Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/03
An interesting question [WayBack] Just curious,Is there ever a benefit to not providing a GUID in an interface? – Johan Bontes – Google+
The answer is simple: The benefits are almost none and you loose compiler assisted casting ease.
The interesting bits are the discussion where even Embarcadero isn’t sure what kind of magic the compiler does on generic interfaces.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/02
I have seen things like this happen in way to many places, not just C/C++:
static_assert( -1 < 1U );//fails!
Take away:
Never ever use explicit casts merely to get rid of warnings (whether signed/unsigned or otherwise)
A way to set various C/C++ compilers apart: [WayBack] GitHub – shafik/determine_c_or_cpp: Determine programatically C from C++ as well as various versions
Via: [WayBack] C++: Thoughts on Dealing with Signed/Unsigned Mismatch – IT Hare on Soft.ware: Kevlin Henney – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/02
aha is great to generate HTML from ANSI text (i.e. the coloured output on a Linux console).
But it doesn’t generate clickable URIs (it can’t yet by itself as it only looks one character in the future).
The thread at https://github.com/theZiz/aha/issues/20 suggested a case-insensitive regex through sed but the exact suggestion failed for a few reasons I will explain below.
First the bash alias (requires both aha and perl):
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # based on https://github.com/theZiz/aha/issues/20#event-797466520 | |
| aha-with-expanded-http-https-urls() | |
| { | |
| aha | perl -C -Mutf8 -pe 's,([^"])((https?|s?ftp|ftps?|file)://.*?)([\s]|\"\s),$1<a href="$2">$2</a>$4,gi' | |
| } |
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/02
This repaired itself; weird: [WayBack] Delphi fails to start after Windows did some “Program Compatibility Assistant” magic to it when BDS.exe crashed because the compiler ran out of memory:… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/28
Comments on [WayBack] A Case Study in Not Being A Jerk in Open Source – Kevlin Henney – Google+:
- Jeroen Wiert Pluimers
+Kevin Powick yup. Maybe we need to learn to live with it.
At the current client I explained the teams that sometimes I do stupid things, both in code and in communications, and I expect them to tell me about them, just like I am telling them they do stupid things. Of course making compliments both ways work in a similar fashion.
We Dutch are accustomed to make compliments, so I am trying to break them out of the “Doe maar gewoon, dat is al gek genoeg”, as they already create very good stuff, but both they and I are convinced together we can take that to a next level.
Last week I did my first “Jeroen’s demo hour” showing stuff that happened in their development cycle over the last two weeks.
Somewhere in the first third was “look here: you see artifacts of some re-use by copy actions; it can be dangerous, just look at this obscure unnoticed bug. I need to watch myself, because sometimes I do this too”, and in the final 10 minutes while demoing some C# code – which is new to them – “look at this variable: it has the wrong name because I copy-pasted it, so if you review my code, just let me know how had this is”.
Maybe time to include some code review examples in a conference session topic…
Some ideas at The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews | TechBeacon
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/27
An interesting thread that starts as a gitlab / Delphi IDE integration question, resulting into a nice discussion of tooling to use: [Archive.is] Are there any videos (not written stuff, but actual videos) that show how you’d set up and use the built-in versioning in Tokyo IDE with a gitlab repo? … – David Schwartz – Google+
If I find time, I will try to re-work my git conference session to be much more practical.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/27
Right now my sendmail configuration handling my domains have one queue directory /var/spool/mqueue which means that each round of the queue processing handles all the outgoing mail in succession.
This is getting less OK because of the increased mail volume over time both on mail that gets in and needs to be forwarded and mail that needs to be bounced for various reasons like SPAM.
So below are some links helping me to sort out various things including having multiple queues (as then each round can handle each queue in parallel).
The default sendmail configuration is one mail queue and I hope to find out for what reason that is.
Background info:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/27
I’m amazed how little things have changed when doing hardcore Delphi debugging: [WayBack] Debugging Session
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/26
Since one day this could be useful:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/26
A crossword puzzle designed for geeks, every single clue is a regular expression.
Source: [WayBack] Regular Expression Crossword Puzzle – Gregable
No matter your take on RegEx, I think you will be amazed just looking at it.
Related:
Via:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 