Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/26
In the comments of https://plus.google.com/114082637963876028667/posts/6rbYsMCDQtX
I recommend “Smartvideo for Youtube”. It’s a free app for your browser which forces Youtube to load the whole video as soon as you click on it. No more waiting. :)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/26
My mental association with getting LogicalDrives was always the System.IO namespace, so I’ve always used Directory.GetLogicalDrives Method (System.IO) .
Recently I bumped into Environment.GetLogicalDrives Method (System), and discovered it has been available for the same time: since .NET 1.x.
I was not so much amazed that these methods return exactly the same data, but that they have identical code. Not just a single call to some common code: their code is the same, line by line. In .NET 4, they have the code below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/25
WordPress.com had a nice end-of-year present too: inserting a backslash (\) before every single (‘) or double (“) quote on various sites:
It\’s not your fault. Code rots. We don\’t hold entropy against you, but we expect you to give a damn. This story is about code that brings new meaning to the word \’legacy\’. The accidental discovery of this body of code provoked a moral crisis. I wanted to pretend I hadn\’t seen it, yet I couldn\’t justify tiptoeing quietly away. This talk examines the dilemmas we face when balancing our choices today with their cost tomorrow. It\’s not your fault. Even so, it is your responsibility.
Clearly they haven’t watched this video:
Since WordPress.com don’t seem to bother reacting on their payed customer support forum within reasonable amounts for a long while, I’ll be publicly posting about their issues from now on.
Merry X-mas!
–jeroen
via: ▶ Baruco 2013: Here Be Dragons, by Katrina Owen – YouTube.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/25
StackOverflow user Joe (sorry, no last name) helped me big time by answering my question on Business logic shared by ASP.NET / WinForms: find the location of the assembly to access relative files to it.
Before showing the code at the bottom of this blog post, let me explain the question in more detail:
Basically I was in the midst of refactoring some ‘inherited’ business logic code that – before refactoring – for the ASP.NET side needs to be initialized with an absolute path, but on the WinForms / WPF side only with a relative path to a GetExecutingAssembly directory.
To ease xcopy deployment, I wanted all configuration settings to be relative. But I hadn’t found a common means for these platforms to obtain a directory usable as a root for accessing relative files.
That way I could put identical settings in both the Web.config and App.config, heck even generate them based on a common fragment, whithout having to hard-code absolute path names.
I knew about Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly, but in ASP.NET that location is not where the web site is (both IIS and the WebDevelopment server make use of temporary locations to store the assemblies).
ASP.NET does have Server.MapPath and HostingEnvironment.MapPath, but I didn’t want to make the business logic depend on ASP.NET.
Joe came up with this solution, which works dandy: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
Fun: Meeting Ticker.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
I’ve been wanting this a very long time, so I’m going to install it Right Now ™ (:
Right before X-Mas, Scooter Software did the ANN: Beyond Compare 4.0 beta available on Windows, Linux, and OS X:
Posted: Dec 23, 2013 4:17 PM
Beyond Compare 4.0 beta is now available for testing on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
http://www.scootersoftware.com/beta
This version adds a number of new features: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
For my own reference, especially since setting the network profile in Windows 8 from the UI got much more difficult.
It is doable though, but not in logic places; I like the secpol.msc way most: windows 8 – How do I set my wireless network to be private instead of public? – Super User.
Same for renaming the network, which also has a secpol.msc way that is easy:
- Press Win+R, then type
secpol.msc- Click on “Network List Manager Policies”
- Double-click on your network
- Optionally give your network another name
- Click on “Tab Network Location”
- Set “Location Type” to “Private”
Go back to Network and Sharing Center to check the result.
To start the Network and Sharing Center:
control.exe /name Microsoft.NetworkAndSharingCenter
Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands | Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro.
including:
netsh advfirewall show currentprofile
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
This has bitten me so many times, so I’m glad I found the below question/answers on StackOverflow.
When you perform calculations in SQL Server involving numeric literals, you have to take into account which precision you want your result to be, and CAST/CONVERT the literals accordingly.
The reason is condensed to this statement by Lieven Keersmaekers:
SQL Server uses the smallest possible datatype.
He follows with examples to view the actual representation of a literal/expression using SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY (which has been there since at least SQL Server 2000).
SELECT SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(1.0, 'BaseType') SELECT SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(1.0, 'Precision') SELECT SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(1.0, 'Scale') SELECT SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(1.0, 'TotalBytes')
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/23
The SPAM that someone tried to post to my blog this night contained the full script text.
Probably something companies akismet.com can use it to filter SPAM…
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