The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

  • My badges

    Mastodon

  • Twitter Updates

  • Pages

  • All categories

  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 1,839 other subscribers

Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »

The Myth of Advanced TDD

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/02

[WayBack] The Myth of Advanced TDD

People frequently ask me for “advanced TDD”. I have good news and bad news.

TL;DR:

if you think you need to to “advanced TDD”, then you don’t do TDD.

If TDD hurts, then you need to improve your design or code. It’s like going to the gym: it’s not the exercise that causes the hurt, but the lack of physical condition.

via: [WayBack] “If you want advanced testing techniques, then you’re probably looking for techniques that will make your code worse, not better.” – J.B. Rainsberger @j… – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Software Development, TDD, Testing | Leave a Comment »

Microservices – Please, don’t | Basho Technologies

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/01

Long read worth it: [WayBack] Microservices – Please, don’t | Basho Technologies

This blog post is adapted from a lightning talk I gave at the Boston Golang meetup in December of 2015.

TL;DR

When should you use microservices?

“When you’re ready as an engineering organization”

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Software Development, Systems Architecture | Leave a Comment »

Enabling IIS log files on Windows 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/01

Since each Windows version, Microsoft hides the way to first enable, then configure IIS Logging in a different place: [WayBack] Enabling IIS log files on Windows 7.

That should provide me some guidance on how to find it back when it is not displayed at all.

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, IIS, Power User, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

ApexSQL, a free tool (SSMS add-in) for analyzing the execution plan of a SQL server query…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/01

On my research list: ApexSQL PLAN analysis tool released in 2017. It requires SSMS which you can get at [WayBack] Download SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) | Microsoft Docs.

More info:

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Database Development, Development, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server | Leave a Comment »

Meeting Agreements for High Performing Teams – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/30

Worthy short read: [WayBack] Meeting Agreements for High Performing Teams – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog

A quote from it:

[WayBack] Patrick Lencioni‏ @patricklencioni: If someone offered me a single piece of evidence to assess the health of an org, I would want to observe the executive team during a meeting

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Meeting Agreements for High Performing Teams – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog – Marjan Venema – Google+

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Agile, Development, LifeHacker, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Soap Delphi Client end with a timeout for a 1MB call – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/26

This was a change between IE6 and IE7 on the default time-out decreasing from 3600 seconds to 30 seconds: [WayBack] Soap Delphi Client end with a timeout for a 1MB call – Stack Overflow.

If you want to increase the timeout, then use InternetSetOption. You can get the current value using InternetQueryOption.

In Delphi, THTTPReqResp.Send supports this by setting the various time out options right after creating the request:

    Request := HttpOpenRequest(FInetConnect, 'POST', PChar(FURLSite), nil,
                               nil, nil, Flags, 0{Integer(Self)});
    Check(not Assigned(Request));

    { Timeouts }
    if FConnectTimeout > 0 then
      Check(not InternetSetOption(Request, INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT, Pointer(@FConnectTimeout), SizeOf(FConnectTimeout)));
    if FSendTimeout > 0 then
      Check(not InternetSetOption(Request, INTERNET_OPTION_SEND_TIMEOUT, Pointer(@FSendTimeout), SizeOf(FSendTimeout)));
    if FReceiveTimeout > 0 then
      Check(not InternetSetOption(Request, INTERNET_OPTION_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT, Pointer(@FReceiveTimeout), SizeOf(FReceiveTimeout)));

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

does anyone know of any Spring.Container examples (preferably non trivial) th…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/26

Via [WayBack] does anyone know of any Spring.Container examples (preferably non trivial) that show how to build an app with a container just referenced from the Compo… – Russell Weetch – Google+:

Stefan Glienke:

The principle of having a composition root has nothing to do with a particular DI container. Its what you eventually get when following the principle if DI: ask for dependencies – don’t create or look for them yourself (aka service locator).

You did not mention it but I guess you mean a VCL application – now the design of the VCL is not particularly built with DI in mind and thus it can be a bit tricky to hook up the application MainForm to the container to get it injected everything. However there are several examples how to achieve that (mainly by using DelegateTo and doing the Application.CreateForm there).

An example explaining this is for instance in [WayBack] How to initialize main application form in Spring4D GlobalContainer?

Many more can be found through Spring4d DelegateTo and Spring4d DelegateTo CreateForm and

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Spring4D | Leave a Comment »

Boolean Values and Operators

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/26

TL;DR from [WayBack] Automating the world one-liner at a time… Boolean Values and Operators:

In PowerShell use the built-in constants $false and $true, as strings will be converted to booleans with results you don’t like

–jeroen

Posted in CommandLine, Development, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

How to expose a Delphi set type via Soap – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/25

Marjan Venema had a great answer at [WayBack] How to expose a Delphi set type via Soap – Stack Overflow.

–jeroen

Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

PowerShell: count the Windows EventLog entries for Applications over the last 10 minutes

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/25

In production, somehow an application started to misbehave, so would spit out a lot of Windows EventLog entries for Applications you can see in the EventViewer. This small script helped counting it (it takes about 10 seconds on a log having a total of 77k entries):

$tenMinutes = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 10
$now = Get-Date
$tenMinutesAgo = $now - $tenMinutes
$eventLogEntries = Get-EventLog -After $tenMinutesAgo -LogName "Application"
$count = ($eventLogEntries | Measure-Object).Count
Write-Host $count

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in CommandLine, Development, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development | 1 Comment »

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »