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Archive for February, 2014

osx – OS X Terminal “must have” utilities – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/28

Make sure you read osx – OS X Terminal “must have” utilities – Ask Different after reading:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, 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, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Best time zone map ever: xkcd: Now

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/28

I’ve never seen a beter time zone map than this one: xkcd: Now.

 

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Get Started with iOS Development using RemObject C# | RemObjects Software

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/28

Wow, just wow for this teaser:

This page provides a few videos to help you get started with RemObjects C# for iOS development.

and this:

This page provides a few videos to help you get started with RemObjects C# for Android (and Java) development.

It is about Hydrogene, a.k.a. RemObjects C#, which – like Oxygene – also adds a few extensions to the C# language, just like Jolyon speculated december last year.

It wil be in beta tomorrow (:

Summary of tools used for iOS:

Summary of tools used for Android:

Summary of tools used for iOS and Android

I’m gussing here, as the URL is not yet live, but from March 1st (tomorrow!) you should be able to download a beta of Hydrogene/RemObjects C# from http://www.remobjects.com/elements/hydrogene (Just like Oxygene is available from http://www.remobjects.com/elements/oxygene/).

.  .

–jeroen

via:

Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | Tagged: , , , , | 1 Comment »

The Tracktor – Seiki Digital SE39UY04 39-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz LED TV

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/28

Not only wow because this is cheap (though only 4K via HDMI at 30Hz as it is using HDMI 1.4).

But also wow because I didn’t know about The Tracktor.

But 28 inch might be a better fit to field of view, and come closer to my Retina MacBook Pro resolution (which is normally either at 1920×1200 or 2800×1800).

But it looks like neither of them are IPS. Bummer. Maybe wait until august.

–jeroen

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Google Now Launcher for KitKat (Android 4.4) via: Android – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/28

I just installed the Google Now Launcher on my Nexus 4 that runs KitKat (Android 4.4) from the AppStore.

Looks nice, though I could not get “Call Brother” configured (it thinks there are 3 entries for him, and selecting any of them does not make a selection).

But being able to start voice stuff with one click less is convenient.

Now hopefully the battery duration won’t be affected by another piece of software.

–jeroen

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KISS: stickers to protect your webcam from being spied (Dutch: Bescherm je laptop met een principiële sticker « Bits of Freedom)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

Didn’t notice they published these stickers while I was on holiday earier this year: Bescherm je laptop met een principiële sticker « Bits of Freedom.

There must be stickers like that in other languages as well, just did not yet search for them (:

–jeroen

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OpenPGP for GMail: Mymail-Crypt for Gmail™ (via: Chrome Web Store)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

Interesting: Chrome Web Store – Mymail-Crypt for Gmail™.

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Encryption, GMail, Google, Power User | Leave a Comment »

.NET 4.5 versus 4.0 and C# 5 versus C# 4, or the funny way how StackOverflow closes good answers

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

I’m more and more amazed (actually I’m not, this is how life on forum-like communities when moderatorss take over) about which StackOverflow questsions get closed, and which ones stay alive.

It seems the best way is to ask longer questions way beyond what most moderatorss can grasp.

Closed:

Still open:

A great point in the comments of the first question is that

you can technically can write .NET 4.0 / C# 4 applications on a .NET 4.5 / C#5 equiped machine and deploy them on machines that only have .NET 4.0 and C# support.

Don’t. I learned that in the .NET 3.0/3.5 and C# 3.0/2.0 era that combining is bad as the version matrix allows for subtle combinations that are hard to test.

.NET 3.0 with C# 2.0 applications written on a system that had .NET 3.5 and C# 3.0 installed would occasionally fail on systems that only had .NET 3.0 and C# 2.0 installed.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Interesting Linux incoming mail setup using EXIM and Procmail (via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

Very interesting: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – user-ordner@domain.de- Eine Anleitung für Exim-Benutzer ….

Will try that when I build my next Linux based mail server.

Edit: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – Tagged Mail bei der Arbeit.

–jeroen

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PowerShell – Special Characters And Tokens (via: Welcome to Neolisk’s Tech Blog)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

This and next week, a few PowerShell posts appear on my blog.

Victor Zakharov, also known as Neolisk collected all the Special Characters and Tokens used in PowerShell on one page (they are scattered around the PowerShell documentation if documented at all).

The page is so immensely useful when learning PowerShell that I’m really glad I found it.

It is even better than Less Than Dot – Blog – A Cheat Sheet for All the *{_(%#$] PowerShell Punctuation.

–jeroen

via: PowerShell – Special Characters And Tokens – Welcome to Neolisk’s Tech Blog.

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