Removing TFS workspaces from old users or old computers

When working with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, sometimes it can be necessary to cleanup old workspaces.  For example, when a computername is re-used, and the same local directory is used by the new user to map a TFS folder.

You need the tool tfs.exe, which is installed togetcher with Visual Studio.  You can start a Visual Studio Command Prompt. I tested the procedure below on Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.

In the commands below, replace serveraddress with your TFS http or https address, e.g. https://tfs.mycompany.com:8443.  You can find it in Visual Studio: menu "Team", menu-item "Connect to Team Foundation Server...", button "Servers..."

The existing workspaces for some "computername" can be queried with this TFS command:

tf.exe workspaces /computer:computername /owner:* /format:detailed /server:serveraddress

You get a list of all workspaces, with the existing mappings. It is the workspace name (behind "Workspace:") and the owner that you need in order to delete the workspace.

Now run this TFS command to remove the workspace "workspacename" for owner "owner":

tf.exe workspace /delete workspacename;owner /server:

serveraddress

Please be aware that the workspacename and the computername can be different. On my machine, the first workspacename was the same as the computername, the next workspaces were suffixed with _0, _1, ...

Data and code open sourced from Google's Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal project

Posted by Ross Koningstein, Engineer, Google RE<C team

Cross-posted with the Open Source at Google Blog

Google’s RE<C renewable energy research project has recently open sourced a new tool and a significant amount of data to support future CSP (concentrating solar power) heliostat development.

HOpS Open Source Site

HOpS, heliostat optical simulation, is an open source software tool for accurately and efficiently performing optical simulations of fields of heliostats, the actuated mirror assemblies that direct sunlight onto a target in CSP applications.

Google used this tool to help evaluate heliostat field layouts and calculate heat input into a CSP receiver for power production. HOpS works by passing "packets" of light between optical elements (the sun, heliostats, and elements of the target surface), tracking shadowing and blocking masks along the way. For our analysis goals, this approach gave our researchers more flexibility and accuracy than analytic tools (such as DELSOL or HFLCAL), and it was easier to set up for thousands of runs than using ray tracers. Output from the simulation includes heliostat efficiency, target irradiance, and more, while an included shell script facilitates plotting heat maps of the output data using gnuplot.


REC-CSP Open Source Site

The REC_CSP open source project contains data sets and software useful for designing cheaper heliostats.


Available on the project site are:

1. Thirty days of three-dimensional wind measurement data taken with ultrasonic anemometers (sampled at ~7 Hz), recorded at several near surface elevations.  The data is presented in the RE<C wind data collection document and is available for download on the open source site here.

2. A collection of heliostat aerodynamic load data obtained in a NASA wind tunnel and graphically represented in the appendix.  This data is available for download on the open source site here.

3. Matlab software for high-precision, on-target heliostat control with built-in simulation for testing. This is essentially the same software used in the RE<C heliostat control demonstrations and described in the accelerometer sensing and control system design documents.  The source code is available for download here.

Video: Demonstrating single and multiple heliostat control

Welcome customers into your business on Google

(Cross-posted on the Lat Long Blog.)

When we initially announced the Business Photos pilot program, we wanted to give business owners an easy way to get customers in the door online using interactive, high-quality, 360-degree images of places on Google Maps and on Google Search results. With thousands of businesses under our belt — from salons to gift shops — we’ve been hearing the same question again and again from both business owners and photographers alike: How can I participate?

Well, with the overwhelming success of the first pilot, we’ve decided to unveil a complementary initiative that will help us reach more interested business owners, more quickly: Trusted Photographers.

View Larger Map

Click and drag to view the inside of Spice Market, New York City.

It’s simple. Visit our new website and search for a Google Trusted Photographer in your area. Either email or call a photographer in your area to schedule a time and agree on a price that you will pay the photographer for a photoshoot of your business. This self-serve model makes for easier scheduling and quicker turnaround, while also supporting the local photographers in your community. During the hour it should take for the shoot, you can collaborate with the photographer about how best to display and capture your business. When finished, the photographer will upload the images to Google, and shortly thereafter, you’ll see 360-degree panoramic views of your business on Google.com, Google Maps and on your Google Places listing.

See how Business Photos has helped Toy Joy of Austin, Texas.

Trusted Photographers are available in 14 U.S. cities, as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and France. Don’t see a photographer in your area? Let us know, as that will help us determine where more Trusted Photographers are needed.

Posted by Gadi Royz, Product Manager, Google Maps

Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University

Posted by John Taylor and Kevin Serafini

In May 2009 we launched Google Sky Map: our “window on the sky” for Android phones. Created by half a dozen Googlers at the Pittsburgh office in our 20% time, the app was designed to show off the amazing capabilities of the sensors in the first generation Android phones. Mostly, however, we wrote it because we love astronomy. And, thanks to Android’s broad reach, we have managed to share this passion with over 20 million Android users as well as with our local community at events such as the Urban Sky Party.

Today, we are delighted to announce that we are going to share Sky Map in a different way: we are donating Sky Map to the community. We are collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University in an exciting partnership that will see further development of Sky Map as a series of student projects. Sky Map’s development will now be driven by the students, with Google engineers remaining closely involved as advisors. Additionally, we have open-sourced the app so that other astronomy enthusiasts can take the code and augment it as they wish.

The Google Sky Map team would like to thank all of our users who have taken the time to send us comments over the past 3 years. You tell us that Sky Map has helped you show off your phone, enabled you to see the stars when the urban light pollution or weather obscured them and even find romance! The feedback that touched us most though can be summarized by this short email:

“sat down with my son and looked around at the planets for about 45 minutes...time well spent, thanx”

Checking identity column overflow on all tables of a SQL Server database

The DMV (Dynamic Management View) query below can be used to get a list of all tables with an identity column, and the current value

SELECT o.name AS TableName,  c.name AS ColumnName,  t.name Datatype,  IDENT_CURRENT(o.name) CurrentID,  case t.xtype  when 48 then 127  when 52 then 32767  when 56 then 2147483647  when 127 then 9223372036854775807  else NULL  end MaximumID,  IDENT_CURRENT(o.name) * 100.0 /  case t.xtype  when 48 then 127  when 52 then 32767  when 56 then 2147483647  when 127 then 9223372036854775807  else NULL  end OccupationPrcFROM syscolumns c JOIN sysobjects o ON c.id = o.idJOIN systypes t ON c.xtype = t.xtypeWHERE  c.status & 0x80 = 0x80 -- 0x80 is an identity columnORDER BY 6 desc, 4 desc, 5

The query output contains these columns:

• TableName
• ColumnName: Column name of the identity column
• Datatype: Datatype of the identity column
• CurrentID: Current value of the identity column
• MaximumID: Maximum value of the identity column
• OccupationPrc: Percentage of IDs in use (100% * CurrentID / MaximumID).  When this column reaches 100, an overflow will happen.  The list is sorted descending on this column.

This query works for identity columns of datatypes tinyint, smallint, int and bigint.

Wrong keys auto-typed by KeePass/KeePassX in Ubuntu

When not using the United States keyboard layout (such as azerty or qwertz), KeePass and KeePassX type the wrong keys when using the auto-type feature.  E.g. the 'Q' is typed instead of the 'A' when the keyboard layout is azerty.
As far as I found on forums, this is due to a bug in Unity, the user interface used in Ubuntu. Luckily, there is an easy workaround.

Open a terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-T), and run the following command:

setxkbmap <your 2-digit keyboard layout code>

 E.g. for Belgium having an azerty keyboard layout with keyboard code "be", you should run:

setxkbmap be

This command can be run automatically, when any user is logging on to the system.  This is done with a ".desktop" file, similar to the procedure in my post "Automatically start Empathy at login to Ubuntu".

To create this file, follow these steps:

• Open a terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-T)
  
• Create the file "/etc/xdg/autostart/setxkbmap.desktop", by running this command:
  sudo gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/setxkbmap.desktop

• Copy this text as contents for the file:  (replace "be" with your own keyboard layout)
  [Desktop Entry]
  Version=1.0
  Encoding=UTF-8
  Name=Fix keyboard settings
  Exec=setxkbmap be
  Terminal=false
  Type=Application
  
• Save and Close the file.

Log out and log in again (or reboot), and the auto-type feature should work.

CDC Birth Vital Statistics in BigQuery

Posted by Dan Vanderkam, Software Engineer

Google’s BigQuery Service lets enterprises and developers crunch large-scale data sets quickly. But what if you don’t have a large-scale data set of your own?

To help the data-less masses, BigQuery offers several large, public data sets. One of these is the natality data set, which records information about live births in the United States. The data is derived from the Division of Vital Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has collected an electronic record of birth statistics since 1969. It is one of the longest-running electronic records in existence.

Each row in this database represents a live birth. Using simple queries, you can discover fascinating trends from the last forty years.

For example, here’s the average age of women giving birth to their first child:

The average age has increased from 21.3 years in 1969 to 25.1 years in 2008. Using more complex queries, one could analyze the factors which have contributed to this increase, i.e. whether it can be explained by changing racial/ethnic composition of the population.

You can see more examples like this one on the BigQuery site.

Limber and flexible IT: YogaWorks goes Google

(Cross posted from the Google Enterprise Blog)

Editor’s note: Today’s guest blogger is Jay DeCoons, COO of YogaWorks. Renowned for its excellence in classroom instruction and teacher training, YogaWorks delivers yoga training and classes in 60 cities around the world. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map.

At YogaWorks, we first and foremost consider ourselves to be educators of yoga. Since opening our first location in 1987, we’ve expanded our reach across the world, which means we’ve had to figure out how to effectively scale a growing organization while continuing to deliver the best training instruction possible. When we first took a look at Google Apps, we thought it would be a great cost savings tool but as we’ve discovered, Google Apps has also allowed us to easily and flexibly connect our business throughout the world.

Prior to Google Apps, we used a hosted Microsoft Exchange server. While on Exchange, we had to set a 2 gigabyte inbox quota and had difficulty achieving a simple, scalable email deployment for our staff’s mobile devices. We also had a lot of offline processes that were cluttering the operations of our studio managers and producing a lot of excess paperwork, which ran counter to our goal of running a sustainable and eco-friendly company. At the time, our IT costs were roughly $130 per user per year.

When we were evaluating Google Apps, we realized that the solution would allow us to further our green-friendly mission by reducing our overall environmental footprint and would enable us to create a truly mobile workforce with anytime, anywhere data access. We also saw the potential Google Apps held for collaboration among team members, with its unique communication and sharing capabilities.

We went Google with the help of Google Apps Authorized Reseller Dito, who assisted us in setting up Apps and training our team. With Google Apps, we’ve been able to reduce our total IT costs by over 60%. The ability to share documents and reach out to teammates quickly has boosted the morale and sense of community across our team. Mobility has also been a key gain for us, as Google Apps allows us to work seamlessly while on the go across our 24 studios and 60 cities where we hold teacher trainings. Through Google Docs, we have been able to save paper and eliminate tedious offline processes, making our day-to-day operation more environmentally-friendly and efficient.

Google Apps has helped us create a more efficient, more excited and more productive workforce, which in turn has helped us focus on what we care most about: bringing safe, compassionate and skillful teaching of yoga to all.

Posted by Jay DeCoons, COO of YogaWorks

Lambda expressions in C++0x / C++11

The new C++ standard C++11 (formerly known as C++0x) has support for Lambda expressions, which makes it easier to write callback-functions. 

For example, the code below sorts the array "employees" on the member "name", without having to create a sort function/class.

std::sort(employees.begin(), employees .end(),
[&](int a, int b) { return v[a].name<v[b].name; });

This code has been successfully tested on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Visual C++ 10) and Netbeans 7.0.

Removing macro's from a LibreOffice/OpenOffice document

I had an OpenDocument Spreadsheet document that gave the security warning "This document contains macros. Execution of this macros is disabled due to the current macro security setting. Therefore, some functionality may not be available."
Since the document didn't need macro's, I investigated the macros, using the menu "Tools" => "Organize Macros" => "LibreOffice Basic". A "Basic" macro was present, but only contained whitespace.
For some reason, I was unable to remove the macro because the button "Delete" was disabled.
A workaround is to remove the macros programmatically, by creating a new macro.  In the window "LibreOffice Basic Macros", click the button "Edit". Add the code below:

Sub RemoveMacros
basicLibraries = ThisComponent.BasicLibraries
standard = basicLibraries.getByName( "Standard" )
standard.removeByName( "Module1" )
End Sub

Change the text "Module1" to the name of the Module that you want to delete. Run the code by pressing the key F5.

This code works on both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

Google Correlate expands to 49 additional countries

Posted by Matt Mohebbi, Software Engineer

In May of this year we launched Google Correlate on Google Labs. This system enables a correlation search between a user-provided time series and millions of time series of Google search traffic. Since our initial launch, we've graduated to Google Trends and we've seen a number of great applications of Correlate in several domains, including economics (consumer spending, unemployment rate and housing inventory), sociology and meteorology. The correspondence of gas prices and search activity for fuel efficient cars was even briefly discussed in a Fox News presidential debate and NPR recently covered correlations related to political commentators.

Health has always been an area of particular interest to our team (Matt Mohebbi, Julia Kodysh, Rob Schonberger and Dan Vanderkam). Correlate was inspired by Google Flu Trends and many of us worked on both systems. So we were very excited when the BioSense division at the CDC published a page which shows correlations between some of their national trends in patient diagnosis activity and Google search activity. With just three years of weekly data, relevant search terms are surfaced. For example, the time series for bloody nose surfaces "bloody snot" and "blood in snot".

While these terms shouldn't come as a surprise, there are others which are more interesting, including searches related to static electricity, dry skin, and red cheeks. Of course, correlation is not causation but we hope that Correlate can be used as a method for researchers to generate new hypotheses with their data.

To help researchers outside the United States, we're pleased to announce support for 49 additional countries in Google Correlate. It's now possible to see correlations like "snorkeling" in Australia, "cherry blossoms" in Japan , and "beer garden" in Germany. We look forward to seeing what new correlations researchers can find with this data!

Ganhar Dinheiro

COMEÇE A GANHA DINHEIRO AGORA MESMO!!! CLIQUE AQUI!!

O QUE É PTC ?

O QUE É PTC = PAID TO CLICK?

Traduzindo para o nosso português seria algo como “Pago por clique” ou seja você é pago para clicar nos sites. Digamos que você tenha um negócio na internet montou um site registrou um domínio (http://seunegocio.com) mas e agora o que fazer para que as pessoas vejam seu negócio online? Aí é onde entram os sites de Ptc que são em sua maioria, empresas de propaganda que por sua vez pagam usuários para que esses entrem nos sites anunciados, geralmente pagam centavos por cada visita. Como funciona?

1 – Se cadastre no site PTC Para se cadastrar siga as instruções abaixo *Username: usuario *Password: senha * Confirm Password: confirme sua senha * Email Address: endereço de e-mail * Confirm Email Address: confirme seu e-mail * Alertpay E-mail Address For Payments: e-mail que se cadastrar no alertpay * Your Country: Pais * Referer: Rodrigoscheffer – Isso geralmente aparece automaticamente caso não aparece digite Rodrigoscheffer para que vc seja meu indicado.

2 – Vá para a area onde estão os links, deve se chamar “ads“, “show ads“, “Click ads” ou algo parecido.

3 – Terá uma quantidade de links diarios, clique em um, e ele vai abrir com uma contagem regressiva, espere ela terminar e então vai aparecer algum tipo de simbolo dizendo que ja pode fechar a janela, pode ser um “V” na cor verde, um “$”, a palavra “DONE” ou qualquer outra coisa.

4 – Quanto a contagem acabar clique em outro link da lista e abrirá uma nova janela com contagem regressiva. Cada vez que você fizer isso o dinheiro será depositado na sua conta do site. Obs:Você não pode clicar em um link mais de uma vez por dia, na segunda tentativa vai aparecer a mensagem que ele ja foi clicado, ou após a contagem regressiva vai aparecer o X vermelho.

O QUE É REFERRAL?

Referrals significa “indicados”. Nos Sites PTC você indica pessoas usando o seu link de indicação, isso serve para que você ganhe uma porcentagem do que os seus indicados ganham, e assim você poderá lucrar bem mais rápido, por exemplo se um site te dá 100% dos referrals, significa que tudo que um indicado seu lucrar em um dia, você vai lucrar uma quantia equivalente, ou seja se você indica 1 pessoa e ele ganha $0,10 por dia, você também ganha $0,10 por dia, você pode indicar quantas pessoas quizer. Como indico alguém? Procure no site o seu link de indicação “Your referral link” ou algo parecido com “Referral link” Seu link vai ser algo parecido com: http://www.neobux.com/?r=ripoldy

POSSO CRIAR VÁRIAS CONTAS NO MESMO PTC?

Não! Eles tem um sistema que detecta se você ta criando várias contas indicadas por você! E não pode criar nenhuma outra conta no mesmo PC tambem, mesmo que essa outra conta não seja sua indicação.

O QUE É CASHOUT/PAYOUT?

Cashout e Payout é quando você atinge a quantia mínima para poder pedir para enviarem o dinheiro, por exemplo se o cashout/payout de um site for de 10 dolares, você precisará atingir pelo menos 10 dolares pra poder retirar o dinheiro.

O QUE É SCAM?

Scam são falsos sites PTC,  eles não pagam você, tipo aqueles que dizem pagar uma fortuna por clique, sites novos que tem muitos cliques por dia também são grandes candidatos a scam.

COMO RECEBO DINHEIRO DE SITES PTC?

Todo site PTC,quando voce for se cadastrar,irá pedir o email de sua conta no Banco Virtual,que poderá tanto o Paypal quanto o Alertpay ou Pagseguro, para que possam efetuar o pagamento do dinheiro.

CONHEÇA O NEOBUX!!!!!

http://www.neobux.com/?r=ripoldy