Programs & Examples On #Xmppframework

XMPPFramework implements the XMPP protocol in Objective-C for iOS and Mac platforms.

Is it possible to set an object to null?

You want to check if an object is NULL/empty. Being NULL and empty are not the same. Like Justin and Brian have already mentioned, in C++ NULL is an assignment you'd typically associate with pointers. You can overload operator= perhaps, but think it through real well if you actually want to do this. Couple of other things:

  1. In C++ NULL pointer is very different to pointer pointing to an 'empty' object.
  2. Why not have a bool IsEmpty() method that returns true if an object's variables are reset to some default state? Guess that might bypass the NULL usage.
  3. Having something like A* p = new A; ... p = NULL; is bad (no delete p) unless you can ensure your code will be garbage collected. If anything, this'd lead to memory leaks and with several such leaks there's good chance you'd have slow code.
  4. You may want to do this class Null {}; Null _NULL; and then overload operator= and operator!= of other classes depending on your situation.

Perhaps you should post us some details about the context to help you better with option 4.

Arpan

Use of symbols '@', '&', '=' and '>' in custom directive's scope binding: AngularJS

< one-way binding

= two-way binding

& function binding

@ pass only strings

New to unit testing, how to write great tests?

Unit testing is about the output you get from a function/method/application. It does not matter at all how the result is produced, it just matters that it is correct. Therefore, your approach of counting calls to inner methods and such is wrong. What I tend to do is sit down and write what a method should return given certain input values or a certain environment, then write a test which compares the actual value returned with what I came up with.

Adding class to element using Angular JS

First thing, you should not do any DOM manipulation in controller function. Instead, you should use directives for this purpose. directive's link function is available for those kind of stuff only.

AngularJS Docs : Creating a Directive that Manipulates the DOM

app.directive('buttonDirective', function($timeout) {
  return {
    scope: {
       change: '&'
    },
    link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
      element.bind('click', function() {
        $timeout(function() {
          // triggering callback
          scope.change();
        });
      });
    }
  };
});

change callback can be used as listener for click event.

Has an event handler already been added?

If this is the only handler, you can check to see if the event is null, if it isn't, the handler has been added.

I think you can safely call -= on the event with your handler even if it's not added (if not, you could catch it) -- to make sure it isn't in there before adding.

How to pass parameter to function using in addEventListener?

No need to pass anything in. The function used for addEventListener will automatically have this bound to the current element. Simply use this in your function:

productLineSelect.addEventListener('change', getSelection, false);

function getSelection() {
    var value = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;
    alert(value);
}

Here's the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dJ4Wm/


If you want to pass arbitrary data to the function, wrap it in your own anonymous function call:

productLineSelect.addEventListener('change', function() {
    foo('bar');
}, false);

function foo(message) {
    alert(message);
}

Here's the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/t4Gun/


If you want to set the value of this manually, you can use the call method to call the function:

var self = this;
productLineSelect.addEventListener('change', function() {
    getSelection.call(self);
    // This'll set the `this` value inside of `getSelection` to `self`
}, false);

function getSelection() {
    var value = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;
    alert(value);
}

Select multiple images from android gallery

Try this one IntentChooser. Just add some lines of code, I did the rest for you.

private void startImageChooserActivity() {
    Intent intent = ImageChooserMaker.newChooser(MainActivity.this)
            .add(new ImageChooser(true))
            .create("Select Image");
    startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_IMAGE_CHOOSER);
}

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    if (requestCode == REQUEST_IMAGE_CHOOSER && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        List<Uri> imageUris = ImageChooserMaker.getPickMultipleImageResultUris(this, data);
    }
}

PS: as mentioned at the answers above, EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE is only available for API >= 18. And some gallery apps don't make this feature available (Google Photos and Documents (com.android.documentsui) work.

postgresql - sql - count of `true` values

probably, the best approach is to use nullif function.

in general

select
    count(nullif(myCol = false, true)),  -- count true values
    count(nullif(myCol = true, true)),   -- count false values
    count(myCol);

or in short

select
    count(nullif(myCol, true)),  -- count false values
    count(nullif(myCol, false)), -- count true values
    count(myCol);

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-conditional.html

How to create friendly URL in php?

I recently used the following in an application that is working well for my needs.

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# enable rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# if requested url does not exist pass it as path info to index.php
RewriteRule ^$ index.php?/ [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

index.php

foreach (explode ("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) as $part)
{
    // Figure out what you want to do with the URL parts.
}

What is dynamic programming?

Dynamic programming is a technique used to avoid computing multiple times the same subproblem in a recursive algorithm.

Let's take the simple example of the Fibonacci numbers: finding the n th Fibonacci number defined by

Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2 and F0 = 0, F1 = 1

Recursion

The obvious way to do this is recursive:

def fibonacci(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 0
    if n == 1:
        return 1

    return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)

Dynamic Programming

  • Top Down - Memoization

The recursion does a lot of unnecessary calculations because a given Fibonacci number will be calculated multiple times. An easy way to improve this is to cache the results:

cache = {}

def fibonacci(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 0
    if n == 1:
        return 1
    if n in cache:
        return cache[n]

    cache[n] = fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)

    return cache[n]
  • Bottom-Up

A better way to do this is to get rid of the recursion all-together by evaluating the results in the right order:

cache = {}

def fibonacci(n):
    cache[0] = 0
    cache[1] = 1

    for i in range(2, n + 1):
        cache[i] = cache[i - 1] +  cache[i - 2]

    return cache[n]

We can even use constant space and store only the necessary partial results along the way:

def fibonacci(n):
  fi_minus_2 = 0
  fi_minus_1 = 1

  for i in range(2, n + 1):
      fi = fi_minus_1 + fi_minus_2
      fi_minus_1, fi_minus_2 = fi, fi_minus_1

  return fi
  • How apply dynamic programming?

    1. Find the recursion in the problem.
    2. Top-down: store the answer for each subproblem in a table to avoid having to recompute them.
    3. Bottom-up: Find the right order to evaluate the results so that partial results are available when needed.

Dynamic programming generally works for problems that have an inherent left to right order such as strings, trees or integer sequences. If the naive recursive algorithm does not compute the same subproblem multiple times, dynamic programming won't help.

I made a collection of problems to help understand the logic: https://github.com/tristanguigue/dynamic-programing

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

Embarrassing to say it, but when I had this problem, it was simply a mistake that I was closing the connection before I read all the data. In cases with small strings being returned, it worked, but that was probably due to the whole response was buffered, before I closed it.

In cases of longer amounts of text being returned, the exception was thrown, since more then a buffer was coming back.

You might check for this oversight. Remember opening a URL is like a file, be sure to close it (release the connection) once it has been fully read.

MD5 is 128 bits but why is it 32 characters?

That's 32 hex characters - 1 hex character is 4 bits.

How to display my application's errors in JSF?

Found this while Googling. The second post makes a point about the different phases of JSF, which might be causing your error message to become lost. Also, try null in place of "newPassword" because you do not have any object with the id newPassword.

Differences between fork and exec

The use of fork and exec exemplifies the spirit of UNIX in that it provides a very simple way to start new processes.

The fork call basically makes a duplicate of the current process, identical in almost every way. Not everything is copied over (for example, resource limits in some implementations) but the idea is to create as close a copy as possible.

The new process (child) gets a different process ID (PID) and has the PID of the old process (parent) as its parent PID (PPID). Because the two processes are now running exactly the same code, they can tell which is which by the return code of fork - the child gets 0, the parent gets the PID of the child. This is all, of course, assuming the fork call works - if not, no child is created and the parent gets an error code.

The exec call is a way to basically replace the entire current process with a new program. It loads the program into the current process space and runs it from the entry point.

So, fork and exec are often used in sequence to get a new program running as a child of a current process. Shells typically do this whenever you try to run a program like find - the shell forks, then the child loads the find program into memory, setting up all command line arguments, standard I/O and so forth.

But they're not required to be used together. It's perfectly acceptable for a program to fork itself without execing if, for example, the program contains both parent and child code (you need to be careful what you do, each implementation may have restrictions). This was used quite a lot (and still is) for daemons which simply listen on a TCP port and fork a copy of themselves to process a specific request while the parent goes back to listening.

Similarly, programs that know they're finished and just want to run another program don't need to fork, exec and then wait for the child. They can just load the child directly into their process space.

Some UNIX implementations have an optimized fork which uses what they call copy-on-write. This is a trick to delay the copying of the process space in fork until the program attempts to change something in that space. This is useful for those programs using only fork and not exec in that they don't have to copy an entire process space.

If the exec is called following fork (and this is what happens mostly), that causes a write to the process space and it is then copied for the child process.

Note that there is a whole family of exec calls (execl, execle, execve and so on) but exec in context here means any of them.

The following diagram illustrates the typical fork/exec operation where the bash shell is used to list a directory with the ls command:

+--------+
| pid=7  |
| ppid=4 |
| bash   |
+--------+
    |
    | calls fork
    V
+--------+             +--------+
| pid=7  |    forks    | pid=22 |
| ppid=4 | ----------> | ppid=7 |
| bash   |             | bash   |
+--------+             +--------+
    |                      |
    | waits for pid 22     | calls exec to run ls
    |                      V
    |                  +--------+
    |                  | pid=22 |
    |                  | ppid=7 |
    |                  | ls     |
    V                  +--------+
+--------+                 |
| pid=7  |                 | exits
| ppid=4 | <---------------+
| bash   |
+--------+
    |
    | continues
    V

Installing SciPy with pip

In Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), I could successfully pip install scipy (within a virtualenv) after installing some of its dependencies, in particular:

$ sudo apt-get install libamd2.2.0 libblas3gf libc6 libgcc1 libgfortran3 liblapack3gf libumfpack5.4.0 libstdc++6 build-essential gfortran libatlas-sse2-dev python-all-dev

Must issue a STARTTLS command first

Adding

props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");

solved my problem ;)

My problem was :

com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. u186sm7971862pfu.82 - gsmtp

at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:2108)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.mailFrom(SMTPTransport.java:1609)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:1117)
at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:195)
at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:124)
at com.example.sendmail.SendEmailExample2.main(SendEmailExample2.java:53)

Android how to convert int to String?

Use this String.valueOf(value);

What does \u003C mean?

It's a unicode character. In this case \u003C and \u003E mean :

U+003C < Less-than sign

U+003E > Greater-than sign

See a list here

How can we run a test method with multiple parameters in MSTest?

I couldn't get The DataRowAttribute to work in Visual Studio 2015, and this is what I ended up with:

[TestClass]
public class Tests
{
    private Foo _toTest;

    [TestInitialize]
    public void Setup()
    {
        this._toTest = new Foo();
    }

    [TestMethod]
    public void ATest()
    {
        this.Perform_ATest(1, 1, 2);
        this.Setup();

        this.Perform_ATest(100, 200, 300);
        this.Setup();

        this.Perform_ATest(817001, 212, 817213);
        this.Setup();
    }

    private void Perform_ATest(int a, int b, int expected)
    {
        // Obviously this would be way more complex...

        Assert.IsTrue(this._toTest.Add(a,b) == expected);
    }
}

public class Foo
{
    public int Add(int a, int b)
    {
        return a + b;
    }
}

The real solution here is to just use NUnit (unless you're stuck in MSTest like I am in this particular instance).

Refresh (reload) a page once using jQuery?

Try this:

<input type="button" value="Reload" onClick="history.go(0)">

calling javascript function on OnClientClick event of a Submit button

<asp:Button ID="btnGet" runat="server" Text="Get" OnClick="btnGet_Click" OnClientClick="retun callMethod();" />
<script type="text/javascript">
    function callMethod() {
        //your logic should be here and make sure your logic code note returing function
        return false;
}
</script>

Find everything between two XML tags with RegEx

It is not a good idea to use regex for HTML/XML parsing...

However, if you want to do it anyway, search for regex pattern

<primaryAddress>[\s\S]*?<\/primaryAddress>

and replace it with empty string...

Reading Email using Pop3 in C#

My open source application BugTracker.NET includes a POP3 client that can parse MIME. Both the POP3 code and the MIME code are from other authors, but you can see how it all fits together in my app.

For the MIME parsing, I use http://anmar.eu.org/projects/sharpmimetools/.

See the file POP3Main.cs, POP3Client.cs, and insert_bug.aspx

Getting the Facebook like/share count for a given URL

Your question is quite old and Facebook has depreciated FQL now but what you want can still be done using this utility: Facebook Analytics. However you will find that if you want details about who is liking or commenting it will take a long time to get. This is because Facebook only gives a very small chunk of data at a time and a lot of paging is required in order to get everything.

How to determine day of week by passing specific date?

...
import java.time.LocalDate;
...
//String month = in.next();
int mm = in.nextInt();
//String day = in.next();
int dd = in.nextInt();
//String year = in.next();
int yy = in.nextInt();
in.close();
LocalDate dt = LocalDate.of(yy, mm, dd);
System.out.print(dt.getDayOfWeek());

jQuery validation: change default error message

You can specify your own messages in the validate call. Lifting and abbreviating this code from the Remember the Milk signup form used in the Validation plugin documentation (http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/milk/), you can easily specify your own messages:

var validator = $("#signupform").validate({
    rules: {
        firstname: "required",
        lastname: "required",
        username: {
            required: true,
            minlength: 2,
            remote: "users.php"
        }
    },
    messages: {
        firstname: "Enter your firstname",
        lastname: "Enter your lastname",
        username: {
            required: "Enter a username",
            minlength: jQuery.format("Enter at least {0} characters"),
            remote: jQuery.format("{0} is already in use")
        }
    }
});

The complete API for validate(...) : http://jqueryvalidation.org/validate

How do you write a migration to rename an ActiveRecord model and its table in Rails?

Here's an example:

class RenameOldTableToNewTable < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    rename_table :old_table_name, :new_table_name
  end

  def self.down
    rename_table :new_table_name, :old_table_name
  end
end

I had to go and rename the model declaration file manually.

Edit:

In Rails 3.1 & 4, ActiveRecord::Migration::CommandRecorder knows how to reverse rename_table migrations, so you can do this:

class RenameOldTableToNewTable < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    rename_table :old_table_name, :new_table_name
  end 
end

(You still have to go through and manually rename your files.)

How do you revert to a specific tag in Git?

You can use git checkout.

I tried the accepted solution but got an error, warning: refname '<tagname>' is ambiguous'

But as the answer states, tags do behave like a pointer to a commit, so as you would with a commit hash, you can just checkout the tag. The only difference is you preface it with tags/:

git checkout tags/<tagname>

C++, how to declare a struct in a header file

You've only got a forward declaration for student in the header file; you need to place the struct declaration in the header file, not the .cpp. The method definitions will be in the .cpp (assuming you have any).

How to stop BackgroundWorker correctly

You will have to use a flag shared between the main thread and the BackgroundWorker, such as BackgroundWorker.CancellationPending. When you want the BackgroundWorker to exit, just set the flag using BackgroundWorker.CancelAsync().

MSDN has a sample: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.backgroundworker.cancellationpending.aspx

How to "select distinct" across multiple data frame columns in pandas?

I think use drop duplicate sometimes will not so useful depending dataframe.

I found this:

[in] df['col_1'].unique()
[out] array(['A', 'B', 'C'], dtype=object)

And work for me!

https://riptutorial.com/pandas/example/26077/select-distinct-rows-across-dataframe

SELECT * FROM multiple tables. MySQL

In order to get rid of duplicates, you can group by drinks.id. But that way you'll get only one photo for each drinks.id (which photo you'll get depends on database internal implementation).

Though it is not documented, in case of MySQL, you'll get the photo with lowest id (in my experience I've never seen other behavior).

SELECT name, price, photo 
FROM drinks, drinks_photos 
WHERE drinks.id = drinks_id
GROUP BY drinks.id

Convert timestamp to readable date/time PHP

Unless you need a custom date and time format, it's easier, less error-prone, and more readable to use one of the built-in date time format constants:

echo date(DATE_RFC822, 1368496604);

How do I mock an autowired @Value field in Spring with Mockito?

It was now the third time I googled myself to this SO post as I always forget how to mock an @Value field. Though the accepted answer is correct, I always need some time to get the "setField" call right, so at least for myself I paste an example snippet here:

Production class:

@Value("#{myProps[‘some.default.url']}")
private String defaultUrl;

Test class:

import org.springframework.test.util.ReflectionTestUtils;

ReflectionTestUtils.setField(instanceUnderTest, "defaultUrl", "http://foo");
// Note: Don't use MyClassUnderTest.class, use the instance you are testing itself
// Note: Don't use the referenced string "#{myProps[‘some.default.url']}", 
//       but simply the FIELDs name ("defaultUrl")

PHP Redirect to another page after form submit

If your redirect is in PHP, nothing should be echoed to the user before the redirect instruction.

See header for more info.

Remember that header() must be called before any actual output is sent, either by normal HTML tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP

Otherwise, you can use Javascript to redirect the user.

Just use

window.location = "http://www.google.com/"

How to print a stack trace in Node.js?

Try Error.captureStackTrace(targetObject[, constructorOpt]).

const myObj = {};
function c() {
  // pass
}

function b() {
    Error.captureStackTrace(myObj)
    c()
} 

function a() {
    b()
}

a()

console.log(myObj.stack)

The function a and b are captured in error stack and stored in myObj.

What is (functional) reactive programming?

After reading many pages about FRP I finally came across this enlightening writing about FRP, it finally made me understand what FRP really is all about.

I quote below Heinrich Apfelmus (author of reactive banana).

What is the essence of functional reactive programming?

A common answer would be that “FRP is all about describing a system in terms of time-varying functions instead of mutable state”, and that would certainly not be wrong. This is the semantic viewpoint. But in my opinion, the deeper, more satisfying answer is given by the following purely syntactic criterion:

The essence of functional reactive programming is to specify the dynamic behavior of a value completely at the time of declaration.

For instance, take the example of a counter: you have two buttons labelled “Up” and “Down” which can be used to increment or decrement the counter. Imperatively, you would first specify an initial value and then change it whenever a button is pressed; something like this:

counter := 0                               -- initial value
on buttonUp   = (counter := counter + 1)   -- change it later
on buttonDown = (counter := counter - 1)

The point is that at the time of declaration, only the initial value for the counter is specified; the dynamic behavior of counter is implicit in the rest of the program text. In contrast, functional reactive programming specifies the whole dynamic behavior at the time of declaration, like this:

counter :: Behavior Int
counter = accumulate ($) 0
            (fmap (+1) eventUp
             `union` fmap (subtract 1) eventDown)

Whenever you want to understand the dynamics of counter, you only have to look at its definition. Everything that can happen to it will appear on the right-hand side. This is very much in contrast to the imperative approach where subsequent declarations can change the dynamic behavior of previously declared values.

So, in my understanding an FRP program is a set of equations: enter image description here

j is discrete: 1,2,3,4...

f depends on t so this incorporates the possiblilty to model external stimuli

all state of the program is encapsulated in variables x_i

The FRP library takes care of progressing time, in other words, taking j to j+1.

I explain these equations in much more detail in this video.

EDIT:

About 2 years after the original answer, recently I came to the conclusion that FRP implementations have another important aspect. They need to (and usually do) solve an important practical problem: cache invalidation.

The equations for x_i-s describe a dependency graph. When some of the x_i changes at time j then not all the other x_i' values at j+1 need to be updated, so not all the dependencies need to be recalculated because some x_i' might be independent from x_i.

Furthermore, x_i-s that do change can be incrementally updated. For example let's consider a map operation f=g.map(_+1) in Scala, where f and g are List of Ints. Here f corresponds to x_i(t_j) and g is x_j(t_j). Now if I prepend an element to g then it would be wasteful to carry out the map operation for all the elements in g. Some FRP implementations (for example reflex-frp) aim to solve this problem. This problem is also known as incremental computing.

In other words, behaviours (the x_i-s ) in FRP can be thought as cache-ed computations. It is the task of the FRP engine to efficiently invalidate and recompute these cache-s (the x_i-s) if some of the f_i-s do change.

How to zoom div content using jquery?

 $('image').animate({ 'zoom': 1}, 400);

How to get the root dir of the Symfony2 application?

In Symfony 3.3 you can use

$projectRoot = $this->get('kernel')->getProjectDir();

to get the web/project root.

How to add image to canvas

In my case, I was mistaken the function parameters, which are:

context.drawImage(image, left, top);
context.drawImage(image, left, top, width, height);

If you expect them to be

context.drawImage(image, width, height);

you will place the image just outside the canvas with the same effects as described in the question.

Does my application "contain encryption"?

Yes, according to iTunes Connect Export Compliance Information screens, if you use built-in iOS or MacOS encryption (keychain, https), you are using encryption for purposes of US Government Export regulations. Whether you qualify for an export compliance exemption depends on what your app does and how it uses this encryption. Attached images show the iTunes Connect Export Compliance Screens to help you determine your export reporting obligations. In particular, it states:

If you are making use of ATS or making a call to HTTPS please note that you are required to submit a year-end self classification report to the US government. Learn more

iTunes Connect Export Compliance Information Q1

iTunes Connect Export Compliance Information Q2

Get the week start date and week end date from week number

you can also use this:

  SELECT DATEADD(day, DATEDIFF(day, 0, WeddingDate) /7*7, 0) AS weekstart,
         DATEADD(day, DATEDIFF(day, 6, WeddingDate-1) /7*7 + 7, 6) AS WeekEnd

Ajax passing data to php script

Try sending the data like this:

var data = {};
data.album = this.title;

Then you can access it like

$_POST['album']

Notice not a 'GET'

Unable to preventDefault inside passive event listener

I am getting this issue when using owl carousal and scrolling the images.

So get solved just adding below CSS in your page.

.owl-carousel {
-ms-touch-action: pan-y;
touch-action: pan-y;
}

or

.owl-carousel {
-ms-touch-action: none;
touch-action: none;
}

What is an .inc and why use it?

This is a convention that programmer usually use to identify different file names for include files. So that if the other developers is working on their code, he can easily identify why this file is there and what is purpose of this file by just seeing the name of the file.

How to check if a table is locked in sql server

Better yet, consider sp_getapplock which is designed for this. Or use SET LOCK_TIMEOUT

Otherwise, you'd have to do something with sys.dm_tran_locks which I'd use only for DBA stuff: not for user defined concurrency.

How to embed small icon in UILabel

In Swift 2.0,

My solution to the problem is a combination of a couple of answers on this question. The problem I faced in @Phil's answer was that I couldn't change the position of the icon, and it always appeared in right the corner. And the one answer from @anatoliy_v, I couldn't resize the icon size I want to append to the string.

To make it work for me, I first did a pod 'SMIconLabel' and then created this function:

func drawTextWithIcon(labelName: SMIconLabel, imageName: String, labelText: String!,  width: Int, height: Int) {

        let newSize = CGSize(width: width, height: height)
        let image = UIImage(named: imageName)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, false, 0.0)
        image?.drawInRect(CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height))
        let imageResized = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        labelName.text = " \(labelText)"
        labelName.icon = imageResized
        labelName.iconPosition = .Left
    }

This solution will not only help you place the image but will also allow you to make necessary changes to the icon size and other attributes.

Thank You.

How do you loop in a Windows batch file?

FOR will give you any information you'll ever need to know about FOR loops, including examples on proper usage.

How to nicely format floating numbers to string without unnecessary decimal 0's

The best way to do this is as below:

public class Test {

    public static void main(String args[]){
        System.out.println(String.format("%s something", new Double(3.456)));
        System.out.println(String.format("%s something", new Double(3.456234523452)));
        System.out.println(String.format("%s something", new Double(3.45)));
        System.out.println(String.format("%s something", new Double(3)));
    }
}

Output:

3.456 something
3.456234523452 something
3.45 something
3.0 something

The only issue is the last one where .0 doesn't get removed. But if you are able to live with that then this works best. %.2f will round it to the last two decimal digits. So will DecimalFormat. If you need all the decimal places, but not the trailing zeros then this works best.

Importing JSON into an Eclipse project

Download json from java2s website then include in your project. In your class add these package java_basic;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;

How to remove "href" with Jquery?

Your title question and your example are completely different. I'll start by answering the title question:

$("a").removeAttr("href");

And as far as not requiring an href, the generally accepted way of doing this is:

<a href"#" onclick="doWork(); return false;">link</a>

The return false is necessary so that the href doesn't actually go anywhere.

What does PHP keyword 'var' do?

var is used like public .if a varable is declared like this in a class var $a; if means its scope is public for the class. in simplea words var ~public

var $a;
public

How to properly add 1 month from now to current date in moment.js

You could try

moment().add(1, 'M').subtract(1, 'day').format('DD-MM-YYYY')

Is there a list of Pytz Timezones?

The timezone name is the only reliable way to specify the timezone.

You can find a list of timezone names here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones Note that this list contains a lot of alias names, such as US/Eastern for the timezone that is properly called America/New_York.

If you programatically want to create this list from the zoneinfo database you can compile it from the zone.tab file in the zoneinfo database. I don't think pytz has an API to get them, and I also don't think it would be very useful.

Eclipse C++: Symbol 'std' could not be resolved

This worked for me on Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers Version: 2020-03 (4.15.0) Build id: 20200313-1211. Also, my code is cross-compiled.

  1. Create a new project making sure it's created as a cross-compiled solution. You have to add the /usr/bin directory that matches your cross-compiler location.
  2. Add the C and C++ headers for the cross-compiler in the Project Properties.
  3. For C: Project > Properties > C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Includes > GNU C. Add... -> The path to your /usr/include directory from your cross-compiler.
  4. For C++: Project > Properties > C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Includes > GNU C++. Add... -> The path to your /usr/include/c++/ directory from your cross-compiler.
  5. If you don't know your gcc version, type this in a console (make sure it's your cross gcc binary):

    gcc -v

  6. Modify the dialect for the cross-compilers (this was the trick).

  7. For C: Project > Properties > C/C++ Build > Settings > Tool Settings > Cross GCC Compiler > Dialect. Set to ISO C99 (-std=C99) or whatever fits your C files standard.
  8. For C++: Project > Properties > C/C++ Build > Settings > Tool Settings > Cross G++ Compiler > Dialect. Set to ISO C++14 (-std=c++14) or whatever fits your C++ files standard.
  9. If needed, re-index all your project by right-clicking the project > Index > Rebuild.

Remove multiple items from a Python list in just one statement

In Python, creating a new object is often better than modifying an existing one:

item_list = ['item', 5, 'foo', 3.14, True]
item_list = [e for e in item_list if e not in ('item', 5)]

Which is equivalent to:

item_list = ['item', 5, 'foo', 3.14, True]
new_list = []
for e in item_list:
    if e not in ('item', 5):
        new_list.append(e)
item_list = new_list

In case of a big list of filtered out values (here, ('item', 5) is a small set of elements), using a set is faster as the in operation is O(1) time complexity on average. It's also a good idea to build the iterable you're removing first, so that you're not creating it on every iteration of the list comprehension:

unwanted = {'item', 5}
item_list = [e for e in item_list if e not in unwanted]

A bloom filter is also a good solution if memory is not cheap.

'ls' in CMD on Windows is not recognized

enter image description here

First

Make a dir c:\command

Second Make a ll.bat

ll.bat

dir

Third Add to Path C:/commands enter image description here

Change the On/Off text of a toggle button Android

In the example you link to, they are changing it to Day/Night by using android:textOn and android:textOff

JDBC ODBC Driver Connection

Didn't work with ODBC-Bridge for me too. I got the way around to initialize ODBC connection using ODBC driver.

 import java.sql.*;  
 public class UserLogin
 {
     public static void main(String[] args)
     {
        try
        {    
            Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");

            // C:\\databaseFileName.accdb" - location of your database 
           String url = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};DBQ=" + "C:\\emp.accdb";

            // specify url, username, pasword - make sure these are valid 
            Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, "username", "password");

            System.out.println("Connection Succesfull");
         } 
         catch (Exception e) 
         {
            System.err.println("Got an exception! ");
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());

          }
      }
  }

c# search string in txt file

I worked a little bit the method that Rawling posted here to find more than one line in the same file until the end. This is what worked for me:

                foreach (var line in File.ReadLines(pathToFile))
                {
                    if (line.Contains("CustomerEN") && current == null)
                    {
                        current = new List<string>();
                        current.Add(line);
                    }
                    else if (line.Contains("CustomerEN") && current != null)
                    {
                        current.Add(line);
                    }
                }
                string s = String.Join(",", current);
                MessageBox.Show(s);

Django Rest Framework -- no module named rest_framework

In my case, I had installed it in the virtualenv but forgot to activate the virtualenv while running the command

 python3 manage.py makemigrations 

So in my case I had to just activate the environment and then run the command

source [virtualenv folder-name]/bin/activate
python3 manage.py makemigrations

This solved my problem.

JS file gets a net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

As mentionned in comments: you need a way to send your static files to the client. This can be achieved with a reverse proxy like Nginx, or simply using express.static().

Put all your "static" (css, js, images) files in a folder dedicated to it, different from where you put your "views" (html files in your case). I'll call it static for the example. Once it's done, add this line in your server code:

app.use("/static", express.static('./static/'));

This will effectively serve every file in your "static" folder via the /static route.

Querying your index.js file in the client thus becomes:

<script src="static/index.js"></script>

How to Round to the nearest whole number in C#

var roundedVal = Math.Round(2.5, 0);

It will give result:

var roundedVal = 3

concat scope variables into string in angular directive expression

You can just concat the values using +

<a ng-click="$navigate.go('#/path/' + obj.val1 + '/' + obj.val2)">{{obj.val1}}, {{obj.val2}}</a>

Simple example on jsfiddle

I am sure the code you posted is a simplified example, if your path building is more complex I would recommend extracting out a function (or service) that would build your urls so you can effectively write unit test.

How do I bind the enter key to a function in tkinter?

Try running the following program. You just have to be sure your window has the focus when you hit Return--to ensure that it does, first click the button a couple of times until you see some output, then without clicking anywhere else hit Return.

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("300x200")

def func(event):
    print("You hit return.")
root.bind('<Return>', func)

def onclick():
    print("You clicked the button")

button = tk.Button(root, text="click me", command=onclick)
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

Then you just have tweak things a little when making both the button click and hitting Return call the same function--because the command function needs to be a function that takes no arguments, whereas the bind function needs to be a function that takes one argument(the event object):

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("300x200")

def func(event):
    print("You hit return.")

def onclick(event=None):
    print("You clicked the button")

root.bind('<Return>', onclick)

button = tk.Button(root, text="click me", command=onclick)
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

Or, you can just forgo using the button's command argument and instead use bind() to attach the onclick function to the button, which means the function needs to take one argument--just like with Return:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("300x200")

def func(event):
    print("You hit return.")

def onclick(event):
    print("You clicked the button")

root.bind('<Return>', onclick)

button = tk.Button(root, text="click me")
button.bind('<Button-1>', onclick)
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

Here it is in a class setting:

import tkinter as tk

class Application(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        self.root = tk.Tk()
        self.root.geometry("300x200")

        tk.Frame.__init__(self, self.root)
        self.create_widgets()

    def create_widgets(self):
        self.root.bind('<Return>', self.parse)
        self.grid()

        self.submit = tk.Button(self, text="Submit")
        self.submit.bind('<Button-1>', self.parse)
        self.submit.grid()

    def parse(self, event):
        print("You clicked?")

    def start(self):
        self.root.mainloop()


Application().start()

Android: Rotate image in imageview by an angle

I think the best method :)

int angle = 0;
imageView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            angle = angle + 90;
            imageView.setRotation(angle);
        }
    });

Get an object attribute

You can do the following:

class User(object):
    fullName = "John Doe"

    def __init__(self, name):
        self.SName = name

    def print_names(self):
        print "Names: full name: '%s', name: '%s'" % (self.fullName, self.SName)

user = User('Test Name')

user.fullName # "John Doe"
user.SName # 'Test Name'
user.print_names() # will print you Names: full name: 'John Doe', name: 'Test Name'

E.g any object attributes could be retrieved using istance.

npm can't find package.json

Please check the directory or the folder in which you're installing your new package. This happened to me as well, My whole project was in a subdirectory and I was trying to install in the main directory. After checking the whole thing I found out that I had to install in the subdirectory where my project files and package.json files are located and it's done. Hope this helps...

'sudo gem install' or 'gem install' and gem locations

Better yet, put --user-install in your ~/.gemrc file so you don't have to type it every time

gem: --user-install

How do I code my submit button go to an email address

There are several ways to do an email from HTML. Typically you see people doing a mailto like so:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Click to email</a>

But if you are doing it from a button you may want to look into a javascript solution.

How to send post request to the below post method using postman rest client

JSON:-

For POST request using json object it can be configured by selecting

Body -> raw -> application/json

POST JSON object using POSTMAN

Form Data(For Normal content POST):- multipart/form-data

For normal POST request (using multipart/form-data) it can be configured by selecting

Body -> form-data

POST multipart/form-data using POSTMAN

Remove or adapt border of frame of legend using matplotlib

One more related question, since it took me forever to find the answer:

How to make the legend background blank (i.e. transparent, not white):

legend = plt.legend()
legend.get_frame().set_facecolor('none')

Warning, you want 'none' (the string). None means the default color instead.

Explanation of polkitd Unregistered Authentication Agent

I found this problem too. Because centos service depend on multi-user.target for none desktop Cenots 7.2. so I delete multi-user.target from my .service file. It had missed.

CSS Font "Helvetica Neue"

Most windows users won't have that font on their computers. Also, you can't just submit it to your server and call it using font-face because this isn't a free font...

And last, but not least, answering the question that nobody mentioned yet, Helvetica and Helvetica Neue do not render well on screen unless they have a really big font-size. You'll find a lot of pages using this font, and in all of them you'll see that the top border of a line of text looks wavy and that some letters look taller than others. In my opinion this is the main reason why you shouldn't use it. There are other options for you to use, like Open Sans.

MySQL - sum column value(s) based on row from the same table

I think you're making this a bit more complicated than it needs to be.

SELECT
    ProductID,
    SUM(IF(PaymentMethod = 'Cash', Amount, 0)) AS 'Cash',
    -- snip
    SUM(Amount) AS Total
FROM
    Payments
WHERE
    SaleDate = '2012-02-10'
GROUP BY
    ProductID

How to get JSON from webpage into Python script

All that the call to urlopen() does (according to the docs) is return a file-like object. Once you have that, you need to call its read() method to actually pull the JSON data across the network.

Something like:

jsonurl = urlopen(url)

text = json.loads(jsonurl.read())
print text

jQuery counting elements by class - what is the best way to implement this?

for counting:

$('.yourClass').length;

should work fine.

storing in a variable is as easy as:

var count = $('.yourClass').length;

How to get the ASCII value of a character

You are looking for:

ord()

Maven Jacoco Configuration - Exclude classes/packages from report not working

https://github.com/jacoco/jacoco/issues/34

These are the different notations for classes we have:

  • VM Name: java/util/Map$Entry
  • Java Name: java.util.Map$Entry File
  • Name: java/util/Map$Entry.class

Agent Parameters, Ant tasks and Maven prepare-agent goal

  • includes: Java Name (VM Name also works)
  • excludes: Java Name (VM Name also works)
  • exclclassloader: Java Name

These specifications allow wildcards * and ?, where * wildcards any number of characters, even multiple nested folders.

Maven report goal

  • includes: File Name
  • excludes: File Name

These specs allow Ant Filespec like wildcards *, ** and ?, where * wildcards parts of a single path element only.

Populate XDocument from String

You can use XDocument.Parse(string) instead of Load(string).

jQuery DatePicker with today as maxDate

$(".datepicker").datepicker({maxDate: '0'});

This will set the maxDate to +0 days from the current date (i.e. today). See:

http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#option-maxDate

Extract digits from a string in Java

I have finalized the code for phone numbers +9 (987) 124124.

Unicode characters occupy 4 bytes.

public static String stripNonDigitsV2( CharSequence input ) {
    if (input == null)
        return null;
    if ( input.length() == 0 )
        return "";

    char[] result = new char[input.length()];
    int cursor = 0;
    CharBuffer buffer = CharBuffer.wrap( input );
    int i=0;
    while ( i< buffer.length()  ) { //buffer.hasRemaining()
        char chr = buffer.get(i);
        if (chr=='u'){
            i=i+5;
            chr=buffer.get(i);
        }

        if ( chr > 39 && chr < 58 )
            result[cursor++] = chr;
        i=i+1;
    }

    return new String( result, 0, cursor );
}

Detect changed input text box

try keyup instead of change.

<script type="text/javascript">
   $(document).ready(function () {
       $('#inputDatabaseName').keyup(function () { alert('test'); });
   });
</script>

Here's the official jQuery documentation for .keyup().

How to call URL action in MVC with javascript function?

I'm going to give you 2 way's to call an action from the client side

first

If you just want to navigate to an action you should call just use the follow

window.location = "/Home/Index/" + youid

Notes: that you action need to handle a get type called

Second

If you need to render a View you could make the called by ajax

//this if you want get the html by get
public ActionResult Foo()
{
    return View(); //this return the render html   
}

And the client called like this "Assuming that you're using jquery"

$.get('your controller path', parameters to the controler , function callback)

or

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "your controller path",
    data: parameters to the controler
    dataType: "html",
    success: your function
});

or

$('your selector').load('your controller path') 

Update

In your ajax called make this change to pass the data to the action

function onDropDownChange(e) {
var url = '/Home/Index' 
$.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: url,
        data: { id = e.value}, <--sending the values to the server
        dataType: "html",
        success : function (data) {
            //put your code here
        }
    });
}

UPDATE 2

You cannot do this in your callback 'windows.location ' if you want it's go render a view, you need to put a div in your view and do something like this

in the view where you are that have the combo in some place

<div id="theNewView"> </div> <---you're going to load the other view here

in the javascript client

$.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: url,
        data: { id = e.value}, <--sending the values to the server
        dataType: "html",
        success : function (data) {
            $('div#theNewView').html(data);
        }
    });
}

With this i think that you solve your problem

SQL Current month/ year question

In SQL Server you can use YEAR, MONTH and DAY instead of DATEPART.
(at least in SQL Server 2005/2008, I'm not sure about SQL Server 2000 and older)

I prefer using these "short forms" because to me, YEAR(getdate()) is shorter to type and better to read than DATEPART(yyyy, getdate()).

So you could also query your table like this:

select *
from your_table
where month_column = MONTH(getdate())
and year_column = YEAR(getdate())

SQLite table constraint - unique on multiple columns

Put the UNIQUE declaration within the column definition section; working example:

CREATE TABLE a (
    i INT,
    j INT,
    UNIQUE(i, j) ON CONFLICT REPLACE
);

How do I get NuGet to install/update all the packages in the packages.config?

You can use nuget.exe to restore your packages or with NuGet 2.7, or above, installed you can simply compile your solution in Visual Studio, which will also restore the missing packages.

For NuGet.exe you can run the following command for each project.

nuget install packages.config

Or with NuGet 2.7 you can restore all packages in the solution using the command line.

nuget restore YourSolution.sln

Both of these will pull down the packages. Your project files will not be modified however when running this command so the project should already have a reference to the NuGet packages. If this is not the case then you can use Visual Studio to install the packages.

With NuGet 2.7, and above, Visual Studio will automatically restore missing NuGet packages when you build your solution so there is no need to use NuGet.exe.

To update all the packages in your solution, first restore them, and then you can either use NuGet.exe to update the packages or from within Visual Studio you can update the packages from the Package Manager Console window, or finally you can use the Manage Packages dialog.

From the command line you can update packages in the solution to the latest version available from nuget.org.

nuget update YourSolution.sln

Note that this will not run any PowerShell scripts in any NuGet packages.

From within Visual Studio you can use the Package Manager Console to also update the packages. This has the benefit that any PowerShell scripts will be run as part of the update where as using NuGet.exe will not run them. The following command will update all packages in every project to the latest version available from nuget.org.

Update-Package

You can also restrict this down to one project.

Update-Package -Project YourProjectName

If you want to reinstall the packages to the same versions as were previously installed then you can use the -reinstall argument with Update-Package command.

Update-Package -reinstall

You can also restrict this down to one project.

Update-Package -reinstall -Project YourProjectName

The -reinstall option will first uninstall and then install the package back again into a project.

Or, you can update the packages using the Manage Packages dialog.

Updates:

  • 2013/07/10 - Updated with information about nuget restore in NuGet 2.7
  • 2014/07/06 - Updated with information about automatic package restore in Visual Studio and brought the answer up to date with other changes to NuGet.
  • 2014/11/21 - Updated with information about -reinstall

Multiline TextView in Android?

Below code can work for Single line and Multi-line textview

isMultiLine = If true then Textview showing with Multi-line otherwise single line

    if (isMultiLine) {
        textView.setElegantTextHeight(true);
        textView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);
        textView.setSingleLine(false);
        
    } else {
        textView.setSingleLine(true);
        textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
    }

How can I remove a specific item from an array?

ES10 Update

This post summarizes common approaches to element removal from an array as of ECMAScript 2019 (ES10).

1. General cases

1.1. Removing Array element by value using .splice()

| In-place: Yes |
| Removes duplicates: Yes(loop), No(indexOf) |
| By value / index: By index |

If you know the value you want to remove from an array you can use the splice method. First, you must identify the index of the target item. You then use the index as the start element and remove just one element.

// With a 'for' loop
const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0];
for( let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
  if ( arr[i] === 5) {
    arr.splice(i, 1);
  }
} // => [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0]

// With the .indexOf() method
const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0];
const i = arr.indexOf(5);
arr.splice(i, 1); // => [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0]

1.2. Removing Array element using the .filter() method

| In-place: No |
| Removes duplicates: Yes |
| By value / index: By value |

The specific element can be filtered out from the array, by providing a filtering function. Such function is then called for every element in the array.

const value = 3
let arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3]
arr = arr.filter(item => item !== value)
console.log(arr)
// [ 1, 2, 4, 5 ]

1.3. Removing Array element by extending Array.prototype

| In-place: Yes/No (Depends on implementation) |
| Removes duplicates: Yes/No (Depends on implementation) |
| By value / index: By index / By value (Depends on implementation) |

The prototype of Array can be extended with additional methods. Such methods will be then available to use on created arrays.

Note: Extending prototypes of objects from the standard library of JavaScript (like Array) is considered by some as an antipattern.

// In-place, removes all, by value implementation
Array.prototype.remove = function(item) {
    for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
        if (this[i] === item) {
            this.splice(i, 1);
        }
    }
}
const arr1 = [1,2,3,1];
arr1.remove(1) // arr1 equals [2,3]

// Non-stationary, removes first, by value implementation
Array.prototype.remove = function(item) {
    const arr = this.slice();
    for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
        if (arr[i] === item) {
            arr.splice(i, 1);
            return arr;
        }
    }
    return arr;
}
let arr2 = [1,2,3,1];
arr2 = arr2.remove(1) // arr2 equals [2,3,1]

1.4. Removing Array element using the delete operator

| In-place: Yes |
| Removes duplicates: No |
| By value / index: By index |

Using the delete operator does not affect the length property. Nor does it affect the indexes of subsequent elements. The array becomes sparse, which is a fancy way of saying the deleted item is not removed but becomes undefined.

const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
delete arr[4]; // Delete element with index 4
console.log( arr ); // [1, 2, 3, 4, undefined, 6]

The delete operator is designed to remove properties from JavaScript objects, which arrays are objects.

1.5. Removing Array element using Object utilities (>= ES10)

| In-place: No |
| Removes duplicates: Yes |
| By value / index: By value |

ES10 introduced Object.fromEntries, which can be used to create the desired Array from any Array-like object and filter unwanted elements during the process.

const object = [1,2,3,4];
const valueToRemove = 3;
const arr = Object.values(Object.fromEntries(
  Object.entries(object)
  .filter(([ key, val ]) => val !== valueToRemove)
));
console.log(arr); // [1,2,4]

2. Special cases

2.1 Removing element if it's at the end of the Array

2.1.1. Changing Array length

| In-place: Yes |
| Removes duplicates: No |
| By value / index: N/A |

JavaScript Array elements can be removed from the end of an array by setting the length property to a value less than the current value. Any element whose index is greater than or equal to the new length will be removed.

const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
arr.length = 5; // Set length to remove element
console.log( arr ); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
2.1.2. Using .pop() method

| In-place: Yes |
| Removes duplicates: No |
| By value / index: N/A |

The pop method removes the last element of the array, returns that element, and updates the length property. The pop method modifies the array on which it is invoked, This means unlike using delete the last element is removed completely and the array length reduced.

const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
arr.pop(); // returns 6
console.log( arr ); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

2.2. Removing element if it's at the beginning of the Array

| In-place: Yes |
| Removes duplicates: No |
| By value / index: N/A |

The .shift() method works much like the pop method except it removes the first element of a JavaScript array instead of the last. When the element is removed the remaining elements are shifted down.

const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4];
arr.shift(); // returns 1
console.log( arr ); // [2, 3, 4]

2.3. Removing element if it's the only element in the Array

| In-place: Yes |
| Removes duplicates: N/A |
| By value / index: N/A |

The fastest technique is to set an array variable to an empty array.

let arr = [1];
arr = []; //empty array

Alternatively technique from 2.1.1 can be used by setting length to 0.

How to find the path of the local git repository when I am possibly in a subdirectory

git rev-parse --show-toplevel

could be enough if executed within a git repo.
From git rev-parse man page:

--show-toplevel

Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.

For older versions (before 1.7.x), the other options are listed in "Is there a way to get the git root directory in one command?":

git rev-parse --git-dir

That would give the path of the .git directory.


The OP mentions:

git rev-parse --show-prefix

which returns the local path under the git repo root. (empty if you are at the git repo root)


Note: for simply checking if one is in a git repo, I find the following command quite expressive:

git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree

And yes, if you need to check if you are in a .git git-dir folder:

git rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir

Fastest way to check if string contains only digits

If you are concerned about performance, use neither int.TryParse nor Regex - write your own (simple) function (DigitsOnly or DigitsOnly2 below, but not DigitsOnly3 - LINQ seems to incur a significant overhead).

Also, be aware that int.TryParse will fail if the string is too long to "fit" into int.

This simple benchmark...

class Program {

    static bool DigitsOnly(string s) {
        int len = s.Length;
        for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
            char c = s[i];
            if (c < '0' || c > '9')
                return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    static bool DigitsOnly2(string s) {
        foreach (char c in s) {
            if (c < '0' || c > '9')
                return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    static bool DigitsOnly3(string s) {
        return s.All(c => c >= '0' && c <= '9');
    }

    static void Main(string[] args) {

        const string s1 = "916734184";
        const string s2 = "916734a84";

        const int iterations = 1000000;
        var sw = new Stopwatch();

        sw.Restart();
        for (int i = 0 ; i < iterations; ++i) {
            bool success = DigitsOnly(s1);
            bool failure = DigitsOnly(s2);
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("DigitsOnly: {0}", sw.Elapsed));

        sw.Restart();
        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; ++i) {
            bool success = DigitsOnly2(s1);
            bool failure = DigitsOnly2(s2);
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("DigitsOnly2: {0}", sw.Elapsed));

        sw.Restart();
        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; ++i) {
            bool success = DigitsOnly3(s1);
            bool failure = DigitsOnly3(s2);
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("DigitsOnly3: {0}", sw.Elapsed));

        sw.Restart();
        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; ++i) {
            int dummy;
            bool success = int.TryParse(s1, out dummy);
            bool failure = int.TryParse(s2, out dummy);
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("int.TryParse: {0}", sw.Elapsed));

        sw.Restart();
        var regex = new Regex("^[0-9]+$", RegexOptions.Compiled);
        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; ++i) {
            bool success = regex.IsMatch(s1);
            bool failure = regex.IsMatch(s2);
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Regex.IsMatch: {0}", sw.Elapsed));

    }

}

...produces the following result...

DigitsOnly: 00:00:00.0346094
DigitsOnly2: 00:00:00.0365220
DigitsOnly3: 00:00:00.2669425
int.TryParse: 00:00:00.3405548
Regex.IsMatch: 00:00:00.7017648

Correct location of openssl.cnf file

/usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf

This is a local installation. You downloaded and built OpenSSL taking the default prefix, of you configured with ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl or ./config --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl.

You will use this if you use the OpenSSL in /usr/local/ssl/bin. That is, /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf will be used when you issue:

/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 -tls1 -servername localhost

/usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf

This is where Ubuntu places openssl.cnf for the OpenSSL they provide.

You will use this if you use the OpenSSL in /usr/bin. That is, /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf will be used when you issue:

openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 -tls1 -servername localhost

/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

I don't know when this is used. The stuff in /etc/ssl is usually certificates and private keys, and it sometimes contains a copy of openssl.cnf. But I've never seen it used for anything.


Which is the main/correct one that I should use to make changes?

From the sounds of it, you should probably add the engine to /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf. That ensures most "off the shelf" gear will use the new engine.

After you do that, add it to /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf also because copy/paste is easy.


Here's how to see which openssl.cnf directory is associated with a OpenSSL installation. The library and programs look for openssl.cnf in OPENSSLDIR. OPENSSLDIR is a configure option, and its set with --openssldir.

I'm on a MacBook with 3 different OpenSSL's (Apple's, MacPort's and the one I build):

# Apple    
$ /usr/bin/openssl version -a | grep OPENSSLDIR
OPENSSLDIR: "/System/Library/OpenSSL"

# MacPorts
$ /opt/local/bin/openssl version -a | grep OPENSSLDIR
OPENSSLDIR: "/opt/local/etc/openssl"

# My build of OpenSSL
$ openssl version -a | grep OPENSSLDIR
OPENSSLDIR: "/usr/local/ssl/darwin"

I have an Ubuntu system and I have installed openssl.

Just bike shedding, but be careful of Ubuntu's version of OpenSSL. It disables TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2, so you will only have clients capable of older cipher suites; and you will not be able to use newer ciphers like AES/CTR (to replace RC4) and elliptic curve gear (like ECDHE_ECDSA_* and ECDHE_RSA_*). See Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: OpenSSL downlevel version is 1.0.0, and does not support TLS 1.2 in Launchpad.

EDIT: Ubuntu enabled TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 recently. See Comment 17 on the bug report.

How to convert a byte array to a hex string in Java?

public static String toHexString(byte[] bytes) {

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    if (bytes != null) 
        for (byte b:bytes) {

            final String hexString = Integer.toHexString(b & 0xff);

            if(hexString.length()==1)
                sb.append('0');

            sb.append(hexString);//.append(' ');
        }

      return sb.toString();//.toUpperCase();
}

WCF, Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found

This error occurs due to mismatch of Service name in .SVC file. Probably you might have changed the name of the service class that is implementing the interface.The Solution is to open .SVC file and exactly match the Service attribute and CodeBehind Attribute. So your .SVC file should be like

<%@ ServiceHost Language="Language you are using" Debug="bool value to enable debugging" Service="Service class name that is implementing your Service interface" Codebehind="~/Appcode/Class implementing interface.cs"%>. for eg.

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="Product.Service" CodeBehind="~/AppCode/Product.Service.cs"%>

This example is for .svc file that is using C# language, with debugging enabled, Service class implementing interface and this class is within app folder with name Service.cs and Product is namespace for Service class.

Also Please make respective change in service config file.

<system.serviceModel>
    <services>
        <service name="Product.Service" behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehavior">
            <endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="Product.Iservice">
            </endpoint>
            <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
        </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
        <behavior name="ServiceBehavior">
            <serviceMetaData httpGetEnabled="true"/>
            <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
        </behavior>
    </behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>

Stuck while installing Visual Studio 2015 (Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226))

The same thing happened to me. Here is what I did in order to get it successfully installed. I downloaded KB2999226 update from Microsofts website here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49093

After installing this package, I started the installation process again. That worked for me.

Tomcat 8 Maven Plugin for Java 8

An other solution (if possible) would be to use TomEE instead of Tomcat, which has a working maven plugin:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomee.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomee-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.1</version>
</plugin>

Version 7.1.1 wraps a Tomcat 8.5.41

What could cause java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException?

I had a java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException error from a statement calling a logger object in an external class inside a try / catch block in my class.

Stepping through the code in the Eclipse debugger & hovering the mouse over the logger statement I saw the logger object was null (some external constants needed to be instantiated at the very top of my class).

Decrypt password created with htpasswd

.htpasswd entries are HASHES. They are not encrypted passwords. Hashes are designed not to be decryptable. Hence there is no way (unless you bruteforce for a loooong time) to get the password from the .htpasswd file.

What you need to do is apply the same hash algorithm to the password provided to you and compare it to the hash in the .htpasswd file. If the user and hash are the same then you're a go.

How do you performance test JavaScript code?

I usually just test javascript performance, how long script runs. jQuery Lover gave a good article link for testing javascript code performance, but the article only shows how to test how long your javascript code runs. I would also recommend reading article called "5 tips on improving your jQuery code while working with huge data sets".

html table cell width for different rows

You can't have cells of arbitrarily different widths, this is generally a standard behaviour of tables from any space, e.g. Excel, otherwise it's no longer a table but just a list of text.

You can however have cells span multiple columns, such as:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>25</td>
        <td>50</td>
        <td>25</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">75</td>
        <td>20</td>
    </tr>
</table>

As an aside, you should avoid using style attributes like border and bgcolor and prefer CSS for those.

How to specify 64 bit integers in c

Use int64_t, that portable C99 code.

int64_t var = 0x0000444400004444LL;

For printing:

#define __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
#include <inttypes.h>

printf("blabla %" PRIi64 " blabla\n", var);

I want to align the text in a <td> to the top

Use <td valign="top" style="width: 259px"> instead...

How to add default value for html <textarea>?

If you want to bring information from a database into a textarea tag for editing: The input tag not to display data that occupy several lines: rows no work, tag input is one line.

<!--input class="article-input" id="article-input" type="text" rows="5" value="{{article}}" /-->

The textarea tag has no value, but work fine with handlebars

<textarea class="article-input" id="article-input" type="text" rows="9" >{{article}}</textarea> 

Is there a way to pass javascript variables in url?

Summary

With either string concatenation or string interpolation (via template literals).

Here with JavaScript template literal:

function geoPreview() {
    var lat = document.getElementById("lat").value;
    var long = document.getElementById("long").value;

    window.location.href = `http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocation.php?lat=${lat}&lon=${long}&setLatLon=Set`;
}

Both parameters are unused and can be removed.

Remarks

String Concatenation

Join strings with the + operator:

window.location.href = "http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocation.php?lat=" + elemA + "&lon=" + elemB + "&setLatLon=Set";

String Interpolation

For more concise code, use JavaScript template literals to replace expressions with their string representations. Template literals are enclosed by `` and placeholders surrounded with ${}:

window.location.href = `http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocation.php?lat=${elemA}&lon=${elemB}&setLatLon=Set`;

Template literals are available since ECMAScript 2015 (ES6).

Java constant examples (Create a java file having only constants)

This question is old. But I would like to mention an other approach. Using Enums for declaring constant values. Based on the answer of Nandkumar Tekale, the Enum can be used as below:

Enum:

public enum Planck {
    REDUCED();
    public static final double PLANCK_CONSTANT = 6.62606896e-34;
    public static final double PI = 3.14159;
    public final double REDUCED_PLANCK_CONSTANT;

    Planck() {
        this.REDUCED_PLANCK_CONSTANT = PLANCK_CONSTANT / (2 * PI);
    }

    public double getValue() {
        return REDUCED_PLANCK_CONSTANT;
    }
}

Client class:

public class PlanckClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(getReducedPlanckConstant());
        // or using Enum itself as below:
        System.out.println(Planck.REDUCED.getValue());
    }

    public static double getReducedPlanckConstant() {
        return Planck.PLANCK_CONSTANT / (2 * Planck.PI);
    }

}

Reference : The usage of Enums for declaring constant fields is suggested by Joshua Bloch in his Effective Java book.

Lightweight workflow engine for Java

You can look @ Apache Ant to build a workflow engine.Its much more robust and is a pure state-machine with most of the requirements needed already built in.

Apart from that you can also embed different dynamic code/scripts in Java/Groovy/JS language and hence that makes it very powerful. Also it allows tasks extension.

There is some fair amount of tooling around it or you can build on top of it if a IDE is needed.

Update : Spring state machine is also available which is relatuvely light weight and not bloated : https://projects.spring.io/spring-statemachine/

Passing argument to alias in bash

Usually when I want to pass arguments to an alias in Bash, I use a combination of an alias and a function like this, for instance:

function __t2d {                                                                
         if [ "$1x" != 'x' ]; then                                              
            date -d "@$1"                                                       
         fi                                                                     
} 

alias t2d='__t2d'                                                               

What are the new features in C++17?

Language features:

Templates and Generic Code

Lambda

Attributes

Syntax cleanup

Cleaner multi-return and flow control

  • Structured bindings

    • Basically, first-class std::tie with auto
    • Example:
      • const auto [it, inserted] = map.insert( {"foo", bar} );
      • Creates variables it and inserted with deduced type from the pair that map::insert returns.
    • Works with tuple/pair-likes & std::arrays and relatively flat structs
    • Actually named structured bindings in standard
  • if (init; condition) and switch (init; condition)

    • if (const auto [it, inserted] = map.insert( {"foo", bar} ); inserted)
    • Extends the if(decl) to cases where decl isn't convertible-to-bool sensibly.
  • Generalizing range-based for loops

    • Appears to be mostly support for sentinels, or end iterators that are not the same type as begin iterators, which helps with null-terminated loops and the like.
  • if constexpr

    • Much requested feature to simplify almost-generic code.

Misc

Library additions:

Data types

Invoke stuff

File System TS v1

New algorithms

  • for_each_n

  • reduce

  • transform_reduce

  • exclusive_scan

  • inclusive_scan

  • transform_exclusive_scan

  • transform_inclusive_scan

  • Added for threading purposes, exposed even if you aren't using them threaded

Threading

(parts of) Library Fundamentals TS v1 not covered above or below

Container Improvements

Smart pointer changes

Other std datatype improvements:

Misc

Traits

Deprecated

Isocpp.org has has an independent list of changes since C++14; it has been partly pillaged.

Naturally TS work continues in parallel, so there are some TS that are not-quite-ripe that will have to wait for the next iteration. The target for the next iteration is C++20 as previously planned, not C++19 as some rumors implied. C++1O has been avoided.

Initial list taken from this reddit post and this reddit post, with links added via googling or from the above isocpp.org page.

Additional entries pillaged from SD-6 feature-test list.

clang's feature list and library feature list are next to be pillaged. This doesn't seem to be reliable, as it is C++1z, not C++17.

these slides had some features missing elsewhere.

While "what was removed" was not asked, here is a short list of a few things ((mostly?) previous deprecated) that are removed in C++17 from C++:

Removed:

There were rewordings. I am unsure if these have any impact on code, or if they are just cleanups in the standard:

Papers not yet integrated into above:

  • P0505R0 (constexpr chrono)

  • P0418R2 (atomic tweaks)

  • P0512R0 (template argument deduction tweaks)

  • P0490R0 (structured binding tweaks)

  • P0513R0 (changes to std::hash)

  • P0502R0 (parallel exceptions)

  • P0509R1 (updating restrictions on exception handling)

  • P0012R1 (make exception specifications be part of the type system)

  • P0510R0 (restrictions on variants)

  • P0504R0 (tags for optional/variant/any)

  • P0497R0 (shared ptr tweaks)

  • P0508R0 (structured bindings node handles)

  • P0521R0 (shared pointer use count and unique changes?)

Spec changes:

Further reference:

Get keys from HashMap in Java

To get Key and its value

e.g

private Map<String, Integer> team1 = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
  team1.put("United", 5);
  team1.put("Barcelona", 6);
    for (String key:team1.keySet()){
                     System.out.println("Key:" + key +" Value:" + team1.get(key)+" Count:"+Collections.frequency(team1, key));// Get Key and value and count
                }

Will print: Key: United Value:5 Key: Barcelona Value:6

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

mostly this kind of error is caused by missing an .htaccess file in your root wordpress directory , however in order to check that , get in touch directly to the permalink structure and try to change your permalink and hit save , once you find the same error you should directly create an .htaccess file under wordpress root and make its first permissions to 777 , then refresh your site an click save change on your permalink , once your site continue to run correctly as you were expected , you should right away comeback to your .htaccess and change it to 644 in order to secure your site , i believe that this happened in most wordpress permalink settings , hopefully it would be helpful for anyone who meet this kind of issue .

Logo image and H1 heading on the same line

<head>
<style>
header{
    color: #f4f4f4;
    background-image: url("header-background.jpeg");    
}

header img{
    float: left;
    display: inline-block;
}

header h1{
    font-size: 40px; 
    color: #f4f4f4;
    display: inline-block;
    position: relative;
    padding: 20px 20px 0 0;
    display: inline-block;
}
</style></head>


<header>
<a href="index.html">
    <img src="./branding.png" alt="technocrat logo" height="100px" width="100px"></a>
    <a href="index.html">
    <h1><span> Technocrat</span> Blog</h1></a>
</div></header>

How do I use a PriorityQueue?

Java 8 solution

We can use lambda expression or method reference introduced in Java 8. In case we have some String values stored in the Priority Queue (having capacity 5) we can provide inline comparator (based on length of String) :

Using lambda expression

PriorityQueue<String> pq=
                    new PriorityQueue<String>(5,(a,b) -> a.length() - b.length());

Using Method reference

PriorityQueue<String> pq=
                new PriorityQueue<String>(5, Comparator.comparing(String::length));

Then we can use any of them as:

public static void main(String[] args) {
        PriorityQueue<String> pq=
                new PriorityQueue<String>(5, (a,b) -> a.length() - b.length());
       // or pq = new PriorityQueue<String>(5, Comparator.comparing(String::length));
        pq.add("Apple");
        pq.add("PineApple");
        pq.add("Custard Apple");
        while (pq.size() != 0)
        {
            System.out.println(pq.remove());
        }
    }

This will print:

Apple
PineApple
Custard Apple

To reverse the order (to change it to max-priority queue) simply change the order in inline comparator or use reversed as:

PriorityQueue<String> pq = new PriorityQueue<String>(5, 
                             Comparator.comparing(String::length).reversed());

We can also use Collections.reverseOrder:

PriorityQueue<Integer> pqInt = new PriorityQueue<>(10, Collections.reverseOrder());
PriorityQueue<String> pq = new PriorityQueue<String>(5, 
                Collections.reverseOrder(Comparator.comparing(String::length))

So we can see that Collections.reverseOrder is overloaded to take comparator which can be useful for custom objects. The reversed actually uses Collections.reverseOrder:

default Comparator<T> reversed() {
    return Collections.reverseOrder(this);
}

offer() vs add()

As per the doc

The offer method inserts an element if possible, otherwise returning false. This differs from the Collection.add method, which can fail to add an element only by throwing an unchecked exception. The offer method is designed for use when failure is a normal, rather than exceptional occurrence, for example, in fixed-capacity (or "bounded") queues.

When using a capacity-restricted queue, offer() is generally preferable to add(), which can fail to insert an element only by throwing an exception. And PriorityQueue is an unbounded priority queue based on a priority heap.

Set Colorbar Range in matplotlib

Use the CLIM function (equivalent to CAXIS function in MATLAB):

plt.pcolor(X, Y, v, cmap=cm)
plt.clim(-4,4)  # identical to caxis([-4,4]) in MATLAB
plt.show()

PHP Multidimensional Array Searching (Find key by specific value)

For the next visitor coming along: use the recursive array walk; it visits every "leaf" in the multidimensional array. Here's for inspiration:

function getMDArrayValueByKey($a, $k) {
    $r = [];
    array_walk_recursive ($a, 
                          function ($item, $key) use ($k, &$r) {if ($key == $k) $r[] = $item;}
                          );
    return $r;
}

Link to a section of a webpage

Hashtags at the end of the URL bring a visitor to the element with the ID: e.g.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8424785/link-to-a-section-of-a-webpage#answers 

Would bring you to where the DIV with the ID 'answers' begins. Also, you can use the name attribute in anchor tags, to create the same effect.

Resource

Using python PIL to turn a RGB image into a pure black and white image

from PIL import Image 
image_file = Image.open("convert_image.png") # open colour image
image_file = image_file.convert('1') # convert image to black and white
image_file.save('result.png')

yields

enter image description here

Correct way to handle conditional styling in React

 <div style={{ visibility: this.state.driverDetails.firstName != undefined? 'visible': 'hidden'}}></div>

Checkout the above code. That will do the trick.

Write HTML to string

The most straight forward way is to use an XmlWriter object. This can be used to produce valid HTML and will take care of all of the nasty escape sequences for you.

"CSV file does not exist" for a filename with embedded quotes

I also experienced the same problem I solved as follows:

dataset = pd.read_csv('C:\\Users\\path\\to\\file.csv')

Unable to add window -- token null is not valid; is your activity running?

If you use another view make sure to use view.getContext() instead of this or getApplicationContext()

How can I hide a checkbox in html?

You need to add the element type to the class, otherwise it will not work.

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input.hide-checkbox { display: none }   /* But this will. */ 
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<label for="checkbox">Checkbox</label>
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It looks too simple, but try it out!

POST string to ASP.NET Web Api application - returns null

Web API works very nicely if you accept the fact that you are using HTTP. It's when you start trying to pretend that you are sending objects over the wire that it starts to get messy.

 public class TextController : ApiController
    {
        public HttpResponseMessage Post(HttpRequestMessage request) {

            var someText = request.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
            return new HttpResponseMessage() {Content = new StringContent(someText)};

        }

    }

This controller will handle a HTTP request, read a string out of the payload and return that string back.

You can use HttpClient to call it by passing an instance of StringContent. StringContent will be default use text/plain as the media type. Which is exactly what you are trying to pass.

    [Fact]
    public void PostAString()
    {

        var client = new HttpClient();

        var content = new StringContent("Some text");
        var response = client.PostAsync("http://oak:9999/api/text", content).Result;

        Assert.Equal("Some text",response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result);

    }

Html.Raw() in ASP.NET MVC Razor view

You shouldn't be calling .ToString().

As the error message clearly states, you're writing a conditional in which one half is an IHtmlString and the other half is a string.
That doesn't make sense, since the compiler doesn't know what type the entire expression should be.


There is never a reason to call Html.Raw(...).ToString().
Html.Raw returns an HtmlString instance that wraps the original string.
The Razor page output knows not to escape HtmlString instances.

However, calling HtmlString.ToString() just returns the original string value again; it doesn't accomplish anything.

How can I listen to the form submit event in javascript?

Why do people always use jQuery when it isn't necessary?
Why can't people just use simple JavaScript?

var ele = /*Your Form Element*/;
if(ele.addEventListener){
    ele.addEventListener("submit", callback, false);  //Modern browsers
}else if(ele.attachEvent){
    ele.attachEvent('onsubmit', callback);            //Old IE
}

callback is a function that you want to call when the form is being submitted.

About EventTarget.addEventListener, check out this documentation on MDN.

To cancel the native submit event (prevent the form from being submitted), use .preventDefault() in your callback function,

document.querySelector("#myForm").addEventListener("submit", function(e){
    if(!isValid){
        e.preventDefault();    //stop form from submitting
    }
});

Listening to the submit event with libraries

If for some reason that you've decided a library is necessary (you're already using one or you don't want to deal with cross-browser issues), here's a list of ways to listen to the submit event in common libraries:

  1. jQuery

    $(ele).submit(callback);
    

    Where ele is the form element reference, and callback being the callback function reference. Reference

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  1. AngularJS (1.x)

    <form ng-submit="callback()">
    
    $scope.callback = function(){ /*...*/ };
    

    Very straightforward, where $scope is the scope provided by the framework inside your controller. Reference

  2. React

    <form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}>
    
    class YourComponent extends Component {
        // stuff
    
        handleSubmit(event) {
            // do whatever you need here
    
            // if you need to stop the submit event and 
            // perform/dispatch your own actions
            event.preventDefault();
        }
    
        // more stuff
    }
    

    Simply pass in a handler to the onSubmit prop. Reference

  3. Other frameworks/libraries

    Refer to the documentation of your framework.


Validation

You can always do your validation in JavaScript, but with HTML5 we also have native validation.

<!-- Must be a 5 digit number -->
<input type="number" required pattern="\d{5}">

You don't even need any JavaScript! Whenever native validation is not supported, you can fallback to a JavaScript validator.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/L23wmo1L/

How to make a page redirect using JavaScript?

Use:

document.location.href = "http://yoursite.com" + document.getElementById('somefield');

That would get the value of some text field or hidden field, and add it to your site URL to get a new URL (href). You can modify this to suit your needs.

Iterating through array - java

You can import the lib org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils

There is a static method where you can pass in an int array and a value to check for.

contains(int[] array, int valueToFind) Checks if the value is in the given array.

ArrayUtils.contains(intArray, valueToFind);

ArrayUtils API

Accessing private member variables from prototype-defined functions

Yes, it's possible. PPF design pattern just solves this.

PPF stands for Private Prototype Functions. Basic PPF solves these issues:

  1. Prototype functions get access to private instance data.
  2. Prototype functions can be made private.

For the first, just:

  1. Put all private instance variables you want to be accessible from prototype functions inside a separate data container, and
  2. Pass a reference to the data container to all prototype functions as a parameter.

It's that simple. For example:

// Helper class to store private data.
function Data() {};

// Object constructor
function Point(x, y)
{
  // container for private vars: all private vars go here
  // we want x, y be changeable via methods only
  var data = new Data;
  data.x = x;
  data.y = y;

  ...
}

// Prototype functions now have access to private instance data
Point.prototype.getX = function(data)
{
  return data.x;
}

Point.prototype.getY = function(data)
{
  return data.y;
}

...

Read the full story here:

PPF Design Pattern

Convert multidimensional array into single array

Recently I've been using AlienWebguy's array_flatten function but it gave me a problem that was very hard to find the cause of.
array_merge causes problems, and this isn't the first time that I've made problems with it either.
If you have the same array keys in one inner array that you do in another, then the later values will overwrite the previous ones in the merged array.

Here's a different version of array_flatten without using array_merge:

function array_flatten($array) { 
  if (!is_array($array)) { 
    return FALSE; 
  } 
  $result = array(); 
  foreach ($array as $key => $value) { 
    if (is_array($value)) { 
      $arrayList=array_flatten($value);
      foreach ($arrayList as $listItem) {
        $result[] = $listItem; 
      }
    } 
   else { 
    $result[$key] = $value; 
   } 
  } 
  return $result; 
} 

Android: Creating a Circular TextView?

Try out below drawable file. Create file named "circle" in your res/drawable folder and copy below code:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="oval" >

    <solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />

    <stroke
        android:width="1dp"
        android:color="#4a6176" />

    <padding
        android:left="10dp"
        android:right="10dp"
        android:top="10dp"
        android:bottom="10dp"
         />

    <corners android:radius="10dp" />

</shape>

Apply it in your TextView as below:

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvSummary1"
        android:layout_width="270dp"
        android:layout_height="60dp"
        android:text="Hello World" 
        android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
        android:background="@drawable/round_bg">

    </TextView>

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@Directive vs @Component in Angular

A component is a directive-with-a-template and the @Component decorator is actually a @Directive decorator extended with template-oriented features.

How to input matrix (2D list) in Python?

This code takes number of row and column from user then takes elements and displays as a matrix.

m = int(input('number of rows, m : '))
n = int(input('number of columns, n : '))
a=[]
for i in range(1,m+1):
  b = []
  print("{0} Row".format(i))
  for j in range(1,n+1):
    b.append(int(input("{0} Column: " .format(j))))
  a.append(b)
print(a)

Good Hash Function for Strings

You should probably use String.hashCode().

If you really want to implement hashCode yourself:

Do not be tempted to exclude significant parts of an object from the hash code computation to improve performance -- Joshua Bloch, Effective Java

Using only the first five characters is a bad idea. Think about hierarchical names, such as URLs: they will all have the same hash code (because they all start with "http://", which means that they are stored under the same bucket in a hash map, exhibiting terrible performance.

Here's a war story paraphrased on the String hashCode from "Effective Java":

The String hash function implemented in all releases prior to 1.2 examined at most sixteen characters, evenly spaced throughout the string, starting with the first character. For large collections of hierarchical names, such as URLs, this hash function displayed terrible behavior.

How can I convert a string with dot and comma into a float in Python

Better solution for different currency formats:

def text_currency_to_float(text):
  t = text
  dot_pos = t.rfind('.')
  comma_pos = t.rfind(',')
  if comma_pos > dot_pos:
    t = t.replace(".", "")
    t = t.replace(",", ".")
  else:
    t = t.replace(",", "")

  return(float(t))

Origin http://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin

By localhost you have to use the null origin. I recommend you to create a list of allowed hosts and check the request's Host header. If it is contained by the list, then by localhost send back an

res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', "null");

by any other domain an

res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', hostSentByTheRequestHeader);

If it is not contained by the list, then send back the servers host name, so the browser will hide the response by those requests.

This is much more secure, because by allow origin * and allow credentials everybody will be capable of for example stealing profile data of a logged in user, etc...

So to summarize something like this:

if (reqHost in allowedHosts)
    if (reqHost == "http://localhost")
        res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', "null");
    else
        res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', reqHost);
else
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', serverHost);

is the most secure solution if you want to allow multiple other domains to access your page. (I guess you can figure out how the get the host request header and the server host by node.js.)

What is the best method to merge two PHP objects?

Here is a function that will flatten an object or array. Use this only if you are sure your keys are unique. If you have keys with the same name they will be overwritten. You will need to place this in a class and replace "Functions" with the name of your class. Enjoy...

function flatten($array, $preserve_keys=1, &$out = array(), $isobject=0) {
        # Flatten a multidimensional array to one dimension, optionally preserving keys.
        #
        # $array - the array to flatten
        # $preserve_keys - 0 (default) to not preserve keys, 1 to preserve string keys only, 2 to preserve all keys
        # $out - internal use argument for recursion
        # $isobject - is internally set in order to remember if we're using an object or array
        if(is_array($array) || $isobject==1)
        foreach($array as $key => $child)
            if(is_array($child))
                $out = Functions::flatten($child, $preserve_keys, $out, 1); // replace "Functions" with the name of your class
            elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
                $out[$key] = $child;
            else
                $out[] = $child;

        if(is_object($array) || $isobject==2)
        if(!is_object($out)){$out = new stdClass();}
        foreach($array as $key => $child)
            if(is_object($child))
                $out = Functions::flatten($child, $preserve_keys, $out, 2); // replace "Functions" with the name of your class
            elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
                $out->$key = $child;
            else
                $out = $child;

        return $out;
}

ng: command not found while creating new project using angular-cli

Maximum time, this is a path issue conflict between npm and angular cli.

The solution that worked for me ->

  1. %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming Paste this in File Explorer and delete npm folder.
  2. npm install -g @angular/cli@latest run this command to reinstall latest angular cli.
  3. npm link @angular/cli now this command can solve your path issue

Literally that three steps will fix your issue, otherwise you need to update environment variable by search and open Edit the system environment variables

Ariful Ahsan https://arifulahsan.com

jQuery onclick event for <li> tags

I'm not really sure what your question is, but to get the text of the li element you can use:

$(this).text();

And to get the id of an element you can use .attr('id');. Once you have a reference to the element you want (e.g. $(this)) you can perform any jQuery function on it.

MSVCP120d.dll missing

Alternate approach : without installation of Redistributable package.

Check out in some github for the relevant dll, some people upload the reference dll for their application dependency.

you can download and use them in your project , I have used and run them successfully.

example : https://github.com/Emotiv/community-sdk/find/master

AngularJS: No "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header is present on the requested resource

CORS is Cross Origin Resource Sharing, you get this error if you are trying to access from one domain to another domain.

Try using JSONP. In your case, JSONP should work fine because it only uses the GET method.

Try something like this:

var url = "https://api.getevents.co/event?&lat=41.904196&lng=12.465974";
$http({
    method: 'JSONP',
    url: url
}).
success(function(status) {
    //your code when success
}).
error(function(status) {
    //your code when fails
});

How much should a function trust another function

That's where constructors come into play. If you have a default constructor (eg. with no parameters) that always creates a new Map, then you're sure that every instance of this class will always have an already instantiated Map.

array of string with unknown size

If you want to use array without knowing the size first you have to declare it and later you can instantiate it like

string[] myArray;
...
...
myArray=new string[someItems.count];

InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately

If you are not able to upgrade your Python version to 2.7.9, and want to suppress warnings,

you can downgrade your 'requests' version to 2.5.3:

pip install requests==2.5.3

Bugfix disclosure / Warning introduced in 2.6.0

how to solve Error cannot add duplicate collection entry of type add with unique key attribute 'value' in iis 7

For me in windows server 2012 R2 I solved it by removing the duplicates from web.config file i found this line duplicated twice i removed one line and kept the other line

<add name="CrystalImageHandler.aspx_GET" verb="GET" path="CrystalImageHandler.aspx" type="CrystalDecisions.Web.CrystalImageHandler, CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304" preCondition="integratedMode"/></handlers><validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>

Generating a WSDL from an XSD file

we can generate wsdl file from xsd but you have to use oracle enterprise pack of eclipse(OEPE). simply create xsd and then right click->new->wsdl...

How to extract text from the PDF document?

I know that this topic is quite old, but this need is still alive. I read many documents, forum and script and build a new advanced one which supports compressed and uncompressed pdf :

https://gist.github.com/smalot/6183152

Hope it helps everone

how to bind img src in angular 2 in ngFor?

I hope i am understanding your question correctly, as the above comment says you need to provide more information.

In order to bind it to your view you would use property binding which is using [property]="value". Hope this helps.

<div *ngFor="let student of students">  
 {{student.id}}
 {{student.name}}

 <img [src]="student.image">

</div>  

Best way to remove the last character from a string built with stringbuilder

Yes, convert it to a string once the loop is done:

String str = data.ToString().TrimEnd(',');

Access Controller method from another controller in Laravel 5

You shouldn’t. It’s an anti-pattern. If you have a method in one controller that you need to access in another controller, then that’s a sign you need to re-factor.

Consider re-factoring the method out in to a service class, that you can then instantiate in multiple controllers. So if you need to offer print reports for multiple models, you could do something like this:

class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    public function printReport()
    {
        $report = new PrintReport($itemToReportOn);
        return $report->render();
    }
}

Update an outdated branch against master in a Git repo

Update the master branch, which you need to do regardless.

Then, one of:

  1. Rebase the old branch against the master branch. Solve the merge conflicts during rebase, and the result will be an up-to-date branch that merges cleanly against master.

  2. Merge your branch into master, and resolve the merge conflicts.

  3. Merge master into your branch, and resolve the merge conflicts. Then, merging from your branch into master should be clean.

None of these is better than the other, they just have different trade-off patterns.

I would use the rebase approach, which gives cleaner overall results to later readers, in my opinion, but that is nothing aside from personal taste.

To rebase and keep the branch you would:

git checkout <branch> && git rebase <target>

In your case, check out the old branch, then

git rebase master 

to get it rebuilt against master.

jQuery: Load Modal Dialog Contents via Ajax

var dialogName = '#dialog_XYZ';
$.ajax({
        url: "/ajax_pages/my_page.ext",
        data: {....},
        success: function(data) {
          $(dialogName ).remove();

          $('BODY').append(data);

          $(dialogName )
            .dialog(options.dialogOptions);
        }
});

The Ajax-Request load the Dialog, add them to the Body of the current page and open the Dialog.

If you only whant to load the content you can do:

var dialogName = '#dialog_XYZ';
$.ajax({
            url: "/ajax_pages/my_page.ext",
            data: {....},
            success: function(data) {
              $(dialogName).append(data);

              $(dialogName )
                .dialog(options.dialogOptions);
            }
});

Package signatures do not match the previously installed version

I had this issue on a Samsung device, Uninstalling the app gave the same message. The problem was that the app was also installed in the phone's "Secure Folder" area. Worth checking if this is your scenario.

Decorators with parameters?

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  • Here we ran display info twice with two different names and two different ages.
  • Now every time we ran display info, our decorators also added the functionality of printing out a line before and a line after that wrapped function.
def decorator_function(original_function):
    def wrapper_function(*args, **kwargs):
        print('Executed Before', original_function.__name__)
        result = original_function(*args, **kwargs)
        print('Executed After', original_function.__name__, '\n')
        return result
    return wrapper_function


@decorator_function
def display_info(name, age):
    print('display_info ran with arguments ({}, {})'.format(name, age))


display_info('Mr Bean', 66)
display_info('MC Jordan', 57)

output:

Executed Before display_info
display_info ran with arguments (Mr Bean, 66)
Executed After display_info 

Executed Before display_info
display_info ran with arguments (MC Jordan, 57)
Executed After display_info 
  • So now let's go ahead and get our decorator function to accept arguments.

  • For example let's say that I wanted a customizable prefix to all of these print statements within the wrapper.

  • Now this would be a good candidate for an argument to the decorator.

  • The argument that we pass in will be that prefix. Now in order to do, this we're just going to add another outer layer to our decorator, so I'm going to call this a function a prefix decorator.

def prefix_decorator(prefix):
    def decorator_function(original_function):
        def wrapper_function(*args, **kwargs):
            print(prefix, 'Executed Before', original_function.__name__)
            result = original_function(*args, **kwargs)
            print(prefix, 'Executed After', original_function.__name__, '\n')
            return result
        return wrapper_function
    return decorator_function


@prefix_decorator('LOG:')
def display_info(name, age):
    print('display_info ran with arguments ({}, {})'.format(name, age))


display_info('Mr Bean', 66)
display_info('MC Jordan', 57)

output:

LOG: Executed Before display_info
display_info ran with arguments (Mr Bean, 66)
LOG: Executed After display_info 

LOG: Executed Before display_info
display_info ran with arguments (MC Jordan, 57)
LOG: Executed After display_info 
  • Now we have that LOG: prefix before our print statements in our wrapper function and you can change this any time that you want.

Check if file is already open

(The Q&A is about how to deal with Windows "open file" locks ... not how implement this kind of locking portably.)

This whole issue is fraught with portability issues and race conditions:

  • You could try to use FileLock, but it is not necessarily supported for your OS and/or filesystem.
  • It appears that on Windows you may be unable to use FileLock if another application has opened the file in a particular way.
  • Even if you did manage to use FileLock or something else, you've still got the problem that something may come in and open the file between you testing the file and doing the rename.

A simpler though non-portable solution is to just try the rename (or whatever it is you are trying to do) and diagnose the return value and / or any Java exceptions that arise due to opened files.

Notes:

  1. If you use the Files API instead of the File API you will get more information in the event of a failure.

  2. On systems (e.g. Linux) where you are allowed to rename a locked or open file, you won't get any failure result or exceptions. The operation will just succeed. However, on such systems you generally don't need to worry if a file is already open, since the OS doesn't lock files on open.

How do I get logs from all pods of a Kubernetes replication controller?

If the pods are named meaningfully one could use simple Plain Old Bash:

keyword=nodejs
command="cat <("
for line in $(kubectl get pods | \
  grep $keyword | grep Running | awk '{print $1}'); do 
    command="$command (kubectl logs --tail=2 -f $line &) && "
  done
command="$command echo)"
eval $command

Explanation: Loop through running pods with name containing "nodejs". Tail the log for each of them in parallel (single ampersand runs in background) ensuring that if any of the pods fail the whole command exits (double ampersand). Cat the streams from each of the tail commands into a unique stream. Eval is needed to run this dynamically built command.

Can't use Swift classes inside Objective-C

I had the same problem and finally it appeared that they weren't attached to the same targets. The ObjC class is attached to Target1 and Target2, the Swift class is only attached to the Target1 and is not visible inside the ObjC class.

Hope this helps someone.

What is float in Java?

Make it

float b= 3.6f;

A floating-point literal is of type float if it is suffixed with an ASCII letter F or f; otherwise its type is double and it can optionally be suffixed with an ASCII letter D or d

is there a tool to create SVG paths from an SVG file?

Gimp can be used to convert SVGs with primitives (e.g. rects, circles, etc.) into a single path which can be used within HTML5.

  1. First download Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
  2. Export your SVG as a .svg file with any tool of choice e.g. Illustrator. Don't worry if the SVG output is messy for now, Gimp will clean it up
  3. Import the SVG file into Gimp with File -> Open, and the following (or similar) dialog should show up:

Gimp SVG Open Dialog

Check both the Import Paths and Merge imported paths options

  1. Then go to Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Paths
  2. Right-click on the single path which says Imported Path and you should see the following dialog:

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  1. Click Export Path... and save this text file to a location of your choice
  2. Locate and open up this file with a text editor of your choice e.g Notepad, TextEdit
  3. Copy the text within the <path d="copy this text here" />
  4. Since Gimp formats the text with lots of spaces, you may need to re-format it, by removing some of the spaces to paste it into your HTML in a single line

Java List.contains(Object with field value equal to x)

Collection.contains() is implemented by calling equals() on each object until one returns true.

So one way to implement this is to override equals() but of course, you can only have one equals.

Frameworks like Guava therefore use predicates for this. With Iterables.find(list, predicate), you can search for arbitrary fields by putting the test into the predicate.

Other languages built on top of the VM have this built in. In Groovy, for example, you simply write:

def result = list.find{ it.name == 'John' }

Java 8 made all our lives easier, too:

List<Foo> result = list.stream()
    .filter(it -> "John".equals(it.getName())
    .collect(Collectors.toList());

If you care about things like this, I suggest the book "Beyond Java". It contains many examples for the numerous shortcomings of Java and how other languages do better.

comparing two strings in SQL Server

There is no direct string compare function in SQL Server

CASE
  WHEN str1 = str2 THEN 0
  WHEN str1 < str2 THEN -1
  WHEN str1 > str2 THEN 1
  ELSE NULL --one of the strings is NULL so won't compare (added on edit)
END

Notes

  • you can wraps this via a UDF using CREATE FUNCTION etc
  • you may need NULL handling (in my code above, any NULL will report 1)
  • str1 and str2 will be column names or @variables

How to obtain the number of CPUs/cores in Linux from the command line?

You can use one of the following methods to determine the number of physical CPU cores.

  • Count the number of unique core ids (roughly equivalent to grep -P '^core id\t' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l).

    awk '/^core id\t/ {cores[$NF]++} END {print length(cores)}' /proc/cpuinfo

  • Multiply the number of 'cores per socket' by the number of sockets.

    lscpu | awk '/^Core\(s\) per socket:/ {cores=$NF}; /^Socket\(s\):/ {sockets=$NF}; END{print cores*sockets}'

  • Count the number of unique logical CPU's as used by the Linux kernel. The -p option generates output for easy parsing and is compatible with earlier versions of lscpu.

    lscpu -p | awk -F, '$0 !~ /^#/ {cores[$1]++} END {print length(cores)}'


Just to reiterate what others have said, there are a number of related properties.

To determine the number of processors available:

getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN
grep -cP '^processor\t' /proc/cpuinfo

To determine the number of processing units available (not necessarily the same as the number of cores). This is hyperthreading-aware.

nproc

I don't want to go too far down the rabbit-hole, but you can also determine the number of configured processors (as opposed to simply available/online processors) via getconf _NPROCESSORS_CONF. To determine total number of CPU's (offline and online) you'd want to parse the output of lscpu -ap.

In Ruby, how do I skip a loop in a .each loop, similar to 'continue'

next - it's like return, but for blocks! (So you can use this in any proc/lambda too.)

That means you can also say next n to "return" n from the block. For instance:

puts [1, 2, 3].map do |e|
  next 42 if e == 2
  e
end.inject(&:+)

This will yield 46.

Note that return always returns from the closest def, and never a block; if there's no surrounding def, returning is an error.

Using return from within a block intentionally can be confusing. For instance:

def my_fun
  [1, 2, 3].map do |e|
    return "Hello." if e == 2
    e
  end
end

my_fun will result in "Hello.", not [1, "Hello.", 2], because the return keyword pertains to the outer def, not the inner block.

How to Merge Two Eloquent Collections?

$users = User::all();
$associates = Associate::all();

$userAndAssociate = $users->merge($associates);

Renaming branches remotely in Git

Sure. Just rename the branch locally, push the new branch, and push a deletion of the old.

The only real issue is that other users of the repository won't have local tracking branches renamed.

What is the difference between window, screen, and document in Javascript?

Window is the main JavaScript object root, aka the global object in a browser, also can be treated as the root of the document object model. You can access it as window

window.screen or just screen is a small information object about physical screen dimensions.

window.document or just document is the main object of the potentially visible (or better yet: rendered) document object model/DOM.

Since window is the global object you can reference any properties of it with just the property name - so you do not have to write down window. - it will be figured out by the runtime.

exception.getMessage() output with class name

I think you are wrapping your exception in another exception (which isn't in your code above). If you try out this code:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        throw new RuntimeException("Cannot move file");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Error: " + ex.getMessage());
    }
}

...you will see a popup that says exactly what you want.


However, to solve your problem (the wrapped exception) you need get to the "root" exception with the "correct" message. To do this you need to create a own recursive method getRootCause:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        throw new Exception(new RuntimeException("Cannot move file"));
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
                                      "Error: " + getRootCause(ex).getMessage());
    }
}

public static Throwable getRootCause(Throwable throwable) {
    if (throwable.getCause() != null)
        return getRootCause(throwable.getCause());

    return throwable;
}

Note: Unwrapping exceptions like this however, sort of breaks the abstractions. I encourage you to find out why the exception is wrapped and ask yourself if it makes sense.

Best C++ IDE or Editor for Windows

Um, that's because Visual Studio is the best IDE. Come back to the darkside.

Unit testing private methods in C#

Another option that has not been mentioned is just creating the unit test class as a child of the object that you are testing. NUnit Example:

[TestFixture]
public class UnitTests : ObjectWithPrivateMethods
{
    [Test]
    public void TestSomeProtectedMethod()
    {
        Assert.IsTrue(this.SomeProtectedMethod() == true, "Failed test, result false");
    }
}

This would allow easy testing of private and protected (but not inherited private) methods, and it would allow you to keep all your tests separate from the real code so you aren't deploying test assemblies to production. Switching your private methods to protected methods would be acceptable in a lot of inherited objects, and it is a pretty simple change to make.

HOWEVER...

While this is an interesting approach to solving the problem of how to test hidden methods, I am unsure that I would advocate that this is the correct solution to the problem in all cases. It seems a little odd to be internally testing an object, and I suspect there might be some scenarios that this approach will blow up on you. (Immutable objects for example, might make some tests really hard).

While I mention this approach, I would suggest that this is more of a brainstormed suggestion than a legitimate solution. Take it with a grain of salt.

EDIT: I find it truly hilarious that people are voting this answer down, since I explicitly describe this as a bad idea. Does that mean that people are agreeing with me? I am so confused.....

Is there Java HashMap equivalent in PHP?

Arrays in PHP can have Key Value structure.

Python spacing and aligning strings

As of Python 3.6, we have a better option, f-strings!

>>> print(f"{'Location: ' + location:<25} Revision: {revision}")
>>> print(f"{'District: ' + district:<25} Date: {date}")
>>> print(f"{'User: ' + user:<25} Time: {time}")

Output:

Location: 10-10-10-10     Revision: 1
District: Tower           Date: May 16, 2012
User: LOD                 Time: 10:15

Since everything within the curly brackets is evaluated at runtime, we can enter both the string 'Location: ' concatenated with the variable location. Using :<25 places the entire concatenated string into a box 25 characters long, and the < designates that you want it left aligned. That way, the second column always starts after those 25 characters reserved for the first column.

Another benefit here is that you don't have to count the characters in your format string. Using 25 will work for all of them, provided that 25 is long enough to contain all of the characters in your left column.

https://realpython.com/python-f-strings/ explains the benefits of f-strings over previous options. https://medium.com/@NirantK/best-of-python3-6-f-strings-41f9154983e explains how to use <, >, and ^ for left, right, and center aligned.

"No such file or directory" but it exists

I had the same problem with a file that I've created on my mac. If I try to run it in a shell with ./filename I got the file not found error message. I think that something was wrong with the file.

what I've done:

open a ssh session to the server
cat filename
copy the output to the clipboard
rm filename
touch filename
vi filename
i for insert mode
paste the content from the clipboard
ESC to end insert mode
:wq!

This worked for me.

How to upgrade R in ubuntu?

Since R is already installed, you should be able to upgrade it with this method. First of all, you may want to have the packages you installed in the previous version in the new one,so it is convenient to check this post. Then, follow the instructions from here

  1. Open the sources.list file:

     sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list    
    
  2. Add a line with the source from where the packages will be retrieved. For example:

     deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ version/
    

    Replace https://cloud.r-project.org with whatever mirror you would like to use, and replace version/ with whatever version of Ubuntu you are using (eg, trusty/, xenial/, and so on). If you're getting a "Malformed line error", check to see if you have a space between /ubuntu/ and version/.

  3. Fetch the secure APT key:

     gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
    

or

    gpg --hkp://keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-key E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
  1. Add it to keyring:

     gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
    
  2. Update your sources and upgrade your installation:

     sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    
  3. Install the new version

     sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
    
  4. Recover your old packages following the solution that best suits to you (see this). For instance, to recover all the packages (not only those from CRAN) the idea is:

-- copy the packages from R-oldversion/library to R-newversion/library, (do not overwrite a package if it already exists in the new version!).

-- Run the R command update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE).

mean() warning: argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA

The same error appears if you do not use the correct (numeric) format of your data in your data.frame column using mean() function. Therefore, check your data using str(data.frame&column) function to see what data type you have, and convert it to numeric format if necessary. For example, if your data is Character convert it with as.numeric(data.frame$column), or as a factor with as.numeric(as.character(data.frame$column)). The mean function does not work with types other than numeric.

jQuery .val change doesn't change input value

Use attr instead.
$('#link').attr('value', 'new value');

demo

Generate pdf from HTML in div using Javascript

  • No depenencies, pure JS
  • To add CSS or images - do not use relative URLs, use full URLs http://...domain.../path.css or so. It creates separate HTML document and it has no context of main thing.
  • you can also embed images as base64

This served me for years now:

export default function printDiv({divId, title}) {
  let mywindow = window.open('', 'PRINT', 'height=650,width=900,top=100,left=150');

  mywindow.document.write(`<html><head><title>${title}</title>`);
  mywindow.document.write('</head><body >');
  mywindow.document.write(document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML);
  mywindow.document.write('</body></html>');

  mywindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
  mywindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10*/

  mywindow.print();
  mywindow.close();

  return true;
}

PostgreSQL: days/months/years between two dates

This question is full of misunderstandings. First lets understand the question fully. The asker wants to get the same result as for when running the MS SQL Server function DATEDIFF ( datepart , startdate , enddate ) where datepart takes dd, mm, or yy.

This function is defined by:

This function returns the count (as a signed integer value) of the specified datepart boundaries crossed between the specified startdate and enddate.

That means how many day boundaries, month boundaries, or year boundaries, are crossed. Not how many days, months, or years it is between them. That's why datediff(yy, '2010-04-01', '2012-03-05') is 2, and not 1. There is less than 2 years between those dates, meaning only 1 whole year has passed, but 2 year boundaries have crossed, from 2010 to 2011, and from 2011 to 2012.

The following are my best attempt at replicating the logic correctly.

-- datediff(dd`, '2010-04-01', '2012-03-05') = 704 // 704 changes of day in this interval
select ('2012-03-05'::date - '2010-04-01'::date );
-- 704 changes of day

-- datediff(mm, '2010-04-01', '2012-03-05') = 23  // 23 changes of month
select (date_part('year', '2012-03-05'::date) - date_part('year', '2010-04-01'::date)) * 12 + date_part('month', '2012-03-05'::date) - date_part('month', '2010-04-01'::date)
-- 23 changes of month

-- datediff(yy, '2010-04-01', '2012-03-05') = 2   // 2 changes of year
select date_part('year', '2012-03-05'::date) - date_part('year', '2010-04-01'::date);
-- 2 changes of year

How can I get current date in Android?

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();      
Calendar dt = Calendar.getInstance(); 
dt.clear();
dt.set(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR), cal.get(Calendar.MONTH),cal.get(Calendar.DATE)); 
return dt.getTime();        

Select all DIV text with single mouse click

How about this simple solution? :)

<input style="background-color:white; border:1px white solid;" onclick="this.select();" id="selectable" value="http://example.com/page.htm">

Sure it is not div-construction, like you mentioned, but still it is worked for me.

What is the difference between Sessions and Cookies in PHP?

One part missing in all these explanations is how are Cookies and Session linked- By SessionID cookie. Cookie goes back and forth between client and server - the server links the user (and its session) by session ID portion of the cookie. You can send SessionID via url also (not the best best practice) - in case cookies are disabled by client.

Did I get this right?

Why aren't python nested functions called closures?

Python 2 didn't have closures - it had workarounds that resembled closures.

There are plenty of examples in answers already given - copying in variables to the inner function, modifying an object on the inner function, etc.

In Python 3, support is more explicit - and succinct:

def closure():
    count = 0
    def inner():
        nonlocal count
        count += 1
        print(count)
    return inner

Usage:

start = closure()
start() # prints 1
start() # prints 2
start() # prints 3

The nonlocal keyword binds the inner function to the outer variable explicitly mentioned, in effect enclosing it. Hence more explicitly a 'closure'.

How can I return camelCase JSON serialized by JSON.NET from ASP.NET MVC controller methods?

Simpler is better IMO!

Why don't you do this?

public class CourseController : JsonController
{
    public ActionResult ManageCoursesModel()
    {
        return JsonContent(<somedata>);
    }
}

The simple base class controller

public class JsonController : BaseController
{
    protected ContentResult JsonContent(Object data)
    {
        return new ContentResult
        {
            ContentType = "application/json",
             Content = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data, new JsonSerializerSettings { 
              ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver() }),
            ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8
        };
    }
}

Can Selenium WebDriver open browser windows silently in the background?

Use it ...

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome(CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, chrome_options=options)

Find the files that have been changed in last 24 hours

For others who land here in the future (including myself), add a -name option to find specific file types, for instance: find /var -name "*.php" -mtime -1 -ls

AngularJS: How to make angular load script inside ng-include?

ocLazyLoad allows to lazily load scripts in the templates/views via routers (e.g. ui-router). Here is a sniplet

$stateProvider.state('parent', {
    url: "/",
    resolve: {
        loadMyService: ['$ocLazyLoad', function($ocLazyLoad) {
             return $ocLazyLoad.load('js/ServiceTest.js');
        }]
    }
})
.state('parent.child', {
    resolve: {
        test: ['loadMyService', '$ServiceTest', function(loadMyService, $ServiceTest) {
            // you can use your service
            $ServiceTest.doSomething();
        }]
    }
});  

appending array to FormData and send via AJAX

You have several options:

Convert it to a JSON string, then parse it in PHP (recommended)

JS

var json_arr = JSON.stringify(arr);

PHP

$arr = json_decode($_POST['arr']);

Or use @Curios's method

Sending an array via FormData.


Not recommended: Serialize the data with, then deserialize in PHP

JS

// Use <#> or any other delimiter you want
var serial_arr = arr.join("<#>"); 

PHP

$arr = explode("<#>", $_POST['arr']);

how to pass variable from shell script to sqlplus

You appear to have a heredoc containing a single SQL*Plus command, though it doesn't look right as noted in the comments. You can either pass a value in the heredoc:

sqlplus -S user/pass@localhost << EOF
@/opt/D2RQ/file.sql BUILDING
exit;
EOF

or if BUILDING is $2 in your script:

sqlplus -S user/pass@localhost << EOF
@/opt/D2RQ/file.sql $2
exit;
EOF

If your file.sql had an exit at the end then it would be even simpler as you wouldn't need the heredoc:

sqlplus -S user/pass@localhost @/opt/D2RQ/file.sql $2

In your SQL you can then refer to the position parameters using substitution variables:

...
}',SEM_Models('&1'),NULL,
...

The &1 will be replaced with the first value passed to the SQL script, BUILDING; because that is a string it still needs to be enclosed in quotes. You might want to set verify off to stop if showing you the substitutions in the output.


You can pass multiple values, and refer to them sequentially just as you would positional parameters in a shell script - the first passed parameter is &1, the second is &2, etc. You can use substitution variables anywhere in the SQL script, so they can be used as column aliases with no problem - you just have to be careful adding an extra parameter that you either add it to the end of the list (which makes the numbering out of order in the script, potentially) or adjust everything to match:

sqlplus -S user/pass@localhost << EOF
@/opt/D2RQ/file.sql total_count BUILDING
exit;
EOF

or:

sqlplus -S user/pass@localhost << EOF
@/opt/D2RQ/file.sql total_count $2
exit;
EOF

If total_count is being passed to your shell script then just use its positional parameter, $4 or whatever. And your SQL would then be:

SELECT COUNT(*) as &1
FROM TABLE(SEM_MATCH(
'{
        ?s rdf:type :ProcessSpec .
        ?s ?p ?o
}',SEM_Models('&2'),NULL,
SEM_ALIASES(SEM_ALIAS('','http://VISION/DataSource/SEMANTIC_CACHE#')),NULL));

If you pass a lot of values you may find it clearer to use the positional parameters to define named parameters, so any ordering issues are all dealt with at the start of the script, where they are easier to maintain:

define MY_ALIAS = &1
define MY_MODEL = &2

SELECT COUNT(*) as &MY_ALIAS
FROM TABLE(SEM_MATCH(
'{
        ?s rdf:type :ProcessSpec .
        ?s ?p ?o
}',SEM_Models('&MY_MODEL'),NULL,
SEM_ALIASES(SEM_ALIAS('','http://VISION/DataSource/SEMANTIC_CACHE#')),NULL));

From your separate question, maybe you just wanted:

SELECT COUNT(*) as &1
FROM TABLE(SEM_MATCH(
'{
        ?s rdf:type :ProcessSpec .
        ?s ?p ?o
}',SEM_Models('&1'),NULL,
SEM_ALIASES(SEM_ALIAS('','http://VISION/DataSource/SEMANTIC_CACHE#')),NULL));

... so the alias will be the same value you're querying on (the value in $2, or BUILDING in the original part of the answer). You can refer to a substitution variable as many times as you want.

That might not be easy to use if you're running it multiple times, as it will appear as a header above the count value in each bit of output. Maybe this would be more parsable later:

select '&1' as QUERIED_VALUE, COUNT(*) as TOTAL_COUNT

If you set pages 0 and set heading off, your repeated calls might appear in a neat list. You might also need to set tab off and possibly use rpad('&1', 20) or similar to make that column always the same width. Or get the results as CSV with:

select '&1' ||','|| COUNT(*)

Depends what you're using the results for...

jQuery ajax success callback function definition

Just use:

function getData() {
    $.ajax({
        url : 'example.com',
        type: 'GET',
        success : handleData
    })
}

The success property requires only a reference to a function, and passes the data as parameter to this function.

You can access your handleData function like this because of the way handleData is declared. JavaScript will parse your code for function declarations before running it, so you'll be able to use the function in code that's before the actual declaration. This is known as hoisting.

This doesn't count for functions declared like this, though:

var myfunction = function(){}

Those are only available when the interpreter passed them.

See this question for more information about the 2 ways of declaring functions

Scroll Automatically to the Bottom of the Page

I have an Angular app with dynamic content and I tried several of the above answers with not much success. I adapted @Konard's answer and got it working in plain JS for my scenario:

HTML

<div id="app">
    <button onClick="scrollToBottom()">Scroll to Bottom</button>
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-4">
            <br>
            <h4>Details for Customer 1</h4>
            <hr>
            <!-- sequence Id -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="ID">
            </div>
            <!-- name -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Name">
            </div>
            <!-- description -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <textarea type="text" style="min-height: 100px" placeholder="Description" ></textarea>
            </div>
            <!-- address -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Address">
            </div>
            <!-- postcode -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Postcode">
            </div>
            <!-- Image -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <img style="width: 100%; height: 300px;">
                <div class="custom-file mt-3">
                    <label class="custom-file-label">{{'Choose file...'}}</label>
                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- Delete button -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <hr>
                <div class="row">
                    <div class="col">
                        <button class="btn btn-success btn-block" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Click to save">Save</button>
                        <button class="btn btn-success btn-block" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Click to update">Update</button>
                    </div>
                    <div class="col">
                        <button class="btn btn-danger btn-block" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Click to remove">Remove</button>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <hr>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

body {
    background: #20262E;
    padding: 20px;
    font-family: Helvetica;
}

#app {
    background: #fff;
    border-radius: 4px;
    padding: 20px;
    transition: all 0.2s;
}

JS

function scrollToBottom() {
    scrollInterval;
    stopScroll;

    var scrollInterval = setInterval(function () {
        document.documentElement.scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollHeight;
    }, 50);

    var stopScroll = setInterval(function () {
        clearInterval(scrollInterval);
    }, 100);
}

Tested on the latest Chrome, FF, Edge, and stock Android browser. Here's a fiddle:

https://jsfiddle.net/cbruen1/18cta9gd/16/

Android SDK Manager Not Installing Components

I had a similar issue - very slow xml downloads followed by an empty package list. The SDK, it seems, was trying to use legacy Java installation. Setting the JAVA_HOME to the 1.6 jdk did the trick.

How to open URL in Microsoft Edge from the command line?

Windows 10: Create a shortcut with this destination:

%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c "start microsoft-edge:https://twitter.com"

Any good, visual HTML5 Editor or IDE?

Coffee Cup Just released one. July 6, 2010 http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/

They now also have an OS X version in beta — see also this stackoverflow post.

Java ArrayList of Arrays?

Since the size of your string array is fixed at compile time, you'd be better off using a structure (like Pair) that mandates exactly two fields, and thus avoid the runtime errors possible with the array approach.

Code:

Since Java doesn't supply a Pair class, you'll need to define your own.

class Pair<A, B> {
  public final A first;
  public final B second;

  public Pair(final A first, final B second) {
    this.first = first;
    this.second = second;
  }

  //
  // Override 'equals', 'hashcode' and 'toString'
  //
}

and then use it as:

List<Pair<String, String>> action = new ArrayList<Pair<String, String>>();

[ Here I used List because it's considered a good practice to program to interfaces. ]

Can I call curl_setopt with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER multiple times to set multiple headers?

Other type of format :

$headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-length: 0';

curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

Batch file to copy directories recursively

Look into xcopy, which will recursively copy files and subdirectories.

There are examples, 2/3 down the page. Of particular use is:

To copy all the files and subdirectories (including any empty subdirectories) from drive A to drive B, type:

xcopy a: b: /s /e

removing table border

Use table style Border-collapse at the table level

Can I pass variable to select statement as column name in SQL Server

You can't use variable names to bind columns or other system objects, you need dynamic sql

DECLARE @value varchar(10)  
SET @value = 'intStep'  
DECLARE @sqlText nvarchar(1000); 

SET @sqlText = N'SELECT ' + @value + ' FROM dbo.tblBatchDetail'
Exec (@sqlText)

text box input height

Use CSS:

<input type="text" class="bigText"  name=" item" align="left" />

.bigText {
    height:30px;
}

Dreamweaver is a poor testing tool. It is not a browser.