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Various online CSV to Markdown converters: best is Markdown Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/03

TL;DR: use Markdown Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com as it has the most features.

A few tools that help converting CSV (with separators like comma, semicolon and tab) to Markdown online:

  1. [Archive.cs] Markdown Table Maker
    • Supports:
      • Use first line as headers
      • Auto detection of separator
      • Tab separated
      • Comma separated
      • Semicolon separated
    • Does not support:
      • Quote characters
  2. [WayBack] CSV to Markdown Table Generator — Donat Studios
    • Supports:
      • Use first line as headers
      • Tab separated
      • Comma separated
      • Semicolon separated
    • Does not support:
      • Quote characters
  3. [WayBack] Markdown Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com
    • Supports auto detection of:
      • Use first line as headers
      • Tab separated
      • Comma separated
      • Semicolon separated
      • Quote characters

–jeroen

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android – How to release a Firemonkey control properly, in this case a child form with a parent? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/02

For my archive as [Archive.is] TFmxObject.Release is deprecated since Delphi 10.2 Tokyo, and – worse – broken on some platforms: [WayBack] android – How to release a Firemonkey control properly, in this case a child form with a parent? – Stack Overflow

TFmxObject.Release uses TThread.ForceQueue internally, and that’s currently broken under Android (see discussion above).

As a workaround, a working cross-platform version for releasing an object from its event handler would be

procedure TForm.CloseBtnClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
  Parent := nil;
  TThread.CreateAnonymousThread(
  procedure
  begin
    TThread.Synchronize(nil,
    procedure
    begin
      Self.DisposeOf;
    end);
  end).Start;
end;

Instead of Synchronize you can also use Queue in above method.

What is important to keep in mind is that you should not keep any other references to the control you are releasing or you may hit the trouble down the road.

Via:

[WayBack] What are the solutions for a wizard like application (a single form with content changed depending on some action) in Firemonkey?

I’ve been using TFormStand to have a single form and load frames dynamically, but have some AV in the stept when changing frames…. –

R Gosp – Google+

–jeroen

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Reddit: parodies on O RLY Books

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/02

Many more “Essential Programming Guides” that are not in the O RLY Parody Book Generator for Slack are at [WayBack]  O RLY Books.

Related: [WayBack] generate (500×700)

–jeroen

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Google Search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/02

These search the Delphi 2007 docs:

Similar for Delphi 2009 docs

The second ones search just English, and the first searches all languages.

Given the Google search indexing, the first might give a lot of Japanese search results:

https://www.google.com/#q=site:docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/radstudio2007/RS2007_helpupdates/HUpdate4+TPanel

I made shortcuts for the English one in Chrome:

Search engine definition
Search engine Delphi 2007 docs
Keyword d2007
URL with %s in place of query https://www.google.com/#q=site:docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/radstudio2007/RS2007_helpupdates/HUpdate4/EN+%s

 

Search engine definition
Search engine Delphi 20079 docs
Keyword d2009
URL with %s in place of query https://www.google.com/#q=site:docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN+%s

 

I did the same for the docwiki (where you cannot distinguish between languages in a generic way for all Delphi versions, as the language comes after the Delphi version and the kind of documentation (CodeExamples, Libraries, etc.)):

Search engine definition
Search engine Docwiki (all EN/DE/FR/JP)
Keyword docwiki
URL with %s in place of query https://www.google.com/#q=site:docwiki.embarcadero.com+%s

Reasoning:

  • It’s the earliest Delphi version having documentation on-line in HTML format.
  • The foundations of the RTL/VCL structure has not changed since then
  • The links can be archived in the WayBack machine and still look nice after archiving (no CSS fuzz that makes archived pages hard to read)

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

Technical Leadership in Software Companies

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/01

When leading a tech team, the first thing you should do this year is read [WayBack] Technical Leadership in Software Companies.

It helps you learn about what developers want and how they want to be managed.

Quoting the author:

Software developers have to be managed differently than people in other industries because their work is intellectual in nature. I took the audience through ways in which technical leadership can inspire software developers to achieve the extraordinary.

Via:

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Easy Running of Scripts at Boot and Shutdown – SUSE Blog | SUSE Communities

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/01

Cool:

/etc/init.d/after.local

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »

Python 2.7 Countdown: a year from now it is unsupported

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/01

Besides wishing you a happy new year, also a reminder: [WayBack] Python 2.7 Countdown Python 2.7 will retire on januari 1, 2020. Learn more and see the countdown here.

This is indeed a breaking change for Python users, similar as from Perl 4 to Perl 5, and PHP 4 to PHP 5.

It shows two things:

  • how extremely hard it is to evolve a language without breaking things
  • how long it takes for the community at large to digest breaking changes

And indeed porting of complex systems is hard [WayBack] WIP: Port calibre to python 3 by flaviut · Pull Request #870 · kovidgoyal/calibre · GitHub but doable [WayBack] Bug #1714107 “Python 2 is retiring” : Bugs : calibre.

Via: [WayBack1/WayBack2] Python 3 improves in some ways over Python 2, but also makes a bunch of changes that are breaking, but cosmetic (i.e. renaming methods and functions, or… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ (with some interesting comments, but also a rant-sequence of someone who would better use that energy to improve Python than to bash it).

–jeroen

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programming practices – Unwritten rules of rewriting another team member’s code – Software Engineering Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/31

[WayBack] programming practices – Unwritten rules of rewriting another team member’s code – Software Engineering Stack Exchange

Especially the second answer has a nice set of follow-up questions to ask yourself when you are thinking about rewriting someone else’s code.

Some thoughts for the upcoming year (:

–jeroen

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EKON 22 Slides and Code – Synopse

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/29

For my link archive: [WayBack] EKON 22 Slides and Code – Synopse by Arnaud Bouchez.

I’ve uploaded two sets of slides from my presentations at EKON 22 : Object Pascal Clean Code Guidelines Proposal High Performance Object Pascal Code on Servers with the associated

Via: [WayBack] http://blog.synopse.info/post/2018/11/12/EKON-22-Slides-and-Code – A. Bouchez – Google+

–jeroen

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Delphi and C++ builder Platform Status

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/28

Almost all pages at the Embarcadero DocWiki have an embedded product version in the URL or get redirected to one.

One of the notable exceptions is the [WayBack] Platform Status:

The following table shows supported platforms and operating systems for different RAD Studio versions.

A * (star) sign next to an operating system indicates that there is a known issue with that operating system and a corresponding RAD Studio version.

To see the workaround for that particular issue, click on the name of the operating system or scroll down to the appropriate section.

It got introduced in 2015 ([WayBack] New DocWiki RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder Platform Status Page – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community) and is maintained at irregular intervals.

For some history: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/PlatformStatus/en/Main_Page

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Summary page showing supported platforms and OS versions for XE4 and upwards, as well as links to known issues for specific versions… – Lars Fosdal – Google+

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