For my link archive, as I will likely need this one day: [WayBack] GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a C# version
–jeroen
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GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a C# version
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/15
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I am in love with colors and design – UX Planet
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14
Really cool not too long read: [WayBack] I am in love with colors and design – UX Planet:
How to improve human experience through color
[WayBack] “I’m in love with color” – No Google designer currently working at the company ever. Interesting read, btw. Some great examples, too. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Binary search for finding problematic versions: install a specific version in homebrew and git bisect
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14
I’ve used these excellent posts to find out which youtube-dl version started to exhibit troublesome NPO downloads, then later find the actual failing commit:
- [WayBack] Install a specific version of a formula with homebrew – Zoltan Altfatter – Software Engineer
- [WayBack] How to use git bisect? – Stack Overflow
Why the effort? I needed an as recent as possible youtube-dl working on as many sites as possible because of some work preparation.
The first link is very important because brew versions and alternatives have stopped working some 6 years ago, even though they turn up high on Google searches for brew install specific version. Hence the quote from the first link:
Installing software packages on Mac is very easy with homebrew. You typically get the latest version, however often in production you do not have the latest version of a software package. Another use case is when you upgrade to the latest and you find out there is bug which blocks you doing something. In this case you would like to downgrade to the previous version until the bug is fixed.In both cases you need to install a specific version of a software package with homebrew on your Mac, which tends to be not that trivial. There is a lot of discussion about this on stackoverflow but some of them are outdated based on brew versions which is not available anymore.
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Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger – CodeProject
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/09
On my research list is [WayBack] GitHub – DareDevil73/bug-finder: Windows passive debugger. with an article at [WayBack] Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger – CodeProject:
The Bug Finder is a real Win32 debugger, entirely written in Borland Delphi, which analyzes your application execution flow, so you can:
- Catch exceptions on the main executable, external DLLs, primary and working threads.
- Produce a detailed stack trace about each exception.
- Place a symbolic breakpoint to get, in place of a program debug break, a full stack trace log message (dynamic tracing).
- Produce detailed and rotative log files for a batch application behaviour inspection.
- Capture output of
OutputDebugStringAPI to log file (to provide extra debugging information by yourself directly into your code).- Trace Process, Threads and DLLs activities.
I found documentation at [WayBack] DareDevil73 … docs, but the binary dependencies and installer are on SourceForge (where the project was originally located) and CodeProject which cannot be archived so I will look into that when it pops to the top of my research list.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Bug Finder by Antonio Petricca (in 2013?) Have any of you tried it? – Lars Fosdal – Google+
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Hashes and their uses – The Isoblog.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/09
A nice introduction to [WayBack] Hashes and their uses – The Isoblog covering:
- Checksums
- Digit sums as simple, weak checmsums
- Better checksums: ISBN-10 as an example
- Proper CRC checksums
- Hashes for storage
- Building dictionaries
- Breaking dictionaries
- Handling collisions
- Cryptographic hashes
Via [WayBack] I needed to explain Bitcoin. In order to explain Bitcoin, I needed to explain Proof-of-Work and Hash structures. In order to explain Proof-of-Work and H… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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Delphi: OldCreateOrder in inherited TDataModule might suddenly become True
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/08
Interesting observation that might have been in Delphi for more than a decade: [WayBack] Found something strange in Delphi again which I’ve been trying to fix for days until I discovered it’s probably a Delphi issue… – Stefaan Lesage – Google+.
I think the summary is that if you have inherited TDataModule instances, then the descendant will always have OldCreateOrder set to True.
It is reported as RAD StudioRSP-20016 TDatamodule.OldCreateOrder always resets to true on descendants, but it is present in at least Delphi 7, so likely is in the old QC database:
Uwe Raabe:
I can track this error down to Delphi 7 (really)! Cannot check Delphi 6, but Delphi 5 just doesn’t have that property.
The reason lies inTDataModule.ReadStatewhere
FOldCreateOrder := not ModuleIsCPP;
is set.
These might be related:
- [WayBack] QualityCentral: Report #: 2127 Status: Closed Right and bottom anchors don’t always work
- [WayBack] QualityCentral: Report #: 6074 Status: Reported BeforeStreaming/AfterStreaming methods
–jeroen
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Common SMTP message size limits
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/08
After a 2018 discussion with a “zorgkantoor” (Dutch for office that arranges for special long term health care needs, successor of AWBZ) about their very low (10 megabyte) SMTP message size limit – even though they expect scanned PDF documents.
Their web-care team posed this limit as normal, so I made a list of limits in their peer group, common world-wide and well-ranked Dutch internet providers.
My plan is to check the progression of these limits over time.
Note these are the bruto message sizes including encoded attachments. Since encoding in [WayBack] MIME Base64 – Wikipedia has a overhead of at least 37% (encoded size is at least 1.37 the original size), the unencoded maximum size is less than 73% of what is listed below.
References:
- [WayBack] Zorgverzekeraars Nederland – ZorgkantorenOud
- [WayBack] De beste alles-in-1-provider | Consumentenbond
- [WayBack] Zorg en Zekerheid on Twitter: “Goedemorgen Jeroen, 10MB is bij de meeste providers het maximum. Ook wij hanteren deze standaard. Als je meer data toe wil/moet sturen, zal je dit in meerdere e-mails moeten doen. ^Nils”
2018
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Rendering SVG on gitea and gitlab
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/07
At the time of writing:
- Rendering svg files at gitlab is impossible, as they are served with a http result 404; see
- Rendering svg files on gitea is possible either, despite a co-worker suggesting to remove the below DOCTYPE from the .svg file, see
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">–jeroen
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Debugging Delphi applications inside a Windows Docker container – yeiei.net
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/07
A docker container that pulls the PA server for Windows and steps how to attach to it and a video showing how to do this: [WayBack] Debugging Delphi applications inside a Windows Docker container – yeiei.net
Cool if you do Delphi server side stuff.
Via: [WayBack] Hi delphi friends! If you are planning to use Windows Docker Containers and Delphi, you’ll need to read this: https://yeiei.net/en/debugging-delphi-appl… – Juan Antonio Ruzafa – Google+
–jeroen
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In SQL Server use `SET NOCOUNT ON` so tools taking the last modified record count won’t be confused by your trigger.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/07
Interesting read: Time eating bug of the day… – Fabian S. Biehn – Google+.
TL;DR: in SQL Server use SET NOCOUNT ON so tools taking the last modified record count won’t be confused by your trigger.
Source: [WayBack] Time eating bug of the day: I used a TADOQuery.ExecSQL (on Berlin) for an Up…
Related: [WayBack] sql server – ADODB affected rows return trigger’s affected rows – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 