Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/15
I needed to make backups of a couple of maintenance USB drives.
It turned out to be pretty easy: How To Backup Bootable USB Drive describes how to do that based on a small USB Image Tool developed in .NET.
One of the things you can do with this is backup bootable Windows installation media.
Note it is a simple tool, so it backups only same size to same size. For more advanced copy purposes, use something like the professional tools from Acronis.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/09
As a follow-up on my earlier number validation posts (Elf proef in C# and Other number verifications), I found a nice T-SQL version of the Elfproef for Dutch bank account numbers.
It works at least from SQL Server 2000 and up, most likely also in the (unsupported) SQL Server 7.
–jeroen
via: Elfproef als T-SQL UDF.
Posted in .NET, C#, Database Development, Development, Software Development, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 7 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/08
Nice!:
New utility: PDX Viewer Plus 1.00 beta. A simple Paradox Database Viewer that does not require drivers or an install.
–jeroen
via: Twitter / alexnolannet: New utility: PDX Viewer Plus ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/08
Most console applications return 0 (zero) as success.
But sometimes there are multiple success result codes, and the success depends on what you want to do with them.
One example is RoboCopy.
The zero result code means that nothing happened: no error occurred and nothing was copied, because there was no need to.
But for most RoboCopy scenario’s result code 1 (one) is also success. It means that no error occurred and that one ore more files were copied.
In fact the RoboCopy result codes form a bitmap explained on ss64.com.
Most RoboCopy use cases will have [0,1] as the set off success result codes.
–jeroen
via: Robocopy Exit Codes.
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, RoboCopy, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06
While fooling around with Microsoft Surface, you are astonished with the number of fingers it supports: 10 is no problem on the Samsung SUR40 which can also do full HD resolution (more specs here).
Not so with the standard Windows 7 touch support: that has only 2.
As I want to increase that to better mimic the development environment to the actual environment a few notes:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Development, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Software Development, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: 3m, computing hardware, development environment, fingers, gadgets, hd, microsoft, microsoft surface, pc hardware, real world, samsung, stack overflow, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/04
I saw julian Bucknall post some beautiful formatted functions in a few of his Algorithms for the masses blog and wondered how he did it.
[a = P . r^N . \frac { (1 – r) } { (1 – r^N) }]
Why is his formula code looking so simple, and why doesn’t it display on my blog?
So I asked him (:
Hi response was “use MathJax“:
I’m loading the MathJax JavaScript library in my pages:
http://www.mathjax.org/Here’s the post where I talk about it and how I tweak the expressions:
http://blog.boyet.com/blog/blog/tightening-the-feedback-loop-when-writing-latex-expressions-for-mathjax/If you want to experiment writing such expressions, I have the page I’m describing in the above post online:
http://blog.boyet.com/blog/files/uploads/MathJaxFeedback.html
There are various ways to include the MathJax JavaScript, and if you do, you can use both LaTeX and MathML style formulas. Read all about it on the MathJax Getting Started page.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/03
Earlie last month, I missed this: Fiddler has joined the Telerik family (and Eric joined Telerik too)
So I missed the announcements here:
Fiddler Web Debugger – Letter from Eric to the Fiddler community.
and here:
Christopher Eyhorn’s blog > Here we grow again. Telerik acquires Fiddler. What’s next?.
Cool news (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/03
Jim Tierney isn’t on DelphiFeeds yet, so below are a few links to his great Delphi XE3 LiveBindings posts.
Jim is one of the people that developed LiveBindings. In addition to that, he explains things very well.
He did some great posts on LiveBindings after Delphi XE2 got launched (he also did two great presentations on Delphi Live 2011 and CodeRage 6 – they got repeated on the last 24 hours of Delphi).
Now he is publishing a series of posts on LiveBindings in Delphi XE3.
These posts are recommended reading, more are probably on their way:
–jeroen
via: Jim Tierney
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/03
When moving a truckload of stuff from Visual Source Crash, I came a long many .webinfo files.
I wasn’t sure they should be in TFS, and indeed they should not:
.webinfo should be excluded. (Some info about webinfo: How to copy and configure ASP.NET projects between different local computers)
–jeroen
via: asp.net – Should the WebInfo file be excluded from SVN – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/02
Portable Library Tools extension is a great tool for creating assemblies that run on a variety of .NET platforms without recompilation.
I hope a Visual Studio 11 version of it comes soon.
–jeroen
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