This is the first of a series of upcoming interviews on Technical Debt. Very insightful!
Ward Cunningham & Capers Jones Technical Debt Interview.
Apart from the transcript, there is also the video and the past Expert Interviews.
–jeroen
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Start of interesting interview series on Technical Debt
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/23
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Tips, links & tools to help you out when you find yourself in .NET assembly hell
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/23
A while ago I found myself in .NET Assembly hell.
I inherited a bunch of interdependent .NET projects with no clear build instructions that were halfway ported between .NET 1.x and 4.x had various binaries here and there, a mix of of imported Office COM libraries and PIAs, links to various source code and binary versions 3rd party libraries like Microsoft Enterprise Library (which is very unforgiving when you get configuration wrong, and – because it uses dynamic loading and the version used was from before MEF – is painfully hard to track down wrong types and assemblies).
Basically the right assemblies got into the wrong places, the wrong assemblies in the right places, and a version mix up all over the place.
All in all it was a mess, and I was in .NET assembly hell.
It was a tedious and painful process to solve, so below are a few tips, links to posts and tools that helped me getting this solved. Read the rest of this entry »
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VBScript tips and tricks
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/22
I normally don’t do much VBScript stuff, but sometimes I have to, and these tips helped me big time:
- You can use Visual Studio 2005, 2008 SP1 or 2010 to edit VBS files (with syntax highlighting, etc)
- Debugging VBS files with cscript.exe and Visual Studio requires an extra step: you need to initiate this from the script side
–jeroen
This was the script in question (mimicked a bit after Prnmngr.vbs): Read the rest of this entry »
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Interesting: Project “W” game “Phase 2” and multi-platform version on the 2013 agenda of Sascha Willems
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/20
On my interest list: game written in Delphi and now being ported to FreePascal under Lazarus for multi-platform reasons: Agenda for 2013 | www.SaschaWillems.de.
–jeroen
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Mid 2013: Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC supports 10-finger, guesture, multiple-user & 2 hr battery life.
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
In the past you have seen my interest in multi-touch Windows devices (for instance the Dell’s S2340T 23″ Multi-touch monitor and Microsoft Surface 2.0).
This year a I expect vendors to deliver Windows 8 based computers that resemble a lot of the Microsoft PixelSense (formerly “Microsoft Surface”) technology:
- 10 or more finger touch
- guesture support
- multi-user
- capability to see more than just fingers (i.e. tags, or mobile controllers)
Lenovo seems the first to announce, with an expected availability in June 2013: IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC, with support for 10-finger, guesture, multiple-user, and two-hour battery life.
–jeroen
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in light of the zero-day Java exploits: JRE removal/install tool JavaRa from SingularLabs
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
Even though the JavaRa tool is Windows-only, it is a tremendous help scraping old vulnerable versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from your systems and keeping only the fixed versions.
Regular JRE installs from Oracle/Sun will keep the old-and-vulnerable JRE versions.
(note that it seems the recent JRE update did not actually fix the vulnerability, just the exploit, and that a new Java vulnerability might already be exploited. Be sure to keep a watch upcoming Java updates for these).
JavaRa is an effective way to deploy, update and remove the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Its most significant feature is the JRE Removal tool; which forcibly deletes files, directories and registry keys associated with the JRE. This can assist in repairing or removing Java when other methods fail.
JavaRa 2.1 (released 20130116) Read the rest of this entry »
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New BitSavers.org PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
The PDF Archive at bitsavers.org has recently put online these raster image PDF scans from Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994) and Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993)
Remnants of the past, usefull for RAD Studio, Delphi and C++ Builder developers wanting to know a bit of history (: Read the rest of this entry »
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c# – What are your thoughts on Raven DB? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
Too bad the new StackOverflow rules actively discourage the kind of open questions like “c# – What are your thoughts on Raven DB?“.
They are being closed as “not constructive by casperOne♦ Nov 29 ’11 at 5:25”, which is a shame as these kinds of questions often reveal very valuable and balanced answers.
Right now I’m resarching what RavenDB could mean for storing documents. And yes, I know about the RavenDB licensing model: free for open source, pay for commercial use.
–jeroen
via: c# – What are your thoughts on Raven DB? – Stack Overflow.
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.NET/C#: Class declarations initially set are indeed different than setting them in a constructor (via: Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/16
Thanks to Danny Thorpe and John Skeet, I learned something about C# initialization order.
I knew there were differences between declarations having their initial value set at the point of declaration, and inside a constructor, but not about all of them.
So I observed the initialization order while stepping through code, but the virtual method behaviour was new to me.
Thanks Blaz Art for asking this at SO.
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sql server – How do I programmatically set the connection string for Entity-Framework Code-First? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/15
For my link archive:
use the EntityConnectionStringBuilder see this How to: Build an EntityConnection Connection String.
–jeroen
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