Interesting for vSphere clusters: [WayBack] HOW TO: Configure Shared Diagnostic Partition on VMware ESX host | vStrong.info
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HOW TO: Configure Shared Diagnostic Partition on VMware ESX host | vStrong.info
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/31
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Interesting font comparison site (Courier New versus Lucida Console versus Consolas)
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/31
Font comparisons:
- [Archive.is] Differences – Lucida Console & Consolas
- [Archive.is] Differences – Courier New & Lucida Console
- [Archive.is] Differences – Courier New & Consolas
Via: [WayBack] I forgot in which version of Windows, the command prompt defaulted to the Consolas font… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Based on this, I found more font identification sites:
- [WayBack] WhatTheFont! « MyFonts (where you have to upload an image)
- [WayBack] Fontspring Matcherator :: Find Fonts From An Image (where you have to upload an image or enter an URL; images are limited to 2 megabytes each; URLs have to end in
.jpgor.pngas for instance.jpg:largeand.jpg?s=largefail)- The same engine is used at [WayBack] Identify Fonts – The Font Squirrel Matcherator
I tried both at 
and 
(used bySource: “techorama” – Google Search), but only WhatTheFont managed to get the glyphs and font similar fonts on both, and Matcherator got the glyphs wrong in both images, even after manually cropping.
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What’s the piece of Delphi knowledge you find yourself looking up over and over again…
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/31
From an interesting thread at [WayBack] What’s the piece of Delphi knowledge you find yourself looking up over and over again? For me format strings is probably the thing that most stubbornly… – Lachlan Gemmell – Google+
- [WayBack] format strings
- Generics, as not much has changed in the docs since [WayBack] Overview of Generics or the linked articles:
- [WayBack] Declared Constants: Typed Constants
- File extenions with or without dot? The prefix period is included [WayBack] Delphi Basics : extractfilename command, but the file NAME does not include a prefix backslash:
- [WayBack] irregular syntax, for instance record constants
- [WayBack] variant parts in records
On the generics side, I have wrote a few bits in my blog before, often pointing to information by others (many by Stefan Glienke as his skills on this topic are beyond excellent):
- Delphi Constraints in Generics – RAD Studio XE documentation wiki
- Impossible: Property using Generics in Delphi. Interfaces/classes/methods/fields/constraints/type inferencing are
- How do I test an interface? Should I even do that? | Software on a String
- As Delphi generics are not supported for free functions, wrap them in a record container
- Workaround for Delphi 2010 compiler error “E2076 This form of method call only allowed for class methods” when it infers a generic parameter type
- The Default magic function in Delphi
- Reminder: rebuild my Nullable Types based on Class Operators in Delphi
- Implementing Memoize in Delphi 2009 – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community
- Delphi XE8 things I learned from the first week of G+ reading
- Delphi/Fortran memory allocation difference: row/column major order makes a big difference. StackOverflow answer
- Spring4D: How is the GlobalContainer intended to be used? Are there important don’ts?
- Delphi: do not mix interfaces and classes part X
- If you use Delphi or RAD Studio 10.2.2, ensure you have the latest one installed (build 2004) as it fixes some binary DCU incompatibility bugs
- Reminder to self – proposals for Delphi Language Enhancements, a year later
- Delphi and the joy of Compiler Intrinsics – I cant use “Length” as a TFunc…
- Delphi sorcery: Generics, modules and typeinfo
- Interesting discussion about generic Dictionaries in Delphi (via: Steve Maughan – Google+ – TObjectDictionary Advice Needed)
- Stefan Glienke on Delphi generics: Implementing List Enumerator OfType in Delphi – Stack Overflow
- Implementing Memoize in Delphi 2009 – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community
- Delphi history: No, dynamic arrays do not support a non-zero lower bound, but what if you want them? – via Stack Overflow
- Looking for more examples of Unicode/Ansi oddities in Delphi 2009+
- Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation
- Some interesting Delphi posts by Stefan Glienke – Spring4D maintainer
- Delphi XE8 things I learned from the second week of G+ reading
- Some links to Delphi Unit Testing history
- Default comparers in Delphi used by TArray.Sort (via: Stack Overflow)
- Call for help: Spring4D and Delphi MultiCast events: working for Win32, Win64 and Mac OS X x64, but Android/iOS ARM help needed
- More Delphi PDF manuals (via: Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: The One Manual Every Delphi Programmer Should Have!)
- Some Delphi libraries and ideas you should take a look at (link clearance)
- Some words on Unicode in Windows (Delphi, .NET, APIs, etc)
- Another case against FreeAndNil
- On List growth strategies and memory managers
- RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap – Blogs
- CodeRage 9 Q&A: Advanced RTTI in Object Pascal (Ray Konopka)
- co-worker question: what is better, extension methods or helper classes?
And on records:
- Delphi “Variant Records”, a few notes
- Undocumented Delphi record alignment directive – Chee Wee’s blog: IT solutions for Singapore and companies worldwide
- Record helpers can do wonders for code clarity
- Delphi: ^TNodeData incompatible with PNodeData – {$T+} versus {$T-}
There are some very good books on Delphi though that dig deeper than the documentation:
–jeroen
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Google Music alternatives (as Youtube Music kills playlist data like title and artist fields)
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/30
Google is killing yet another useful (paid!) service [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Google wants to cancel Google Music, in favor of Youtube Music. Meanwhile Youtube Music is killing my playlists by removing titles left and right. This is a trash fire. So there is Spotify. What else exists?… “
–jeroen
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GL-AR300M – GL.iNet: nice small device allowing NAT over WAN, WiFi, 3G/4G modem, or OpenVPN
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/28
Still glad I got a few of [WayBack] GL-AR300M – GL.iNet: it makes travel life so much easier when you cannot use tethering.
I got the model GL-AR300M with external antennas (the GL-AR300M only has internal ones with a much shorter range).
Powered over USB, it runs OpenWRT and can NAT a local network towards an external network on the WAN, WiFi or (via USB) 3G/4G modem.
Despite doing only 2.4Ghz, it was a life saver in many occasions (there is a 5Ghz model, but it has over heating issues).
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Google Project Sunroof – About
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/28
We already have a lot of solar panels, but if you do not and live in the USA, then this might be a good starting point to get a solar estimate for your area, based on the amount of usable sunlight and roof space.
[WayBack] Project Sunroof – About.
–jeroen
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Computer Hardware Chart – Imgur
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/28
Geek pr0n from now all the way back to the 1980s [WayBack] Computer Hardware Chart – Imgur.
Basically all sorts of modules and connectors you find in computers:
- Notebook RAM
- Desktop RAM
- Hard Drives
- CPU Sockets
- Processor Card Slots
- Processor Card Sockets
- I/O ports
- Peripheral Cards
- Desktop Card Slots
- Power Connectors
Via: [WayBack] #NerdPorn Computer Hardware Chart https://imgur.com/gallery/hBE7ZF8 – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
–jeroen
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Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the…
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/27
[WayBack] Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. ROFL. You can grab it from Amazon https://goo.gl/SDP8fU – Markus Korsmeier – Google+
Edit: 20240818 – this shows the drawbacks of using redirecters: the Cyberciti one to which Googl redirects was already dead before Googl got shut down completely:
web.archive.org/web/20221206133240/https://goo.gl/SDP8fU -> https://web.archive.org/web/20221206133240/https://www.cyberciti.biz/go/a/Tshirt-Debugging-is-like-being-the-detective.php -> www.cyberciti.biz/go/a/Tshirt-Debugging-is-like-being-the-detective.php -> www.cyberciti.biz
--jeroen
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Bitbucket: diffing a file between two commits in a git repository
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/27
Example URL to diff Spring.pas over two commits in a git repository (reminder to self: see if I can find similar information for a Mercurial repository):
This diffs the file https://bitbucket.org/sglienke/spring4d/src/master/Source/Base/Spring.pas over these commits
- https://bitbucket.org/sglienke/spring4d/commits/ca8037a2fdecbdbb23d3b997d1160f72838cee02 (a
masterbranch release of version1.2.1) - https://bitbucket.org/sglienke/spring4d/commits/8f4d03020613 (a commit I was historically interested in to update a really old project)
–jeroen
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Joins explained.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/26
Turn your head 90 degrees counter-clockwise around the longitudinal axis [WayBack] Joins explained. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Wait, let me help you:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 