Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/18
How good is this?
Access Secret Server using Web Services: mobile apps, third party applications, and scripts (with the proper authentication).
Source: API Web Services, integration with third party applications, Secret Server | Thycotic
I bumped into this after searching for winauthwebservices/sswinauthwebservice.asmx
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2o1gvd/thycotics_secret_server_is_on_sale_again/
http://thycotic.com/products/secret-server/compare-installed-editions/
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/17
I will probably need this again somewhere in the future: An exponential back-off implementation I used somewhere; probably room for improvement, but it works good enough.
It’s Delphi, but I’ve not seen practical implementations in C# either.
(the updated version thanks to Anders Melander).
–jeroen
| function TryGetLocationLockWithExponentialBackOff: Boolean; | |
| const | |
| cBase = 2; | |
| cMaxWaitMilliSeconds = 1500; | |
| var | |
| lWaitMilliSeconds: integer; | |
| begin | |
| Result := True; | |
| lWaitMilliSeconds := cBase; | |
| while (not TryGetLocationLock) do | |
| begin | |
| if (lWaitMilliSeconds > cMaxWaitMilliSeconds) then | |
| Exit(False); | |
| Sleep(lWaitMilliSeconds); | |
| Inc(lWaitMilliSeconds, lWaitMilliSeconds); | |
| end; | |
| end; |
| function TryGetLocationLockWithExponentialBackOff: Boolean; | |
| const | |
| cBase = 2; | |
| cMaxWaitMilliSeconds = 1500; | |
| var | |
| lIteration: Integer; | |
| lWaitMilliSeconds: Single; | |
| begin | |
| lIteration := 1; | |
| lWaitMilliSeconds := 0; | |
| while lWaitMilliSeconds < cMaxWaitMilliSeconds do | |
| begin | |
| Result := TryGetLocationLock; | |
| if Result then | |
| Exit; | |
| lWaitMilliSeconds := IntPower(cBase, lIteration); | |
| Inc(lIteration); | |
| Sleep(Round(lWaitMilliSeconds)); | |
| end; | |
| Result := TryGetLocationLock; | |
| end; |
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Software Development | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/17
This is still one of my gripes from Visual Studio: when a changeset is linked to an incorrect work item, you still have to change this from the work item side:
You cannot change it from the changeset UI, but you can change it from most work item UI’s. You can just add a link to a the specific changeset and the changeset will show the link as well.
You have to be careful with the steps too:
If you do it in reverse order, and get the changeset number wrong, you will have an orphan changeset.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/16
TL;DR: http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?feed=rss2
Since there is no RSS link on the page [WayBack] Dave’s Development Blog – Software Development using Borland / Codegear / Embarcadero RAD Studio
Since I wanted to follow his “blog” (which is sort of a collection of WordPress pages, mainly about the programming OTA: the Open Tools API interface to Delphi and C++ Builder), I was looking for the RSS feed.
Luckily, Feedly knows how to detect most blogging platforms, so it came up with https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?feed=rss2 which indicates the final bit is the RSS feed URL.
Some interesting links from there:
via: [WayBack] OTA Interface Search 1.1 and GitHub http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/12
TL;DR:
By accepting that failing is part of learning, we decrease our fear of failure and become more willing to experiment with new ideas. As we experiment and seek feedback, we will see how this benefits our customers, by creating a great product that is built on data and not opinions. Innovation won’t happen without failure. We must embrace it to continue learning and grow!
I highly recommend reading the full text by Yolanda van Kimmenade with lots of nice quotes: Changing our attitude towards failure
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Opinions, Power User, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/12
Static Code Analyzer for T-SQL – MS SQL Server.
Plugs into MS SSMS and can also be run from command line.It reports useful clues which you can turn/on off to your liking. http://sqlcodeguard.com/index-database-issues.html
It will spot declared but unused variables, but it appears it doesn’t do code coverage or execution path to spot stuff like variables being used without being initialized.
http://sqlcodeguard.com/ Price: Free
Source: Lars Fosdal on G+: Static Code Analyzer for T-SQL – MS SQL Server. Plugs into MS SSMS and can al…
–jeroen
Posted in Database Development, Development, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/11
I like the opinion of Mason Wheeler best. This is the shortened version:
… Only a perfect licensing system would actually do you any good, and there’s no such thing. And in the age of the Internet, if your system isn’t perfect, all it takes is for one person anywhere in the world to produce a crack and upload it somewhere,
…
If you want people to pay for your software instead of just downloading it, the one and only way to do so is to make your software good enough that people are willing to pay money for it….
But if you insist on running the rat-race against the internet of crackers or your software is in such a niche that cracking is more costly than paying for a license: Tool for licensing and protect my Delphi Win32 apps – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/11
Contrast:
When making the contrast of the text lower and lower…designers need to think of
- elderly
- users with bad vision
- low quality monitors
- bad lighting and glare
- reading on tiny screens
Source: Contrast Rebellion – to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts!
–jeroen
Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/10
Quotes from [WayBack] Ever wanted to download adb or fastboot without having to download the whole of Android Studio?…but didn’t want to download executables from some… – Elliott Hughes – Google+
Article:
- https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-darwin.zip
- https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip
- https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip
These links will always return the adb/fastboot binaries currently shipping with Android Studio. No need to guess what the current version is, or update your own links: just follow these and get the latest binaries, direct from the source.
Comments:
A package manager is overkill. `wget -O adb.zip https://dl.google.com – dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip && unzip -d ~/bin/ adb.zip && export PATH=”$PATH;~/bin/platform tools”` should let you call `adb devices` and you can add the export to your .bashrc if you want it always available without changing into ~/bin/platform tools.
+Elliott Hughes Any chance we can get something to tell us when it is updated? I know you probably don’t care about bandwitdh, but would be nice to know when updates are pushed.
+dragon788 dragon_788 Or, you can install adb & fastboot from the repo’s then run this script every once in awhile to stay up to date:
#!/bin/bash
wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip
unzip \platform-tools-latest-linux.zip
sudo cp platform-tools/adb /usr/bin/adb
sudo cp platform-tools/fastboot /usr/bin/fastboot
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] finally.gif… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/10
A few weeks ago in When you get “TfsScript.Execute” throwing a “Unregistered version of FastScript.” I wrote about “a process that explains any modules in the MAP file not resulting in DCU files”.
The below batch file aids in that process.
It takes a MAP file from your Delphi compiled executable that has debug information in text format which means you need to set your project linker options to generate detailed MAP files.
The Map Debug File (*.map) – RAD Studio documentation hasn’t much information but points to Detailed-Segments Map File – RAD Studio which has a bit more. Neither contain information on Delphi units as they focus too much on the C++ side of things. Then there is a tiny bit information in Understanding Delphi MAP File – Stack Overflow.
So I did some spelunking and came up with this batch-file which will likely work back until about the Delphi 7 era:
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 