I work behind a very strict firewall. Any sharing of code is grounds for immediate dismissal (and aggressively enforced).
I would like to set up a pastebin-like environment for my global team.
I haven't been able to find any solutions that are able to support c#, sql, python, java, html (primarily)
Does anyone know of any solution I might be able to install on a local server to use only internally?
Thanks!
If you search the internet for "pastie like service" you can find some open source implementations.
For example, http://alternativeto.net/software/pastie/ lists quite a lot, one of them is at http://hastebin.com/ and does syntax highlighting
haste-server source code on github
haste-client source code on github
(If you need help to host such a service, let me know)
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I need to understand how Microsoft Edge/Firefox/Chrome works for extension installation.
Firefox and Chrome are easy to work with, as they are open source, honor and praise for them! :)
But there are problems with Microsoft Edge
I am using WinDbg - it's pretty common and allows to debug internals.
Particularly, a very interesting part for me what happens on the application's exit, start and turning on and off our non-store custom extension.
Problem: there is too much code and it's not easy to find out that particular code is required to be debugged.
Before M.E. will move to chromium we have to do this kind of reverse engineering.
Thank you, guys! :)
UPD: I'am thinking about adding C++ tag, but don't know whether it's a good idea.
UPD 2:
I don't need utilities, software recommendations, rather techniques that allow understanding vast amount of assembly code.
I have a fairly complex windows service (written in .net 4) with several sub systems that run in parallel.
I have implemented pretty good logging throughout, but I'm feeling I'm needing more info about what each subsystem is currently doing. This would be very useful for times that I need to stop the service for upgrade/bug fixes.
It would be nice to have a gui app that will show me the status for each part of the application that I'm interested in. I've had some ideas for how I'm going to do this, but I'd like to hear some others' ideas as well.
I'm interested in a solution that would be easy to plop down in a future windows service and I'm not looking for anything very complex.
Are there any tools for this sort of thing?
Have you done this yourself?
What about interprocess communication?
Since Windows services can no longer interact with the user session, you'll need to have a separate application that does the interacting for you. Based on the details of your question, I think you understand this.
The big question is how to facilitate the communication between your Windows service and the application. There are all kinds of approaches - shared memory, socket, pipe, remoting, etc. What I have used successfully is WCF. If your UI is going to reside on the same machine as the service, use the NetNamedPipeBinding. If you ever need access from a remote machine, you can change to the NetTcpBinding. I've found this flow chart helpful in binding selection.
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If you're looking for a more formal framework approach that just straight WCF, have a look at Juval Lowy's Publish-Subscribe WCF Framework, which is described in pretty good detail in this MSDN article. The code is available to look at via the article, or you can download the source and example from Lowy's website here. Go to the Downloads section, filter by the Discovery category, and you'll see it there.
In an expert, I'd like to re-use the dialog that Delphi displays to edit a project's library path and for similar purposes:
I found a hack for using it (look for TOrderedListEditDlg on the page). As I think the guy who wrote the linked article knows what he does I don't have too much hope for a less hacky solution, but who knows... So: Do you know an official interface (most probably OTA) to TOrderedListEditDlg?
PS: I'm aware that it's probably trivial to recreate the whole dialog but I like consistency and the DRY principle.
You're right, I couldn't find an official way, that's the only reason I used this hack.
BTW, check out the INTAEnvironmentOptionsServices and INTAAddInOptions interfaces mentioned here. You can incorporate your configuration in Delphi's Environment Options treeview. But TOrderedListDlg still doesn't seem to be exposed officially.
Clarification/summary for the question -- we're looking for:
a hosted bug tracking system,
that is as convenient to use as lighthouse/github/launchpad,
can deal with attachments,
integrates email notifications and operations (implies operations in commit messages),
has a script-friendly API,
allows anonymous bug reports, or ones with an email but that do not require setting up an account for submission.
Lighthouse is close but fails on the last point, launchpad is similar, github also doesn't handle attachments. Tender is great for the last point, but fails as a general bug tracking system (and it looks like its open-source version will be limited to basically being a forum).
We looked into a number of applications to install and setup -- but with this range of requirements, they are always coming with a huge cost in terms of investing time in setting up and maintaining a working system.
In our (open-source) project we have been using Gnats for a really long time. It doing what it was designed to do fine, but that's getting to be pretty inconvenient: it's no longer maintained, has features that we never use, and lack features that we'd want to use... It doesn't deal with attachments, has no easy way to perform actions via emails, no integration with commit messages, and a web interface that was designed for 90s browsers. So I've been looking around in an attempt to find something that could replace it, hopefully some hosted solution to avoid the setup/maintenance hassle.
Probably the most impressive tool that I've seen is lighthouse: it has a very nice and practical interface, properly deals with attachments, controllable via emails, and can respond to commands in commit messages. But... It doesn't have any sane way to submit a bug anonymously -- and that's a major requirement, since we need any random user to be able to submit bugs through our IDE. (It seems that there is a possible hack to forward an email faking the From field, but that doesn't work very well -- specifically, the reporter should be included in the followup email exchange.) On the other side, there is the related tender tool, which is very good in that area, but is very basic otherwise -- too basic to serve as a bug tracking system.
There's a whole bunch of other sites that I've tried -- it seems that all of them require submitters to have an account, so they don't work well for our needs; as well as being limited in various other ways (don't deal with attachments, no good email integration, etc etc). It doesn't help that the meta-descriptions of these sites is usually pretty obscure: it took me hours to just figure out what tender/lighthouse are and how they're related, and no site mentions its inability to receive bug reports without registration. (I'm looking only at open-source-friendly sites, since we don't have any kind of budget for such things.)
There's also the option of installing some system locally, but bug tracking systems tend to be monsters that I'd like to avoid configuring and maintaining, if possible.
So the question is: is there anything obvious that I'm missing? Or to make it more concrete: is there a good comparison page somewhere that lays out popular options and their respective features explicitly?
JIRA is free for open source projects. It's far more user friendly than trac and bugzilla, and allows anonymous submissions and plugins. Unfortunately you'll need to host it on your own server, but from personal experience I can tell you that all you need to do is install a database (it can run without; but that's not a good idea) and it basically maintains itself.
Also is there a particular reason why Google Code or Sourceforge issue tracking tools wouldn't work? You don't need to use all their services if you don't want, you could use them purely for issue tracking.
Did you try trac? It is used by many open source projects.
FogBugz is one option. They'll host or you can run it yourself. My company looked at it but ... political considerations ... meant it is not viable here.
Have you looked at this Comparison of issue tracking systems on Wikipedia?
I have also found fixx, by hedgehoglab. Apparently it has the features that you care more:
Get things done
fixx has an intuitive interface to enable quick bug
reporting. Filling in a bug report is
as easy as sending e-mail.
Ability to add multiple attachments to issues allowing you
to attach screenshots and manage
documents related to issues.
Clever notification options to keep relevant people informed while
preventing issue tracker spam.
Also:
It has an open REST API.
I see that you are using Subversion as SCM. There is a Subversion integration with fixx.
Its unique installation requirement is Sun JDK 1.5.0.
It seems free for Open Source Projects and an hosted version is "Coming soon".
Note that I have never used it, so I cannot give any recommendation.
The open source BugTracker.NET has support for the following areas that are giving you problems:
Attachments
Guest login
Email notifications
SVN commit integration
I found it easy to set up, maintain, and tweak. Of course, you might think otherwise if you are not familiar with .NET and have a Windows server available.
You might look at Unfuddle. They do allow an API for the submission of tickets and have your other points covered including attachments.
Take a look at repositoryhosting.com They have ready made solution with trac / svn / git, for you. Comes with all kinds of bells and whitsles, such as Agilo plug-in and auotomatic backup to the amazon S3 bucket of your choice.
The prices are very reasonable.
Also, jumboxes offers a Trac / SVN virtual appliance that you can host in your own environment.
Redmine is a good open source option. You can check an online demo and a list of features.
It's not hosted though. But it's an interesting option.
And you can always check a list of different open source bug tracking alternatives
I've used ZenDesk in the past and it was rather hassle free.
In addition it has an api: http://www.zendesk.com/api.
Moreover I KNOW it can CC whosoever you want it to whenever anything happens.
We too are looking for a new solution.
At present we're using FogBugz, which is painfully slow.
We need our customers to be able to log bugs via email. Tender looks perfect, with the exception that it doesn't have any obviously usable ID fields that we can pass around. Is there a plugin or similar? I could knock up a browser extension to "goto bug id [whatever]" but that seems kludgy for what should surely be a core feature?
I'm working on Windows XP/Delphi 7. I need to add some procedures (or functions) inside a program that is running, and I do not want to re-compile it once again after I finished it.
I just have a host application with 5 functions to send different types of alarms, but there are other new alarm types, so I have to do new functions to send those alarms, but I should not re-build the host application. I have a class named TAlarmManager that it's invoked calling those functions.
Maybe a plugin?? OK, but how can I "insert" new functions??? Tutorial, manual, book, etc.. for learning about this, or any advice on how to do this???
I have studied plugins (I'm totally new on this theme), but no one "talks" about adding functions to a host application. It seems to me that plugins add functionality from itself, I mean, they have been developed with self code to do something, not to "add" code to the host application... How can I do this??
For the technical side: How does the Delphi IDE do it? That would be the first place for me to look.
To understand plugins, you must understand that you can't add new functions. You could but since the old code doesn't know how to call it, they wouldn't be called.
So what you do is you add a "register" or "start" function to your plugin. That start function gets a data structure as parameter which it can examine or extend. In your case, that would be the list of alarms. Alarms always work the same (my guess), so it can add additional alarms.
The main code will then, after registering all plugins, just walk over the list of alarms and invoke the standard alarm function on each of them. It no longer cares where each alarm comes from and what it really does.
The key here: You need to define an interface which both sides subscribe to. The main code calls the interface functions and your plugin code implements them.
Another option available is to use a scripting component to your project. One which works quite well is PascalScript. This would allow you to load external scripts after the fact and then run them as needed to interact with your application. As Aaron suggested you will also need to still provide an interface of some sort for your script to interact with your application.
See also Plugins system for Delphi application - bpl vs dll? here on Stackoverflow.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "alarms", so I'm making a couple of assumptions.
1) If you don't need additional code for the alarms, I would try to make them data driven. Keep the different kinds of alarms in a database or configuration file, which makes it easy to update applications in the field without recompiling or reinstalling.
2) If you need special code for each alarm, you could use run time packages as plug-ins for your application. Search for Delphi runtime packages to get some ideas and tutorials. Here are a couple of links I found:
http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Creating_Packages
http://delphi.about.com/od/objectpascalide/a/bpl_vs_dll.htm
3) Scripting, as skamradt already mentioned. If it makes sense for your application, this could also let your customers write their own add-on functionality without requiring a recompile on your part.
You almost definitely want to use Pascalscript, as skamradt suggests. You should start here, and seriously consider this option. There are many possibilities that come out of being able to serialize live code as text. The only downside is possibly speed of execution, but that may not matter for your application domain. I would have upvoted skamradt, but I don't have enough reputation to upvote :)
Some time ago I was looking at a situation sort of like what you're describing.
My answer was .DLLs. I put the variable code in a .DLL that was dynamically loaded, the name specified in a configuration file. I passed in a record containing everything I knew about the situation.
In my case there was only a success/fail return and no screen output, this worked quite well. (It was commanding a piece of machinery.)
This sounds like a place where a scripting language or "Domain Specific Language" may make sense. There are several approaches to this:
Implement alarm functions in VBscript (.vbs files written in notepad) that accesses your Delphi code via COM API. Using the COM API gives you access to a large range of programming tools for writing functions, including Delphi. This is the most clumsy solution, but easiest to do. It may also be a benefit to your sales process, and it is always good to think about how to sell things.
Implement your own function language in Delphi. This way you can make it so easy, that your endusers can write their own alarm functions. If you do it as an expression evaluator, you can write an alarm as 2*T1>T2. There are several expression evaluators out there, and you can also write your own if they don't match your needs.
Use a predefined programming language inside your Delphi application, for instance, "Pascal Script", see http://www.remobjects.com/ps.aspx
You should take a look at PaxCompiler, like PascalScript it allows to load scripts, but you can even precompile them before for more performance. Look at the demos section for the solution of your problem.
As a side note, the web page really looks bad, but the package is really powerful and stable.
I think that the scripting solution it's good for this situation.
There are many scripting packages that you can evaluate:
Context Scripting Suite
Fast Script
RemObjects Pascal Script
TMS Scripter Studio
paxScript
Other packages that you can find on Torry, DSP, VClComponents,...
Regards.