Greg Hewgill published a bunch Stack Overflow ebooks and StackExchange stats.
His readme explains a bit more on the books.
The blog he maintains makes up for some nice reading too.
Be sure to read the blog entry on the ebooks.
–jeroen
Archive for the ‘Scripting’ Category
Formatted sourcecode in WordPress: uses SyntaxHighlighter 3.0; complete list of supported languages
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/18
In the past I wrote a few blog posts on posting sourcecode in WordPress.
Nick Hodges‘ last Flotsam and Jetsam blog post pointed me to the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript that is used by WordPress and many other engines/sites.
Their site contains an even more elaborate list of supported languages.
I had the basic list right in my last post, but was missing all the aliases (which often are easier than the longer proper names).
This is the new table adapted from their list: Read the rest of this entry »
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batch file scripts to get current date and current time in sortable ISO 8601 format
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/10
ISO 8601 is a great format for date and time (and combined) values.
It allows for both interchange of information, and ease of sorting values.
Recently, I had to create some backup and logging scripts for a 3rd party turn-key installation at a client.
You know: the kind of installation where the 3rd party manages to break their own scripts, but at the mean time close the system so much, that you cannot do anything but standard batch-file scripts.
The system runs partially on a Workstation that is based on a Dutch version of Windows XP, and a server that runs an English version of Windows Server 2008.
Recipe for some twiddling in order to keep the scripts working on both systems, and not to get bitten by localization.
This answer to a StackOverflow question got me a nice head-start: it was said to work in both the English and Portugese versions of Windows.
This post is the process to get correctly function batch-files towards the end of the post.
Of course, we Dutch are persistent enough to have yet different output for the %date% pseudo variable and the date and date /t commands.
The same holds for the %time% pseudo variable and the time and time /t commands.
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Batch file tricks – double quotes splitting and downloading latest 7-zip
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/02
I needed a quick means to download the latest 7-zip from the command-line in Windows.
This batchfile makes use of these tools:
- cURL (the latest win32 build from the cURL haxx download page)
- wget (the latest win32 build from Bart Puype)
7-zip has a download page that contains lines like these:
<TD class="Item" align="center"><A href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z465.exe">Download</A></TD>
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Script to Restart VMware Tools Remotely | Daily Hypervisor
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/30
Sometimes the VMware tools need to be restarted in order to get the shared clipboard functionality working again.
From inside a Windows VM, you can do that like this:
net stop vmtools
This will create this output:
The VMware Tools Service service is stopping.
The VMware Tools Service service was stopped successfully.
Then start the service again:
net start vmtools
Giving this output:
The VMware Tools Service service is starting.
The VMware Tools Service service was started successfully.
From outside your virtual machine, you can do it like on this URL using sc: http://www.dailyhypervisor.com/2009/03/25/script-restarting-vmware-tools-remotely/
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/12
If you want JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook for free, then hurry :)
–jeroen
via: JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook free for 24 hours (or less now, I guess) – DelphiFeeds.com.
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Stopping percentage expansion in a Windows batch file
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/09
A while ago, I asked a question on percentage expansion in batch-files on superuser.com: a great site with great answers, similar to stackoverflow.com and serverfault.com , but now for asking “Power User” kind of questions.
The percentage sign (%) in URL‘s is to escape (or URLencode) characters that should not be in a URL itself.
(Note that the old new thing had a very interesting article on URL encoding: there are many different opinions on how to to this ‘right’, and a few of these ‘right’ opinions are not always compatible with each other).
In Windows batch-files and the command-line, the percentage sign is used to expand environment variables, arguments and for loop indexes.
To make life ‘easier’, inside a batch-file, the percentage sign has a slightly different meaning than on the command-line itself.
This can break your batch-files when you use URL encoded parameters.
It does not matter if these parameters are quoted or not: cmd.exe expands them, unless you escape them properly.
So, the command for downloading the URL with wget (similar to curl) differs from running it on the plain command-line or in a batch-file.
- URL:
http://www.justitie.nl/images/Handleiding%20voor%20verwerkers%20persoonsgegevens_tcm34-3940.pdf - Command-line:
wget “http://www.justitie.nl/images/Handleiding%20voor%20verwerkers%20persoonsgegevens_tcm34-3940.pdf” - Batch-file:
wget “http://www.justitie.nl/images/Handleiding%%20voor%%20verwerkers%%20persoonsgegevens_tcm34-3940.pdf”
Escaping percentage in batch-files
So the best way to escape percentages in batch files is to double them: each % becomes %%.
There is even a very old (MS-DOS era!) knowledge base article about this topic, that I just found when doing the research for this blog article :-)
URL decode
As a sidenote: manually decode thesed escaped URL’s is always a pain.
There are many sites that can do URL decoding on-line.
PS: This was the original question: How can I stop percentage expansion in a batch file? – Super User.
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Regular expressions and the ASP.NET RegularExpressionValidator control – an overview of useful links
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/10
Every now and then I need the ASP.NET RegularExpressionValidator control to validate some user input on a web-page using .NET Regular Expressions (which are very similar to regular expressions used in other languages and frameworks).
Somehow, I have lost loads of time because many of the hits on Google show up high in the results, but do not actually help that much.
So I decided to put up a bunch of links to pages that I think are relevant, or helped me much.
This list is not definitive: please comment when you have links to better information!
Note: this list is current at the instant of the latest edit timestamp: tools might have improved (or disappeared) since then.
Opnions are mine; if you do not agree: please convince me why.
Tools
Regular Expression builder applications
- Expresso – free .NET WinForms application to visually build and test regular expressions (free registraion required after 60 days of trial usage)
- RegexWorkbench – free .NET WinForms application to build and test regular expressions (much more rudimentary than Expresso)
Regular Expression test applications
- RegexLib tester – free on-line regular expresion tester where you can choose the client platform (.NET/ClientSide/SilverLight)
- The Regulator – free .NET WinForms application to test regular expressions with built in support for RegexLib.com
- The Regex Coach – free LISP Windows application to test regular expressions and tries to explain them in plain english
- RegExPal – free on-line JavaScript regular expression tester (tests the client side only)
- ReWork – free on-line JavaScript tester with samples in JavaScript/PHP/Python/Ruby
- RegexDesigner.NET – free .NET WinForms application to test regular expressions and generate C#/VB.NET code from them (ot really a “Designer” after all and much less sophisticated than The Regulator)
Tools lists
- SharpToolbox – list of Regular Expression tools
- RegexLib – list of regex resources, including tools
Tools not worth looking at
- Regulazy – too rudimentary
Sites/Documentation/Examples
- The well respected RegexLib.comsite:
- CheatSheet of how regular expressions can be built
- Search for regular expressions
- Browse regular expressions
- MSDN documentation on JScript Regular Expressions – I wish this was more readable, but it is the definitive source on Microsoft’s JScript Regular Expression implementation
MSDN documentation on the .NET Framework Regular Expressions, including
Regular Expression Language – Quick Reference.
Grouping Constructs in Regular Expressions.
Anchors in Regular Expressions. - The 30 Minute Regex Tutorial – CodeProject.
- C# Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet.
- RegEx questions on Stackoverflow.com
- Nice tutorial on regular expressions
- Stackoverflow thread on writing maintanable regular expressions (if that is at all possible <g>), with many good tips
- Stackoverflow thread on why regular expressions usually look so cryptic (which make them hard to read and write), including some tips on making them more readable
- JavaScript: Unicode Plugin for XRegExp
Some comments on common regular expression solutions
- RegEx for email usuaully reject valid email adresses like jeroen+info@pluimers.subdomain.info
Dominic has some very nice info on validating email adresses - RegEx for a minimum number of characters usually contain \w, which is not any character!
Better use ^(.{6,})$ than ^(\w{6,})$ if you want a minimum length of 6 characters.
Bugs
- JScript/VBScript bug that is also present in Internet Explorer (almost any version): A JScript/VBScript Regex Lookahead Bug
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