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Archive for February, 2016

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Fix for Visual Studio – Resharper Alt Enter not working – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/10

Thanks User Josh Close – Stack Overflow. for answering the below on Stack Overflow: it got my Resharper Alt-Enter key workign again.

Re-apply Visual Studio keyboard scheme:

  • (VS2013 latest ReSharper)
    • ReSharper > Options > Environment > Keyboard & Menus > ReSharper Platform keyboard scheme: Visual Studio > Apply Scheme > Save.
    • This will reset the shortcut keys for ReSharper.
  • (older versions)
    • ReSharper > Options > Environment > General > Visual Studio Integration > Apply

–jeroen

via: visual studio – Resharper Alt Enter not working – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Orthogonality and the DRY Principle

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/09

Interview with by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master.

Many interesting quotes including:

Most people take DRY to mean you shouldn’t duplicate code. That’s not its intention. The idea behind DRY is far grander than that.

–jeroen

via Orthogonality and the DRY Principle.

Posted in Agile, Development, DRY, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Ensure DeployIT can execute commands on your Windows machine

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/08

DeployIT (now XL-Deploy) uses a Remote Plugin to connect to other systems. When conncting to Windows systems, it requires WinRM to be configured on the target.

You can either run winrm qc or winrm quickconfig (they are equivalent), then answer y to the question.

C:\temp>winrm quickconfig
WinRM already is set up to receive requests on this machine.
WinRM is not set up to allow remote access to this machine for management.
The following changes must be made:

Create a WinRM listener on HTTP://* to accept WS-Man requests to any IP on this
machine.

Make these changes [y/n]? y

WinRM has been updated for remote management.

Created a WinRM listener on HTTP://* to accept WS-Man requests to any IP on this
 machine.

More detailed instructions are in the overthere/README.md.

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Console (command prompt window), Power User, Windows | 2 Comments »

v1.7.1.177 | Continua CI

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/07

Continua CI 1.7.1 Version History

v1.7.1.177

January 28th, 2016

Changes

  • Update: NUnit Action now includes option to install command line via NuGet.
  • Update: Set Variable action now to allows setting build variables copied from project and application variables.
  • Update: Now including Inconclusive and “Not Run” tests in the unit tests tool tip on Configuration view.
  • Update: PlasticSCM repository updated to deal with changes to the command line in recent versions.
  • Fix: Ensure that XUnit unit test failures always include a message even when test result type is missing.
  • Fix: Issue where unit test totals would be calculated incorrectly when there was more than one unit test action in a stage, some tests were shelved and the second unit test action included more than 1000 tests.
  • Fix: Issue with missing TFS assembly when using the 2005 client version for a TFS repository.
  • Fix: Issue where Stop button was displayed on some pages when user did not have Build.Stop permissions.
  • Update: Now suppressing warning message when unit test name is truncated.

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build

Source: Version 1.7.1 History | Continua CI

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FRITZ!Box getting the MAC addresses of your modem

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/06

Source: FRITZ!Box

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It was fun while it lasted: Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05

Copy had some advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it was better handling long file names, character encodings in filenames and a lot easier to configure over a CNTLM proxy than DropBox, but unlike DropBox didn’t keep history of changes.

Alas no more copy.com as of 20160501: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life.

They suggest using [WayBack] Mover with OneDrive as target: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Moving Your Data from Copy

Note that Mover has many more connectors, including cloud storage ones (Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk are free):

[WayBack] Connectors • Mover: FTP, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, Copy, Egnyte, Amazon S3, SharePoint, MySQL the list goes on!

For me it means it’s time to think about what kinds of cloud storage I want to use and how to share what data with others at which access level. As I’m already contemplating on how to use ZFS, I now have two storage concepts to think about.

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Cloud Apps, Cntlm, Copy.com, DropBox, Infrastructure, NTLM, Power User, SocialMedia, Windows, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. …

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05

Interesting:

Simon Wicki originally shared: really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. http://showterm.io

–jeroen

via: really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. ….

showterm

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Intermittent Technology: Home Server/Storage/Lab Setup Part 1.1 – x: HDD Preperations

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04

Source: Intermittent Technology: Home Server/Storage/Lab Setup Part 1.1 – x: HDD Preperations

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iMac won’t recognise .MTS videos on my hard drive, how can I play them? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04

We just purchased an iMac yesterday to view our travel videos. The thing is, all the videos we have stored on our external Hard Drive are in the .MTS file format (AVCHD). The thing is, the Mac or

Source: iMac won’t recognise .MTS videos on my hard drive, how can I play them? – Ask Different

Should work with Humax originating .TS files as well….

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When your license check is faulty and causes customers to loose work it’s a cardinal sin

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04

I wrote about this before, named it a cardinal sin too, but I seem to have to repeat this:

When your product thinks the license is validate and quits without allowing the customer to save its work, then you’ve committed a cardinal sin.

Yes, I can talk about cardinal sins: I’ve been named after the artist Hieronymus Bosch (:

For me it is OK if a product checks for binaries that do not to the product (and not signed by the vendor) in the product directories and fails to start, or to present a nag screen that takes a while to disappear, or even to limit functionality.

But:

  1. The product should always tell why the license check failed.
  2. The product never can force the customer to loose work.
  3. The documentation should show failure situations (not just the OK counterparts).

Given some recent posts and the fact that over the course of 10 different versions I lost days of work and at conferences I usually get multiple questions from people having suffered from this, I really had to bring this up again.

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Posted in Delphi, Development, Licensing, Software Development | 7 Comments »

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