Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04
In the past, the Google Hangouts desktop app on Windows would integrate with the system “tray” (actually the notification area) and show you missed chats and calls.
The [Wayback/Archive] Google Chat desktop app does not. It shows missed messages only as a number on the taskbar icon. Even worse: when you close the Window, the taskbar application icon does not show that number any more.
The odd thing is that the Google Duo desktop app does stay active and shows a notification popup on incoming calls. The Google Chat desktop app does not.
So I wanted to restart the Google Chat desktop app automatically when the Window was closed. But there is a catch:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/12
For my reading list (will likely be extended in the future) as covariance and especially contravariance often give me headaches (even after all these years of C#):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/07
Since every now and then, like testing software developed with older tools, you need to run older software.
This always works: [Wayback /Archive] Deploy .NET Framework 3.5 by using Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) | Microsoft Learn
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All
Use /All to enable all parent features of the specified feature.
(The /All is needed because software requiring .NET Framework 3.5 also require the parent features).
Notes:
- Tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in 2022.
- It can take a really long time (more than just a few minutes!) even on fast connections.
- Installing through Chocolatey with `choco install
dotnet3.5 fails on Windows 11 (have not tried on Windows 10) with the classical red on black PowerShell default error theme*:
ERROR: The term 'wmic' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
The install of DotNet3.5 was NOT successful.
Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\DotNet3.5\Tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1'.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before:
- the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which of course is similar to “infinite loop” and entries for “infinite loop See loop, infinite” and “loop, infinite See infinite loop”.
- infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in 1994.
In the last one, I promised to list more occurrences which I now finally had time for to do.
But let me first elaborate more on the observation that modern computer books (like for instance on C# and Delphi beyond version 1) lack these kinds of index pun.
On the Delphi side, the index entry joke for recursion got removed no later than Delphi 3 (I am still looking for a Delphi 2 version of the Object Pascal Language Guide, see further below) even before the book being fully redone electronically and the index pages generation being automated in
I think I even understand why that is: the process of creating of indices. By the start of this century, more and more indices were automatically being generated and for the last 2 decades or so, all of them are. Back in the days however, indices were mostly done by hand. Nowadays, with everything automated, it is actually pretty tricky in most environments to add such an “infinite loop” index entry like in the Turbo Pascal book, as it would require two things at once:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/26
On my research list [Wayback/Archive] HInvoke and avoiding PInvoke | drakonia’s blog.
A very minimalistic approach of calling .net runtime functions or accessing properties using only hashes as identifiers. It does not leave any strings or import references since we dynamically resolve the required member from the mscorlib assembly on runtime.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 