Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
“We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
Source: Hacking is Important — Medium
On hacking vs processes, being disruptive and how people think. Short stories about Borland, Apple, FaceBook and others.
–jeroen
via: Hacking is Important — Medium – David Berneda – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/21
Thanks Daniel Jackson for posting (the DocWiki hasn’t been update yet):
Version Conditional: VER310
Product Version: 24
Package Version: 240
IDE Version: 18.0
Compiler Version: 31
Source: I had expected Embarcadero would have updated the documentation to reflect the…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/21
The below fragment is one of the favourite kinds of examples in the Ruby world:
5.times { |i| print i, " " }
It uses the times method on Integer and prints:
0 1 2 3 4
There are many implementations of this in other languages, for instance Ruby’s ‘times()’ function in C# | Of Code and Me (which the WordPress.com editor fucked up as it replaced Action<int> with Action which is a totally different thing, so the gist with code is below.
public static class IntExtensions
{
public static void Times(this int i, Action func)
{
for(int j = 0; j < i; j++)
{
func(j);
}
}
}
Which you use as
5.Times(i => Console.Write(i));
It’s slightly off as it prints:
01234
I know; nitpicking, but this code works (did I ever tell I love .NET fiddle?):
5.Times(i => Console.Write("{0} ", i));
Well, Mason Wheeler encouraged Asbjørn Heid for the below Ruby Mania in Delphi; just read the comments at In C# nearly everything is an object, so when writing a unit test for a string…
Since the WordPress.com editor fucks up TProc<Integer> into TProc and TProc behaves differently from TProc<Integer>, I’ve included a gist link with the actual code below.
program RubyManiaConsoleProject;
uses
System.SysUtils;
type
TRubyMania = record helper for ShortInt
procedure times(const IterBody: TProc);
end;
procedure TRubyMania.times(const IterBody: TProc);
var
i: Integer;
begin
for i := 0 to Self-1 do
IterBody(i);
end;
begin
5.times(
procedure(i: Integer)
begin
Write(i, ' ');
end
);
end.
It also shows why I hardly use anonymous methods in Delphi: they’re way too verbose.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/19
The good news: Delphi 10.1 Berlin is out and released in Berlin (note: you might want to rename Delphi 10 Seattle into Delphi 10.0 Seattle).
Some links:
- Bug fix list.
- What’s New – RAD Studio.
- From the 10.1 What’s New (thanks David Heffernan):
- To enforce visibility semantics, class and record helpers cannot access private members of the classes or records that they extend.
- Lots of Berlin downloads:
- 30507 RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin Web Install.
- 30522 BDE Installer for RAD Studio, Delphi, C++Builder 10.1 Berlin.
- 30521 RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin FireMonkey Accessibility Pack.
- 30515 GSA accounts: RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin ISO.
- 30514 Delphi and C++Builder 10.1 Berlin ISO:
- 30491 FireMonkey Premium Styles Pack for RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin.
- 30492 VCL Premium Styles Pack for RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin.
- 30510 RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin ISO (incl. Delphi and C++Builder) (same ISOs as above).
- 30509 RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin (incl. Delphi, C++Builder)-30 day trial.
- 30499 IP*Works for C++Builder 10.1 Berlin.
- 30498 IP*Works for Delphi 10.1 Berlin.
- 30500 FastReport VCL 5 for RAD Studio, Delphi, C++Builder 10.1 Berlin.
- 30507 RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin Web Install.
- 30501 FastReport FMX for RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder 10.1 Berlin.
The not so good thing: I won’t be using it for a while as now for like 6 weeks or so, all the embarcadero HTTPS sites have been vulnerable to the DROWN man-in-the-middle attack that has been discovered 20160301.
Which means that even without going around the non-HTTPS partner site, I won’t be able to make a secure connection and install it.
Which gives me more time to play with the Xamarin Visual Studio 2015 integration, the cool stuff that MvvmCross offers and some of the other .NET Goodness at BUILD 2016 – .NET ALL THE THINGS! | Beth Massi
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/14
Visual Studio is a pretty big product and will take over 30GB of disk space after installation
Source: Visual Studio Frequently Asked Questions
LOL. It’s about half the size of recent Delphi versions.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/06
Anders Live – Build 2016 – Channel 9 Stage C907 – Speakers: Anders Hejlsberg, Seth Juarez
Anders explaining about being a pragmatist ever since he started working on the Turbo Pascal predecessor in 1981. It’s been a long way to TypeScript and beyond (:
Lot’s of interesting tidbits about the future of TypeScript and how it relates to other languages.
Source: Anders Live | Build 2016 | Channel 9
Direct URLs:
–jeroen
PS:
The Turbo Pascal predecessors were called Blue Link Software Pascal, Compas Pascal and Poly Pascal as I learned last year while teaching a workshop for DAPUG in Denmark when I bumped into some people working with Anders while he still lived there a long time ago. Later I researched the above links.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/05
The “Official statement” of Embarcadero about their recent hacks are in the form of comments on public messages mentioning the hacks, some asking to take discussions offline.
They forgot to comment on Delphi: disable or change your welcome page to not use the Embarcadero site (as that site has been hacked twice this weekend) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff, so here is their comment from the G+ thread I posted:
FYI: Future versions will no longer have the banner pulled from the website on the start page.
Source: This weekend, the Embarcadero web site was hacked by AnonCoders. once…
I hope it will be the upcoming Delphi 10.1 Berlin version, but given their speed at responding to security threats, I won’t hold my breath.
–jeroen
PS: what a coincidence that I wrote this yesterday on G+:
I know of a few companies that could benefit from more openness.
Ilya Grigorik originally shared: Edge team announced new (EdgeHTML) open issue tracker: http://bit.ly/1S3uhp5 – yay! The times, they are changing.File away!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/22
The comments show some nice links to comparison overviews of hashing algorithms.
New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/FastMM4/tree/Locking_Improvements.New in this version:- Slightly simplifie… – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+
Source: New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/Fa…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/22
Apart from the very interesting poster: the next stop is RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin Version 24.0.22718.6766.
Apparently, I missed the previous RAD Studio 101. Berlin rumour and Tim Anderson mentioning Berlin in New Delphi and C++ Builder Roadmap promises Linux server support « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting as in the Delphi roadmap for 2016 it’s still called BigBen.
The docwiki start page is there, just not open for the public yet: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Main_Page. Like right before Delphi 10 Seattle, it’s only available for writer, l10n, RADBeta, ConnectBeta, Employee.
Similarly, https://sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/branches/RADStudio_Berlin/ is not there: it was added 20160311.
Still the TLS issues have not been solved, so the very bad SSLLabs rating of F stays stays the same as at before the start the 10 Seattle era.
Also apart from some comments, there still is no central official statement of the recent web-site breaches.
I’m not sure what an eminent new Delphi version can be of use when you can’t be sure your account data is secure and the product download is valid (i.e. not tampered with).
In other words: would you really trust a new Delphi version? I won’t yet, at least not for now.
–jeroen
Source: The inheritance tree of all Fire Monkey objects.
RAD Studio 10 Berlin FMX hierarchy
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/17
Stefan Glienke worded it perfectly: Default(typeIdentifier) is a “magic” function that is implemented into the compiler and causes it to generate the correct code – like for records with managed fields it generates a call to FinalizeRecord and some instructions to zero the remaining fields.
Source: I know I can write MyRecordVar := Default(TMyRecordType) because I asked a qu…
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 