Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/18
I forgot about it, but this thread (which got wiped by Embarcadero) reminded be about the differences between these two character values.
Quoting from the first post:
c1 := #128; c2 := chr(128); Assert(c1 = c2);
the assertion fails, meaning that c1 <> c2.
In fact c1 =
#$20ACand c2 =#$80.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/15
These Smashing people provide real concise info.
Note their quite though:
Disclaimer: the things we’ll talk about in this article today won’t make you a security expert, just as buying a Swiss Army knife won’t make you a locksmith or buying a whip won’t make you a lion tamer. The purpose here is to raise awareness and perhaps make some of that security mumbo-jumbo a bit more understandable to you.
Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem? – Smashing Magazine.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/14
In todays fusion of Web 2.0 and mobile users, performance is key again.
The below article by Christian Heilmann explains the what and how of improving your website performance.
It contains references to the current tools that help you measure and improve performance.
The article also references some interesting videos, and people that lead in performance improvement.
Recommended reading!
Quote:
Even if you don’t have millions of users (yet), consider one very important thing: people are consuming the Web nowadays less with fat connections and massive computers and more with mobile phones over slow wireless and 3G connections, but they still expect the same performance. Waiting for a slow website to load on a mobile phone is doubly annoying because the user is usually already in a hurry and is paying by the byte or second. It’s 1997 all over again.
Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do – Smashing Magazine.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/14
It seems that IT problems are not limited to large corportations, or are they?
Charles Petzold (not only of “Windows Programming” fame) recently got his charlespetzold.com domain hijacked by his former ISP.
So if his web-site looks like an earthlink advertisement, just load his web-site by IP-address (http://140.174.69.91/).
He wrote an hilarious blog entry about this: Petzold Book Blog – Dear EarthLink Customer Support.
All of his material (both computer and other stuff) is recommended reading.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/12
Finally someone who explains this topic well: CodeProject: Multi-Threading in ASP.NET.
Most of it is based on Web 405 “Building Highly Scalable ASP.NET Web Sites by Exploiting Asynchronous Programming Models” by Jeff Prosise, which should be here on the Microsoft events site (which currently has connection problems) and is referenced here and here.
Recommended reading!
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, Development, IIS, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/12
I just re-reported this in in QC as 81060, but wanted to let you know that there is a bug in TCustomGrid.InvalidateCol and TCustomGrid.InvalidateRow which has been there since at least Delphi 4 Delphi 1 (InvalidateRow) and Delphi 2 (InvalidateCol) and still present in Delphi 2010.
Both methods will not invalidate the entire Row/Col but only the Left/Top most cells of that Row/Col.
So the invalidate the absolute rectangle in stead of the visible rectangle.
You will see this behaviour when you have a virtual grid that is larger than the actual grid on the screen, you scroll through that grid, and perform your own drawing.
Boths bugs are easy to fix, have been reported in QC as number 8472 before (and reported even before QC existed), but denied as ‘test case error’ in stead of being investigated further.
The earliest reference I could find on them is as number 531 in the Delphi Buglist, by Rune Moberg, long time and well respected Delphi developer and bikedude.
Some of the 3rd party grid vendors are also to blame: they seemed to have worked around it without pressing the Delphi team to solve the issue.
For instance, the infamous rxgrid, just invalidates all Rows within InvalidateCol. Now that is pure overkill, as my solution will show. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/05
Getting different architectures to talk can be a pain, even when using standards like SOAP.
In this case, the .NET WSDL imports Delphi generated WSDL in a different manner than you’d expect at first sight: when having both an ‘out’ parameter and a function ‘result’, the ‘result’ is not imported well.
But alas: SOAP didn’t accommodate for this situation in the past, and now SOAP now has some additions to solve this.
Bruneau Babet explains this here: [WayBack] SOAP inconsistency? Delphi 2010 (Win32) Server and .NET Client swapping ‘out-parameter’ and ‘result’. – Stack Overflow.
There he explains how to use the parameterOrder attribute, which the Delphi WSDL importer and exporter still do not support.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/05
I always forget the pragma syntax, because it differs substantially from the #if syntax, and I hardly use #pragma.
Contrary to #if … #endif, there is no #pragma … #endpragma.
Instead, there is #pragma warning disable ### … #pragma warning restore ###).
Ken Evans wrote a nice blog article about it (a long time ago, but it is still current): Kirk Evans Blog : Suppress warnings in C# 2.0.
And of course: the official docs, which indicate that when you omit the warning list in a #pragma warning restore, then all warnings are restored.
You can get the error numbers from the compiler output window (no, the errors/warnings/hints window does not show the numbers, that would be to obvious).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/05
Gerrit Beuze just announced the new beta of ModelMaker Code Explorer 8.
For me, ModelMaker Code Explorer (especially at a price of only EUR 99!) is an indispensable tool for both creating new sources, and maintaining old sources (the refactorings it can do are awesome, but there are many other useful features in it as well).
Over the years, I’ve been using interfaces in Delphi more and more.
Actually, in some of my projects almost all classes implement interfaces.
Therefore, I’m particularly glad with the new feature ‘auto complete style drop down list’ in the ‘Edit Class dialog’ that this beta brings.
More info: ModelMaker Code Explorer 8.02 beta.
Note: if you use Visual Studio, there is a Visual Studio edition of ModelMaker Code Explorer too.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2009/12/31
One of the things in usability is to enable old skoop people that have been using.
Windows 7 went even further than Windows Vista into changing start menu functionality and explorer functionality that had been there since Windows 95.
So things that have been working for over a decade, suddenly stopped to work, or worse: work differently.
Would you imagine what happened when someone reordered the pedals in a car (from left to right are clutch, brake and throttle) or reassign their functionality?
So some people gathered and wrote Classic Shell.
Now someone please restrore the “backspace” keyboard behaviour back to “go one level up in the folder tree” as it had been for more than a decade…
–jeroen
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Usability, User Experience (ux) | 4 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 