Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/13
John Kouraklis last week announced a new book: MVVM in Delphi.
It will be available early november and is already listed at the APress site: MVVM in Delphi – Architecting and Building Model View ViewModel Applications [WayBack] where you can pre-order.
It’s good to see that the last years more Delphi books have been published and I hope this MVVM book falls in the more advanced category.
Since I’ve given a few Delphi MVVM talks (latest at https://github.com/jpluimers/Conferences/tree/master/2013/20131121-BE-Delphi) I’m genuinely interested. So I will get this book and – time permitting – write a review.
Nick Hodges did the technical review, and since Nick’s book are great I have high hopes (:
From the APress site:
Full Description
Dive into the world of MVVM, learn how to build modern Windows applications, and prepare for cross-platform development. This book introduces you to the right mindset and demonstrates suitable methodologies that allow for quick understanding of the MVVM paradigm. MVVM in Delphi shows you how to use a quick and efficient MVVM framework that allows for scalability, is of manageable complexity, and provides strong efficiency.
One of the biggest challenges developers face is how to convert legacy and monolithic Delphi applications to the MVVM architecture. This book takes you on a step-by-step journey and teaches you how to adapt an application to fit into the MVVM design.
What you’ll learn
- Gain the fundamentals of MVVM
- Visualize MVVM as a design philosophy
- Create easy-to-use frameworks for building your own MVVM applications
- Develop a methodology for converting legacy applications to the MVVM pattern
- Architect cross-platform and multi-lingual applications using the MVVM pattern
Who this book is for
Delphi developers with a good knowledge of Delphi or programming experience in a different language. In addition, this book is attractive to Delphi developers who want to modernize existing applications based on the MVVM design.
and
Table of Contents
1. MVVM as Design Pattern
2. Setting Up the POSApp
3. MVVM as Design Philosophy
4. Two-way Communication
5. MVVM and Delphi
6. Planning the Application
7. Developing the Application
8. How to Convert your App to MVVM
A. Appendix: Other MVVM Delphi frameworks
–jeroen
via: New Book: MVVM in Delphi… [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/12
Be careful with setting the timeout of sendmail to zero when trying to flush the mail queue:
sendmail -OTimeout.hoststatus=0m -q -v
Reason: a lot of target systems do rate-limiting if you retry too much in too short time, for instance gmail does that:
421-4.7.0 [###.###.###.### 15] Our system has detected an unusual rate of
421-4.7.0 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our
421-4.7.0 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily
421-4.7.0 rate limited. Please visit
421-4.7.0 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126 to review our Bulk Email
421 4.7.0 Senders Guidelines. w1si28749381wju.16 - gsmtp
–jeroen
via Flush deferred messages in sendmail queue :: Stephan Paukner :: syslog.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/12
Happy debugging, suckers
Or maybe not…
(yes, this year it’s not on the 13th of September, but the 12th, guess why…)
--jeroen
via: Day of the Programmer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PS: The oldest reference I could find for define true (rand() > 10) was this one from 20121014:
// Happy debugging, suckers
# define true (rand() > 10)
Source: codecrap.com – snippet #6
It reminds me of a 1990s prank I once put in central consts unit of a Turbo Pascal project somewhere way beyond the right margin in a search directory outside of version control:
const True = False; False = not True;
A lot more pranks are at Happy debugging, suckers : ProgrammerHumor – reddit
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/10
It was fun while it lasted:
No SponsorsPage2rss.com currently does not have any sponsors for you.
Source: Page2rss.com
Anyone who has good alternatives for it?
–jeroen
PS: I’ll give this a try: PageMon.Net: The Page Monitor [pre-alpha]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/10
Oh, shit, git. For +Tatiana Azundris, Originally shared by Stefani Banerian
Source: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Oh, shit, git!
Oh shit, git! Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can’t search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about …
Right now the site is down from Amsterdam; luckily we have http://web.archive.org/web/20160909123413/http://ohshitgit.com/
If you’re fast, you might see http://ohshitgit.com redirect to http://ohshitgit.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi which shows:
The website you were trying to reach is temporarily unavailable.
Please check back soon.
If you are the owner of this website, please contact Technical Support as soon as possible.
–jeroen
Image source: xkcd: Git [WayBack] via Christian Vogel [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/09
Every time there is a fork, and I think forks are actually good things, it means somebody sees a need and a technical reason to do something different from the standard kernel. But most forks are failures. They find that the things they needed were not actually worth doing and as a result, most forks die. — Linus Torvalds.
Many forks at May the Fork Be with You: A Short History of Open Source Forks – The New Stack [WayBack]
Notably missing: OpenSSL forks (especially since OpenSSH is mentioned).
–jeroen
via: Good overview by +Swapnil Bhartiya. I wish I’d written this one. – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/09
+Kristian Köhntopp #awesomeCosplay
Trip down memory lane:
at the time of the videos release (1984/85), this was completely state of the art – I got my C64 in 1983 and an Amiga in 1986, so this is 8 bit level of tech in home computing time.
The video has been the work of Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson, canadian animators which needed the money and a test run for their animation software. What Gavin and Ian actually wanted to make is Reboot, a pretty groundbreaking early full-render animation series.
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Gavin_Blair
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Ian_Pearson
Fun fact: These people made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_in_the_Nutcracker and many other Render-Barbie-Movies.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/09
On some systems, after upgrading OpenSuSE Tumbleweed to 20160905 ntp stops working.
TL;DR
Pending the verification of snapshot 20160908 (not finished yet), if if you have updated to 20160905 or 20160907,, the bogus ntp version is, so you have to downgrade:
zypper in --oldpackage http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ntp-4.2.8p8-1.3.x86_64.rpm
systemctl restart ntpd.service
Or wait a few hours and install snapshot 20160908.
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