Programming

Apr 8 2014

Quickly find all php short-tags (<?= )

This specific content was written 12 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I found a webapplication running on linux where the previous developer had been using  shortcodes <? instead of the universally enabled <?php ( see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1386620/php-echo-vs-php-short-tags for more info) .

Unfortunately this caused the php code to not function unless shortcuts are enabled.

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Feb 21 2014

How to avoid git conflicts when working with a team?

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

A new team member started working on the same project as me the last week.
After checking their first commit, I noticed they mixed refactoring with eclipse auto-formatting. What made this an even worse  transgression was that they have a custom maximum character width defined in their editor.  I am not against aggressively formatting or refactoring code – except when it is related to critical production code.

GIT diff unfortunately cannot handle these kinds of source refactoring changes and lists the whole file as changed. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21897386/git-diff-ignore-all-linefeeds-between-revisions

After reading I came across the following gem on stackoverflow (How to avoid git conflicts when working with a team? from User Christopher) which I quote/steal from.

Ask your team three questions:

  1. Do we enforce whitespace conventions?automatically finalize parameters.
  2. Do we generate textual build artifacts? For example, do we minify js, generate css rules from .sass or .scss files, or build xml configurations on the fly? Do we check them in?[…]

These three things cause the vast majority of our collective conflict pain:

Versioning Pain

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Feb 11 2014

JQuery Calendar and PHP: Handling Inserts

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

1) Getting Current Time in Javascript

The ISO 8601 date format can be utilized to convert the date on the browser side to a format that include timestamp information. Quoting from here:

Note that the “T” appears literally in the string, to indicate the beginning of the time element. Times are expressed in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), with a special UTC designator (“Z”). Used in ATOM RSS feeds.

function fnISO() {
// Only works in Firefox using ECMAScript 5
var now = new Date().toISOString();
alert(now);
}

Result: 2009-08-06T23:36:31.390Z

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Dec 12 2013

Bash script to monitor server HTTP output length and e-mail an alert

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

Below is an example of a script that uses CURL to monitor the length of various HTTP server outputs and output a response if this is different than 103 characters.
This is my first bash script, so I had some reading/experimenting to do and it is quite rough.

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Nov 11 2013

Benchmarking Javascript Engine on Kindle 4 Touch

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I had read an article about solving complicated problems with the use of distributed javascript applications. This is very interesting as all devices run javascript including our old 2G and 3G mobile, and ofcourse some e-book readers.

I really would like at some point to work on a project related to this.
In relation to that, I did a benchmark using my Kindle 4 Touch that has an experimental web browser and a 800 mhz cpu.
This was using the SunSpider 1.0.2 JavaScript Benchmark

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Sep 23 2013

Optimized Character Escaper for Java

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I wanted to write my own character escaper for requests going to Apache Lucent.
After writing my own, I also received feedback from programmers-stackexchange which resulted in the fastest implementation, also posted here. (Thanks to MrSmit42)

Below is my application that tests 6 different slightly different implementations over 30,000,000 executions each and outputs the time in MS.

The results in MS (on my computer) were the following:

Method 1 (Boolean Array)->    7574
Method 0 (Switch Stmt)->    9778
Method 4 (Switch Stmt Ugly – BreakPoints after evert case)->    12451
Method 6 (HashSet)->    17273
Method 5 (EnumMap)->    39516
Method 3 (Pattern/Regex)->    98229

This proves that for production systems that have many requests, jumping directly on the RegEx bandwagon for even trivial problems is not always the solution.
Even a 0,5 MS reduction per request leads to 50MS saved over 100 requests (per second) and 500MS over 1000 requests.

[polldaddy poll=7418939]

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Jul 8 2013

Greesemonkey Script for filtering Stackoverflow Bounty Page

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I’m a big fan of stackoverflow and many times surf the featured page that has many questions that have an additional bounty attached.
One of the things though that I want to do is quickly find the questions with zero answers that have not received attention due to one reason or another (e.g. very difficult).

For the specific URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=featured , Below a greesemonkey script just for that!

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May 15 2013

Why Java passes objects as references passed by value

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I came across a question recently on stackoverflow that was very enlightening and proves how objects are actually passed in java. It was quite an interesting discovery!

I am quoting from here

 

Java is always pass-by-value. The difficult thing can be to understand that Java passes objects as references passed by value.

It goes like this:

public void foo(Dog d) {
  d.name.equals("Max"); // true
  d = new Dog("Fifi");
  d.name.equals("Fifi"); // true
}

Dog aDog = new Dog("Max");
foo(aDog);
aDog.name.equals("Max"); // true

In this example aDog.name will still be “Max”. “d” is not overwritten in the function as the object reference is passed by value.

Likewise:

public void foo(Dog d) {
  d.name.equals("Max"); // true
  d.setname("Fifi");
}

Dog aDog = new Dog("Max");
foo(aDog);
aDog.name.equals("Fifi"); // true

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Apr 17 2013

SO:Removing duplicate rows from data pulled from db in java

This specific content was written 13 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I’ve become an active member of stack overflow, both answering and making questions.
It’s amazing, there’s a whole community there that I hadn’t noticed before.
As I have not had time to post new items, I will be borrowing my answers to stackoverflow questions and re posting them here.


User Question:

So here’s my question. I have a giant text file of data and I need to input all of this data into a mySQL database fast through obviously using a java program. My only problem is that, the data is identified by a certain ID. Some of these ID’s have duplicates and contain all the same info as eachother. I would like to remove all of these for sorting purposes and clarity sake.

What would be the best way to go about this? If anyone could help I’d appreciate it

Answer:

clones/duplicates
clones/duplicates

While reading the data have a hashmap or hashset. check if the id exists in the hasmap/hashset and if so continue. otherwise enter in set/map and insert.

An aside: The difference between hashmap and hashset is hashset only takes values while hashmap takes key values. However, Hashset itself uses a hashmap within memory and just inserts a dummy object for values. See: Differences between HashMap and Hashtable?

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Sep 29 2012

How to search all columns of all tables in a microsoft sql database for a keyword (including any data type)

This specific content was written 14 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

Hey,

I’ve been working on a very large unknown database (over 45 tables) where the reverse engineered schema diagram was quite chaotic. Having the task to find several needles in the haystack I searched the internet and found the very useful script at:

http://vyaskn.tripod.com/search_all_columns_in_all_tables.htm  (pasted below).

However, one limitation I noticed was that the script only searched (‘char’, ‘varchar’, ‘nchar’, ‘nvarchar’).

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