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.NET/C#: Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few great MSDN magazine articles helping you write better threading code

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/17

Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few very nice MSDN magazine articles. Not all of them have ended up in the list at MSDN magazine, so here is a more complete list:

Though the articles show the majority of sample code in C#, the actual topics are of great interest to any developer writing .NET code or interfacing to it.

Some keywords in his articles: Read the rest of this entry »

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2 More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1986

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/17

2 more issues got on-line both close to a 100 pages each:

So the only issues missing are #28, #30 and #31.

–jeroen

via: More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1987 and 1988 « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, C, C++, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Prolog, x86 | Tagged: , | 1 Comment »

Time for a golden oldie: Pragmatic Software Development Tips

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/09

From the century start era of The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Pragmatic Programmer, a – still valid – list of Pragmatic Software Development Tips.

From Care About Your Craft, via DRY, Some Things Are Better Done than DescribedKeep Knowledge in Plain Text, Work With a User to Think Like a User, Find the Box, and many others till Sign Your Work.

–jeroen

via: The Pragmatic Bookshelf | List of Tips.

Posted in .NET, C++, Cloud Development, COBOL, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, Fortran, iSeries, Java, Pascal, RegEx, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 3 Comments »

More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1987 and 1988

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/08

Last quarter, 11 issues of Micro Cornucopia appeared on BitSavers including the final May 1990 issue.

This month, another 7 issues appeared, most of which cover a form of Pascal in one or more of the articles and advertisements:

A fun thing to notice are the advertisements for Modula-2. Logitech Modula-2. Yes though the Logitech Wikipedia page does not mention it at all, Logitech didn’t only sell mice, keyboards and web-cams. They had more products. Being Swiss, they were big in Modula-2. And Bitsavers has a PDF of that too: Logitech_Modula-2_86_1.0_Feb84.pdf

The only issues still to be scanned are #28 till #32.

–jeroen

via: New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers including the Final May 1990 issue « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, C, C++, Delphi, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal, x86 | Tagged: , , , , | 2 Comments »

Convenient when translating C header files: Delphi to C++ types mapping (Embarcadero docwiki)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/07

A while ago I was involved in a C header file translation for the header files of the IBM WebSphere MQ family of products, and the table helped a lot for the base types:

Delphi to C++ types mapping – RAD Studio.

A few C things missing there:

These articles helped resolving the missing bits:

Now we can do SOA between System i (a.k.a. iSeries, aka AS/400) from Windows 7.

–jeroen

PS: Later I found someone else also did a lot of work on this and published http://www.milosev.com/Download/WebSphere/WebSphereD2009.rar [WayBack] (thanks Murat Mutlu for pointing me at that) with a very thin note at http://www.milosev.com/32-mq/mq/171-delphi-2009.html [WayBack]

Posted in C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Delphi 2006, Delphi XE2, Development, MQ Message Queueing/Queuing, Software Development, WebSphere MQ | Leave a Comment »

A few more interesting links on Delphi, C# and CLR history (trip down memory lane; Peter Sollich)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/27

The continuation of the trip down memory lane

Few people know the name Peter Sollich, as he always chose not to be a public figure (for instance, he is absent on the Outstanding Technical Achievement video).

Peter has been very important for both the Delphi and the .NET worlds: he was the original author of the 32-bit product that became the Delphi x86 compiler.

A few interesting links came up when using his name in some Google searches.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, .NET CF, C++, C++ Builder, Delphi 1, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

Immensely insightful answer on “syntax – Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?” at Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/30

Thanks Warren Postma for this Google Plus mention: both the question and answer are incredibly insightful.

And indeed: the code from the answer is not possible in with Generics Delphi (:

–jeroen

via: syntax – Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers (including the Final May 1990 issue)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/26

Back in the days I started programming, Micro Cornucopia was a wonderful magazine, so I’m glad that BitSavers scanned a few more issues and put them online today, a week after some great PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993):

They covered a lot of languages (x86 and 68k assembly, C, C++, Turbo Pascal and many more), and very interesting hardware designs.

–jeroen

via: Index of /pdf/microCornucopia.

Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, C, C++, Delphi, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal, x86 | Tagged: , , , | 2 Comments »

New BitSavers.org PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17

The PDF Archive at bitsavers.org has recently put online these raster image PDF scans from Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994) and Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993)

Remnants of the past, usefull for RAD Studio, Delphi and C++ Builder developers wanting to know a bit of history (: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, Borland C++, C, C++, Delphi, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal, x86 | Tagged: , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

C#: any c# – .NET Enumeration allows comma in the last field – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/06

Thanks Nick Craver for answering this on StackOverflow.

Array initializers can be specified in field declarations (§17.4), local variable declarations (§15.5.1), and
array creation expressions (§14.5.10.2).

The array initializer can end in a comma, which makes some things way easier (boy, I wish I had this in other programming languages).

From Nick’s answer:

It has no special meaning, just the way the compiler works, it’s mainly for this reason:

[FlagsAttribute]
public enum DependencyPropertyOptions : byte
{
Default = 1,
ReadOnly = 2,
Optional = 4,
DelegateProperty = 32,
Metadata = 8,
NonSerialized = 16,
//EnumPropertyIWantToCommentOutEasily = 32
}
[/language]By comment request: This info comes straight out of the ECMA C# Specification (Page 363/Section 19.7)

“Like Standard C++, C# allows a trailing comma at the end of an array-initializer. This syntax provides flexibility in adding or deleting members from such a list, and simplifies machine generation of such lists.”

–jeroen

via c# – .NET Enumeration allows comma in the last field – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C++, Delphi, Development, Java, JavaScript/ECMAScript, PHP, Software Development, VB.NET | 5 Comments »