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Is it legal? Yes, changing your location on Android is legal. Likewise, you can change VPN settings in Microsoft Edge on your PC, and all this is within the law. VPN allows you to change your IP address, safeguarding your privacy and protecting your actual location from being exposed. However, VPN laws may vary from country to country. There are restrictions in some regions.

Brief summary: Yes, you can change your region on Android and a VPN is a necessary assistant for this. It's simple, safe and legal. Today, VPN is the best way to change the region and unblock sites with regional restrictions.

find . -name "*.ear" | xargs ls -sh

To keep this question current it is worth highlighting that AssemblyInformationalVersion is used by NuGet and reflects the package version including any pre-release suffix.

For example an AssemblyVersion of 1.0.3.* packaged with the asp.net core dotnet-cli

dotnet pack --version-suffix ci-7 src/MyProject

Produces a package with version 1.0.3-ci-7 which you can inspect with reflection using:

CustomAttributeExtensions.GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute>(asm);

Make sure you don't have any firewalls blocking SMTP. The first time I tried to send an email, it was blocked both by Windows Firewall and McAfee - took forever to find them both.

'   Cell style
 With .DefaultCellStyle
     .BackColor = Color.Black
     .ForeColor = Color.White 
     .Font = New System.Drawing.Font("Microsoft Sans Serif", 11.0!,
   System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular,
   System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, CType(0, Byte))
      .Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleRight
 End With

With the user.language, user.country and user.variant properties.

Example:

java -Duser.language=th -Duser.country=TH -Duser.variant=TH SomeClass

A few people have mentioned using or overriding Object.clone(). Don't do it. Object.clone() has some major problems, and its use is discouraged in most cases. Please see Item 11, from "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch for a complete answer. I believe you can safely use Object.clone() on primitive type arrays, but apart from that you need to be judicious about properly using and overriding clone.

The schemes that rely on serialization (XML or otherwise) are kludgy.

There is no easy answer here. If you want to deep copy an object you will have to traverse the object graph and copy each child object explicitly via the object's copy constructor or a static factory method that in turn deep copies the child object. Immutables (e.g. Strings) do not need to be copied. As an aside, you should favor immutability for this reason.

If your server supports Short Tags, or you use PHP 5.4, you can use:

<?=date("Y")?>

A quick-and-dirty match to Unix which is

New-Alias which where.exe

But it returns multiple lines if they exist so then it becomes

function which {where.exe command | select -first 1}

Also check this article. Supposedly Microsoft released their Enterprise Library (v4.0) from their patterns and practices where they cover the validation subject but god knows why they didn't included validation for WPF, so the blog post I'm directing you to, explains what the author did to adapt it. Hope this helps!

SELECT  
(CASE 
     WHEN (Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y') THEN 'YES'
                                            ELSE 'NO' 
 END) as Salable
, * 
FROM Product

You might need to clarify a bit. What are you really trying to accomplish? If you really want to find out the column names that only contain null values, then you will have to loop through the scheama and do a dynamic query based on that.

I don't know which DBMS you are using, so I'll put some pseudo-code here.

for each col
begin
  @cmd = 'if not exists (select * from tablename where ' + col + ' is not null begin print ' + col + ' end'
exec(@cmd)
end

Linux

A portable way of reading memory and load numbers is the sysinfo call

Usage

   #include <sys/sysinfo.h>

   int sysinfo(struct sysinfo *info);

DESCRIPTION

   Until Linux 2.3.16, sysinfo() used to return information in the
   following structure:

       struct sysinfo {
           long uptime;             /* Seconds since boot */
           unsigned long loads[3];  /* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages */
           unsigned long totalram;  /* Total usable main memory size */
           unsigned long freeram;   /* Available memory size */
           unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
           unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
           unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
           unsigned long freeswap;  /* swap space still available */
           unsigned short procs;    /* Number of current processes */
           char _f[22];             /* Pads structure to 64 bytes */
       };

   and the sizes were given in bytes.

   Since Linux 2.3.23 (i386), 2.3.48 (all architectures) the structure
   is:

       struct sysinfo {
           long uptime;             /* Seconds since boot */
           unsigned long loads[3];  /* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages */
           unsigned long totalram;  /* Total usable main memory size */
           unsigned long freeram;   /* Available memory size */
           unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
           unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
           unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
           unsigned long freeswap;  /* swap space still available */
           unsigned short procs;    /* Number of current processes */
           unsigned long totalhigh; /* Total high memory size */
           unsigned long freehigh;  /* Available high memory size */
           unsigned int mem_unit;   /* Memory unit size in bytes */
           char _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)]; /* Padding to 64 bytes */
       };

   and the sizes are given as multiples of mem_unit bytes.

I would use Google Collections. There is a nice Join facility.
http://google-collections.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/index.html?com/google/common/base/Join.html

But if I wanted to write it on my own,

package util;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterable;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;

public class Utils {
    // accept a collection of objects, since all objects have toString()
    public static String join(String delimiter, Iterable<? extends Object> objs) {
        if (objs.isEmpty()) {
            return "";
        }
        Iterator<? extends Object> iter = objs.iterator();
        StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
        buffer.append(iter.next());
        while (iter.hasNext()) {
            buffer.append(delimiter).append(iter.next());
        }
        return buffer.toString();
    }

    // for convenience
    public static String join(String delimiter, Object... objs) {
        ArrayList<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();
        Collections.addAll(list, objs);
        return join(delimiter, list);
    }
}

I think it works better with an object collection, since now you don't have to convert your objects to strings before you join them.

It looks like not all of your prerequisites are really working as they should be. Also, you'll want to make sure that you are installing from the console itself and not through any kind of remote session at all. (I know, this is a pain in the a@@, but sometimes it makes a difference.)

You can acess the SQL Server 2005 Books Online on the Web at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214(SQL.90).aspx. This documentation should help you decipher the logs.

Bonus tidbit: Once you get that far, if you plan on installing SP2 without getting an installation that fails and rolls back, another little pearl of wisdom is described here: http://blog.andreloker.de/post/2008/07/17/SQL-Server-hotfix-KB948109-fails-with-error-1920.aspx. (My issue was that the "SQL Server VSS Writer" (Service) was not even installed.) Good luck!

Connection reset simply means that a TCP RST was received. This happens when your peer receives data that it can't process, and there can be various reasons for that.

The simplest is when you close the socket, and then write more data on the output stream. By closing the socket, you told your peer that you are done talking, and it can forget about your connection. When you send more data on that stream anyway, the peer rejects it with an RST to let you know it isn't listening.

In other cases, an intervening firewall or even the remote host itself might "forget" about your TCP connection. This could happen if you don't send any data for a long time (2 hours is a common time-out), or because the peer was rebooted and lost its information about active connections. Sending data on one of these defunct connections will cause a RST too.

Update in response to additional information:

Take a close look at your handling of the SocketTimeoutException. This exception is raised if the configured timeout is exceeded while blocked on a socket operation. The state of the socket itself is not changed when this exception is thrown, but if your exception handler closes the socket, and then tries to write to it, you'll be in a connection reset condition. setSoTimeout() is meant to give you a clean way to break out of a read() operation that might otherwise block forever, without doing dirty things like closing the socket from another thread.

"binary semaphore" is a programming language circumvent to use a «semaphore» like «mutex». Apparently there are two very big differences:

1. The way you call each one of them.

2. The maximum length of the "identifier".

Microsoft Windows: Windows kernel forbids the use of characters in range 1-31 (i.e., 0x01-0x1F) and characters " * : < > ? \ |. Although NTFS allows each path component (directory or filename) to be 255 characters long and paths up to about 32767 characters long, the Windows kernel only supports paths up to 259 characters long. Additionally, Windows forbids the use of the MS-DOS device names AUX, CLOCK$, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, CON, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9, NUL and PRN, as well as these names with any extension (for example, AUX.txt), except when using Long UNC paths (ex. \.\C:\nul.txt or \?\D:\aux\con). (In fact, CLOCK$ may be used if an extension is provided.) These restrictions only apply to Windows - Linux, for example, allows use of " * : < > ? \ | even in NTFS.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename

You need to fix your include_path system variable to point to the correct location.

To fix it edit the php.ini file. In that file you will find a line that says, "include_path = ...". (You can find out what the location of php.ini by running phpinfo() on a page.) Fix the part of the line that says, "\xampplite\php\pear\PEAR" to read "C:\xampplite\php\pear". Make sure to leave the semi-colons before and/or after the line in place.

Restart PHP and you should be good to go. To restart PHP in IIS you can restart the application pool assigned to your site or, better yet, restart IIS all together.

The time problem has to do with the ID3 headers of the MP3 files, which is something your method isn't taking into account as the entire file is copied.

Do you have a language of choice that you want to use or doesn't it matter? That will affect what libraries are available that support the operations you want.

As mentioned earlier, you'll create the add and delete commands. You can use svn move on both your working copy or the repository url. If you use your working copy, the changes won't be committed - you'll need to commit in a separate operation.

If you svn move a URL, you'll need to supply a --message, and the changes will be reflected in the repository immediately.

Just use the str().lower() method, unless high-performance is important - in which case write that sorting method as a C extension.

"How to write a Python Extension" seems like a decent intro..

More interestingly, This guide compares using the ctypes library vs writing an external C module (the ctype is quite-substantially slower than the C extension).

It doesn't matter. int is the language keyword and Int32 its actual system type.

See also my answer here to a related question.

An alternative way to code Brettski's answer, with which I otherwise agree entirely, might be

With New FileSystemObject
    If .FileExists(yourFilePath) Then
        .DeleteFile yourFilepath
    End If
End With

Same effect but fewer (well, none at all) variable declarations.

The FileSystemObject is a really useful tool and well worth getting friendly with. Apart from anything else, for text file writing it can actually sometimes be faster than the legacy alternative, which may surprise a few people. (In my experience at least, YMMV).

You only need to use "git clone" to get all branches.

git clone <your_http_url>

Even though you only see master branch, you can use "git branch -a" to see all branches.

git branch -a

And you can switch to any branch which you already have.

git checkout <your_branch_name>

Don't worry that after you "git clone", you don't need to connect with the remote repo, "git branch -a" and "git checkout " can be run successfully when you close your wifi. So it is proved that when you do "git clone", it already has copied all branches from the remote repo. After that, you don't need the remote repo, your local already has all branches' codes.

You can use the pkgutil module (specifically the walk_packages method) to get a list of the packages in the current directory. From there it's trivial to use the importlib machinery to import the modules you want:

import pkgutil
import importlib

packages = pkgutil.walk_packages(path='.')
for importer, name, is_package in packages:
    mod = importlib.import_module(name)
    # do whatever you want with module now, it's been imported!

I've used "TrueTime - part of Compuware's DevPartner suite for years. There's a [free version](you could try Compuware DevPartner Performance Analysis Community Edition.) available.

Every day in our office there is an exchange which goes something like this:

"Man, I just love unit tests, I've just been able to make a bunch of changes to the way something works, and then was able to confirm I hadn't broken anything by running the test over it again..."

The details change daily, but the sentiment doesn't. Unit tests and test-driven development (TDD) have so many hidden and personal benefits as well as the obvious ones that you just can't really explain to somebody until they're doing it themselves.

But, ignoring that, here's my attempt!

1. Unit Tests allows you to make big changes to code quickly. You know it works now because you've run the tests, when you make the changes you need to make, you need to get the tests working again. This saves hours.

2. TDD helps you to realise when to stop coding. Your tests give you confidence that you've done enough for now and can stop tweaking and move on to the next thing.

3. The tests and the code work together to achieve better code. Your code could be bad / buggy. Your TEST could be bad / buggy. In TDD you are banking on the chances of both being bad / buggy being low. Often it's the test that needs fixing but that's still a good outcome.

4. TDD helps with coding constipation. When faced with a large and daunting piece of work ahead writing the tests will get you moving quickly.

5. Unit Tests help you really understand the design of the code you are working on. Instead of writing code to do something, you are starting by outlining all the conditions you are subjecting the code to and what outputs you'd expect from that.

6. Unit Tests give you instant visual feedback, we all like the feeling of all those green lights when we've done. It's very satisfying. It's also much easier to pick up where you left off after an interruption because you can see where you got to - that next red light that needs fixing.

7. Contrary to popular belief unit testing does not mean writing twice as much code, or coding slower. It's faster and more robust than coding without tests once you've got the hang of it. Test code itself is usually relatively trivial and doesn't add a big overhead to what you're doing. This is one you'll only believe when you're doing it :)

8. I think it was Fowler who said: "Imperfect tests, run frequently, are much better than perfect tests that are never written at all". I interpret this as giving me permission to write tests where I think they'll be most useful even if the rest of my code coverage is woefully incomplete.

9. Good unit tests can help document and define what something is supposed to do

10. Unit tests help with code re-use. Migrate both your code and your tests to your new project. Tweak the code till the tests run again.

A lot of work I'm involved with doesn't Unit Test well (web application user interactions etc.), but even so we're all test infected in this shop, and happiest when we've got our tests tied down. I can't recommend the approach highly enough.

You don't. The C++ standard has no concept of directories. It is up to the implementation to turn a string into a file handle. The contents of that string and what it maps to is OS dependent. Keep in mind that C++ can be used to write that OS, so it gets used at a level where asking how to iterate through a directory is not yet defined (because you are writing the directory management code).

Look at your OS API documentation for how to do this. If you need to be portable, you will have to have a bunch of #ifdefs for various OSes.

http://www.jacksasylum.eu/ContentFlow/

• is the best I ever found. a true 'CoverFlow', highly configurable, cross-browser, very smooth action, has relections and supports scroll wheel + keyboard control. - has to be what your looking for!

I think the solution is simpler and was suggested by some developers. phpMyAdmin has an operation for this.

From phpMyAdmin, select the database you want to select. In the tabs there's one called Operations, go to the rename section. That's all.

It does, as many suggested, create a new database with the new name, dump all tables of the old database into the new database and drop the old database.

I am surprised nobody mentioned the possibility to use XML with Linq :

https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/dotnet/standard/linq/create-xml-trees

XML is the most mature and flexible solution when it comes to using trees and Linq provides you with all the tools that you need. The configuration of your tree also gets much cleaner and user-friendly as you can simply use an XML file for the initialization.

If you need to work with objects, you can use XML serialization :

https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/dotnet/standard/serialization/introducing-xml-serialization

When browsers treat the markup as XML:

<script>
<![CDATA[
    ...code...
]]>
</script>

When browsers treat the markup as HTML:

<script>
    ...code...
</script>

When browsers treat the markup as HTML and you want your XHTML 1.0 markup (for example) to validate.

<script>
//<![CDATA[
    ...code...
//]]>
</script>

Add a linefeed ("\n") to the output:

<textarea>Hello


Bybye</textarea>

Will have a newline in it.

In practice, it usually decides to do a garbage collection. The answer varies depending on lots of factors, like which JVM you're running on, which mode it's in, and which garbage collection algorithm it's using.

I wouldn't depend on it in your code. If the JVM is about to throw an OutOfMemoryError, calling System.gc() won't stop it, because the garbage collector will attempt to free as much as it can before it goes to that extreme. The only time I've seen it used in practice is in IDEs where it's attached to a button that a user can click, but even there it's not terribly useful.

Windows and Linux:

Ctrl + Shift + I keys to open Developer Tools

Ctrl + Shift + J to open Developer Tools and bring focus to the Console.

Ctrl + Shift + C to toggle Inspect Element mode.

Mac:

? + ? + I keys to open Developer Tools

? + ? + J to open Developer Tools and bring focus to the Console.

? + ? + C to toggle Inspect Element mode.

Source

Other shortcuts

That is perfectly acceptable, probably even the standard.

(public/private) static final TYPE NAME = VALUE;

where TYPE is the type, NAME is the name in all caps with underscores for spaces, and VALUE is the constant value;

I highly recommend NOT putting your constants in their own classes or interfaces.

As a side note: Variables that are declared final and are mutable can still be changed; however, the variable can never point at a different object.

For example:

public static final Point ORIGIN = new Point(0,0);

public static void main(String[] args){

    ORIGIN.x = 3;

}

That is legal and ORIGIN would then be a point at (3, 0).

Try App::cpanminus:

# cpanm Chocolate::Belgian

It's great for just getting stuff installed. It provides none of the more complex functionality of CPAN or CPANPLUS, so it's easy to use, provided you know which module you want to install. If you haven't already got cpanminus, just type:

# cpan App::cpanminus

to install it.

It is also possible to install it without using cpan at all. The basic bootstrap procedure is,

curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus

For more information go to the App::cpanminus page and look at the section on installation.

One unit testing framework in C is Check; a list of unit testing frameworks in C can be found here and is reproduced below. Depending on how many standard library functions your runtime has, you may or not be able to use one of those.

AceUnit

AceUnit (Advanced C and Embedded Unit) bills itself as a comfortable C code unit test framework. It tries to mimick JUnit 4.x and includes reflection-like capabilities. AceUnit can be used in resource constraint environments, e.g. embedded software development, and importantly it runs fine in environments where you cannot include a single standard header file and cannot invoke a single standard C function from the ANSI / ISO C libraries. It also has a Windows port. It does not use forks to trap signals, although the authors have expressed interest in adding such a feature. See the AceUnit homepage.

GNU Autounit

Much along the same lines as Check, including forking to run unit tests in a separate address space (in fact, the original author of Check borrowed the idea from GNU Autounit). GNU Autounit uses GLib extensively, which means that linking and such need special options, but this may not be a big problem to you, especially if you are already using GTK or GLib. See the GNU Autounit homepage.

cUnit

Also uses GLib, but does not fork to protect the address space of unit tests.

CUnit

Standard C, with plans for a Win32 GUI implementation. Does not currently fork or otherwise protect the address space of unit tests. In early development. See the CUnit homepage.

CuTest

A simple framework with just one .c and one .h file that you drop into your source tree. See the CuTest homepage.

CppUnit

The premier unit testing framework for C++; you can also use it to test C code. It is stable, actively developed, and has a GUI interface. The primary reasons not to use CppUnit for C are first that it is quite big, and second you have to write your tests in C++, which means you need a C++ compiler. If these don’t sound like concerns, it is definitely worth considering, along with other C++ unit testing frameworks. See the CppUnit homepage.

embUnit

embUnit (Embedded Unit) is another unit test framework for embedded systems. This one appears to be superseded by AceUnit. Embedded Unit homepage.

MinUnit

A minimal set of macros and that’s it! The point is to show how easy it is to unit test your code. See the MinUnit homepage.

CUnit for Mr. Ando

A CUnit implementation that is fairly new, and apparently still in early development. See the CUnit for Mr. Ando homepage.

This list was last updated in March 2008.

More frameworks:

CMocka

CMocka is a test framework for C with support for mock objects. It's easy to use and setup.

See the CMocka homepage.

Criterion

Criterion is a cross-platform C unit testing framework supporting automatic test registration, parameterized tests, theories, and that can output to multiple formats, including TAP and JUnit XML. Each test is run in its own process, so signals and crashes can be reported or tested if needed.

See the Criterion homepage for more information.

HWUT

HWUT is a general Unit Test tool with great support for C. It can help to create Makefiles, generate massive test cases coded in minimal 'iteration tables', walk along state machines, generate C-stubs and more. The general approach is pretty unique: Verdicts are based on 'good stdout/bad stdout'. The comparison function, though, is flexible. Thus, any type of script may be used for checking. It may be applied to any language that can produce standard output.

See the HWUT homepage.

CGreen

A modern, portable, cross-language unit testing and mocking framework for C and C++. It offers an optional BDD notation, a mocking library, the ability to run it in a single process (to make debugging easier). A test runner which discover automatically the test functions is available. But you can create your own programmatically.

All those features (and more) are explained in the CGreen manual.

Wikipedia gives a detailed list of C unit testing frameworks under List of unit testing frameworks: C

Float right the text you want to appear on the right, and in the markup make sure that this text and its surrounding span occurs before the text that should be on the left. If it doesn't occur first, you may have problems with the floated text appearing on a different line.

<html>
  <body>
    <div>
      <span style="float:right">here</span>Lorem Ipsum etc<br/>
      blah<br/>
      blah blah<br/>
      blah<br/>
      <span style="float:right">and here</span>lorem ipsums<br/>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Note that this works for any line, not just the top and bottom corners.

Identifiers are used for class names, method names, and variable names. An identifiermay be any descriptive sequence of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, or theunderscore and dollar-sign characters. They must not begin with a number, lest they beconfused with a numeric literal. Again, Java is case-sensitive, so VALUE is a differentidentifier than Value. Some examples of valid identifiers are:

AvgTemp ,count a4 ,$test ,this_is_ok

Invalid variable names include:

2count, high-temp, Not/ok

for more advanced python editing consider installing the simplefold vim plugin. it allows you do advanced code folding using regular expressions. i use it to fold my class and method definitions for faster editing.

I'm not familiar with DB2, but have you tried COALESCE?

ie:

SELECT Product.ID, COALESCE(product.Name, "Internal") AS ProductName
FROM Product

Also a return in finally will throw away any exception. http://jamesjava.blogspot.com/2006/03/dont-return-in-finally-clause.html

If the doctype of the page you are placing the iframe on is HTML5 then you can use the seamless attribute like so:

<iframe src="..." seamless="seamless"></iframe>

Mozilla docs on the seamless attribute

I also found you can do this via, the database diagrams.

By right clicking the table and selecting Indexes/Keys...

Click the 'Add' button, and change the columns to the column(s) you wish make unique.

Change Is Unique to Yes.

Click close and save the diagram, and it will add it to the table.

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES

That should be a good start. For more, check INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables.

Get-Content -Encoding UTF8 FILE-UTF8.TXT | Out-File -Encoding UTF7 FILE-UTF7.TXT

The shortest version, if you can assume that the input BOM is correct:

gc FILE.TXT | Out-File -en utf7 file-utf7.txt

If you are using subversion, just revert your project files (only) to the last time you knew the debugger was working.

Reading all the answers on this page inspired me a lot.

So, here's my hint:

file content: lib.trap.sh

lib_name='trap'
lib_version=20121026

stderr_log="/dev/shm/stderr.log"

#
# TO BE SOURCED ONLY ONCE:
#
###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~##

if test "${g_libs[$lib_name]+_}"; then
    return 0
else
    if test ${#g_libs[@]} == 0; then
        declare -A g_libs
    fi
    g_libs[$lib_name]=$lib_version
fi


#
# MAIN CODE:
#
###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~##

set -o pipefail  # trace ERR through pipes
set -o errtrace  # trace ERR through 'time command' and other functions
set -o nounset   ## set -u : exit the script if you try to use an uninitialised variable
set -o errexit   ## set -e : exit the script if any statement returns a non-true return value

exec 2>"$stderr_log"


###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~##
#
# FUNCTION: EXIT_HANDLER
#
###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~##

function exit_handler ()
{
    local error_code="$?"

    test $error_code == 0 && return;

    #
    # LOCAL VARIABLES:
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    #    
    local i=0
    local regex=''
    local mem=''

    local error_file=''
    local error_lineno=''
    local error_message='unknown'

    local lineno=''


    #
    # PRINT THE HEADER:
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    #
    # Color the output if it's an interactive terminal
    test -t 1 && tput bold; tput setf 4                                 ## red bold
    echo -e "\n(!) EXIT HANDLER:\n"


    #
    # GETTING LAST ERROR OCCURRED:
    # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #

    #
    # Read last file from the error log
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    #
    if test -f "$stderr_log"
        then
            stderr=$( tail -n 1 "$stderr_log" )
            rm "$stderr_log"
    fi

    #
    # Managing the line to extract information:
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    #

    if test -n "$stderr"
        then        
            # Exploding stderr on :
            mem="$IFS"
            local shrunk_stderr=$( echo "$stderr" | sed 's/\: /\:/g' )
            IFS=':'
            local stderr_parts=( $shrunk_stderr )
            IFS="$mem"

            # Storing information on the error
            error_file="${stderr_parts[0]}"
            error_lineno="${stderr_parts[1]}"
            error_message=""

            for (( i = 3; i <= ${#stderr_parts[@]}; i++ ))
                do
                    error_message="$error_message "${stderr_parts[$i-1]}": "
            done

            # Removing last ':' (colon character)
            error_message="${error_message%:*}"

            # Trim
            error_message="$( echo "$error_message" | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e 's/[ \t]*$//' )"
    fi

    #
    # GETTING BACKTRACE:
    # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #
    _backtrace=$( backtrace 2 )


    #
    # MANAGING THE OUTPUT:
    # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #

    local lineno=""
    regex='^([a-z]{1,}) ([0-9]{1,})$'

    if [[ $error_lineno =~ $regex ]]

        # The error line was found on the log
        # (e.g. type 'ff' without quotes wherever)
        # --------------------------------------------------------------
        then
            local row="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
            lineno="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"

            echo -e "FILE:\t\t${error_file}"
            echo -e "${row^^}:\t\t${lineno}\n"

            echo -e "ERROR CODE:\t${error_code}"             
            test -t 1 && tput setf 6                                    ## white yellow
            echo -e "ERROR MESSAGE:\n$error_message"


        else
            regex="^${error_file}\$|^${error_file}\s+|\s+${error_file}\s+|\s+${error_file}\$"
            if [[ "$_backtrace" =~ $regex ]]

                # The file was found on the log but not the error line
                # (could not reproduce this case so far)
                # ------------------------------------------------------
                then
                    echo -e "FILE:\t\t$error_file"
                    echo -e "ROW:\t\tunknown\n"

                    echo -e "ERROR CODE:\t${error_code}"
                    test -t 1 && tput setf 6                            ## white yellow
                    echo -e "ERROR MESSAGE:\n${stderr}"

                # Neither the error line nor the error file was found on the log
                # (e.g. type 'cp ffd fdf' without quotes wherever)
                # ------------------------------------------------------
                else
                    #
                    # The error file is the first on backtrace list:

                    # Exploding backtrace on newlines
                    mem=$IFS
                    IFS='
                    '
                    #
                    # Substring: I keep only the carriage return
                    # (others needed only for tabbing purpose)
                    IFS=${IFS:0:1}
                    local lines=( $_backtrace )

                    IFS=$mem

                    error_file=""

                    if test -n "${lines[1]}"
                        then
                            array=( ${lines[1]} )

                            for (( i=2; i<${#array[@]}; i++ ))
                                do
                                    error_file="$error_file ${array[$i]}"
                            done

                            # Trim
                            error_file="$( echo "$error_file" | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e 's/[ \t]*$//' )"
                    fi

                    echo -e "FILE:\t\t$error_file"
                    echo -e "ROW:\t\tunknown\n"

                    echo -e "ERROR CODE:\t${error_code}"
                    test -t 1 && tput setf 6                            ## white yellow
                    if test -n "${stderr}"
                        then
                            echo -e "ERROR MESSAGE:\n${stderr}"
                        else
                            echo -e "ERROR MESSAGE:\n${error_message}"
                    fi
            fi
    fi

    #
    # PRINTING THE BACKTRACE:
    # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #

    test -t 1 && tput setf 7                                            ## white bold
    echo -e "\n$_backtrace\n"

    #
    # EXITING:
    # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #

    test -t 1 && tput setf 4                                            ## red bold
    echo "Exiting!"

    test -t 1 && tput sgr0 # Reset terminal

    exit "$error_code"
}
trap exit_handler EXIT                                                  # ! ! ! TRAP EXIT ! ! !
trap exit ERR                                                           # ! ! ! TRAP ERR ! ! !


###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~##
#
# FUNCTION: BACKTRACE
#
###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~##

function backtrace
{
    local _start_from_=0

    local params=( "$@" )
    if (( "${#params[@]}" >= "1" ))
        then
            _start_from_="$1"
    fi

    local i=0
    local first=false
    while caller $i > /dev/null
    do
        if test -n "$_start_from_" && (( "$i" + 1   >= "$_start_from_" ))
            then
                if test "$first" == false
                    then
                        echo "BACKTRACE IS:"
                        first=true
                fi
                caller $i
        fi
        let "i=i+1"
    done
}

return 0

Example of usage:
file content: trap-test.sh

#!/bin/bash

source 'lib.trap.sh'

echo "doing something wrong now .."
echo "$foo"

exit 0

Running:

bash trap-test.sh

Output:

doing something wrong now ..

(!) EXIT HANDLER:

FILE:       trap-test.sh
LINE:       6

ERROR CODE: 1
ERROR MESSAGE:
foo:   unassigned variable

BACKTRACE IS:
1 main trap-test.sh

Exiting!

As you can see from the screenshot below, the output is colored and the error message comes in the used language.

cout << "Player" << i ;

Convert DOS/Windows (\r\n) line endings to Unix (\n) line endings, with tr:

tr '\r\n' '\n' < dosFile.txt > unixFile.txt

Post about replacing newlines from the Unix command line

HTML5

Keeping in mind that ID must be unique, ie. there must not be multiple elements in a document that have the same id value.

The rules about ID content in HTML5 are (apart from being unique):

This attribute's value must not contain white spaces. [...] 
Though this restriction has been lifted in HTML 5, 
an ID should start with a letter for compatibility.

This is the W3 spec about ID (från MDN):

Any string, with the following restrictions:
must be at least one character long
must not contain any space characters
Previous versions of HTML placed greater restrictions on the content of ID values 
(for example, they did not permit ID values to begin with a number).

More info:

• W3 - global attributes (id)
• MDN atribute (id)

Important update (Python 3.4):

Any identifier of the form __name (at least two leading underscores, at most one trailing underscore) is publicly replaced with _classname__name, where classname is the current class name with leading underscore(s) stripped.

Therefore, __name is private, while _classname__name is public.

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#tut-private

Example

class Cat:
    def __init__(self, name='unnamed'):
        self.name = name
    def __print_my_name(self):
        print(self.name)
        
        
tom = Cat()
tom.__print_my_name() #Error
tom._Cat__print_my_name() #Prints name

For complex splitting you could use a regex creating a match collection.

Mu! Quicksort is not better, it is well suited for a different kind of application, than mergesort.

Mergesort is worth considering if speed is of the essence, bad worst-case performance cannot be tolerated, and extra space is available.1

You stated that they «They're both O(nlogn) […]». This is wrong. «Quicksort uses about n^2/2 comparisons in the worst case.»1.

However the most important property according to my experience is the easy implementation of sequential access you can use while sorting when using programming languages with the imperative paradigm.

1 Sedgewick, Algorithms

In simple terms we need nested classes primarily because Java does not provide closures.

Nested Classes are classes defined inside the body of another enclosing class. They are of two types - static and non-static.

They are treated as members of the enclosing class, hence you can specify any of the four access specifiers - private, package, protected, public. We don't have this luxury with top-level classes, which can only be declared public or package-private.

Inner classes aka Non-stack classes have access to other members of the top class, even if they are declared private while Static nested classes do not have access to other members of the top class.

public class OuterClass {
    public static class Inner1 {
    }
    public class Inner2 {
    }
}

Inner1 is our static inner class and Inner2 is our inner class which is not static. The key difference between them, you can't create an Inner2 instance without an Outer where as you can create an Inner1 object independently.

When would you use Inner class?

Think of a situation where Class A and Class B are related, Class B needs to access Class A members, and Class B is related only to Class A. Inner classes comes into the picture.

For creating an instance of inner class, you need to create an instance of your outer class.

OuterClass outer = new OuterClass();
OuterClass.Inner2 inner = outer.new Inner2();

or

OuterClass.Inner2 inner = new OuterClass().new Inner2();

When would you use static Inner class?

You would define a static inner class when you know that it does not have any relationship with the instance of the enclosing class/top class. If your inner class doesn't use methods or fields of the outer class, it's just a waste of space, so make it static.

For example, to create an object for the static nested class, use this syntax:

OuterClass.Inner1 nestedObject = new OuterClass.Inner1();

The advantage of a static nested class is that it doesn't need an object of the containing class/top class to work. This can help you to reduce the number of objects your application creates at runtime.

You're going to want to set the window state to minimized, and show in taskbar to false. Then at the end of your forms Load set window state to maximized and show in taskbar to true

    public frmMain()
    {
        Program.MainForm = this;
        InitializeComponent();

        this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;
        this.ShowInTaskbar = false;
    }

private void frmMain_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //Do heavy things here

        //At the end do this
        this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
        this.ShowInTaskbar = true;
    }

You have MANIFEST.MF file inside your META-INF folder. You can define optional or external dependencies that you must have access to.

Example:

Consider you have deployed your app and your container(at run time) found out that your app requires a newer version of a library which is not inside lib folder, in that case if you have defined the optional newer version in MANIFEST.MF then your app will refer to dependency from there (and will not crash).

Source: Head First Jsp & Servlet

In visual studio, go to help | about and look at the version of Visual Studio that you're using to compile your app.

Have you tried

(setq  tab-width  4)

In case anyone's curious, the ultimate reason is that HTML was originally a dialect of SGML, which is XML's weird older brother. In SGML-land, elements can be specified in the DTD as either self-closing (e.g. BR, HR, INPUT), implicitly closeable (e.g. P, LI, TD), or explicitly closeable (e.g. TABLE, DIV, SCRIPT). XML, of course, has no concept of this.

The tag-soup parsers used by modern browsers evolved out of this legacy, although their parsing model isn't pure SGML anymore. And of course, your carefully-crafted XHTML is being treated as badly-written SGML-inspired tag-soup unless you send it with an XML mime type. This is also why...

<p><div>hello</div></p>

...gets interpreted by the browser as:

<p></p><div>hello</div><p></p>

...which is the recipe for a lovely obscure bug that can throw you into fits as you try to code against the DOM.

I think it will depend of loose coupling degree that you want to bring to your code.

Factory method decouples things very well but factory class no.

In other words, it's easier to change things if you use factory method than if you use a simple factory (known as factory class).

Look into this example: https://connected2know.com/programming/java-factory-pattern/ . Now, imagine that you want to bring a new Animal. In Factory class you need to change the Factory but in the factory method, no, you only need to add a new subclass.

import ImageGrab
img = ImageGrab.grab()
img.save('test.jpg','JPEG')

this requires Python Imaging Library

For an example of why it might be desirable to suppress selection, see SIMILE TImeline, which uses drag-and-drop to explore the timeline, during which accidental vertical mouse movement causes the labels to be highlighted unexpectedly, which looks weird.

Well, quick answer would to take a look at the 'scp' manpage, or perhaps rsync - depending exactly on what you need to copy. If you had to, you could even do tar-over-ssh:

tar cvf - | ssh server tar xf -

Form myForm;
myForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;

Perfmon.exe is built into windows.

It's also important to note that not all supported languages compair consistently with thrift or protobuf. At this point it's a matter of the modules implementation in addition to the underlying serialization. Take care to check benchmarks for whatever language you plan to use.

An implementation of a queue using two stacks in Swift:

struct Stack<Element> {
    var items = [Element]()

    var count : Int {
        return items.count
    }

    mutating func push(_ item: Element) {
        items.append(item)
    }

    mutating func pop() -> Element? {
        return items.removeLast()
    }

    func peek() -> Element? {
        return items.last
    }
}

struct Queue<Element> {
    var inStack = Stack<Element>()
    var outStack = Stack<Element>()

    mutating func enqueue(_ item: Element) {
        inStack.push(item)
    }

    mutating func dequeue() -> Element? {
        fillOutStack() 
        return outStack.pop()
    }

    mutating func peek() -> Element? {
        fillOutStack()
        return outStack.peek()
    }

    private mutating func fillOutStack() {
        if outStack.count == 0 {
            while inStack.count != 0 {
                outStack.push(inStack.pop()!)
            }
        }
    }
}

The rule for the caret is:

A caret at the line end, appends the next line, the first character of the appended line will be escaped.

You can use the caret multiple times, but the complete line must not exceed the maximum line length of ~8192 characters (Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7).

echo Test1
echo one ^
two ^
three ^
four^
*
--- Output ---
Test1
one two three four*

echo Test2
echo one & echo two
--- Output ---
Test2
one
two

echo Test3
echo one & ^
echo two
--- Output ---
Test3
one
two

echo Test4
echo one ^
& echo two
--- Output ---
Test4
one & echo two

To suppress the escaping of the next character you can use a redirection.

The redirection has to be just before the caret. But there exist one curiosity with redirection before the caret.

If you place a token at the caret the token is removed.

echo Test5
echo one <nul ^
& echo two
--- Output ---
Test5
one
two


echo Test6
echo one <nul ThisTokenIsLost^
& echo two
--- Output ---
Test6
one
two

And it is also possible to embed line feeds into the string:

setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set text=This creates ^

a line feed
echo Test7: %text%
echo Test8: !text!
--- Output ---
Test7: This creates
Test8: This creates
a line feed

The empty line is important for the success. This works only with delayed expansion, else the rest of the line is ignored after the line feed.

It works, because the caret at the line end ignores the next line feed and escapes the next character, even if the next character is also a line feed (carriage returns are always ignored in this phase).

Personally I would use a classmethod whenever I needed a static method. Mainly because I get the class as an argument.

class myObj(object):
   def myMethod(cls)
     ...
   myMethod = classmethod(myMethod) 

or use a decorator

class myObj(object):
   @classmethod
   def myMethod(cls)

For static properties.. Its time you look up some python definition.. variable can always change. There are two types of them mutable and immutable.. Also, there are class attributes and instance attributes.. Nothing really like static attributes in the sense of java & c++

Why use static method in pythonic sense, if it has no relation whatever to the class! If I were you, I'd either use classmethod or define the method independent from the class.

If you want to avoid the dependency on System.Web that is required to use HttpUtility.ParseQueryString, you could use the Uri extension method ParseQueryString found in System.Net.Http.

Make sure to add a reference (if you haven't already) to System.Net.Http in your project.

Note that you have to convert the response body to a valid Uri so that ParseQueryString (in System.Net.Http)works.

string body = "value1=randomvalue1&value2=randomValue2";

// "http://localhost/query?" is added to the string "body" in order to create a valid Uri.
string urlBody = "http://localhost/query?" + body;
NameValueCollection coll = new Uri(urlBody).ParseQueryString();

Yet another gotcha:

The framework code that calls the Drag-events swallow all exceptions. You might think your event code is running smoothly, while it is gushing exceptions all over the place. You can't see them because the framework steals them.

That's why I always put a try/catch in these event handlers, just so I know if they throw any exceptions. I usually put a Debugger.Break(); in the catch part.

Before release, after testing, if everything seems to behave, I remove or replace these with real exception handling.

In C# 7 we now have Pattern Matching so you can do something like:

switch (age)
{
  case 50:
    ageBlock = "the big five-oh";
    break;
  case var testAge when (new List<int>()
      { 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 }).Contains(testAge):
    ageBlock = "octogenarian";
    break;
  case var testAge when ((testAge >= 90) & (testAge <= 99)):
    ageBlock = "nonagenarian";
    break;
  case var testAge when (testAge >= 100):
    ageBlock = "centenarian";
    break;
  default:
    ageBlock = "just old";
    break;
}

JavaScript

$.listen('click', '#captcha', function() {
    $('#captcha-block').html('<div id="loading" style="width: 70px; height: 40px; display: inline-block;" />');
    $.get("/captcha/new", null, function(data) {
        $('#captcha-block').html(data);
    }); 
    return false;
});

CSS

#loading { background: url(/image/loading.gif) no-repeat center; }

Looks like python requests does not handle extremely large multi-part files.

The documentation recommends you look into requests-toolbelt.

Here's the pertinent page from their documentation.

When running a command with lots of output (like a big "make") I want to not only save the output, but also see it:

make install 2>&1 | tee E.make

You can call the scp bash command (it copies files over SSH) with subprocess.run:

import subprocess
subprocess.run(["scp", FILE, "USER@SERVER:PATH"])
#e.g. subprocess.run(["scp", "foo.bar", "[email protected]:/path/to/foo.bar"])

If you're creating the file that you want to send in the same Python program, you'll want to call subprocess.run command outside the with block you're using to open the file (or call .close() on the file first if you're not using a with block), so you know it's flushed to disk from Python.

You need to generate (on the source machine) and install (on the destination machine) an ssh key beforehand so that the scp automatically gets authenticated with your public ssh key (in other words, so your script doesn't ask for a password).

I wrapped mp3 decoder library and made it available for .net developers. You can find it here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpg123net/

Included are the samples to convert mp3 file to PCM, and read ID3 tags.

The property you need is location.hash. For example:

location.hash = 'top'; //would jump to named anchor "top

I don't know how to do the nice scroll animation without the use of dojo or some toolkit like that, but if you just need it to jump to an anchor, location.hash should do it.

(tested on FF3 and Safari 3.1.2)

A pretty good comparison of different solutions is available at : http://yajsw.sourceforge.net/#mozTocId284533

Personally like launch4j

Surrounding the path and the argument with spaces inside quotes as in your example should do. The command may need to handle the quotes when the parameters are passed to it, but it usually is not a big deal.

As stated, all objects in sharepoint contain some sort of unique identifier (often an integer based counter for list items, and GUIDs for lists).

That said, there is also a feature available at http://www.codeplex.com/features called "Unique Column Policy", designed to add an other column with a unique value. A complete writeup is available at http://scothillier.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8F5DEA8AEA9E6FBB!293.entry

No, they shouldn't be committed to source control as they are developer/machine-specific local settings.

GitHub maintain a list of suggested file types for Visual Studio users to ignore at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore

For svn, I have the following global-ignore property set:

*.DotSettings.User
*.onetoc2
*.suo
.vs
PrecompiledWeb
thumbs.db
obj
bin
debug
*.user
*.vshost.*
*.tss
*.dbml.layout

I believe tail recursion in java is not currently optimized. The details are sprinkled throughout this discussion on LtU and the associated links. It may be a feature in the upcoming version 7, but apparently it presents certain difficulties when combined with Stack Inspection since certain frames would be missing. Stack Inspection has been used to implement their fine-grained security model since Java 2.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1333

I agree with Chris, checking the extension is not validation of the type of file any way you look at it. Telerik's radUpload is probably your best option, it provides a ContentType property of the file being uploaded, which you can compare to known mime types. You should check for:

application/vnd.ms-excel,

application/excel,

application/x-msexcel

and for the new 2k7 format:

application/vnd.openxmlformatsofficedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Telerik used to sell radUpload as an individual component, but now its wrapped into the controls suite, which makes it a little more expensive, but by far its the easiest way to check for the true type

Forward declaration of enums is possible since C++11. Previously, the reason enum types couldn't be forward declared is because the size of the enumeration depends on its contents. As long as the size of the enumeration is specified by the application, it can be forward declared:

enum Enum1;                   //Illegal in C++ and C++0x; no size is explicitly specified.
enum Enum2 : unsigned int;    //Legal in C++0x.
enum class Enum3;             //Legal in C++0x, because enum class declarations have a default type of "int".
enum class Enum4: unsigned int; //Legal C++0x.
enum Enum2 : unsigned short;  //Illegal in C++0x, because Enum2 was previously declared with a different type.

Use \r instead of \n.

Substituting by \n inserts a null character into the text. To get a newline, use \r. When searching for a newline, you’d still use \n, however. This asymmetry is due to the fact that \n and \r do slightly different things:

\n matches an end of line (newline), whereas \r matches a carriage return. On the other hand, in substitutions \n inserts a null character whereas \r inserts a newline (more precisely, it’s treated as the input CR). Here’s a small, non-interactive example to illustrate this, using the Vim command line feature (in other words, you can copy and paste the following into a terminal to run it). xxd shows a hexdump of the resulting file.

echo bar > test
(echo 'Before:'; xxd test) > output.txt
vim test '+s/b/\n/' '+s/a/\r/' +wq
(echo 'After:'; xxd test) >> output.txt
more output.txt

Before:
0000000: 6261 720a                                bar.
After:
0000000: 000a 720a                                ..r.

In other words, \n has inserted the byte 0x00 into the text; \r has inserted the byte 0x0a.

Use the deployment Toolkit's deployJava.js (though this ensures a minimum version, rather than a specific version)

All the solutions relying on built-in behaviors (like .Find and .End) have limitations that are not well-documented (see my other answer for details).

I needed something that:

• Finds the last non-empty cell (i.e. that has any formula or value, even if it's an empty string) in a specific column
• Relies on primitives with well-defined behavior
• Works reliably with autofilters and user modifications
• Runs as fast as possible on 10,000 rows (to be run in a Worksheet_Change handler without feeling sluggish)
• ...with performance not falling off a cliff with accidental data or formatting put at the very end of the sheet (at ~1M rows)

The solution below:

• Uses UsedRange to find the upper bound for the row number (to make the search for the true "last row" fast in the common case where it's close to the end of the used range);
• Goes backwards to find the row with data in the given column;
• ...using VBA arrays to avoid accessing each row individually (in case there are many rows in the UsedRange we need to skip)

(No tests, sorry)

' Returns the 1-based row number of the last row having a non-empty value in the given column (0 if the whole column is empty)
Private Function getLastNonblankRowInColumn(ws As Worksheet, colNo As Integer) As Long
    ' Force Excel to recalculate the "last cell" (the one you land on after CTRL+END) / "used range"
    ' and get the index of the row containing the "last cell". This is reasonably fast (~1 ms/10000 rows of a used range)
    Dim lastRow As Long: lastRow = ws.UsedRange.Rows(ws.UsedRange.Rows.Count).Row - 1 ' 0-based

    ' Since the "last cell" is not necessarily the one we're looking for (it may be in a different column, have some
    ' formatting applied but no value, etc), we loop backward from the last row towards the top of the sheet).
    Dim wholeRng As Range: Set wholeRng = ws.Columns(colNo)

    ' Since accessing cells one by one is slower than reading a block of cells into a VBA array and looping through the array,
    ' we process in chunks of increasing size, starting with 1 cell and doubling the size on each iteration, until MAX_CHUNK_SIZE is reached.
    ' In pathological cases where Excel thinks all the ~1M rows are in the used range, this will take around 100ms.
    ' Yet in a normal case where one of the few last rows contains the cell we're looking for, we don't read too many cells.
    Const MAX_CHUNK_SIZE = 2 ^ 10 ' (using large chunks gives no performance advantage, but uses more memory)
    Dim chunkSize As Long: chunkSize = 1
    Dim startOffset As Long: startOffset = lastRow + 1 ' 0-based
    Do ' Loop invariant: startOffset>=0 and all rows after startOffset are blank (i.e. wholeRng.Rows(i+1) for i>=startOffset)
        startOffset = IIf(startOffset - chunkSize >= 0, startOffset - chunkSize, 0)
        ' Fill `vals(1 To chunkSize, 1 To 1)` with column's rows indexed `[startOffset+1 .. startOffset+chunkSize]` (1-based, inclusive)
        Dim chunkRng As Range: Set chunkRng = wholeRng.Resize(chunkSize).Offset(startOffset)
        Dim vals() As Variant
        If chunkSize > 1 Then
            vals = chunkRng.Value2
        Else ' reading a 1-cell range requires special handling <http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ArraysAndRanges.aspx>
            ReDim vals(1 To 1, 1 To 1)
            vals(1, 1) = chunkRng.Value2
        End If

        Dim i As Long
        For i = UBound(vals, 1) To LBound(vals, 1) Step -1
            If Not IsEmpty(vals(i, 1)) Then
                getLastNonblankRowInColumn = startOffset + i
                Exit Function
            End If
        Next i

        If chunkSize < MAX_CHUNK_SIZE Then chunkSize = chunkSize * 2
    Loop While startOffset > 0

    getLastNonblankRowInColumn = 0
End Function

There's no way to remove these dotted focus in Firefox using CSS.

If you have access to the computers where your webapplication works, go to about:config in Firefox and set browser.display.focus_ring_width to 0. Then Firefox won't show any dotted borders at all.

The following bug explains the topic: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74225

Either of the two samples below will work:

SELECT  MAX(date_columns) AS max_date
FROM    ( (SELECT   date1 AS date_columns
           FROM     data_table         )
          UNION
          ( SELECT  date2 AS date_columns
            FROM    data_table
          )
          UNION
          ( SELECT  date3 AS date_columns
            FROM    data_table
          )
        ) AS date_query

The second is an add-on to lassevk's answer.

SELECT  MAX(MostRecentDate)
FROM    ( SELECT    CASE WHEN date1 >= date2
                              AND date1 >= date3 THEN date1
                         WHEN date2 >= date1
                              AND date2 >= date3 THEN date2
                         WHEN date3 >= date1
                              AND date3 >= date2 THEN date3
                         ELSE date1
                    END AS MostRecentDate
          FROM      data_table
        ) AS date_query 

Yes.

ThisWorkbook.RefreshAll

Or, if your Excel version is old enough,

Dim Sheet as WorkSheet, Pivot as PivotTable
For Each Sheet in ThisWorkbook.WorkSheets
    For Each Pivot in Sheet.PivotTables
        Pivot.RefreshTable
        Pivot.Update
    Next
Next

May be I missed something but exec did not worked as asynchronous for me in windows environment i used following in windows and it worked like charm ;)

$script_exec = "c:/php/php.exe c:/path/my_ascyn_script.php";

pclose(popen("start /B ". $script_exec, "r"));

Use 'raw_input' for input from a console/terminal.

if you just want a command line argument like a file name or something e.g.

$ python my_prog.py file_name.txt

then you can use sys.argv...

import sys
print sys.argv

sys.argv is a list where 0 is the program name, so in the above example sys.argv[1] would be "file_name.txt"

If you want to have full on command line options use the optparse module.

Pev

I'm mystified by some of the answers that suggest dependency injection (DI) as an alternative to using singletons; these are unrelated concepts. You can use DI to inject either singleton or non-singleton (e.g., per-thread) instances. At least this is true if you use Spring 2.x, I can't speak for other DI frameworks.

So my answer to the OP would be (in all but the most trivial sample code) to:

1. Use a DI framework like Spring Framework, then
2. Make it part of your DI configuration whether your dependencies are singletons, request scoped, session scoped, or whatever.

This approach gives you a nice decoupled (and therefore flexible and testable) architecture where whether to use a singleton is an easily reversible implementation detail (provided any singletons you use are threadsafe, of course).

Make sure that any client scripts you have that interact with .NET AJAX have the following line at the end:

if (typeof(Sys) !== 'undefined')  Sys.Application.notifyScriptLoaded();

This tells the script manager that the whole script file has loaded and that it can begin to call client methods

signed char has range -128 to 127; unsigned char has range 0 to 255.

char will be equivalent to either signed char or unsigned char, depending on the compiler, but is a distinct type.

If you're using C-style strings, just use char. If you need to use chars for arithmetic (pretty rare), specify signed or unsigned explicitly for portability.

From Java Tutorial - Restrictions on Generics:

Cannot Create Instances of Type Parameters

You cannot create an instance of a type parameter. For example, the following code causes a compile-time error:

public static <E> void append(List<E> list) {
    E elem = new E();  // compile-time error
    list.add(elem);
}

As a workaround, you can create an object of a type parameter through reflection:

public static <E> void append(List<E> list, Class<E> cls) throws Exception {
    E elem = cls.newInstance();   // OK
    list.add(elem);
}

You can invoke the append method as follows:

List<String> ls = new ArrayList<>();
append(ls, String.class);