Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/13
Cool, wish I had known this a few years ago (:
You can now undock the Pending Changes and Builds views and position them anywhere within the workbench window. Both views also now appear under Window > Show View, which makes it possible to add these views to another perspective.
–jeroen
via Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available – Brian Harry’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/12
Wow, I wish I had read this a long time ago, like in 2003 when it was written:
Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about a gardening metaphor for software development, the reasons coding is not mechanical,and the stratification of development jobs.
–jeroen
Source: Programming is Gardening, not Engineering
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/07
Wow, Microsoft has come a long way:
MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015
These license terms are an agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and you. They apply to the software named above. The terms also apply to any Microsoft services or updates for the software, except to the extent those have different terms.
IF YOU COMPLY WITH THESE LICENSE TERMS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS BELOW.
- INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.
- Individual license. If you are an individual working on your own applications to sell or for any other purpose, you may use the software to develop and test those applications.
- Organization licenses. If you are an organization, your users may use the software as follows:
- Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test your applications released under Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved open source software licenses.
- Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test extensions to Visual Studio.
- Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test your applications as part of online or in person classroom training and education, or for performing academic research.
- If none of the above apply, and you are also not an enterprise (defined below), then up to 5 of your individual users can use the software concurrently to develop and test your applications.
- If you are an enterprise, your employees and contractors may not use the software to develop or test your applications, except for open source and education purposes as permitted above. An “enterprise” is any organization and its affiliates who collectively have either (a) more than 250 PCs or users or (b) more than one million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in annual revenues, and “affiliates” means those entities that control (via majority ownership), are controlled by, or are under common control with an organization.
- Demo use. The uses permitted above include use of the software in demonstrating your applications.
The license continues, but the above are the most important aspect to verify if you can use Visual Studio 2015 under that license.
Source: MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015
Via Danial Rail and Mason Wheeler in this thread.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/07
Very interesting read and nice GIF showing how the algorithm works: The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible | Motherboard.
Second image: Sub83/Wiki
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/06
Anders Live – Build 2016 – Channel 9 Stage C907 – Speakers: Anders Hejlsberg, Seth Juarez
Anders explaining about being a pragmatist ever since he started working on the Turbo Pascal predecessor in 1981. It’s been a long way to TypeScript and beyond (:
Lot’s of interesting tidbits about the future of TypeScript and how it relates to other languages.
Source: Anders Live | Build 2016 | Channel 9
Direct URLs:
–jeroen
PS:
The Turbo Pascal predecessors were called Blue Link Software Pascal, Compas Pascal and Poly Pascal as I learned last year while teaching a workshop for DAPUG in Denmark when I bumped into some people working with Anders while he still lived there a long time ago. Later I researched the above links.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/06
Cygwin first run looks like this:
Copying skeleton files. These files are for the users to personalise their cygwin experience. They will never be overwritten nor automatically updated. './.bashrc' -> '/home/jeroenp//.bashrc' './.bash_profile' -> '/home/jeroenp//.bash_profile' './.inputrc' -> '/home/jeroenp//.inputrc' './.profile' -> '/home/jeroenp//.profile' jeroenp@msmxp ~ $
It will copy some default files to your profile so you can modify them.
Since Cygwin will run ~/.bash_profile on logon, and that in turn starts ~/.bashrc (see below), I’ve modified the latter to run ~/.bash_aliases and bring those a bit in sync with my regular Mac machine:
| # New user-defined bash aliases file | |
| # Is executed from a modified .bashrc file | |
| # .bashrc is executed from .bash_profile on cygwin | |
| # on other systems, see http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html | |
| ## This is the portion in .bashrc you need to edit in cygwin to enable .bash_aliases: | |
| ## Aliases | |
| ## | |
| ## Some people use a different file for aliases | |
| ## if [ -f "${HOME}/.bash_aliases" ]; then | |
| ## source "${HOME}/.bash_aliases" | |
| ## fi | |
| alias ls-8601='ls -l -T' | |
| alias ls-full-8601='ls -l –time-style=full-iso' | |
| # octal file modes through http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1795976/can-the-unix-list-command-ls-output-numerical-chmod-permissions | |
| alias lsmod='ls -al|awk '\''{k=0;s=0;for(i=0;i<=8;i++){;k+=((substr($1,i+2,1)~/[rwxst]/)*2^(8-i));};j=4;for(i=4;i<=10;i+=3){;s+=((substr($1,i,1)~/[stST]/)*j);j/=2;};if(k){;printf("%0o%0o ",s,k);};print;}'\''' | |
| # silence the progress meter on Cygwin with -sS via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7373752/how-do-i-get-curl-to-not-show-the-progress-bar | |
| alias whatismyip='curl -sS http://whatismyip.akamai.com && echo' |
cURL has some idiosyncrasies, for instance Cygwin shows the progress meter by default, but Mac OS X does not. I wanted to disable the cURL progress meter and you heed -sS for that.
ls doesn’t show you octal file modes by default, but chown and umask use them, so I’ve got the lsmod alias through stack-overflow.
Getting your bash initialisation right can be tough. There are lengthy discussions about which .bash* files run under what circumstances:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/05
The “Official statement” of Embarcadero about their recent hacks are in the form of comments on public messages mentioning the hacks, some asking to take discussions offline.
They forgot to comment on Delphi: disable or change your welcome page to not use the Embarcadero site (as that site has been hacked twice this weekend) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff, so here is their comment from the G+ thread I posted:
FYI: Future versions will no longer have the banner pulled from the website on the start page.
Source: This weekend, the Embarcadero web site was hacked by AnonCoders. once…
I hope it will be the upcoming Delphi 10.1 Berlin version, but given their speed at responding to security threats, I won’t hold my breath.
–jeroen
PS: what a coincidence that I wrote this yesterday on G+:
I know of a few companies that could benefit from more openness.
Ilya Grigorik originally shared: Edge team announced new (EdgeHTML) open issue tracker: http://bit.ly/1S3uhp5 – yay! The times, they are changing.File away!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/31
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/23
The youTube videos by Charlie Calvert – Google+ pointed me to Online Code Editor – Codeanywhere.
Then I found out he has a while bunch more videos. about various programming topics.
I’ve known Charlie for a long time: from his Borland days (and book writing at SAMS, which is now Informit) through the days at Microsoft (he left in 2010) and now he is teaching at Bellevu College.
To follow him, check out @CalvertBC
Interesting! There are lots, below is just s short list.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/22
The comments show some nice links to comparison overviews of hashing algorithms.
New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/FastMM4/tree/Locking_Improvements.New in this version:- Slightly simplifie… – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+
Source: New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/Fa…
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 