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Before I publish a new webpage in my website (in the content management system itself), I zoom in from say 100% zooming to 500% zooming and then re-read it, as a nice way to check for typos. The p...
Is there any way where I can modify the original server code so that it accepts any port number instead of the predefined one (i.e., port number 8989)? Port number will be entered in the command li...
I have a .html file containing only the following data, and I keep that file on top of my website's directory. <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/mobile_general_structure.css"></link> ...
In Git documentation, there are lots of references to the term "HEAD". But what exactly is it? Some places refer to it as "a pointer to the current branch". So it's a branch? What is it used for?
I've recently been involved with creating text documentation of steps for workflows in graphical windows systems (and web-pages). These are often somewhat wordy, for example: "Click on the 'Exit' ...
I'm using SimpleDateFormat to parse a string containing a date/time, but the result has a different date, hour, minute, second and millisecond: SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM...
Can anyone help me, I'm currently learning pointers, this is the code I wrote to try and insert a node at the beginning of the list. However at the part where I included the comment of "error at th...
Our web site has a widget that displays some date-based information that we retrieve from some JSON-formatted data (one object per date). We get the current date from the environment, possibly adj...
How can we use git-send-email(1) to sign patches (emails) with the gpg(1) keyring? I've heard it can be done, but couldn't find anything in the git-send-email(1) documentation nor in a web search.
Primarily for learning, I would like to try to delete a specific character (letter or number or special character), wherever it is in a webpage, with vanilla JavaScript. The webpage won't change a...
There are a lot of articles and presentations that show little love for ORMs. This is mainly because some queries are so complex and heavy on the database that they lead to significant issues in p...
Our team is finally focusing on writing more automatic testing and one of my ex-colleagues recommended to try out the Verify library. The tool does the following: runs the test and compares the...
I'm attempting a question to do with data structures, file streams & linked lists. The code isn't complete yet as I am still halfway working on it. I am required to use data structures in the d...
I have a simple HTML contact form and I wish to create a text area in it with <input type="text"> but without a <textarea> tag. The end product should be an <input type="text"> f...
I have several classes (C_1...C_n) and their instances (I_1....I_m). I have a "Registry" R of these. There are several pieces of data (d_1...d_k) spread across various instances. This much is set ...
What's the better way to store base64 in SQLite Database? I was thinking to put base64 as TEXT since base64 has lots of chars. CREATE TABLE name (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, image TEXT)...
I have to migrate a bunch of text from an old application into a new one. Some of these texts contain HTML tags and entities (HTML editor was used) and now they do not want to support this in the n...
I was trying to show transition on activity changes. I had followed two method from SO. I lost those link so I can't add them here. My first method was I had used overridePendingTransition on onCr...
I have an Angular application. The frontend has a mechanism that periodically fetches some information like this: ngOnInit(): void { setInterval( () => { this.http.get(... ).sub...
I'm writing a JSON schema to validate asset files for a program. The JSON I need to parse is structured so: { "jobs": { "software-developer": { "job-description": "sw-dev.md:0", "pay": 800...
By means of content management system architecture, Is the implementation of decoupling architecture (backend and frontend separation), headless architecture and Representational State Transfer (R...
In Python 2, I was able to create a file named .env within a project folder like so: # .env MY_ID=abc123 TOKEN=4567890 Then in a Python file in the same directory, I could read these variable...
class ExtendUserSession(MiddlewareMixin): """ Extend authenticated user's sessions so they don't have to log back in following 15 minutes (set by Django's default `SESSION_COOKIE_A...
A watertight mesh is one which does not have holes, and for which each face has a designated inside and outside. Such a mesh can be "tetrahedralized", has a defined volume, and can be an operand in...
I understand that innerHTML does all the following actions: It makes the element we work on (or even the entire DOM tree that we work on if that element is <body>) to be copy-pasted into a...
Consider the following code: #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a = 5; int b; ++*(&b + 1); printf("%d\n", a); return 0; } The output is as expected: 6 ...
I found a form I wanted to duplicate on a roof construction website. All my input boxes are centered except the last one that's a bit off and I cannot figure out why. Here is my code: HTML <...
Using Vim, I am trying to search for all instances of a specific string, except for those that fall somewhere in between two other specific strings. For example, I want to determine all instances ...
I would assume the following content types would be standard when creating a web shop with Drupal but maybe I am wrong: Home page Article page Product page Service page Another page Are t...
During a presentation of a pipeline configuration, a colleague showed a SonarQube integration and one of its reports. A warning was caused by overrunning the max value for the code complexity thres...
On branch-x, I do git merge branch-y Now there are some conflicts, and git status shows Changes to be committed: new file: a new file: b Unmerged paths: (use "git a...
Context Our team has begun migrating a pretty old internal application and one aspect that got my attention is the impersonation. This is implemented as follows: only administrators are allowed...
How to make the placeholder so that it goes to the top of the border line on click? For example, when you go to Gmail and click on the input field, the placeholder text goes up and arranges itself...
I want use single layout xml file for two different activities in android. Is it possible? How can I do it?
Is it legal ISO C to declare a function as noreturn with a non-void return type (but of course not actually returning)? As far as I can read from the standard, it seems legal. Example: noreturn ...
If I have a one-dimensional array, I can get the length of it quite easily: var x = moves.Length(). However, if the array is multi-dimensional, .Length() returns the total number of elements. If ...
This revolves around images. I'm trying to write an HTML page of COVID-19 safety procedures, and here's what I've written so far: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title&...
I am trying to re-build an unpacked apk, because it was unpacked the required libraries are already included, deleting the prepacked libraries would be feasible if it weren't for the fact that some...
One of the recent business requirements is to be able to search through a list of entities using a bunch of filters. Most of these filters allow multiple values and the user might theoretically pro...
Agner Fog has this C++ Vector Class Library, which is ... useful for improving code performance where speed is critical and where the compiler is unable to vectorize the code automatically in an...
I have read that several programming languages, listed below are considered "typeless": Forth Brainfuck B MUMPS BLISS Lucid BCPL I have shared this data with a programmer who clued that...
If I am not mistaken any DOM "tree" node is actually a "branch", which would be an HTML element or perhaps a CSS pseudo-element, of course. If that's true what are the different node types and esp...
I have a project Anonymised.Theme which contains XAML resource dictionaries for a theme. This is used by about a dozen applications which simply include it by merging <ResourceDictionary Source...
Credit for User:Meriton for developing the following code (first published here). function replaceIn(e) { if (e.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE) { e.nodeValue = e.nodeValue.replaceAll("a", "");...
I have a list of 11-digit numbers stored in one single column in Excel, and I need to separate the digits according to this pattern: 2-2-1-3-3. Example: 00002451018 becomes 00 00 2 451 018. How c...
I have a code block like this: try { ... x.foo(); // This is the line that forces us to have the try block ... } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) { logger.error(e.getM...
I am styling a simple HTML-PHP-CSS contact form and I have considered to give some min-height pixel value CSS style to the form's submit button. I ran a Google search with the query: min-height...
The following list comprehension worked when I tried it: [num for num in hand if num != 11] But this doesn't work: [num for num in hand if num != 11 else 22] It gives a SyntaxError, highlightin...
Let's say I have some collection of data. My goal is to provide different kind of view of ItemsControl depending on user`s preference. For simplicity, we can assume that user can select only betwe...
I have a "Our menu" webpage automatically created with Drupal 9 Views module which presents a miniature version of each menu dish webpage in that "Our menu" webpage (illustration image below). My ...
