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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/21
Thanks Ilya Grigorik for sharing this link to 7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About – Tuts+ Web Design Article :
em, rem, vh, vw, vmin, vmax, ex, ch… Good explainer on various CSS units and why and where you’d use them.
Recommended reading.
–jeroen
via: em, rem, vh, vw, vmin, vmax, ex, ch… Good explainer on various CSS units and….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/21
The dig (domain information groper) command under unix/Linux is a great way to help verify that a DNS host like BIND is working properly.
A few of my servers are Linux, but most of my desktops usually are Windows, so I was happy to find the Using the dig dns tool on Windows 7 article by Dan Esparza explaining there is a Windows version.
So I:
dig @192.168.171.214 pluimers.com
; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P1 <<>> @192.168.171.214 pluimers.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12911 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 6 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;pluimers.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: pluimers.com. 172800 IN A 82.161.132.169 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns7.4delphi.com. pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns6.4delphi.com. pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.4delphi.com. pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.4delphi.com. pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns3.4delphi.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 82.161.132.169 ns2.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 176.9.152.132 ns3.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 176.9.152.131 ns6.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 109.70.6.22 ns7.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 176.9.143.167 ;; Query time: 15 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.171.214#53(192.168.171.214) ;; WHEN: Wed Jan 02 16:07:58 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 235
–jeroen
via Dig (command) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/20
Please someone add the Software on a String blog to DelphiFeeds (:
Great article on testing implementations of interfaces in a generic way. With examples in NUnit and DUnit.
How do I test an interface? Should I even do that? | Software on a String.
And then Stefan Glienke made a great comment at https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MarjanVenema/posts/Dgb8WADLwXZ making the DUnit implementation even easier:
But even if you go without that extra base class the cool thing is that you don’t need to restrict your classes to be a TInterfacedObject but specify the interface they need to implement (yay, compiletime type safety) and then you can get rid of the Supports call and directly assign the result of the ctor call to the sut variable.
–jeroen
Stefan’s code:
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/20
Ever since the Delphi build engine got changed to MS Build in Delphi 2007, many people use Delphi build events. Their order is prebuild, prelink and postbuild (or maybe better spelled pre-build, pre-link and post-build).
Before Delphi 2007, you had to fiddler with project groups and dependencies to fake pre-build and post-build events. For an example see Pre and Post-Build Automation in Delphi.
One of the really good things about these events is that build events appear in the output tab of the messages window.
One of the really bad things is that there is hardly any documentation about the build events.
At least two important things are missing:
Let’s explain these. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Event, FastMM, QC, Software Development | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/19
A while ago I bumped into a funny problem with Delphi XE.
I moved all the code from the .dpr in a Main unit (the IDE sometimes overwrites part of the DPR).
This normally isn’t a problem, until Delphi re-generates the .RES file. The reason is that this .RES file can contain a manifest which enables Windows theming.
If there is no reference of the Application object in the .DPR, the IDE will remove the Theming manifest from the .RES file, so your application run unthemed.
Three solutions: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/18
This should not be difficult to do, just time consuming. So it is on my research list to see how time consuming: build a TXMLDocument binding for OmniXML.
This is to urge less people to try to parse XML by hand like xml – Copy & Copy does not work correctly with stringlist – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
via: Delphi, OmniXML – XML binding? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development, XML/XSD | 13 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/17
Some great links posted last week by mos6502 about soldering your own 6502 based computer.
The videos are of Ben Heck building an Apple I replica. But others did similar builing of NINA65, Loom 6502 and others.
I wish I had soldering skills like that, but I’m more of a programmer (that started on a 6502).
Great viewing those links and videos.
–jeroen
via: Do you remember the Apple I auction results that went through the media….
Here are Ben Heck’s videos: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/17
This blog entry shows how I moved my BeSharp.net repository from SVN at BeSharp.codeplex.com to mercurial.
I develop most of my software using Windows, so if you want to perform the steps below (except TortoiseHG) on a *nix or Mac machine, you have to do some backslash to slash replacement, and find out where the mercurial settings file is stored.
The rest is pretty much the same.
Note the aim was to do a one time conversion. If you want to use both SVN and HG at the same time, then HgSubVersion definitely worth looking at.
Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Mercurial/Hg, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/14
Interesting, especially after experimenting with it for a few weeks. Most of it is great, still missing a few features (like multiple labels per message, and great keyboard shortcut support: now it’s very basic).
So read this that I got via Kristian Köhntopp:
Today, we release Inbox by Gmail – It’s been my main project since I joined Google. This ends the first chapter of a longer story!http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html
and:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in GMail, Google, Power User | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/14
Interesting: all SonicWALL seem to support multi-WAN (more than 2 WAN) in both Failover and Round robin fashion: SonicWALL Multi-WAN Firewalls (Unlimited WAN).
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 