Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!
Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.
General Q&A about programming, scripting, software design & architecture, process, tools, testing, and more.
Filters (None)
When running various Python scripts, I often need to do this annoying dance: $ python script.py ... ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'foo' $ pip install foo $ python script.py ... Module...
I'm trying to subclass pdb to have a debugger that, in case of a call to a decorated function, can "step in" the decorated function directly and skip the decorator content altogether. A well-behave...
When you do: cd /some/path code . VS Code opens with that location shown in the "Explorer" sidebar. However, the state of the file tree and the currently open files will be the same as what wa...
When I run code . in a directory, Visual Studio Code opens two windows. The first is empty, the second shows directory I was in as expected. I checked ~/.config/VSCode/Workspaces and there is only...
So I googled some on how to make a case insensitive criteria query but could not find the solution very easily. So I basically have code that looks like this: ... query.criteria("fieldName").con...
I am using a W25Q64 flash ic to store some stuff for an ESP-32 project. I used this library from Github as it seems intended for ESP. It seemed weird that the read function uses two 16-bit paramet...
Suppose I have some code in a file myscript.py like: def my_function(): print("Test") What steps do I need to take in order to make my_function run? That is to say: how do I get Python to ...
I have a git repository with some submodules. When the submodule repos get new commits on the remote, how can I pull them all?
I'm trying to write a spec test for a (correctly working) Angular component, but it errors when calling a service method with: TypeError: _this.myService.getSomeData is not a function The service...
I have created a simple bus topology connecting 2 switches and a router, with each switch connected to their respective end devices through ordinary star topology. The switch model used was 3560-24...
With Azure Data Factory I tried migrating from Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL to Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB. The export went fine from the NoSQL but the import to the MongoDB did not work. I got no reasonable ...
Temporary notice: this is part of an ongoing project of transferring and splitting my canonical from Stack Overflow on common errors in Google Apps Script. As soon as the Q&As are finalized, ...
I need help figuring out if my dependencies need upgrading or conflict with each other. I tried using the command prompt to solve problems but it didn't help. Here is my code. Android Studio Iguan...
I'd like to organize my Matlab packages into folders. However, if I try to lay out my code like this +MyPackage |---foo.m |---SubDir |---bar.m then I'm unable to reach bar. F...
I'm trying to build a proper understanding of what an OLAP[1] datastore vs an OLAP data engine is. I tend to put too much value on keywords like "engine" vs "data store." If it has "engine," I thin...
Is there a way to easily insert today's date when editing a file in VS Code?
I have the following xarray Dataset: d: <xarray.Dataset> Dimensions: (x: 79, y: 63, t: 1) Coordinates: * x (x) float64 0.9412 1.882 2.824 3.765 ... 71.53 72.47 73.41 74.35 * ...
I like using NATURAL JOIN in Snowflake, because I find it more elegant than explicit join clauses. However, it appears that the natural join behaves similar to an inner join, in that null values o...
Let's say we have an object, we store it in a union (into some other narrower type, but with memcpy(3), so it's allowed --I guess--), and then read it from the union via it's original type (so no a...
We use Kubernetes on a cloud (GKE, to be precise). We use RabbitMQ for messaging and we need to upgrade it from 3.10 to 3.12 . FWIW RabbitMQ has been added to our system using a chart from Bitnami...
#ifdef sections can, of course, be used to include or exclude chunks of code based on some criteria known at compile time. One big problem is that when the condition is evaluated to false, the chun...
We have a console application using the Azure WebJob SDK. The WebJob relies on a WCF service using SOAP, which it accesses through a DLL we wrote that wraps the auto-generated WCF types in somethin...
I ran some Python code and it crashed with ModuleNotFoundError. What is the general approach for dealing with these situations?
How to log first n lines of a stack trace in Java?
Looping in Ansible usually produces a neat output of one line per iteration (per host): ... ok: [Arch] => (item=something) ok: [Arch] => (item=something_else) ok: [Arch] => (item=yet_a...
How to make Husky run git hook? I have a working git hook, prepare-commit-message, but the moment Husky was installed, the hook stopped working. Not finding much luck, I then tried to make it a "H...
What is the best way to convert Dos paths to Posix paths in Powershell? eg given: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules\ I want something like: /Program\ Files/PowerShell/Modules/ Is the only so...
I have a function that loads JSON data and is declared to return a dictionary with string keys and values of any type (Dict[str, Any]). However, mypy is raising an error stating that I am returning...
What is the default port number of MariaDB database server? (Remembering defaults is surprisingly hard since usually you don't need to specify them..)
I browse deviantArt from time to time and I wanted to make images display bigger, because there is so much useless whitespace on that site. On first glance that would be simple - remove the set di...
For example: I have noticed that this does not work for any vocabulary's tests. What is the alternate way to USE: these test vocabularies? EDIT: The test word appears to run all tests alongside...
How to verify if a year is leap? Given a numeric value (such as 2023) or some object that represents a date (such as Date, Calendar, LocalDate, etc), how can I do it?
I am writing some scripts that operate on emails in Maildir format. A lot of things are easy in this format, but the filenames are absolutely incomprehensible. For example, one script moves mails ...
My large, multi-module Maven project validation (Maven Enforcer plug-in) is playing tricks on me. moduleA> mvn validate correctly finds all modules runs enforcer on all of them displays co...
More specifically: Is there a dedicated docs page listing "properties" that are idiosyncratic to F# .fsproj project files? Why am I asking? Started learning F# a couple of days ago, but just now ...
How to use static functions in ColdFusion? How to import component? How to call a static function using both tag and script syntaxes? Adobe added support for static functions in ColdFusion...
Is it possible for a Python program to send itself in the background? For example, on Linux you can do nohup some_cmd & and any program will run in the background. Some programs also support s...
I have git repo where the .git is deleted. I didn't realize it until after I made some changes to the code. I want to re-create the .git by cloning. However I don't want it to touch the files that...
Why does git merge take the source branch rather than the destination branch as a parameter? The most common merge case by far for me is "Okay, this branch looks good, let's merge it into branch X...
A friend is involved in rewriting a distributed software application and while discussing the architecture, we noticed that in many cases the messages had duplication between headers and payload. ...
How to move the main branch back to an earlier commit in git?
How do I clone the repository with only part of the history? For example, let's say I want to download only the last 5 commits out of thousands.
I'd like to get the minimum and maximum values of the axes on a Chart.js 4.4.0 plot. When the plot is created, these values must be calculated somewhere. However, reading through the Chart.js doc...
I'm writing exception handling around a call to Socket.AcceptAsync in a loop. One of the exceptions it's documented to throw is SocketException, but the documentation is vague: An error occurred...
What does lifting state up in Flutter mean, and how does it work?
I am in need of downloading some files (from dynamic list of URLs) and archive them into a single zip file. Since these files can be arbitrarily sized (totaling hundreds of MB), I want to avoid dow...
Is there a way in Ubuntu to run a given bash command for a given Key combination in Gnome (42.9)? I run an Ubuntu in Hyper-V and after a while the normal Keyboard layout change doesn't work (maybe...
What are the differences between git apply and git am commands? Both seem to be used for applying patches to repositories. When should one be used over the other?
The answer provided in the How to set the cell color to a user defined value using NPOI from F#? thread solves the problem of how to set the right properties using F#, but it uses a new ICellStyle ...
