Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/12
A live calculator at [WayBack] Treegonometry: Maths students have the solution for decorating the perfect Christmas tree – Latest – News – The University of Sheffield
Via: [WayBack] 🎅🏻 Victor Hopman 🎄 on Twitter: “Gratis Kersttip, op deze site kun je exact uitrekenen hoeveel kerstballen en slingers je voor je boom nodig hebt, op basis van een wiskundige formule: https://t.co/RJwNby1SlP”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/09
For a family member, I needed a Skype account not to be discoverable. This is a two-part process:
I figured out the first part myself, the initial bit of the second part came from [WayBack] Problem in Discoverability – Microsoft Community, which made me discover the final bit of the second part and the links [WayBack] How do I opt out of being visible in the Skype public search directory on mobile? | Skype Support and [WayBack] How to hide my profile from search in Skype? – Super User.
In the first part, I also unchecked all the other boxes:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/09
I had to lough so loud when I bumped into this [WayBack] The alphabet, in alphabetical order, in various languages – The Old New Thing.
I got there because I wanted a few examples of languages having more than 26 ASCII letters in their alphabet.
Basically all non English languages (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/09
So when another friend for the umpteeth time asks me to find their Windows password: [WayBack] 7 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools (June 2018)
Windows password recovery tools are used to recover Windows log on passwords. Here are the 7 best free Windows password recovery and cracking tools.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/08
When installing many Delphi versions, all have similar icons. So I asked this a while ago: [WayBack] I remember someone creating version specific icons for Delphi a while ago (around XE4 era I think), but cannot find them any more. Anyone who can prov… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.
Luckily Achim Kalwa responded quickly with a set of icons he designed and put them up at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VoYeMmsr6FYgoe9EkR-psrV7aPO7Gv-v
Hopefully by now I have had time to edit them for more Delphi versions (he had them for Delphi XE7 until 10.2 Tokyo).
Delphi XE2 and lower icons seem to be at [Archive.is] Delphi versions and icons, mortenbs.com
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/08
Not sure why, but all of a sudden, SSMS did not code-complete any table or column names any more.
This shows where that setting is [WayBack] Configure IntelliSense (SQL Server Management Studio) | Microsoft Docs.
The odd thing: updating to a more fresh 17.x version solved the problem all by itself.
Anyway, you can change the settings under the section “All Languages”, “Transact-SQL” or “XML”, each in the “General” sub-section:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/08
In the past, [WayBack] WebserviceX.NET used to be a great reference for publicly accessible SOAP web-services. Nowadays their listing contains ~2K of entries marked as DISCONTINUED in [WayBack] WebserviceX.NET API catalogue.
So below are a few sites mentioning web-services that have worked for me. No guarantee however they still work (:
Maybe I’m going to provide something myself.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/07
A very long read, worth every minute: [WayBack] UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? on Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here’s some help.
It covers a truckload of topics, like the history of time, the use of time zones, storing and transmitting time, user experience (like displaying and entering time), events, duration and much more.
Via: [WayBack] UTC is enough for everyone… right? If you have some time on your hands, you might find this rather long article quite interesting and, possibly, entertaining… – Kevin Powick – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/07
Boy, I wish there was both an Embarcadero sanctioned grammar (see Delphi code completion fail with anonymous methods – Stack Overflow) and a DCU parser.
This might work for DCP files as well, since the PKX0 signature at the start of DCP files is in [WayBack] DCU32INT/DCP.pas at master · rfrezino/DCU32INT · GitHub.
Being able to dump DCP files makes it way easier to create documenting a matrix of all DCP files and units, to their interdependencies and containments become clear (including any unit scopes).
Right now that is only documented from the unit to the package on the page of the unit (see for instance [WayBack] System.SysUtils – RAD Studio API Documentation), not the other way around. This is a pain to select which packages you need in your project when building with packages.
The list at [WayBack] Unit List – RAD Studio API Documentation (which actually is an “Alphabetical list of unit scopes, along with miscellaneous units that have no unit scope.” is only partially helpful, especially as for instance the System unit page at [WayBack] System – RAD Studio API Documentation is 90% about the System unit scope, has the System unit itself about a 3rd down and does not mention it lives in the rtl.dcp package.
The list at [WayBack] Deciding Which Runtime Packages to Use – RAD Studio is even worse than the unit list, as it misses many useful packages (like dsnap)
For my link archive:
Johan wanted to create a compiler symbol table from the binary DCU files (unlike DelphiAST which does it from the Pascal source files).
From the pre-Delphi era, I found back some info from my own archive:
In the Turbo Pascal days, you had TW1UNA and TPUUNA by William L. Peavy, which I think led to INTRFC from Duncan Murdoch (or maybe vice versa) which got updated to Turbo/Borland Pascal 7 format by Milan Dadok (see [Wayback/Archive] http://sources.ru/pascal/hacker/intrfc70.htm). Since the basic format of DCU files is very similar to that, my guess is that DCU32INT built on that.
Later I found [Wayback/Archive] The Programmer’s Corner » TPU60C.ZIP » Pascal Source Code also by William L. Peavy and Wayback/Archive] Duncan Murdoch’s Programs .
www8.pair.com links to murdoch-sutherland.com–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/07
I see lots of code using abbreviations. Please avoid those, just like many development stacks urge you to do so.
Two important reasons:
This is not limited to the software development field; for similar reasons, the medical field also limits the use of abbreviations and acronyms:
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