Python(x,y) is a free scientific and engineering development software for numerical computations, data analysis and data visualization based on Python programming language, Qt graphical user interfaces (and development framework) and Eclipse integrated development environment. Although I would say I am conversant in Python and can see why a lot of people like it, it [...]
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Recently I have been playing around with Windows PowerShell. I had this desire to synchronize the date modified field between identical files in two directories. Awhile back I had created a repository with the copied code and during the copy the date modified had been set on all of the files to the current date. [...]
Tags: powershell programming
Here are some jewels about Software Engineering that are worth reviewing. I recommend the rest of the article. It’s an oldie but goody! Recently I have been doing a lot of work deciphering “other people’s code”. I would say the largest part of the work has been in error detection and removal. Even a seemingly [...]
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Recently I found myself trying to debug an active server page application. It appears to be a simple application. When you go to the page, the server generates a text file which I call a data feed. It is used by search engines to build links to your products. The final step in the process [...]
Tags: reengineering·sql
One of my favorite tools has been updated. It alludes to the possibility of integrating Writer with a couple of services and technologies I have been looking at integrating, Flickr and Lightbox. I was almost motivated enough to try my hand at writing a plugin a while back. The most obvious change is that the [...]
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A couple of years ago I created some spreadsheets to help me migrate data into QuickBooks. I set up a worksheet that followed the IIF format and then saved it as a tab delimited file. The biggest problem was that one row of data required three rows in the IIF format. If you try and [...]
Tags: autoit·QuickBooks·vba
Since I had recently setup my laptop with C++ version of Visual Studio 8 Express, I was curious about setting up a similar IDE environment on Linux. I initially tried to set up Anjuta DevStudio and I failed miserably. I am running CentOS 5.1. There does not appear to be a recent RPM of Anjuta. [...]
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Finally, I am getting around to an update to the TortoiseSVN Visual Studio Integration. The catalyst for this is the release of Visual Studio 2008 (formally codename Orcas) Beta 2, and making sure I can still play with Subversion through the IDE. Garry’s Bit Patterns: TortoiseSVN and Visual Studio Integration – Visual Studio 2008 Adding [...]
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Recently I had been playing around with the Visual Basic version of Visual Studio Express and somehow mucked it up real good. It told me it could not create the Visual Basic compiler and I should re-install. I re-installed and it was still mucked up so I completely removed Visual Basic and SQL Server pending [...]
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