WSL and samba mapped drives in Fall Creator’s Update

October 18, 2017

It looks like the DrvFS driver requests execute permissions on all requests to remote drives. With recent versions of samba, this can result in unexpected Permission Denied messages when trying to open any file without the executable bit set. As a work-around you can update your smb.conf and turn off execute permission checking: acl allow […]

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Using tds_fdw with postgresql in windows

April 6, 2017

Install Postgresql using the bigsql distro Follow the instructions at the install page. Install tds_fdw1-pg96 C:\bigsql>pgc install tds_fdw1-pg96 Setup a database and user in SQL Server and a test table CREATE TABLE test1 (id integer, name varchar(255)); INSERT INTO test1(id, name) VALUES (1, ‘hello, world’), (2, ‘I am a banana’); Set up the extension in postgres […]

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How I view the roles and responsibilities of various software developer titles

January 20, 2017

Junior / Associate Developer: 1. Bang your head against the wall long enough to know what questions to ask 2. Take direction 3. Try things harder than you think you can take on, fail sometimes. 4. Know when you’ve failed 5. Move from team to team with considerable friction 6. Demo new features and bug […]

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Sublime Text and Cygwin

May 21, 2015

Quickie shell script to use sublime as your editor in cygwin Create ~/bin/subl #!/bin/bash /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Sublime\ Text\ 3/subl.exe cygpath -wa “$*” You may want to add the -w flag if you want to use it as your commit message editor for git/svn/hg/etc, which will cause it to wait until you save and close the file […]

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