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No, Visual Studio Community 2017 is not a 30 day trial – via Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/30

Visual Studio Community 2017 needs a license renewal every ~30 days with a Microsoft account: [WayBack] Visual Studio Community 2017 is a 30 day trial? – Stack Overflow.

This means it is not a trial, but it does not a Microsoft account, and communicate with it every ~30 days which you can get at [WayBack] Microsoft account | Sign In or Create Your Account Today.

Messages you can get:

  • “We could not download a license. Please check your network connection or proxy settings” – meaning: sign in with a Microsoft account by clicking “Add an account…”
  • “We could not download a license, Please ensure your accounts are authenticated.” – meaning you have to click “Reenter your credentials”

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

bash – aliasing cd to pushd – is it a good idea? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/30

On my research list: [WayBack] bash – aliasing cd to pushd – is it a good idea? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

It has a nice discussion on complements to pushd/popd/cd/dirs including a very nice set of navd scripts that eases the navigation of the directory stack.

I found it because the ESXi busybox does not have pushd and popd and a cd won’t work from inside a shell script: [WayBack] linux – Why doesn’t “cd” work in a bash shell script? – Stack Overflow

It also made me find out that the ESXi busybox does support cd - to go to the previous directory. More info on that cd syntax is at [WayBack] bash – Difference between “cd -” and “cd ~-” – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, bash, Development, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, ESXi6, ESXi6.5, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

compiling – Where do executables look for shared objects at runtime? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/30

Thanks Gilles for answering [WayBack] compiling – Where do executables look for shared objects at runtime? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.

Abstract:

In a nutshell, when it’s looking for a dynamic library (.so file) the linker tries:

  • directories listed in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable (DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OSX);
  • directories listed in the executable’s rpath;
  • directories on the system search path, which (on Linux at least) consists of the entries in /etc/ld.so.conf plus /lib and /usr/lib.

–jeroen

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Does anyone have the source from the book: The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/25

Since I need this one day: [WayBack] Does anyone have the source from the book: The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures by Julian Bucknall? – John Kouraklis – Google+

–jeroen

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Getting rid of bugs: mark them as “new feature” – as cancelling a  THTTPClient.BeginGet() does not work as intended

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/24

I have seen this happen before, but it seems to be a habit on the Quality Portal: getting rid of bugs by marking them as “new feature”:

[WayBack] I’m using THTTPClient.BeginGet() to create an async get request to a webservice that holds a connection open until it has data to return (sort of like a… – Brian Ford – Google+. which basically was another person finding out about [RSP-20827] THTTPClient request can not be canceld – Embarcadero Technologies, which got marked (a month after submission!) as “Issue is reclassified as ‘New Feature'”.

I get why it happens (there was something exposed, but some of the functionality is missing a feature which needs to be added).

Marking it as such however sends the wrong signal to your users: we do not see bugs as bugs, so they get on the “new feature” pile with no estimate on when the feature will be done.

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Issue/Bug tracking, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Firefox 29 and up: “The connection has timed out”

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/24

A few years ago, Firefox changed the default “network.http.response.timeout” value from zero to 300 seconds (5 minutes).

Display style systems that show refreshing web pages, this can be a problem as when the connection to the web-server is unavailable for more than 5 minutes, then the page will show “The connection has timed out” and stop refreshing.

The solution – apart from fixing each and every connection problem – is to either restore the value or make it very long:

  • network.http.response.timeout=0
  • network.http.response.timeout=30000

Changing this works similarly like in A way to skip the Firefox “Well, this is embarrassing” during a sudden reboot « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff:

  • Open Firefox
  • Type about:config in the addressbar
  • Confirm the
    This might void your warranty!
    by clicking
    I accept the risk!
  • Search for network.http.response.timeout
  • Double click it so the value changes from the default value 0 to the user set value 0

–jeroen

Via:

Posted in Development, Firefox, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Fixed by Code: Match of the Day

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/24

Interesting use of OpenCV: archiving the web comics.

–jeroen

 

 

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Should you convert your Visual Basic .NET project to C#? Why and why not… | Tim Anderson’s IT Writing

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/23

Since I get this question every now and then: [WayBack] Should you convert your Visual Basic .NET project to C#? Why and why not… | Tim Anderson’s IT Writing.

Via [WayBack] Should you convert your Visual Basic .NET project to C#? Why and why not… https://www.itwriting.com/blog/11089-should-you-convert-your-visual-basic-net-… – Ondrej Kelle – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 6 (Roslyn), Development, Software Development, VB.NET | Leave a Comment »

On my research list: Event Sourcing

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/23

On my research list: [WayBack] Event Sourcing

Capture all changes to an application state as a sequence of events.

I got there via a very interesting thread [WayBack] A foreword===Hello everybody, the two major things that were recently introduced into my software architecture which led to significantly better main… – Edwin Yip – Google+

–jeroen

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InterBase/Firebird divisions: use E0 syntax to force floating point calculations

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/23

I was a bit baffled at the below results because in other other databases.

You need to use this kind of notation ####.0E0 to force an integer to be evaluated as floating point, which is an extra .0 than explained by [WayBack] sql – Why does Firebird truncate decimal places when dividing? – Stack Overflow

I’m not the only person confused by this: [WayBack] [#CORE-2849] Simple mathematics gone wrong – Firebird RDBMS Issue Tracker.

I know that as of Firebird 2.1 you can use the [WayBack] dateadd() function for calculations on timestamps, date or time values (hence the confusing name dateadd), but you don’t always have the delta readily available in one unit (second, minutes, etc) and for a mixed Firebird/InterBase deployment having one kind of logic is often preferred.

select 
        cast('now' as timestamp) as NowTimeStamp 
      , (15.0*(1.0/24.0/60.0)) as A15MinutesInDays 
      , (15.0/24.0/60.0) as B15MinutesInDays 
      , (15.0E0/24/60) as C15MinutesInDays 
      , cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0*(1.0/24.0/60.0)) as AIn15MinutesTimeStamp 
      , cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0*(1.0/24.0/60.0))) as ADifferenceInDays 
      , (cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0*(1.0/24.0/60.0)))) * 24 as ADifferenceHours 
      , (cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0*(1.0/24.0/60.0)))) * 24*60 as ADifferenceMinutes 
      , cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0/24.0/60.0) as BIn15MinutesTimeStamp  
      , cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0/24.0/60.0)) as BDifferenceDays  
      , (cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0/24.0/60.0))) * 24 as BDifferenceHours  
      , (cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0/24.0/60.0))) * 24*60 as BDifferenceMinutes  
      , cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0E0/24/60) as CIn15MinutesTimeStamp  
      , cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0E0/24/60)) as CDifferenceDays  
      , (cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0E0/24/60))) * 24 as CDifferenceHours  
      , (cast('now' as timestamp) - (cast('now' as timestamp) + (15.0E0/24/60))) * 24*60 as CDifferenceMinutes  
      -- Firebird 2.1 and up: use dateadd , dateadd(minute, 15, cast('now' as timestamp)) as DIn15MinutesTimeStamp , cast('now' as timestamp) - dateadd(minute, 15, cast('now' as timestamp)) as DDifferenceInDays , (cast('now' as timestamp) - dateadd(minute, 15, cast('now' as timestamp))) * 24 as DDifferenceHours , (cast('now' as timestamp) - dateadd(minute, 15, cast('now' as timestamp))) * 24*60 as DDifferenceMinutes from rdb$database /* Transposed results are below. Excected values for: A15MINUTESINDAYS 0.0104166666666667 B15MINUTESINDAYS 0.0104166666666667 Transposed results: NOWTIMESTAMP 20-9-2017 20:31:40 A15MINUTESINDAYS 0 B15MINUTESINDAYS 0.01 C15MINUTESINDAYS 0.0104166666666667 AIN15MINUTESTIMESTAMP 20-9-2017 20:31:40 ADIFFERENCEINDAYS 0 ADIFFERENCEHOURS 0 ADIFFERENCEMINUTES 0 BIN15MINUTESTIMESTAMP 20-9-2017 20:46:04 BDIFFERENCEDAYS -0.01 BDIFFERENCEHOURS -0.24 BDIFFERENCEMINUTES -14.4 CIN15MINUTESTIMESTAMP 20-9-2017 20:46:40 CDIFFERENCEDAYS -0.010416667 CDIFFERENCEHOURS -0.250000008 CDIFFERENCEMINUTES -15.00000048 DIN15MINUTESTIMESTAMP 20-9-2017 20:46:40 DDIFFERENCEDAYS -0.010416667 DDIFFERENCEHOURS -0.250000008 DDIFFERENCEMINUTES -15.00000048 */

–jeroen

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