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Archive for September, 2012

HDD market seems recovered, and WD introduced 4 TB 3.5 HDDs: when are 2.5 inch 12.5 mm 1.5+ TB drives coming?

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/30

Last week this was in HDD news:

I asked it before 6 months ago, and wonder: how long will it take for 12.5 mm 2.5 inch SATA HDDs to arrive on the market that have 1.5 TB or more capacity?

Yes, I know about the WD20NPVT, but the WD20NPVT is 2.5 inch and 15 mm high.

–jeroen

Posted in Hardware, Opinions, Power User, SSD, ThinkPad, W701 | Tagged: , , , | 1 Comment »

New Open Source monospaced font from Adobe: Source Code Pro

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/30

Last week, Adobe launched the monospaced Open Source font [Wayback] Source Code Pro designed by [WaybackPaul D. Hunt.

It is a follow-up of the (also designed by Paul) [WaybackSource Sans Pro family of Open Source Fonts which got released early last month.

I did a quick look to see if it would get the same number of vertical lines as Lucida Console does at 8 points.

  • Lucida Console: 50 lines
  • Source Code Pro: 40 lines

Too bad, as the general font design is awesome.

One big missing thing is italic/oblique, which is often used in code editors. Hopefully a future version will include those.

For embedding source code examples in documentation, it is very legible, so I will keep it installed on my system.

You can try Source Code Pro yourself as well: it is available [Waybackon SourceForge – that also hosts [WaybackOpen@Adobe – [Waybackon GitHub, where you can fork it, as well as [Waybackon Google Web Fonts, [Wayback] on typekit, and [Waybackon WebINK.

–jeroen

via: [WaybackAnnouncing Source Code Pro « Typblography.

Posted in Adobe Source Code Pro, Font, Lucida Console, Power User, Programmers Font, Typography | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

It looks like everything signed by an Adobe Code Signing Certificate can be malware

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/29

If I read Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate my conclusion is that anything signed by the Adobe Code Signing Certificate since 2012-07-10 potentially can be malware.

As a precaution, I will manually revoke the certificate on all my systems (that’ll take a while!). If anyone knows how to automate that process, please post a comment showing how to.

Hitching on a trusted certificate of a big software company comes close to the ultimate hack: trojaning signed malware in the distribution of an OS vendor.

–jeroen

via: Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate « Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog.

Posted in *nix, Adobe, Android Devices, Apple, HTC, HTC Sensation, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opinions, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Three XE3 hotfixes at the Delphi Registered User Downloads page

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28

There are three RAD Studio / Delphi XE3 hotfixes on the Delphi Registered User Downloads page.

Hotfix 3 is for the Professional edition only.

The others are for all editions.

RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 3: Hotfix 3 for RAD Studio XE3.

This Hotfix addresses an issue in using SQLite driver on the Professional edition.

Available only to registered users of Professional edition of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE

1MB; Download

RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 2: Hotfix 2 for RAD Studio XE3.

This Hotfix addresses a regression with using the GestureManager in a FireMonkey application.

Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE

60MBDownload

RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 1: Hotfix 1 for RAD Studio XE3.

This Hotfix addresses an issue with ShowMessage in a FireMonkey application on certain locales on Mac OS X.

Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE

12.1MBDownload

–jeroen

via: Delphi Registered User Downloads.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase – The Ultimate Visual Studio Tips and Tricks Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28

How Upper Lower Comment
Keyboard CTRL + SHIFT + U CTRL + U
Menu Edit -> Advanced -> Make Uppercase Edit -> Advanced -> Make Lowercase
Command Edit.MakeUppercase Edit.MakeLowercase
Versions 2008, 2010, 11

–jeroen

via: Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase – The Ultimate Visual Studio Tips and Tricks Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Posted in .NET, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Delphi: path names both in .dpr and .dproj, why? (refactoring – How to reorganize the folder structure of my units in Delphi? – Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/27

Cool: learned something new here:

About the path names of files being in the .dproj as well as in the .dpr:

@Jeroen – Looks like msbuild might need those entries, otherwise they’re possibly redundant, AFAICT… In any case, there is not much editing involved, just delete ‘dccreference’ entries and then a ‘save all’ in the IDE regenerates them. – Sertac Akyuz

–jeroen

via: refactoring – How to reorganize the folder structure of my units in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , | 14 Comments »

Facebook test

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/27

Somehow my Sharing Pulibicize at facebook.com broken since august 1st. Posts at Wiert.me were not published to my Facebook timeline.

This post is to see if the steps at Publicize to Facebook not working fixed my problem.

–jeroen

Posted in Facebook, LifeHacker, Power User, SocialMedia | Tagged: , , , | Leave a Comment »

Other number verifications (via: Things I tripped over when implementing the “Elf proef”: digit check for Dutch bank account numbers and social security numbers (bankrekeningnummer, BSN/Sofinummer)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/27

EAN (GLN,GTIN, EAN numbers administered by GS1)

Related:


/**
* This is a data provider for the above Unit-test.
*/
public function provider()
{
  return array(
    array('', null), // Empty
    array('0', null), // Empty
    array(' ', null), // Empty
    array('NOT-NUMERIC', null),
    array('77676656', null), // Invalid EAN8 - we do not validated EAN8 at this time.
    array('123456789999', '0123456789999'), // Upc valid, translated to EAN
    array('5031366016409', '5031366016409'),
    array('99802618537', '0099802618537'),
    array('99802469443', '0099802469443'),
    array('58231298109', '0058231298109'), // Too short but valid ean, needs zeros padding.
  );
}

via Ean13.php – yinyang – YinYang Zend Framework Supplement Library – Google Project Hosting.

Edit 20210402: this library has since moved without commit history from Google Code to GitHub with new source code file at [Wayback/Archive.is] yinyang/Ean13.php at master · henryhayes/yinyang.

YinYang Zend Framework Supplement Library

YinYang is a library of classes. Generally anything that is created in addition to Zend Framework and can be reused will be included in this library. YinYang requires Zend Framework as most of the classes extend ZF.

To use, simply checkout a copy, add the library/YinYang folder to your library folder and add YinYang to your list of autoloader namespaces.

Old:

New:

–jeroen

via: Things I tripped over when implementing the “Elf proef”: digit check for Dutch bank account numbers and social security numbers (bankrekeningnummer, BSN/Sofinummer) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »

Full Disclosure: [SE-2012-01] Critical security issue affecting Java SE 5/6/7

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/26

Full Disclosure: [SE-2012-01] Critical security issue affecting Java SE 5/6/7.

Another one. Seems Java is under a lot of security research pressure.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User | Leave a Comment »

Upscene Productions: Database Workbench 4.3.1 free Lite Editions released

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/26

Database Workbench is my tool of choice for doing database work: it supports many backends in a consistent manner, and behaves a lot like Delphi (like running and debugging stored procedures).

Yesterday the free Lite Editions of Version 4.3.1 got released:

Database Workbench 4.3.1 free Lite Editions released

This new release of Database Workbench brings new features and enhancements, as requested by our users.

The free Lite Editions are now available.

More information about Database Workbench is available at the Database Workbench page, download your copy today via our downloads page, pricing information is available, the limited Lite Editions are available for free.

Changes in this release

  • The full details and list of changes are available here and here.
  • New
  • MySQL Stored Procedure, Function and Trigger Debugging (Pro Edition only)
  • InterBase and Firebird syntax check in Trigger Editor (Pro Edition only)
  • Incremental search of data in SQL, Table and View Editor

Changes

  • More compact taskbar
  • MySQL support for BINARY and VARBINARY datatypes
  • MySQL error fixed when not having access to mysql.procs
  • MySQL fix for fetching foreign key information
  • Data Import and Export fixes
  • Windows 7 event log error by SideBySide fixed

And much more…

–jeroen

via News @ Upscene Productions.

ITDevCon: Oct 25/26 2012 in Verona, Italy

Posted in Database Development, Delphi, Development, Firebird, InterBase, MySQL, OracleDB, PostgreSQL, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 7 | 1 Comment »