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windows 10 logon/logoff tracking by filtering system events

When I'm late filling in my timesheets, it always is a headache to remember which hours I spent working. My windows event viewer (eventvwr.msc) can be a help but the logs are too crowded.
The events related to logon/logoff are polluted with plenty of events from system services.
So I ventured to create a filter only showing the events relating to my user. This requires XML filtering based on XPATH.

1.  Create a new custom event view
1.  right click the security category and select Create Custom View...

2.  enter the event ID's you want to filter. For logon/logoff these are 4624, 4634 and 4647
1. You can get the id's by examining your events or from this MSDN page.

UPDATE: I'm often not logging of and this method does not log system sleep. Instead of monitoring logon/logoff I made a new filter that logs By source on event source Power-Troubleshooter. The details in the logs show the time the system went to sleep and woke up. The time in the details are in Zulu time (UTC+0), so they are some hours of from the real time, but given that the event time is correct, this is easy to deal with. The post remains interesting as a general explanation of event filtering, so I just added this update, and did not modify the general procedure

1. Modify the base filter. 
1. There is a field for filtering on the user name in the filter definition form, but that did not work. By clicking the XML tab we can edit the XML filter definition. Take care: you will not be able to edit the filter using the graphical user interface anymore after that.
2. I added user filtering in the XML. This is my filter

<QueryList>
  <Query Id="0" Path="Security">
    <Select Path="Security">
      *[System[( EventID=4624 or EventID=4634 or EventID=4647)] 
        and EventData[Data[@Name='TargetUsername']='jan']]
    </Select>
  </Query>
</QueryList>

3. I saved the filter and provided a name for the new custom filter. 
2. We're done

Now you might wonder where I got the name of the field I needed to filter on from.  You can get the XML element names by examining the event in your logs

1. In eventviewer, pick a logon event of logon type 2. More info on logon events...
2. Select the event and in the bottom  half of the window you see the details
3. Select the Details Tab, then the XML view button. This shows you the name/value pairs on which you can filter. I  want to filter on my user, so I'll need the SubjectUserName field.

On this Micorosoft technet page you find more info on XML event filtering.

Node.js 10 released

Node.js 10 is releaed and will become the long term support version (replacing Node 8) in october 2018.
Highlights:

• ES6 module support: 
• given the ubiquity of node.js native modules (CommonJS) this was a hard nut to crack
• Both systems provide and use module elements differently
• Node.js modules work with module.exports and require 
• EJS modules work with export and import
• a difference between both module systems is that node modules load synchronously and ES6 modules load asynchronously. Tools bridging both worlds like webpack load ES6 modules syncronously into Node.js. These tools have allowed isomorphic javascript, running both in the browser and in Node. The node team has not gone this way and stuck to the standard: they load ES6 modules synchronously.
• Node 10 allows usage of ES6 modules only in files with the new .mjs extension (module javascript). So .js files keep on using module.exports and require. 
• How do you access a module from the other module universe?
• You can import from a Node .js file into a ES6 .mjs file, but you can only use a default import. That is logical, as Node's module.exports only exports one thing. This one thing can be an object or a function, that can encapsulate more stuff.
• You can import from a .mjs file into a Node .js file, but only by explicitly making the import asynchronous using await import(). Again this seems a logical choice.
• This image from a Medium article  sums it up nicely
  
• If you import a file without an extension Node will first look for a .mjs file. If it does not find it, it will look for a .js file. This leaves the door open to using your ES6 .js files, without renaming them.
• This seems to be a workable system, but I'm not sure I like the degradation of ES6 modules to second class .mjs citizens.  Well, this is a work in progress, and I think for now the Node team is awating the reaction from the developer community
• API changes
• fs.promises: fs functions returning promises without having to use util.promisify()!
• standard numeric codes for error messages
• console.table
• npm 6
• better security and new npm audit command to check a package for vulnerabilities
• warnings if you download a package with security issues
• speed bump

Nobody uses Maven
Maven  uses you

   Venkat Subramaniam

Java 10 released, codename "boring"

With a release 10, you'd expect some jubilee fanfare and marketing blitz. At least they could have waited one day to launch at march 21 for spring (maybe that term is too much associated with another java ecosystem).
But it's axe time for Java at Oracle, so this is the most under cover release ever. At the java SE download page you have to dig deep for anything coming near to a decent what's new presentation.
To be fair, this is also related to increased release frequency that was introduced for Java. Like many platforms these days, java will be released on fixed time points with whatever is ready at that moment. The first release in such a system is always a bit underwhelming, think of EcmaScript 2016, for example.

The one big addition in Java 10 is the introduction of var declarations for local variables. If the compiler can infer the type of a local variable from the initialisatioin, you don't have to type it anymore. So Java 9 code

  ArrayList<String>list = new ArrayList<>();   
  Stream<String> stream = list.stream(); 

can in Java 10 be written as 

  var list = new ArrayList<String>();
  var stream = list.stream();

Always takes a bit of getting used to, but I think the older syntax is clearer. You'll start seeing plenty of code, where the classes being used are not clear for somebody that is less familiar with the API being used. They will not even be present in the import statements.

Some other enhancements:

• inclusion of root CA certificate
• Graal compiler as an experimental option

We mentioned axe time: so with this release stuff is effectively getting removed and being marked for removal. One remarkable removal is the desktop policytool. It is replaced by your favourite file editor.

Oracle will remove Java FX from JDK

Oracle released a Java Client Roadmap Update.
Starting with JDK 11 Oracle plans to remove its little used Java FX desktop libraries from the JDK. Java FX will live on in the OpenJFX, which was created in 2011.
Java Webstart will also be removed from JDK 11.
Swing and AWT remain part of JDK 11.
Just as it handed over Java EE to Eclipse, it is looking to transfer  stewardship of Java FX, Swing and AWT to another party.
With java 9's project Jigsaw, Java became a modular system, making a separation of this part of Java easier.
As a consequence the JDK will become leaner and Oracle hopes to evolve it at a faster pace in the future.

Java EE becomes Jakarta EE

With the move of Java Enterprise edition from Oracle to the Eclipse foundation, Oracle did not transfer the right to use the Java brand.
The reference implementation will still be Glassfish, which now becomes Enterprise Glassfish.
The standard governance will move from JCP to the Eclipse EE.next  Working Group.