Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/09
Interview with by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master.
Many interesting quotes including:
Most people take DRY to mean you shouldn’t duplicate code. That’s not its intention. The idea behind DRY is far grander than that.
–jeroen
via Orthogonality and the DRY Principle.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/08
DeployIT (now XL-Deploy) uses a Remote Plugin to connect to other systems. When conncting to Windows systems, it requires WinRM to be configured on the target.
You can either run winrm qc or winrm quickconfig (they are equivalent), then answer y to the question.
C:\temp>winrm quickconfig WinRM already is set up to receive requests on this machine. WinRM is not set up to allow remote access to this machine for management. The following changes must be made: Create a WinRM listener on HTTP://* to accept WS-Man requests to any IP on this machine. Make these changes [y/n]? y WinRM has been updated for remote management. Created a WinRM listener on HTTP://* to accept WS-Man requests to any IP on this machine.
More detailed instructions are in the overthere/README.md.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/07
Continua CI 1.7.1 Version History
v1.7.1.177
January 28th, 2016
- Download Continua CI (64 bit)
- Download Continua CI (32 bit)
- Download Agent Installer (64 bit)
- Download Agent Installer (32 bit)
Changes
- Update: NUnit Action now includes option to install command line via NuGet.
- Update: Set Variable action now to allows setting build variables copied from project and application variables.
- Update: Now including Inconclusive and “Not Run” tests in the unit tests tool tip on Configuration view.
- Update: PlasticSCM repository updated to deal with changes to the command line in recent versions.
- Fix: Ensure that XUnit unit test failures always include a message even when test result type is missing.
- Fix: Issue where unit test totals would be calculated incorrectly when there was more than one unit test action in a stage, some tests were shelved and the second unit test action included more than 1000 tests.
- Fix: Issue with missing TFS assembly when using the 2005 client version for a TFS repository.
- Fix: Issue where Stop button was displayed on some pages when user did not have Build.Stop permissions.
- Update: Now suppressing warning message when unit test name is truncated.
Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build
Source: Version 1.7.1 History | Continua CI
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/06
Source: FRITZ!Box
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05
Copy had some advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it was better handling long file names, character encodings in filenames and a lot easier to configure over a CNTLM proxy than DropBox, but unlike DropBox didn’t keep history of changes.
Alas no more copy.com as of 20160501: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life.
They suggest using [WayBack] Mover with OneDrive as target: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Moving Your Data from Copy
Note that Mover has many more connectors, including cloud storage ones (Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk are free):
[WayBack] Connectors • Mover: FTP, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, Copy, Egnyte, Amazon S3, SharePoint, MySQL the list goes on!
For me it means it’s time to think about what kinds of cloud storage I want to use and how to share what data with others at which access level. As I’m already contemplating on how to use ZFS, I now have two storage concepts to think about.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05
Interesting:
Simon Wicki originally shared: really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. http://showterm.io
–jeroen
via: really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
Source: Intermittent Technology: Home Server/Storage/Lab Setup Part 1.1 – x: HDD Preperations
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
We just purchased an iMac yesterday to view our travel videos. The thing is, all the videos we have stored on our external Hard Drive are in the .MTS file format (AVCHD). The thing is, the Mac or
Source: iMac won’t recognise .MTS videos on my hard drive, how can I play them? – Ask Different
Should work with Humax originating .TS files as well….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
I wrote about this before, named it a cardinal sin too, but I seem to have to repeat this:
When your product thinks the license is validate and quits without allowing the customer to save its work, then you’ve committed a cardinal sin.
Yes, I can talk about cardinal sins: I’ve been named after the artist Hieronymus Bosch (:
For me it is OK if a product checks for binaries that do not to the product (and not signed by the vendor) in the product directories and fails to start, or to present a nag screen that takes a while to disappear, or even to limit functionality.
But:
Given some recent posts and the fact that over the course of 10 different versions I lost days of work and at conferences I usually get multiple questions from people having suffered from this, I really had to bring this up again.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
Back in the late 80s and early 90s of last century, engineers Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves set a standard that still influences the user interfaces and user experience of today: the IBM Common User Access.
I mentioned CUA a few times before, but since an old client of mine managed to throw away their paper originals in a “we don’t need that old stuff any more as we are now all digital” frenzy, I wanted to locate some PDFs. And I promised to write more about CUA.
If anyone has printed versions of the non-PDF documents below, please donate them to aek at bitsavers.org or scanning at archive.org as they are really hard to get.
A few search queries I used:
The PDFs I think are most interesting:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 