Archive for May, 2012
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/18
(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)
First Lenovo did away with 1920×1200 screens. Now they done away with the ThinkPad keyboard layout.
Both were my compelling reasons for buying Lenovo.
In fact, they are now marked as forum.thinkpads.com • non-ThinkPad Lenovo Hardware.
New Lenovo X1 keyboard. No more ScrLk, Pause and local-menu keys, PrtScr key moved to impossible place. 6-key navigation split.
–jeroen
PS: Anyone in The Netherlands who has a new ThinkPad W701 with 1920×1200 screen for sale?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/18
Some shortcuts on the Mac are difficult for me to remember. For instance the one to move s
omething from the Finder to the Trash.
The guides on Trash at MacRumours.com to the rescue:
Deleting items
You delete files and folders by moving them to the Trash. You can:
Drag and drop a file on the trash icon in the dock
Control-click on a file and select “Move to Trash” from the menu
Select a file or files and use the keyboard shortcut: command-backspace
Select a file or files and choose “File > Move to Trash” from the menu bar
Notes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/17
When trying to dissect .NET 1.1 web services from their .asmx and WSDL, you need some tooling.
You’d think the WCF Test Client works, but it only partially generates the calls; it gets the methods OK, but not the parameters.
Importing the .NET WebService in Visual Studio is another option, but not for a “quick play around with the calls”.
For that, Soap UI seems a good option.
If you know better tools, please let me know in the comments.
It works, and when you get it to work it is dead slow (it keeps one core running at 50%).
Getting it to work gives many people this kind of error message: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/16
As a Delphi user, I’m missing the “Reverse Assignment” feature in the Visual Studio version of CodeRush.
Since CodeRush is very extendable (Mark is still explaining to people how the idea for that came from Delphi Packages back in the mid 90s), you can add this one yourself, as the a answer to this DevExpress support issue shows:
Q:
Is there a quick way to reverse the assignment in CodeRush? For example:
FROM:
Field[“test1”] = edTest1.Value;
Field[“test2”] = edTest2.Value;
TO:
edTest1.Value = Field[“test1”];
edTest2.Value = Field[“test2”];
I know Delphi had this capability in its refactoring, does CodeRush for Visual Studio?
Thanks
Daniel Schipper
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Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/15
(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)
One of the next steps in the automated build process I’m setting up is increasing AssemblyVersion values after succesful builds.
It is is in a CCnet / TFS2010 / VS2010 environment.
Some links:
–jeroen
via: change assemblyversion during checkin ccnet – Google Search.
Posted in .NET, C#, Continuous Integration, CruiseControl.net, Development, Missed Schedule, SocialMedia, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/15
Just checked my post history (as most posts are scheduled months in advance) just to see a bunch marked “Missed Schedule“:
I tried this trick, but it didn’t help:
wget http://www.domain.com/wp-cron.php
Anyone who knows how to work around this?
Edit: posted on the forum, and contacted staff. But any ideas are still welcome.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/15
When in a DTAP environment, you cannot always have complete clean boundaries. Issues in production don’t reproduce in acceptance, you cannot develop in production, etc.
So sometimes you have to simulate or connect to Test or Acceptance Database Servers from a Develop workstation.
There it can get hairy to keep track of which applications connect to which database server.
That’s where the below batch file comes in handy: it scans your systems on connections to common TCP ports used by SQL server, then for each connection give you some process details (or – if you add a commandline parameter – all details that TLINK can get).
The batch file uses the built in tools tasklist, netstat, find and sc (the latter to show information on the local running SQL Services).
It also uses TLIST, which can be a bit awkward to get.
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Posted in .NET, Batch-Files, CSV, Database Development, Development, Scripting, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 7 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)
You need to be administrator to see the output of the “net config server” command.
The inbound/outbound limit is 20:
Running ‘net config server’ at the command-line suggests that Windows 7 can support up to 20 inbound / 20 outbound incomplete connections.
–jeroen
via: Inbound TCP connection limit in Windows 7 – Super User.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
A few tools to prevent your screensaver to run:
Windows (most seem to work with Windows 7 too)
Note: on Windows 7 this will not prevent the inactivity timer on an RDP connection!
Mac OS X
–jeroen
via: windows xp – How to prevent screensaver – Super User.
Note: no need to write it yourself :)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)
I must try to see if this is going to work with my mentally retarted brother: Kidi.Net: Kinderen VEILIG op het Net.
–jeroen
via: Giovanni Praet (giovannipraet) on Twitter.
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