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Archive for September 22nd, 2016

Just experienced my first #IRC Netsplit

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22

Just experienced this for the first time: Netsplit – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On Colloquy I had a lot of these:

… left the chat room. (*.net *.split)

Followed a few minutes later by a burst of

… joined the chat room.

–jeroen

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David I becomes an Embarcadero MVP, starts new job at Evans Data Corporation

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22

Just in case you missed it David I becomes an Embarcadero MVP, starts new job at Evans Data Corporation [WayBack]

via +Stefan Glienke and Evans Data Corporation Welcomes Developer Relations Industry Guru David Intersimone (“David I”) to Their Team – News9.com [WayBack]

Which means there are very few seasoned people left at the Delphi team.

–jeroen

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Flybrix | Flybrix Kits Make Your Own Rebuildable Drones using LEGO® bricks

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22

Flybrix kits include all you need to make your own rebuildable, crash-friendly drones using LEGO® bricks. For ages 14+. No tools needed, Arduino compatible.

Source: Flybrix | Flybrix Kits Make Your Own Rebuildable Drones using LEGO® bricks

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Jark/FTDISample: Note: As of version 10556.0 the ftdi driver does no longer seem to work. A sample application showcasing the FTDI D2XX driver use in Windows Universal projects (UWP). This sample is tested on the Raspberry PI 2 with Windows IOT installed and a FTDI FT232R usb-to-serial adapter.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22

Source: Jark/FTDISample: Note: As of version 10556.0 the ftdi driver does no longer seem to work. A sample application showcasing the FTDI D2XX driver use in Windows Universal projects (UWP). This sample is tested on the Raspberry PI 2 with Windows IOT installed and a FTDI FT232R usb-to-serial adapter.

Yeah, I couldn’t get this working either. I’m not sure where ReadTimeout is actually used by the SerialDevice class internally. But I did end up getting something working by copying the timeout to a

Source: c# – Unable to use SerialDevice.ReadTimeout in Windows 10 IoT – Stack Overflow

Source: Raspberry Pi • View topic – Windows 10 IoT Core Simple Serial Example not working

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grep: searching for pipes, optional characters

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22

For my own reference as RegEx is a write-only language:

Search for pipes means just back-slash escaping them:

grep "\|S\|" products.txt > s-rated-products.txt

Search for optional charactes (in this case searching for both the singular and plural form of a word) can be done by grouping the optional part in parentheses:

grep -i "Movie(s)?" products.txt > movie-products.txt

Search for either OR:

grep -E "foo|bar" products.txt > foo-or-bar-products.txt
egrep "foo|bar" products.txt > foo-or-bar-products.txt

Note that the Borland grep does not support the OR syntax, but egrep does.

–jeroen

via:

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