Had to investigate some Assembly Loading issues, so I wrote two batch files to enable and disable the .NET Fusion Log:
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Besides commit statements from hg or git like this:
hg commit -m “fixes #6, resolve ticket #5 and see ticket #9 and ticket #5 in the tracker”
The best is to start with the command, then finish the comment (commands in the middle of a comment are far less reliable).
There is a whole bunch of commands for which BitBucket tries to understand conjugations of verbs:
Command
“Verb”
Conjugation(s)
resolve
close
close
closes
closed
closing
resolve
fix
fix
fixed
fixes
fixing
resolve
resolve
resolve
resolves
resolved
resolving
reopen
reopen
reopen
reopens
reopening
hold
hold
hold
holds
holding
wontfix
wontfix
wontfix
invalid
invaldate
invalidate
invalidates
invalidated
invalidating
You can also use the word “issue” in the middle to just link to an issue like this syntax:
links to issue #1
Finally, you can refer from issues to change sets using a cset syntax: <<cset 2f2f8d4cae7da0e37a5ffbc81c527cb67cc56015>> where the hex number is from a URL in your commit list (for instance in https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/fastmm/commits)
You can just hg update to the closed branch then do another hg commit and it will automatically reopen.The closed flag is just used to filter out closed branches from hg branches and hg heads unless you use the --closed option – it doesn’t prevent you from using the branches.
For a long time, I’ve persuading people to install English versions of their operating systems (especially on server side) at least for some parts of their environment.
The main reason is that searching for English error messages gives you a much bigger chance of finding the cause than non-English ones.
I’m still standing by that recommendation, but life has become a bit easier because of these two sites that offer quite good translations of Windows Error messages in many languages to English:
It is all about handling values that are not Integers, Overflow values and Nulls. There are subtle differences, in the handling of the methods, and the exceptions they could throw: ArgumentNullException, FormatException and OverflowException.
From the perspective of learning assembly language to get a grasp of thinking at the lowest computer abstraction, it is an ideal tutorial: the 6502 is a very simple 8-bit processor with only 3 registers. These restrictions make programming fun.
Windows Security updates sometimes break old software.
In this case it was an older InstallShield version (not even sure it was 2012), breaking with this message when security updates like KB2949927, KB3004394 or KB3033929 are installed:
ISDEV : error -6003: An error occurred streaming ‘<path>\DiskImages\DISK1\<filename>.isc’ into setup.exe.
An earlier security update KB2962872 even crashed InstallShield 2012 and 2013 during startup.
It raises the issue if security updates are more important than upgrading your tool-chain. For less flexible organisations (not limited to large ones; small ones can be just as inflexible for instance when an upgrade also requires time or skills to be acquired) this can impose a serious problem.
Logparser […] powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory. The results of the input query can be custom-formatted in text based output, or they can be persisted to more specialty targets like SQL, SYSLOG, or a chart.
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 