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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10
From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
Besides me referring to my blog post Delphi β Frames as visual Components β donβt forget your Sprig!, these were important comments and answers with notes by myself:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/05
For a, I wanted to a HTML ul list the SQL keywords in multiple columns I was afraid this would be a tough CSS job, but in practice it was way easier than even explained in the below Stack Overflow answers that made me find
[Wayback/Archive] columns – CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
TheΒ
columns[Wayback/Archive] CSSΒ shorthand property sets the number of columns to use when drawing an element’s contents, as well as those columns’ widths.
TL;DR:
<ul style="columns:3">...</ul><ul style="column-count: 2; column-width: 15em;">...</ul><ul style="column-count: 2; width: 480px;">...</ul>Here are the answers:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/04
Important read (5 minutes or so): [Wayback/Archive] Restrict Mutability of State. When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change⦠| by Kevlin Henney | Feb, 2025 | Medium
Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Kevlin Henney on X: “Blogged: Restrict Mutability of State “What appears at first to be a trivial observation turns out to be a subtly important one: a great many software defects arise from the (incorrect) modification of state.” “
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/03
Cool video about how developers feel when others (like QA) test or use the software they have just built:
[Wayback/Archive] Devs watching QA test the product – YouTube
I got to the video viaΒ [Wayback/Archive] sanja zakovska π± on Twitter: “Devs watching QA test the productβ¦ “ to which the author responded with
[Wayback/Archive] Alison Burke on Twitter: “@sanjazakovska Incase anyone needs the resolution ππ follow me on tiktok! vm.tiktok.com/ZMJKeK29a“
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/27
This case, it was C# accessing a SQL back-end, but the responses to the Tweet how so many more examples not even related to software development.
Remember that plane crashing because they overloaded while they thought the fuel load numbers were in Imperial pounds where in fact they were in metric kilograms?
That’s why naming things that contain numbers should contain the unit in their name!
Related blog post: Watch βFelienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to readβ on YouTube
Tweet:Β [Wayback/Archive] Nick Craver on Twitter: “Troubleshooting a hanging test suite and godDAMMIT. “In seconds”. Integer timeouts should be a felony offense punishable by an indeterminate amount of seconds/milliseconds/hours/fortnights/whatever the judge chooses.”
var csb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(TestConfig.Current. SQLServerConnectionString) { ConnectTimeout = 2000 }; int SqlConnectionStringBuilder.ConnectTimeout { get; set; } Gets or sets the length of time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to the server before terminating the attempt and generating an error. Returns: The value of the SqlConnectionStringBuilder, ConnectTimeout property, or 15 seconds if no value has been supplied.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/20
Every once in a while I discover an answer I have not yet put on my blog, especially as related answer are always interesting.
This is one that didn’t make it until now: [Wayback/Archive] Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow (thanksΒ [Wayback/Archive] jpfollenius, [Wayback/Archive] Deltics andΒ [Wayback/Archive] Lars Truijens)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07
The people knowing about the really early Pascal history are a dying breed. So before I pass away (see the posts on my rectum cancer), let me post a few more links here that based on yesterday’s Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal which I ended with:
I learned a few more things fromΒ [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? (Page 2)
Here we go:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/06
Last week I wrote on File scoped namespaces β C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn, promising to write more on p-Code and UCSD Pascal. That’s now (:
I started withΒ [Wayback/Archive] “java byte code” “ucsd” “p-code” – Google Search as I was looking for really old material on this (Java 1.0 versions became available in the 1994-1995 time frame, and a lot of material back then either did not make it to the World Wide Web (which slowly gained popularity around that time, see History of the World Wide Web) or has vanished due to link rot.
The cool thing is that many “new” people are not even aware of p-Code, as the 2019 thread [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? shows.
I learned a thing or two from it as well, for instance that there has been a “recent” book on UCSD Pascal:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/05
Here are some of my blog posts on documenting using example domains and example IP-addresses or IP-ranges:
(I really wish that example.org and others would service SMTP with blackhole routing so one can also use it for bogus email addresses in documentation)
The blog posts above were incomplete (IPv6 was missing; IPv4 was not explained), so below are more links that do a better job based on a Tweet fromΒ [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans (@b0rk).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/30
More on the reason why I learned a few SQLite things soon, but for my link and documentation archive, below is what I learned.
Most commands use the database file C:\temp\History which has no extension as that is how I got the file in the first place (spoiler: it’s a Chrome browser History from one of my user profiles).
Let’s get started:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 