Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/26
Greate stuff:
Online .NET regular expression tester with real-time highlighting and detailed results output.
Allowed me to quickly verify the pattern PWWWC\d\dFE\d\d_\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\.zip matches only one of these filenames:
PWWWC07RI01_2016-01-10.zip
PWWWC08FE03_2016-01-04.zip
PAPPC00BT01_2016-01-04.zip
–jeroen
Source: .NET Regex Tester – Regex Storm
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/26
Interesting read: [Interesting post] Part 3 – Reverse engineering using other tools. ….
It’s about doing the reverse of obfuscating. Not only convenient to look how certain software was constructed, but also about learning what could me malicious code.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/21
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20
Anyone who knows a trick to prevent Java 8 from installing the Yahoo search/toolbar in Chrome and Internet Explorer?
This trick used to work in the past, but fails as of Java 8:
| Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 | |
| [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft] | |
| "SPONSORS"="DISABLE" | |
| [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft] | |
| "SPONSORS"="DISABLE" | |
| ; http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/how-do-i-place-comments-reg-file | |
| ; a semi-colon starts a comment line | |
| ; http://superuser.com/questions/549028/how-can-i-prevent-ask-com-toolbar-from-being-installed-every-time-java-is-update/562869#562869 | |
| ; this switch not only disables the Ask.com toolbar installation and prompt, but disables all of the sponsors potentially bundled with the Auto-update setup/Online setup (Google toolbar, Yahoo toolbar, McAfee something, etc…) |
–jeroen
The old trick from Registry keys to prevent Java installs from adding sponsors (Ask/Google/Yahoo Toolbar, McAfee virus, etc) via: Super User « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20
Push vs pull. Hacker vs Scrum (they should both be Agile). The meaning of life. Async await (and the whole development stack behind it). Just a few of the topics he covers in two version of this great talk:
(embedded versions of the videos are further on)
Summary of the first: Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way. Feedback on the second Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way and One Hacker Way – Erik Meijer : programming.
A few quotes and paraphrased parts I took from this (more are in Keynote: One Hacker Way – Erik Meijer with subtitles | Amara):
Thanks Kees Ks for pointing me at this.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20
When everybody uses (a+b)/2 but should use sqrt((a*a+b*b)/2) or even [Wayback/Archive.is] weigh the RGB parts.
–jeroen
via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/19
Just in case I need SynEdit in Unicode:
Old SVN versions are at
Newer Github repositories are at
The finaly one has a Demos folder and links to the original ANSI version. It seems the only version for which SynGen works in Unicode Delphi versions.
–jeroen
via Missed link? Anyone know what happens there? :) Once again: 1.SynEdit? ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/18
Still a great book. I love the chapter Threading in C# – Free E-book which you also can get as a PDF download.
It’s a chapter from C# 56/5/… in a Nutshell by Joseph Albahari. Great book!
Don’t forget to read these as well: Jon Skeet: Multi-threading in .NET: Introduction and suggestions (printable) Multi-threading in .NET: Introduction and suggestions (browseable)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/13
Many sites giving your public IP address return a web page with a bloat of html. From the command-line, you are usually only interested in the IP-address itself. Few services return exactly that.
Below are command-line examples to provide the public IP address mostly from a *nix perspective. Usually you can get similar commands to work with Windows binaries for wget and Windows binaries for curl.
In the end, I’ve opted for commands in this format, as I think akamai will last longer than the other sites (but does not include an end-of-line in the http result hence the echo on Mac/*nix):
I’ve not tried aria2 yet, but might provide commands for that in the future.
These are the Linux permutations for akamai:
curl whatismyip.akamai.com && echo curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo && curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echoThe last two are convenient when you have both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on “the outside”.
You can replace curl with wget -q -O – (which outputs to stdout) for each command. You can even ommit the http:// (as that is the default protocol for both curl and wget).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/06
Just learned that Peter Naur, a Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, died January 3 after a brief illness.
In memoriams:
Peter was the N in BNF; some more background info:
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