Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/25
A history lesson: not all minitor Delphi updates are binary compatible.[WayBack] The Mysterious Case Of The Lost Inherited Call | The Art of Delphi Programming.
I am looking forward to the solution that Uwe comes up with.
–jeroen
via [WayBack] Binary compatibility can be hard to achieve. The Mysterious Case Of The Lost Inherited Call https://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/2018/05/28/the-mysterious-cas… – Uwe Raabe – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/25
Cool blog:
[WayBack] Mad With PowerShell Tim Curwick’s PowerShell blog, tips and tricks, tools and techniques, explanations and explorations
via: [WayBack] Mad With PowerShell – Excellent blog by +Tim Curwick about the use and abuse of PowerShell, and brimming with good examples and clues. – Lars Fosdal – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/25
Really cool history: [Archive.is] Dennis1000/mos6502-delphi: A MOS 6502 CPU emulator written in Delphi (a very basic C64 + VIC20 emulator included)
It should run on most 32-bit Delphi versions.
via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/22
Earlier this week, I wanted to install the most recent version of InnoSetup, but found out the main site at jrsoftware.org is down.
The new versions released earlier this month were on my list of things to try:
There WayBack archive editions of most directories but all of them are too old to hold the 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 versions (some do not even have the 5.5.9 version either).
In the mean time, Martijn Laan has provided the most recent binaries on GitHub:
Parallel to that, I have archived or found back the most recent versions of these pages and downloads:
—jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/21
Very often, I see people ask for how to embed multi-line strings in a Delphi source file.
The short answer is: you can’t.
The long answer is: you can’t and if you want you have to hack your way around.
The answer should be: just like any of these languages that do support multiline strings:
Many languages support this through a feature called HEREDOC.
Now in Delphi and other languages like Java are building ugly workarounds like for instance this one: [WayBack] RAD Studio Tip: Using resource scripts to organize project dependencies. – Chapman World.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/21
Interesting take on Technical Debt: [WayBack] The Spilled Juice Analogy for Technical Debt | Disciplined Agile 2.X
Not just because of the analogy, but also because of this comment by Ramu Iyer:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Vivid and better analogy than interest payments.The Spilled Juice Analogy for Technical Debt http://buff.ly/2nax1Ng #technicaldebt – Marjan Venema – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/20
TestInsight is a great tool for automatically running your unit tests and seeing the results to make you more productive.
Two of the results treeview features you might not know make you even more productive:
You can get TestInsight at sglienke / TestInsight — Bitbucket
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/20
Reminder to self: if you want to stay compatible with old (Pre Delphi XE) source code, then do not use virtual methods in class helpers.
Technically you can, as class helpers can inherit from other class helpers, but this is only supported as of Delphi XE.
In lower versions you get these errors as apparently the Delphi compiler tags an IInterface to the class helper compiler result:
[Error] Project1.dpr(14): E2003 Undeclared identifier: 'QueryInterface'
[Error] Project1.dpr(14): E2003 Undeclared identifier: '_AddRef'
[Error] Project1.dpr(14): E2003 Undeclared identifier: '_Release'
Source: [WayBack] QualityCentral 9782
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/19
I never realised that Amazon Alexa has an open source account on GitHub: https://github.com/alexa
There are full instructions on getting a Java based Alexa Voice Service (AVS) – also used by Amazon Echo – to run on a Raspberri Pi (3 or better recommended, works on 2 as well) with this extra hardware:
Full instructions are at Raspberry Pi · alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app Wiki and a video is below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baec1CbV6A0
I should find some time to try this out (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/19
Thanks [WayBack] gbabu for the below PowerShell ide
As PowerShell command:
Get-EventLog System | Where-Object {$_.EventID -eq "1074" -or $_.EventID -eq "6008" -or $_.EventID -eq "1076"} | ft Machinename, TimeWritten, UserName, EventID, Message -AutoSize -Wrap
Based on it and my own experience, thse Event IDs can be interesting:
You can also run this as a batch file, but not you need to escape the pipe | into ^| like this:
PowerShell Get-EventLog System ^| Where-Object {$_.EventID -eq "1074" -or $_.EventID -eq "6008" -or $_.EventID -eq "1076"} ^| ft Machinename, TimeWritten, UserName, EventID, Message -AutoSize -Wrap
If you have PowerShell 3.0 or greater, then you can use the [Archive.is] -In operator:
PowerShell Get-EventLog System ^| Where-Object {$_.EventID -in "41", "109", "1074", "6008", "1076"} ^| ft Machinename, TimeWritten, UserName, EventID, Message -AutoSize -Wrap
–jeroen
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