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exec failed because the name not a valid identifier?

As was in my case if your sql is generated by concatenating or uses converts then sql at execute need to be prefixed with letter N as below

e.g.

Exec N'Select bla..' 

the N defines string literal is unicode.

How do I use checkboxes in an IF-THEN statement in Excel VBA 2010?

If Sheets("Sheet1").OLEObjects("CheckBox1").Object.Value = True Then

I believe Tim is right. You have a Form Control. For that you have to use this

If ActiveSheet.Shapes("Check Box 1").ControlFormat.Value = 1 Then

Select a Column in SQL not in Group By

Thing I like to do is to wrap addition columns in aggregate function, like max(). It works very good when you don't expect duplicate values.

Select MAX(cpe.createdon) As MaxDate, cpe.fmgcms_cpeclaimid, MAX(cpe.fmgcms_claimid) As fmgcms_claimid 
from Filteredfmgcms_claimpaymentestimate cpe
where cpe.createdon < 'reportstartdate'
group by cpe.fmgcms_cpeclaimid

Changing the tmp folder of mysql

This maybe helpful for MySql with AppArmor

stop mysql :

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Create directory called /somewhere/tmp

Edit Config:

sudo vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf # or perhaps sudo vim /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

change

tmpdir = /somewhere/tmp/

Then

sudo vim /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld

Add

# Allow data dir access
  /somewhere/ r,
  /somewhere/** rwk,

sudo chown -R root:root /somewhere

sudo chmod -R 1777 /somewhere

Restart

 sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor reload

 sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' -- Missing /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

locate the my.cnf file with the mysql config mine was under /etc/mysql/my.cnf (change the location where it says socket accordingly)

port            = 3306
socket          = /tmp/mysql.sock

Here is entries for some specific programs The following values assume you have at least 32M ram

This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed.

[mysqld_safe]
socket          = /tmp/mysql.sock
nice            = 0

creating array without declaring the size - java

You might be looking for a List? Either LinkedList or ArrayList are good classes to take a look at. You can then call toArray() to get the list as an array.

VBA Copy Sheet to End of Workbook (with Hidden Worksheets)

Try this

Sub Sample()
    Dim test As Worksheet
    Sheets(1).Copy After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)
    Set test = ActiveSheet
    test.Name = "copied sheet!"
End Sub

How to add Web API to an existing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application project?

The steps I needed to perform were:

  1. Add reference to System.Web.Http.WebHost.
  2. Add App_Start\WebApiConfig.cs (see code snippet below).
  3. Import namespace System.Web.Http in Global.asax.cs.
  4. Call WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration) in MvcApplication.Application_Start() (in file Global.asax.cs), before registering the default Web Application route as that would otherwise take precedence.
  5. Add a controller deriving from System.Web.Http.ApiController.

I could then learn enough from the tutorial (Your First ASP.NET Web API) to define my API controller.

App_Start\WebApiConfig.cs:

using System.Web.Http;

class WebApiConfig
{
    public static void Register(HttpConfiguration configuration)
    {
        configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute("API Default", "api/{controller}/{id}",
            new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });
    }
}

Global.asax.cs:

using System.Web.Http;

...

protected void Application_Start()
{
    AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

    RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
    WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration);
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
    BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
}

Update 10.16.2015:

Word has it, the NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi must be installed for the above to work.

Wrap a text within only two lines inside div

CSS only solution for Webkit

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$(function() {_x000D_
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  $('#toggleWidth').on('click', function(e) {_x000D_
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    $('.multiLineLabel').toggleClass('maxWidth');_x000D_
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  });_x000D_
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})
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.multiLineLabel {_x000D_
  display: inline-block;_x000D_
  box-sizing: border-box;_x000D_
  white-space: pre-line;_x000D_
  word-wrap: break-word;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.multiLineLabel .textMaxLine {_x000D_
  display: -webkit-box;_x000D_
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;_x000D_
  -webkit-line-clamp: 2;_x000D_
  overflow: hidden;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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/* Only for DEMO */_x000D_
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.multiLineLabel.maxWidth {_x000D_
  width: 100px;_x000D_
}
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div class="multiLineLabel">_x000D_
  <span class="textMaxLine">This text is going to wrap automatically in 2 lines in case the width of the element is not sufficiently wide.</span>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
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<button id="toggleWidth">Toggle Width</button>
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sql how to cast a select query

I interpreted the question as using cast on a subquery. Yes, you can do that:

select cast((<subquery>) as <newtype>)

If you do so, then you need to be sure that the returns one row and one value. And, since it returns one value, you could put the cast in the subquery instead:

select (select cast(<val> as <newtype>) . . .)

Event handlers for Twitter Bootstrap dropdowns?

Without having to change your button group at all, you can do the following. Below, I assume your dropdown button has an id of fldCategory.

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function(){

  $('#fldCategory').parent().find('UL LI A').click(function (e) {
    var sVal = e.currentTarget.text;
    $('#fldCategory').html(sVal + ' <span class="caret"></span>');
    console.log(sVal);
  });

});

</script>

Now, if you set the .btn-group of this item itself to have the id of fldCategory, that's actually more efficient jQuery and runs a little faster:

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function(){

  $('#fldCategory UL LI A').click(function (e) {
    var sVal = e.currentTarget.text;
    $('#fldCategory BUTTON').html(sVal + ' <span class="caret"></span>');
    console.log(sVal);
  });

});

</script>

How to check if smtp is working from commandline (Linux)

The only thing about using telnet to test postfix, or other SMTP, is that you have to know the commands and syntax. Instead, just use swaks :)

thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ mail -f Maildir
"/home/thufir/Maildir": 4 messages
>    1 [email protected]                   15/553   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:15:12 -0800
     2 [email protected]                   15/581   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:15:55 -0800
     3 [email protected]                   15/581   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:29:57 -0800
     4 [email protected]                   15/581   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:54:16 -0800
? q
Held 4 messages in /home/thufir/Maildir
thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ swaks --to [email protected]
=== Trying dur.bounceme.net:25...
=== Connected to dur.bounceme.net.
<-  220 dur.bounceme.net ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
 -> EHLO dur.bounceme.net
<-  250-dur.bounceme.net
<-  250-PIPELINING
<-  250-SIZE 10240000
<-  250-VRFY
<-  250-ETRN
<-  250-STARTTLS
<-  250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
<-  250-8BITMIME
<-  250 DSN
 -> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
<-  250 2.1.0 Ok
 -> RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
<-  250 2.1.5 Ok
 -> DATA
<-  354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
 -> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:33:17 -0800
 -> To: [email protected]
 -> From: [email protected]
 -> Subject: test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:33:17 -0800
 -> X-Mailer: swaks v20130209.0 jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
 -> 
 -> This is a test mailing
 -> 
 -> .
<-  250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 52D162C3EFF
 -> QUIT
<-  221 2.0.0 Bye
=== Connection closed with remote host.
thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ mail -f Maildir
"/home/thufir/Maildir": 5 messages 1 new
     1 [email protected]                   15/553   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:15:12 -0800
     2 [email protected]                   15/581   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:15:55 -0800
     3 [email protected]                   15/581   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:29:57 -0800
     4 [email protected]                   15/581   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:54:16 -0800
>N   5 [email protected]                   15/581   test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:33:17 -0800
? 5
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
X-Original-To: [email protected]
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: from dur.bounceme.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
    by dur.bounceme.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D162C3EFF
    for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:33:17 -0800 (PST)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:33:17 -0800
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: test Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:33:17 -0800
X-Mailer: swaks v20130209.0 jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
Message-Id: <[email protected]>

This is a test mailing

New mail has arrived.
? q
Held 5 messages in /home/thufir/Maildir
thufir@dur:~$ 

It's just one easy command.

Return current date plus 7 days

If it's 7 days from now that you're looking for, just put:

$date = strtotime("+7 day", time());
echo date('M d, Y', $date);

ld cannot find -l<library>

-Ldir
Add directory dir to the list of directories to be searched for -l.

How to fix itunes could not connect to the iphone because an invalid response was received from the device?

Try resetting your network settings

Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings

And try deleting the contents of your mac/pc lockdown folder. Here's the link, follow the steps on "Reset the Lockdown folder".

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2529

This one worked for me.

How to see my Eclipse version?

Go to the folder in which eclipse is installed then open readme folder followed by the readme txt file. Here you will find all the info you need.

How do I find out what version of Sybase is running

Try running below command (Works on both windows and linux)

isql -v

How to get just the date part of getdate()?

If you are using SQL Server 2008 or later

select convert(date, getdate())

Otherwise

select convert(varchar(10), getdate(),120)

Display text on MouseOver for image in html

You can use CSS hover in combination with an image background.

CSS

   .image
{
    background:url(images/back.png);
    height:100px;
    width:100px;
    display: block;
    float:left;
}

.image  a {
    display: none;
}

.image  a:hover {
    display: block;
}

HTML

<div class="image"><a href="#">Text you want on mouseover</a></div>

how to use free cloud database with android app?

As Wingman said, Google App Engine is a great solution for your scenario.

You can get some information about GAE+Android here: https://developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/appengine_connected_android

And from this Google IO 2012 session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU_wNR_UUn4

SQLException: No suitable Driver Found for jdbc:oracle:thin:@//localhost:1521/orcl

"No suitable driver" usually means that the JDBC URL you've supplied to connect has incorrect syntax or when the driver isn't loaded at all.

When the method getConnection is called, the DriverManager will attempt to locate a suitable driver from amongst those loaded at initialization and those loaded explicitly using the same classloader as the current applet or application.(using Class.forName())

For Example

import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver;

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.­OracleDriver");

Also check that you have ojdbc6.jar in your classpath. I would suggest to place .jar at physical location to JBoss "$JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib/" directory of your project.

EDIT:

You have mentioned hibernate lately.

Check that your hibernate.cfg.xml file has connection properties something like this:

<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:orcl</property> 
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">scott</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">tiger</property>

jquery $(window).height() is returning the document height

I had the same problem, and using this solved it.

var w = window.innerWidth;
var h = window.innerHeight;

Prevent Android activity dialog from closing on outside touch

What worked for me was to create DialogFragment an set it to not be cancelable:

dialog.setCancelable(false);

How can I suppress the newline after a print statement?

The question asks: "How can it be done in Python 3?"

Use this construct with Python 3.x:

for item in [1,2,3,4]:
    print(item, " ", end="")

This will generate:

1  2  3  4

See this Python doc for more information:

Old: print x,           # Trailing comma suppresses newline
New: print(x, end=" ")  # Appends a space instead of a newline

--

Aside:

in addition, the print() function also offers the sep parameter that lets one specify how individual items to be printed should be separated. E.g.,

In [21]: print('this','is', 'a', 'test')  # default single space between items
this is a test

In [22]: print('this','is', 'a', 'test', sep="") # no spaces between items
thisisatest

In [22]: print('this','is', 'a', 'test', sep="--*--") # user specified separation
this--*--is--*--a--*--test

Run java jar file on a server as background process

If you're using Ubuntu and have "Upstart" (http://upstart.ubuntu.com/) you can try this:

Create /var/init/yourservice.conf

with the following content

description "Your Java Service"  
author "You"  

start on runlevel [3]  
stop on shutdown  

expect fork  

script     
    cd /web 
    java -jar server.jar >/var/log/yourservice.log 2>&1  
    emit yourservice_running  
end script  

Now you can issue the service yourservice start and service yourservice stop commands. You can tail /var/log/yourservice.log to verify that it's working.

If you just want to run your jar from the console without it hogging the console window, you can just do:

java -jar /web/server.jar > /var/log/yourservice.log 2>&1

Get records with max value for each group of grouped SQL results

If ID(and all coulmns) is needed from mytable

SELECT
    *
FROM
    mytable
WHERE
    id NOT IN (
        SELECT
            A.id
        FROM
            mytable AS A
        JOIN mytable AS B ON A. GROUP = B. GROUP
        AND A.age < B.age
    )

NGINX to reverse proxy websockets AND enable SSL (wss://)?

Using nginx/1.14.0

i have a websocket-server running on port 8097 and users connect from to wss on port 8098, nginx just decrypts the content and forwards it to the websocket server

So i have this config file (in my case /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf)

server {
    listen   8098;
        ssl on;
        ssl_certificate      /etc/ssl/certs/domain.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key  /root/domain.key;
    location / {

        proxy_pass http://hostname:8097;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
        proxy_read_timeout 86400;

    }
}

Multiple ping script in Python

import subprocess,os,threading,time
from queue import Queue
lock=threading.Lock()
_start=time.time()
def check(n):
    with open(os.devnull, "wb") as limbo:
                ip="192.168.21.{0}".format(n)
                result=subprocess.Popen(["ping", "-n", "1", "-w", "300", ip],stdout=limbo, stderr=limbo).wait()
                with lock:                    
                    if not result:
                        print (ip, "active")                    
                    else:
                        pass                        

def threader():
    while True:
        worker=q.get()
        check(worker)
        q.task_done()
q=Queue()

for x in range(255):
    t=threading.Thread(target=threader)
    t.daemon=True
    t.start()
for worker in range(1,255):
    q.put(worker)
q.join()
print("Process completed in: ",time.time()-_start)

I think this will be better one.

How to use subList()

Using subList(30, 38); will fail because max index 38 is not available in list, so its not possible.

Only way may be before asking for the sublist, you explicitly determine the max index using list size() method.

for example, check size, which returns 35, so call sublist(30, size());

OR

COPIED FROM pb2q comment

dataList = dataList.subList(30, 38 > dataList.size() ? dataList.size() : 38);

Use a list of values to select rows from a pandas dataframe

You can use isin method:

In [1]: df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [5,6,3,4], 'B': [1,2,3,5]})

In [2]: df
Out[2]:
   A  B
0  5  1
1  6  2
2  3  3
3  4  5

In [3]: df[df['A'].isin([3, 6])]
Out[3]:
   A  B
1  6  2
2  3  3

And to get the opposite use ~:

In [4]: df[~df['A'].isin([3, 6])]
Out[4]:
   A  B
0  5  1
3  4  5

Select from multiple tables without a join?

If your question was this -- Select ename, dname FROM emp, dept without using joins..

Then, I would do this...

SELECT ename, (SELECT dname 
FROM dept
WHERE dept.deptno=emp.deptno)dname
FROM EMP

Output:

ENAME      DNAME
---------- --------------
SMITH      RESEARCH
ALLEN      SALES
WARD       SALES
JONES      RESEARCH
MARTIN     SALES
BLAKE      SALES
CLARK      ACCOUNTING
SCOTT      RESEARCH
KING       ACCOUNTING
TURNER     SALES
ADAMS      RESEARCH

ENAME      DNAME
---------- --------------
JAMES      SALES
FORD       RESEARCH
MILLER     ACCOUNTING

14 rows selected.

Download files from server php

Here is the code that will not download courpt files

$filename = "myfile.jpg";
$file = "/uploads/images/".$filename;

header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Type: ".mime_content_type($file));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename);
while (ob_get_level()) {
    ob_end_clean();
}
readfile($file);

I have included mime_content_type which will return content type of file .

To prevent from corrupt file download i have added ob_get_level() and ob_end_clean();

How to implement band-pass Butterworth filter with Scipy.signal.butter

You could skip the use of buttord, and instead just pick an order for the filter and see if it meets your filtering criterion. To generate the filter coefficients for a bandpass filter, give butter() the filter order, the cutoff frequencies Wn=[low, high] (expressed as the fraction of the Nyquist frequency, which is half the sampling frequency) and the band type btype="band".

Here's a script that defines a couple convenience functions for working with a Butterworth bandpass filter. When run as a script, it makes two plots. One shows the frequency response at several filter orders for the same sampling rate and cutoff frequencies. The other plot demonstrates the effect of the filter (with order=6) on a sample time series.

from scipy.signal import butter, lfilter


def butter_bandpass(lowcut, highcut, fs, order=5):
    nyq = 0.5 * fs
    low = lowcut / nyq
    high = highcut / nyq
    b, a = butter(order, [low, high], btype='band')
    return b, a


def butter_bandpass_filter(data, lowcut, highcut, fs, order=5):
    b, a = butter_bandpass(lowcut, highcut, fs, order=order)
    y = lfilter(b, a, data)
    return y


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from scipy.signal import freqz

    # Sample rate and desired cutoff frequencies (in Hz).
    fs = 5000.0
    lowcut = 500.0
    highcut = 1250.0

    # Plot the frequency response for a few different orders.
    plt.figure(1)
    plt.clf()
    for order in [3, 6, 9]:
        b, a = butter_bandpass(lowcut, highcut, fs, order=order)
        w, h = freqz(b, a, worN=2000)
        plt.plot((fs * 0.5 / np.pi) * w, abs(h), label="order = %d" % order)

    plt.plot([0, 0.5 * fs], [np.sqrt(0.5), np.sqrt(0.5)],
             '--', label='sqrt(0.5)')
    plt.xlabel('Frequency (Hz)')
    plt.ylabel('Gain')
    plt.grid(True)
    plt.legend(loc='best')

    # Filter a noisy signal.
    T = 0.05
    nsamples = T * fs
    t = np.linspace(0, T, nsamples, endpoint=False)
    a = 0.02
    f0 = 600.0
    x = 0.1 * np.sin(2 * np.pi * 1.2 * np.sqrt(t))
    x += 0.01 * np.cos(2 * np.pi * 312 * t + 0.1)
    x += a * np.cos(2 * np.pi * f0 * t + .11)
    x += 0.03 * np.cos(2 * np.pi * 2000 * t)
    plt.figure(2)
    plt.clf()
    plt.plot(t, x, label='Noisy signal')

    y = butter_bandpass_filter(x, lowcut, highcut, fs, order=6)
    plt.plot(t, y, label='Filtered signal (%g Hz)' % f0)
    plt.xlabel('time (seconds)')
    plt.hlines([-a, a], 0, T, linestyles='--')
    plt.grid(True)
    plt.axis('tight')
    plt.legend(loc='upper left')

    plt.show()

Here are the plots that are generated by this script:

Frequency response for several filter orders

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How to create a jQuery function (a new jQuery method or plugin)?

$(function () {
    //declare function 
    $.fn.myfunction = function () {
        return true;
    };
});

$(document).ready(function () {
    //call function
    $("#my_div").myfunction();
});

Pdf.js: rendering a pdf file using a base64 file source instead of url

from the sourcecode at http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/build/pdf.js

/**
 * This is the main entry point for loading a PDF and interacting with it.
 * NOTE: If a URL is used to fetch the PDF data a standard XMLHttpRequest(XHR)
 * is used, which means it must follow the same origin rules that any XHR does
 * e.g. No cross domain requests without CORS.
 *
 * @param {string|TypedAray|object} source Can be an url to where a PDF is
 * located, a typed array (Uint8Array) already populated with data or
 * and parameter object with the following possible fields:
 *  - url   - The URL of the PDF.
 *  - data  - A typed array with PDF data.
 *  - httpHeaders - Basic authentication headers.
 *  - password - For decrypting password-protected PDFs.
 *
 * @return {Promise} A promise that is resolved with {PDFDocumentProxy} object.
 */

So a standard XMLHttpRequest(XHR) is used for retrieving the document. The Problem with this is that XMLHttpRequests do not support data: uris (eg. data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xLjUK...).

But there is the possibility of passing a typed Javascript Array to the function. The only thing you need to do is to convert the base64 string to a Uint8Array. You can use this function found at https://gist.github.com/1032746

var BASE64_MARKER = ';base64,';

function convertDataURIToBinary(dataURI) {
  var base64Index = dataURI.indexOf(BASE64_MARKER) + BASE64_MARKER.length;
  var base64 = dataURI.substring(base64Index);
  var raw = window.atob(base64);
  var rawLength = raw.length;
  var array = new Uint8Array(new ArrayBuffer(rawLength));

  for(var i = 0; i < rawLength; i++) {
    array[i] = raw.charCodeAt(i);
  }
  return array;
}

tl;dr

var pdfAsDataUri = "data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xLjUK..."; // shortened
var pdfAsArray = convertDataURIToBinary(pdfAsDataUri);
PDFJS.getDocument(pdfAsArray)

Python Write bytes to file

If you want to write bytes then you should open the file in binary mode.

f = open('/tmp/output', 'wb')

What is the backslash character (\\)?

Imagine you are designing a programming language. You decide that Strings are enclosed in quotes ("Apple"). Then you hit your first snag: how to represent quotation marks since you've already used them ? Just out of convention you decide to use \" to represent quotation marks. Then you have a second problem: how to represent \ ? Again, out of convention you decide to use \\ instead. Thankfully, the process ends there and this is sufficient. You can also use what is called an escape sequence to represent other characters such as the carriage return (\n).

'negative' pattern matching in python

and(re.search("bla_bla_pattern", str_item, re.IGNORECASE) == None)

is working.

Listing available com ports with Python

Please, try this code:

import serial
ports = serial.tools.list_ports.comports(include_links=False)
for port in ports :
    print(port.device)

first of all, you need to import package for serial port communication, so:

import serial

then you create the list of all the serial ports currently available:

ports = serial.tools.list_ports.comports(include_links=False)

and then, walking along whole list, you can for example print port names:

for port in ports :
    print(port.device)

This is just an example how to get the list of ports and print their names, but there some other options you can do with this data. Just try print different variants after

port.

GitHub README.md center image

To extend the answer a little bit to support local images, just replace FILE_PATH_PLACEHOLDER to your image path and check it out.

<p align="center">
  <img src="FILE_PATH_PLACEHOLDER">
</p>

Javascript regular expression password validation having special characters

I use the following script for min 8 letter password, with at least a symbol, upper and lower case letters and a number

function checkPassword(str)
{
    var re = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[!@#$%^&*])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).{8,}$/;
    return re.test(str);
}

Junit - run set up method once

If you don't want to force a declaration of a variable that is set and checked on each subtest, then adding this to a SuperTest could do:

public abstract class SuperTest {

    private static final ConcurrentHashMap<Class, Boolean> INITIALIZED = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
    protected final boolean initialized() {
        final boolean[] absent = {false};
        INITIALIZED.computeIfAbsent(this.getClass(), (klass)-> {
            return absent[0] = true;
        });
        return !absent[0];
    }
}



public class SubTest extends SuperTest {
    @Before
    public void before() {
        if ( super.initialized() ) return;

         ... magic ... 
    }

}

Adding days to a date in Java

java.time

With the Java 8 Date and Time API you can use the LocalDate class.

LocalDate.now().plusDays(nrOfDays)

See the Oracle Tutorial.

Detecting iOS orientation change instantly

That delay you're talking about is actually a filter to prevent false (unwanted) orientation change notifications.

For instant recognition of device orientation change you're just gonna have to monitor the accelerometer yourself.

Accelerometer measures acceleration (gravity included) in all 3 axes so you shouldn't have any problems in figuring out the actual orientation.

Some code to start working with accelerometer can be found here:

How to make an iPhone App – Part 5: The Accelerometer

And this nice blog covers the math part:

Using the Accelerometer

What does the "map" method do in Ruby?

#each

#each runs a function for each element in an array. The following two code excerpts are equivalent:

x = 10
["zero", "one", "two"].each{|element|
    x++
    puts element
}
x = 10
array = ["zero", "one", "two"]

for i in 0..2
    x++
    puts array[i]
end

#map

#map applies a function to each element of an array, returning the resulting array. The following are equivalent:

array = ["zero", "one", "two"]
newArray = array.map{|element| element.capitalize()}
array = ["zero", "one", "two"]

newArray = []
array.each{|element|
    newArray << element.capitalize()
}

#map!

#map! is like #map, but modifies the array in place. The following are equivalent:

array = ["zero", "one", "two"]
array.map!{|element| element.capitalize()}
array = ["zero", "one", "two"]
array = array.map{|element| element.capitalize()}

Differences between Octave and MATLAB?

Nested functions and closures are now supported by many languages, including MATLAB. JavaScript promotes closures as a first class design principle.

Sadly, Octave does not support closures (nested functions with lexical scoping).

According http://osdir.com/ml/octave-bug-tracker/2013-06/msg00210.html one might even get the impression that the developers do not want or are unable to get it right.

This will break a lot of code, both ways. No workaround.

Correct way to create rounded corners in Twitter Bootstrap

Bootstrap is just a big, useful, yet simple CSS file - not a framework or anything you can't override. I say this because I've noticed many developers got stick with BS classes and became lazy "I-can't-write-CSS-code-anymore" coders [this not being your case of course!].

If it features something you need, go with Bootstrap classes - if not, go write your additional code in good ol' style.css.

To have best of both worlds, you may write your own declarations in LESS and recompile the whole thing upon your needs, minimizing server request as a bonus.

Android EditText Max Length

Possible duplicate of Limit text length of EditText in Android

Use android:maxLength="140"

That should work. :)

Hope that helps

With CSS, how do I make an image span the full width of the page as a background image?

Background images, ideally, are always done with CSS. All other images are done with html. This will span the whole background of your site.

body {
  background: url('../images/cat.ong');
  background-size: cover;
  background-position: center;
  background-attachment: fixed;
}

Bootstrap onClick button event

If, like me, you had dynamically created buttons on your page, the

$("#your-bs-button's-id").on("click", function(event) {
                       or
$(".your-bs-button's-class").on("click", function(event) {

methods won't work because they only work on current elements (not future elements). Instead you need to reference a parent item that existed at the initial loading of the web page.

$(document).on("click", "#your-bs-button's-id", function(event) {
                       or more generally
$("#pre-existing-element-id").on("click", ".your-bs-button's-class", function(event) {

There are many other references to this issue on stack overflow here and here.

typeof operator in C

It's not exactly an operator, rather a keyword. And no, it doesn't do any runtime-magic.

Dropdown using javascript onchange

easy

<script>
jQuery.noConflict()(document).ready(function() {
    $('#hide').css('display','none');
    $('#plano').change(function(){

        if(document.getElementById('plano').value == 1){
            $('#hide').show('slow');    

        }else 
            if(document.getElementById('plano').value == 0){

             $('#hide').hide('slow'); 
        }else
            if(document.getElementById('plano').value == 0){
             $('#hide').css('display','none');  

            }

    });
    $('#plano').change();
});
</script>

this example shows and hides the div if selected in combobox some specific value

Make virtualenv inherit specific packages from your global site-packages

Install virtual env with

virtualenv --system-site-packages

and use pip install -U to install matplotlib

What exactly does a jar file contain?

A .jar file is akin to a .exe file. In essence, they are both executable zip files (different zip algorithms).

In a jar file, you will see folders and class files. Each class file is similar to your .o file, and is a compiled java archive.

If you wanted to see the code in a jar file, download a java decompiler (located here: http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui) and a .jar extractor (7zip works fine).

fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

This is commonly caused by running out of file descriptors.

There is the systems total file descriptor limit, what do you get from the command:

sysctl fs.file-nr

This returns counts of file descriptors:

<in_use> <unused_but_allocated> <maximum>

To find out what a users file descriptor limit is run the commands:

sudo su - <username>
ulimit -Hn

To find out how many file descriptors are in use by a user run the command:

sudo lsof -u <username> 2>/dev/null | wc -l

So now if you are having a system file descriptor limit issue you will need to edit your /etc/sysctl.conf file and add, or modify it it already exists, a line with fs.file-max and set it to a value large enough to deal with the number of file descriptors you need and reboot.

fs.file-max = 204708

Difference between $(this) and event.target?

Within an event handler function or object method, one way to access the properties of "the containing element" is to use the special this keyword. The this keyword represents the owner of the function or method currently being processed. So:

  • For a global function, this represents the window.

  • For an object method, this represents the object instance.

  • And in an event handler, this represents the element that received the event.

For example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script>
        function mouseDown() {
            alert(this);
        }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p onmouseup="mouseDown();alert(this);">Hi</p>
    </body>
</html>

The content of alert windows after rendering this html respectively are:

object Window
object HTMLParagraphElement

An Event object is associated with all events. It has properties that provide information "about the event", such as the location of a mouse click in the web page.

For example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script>
        function mouseDown(event) {
            var theEvent = event ? event : window.event;
            var locString = "X = " + theEvent.screenX + " Y = " + theEvent.screenY;
            alert(event);
                    alert(locString);
        }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p onmouseup="mouseDown(event);">Hi</p>
    </body>
</html>

The content of alert windows after rendering this html respectively are:

object MouseEvent
X = 982 Y = 329

How to access route, post, get etc. parameters in Zend Framework 2

The easisest way to get a posted json string, for example, is to read the contents of 'php://input' and then decode it. For example i had a simple Zend route:

'save-json' => array(
'type' => 'Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Segment',
            'options' => array(
                'route'    => '/save-json/',
                'defaults' => array(
                    'controller' => 'CDB\Controller\Index',
                    'action'     => 'save-json',
                ),
            ),
        ),

and i wanted to post data to it using Angular's $http.post. The post was fine but the retrive method in Zend

$this->params()->fromPost('paramname'); 

didn't get anything in this case. So my solution was, after trying all kinds of methods like $_POST and the other methods stated above, to read from 'php://':

$content = file_get_contents('php://input');
print_r(json_decode($content));

I got my json array in the end. Hope this helps.

How to install maven on redhat linux

Sometimes you may get "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/classworlds/Launcher" even after setting M2_HOME and PATH parameters correctly.

This exception is because your JDK/Java version need to be updated/installed.

How to run specific test cases in GoogleTest

You could use advanced options to run Google tests.

To run only some unit tests you could use --gtest_filter=Test_Cases1* command line option with value that accepts the * and ? wildcards for matching with multiple tests. I think it will solve your problem.

UPD:

Well, the question was how to run specific test cases. Integration of gtest with your GUI is another thing, which I can't really comment, because you didn't provide details of your approach. However I believe the following approach might be a good start:

  1. Get all testcases by running tests with --gtest_list_tests
  2. Parse this data into your GUI
  3. Select test cases you want ro run
  4. Run test executable with option --gtest_filter

Excel - Button to go to a certain sheet

In Excel 2007, goto Insert/Shape and pick a shape. Colour it and enter whatever text you want. Then right click on the shape and insert a hyperlink

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A few tips with shapes..

If you want to easily position the shape with cells, hold down Alt when you move the shape and it will lock to the cell. If you don't want the shape to move or resize with rows/columns, right click the shape, select size and properties and choose the setting which works best.

top -c command in linux to filter processes listed based on processname

Most of the answers fail here, when process list exceeds 20 processes. That is top -p option limit. For those with older top that does not support filtering with o options, here is a scriptable example to get full screen/console outuput (summary information is missing from this output).

__keyword="YOUR_FILTER" ; ( FILL=""; for i in  $( seq 1 $(stty size|cut -f1 -d" ")); do FILL=$'\n'$FILL; done ;  while :; do HSIZE=$(( $(stty size|cut -f1 -d" ")  - 1 ));  (top -bcn1 | grep "$__keyword"; echo "$FILL" )|head -n$HSIZE; sleep 1;done )

Some explanations

__keyword = your grep filter keyword
HSIZE=console height
FILL=new lines to fill the screen if list is shorter than console height
top -bcn1 = batch, full commandline, repeat once

cmake - find_library - custom library location

The simplest solution may be to add HINTS to each find_* request.

For example:

find_library(CURL_LIBRARY
    NAMES curl curllib libcurl_imp curllib_static
    HINTS "${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}/curl/lib"
)

For Boost I would strongly recommend using the FindBoost standard module and setting the BOOST_DIR variable to point to your Boost libraries.

ggplot legends - change labels, order and title

You need to do two things:

  1. Rename and re-order the factor levels before the plot
  2. Rename the title of each legend to the same title

The code:

dtt$model <- factor(dtt$model, levels=c("mb", "ma", "mc"), labels=c("MBB", "MAA", "MCC"))

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(dtt, aes(x=year, y=V, group = model, colour = model, ymin = lower, ymax = upper)) +
  geom_ribbon(alpha = 0.35, linetype=0)+ 
  geom_line(aes(linetype=model), size = 1) +       
  geom_point(aes(shape=model), size=4)  +      
  theme(legend.position=c(.6,0.8)) +
  theme(legend.background = element_rect(colour = 'black', fill = 'grey90', size = 1, linetype='solid')) +
  scale_linetype_discrete("Model 1") +
  scale_shape_discrete("Model 1") +
  scale_colour_discrete("Model 1")

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However, I think this is really ugly as well as difficult to interpret. It's far better to use facets:

ggplot(dtt, aes(x=year, y=V, group = model, colour = model, ymin = lower, ymax = upper)) +
  geom_ribbon(alpha=0.2, colour=NA)+ 
  geom_line() +       
  geom_point()  +      
  facet_wrap(~model)

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How do I start an activity from within a Fragment?

I done it, below code is working for me....

@Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.hello_world, container, false);

        Button newPage = (Button)v.findViewById(R.id.click);
        newPage.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), HomeActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });
        return v;
    }

and Please make sure that your destination activity should be register in Manifest.xml file,

but in my case all tabs are not shown in HomeActivity, is any solution for that ?

Insert using LEFT JOIN and INNER JOIN

You have to be specific about the columns you are selecting. If your user table had four columns id, name, username, opted_in you must select exactly those four columns from the query. The syntax looks like:

INSERT INTO user (id, name, username, opted_in)
  SELECT id, name, username, opted_in 
  FROM user LEFT JOIN user_permission AS userPerm ON user.id = userPerm.user_id

However, there does not appear to be any reason to join against user_permission here, since none of the columns from that table would be inserted into user. In fact, this INSERT seems bound to fail with primary key uniqueness violations.

MySQL does not support inserts into multiple tables at the same time. You either need to perform two INSERT statements in your code, using the last insert id from the first query, or create an AFTER INSERT trigger on the primary table.

INSERT INTO user (name, username, email, opted_in) VALUES ('a','b','c',0);
/* Gets the id of the new row and inserts into the other table */
INSERT INTO user_permission (user_id, permission_id) VALUES (LAST_INSERT_ID(), 4)

Or using a trigger:

CREATE TRIGGER creat_perms AFTER INSERT ON `user`
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  INSERT INTO user_permission (user_id, permission_id) VALUES (NEW.id, 4)
END

Sorting options elements alphabetically using jQuery

<select id="mSelect" >
    <option value="val1" > DEF </option>
    <option value="val4" > GRT </option>
    <option value="val2" > ABC </option>
    <option value="val3" > OPL </option>
    <option value="val5" > AWS </option>
    <option value="val9" > BTY </option>
</select>

.

$("#mSelect").append($("#mSelect option").remove().sort(function(a, b) {
    var at = $(a).text(), bt = $(b).text();
    return (at > bt)?1:((at < bt)?-1:0);
}));

encapsulation vs abstraction real world example

Let me give my 2 cents of a real-world example-analogy close to IT.

Lets say you have a subscription site, e.g a wordpress site

Each user has a role, eg admin, subscriber and so on. Many users can be admins, subscribers etc..

So abstraction here is reflected in the fact that any user with admin role can do a set of things, it does not matter which specific user this is (this is an example of abstraction).

On the other hand, subscriber users do not have access to certain settings of the site, thus some internals of the application are encapsulated for plain subscribers (this is an example of encapsulation)

As one can see abstraction and encapsulation are relative concepts, they apply with respect to something specific.

One can follow this line of reasoning and explain polymoprhism and inheritance.

For example super-admin users could do all the things admin users could do, plus some more. Moreover, if admin roles get an update in functionality, super-admins would get the same update. Thus one can see here an example of inheritance, in that super-admin roles inherit all the properties of admin roles and extend them. Note that for most part of the site, admins are interchangeable with super-admins (meaning a super-admin user can easily be used in place of an admin user, but not vice-versa in general).

Make absolute positioned div expand parent div height

Feeela is right but you can get a parent div contracting or expanding to a child element if you reverse your div positioning like this:

.parent {
    position: absolute;
    /* position it in the browser using the `left`, `top` and `margin` 
       attributes */
}

.child {
    position: relative;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;

    overflow: hidden;
    /* to pad or move it around using `left` and `top` inside the parent */
}

This should work for you.

Add back button to action bar

Simpler and better: For API >= 16

Simply add "parentActivityName" for each activity in Manifest. The back button will automatically take u to the parent activity.

<activity
        android:name="com.example.myfirstapp.DisplayMessageActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_display_message"
        android:parentActivityName="com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity" >

how to use json file in html code

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"> </script>

<script>

    $(function() {


   var people = [];

   $.getJSON('people.json', function(data) {
       $.each(data.person, function(i, f) {
          var tblRow = "<tr>" + "<td>" + f.firstName + "</td>" +
           "<td>" + f.lastName + "</td>" + "<td>" + f.job + "</td>" + "<td>" + f.roll + "</td>" + "</tr>"
           $(tblRow).appendTo("#userdata tbody");
     });

   });

});
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div class="wrapper">
<div class="profile">
   <table id= "userdata" border="2">
  <thead>
            <th>First Name</th>
            <th>Last Name</th>
            <th>Email Address</th>
            <th>City</th>
        </thead>
      <tbody>

       </tbody>
   </table>

</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

My JSON file:

{
   "person": [
       {
           "firstName": "Clark",
           "lastName": "Kent",
           "job": "Reporter",
           "roll": 20
       },
       {
           "firstName": "Bruce",
           "lastName": "Wayne",
           "job": "Playboy",
           "roll": 30
       },
       {
           "firstName": "Peter",
           "lastName": "Parker",
           "job": "Photographer",
           "roll": 40
       }
   ]
}

I succeeded in integrating a JSON file to HTML table after working a day on it!!!

Where is the .NET Framework 4.5 directory?

.NET 4.5 is an in place replacement for 4.0 - you will find the assemblies in the 4.0 directory.

See the blogs by Rick Strahl and Scott Hanselman on this topic.

You can also find the specific versions in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework

Why is datetime.strptime not working in this simple example?

You can also do the following,to import datetime

from datetime import datetime as dt

dt.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d')

Using Helvetica Neue in a Website

Assuming you have referenced and correctly integrated your font to your site (presumably using an @font-face kit) it should be alright to just reference yours the way you do. Presumably it is like this so they have fall backs incase some browsers do not render the fonts correctly

SVN icon overlays not showing properly

First clear the temporary files in Windows system, then restart your system.

Run > %temp% > delete all files

IIS 7, HttpHandler and HTTP Error 500.21

One solution that I've found is that you should have to change the .Net Framework back to v2.0 by Right Clicking on the site that you have manager under the Application Pools from the Advance Settings.

jquery simple image slideshow tutorial

I dont know why you havent marked on of these gr8 answers... here is another option which would enable you and anyone else visiting to control transition speed and pause time

JAVASCRIPT

$(function () {

    /* SET PARAMETERS */
    var change_img_time     = 5000; 
    var transition_speed    = 100;

    var simple_slideshow    = $("#exampleSlider"),
        listItems           = simple_slideshow.children('li'),
        listLen             = listItems.length,
        i                   = 0,

        changeList = function () {

            listItems.eq(i).fadeOut(transition_speed, function () {
                i += 1;
                if (i === listLen) {
                    i = 0;
                }
                listItems.eq(i).fadeIn(transition_speed);
            });

        };

    listItems.not(':first').hide();
    setInterval(changeList, change_img_time);

});

.

HTML

<ul id="exampleSlider">
    <li><img src="http://placehold.it/500x250" alt="" /></li>
    <li><img src="http://placehold.it/500x250" alt="" /></li>
    <li><img src="http://placehold.it/500x250" alt="" /></li>
    <li><img src="http://placehold.it/500x250" alt="" /></li>
</ul>

.
If your keeping this simple its easy to keep it resposive
best to visit the: DEMO

.
If you want something with special transition FX (Still responsive) - check this out
DEMO WITH SPECIAL FX

Convert Current date to integer

If you need only an integer representing elapsed days since Jan. 1, 1970, you can try these:

// magic number=
// millisec * sec * min * hours
// 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 = 86400000
public static final long MAGIC=86400000L;

public int DateToDays (Date date){
    //  convert a date to an integer and back again
    long currentTime=date.getTime();
    currentTime=currentTime/MAGIC;
    return (int) currentTime; 
}

public Date DaysToDate(int days) {
    //  convert integer back again to a date
    long currentTime=(long) days*MAGIC;
    return new Date(currentTime);
}

Shorter but less readable (slightly faster?):

public static final long MAGIC=86400000L;

public int DateToDays (Date date){
    return (int) (date.getTime()/MAGIC);
}

public Date DaysToDate(int days) {
    return new Date((long) days*MAGIC);
}

Hope this helps.

EDIT: This could work until Fri Jul 11 01:00:00 CET 5881580

What key shortcuts are to comment and uncomment code?

Keyboard accelerators are configurable. You can find out which keyboard accelerators are bound to a command in Tools -> Options on the Environment -> Keyboard page.

These commands are named Edit.CommentSelection and Edit.UncommentSelection.

(With my settings, these are bound to Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U. I would guess that these are the defaults, at least in the C++ defaults, but I don't know for sure. The best way to find out is to check your settings.)

Change width of select tag in Twitter Bootstrap

I did a workaround by creating a new css class in my custom stylesheet as follows:

.selectwidthauto
{
     width:auto !important;
}

And then applied this class to all my select elements either manually like:

<select id="State" class="selectwidthauto">
...
</select>

Or using jQuery:

$('select').addClass('selectwidthauto');

Styling HTML5 input type number

There is a way:

<input type="number" min="0" max="100" step="5"/>  

git pull error "The requested URL returned error: 503 while accessing"

Had the same error while using SourceTree connected to BitBucket repository.

When navigating to repository url on bitbucket.org the warning message appeared:

This repository is in read-only mode. You caught us doing some quick maintenance.

After around 2 hours repository was accessible again.

You can check status and uptime of bitbucket here: http://status.bitbucket.org/

parsing JSONP $http.jsonp() response in angular.js

This was very helpful. Angular doesn't work exactly like JQuery. It has its own jsonp() method, which indeed requires "&callback=JSON_CALLBACK" at the end of the query string. Here's an example:

var librivoxSearch = angular.module('librivoxSearch', []);
librivoxSearch.controller('librivoxSearchController', function ($scope, $http) {
    $http.jsonp('http://librivox.org/api/feed/audiobooks/author/Melville?format=jsonp&callback=JSON_CALLBACK').success(function (data) {
        $scope.data = data;
    });
});

Then display or manipulate {{ data }} in your Angular template.

Filter dataframe rows if value in column is in a set list of values

You can also directly query your DataFrame for this information.

rpt.query('STK_ID in (600809,600141,600329)')

Or similarly search for ranges:

rpt.query('60000 < STK_ID < 70000')

Adding event listeners to dynamically added elements using jQuery

Using .on() you can define your function once, and it will execute for any dynamically added elements.

for example

$('#staticDiv').on('click', 'yourSelector', function() {
  //do something
});

Excel VBA - select a dynamic cell range

I like to used this method the most, it will auto select the first column to the last column being used. However, if the last cell in the first row or the last cell in the first column are empty, this code will not calculate properly. Check the link for other methods to dynamically select cell range.

Sub DynamicRange()
'Best used when first column has value on last row and first row has a value in the last column

Dim sht As Worksheet
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim LastColumn As Long
Dim StartCell As Range

Set sht = Worksheets("Sheet1")
Set StartCell = Range("A1")

'Find Last Row and Column
  LastRow = sht.Cells(sht.Rows.Count, StartCell.Column).End(xlUp).Row
  LastColumn = sht.Cells(StartCell.Row, sht.Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

'Select Range
  sht.Range(StartCell, sht.Cells(LastRow, LastColumn)).Select

End Sub

Making button go full-width?

<div class="col-md-9">
    <button class="btn btn-block btn-primary" type="button">Block level button</button>
</div>

In Bootstrap 3, this should be all you need. I believe btn-large was overriding the width of btn-block.

Return array from function

Your BlockID function uses the undefined variable images, which will lead to an error. Also, you should not use an Array here - JavaScripts key-value-maps are plain objects:

function BlockID() {
    return {
        "s": "Images/Block_01.png",
        "g": "Images/Block_02.png",
        "C": "Images/Block_03.png",
        "d": "Images/Block_04.png"
    };
}

Is there any way to install Composer globally on Windows?

Sure. Just put composer.phar somewhere like C:\php\composer.phar, then make a batch file somewhere within the PATH called composer.bat which does the following:

@ECHO OFF
php "%~dp0composer.phar" %*

The "%*" repeats all of the arguments passed to the shell script.

Then you can run around doing composer update all ya want!

How to POST JSON request using Apache HttpClient?

Apache HttpClient doesn't know anything about JSON, so you'll need to construct your JSON separately. To do so, I recommend checking out the simple JSON-java library from json.org. (If "JSON-java" doesn't suit you, json.org has a big list of libraries available in different languages.)

Once you've generated your JSON, you can use something like the code below to POST it

StringRequestEntity requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(
    JSON_STRING,
    "application/json",
    "UTF-8");

PostMethod postMethod = new PostMethod("http://example.com/action");
postMethod.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);

int statusCode = httpClient.executeMethod(postMethod);

Edit

Note - The above answer, as asked for in the question, applies to Apache HttpClient 3.1. However, to help anyone looking for an implementation against the latest Apache client:

StringEntity requestEntity = new StringEntity(
    JSON_STRING,
    ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);

HttpPost postMethod = new HttpPost("http://example.com/action");
postMethod.setEntity(requestEntity);

HttpResponse rawResponse = httpclient.execute(postMethod);

Find out a Git branch creator

I tweaked the previous answers by using the --sort flag and added some color/formatting:

git for-each-ref --format='%(color:cyan)%(authordate:format:%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p)    %(align:25,left)%(color:yellow)%(authorname)%(end) %(color:reset)%(refname:strip=3)' --sort=authordate refs/remotes

Password must have at least one non-alpha character

A simple method will be like this:

Match match1 = Regex.Match(<input_string>, @"(?=.{7})");   

match1.Success ensures that there are at least 8 characters.

Match match2 = Regex.Match(<input_string>, [^a-zA-Z]);

match2.Success ensures that there is at least one special character or number within the string.

So, match1.Success && match2.Success guarantees will get what you want.

Renaming Columns in an SQL SELECT Statement

select column1 as xyz,
      column2 as pqr,
.....

from TableName;

How to get < span > value?

Try this

var div = document.getElementById("test");
var spans = div.getElementsByTagName("span");

for(i=0;i<spans.length;i++)
{
  alert(spans[i].innerHTML);
}

How to create web service (server & Client) in Visual Studio 2012?

WCF is a newer technology that is a viable alternative in many instances. ASP is great and works well, but I personally prefer WCF. And you can do it in .Net 4.5.

WCF Project

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Create a new project. enter image description here Right-Click on the project in solution explorer, select "Add Service Reference" enter image description here

Create a textbox and button in the new application. Below is my click event for the button:

private void btnGo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ServiceReference1.Service1Client testClient = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client();
        //Add error handling, null checks, etc...
        int iValue = int.Parse(txtInput.Text);
        string sResult = testClient.GetData(iValue).ToString();
        MessageBox.Show(sResult);
    }

And you're done. enter image description here

Redirect non-www to www in .htaccess

This configuration worked for me in bitnami wordpress with SSL configured :

Added the below under "RewriteEngine On" in file /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/conf/httpd-app.conf

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http%{ENV:protossl}://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

angularjs make a simple countdown

I updated Mr. ganaraj answer to show stop and resume functionality and added angular js filter to format countdown timer

it is here on jsFiddle

controller code

'use strict';
var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);
myApp.controller('AlbumCtrl', function($scope,$timeout) {
    $scope.counter = 0;
    $scope.stopped = false;
    $scope.buttonText='Stop';
    $scope.onTimeout = function(){
        $scope.counter++;
        mytimeout = $timeout($scope.onTimeout,1000);
    }
    var mytimeout = $timeout($scope.onTimeout,1000);
    $scope.takeAction = function(){
        if(!$scope.stopped){
            $timeout.cancel(mytimeout);
            $scope.buttonText='Resume';
        }
        else
        {
            mytimeout = $timeout($scope.onTimeout,1000);
            $scope.buttonText='Stop';
        }
            $scope.stopped=!$scope.stopped;
    }   
});

filter-code adapted from RobG from stackoverflow

myApp.filter('formatTimer', function() {
  return function(input)
    {
        function z(n) {return (n<10? '0' : '') + n;}
        var seconds = input % 60;
        var minutes = Math.floor(input / 60);
        var hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
        return (z(hours) +':'+z(minutes)+':'+z(seconds));
    };
});

Android ImageView Fixing Image Size

You can also try this, suppose if you want to make a back image button and you have "500x500 png" and want it to fit in small button size.

Use dp to fix ImageView's size.

add this line of code to your Imageview.

android:scaleType="fitXY"

EXAMPLE:

<ImageView
        android:layout_width="50dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:id="@+id/imageView2"
        android:src="@drawable/Backicon"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"
        />

python numpy vector math

You can just use numpy arrays. Look at the numpy for matlab users page for a detailed overview of the pros and cons of arrays w.r.t. matrices.

As I mentioned in the comment, having to use the dot() function or method for mutiplication of vectors is the biggest pitfall. But then again, numpy arrays are consistent. All operations are element-wise. So adding or subtracting arrays and multiplication with a scalar all work as expected of vectors.

Edit2: Starting with Python 3.5 and numpy 1.10 you can use the @ infix-operator for matrix multiplication, thanks to pep 465.

Edit: Regarding your comment:

  1. Yes. The whole of numpy is based on arrays.

  2. Yes. linalg.norm(v) is a good way to get the length of a vector. But what you get depends on the possible second argument to norm! Read the docs.

  3. To normalize a vector, just divide it by the length you calculated in (2). Division of arrays by a scalar is also element-wise.

    An example in ipython:

    In [1]: import math
    
    In [2]: import numpy as np
    
    In [3]: a = np.array([4,2,7])
    
    In [4]: np.linalg.norm(a)
    Out[4]: 8.3066238629180749
    
    In [5]: math.sqrt(sum([n**2 for n in a]))
    Out[5]: 8.306623862918075
    
    In [6]: b = a/np.linalg.norm(a)
    
    In [7]: np.linalg.norm(b)
    Out[7]: 1.0
    

    Note that In [5] is an alternative way to calculate the length. In [6] shows normalizing the vector.

SQL query to find record with ID not in another table

SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM tblA a
WHERE a.ID NOT IN (SELECT b.ID FROM tblB b)    --For count


SELECT ID FROM tblA a
WHERE a.ID NOT IN (SELECT b.ID FROM tblB b)    --For results

How to find EOF through fscanf?

If you have integers in your file fscanf returns 1 until integer occurs. For example:

FILE *in = fopen("./task.in", "r");
int length = 0;
int counter;
int sequence;

for ( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {
    counter = fscanf(in, "%d", &sequence);
    if ( counter == 1 ) {
        length += 1;
    }
}

To find out the end of the file with symbols you can use EOF. For example:

char symbol;
FILE *in = fopen("./task.in", "r");

for ( ; fscanf(in, "%c", &symbol) != EOF; ) {
    printf("%c", symbol); 
}