Sunday, March 01, 2015

RT @HarvardBiz: Top leaders are expected to be both fast and good http://t.co/VrhSmWJtUg http://t.co/hVzm3tiFAp -- via Twitter




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March 01, 2015 at 09:54AM

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March 01, 2015 at 01:36AM

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

New Saudi Filing Mandate | XBRL https://t.co/5U8GlPGYZt -- via Twitter




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February 22, 2015 at 04:34PM

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February 22, 2015 at 04:11PM

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February 22, 2015 at 03:04PM

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February 22, 2015 at 02:18PM

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February 22, 2015 at 11:57AM

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Monday, February 16, 2015

Here’s how drinking one cup of coffee each day is killing your success - Business Insider http://t.co/9nt9LhZWof -- via Twitter




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February 16, 2015 at 01:49AM

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Intranet Software Suite, Enterprise Portal and Integrated Enterprise Social Network - adenin TECHNOLOGIES http://t.co/fAV0nQgMgx -- via Twitter




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February 15, 2015 at 02:09AM

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February 15, 2015 at 01:58AM

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Friday, February 13, 2015

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February 13, 2015 at 05:42PM

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Monday, February 09, 2015

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February 09, 2015 at 11:58PM

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Sunday, February 08, 2015

Build STEMbot1 - A Robot That Makes Programming Fun and Easy http://t.co/cfcF0Glu8l -- via Twitter




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February 08, 2015 at 01:50AM

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Android Based Robotics http://t.co/xp6iYBN9ke -- via Twitter




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February 08, 2015 at 01:31AM

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Friday, February 06, 2015

More on the Gartner MQ: Fact or fiction? - Enterprise Search http://t.co/JSY3qmeZA1 -- via Twitter




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February 06, 2015 at 12:57AM

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Thursday, February 05, 2015

IASA | Iasa Global http://t.co/JwivQ4B3s7 -- via Twitter




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February 05, 2015 at 10:07PM

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Tumblr Release Genesis, a Tool for Data Center Automation http://t.co/DYRpc74VhQ -- via Twitter




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February 05, 2015 at 01:13PM

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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Small Business Market Survey | Infusionsoft http://t.co/w0PWecXAbJ -- via Twitter




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February 03, 2015 at 06:29PM

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February 03, 2015 at 09:48AM

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Sunday, February 01, 2015

10 Tips on Networking Events for Introverts http://t.co/3rXbmRFXB5 -- via Twitter




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February 01, 2015 at 05:11PM

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IT Salary Guide | Robert Half Technology http://t.co/Gpld4ODWAr -- via Twitter




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February 01, 2015 at 05:04PM

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February 01, 2015 at 04:55PM

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February 01, 2015 at 10:12AM

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February 01, 2015 at 10:03AM

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

RT @hortonworks: Watch Zulily talk about building a Data-First Enterprise. Learn more: http://t.co/zqry6nE8g1 https://t.co/3yX3w7xKHs -- via Twitter




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January 29, 2015 at 04:42PM

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January 29, 2015 at 04:37PM

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Why the Future of Retail Will Blow Your Mind http://t.co/WAQrLCo6ND -- via Twitter




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January 28, 2015 at 05:23PM

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January 28, 2015 at 05:10PM

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January 28, 2015 at 04:45PM

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January 28, 2015 at 04:33PM

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10 career choices you'll regret in 20 years http://t.co/lo2ZaFfNDb via @wef -- via Twitter




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January 28, 2015 at 04:22PM

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

5 Applications of Big Data in Government by @GilAllouche http://t.co/9zTzsy0DmE #BigData -- via Twitter




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January 27, 2015 at 03:51PM

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January 27, 2015 at 03:51PM

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RT @SmartDataCo: Indispensible guide to #DataVisualization and chart design http://t.co/zHC2xK2Jt7 -- via Twitter




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January 27, 2015 at 03:43PM

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

RT @RachClinton: Data Mining (and Statistical Analysis) is LinkedIn Hottest Skill in 2014 http://t.co/rYyPEYuf1B via @kdnuggets -- via Twitter




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January 21, 2015 at 03:46PM

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January 21, 2015 at 12:16PM

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Reinventing banking for great customer and employee experiences with mobile solutions http://t.co/lRIGIgr28S -- via Twitter




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January 20, 2015 at 03:17PM

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Saudi Arabia: power plug adapter needed? - POWER PLUG SOCKETS OF THE WORLD http://t.co/leRBhERGyK -- via Twitter




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January 19, 2015 at 05:30PM

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The Productivity Hacks I Used To Write A 93,000-Word Book In 6 Weeks http://t.co/PpO9Og0Fj2 via @sai -- via Twitter




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January 19, 2015 at 01:39PM

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

4 Times Data Science Saved the Day - Udacity - Climb Higher http://t.co/6TJI6uLIJh via @udacity -- via Twitter




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January 15, 2015 at 09:52AM

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3 Data Careers Decoded and What It Means for You - Udacity - Climb Higher http://t.co/2nR7bdP1VV via @udacity -- via Twitter




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January 15, 2015 at 09:47AM

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24 Data Science Resources to Keep Your Finger on the Pulse http://t.co/brU82Z27lQ via @udacity -- via Twitter




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January 15, 2015 at 09:33AM

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Python vs. R: What Should You Learn First? - Udacity - Climb Higher http://t.co/xt2ugHpIaf via @udacity -- via Twitter




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January 15, 2015 at 09:28AM

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Visualizing Football http://t.co/xPMmUjknWn -- via Twitter




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January 14, 2015 at 12:50PM

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January 14, 2015 at 12:40PM

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Help make it happen for Flic: The Wireless Smart Button on @indiegogo http://t.co/lw3hthGYvJ -- via Twitter




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January 13, 2015 at 04:09PM

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Sunday, January 11, 2015

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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Why do Engineers become Product Managers? - Quora http://t.co/GtSREqv26d -- via Twitter




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January 07, 2015 at 11:09PM

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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

How to Estimate TCO and Save Money http://t.co/qS33gHkKeW via @@TomasTiefenbach -- via Twitter




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January 06, 2015 at 11:57AM

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Monday, January 05, 2015

Free Online Courses From Top Universities | Academic Earth http://t.co/OdFDiV6U0H -- via Twitter




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January 05, 2015 at 05:11PM

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RT @miostaffin: "If Amazon wants to test 5,000 users to use a feature, they just need to turn it on for 45 seconds." -@jmspool #uxdc http://t.co/IEGCwHmIhx -- via Twitter




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January 05, 2015 at 10:39AM

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Sunday, January 04, 2015

Oracle Hyperion Senior/TL Required for a 6 month project in Riyadh, interested? -- via Linkedin





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What are considered some must read books at the big 3 consulting firms? - Quora http://t.co/zyAogmBefB -- via Twitter




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January 04, 2015 at 01:05PM

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Hack Your Brain To Beat Procrastination and Get Things Done https://t.co/kvZOFW8jnb via @movzio -- via Twitter




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January 04, 2015 at 12:03PM

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Friday, January 02, 2015

How to build a human http://t.co/rC4qq0HyHM -- via Twitter




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January 03, 2015 at 12:12AM

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Muse: Revive precious memories using email http://t.co/Pd4YLhPnu3 #muse via @hangal -- via Twitter




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December 30, 2014 at 03:50PM

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Amazon’s 3-D Printing Partnership with 3DLT - E-Commerce’s Fundamental Shift http://t.co/S4F55pys1g via @brainberyglobal -- via Twitter




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December 27, 2014 at 11:27PM

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Playing with Fire: What it’s like to make an app for Amazon’s smartphone http://t.co/oGdJMsThog via @GeekWire -- via Twitter




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December 27, 2014 at 11:18PM

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Enterprise Architecture Training Course | Microsoft Virtual Academy http://t.co/f9bUaxWjUA -- via Twitter




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December 25, 2014 at 04:40PM

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Microsoft Software Architecture Diagrams and Blueprints http://t.co/MlTBN8KsQP -- via Twitter




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December 25, 2014 at 02:35PM

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Pragmatic Approach to Describing Solution Architectures http://t.co/p3HKdnxY6X -- via Twitter




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December 25, 2014 at 02:25PM

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

NoSQL Databases Compared http://t.co/HzubgrfSH2 -- via Twitter




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December 24, 2014 at 04:53PM

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Top 20 Data Management Posts in 2014 - DATAVERSITY http://t.co/thSfXuzoLW -- via Twitter




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December 24, 2014 at 04:52PM

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Should You Publish Your App on the Amazon App store? http://t.co/nr9pIVqDxD -- via Twitter




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December 22, 2014 at 03:29PM

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The chart Tim Cook doesn’t want you to see - Quartz http://t.co/HB3LrobP8C -- via Twitter




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December 22, 2014 at 10:42AM

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Sketch Guy: Personal Finance on a Napkin http://t.co/sI4DckVefq -- via Twitter




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December 21, 2014 at 03:43PM

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December 21, 2014 at 12:50PM

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

#Visualization - Graph Design I.Q. Test http://t.co/yNJxGSKQwl -- via Twitter




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December 18, 2014 at 11:21AM

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

How to Lie with Charts https://t.co/Z6k9lLkoVx -- via Twitter




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December 17, 2014 at 03:33PM

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Morning Rituals To Improve Your Appearance http://t.co/rqpgtNwCKv -- via Twitter




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December 16, 2014 at 11:34PM

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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods http://t.co/BQ2ybxRBMm -- via Twitter




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December 16, 2014 at 01:09PM

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December 16, 2014 at 12:01PM

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Monday, December 15, 2014

RT @AstroSamantha: (IT)Volando controcorrente lungo il Nilo. Un brillante serpente di luci dal Cairo al lago Nasser. http://t.co/ebIuuyTzjB -- via Twitter




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December 15, 2014 at 11:39AM

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Pie chart pyramid http://t.co/5wHmMMS3LX via @flowingdata -- via Twitter




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December 15, 2014 at 10:51AM

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Cartoon: Bulking Up the Data Staff http://t.co/HoHFDCZFSz -- via Twitter




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December 09, 2014 at 03:21PM

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Learning Perl: List all environment variables

Listing all the environment variables using the built-in %ENV hash and simple for loop:

my @env_names = keys %ENV;

my $n;
my $v;

for ($k=0 ; $k<=$#env_names ; $k++)
{
    $n = $env_names[$k];
    $v = $ENV{"$n"};
    print "\n $n=$v";
}

A much shorter version using for each:

my @env_names = keys %ENV;
my $v;
foreach (@env_names)
{

    $v = $ENV{"$_"};
    print "\n $_=$v";
}

Putting it all in one line

print "\n $_=" , $ENV{"$_"} foreach (keys %ENV);

However, DOS still attractive … just use the SET command to get same result of the above :)

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

IBM software architect kit

Get yourself a wealth of architecture resources in the following kit from IBM:

https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/kits/archkit1/index.html

Monday, January 04, 2010

Learn DB2 in one day

 

A complete online video based course to learn DB2

http://www.channeldb2.com/group/db2oncampus

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

MySpace.com uses iBATIS.NET for persistence

iBATIS.NET the .net port of the iBATIS Java ORM is being used by MySpace.com http://www.infoq.com/news/2006/11/iBATIS-MySpace

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Using the free space in one drive to give more space on another

I run into an issue today when I wanted to have something on my C: drive that exceeds the current free space, I have more free space on other drives but I don’t want to go into extending my C: drive by using tools like Partition Magic as I had a bad experience with it before.

I decided to give hard links a try, and after some googling I found that I need to use the junction.exe from Sysinternals because Windows don’t

So, if you need to have a folder on C: drive that points to another folder on D: drive, you just need to call junction like this:

junction C:\MyFolder D:\MyFreeSpace

You will deal with C:\MyFolder as a normal folder, but actually all files will be stored in D:\MyFreeSpace

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Generate (a new) GUID each time you run an MSBuild Script

Sometimes we need to generate a new GUID and use it as part of a build script, for example when building a new version of a Setup project.

MSBuild built-in tasks don’t provide such facility, however there 2 options:

1.MSBuild Community Tasks (Script Task)

The Script task from MSBuild Community Task allows the execution of .net code contained within the task. It will be very simple to call System.Guid.NewGuid() and return the string into an MSBuild Property.

 

<PropertyGroup>
  <GuidGenFunction>
    <![CDATA[
      public static string ScriptMain() {
          return System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString().ToUpper();
      }
      ]]>
  </GuidGenFunction>
</PropertyGroup>

<Script Language="C#" Code="$(GuidGenFunction)">
      <Output TaskParameter="ReturnValue" PropertyName="NewGuid" /> 
</Script> 
<Message Text="Guid: $(NewGuid)" />

 

 

2.Sedodream MSBuild Project (CreateGuid Task)

http://sedodream.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=CreateGuid

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Automating UI Testing

Automating UI testing is one of topics that I recently became interested in, not because I am trying to be a tester yet; but because we are implementing an automated UI test engine as part of my current development project in ITWorx.

I have to thank Dr. James McCaffrey for authoring his book “.NET Test Automation Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach”; this book was really the base that get my foot on the road and encouraged me to dig into this mysterious world.

He was as well very helpful when be contacted and asked; guiding his readers into the right direction.

Someone would ask; why did we go into developing our own thing while there are lots of tools to do the same job ? the answer would take more time if I like to describe the business requirements that lead to this decision, but in short we had to make this as part of another application and hence buying a tool was not an option to avoid expensive licensing costs.

Some of the already existing tools that I stumbled upon are:

  • HP's QuickTest Pro
  • Eggplant
  • IBM Rational Robot

I have also written few posts around this topic, they worth checking here

Sunday, November 16, 2008

My programmer personality type is :: PHTC

I came across this programmer personality test http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11 , and below is the results, what about you ?

You're a Planner.
You may be slow, but you'll usually find the best solution. If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right.
You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.
You work best in a Team.
A good group is better than the sum of it's parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.
You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Monday, July 07, 2008

"Would you please submit a ticket so we can turn on the Virtual machine for you" said the System Engineer

Every body loves virtual machines, aren't you ?

I use virtual machines for development and testing, and they really save time and resources; specially when difference disks are used.

My company has a hosting environment with lost and lost (and may be lost ) of them than I know, and they guys behind those are really doing a good job keeping up with requests to create/modify/host them on Virtual Server(s).

A common thing happens, and it happens often than enough, my VMs goes off, may be the guys need to conserve some resources or spare some RAM for other VMs on the same physical servers.

Anyway, a conversation like this is repeated frequently:

Me : Hi, my VM is not working

System Engineer : Would you please submit a ticket so we can turn on the Virtual machine for you

Me : Can't it be automatically restarted

System Engineer : Oh yes, please mention this in the ticket as well

Me : Okay, thanks

System Engineer : Welcome, waiting for the ticket :)

 

I do add the ticket, and they do turn it on and set it to auto restart, but after a week every thing goes again.

So, why I am posting this, not to make you feel sad for me, but because I found something that is interesting for this issue; PowerShell.

Yes, PowerShell can be used to turn-on/off VMs on Virtual Server, but I am not yet sure if this can be done remotely, since I will need to turn-on my VM from my PC not from the server that I don't have permission on.

Goggling around, it seems feasible, a post by Ben Armstrong ; author of Professional Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is about using COM to script Virtual Server , another post {Scripting Virtual Server with PowerShell} by Ben Pearce.

I will try to convince the guys to look at this, and may be someday I will not need to submit a ticket any more.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Finding distinct nodes via XPath/XSLT 1.0

While XSLT 2.0 has the distinct-values function to get the unique items in a node list, XSLT 1.0 has no equivalent function.

But lots of posts out there is pointing how to use XPath 1.0 to get the same result. The one that was most useful and straight forward for me to apply was the post of Rajendra S Rawat on his blog

Monday, June 30, 2008

Redefine the temp folders

When you install a software, most of the installers will try to extract some files in a temporary folder on the hard drive. The default temporary folder can be accessed by the environment variable TMP or TEMP.

By default, those folders will point to the following folder on your Windows drive (X):\Document and Settings\UserName\Temp , the path may vary according to Windows version.

Sometimes, a huge software installation like Windows Service Packs or Visual Studio Service Packs, will need to extract a (very) large file in the temp folder, and if no enough (here I mean great) free space no installation can take place.

Anyway, keep long story short :) ... to allow your temp folders to go into a new drive, you need to redefine the path associated with the Environment variables:

Go to My Computer , right click Manage, select the Advanced table, click on Environment Variables button, then select the TEMP and TMP variables and point to a new folder , and enjoy large installations on limited free space drives :)

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

PowerShell Seminar @ ITWorx [CuttingEdge-Club]

I will present a seminar at ITWorx CuttingEdge club about PowerShell.

The seminar's presentation :

Monday, June 09, 2008

How to get the Physical Memory size of a remote computer

Using 2 lines of PowerShell to get the Physical memory of a remote computer :

$mem = Get-WmiObject win32_computersystem -computername server-vm-0001

$mem.totalphysicalmemory / 1Gb

This is just an example, and other system information can be retrieved through using the WMI objects, the above script can be easily extended to get the Physical memory (or anything) for all the machines in a whole network.