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Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Word Clouds and algorithms to generate them

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/17

While preparing for the Category Cloud series of posts, I found a lot of helpful links.

Here they are:

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, C#, Development, HTML, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Research links: unit testing using SQL Server

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/16

Being used to do Unit Testing in most of my regular code, I want to do the same for SQL Server code.

Target is SQL Server 2000 and up (since I’m involved in a big migration project getting a lot of SQL Server 2000 data and code to be upgraded to SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2008 R2).

Here are a few links that are on my research list:

–jeroen

Posted in Database Development, Development, Software Development, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 | Leave a Comment »

How To Backup Bootable USB Drive

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/15

I needed to make backups of a couple of maintenance USB drives.

It turned out to be pretty easy: How To Backup Bootable USB Drive describes how to do that based on a small USB Image Tool developed in .NET.

One of the things you can do with this is backup bootable Windows installation media.

Note it is a simple tool, so it backups only same size to same size. For more advanced copy purposes, use something like the professional tools from Acronis.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Hardware Interfacing, Power User, Software Development, USB, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

ROT13 – text obfuscation – T-SQL versions of the algorithm

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/11

Never call this encryption, as ROT13 is just a kind of obfuscation for text and can be easily revealed (like the reveal button in good old Teletext).

A few T-SQL versions of this algorithm, both working for SQL Server 2000 and up:

–jeroen

Posted in Database Development, Development, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Elfproef as T-SQL UDF

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/09

As a follow-up on my earlier number validation posts (Elf proef in C# and Other number verifications), I found a nice T-SQL version of the Elfproef for Dutch bank account numbers.

It works at least from SQL Server 2000 and up, most likely also in the (unsupported) SQL Server 7.

–jeroen

via: Elfproef als T-SQL UDF.

Posted in .NET, C#, Database Development, Development, Software Development, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 7 | Leave a Comment »

Twitter / alexnolannet: New utility: PDX Viewer Plus does not require drivers or an install…

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/08

Nice!:

New utility: PDX Viewer Plus 1.00 beta. A simple Paradox Database Viewer that does not require drivers or an install.

–jeroen

via: Twitter / alexnolannet: New utility: PDX Viewer Plus ….

Posted in Database Development, Delphi, Development, Paradox, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Robocopy Exit Codes: 0 and 1 usually mean success

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/08

Most console applications return 0 (zero) as success.

But sometimes there are multiple success result codes, and the success depends on what you want to do with them.

One example is RoboCopy.

The zero result code means that nothing happened: no error occurred and nothing was copied, because there was no need to.

But for most RoboCopy scenario’s result code 1 (one) is also success. It means that no error occurred and that one ore more files were copied.

In fact the RoboCopy result codes form a bitmap explained on ss64.com.

Most RoboCopy use cases will have [0,1] as the set off success result codes.

–jeroen

via: Robocopy Exit Codes.

Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, RoboCopy, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 3 Comments »

Some notes on multi-touch and Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06

While fooling around with Microsoft Surface, you are astonished with the number of fingers it supports: 10 is no problem on the Samsung SUR40 which can also do full HD resolution (more specs here).

Not so with the standard Windows 7 touch support: that has only 2.

As I want to increase that to better mimic the development environment to the actual environment a few notes:

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Software Development, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

SvnBridge – Use TortoiseSVN with Team Foundation Server: issues with accented characters and escapes

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05

Until bugs in the link below get fixed, when using SvnBridge to talk SVN to TFS:

  • don’t use non ASCII characters in your path names
  • don’t use escapes

This include SVN usage on codeplex.

–jeroen

via: SvnBridge – Use TortoiseSVN with Team Foundation Server – View Discussion.

Posted in CodePlex, Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN, TFS (Team Foundation System) | Leave a Comment »

Displaying formulas using HTML (via: More TVM–calculating the IRR : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/04

I saw julian Bucknall post some beautiful formatted functions in a few of his Algorithms for the masses blog and wondered how he did it.

[a = P . r^N . \frac { (1 – r) } { (1 – r^N) }]

Why is his formula code looking so simple, and why doesn’t it display on my blog?

So I asked him (:

Hi response was “use MathJax“:

I’m loading the MathJax JavaScript library in my pages:
http://www.mathjax.org/

Here’s the post where I talk about it and how I tweak the expressions:
http://blog.boyet.com/blog/blog/tightening-the-feedback-loop-when-writing-latex-expressions-for-mathjax/

If you want to experiment writing such expressions, I have the page I’m describing in the above post online:
http://blog.boyet.com/blog/files/uploads/MathJaxFeedback.html

There are various ways to include the MathJax JavaScript, and if you do, you can use both LaTeX and MathML style formulas. Read all about it on the MathJax Getting Started page.

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Development, HTML, Software Development, UI Design, Web Development | 2 Comments »