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Archive for June, 2017

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Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down the drain

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/05

Without announcing an actual date, right before the weekend Embarcadero killed their [WayBack] QualityCentral publicly accessible and search engine indexed issue database.

So I wrote this on Google Plus:

Embarcadero just flushed down the drain man-decades of work and useful information. Mainly nilling the work done by their customers to document and inform about known issues, knowing search engines indexed it well and having some hope it would assist into maybe some getting resolved.

The documentation has not been updated and still references qc.embarcadero.com, for instance from [WayBack] docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Quality_Central

They say the web service is still up, but that likely will die at the snap of a finger as well. Besides, these links mentioned in QualityCentral web services guide are dead too:

These still work though:

So all is left are memories from the past. And dead links from Stack Overflow, blogs and other sites to a defunct repository.

Dead links: q=-site%3Aqc.embarcadero.com+qc.embarcadero.com%2Fwc%2Fqcmain.aspx even from for instance EDN: q=”qc.embarcadero.com”+site%3Aedn.embarcadero.com

Luckily some of the links have been saved in the WayBack machine: https://web.archive.org/web//http://qc.embarcadero.com/

It would have been better if Embarcadero had put some time to archive everything there.

I doubt they will. There was a habit of reclassifying bugs in QC as “feature requests” which continues in Quality Portal (which requires login and is not indexed by search engines so has way less value).

[WayBack] And here is why I think twice before spending time to report feature requests to QP. And even bugs/unexpected behavior are regularly being sweeped under the carpet reclassified as new feature… – Stefan Glienke – Google+

Memories:

Oh well, life goes on and relying on one development tool or vendor is never a good idea.

–jeroen

 

Posted in Delphi, Development, QC, Software Development | 18 Comments »

VHD Attach 4.11 – Medo’s Home Page

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/05

Brilliant:

This is small tool that adds Attach and Detach option to contextual (aka right-click) menu of Virtual disk (vhd) files. That enables those operations to be done without trip to Disk Management console. Detach option is available on hard drive contextual menu also (if selected in options).

Source:

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »

This is why nobody upgrades their consumer IoT, router, etc firmware…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/02

Just one example; it applies to virtually all consumer IoT and routers I know: upgrading is hard especially if it’s undocumented on how to keep your configuration.

–jeroen

Posted in Internet, IoT Internet of Things, Power User, routers, TomatoUSB | Leave a Comment »

Mac OS X: “fzsftp could not be started” when connecting over SFTP

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/02

A while ago I had a “fzsftp could not be started” error using FileZilla on Mac OS X.

From the search results, it wasn’t exactly clear what I did wrong, as the “Show Package Contents” context menu showed “…/Contents/MacOS/fzsftp”

Then I remembered I got a bit confused with all the FileZilla updates coming out and renaming it to contain a version number (I do that with many applications so I can keep old versions allowing me to quickly revert to an older version if there are version compatibilities).

Renaming FileZilla.3.16.x.app back to FileZilla.app solved the issue: apparently FileZilla has a hardcoded dependency on exactly that name. I got there because of the hint about spaces in directories from this thread: fzsftp could not be started – FileZilla Forums

This was before Mac OS X El Capitan; with that version you have to set permissions correctly as well: fzsftp could not be started – Kruyswijk-ICT BV

–jeroen

 

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »

Since the latest 1.9.x is still more stable than 2.0.x, the direct download links

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/01

[MementoWeb.org] https://downloads.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/windows/SourceTreeSetup_1.9.13.7.exe

via:

WayBack https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/update/windowsupdates.txt

Similar to Downgrading to SourceTree 1.5.x from 1.6.x, but keeping up with the youngest embedded Git and Mercurial.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Source Code Management, SourceTree | Leave a Comment »

delphi – How do I parse a web URL? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/01

It looks like the platform-neutral TIdURI from Indy solves some corner cases that WinInet.InternetCrackUrl doesn’t.

Someday I’ll check it against the .NET Uri class and report back about this.

An addition, you might want to extend it as it lacks some features: Indy, TIdURI.PathEncode, URLEncode and ParamsEncode and more | Marc Durdin’s Blog [WayBack]

–jeroen

Source: delphi – How do I parse a web URL? – Stack Overflow

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Makefile Assignments are Turing-Complete « null program

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/01

The picture tricked me into thinking it was a Makefile for Tic-Tac-Toe, but it is in fact a 174 kilobyte makefile for Conways’ game of life which proofs that make macros are Turing complete.

Source: Makefile Assignments are Turing-Complete « null program

via: Abusing POSIX make to implement Conway’s game of life to demonstrate that make macros are Turing complete, even if there are no if and loop macros. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

While running on my Mac, the recursivity will make it fail on lack of resources though.

If seen both these:

sleep: Resource temporarily unavailable

and

make[119]: /bin/sh: Resource temporarily unavailable
make[119]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
make[119]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[119]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.

 

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Makefile, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

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