iPhoto/Aperture sync to iDevices

Posted on April 13, 2015 by erictummers

My home devices is mostly Apple o_O The integration is superb, but I fear the vendor lock-in.

Last week I tried to sync some pictures from Aperture to my iPad. Following the instructions from Apple it should be really simple. Just select the app/library you want to sync, check the albums and press sync. Unfortunately I was stuck on the first step.

iphotoaperture

I used to have iPhoto for managing my pictures but recently switched to Aperture. (I know it is going away) Thanks to Apple forward thinking Aperture could just use the iPhoto library. No need to migrate or import all my pictures. This turned out to be the issue.

To free up space (1.6Gb) on my SSD I removed the iPhoto app. Aperture worked like a charm and I didn’t even notice the sync in iTunes missing.

After some playing around with caches, small test libraries, recreated previews and library rebuilds I decided to bring back iPhoto. Since I don’t update to Yosemite (10.10) the App store wasn’t the place for me to get iPhoto. Luckily I use TimeMachine and could restore from there.

With iPhoto back in the Applications folder the option to sync with the library was back in iTunes. Check the albums and sync … just works.

TLDR

Make sure you have installed the app that created the library in order to sync to your iDevices with iTunes.

References

Sync photos on apple support
Aperture Library Not Showing Up on photoapps.expert

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Week roundup

Posted on April 10, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links:
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What are your best reads this week? Leave them in the comments below.

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Power plan and Visual Studio builds

Posted on April 8, 2015 by erictummers

Our Visual Studio 2013 solution holds 283 projects. The build and load times are long. Reading some tips on the internet about speeding things up I found that the power plan of my laptop directly influences the build time.

Operation Power plan Improvement
Power saver High performance
Clean 00:30 00:15 50%
Build #1 02:23 02:16 5%
Build #2 00:16 00:08 50%
Rebuild 02:12 01:44 25%

Times are measured with an AddIn that writes to the output window. Not exact science, but the numbers indicate there is a direct relation between the power plan and the build time. Interesting to see that build #1 (direct after a clean) takes almost the same time for both power plans.

My laptop has an Intel Dual Core I5 with turbo boost. The power saver plan disables this. Looks like this is the main reason for the differences. Will leave it at High performance.

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Preview Azure Portal Easter special

Posted on April 6, 2015 by erictummers

Today I’ve tried the Azure portal preview. The experience is different from the normal portal, but I see why Microsoft wants us to use it. Information is displayed on blades and not hidden on tabs.

I’ve created a wordpress site. Below is a combined screenshot of the steps to create it.

create_wp_azure

💡 To keep the blog free of charge go into the pricing tier and select the F1 Free option for the Web App (if not visible click view all) and Mercury for the MySQL Database.

After the site is created, wordpress will be deployed to it. Browse to the site and complete the setup with two simple steps. WordPress is up and running.

For the fun of it I added an Easter Egg plugin. Browse to erictummers.azurewebsites.net and type the Konami secret code (up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,b,a).
I’ve taken the site down but the screenshot below shows the Easter egg(s).
easter.egg.azure.wordpress.blog

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Week roundup

Posted on April 3, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links:
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  • Docker in Azure with Docker Machine, Docker Swarm and Docker Compose. Good stuff.
  • Behavior Driven Development at the CukeUp!2014. View the movies for the sessions.
  • Unbelievable but github was under attack. They survived.

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What are your best reads this week? Leave them in the comments below.

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