Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/11
Searching how to increase your Windows XP NTFS partitions of Virtual Machines running under VMware Workstation 7 gets you a truckload of links trying to get you to do all sorts of command-line like vmware-vdiskmanager and such.
That was indeed the case up till VMware Workstation 6.5, but from version 7 on, it has become much easier.
But the links with difficult steps keep appearing at the top of the search queries.
Hence this blog entry: increasing the NTFS partition size in a Windows VM is easy!
The increase is a two step process:
- In VMware Workstation, increase the size of the physical disk
- Increase the NTFS partion on that physical disk
Step 1 has become much easier since VMware Workstation version 7, you can do it from within VMware Workstation now.
Dinesh describes this small process very well in his Expand Disk in VMware Workstation 7 blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in *nix, Power User, VMware, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/10
Some nice little infographics from Digital Surgeons, showcasing the breakdown of the 2010 social demographics on Facebook and Twitter.
A few notions:
Twitter has slightly more balanced men/women ratio than Facebook.
Facebook has more non-USA users than Twitter.
Average age of a user is about 5 years older on Twitter than on Facebook.
Average income of a user on Facebook his lower than on Twitter.
Facebook has about 5 times as much users than Twitter.
–jeroen
via Infographic: Facebook vs Twitter Demographics 2011 | Digital Buzz Blog.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/10
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
via Stack Overflow ebooks.
Posted in *nix, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, Database Development, Delphi, Delphi for PHP, Development, HTML, HTML5, Java, Pingback, Power User, RegEx, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server, Stackoverflow, XML/XSD | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/09
Spoiler: Stack Overflow cured their Disk subsystem IO problems by putting in a RAID 10 of Intel X-25-E’s.
Full article: Our Storage Decision – blog.serverfault.com.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/09
Quite a while ago, user bobince wrote great answer on why not to parse html with RegEx.
Somehow people fail to recognize the brilliance of the answer, and try to simplify it into something like “don’t, use an XML or HTML parser in stead”.
bobince even posted some nice contra-examples that are impossible to parse in RegEx (heck, even most regular HTML and XML parsers have difficulties with them).
So: enjoy the beauty of the answer while it is still locked for editing.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, HTML, RegEx, Software Development, Web Development, XML, XML/XSD | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/08
My favourite text comparison tool just got updated on February 7th, 2011.
What’s new in Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298:
- “Select All” and “Insert” are now available in line details but affect main display.
- Fixed copying to the clipboard including gaps as blank lines.
- “Paste” is now available even if no rows are visible.
- “Edit” is no longer enabled if no rows are visible.
and more…
–jeroen
via Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298 – Changelog – Softpedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/08
I totally forgot to post this earlier this year, so here it goes:
GExperts 1.34 (Stable Release) was released on January 5, 2011.
It supports Delphi 6 to Delphi XE.
You can download it here.
From the Change Log in Readme.txt:
- General: Added support for RAD Studio XE. Minor bugfixes and updates to the help files. (Erik)
- Set FocusControl: Add tool to assign focus control of labels by selecting the related label and wincontrol or a group of wincontrols, and the tool tries to guess the label to associate with each control. (Daniel Maltarollo and Erik)
- Grep: Allow excluding any number of directories from a search.
- Grep: Always center the match line in the Grep Result context pane.
- Components to Code: Optionally generate code to free all created components (Peter Dzomlija).
- Hide/Show Non-Visual Components: Added support for TFrame designers (Erik).
–jeroen
via Download GExperts.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/07
Google Chrome integrated a PDF viewer that is far less functional than Adobe Reader.
In fact: if you had Adobe Reader as PDF viewer, Google Chrome will just use their own.
One of the things I use a lot is the multi-page view (2 page next to each other; fits nicely on a 1920×1200 screen).
It is actually pretty easy to switch back: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/06
Good news: StackOverflow and the Stack Exchange sites now allow all visitors (even anonymous) suggested edits to questions and answers.
Joel Spolsky explains all the details of this great new feature!
–jeroen
via: Suggested Edits and Edit Review – Blog – Stack Overflow.
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