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Archive for February, 2018

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Do NOT download the Embarcadero patch for RAD Studio 10.2.2!

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/11

[WayBack] Embarcadero just released a patch for RAD Studio 10.2.2. It breaks linking projects with runtime packages, like GExperts, any other IDE expert and probably also most component packages. – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+ in a response to [WayBack] RAD Studio 10.2.2 Tokyo February 2018 Patch available now at https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30819. This patch for RAD Studio 10.2.2 (build 2004)… – Marco Cantù – Google+.

RSP-19914 (by Thomas Mueller)

Summary

After installing the RAD Studio 10.2.2 Tokyo February 2018 Patch I can no longer compile any project with “Link with runtime packages”.

Error message:
[dcc32 Fatal Error] Project1.dpr(5): E2225 Never-build package ‘vcl’ must be recompiled

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new VCL project
2. Open project options
3. Select Packages -> Runtime Packages
4. Set “Link with runtime packages” to true
5. Close dialog with OK
6. Compile the project
-> Error

You might have noticed that the MVP logo is no longer on the blog. It got revoked because I was too critical. Given releases like the above, I can’t stop being critical in a public way as the internal ways to effectively voice criticism that used to work in the past stopped working a long time ago.

Not just the MVP was revoked, the account to which the MVP was attached got killed without notification. That account also had the tech-partner licenses attached: the ones I used to support Delphi open source projects. Which means I do not have any Embarcadero provided licenses to support open source Delphi projects any more except the ones I own (the most recent ones being Delphi 2007 and XE4).

Many people in the Delphi community even refuse to become MVP because formally the MVPs are not allowed to be be critical publicly. Which means these community members have a limited list of Delphi versions they can use to support and test their open source projects with.

I am glad for the time I could use those licenses to support open Delphi source projects, but alas, that time is over. I still like the concepts of Delphi as those are strong. I don’t like how Embarcadero handles their infrastructure and product quality.

In the next 2 years there will be Delphi posts on my blog as that’s about the depth of the posting queue right now. After that: time will tell. For the last decade or so, I’ve spend more free time supporting Delphi than spending time on paid Delphi projects. That won’t last forever.

For now I’m going on a two week holiday tomorrow after which I will be available for new projects.

–jeroen

Related:

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Nutribullet does not activate – activators jammed

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/09

Even when keeping a Nutribullet clean, the activators can jam. One day the white lids activating the spinning mechanism were just stuck.

So below are some links that helped resolving it. They come down to get some liquid between the white lids and casing to loosen any staining.

Some people use WD-40, oil, water with vinegar or oil and vinegar. We just used some fairly hot water and a blunt knife to carefully push each white lid down.

I found most of the videos before getting the right search terms and bumping into the other links. For ease of reading, the videos are at the end.

–jeroen

Videos:

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ups.com -> expensive; upstoday.com -> affordable

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/09

Reminder to self:

–jeroen

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Scott Hanselman on Witter: “Why should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/08

An important question for many people, so if you want to know more or get started: [WayBack] Scott Hanselman on Twitter: “Why should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?” followed by:

Yes, AKS is Azure Container Services (go figure!).

Notes

  • For burning, Scott recommends [WayBack] Etcher: Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily (which is now also available as experimental [WayBack] Etcher CLI), I tended to use a script like below since I’m a command-line person, but since Etcher does write and verify in one run, I’m considering switching:
    1. find where the SD card is mounted on your Mac: diskutil list
    2. sudo su -
    3. execute this from the directory where you downloaded filling in targetDevice with the value from diskutil list

    targetDevice="disk9"
    imageName="2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite"
    unzip -o ${imageName}.zip
    diskutil umount "/dev/${targetDevice}s1"; \
    dd bs=1m of="/dev/r${targetDevice}" if=${imageName}; \
    sync; \
    diskutil list; \
    diskutil eject "/dev/${targetDevice}"

–jeroen

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Iterations Mean Rapid Feedback — Agile Heretic Episode Five

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/08

Though sprints help maintaining some rhythm, don’t let them dumb you down:

Have you ever run for real, then run on a treadmill? Running for real means that you have a pace, hopefully sustainable, and off you go. If…

Source: [WayBack] Iterations Mean Rapid Feedback — Agile Heretic Episode Five

Via: [WayBack] Iterative development does not mean timeboxed or repetitive development. – Marjan Venema – Google+ (who is a great coach)

Which reminded me I should order and read [WayBack] Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life: Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry: 9781453802267: Amazon.com: Books

–jeroen

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Stuff on my research list thanks to Martijn Laarman (@Mpdreamz)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/08

Quite some time ago, I attended a great introductory elasticsearch/kibana workshop by Martijn Laarman (@Mpdreamz, github.com/Mpdreamz and SO martijn-laarman) that lead me into researching a lot of interesting new things:

–jeroen

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api-ai-interface I started playing with API.AI a while ago (because of Googl…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/08

Time to look back to see how this has evolved: [WayBack] api-ai-interface – I started playing with API.AI a while ago (because of Google Actions), and thought it would be nice to have an easy way to include a c… – Gerwin Sturm – Google+

References:

–jeroen

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Mixing x64 Outlook with x86 Delphi: never a good idea…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/07

Via [WayBack] Hi all,I’m a bit stuck here with a “simple” task.Looks like Outlook 2016 doesn’t supports “MAPISendMail”, at least, if i trigger this, Thunderbird… – Attila Kovacs – Google+:

Basically only MAPISendMail works cross architecture and only if you fill all fields.

This edited [WayBack] email – MAPI Windows 7 64 bit – Stack Overflow answer by [WayBack] epotter is very insightful (thanks [WayBack] Rik van Kekem – Google+):

Calls to MAPISendMail should work without a problem.

For all other MAPI method and function calls to work in a MAPI application, the bitness (32 or 64) of the MAPI application must be the same as the bitness of the MAPI subsystem on the computer that the application is targeted to run on.

In general, a 32-bit MAPI application must not run on a 64-bit platform (64-bit Outlook on 64-bit Windows) without first being rebuilt as a 64-bit application.

For a more detailed explanation, see the MSDN page on Building MAPI Applications on 32-Bit and 64-Bit Platforms

–jeroen

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pandas/Pandas_Cheat_Sheet.pdf at master · pandas-dev/pandas

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/07

pandas – Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

Pandas is on my research list. Some links to get started:

–jeroen

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Anti Patterns Catalog

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/06

Recommended for any software developer or architect: browse [Archive.is] Anti Patterns Catalog and re-read it 6-12 months later, then contemplate if you have improved.

Summary:

This catalog lists AntiPatterns in two ways:

–jeroen (who is re-reading right now).

via:

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