As cgrc.exe could build the .rc file [source in Russian; WayBack], I reproduced it from the console with an Empty.rc file that has no content. That way I could rule out file content: now it had to be command-line arguments which is a different cause than any of the search results I found before.
My project was based on one of the DUnitX test projects. It ran in Delphi XE8, but the Delphi version doesn’t matter as BRCC32 hasn’t been updated since 1999.
Further below are the failure/success examples; this went wrong:
DUnitX uses the DUNITX-DEBUG define to enable debugging of DUnitX itself in DUnitX.inc which also supports the DUNITXDEBUG define in the same area.
Delphi will translate a .RC file in a project into a BRCC32.exe call adding the project conditional defines and search paths
BRCC32.exe doesn’t like hyphens in conditional defines throwing a non-descriptive error Fatal error Illegal macro definition in command line or defines page.
So either removing DUNITX-DEBUG or changing it into DUNITXDEBUG solves the problem. Hence my pull-request.
Many repositories on GitHub do not have whitespace between the # and headings. This is against the specs, so GitHub fixed their rendering engine. Which means now many files do not render nicely any more.
So if you have headings like this:
##text
Fix them to be like:
## text
If your GitHub repository has less than 50 starts, you did not get an automatic pull request to fix it from https://github.com/bryant1410/readmesfix so you can either:
Recently, GitHub introduced the change in how atx
headers are parsed in Markdown files.
##Wrong
Correct
While this change follows the spec, it breaks many existing repositories. I took the README dataset which we created
at source{d} and ran a simple regexp PySpark job.
It appeared that more than 500,000 repositories have README files which are rendered
with invalid headers.
Among those 0.5mm, there are more than 10,000 which have more than 50 stars. They were
uploaded to data.world.
Glueing together APIs requires working with JSON: parsing it, extracting it, transforming it. JQ is a fast, lightweight, flexible, CLI JSON processor, that does the job well. Learn how to use it by getting your hands dirty with a JSON blob that represents the open issues in the public Docker GitHub repository.
One of the reasons I favour using RTL based functionality over Delphi Intrinsic Routines like Length, Abs and others is that you cannot use compiler intrinsics in Generics. For instance Length is not compatible with TFunc<string, Integer> unless you declare it yourself like function StringLength(value: string): Integer; as otherwise you get en E2029 error (in this case the cryptic '(' expected but ';' found).
It’s one of the many areas where the Delphi compiler developers took a shortcut, but in this case I think the results are somewhat good.
Other reasons for using the RTL over compiler intrinsics have to do with scoping: the intrinsics are in the global scope which can clutter what you’re trying to work on.
So I much rather use the file and stream related functions when I’m actually working with a file or stream. For instance Assign for me has nothing to do with a file outside of a file context (it’s the reason AssignFile exists in the first place).
Hosting Grumpydev Imageflair locally ended with two issues left: an empty image and my wish to include more complete StackExchange bits like the current StackExchange flair does.
I thought fixing the empty image would take a rainy day. It actually took a few rainy hours.
The drawback of having fetchmsttfonts is that the original Microsoft versions of these fonts are downloaded from corefonts.sourceforge.net each time the fetchmsttfonts package is updated, potentially overwriting newer versions of the fonts in that directory. If you don’t want that, use the trick at (not yet archived at the WayBack machine) font handling – install fetchmsttfonts, copy fonts, rpm -e fethmsttfonts, copy fonts back.
Having the fonts installed, I thought the only thing I needed to fix were the multiple references in config.php from that pointed to Arial.TTF. I took the poor man’s approach and just did this being in the directory of config.php:
cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf Arial.TTF
Filled Imageflair
That didn’t work either: still no text showed.
So I decided to run imageFlair.php from the command line after setting $imageflair_debug = true; in config.php which then resulted in all sorts of warnings like
PHP Warning: imagettftext(): Could not find/open font
After reading I decided to build a small php-gd.tester.php script containing phpinfo(); and gd_info showing these portions for PHP GD (non-relevant bits stripped):
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In order to scan some local networks for unknown hosts (yes, on some sites you need to perform archeology), I needed the local IPv4 addresses, netmasks and CIDRs on my Mac running OS X.
Part of that is using ifconfig to get local inet information which however uses hexadecimal network masks and delivers no CIDRs.
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 