as:

    moment("10/15/2014 9:00", "M/D/YYYY H:mm")
    
  • .calendar() has a very specific use. If you are near to the date, it will return a value like "Today 9:00 AM". If that's not what you expected, you should use the .format() function instead. Again, you may want to pass a format specifier.

  • To answer your questions in comments, No - you don't need to call .local() or .utc().

Putting it all together:

var ts = moment("10/15/2014 9:00", "M/D/YYYY H:mm").valueOf();
var m = moment(ts);
var s = m.format("M/D/YYYY H:mm");
alert("Values are: ts = " + ts + ", s = " + s);

On my machine, in the US Pacific time zone, it results in:

Values are: ts = 1413388800000, s = 10/15/2014 9:00

Since the input value is interpreted in terms of local time, you will get a different value for ts if you are in a different time zone.

Also note that if you really do want to work with whole seconds (possibly losing precision), moment has methods for that as well. You would use .unix() to return the timestamp in whole seconds, and moment.unix(ts) to parse it back to a moment.

var ts = moment("10/15/2014 9:00", "M/D/YYYY H:mm").unix();
var m = moment.unix(ts);

Safest way to run BAT file from Powershell script

Try this, your dot source was a little off. Edit, adding lastexitcode bits for OP.

$A = Start-Process -FilePath .\my-app\my-fle.bat -Wait -passthru;$a.ExitCode

add -WindowStyle Hidden for invisible batch.

IF EXISTS in T-SQL

There's no need for "else" in this case:

IF EXISTS(SELECT *  FROM  table1  WHERE Name='John' ) return 1
return 0

IntelliJ: Working on multiple projects

Step 1: Open "Maven Projects"

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Step 2: Select the project you want to import:

enter image description here

Web-scraping JavaScript page with Python

EDIT 30/Dec/2017: This answer appears in top results of Google searches, so I decided to update it. The old answer is still at the end.

dryscape isn't maintained anymore and the library dryscape developers recommend is Python 2 only. I have found using Selenium's python library with Phantom JS as a web driver fast enough and easy to get the work done.

Once you have installed Phantom JS, make sure the phantomjs binary is available in the current path:

phantomjs --version
# result:
2.1.1

Example

To give an example, I created a sample page with following HTML code. (link):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Javascript scraping test</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p id='intro-text'>No javascript support</p>
  <script>
     document.getElementById('intro-text').innerHTML = 'Yay! Supports javascript';
  </script> 
</body>
</html>

without javascript it says: No javascript support and with javascript: Yay! Supports javascript

Scraping without JS support:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
response = requests.get(my_url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text)
soup.find(id="intro-text")
# Result:
<p id="intro-text">No javascript support</p>

Scraping with JS support:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get(my_url)
p_element = driver.find_element_by_id(id_='intro-text')
print(p_element.text)
# result:
'Yay! Supports javascript'

You can also use Python library dryscrape to scrape javascript driven websites.

Scraping with JS support:

import dryscrape
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
session = dryscrape.Session()
session.visit(my_url)
response = session.body()
soup = BeautifulSoup(response)
soup.find(id="intro-text")
# Result:
<p id="intro-text">Yay! Supports javascript</p>

Delete all data in SQL Server database

As an alternative answer, if you Visual Studio SSDT or possibly Red Gate Sql Compare, you could simply run a schema comparison, script it out, drop the old database (possibly make a backup first in case there would be a reason that you will need that data), and then create a new database with the script created by the comparison tool. While on a very small database this may be more work, on a very large database it will be much quicker to simply drop the database then to deal with the different triggers and constraints that may be on the database.

ERROR 1130 (HY000): Host '' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

Following two steps worked perfectly fine for me:

  1. Comment out the bind address from the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf:

    #bind-address = 127.0.0.1

  2. Run following query in phpMyAdmin:

    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

How to show empty data message in Datatables

It is worth noting that if you are returning server side data - you must supply the Data attribute even if there isn't any. It doesn't read the recordsTotal or recordsFiltered but relies on the count of the data object

How do you dynamically allocate a matrix?

Using the double-pointer is by far the best compromise between execution speed/optimisation and legibility. Using a single array to store matrix' contents is actually what a double-pointer does.

I have successfully used the following templated creator function (yes, I know I use old C-style pointer referencing, but it does make code more clear on the calling side with regards to changing parameters - something I like about pointers which is not possible with references. You will see what I mean):

///
/// Matrix Allocator Utility
/// @param pppArray Pointer to the double-pointer where the matrix should be allocated.
/// @param iRows Number of rows.
/// @param iColumns Number of columns.
/// @return Successful allocation returns true, else false.
template <typename T>
bool NewMatrix(T*** pppArray, 
               size_t iRows, 
               size_t iColumns)
{
   bool l_bResult = false;
   if (pppArray != 0) // Test if pointer holds a valid address.
   {                  // I prefer using the shorter 0 in stead of NULL.
      if (!((*pppArray) != 0)) // Test if the first element is currently unassigned.
      {                        // The "double-not" evaluates a little quicker in general.
         // Allocate and assign pointer array.
         (*pppArray) = new T* [iRows]; 
         if ((*pppArray) != 0) // Test if pointer-array allocation was successful.
         {
            // Allocate and assign common data storage array.
            (*pppArray)[0] = new T [iRows * iColumns]; 
            if ((*pppArray)[0] != 0) // Test if data array allocation was successful.
            {
               // Using pointer arithmetic requires the least overhead. There is no 
               // expensive repeated multiplication involved and very little additional 
               // memory is used for temporary variables.
               T** l_ppRow = (*pppArray);
               T* l_pRowFirstElement = l_ppRow[0];
               for (size_t l_iRow = 1; l_iRow < iRows; l_iRow++)
               {
                  l_ppRow++;
                  l_pRowFirstElement += iColumns;
                  l_ppRow[0] = l_pRowFirstElement;
               }
               l_bResult = true;
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

To de-allocate the memory created using the abovementioned utility, one simply has to de-allocate in reverse.

///
/// Matrix De-Allocator Utility
/// @param pppArray Pointer to the double-pointer where the matrix should be de-allocated.
/// @return Successful de-allocation returns true, else false.
template <typename T>
bool DeleteMatrix(T*** pppArray)
{
   bool l_bResult = false;
   if (pppArray != 0) // Test if pointer holds a valid address.
   {
      if ((*pppArray) != 0) // Test if pointer array was assigned.
      {
         if ((*pppArray)[0] != 0) // Test if data array was assigned.
         {
               // De-allocate common storage array.
               delete [] (*pppArray)[0];
            }
         }
         // De-allocate pointer array.
         delete [] (*pppArray);
         (*pppArray) = 0;
         l_bResult = true;
      }
   }
}

To use these abovementioned template functions is then very easy (e.g.):

   .
   .
   .
   double l_ppMatrix = 0;
   NewMatrix(&l_ppMatrix, 3, 3); // Create a 3 x 3 Matrix and store it in l_ppMatrix.
   .
   .
   .
   DeleteMatrix(&l_ppMatrix);

split python source code into multiple files?

Python has importing and namespacing, which are good. In Python you can import into the current namespace, like:

>>> from test import disp
>>> disp('World!')

Or with a namespace:

>>> import test
>>> test.disp('World!')

Force drop mysql bypassing foreign key constraint

You can use the following steps, its worked for me to drop table with constraint,solution already explained in the above comment, i just added screen shot for that -enter image description here

What do &lt; and &gt; stand for?

  • &lt; stands for the less-than sign: <
  • &gt; stands for the greater-than sign: >
  • &le; stands for the less-than or equals sign: =
  • &ge; stands for the greater-than or equals sign: =

SQL Server: Get table primary key using sql query

Using SQL SERVER 2005, you can try

SELECT  i.name AS IndexName,
        OBJECT_NAME(ic.OBJECT_ID) AS TableName,
        COL_NAME(ic.OBJECT_ID,ic.column_id) AS ColumnName
FROM    sys.indexes AS i INNER JOIN 
        sys.index_columns AS ic ON  i.OBJECT_ID = ic.OBJECT_ID
                                AND i.index_id = ic.index_id
WHERE   i.is_primary_key = 1

Found at SQL SERVER – 2005 – Find Tables With Primary Key Constraint in Database

Where can I get a virtual machine online?

Try this:

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

one year free. I do use this for a while.