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 2014/12/23
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 2014/12/20
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 2014/10/01
I’ve been experimenting with the Delphi hinting directives lately to make it easier to migrate some libraries to newer versions of Delphi and newer platforms.
Hinting directives (deprecated, experimental, library and platform) were – like the $MESSAGE directive – added to Delphi 6.
Up to Delphi 5 you didn’t have any means to declare code obsolete. You had to find clever ways around it.
When referring to identifiers marked with a hinting directive, you can get various warning messages that depend on the kind of identifier: unit, or other symbol. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/25
If you are going to do test driven development and unit testing, you should watch these videos and slide decks, most of them by Miško Hevery:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/02
One of the reasons I quit Java development a while ago is that for years, each and every Java client update on Windows wants to install “add-ons” like Ask/Google/Yahoo toolbars, McAfee viruses, etc.
Many people have complained about it, just to name a few and show an on-line petition against it:
There are many cumbersome ways around it:
Though suited for corporate installs, all of those are impractical when your friends keep calling “hey, how do I get rid of these toolbars” and you cannot control their complete install process.
Super User user Danilo Roascio made my day when wanting to get rid of that behaviour.
His registry way to prevent those installs is way easier!
It not only disables the installs of any sponsored add-on, the Java update does not even show the checkbox any more (so the install process is shorter).
This is what he answered: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/06
Plan C: JWalk. No, not jaywalk.
Trimming JSON results from Java: ongoing by Tim Bray · Fat JSON.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/07
Funny charts at andrewvos.com – Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language.
The source is online too: AndrewVos/github-statistics.
And it led me to this really nice way of choosing your chart type.
Click to enlarge… Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/30
So I won’t forget to read these:
Some of my own work on this back in the Delphi 7 days:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/25
Another one in the “WordPress Missed schedule” series.
Below are the Android remote screen monitoring/viewer/mirror tools I know about:
I primarily use Droid@Screen as so far it works best for me.
But I keep a close eye on the other two just to make sure I don’t miss improvements.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 