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Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category

Some Tibco Rendezvous links

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/08

For my own reference:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, MQ Message Queueing/Queuing, Software Development, Tibco Rendezvous (RV) | Leave a Comment »

stop/start IIS

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/03

I know, old knowledge, but I only recently added the below batch files to file collection.

Why? Because since a few Windows versions, the System process uses port 80 because IIS is installed by default in many configurations. And recently I had to do quote a bit of http communication work against a local machine outside the IIS realm.

windows 7 – Why is System process listening on Port 80? – Super User.

Stop IIS:

:: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22084561/difference-between-iisreset-and-iis-stop-start-command
:checkPrivileges
  net file 1>nul 2>nul
  if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto :gotPrivileges ) else ( goto :getPrivileges )

:isNotAdmin
:getPrivileges
  echo You need to be admin running with an elevated security token to run %0
  goto :exit

:isAdmin
:gotPrivileges
::  net stop w3svc
::  net stop iisadmin
  iisreset /stop

:exit
  ::pause
  exit /b

Start IIS:

:: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22084561/difference-between-iisreset-and-iis-stop-start-command
:checkPrivileges
  net file 1>nul 2>nul
  if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto :gotPrivileges ) else ( goto :getPrivileges )

:isNotAdmin
:getPrivileges
  echo You need to be admin running with an elevated security token to run %0
  goto :exit

:isAdmin
:gotPrivileges
::  net start w3svc
::  net start iisadmin
  iisreset /start

:exit
  ::pause
  exit /b

–jeroen

Posted in Batch-Files, Development, IIS, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Convert HTML to Markup using CSS – Render HTML as unrendered Markdown – see http://jsbin.com/huwosomawo

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/02

Convert HTML to Markup using CSS:

–jeroen

Posted in CSS, Development, HTML, HTML5, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

rsync as diff – compare files in two directory on remote server using unix – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/01

Too bad the accepted answer forgets about deleted files.

Use one of these to compare (but not sync) two directory trees.

For size-only comparision:

rsync -n -avr --size-only --delete /abc/home/sample1/ server2:/abc/home/sample2/

If you want to compare both contents and size:

rsync -n -avrc --delete /abc/home/sample1/ server2:/abc/home/sample2/

–jeroen

via: diff – compare files in two directory on remote server using unix – Stack Overflow.

Posted in *nix, bash, Development, Power User, rsync, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes it is Visual Studio’s fault: failure to copy file in a post build event

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/25

Not sure yet why, but every now and then I get a failure like this in Visual Studio (at least in 2013 and up):

2>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(4548,5): error MSB3073: The command "copy /Y "C:\SomePath\SomeProjectName\bin\Debug\SomeProjectName.dll" "C:\SomePath\Shared Assemblies\"" exited with code 1.
2>Done executing task "Exec" -- FAILED.

Most of the times it is me at fault: some process still is using it.

But sometimes, it is devenv.exe (Visual Studio itself) that keeps it locked, even though nothing is running (in fact it can happen right after you loaded the project in Visual Studio 2013).

I found this out by using “Process Explorer Search” (Ctrl+F or Find Handle or DLL).

Not sure why yet.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 4.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Delphi: forward declaration of classes and interfaces, but no records.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/24

As Delphi allows to forward declare both classes and interfaces, people often wonder about records.

The short answer: you can’t forward declare record types.

The long answer: you can’t directly, but you can indirectly either reference based (through pointers or callbacks with const parameters) or operator based (through operator overloading).

I think the reason forward declaration of classes and interfaces is possible because they both are reference types, so referring does not impose copying.

Anyway, the trick is this:

You can’t have forward declarations for record types. Define both Implicit operators in the second type

Source: delphi – How do I define implicit conversion operators for mutually dependent records? – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

FastMM4 moved from SF.net to GitHub – pleriche/FastMM4@245706d

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/23

Updated the homepage in the source and readme to reflect the move to GitHub.

Source: pleriche/FastMM4@245706d

In related news: Primož Gabrijelčič is contributing to it as well: his pull request got processed https://github.com/pleriche/FastMM4/pull/1 implemented FastReallocMem logger.

–jeroen

via: Edwin Yip Delphi Developers

 

Posted in Delphi, Development, FastMM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

nunit – How can I view .NET trace logs in TeamCity? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/23

This indeed works very well:

All console output is shown in the build log.

So when you need more context on tests that succeed, you can just output them on the Console.

A practical use: testing the sending of SMS messages over HTTPS where the intermediate proxy can change and was giving different effects.

Logging the actual proxy used correlated some run-time findings. Based on that we could write better tests.

–jeroen

via: nunit – How can I view .NET trace logs in TeamCity? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, Agile, C#, Continuous Integration, Development, MSTest, Software Development, TeamCity, Testing.NET, Unit Testing, VSTest | Leave a Comment »

Linking to part of the same document in Markdown (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/22

I love markdown, but it lacks the ability to directly create destination anchors (but MarkDownExtra however does for headers)

Anchors can be used to link within and between documents, the foundation of web navigation, and also very important inside documentation.

Luckily, Markdown allows inline HTML, so you can add an HTML destination anchor: an a element with either a name or id attribute.

XHTML deprecated the name attribute, but you should actually use it. The reason is that in HTML5, most browsers create a global JavaScript variable for each id id anchor.

In addition, you should not use a self closing a element: only XHTML supports that.

So the Markdown then becomes something like this:


## <a name='possiblePlatforms'>Possible platforms</a>
Link to [possible platforms](#possiblePlatforms).

view raw

anchors.md.txt

hosted with ❤ by GitHub

In the heading, you will see the html for the destination anchor, in the link you will see the MarkDown for the internal source anchor..

The above example will render like this:

–jeroen

via: How to link to part of the same document in Markdown? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in MarkDown, Power User | Leave a Comment »

A script to check the frequency of Oracle log switches | Oracle DBA tips

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/17

A wile ago, I had a this error when trying to get the TIME portion of a DATE column:

ORA-00904: "TIME": invalid identifier

This doesn’t work in Oracle, even though when you search for Oracle convert DATE to TIME you end up at this page listing TIME as a function: 12.7 Date and Time Functions. Alas, that page is for MySQL which is owned by Oracle for a while now.

Back to the query which was like this where date_column was of type DATE.

SELECT 
    id,
    date_column, 
    TIME (date_column)
FROM some_table

That DATE type actually stores date+time, and since it was filled with Delphi TTime values, the date parts would always be “1899-12-30” (yes, I like ANSI DATE and TIMESTAMP formats). Oracle doesn’t get that, so I wanted to get the time portion.

Solutions:

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