From Google Reader To Tiny Tiny RSS

In early 2000s, I migrated from FeedReader application to Google Reader. Now it's time to move on, again.
I have chosen Tiny Tiny RSS because :

• It was in Slashdot comments
• It has both a Web interface and an Android app
• It is a very active project
• I can host it myself (it's not in some cloud)
• Articles will not be marked read after 30 days
• I can disable article purge

Hosting
Tiny Tiny RSS works fine with WampServer but I do not allow connections from internet to my local home private network.
I could not use the following web hosting providers :

• free.fr : no support for PHP 5.3
• olympe : doc is dead, do not know how to upload files
• 000webhost : ftp is deadly slow, tt-rss does not work (uname, not writable errors)
• byethost : dojo not defined error, could not load feeds
• Toile Libre : dead

I have chosen hostinger :

• ttrss works ! (PHP 5.3.20 and you can enable PHP 5.4)
• small .p.ht url suffix

PHP has open_basedir restrictions but :

• you can use this patch
• You must use the 'resolved' url once all redirections have been resolved

Sample feeds resolved by firefox :

• The Daily WTF : http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx gives http://syndication.thedailywtf.com/TheDailyWtf
• PC Inpact : http://www.pcinpact.com/rss/news.xml gives http://pcinpact.com.feedsportal.com/c/35178/f/652880/index.rss

Edit 2013.04.01 : hostinger lets you add cron jobs to update feeds.
Edit 2013.04.11 : 10 days later, I got an official answer from hostinger support saying that cron jobs only support PHP 5.2. Too bad...

InvalidCastException in AddInToken.Activate

If you're playing with System.AddIn (also called MAF for Managed Addin Framework not to be confused wief MEF which is Managed Extensibility Framework), you might get an InvalidCastException when calling Activate<T> method on some AddInToken instance : unable to cast transparent proxy to type ...

First of all, try to rebuild your pipeline folder from scratch, check with AddInUtil.exe that there are no warning.

If you still get the error, ensure that the program you are running has no dependency on any pipeline assembly. Your main project should not depend on the following assemblies : addin, addin adapter, addin view, contract. Otherwise, the token activation will get completely mixed up.

HTH

Clean Code

Clean Code (A Handbook of Agile Sortware Craftmanship) by Robert C. Martin is a must-read. Here are a few notes about it (filtered).

Regasm : insufficient system resources

Got this error at work :

Regasm : error RA0000 : Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service

I played a little with procmon (Thanks a lot Mark !) I looked for "INSUFFICIENT RESOURCES" in the events. This event was due to a RegCreateKey in HKCR/Wow6432Node/CLSID. It turned out that it was not possible to create a subkey with regedit. HTH

How To Really Reset Folder Settings in Windows 7

Sometimes, Windows 7 automatically updates explorer's columns. For example, if a folder has a mp3 file, columns headers will be artist, song, etc. This is really annoying for all other files of the same folder. Configuration is stored in registry. Deleting and creating again such a folder will not reset its configuration. You have to delete keys in registry. Here is the .reg file found on sevenforums.com :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]

Révolution... 6 mois plus tard

Reçu ce jour (6 mois et 12 jours après la demande effectuée le 15 décembre) :

Free Haut Débit Bonjour, Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que votre nouvelle Freebox pour votre ligne ******** est en cours d'expédition au point relais KIALA. [...]. Vous serez informé par email et SMS de l'arrivée de votre colis au point relais KIALA choisi. Sincères salutations, L'équipe Free

Windows 7 sp1 [Solved]

Windows update fails to install service Windows 7 sp1. After downloading the 900 MB of windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe (I also downloaded Windows_Win7SP1.7601.17514.101119-1850.AMD64CHK.Symbols.msi and Windows_Win7SP1.7601.17514.101119-1850.AMD64FRE.Symbols.msi, almost 300 MB each but I am still not sure about the requirement of these two), I tried to update manually. But this failed again : "L'installation n'a pas réussi", "l'assembly n'a pas pu être trouvé". "Détails" do not give a lot more info : "Erreur : ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING(0x80073701)". There is a link to get more info ("Se connecter pour en savoir plus sur ce problème"), but this does not help me solve this problem.

Found the same problem here and here.

Looking deeper in C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log (>250 MB) :

2011-03-12 22:11:26, Info                  CBS    Exec: Resolving Package: Package_43_for_KB976098~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1, Update: 976098-91_neutral_LDR
2011-03-12 22:11:26, Info                  CBS    Exec: Resolving Package: Package_43_for_KB976098~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1, Update: 976098-91_neutral_LDR, PinDeployment: amd64_8c41fc7eb0dbe2daefc621237184c0e3_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.20561_none_e8d566dacff1f5ff
2011-03-12 22:11:26, Error                 CSI    0000000c@2011/3/12:21:11:26.177 (F) d:\w7rtm\base\wcp\componentstore\csd_locking.cpp(324): Error STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING originated in function CCSDirectTransaction::LockComponent expression: (null)
[gle=0x80004005]
2011-03-12 22:11:37, Error                 CSI    0000000d (F) STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING #1573632# from CCSDirectTransaction::OperateEnding at index 0 of 1 operations, disposition 2[gle=0xd015000c]
2011-03-12 22:11:37, Error                 CSI    0000000e (F) HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING) #1573517# from Windows::ServicingAPI::CCSITransaction::ICSITransaction_PinDeployment(Flags = 0, a = 8c41fc7eb0dbe2daefc621237184c0e3, Version = 6.1.7600.20561, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral, cb = (null), s = (null), rid = [77]"Package_43_for_KB976098~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1.976098-91_neutral_LDR", rah = [1]"2", manpath = (null), catpath = (null), ed = 0, disp = 0)[gle=0x80073701]
2011-03-12 22:11:38, Info                  CBS    Failed to pin deployment while resolving Update: 976098-91_neutral_LDR from file: (null) [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING]
2011-03-12 22:11:38, Info                  CBS    Failed to resolve item[0] in Package: Package_43_for_KB976098~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1, Update: 976098-91_neutral_LDR [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING]
2011-03-12 22:11:38, Info                  CBS    Failed to resolve execution update. [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING]
2011-03-12 22:11:38, Error                 CBS    Failed to resolve execution package: Package_43_for_KB976098~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1 [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING]
2011-03-12 22:11:38, Info                  CSI    0000000f@2011/3/12:21:11:38.370 CSI Transaction @0x34c280 destroyed

I think the important part is Package_43_for_KB976098~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1. So I tried to download KB976098 for x64 and install it manually, but windows tells me it is already installed.

• sfc /scannow found nothing.
• System Update Readiness Tool (KB947821 [v14]) does not help either (cannot install).

I eventually managed to install SP1 thanks to Kris post : I had to remove 4 KB : KB976098, KB979306, KB981793 and KB979916. Problem solved !