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Archive for April, 2025

Anyone any idea on the contributions of Embarcadero to the LLVM project?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/30

With the huge dependency of Delphi on the LLVM project – basically none of their cross-platform support falls apart without LLVL – I wonder how much Embarcadero and their. mother company Idera contributed back to the LLVM project (which isn’t hard, see [Wayback/Archive] Contributing to LLVM — LLVM 20.0.0git documentation).

I tried these queries with remarkably few results:

The ones found were contributed by [Wayback/Archive] jwiegley (John Wiegley) · GitHub and [Wayback/Archive] atoker · GitHub. I could not find back who atoker is, but John Wiegley was part of the C++ Builder 1 team [Wayback/Archive] The C++Builder 25th Anniversary: Visual Development, the Power of the C++ Language and 2.5 decades of Continuing Excellence but made the patches while working for Boostpro, for instance [Wayback/Archive] [cfe-commits] PATCH [1/2]: Implementation of Embarcadero expression traits.

Hoping the above queries are not good enough: anyone having a more complete idea of the Embarcadero/Idera contributions to the LLVM project?

Especially in the light of this bsky post a while ago:

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Some SQLite things I recently learned a while ago

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/30

More on the reason why I learned a few SQLite things soon, but for my link and documentation archive, below is what I learned.

Most commands use the database file C:\temp\History which has no extension as that is how I got the file in the first place (spoiler: it’s a Chrome browser History from one of my user profiles).

Let’s get started:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, CommandLine, Conference Topics, Conferences, Console (command prompt window), Database Development, Development, Event, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Software Development, SQL, SQLite | Leave a Comment »

Delphi 2006 Hidden COM Registry Entries

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/29

Somewhere in the drafts was a note to refer to an old Chris Bensen blog post on the Embarcadero server: blogs.embarcadero.com/cbensen/2005/12/07/22388

Alas, a lot of Embarcadero stuff is gone, some because of Idera not caring, others because as of Codegear, the team never was good at keeping infrastructure alive, nor cater for proper archiging at the Wayback Machine.

Luckily, the Borland days were different, as I found by browsing web.archive.org/web//http://blogs.borland.com/: almost 10k archived pages!

Searching for cbensen or 22388 then got me the actual post [Wayback/Archive] Delphi 2006 Hidden COM Registry Entries (the last link is dead, the others not indexed by search engines) and quoted below while adding some formatting: Read the rest of this entry »

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DB Browser for SQLite: cross platform, reasonably sized, versatile

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/29

I found [Wayback/Archive] DB Browser for SQLite via [Wayback/Archive] In z’n leren frakske | Tech45 Podcast (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Toon Van de Putte (@toonvandeputte)!).

It is a standalone reasonably sized database browser for the single-process SQLite database (which is itself a file storage replacement for highly table structured data, see below).

With SQLite gaining more and more popularity in standalone application usage (you can even host it inside a web browser session!), I bump in it more often to fix things (more on that in a future blog post), which means that besides the standard console support in SQLite, having a versatile browser is really useful.

DB Browser for SQLite, or in short sqlitebrowser, fulfills that need better than I expected. It’s cross-platform so it works on Mac OS, Windows and Linux (and sort of on WSL2 on Windows, see links below).

Hopefully I can show you how I used it in future blog-posts. For now, and for my link archive, below are just some links to get started.

Oh and the comment: as always with files containing structured data that is randomly accessed you should be really careful when opening them over file-shares or virtual drives like cloud storage.

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“NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES” has been gone from /etc/sysconfig/named since OpenSuSE 15.4

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/28

In the past, I used to modify /etc/sysconfig/named and add entries to the NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES setting, then run /usr/share/bind/createNamedConfInclude
to generate /etc/named.conf.include.

As of OpenSuSE 15.4, /usr/share/bind/createNamedConfInclude has become an empty file and NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES got removed and NAMED_INITIALIZE_SCRIPTS introduced.

So now I changed my playbooks to manually generate /etc/named.conf.include and include it form /etc/sysconfig/named.

Since I hardly perform these new installations, it took a few years for me to find out about this change. Upgrading existing systems somehow kept the generated file and included it.

Related links with quotes as it was hard to find out what changed and how to work around and I wasn’t the only one bump into issues:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, bind-named, Development, DNS, LEAP, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Busch-Jaeger – 6815U schakelmateriaal (comfort, IR)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/28

Voor mijn link archief: links rondom Busch-Jaeger – 6815U schakelmateriaal (comfort, IR) via [Wayback/Archive] busch jaeger 6815 – Google Search..

Doet officieel geen LED en spaarlamp, maar schijnt meestal wel te werken. Hopelijk is dit een opstap voor schakelmateriaal wat altijd met LED en spaarlamp werkt.

Het grote voordeel van deze schakelaars plus bijbehorende functie-kapjes is dat ze tegelijk op IR+tijd en handmatig kunnen werken. Dus vanzelf aan/uit met IR+tijd, maar ook handmatig aan/uit zetten of combinaties.

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Apple iPad dimensions – the complete list – Ebook Friendly

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/25

Reasonably complete list if iPad models and their sizes: [Wayback/Archive] Apple iPad dimensions – the complete list – Ebook Friendly

It is easier to read than lists here:

The reason for searching was that I contemplated about buying a large iPad to use as combination of dual-screen and note reading during music performance/practice.

TL;DR: Large models are iPad Pro 12.9″ (2015-now; 2018-now are still supported by iPadOS) and iPad Air 13″ (2024-now) which has a M2 processor (the same as the 2022 iPad Pro 12.9″)

Query [Wayback/Archive] ipad screen sizes history – Google Search

--jeroen

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No, You Are Not Getting a CVE for That (as it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/25

A great rambling on “It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway” (I really want that printed on a T-Shirt):

[Wayback/Archive] No, You Are Not Getting a CVE for That.

Lot’s of references by [Wayback/Archive] Parsia to great posts by [Wayback/Archive] Raymond Chen mainly on security issues that are not: there is only a vulnerability when you get from the other side of the outside of the airtight hatchway to the inside, not when you are already inside.

And of course this great reference to H2G2 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), a trilogy in five parts by Douglas Adams:

Arthur: But can’t you think of something?!
Ford: I did.
Arthur: You did!
Ford: Unfortunately, it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway—
Arthur: oh.
Ford: —that’s just sealed behind us.
Douglas Adams —Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Fit The Second

Via:

--jeroen

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Finding most recent forks of gists and github repositories

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/24

A while ago I found out that gist.github.com/lynatan/673e574faa8343fa01d7a91e75065c54 which I mentioned before in Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation and I wanted to

  1. find it back
  2. find the most recent forks of it

The reason was that I was working on the [WaybackSave/Archive] bit Time Professionals on X: “Live now: “Hidden Gems of Delphi Language: Operator Overloading and Class/Record helpers” @jpluimers” session which I presented at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Home where I also could enjoy the company of the other [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Speakers and the famous [Wayback/Archive] IT DevCon 2024 speaker dinner (which attendees can also join for a slight surcharge).

The presentation is at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024/delphi_language_hidden_gems/delphi_language_hidden_gems.md at main · jpluimers/ITDevCon2024 · GitHub and pictures of the event at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024 – Google Photos.

Back to the problem at hand

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TIL you can run SQL queries directly against CSV files as a one-liner using the default sqlite3 command line utility

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/24

[Wayback/Archive] One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite | Simon Willison’s TILs

I figured out how to run a SQL query directly against a CSV file using the sqlite3 command-line utility:
sqlite3 :memory: -cmd '.mode csv' -cmd '.import taxi.csv taxi' \
  'SELECT passenger_count, COUNT(*), AVG(total_amount) FROM taxi GROUP BY passenger_count'
This uses the special :memory: filename to open an in-memory database. Then it uses two -cmd options to turn on CSV mode and import the taxi.csv file into a table called taxi. Then it runs the SQL query.
Instead of setting the mode with .mode you can use .import -csv like this (thanks, [Wayback/Archive] Mark Lawrence):
sqlite3 :memory: -cmd '.import -csv taxi.csv taxi' \
  'SELECT passenger_count, COUNT(*), AVG(total_amount) FROM taxi GROUP BY passenger_count'

Via [Wayback/Archive] Simon Willison on Twitter: “TIL you can run SQL queries directly against CSV files as a one-liner using the default sqlite3 command line utility”

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