Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/12
Reminder to self: finish the script that initiated this 2013 question (yes ages ago!) [WayBack] powershell – Format-Table forgets some properties, but Format-List shows them all. Why? – Stack Overflow.
The question was based on code I was really happy I saved in the WayBack machine: WayBack: how-to: Print/List installed programs/applications sorted by date | Tech Off | Forums | Channel 9
So here the question and the answer.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/12
The combination of being partially word blind and having learned English initially from my urge to understand computing books during my (Dutch) secondary education in the mid 1980s, I often have a gap between understanding “daily life” or “real life” English words, especially when they also have a meaning in the computing world.
So it took me a while to get the non-computing meaning of shim.
In computing, shim is used as word for tiny shell that separates two layers, which means my original association was with “sphere”.
Had I associated with an adapter or something that puts space between to layers, it would have been much easier to understand the “real life” meaning of a spacer shim.
Similarly, I had trouble understanding washer (which I associated with washing, and is right: it often means washing machine, but can also mean dish washer, which is an odd word for me as it washes much more than dishes). It took me much longer to get there is an additional meaning for a mechanical construction washer, which is a thin disc (so not a tube-like ring) often used as spacers, so in a sense similar to a shim.
In Dutch, I have the same problem with “wasmachine” (English washing machine) and “afwasmachine” (Dish washer).
To add to the confusion, hardware washers in Dutch are called rings.
–jeroen
All of the above links are from Wikipedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/12
A few tips.
procedure _AbstractError; begin if Assigned(AbstractErrorProc) then AbstractErrorProc; RunErrorAt(210, ReturnAddress); end;
procedure AbstractErrorHandler; begin raise EAbstractError.CreateRes(@SAbstractError); end;
ClassName that has “Allow side effects and function calls” enabledClassName:
if it becomes [WayBack] E2003: Undeclared identifier: 'ClassName', then:
static, but it is actually inside a class, then remove the staticSometimes you cannot perform the last step: class property definitions have to be backed by static class methods.
This usually means you have a bad design anyway: you depend on global/singleton kind of behaviour that is almost impossible to properly test.
A better approach is to have regular object instances for that, then use constructor dependency injection (maybe combined with factory or dependency injection container) to setup the structures of dependencies.
Create a conference summary on the use of class versus instance methods, and static/regular.
Base materials:
–jeroen
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