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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Merry Christmas:
Joe C. Hecht of Code4Sale, LLC is very proud to announce that the ÜberPDF™ SDK version 1.0 is now complete, is ready for public distribution, and will be made available for download in the next few days.
More details at [WayBack] The ÜberPDF™ SDK is DONE! – COMPLETE BUILD SYSTEM – 100% OPEN SOURCE – ALL PLATFORMS – ALL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
A kind of repeat of a 6 year old post, as by now this has much more information: [WayBack] hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User.
It is a continuation for another drive of my 2011 post hard drive – When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?.
Basically I was unlucky receiving a brand new drive that appeared exceptionally slow and doing some ticking.
So I ran these on it:
–jeroen
Sorry for the “missed schedule”, but WordPress.com is acting up again:
Since I ran this machine on Windows and I didn’t have time to run locally, these are the tools I used:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
The SuperMicro X10SRI-F and X10SL7-F boards are very similar, so I was happy that [WayBack] SuperMicro X10SL7-F – Onboard LSI pointed out where the CPU fan was: it’s header FANA which isn’t exactly clear form the X10SRI-F motherboard PDF manual [WayBack]:
FANA is the CPU fan connector
(I connected my CPU fan to the closest fan connector and everything works like a charm, but I’m still curious).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
If saving a web-page on the WayBack machine throws you this error on any site:
Wayback Exception
An unknown exception has occurred. Unexpected Error
Then usually the cause is having too many cookies.
Clean your cookies for web.archive.org, then try again.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/21
Since I’m pressed for time, but didn’t want to wait until putting the dumps on-line, below is a rendering of my gist QCScaper ClientDataSet XML dump results – README.md.
Wishing everybody a great holiday season!
This gist contains two QCScaper XML dumps of the http://qc.embarcadero.com content taken a few days after it came up.
There are four files: two files per dump (both in plain downloaded format as well as formatted with
tidy -xml -utf8for easier comparison, for instance with Beyond Compare).Each file is compressed uzing 7-zip as the original files would each exceed the 100 megabyte gist size limit; please see https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#truncation
- (tidy)
QCScraper.Anonymous.cds.xml.7zhas the data that you get when you are not logged on atqc.embarcadero.com- (tidy)
QCScraper.Regular.cds.xml.7zwas generated using a fresh new EDN accountThere are slight differences because of the internal QC architecture, which you can for instance see in issue #7788
- http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=7788
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171221120117/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=7788
- https://archive.is/CEx5m
Hopefully I will find some time later to blog about this in a better way.
Related links:
- http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/2017/06/09/how-to-save-qualitycentral/ (describes QCScraper)
- http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/downloads/download-info/qcscraper-zip/ (QCScraper source code)
- http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/downloads/download-info/qcscraper-compiled-exe/ (QCScraper executable)
- https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/cdn4JGLp8P3 (asking for help in https://plus.google.com/communities/103113685381486591754)
- https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/bKigepTHdcE (asking for help on https://wiert.me/2017/12/20/qualitycentral-report-95543-an-overloaded-routine-cannot-be-assigned-to-the-method-reference/)
- https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/jbh7WBPs8MQ (QC issues I forgot to archive which I will do shortly)
- https://plus.google.com/+DalijaPrasnikar/posts/Z5nJ2A6Sy1X (QC being down earlier)
- https://wiert.me/2017/06/05/embarcadero-qualitycentral-is-dead-man-decades-of-customer-work-down-the-drain/ (which now at least temporarily has been undone)
Entries I still need to look at:
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=139278
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=139126
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=23840
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=118124
–jeroen
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/21
About a year ago, Vincent Parret proposed many [WayBack] Delphi Language Enhancements that a lot of developers feel long overdue.
It sprouted a nice G+ discussion at [WayBack] Blogged – Delphi Language Enhancements – Vincent Parrett – Google+
Now this post is a reminder for myself to check out how Idera lived up to the promises they made in that thread.
Evaluation time…
I just found out that Vincent beat me a few days before I scheduled my post (I wrote my post about a year ago): [WayBack] Just over a year ago, I wrote a blog post where I listed some ideas for enhancing the Delphi language… – Vincent Parrett – Google+
Recommended reading.
Oh BTW: in that thread there was a cool way simulating interface helpers by hardcasting an interface to a record having only one field typed as the interface:
[WayBack] [Delphi] Interface helper proposal – Pastebin.com. By Stefan Glienke. Who else (:
In addition, Allen Bauer chimed in with some great insights.
Finally Document Insight author [WayBack] Baoquan Zuo – G+ posted with more suggestions:
I would suggest Embt consider introducing standard function
NameOfandinterface helper. These two features will fundamentally changes a lot of things with “minimum” cost.
His thread too has some really nice comments.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/21
I started this post as “A case against FreeAndNil” but soon found out about [WayBack/Archive.is] A case against FreeAndNil – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community.
Recently I was refactoring a bunch of code that was classed based to become interface based.
The old code had a lot of references to classes like this:
FMyField: TMyClass;
The compiler had detected those as compiler errors so now they were like this:
FMyField: IMyInterface;
But the compiler would still happily compile code (for instance in destructors) containing:
FreeAndNil(FMyField);
The only way that FreeAndNil can be implemented is with an untyped var parameter:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/20
Since I bumped into this while qc.embarcadero.com was down, and quality.embarcadero.com is not publicly indexed and requires an account to be able to manually search:
I’m not sure how long qc.embarcadero.com will be up again, so if people can help archiving these entries in the WayBack machine: please indicate how you can help.
Thanks a lot!
I bumped into [Archive.is] QualityCentral Report 110364: Open Interface methods are not assignable to anonymous method variable which is related to [WayBack/Archive.is] QualityCentral Report 95543: An overloaded routine cannot be assigned to the method reference.
The former is now tracked as RSP-13007, but I could not find back the latter (JIRA search keeps insisting it cannot find 95543).
The latter is the actual problem I was having: this is code that does not work:
{ Expected: the test case gets compiled.
Actual: E2010 is issued.
}
procedure foo; overload;
begin
writeln('FAIL')
end;
procedure foo(const c: char); overload;
begin
writeln('PASS')
end;
var f: procedure (const c: char);
type T = reference to procedure (const c: char);
var r: T;
begin
{$apptype console}
f := foo;
// correctly picks the proper version
f('1');
r := foo;
// E2010 Incompatible types: 'T' and 'Procedure'
r('2')
end.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/20
Reminder to self to install this soon: [Archive.is] IDE Fix Pack 6.1.2 (supports Delphi 10.2.2) | Andy’s Blog and Tools
via: [WayBack] IDE Fix Pack 6.1.2 for Delphi 2009-10.2.2 released. – Andreas Hausladen – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/20
There are a lot of suggested solutions out there: mostly not working when I tried them, and some required several lines of code which seems unnecessary for such a simple issue.
[WayBack] How to make an iframe fit or fill 100% of its container’s remaining height – Sikwati
He made a lot of effort to get to this simple construct:
| <iframe src="/sample.pdf" width="100%" style="height: 100vh;"></iframe> |
I tried it at the [WayBack] Spring4d generated documentation and it seems to work fine:
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