Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/28
A while ago, Alan Cox started a nice thread about finding an USB way to read old (like 5.25 inch and 3 inch) floppies.
That resulted in a nice comment thread revealing this info:
Now hopefully some people also post some links to USB PCMCIA memory card readers (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/28
Cool, I just found out that Wikipedia has a Screenshot topic, listing how to take screenshots (and often shots of the current window) on many platforms, where (*) means I verified them:
–jeroen
via: Screenshot – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/27
7 minutes of very interesting video: clear explanation of What’s New In C# 6.0 | Connect; Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure | Channel 9.
—jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/27
Class Operators in Delphi have been introduced in the ARM compiler in Delphi XE4 for iOS support.
By now it has been in the ARM compiler for Android too, and hopefully it will (soon) be in the x86 compiler as well.
So it is time to look at my Nullable types again, and see if I can port them over to classes.
Some references so I won’t forget them: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/26
A long while ago, I posted a detailed answer on what functions the default comparers actually were calling to get a feel for if they would apply or not answering delphi – What does the default TArray.Sort comparator actually do and when would you use it? – Stack Overflow.
I needed that information recently because of some sorting issues I bumped into (sorting generic records), so finally a blog post.
First some links to documentation for even more background information:
There is the answer I gave: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Algorithms, Ansi, Delphi, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Encoding, Floating point handling, Software Development, Unicode | 2 Comments »
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