Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/01
For my reminder list: lots of people forget to checkin/undo changes in TFS of stuff automatically checked out by Visual Studio when investigating a problem in their program.
This shows how to view changes made by other users (always in other workspaces because they are not you).
You can do it from Visual Studio, of with the tf command line tool.
View Pending Changes in Other Workspaces.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
In case I ever need it: [Wayback] Charset Detector :: Summary.
It is empirical (you cannot 100% reliably find out what character set / encoding a file is), but has a good score.
A similar problem is detecting the language. There too you can get a good score.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
With SQL Server, when your database is in “Recovery Pending” mode don’t just start blindingly search google, but sit down as you might be causing more damage doing so.
After sitting down, read these two posts by Paul Randal | SQLskills.com from his SQL Server Corruption series:
Then think about it before acting.
Though the simplest cause for “Recovery Pending” might be that a disk spin-up was slow, or a disk became full (and everything might just be dandy after the disk is available and there is enough room on it), make sure you read the above posts first before relying on the simple causes.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Software Development, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014 | Tagged: EMERGENCY mode, Recovery Pending, SQL Server | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
Interesting article by Gerwin Sturm on EU Cookie Regulations vs. Google+ plugins.
It’s not just that the directive causes this nagging because “of course we can’t remember that users haven’t given us consent for storing cookies, because that would require storing a cookie, so the consent banner will always appear until the user has actually given consent.”
Some other valuable tips are in this article as well. Now go read it (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Some notes and links for Chromecast development:
Some nice apps:
–jeroen
Posted in Chromecast, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: google | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Thanks Robert Gamble, ephemient and Jonathan Leffler. Be sure to read the top two answers and comments for full details.
Until now, I always used $* to pass on arguments from *nux shells (bash, sh, ash, etc.). Works on ESXi as well. But that is not the correct way to do.
But “$@” is the correct way:
- Use “$@” to represent all the arguments:
for var in "$@"
do
echo "$var"
done
- As a shortcut,
for var; do ...; donemeansfor var in "$@"; do ...; done- Basic thesis: “$@” is correct, and $* (unquoted) is almost always wrong. This is because “$@” works fine when arguments contain spaces, and works the same as $* when they don’t. In some circumstances, “$*” is OK too, but “$@” usually (but not always) works in the same places. Unquoted, $@ and $* are equivalent (and almost always wrong).
This next to the following construct makes file processing in *nix a breeze:
for filename in *.7z; do if 7za t $filename 2>&1 > /dev/null; then echo $filename passed; else echo $filename failed; fi; done
–jeroen
via: command line – How to iterate over arguments in bash script – Stack Overflow.
Posted in *nix, bash, Cygwin, Development, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Linux, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Brilliant piece of open source:
SmallestDotNet – SmallestDotNet.com is a single page site that does one thing. It tells you the smallest, easiest download you’d need to get the .NET Framework on your system.
Even on Mac OS X it is helpful and recommends Mono and on iOS it recommends looking at MonoTouch.
Thanks Scott Hanselman for making this available!
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
Every once in a while, the local synchronization of offline files mismatches the actual files.
Time for a CSC reset.
Note: you need to be Local Administrator on the machin in order to reset the CSC cache.
Use Reg.exe
You can also automate the process of setting this registry value by using the Reg.exe command line editor. To do this, type the following command in the Reg.exe window:
REG.EXE. REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache" /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
–jeroen
via: How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database.
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/25
The successor of Google Code? Google Developers Console.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/25
Interesting: Features | TestObject.
Android app testing made easy! Run a full app check-up in 5 minutes and find bugs before your users do.
–jeroen
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