Tag: General
All the articles with the tag "General".
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Team Foundation Server tools linkdump
Currently, I'm playing around with TFS (Team Foundation Server), and here's just a quick linkdump of some TFS tools, mainly on CodePlex. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718351.aspx#cipphttp://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdminhttp://www.codeplex.com/automationhttp://www.codeplex.com/TFSCodeReviewFlowhttp://www.codeplex.com/tfsconsolehttp://www.codeplex.com/TfsPowerPack
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Workaround for PHP file_exists on ZIP file contents
Recently, I was writing some PHP code, to check if a specific file existed in a ZIP file. PHP has this special feature called "stream wrappers", which basically is a system which enables PHP to do I/O operations on streams. A stream can be a file, a socket, a SSH connection, ... Each of these streams has its own wrapper, which serves as an adapter between PHP and the underlying resource. This enables PHP to do, for example, a file_get_contents() on all sorts of streams. Assuming regular PHP file functions would be sufficient, I coded the following: [code:c#] if (file_exists('zip://some_file.zip#readme.txt')) { ... } [/code]
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Scalable Apps with Asynchronous Programming in ASP.NET
A while ago, I posted about the DevDays, and some interesting sessions I took. One of these sessions was "Scalable Apps with Asynchronous Programming in ASP.NET", by Jeff Prosise. Searching the Internet, I found that Jeff also published an article on this subject on MSDN, which can be found on the following URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/03/WickedCode/default.aspx.
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Developer & IT Pro days - Ghent - Day 2
Just got back from the second and last day at the DevDays. It's all more exhausting than I thought it would be. First of all: driving from Antwerp to Ghent and arrive there in time means to get up early. Second, a lot of information and understanding needs to be processed and absorbed. Today, I've attended a session on C#3.0 and what's next by Raj Pai. Interesting material, seems to me that C# will evolve into something more declarative and flexible than it already is.
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Developer & IT Pro Days - Ghent - Day 1
Day one of the Belgium Developer & IT Pro days is finished. I've been attending some inspiring sessions. First of all, Jelle Druyts showed us a quick overview of the Guidance Automation Toolkit. Interesting, and usable in many situations as standard Visual Studio templates do not always fulfill all your needs. Afterwards, Jeff Prosise spoke on using background threads in ASP.NET web sites, and how this can speed things up (a lot!). Another session was given by Doug Mahugh on OpenXML. Funny to notice my Prague co-developer also attended his session earlier this week.
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Apache and IIS on same host, port 80, Windows XP
Yesterday, I decided to install an Apache web server on my development machine, next to IIS. Unfortunately, both use port 80, and I did not want to set one of the 2 servers to another port. Luckily, I remembered that IIS can be configured to only listen on one IP, and Apache on another. Easy: 2 IP addresses for my PC, and another server on each one.
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New screen, Samsung is great!
Yesterday, I bought myself a Samsung SyncMaster 940BW wide screen TFT. My old screen, a IIyama 17 inch monster weighing CRT, needed a replacement. Not because of it's age, but because I really started hating this huge block on my desk. The SyncMaster is a great screen. Not the newest, not the most feature-loaded, but it delivers a 1440 x 900 resolution (nice if you are used to 1024 x 768!) and DVI. Photo's, regular use, ... all is really sharp on screen. If you're looking for a cheap wide screen TFT, this one's great! Something off-topic: PHPExcel has already been downloaded more than 700 times! The first version once got 36 downloads...
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PHPExcel 1.0.0 final
I'm quite proud to announce the 1.0.0 version of PHPExcel, a set of classes that allows you to wirte Excel2007 files from PHP. Since my last post on this, a lot of things happened, feature-wise and project-wise. Feature-wise, conditional formatting was added, and a first attempt to a Excel2007 file reader has been created. Project-wise, Jakub Vrana signed up as a developer. He's currently working on an improved version of the Excel2007 Reader. We are still looking for extra developers: if you know PHP 5, object-oriented programming, have knowledge of/interest in OpenXML or the Open Document Format (as we plan to include that too), please apply.
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Five things you didn't know about me...
I was tagged by Joris and Kristof, so I guess it's about time I give away some secrets about myself. Did you know that... I'm tagging:
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PHP Excel classes on CodePlex
Just for the record: my PHP Excel classes have been released on CodePlex under a GPL license, and will be further released over there. The full URL: www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel.