Scott has been posting some really good entries lately.
This is one of them: Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet – Scott Hanselman.
Being a keyboard addict, I love that!
–jeroen
Archive for 2012
Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet – Scott Hanselman
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
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What Devices Are iOS 6 Compatible?
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
Summary of What Devices Are iOS 6 Compatible? for my devices:
iOS 6 will work on my 4th generation iPod Touch, but not on my first generation iPad.
Hopefully my iPhone 5 will be delivered with iOS 6 on it.
Oh and the Apple – iOS 6 Feature Availability in The Netherlands:
- Maps: Standard
- Maps: Satellite
- Maps: Directions
- Maps: Turn-by-Turn navigation
- Maps: Traffic
- Maps: Local Search
- Maps: Business Reviews and Photos
- iTunes Store: Music
- iTunes Store: Movies
- App Store: Apps
- App Store: Games
Unavailable in The Netherlands:
- Maps: 3D Buildings in Navigation
- All of Siri
- iTunes Store: TV Shows
- Dictation: Dictation
Summary: Almost anything that brings Apple 30% money is available in The Netherlands plus most of maps.
–jeroen
via: What Devices Are iOS 6 Compatible?.
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“tfpt treeclean /exclude:*.suo,*.user” is what I use most (and recommend this thread: Does any tool exist to help Sync a directory with TFS? – Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
This post describes the TFS workspace cleanup features Treeclean and Scorch.
Both are not in the Visual Studio UI nor TFS tool, but are available form the ftpt command from the optional Team Foundation Power Tools package.
The main reason you need these two features is that TFS does not always clean up after it self when you perform get latest. For instance renamed directories, as well as bin and obj directories are not automatically removed.
The tfpt command I most often use this this one:
tfpt treeclean /exclude:*.suo,*.user
This deletes files from your local TFS workspace directory tree that are not in the source control system, but skips the *.suo and *.user files.
Tfpt also allows you to scorch files from your TFS.
So my second most used tfpt command is scorch in either of the two below forms:
tfpt scorch /recursive /diff
tfpt scorch /recursive /diff /exclude:*.suo,*.user
The first form is for the automatic build environment, the second for my normal development workspace.
Below is the explanation of treeclean and scorch.
First some other great commands from this StackOverflow answer by Martin Woodward:
Not quite, however you might want to download the TFS Power Tools and check out the command line utility tfpt.exe.
The “tfpt online” and “tfpt treeclean” might be most useful to you when working outside of an integrated TFS client. tfpt online will look for files in your local directory that are not under version control, treeclean will show you files in your local directory that are not under version control so that you can remove then if they are not required.
Scorch versus Treeclean
Scorch does more than Treeclean.
I use Treeclean for 90% of my normal workspace work, Scorch (with exclude) for about 10% of the time in my regular workspace.
For my CCnet build integration workspace, I only use Scorch (without exclude).
Treeclean just cleans the tree of stuff that is not in TFS:
B:\MasterWorkingDir>tfpt treeclean /? tfpt treeclean - Delete files and folders not under version control Usage: tfpt treeclean [/exclude:filespec1,filespec2,...] [filespec...] [/recursive] [/batchsize:num] [/noprompt [/preview]]
Scorch does more work: at the end, both source control and the local disk situation are identical.
B:\MasterWorkingDir>tfpt scorch /? tfpt scorch - Ensure source control and the local disk are identical Your local disk will be scanned for: (1) items that are not in source control (2) items which are different on disk from the workspace version (3) items which are in the workspace but are missing on disk Items not in source control will be deleted from disk, just as with the tfpt treeclean command. Items determined to be different on disk from the workspace version will be redownloaded from the server. Items missing on disk will also be redownloaded. Items with pending changes are exempted. By default, items deleted from your local disk (#3 above) will not be scanned for, and local items are determined to be identical/different from the workspace version *solely by examining the read-only bit on the file*. To redownload items deleted from your local disk (#3 above), supply the /deletes option. To detect items which are different from the workspace version but still have their read-only bit set (+R), supply the /diff option. When using either or both of these options, tfpt scorch runs more slowly. Usage: tfpt scorch [/exclude:filespec1,filespec2,...] [filespec...] [/recursive] [/batchsize:num] [/noprompt [/preview]] [/deletes] [/diff]
The commandline options are also different.
Scorch has these extra when compared to Treeclean:
/batchsize:num Set the batch size for server calls (default 500)
/deletes Detect and replace items missing from the local disk
/diff Use MD5 hashes to compare items with source control
Treeclean can have these options:
/noprompt Operate in command-line mode only
/exclude:filespec[,..] Files and directories matching a filespec in this list
are excluded from processing
/preview Do not make changes; only list the potential actions
/recursive Switch from one level of recursion to full recursion
/batchsize:num Set the batch size for server calls (default 500)
filespec... Only files and directories matching these filespecs
are processed
Scorch can have these options:
/noprompt Operate in command-line mode only
/exclude:filespec[,..] Files and directories matching a filespec in this list
are excluded from processing
/preview Do not make changes; only list the potential actions
/recursive Switch from one level of recursion to full recursion
/batchsize:num Set the batch size for server calls (default 500)
filespec... Only files and directories matching these filespecs
are processed
–jeroen
via:
- Does any tool exist to help Sync a directory with TFS? – Stack Overflow.
- Serious Team Foundation System Source Control.
- Common TFS commands | Developer OneNote.
- Clean up workspace.
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My Delphi conferences this fall: DelphiTage.de, ITDevCon.it, no EKON (entwickler-konferenz.de)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
While scheduling this year’s projects, it was clear that it would become impossible to have the summer holiday in the summer (last year was also outside, as we fulfilled Nicolette’s dream: visit the Antarctic region).
So we moved this year’s holiday to early November, hoping that would be outside the Fall conference season.
Alas, EKON (Entwickler-Konferenz.de), this year in Düsseldorf, Germany, moved themselves to November, so this will be the first EKON ever that I won’t attend (out of 3 or 4 people that never missed one). Sorry guys I will miss the great speakers, sessions and workshops (:
I am going to speak on two other European Delphi conferences though:
- Saturday September 22nd 2012 at DelphiTage.de in Heidelberg, Germany.
They have a great nice of speakers with an interesting program of sessions on Saturday, and workshops today and Friday.
My session on “Operator Overloading in Delphi” will be most likely in German (the schedule says English, but there are few non-German speaking attendees). - Thursday/Friday Ocober 25th/26th 2012 at the ITDevCon.it in Verona, Italy.
An even bigger lineup of speakers, and many sessions in English.
Since I don’t speak Italian, and they attract more foreign visitors than DelphiTage.de, my sessions will be in English.
ITDevCon.it is still preparing their site, but the links will be here:
– Unit Testing with Delphi
– Tips and Tricks and choosing the right tools in your Delphi Eco System
– Hidden Gems of the Delphi Language: Operator Overloading and Class/Record Helpers
I’m really looking forward meeting the attendees, speakers and organizations there. Conferences are always a lot of fun and a great way for me of learning new things.
--jeroen
via:
- EKON 16 – Die Entwickler Konferenz für Delphi & More..
- Delphi-Tage 2012.
- ITDevCon – Home.
- Conferences, seminars and other public appearances « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.
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Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset – Scott Hanselman
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
Great post with some exceptionally well written comments on the status quo: Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset – Scott Hanselman.
–jeroen
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xkcd: Click and Drag
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
xkcd: Click and Drag: a brilliant piece of JavaScript with images at http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag
–jeroen
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:-) and :-( turned 30, thanks Scott Fahlman!
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
Today they :-) and :-( turned 30. Happy birthday!
The first use was attributed to Scott Fahlman.
Over the last few years, I switched to reverse smileys as too much software tries to graphicalize the regular ones.
–jeroen
via: Scott Fahlman – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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git-tfs
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
Interesting:
git-tfs is a two-way bridge between TFS and git, similar to git-svn.
Need to check out if it is more like the SVNBridge wrapper that wraps SVN around TFS on either the server or the client, or like git-svn which wraps git around SVN only around the client.
–jeroen
via: git-tfs.
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Firebird News » Firebird 2.5.2 Release Candidate is available
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/18
Great: Firebird News » Firebird 2.5.2 Release Candidate is available.
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On my research list: AsyncBridge (adds C#5 async features for .NET 4 projects)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/18
Having a done a lot of Async stuff in the .NET 2, 3.x and 4 era with multimedia applications (oh, the days of SynchronizationContext), this project seems very interesting:
AsyncBridge
Adds the new C#5 async features for .NET 4 projects
Download this project as a .zip file
Download this project as a tar.gz fileWhat does it do?
AsyncBridge lets you use the VS 11 C#5 compiler to write code that uses the async and await keywords, but to target .NET 4.0. It was published by Daniel Grunwald (from SharpDevelop) here.
As an extra, I’ve thrown in the new C#5 caller info attributes, which lets you automatically add the method name, line number or file path to your code.
Authors and Contributors
Daniel Grunwald (@dgrunwald) – Original code.
Omer Mor (@OmerMor) – Turned it into a full blown github repo with the complimentary nuget.
Alex Davies (@alexdavies74) – Wrote the blog post that inspired this, and is actively improving the code.
–jeroen
via: AsyncBridge.
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