Archive for 2013
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/31
One particular weakness of Microsoft is maintaining support for document formats they have come up with the past.
MDI is one of such formats, and I had quite some old scans and document exports (back when TIFF wasn’t common place, and Microsoft was advertising MDI as a “portable” way of sharing digital print similar to PDF that wasn’t commonplace either).
I’ve exported it to PDF now.
So here is to get it working in Office 2007; it probably works the same in Office 2010 and 2012:
- installing Microsoft Document Imaging Writer and its corresponding support for the file format.
- Go to Control Panel, select “Uninstall a program” link under Programs section.”
- High Microsoft Office 2007 (it may show Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, Small Business, Home and Student, etc).
- Click on “Change” located on the navigation link near the top of the window.
- Select “Add or Remove Features”, then click “Continue”.
- Expand “Office Tools” section.
- Click on the drop down list for “Microsoft Office Document Imaging” and select “Run all from My Computer”.
- Click “Continue”.
- Click “Close” when installation done.
- A new virtual printer “Microsoft Office Document Imaging Writer” is created and allows you to print to MDI format (a TIFF variant). And from now onwards you should be able to open any MDI files by simply double click on them. If you still can’t, try to restart your computer.
–jeroen
via: How to Open MDI (Microsoft Document Imaging) Format with Office 2007 « My Digital Life.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/31
Interessant voor software developers: publieke APIs voor OV informatie
Het team van openOV werkt aan het publiek beschikbaar stellen van openbaar vervoer informatie, vrij toegankelijk voor iedereen.
Ik vraag me af of ze iets met Actuele spoorkaart Nederland te maken hebben:
Kaart en geodata: © OpenStreetMap
Actuele treintijden: NS-Reisinformatie
Visualisatie: M. van der Loos
–jeroen
via:
Posted in Development, Mobile Development, Power User, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/30
So I won’t forget to read these:
Some of my own work on this back in the Delphi 7 days:
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 7, Delphi XE5, Development, Java, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/30
I see a lot of programmers struggle with Unicode and think it is difficult as getting the encoding decoding hassle right can take quite a bit of effort. There is a lot of fun in using Unicode as well, as the number of code points (in laymen speak: characters) is huge and the Unicode code points are well organized into various planes (or blocks) with related code points. I like Charbase: A visual unicode database a lot especially as they have pictograms of all code points that always show a picture, even if you don’t have a font that your browser can use to display the character belonging to the code point. Here are a few links from to characters and blocks of characters in their database that I like a lot: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Development, Encoding, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/29
Thanks Uncle Bob Martin for posting this.
I’ve been trying (with increasing success: it takes time to get this all right) to practice XP (through various name changes) as much and wide as possible since almost 14 years, and only the last few years it is starting to be common practice for many more people.
take a moment to reflect back on 1999. A time when Kent Beck wrote a ground-breaking book. A book that changed everything. Look back and remember: Extreme Programming; and recognize it as the core of what we, today, simply think of as:
Good Software Practice.
–jeroen
via: Extreme Programming, a Reflection | 8th Light.
Posted in .NET, Agile, Continuous Integration, Delphi, Design Patterns, Development, Software Development, Source Code Management, Technical Debt, Testing, Unit Testing | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/29
Interesting: like “Find my Mac”, but cross platform and open source.
Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever missing, whether you\’re in town or abroad. Open source, proven software with hundreds of documented recoveries all around the world.
–jeroen
via: Prey Anti Theft: Track & find stolen Phones, Tablets and Laptops.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27
One more for the weekend (:
I wrote about Some links on the Delphi compiler and the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project about a year and a half ago which caused a short discussion on the embarcadero forums. A few month later Robert Love showed his views in a response to Tim Anderson writing about Clang and LLVM in the C++ side of the toolchain. Tim Anderson wrote more about LLVM in the Delphi tool chain in September 2012, then it went quiet for a while.
Since then the LLVM tool chain has integrated itself into both the C++ and Delphi toolchains and Wired wrote about LLVM.
Gunsmoker – who works at EurekaLog – wrote up some interesting comments in Russian (I hope the English Google translation is good enough).
In my view, the LLVM tool chain opens a lot more possibilities (shared back-end for Delphi and C++, coverage of more platforms, better optimization), but is also a lot slower and makes the debugging part a lot harder as the debugger is – symbol wise – much further away from the compiler than in the traditional setting (hence the 3 levels of debugging information that got introduced in Delphi XE5 and the compatibility problem that came with it).
I’m wondering what other users in the Delphi community think about the LVVM chain: is it working good enough for you? Should it be integrated further into the Windows/OSX parts of the chain?
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development | 26 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27
(Originally scheduled for 20130930, so it made it to the Missed Schedule list as well)
On my research list, as I want to do this in Windows 7 as well as windows 8: retina macbook pro – Resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (VMware Fusion 5) – Ask Different.
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Fusion, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, VMware, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27
More than 2 years ago, I wrote about InfoCom adventures before, and recently noticed that since then a Zork map I saw like 30 years ago is now online in a digital scanned version.
Cool!
Thanks David Caldwell for putting it online.
Zork user group ad (thanks Apple2History.org). Click to enlarge.
I didn’t know there even was a Zork User group (:
–jeroen
via: “An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect” or “Dungeon (Zork) Map in Duplicity” | Porkrind Dot Org Missives.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 