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kugelfish: Google+ Migration – Part II: Understanding the Takeout Archive

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/24

If you want to process the JSON form the Google Take Out, then below are some resources that will help you get started developing

Started developing you say?

Yes, of course the JSON does not match APIs any more, and of course Google has not provided and starting point or guidance.

A perfect execution of Sunset.

So you are on your own with:

All via [WayBack] Continuing the takeout data migration process with a first look at the data that is in the archive. – Edward Morbius – Google+

In the mean time, some people started hosting their HTML take out, for instance:

Here you have to note that the take out does not include media, and many hyperlinks still point to within Google Plus itself, for instance for circles and avatars.

Example:

–jeroen

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User Experience topics like “Why does Explorer use the term KB instead of KiB”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/24

Designing for a good user experience is hard, especially to programmers. So if you are a programmer, please read, let them sink in, rinse, repeat the below linked articles multiple times. Being ~15 years old, they are still so very relevant:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Usability, User Experience (ux), Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

PC to TV HDMI image too large for screen – [Solved] – Graphics Cards

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/23

Someone Somewhere said:

It’s a setting in the TV. Look for terms like ‘overscan’ , ‘pixel perfect’, ‘1:1’, or similar. Usually under the HDMI settings for that input.

In my case (my mother’s Samsung), the original setting was 16:9 which failed. What works is screen fit. Go figure.

Source: [WayBack] PC to TV HDMI image too large for screen – [Solved] – Graphics Cards

–jeroen

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How to Integrate ILMerge into Visual Studio Build Process to Merge Assemblies? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/19

On my research list for Visual Studio 2017 and up: [WayBack] How to Integrate ILMerge into Visual Studio Build Process to Merge Assemblies? – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/19

Via [WayBack] Your cut and paste skills are in demand ##IL – Christoph Puppe – Google+:

–jeroen

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Display the relationships between formulas and cells – Excel

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/18

The “Formulas” tab has to buttons that help to Display the relationships between formulas and cells – Excel [WayBack]:

  • Precedent cells —   cells that are referred to by a formula in another cell. For example, if cell D10 contains the formula =B5, then cell B5 is a precedent to cell D10.
  • Dependent cells —    these cells contain formulas that refer to other cells. For example, if cell D10 contains the formula =B5, cell D10 is a dependent of cell B5.

To assist you in checking your formulas, you can use the Trace Precedents and Trace Dependentscommands to graphically display and trace the relationships between these cells and formulas with tracer arrows, as shown in this figure.

Worksheet with tracer arrows

Related:

–jeroen

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The Delphi Geek: Data-driven Multithreading

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/18

Still on my reading list because it is relevant to many programming environments: [WayBack] The Delphi Geek: Data-driven Multithreading.

Related:

–jeroen

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Nick Craver – Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment – 2016 Edition

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/18

It sounds long ago, but this post is still so relevant for anyone not yet bringing operations and development close together. And for those who did:

  • automate the heck out of everything
  • make lots of mistakes as early as possible so you can fix them before the hit any of your production sites

[WayBack] Nick Craver – Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment – 2016 Edition

The relevance is why Nick repeated it in 2018 in a response to a @ThePracticalDev discussion right after the first Falcon Heavy deployment, and why I repeat it now.

–jeroen

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Fast-Forward »: My Lazarus External Tools (and Delphi External tools)

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/17

For my link archive if I want to make Explorer (for Linux caja) or console shortcuts to source or target directories: [WayBack] Fast-Forward »: My Lazarus External Tools with these XML files from [WayBack] Lazarus External Tools · GitHub:

And the Delphi equivalent from 2004: [WayBack] Fast-Forward »: My Delphi Tools, which addes “Open Source in Notepad2” and “Start Resource Explorer”.

via: [WayBack] Ondrej Kelle – Google+

–jeroen

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Working around [Fatal error] F2084 Internal errors like AV101E53EB-R0000000C-0

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/17

A few notes from my response to [WayBack] [Fatal error] F2084 Internal error : AV101E53EB-R0000000C-0 I’m getting this when trying to do some code completion. Any idea ? – Stéphane Wierzbicki – Google+:

This compiler related error usually made it go away for me either when it occurs during project compilation or when using code completion: Close the IDE. Delete your DCU files. Then restart the IDE.

Starting fresh gives a high chance if fixing this unless it is indeed a compiler related error in which case it returns. For that you need to trim down your code to see under which circumstances.

Reasoning (please shoot at it when things are wrong/missing):

Both the IDE code completion and the project compilation use the compiler. The DCU cache is shared between these compiler instances. The DCU cache depends on internal memory structures. Various pointer related errors (both from the IDE, compiler and 3rd party extensions) can damage this cache.

Especially weak IDE uses of the compiler are the find symbol and rename symbol functionalities. I’ve stopped using those about a decade ago.

Sometimes the F2084 (which I often mistype as F2048) is indeed an error in the compiler. Over the years, some of them have been fixed too. See my earlier articles on F2084.

–jeroen

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