Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/16
Interesting:
There is no extra charge for use of BitTorrent with Amazon S3. Data transfer via the BitTorrent protocol is metered at the same rate as client/server delivery. To be precise, whenever a downloading BitTorrent client requests a “piece” of an object from the…
Note
You can get torrent only for objects that are less than 5 GB in size.
via Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service.
–jeroen
via Oh wow. Apparently all S3 buckets are also BitTorrent trackers..
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/14
Insightful :
SE-Radio Episode 225 Brendan Gregg on Systems Performance by Software Engineering Radio – The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
On dtrace, stack tracing bottlenecks, CPU cached vs non cached being the new bottleneck like uncached/cached disk IO used to be, heat-maps of performance and much more.
He wrote a great book too: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud: Brendan Gregg: 9780133390094: Amazon.com: Books.
–jeroen
via: Insightful : SE-Radio Episode 225 Brendan Gregg on Systems Performance by….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/14
I tend to forget some of the keywords you can put into BitBucket commit messages to relate them to certain issues/bugs/tickets
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/13
A while ago, I posted [WayBack] the below StackOverflow answer. Recently a friend asked me about command-line parsing in Delphi, so here is the re-run:
Delphi contains a really nice unit called CommandParser with a [WayBack] TCommandParser class that does commandline parsing for you. Since it has [WayBack] virtually no documentation, here are a few things to get started. It works even in Delphi 2007.
I have a HiddenExecutable example at our open source bo repository.
Basically you:
THiddenExecuteSettings in the HiddenExecuteSettingsUnitTHiddenExecuteArguments in theTHiddenExecuteArgumentsUnit (in retrospect not such a good name) that contains an InitCommandLine method that sets up a TCommandParser instance passing it your TComponenth and help)TCommandParser instance to process the commandline and fill the properties of your TComponent (in my example, this is done in the ProcessCommandLine method).Now comes the fun:
HelpText method that fully automatically assembles a helptext based upon what you fed it with the AddSwitch methods.SaveOptions method that allows you to save the current settings of your TComponent into a settings file.The Delphi units you need are these which you can get from the Embarcadero [WayBack] radstudiodemos.sourceforge.net demo repository:
CommandParser in '...\radstudiodemos.sourceforge.net\branches\RadStudio_XE2\Delphi\Database\dbExpress\Utils\CommandParser.pas',
PropertyHelpers in '...\radstudiodemos.sourceforge.net\branches\RadStudio_XE2\Delphi\Database\dbExpress\DbxDataPump\PropertyHelpers.pas',
ParseIds in '...\radstudiodemos.sourceforge.net\branches\RadStudio_XE2\Delphi\Database\dbExpress\DbxDataPump\ParseIds.pas',Edit: [WayBack] John Kaster wrote a nice [WayBack] article on EDN that includes [WayBack] more details on using the TCommandParser.
Note the above mentioned code mostly is on [WayBack] https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Native/Delphi/Apps/Console/HiddenExecuteConsoleProject
Since Delphi XE7, this unit does not ship with Delphi any more, but it is still at [WayBack] RAD Studio Demo Code / Code / [r2029] /branches/RadStudio_XE6/Object Pascal/Database/dbExpress/Utils/CommandParser.pas.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] delphi – Suggestions for how to define command line parameters – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/12
Boy, Microsoft made it hard to find the location of xsd.exe!
It is actually located like here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\xsd.exe
But that is nowhere on the default path, nor in the registry.
What happens during installation of Visual Studio and/or the Microsoft SDK, is that the vsvars32.bat file of Visual Studio is updated so it can add the location of many tools (including xsd.exe) to the PATH.
So the trick is to find the youngest Visual Studio first, then run the according vsvars32.bat, and then xsd.exe is on the path.
| :: Dynamically finds the installed xsd.exe, then calls it with the passed parameters | |
| :: test these environment variables that have 110 or 120 in them (future enhancements: support more Visual Studio versions): | |
| :: Visual Studio .NET 2002: VS70COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Tools\ | |
| :: Visual Studio .NET 2003: VS71COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\ | |
| :: Visual Studio 2005: VS80COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\ | |
| :: Visual Studio 2008: VS90COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\ | |
| :: Visual Studio 2010: VS100COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\ | |
| :: Visual Studio 2012: VS110COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools\ | |
| :: Visual Studio 2013: VS120COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\ | |
| :: They contain `vsvars32.bat` which will update the `PATH` so it includes where `xsd.exe` resides | |
| setlocal enabledelayedexpansion | |
| :: delayed expansion allows for the exclamation marks | |
| :: see http://ss64.com/nt/delayedexpansion.html | |
| :: see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22857407/windows-batch-how-to-assign-variable-with-dynamic-name | |
| for %%v in (70 71 80 90 100 110 120 130) do if not [!VS%%vCOMNTOOLS!]==[] set VSCOMNTOOLS=!VS%%vCOMNTOOLS! | |
| call :do call "!VSCOMNTOOLS!vsvars32.bat" | |
| call :do where xsd.exe | |
| xsd.exe %* | |
| endlocal | |
| goto :eof | |
| :do | |
| echo %* | |
| %* | |
| goto :eof |
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/07
Usually I setup the grouping and filtering of the Test Explorer like this:
I really wish there was a multi-level grouping possibility here (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/06
It took me a while to figure this one out:
When you have a registered Delphi, you can Ctrl-Click browse both the units and symbols of RTL, VCL, etc. But Delphi will not recompile these units.
Some third party components you cannot Ctrl-Click browse the units or symbols, unless you put the source directory in the Delphi Library Path (which causes them to be compiled each and every time).
This is because:
These are the possible values for that directive:
So please component vendors: when you ship source code, make it IDE-browsable as well by compiling with $YD or $Y+.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/05
I wrote about the xsd.exe tool before to generate XSD from XML:
But it is much more than that, as it is a great way of generating .NET (not only C# and VB.NET code) from XSD files:
Long ago, xsd.exe used to come as part of Visual Studio, but now it is installed with the various Microsoft Windows SDK versions (of which some are downloadable) which makes it harder to locate on your system.
The really bad thing is that Visual Studio cannot find XSD.exe as part of your project Build Events, as the PATH has not been set up correctly.
In my hunt for the xsd.exe location, I started with a small batch file to find the xsd.exe locations from the registry:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/01
Interesting, Lars Fosdal writes:
VS/C#6 is out-delphi-ing Delphi.
I hope EMBT is paying attention.
Currently live at http://channel9.msdn.com/
I already liked the 7 minute C#6 video from last year. This is even better.
–jeroen
via: VS/C#6 is out-delphi-ing Delphi. I hope EMBT is paying attention. Currently….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/30
Often I want to execute a TF.exe from the console, but don’t have the Visual Studio environment variables setup. Most of the times I want to run TF.exe from the most current Visual Studio installation, hence this TF.bat file figures out the location of it, then runs with the parameters passed to TF.bat: Read the rest of this entry »
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