Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/29
Als je postcode “1060 NP” invult bij aansluiting en “1170 AB” bij facturatie, dan krijg je deze onterechte foutmeldingen:
Beetje vreemd, want al sinds de introductie van postcodes in Nederland in 1978 zit in een postcode 1 spatie, en tussen de postcode en de woonplaats 2 spaties.
Ook trema‘s gaan mis: bij postcode 1060 NP hoort de straat Pyreneeën in Amsterdam, maar bij Heldenvan.nu wordt het deze Mojibake:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/29
A few links to make sure you can get a Flash version for a machine that is not internet connected:
(when I wrote it, I needed the Online or Offline installer for Flash Player 11 for Internet Explorer on Windows ).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/28
VPN Gate Academic Experiment Project is an online service as an academic research at the Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. The purpose of this research is to expand the knowledge of “Global Distributed Public VPN Relay Servers” .
Or in short a big VPN that helps you stay behind a wall in order to protect yourself.
It is interesting to see the demographics of VPN Gate and their data usage at VPN Gate User Countries Realtime Ranking:
Could it be that the USA users like the anonymity of large downloads, and that the Japanese users just want to try to buy stuff from within the USA?
Configuration instructions for:
–jeroen
via: VPN Gate Public VPN Relay Servers List.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/28
There are a couple of very interesting libraries and ideas every Delphi developer should take a look at.
The list is far from complete, but should give you a good overview on what more recent Delphi language additions like attributes, generics, helpers, overloading, are capable of.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/27
I was amazed that this is still usable:
You can even run VMware Fusion 4 full screen at 2880×1800, but I prefer to have the Mac Desktop and Dock to be visible. I didn’t have any of the VMware Fusion 4 issues mentioned here.
So the only thing you need VMware Fusion 5 for is Windows 8 support.
You need SwitchResX to get the Retina MacBook to use 2880×1800 at all (otherwise you get 1920×1200 at 1.5 scale factor, which is also a 16:10 display ratio).
It really runs 5+ hours on one battery charge, which is much longer than my ThinkPad W701.
All in all, I’m very happy with this setup.
--jeroen
PS:
via: Screen Shot 2013-03-27 at 19.55.39 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Click on the image or here for full size image.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/27
Interesting: JCB TOUGHPHONE Sitemaster | JCB gsm | RN-electronics.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/27
Thanks Jason Cipriani – CNET:
To take a screenshot on the Nexus 4, press and hold down the power and volume down buttons at the exact same time. After a few seconds you’ll feel a vibration on your device and you’ll see the screenshot minimize into the notification tray. Pulling down the notification tray will in turn allow you to quickly share the picture.
–jeroen
via: via How to take a screenshot on the Nexus 4 | How To – CNET.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/27
As I wrote before, I’m with the [WayBack] Delphi with haters camp, and this is why:
Using the [WayBack] with statement in Delphi makes your code less future proof.
Originally, the
withstatement in Pascal was argumented in part of allowing compiler optimisations:PASCAL User Manual and Report – Kathleen Jensen, Niklaus Wirth – Google Books
The with clause effectively opens the scope containing field identifiers of the specified record variable, so that the field identifiers may occur as variable identifiers. (Thereby providing an opportunity for the compiler to optimize the qualified statement.)
Screenshots of this 1975 book are below the fold.
The Delphi (actually even before that Turbo Pascal compiler) has no measurable difference between
withand non-withcode.The debugger however, still does not support with, and there are other drawbacks of which one is below.
The below code example is just one of many. I show it because I recently bumped into doing some long overdue code porting to Delphi XE3.
Since I’ve been bitten by using with a couple of times before, it didn’t take me long to find the cause.
Example code where FIConData is of type NOTIFYICONDATAW that used to compile fine:
with FIconData do
begin
cbSize := SizeOf(FIconData);
Wnd := Self.Handle;
uID := $DEDB;
uFlags := NIF_MESSAGE or NIF_ICON or NIF_TIP;
hIcon := Application.Icon.Handle;
uCallbackMessage := WM_CAS400NTIcon;
StrCopy(szTip, PChar(Caption));
end;
Well, as of Compiler Version 20, it doesn’t compile any more. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/26
While porting a library from Delphi 2006 to Delphi XE2.
The really cool thing is that the Windows Event Log contains details of what I did wrong (:
Tell the systems administrator.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/25
Why Internet Explorer does not use these two for showing shortcuts:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 