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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/27
This case, it was C# accessing a SQL back-end, but the responses to the Tweet how so many more examples not even related to software development.
Remember that plane crashing because they overloaded while they thought the fuel load numbers were in Imperial pounds where in fact they were in metric kilograms?
That’s why naming things that contain numbers should contain the unit in their name!
Related blog post: Watch “Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read” on YouTube
Tweet: [Wayback/Archive] Nick Craver on Twitter: “Troubleshooting a hanging test suite and godDAMMIT. “In seconds”. Integer timeouts should be a felony offense punishable by an indeterminate amount of seconds/milliseconds/hours/fortnights/whatever the judge chooses.”
var csb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(TestConfig.Current. SQLServerConnectionString) { ConnectTimeout = 2000 }; int SqlConnectionStringBuilder.ConnectTimeout { get; set; } Gets or sets the length of time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to the server before terminating the attempt and generating an error. Returns: The value of the SqlConnectionStringBuilder, ConnectTimeout property, or 15 seconds if no value has been supplied.
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Posted in .NET, Agile, C#, Code Quality, Conference Topics, Conferences, Database Development, Development, Event, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server, Systems Architecture | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/22
I used these .NET Source Browsers quite few times over the last decade, first for the .NET Framework and later for .NET Core (now called .NET, sometimes .NET Runtime) as well, but forgot to blog about them, so now that I discovered there is one for the Roslyn Compiler Platform as well, let’s list them all:
It was introduced as [Wayback/Archive] referencesource-beta.microsoft.com by [Wayback/Archive] A new look for .NET Reference Source – .NET Blog which explains how to use it for browsing (on-line and off-line), Visual Studio integration, debugging, and more. In about a month however it got out of beta and became the primary as it functioned so well (you can verify this while browsing through the 2014 Wayback links).
All are powered by [Wayback/Archive] KirillOsenkov/SourceBrowser:
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Posted in .NET, .NET 4.8, .NET Core, .NET Framework, C#, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/20
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Debugging Win32 binaries in Ghidra via Wine
[Wayback/Archive] Ghidra is a cross-platform reverse-engineering and binary analysis tool, with recent versions including support for dynamic analysis. I want to try using it as a replacement for IDA Pro in reverse-engineering of Win32 binaries, but hit bugs related to address space detection when running gdbserver with Wine ([Wayback/Archive] ghidra#4534).
This post contains custom GDB commands that allow Ghidra to query the Linux process ID and memory maps of a Win32 target process running in 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit Linux host.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Ptrace Security GmbH on Twitter: “Debugging Win32 binaries in Ghidra via Wine #Pentesting #Debugging #CyberSecurity #Infosec”.
--jeroen
Posted in Debugging, Development, Software Development, Windows Development | Tagged: CyberSecurity, Debugging, infosec, Pentesting | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16
Trying to trim down excessive CPU usage of my web browsers, and lessen the risk of intrusion, I experimented with globally disabling JavaScript and only enabling it on sites where it adds value to me.
That is possible (see below), but immediately showed a big side effect: Bookmarklets will not work on sites that have JavaScript disabled.
Disabling JavaScript globally only allows Bookmarklets on sites where you have enabled JavaScript. Not the situation I hoped for (:
I’ll try it for a while though.
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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Chrome, Development, Firefox, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
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