Archive for April, 2014
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
On my list of on-line tools: XML Pretty Print.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
After finding out that Raize Components 6 and Raize Components 5 updates for Delphi XE6 I checked Raize Software‘s latest news page and was glad to see that these also got updates:
The only one not yet having XE6 support is this one:
–jeroen
via: Raize Software Developer Tools.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
Just found out that a new version of Raize Components 6 with Delphi XE6 support got released.
Raize Components 6 actually supports Delphi 2009 through XE6 (and C++ Builder and RAD Studio).
Older Delphi versions are also supported by older Raize Component versions, as Ray Konopka posted last year:
via Raize Software Support Forums • View topic – Installing multiple versions of the Raize Components.
(In the above quote, I included the links to the various trial versions).
There is also the famous Demo program download RCDemo.zip and nice videos:
via Raize Components Demo/Trial Edition.
For the dot version nitpickers, here are the current versions as of writing: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
The first bulleted link below has been living in my drafts like forever (i.e. somewhere since mid June 2009), so time to write a bit about ISO 8601 and .NET.
First a few links about converting a DateTime into ISO 8601 string format:
Some solutions use the “K” as a time zone specifier. At first, I couldn’t find any documentation for it, not even Google Search for Google Search for “ssK” DateTime ToString returns anything useful.
Later on, I found The “K” Custom Format Specifier in Custom Date and Time Format Strings.
So my preferred solutions for me are these:
System.DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");System.DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");
I avoid these:
System.DateTime.Now.ToString("o");
because it gets you too many digits in the second fracion.System.DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("s") + "Z";
because it is less clear what it does (might be resolved with a comment).
–jeroen
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, ISO 8601, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21
Somehow my Fonera insisted that WiFi channel 2 was a good choice.
It isn’t so I forced it to be on one of the good 1/6/11 channel choices.
This links describes where those settings are: Fonera Simpl Wireless Settings : Fon Support.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21
Interesting: Roman Yankovsky just wrote about a property syntax that I didn’t know about either:
Today I learned… :)
I didn’t know about this syntax for properties:
FStrings: array [0..1] of string;
property String0: string read FStrings[0] write FStrings[0];
property String1: string read FStrings[1] write FStrings[1];
Now I hope someone finds out in which Delphi version this syntax was introduced.
–jeroen
via: Roman Yankovsky – Google+ – Today I learned… :) I didn’t know about this syntax for….
Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 10 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21
A while ago I came across this very neat bug report:
Issue 224182 – chromium – Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters. – An open-source project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting.
It isn’t so much a bug report, but a big annoyance with many browsers and web-sites: they auto-start playing video or audio (or other “active” content) as soon as the page loads, even in a background window.
The Chrome’s Click to play feature can help avoid this: you can configure this to the individual site and plugin level to select which ones to auto-play or block.
It increases your security, speeds up browser load times at the cost of a click here and there to enable a sites active content (on some sites: a lot of clicks, but alas: they should redesign to be less dependent on active content).
–jeroen
–via: Issue 224182 – chromium – Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters. – An open-source project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/20
I’m glad that junction did work to create a directory junction to link a directory from one NTFS file system to another with this small batch file (that falls back from mklink to junction):
@echo off
:start
if !%1!==!! goto :help
goto :main
:help
echo %0 TargetFolder
echo Creates directory symbolic link using MKLINK or JUNCTION so that TargetFolder points to %~dp0
goto :eof
:main
:: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/
call :do mklink /D %1 %~dp0
call :do junction %1 %~dp0
goto :eof
:do
echo %*
%*
goto :eof
Some more reading on juncions, hard links, symbolic links, etc:
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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: Junction Points, NTFS file system, symbolic links | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/20
Interesting:
This is a refresh of last month’s article, Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere pieces to get your home lab started, with new download links for the Heartbleed related vCenter Update 1a release that arrived today, April 19, 2014. It is a work in progress, and will updated frequently, throughout the next few days, as I test and retest the links and procedures. The hypervisor itself (the first download) appears to be unchanged, the same 5.5 Update 1 (not 1a) released back on Mar 11 2014. It appears the only thing that has changed has been a patch to SSL certificates to address Heartbleed, as described in the release notes.
–jeroen
via TinkerTry IT @ home | Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere Update 1a pieces to get your home lab started.
Posted in ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware | 2 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 