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In PHP and MySql there is an sha1(str) function which generates an sha1 hash of a string. Their usages are simple: <?php echo sha1('password'); ?> //Outputs:5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 mysql> select sha1('password'); +------------------------------------------+ | sha1('password') | +------------------------------------------+ | 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 | +------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) Similarly, .Net has an SHA1 method within the System.Security.Cryptography  namespace which can be used in the following manner to generate the same hash. public static string Sha1(string hashStr, Encoding encoding) { var sha1 = new System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1CryptoServiceProvider(); var hash = sha1.ComputeHash(encoding.GetBytes(hashStr)); return BitConverter.ToString(hash).Replace("-", ""); } Console.WriteLine(S...

Fedora updated my Netbeans install last night and I had to set the look and feel in the config file again. Since this happened a few times and I never remember the laf option I thought I would write it down. Especially since the default Netbeans look and feel seems very ugly to me. To change the laf to GTK add "--laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel" to the netbeans_default_options in the netbeans.conf file. The netbeans.conf file is located in /usr/share/netbeans in the etc subdirectory of the netbeans version you are running.

The below will find searchstr in all files with the .txt file extension in the current directory and all sub-directories and place the results in c:\tmp.txt Select-String searchstr $(dir . -recurse | where {$_.extension -eq ".txt"}) | out-file c:\tmp.txt

I needed to generate some PHP table objects for a couple MySql tables so wrote up the query below real quick. I am sure there are better ways to do this through IDE's, tools, or PHP. There will also be some kinks that can be worked out such as turning database fields such as create_date into getCreateDate instead of getCreate_date but this did the trick for me. It will generate class members, getters and setters. SET @table = 'post'; SET @db = 'blog'; SELECT '<?php' UNION ALL SELECT CONCAT('class ', CONCAT( UCASE(SUBSTRING(@table,1,1)), SUBSTRING(@table,2)), '{') UNION ALL SELECT CONCAT('\tprotected $_', COLUMN_NAME, ';') FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = @table and table_schema = @db UNION ALL SELECT '\n' UNION ALL SELECT CONCAT('public function get', CONCAT(UCASE(SUBSTRING(COLUMN_...

As part of some analysis I was doing, I needed to take exactly 2 decimal places of a number. For some reason my query was not outputting data I had expected. I pinpointed this down to rounding when converting to a decimal of only 2 decimal places. For Example: select cast (10.554 as decimal (5,2)) --returns 10.55 select cast (10.555 as decimal (5,2)) --returns 10.56 To fix this issue all I needed to do was shift the decimal place to the right a couple digits, take the integer portion, and then shift the decimal place to the left a couple digits. select cast ( cast (10.555   * 100 as int ) / 100.0 as decimal (5,2)) --returns 10.55 As an alternative approach, we can use the modulus to extract the value after the decimal place we no longer need. select (10.555%.01) --returns .005 Then subtract the result from the original number: select cast ( 10.555 - (10.555%.01) as decimal (5,2)) --returns 10.55