Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/09
Sometimes a generic answer to a specific answer gives people a lot more insight into what they actually want to accomplish than a specific answer.
Plus that the knowledge does not only apply to VCL in any Delphi version: it works in any development environment where you can draw.
That’s why I like this 2D transformation answer so much: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/04
I’m not the only a big fan of almost anything that Eric Lippert writes on tech subjects on both his new personal Fabulous Adventures In Coding blog as well as his old microsoft Fabulous Adventures In Coding blog (a little more than half a year ago, he moved from Microsoft to Coverity.
On his old blog, he had a great series of posts on the “Fragile Base Class problem” (which he calls the Brittle Base Class problem) from a C# perspective.
Be sure to also read the comment threads, as they provide some very valuable information too (for instance, about Extension Methods that can make your code more fragile).
Recommended reading!
–jeroen
via: Browse by Tags – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/02
For my link archive: PowerShell Scripts to create VMs with large disks.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/01
Niklaus Wirth developed the Pascal Programming Language in the early 1970s.
This summer, 40 years ago, he published an important report in that era: “The Programming Language Pascal (Revised Report) July 1973“.
The report describes the language after it had been use in a while and includes a few language changes (packed records and arrays, file handling behaviour, and a few others) introducing a period of language stability.
If you are part of the Swiss research community, you can download the original PDF at
http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:3059/eth-3059-01.pdf?pid=eth:3059&dsID=eth-3059-01.pdf
If you are not, then Switch.ch will block access.
However, there are at least 2 ways to view the report:
An earlier (November 1972) draft of the report is also available.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/27
Once every while you come across a post that is so good, you add another feed to your RSS list. This time I added Su-Shee’s posts,
Quote from: A constant source of confusion: Simplicity.
what is it really about all this simplicity stuff
It is a post about IT development. Teams. Platforms. Tools. Frameworks. Etc.
Striking a balance to keep things simple enough to be manageable is always key and her examples are just great!
–jeroen
via: A constant source of confusion: Simplicity.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/27
Once every while PowerShelll users get an error like this:
PS C:\bin> . .\DownloadedScript.ps1 . : File C:\bin\DownloadedScript.ps1 cannot be loaded. The file C:\bin\DownloadedScript.ps1 is not digitally signed. The script will not execute on the system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170. At line:1 char:3 + . .\DownloadedScript.ps1 + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : SecurityError: (:) [], PSSecurityException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnauthorizedAccess PS C:\bin>
I recently had it too, but was surprised this happened as I took the steps in my previous blog posts on this topic: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/27
log4net configuration can be a tad intimidating at first.
When you do not want to log all levels, and the levels you want to log are not noncontinuous, then you can combine the LevelMatchFilter with a DenyAllFilter.
The filter classes in the log4net do not provide much help on this, but the filters section in the log4net manual is better.
This StackOverflow question has a very nice answer explaining it: Discarding several log levels within a range with log4net.
–jeroen
via: Discarding several log levels within a range with log4net – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/26
Need to put some research in this, as I have the idea that under some circumstances embedding Office interop assemblies not always works.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/25
This [WayBack] SvnBridge – Use TortoiseSVN with Team Foundation Server – View Discussion shows you how to setup SvnBridge with TFS 2012 and IIS 7.5.
20170517: a fork is at https://github.com/andim2/SvnBridge
[WayBack] SvnBridge on CodePlex.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/20
On the blog from Embarcadero MVP Luis Felipe González Torres are some great Delphi XE4 iOS demos.
However, the blog is Spanish (that’s probably why he is not on DelphiFeeds), so if you do not understand that you had to live with the Google Translate versions of the pages.
Until CodeRage Mobile that is: Anders Ohlsson gave a English presentation:
Creating Apple Push Notification Services (APNS) for your Mobile Applications
iOS supports the Apple Push Notification Services (APNS) This session will show you how to create a push notification services as part of your mobile application. APNS is service for sending information to iOS and OSX devices. This session will show you how to create server and device applications that create notifications containing the device token and JSON payload property list.
Basically he covered these Spanish blog posts where you can download the source code (Google translation in parenthesis):
Important things:
–jeroen
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