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Archive for March, 2011

Delphi Labs: DataSnap XE and jQueryMobile; a Web Frontend accessing DataSnap through a Delphi WebBroker server

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/22

[Wayback] Paweł Głowacki recently released two very interesting blog articles, together with 5 (five!) demonstration videos on how to get your mobile device to talk to a DataSnap backend using [Wayback] jQueryMobile so you get a very native look & feel UI on your mobile device without putting a lot of effort in writing a native device app.

  1. [Wayback] Part 1: Delphi Labs: DataSnap XE – WebBroker jQueryMobile Boilerplate – DelphiFeeds.com.
  2. [Wayback] Part 2: Delphi Labs: DataSnap XE – jQueryMobile Web Frontend – DelphiFeeds.com.

Highly recommended!

–jeroen

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Posted in Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

How to clear the “ErrorList” window before compiling

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/22

It seems that all versions of Visual Studio suffer from this behaviour:

Visual Studio (VS) doesn’t always clear the “Error List” window of existing errors when you compile a different project but simply appends new errors to it.

Simplest solution: Build | Clean All.
That takes some time (especially on large solutions), but I haven’t found an easier way.

Have you?

–jeroen

via: How to clear the “ErrorList” window before compiling.

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

How big of a team do you need to benefit from bug tracking software? – Programmers – Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/21

Interesting comment on this StackExchange question:

The Student and Startup Edition at Fog Creek includes FogBugz AND Kiln (source control).

–jeroen

via How big of a team do you need to benefit from bug tracking software? – Programmers – Stack Exchange.

Posted in Development, Software Development, Source Code Management | 1 Comment »

Google Chrome about:about – main entrance to the “geek” pages

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/21

Google Chrome as a quite extensive collection of about: pages not limited to the empty about:blank and the simple about: info page.

Some of them enable you to view and/or set some geeky stuff.

about:about is the best entrance: it has a list of most of the available about: pages.
An alternative is chrome://about/about/

There are a few more, and some site, including lifehacker published has a nice list in 2008, but since then some of them moved to the regular configuration dialogs.

So here is what still works and what doesn’t (as of Chrome 8.0; 9.0 will change a bit):

Doesn’t work:

Works, but not in the about:about list:

ChromeAccess is an extension plugin that gives you quick access to these pages too.
(Speaking of extensions, there is a FireBug Lite extension for Chrome, and a nice list of popular Chrome extensions)

ChromeFans shows there is also a view-cache: and view-source: prefix.

Finally Zhacks has a list with a few chrome:// pages that are also interesting:

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Power User, Web Browsers | 1 Comment »

Vodafone raadt klanten af iPhone en iPad te updaten naar iOS 4.3 | Mobile | Tweakers.net Nieuws

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/19

Één woord: wow!

Vodafone raadt klanten voorlopig af om hun iPad of iPhone 3GS te updaten naar iOS 4.3. Dat laat Vodafone weten aan Tweakers.net. Veel klanten kunnen na de update niet meer op het 3g-netwerk van de provider, zo bleek eerder deze week.

–jeroen

via Vodafone raadt klanten af iPhone en iPad te updaten naar iOS 4.3 | Mobile | Tweakers.net Nieuws.

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Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool >> C/C++, Java, PHP, Python, Perl and 40+ compilers and intepreters

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/18

Really cool stuff; dozens of computer languages are supported, including C# and VB.NET (both on Mono) and a few Pascal flavours.

Briefly about ideone

ideone.com is a… pastebin. But a pastebin like no other on the Internet. More accurate expression would be online mini IDE and debugging tool.

Ideone is an Italian word for great ideas – because ideone.com is a place where your greatest ideas can spring to life.

ideone.com is designed mostly for programmers (but, of course, common plain text can also be uploaded). You can use it to:

share your code (that’s obvious – it is a pastebin, isn’t it? :)) in a neat way,

run your code on server side in more than 40 programming languages (number still growing)

and do it all with your own input data!

ideone.com also provides free Ideone API which is availabe as a webservice. It’s functionality allows you to build your own ideone-like service!

for logged in users Ideone offers possibility to manage their codes, publish multiple submissions at one go, and more.

All codes can be accessed through convenient hash links. Source code pages provide information about the code and its execution: memory usage, execution time, language and compiler version, code itself, input uploaded by the user, output generated by the program and error messages from compilers and interpreters.

–jeroen

via Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool >> C/C++, Java, PHP, Python, Perl and 40+ compilers and intepreters.

Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Software Development, VB.NET | 4 Comments »

I love my keyboard; why did they hide “Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys” in Windows 7 so far away?

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/18

This is how you view the underline character for Alt and other keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 (the link shows you how to do this with the mouse, but we are keyboard lovers, are’t we?):

  1. Press the WINDOWS-U combination to open the “Ease of Access Center”
  2. Under Explore all settings, select “Make the keyboard easier to use” by pressing TAB a couple of times, then press ENTER to select it.
  3. Press ALT-N to select and check “Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys” under “Make it easier to use keyboard shortcuts”
  4. Press ALT-O to fire the OK button action.
  5. Press ALT-F4 to close the “Ease of Access Center”

Done!

So far for accessibility (:

–jeroen

via: Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys.

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7 | 3 Comments »

Orban/Coding Technologies AAC/HE-AAC Player Plugin™

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/18

For playing AAC in Windows Media Player: Orban/Coding Technologies AAC/HE-AAC Player Plugin™.

In the past, you could download it from this page, now you need to go underground.

–jeroen

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Older Fritz!Box Firmwares for 7340 (and 7170/7270/7570)

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/17

The Dutch internet provider xs4all keeps an archive of some of the older Fritz!Box firmwares.

Sometimes newer firmwares have some issues, and the Fritz people are often very fast removing the old ones.

Here are some older firmwares for Fritz!Box 7170, 7270, 7340 and 7570: Index of /~helpdesk/firmwares.

Fritz themselves have their Firmwares here: ftp://ftp.avm.de///fritz.box/fritzbox.fon_wlan_7340

–jeroen

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Solution for “Why do I get a ‘LoaderLock’ Error when debugging my Managed DirectX application” (The ZBuffer)

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/17

I maintain some .NET code that still uses the MDX 1.1 (since MDX 2.0 got cancelled, and this project cannot be brought to XNA).

Every now and then, you get a Loader Lock error.

ZBfufer provides the solution (I always use choice ): Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »