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So I do a lot of work with automated unattended intallations of Operating Systems, including Windows. Here's some of my primary complaints about the new Windows setup program in Windows Server 2008. No good way to validate the unnatend.xml file. Now Microsoft does provide tools to help generate these files, and hopefully any file you generate with those (graphical, Windows-only) tools should be at least well-formed and semantically valid.....
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So I do a lot of work with automated unattended intallations of Operating Systems, including Windows. Here's some of my primary complaints about the new Windows setup program in Windows Server 2008. No good way to validate the unnatend.xml file. Now Microsoft does provide tools to help generate these files, and hopefully any file you generate with those (graphical, Windows-only) tools should be at least well-formed and semantically valid.....
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aKademy 2010 was hosted in the sunny city of Tampere by the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions , an organization that I'm a steering group member of. In addition to helping a bit with the arrangements and organizing the Midgard Gathering there, I also gave a talk about GeoClue , the positioning framework for Linux desktops. Presentation slides (PDF) Video of my talk We initially started the push for location-aware de....
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aKademy 2010 was hosted in the sunny city of Tampere by the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions , an organization that I'm a steering group member of. In addition to helping a bit with the arrangements and organizing the Midgard Gathering there, I also gave a talk about GeoClue , the positioning framework for Linux desktops. Presentation slides (PDF) Video of my talk We initially started the push for location-aware de....
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Comment on Twitters for 2010-07-08 by For the Pulpo Paul lover.
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billsaysthis.com
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16 years ago
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Posterous has been getting a lot of attention lately. Its simplicity appeals to a wide range of users and more and more users are switching over from other well-established blogging platforms such as Blogger or WordPress. In this article, we will have a look at how you can replicate the Posterous functionality on App Engine. In case you don’t know what Posterous is, it’s very simple. It’s a blogging tool like Google’s Bloggeror Wordpress.....
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Posterous has been getting a lot of attention lately. Its simplicity appeals to a wide range of users and more and more users are switching over from other well-established blogging platforms such as Blogger or WordPress. In this article, we will have a look at how you can replicate the Posterous functionality on App Engine. In case you don’t know what Posterous is, it’s very simple. It’s a blogging tool like Google’s Bloggeror Wordpress.....
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Most job postings will list one or more source code management (SCM) tools in their laundry list of required skills and buzzwords. This seems to both be unnecessary and also to miss the point. As an employer, your concern shouldn't be whether or not your candidate is intimately familiar with subversion, git, perforce, starteam, mercurial, CVS, sourcesafe, or whatever system your code happens to reside within at this point in time. Why not? ....
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Most job postings will list one or more source code management (SCM) tools in their laundry list of required skills and buzzwords. This seems to both be unnecessary and also to miss the point. As an employer, your concern shouldn't be whether or not your candidate is intimately familiar with subversion, git, perforce, starteam, mercurial, CVS, sourcesafe, or whatever system your code happens to reside within at this point in time. Why not? ....
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When we first started out, we listed the thorough quality assurance review as an optional piece of our estimates. We had this incredibly naive idea that if we gave people the option to save a little money up front that they'd fully understand if there was anything that needed to be tuned up, post-launch. We learned our lesson...hard.
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When we first started out, we listed the thorough quality assurance review as an optional piece of our estimates. We had this incredibly naive idea that if we gave people the option to save a little money up front that they'd fully understand if there was anything that needed to be tuned up, post-launch. We learned our lesson...hard.
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Tom Bird of PortFast and Brandon Butterworth of Bogons do a great job of webcasting, and recording UKNOF video. Thanks to them, the video of the presentation I gave at UKNOF16 can be watched here . Or you can download it by clicking the image below! As always, thoughts/comments/corrections most welcome! This is also probably a good time to mention that my new work mail address is rob.shakir (at) cw.com
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Tom Bird of PortFast and Brandon Butterworth of Bogons do a great job of webcasting, and recording UKNOF video. Thanks to them, the video of the presentation I gave at UKNOF16 can be watched here . Or you can download it by clicking the image below! As always, thoughts/comments/corrections most welcome! This is also probably a good time to mention that my new work mail address is rob.shakir (at) cw.com
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Last night the body of Bobby Fischer was dug up from his grave, ordered by Iceland's supreme court. The aim is to get a biological sample to find out the truth whether Bobby Fischer is the father of philipean Jinky Young, who claims he is.
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Storage. It's an even lasting problem which a lot of companies out there are trying to solve. There are so many requirements and so many limitations. There are a few solutions out there which are pretty good but they are all tackling a separate problem. Somebody needs to invent a computer/storage device with the following features...
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Last night the body of Bobby Fischer was dug up from his grave, ordered by Iceland's supreme court. The aim is to get a biological sample to find out the truth whether Bobby Fischer is the father of philipean Jinky Young, who claims he is.
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Storage. It's an even lasting problem which a lot of companies out there are trying to solve. There are so many requirements and so many limitations. There are a few solutions out there which are pretty good but they are all tackling a separate problem. Somebody needs to invent a computer/storage device with the following features...
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor
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blog.nelhage.com
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16 years ago
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Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time, I want to talk about the tricks I used to implement a declarative minilanguage using the C preprocessor (and some GCC extensions). The Problem We want to write some toplevel declarations that look like: #define SUITE_NAME example BEGIN_SUITE("Example test suite"); #define TEST_CASE core BEGIN_TEST_CASE("Core tests"); … and so on, and somehow ..
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor
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blog.nelhage.com
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16 years ago
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Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time, I want to talk about the tricks I used to implement a declarative minilanguage using the C preprocessor (and some GCC extensions). The Problem We want to write some toplevel declarations that look like: #define SUITE_NAME example BEGIN_SUITE("Example test suite"); #define TEST_CASE core BEGIN_TEST_CASE("Core tests"); … and so on, and somehow ..
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I thought e-mail newsletters were, in essence, dead. I thought no \*real\* value could be derived from them any more. I subscribe to a few e-mail newsletters. Mostly of blogs and companies/services that I use. Some of them are annoying, some of them are sometimes useful, but I don't really remember learning anything useful from an e-mail newsletter. Untill today.
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I thought e-mail newsletters were, in essence, dead. I thought no \*real\* value could be derived from them any more. I subscribe to a few e-mail newsletters. Mostly of blogs and companies/services that I use. Some of them are annoying, some of them are sometimes useful, but I don't really remember learning anything useful from an e-mail newsletter. Untill today.
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SimpleCalendar is a very simple PHP calendar class written to be easy to use and flexible. It includes basic event logic and is made to be modified to your particular needs. Sample Usage setStartOfWeek('Sunday'); $calendar->addDailyHtml( 'Sample Event', 'today', 'tomorrow' ); $calendar->show(true); Example Calendar Click here for the Github re....
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SimpleCalendar is a very simple PHP calendar class written to be easy to use and flexible. It includes basic event logic and is made to be modified to your particular needs. Sample Usage setStartOfWeek('Sunday'); $calendar->addDailyHtml( 'Sample Event', 'today', 'tomorrow' ); $calendar->show(true); Example Calendar Click here for the Github re....
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Well, I submitted A3P to IndieCade on Friday. It's also currently in QA testing for an online gaming portal ( BigPoint , still free of course). I won't say that A3P is done, but I think it's pretty stable. I need to do a bit more work on the connection establishment process (it seems a little fragile), but other than that, there's not much else to do. I also packaged the game into a standalone version available here: Windows (68 Mb) and..
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Use Ctrl+Alt+Del for Task Manager in Linux to Kill Tasks Easily
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justingarrison.com
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16 years ago
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Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known projects. It includes features such as running all tests in separate address spaces (using fork(2)), which means that the test suite can properly report segfaults or similar crashes without the test runner crashes. My main complaint about Check is that (unsurprisingly for a framework written in C), it’s not very declarative. After you define a..
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Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known projects. It includes features such as running all tests in separate address spaces (using fork(2)), which means that the test suite can properly report segfaults or similar crashes without the test runner crashes. My main complaint about Check is that (unsurprisingly for a framework written in C), it’s not very declarative. After you define a..
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A topic that seems to be very hot these days is ad retargeting. Now, I'm not really a big privacy advocate and I don't concern myself with those kinds of issues, but \*if\* I were I would probably be concerned with this topic! If there ever was a reason to use an ad-blocker...
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A topic that seems to be very hot these days is ad retargeting. Now, I'm not really a big privacy advocate and I don't concern myself with those kinds of issues, but \*if\* I were I would probably be concerned with this topic! If there ever was a reason to use an ad-blocker...
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Introducing a new breed of testing professional Software Testing is going through some revolutionary changes on philosophy, practices and tools; largely driven by current business and the IT environment. This article is an attempt to look at factors influencing changes in testing space, emerging trends in testing and the impact they have on testing professionals in the 21st century.
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Most software professionals believe that testing software is essential to quality. Where people inside the industry differ is how to accomplish that testing, as strategies vary by level of the application tested, tools, methodology, amount of automation, and who completes the testing itself. The aspirational desire is to ship high-quality bug-free software no matter how one gets there. However, the devil is in the details. The promise of qu..
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The full power of Oracle’s diagnostic events, part 2: ORADEBUG DOC and 11g improvements
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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I haven’t written any blog entries for a while, so here’s a very sweet treat for low-level Oracle troubleshooters and internals geeks out there :) Over a year ago I wrote that Oracle 11g has a completely new low-level kernel diagnostics & tracing infrastructure built in to it. I wanted to write a longer article about it with comprehensive examples and use cases, but by now I realize I won’t ever have time for this, so I’ll just point yo..
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The full power of Oracle’s diagnostic events, part 2: ORADEBUG DOC and 11g improvements
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tanelpoder.com
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16 years ago
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I haven’t written any blog entries for a while, so here’s a very sweet treat for low-level Oracle troubleshooters and internals geeks out there :) Over a year ago I wrote that Oracle 11g has a completely new low-level kernel diagnostics & tracing infrastructure built in to it. I wanted to write a longer article about it with comprehensive examples and use cases, but by now I realize I won’t ever have time for this, so I’ll just point yo..
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It is no surprise that developing a mobile application strategy has become a part of many an organization's technology portfolio. The ubiquity of the Blackberry, the iPhone and iPad, and even Android phones have changed discussions from if a mobile project should be launched to when.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote that software engineers should keep lab notebooks as they work, in addition to just documenting things after the fact. Today, I’m going to share the techniques that I’ve found useful to try to get in the habit of lab-notebooking my work, even though I still feel like I could be better at writing things down. Here’s my advice for keeping a lab notebook as a computer scientist:
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A few weeks ago, I wrote that software engineers should keep lab notebooks as they work, in addition to just documenting things after the fact. Today, I’m going to share the techniques that I’ve found useful to try to get in the habit of lab-notebooking my work, even though I still feel like I could be better at writing things down. Here’s my advice for keeping a lab notebook as a computer scientist:
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