Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/23
A long follow-up of Current state: still fighting with rectum cancer, but chances for better quality of life which does not even include everything, because so much happened.
So this is the current state; browse back via Twitter for more of the history which you can find at [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Too much to let sink in …” and [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers (@jpluimers) | Twitter.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/20
A while ago, I had to figure out how to get some GExperts stuff cross-compile to older Delphi versions, because of UITypes usage that is not available in Delphi XE and lower (but much of what it contains is in the Types unit).
So I went down memory lane, as I remember in Delphi 2, the Delphi 1 WinTypes and WinProcs units were merged into the Windows unit.
A quick search revealed the stackoverflow entry mentioned here:
for the Delphi 1 -> Delphi 2 migrations, these aliases were used where multiple units pointed to the same one:
WinTypes=Windows;WinProcs=Windows;DbiProcs=BDE;DbiTypes=BDE;DbiErrs=BDESee [WayBack] delphi – wintypes.dcu not found and code completion stops working – Stack Overflow
A longer search found this in my own archives:
File D2-CS-2.0\DEMOS\DOC\AUTOPROJ\AUTOPROJ.DOF
Has this line:
UnitAliases=WinTypes=Windows;WinProcs=Windows
Source: [WayBack] GX_GenericUtils.pas fails to build in Delphi 2007 because it uses unit UITypes · Issue #22 · jpluimers/GExperts · GitHub
You can use unit aliases so your applications cannot use the VCL any more.
The trick is to alias Forms or VCL.Forms into something that does not exists, like Forms=__no_VCL_Forms__. The reason this works is that any VCL application uses the Forms unit because of the Forms.Application variable.
Reference:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/20
Today it’s the 40th birthday of UDP. Or more precise: 40 years after [WayBack] RFC 768 – User Datagram Protocol got submitted.
It is still used a lot today, so be sure to read more background on [WayBack] User Datagram Protocol – Wikipedia.
And of course on a birthday, it is nice to have few good jokes. So here we go:
[WayBack] “I would tell you a joke about UDP, but you probably wouldn’t get it.” | Hacker News
[WayBack] I would tell you a joke about UDP, but you probably wouldn’t get it. So here’s a TCP joke | reddit.
[Archive.is]:
- UDP packet bar walks into
- The best thing about UDP jokes is that I don’t care if you get it. #sysadmin #networking #IT
You can generate more yourself: udpjoke.py
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/13
A while ago, Markus Eggers – Google+ started following me on G+, so I found out about his posts: most of them refer to very useful agility related ones.
So my reading list just got a bit longer, with tuples on Markus Eggers – Google+ and where it points to.
Other interesting posts:
[WayBack] Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No, it’s a Super PMO!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/05
One of the great things about the Delphi docwiki structure is that the naming system is very consistent.
The consistency helps you quickly finding the What’s new for any version, just by getting the latest first.
Getting the latest one is based based on a docwiki redirection trick that always redirects from an “unversioned” URL to the latest one.
So these two “unversioned” URLs always get you there:
When writing this, the above links got me the below list. For consistency (as you cannot save URLs for prior versions in the WayBack machine because a brain-dead robots.txt setting which archive.is luckily ignores):
By now, there will hopefully be a few more Delphi versions released.
Reminder to self: update the list (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/04
No matter what language or technology stack you use, if you can describe your code with these adjectives, good code should follow
From a while back, but still very current.
Source: [WayBack] 11 signs you’re writing great software code | InfoWorld
Via: [WayBack] 11 signs that there is hope for your code yet https://www.infoworld.com/arti…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/28
I like it when people find out that Rubber Ducking is a good thing.
Read the story at [WayBack] … I’ve read about ‘rubber ducking’ and thought of it as a good thing, but I never really use/did it. Also I knew that SO showed me the value of MCVE,… – Mike Torrettinni – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/02
As I one day likely need to pas a dynamically created array of const from scratch (which behind the scenes actually is an array of TVarRec, where each element is, TVarRec which is a variant record that can have both values and pointers to values. So the result will be kind of a mess :)
Further reading:
Edit 20251105: also relevant is this excellent article [Wayback/Archive] Rudy’s Delphi Corner – Open array parameters and array of const which was pointed to me [W/A] at Delphi Developers
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/24
Still a very good (Dutch) read by mentor (not only Agile, also DCI and Marching) Robby Overvliet [WayBack/Archive.is] Go pick a leaf of that tree!:
Ben jij Agile? Weet je het zeker? Tuurlijk het whiteboard hangt en de stickies schuiven vrolijk van links naar rechts. Dagelijks is daar netjes de standup en andere feedback loops doen hun ding.
Via:
One of the cool things is that he learned a lot from Charlie Anderson, that I recollect from the Borland and Quattro Pro days. What a smal world (:
On Charlie:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/23
Be clear, be consistent, don’t be clever, and follow these rules for naming your code.
[WayBack] Ten Commandments For Naming Your Code investigates these:
- Thou shalt be specific.
- Thou shalt not use unnecessary words.
- Thou shalt not use abbreviations.
- Thou shalt use the code’s primary human language.
- Thou shalt not make up words.
- Thou shalt not include type.
- Thou shalt only use non-obvious words if the meaning is obvious.
- Thou shalt prefer active voice.
- Thou shalt use consistent syntax.
- Thou shalt break these rules if necessary.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 