Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/17
Interesting take to which I agree, as DevOps needs to be in your blood and needs to come from bottom up, just like being agile.
Read the full blog post at DevOps Is Bullshit: Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do It Anymore | jjmojojjmojo: In Effect.
A small quote:
… some of the common mistakes:
- DevOps doesn’t make specialists obsolete.
- Developers can learn systems and operations, but nothing beats experience.
- Operations people can learn development too, but again, nothing beats experience.
- Operations and development have historically be separated for a reason – there are compromises you must make if you integrate the two.
- Tools and automation are not enough.
- Developers have to want DevOps. Operations have to want DevOps. At the same time.
- Using “DevOps” to save money by reducing staff will blow up in your face.
- You can’t have DevOps and still have separate operations and development teams. Period.
–jeroen
via: DevOps Is Bullshit: Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do It Anymore | jjmojojjmojo: In Effect.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/15
Bug, also in Delphi 2007:
Just hit Insert twice (which changes the text entry mode between Insert and Overwrite and then back) and your text selection will be back to working normally.
Source: delphi – RAD Studio 2009 Persistent Selection Issue: Bug or Feature? – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/15
Quite a while ago I learned about the clip.exe tool.
clip.exe is a nifty tool that allows you to copy console text output to the clipboard. Though shipping with Windows Server 2003, it wasn’t part of Windows XP, but as of Windows Vista it shipped on desktop versions of Windows.
Digging a bit deeper, I found out it was already part of the Windows NT 4 Resource Kit.
So I wrote PasteText:
PasteText: the reverse of clip.exe; pastes Clipboard.GetText() or Clipboard.GetFileDropList() to the standard output.
The full source code is below and in my repository.
There are many examples on the internet about Clipboard.GetText, but there is very little about Clipboard.GetFileDropList. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/09
Somehow this isn’t linked logically from the UI, so here are two sets of steps to get there:
From the “Event log”
- Go to the “Event Log” page on your Continua CI server; for my server that is https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/events.
- Click on any repository name (in my case DUnitX) and note the GUID at the end of the URL: https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/ci/repositories/index/94c6f27d-20a4-4f53-a81c-94f863db248d
- Append index and that GUID to the first URL: https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/events/index/94c6f27d-20a4-4f53-a81c-94f863db248d
From the “Source Repositories”
- Go to the “Source Repositories” URL on your Continua CI server; for my server that is https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/ci/repositories
- Click on the word “Error” or red cross (sometimes you can click only one of them) in front of any failing repository: https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/events/index/94c6f27d-20a4-4f53-a81c-94f863db248d
The second has the drawback that you can only see events for repositories that are currently in error, not any repository that has ever been in error.
So maybe I was doing something stupid and maybe there is a far easier way, but these work (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/08
Interesting reads despite the level of English:
GUI-testing. Table of contents
–jeroen
via: 18-ть лет с Delphi: GUI-testing. Table of contents
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/03
I wish I had seen this years ago, as I’ve always had a hate-hate relationship with many shells on many OS-es.
I’ve included the ToC; read the rest of BashPitfalls: common errors that Bash programmers make – Greg’s Wiki back-to-back. It’s worth it, really.
Bash Pitfalls
This page shows common errors that Bash programmers make. These examples are all flawed in some way.
You will save yourself from many of these pitfalls if you simply always use quotes and never use WordSplitting for any reason! Word splitting is a broken legacy misfeature inherited from the Bourne shell that’s stuck on by default if you don’t quote expansions. The vast majority of pitfalls are in some way related to unquoted expansions, and the ensuing word splitting and globbing that result.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/03
Nested DataSet fields assume identical naming of fields and parameters as Richard Stevens did comment in So I’m in total n00b mode here. I’m trying to set up a master/detail….
Of course the documentation for that is easy to find. Not.
Even this article by Cary Jensen doesn’t reveal the issue: Nesting DataSets in ClientDataSets.
So thanks Richard for clearing that up!
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 2007, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
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