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Archive for 2019

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Did Apple remove dashboard in MacOS Catalina? – Appleosophy

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/10

It was fun while it lasted: [WayBack] Did Apple remove dashboard in MacOS Catalina? – Appleosophy

I especially like the iStat Pro (though unsupported) widget, and that you can have a dashboard without the need to go on-line.

Related: [WayBack] Dashboard (macOS) – Wikipedia

Via: [WayBack] Apple verwijdert dashboard met widgets uit macOS Catalina – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers

If might be that Übersicht can help me, but I am not sure yet if there is a good iStat Pro equivalent for it.

Future links to investigate:

–jeroen

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macos – User account no longer in ‘admin’, how to recover? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/07

For my link archive:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User | Leave a Comment »

When %windir%Temp is filling up your disk: some notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/07

On my research list as I’m not sure if these are related:

–jeroen

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ls colour codes on OpenSuSE tumbleweed when accessed from Mac OS X ssh

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/07

`ls` colour codes

`ls` colour codes

I got confused as I thought red text would mean an error.

But they’re not: greenish yellow on a read background means error (a symbolic link to a place that’s no longer there).

It’s the output of https://github.com/gkotian/gautam_linux/blob/master/scripts/colours.sh as the one at

Actually the script is here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gkotian/gautam_linux/master/scripts/colours.sh as the one at [WayBack] command line – What do the different colors mean in the terminal? – Ask Ubuntu failed with errors like this one:

-bash: *.xbm: bad substitution

The full script output is below.

Since various terminals have a different mapping from colours in the ANSI escape code colour table, I used the standard HTML colours using (which slightly differs from the Terminal.app screenshot on the right):

References:

Note that the shell on Mac OS X uses a different way of configuring colours CLICOLOR as described in [WayBack] settings – CLICOLOR and LS_COLORS in bash – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange. I might cover that another day.

Script output:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ANSI escape code, bash, CSS, Development, Encoding, HTML, HTML5, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Software Development, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Re-read “I am looking for a good replacement for INI files for storing large/complex configuration”

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/06

Reminder to re-read [WayBack] I am looking for a good replacement for INI files for storing large / complex configuration. So far I have used JvApplicatoinIniStorage + a custom INI f… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

INI files are textual and allow for comments. They are not good at large bits of information, and are hard to compare because the order is unimportant.

Alternatives like JSON or DFM have similar limitations.

XML is too chatty, and hard to get right by humans.

Related: [WayBack] JSON as configuration files: please don’t

–jeroen

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What not to estimate: defects, spikes and (in during sprint planning): stories.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/06

A few nice reads on that not to estimate and why:

Related:

Via:

–jeroen

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Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 3 of 3) – grijjy blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/06

Reminder to self to check out [WayBack] Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 3 of 3) – grijjy blog and see if by now it supports authentication.

Repository: grijjy/DelphiMongoDB: A Delphi driver for MongoDB

Via: [WayBack] We finish our trilogy on big databases with a Delphi driver for MongoDB. – Erik van Bilsen – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »

windows – How to simulate drop-down form in Delphi? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/05

Since I might need it one day: [WayBack] windows – How to simulate drop-down form in Delphi? – Stack Overflow

Via [WayBack] for whatever reason this SO question from 2015 showed up in my rss stream as “new or updated”. Interesting though. – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

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Friday Deploys, and other harmful BOFH memes – The Isoblog.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/05

The answer to the meme on the right:

If you are having problems deploying on a Friday, you will have them at any time of the week. Your processes are broken.

Source: [WayBack] Friday Deploys, and other harmful BOFH memes – The Isoblog.

via: [WayBack] Friday Deploys and other harmful BOFH memes – they need to die in a fire… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Kristian argues that people finding the meme funny should get fired.

I still find it funny. Both in a way that I’m surprised so many BOFH are still there, as well as being happy that on many occasions I’ve helped making this a thing of the past or at least make organisations aware of the deployment risks and how to cope with them.

Do I need to change? Definitely: life is all about learning new things every day and change because of that.

Do I need go get out of a job or a new job? Likely at some point because life is all about change. Hopefully I’ve learned enough by then to find another gig where – in addition to applying my tech skills – I can spread awareness and knowledge. And learn new things. Did I tell about life is all about learning?

Related: [WayBack] by michielrook.nl:

https://speakerdeck.com/mrook/i-deploy-on-fridays-and-maybe-you-should-too

Via: [WayBack] @michieltcs: I deploy on Fridays (and maybe you should too): https://speakerdeck.com/mrook/i-deploy-on-

–jeroen

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GrijjyCloudLogger, remote logging for Windows, iOS, Android, macOS and Linux – grijjy blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/05

Interesting use-case based on ZeroMQ and Google Protocol Buffers: [WayBack] GrijjyCloudLogger, remote logging for Windows, iOS, Android, macOS and Linux – grijjy blog.

Everything is Open Source at GitHub:

Via: [WayBack] The Grijjy team is proud to introduce our GrijjyCloudLogger, https://blog.grijjy.com/2017/08/22/grijjycloudlogger-remote-logging-for-windows-ios-android… – Allen Drennan – Google+

–jeroen

Related: For my research list: Delphi and ZeroMQ

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