Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/01
Reminder to self: check out WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter and the state it is in now.
via: [WayBack] Hi, I’ve created a C to Delphi converter.Because it’s been so useful to me that I’ve decided to share it.It converts C code as-you-type, and it keeps… – Wouter van Nifterick – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28
Clever, as I didn’t know you could directly refer to the YouTube preview image using the “/0.jpg” trick:
Youtube videos
They can’t be added directly but you can add an image with a link to the video like this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE " target="_blank"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg" alt="IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE" width="240" height="180" border="10" /></a>Or, in pure Markdown, but losing the image sizing and border:
[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE)
Source: [WayBack] Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p/markdown-here Wiki · GitHub
If you allow using resources outside of YouTube, then you can use gifs.com to render the video into a gif image and use that image in the above construct.
I tried that with a few seconds from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHOpw55TI-U which resulted in https://gifs.com/gif/liquid-prompt-Lg1kPp and the gif file https://j.gifs.com/Lg1kPp.gif
via: [WayBack] flash – How to embed a video into GitHub README.md? – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] aloisdg for answering)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28
With the continued progress of non-local storage and distributed computing., I wonder how this is evolving over time:
[WayBack] +Alan Cox changed my thinking years ago with a simple statement that I’ll paraphrase as: “all (file based) data is a program that gets executed when read”… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/27
How cool are these related libraries:
[WayBack] Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: “On my copious spare time, I wrote a console UI toolkit for .NET, check it out: https://t.co/1fMKvcWUyd… “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/27
On Linux, always remember the splice function makes direct data paths between handles very cheap, so storing it as files is better.
Be sure to read the discussions here:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/20
Still relevant: [WayBack] Code Review Checklist – CodeProject
[WayBack] Best “Everything Else” Article of November 2016 Ebenezar John Paul – Code Review Checklist… – CodeProject – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/15
When you get a Window like this upon Atom.io start, and starting to report a bug, they guide you to a “start Atom in safe mode first, then try to disable all packages to sort out if it’s a package issue” and point to [WayBack] Debugging: using safe mode.
The problem here is that when you start Atom in safe mode (from the console using atom --safe) then in the preferences you cannot disable packages: clicking on the “Disable” button has absolutely no effect.
This was with atom --version
atom --version
Atom : 1.12.8
Electron: 1.3.13
Chrome : 52.0.2743.82
Node : 6.5.0
I worked around this by editing ~/.atom/config.cson as that already contained a section like this:
core:
disabledPackages: [
"nav-panel"
]
So I wrote a poor-mans little script that generated the inner portion of that block:
pushd ~/.atom && ls -1d packages/*/ | sed 's/packages\// "/g' | sed 's/\//"/g' && popd
which got me this nice list:
"atom-beautify"
"atom-html-preview"
"atom-keyboard-macros"
"atom-wrap-in-tag"
"autocomplete-xml"
"broadcast"
"close-tags"
"color-picker"
"counter"
"emmet"
"export-html"
"file-icons"
"git-plus"
"language-batch"
"language-bbcode"
"language-innosetup"
"language-pascal"
"language-plantuml"
"language-restructuredtext"
"language-routeros-script"
"linter"
"nav-panel-plus"
"nav-panel"
"omnisharp-atom"
"pandoc-convert"
"plantuml-preview"
"print-atom"
"rot13"
"rst-preview-pandoc"
"sort-lines"
"sync-settings"
"tabs-to-spaces"
"xml-formatter"
"xml-tools"
From there, I did a binary search for the offending package: broadcast so I’ve filed an issue there.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/15
Took me a while to figure out that you can run any command in Atom.io, even if it’s not in the menu or toolbar:
This isn’t very clear in Atom, but what you’re after is this menu item: Toggle Command Palette
Mac OS X: Shift+Command+P:
Windows: Ctrl+Shift+P
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Where can I run Atom command? – Stack Overflow
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/14
I’m still amazed this is not in stock Mac OS X:
In Finder > Select a folder > Right click, we get a popup with an option to create a new folder:Is there a way to add menu item New Textfile for adding a new text file?
[WayBack] macos – Right-click, create a new text file. How? – Ask Different
One way is to use Automator scripts, but: scripting…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/11
[WayBack] Embarcadero just released a patch for RAD Studio 10.2.2. It breaks linking projects with runtime packages, like GExperts, any other IDE expert and probably also most component packages. – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+ in a response to [WayBack] RAD Studio 10.2.2 Tokyo February 2018 Patch available now at https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30819. This patch for RAD Studio 10.2.2 (build 2004)… – Marco Cantù – Google+.
RSP-19914 (by Thomas Mueller)
Summary
After installing the RAD Studio 10.2.2 Tokyo February 2018 Patch I can no longer compile any project with “Link with runtime packages”.
Error message:
[dcc32 Fatal Error] Project1.dpr(5): E2225 Never-build package ‘vcl’ must be recompiledSteps to reproduce
1. Create a new VCL project
2. Open project options
3. Select Packages -> Runtime Packages
4. Set “Link with runtime packages” to true
5. Close dialog with OK
6. Compile the project
-> Error
You might have noticed that the MVP logo is no longer on the blog. It got revoked because I was too critical. Given releases like the above, I can’t stop being critical in a public way as the internal ways to effectively voice criticism that used to work in the past stopped working a long time ago.
Not just the MVP was revoked, the account to which the MVP was attached got killed without notification. That account also had the tech-partner licenses attached: the ones I used to support Delphi open source projects. Which means I do not have any Embarcadero provided licenses to support open source Delphi projects any more except the ones I own (the most recent ones being Delphi 2007 and XE4).
Many people in the Delphi community even refuse to become MVP because formally the MVPs are not allowed to be be critical publicly. Which means these community members have a limited list of Delphi versions they can use to support and test their open source projects with.
I am glad for the time I could use those licenses to support open Delphi source projects, but alas, that time is over. I still like the concepts of Delphi as those are strong. I don’t like how Embarcadero handles their infrastructure and product quality.
In the next 2 years there will be Delphi posts on my blog as that’s about the depth of the posting queue right now. After that: time will tell. For the last decade or so, I’ve spend more free time supporting Delphi than spending time on paid Delphi projects. That won’t last forever.
For now I’m going on a two week holiday tomorrow after which I will be available for new projects.
–jeroen
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