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Repository and Ticket management in a Windows Environment

- by saifkhan

I’ve been using AxoSoft’s bug tracking application for a while, although and excellent piece of software I had some issues with it · It was SLOOOW (both desktop and web). I don’t care what Axosoft says, I tired multiple servers etc. I’ve been long enough in this field to tell you when something is not right with an app. · The cost! It’s not feasible for a small team. I must say though, that they have some nice features which are not commonly found on other bug tracking software. I wouldn’t go on to list any here. I would prefer you download and try their app and see for yourself. In my quest to find a replacement, I tried a few. The successor had to satisfy the following · A 99.99% Windows Environment. · Bug Tracking. · Ticket Management (power users and project managers can open tickets on projects). · Repository (I decided to merge bug tracking and repository to get my team to be more productive). · Unlimited users. · Cost. Being the head of IT security for the firm I work for, making the decision to move data offsite was a hard decision to make, but turned out to be one I am not regretting so far. My choice was down to Altassian JIRA and codebaseHQ. I ended up going with the latter… (I still love the greenhopper from Altassian…its freaking cool!) CodebaseHQ is nice and simple and has all the features I needed. I’ve been using them for a few months now and very happy. Their pricing…well, see for yourself. I was also able to get our SVN data… (Yes, SVN! I don’t go near the Visual Sourcesafe thing…it’s not that safe (pardon the pun). I am hearing some nice things about TFS 2010) over to codebaseHQ. We use VisualSVN to access repositories. …so if you are a Windows developer (or team) codebaseHQ is worth checking out!

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How to begin in Game Development? [closed]

- by Bladimir Ruiz

It's been a while since I decide to get into game dev, but, there are so many ways to make a game, that i dont know where to begin, I got unity 3d license for PC/Android/Ios for free, but i Also got XNA dev tool, ALSO have CoronaSDK.. But I dont Know wich one to use. Till' now all i want is to make a Sidecroller lime Super Mario Bros, Just for start later on, i will like to make diferent games. In the future i would like to work in the game industry which tools will be the best to Start in that "Dream"?

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PASS Summit 2011 – Part II

- by Tara Kizer

I arrived in Seattle last Monday afternoon to attend PASS Summit 2011. I had really wanted to attend Gail Shaw’s (blog|twitter) and Grant Fritchey’s (blog|twitter) pre-conference seminar “All About Execution Plans” on Monday, but that would have meant flying out on Sunday which I couldn’t do. On Tuesday, I attended Allan Hirt’s (blog|twitter) pre-conference seminar entitled “A Deep Dive into AlwaysOn: Failover Clustering and Availability Groups”. Allan is a great speaker, and his seminar was packed with demos and information about AlwaysOn in SQL Server 2012. Unfortunately, I have lost my notes from this seminar and the presentation materials are only available on the pre-con DVD. Hmpf! On Wednesday, I attended Gail Shaw’s “Bad Plan! Sit!”, Andrew Kelly’s (blog|twitter) “SQL 2008 Query Statistics”, Dan Jones’ (blog|twitter) “Improving your PowerShell Productivity”, and Brent Ozar’s (blog|twitter) “BLITZ! The SQL – More One Hour SQL Server Takeovers”. In Gail’s session, she went over how to fix bad plans and bad query patterns. Update your stale statistics! How to fix bad plans Use local variables – optimizer can’t sniff it, so it’ll optimize for “average” value Use RECOMPILE (at the query or stored procedure level) – CPU hit OPTIMIZE FOR hint – most common value you’ll pass How to fix bad query patterns Don’t use them – ha! Catch-all queries Use dynamic SQL OPTION (RECOMPILE) Multiple execution paths Split into multiple stored procedures OPTION (RECOMPILE) Modifying parameter values Use local variables Split into outer and inner procedure OPTION (RECOMPILE) She also went into “last resort” and “very last resort” options, but those are risky unless you know what you are doing. For the average Joe, she wouldn’t recommend these. Examples are query hints and plan guides. While I enjoyed Andrew’s session, I didn’t take any notes as it was familiar material. Andrew is a great speaker though, and I’d highly recommend attending his sessions in the future. Next up was Dan’s PowerShell session. I need to look into profiles, manifests, function modules, and function import scripts more as I just didn’t quite grasp these concepts. I am attending a PowerShell training class at the end of November, so maybe that’ll help clear it up. I really enjoyed the Excel integration demo. It was very cool watching PowerShell build the spreadsheet in real-time. I must look into this more! On a side note, I am jealous of Dan’s hair. Fabulous hair! Brent’s session showed us how to quickly gather information about a server that you will be taking over database administration duties for. He wrote a script to do a fast health check and then later wrapped it into a stored procedure, sp_Blitz. I can’t wait to use this at my work even on systems where I’ve been the primary DBA for years, maybe there’s something I’ve overlooked. We are using EPM to help standardize our environment and uncover problems, but sp_Blitz will definitely still help us out. He even provides a cloud-based update feature, sp_BlitzUpdate, for sp_Blitz so you don’t have to constantly update it when he makes a change. I think I’ll utilize his update code for some other challenges that we face at my work.

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Google I/O 2010 - Sell your app on the Google Apps Marketplace

Google I/O 2010 - Sell your app on the Google Apps Marketplace Google I/O 2010 - Reach new customers fast: Learn how to sell your cloud app on the Google Apps Marketplace Enterprise 201 Scott McMullan, Jay Simmons (Atlassian), Chuck Dietrich (Sliderocket), Amit Kulkarni (Manymoon) In this introductory session we'll provide an overview of the Google Apps Marketplace and learn product and marketing best practices directly from 3 Marketplace ISVs. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 12 0 ratings Time: 56:42 More in Science & Technology

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TFS 2012 Upgrade and SQL Server - SharePoint - OS Requirements.

- by Vishal

Hello folks,Recently I was involved in Installation and Configuration of Team Foundation Server 2010 Farm for a client. A month after the installation and configuration was done and everything was working as it was supposed to, Microsoft released Team Foundation Server 2012 in mid August 2012. Well the company was using Borland Starteam as their source control and once starting to use TFS 2010, their developers and project managers were loving it since TFS is not just a source control tool and way much better then StarTeam. Anyways, long story short, they are now interested in thinking of upgrading to the newest version. Below are some basic Hardware and Software requirements for TFS 2012:Operating System:Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (only 64bit)Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 (only 64bit)Windows Server 2012 (only 64bit)SQL Server:SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012SQL Server 2008 is no longer supported.SQL Server Requirements for TFS.SharePoint Products:SharePoint Server 2010. (SharePoint Foundation 2010, Standard, Enterprise).MOSS 2007 (Standard, Enterprise)Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0)SharePoint Products Requirements for TFS.Project Server:Project Server 2010 with SP1.Project Server 2007 with SP2.Project Server Requirements for TFS.More information onf TFS Upgrade Requirements can be found here. Hardware Recommendations can be found here.Thanks,Vishal Mody

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How to determine if you should use full or differential backup?

- by Peter Larsson

Or ask yourself, "How much of the database has changed since last backup?". Here is a simple script that will tell you how much (in percent) have changed in the database since last backup. -- Prepare staging table for all DBCC outputs DECLARE @Sample TABLE ( Col1 VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL, Col2 VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL, Col3 VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL, Col4 VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL, Col5 VARCHAR(MAX) ) -- Some intermediate variables for controlling loop DECLARE @FileNum BIGINT = 1, @PageNum BIGINT = 6, @SQL VARCHAR(100), @Error INT, @DatabaseName SYSNAME = 'Yoda' -- Loop all files to the very end WHILE 1 = 1 BEGIN BEGIN TRY -- Build the SQL string to execute SET @SQL = 'DBCC PAGE(' + QUOTENAME(@DatabaseName) + ', ' + CAST(@FileNum AS VARCHAR(50)) + ', ' + CAST(@PageNum AS VARCHAR(50)) + ', 3) WITH TABLERESULTS' -- Insert the DBCC output in the staging table INSERT @Sample ( Col1, Col2, Col3, Col4 ) EXEC (@SQL) -- DCM pages exists at an interval SET @PageNum += 511232 END TRY BEGIN CATCH -- If error and first DCM page does not exist, all files are read IF @PageNum = 6 BREAK ELSE -- If no more DCM, increase filenum and start over SELECT @FileNum += 1, @PageNum = 6 END CATCH END -- Delete all records not related to diff information DELETE FROM @Sample WHERE Col1 NOT LIKE 'DIFF%' -- Split the range UPDATE @Sample SET Col5 = PARSENAME(REPLACE(Col3, ' - ', '.'), 1), Col3 = PARSENAME(REPLACE(Col3, ' - ', '.'), 2) -- Remove last paranthesis UPDATE @Sample SET Col3 = RTRIM(REPLACE(Col3, ')', '')), Col5 = RTRIM(REPLACE(Col5, ')', '')) -- Remove initial information about filenum UPDATE @Sample SET Col3 = SUBSTRING(Col3, CHARINDEX(':', Col3) + 1, 8000), Col5 = SUBSTRING(Col5, CHARINDEX(':', Col5) + 1, 8000) -- Prepare data outtake ;WITH cteSource(Changed, [PageCount]) AS ( SELECT Changed, SUM(COALESCE(ToPage, FromPage) - FromPage + 1) AS [PageCount] FROM ( SELECT CAST(Col3 AS INT) AS FromPage, CAST(NULLIF(Col5, '') AS INT) AS ToPage, LTRIM(Col4) AS Changed FROM @Sample ) AS d GROUP BY Changed WITH ROLLUP ) -- Present the final result SELECT COALESCE(Changed, 'TOTAL PAGES') AS Changed, [PageCount], 100.E * [PageCount] / SUM(CASE WHEN Changed IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE [PageCount] END) OVER () AS Percentage FROM cteSource

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The one feature that would make me invest in SSIS 2012

- by Peter Larsson

This week I was invited my Microsoft to give two presentations in Slovenia. My presentations went well and I had good energy and the audience was interacting with me. When I had some time over from networking and partying, I attended a few other presentations. At least the ones who where held in English. One of these was "SQL Server Integration Services 2012 - All the News, and More", given by Davide Mauri, a fellow co-worker from SolidQ. We started to talk and soon came into the details of the new things in SSIS 2012. All of the official things Davide talked about are good stuff, but for me, the best thing is one he didn't cover in his presentation. In earlier versions of SSIS than 2012, it is possible to have a stored procedure to act as a data source, as long as it doesn't have a temp table in it. In that case, you will get an error message from SSIS that "Metadata could not be found". This is still true with SSIS 2012, so the thing I am talking about is not really a SSIS feature, it's a SQL Server 2012 feature. And this is the EXECUTE WITH RESULTSETS feature! With this, you can have a stored procedure with a temp table to deliver the resultset to SSIS, if you execute the stored procedure from SSIS and add the "WITH RESULTSETS" option. If you do this, SSIS is able to take the metadata from the code you write in SSIS and not from the stored procedure! And it's very fast too. Let's say you have a stored procedure in earlier versions and when referencing that stored procedure in SSIS forced SSIS to call the stored procedure (which can take hours), to retrieve the metadata. Now, with RESULTSETS, SSIS 2012 can continue in milliseconds! This is because you provide the metadata in the RESULTSETS clause, and if the data from the stored procedure doesn't match this RESULTSETS, you will get an error anyway, so it makes sense Microsoft has provided this optimization for us.

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Getting work done in a small office

- by three-cups

I work in an office area of ~450sqft. There are a total of 7 people working in the office. I've been finding it hard to concentrate on my work (writing code) because of the distractions going on around me. The distractions are both work-related and non-work-related conversations. I'm trying to figure out what to do in this situation. I want to be part of the team, and I want to get my work done to the best of my ability. I can easily think of two options that I don't like: Stay where I am, not be able to concentrate and get less work done Move somewhere else. (This is tough because I code on a desktop, so I'm not very mobile.) But what are other options? I'm going to talk this through with my team in the next couple days. Any advice or solutions would be great.

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The internal storage of a DATETIMEOFFSET value

- by Peter Larsson

Today I went for investigating the internal storage of DATETIME2 datatype. What I found out was that for a datetime2 value with precision 0 (seconds only), SQL Server need 6 bytes to represent the value, but stores 7 bytes. This is because SQL Server add one byte that holds the precision for the datetime2 value. Start with this very simple repro declare @now datetimeoffset(7) = '2010-12-15 21:04:03.6934231 +03:30' select cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(0)) as binary(9)), cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(1)) as binary(9)), cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(2)) as binary(9)), cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(3)) as binary(10)), cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(4)) as binary(10)), cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(5)) as binary(11)), cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(6)) as binary(11)), cast(cast(@now as datetimeoffset(7)) as binary(11)) Now we are going to copy and paste these binary values and investigate which value is representing what time part. Prefix Ticks Ticks Days Days Suffix Suffix Original value ------ ---------- ------------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------ 0x 00 0CF700 63244 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x000CF700A8330BD200 0x 01 75A609 632437 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x0175A609A8330BD200 0x 02 918060 6324369 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x02918060A8330BD200 0x 03 AD05C503 63243693 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x03AD05C503A8330BD200 0x 04 C638B225 632502470 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x04C638B225A8330BD200 0x 05 BE37F67801 6324369342 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x05BE37F67801A8330BD200 0x 06 6F2D9EB90E 63243693423 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x066F2D9EB90EA8330BD200 0x 07 57C62D4093 632436934231 A8330B 734120 D200 210 0x0757C62D4093A8330BD200 Let us use the following color schema Red - Prefix Green - Time part Blue - Day part Purple - UTC offset What you can see is that the date part is equal in all cases, which makes sense since the precision doesn't affect the datepart. If you add 63244 seconds to midnight, you get 17:34:04, which is the correct UTC time. So what is stored is the UTC time and the local time can be found by adding "utc offset" minutes. And if you look at it, it makes perfect sense that each following value is 10 times greater when the precision is increased one step too. //Peter

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PASS: Election Changes for 2011

- by Bill Graziano

Last year after the election, the PASS Board created an Election Review Committee. This group was charged with reviewing our election procedures and making suggestions to improve the process. You can read about the formation of the group and review some of the intermediate work on the site – especially in the forums. I was one of the members of the group along with Joe Webb (Chair), Lori Edwards, Brian Kelley, Wendy Pastrick, Andy Warren and Allen White. This group worked from October to April on our election process. Along the way we: Interviewed interested parties including former NomCom members, Board candidates and anyone else that came forward. Held a session at the Summit to allow interested parties to discuss the issues Had numerous conference calls and worked through the various topics I can’t thank these people enough for the work they did. They invested a tremendous number of hours thinking, talking and writing about our elections. I’m proud to say I was a member of this group and thoroughly enjoyed working with everyone (even if I did finally get tired of all the calls.) The ERC delivered their recommendations to the PASS Board prior to our May Board meeting. We reviewed those and made a few modifications. I took their recommendations and rewrote them as procedures while incorporating those changes. Their original recommendations as well as our final document are posted at the ERC documents page. Please take a second and read them BEFORE we start the elections. If you have any questions please post them in the forums on the ERC site. (My final document includes a change log at the end that I decided to leave in. If you want to know which areas to pay special attention to that’s a good start.) Many of those recommendations were already posted in the forums or in the blogs of individual ERC members. Hopefully nothing in the ERC document is too surprising. In this post I’m going to walk through some of the key changes and talk about what I remember from both ERC and Board discussions. I’ll pay a little extra attention to things the Board changed from the ERC. I’d also encourage any of the Board or ERC members to blog their thoughts on this. The Nominating Committee will continue to exist. Personally, I was curious to see what the non-Board ERC members would think about the NomCom. There was broad agreement that a group to vet candidates had value to the organization. The NomCom will be composed of five members. Two will be Board members and three will be from the membership at large. The only requirement for the three community members is that you’ve volunteered in some way (and volunteering is defined very broadly). We expect potential at-large NomCom members to participate in a forum on the PASS site to answer questions from the other PASS members. We’re going to hold an election to determine the three community members. It will be closer to voting for Summit sessions than voting for Board members. That means there won’t be multiple dedicated emails. If you’re at all paying attention it will be easy to participate. Personally I wanted it easy for those that cared to participate but not overwhelm those that didn’t care. I think this strikes a good balance. There’s also a clause that in order to be considered a winner in this NomCom election, you must receive 10 votes. This is something I suggested. I have no idea how popular the NomCom election is going to be. I just wanted a fallback that if no one participated and some random person got in with one or two votes. Any open slots will be filled by the NomCom chair (usually the PASS Immediate Past President). My assumption is that they would probably take the next highest vote getters unless they were throwing flames in the forums or clearly unqualified. As a final check, the Board still approves the final NomCom. The NomCom is going to rank candidates instead of rating them. This has interesting implications. This was championed by another ERC member and I’m hoping they write something about it. This will really force the NomCom to make decisions between candidates. You can’t just rate everyone a 3 and be done with it. It may also make candidates appear further apart than they actually are. I’m looking forward talking with the NomCom after this election and getting their feedback on this. The PASS Board added an option to remove a candidate with a unanimous vote of the NomCom. This was primarily put in place to handle people that lied on their application or had a criminal background or some other unusual situation and we figured it out. We list an explicit goal of three candidate per open slot. We also wanted an easy way to find the NomCom candidate rankings from the ballot. Hopefully this will satisfy those that want a broad candidate pool and those that want the NomCom to identify the most qualified candidates. The primary spokesperson for the NomCom is the committee chair. After the issues around the election last year we didn’t have a good communication plan in place. We should have and that was a failure on the part of the Board. If there is criticism of the election this year I hope that falls squarely on the Board. The community members of the NomCom shouldn’t be fielding complaints over the election process. That said, the NomCom is ranking candidates and we are forcing them to rank some lower than others. I’m sure you’ll each find someone that you think should have been ranked differently. I also want to highlight one other change to the process that we started last year and isn’t included in these documents. I think the candidate forums on the PASS site were tremendously helpful last year in helping people to find out more about candidates. That gives our members a way to ask hard questions of the candidates and publicly see their answers. This year we have two important groups to fill. The first is the NomCom. We need three people from our membership to step up and fill this role. It won’t be easy. You will have to make subjective rankings of your fellow community members. Your actions will be important in deciding who the future leaders of PASS will be. There’s a 50/50 chance that one of the people you interview will be the President of PASS someday. This is not a responsibility to be taken lightly. The second is the slate of candidates. If you’ve ever thought about running for the Board this is the year. We’ve never had nine candidates on the ballot before. Your chance of making it through the NomCom are higher than in any previous year. Unfortunately the more of you that run, the more of you that will lose in the election. And hopefully that competition will mean more community involvement and better Board members for PASS. Is this the end of changes to the election process? It isn’t. Every year that I’ve been on the Board the election process has changed. Some years there have been small changes and some years there have been large changes. After this election we’ll look at how the process worked and decide what steps to take – just like we do every year.

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Windows Store is open for business!

- by pluginbaby

In case you didn’t know, you don’t have to wait for the launch of Windows 8 on October 26 to start building and deploying your apps. Developers from 120 markets (including Canada) can publish Windows Store apps right now! How to start ? Anyone with an MSDN Subscription, Dreamspark account (students) or BizSpark account (startups) get a 1-year Windows Store membership for FREE!! If you don’t have such account, an annual membership is only CAD $49 and lasts a full year. Just go to the Windows Store Dashboard on the Windows Dev Center and sign up. The dev tools are free and the SDK is ready.

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GPT Not mounting using "normal" GPT mounting techniques 12.04

- by Roy Markham

I've got two 2TB drivess: one MBR and the other GPT. sudo blckid /dev/sdb1 returns a blank. gdisk shows: Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by 1970 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Disk /dev/sdb: 3907027055 sectors, 1.8 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 38A1113D-B5E9-4B69-ABFF-ACB27AFB3DDD Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3907027021 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 34 262177 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved part 2 264192 3907028991 1.8 TiB 0700 Basic data partition mounting via fstab or -t gives same error when using NTFS or NTFS-3g "NTFS signature is missing" GParted says one partition is overwriting another, yet windows shows no errors at all. The drive is also mounted easily via MacOs (triple boot)

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HSSFS Part 3: SQL Saturday is Awesome! And DEFAULT_DOMAIN(), and how I found it

- by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk)

Just a quick post I should've done yesterday but I was recovering from SQL Saturday #48 in Columbia, SC, where I went to some really excellent sessions by some very smart experts. If you have not yet attended a SQL Saturday, or its been more than 1 month since you last did, SIGN UP NOW! While searching the OBJECT_DEFINITION() of SQL Server system procedures I stumbled across the DEFAULT_DOMAIN() function in xp_grantlogin and xp_revokelogin. I couldn't find any information on it in Books Online, and it's a very simple, self-explanatory function, but it could be useful if you work in a multi-domain environment. It's also the kind of neat thing you can find by using this query: SELECT OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME([object_id]) object_schema, name FROM sys.all_objects WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION([object_id]) LIKE '%()%' ORDER BY 1,2 I'll post some elaborations and enhancements to this query in a later post, but it will get you started exploring the functional SQL Server sea. UPDATE: I goofed earlier and said SQL Saturday #46 was in Columbia. It's actually SQL Saturday #48, and SQL Saturday #46 was in Raleigh, NC.

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How to Create Event Receivers for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

You'll be surprised at how often you'll use event receivers instead of Workflow in order to implement functionality in Sharepoint, so it's probably a good idea to know more about them. And who better to get you started with a simple guide to using them than Charles Lee? span.fullpost {display:none;}

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Opening cursor files in a graphics editor?

- by sdaau

I'm looking at /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors, and there is: $ tree -s /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/ /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/ +-- [ 4096] cursors ¦ +-- [ 14] 00008160000006810000408080010102 -> v_double_arrow ... ¦ +-- [ 5] 9d800788f1b08800ae810202380a0822 -> hand2 ¦ +-- [ 8] arrow -> left_ptr ¦ +-- [ 15776] bd_double_arrow ¦ +-- [ 15776] bottom_left_corner ¦ +-- [ 15776] bottom_right_corner ¦ +-- [ 15776] bottom_side ... ... a bunch of files without extension, that GIMP cannot open. Is there an editor where these files can be opened - or at least a converter to something like .png? I can note that ImageMagick display also failed to open these files... Found also Gursor Maker - Cursor Editor for X11/GTK+; got the CVS code from SourceForge - it still uses Numeric (the old name of numpy), so to run it, you'll have to do: #from Numeric import * from numpy import * ... in xcurio.py, curxp.py, gimp.py, colorfunc.py - and comment the #from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2 in lsproj.py. With that, I got it running 11.04: ... but cannot get any files to open? So I thought I should grep for paths, nothing much came up - and when I looked into cursordefs.py, I simply had to paste this: CURSOR_ICON = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data([ "10 16 3 1", " c None", ". c #000000", "+ c #FFFFFF", ".. ", ".+. ", ".++. ", ".+++. ", ".++++. ", ".+++++. ", ".++++++. ", ".+++++++. ", ".++++++++.", ".+++++....", ".++.++. ", ".+. .++. ", ".. .++. ", " .++. ", " .++. ", " .. "]) Heh :) In any case, doesn't look like it will be much usable on newer Ubuntus, unfortunately... Just tested XMC plugin as well - on 11.04, has to be built from source (from the link in the accepted answer); the requirements on my system resolved to: sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev libglib2.0-0-dbg libglib2.0-0-refdbg libglib2.0-cil-dev libgtk2.0-0-dbg libgtk2.0-cil-dev ... after that, the configure/make procedure in the INSTALL file works. Note that this plugin is a bit "sneaky": ... that is, you should use "All files" (as there are no extensions); cursor previews at first will not be rendered. Then open one cursor file; after it has been opened, then there is a preview in the File/Open dialog; but other than that, it works fine...

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Too Clever for My Own Good

- by AjarnMark

Yesterday I caught myself being a little too clever for my own good with some ASP.NET code. It seems that I have forgotten some of my good old classic HTML and JavaScript skills, and become too dependent on the .NET Framework and WebControls to do the work for me. Here’s the scenario… In order to improve the User Interface and better communicate to the user when something is happening that they need to wait for, we have started to modify some of our larger (slower) pages to display messages like Processing… or Reloading… while they are cycling through a postback. (Yes, I understand this could be improved by using AJAX / Callbacks and so on, but even then, you need to let your user know that they need to wait for that section to be re-rendered, so for the moment these pages will continue to use good ol’ Postbacks.) It’s a very simple trick, really. All I want to do is when some control triggers a postback, first run a little client-side JavaScript to hide the main contents of the page (such as a GridView) and display the appropriate message. This lets the user know, “Hey, we’re doing something, don’t click another link or scroll and try to take action right now.” The first places I hooked this up were easy. Most common cause of a postback: Buttons. And when you’re writing the markup or declarative code for an ASP:Button control, there is the handy OnClientClick property which is designed for just this purpose…to run client-side JavaScript before the postback occurs. This is distinguished from the OnClick property which tells the control what Server-side code to run. Great! Done! Easy! But then there are other controls like DropDownLists and CheckBoxes that we use on our pages with the AutoPostback=True setting which cause postbacks. And these don’t have OnClientClick or OnClientSelectedIndexChanged events. So I started getting creative, using an ASP:CustomValidator control in conjunction with setting the CausesValidation and ValidationGroup settings on these controls, which basically caused the action on the control to fire the Custom Validator, which was defined with a Client Side validation function which then did the hide content/show message code (and return a meaningless IsValid setting). This also caused me to define a different ValidationGroup setting for my real data entry validator controls so that I could control them separately and only have them fire when I really wanted validation, and not just my show/hide trick. For a little while I was pretty proud of myself for coming up with this clever approach to get around what I considered to be a serious oversight on the DropDownList and CheckBox controls declarative syntax. Then, in the midst of my smugness, just as I was about to commit my changes to the source code repository, it dawned on me that there is a much simpler and much more appropriate way to accomplish this. All that I really needed to do was to put in my server-side code (I used the Page_Init section) a call to MyControl.Attributes.Add(“onClick”, “myJavaScriptFunctionName()”) for the checkboxes, and for the DropDownLists (which become select tags) use “onChange” instead of “onClick”. This is exactly the type of thing that the Attributes collection is there for…so you can add attributes to be rendered with the control that you would have otherwise stuck right into the HTML markup if you had been doing this by hand in the first place. Ugh! A few hours wasted on clever tricks that I ended up completely removing, but I did learn a lot more about custom validators and validation groups in the process. And got a good reminder that all that stuff (HTML, JavaScript, and CSS) I learned back when I wrote classic ASP pages is still valuable today. Oh, and one more thing…don’t get lulled into too much reliance on the the whiz-bang tool to do it for you. After all, WebControls are just another layer of abstraction, and sometimes you need to dig down through the layers and get a little closer to the native language.

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How can we stop GitHub from emailing too many people too much? [migrated]

- by Michael Bishop

I recently joined a research team that uses R and Git/GitHub. The team includes 4 full-time R programmers and 10 social scientists who only run simple analyses. I was told by one of the more experienced programmers on the project that they haven't found a way to use many of GitHub's tools for collaboration (bug reports, to-do lists, code comments, etc.) because they generate emails to everyone who is a contributor to the repo every time. This is incredibly puzzling to me, so I'd love to hear from someone that there are ways to adjust the email settings. I'd expect there would be multiple ways, so that individuals could opt-in or opt-out of certain emails, and also so contributors could explicitly choose whether certain people get certain emails or not. Is it possible to adjust these settings?

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Is it a bug or a task when something doesn't work, yet, in development process

- by Patkos Csaba

We usually have this dilemma in our team. Sometimes, in order to implement a task or a story we find out that the system must be in a specific state. For example, a specific system configuration has to be made beforehand. The task / story can be completed and it is working as specified on it with the proper configuration in place. Note that the configuration is not directly related with the task. Next, we have to create a new ... ??? ... something for the process of generating that configuration file. This is where the problems appear. Some say that it is a bug others say it is a task or an extra feature. So, where is the limit between bugs and tasks in the development phase? Should we even consider something a bug if all the tasks are working as stated in their definitions? Can a thing be considered a bug because one compares it to the current (unstable) state of the system? Short example: A feature requires configuring a communication service for a specific operation. In the process of the implementation the team discovers that the service requires the hostnames of the pears to be resolvable to an IP address. The team adds the hostnames to the DNS server (or hosts files) and continues implementing the required feature. After the initial feature is working, a question is risen. Should the sysadmin configure the DNS or hosts file or should our application do it automatically? An automatic solution is possible. So a decision is made to implement it. ... here start the discussions ... is this a bug or an extra feature / task? PS: I know that I mixed feature / task / story in the question. It is intentional. I am interested in separating bugs from the rest. Doesn't matter what the rest means in a particular case.

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SSMS Tools Pack 2.5 is out. Added support for SQL Server 2012.

- by Mladen Prajdic

Because I wanted to make SSMS Tools Pack as solid as possible for SSMS 2012 there are no new features only bug fixes and speed improvements. I am planning new awesome features for the next version so be on the lookout. The biggest change is that SSMS Tools Pack for SSMS 2012 is no longer free. For previous SSMS versions it is still free. Licensing now offers following options: Per machine license. ($29.99) Perfect if you do all your work from a single machine. This license is valid per major release of SSMS Tools Pack (e.g. v2.x, v3.x, v4.x). Fully transferable license valid for 3 months. ($99.99) Perfect for work across many machines. It's not bound to a machine or an SSMS Tools Pack version. 30 days license. Time based demo license bound to a machine. You can view all the details on the Licensing page. If you want to receive email notifications when new version of SSMS Tools Pack is out you can do that on the Main page or on the Download page. This is also the last version to support SSMS 2005 and 2005 Express. Enjoy it!

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REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th

- by mseika

REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th Join us for a live online event hosted by the Oracle PartnerNetwork team as we kickoff FY13. Hear messages from Judson Althoff, Oracle's SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, as well as other Oracle executives, thought leaders, and partners. During Partner Kickoff you will see: Judson Althoff on FY12 recap and FY13 call to action Executive Addresses from Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian, John Fowler, and Regional Sales Executives Embed, Sell and Implement the Full Portfolio Business Opportunities for ISV / OEM’s, System Integrators, and Channel Partners Q&A with Regional Alliances & Channels Executives Please register for your regions Partner Kickoff at the appropriate link below: Region Date / Time NAS Tuesday, June 26 @ 8:30 am PT EMEA Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00 pm BST LAD Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00pm EDT (Miami) / 3:00pm BRT (Sao Paulo) JAPAN Wednesday, June 27 @ 10:00 am JST APAC Wednesday, June 27 @ 8:30 am IST (Bangalore) / 11:00 am SGT (Singapore)Wednesday, June 27 @ 1:00 pm AEST (Sydney) Be sure to follow us around the web to get the latest on OPN! We look forward to seeing you online,The Oracle PartnerNetwork Team

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REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th

- by mseika

REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th Join us for a live online event hosted by the Oracle PartnerNetwork team as we kickoff FY13. Hear messages from Judson Althoff, Oracle's SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, as well as other Oracle executives, thought leaders, and partners. During Partner Kickoff you will see: Judson Althoff on FY12 recap and FY13 call to action Executive Addresses from Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian, John Fowler, and Regional Sales Executives Embed, Sell and Implement the Full Portfolio Business Opportunities for ISV / OEM’s, System Integrators, and Channel Partners Q&A with Regional Alliances & Channels Executives Please register for your regions Partner Kickoff at the appropriate link below: Region Date / Time NAS Tuesday, June 26 @ 8:30 am PT EMEA Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00 pm BST LAD Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00pm EDT (Miami) / 3:00pm BRT (Sao Paulo) JAPAN Wednesday, June 27 @ 10:00 am JST APAC Wednesday, June 27 @ 8:30 am IST (Bangalore) / 11:00 am SGT (Singapore)Wednesday, June 27 @ 1:00 pm AEST (Sydney) Be sure to follow us around the web to get the latest on OPN! We look forward to seeing you online,The Oracle PartnerNetwork Team

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REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th

- by mseika

REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th Join us for a live online event hosted by the Oracle PartnerNetwork team as we kickoff FY13. Hear messages from Judson Althoff, Oracle's SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, as well as other Oracle executives, thought leaders, and partners. During Partner Kickoff you will see: Judson Althoff on FY12 recap and FY13 call to action Executive Addresses from Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian, John Fowler, and Regional Sales Executives Embed, Sell and Implement the Full Portfolio Business Opportunities for ISV / OEM’s, System Integrators, and Channel Partners Q&A with Regional Alliances & Channels Executives Please register for your regions Partner Kickoff at the appropriate link below: Region Date / Time NAS Tuesday, June 26 @ 8:30 am PT EMEA Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00 pm BST LAD Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00pm EDT (Miami) / 3:00pm BRT (Sao Paulo) JAPAN Wednesday, June 27 @ 10:00 am JST APAC Wednesday, June 27 @ 8:30 am IST (Bangalore) / 11:00 am SGT (Singapore)Wednesday, June 27 @ 1:00 pm AEST (Sydney) Be sure to follow us around the web to get the latest on OPN! We look forward to seeing you online,The Oracle PartnerNetwork Team

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Why to avoid SELECT * from tables in your Views

- by Jeff Smith

-- clean up any messes left over from before: if OBJECT_ID('AllTeams') is not null drop view AllTeams go if OBJECT_ID('Teams') is not null drop table Teams go -- sample table: create table Teams ( id int primary key, City varchar(20), TeamName varchar(20) ) go -- sample data: insert into Teams (id, City, TeamName ) select 1,'Boston','Red Sox' union all select 2,'New York','Yankees' go create view AllTeams as select * from Teams go select * from AllTeams --Results: -- --id City TeamName ------------- -------------------- -------------------- --1 Boston Red Sox --2 New York Yankees -- Now, add a new column to the Teams table: alter table Teams add League varchar(10) go -- put some data in there: update Teams set League='AL' -- run it again select * from AllTeams --Results: -- --id City TeamName ------------- -------------------- -------------------- --1 Boston Red Sox --2 New York Yankees -- Notice that League is not displayed! -- Here's an even worse scenario, when the table gets altered in ways beyond adding columns: drop table Teams go -- recreate table putting the League column before the City: -- (i.e., simulate re-ordering and/or inserting a column) create table Teams ( id int primary key, League varchar(10), City varchar(20), TeamName varchar(20) ) go -- put in some data: insert into Teams (id,League,City,TeamName) select 1,'AL','Boston','Red Sox' union all select 2,'AL','New York','Yankees' -- Now, Select again for our view: select * from AllTeams --Results: -- --id City TeamName ------------- ---------- -------------------- --1 AL Boston --2 AL New York -- The column labeled "City" in the View is actually the League, and the column labelled TeamName is actually the City! go -- clean up: drop view AllTeams drop table Teams

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How to import in BIDS more than one SSIS package in one shot!

- by Luca Zavarella

Have you ever wanted to add more than one Integration Services existing package (e.g. 20 packages) in a SSIS project? Well, you may suppose that an Open Dialog supports multiple files selection to import more than one file at a time ... BIDS Open Dialog doesn’t allow this, you can just select a single file! Hence the loss of valuable time spent to import the packages one at a time. Few days ago I learned a trick that solves the problem, thanks to this post by Matt Masson. Just copy all the packages to import from Windows Explorer (Ctrl + C): Then just right click on the SSIS Packages folder of the Integration Services project and make a simple Past (CTRL + V): So “auto-magically” you’ll have all those packages imported in your Integration Services project!! What can I say... this feature was well hidden!

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Missing Indexes DMV Report, 3 billion Impact!

- by Tara Kizer

We’ve been having some major performance issues with one of the applications that I support. The database is on SQL Server 2005 and is about 150GB in size. We’ve identified a couple of issues already on the database side. The first issue is that some query (or maybe several queries) is getting a bad execution plan at some point in time during the day. When it occurs, database performance comes to a grinding halt. We know it’s a bad execution plan as running DBCC FREEPROCCACHE immediately resolves the problem system-wide. As we have not yet identified the problematic query, we’ve put a temporary solution in place that frees the procedure cache on an hourly basis via a SQL Agent job. This is not ideal, but it is getting us through the day without a major problem. We are actively working on identifying the problematic query and hope to disable the SQL Agent job soon. Earlier this week, we had a major slowdown for one of the processes of this application. I was unable to find any database performance issues, but I continued to investigate it. One of things that I typically do when investigating database performance issues is run the “Missing Indexes DMV Report” (that’s what I call it at least). When analyzing the output of that report, I immediately dismiss anything under 1 million “Impact” as I want to target the “low-hanging fruit” initially. When I ran the report earlier this week, I was shocked to find a suggested index with an impact of over 3 billion! Do I win a prize for the highest impact? Has anyone seen a value higher than mine? My exact value was 3154284120.67765. The performance issue from earlier this week ended up being an application problem, but it also brought to light a much needed index. I had previously seen this index come up in that report but always with a much lower impact. I had never considered it as the index’s selectivity is very low. It’s a composite index with three columns. The first column is not selective, the first two columns are not selective, and the three columns together are not selective. In fact, no matter how I order it, the index will not be selective at all. I briefly discussed this with Kimberly Tripp, and she said that this was okay for covering indexes. Selectivity is irrelevant for a covering index. She indicated that she’s even created indexes with gender as the first column in the index. I’ve got lots to learn still!

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