Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/28
The below batch file finds and runs the latest vsvars32.bat on a system.
vsvars32.bat initializes the path and other environment variables to run Visual Studio and command-line tools (like csc.exe, xsd.exe, editbin.exe).
The batch file employs a few tricks from:
:: Run the most recent vsvars32.bat
:: 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\
:: VS130COMNTOOLS was skipped: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1215607-visual-studio-13-to-be-skipped-vnext-to-be-v14/
:: Visual Studio 2015: VS130COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools\
:: They contain `vsvars32.bat` which will update the `PATH` so it includes where `xsd.exe`, `csc.exe`, `editbin.exe` and others reside
:: Different examples: https://github.com/noop-dev/c-cgdk/blob/master/compile-vscpp.bat
:: and https://code.google.com/p/xvid4psp/source/browse/trunk/bin/4Gb+patcher.bat
:: or give it a go for any version: http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptexternal/src/ptII/ptolemy/actor/lib/fmi/fmus/template/sources/build_fmu.bat
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!
:: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28682268/assign-variables-past-endlocal-in-a-loop
endlocal & call :do call "%VSCOMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat"
goto :eof
:do
echo %*
%*
goto :eof
–jeroen
via: Finding the path of xsd.exe from your Visual Studio Build Events « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27
I figured that both gmail and photos take up the largest parts of my Google storage, so I did some cleaning.
You can figure out which part of your Google storage is used by email using https://www.google.com/settings/storage
Still people send huge BMP screenshots to me (probably Microsoft will never learn that pasting clipboard screenshots can be done just as well using PNG format?), so I started searching for mails with large attachments that GMail introduced a while ago:
older_than:1y size:10m
This will include mails of 10 megabyte and larger (so size is a minimum size, not an exact size) that are older than one year.
Then I deleted irrelevant mails notifying the people they should have converted their BMP files to PNG as they take up lots of space on their end as well.
Then storage didn’t decrease, as the messages were still in the trash:
in:trash
Luckily from there, you can empty the trash from there.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24
Add your Hidden Summer Hotspot in Amsterdam and share with other Local Guides. Where to find that small theatre, that cosy restaurant or that hidden museum in remote streets? Created live during the Amsterdam Hotspot Party by Local Guides in the city.
Source: Local Guides Hidden Hotspots Amsterdam
Short: http://g.co/hiddenAmsterdam
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24
Embarcadero closes down their spanish R&D office putting some 80 people on the street and diminishing the total Delphi R&D team.
Former Chief Scientist Allen Bauer commented:
The Spain office had taken on most of the IDE, Delphi RTL, GetIT, Installer, some DB, Bluetooth components, IoT, QA, and other miscellaneous tasks. They were by-far the largest single group working on RAD Studio. They were all a wonderful, dedicated, excited group of folks. They were eager to learn and truly enjoyed their jobs. I am deeply saddened by this development.
Source: [WayBack] Very bad news!
Related: [WayBack] Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Bad news for Delphi? …
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Development, Software Development | 31 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24
From old stock, I still had a few of these machines and gave them away maxed out at 8 GB with a Windows x64 installation and SSD.
You need 4 of these: 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667Mhz non-ECC non-registered memory DIMM. Faster DIMMs work too. Registered DIMMs don’t work.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/23
Yesterday I told:
Recently I did my very first JavaScript in HTML development. Since it was a one page experiment, I didn’t want to put it in an official repository of it’s own…
which reminded me of JavaScript is not Java – A humorous comparison of JavaScript and Java.
And still lots of uneducated people think they are the same, for instance the NBC Chicago publishes this at the start of the year:
Java Developer; What they do: Program websites using JavaScript.
They fixed it later but then the harm was already done (besides making a lot of fun of themselves and others making fun out of them too):
Java Developer; What they do: Write programs used by mobile devices, websites and mainframes.
Source: Report Reveals 10 Most In-Demand Jobs in Chicago for 2016 | NBC Chicago
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/22
Woof is a small simple stupid webserver that can easily be invoked on a single file. Your partner can access the file with tools he trusts (e.g. wget). No need to enter passwords on keyboards where you don’t know about keyboard sniffers, no need to start a huge lot of infrastructure, just do a
$ woof filenameand
tell the recipient the URL woof spits out. When he got that file, woof will quit and everything is done.And when someone wants to send you a file, woof has a switch to offer itself, so he can get woof and offer a file to you. …
Woof needs Python on a unix’ish operating system. Some people have used it successfully on Windows within the cygwin environment.
Source: Woof – simply exchange files
Works from homebrew on OS X.
via: Web Offer One File – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
Source: Web Offer One File
–jeroen
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