Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/30
For my link archive as it contains some interesting ideas on how to use DataSnap as a conversion later between two systems: [WayBack] I need to write some DataSnap “middleware” between Google Glass and a SwissLog ERP system, and I am trying to figure out if there are significant differ… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
The ideas is basically a session based protocol converter.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/29
After years with “missed schedule” posts on (paid!) wordpress.com based sites, WordPress has documented that the scheduler officially does not support more than 100 posts:
[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.
In practice this is not fully true, so lets explain that a little.
Imagine the list of scheduled posts as a list of posts to be posted anywhere from the near future (lets call that tail) until far in the future (for now head).
As long as you schedule posts in head to tail order, then there is no problem. You can schedule 100s of posts (usually I’ve between 700 and 1200 posts scheduled that way).
The problems appear when:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/29
Via [WayBack] As far as I can tell (and documentation on that is reaaaaaaly hard to find), dcc64 can link in .obj files in OMF and COFF format. Bcc64 uses LLVM chain and therefore produces ELF .o files… – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+:
David Heffernan:
dcc32doescoffandomf,dcc64onlycoffand later he commented:
One of the difficulties with linking objects is the handling of exceptions. The 64 bit exception model is table based, in contrast to the stack based 32 bit model.
I don’t think that the exception tables are written correctly for code linked in objects. If exceptions are raised then this can lead to abnormal process termination. Process just disappears. Poof!
One common way that this happens is floating point exceptions that are by default unmasked by the Delphi RTL. I have found it necessary to mask them when calling into any linked object code to avoid exceptions being raised.
And compiling with cl can be a bit of a game. It’s stack checking options need to be disabled. And there are a few other key switches that help. And then there’s the forward declaration trick to help the one pass compiler cope with C objects that are expected to be linked in a separate step.
Anyway, it can be quite a challenge at times, but I’ve yet to find a plain self contained C library that has defeated me!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/28
For my link archive: [WayBack] Do you want to produce DPI aware Vcl applications and use Vcl Styles?… – Kiriakos Vlahos – Google+
Source at [WayBack] pyscripter/VCL.Styles.DPIAware.pas at master · pyscripter/pyscripter · GitHub
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/28
Last week in Delphi developer switching to C# – Stack Overflow « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff I wrote about having a broad toolset.
Having such a toolset however does not mean you should stuff your project with dependencies. Choosing a limited set of tools is a very important part of building solid projects.
It does not mean you should avoid dependencies, just that you need to be aware on them and how they add up.
To get a feel for that, the comics on the right and below.
Sources:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/27
Not all fonts have Unicode character ☰ [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘TRIGRAM FOR HEAVEN’ (U+2630) as it is in a less common block.
More fonts have Unicode character ≡ [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘IDENTICAL TO’ (U+2261)
The latter is slightly shorter and slightly narrower than the former, but works in way more places.
Via [WayBack] html – Unicode ☰ hamburger not displaying in Android & Chrome – Stack Overflow
I’ve worked around this problem by using the UNICODE character UNICODE U+2261 (8801), ≡ IDENTICAL TO as illustrated below rather than the UNICODE U+2630 (9776) ☰ TRIGRAM FOR HEAVEN which
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/27
Since I will likely need something like this one day: [WayBack] GitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials
I think I got this via Kristian Köhntopp a while ago.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/27
I wrote about Delphi, IBX and the Turkish I problem about a year and a half ago. Back then, I could use a US-English system to reproduce the problem. This time, I had a problem on a Turkish system running an embedded version of Windows with hardly any UI tools available (especially no Windows Explorer).
Luckily, I had the command prompt, but it looked like this:
X:\>mode con codepage
Status for device CON:
----------------------
Code page: 857
X:\>mode con codepage select 437
Invalid parameter - select
X:\>mode con codepage select=437
Invalid parameter - select
Status for device CON:
----------------------
Lines: 300
Columns: 120
Keyboard rate: 31
Keyboard delay: 1
Code page: 437
X:\>
I tried the [WayBack] modecommand to change from [WayBack] code page 857(Turkish) to [WayBack] code page 437(IBM PC or OEM-US) which is the default on US-English systems, but that did not change the keyboard locale, not even for the command prompt.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/23
If you auto-configure, then at least try searching the tools you need:
[WayBack] Yeah right Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (for which the shortcut – unlike the Berlin one – does not contain the word Tokyo), they are right on the Windows PATH wher… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/23
Medium indicates it is an 8 minute tread, but since I’m more on the non-people side of the spectrum, digesting it will take quite some time needing multiple reeds.
Via: [WayBack] Of Course Psychological Safety…But How? – John Cutler – Medium – Marjan Venema – Google+
Marjan is a great coach on the personal and agility side of things.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 