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• screensavergraceperiod not working

  - by Ralf

  Good Morning, in windows XP there is a registry setting called ScreenSaverGracePeriod which lets you set a time period between the activation of the screensaver and locking of the screen. As as result, as soon as you see the screensaver beeing activated, you have X seconds to press a key or move the mouse in order to avoid having to log in again. …

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• The Incremental Architect’s Napkin - #5 - Design functions for extensibility and readability

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/08/24/the-incremental-architectrsquos-napkin---5---design-functions-for.aspx The functionality of programs is entered via Entry Points. So what we´re talking about when designing software is a bunch of functions handling the requests represented by and flowing in…

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• The Incremental Architect´s Napkin - #1 - It´s about the money, stupid

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/05/24/the-incremental-architectacutes-napkin---1---itacutes-about-the.aspx Software development is an economic endeavor. A customer is only willing to pay for value. What makes a software valuable is required to become a trait of the software. We as software…

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• The Incremental Architect´s Napkin – #3 – Make Evolvability inevitable

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/06/04/the-incremental-architectacutes-napkin-ndash-3-ndash-make-evolvability-inevitable.aspxThe easier something to measure the more likely it will be produced. Deviations between what is and what should be can be readily detected. That´s what automated…

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• Dual Control / Four Eyes Principle

  - by Ralf

  I have the requirement to implement some kind of Dual Control or Four-Eyes-Principle, meaning that every change of an object done by user A has to be checked by user B. A trivial example would be a publishing system where an author writes an article and another has to proofread it before it is published. I am a little bit…

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• The Inkremental Architect´s Napkin - #4 - Make increments tangible

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/06/12/the-inkremental-architectacutes-napkin---4---make-increments-tangible.aspxThe driver of software development are increments, small increments, tiny increments. With an increment being a slice of the overall requirement scope thin enough…

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• Flow-Design Cheat Sheet – Part I, Notation

  - by Ralf Westphal

  You want to avoid the pitfalls of object oriented design? Then this is the right place to start. Use Flow-Oriented Analysis (FOA) and –Design (FOD or just FD for Flow-Design) to understand a problem domain and design a software solution. Flow-Orientation as described here is related to Flow-Based Programming, Event-Based…

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• The Incremental Architect´s Napkin - #2 - Balancing the forces

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/06/02/the-incremental-architectacutes-napkin---2---balancing-the-forces.aspxCategorizing requirements is the prerequisite for ecconomic architectural decisions. Not all requirements are created equal. However, to truely understand and…

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• Abstracting functionality

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/08/22/abstracting-functionality.aspxWhat is more important than data? Functionality. Yes, I strongly believe we should switch to a functionality over data mindset in programming. Or actually switch back to it. Focus on functionality…

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• Easy remote communication without WCF

  - by Ralf Westphal

  If you´ve read my previous posts about why I deem WCF more of a problem than a solution and how I think we should switch to asynchronous only communication in distributed application, you might be wondering, how this could be done in an easy way. Since a truely simple example to get started with WCF still is…

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• Oracle Developer Day: Provisioning und Patching mit Cloud Control

  - by Ralf Durben (DBA Community)

  Mit Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control und dem Lifecycle Management Pack können Sie Ihren Aufwand in den Bereichen Erstellung und Wartung von Oracle Datenbanken erheblich senken und so Ihre wertvolle Zeit wieder anderen Aufgaben widmen. Dieser Oracle Developer Day zeigt in einer halbtägigen…

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• Doing asynchronous distributed request/response service calls without WCF

  - by Ralf Westphal

  In my previous blog post I hopefully was able to demonstrate how low the entry barrier is to asynchronous remote communication. It´s as easy as hosting a service like this    10   using ( var serverSpace = new CcrSpace ().ConfigureAsHost( "wcf.port=8000" ))    11 {…

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• How to share Rhythmbox playlists in a network?

  - by Ralf Hersel

  My music is stored on a Synology NAS and Rhythmbox has access via NFS to the music files; works perfect. But how can I share the Rhythmbox playlists? I tried to store the playlists.xml file on the NAS and created a link in the home/user/.local/share/rhythmbox directory to the playlists.xml…

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• AppKata - Enter the next level of programming exercises

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Doing CodeKatas is all the rage lately. That´s great since widely accepted exercises are important to further the art. They provide a means of communication across platforms and allow to compare results which is part of any deliberate practice. But CodeKatas suffer from their size. They…

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• Informed TDD – Kata “To Roman Numerals”

  - by Ralf Westphal

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/05/28/informed-tdd-ndash-kata-ldquoto-roman-numeralsrdquo.aspxIn a comment on my article on what I call Informed TDD (ITDD) reader gustav asked how this approach would apply to the kata “To Roman Numerals”.…

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• Thou shalt not put code on a piedestal - Code is a tool, no more, no less

  - by Ralf Westphal

  “Write great code and everything else becomes easier” is what Paul Pagel believes in. That´s his version of an adage by Brian Marick he cites: “treat code as an end, not just a means.” And he concludes: “My post-Agile world is software craftsmanship.” I wonder, if that´s really the way…

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• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Neue Features im Release 2

  - by Ralf Durben (DBA Community)

  Seit dem 14.09.2012 steht ein neues Release 2 von Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c zur Verfügung. Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte von Enterprise Manager hat Oracle ein neues Release für alle Komponenten und Plattformen am gleichen Tag freigegeben. Das neue Release steht…

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• Cloud Control 12c: Verteilen von beliebiger Software mit Deployment Prozeduren

  - by Ralf Durben (DBA Community)

  Mit dem Lifecycle Management Pack von Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c können Sie Software aus der grafischen Konsole heraus auf Zielsysteme verteilen und installieren, also provisionieren. Dieses funktioniert für viele Oracle Produkte in einer vorgefertigen Form unter…

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• Flow-Design Cheat Sheet – Part II, Translation

  - by Ralf Westphal

  In my previous post I summarized the notation for Flow-Design (FD) diagrams. Now is the time to show you how to translate those diagrams into code. Hopefully you feel how different this is from UML. UML leaves you alone with your sequence diagram or component diagram or activity…

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• Dual Inspection / Four Eyes Principle

  - by Ralf

  I have the requirement to implement some kind of dual inspection or four-eyes principle as a feature of my software, meaning that every change of an object done by user A has to be checked by user B. A trivial example would be a publishing system where an author writes an…

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• Aktuell: Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 ist da

  - by Ralf Durben (DBA Community)

  Ein neues Release für Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control ist verfügbar. Es ist das Release 4, oder genauer die Version 12.1.0.4. Der Download steht für alle unterstützten Plattformen seit dem 03.06.2014 auf OTN zur Verfügung.Natürlich gibt es viele Neuerungen, daher…

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• Double click executable file and nothing happens

  - by Ralf Tiede

  I'm trying to install a game for Linux called Myth 2. Autorun doesn't run when I insert the CD. When I double-click or right-click and the select "Open" on the Setup file, a box appears saying that it's an executable file, and what I want to do. I click on "Run", but…

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• How do I make my application startable from the terminal?

  - by Ralf Hersel

  I've created several Python applications wherefore I know how to create a DEB and how to push an application into my PPA in Launchpad. What I never found out is how to make the application startable from the terminal by just entering its name like you use to do with…

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• Oracle Dojo "Spezial": Cloud Control Tipps jetzt auch offline nutzen

  - by Ralf Durben (DBA Community)

  Zum Thema Cloud Control wurden in der DBA Community schon diverse Tipps veröffentlicht. Themen wie zum Beispiel ein Funktionalitäts-Überblick, Installationshinweise, Nutzung von Cloud- und Chargeback und vieles mehr wurden behandelt. Auf vemehrten Wunsch gibt es die…

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• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Die Verwendung von Gruppen

  - by Ralf Durben (DBA Community)

  Mit Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c können Sie eine Vielzahl von Zielsystemen verwalten, sowohl was die Vielfältigkeit als auch die pure Anzahl betrifft. Eine große Anzahl von Zielsystemen wirft die Frage auf, wie diese Menge effizient verwaltet…

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