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Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction | Seth Juarez | Channel 9

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/18

One of those “must watch” videos if you are remotely or more interested in how compilers influence our day to day coding activities.

The Red Dragon Book, first edition: Compilers. Principles, Techniques and Tools.

The Red Dragon Book, first edition: Compilers. Principles, Techniques and Tools.

It starts out with referring to the Dragon Book (well, actually the first edition of the Red Dragon Book, as there are three) describing the compilers as having front-ends consisting of a Lexer, Parser and Type Checker and back-ends consisting of Code Generator and Emitter. A full compilation is going through all five stages and there is an increasing cost using these traditional stages when going from syntax highlighting via collapsible regions to red squiggles and code completion will need to go further along those stages taking an increasing time – like seconds or even longer – whereas the user experience requires responses in ~ 100 milliseconds where his code might not even compile in the first place.

Then Anders goes on describing Roslyn, TypeScript and Compiler API JSON interfaces to them so you can run them as a service and keep compiler state, rebuilding just enough of the state on source code changes. He goes on talking about how Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Command-Line Compiler, Sublime Text and other tools (can) use these APIs to interact with the compiler so it keeps state of slowly evolving code of which the tools than can emit what they need.

Anders explains this much better and much more visually than I do: so it’s a highly recommended video.

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How to secure memory? – Medo’s Home Page

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/15

Sometime you might want to protect your data in memory – the greatest example is when dealing with anything related to passwords. It is simply not smart to keep that data around in a plain-text. In .NET there are multiple methods you can use for this purpose, starting with SecureString, ProtectedMemory, and my favorite ProtectedData.…

Source: How to secure memory? – Medo’s Home Page

via: Found this via +Ilya S a post from +Josip Medved – Stuff like this should be way built into an OS, and RTL’s should have a secureMalloc()… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

–jeroen

 

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HashLib4Pascal is a Delphi/FPC compatible library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings (with a specified encoding), files, streams, byte arrays and untyped data to mention but a few.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/15

One day I will need lots of hashing in Delphi: Xor-el/HashLib4Pascal: HashLib4Pascal is a Delphi/FPC compatible library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings (with a specified encoding), files, streams, byte arrays and untyped data to mention but a few. [WayBack]

via: Hello all,I made a port of “HashLib” (http://hashlib.codeplex.com/) “with some fixes, additions and modifications” for Delphi (2010 ( I hope ) and above)… – Ugochukwu Mmaduekwe – Google+ [WayBack]

It’s a port of the C# HashLib – Home [WayBack]

Another fork is at https://github.com/bonesoul/HashLib

–jeroen

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An exponential back-off implementation I used somewhere; probably room for improvement, but it works good enough.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/17

I will probably need this again somewhere in the future: An exponential back-off implementation I used somewhere; probably room for improvement, but it works good enough.

It’s Delphi, but I’ve not seen practical implementations in C# either.

(the updated version thanks to Anders Melander).

–jeroen


function TryGetLocationLockWithExponentialBackOff: Boolean;
const
cBase = 2;
cMaxWaitMilliSeconds = 1500;
var
lWaitMilliSeconds: integer;
begin
Result := True;
lWaitMilliSeconds := cBase;
while (not TryGetLocationLock) do
begin
if (lWaitMilliSeconds > cMaxWaitMilliSeconds) then
Exit(False);
Sleep(lWaitMilliSeconds);
Inc(lWaitMilliSeconds, lWaitMilliSeconds);
end;
end;

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TryGetLocationLockWithExponentialBackOff.pas

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function TryGetLocationLockWithExponentialBackOff: Boolean;
const
cBase = 2;
cMaxWaitMilliSeconds = 1500;
var
lIteration: Integer;
lWaitMilliSeconds: Single;
begin
lIteration := 1;
lWaitMilliSeconds := 0;
while lWaitMilliSeconds < cMaxWaitMilliSeconds do
begin
Result := TryGetLocationLock;
if Result then
Exit;
lWaitMilliSeconds := IntPower(cBase, lIteration);
Inc(lIteration);
Sleep(Round(lWaitMilliSeconds));
end;
Result := TryGetLocationLock;
end;

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TryGetLocationLockWithExponentialBackOff_Old.pas

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.NET/C# some links on querying the ActiveDirectory

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/15

Without dsquery installable, I had to query an ActiveDirectory spanning two domains.

Here are some links that helped:

–jeroen

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Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/03

The #Fellows | Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks post is a very readable and to-the-point introduction to Unity IoC focussing on Dependency Injection. Implementation details of various IoC/DI frameworks differ, so some keywords:

  • Container
  • InjectionConstructor
  • InjectionProperty
  • Inversion of Control
  • Named registration (or keyed registration)
  • PerResolveLifetimeManager
  • Register
  • RegisterType
  • Resolve
  • ResolvedParameter

–jeroen

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nst/JSONTestSuite: A comprehensive test suite for RFC 7159 compliant JSON parsers

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/01

Cool: nst/JSONTestSuite: A comprehensive test suite for RFC 7159 compliant JSON parsers

Which is the result of the presentation seriot.ch – Parsing JSON is a Minefield 💣[WayBack]

Both the tests and presentation are well worth reading.

The graph gives me ambivalent feelings and make me wonder how various .NET and Delphi based JSON parsers stack up.

I wonder how Delphi and C# libraries stack up against these results especially since questions like What is the best JSON library to use for Delphi 10.1? To read and write JSON. – Godfrey Fletcher – Google+ [WayBack].

Hopefully the results by David Berneda will be published soon: I’ll do a quick test with TeeBI json import and the different libraries (System.Json, SuperObject etc)

Edit: Stefan Glienke mentioned he wrote a DUnit testsuite at http://pastebin.com/k5ktBxh9 [WayBack] that shows the built-in TJSONObject [WayBack] parser fails at least 25 of the tests.

–jeroen

via: David Berneda – Google+ [WayBack]

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Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Scripting, Software Development | 1 Comment »

Offline Installer :: JetBrains Developer Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/06

DotPeek offline installers are available:

They are loacated on this page, as ‘Other distribution options’: http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/download/

–jeroen

via Offline Installer :: JetBrains Developer Community.

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If you thought you could do multi-threading, then play “The Deadlock Empire” games

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/04

Slay dragons, learn concurrency! Play the cunning Scheduler, exploit flawed programs and defeat the armies of the Parallel Wizard.

Source: The Deadlock Empire

Via: Face the dragon. Learn the ropes of concurrent programming. – Lars Fosdal – Google+

Source code is available and focuses on C#; maybe one day I’ll make a Delphi version: deadlockempire/deadlockempire.github.io: The Deadlock Empire: Slay dragons, learn concurrency!

BTW: a great book (with nice illustrations at both github and kernel.org) is Source: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? [WayBack]

–jeroen

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Yes Dorothy, the .NET System.Array Class can throw you a NotSupportedException

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21

It’s been in the System.Array class forever, but remarkably few people do know that it can throw you a NotSupportedException (for instance when calling Add, Insert, Remove, etc).

It does because it implements IList, but not all methods implemented from IList are valid.

And it also indicates that, as the IList Properties allows for IsFixedSize to return false.

A similar case is there for IsReadOnly: then you cannot even modify the values.

Ever since I started teaching .NET/C# classes almost 15 years ago, I warned:

beware when you use IList as not everybody implements all methods.

–jeroen

via:

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