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Archive for 2011

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Technet / MSDN Subscriber Downloads: downloading the Office Language Pack for your specific languages

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/10

In the past the Office 2003 Proofing Tools contained the proofing and grammar tools for many languages.

Not so any more since Office 2007 and up.

So when needing the non-English proofing and grammar tools for a particular VM, I trapped into the same pit I fell in before: downloading the Office Language Pack 2010, I only got the English proofing and grammar tools instead of the tools for many languages.

Downloading them from Technet or MSDN for a particular language is of course easy: for each language you need:

  1. in the “Languages” combobox, select your language
  2. download the Office Language Pack for that language

Duh :)

After that, be sure to switch back the language to your default preferred language ;-)

–jeroen

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SVN tree to source code of Marco Cantu’s Delphi Books

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/09

If you love the Delphi books by Marco Cantu as much as I do, then you certainly will love that Marco has created a public SVN repository at code.marcocantu.com containing all the samples of his Delphi 6, 7, 2007, 2009, 2010 and XE books.

Way to go Marco!

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

GExperts version 1.35 was released on June 5th, 2011

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/08

Earlier this week, the new GExperts 1.35 Release got published: a free set of expert extensions supporting Delphi 6 through XE.

It is an incremental release has a few new features of which I like the new subgroup support in the Grep Search extensions most.

Now hopefully, Thomas Müller will release an experimental GExperts build of version 1.35 soon: his experimental builds integrate a source code formatter that works across many Delphi versions and often formats better than the one included in Delphi 2010 and up.

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 4 Comments »

Delphi sorcery – great new blog by Stefan Glienke: DataBinding, MEF, Lamda Expressions and more

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/07

I just came across the great new Delphi sorcery blog by Stefan Glienke from Soest, NRW, Germany.

He uses some cool new features recently introduced into Delphi for new ways of DataBinding, Yield-Return, Delphi Lambda Expressions, Delphi Dependency Injection with MEF and more.

Sample code is at his Delphi Sorcery Google Project.

I hoped that somebody would do all that, as this shows the real power of what Delphi can do.

Now it’s there for

–jeroen

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intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/06

In the past, I used checkdns.net for testing of a domain was configured correctly (including DNS and MX settings).

However, checkdns.net seems to be down or dead.

Luckily, intoVPS (with VPS servers in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Atlanta (USA), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Fremont (USA)) started lauched intoDNS a few years ago, and it works at least as good as checkdns.net used to work.

–jeroen

via: intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health.

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Delete cookies

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/03

On both the Microsoft MCP site as well as the WordPress site, I recently had to delete all my cookies, and restart my browser to get those sites working again.

I hate that!

–jeroen

via: Cookie Monster Nightmare | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/02

I really enjoyed reading the How To Write Unmaintainable Code essay which is mostly a copy of the original materials at the unmaintainable code pages from the MindProd jgloss library.

Whereas the essay is all on one page and really easy to read, the original is not: somehow not only the unmaintainable portion of the MindProd site is unusually hard to navigate around. I’m not sure why: maybe that’s why the content is so good?

Try both sources and let me know what you think.

–jeroen

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Heartbeat – check the life signs on Skype products

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/01

When you think Skype is down, check the Heartbeat – check the life signs on Skype products page first.

–jeroen

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Delphi Win32 talking to .net – Different WSDL ASMX,WCF web-services – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/31

An interesting question on Stackoverflow.com: .net – Different WSDL ASMX,WCF web-services – Stack Overflow.

The answer is simple when you know it: flatten the WSDL that comes from WCF.

Note that Delphi Win32 is not the only client having these issues, as Elton Stoneman shows on his blog and the WCFExtras toolkit for WCF that allows for single WSDL export.

–jeroen

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Exporting Google Chrome cookies for wget usage: cookie.txt export – Google Chrome extension gallery

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/30

When using wget for downloading from the command-line, sometimes you need cookies in netscape file format.

There is a Chrome cookie.txt export extension that makes exporting your cookies in that format easy.

It opens a window that contains the cookies relevant to the domain of the currently opened web-page. You copy/paste your cookies in format like this:

# Cookies for domains related to wordpress.com.
# This content may be pasted into a cookies.txt file and used by wget
# Example: wget -x --load-cookies cookies.txt https://wiert.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=5767&action=edit
#
en.forums.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304919940 TESTCOOKIE home
en.support.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304920249 TESTCOOKIE home
wiert.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304920561 TESTCOOKIE home
en.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304920572 TESTCOOKIE home

It even includes the wget command-line example for loading the cookies using the –load-cookies option :)

–jeroen

via: cookie.txt export – Google Chrome extension gallery.

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