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You probably heard that side effects in programming can be harmful. This post is not about imperative versus declarative approach, though. This is about side effects you may create without paying attention to little details. Just few examples. Running process and blinking Let’s take this code in C# on Windows (it can be reproduced in … Continue reading Avoid side effects outside of your application
This is the eighth part of the Availability Anywhere series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Connecting to SSH tunnel automatically in Windows Imagine that you’d like to run an interactive application on some remote server. This application should have access to UI and … Continue reading Availability Anywhere Part 8 — Running interactive application on a remote server from shell
This is the seventh part of the Availability Anywhere series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Connecting to SSH tunnel automatically in Windows Multiple configuration tasks require you to open Group Policy Editor and do something. However, there is no gpedit.msc in Windows Home … Continue reading Availability Anywhere Part 7 — gpedit.msc on Windows Home
This is the sixth part of the Availability Anywhere series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Connecting to SSH tunnel automatically in Windows There is some bug with Task Scheduler not running the task on the next run date, similar to this question. In … Continue reading Availability Anywhere Part 6 — Task scheduler not running on next run date on Windows Home edition
Recently I was investigating machine waking up from sleep without any user interaction. It was a bit irritating because user was putting his PC to sleep and leaving it for a day just to notice in the evening that the machine woke up and was on for most of the time. Event viewer showed this: … Continue reading UpdateOrchestrator waking up the machine