http://unintelligible.org/blog Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:57:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quick and dirty script: DECLARE @old sysname, @current sysname, @table sysname, @column sysname, @this_old sysname DECLARE uq_cursor CURSOR FOR select AllUQs.name as old_name, object_name(AllUQs.parent_obj) as table_name, col.name as column_name ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2011/04/04/rename-all-unique-constraints-in-a-database/ I just wrote a quick MSBuild wrapper around the great Gendarme tool. It allows running Gendarme as part of an MSBuild task/project, and supports all the options that the command-line runner supports. It also integrates with Visual Studio: The binary can be downloaded here: http://github.com/unintelligible/GendarmeMsBuild/downloads The source code is available here: http://github.com/unintelligible/GendarmeMsBuild http://unintelligible.org/blog/2010/10/02/gendarme-msbuild-task/ For some reason, I couldn't find a list of the different Resharper code inspections and their severity anywhere on the web (not even in Jetbrains' site); this is useful to go through the available inspections with team members to decide which we should enable across our team. So, for convenience, I'm ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2010/05/24/resharper-45-inspection-severity-list/ A while ago, I found an article about implementing a named lock class in C#, allowing for the following code: private static NamedLock namedLock = new NamedLock(); public void DoSomethingConcurrent(string lockName) { using (namedLock.Lock(lockName)) { //Do something concurrent ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/10/20/named-reader-writer-lock-in-c/ Installing Selenium as a Windows service is reasonably straightforward - based on the instructions for Fitnesse, which unfortunately seem to have been deleted from the Fitnesse wiki, but which have been reproduced here. There are two parts to doing this - the first, registering the service using srvany.exe (which wraps any ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/07/28/installing-selenium-rc-as-a-windows-service/ A few months ago, I posted an entry on how Rubyists sometimes get distracted by the power of the language, preferring lengthy debates on programming aesthetics to actually writing (efficient) code. I compared this to photography, in which aspiring photographers sometimes get lost in technical discussions rather than focussing on ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/03/08/rubyists-and-photographers-slight-return/ The 'sc' utility can be used to create, delete or edit a Windows service. It can be used for any executables (as opposed to installutil, which can only be used for .Net services). Its help is available using sc /help (and is also available on MSDN); however, I found the ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/03/08/adding-a-windows-service-using-sc/ Like several other people, I was fascinated by Roger Alsing's post shortly before Christmas describing his program to evolve an image look like Leonardo's Mona Lisa, using only semi-transparent polygons. This uses genetic programming (or perhaps more accurately, simulated annealing, a Monte Carlo method) to evolve an image, comparing each ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/02/02/mona-lisa-image-evolution-in-ruby-jruby/ It's been a year now since I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout and learned to touch-type, so it seemed like a good time to assess progress so far. I now consistently type between 60 and 70 WPM, depending on the day and the text I need to type. I'm reasonably ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/01/10/touch-typing-update-one-year-after/ When running an application pool in IIS under a different user than the default, for an application that requires write access to the Event Log (for example, when trying to create a new event source in your application), it is necessary to grant that user sufficient access to the event ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/12/01/event-log-access-permissions-for-aspnet-application-pools/