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Archive for 2018

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Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/16

[WayBack] Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner with sources at [WayBack] GitHub – norgepaul/DUDS

via:

Note the scanner mentioned by Stefan now generates a 404; however there is an archived page.

Future idea: use Delphi AST as parser instead of the current internal tokeniser/parser combination.

And of course there is one in MMX (which has been free for a while now): [WayBack] Unit Dependency Analyzer – MMX

 

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 3 Comments »

Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/16

tl;dr: Finding event handlers registered using jQuery can be tricky. findHandlersJS makes finding them easy, all you need is the event type and a jQuery selector for the elements where the events might originate.

I need to invest some time in using this: [WayBack] Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret

Sourcecode: [WayBack] raw.githubusercontent.com/ruidfigueiredo/findHandlersJS/master/findEventHandlers.js

References:

Via: [WayBack] javascript – Chrome Dev Tools : view all event listeners used in the page – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

macOS Sierra: Change the order of the network ports your computer uses to connect

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/15

Very useful when you want to give your WiFi less priority than an USB or Thunderbolt network adapter: [WayBack] macOS Sierra: Change the order of the network ports your computer uses to connect.

It is not just that the topmost adapter gets more priority: it also determines the DNS search!

Anyway: after choosing “Set Service Order” on the right, choose the order as seen below.

–jeroen

PS: Since Apple is cleaning up their site, only the above WayBack works, but luckily the below link explains it in a very similar way when using Locations:

[WayBack] How to use network locations on your Mac – Apple Support

 

 

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Why Are My Text Messages Stuck Pending | Pushbullet Help Central

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/15

Try this fix first:

For many, this issue goes away by simply reinstalling our Android app on your phone. We suggest giving this a try first.

That didn’t work, but this did:

Check that the correct device is selected in the top left of the SMS interface.

You may have an old device selected, which is preventing SMS from working correctly. Check that the correct device is selected in the drop down. You can remove old devices here.

It looks like all my old smartphones were still there despite not being a SIM card in them. Removing all but my active phone solved the problem.

Source: [WayBack] Why Are My Text Messages Stuck Pending | Pushbullet Help Central

–jeroen

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Aside from the Wayback Machine, what are other options for getting screenshots of websites from the past? – Quora

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/15

I’ve used these myself:

There are many more listed in for instance these links:

IIPC OpenWayBack:

–jeroen

Posted in Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »

TweeterID – Twitter ID and username converter

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/12

Especially HTC devices used to store part of the context information like this:

<HTCData><Twitter>id:11111111/friendof:00000000</Twitter></HTCData>

[WayBack] TweeterID – Twitter ID and username converter:

Convert any Twitter account’s username or @handle into its respective Twitter ID, or convert ID to username

You can also do the Twitter ID to @handle conversion by URL (at the time of writing, neither existed, which is intentional: replace your own ID there) [WayBack] permalinks – URL link to Twitter user with ID, not name – Stack Overflow:

I could not find a twitter URL that does the conversion the other way around.

–jeroen

 

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Zamzar – video converter, audio converter, image converter, eBook converter – via @Matijn

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/12

Even for Geeks like me, this is a great on-line tool for converting media files: [WayBack/Archive] Zamzar – video converter, audio converter, image converter, eBook converter

Thanks Matijn for pointing me to this.

And for nerds there is ffmpeg:

for name in *.ogg; do ffmpeg -i "$name" -ab 128k -map_meta_data 0:0,s0 "${name/.ogg/.mp3}"; done;

–jeroen

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Posted in Audio, Emoticons, ffmpeg, Geeky, Media, Power User, Video | Leave a Comment »

Retr0bright – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/12

For removing the yellowing of ABS plastics:

In addition to homemade gel mixtures, hydrogen peroxide-based hair bleaching creams available at beauty supply stores can also be used as a ready-made mix.

[WayBack] Retr0bright – Wikipedia

More background information:

–jeroen

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MotionEyeOS on Odroid C1+ with Logitech USB web cameras

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/11

Hopefully I get this to work after fixing

The first part of the fix was to

  1. re-image the SD card.
  2. boot
  3. wait 5 minutes (there is no output on HDMI apart from some flickering and no output on TTY using 115200 bits/second despite trying [WayBack] en:c1_hardware_uart [ODROID Wiki])

The second part is getting the USB web cameras to work.

I’ve got two types, but the label on them doesn’t list their common name, only their P/N sometimes with M/N:

  1. P/N 860-000049 M/N V-UBC40 (really old USB cameras)
  2. P/N 860-000334 (new USB camera)

The MotionEyeOS web interface didn’t list any working cameras so I had to do some digging.

Luckily [WayBack] Webcam software and driver support for Windows has a table of part and model numbers combined with product names, so they got revealed them as these:

  1. P/N 860-000334 = M/N V-U0028  with name HD Pro Webcam C920
  2. P/N 861225 = M/N V-UBC40 with name Quick Cam Messenger
    (which is funny as the P/N on the label is different)

Both are supported by motion according to [WayBack] Logitech < Motion < Foswiki though the Quick Cam Messenger needs [WayBack] Quickcam Messenger & Communicate driver for Linux which I should try to cross-compile one day.

The latter works fine. Below are some settings I used.

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database connection – Looking for a generic way to pool TCusomConnection in Delphi – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/11

What is the proper way for pooling of TCustomConnection instances in Delphi, that allows to distinguish between instances that have effectively equal connection properties and the ones that are effectively unequal?

I’ve tried searching the RTL and VCL sources and didn’t find a generic way.

I could copy either of the specific ones I found (see list below) and adapt them to a more generic solution or adapt one of the answers in #16404051 to be for TCustomConnection, but I wonder if there is an existing solution for TCustomConnection in the first place.

Specific ones I found in Delphi XE8:

  • DBX: unit Data.DBXPool
  • FireDAC: unit FireDAC.Stan.Pool
  • IBX: unit IBX.IBConnectionBroker

Source [WayBack] database connection – Looking for a generic way to pool TCusomConnection in Delphi – Stack Overflow

Hopefully by now I’ve some implementation for this that works nicely.

If not, these might get me started too:

In the .NET world, I take these things for granted, and it looks like ADO already does it out of the box as well:

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Is there a Delphi library that allows for pooling of TCustomConnection… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

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