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Archive for 2015

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:

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

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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Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, QC, Software Development | 6 Comments »

OpenSSL on Windows: fixing the “unable to write ‘random state'” (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05

If you are running OpenSSL as a regular user, or cannot perform “RunAs Administrator”, and you get this error message:

unable to write 'random state'

then make sure you have set your environment variables correctly before running OpenSSL:

RANDFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\.rnd

A full batch file front-end for OpenSSL.exe is this one:

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Visual Studio: Find unused code? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/04

Interesting answers to Visual Studio: Find unused code? – Stack Overflow.

  • Using Visual Studio 2008+ to remove unused using statements
  • Using the [Obsolete] attribute of code you suspect is not used.
  • Using ReSharper
  • Using NDepend
  • Using FxCop

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Delphi anonymous method formatting thread going into the direction of functional programming – via: Markus Joos – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/03

Markus Joos started a nice G+ thread on anonymous method formatting which ended up into a discussion of functional programming and a peek into what Spring4D 1.3 can offer.

Note you might need to be part of the G+ Delphi Developers Community to read the thread.

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, Software Development, Spring4D | Leave a Comment »

RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap – Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/03

Odd that the RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap on the Embarcadero site got published by Brian Alexakis which is relatively unknown in the Delphi community.

I wish that ARC for Windows and Linux x86/x64 were on the list: the first since it makes it so much easier to solve ARC problems in libraries, the second since Kylix had a Linux x86 compiler and an RTL (yes, Kylix didn’t have Unicode nor Generics, but maybe the Linux and OS X targets might be too far apart).

I like that there is a roadmap for 2015. And glad with what is on it: 4K support (hopefully also done for the IDE), C++ LLVM compiler, IDE large memory (though I wonder how they do that), native HTTP (hopefully WinHTTP for SOAP and REST).

In the mean time, Kris Houser has indicated XE8 is in beta. Which is good know as well.

–jeroen

via: RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | 4 Comments »

We’re just getting started with SourceTree – via: SourceTree Blog @brwynant

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/03

I am one of the many people complaining about recent SourceTree stability and usability.Issues are not limited to the Windows 1.6.x versions, but since I do most development work on Windows, I wrote Downgrading to SourceTree 1.5.x from 1.6.x, but keeping up with the youngest embedded Git and Mercurial.

This post by Mike Minns (Twitter @brwynant) got my attention: We’re just getting started with SourceTree | SourceTree Blog.

But in order to work with 1.6.x, I’d really love an option to install the 1.6.x versions next to 1.5.x.

Two reasons:

  • It will take time to trust 1.6.x versions again
  • It is a bit cumbersome to do the 1.5.x downgrade

So Mike, if you read is and can make this possible, please get in touch (and if you ever visit the Amsterdam Atlassian office again, lets grab a beer somewhere).

–jeroen

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