Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/30
Thanks DD59 for posting these interesting links:
I like the name `Xeger`.
–jeroen
via: xml – Generate a valid example value for a xs:pattern – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24
Cool:
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For the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 freaks out there: WDC, who still produce the chips, have made their Programming the 65816 Including the 6502, 65C02 and 65802 available for free again (see link below). It’s the standard reference for the new version of these CPUs. Yes, this will be on the test. Ping +Alan Cox HT to BDD on 6502.org
–jeroen
For the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 freaks out there: WDC, who still produce the….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24
Once every while you still do WinForms work, and bump into something you hadn’t bumped into before.
This time it was trying to set ForeColor = Color.Red on a ReadOnly TextBox for displaying error messages:
When setting a TextBox from ReadOnly = false to true sets the BackColor from SystemColors.Window (usually white) to SystemColors.Control (usually light grey), and leaves the ForeColor to SystemColors.WindowText (usually black).
Setting ForeColor = Color.Red (funny there is a plural in SystemColors but not in Color) it doesn’t display it as such:
To my surprise, the TextBox had ReadOnly text (you could copy, but not modify it), which showed with a a grey (SystemColors.Control) BackColor and a black (SystemColors.WindowText) ForeColor: the defaults for a ReadOnly TextBox, not using my ForeColor = Color.Red;
I vaguely remembered there was some odd way of solving this, but since I hadn’t written a blog article about it back then (somewhere around .NET 1.x or 2.0 I didn’t have a blog yet), I was glad that Cheetah posted this answer on StackOverflow: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/23
If you are into serious software development, then this is a 75 minute PodCast you must listen to: Episode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later : Software Engineering Radio.
Abstract
Johannes Thönes talks with Erich Gamma, Ralph Johnson and Richard Helm from the Gang of Four about the 20th anniversary of their book Design Patterns. They discuss the following topics: the definition of a design pattern and each guest’s favorite design pattern; the origins of the book in architecture workshops; the writing of the book together with the community; the rock-star feeling at the release of the book at OOPSLA conference; the influence of the book on the industry; the evolution of the Observer pattern; and new patterns since the book was released. The interview closes with each guest talking about their current projects.
What I liked
Of course I enjoyed the history of the Gang of Four (and am still sad that John Vlissides passed away).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/23
Found back an awesome post from about 16 months back: Am I really a developer or just a good googler? – Scott Hanselman.
I admin that I’m both, not only for development, but also for life hacking and a lot of other stuff I do.
There is so much information, that you can’t know or remember everything.
In fact one of the reasons I started my own blog, contribute to sites like StackOverflow, newsgroups, and speak/visit at events (conferences, user groups, etc) is that I don’t know everything and the interaction helps me learn more.
One of the cool things, is when Googling for some information, I stumble upon one of my own blog entries or other online contributions (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/22
For my link archive: the “old” stats page, as it shows more information in a better formatted way (especially on larger monitors) My Stats — WordPress.com.
The “new” stats page used only half the screen width (long live responsive layout): Stats ‹ 7443331 — WordPress.com.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/20
Earlie this month, I wrote a review about Delphi Cookbook.
Well: as of last thursday, you can get that for USD 5 (or EUR 4.80, so better get yourself a USA account: just ensure your address is in the USA).
Heck: until januari 6th, you can get any eBook or Video on Packt for USD 5.
Note there is even an x-Mas countdown on the way (with each day a free book that is readable/downloadable for 24 hours).
There’s over 2500+ books to choose from, so I’m grabbing this chance to learn a few things on OpenCV, Scala, and PowerShell.
–jeroen
via: Book review: Delphi Cookbook by Daniele Teti, Packt publishing.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/18
Interesting comment by Marco Cantu:
R&D at Embarcadero is working on a 64bit iOS compiler, oh well actually 2 of them, also C++. We’ll support 64bit and “universal binaries” (bundling both 32 and 64 bit binaries) requested by Apple.The Feb 1st requirement is only for new apps, not for updating existing ones, but still we are trying to make a solution available by that time.The roadmap describes the entire year, more than the individual release. This time around we are trying to have it public by January, covering what we expect to deliver in 2015.
–jeroen
via: Just got another reminder from Apple about 64 bit IOS requirements from Feb….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/17
A small follow up on MVVM, MVP, MVC, OOD, etc: it is all about structure and using common sense:
When you want to do MVVM with Delphi, there is a great Delphi MVVM demo that Malcolm Groves gave at CodeRage 7 that is on YouTube.
A few resources you should look at after viewing that demo:
Some of it might work with Delphi XE2, but I think you need XE3 or younger for most of the demos.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/16
Two ways to do a case insensitive string replace without using RegEx (which often is not a solution).
Thanks User Tim Schmelter for pointing me at those.
–jeroen
via: Is there a case insensitive string replace in .Net without using Regex? – Stack Overflow.
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