T-Shirt quote:
‘There’s no place like 127.0.0.1’
–jeroen
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ThinkGeek :: There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/12
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T-Shirt quotes: Programmer (via: duane attaway – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/01
T-Shirt quote:
Programmer
n. [proh-gram-er]
an organism that turns caffeine and pizza into software
–jeroen
via: duane attaway – Google+.
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OH: “Final is Latin for Time To Refactor”
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/25
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When Delphi documentation hurts: REST.Response.Adapter.TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter – RAD Studio API Documentation
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/01
A lot of the stuff on the Embarcadero docwiki hurts. For instance most of the REST stuff (I’m not calling it documentation) is just generated scaffolding. Like REST.Json.TJson.
But the TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter has some amazing documenation. About TComponent that is:
TComponent is the common ancestor of all component classes.
TComponent is the base class for all components. Components are persistent objects that have the following capabilities:
IDE integration. The ability to appear on an IDE palette and be manipulated in a Form Designer.
Ownership. The ability to manage other components. If component A owns component B, then A is responsible for destroying B when A is destroyed.
Streaming and filing. Enhancements of the persistence features inherited from TPersistent.
…
To assist the doc team: this is a query for all pages containing “TComponent is the common ancestor of all component classes.”. Feel free to [WayBack] QC or QP it.
–jeroen
via: REST.Response.Adapter.TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter – RAD Studio API Documentation.
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For those doing dates in M/D/Y format: happy Pi Day
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/14
I’m more a Pi Approximation Day person.
But for the few that insist on M/D/Y date format: happy Pi Day.
Jan Wildeboer on G+:
–jeroen
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The curse of getting electronic invoices
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/29
I’m getting nuts with all these companies insisting on sending digital invoices or receipts.
The worst is that each and every company has figured a way that works well for them, but is slightly different from all the other vendors. You’d think there are not that many degrees of freedom. There are.
A lot of them aren’t even invoices, as they miss valuable information (for instance Dutch ones lacking chamber of commerce or VAT numbers) or they sent you a ton of stuff where invoice is not called invoice or receipt at all.
Others send you an order confirmation, payment confirmation, shipping estimate, shipping confirmation, rating reminder, pro-forma invoice. But no invoice.
The attachments are horrible. Some send them as PDF, some just HTML mail, like with images that need to be downloaded but are gone after a while. Others even send Word documents, CSV files, or Excel sheets. Of the paged documents, they are often formatted for Letter (hey, there is a whole world out there with A4!).
It gets really painful when you need to go on-line to retrieve the attachment. Sometimes a cookie suffices. Sometimes you need to login. The worst are when during login, they disable auto password entry in a browser.
Some of the attachments (even PDFs!) contain just a bitmap image of the invoice: no OCR, not searchable. Amazon.de is known for this.
Talking about Amazon.de: they managed to send me a German order confirmation. With dates in Spanish (as I found out through Google Translate of 26 de enero de 2015):
And many of the invoices lack key information to relate them to bank account or credit card statements: transaction numbers not matching or completely gone.
This used to be so easy in the past when we had paper invoices. Once every month or so, I sat down, ripped open all the envelopes, sorted them into categories (private, company, etc), did payments.
When the statements come in, just put the right ones with the right statements and hand over to the book keeper that does the tax filings. Simple and took an hour or so!
I spent most of today figuring out all the electronic invoices of last quarter (the paper stuff took me like 30 minutes).
–jeroen
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Password requirements by @NicvantSchip – via Koushik Dutta – Google+
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/12
Brilliant: password requirements by @NicvantSchip.
“Your password must contain at least 8 letters, a capital, a plot, a protagonist with good character development, a twist & a happy ending.”
And Dilbert via Thomas Kear:
“Starting today, passwords must contain letters, numbers, sign language and squirrel noises”
–jeroen
via: Koushik Dutta – Google+.
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Retro: Apple IIe iPhone – Ivan Epling
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/27
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Need to draw an ASCII diagram? ASCIIFlow is awesome:… (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/09
ASCIIFlow.com: Brilliant!
And from the comments PlantUML which generates UML diagrams from text, of which the sequence diagrams can also be generated as ASCII (the others only as images).
Finally there is ditaa which goes from ASCII diagrams to images. The complete circle is done (:
--jeroen
via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – Need to draw an ASCII diagram? ASCIIFlow is awesome:….
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Many people missed the 8-bit street view at Google Maps Quest on April 1st #1april #april1st
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/01
Many people mentioned the April 1st prank by Google: 8-bit maps, and a NES Google Maps cartridge (quote at 0:55: blow on the cartridge to fix bugs ROFL!)
Today Google Maps has a quest mode, rendering the maps in Nintendo NES “quality”.
Few people really used it, and missed the glorious 8-bit streetview, and the really nice landmarks that you see when you zoom in to a scale of 500 meter or better.
You can even link to the 8-bit maps and to the 8-bit street view!.
Click on the images for larger versions (:
--jeroen
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