Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/06
Apart from the mandatory Joel on Software article about Unicode and Character sets, these two articles are of great value too:
Fun to read from that blog is the Historical Technology section including this article:
–jeroen
PS: The mandatory one is The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) – Joel on Software.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/06
Interesting, as this opens LDAP server to a lot more tools and development environments: ADAP Open Source REST API Layer For LDAP | Dr Dobb’s.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/06
Copying the path from the Finder to the clipboard is a bit cumbersome.
A simple way contains a bit of repetitive steps, and to read Mac OS X: Open a Terminal at Folder from Finder:
This simple way was suggested my User Kyle Cronin, thanks!
Some notes:
Another way is using Automator. It is a bit more complex to setup, but the actual usage is easier:
Setting this up is a bit more complex and requires the first 5 steps from Copy file or folder path to the clipboard in Mac OS X Lion | MacYourself:
I’ve skipped the other steps, as I don’t need a keyboard shortcut for this.
–jeroen
via: Copy file or folder path to the clipboard in Mac OS X Lion | MacYourself.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
I learned something new today (thanks Vin Colgin) the Delphi Design-Time Component Name is Limited to 63 characters.
Uwe Raabe found out that this an Object Inspector thing due to this constant in DesignIntf.pas:
const MaxIdentLength = 63;
It has been probably there since Delphi 1 and has been documented on-line since at least Delphi 2007.
I remember having had long (like 100+ character) identifiers in source code, but not in the Object Inspector.
Now I know you can’t (:
–jeroen
via: Vin Colgin – Google+ – Delphi: Design-Time Component Name Limited to 63 characters….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
Fun project with potential: pickhardt/betty that was pointed to me by Ilya Grigorik – Google+.
Betty is a natural language (for now: English based) front end for tools like curl, find, wc, whoami, find, etc.
It requires ruby, and runs on *nix or Mac OS X (where it uses osascript for iTunes).
–jeroen
via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – Betty is an english-like interface for your command line:….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
There is an interesting G+ discussion thread about generic Dictionaries in Delphi.
It covers the stock TObjectDictionary in the Generic.Collections unit, Spring4D, performance characteristics like O(1), O(log n), etc, and implementation details like fill factors and hashing algorithms.
Worth reading at Steve Maughan – Google+ – TObjectDictionary Advice Needed I’ve been using Delphi for….
Since TObjectDictionary hasn’t changed much since the introduction of generics in Delphi, this discussion is valid for at least Delphi XE and up (and probably Delphi 2010 and 2009 as well).
I’m not sure about these last ones as like Andreas Hausladen, I’m cutting back on the Delphi versions I regularly use, which for now are mainly XE6, XE3, XE and 2007).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
One of those StackOverflow gems: permissions – Delphi – setting Full Control on Registry Key – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Too bad Atlassian don’t specify that the {code} tag now supports more languages.
The trick is to specify an invalid one (like JSON, for which you can use javascript), then it emits an error telling you which languages are supported:
Available languages are: javascript, sql, xhtml, actionscript, none, html, xml, java
(Yes I know there is a JIRA MarkDown plugin, but not every customer installs plugins at will)
–jeroen
via: Text Formatting Notation Help – Atlassian JIRA.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Basic@50 would not be complete without This week: five BASICs for the 6502, to mark the 50th… from mos6502 – Google+.
–jeroen
via: Happy 50th birthday BASIC! (via: BASIC at Dartmouth) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
IP geolocation is hard, and very dependent on where you are in the world. Providers giving different or confusing results are not exceptional.
See the struggle at Dan Sohad – Google+ – Hi! I working in a IP locate app. I’m using as “motors”: … where Dan Sohad tries a Delphi implementation.
–jeroen
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