This is so cool!
And yes: I can. Even with the big cymbals (:
–jeroen
There is another one with timpani:
And of course there is the live version (9 minutes!)
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It’s Crash-Along Cymbals! Can you keep up with the bonkers finale of Tchaikovsky 4? – London Philharmonic Orchestra
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15
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20180110 – spelen tijdens de finale van “Nu”, de nieuwe show van Claudia de Breij
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/13
Afgelopen woensdag ter afsluiting van de nieuwe show “Nu” van Claudia de Breij met Adest Brass gespeeld in de Leidse Schouwburg.
Dit was echt een geweldige avond!
Meer foto’s op
–jeroen
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R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly missed, not just in the Delphi community
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/19
Last week, Paweł Głowacki passed away. A few words, probably incoherent, as I’m still flabbergasted by the news.
Originally from Poland he had moved to The Netherlands in 2001 (causing his son Mateusz to be far more fluent in Dutch than his dad) while starting to work for Borland, doing the full ride through CodeGear and Embarcadero to Idera as one of their enthousiastic Delphi evangelists.
Having already gone through a rough year myself, it took me some time to sit down and reflect a bit on his sudden passing away.
Most of the information around his passing has been on Facebook.
My current state of mind needs me to jot a few things down, and since Facebook keeps redacting away the information I really want to see (probably a chicken and egg problem, as it also insists showing me stuff I do NOT want to see, causing me to hardly look at Facebook any more, and likely having worsened the issue), below are some links and a screenshot.
Though we didn’t see each other much over the last few years, meeting up was always fun, especially talking about old shared activities (one project, don’t ask, many presentations on conferences and sessions) and his hobbies (for instance diving).
I found out about the latter by sheer coincidence. I’ve a mentally retarded brother for which I’m the curator ad litem. In practice this means not just legal guardian, but also coaching my brother with many events. About 15 years ago, over several years, my brother has stepped up from swimming via snorkeling to shallow water diving (always under supervision of a certified diving instructor).
About once a year, my brothers diving group goes to open water where I suddenly bumped into Paweł of which I knew he did sports (and music: he’s an excellent guitar player) but not exactly which ones.
Some of the coolest Delphi related events we did or attended together were the product launches for the BeNeLux in the early 2010s, ItDevCon conferences in Italy, SDN presentations in The Netherlands and EKON visits in Germany.
Knowing more of each others non-Delphi side, we had much more to talk about. So we mixed conversations about free time and Delphi topics enjoying an occasional drink or two.
I will remember those times. R.I.P. Paweł. All the best to his wife Barbara, son Mateusz, other family members, friends and colleagues.
This is the im memorian that Barnsten – the Benelux reseller for Embarcadero that organised a lot of the events:
This picture is taken in May this year at the Accelerate Your Development event in Bussum by Danny Wind.
In Memoriam – Pawel GlowackiIt is with great sadness that we have to inform you about the sudden loss of Pawel Glowacki. He was only 47 years old. Pawel was employed by Embarcadero as Technical Lead but worked very closely with the Barnsten team because he lived in Amsterdam.
Pawel has had great influence on all the Barnsten events and webinars. He always knew flawlessly what was going on in the development tools market. Many new themes and programs have arisen from consultation with him. Most of you have been in direct or indirect contact with him at the live events or via his webinars, books, blogs, white papers etc.
His optimism, technical knowledge and positive attitude to life left a deep impression, but also a great emptiness at the loss of such a unique individual.
Pawel will be buried this Friday in his homeland Poland.
On behalf of the Barnsten team,
Raymond Horsten
Director
–jeroen
PS:
- Since many search indexes prefer l over ł: Pawel Glowacki.
- Forum thread: [WayBack] Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Paweł Głowacki passed away on Dec 13th …
- About 3 weeks late: [Archive.is / WayBack] Farewell Paweł Głowacki – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community
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25-11-2017 Birmingham (GB) Tattoo 2017 | Flickr
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/01
This was a really cool event to participate in.
–jeroen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adestmusica/sets/72157666840122309/with/37799391455/
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Until someone writes proper string visualisers for the Delphi debugger…
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/31
A few tricks to write long strings to files when the Delphi debugger cuts them off (just because they like using 4k buffers internally);
TStringStream.Create(lRequestMessage).SaveToFile('c:\temp\temp.txt')TIniFile.Create('c:\a.txt').WriteString('a','a',BigStringVar)TFileStream.Create('c:\a.txt', fmCreate or fmShareDenyNone).WriteBuffer(Pointer(TEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(BigStringVar))^,Length(TEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(BigStringVar)))
They all work form the debug inspector, but they do leak memory. See comments below.
Via:
- [WayBack] I remember seeing a trick to write a string from the Debug Evaluate/Modify window to a file, but forgot where. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
- [WayBack] If my alzheimer doesn’t cheating on me there was a discussion about how to save things from evaluator. (Ctrl+F7). – Attila Kovacs – Google+
–jeroen
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“You would make for a great computer programmer”
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/20
A while ago, Joe C. Hecht mentioned for the second time about his family joke along the lines that he had bad grades at school despite being good at the topics. He got tested which resulted in “You would make for a great computer programmer”.
I wonder how this happened with other people in the IT. Did you get yourself a degree in that direction, or teach yourself programming and such?
The reason is that I recognise what Joe wrote: I’m still a bad learner from books or theory as I learn by doing. I specifically didn’t try to get a Computer Science degree as in the late 1980s in The Netherlands it basically was a heavy math degree plus Computer Science topics. So it was basically doing two studies at once and I was only interested in the Computer Science parts.
So I chose studying Chemistry (one of the science topics I really liked at high school) at the closest university to my home so I kept living with my parents.
In 20-20 hindsight this was not the right choice. But at that time I didn’t know about the right choice.
In about 4 years, I finished like 2.5 years of studying, was a geek-prototype (good at computers, bad at people skills) and still did a lot of Computer Science topics (even though the exams would be worthless as back then individual exams didn’t count unless they were part of the main direction of your study). The last year was prepping for practice and advanced topics. I slowly attended less and less sessions and did more and more programming gigs as somehow that was way more fun before slowly bailing out. I also sold network equipment to the university department helping them to connect to the internet and helped a lot of co-students with their computing issues and assignments, learned my way in DOS/3com/Novell/EARN/BITNET/DECNet/SunOS and VAX/VMS based technologies.
I only found out why I bailed out more than a decade later: I was a pragmatic guy learning by doing, not suited for a university that tried educating theorists. Besides that the department I wanted to finish my studies has two four camps: a very theoretic camp (with nice guys: they were the ones wanting internet access very early on), two less theoretic camps fighting each other and a lazy camp filling their days basically with doing as little as possible. A very unproductive and depressing situation. I had worked at the research labs of the paint factory doing research close to my studies, but there was no way the university would allow me to do my research phase there. Even more depressing.
Now (as always, hindsight is 20/20 vision) I know I should have bailed out early on and go for a more pragmatic study maybe not even a university but a polytechnic. On the other hand it helped doing a truckload of Turbo Pascal work (which I started at High School with Turbo Pascal 1 on CP/M with Apple ][+ and //e machines), programming in assembler/prolog/FORTRAN/C, getting connected to the internet (BITNET RELAY chat, mailing lists, early newsgroups, uucp, TCP/IP basics, thick/thin ethernet converters, serial and modem communication with Kermit and FidoNET, gopher, FTP and truckloads more stuff).
It got me into the Delphi, .NET and open source worlds, doing a lot of travel and conference speaking and being an early adopter of many technologies and concepts (some even so early that they only got way popular decades later – like the 1980s “the network is the computer” mantra – or making sense – like the lock semantics topics really became useful when around the century turn single processor machines got multi-processor siblings and a lustrum later multi-core and multi-threading processors became available and ubiquitous around 2010) and taught me that being able to search and find things is way more important than knowing things.
So I wonder about all my followers:
How did your education go and how did you end up in computing?
–jeroen
References via Joe C. Hecht:
- [WayBack] Nduka Tagbo Charles on Twitter: “There is a big difference between people who are smart and the people who got good grades…”
- [Archive.is] Are Programmer Brains Different? – JavaScript Scene – Medium: What can neuroscience teach us about the brains of software developers? A lot.
- it is true Family joke: Back in the 1960’s, my parents had me analyzed – I was a kid bored in school, I made bad grades (especially in math), yet had read the World Book encyclopedia covers to covers many times (and had memorized a good deal of it) and was good with math. The report came back saying “I would make for a great computer programmer”, and that became the family joke… for about a decade. They were right. – via +John Nedoroscik Jr
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One day I will find back my Casio 79QGS-39 Universal Calendar watch from the 1980s
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/08
I think it’s Jan Wildeboer that referred me to the vongestern Blog: Smartwatch 1986: Casio DBX-100 [WayBack] entry.
It’s about database watches (and also shows the DB-520 and DBC-610) which were of the first smart watch generations and reminded me I’ve misplaced my Casio 79QGS-39 Universal Calendar digital LCD watch from the same era (mine was chrome unlike some of the Casio 79QGS-39 images around).
Back then smart watches were focusing on very few things, but did them well, unlike today where they try to be jack of all trades: Niemand braucht Computer in Uhren. Der Artikel fängt langsam an, aber macht gute Punkte zum Ende hin. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ [WayBack]
Hopefully one day I’ll find my smart watch back, get it working and can post some pictures. The battery should be easy to replace though:
–jeroen
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Photographer captures Miami Beach air show with Nikon 800mm and custom rig
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/07
Cool pictures and ditto rig via:
- [WayBack] The TRIAXEZ strikes again: the latest pictures from the Miami Beach Air Show (Nikon D810 + Nikkor 800mm) | Nikon Rumors
- [WayBack] Clever DIY rig for shooting aviation by Jim Winters from NikonMiami | Nikon Rumors
- [WayBack] Photographer captures Miami Beach air show with Nikon 800mm and custom rig: Digital Photography Review
- [WayBack] Photographer captures Miami Beach air show with Nikon 800mm and custom rig – Lars Fosdal – Google+
- OK, this is going to sound tabloid, but I would never have believed what rig that photographer used. It just goes to show that being pragmatic gets you a long way :) It looks like a heavily modified sack trolley.
–jeroen
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One year ago: I’m writer and free software author Pieter Hintjens and I’m dying of cancer, ask me anything! : IAmA
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/10
The end of April and early May are busy times for my marching band Adest Musica. The period includes important days like King’s Day and Liberation Day filled with festivities.
Right before Liberation Day is a much more sober Remembrance of the Dead.
To prepare for that, I usually try to put some time aside to do some reflection on the people I’ve lost over the years.
This year, I took a deep breath and read back through the, now 1 year old, [WayBack] I’m writer and free software author Pieter Hintjens and I’m dying of cancer, ask me anything! : IAmA.
It’s till impressive and well worth reading, both because of the person (Pieter Hintjens), his life and what he went through until his planned death.
Even though Pieter and I only know each other electronically for a short time, I’m still proud of what I learned from him.
The marching band calendar this spring: https://teamup.com/ks7a793f73fc4d5e89?date=2017-04-22&view=l
–jeroen
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BEVRIJDINGSCONCERT OP DE OUDE HAVEN | Oranjevereniging Sassenheim
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/05
Ik ben benieuwd wat mijn broer er van vindt: [WayBack] Aankomende Evenementen | BEVRIJDINGSCONCERT OP DE OUDE HAVEN | Oranjevereniging Sassenheim
Zelf ben ik vanavond hier met de een voorproefje van de WMC 2017 show van Adest Musica: [WayBack] Zeister Taptoe keert terug op Slot Zeist | Korpsmuziek.nl:
De Stichting wilde met de viering van haar 5-harig bestaan en de organisatie van het 5e evenement een kwalitatief hoogstaand programma op een bijzondere locatie. Daarin is het bestuur geslaagd. Op de komende Bevrijdingsdag keert de Taptoe Zeist na bijna 25 jaar eenmalig terug op de historische locatie Slot Zeist. Hier vonden tussen 1984 en 1993 tien eerdere succesvolle taptoes plaats.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 