Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/22
Now where did I hear that “Aurora” product codename name again?
Aurora seems to be the new product codename for Microsof’ts’ on-premises/cloud mix of Small Business Server.
But wait, wasn’t it eras ago that you could choose to run PHP on clouds for your business apps?
And isn’t Aurora/Delphi for PHP all about creating those apps?
–jeroen
via: Microsoft small-business server futures: 5 things to know | ZDNet / Aurora – a Microsoft cloud server for the small guy?.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi for PHP, Development, Opinions, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/21
Long time Delphi user Malcom Groves just posted an interesting video on Debugging Initialization and Finalization sections.
What I especially like is that he performs this trick using the DUnit unit testing framework for Delphi.
+1 for using unit testing!
The trick he uses is an old one, but I didn’t realize that few people know it, so it is good to put it in writing.
Note that the trick does not work in all cases (see further on an alternative), but for most cases it does work well:
Easy, when you know, difficult to find out yourself (I found out by accident eras ago <g>).
Sometimes (I have not found out why yet) some Delphi versions refuse to work this way.
So you need an alternative, which is this one: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/20
I’ve let this boil for a while before reacting on the let go by Embarcadero of Nick Hodges from his R&D Manager position.
Reacting as a non-native English person is a tad difficult, as it is tough to express the fine aspects of the implications well.
So I’m posting this in both the Delphi and Opinions category; reactions are more than welcome. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/12
If you want JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook for free, then hurry :)
–jeroen
via: JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook free for 24 hours (or less now, I guess) – DelphiFeeds.com.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/08
Five words:
use parameters instead of literals.
via: Date Time SQL Queries: Formatting Date Time Values for Access SQL in Delphi.
Edit: Fixed “in stead of” into “instead of”: learned something new today :-)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/07
Last week, Jean-Baptiste Jung started a bit of a stir when posting on Smashing Magazine about 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks.
He totally missed the official Hardening WordPress page and generated a lot of comment traffic.
All of his tweaks were rebutted by commenter Vid Luther (Mobile Commerce and Technology Evangelist and ZippyKid owner) in a separate How to Secure a WordPress Site.
This once again shows that for serious work you really need to know what you are doing.
If you don’t, then leave the work to people who do: Vid is one of those guys.
–jeroen
via: 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks – Smashing Magazine.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/06
This interesting post by Serg Kas on Delphi interfaces on binary level didn’t make it on DelphiFeeds, hence my reference to it.
It is a nice post about the inner workings of interfaces in Delphi.
Recommended reading!
–jeroen
via: Delphi interfaces on binary level « The Programming Works.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/30
It seems quite a few “web 2.0” apps too have the same glitch: they throw away user input when the first page finishes loading.
This is especially noticeable on slow connections (UMTS, DSL that is a long distance from the phone company, EDGE, GPRS, etc): the connection speeds that a lot of developers don’t seem to test on.
So, the sequence of events goes like this:
Or more general:
when you start typing in a Web 2.0 app which is still loading, almost all the times you loose your input.
And since there is usually no visual clue when the Web 2.0 app has finished loading, you have to wait until you feel comfortable not loosing your input.
Bad!
Examples that get this wrong:
Please add your own in the comments…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/28
Recently, I had to print multiple months or weeks from within Google Calendar.
The default UI does not allow that, but it is in fact pretty easy to do.
These are the steps to get PDF versions of a whole year.
Edit 20100714: thanks to Kilian Croese, I could explain a few more parameters, and cut out the steps for Fiddler, so it now works with most browsers on most platforms.
All text that is not relevant any more is marked deleted, so you can still read it if you want to use Fiddler.
It works from Google Chrome and Internet Explorer on Windows (FireFox works if you install FiddlerHook) Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Development, Fiddler, Google, Google Apps, GoogleCalendar, ISO 8601, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | 19 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/26
Pēteris wrote about Adding wordpress.com blog as connected site in Google Buzz.
Thanks – that saved me a lot of time!
–jeroen
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