No need to elaborate:
Reading code is way much harder than writing code. So please write readable code.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/31
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Fox News’ guess on where Egypt is…
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/31
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If you have an account on SourceForge.net, then you need to reset your password now
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/31
If you have an account on SourceForge.net, then now you need to reset your password by visiting https://sourceforge.net/account/registration/recover.php.
SourceForge.net was attacked recently (the whole story is on exploit-DB), so they are requesting everyone to reset their passwords.
I got a mail about it last weekend, and their blog now contains this message: Read the rest of this entry »
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Windows Dropbox: Clear the cache
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/28
When have a lot of Dropbox activity, then your Dropbox cache can grow, especially when you have clashes of files in use on other machines, and manipulating them from another.
In fact, I managed to get the Dropbox cache to be about as big as the first post on this thread.
Here are the steps to clear your cache on a Windows system:
- Stop the Dropbox.exe (from the tray, right click you your Dropbox icon, then click exit)
- Verify (in the Task Manager – make sure you view all processes from all users – or in Process Explorer) that Dropbox.exe is not running any more
- Delete the dropbox cache directory (or move it to the Recycle Bin)
- Start Dropbox (from the Start menu, it normally is under the Dropbox group)
The location of your Dropbox cache is in: %APPDATA%\Dropbox\cache, the actual location depends on what Windows version you are:
- For Windows Vista and up (including Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server), it is at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\cache.
- For older Windows versions (XP, 2003 Server, and older), the Dropbox cache is at C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Dropbox\cahche.
–jeroen
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Chrome will never add Find-As-You-Type to the Chromium core
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/24
To quote the comment below:
we have no plans to ever add FAYT to the core product.
Wow, that is a pretty strong statement.
The core chromium team somehow seems heavily opposed to FAYT, a feature you see more and more in modern products (not only browsers, also word processors, web sites, software development IDEs, etc).
Some people might know FAYT as “incremental search“, or “type ahead find“.
I’m wondering about the cause of this very strong statement.
Did some portion of the comment thread in the bug report seriously piss someone off at the Chromium team?
Are there technical objections?
Are there any usability objections?
It is a real pity that the Chromium team doesn’t go into more detail as to why the object to adding FAYT into the core.
The bug report is not the only thread about this, there is at least this help forum thread on it too.
Both are from 2008 (hey: that is ancient in internet years!) and are still active, so there clearly is demand for FAYT.
Internet Explorer does not have FAYT in its core either, but does Chrome really want to be compared with that?
Luckily, there are two FAYT extensions:
- FAYT for Chrome (Use
/for search or'for link-only search) - FAYT for Internet Explorer
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iPod shuffle (4th generation): Checking battery status
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/21
For my own reference: just press the voice over button twice so it will tell you the status.
via: iPod shuffle (4th generation): Checking battery status.
–jeroen
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Delphi dcc64 compiler engineer Yooichi Tagawa now on twitter as YooichiTagawa
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/20
Thanks to this thread, which regrettably has vanished from the Embarcadero Forums server*, I learned that Yooichi Tagawa (also known in the Delphi world as [Wayback/Archive] Tagawa-San) got himself a Twitter account named [Wayback/Archive] YooichiTagawa.
Boy didn’t I know he was involved (dead link, alive at WayBack and on Archive.is) at the end of the 80s with the [Wayback] UNIX and [Wayback/Archive] VAX/VMS versions of [Wayback/Archive] LHa/LHarc during my university years. From the last link:
Upstream Authors:
LHarc 0.01-1.00: Yooichi Tagawa (LHa code taken from here, 1988-1989) Nikkei-mix ID: y.tagawa (Now this is defunct BBS, Licensing term in manual page come from his licence for lharc) His new web page seems to be www2s.biglibe.ne.jp/~yex/ yooedit2001@yahoo.co.jp is the contact e-mail address for another software. Page updated at least July/2001
LHa 0.01-1.00: Masaru Oki (LHa original author, 1991-1992) E-Mail address: oki@netbsd.org
Trivia: [Wayback/Archive] Years ago, he entered the team as a localization engineer.
Some LHARC history dating back to 1988:
- [W/A] Index of /pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/1.0-RELEASE/ports/lha/src (FTP, so it is hard to reach).
- [Wayback/Archive] Index of /afs/athena/contrib/potluck/src/lharc.
- [Wayback/Archive] stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/potluck/src/lharc/lharc.c
- [Wayback/Archive] stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/potluck/src/lharc/lhio.c
- [Wayback/Archive] stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/potluck/src/lharc/lhio.h
- [Wayback/Archive] stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/potluck/src/lharc/lzhuf.c
[Wayback/Archive] Availability heuristic. I think your perspective may be warped by two things: no… | Hacker News (2014):
One of the most capable engineers I’ve ever worked with is a guy called Yooichi Tagawa. The guy has an incredible appetite for complexity, as well as spooling up on old codebases and new technologies. But you’ll find very little by him online, both because he’s Japanese and doesn’t use English often, and also he’s squirrelled away inside Embarcadero, working on Delphi compiler as he’s been doing for the past 15 years or so.
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Added archived links, information from Barry Kelly (barrkel) and remarks about vanishing information.
- I really wish Embarcadero had and has more sense of keeping historic material available (possibly in archived form). On the one hand they keep boasting that their products are of historic importance (they are), but on the other hand they have plainly giving up on keeping information up (or have it archived at the Internet Archive): forums server, blog server, docwiki.
I wonder how long Delphi 7, 2007 and 2009 HTML documentation on the HTML [Wayback/Archive] RAD Studio Product Documentation – Embarcadero Technologies server will stay available. That page lists most products since Delphi 7 but from Delphi 2010 on, none of the Wiki links still produce the documentation for that specific version hampering for instance maintainers of legacy systems: the products still work (hell would break loose when the license servers stopped supporting legacy versions!), but the built in links to the Wiki produce no or different information.
–jeroen
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In Memoriam: Marcel Oud
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/19
Last night, Marcel Oud – a friend and inspirator – passed away at the age of 47.
Suffering from Cystic Fibrosis, he carried his fate with optimism: every moment for him was a gift (hence the “present”).
He had two famous quotes, characterizing his life long battle:
- “ziek zijn is slecht voor je gezondheid” which translates into “being ill is bad for your health”
- “ons leven is wat onze gedachten er van maken”, which translates into “life is what our mind makes of it”.
He and his wife Sandra enjoyed playing and listening to music – especially percussion – very much.
Marcel was conductor of the Percussion Ensemble at Harmonie “St._Caecilia”, Lutjebroek for almost 20 years.
Shortly after he stopped being conductor, his wife joined the percussion group at Drum- and Showband Adest Musica, which Marcel was very proud of.
Eventually having to live by the day, the hour and even minute, his optimism stayed.
I’m proud to have known him, as he taught me a lot about the mental things in life.
I wish his wife Sandra, family and friends all the best.
–jeroen
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Fritz!BOX 7340 Firmware-Version 99.04.86 issues
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/19
It seems that Fritz!BOX forgot to test some of their model 7340 Firmware-Version 99.04.86 features with the English language.
If you have any of these problems, then the solution is to switch the device to the German language, and reboot it:
- WLAN connected devices cannot connect to LAN devices (no ping, telnet, RDP, SMB, et cetera)
- You get HTML error messages and HTML trash in your browser when configuring IP-settings for a specific LAN device
See these threads:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Fritz+7340+Firmware-Version+99.04.86+english+german
–jeroen
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Formatted sourcecode in WordPress: uses SyntaxHighlighter 3.0; complete list of supported languages
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/18
In the past I wrote a few blog posts on posting sourcecode in WordPress.
Nick Hodges‘ last Flotsam and Jetsam blog post pointed me to the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript that is used by WordPress and many other engines/sites.
Their site contains an even more elaborate list of supported languages.
I had the basic list right in my last post, but was missing all the aliases (which often are easier than the longer proper names).
This is the new table adapted from their list: Read the rest of this entry »
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