Tech Review: Management: Friday, August 25, 2012

Listening to Complainers Is Bad for Your Brain

http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/listening-to-complainers-is-bad-for-your-brain.html

• Minda Zetlin

21 Skills That Pay Top Dollar – Without Certification

• Big Data
• Apache Hadoop including HBase and Hive
• Apache Cassandra
• Apache CouchDB
• MapReduce
• Redis
• MongoDB
• MySQL/MySQL Cluster
• Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics and Modeling
• Complex Event Processing/Event Correlation
• Mobile Apps
• Risk Management and the Rest
• WebLogic and WebSphere for SOA
• VMware
• TOGAF (EA from The Open Group)
• ITIL V2 and V3
• Risk Assessment/Risk Management
• Change Management

Tech Review: Management: Monday, July 16, 2012

The End of Middle Managers (And Why They'll Never Be Missed)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkwilliams/2012/07/10/the-end-of-middle-managers-and-why-theyll-never-be-missed/

• Leader not managers
• Department Captains
• paired leadership
• teams
• Don't come to me with problems
• no managing through fear

Tech Review: Computer Programming: Monday, July 16, 2012

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Reference-5th-Herbert-Schildt/dp/0071634800/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

• Still not available

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Release Candidates available now!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2012/05/31/visual-studio-2012-and-net-4-5-release-candidates-available-now.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx

C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference [Paperback] ($26)

http://www.amazon.com/C-5-0-Nutshell-Definitive-Reference/dp/1449320104/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342468890&sr=1-1&keywords=C%23+5.0

• The only good looking C# 5.0 book I see.

Programming C# 5.0: Building Windows 8 Metro, Web, and Desktop Applications for the .NET 4.5 Framework [Paperback] ($30)

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-5-0-Building-Applications-Framework/dp/1449320414/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342468890&sr=1-3&keywords=C%23+5.0

• pre-order

C++ The Complete Reference, 5th Edition [Paperback] (email notificaton)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Reference-5th-Edition/dp/0071634800/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Tech Review Software: Thursday, June 21, 2012

Google paying $0 in statutory damages as Oracle plans appeal

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-paying-0-in-statutory-damages-as-oracle-plans-appeal/80407?tag=nl.e550

Indian outsourcing: Why skills shortages persist despite the graduate glut

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/cio-insights/indian-outsourcing-why-skills-shortages-persist-despite-the-graduate-glut/39748897?tag=nl.e550

Tech Review Programming: Thursday, June 22, 2012

Regex Tester

http://regexpal.com/

Start of String and End of String Anchors

http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html

Special Characters

http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html

Word Boundaries

http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html

Tech Review C#: Thursday, June 14, 2012

Interfaces (C# Programming Guide)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173156.aspx

• can't declare if public in interface only in implementation.
• VS doesn't explicitly give the interface public when generating from an interface

Cast int to Enum in C#

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29482/cast-int-to-enum-in-c-sharp

Tech Review Software Development: Monday, June 11, 2012

Scratch

http://scratch.mit.edu/

• A way to teach children programming

Sikuli:  Usable for GUI Testing

http://sikuli.org/

• nice open source package
• Mark point this out to me
• Could this be used for malware?

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

• Used by Big Buttons in FV

Tech Review: C# Generics

C# Generics

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/512aeb7t(v=vs.80).aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/692540/examples-of-usage-of-generics-in-net-c-vb-net

Tech Review Programming: Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Regex C# White Space Examples:

http://www.dotnetperls.com/regex-replace-spaces

• @"\s+", " "

http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html

• ^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$

RegEx Overview

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

Facebook releases internal C++ libraries as open source

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/facebook-releases-internal-c-libraries-as-open-source/

Tech Review Software Engineering: Friday, May 25, 2012

GIT Cheat Sheet

http://help.github.com/git-cheat-sheets/

Tech Review Software Engineering: Friday, May 11, 2012

text stream in C#

http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/125025-Put-text-in-a-stream-in-C

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamwriter.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemiomemorystreamclasstopic.asp

memorystream c#

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.stream.aspx#inheritanceContinued

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.memorystream.getbuffer.aspx

http://www.dotnetperls.com/memorystream

Tech Review Software Engineering Java: Friday, May 11, 2012

sorting a arraylist in java

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2784514/sort-arraylist-of-custom-objects-by-property

working with doubles in java

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179427/how-to-resolve-a-java-rounding-double-issue

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3144610/java-integer-division-how-do-you-produce-a-double

double const in java

http://www.concentric.net/~ttwang/tech/javafloat.htm

Tech Review Software Engineering: Thursday, May 10, 2012

Java - TreeMap with Comparator

http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=371

• OK example

http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0140__Collections/ForeachloopwithgenericNavigableSetcreatedfromTreeSet.htm

• another example

http://repast.sourceforge.net/docs/api/repastjava/repast/simphony/space/graph/RepastEdge.html

• RepastEdge<T>

class EdgeCompare implements Comparator

{

   public int compare(Object a, Object b)

   {

      double weightA = (RepastEdge)a.getWeight();

      double weightB = (RepastEdge)b.getWeight();

      int returnVal;

      if (weightA < weightB)

      {

         returnVal = 1;

      }

      else if (weightA == weightB)

      {

         returnVal = 0;

      }

      else

      {

         returnVal = -1;

      }

      return returnVal;

   }

}

TreeSet ts = new TreeSet(new EdgeCompare);

How to use Comparator and Comparable in Java? With example
http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/06/comparator-and-comparable-in-java.html#ixzz1uV1pTbSG

• negative returned if a < b
• zero if a == b
• positive if a > b

List of Java Exceptions

http://wuhrr.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/java-exceptions-list/

Java - Arrays

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/arrays.html

Java - List Example

http://www.easywayserver.com/blog/java-list-example/

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/List.html

• interface definition

Java - Class WattsBetaSmallWorldGenerator

http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/jung/jung/1.7.6/jung-1.7.6-javadoc.jar!/doc/edu/uci/ics/jung/random/generators/WattsBetaSmallWorldGenerator.html

Java - Class RepastEdge<T>

http://repast.sourceforge.net/docs/api/repastjava/repast/simphony/space/graph/RepastEdge.html

Java - for each loop Example

http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0140__Collections/ForeachloopwithgenericNavigableSetcreatedfromTreeSet.htm

• for (String city : cities)

Tech Review Software Development: Wednesday, May 9, 2012

PDF to Text

prdtotext

• http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/converter-pdf-files-to-text-format-command/

pdf  viewer

• http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html

Freeware Lists from Tech Support Alert

• https://www.techsupportalert.com/
• Mark uses this site for information on software packages.
• Gizmo's Freeware

How do I Reference another Project?

• Add it as a project under references.

Java - Sorting a Key value pair

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109383/how-to-sort-a-mapkey-value-on-the-values-in-java
• This is kind of weird in what it does
• You are actually look at the original map to sort elements in the created map

I would like some thing that show how to create a TreeMap with a Comparator.

Java - HashSet

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/HashSet.html

Java - BidiMap (bidirectional lookup map)

• http://commons.apache.org/collections/api-3.1/org/apache/commons/collections/BidiMap.html

Java - Indexer (returns a BidiMap with an index on each element)

• http://jung.sourceforge.net/doc/api/index.html

Tech Review Software Development: Friday, May 4, 2012

 

E.U. court rules programming languages not copyrightable

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/eu-court-rules-programming-languages-not-copyrightable/76076?tag=nl.e539

• Has no affect upon the 

Affect Versus Effect

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/affect-versus-effect.aspx

Top 10 Git Tutorials for Beginners

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/git-tutorials-beginners/

Pro Git

http://progit.org/book/

• Nice book and site

Windows 8's new look makes sense, if you can take the shock

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/04/24/windows-8-new-interface-mobile-sense-desktop-shock.aspx?s=gcndaily_250412

• I need to play with Windows 8 so I know how it works HCI wise

Tech Review Software Development: Wednesday, May 2, 2012

I am having some trouble with GIT and need to understand really what is going on.

http://longair.net/blog/2009/04/16/git-fetch-and-merge/

• pull is a fetch and commit

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/git-tutorials-beginners/

http://www.vogella.com/articles/Git/article.html

• simple but doesn't go into enough detail

http://progit.org/book/

• more detail
• 
  

What a git reset --hard Does in Plain English

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2530060/can-you-explain-what-git-reset-does-in-plain-english

expe

Tech Review Software Development: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

SVN Simple Merge

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html

• Able to figure it out from this, but was not what I wanted.

Here is what I would have like to have found.

Steps to doing a simple merge from the command line.

• Make sure that both the SVN source being merge from and the source being merged to are up-to-date
• Do the following commands in both the from and the to folders.
• > svn status -u
• Should come back that everything is current
• > svn update
• Nothing should update
• The from folder doesn't need to be on the present machine if you know its URL and that it is up-to-date.
• In the to folder perform the merge command.
• This is different from a checkout command which should be done in the folder above what is being created.
• Get the URL in the from directory by doing the following command.
• > svn info
• You want the URL after "URL : "
• Using the above URL perform the following command in the to folder.
• svn merge <URL of the from>

Tech Review Software Development: Friday, April 20, 2012

Installing gacutil exe

• You really need to install the Windows SDK

Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8279

• download and install
• takes about 15 minutes

Tech Review Software Development: Thursday, April 12, 2012

Best XML Books

http://webdesign.about.com/od/books/tp/best-xml-books.htm

• Nice list of books.
• Also has a link for online tutorials and classes

XML Articles by Darla Ferrara

http://webdesign.about.com/od/xml-articles-by-darla-ferrara/XML_Articles_by_Darla_Ferrara.htm

• This has a ton of good looking articles for learning XML.

Tech Review Software Development: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

How to resolve conflict with binary files?

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-10/0073.shtml

• to get the incoming version
• svn resolve [filename]
• to keep the base version
• svn revert [filename]

How to use the HashSet and SortedSet Collection Classes in C# 4.0

http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1949-how-to-use-the-hashset-and-sortedset-collection-classes-in-c-40/

• HashSet<T> example = new HashSet<T>;

how do I call a parent class in C#

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hfw7t1ce(v=vs.71).aspx

• base.Routine()

Tech Review General: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

http://www.dataminr.com/

• Data Mining

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/04/10/twitter-analytics-predicting-the-future-bin-laden.aspx?s=gcndaily_110412

• predicted death of Osama bin Laden 4 hours before President announced.
• scans Twitter universe for connecting threads and pieces them together to form a predictive picture.

Tech Review Software Development: Monday, April 9, 2012

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/is/csharpgeneral/thread/4cfd33d9-9037-4eca-9d10-e858064f0e3b

do

{

} while (true)

Tech Review Software Development: Friday, April 6, 2012

Getting a Status that will Show Updates

http://justaddwater.dk/2008/04/29/how-to-make-a-dry-run-with-svn-update/

• svn status -u
• will not show conficts?

SVN Diff by Revision

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.ref.svn.c.diff.html

• svn diff -r 4760 filename

Tech Review: Wednesday, April 4, 2012

SVN Update Current Status Indicators

https://www.forge.funambol.org/scdocs/ddUsingSVN_command-line

• A = A file was added to your working copy.
• U = A file was updated to your working copy.
• D = A file was deleted from your working copy.
• R = A file was replaced in your working copy.
• G = A file was successfully merged.
• C = A file has merge conflicts that must be resolved by hand

Powerfully lead by Spirit.

Tech Review: Friday, March 30, 2012

The 'broken patent system': how we got here and how to fix it

http://www.theverge.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/

• Good article
• fails to discuss some of the real problems with current software patents:
• overlap
• constantly changing
• we are not going to be closing the patent office anytime soon

Uniform resource identifier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier

• a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource
• URL - Uniform Resource Locator
• URN - Uniform Resource Name

Google Augmented Reality Glasses Expected by Year's End

http://www.pcworld.com/article/250453/google_augmented_reality_glasses_expected_by_years_end.html

• augmented reality 

Google Glasses Are a Prescription for Disaster

http://www.pcworld.com/article/250507/google_glasses_are_a_prescription_for_disaster.html

• bobblehead googleites 

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/#

• $250 - $600

Basic Merging

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html

• $pwd
• /home/usre/my-calc-brance
• $ svn merge http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk

Using 'find' with Ignore Case

http://www.redips.net/linux/find-files/

• find . -iname "util"

Software Engineering Review: Friday, March 9, 2012

Test Driven Development (TDD)

http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development

Software Testing

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/software-testing-methodologies.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing

Software Development Methodologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_methodology

Tech Review Software Development: Thursday, March 29, 2012

Regular expressions - An introduction

http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/regex.html

An Implementation of Regular Expression Parser in C#

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28307/An-Implementation-of-Regular-Expression-Parser-in

Regex Class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.aspx

How do i parse a text file in c#

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/300671/how-do-i-parse-a-text-file-in-c-sharp

How to: Parse Strings Using the Split Method (C# Programming Guide)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228388(v=vs.80).aspx

text to xml conversion

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=906416

Tech Review: Monday, March 26, 2012

Study: More than 50% of Global 500 use vulnerable open source components

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/study-more-than-50-of-global-500-use-vulnerable-open-source-components/10660?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

• The real problem with this article is who did the study?  Are they truly objective?

Smart phone all wet? Resurrection is in the bag.

http://gcn.com/Articles/2012/04/02/Bheestie-bag-dry-wet-electronics.aspx?s=gcndaily_260312&Page=1

• seems to work well

http://www.bheestie.com/

Why NIST's cloud definition is fatally flawed

http://gcn.com/Articles/2012/04/02/Reality-Check-NIST-flawed-cloud-framework.aspx?s=gcndaily_260312&Page=2

• missing big data
• missing scalability

http://www.nist.gov/index.html

• NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tech Review: Reading Local Files in Chrome

file:/// - wont always work.  Use Ctrl-O instead.

Tech Review: Software Engineering: March 15, 2012

RGS - ?

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6319/Registry-Map-for-RGS-files

• custom registrations in ATL
• RGS substitution map includes UUIDs as well as strings.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1594283/is-there-a-document-on-rgs-files-syntax

• resource scripts

How the VS adds the component to the registry.

Generated by regasm.

Tech Review XML: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

URN in XML name space:  http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_namespaces.asp

This doesn't work with xmlstartlet or VS XML.  They both say the XML is invalid if it is simply 

<table xmlns="some urn">

</table>

However, the following will work:

<table xmlns:urn="some name" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

</table>

Tech Review SQL: "The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine."

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/thread/b5a79958-5bce-4229-a69f-75589b6240a8

• The problem is that the application I built was 64 bit and Jet and ACE OLEDB only have x86 versions.
• An x64 process cannot load x86 components.
• Office 2010 provides a Beta 2 version of ACE OLEDB.

Tech Review Software: Wednesday, February 15, 2012

xml namespace example

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_namespaces.asp

• Name conflicts
• <table>
• <tr>
• <td>Apples</td>
• </tr>
• </table>
• <table>
• <name>Stan</name>
• </table>
• Solving name conflict using a prefex
• <h:table>
• <h:tr>
• <h:td>Apples</h:td>
• <f:table>
• <f:name>Stan</f:name>
• XML Namespaces - the xmlns attribute
• namespace for prefix must be defined
• defined by xmlns attributes in the start tag of an element.
• xmlns:prefix="URI"
• when a namespace is defined for an element, all child elements with the same prefix are associated with the same namespace.
• The namespace URI is not used by the parser to look up information.
• URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
• identifies an Internet Resource
• URL - uniform resource locator
• identifies an Internet domain address
• URN - uniform resource name
• default namespace for an element
• saves using prefixes in all child elements

http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_example.asp

• root element
• xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
• tells the XML parser that the document should be validated against a schema.
• xsi:noNamespaceSchemLocation="shiporder.xsd"
• specifies where the schema resides.
• local to xml in this instance
• XML Schema Definition (XSD)
• <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
• ...
• </sx:schema>
• Standard namespace above is (xs)
• URI associated with namespace is the Schema language definition
• standard value of "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
• Define all element and attributes first and than refer to them
• ref="name"
• Can use named types

http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_intro.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468547.aspx

• XML - eXtensible Markup Language
• XML parser
• XML Document Object Model (DOM)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms752838(v=vs.85).aspx

• XSD schemas or Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to verify validity
• XmlLite vs System.XML
• XmlLite does not schema validation
• use MSXML.exe

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms752816(v=vs.85).aspx

• XmlLite Security
• Denial of Service (DoS)