Friday, May 1, 2015

Measure windows cmd.exe command execution time

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The *nix command 'time' is very useful for timing how long commands take. To do the same with the windows command line you have two...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Installing a windows MSI on the commandline, detecting MSI parameters (aka properties)

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Installing a MSI is fairly straightforward. Here's an example of installing python without any gui prompting to a designated directory....
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Using tox to test code under multiple python versions

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Tox is a great project that makes testing against different python versions simple, standing on the shoulders of pip and virtualenv. For o...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Python requirements.txt: including other files, and installing specific git commits

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Some notes on the lesser-known aspects of requirements.txt files. Recursively including other requirements files You can recursively inc...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Applying a diff patch on windows

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Applying a diff patch can be done on windows relatively painlessly using git. The catch is that git might try to mess with the line endings...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Writing windows .bat files for cmd.exe: cheatsheet

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Here's a cheatsheet of some things I've discovered when writing a .bat script to build things. For comments you can use "rem...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Vagrant, Packer, and Boxcutter FTW: Create a windows build environment with one command

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A quick intro to vagrant , packer , and boxcutter , which are all projects under the Hashicorp umbrella .  From reading the project websites...
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