Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/13
I remember fixing a high CPU toggling the Enabled property in an OnUpdate even handler on a TCustomAction descendant quite some time ago, but wasn’t completely sure of the exact cause.
My fix was to only set it once every clock tick (about every 20 milliseconds).
The best fix would have been not to toggle at all: just calculate the right result, then only set the Enabled property once: [WayBack] Updating Actions (Don’t Do This) – Dave’s Development Blog
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/12
Works very well: [Archive.is] 25 Scrum Magnetische Karten Wiederbeschreibbar 7,5 x 7,5 cm. Beschreibbare Magnete für Agile, Kanban oder Lean Board. Haftnotizen leicht abnehmbar und wiederverwendbar (Mix 5 Farben): AmazonSmile: Bürobedarf & Schreibwaren.
They are 7.5x75cm, but the picture below show they also available as 10x15cm and 2.5×2.5cm cards, plus pre-printed scrum/kanban cards, and even magnetic boards for various purposes.
Not all of the sellers allow for VAT invoice, so better check each:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/12
[WayBack] Insomnia REST Client A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
Source code at [WayBack] GitHub – getinsomnia/insomnia: The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴.
Via: [WayBack] Paw is nice – The Isoblog.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/12
For my reading list: Bash Notes for Professionals book
Download: [WayBack] BashNotesForProfessionals.pdf
Via: [WayBack] Bash Notes for Professionals – a book compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation released under Creative Commons BY-SA – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/11
Despite clear guidelines (European level since 2016, W3C level since 2018), web accessibility is still hard, both for web site developers and their users.
Two years ago, bumped into a Dutch government web site that had become worse over time: they disabled keyboard paste for numeric fields, only would paste 1 digit at a time, and managed to have the delete button delete the current digit (like what the backspace does and should do) instead of the next.
Please do not do that!
Here are the guidelines: [WayBack] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
This is the (Dutch) story:
[WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “Beste @Waternet, waarom kan ik niet meer het hele opnamenummer in 1 keer plakken? Cijfertje voor cijfertje uit de gescippen plakken is nogal veel werk. Vroeger ging dit wel goed. plakken werkt niet met het toetsenbord: alleen m […]”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Beste @Waternet, waarom kan ik niet meer het hele opnamenummer in 1 keer plakken? Cijfertje voor cijfertje uit de gescande brief knippen plakken is nogal veel werk. Vroeger ging dit wel goed.… “
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “plakken werkt niet met het toetsenbord: alleen maar met de muis, dus onhandig voor mensen met een beperking. Als je in het veld staat werken alleen de numerieke toetsen en pijltjes van je toetsenbord, en de delete knop haalt het verkeerde karakter weg. Wie verzint die ongein?”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers Twitterissä: “Bij postcode werkt plakken weer wel (en de rest van het toetsenbord ook helemaal), maar bij meterstand weer niet. Hoe maak je je site onhandig voor mensen met een beperking les 1: het is helemaal gelukt. Jammer! Lees eens … en … “
- [WayBack] Wat is webtoegankelijkheid? – Stichting Accessibility
- [WayBack] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers Twitterissä: “Bij email adres werkt plakken weer wel (gelukkig, het zijn maar 40 karakters), maar er mist een cruciale stap: meternummer. Die controle is voor adressen met meerdere meters ontzettend belangrijk. Vroeger werd dat wel gecontroleerd. Het invoerproces is dus een achteruitgang.”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Laatste probleem is een waarschuwing *achteraf* dat jullie geen email bevestiging kunnen sturen. Super onhandig, omdat je op dat moment de stand ook niet meer kunt afdrukken. Er is veel werk voor jullie aan de winkel. Hou me gaarne op de hoogte van de vorderingen. CC @matijn”
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Bij dit soort problemen denk ik altijd aan @matijn en anderen waar toegankelijkheid van onschatbaar belang is. Zo zonde dat organisaties het voor elkaar krijgen om dit te verslechteren in plaats van de verbeteren, ondanks de Europese richtlijnen uit 2016 “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/07
Cool tool:
MultiBootUSB is a cross platform software written in python which allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk non destructively and option to uninstall distros. Try out the world’s first true cross platform multi boot live usb creator for free. Download Now!
Information and downloads on [WayBack] MultiBootUSB.
There are actually a few repositories within [WayBack] mbusb (multibootusb) · GitHub of which one has a ruby implementation as well.
A more elaborate article is on [WayBack] How to Install Multiple Linux Distributions on One USB, but the site should get you going just fine.
Via: [WayBack] Multiple Linux distributions on one UBS stick. I just tried it with: * CloneZilla * Lubuntu * LiteLinux The tool they describe – MultiBootUSB – comes w… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/07
Food for a lot of thought in most companies: [WayBack] The Science Of Target Setting (And How Most Companies Get It Wrong) | Corporate Rebels
My thoughts so far:
All of this basically comes down to:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] “Senior managers are often not aware of what’s actually important in the work on the front line.” “People take more ownership when they make a commitme… – Marjan Venema – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/06
For my link archive because it shows so well how to use the dotnet command:
Repository: [WayBack] GitHub – cmwilliams/numbertrivia: Tutorial Code
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/06
For my link archive below a few links from “cushion treemap” delphi – Google Search.
The reason: I like Sequoiaview a lot, but it has a few issues (of which I wrote in SequoiaView Homepage) and lacks a few things too.
WinDirStat is nice, but could be a lot cleaner. Both lack one feature I’d love to have: light-weight automatic updating on NTFS volumes.
Everything does the latter, but does not do graphical output as it is focused on being a blindingly fast indexing and searching tool (I like it a lot so there is even a category on my blog for it: Everything by VoidTools).
It would be cool if both could be hooked together, which would require a cushion treemap in Delphi and an API to access the Everything database.
So here are links that might help with the first:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/06
Boy, it is indeed a game of walls and ladders:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 