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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/17
Interesting: is Apple going to include LTE in their next product line?
Not that we will have LTE in The Netherlands soon, we won’t, we only have one test network at Tele2 :)
–jeroen
Via: Why is LTE equipment being installed in an Apple Store? — Engadget.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/17
When looking over a few forums, it seems that the way Delphi XE2 will support FireMonkey on iOS (by using FPC aka the FreePascal Compiler) was very surprising, even for the FPC dev team.
Actually, Embarcadero’s Michael Swindell posted some very interesting reactions on the Lazarus forum and his series of comments on Jon Lennart Aasenden blog entry discussing Delphi XE2 and iOS.
Recommended reading!
A lot of pieces of the puzzle fall into place now: Embarcadero aquiring KSDev (that made DXScene/VXScene), and the support in FPC 2.5.1 for a more Delphi Language compatible syntax, and Objective Pascal binding to Objective C as indicated by Phil Hess. VGScene already supported iOS using FPC in Delphi Mode, as this thread on the embarcadero forums also indicates, so it is logical that FireMonkey does too.
Embarcadero, FreePascal and RemObjects are in parallel (and sometimes cooperation) working on cross platform compiler development.
For the Mobile world, ARM (for iOS) and Java (Android, BlackBerry) are very important.
Clearly, Borland was far ahead of its time when they demonstrated their dcc32j Delphi to Java bytecode compiler proof of concept at BorCon conferences back when their opening evenents had great videos (I think it was both at BorCon 1998 and BorCon 1997), and not so great shifts (the Inprise identity crisis).
The same holds for the Sun’s slogan “the network is the computer” (actually by John Gage): basically that was about predecessors of Cloud computing.
Things from the past come back, sometimes presented as “new”, a few (partially from this Evolution of Pascal programmers.stackexchange.com thread):
All of those are (partial repetitions) of technologies that help you build systems. The trick is how to be able to quickly learn and apply those technologies (as opposed to add a bunch of TLAs or FLABs wich are about the only thing that most modern “recruiters” use to match résumés/CVs to positions).
Some of the things above have died, or are not in wide use any more.
That is OK: Life can’t have ups without having downs, and without some form of long wavelength repetitions: that’s what makes the journey so interesting (just think about the financial markets, there will be good times…).
Using FPC for iOS opens the road to develop applications using a very productive environment consisting of the Delphi IDE and the FPC compiler in a short while from now.
–jeroen
PS: two more events that I will be attending and/or speaking:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/16
For fellow non-branded HTC Sensation users: HTC now allows unlocking your bootloader: HTCdev – Unlock Bootloader.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/16
More than a year ago, I wrote about .NET/C# – TEE filter that also runs on Windows (XP) Embedded.
Since then, I have made two changes to the code (which is below and in this CodePlex changeset):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/15
Talking about Pascal history: Index of /pdf/apple/lisa/pascal_monitor.
That was then, soon it will become easy to write Pascal apps for Apple iOS using Delphi XE2 :)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/15
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/14
Tomazy’s Software Development Blog: Testing modal windows in Delphi.
Recommended reading!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/12
Sometimes you are in situations where the number of power outlets and the number of LAN connections is limited.
That’s where the 5 Port USB Powered Ethernet Network Switch BL-S805-U from DinoDirect comes in handy.
It was the only reasonably priced USB powered ethernet switch I could find, and it works like a charm.
Highly recommended :)
Thanks to the BrightHub article that pointed me to it!
–jeroen
via: 5Port USB Power Metal Ethernet Network Hub Switch BL-S805-U – DinoDirect.com
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/11
Ik sprak enkele Schiphol medewerkers aan, nadat ik een longpatient hoestend en proestend zich een baan door de massa rokers had zien bewegen, of ze de rokers uit de rookvrije zone naar de (overdekte!) rokerszone wilden sturen.
Wat ik letterlijk te horen kreeg: “We laten die mensen lekker staan, want als we ze wegsturen, staan ze er over 3 minuten weer”.
Ofwel: Schiphol voldoet niet aan haar verplichtingen en laat longpatienten in de kou staan.
Ook na aandringen dat ik het erg op prijs zou stellen, bleven ze bij hun standpunt.
Toen ik aangaf dat ik dan foto’s zou publiceren, gaven ze aan dat dat mocht.
Dus bij deze:
Foto van de rokers om het bord “rookvrije zone” (rechts onder de rest van de overkapping stonden er zeker nog 20):
Foto van de (ook overdekte!) lege rookzone:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/11
Recently, I blogged about the Excel XML Spreadsheet: Date.Type is mandatory.
Here is another error you can get:
XML ERROR in Worksheet Setting REASON: Bad Value FILE: V:\CAS400\docs\statistics.cascall-logs\cascall.JU03HV.Bobbe, P.J.L. (Paul).20110620.xml GROUP: Worksheet TAG: Table ATTRIB: ExpandedColumnCount VALUE: 9
This basically means your Worksheet.Table.ExpandedColumnCount is too small to hold your spreadsheet.
In other words: you either have more Worksheet.Table.Column definitions than ExpandedColumnCount, or you have a WorkSheet.Table.Row that has more WorkSheet.Table.Row.Cell entries than the ExpandedColumnCount.
In my case, I made an error generating too many Column definitions (by accidentaly duplicating some of them), and invalidated the ExpandedColumnCount.
Lesson learned: Since Excel will automatically calculate an absent ExpandedColumnCount, you can safely leave it out.
–jeroen
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