Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Merry Christmas:
Joe C. Hecht of Code4Sale, LLC is very proud to announce that the ÜberPDF™ SDK version 1.0 is now complete, is ready for public distribution, and will be made available for download in the next few days.
More details at [WayBack] The ÜberPDF™ SDK is DONE! – COMPLETE BUILD SYSTEM – 100% OPEN SOURCE – ALL PLATFORMS – ALL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/21
Since I’m pressed for time, but didn’t want to wait until putting the dumps on-line, below is a rendering of my gist QCScaper ClientDataSet XML dump results – README.md.
Wishing everybody a great holiday season!
This gist contains two QCScaper XML dumps of the http://qc.embarcadero.com content taken a few days after it came up.
There are four files: two files per dump (both in plain downloaded format as well as formatted with
tidy -xml -utf8for easier comparison, for instance with Beyond Compare).Each file is compressed uzing 7-zip as the original files would each exceed the 100 megabyte gist size limit; please see https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#truncation
- (tidy)
QCScraper.Anonymous.cds.xml.7zhas the data that you get when you are not logged on atqc.embarcadero.com- (tidy)
QCScraper.Regular.cds.xml.7zwas generated using a fresh new EDN accountThere are slight differences because of the internal QC architecture, which you can for instance see in issue #7788
- http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=7788
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171221120117/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=7788
- https://archive.is/CEx5m
Hopefully I will find some time later to blog about this in a better way.
Related links:
- http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/2017/06/09/how-to-save-qualitycentral/ (describes QCScraper)
- http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/downloads/download-info/qcscraper-zip/ (QCScraper source code)
- http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/downloads/download-info/qcscraper-compiled-exe/ (QCScraper executable)
- https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/cdn4JGLp8P3 (asking for help in https://plus.google.com/communities/103113685381486591754)
- https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/bKigepTHdcE (asking for help on https://wiert.me/2017/12/20/qualitycentral-report-95543-an-overloaded-routine-cannot-be-assigned-to-the-method-reference/)
- https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/jbh7WBPs8MQ (QC issues I forgot to archive which I will do shortly)
- https://plus.google.com/+DalijaPrasnikar/posts/Z5nJ2A6Sy1X (QC being down earlier)
- https://wiert.me/2017/06/05/embarcadero-qualitycentral-is-dead-man-decades-of-customer-work-down-the-drain/ (which now at least temporarily has been undone)
Entries I still need to look at:
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=139278
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=139126
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=23840
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=118124
–jeroen
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/21
About a year ago, Vincent Parret proposed many [WayBack] Delphi Language Enhancements that a lot of developers feel long overdue.
It sprouted a nice G+ discussion at [WayBack] Blogged – Delphi Language Enhancements – Vincent Parrett – Google+
Now this post is a reminder for myself to check out how Idera lived up to the promises they made in that thread.
Evaluation time…
I just found out that Vincent beat me a few days before I scheduled my post (I wrote my post about a year ago): [WayBack] Just over a year ago, I wrote a blog post where I listed some ideas for enhancing the Delphi language… – Vincent Parrett – Google+
Recommended reading.
Oh BTW: in that thread there was a cool way simulating interface helpers by hardcasting an interface to a record having only one field typed as the interface:
[WayBack] [Delphi] Interface helper proposal – Pastebin.com. By Stefan Glienke. Who else (:
In addition, Allen Bauer chimed in with some great insights.
Finally Document Insight author [WayBack] Baoquan Zuo – G+ posted with more suggestions:
I would suggest Embt consider introducing standard function
NameOfandinterface helper. These two features will fundamentally changes a lot of things with “minimum” cost.
His thread too has some really nice comments.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/21
I started this post as “A case against FreeAndNil” but soon found out about [WayBack/Archive.is] A case against FreeAndNil – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community.
Recently I was refactoring a bunch of code that was classed based to become interface based.
The old code had a lot of references to classes like this:
FMyField: TMyClass;
The compiler had detected those as compiler errors so now they were like this:
FMyField: IMyInterface;
But the compiler would still happily compile code (for instance in destructors) containing:
FreeAndNil(FMyField);
The only way that FreeAndNil can be implemented is with an untyped var parameter:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/20
Since I bumped into this while qc.embarcadero.com was down, and quality.embarcadero.com is not publicly indexed and requires an account to be able to manually search:
I’m not sure how long qc.embarcadero.com will be up again, so if people can help archiving these entries in the WayBack machine: please indicate how you can help.
Thanks a lot!
I bumped into [Archive.is] QualityCentral Report 110364: Open Interface methods are not assignable to anonymous method variable which is related to [WayBack/Archive.is] QualityCentral Report 95543: An overloaded routine cannot be assigned to the method reference.
The former is now tracked as RSP-13007, but I could not find back the latter (JIRA search keeps insisting it cannot find 95543).
The latter is the actual problem I was having: this is code that does not work:
{ Expected: the test case gets compiled.
Actual: E2010 is issued.
}
procedure foo; overload;
begin
writeln('FAIL')
end;
procedure foo(const c: char); overload;
begin
writeln('PASS')
end;
var f: procedure (const c: char);
type T = reference to procedure (const c: char);
var r: T;
begin
{$apptype console}
f := foo;
// correctly picks the proper version
f('1');
r := foo;
// E2010 Incompatible types: 'T' and 'Procedure'
r('2')
end.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/20
Reminder to self to install this soon: [Archive.is] IDE Fix Pack 6.1.2 (supports Delphi 10.2.2) | Andy’s Blog and Tools
via: [WayBack] IDE Fix Pack 6.1.2 for Delphi 2009-10.2.2 released. – Andreas Hausladen – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/19
Last week, Paweł Głowacki passed away. A few words, probably incoherent, as I’m still flabbergasted by the news.
Originally from Poland he had moved to The Netherlands in 2001 (causing his son Mateusz to be far more fluent in Dutch than his dad) while starting to work for Borland, doing the full ride through CodeGear and Embarcadero to Idera as one of their enthousiastic Delphi evangelists.
Having already gone through a rough year myself, it took me some time to sit down and reflect a bit on his sudden passing away.
Most of the information around his passing has been on Facebook.
My current state of mind needs me to jot a few things down, and since Facebook keeps redacting away the information I really want to see (probably a chicken and egg problem, as it also insists showing me stuff I do NOT want to see, causing me to hardly look at Facebook any more, and likely having worsened the issue), below are some links and a screenshot.
Though we didn’t see each other much over the last few years, meeting up was always fun, especially talking about old shared activities (one project, don’t ask, many presentations on conferences and sessions) and his hobbies (for instance diving).
I found out about the latter by sheer coincidence. I’ve a mentally retarded brother for which I’m the curator ad litem. In practice this means not just legal guardian, but also coaching my brother with many events. About 15 years ago, over several years, my brother has stepped up from swimming via snorkeling to shallow water diving (always under supervision of a certified diving instructor).
About once a year, my brothers diving group goes to open water where I suddenly bumped into Paweł of which I knew he did sports (and music: he’s an excellent guitar player) but not exactly which ones.
Some of the coolest Delphi related events we did or attended together were the product launches for the BeNeLux in the early 2010s, ItDevCon conferences in Italy, SDN presentations in The Netherlands and EKON visits in Germany.
Knowing more of each others non-Delphi side, we had much more to talk about. So we mixed conversations about free time and Delphi topics enjoying an occasional drink or two.
I will remember those times. R.I.P. Paweł. All the best to his wife Barbara, son Mateusz, other family members, friends and colleagues.
This is the im memorian that Barnsten – the Benelux reseller for Embarcadero that organised a lot of the events:
This picture is taken in May this year at the Accelerate Your Development event in Bussum by Danny Wind.
In Memoriam – Pawel GlowackiIt is with great sadness that we have to inform you about the sudden loss of Pawel Glowacki. He was only 47 years old. Pawel was employed by Embarcadero as Technical Lead but worked very closely with the Barnsten team because he lived in Amsterdam.
Pawel has had great influence on all the Barnsten events and webinars. He always knew flawlessly what was going on in the development tools market. Many new themes and programs have arisen from consultation with him. Most of you have been in direct or indirect contact with him at the live events or via his webinars, books, blogs, white papers etc.
His optimism, technical knowledge and positive attitude to life left a deep impression, but also a great emptiness at the loss of such a unique individual.
Pawel will be buried this Friday in his homeland Poland.
On behalf of the Barnsten team,
Raymond Horsten
Director
–jeroen
PS:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/19
Not all updates are equal, so if you use Delphi or RAD Studio 10.2.2, ensure you have the latest one installed (build 2004) as it fixes some binary DCU incompatibility bugs in the old one (build 1978).
You can get the web-install for that build from [WayBack] 30806 RAD Studio, Delphi, C++Builder 10.2 Release 2 Web Install which states:
We have updated RAD Studio 10.2.2 to address an issue that caused incompatibility problems for a number of third party components.This build (build 2004) replaces the previously released RAD Studio 10.2.2 build (build 1978).
The updated 10.2.2 build requires a full uninstall and reinstall. You will be able to preserve your configuration settings as part of the reinstall.
The new 10.2.2 update build 2004 fixes errors in the old 10.2.2 update build 1978 like:
Via: [WayBack] Looks like there was an update to the update. “This CodeCentral entry was updated on Dec 17, 2017 We have updated RAD Studio 10.2.2 to address an issu… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
In that thread, various people have confirmed this build indeed fixes these issues.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/18
This will bite me some time for sure, so for my link archive: [WayBack] TRestClient and Cipher restrictions to TLSv1.2 does not work on Windows7 and Server2008R2 … and how it can be solved… – Günther Schoch – Google+
References:
For at least some Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 systems, that update (KB3140245) doesn’t automatically turns up in the Windows Update list.
To make matters worse, the page cannot be archived in either the WayBack machine or Archive.is (I tried multiple times with empty results).
Luckily, there is a copy at [WayBack] KB3140245 DefaultSecureProtocols – Security.NL.
After installing the update, you have to ensure you set the DefaultSecureProtocols registry value to the bitmap value that indicates with SSL/TLS versions you want to support:
The DefaultSecureProtocols registry entry can be added in the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WinHttpOn x64-based computers, DefaultSecureProtocols must also be added to the Wow6432Node path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WinHttpThe registry value is a DWORD bitmap. The value to use is determined by adding the values corresponding to the protocols desired.
DefaultSecureProtocols Value Protocol enabled 0x00000008 Enable SSL 2.0 by default 0x00000020 Enable SSL 3.0 by default 0x00000080 Enable TLS 1.0 by default 0x00000200 Enable TLS 1.1 by default 0x00000800 Enable TLS 1.2 by default For example:
The administrator wants to override the default values for WINHTTP_OPTION_SECURE_PROTOCOLS to specify TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.
Take the value for TLS 1.1 (0x00000200) and the value for TLS 1.2 (0x00000800) then add them together in calculator (in programmer mode), the resulting registry value would be 0x00000A00.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/14
On my research list:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 