my code scratchpad
I stumbled across an old visual studio database at work that was inaccessible.
After finding a couple of Visual Sourcesafe crack applications, i settled on doing it manually with a hex editor (HxD Hex Editor).
Find the sourcesafe database in windows explorer, open the data directory and open um.dat.
Changing to the values highlighted in red reset the Admin password to an empty string.
In May, the SQL Server conference SQLBits 8 took place in Brighton. Fusion-IO had sponsored the event and had initiated the first Crappy Code Games event. This consisted of 4 challenges designed to flex the IO of the Fusion-IO drives.
Prior to the Crappy Code Games final in Brighton there were 2 previous warm up events in Manchester and London, I attended the London event and entered one of the challenges; “Maximum number of transactions in a minute” and came third bagging myself a podium place and a Winmo phone.
Then came the final, which I actually couldn’t attend. I left a revised script file with @mdknee who entered it under my name, and later that night received a few tweets from the Fusion-IO representatives from the event.
Somehow, I’d managed to bag first prize which was a flight experience with 2 high performance aircraft.
Here’s a pic of me being presented with the award by Steve Woziak (I’m the piece of paper 🙂 )
And some links where i’m name checked
http://www.fusionio.com/news/press-releases/fusion-io-crappy-code-games-winners-flush-with-sql-achievements/
http://www.fusionio.com/blog/top-sql-dbas-flush-away-crappy-code-in-brighton/
http://www.fusionio.com/blog/sql-warriors-compete-for-honors-in-londons-crappy-code-games/
I’m currently in the middle of learning powershell; More specifically, on day 4 of the Microsoft 10325a Automating Administration with Windows Powershell 2.0.
With my coding background, i’ve tended to write most of the script inside functions to try and promote reuse. I’ve found that maintaining a library of functions to be a bit of a headache so ended up writing the function below. It’s by no means perfect (lets face it, PoSH is a little new to me currently… lets see how long before v2 makes it onto my blog), but it does the job.
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function Add-CodeToProfile() { <# .Synopsis Adds a code snippet to your PoSH user profile .Description Ideally, you will want to add whole functions, not just one line scripts. .PARAMETER Scriptblock A block of script that you want to save for future reuse .PARAMETER FileName If specified, a file will be created to store the script in. #> PARAM ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$Scriptblock, [string]$FileName ) [string]$usersProfilePSdir = "$env:userprofileMy Documentswindowspowershellv1.0"; [string]$usersProfilePS1 = $usersProfilePSdir + 'profile.ps1'; if(-not(Test-Path "$env:userprofileMy Documentswindowspowershell")) {new-item "$env:userprofileMy Documentswindowspowershell" -type directory} if(-not(Test-Path "$env:userprofileMy Documentswindowspowershellv1.0")) {new-item "$env:userprofileMy Documentswindowspowershellv1.0" -type directory} if(-not(Test-Path $usersProfilePSdir)) { #Add PS1 new-item $usersProfilePSdir -type file } else { #Add a line break at the end of the file "`r`n" >> $usersProfilePS1; } #check filename if ($fileName -eq "") { #Add function to users profile $Scriptblock >> $usersProfilePS1 } else { #Add function to new file $newScriptFile = $usersProfilePSdir + $fileName + '.ps1'; $Scriptblock >> $newScriptFile; #Add reference to profile '"' + $newScriptFile + '"' >> $usersProfilePS1 } } |
Having recently started putting community rom’s onto my Motorola Defy (tinkered with CyanogenMod and LiquidArc), I got a bit fed up with the LiquidArc rom and fancied a change; Queue the MIUI android rom.
I’m not going to go into the virtues of the rom, but needless to say it’s put my ICS angst on hold.
One issue i did come across was that Tasker wasn’t quite working correctly. Whenever it came to change the system volumes the correct changes never got applied. After googling it, there’s a few suggestions to change the “Third Party Access” setting in the call settings. However in version 1.11.18 this setting doesn’t appear.
The correct solution is that the version of Superuser in the rom is particularly keen to deny the AllowPhone state permission. All of the other versions of superuser that i’ve seen only control access to applications that specifically request root access. This version doesn’t seem to have that limitation.Explicitly allowing Tasker to “Monitor Calls” means that it’ll once again be able to control the volumes.
When dealing with XML in Visual Studio, it’s really nice debugging it. You hover over the variable and click XML Visualizer.
However, the same can’t be said for dealing with JSON. So I went searching the extension library in Visual Studio 2010 where I’ve got a plethora of other useful tools (mainly around syntax highlighting).. no dice.
A quick google later, and i’ve downloaded http://jsonviewer.codeplex.com/.
The files need to be copied to the following locations;
JsonVisualizer.dll – %USERPROFILE%My DocumentsVisual Studio 2010Visualizers
JsonViewer.dll – %ProgramFiles(x86)%Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7IDE
Newtonsoft.Json.dll – – %ProgramFiles(x86)%Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7IDE
i’ve now got a shiny new JSON viewer for debugging with.
