I’m more a Pi Approximation Day person.
But for the few that insist on M/D/Y date format: happy Pi Day.
Jan Wildeboer on G+:
–jeroen
Archive for March, 2015
For those doing dates in M/D/Y format: happy Pi Day
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/14
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Add an account to use Google Play on your device: can take a while to show up.
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/13
It might look simple to Add an account to use Google Play on your device – Google Play Help.
But it can take quite a while for your device to show up so you can add My Android Apps – Google Play to it: accounts – My new Android device not showing up in Google Play – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange.
–jeroen
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OData: a few notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/12
You can’t keep track of the whole world, so every now and then I bump into something and think “boy I wish I had known about this years ago”.
The OData (Open Data Protocol) standard by Microsoft is such a thing. It allows to communicate data over the internet in a RESTful way using either JSON or AtomPub based XML, standardized by OASIS who has it’s roots in the SGML world (SGML is one of the predecessors of XML).
There is a rich Ecosystem of implementations in many platforms (including .NET, Delphi, Java, PHP, JavaScript, etc) with public reachable Example Services to test with (not surprising there is a NorthWind service).
Here are a few links of stuff I want to dig deeper into it to grasp it better: Read the rest of this entry »
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Interesting presentation at EKON 16: MSBuild Inside the Microsoft Build Engine from Sebastian Gingter
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/11
I missed EKON 16 as both they and we moved outside the regular conference season.
So I missed this session: EKON 16: MSBuild // Speaker Deck that has these GitHub source examples: gingters/EKON16_MSBuild.
Thanks Sebastian Gingter for pointing me at this!
msbuild is used by both Visual Studio and Delphi for building projects, and this session gave me some good ideas to improve the Continuous Integration projects I already had into place.
–jeroen
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Some notes on OpenSSL, S/MIME, email, various RFC standards and their relations.
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/10
Stuff I found out myself:
- OpenSSL does not like to have a period (dot) at the end of a S/MIME message (like many .EML files have as SMTP basically requires a period to terminate an email message.
- Indy sometimes changes the ContentType of S/MIME messages; you can reproduce this using the CopyEml demos; preliminary fix is in IdMessageHelperUnit.pas.
They should reorganize their site to make the most current version more findable; these links help me to track down what’s new: - Make sure your tools
- accept the old RSA MIME types:
- application/x-pkcs7-mime
- application/x-pkcs7-signature
- application/x-pkcs10
- but emit the new RFC 2311+ MIME types:
- application/pkcs7-mime
- application/pkcs7-signature
- application/pkcs10
- emit the new RFC MIME types:
- accept the old RSA MIME types:
Some links I found useful: Read the rest of this entry »
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On the research list; XP update failures
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/09
I know, I know. But the Olympus P-400 still requires XP.
So here it goes: failed updates.
Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Update 4 Redistributable Package ([Wayback] KB3032622)
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – February 2015 ([Wayback] KB890830)
The Microsoft web update fails to load at all with error [Wayback] 0x80248015, which is logical as officially there is not support any more.
http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us
Luckily the Windows web update still works: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us
This time the update got simply resolved by rebooting. Hopefully that solved it for good.
–jeroen
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Some GIT notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/09
Some links I found useful:
- Git workflows:
- Git workflow: Forks, remotes, and pull requests – Nathan Hoad.
- Git Workflows.
(deep, but especially handing when part of your team comes from an SVN background)
- Fork versus clone:
- Git supports multiple remote repositories, of which by convention the default is called `origin` and the one you forked from `upstream`:
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Interesting: CintaNotes note takeing tool; Windows only, but cloud possibilities and comes with good search
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/06
Need to put sime time in experimenting with CintaNotes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Interesting: CintaNotes note takeing tool; Windows only, but cloud possibilities and comes with good search.
–jeroen
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[NL] In Memoriam: Oma Wil van Kesteren – Drum- en Showband Adest Musica
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05
Quoting below in whole (and in Dutch), but first a small English intro.
The collective Grandma of our Marching Band passed away early this morning.
Last august she turned 90. The Senior Band and Junior Band together gave her a nice serenade when she got back from a celebration boat trip with her family.
Virtually all current members have known her for their complete marching band lives as the loving, caring woman that would be present at all regional performances (and some further away: 2 new hips and a new shoulder didn’t restore the mobility to the level when she was still young), would fix and create their uniforms, give them a hug when they were sad, cheer them up when they were low in energy, remember their birthdays stories, and much much more.
We gave her a golden 90th pin, in the middle of her pincushion with 89 pins. The most fitting present we could come up with.
Now, after knowing her for more than 35 years, our Grandma of which we were so fond is gone.
Farewell Oma van Kesteren…
In Memoriam: Oma Wil van Kesteren
Drum- en Showband Adest Musica | 05-03-2015, 20:32 uur
Zeer bedroefd hebben wij kennis genomen van het overlijden van Oma Wil van Kesteren -Lid van Verdienste- in de leeftijd van 90 jaar. Haar onovertroffen en onlosmakelijke verbondenheid met Drum- en Showband Adest Musica wordt nu al gemist.
Oma Wil van Kesteren was sinds 1998 Lid van Verdienste en meer dan 30 jaar een trouwe en betrokken vrijwilligster van Drum- en Showband Adest Musica.
Oma was de moeder en oma van verschillende leden van onze vereniging. Kleinkinderen die bij haar op bezoek kwamen, kregen op jonge leeftijd muziek te horen en beelden te zien van Adest Musica. Zij werden al vroeg door hun Oma enthousiast gemaakt om te gaan musiceren.
Jarenlang heeft Oma samen met haar -intussen overleden- echtgenoot (Opa) Piet van Kesteren zorg gedragen voor de uniformen van de Jeugdband en Drum- en Showband. En passant gaf zij ook nog adviezen voor de kleding van de Stageband. Vooral haar warme betrokkenheid bij de jongens en meiden van ‘haar’ Jeugdband moet worden genoemd. Het eerste echte nieuwe uniform van de Jeugdband (rode uniformjas, donkerblauwe broek met rode bies) werd mede door haar vrijwilligerswerk middels zelfwerkzaamheid in eigen beheer gemaakt. Zonder haar inzet hadden de beide korpsen niet zo netjes in het uniform gelopen. Oma zorgde er jaar in, jaar uit voor dat de leden niet ‘met hoog water’ liepen.
Een lokaal of regionaal optreden, een activiteit of evenement georganiseerd door Adest Musica: Oma was er altijd bij. “We zijn weer de beste”, waren de woorden die Oma met regelmaat uitsprak.
Heel bijzonder was de viering van haar 90ste verjaardag in augustus 2014. Namens de vereniging was er voor Oma de ‘Gouden 90ste speld’, geprikt in het speldenkussen met 89 spelden, waarmee zoveel uniformbroeken en jassen waren afgespeld. Vervolgens een voor Oma onverwachte serenade van de Jeugdband en Drum- en Showband op en nabij de ophaalbrug bij het Warmondse eiland Koudenhoorn. Met haar aanstekelijke enthousiasme genoot ze volop van ‘haar’ jongens en meiden!
Een warme persoonlijkheid en vrijwilligster pur sang is niet meer.
De ‘Oma van Adest Musica’ blijft voor altijd in onze herinnering.
Bestuur, leden en vrijwilligers van Adest Musica wensen de kinderen, kleinkinderen, familie, vrienden en iedereen die geraakt wordt door dit grote verlies, veel sterkte en kracht toe in deze moeilijke tijd.
Namens het Bestuur, leden en vrijwilligers van
Drum- en Showband Adest Musica
–jeroen
via: Drum- en Showband Adest Musica.
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Brutal way to prevent memory errors in Delphi XE7: rename DLLs, loose part of the functionality, but less memory issues – via G+
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05
When the suggestions from Out-of-Memory in RAD XE7 and -noparser from Tried to patch BDS.exe fails to, then this suggestion by Brian Hamilton on G+ might work:
From a post in the EMB forum, a work around for XE7 is
I follow the hint of Thomas Grusche renaming the following files:
- Borland.Studio.Delphi.dll
- Borland.Studio.Refactoring.dll
- refactoride210.bpl
This makes the XE7 IDE usable again.
Just the refactoring feature aren’t available anymore.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 