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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/02
Every once in a while, someone hoses their computer far enough that it has to be reinstalled, but the original Microsoft product keys are misplaced, and some creepy anti-virus tool disallows the running of standard product key recovery tools like nirsoft’s.
Well, there is enough sourcecode that does recover it, just look for any of these strings:
Some hits:
The below full executables can trigger a virus warning (ordered from less often to most often):
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, PowerShell, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/01
Sample: Cast Media Player for Streaming with DRM
https://github.com/googlecast/CastMediaPlayerStreamingDRM
Flow Diagrams for Senders and Receivers
To help you decide which Google Cast options are right for your app, we have updated the Google Cast SDK documentation with two flow diagrams:
via Leon Nicholls – Google+ – Flow Diagrams for Senders and Receivers To help you decide….
via Shawn Shen – Google+ – * Sample: Cast Media Player for Streaming with DRM* ….
Posted in Chromecast, Development, Google, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/01
Stefan Glienke made the announcement earlier today:
Finally! #Spring4D is released in version 1.0 – no joke!
You can get it directly from bitbucket using git (master) or download the zip from the 1.0 tag (http://bitbucket.org/sglienke/spring4d/downloads).
There’s lots and lots of cross platform functionality in it. No UI stuff, just source. And tests for most of it. And there is build.exe to build/install everything.
You need at least Delphi 2010 (since there is a lot of generics stuff in it). Indeed: no non-Unicode Delphi versions and no Delphi 2009 support.
Oh and the containers to have common interfaces like IList and ICollection. That’s why Nick Hodges likes them so much (:
We are going to work to get it to build with AppMethod as well
To get started, download the about zip, unzip recursively, then run BUILD.EXE and have it integrate the packages in your Delphi version.
The master branch will always contain the youngest stable version.
A few directories and unit names:
- Source\Base
- Source\Core
- Source\Extensions
- Source\Base\Collections
- Source\Base\Reflection
- Source\Core\Container
- Source\Core\Services
- Source\Extensions\Cryptography
- Source\Extensions\Utils
with per directory unit names containing: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/01
For my reminder list: lots of people forget to checkin/undo changes in TFS of stuff automatically checked out by Visual Studio when investigating a problem in their program.
This shows how to view changes made by other users (always in other workspaces because they are not you).
You can do it from Visual Studio, of with the tf command line tool.
View Pending Changes in Other Workspaces.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Encoding, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
With SQL Server, when your database is in “Recovery Pending” mode don’t just start blindingly search google, but sit down as you might be causing more damage doing so.
After sitting down, read these two posts by Paul Randal | SQLskills.com from his SQL Server Corruption series:
- Search Engine Q&A #4: Using EMERGENCY mode to access a RECOVERY PENDING or SUSPECT database.
- SQL Server EMERGENCY mode repair.
Then think about it before acting.
Though the simplest cause for “Recovery Pending” might be that a disk spin-up was slow, or a disk became full (and everything might just be dandy after the disk is available and there is enough room on it), make sure you read the above posts first before relying on the simple causes.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Software Development, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014 | Tagged: EMERGENCY mode, Recovery Pending, SQL Server | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
Interesting article by Gerwin Sturm on EU Cookie Regulations vs. Google+ plugins.
It’s not just that the directive causes this nagging because “of course we can’t remember that users haven’t given us consent for storing cookies, because that would require storing a cookie, so the consent banner will always appear until the user has actually given consent.”
Some other valuable tips are in this article as well. Now go read it (:
–jeroen
Posted in Development, HTML, HTML5, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Some notes and links for Chromecast development:
Some nice apps:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Thanks Robert Gamble, ephemient and Jonathan Leffler. Be sure to read the top two answers and comments for full details.
Until now, I always used $* to pass on arguments from *nux shells (bash, sh, ash, etc.). Works on ESXi as well. But that is not the correct way to do.
But “$@” is the correct way:
- Use “$@” to represent all the arguments:
for var in "$@"
do
echo "$var"
done
- As a shortcut,
for var; do ...; done means for var in "$@"; do ...; done
- Basic thesis: “$@” is correct, and $* (unquoted) is almost always wrong. This is because “$@” works fine when arguments contain spaces, and works the same as $* when they don’t. In some circumstances, “$*” is OK too, but “$@” usually (but not always) works in the same places. Unquoted, $@ and $* are equivalent (and almost always wrong).
This next to the following construct makes file processing in *nix a breeze:
for filename in *.7z; do if 7za t $filename 2>&1 > /dev/null; then echo $filename passed; else echo $filename failed; fi; done
–jeroen
via: command line – How to iterate over arguments in bash script – Stack Overflow.
Posted in *nix, bash, Cygwin, Development, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Linux, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Brilliant piece of open source:
SmallestDotNet – SmallestDotNet.com is a single page site that does one thing. It tells you the smallest, easiest download you’d need to get the .NET Framework on your system.
Even on Mac OS X it is helpful and recommends Mono and on iOS it recommends looking at MonoTouch.
Thanks Scott Hanselman for making this available!
–jeroen
via:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 