Johan Vandevenne

Freelance Java/J2EE consultant/trainer

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@MausMichel Kom op man zeveraar. Iedereen met het verstand iets groter dan een doperwt weet dat ge belastingen moet betalen. Heeft niks met onderwijs te maken

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@intellijidea Any chance for @hazelcast support in the near future ?

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@jbaert Er zijn wel degelijk problemen die plots kunnen opduiken waardoor je hele stack onderuit gaat. Als je dan niet snel de juiste mensen bij kan schakelen lig je plat. Hangt puur af van het type probleem !

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@chaoticclubvids @ClubPhotos_ @SaveMyVideo

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@hourly_shitpost @GetVideobot

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@agoncal I switched from 16 to 14 and I love it. Don't miss the 16 at all !

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@engineers_feed Automatic wiping using cameras and AI instead of a simple sensor in the windshield

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@SaraLeemans En ook, superverwarrend dat er VISA op staat

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@studio_caro Haha, grappig. Hier ook terug begonnen. Su-bliem gewoon

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

It’s The Oscars tonight! I wasn’t invited. Was it something I said? 😂

[Pieter Boudry @BoudryPieter]

Een parlementslid kan één ziektebriefje indienen dat theoretisch gezien kan gelden tot het einde van de legislatuur, in 2024 dus.

Sta daar, beste hardwerkende rechtschapen mensen, maar eens even bij stil...

#NietMijnBeleid https://t.co/NzGIiZ41Ki

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@vanranstmarc Dries is precies aan het oefenen voor zijn mugshot in die video

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@julianbelgium * alle fietspaden bergaf

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

@guy_mahieu Na de dt fout gestopt met lezen...

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

Wanneer gaan we ongeveer weten in hoeverre dat iemand die gevaccineerd is nog besmettelijk is ? Dus het virus nog kan doorgeven ? #dtv @vanranstmarc

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

Wanneer gaan we ongeveer weten in hoeverre dat iemand die gevaccineerd is nog besmettelijk is ? Dus het virus nog kan doorgeven ? #dtv @vanranstmarc

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

Very impressed with the individual power and combination of #nodered #influxdb and #grafana. Connected to all my #iot devices in no time, flexible manipulation of the data, store in influxdb and quick visualtizations in #grafana !

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

Uiteraard... "Black" van Pearl Jam opnieuw op eerste plek in De Tijdloze van Studio Brussel, Fleetwood Mac voor het eerst in top drie | VRT NWS: nieuws
https://t.co/MSN18QHY9U

[Johan Vandevenne @johanvdv]

Ge moet maar durven... https://t.co/JZWxHrAUiO