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Install Docker Toolbox on a Mac via command line

March 26, 2023 by Tarik

Deprecation Warning Docker Toolbox and Docker Machine have both been deprecated. Docker Desktop is the officially recommended replacement. Original Answer I found that Docker Toolbox is available via brew/cask # Install Homebrew ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” # Install Cask brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask # Install docker toolbox brew cask install docker-toolbox Once Docker Toolbox is … Read more

Automated unit testing with JavaScript

March 24, 2023 by Tarik

I’m just about to start doing JavaScript TDD on a new project I am working on. My current plan is to use QUnit to do the unit testing. While developing the tests can be run by simply refreshing the test page in a browser. For continuous integration (and ensuring the tests run in all browsers), … Read more

How to automate documentation of a REST API (Jersey Implementation) [closed]

March 21, 2023 by Tarik

Swagger is a beautiful option. It’s a project on GitHub, has Maven integration and loads of other options to keep it flexible. Integration guide: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-core/wiki More Information: http://swagger.io/

How do I know if PDF pages are color or black-and-white?

March 11, 2023 by Tarik

This is one of the most interesting questions I’ve seen! I agree with some of the other posts that rendering to a bitmap and then analyzing the bitmap will be the most reliable solution. For simple PDFs, here’s a faster but less complete approach. Parse each PDF page Look for color directives (g, rg, k, … Read more

Dead code detection in legacy C/C++ project [closed]

March 3, 2023 by Tarik

You could use a code coverage analysis tool for this and look for unused spots in your code. A popular tool for the gcc toolchain is gcov, together with the graphical frontend lcov (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php). If you use gcc, you can compile with gcov support, which is enabled by the ‘–coverage’ flag. Next, run your application … Read more

Automating running command on Linux from Windows using PuTTY

February 23, 2023 by Tarik

Putty usually comes with the “plink” utility. This is essentially the “ssh” command line command implemented as a windows .exe. It pretty well documented in the putty manual under “Using the command line tool plink”. You just need to wrap a command like: plink root@myserver /etc/backups/do-backup.sh in a .bat script. You can also use common … Read more

headless internet browser? [closed]

February 23, 2023 by Tarik

Here are a list of headless browsers that I know about: HtmlUnit – Java. Custom browser engine. Limited JavaScript support/DOM emulated. Open source. Ghost – Python only. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source. Twill – Python/command line. Custom browser engine. No JavaScript. Open source. PhantomJS – Command line/all platforms. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source. … Read more

Don’t make me manually abort a LaTeX compile when there’s an error

February 22, 2023 by Tarik

With MikTeX, pdflatex has this command-line option: -interaction=MODE Set the interaction mode; MODE must be one of: batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, errorstopmode. Edit suggested by @9999years: Those values are equivalent to a set of LaTeX \commands that provide the same functionality. From TeX usage tips: The modes make TeX behave in the following way: errorstopmode stops … Read more

What is test harness?

February 22, 2023 by Tarik

Several broad questions there, will try to answer based on my experience. Think of a Test Harness as an ‘enabler’ that actually does all the work of (1)executing tests using a (2)test library and (3)generating reports. It would require that your test scripts are designed to handle different (4)test data and (5)test scenarios. Essentially, when … Read more

.doc to pdf using python

February 15, 2023 by Tarik

A simple example using comtypes, converting a single file, input and output filenames given as commandline arguments: import sys import os import comtypes.client wdFormatPDF = 17 in_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1]) out_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[2]) word = comtypes.client.CreateObject(‘Word.Application’) doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file) doc.SaveAs(out_file, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF) doc.Close() word.Quit() You could also use pywin32, which would be the same except for: import … Read more