Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/30
For anyone keeping up with Pascal history, these uploads are new:
–jeroen
via: Index of /pdf/pascalNews.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/14
Marketing blast of the past via David Millington – Google+.
I got most of the Delphi versions from D2-D6 on PC Plus magazine cover CDs, an English magazine also published in Australia. I wouldn’t be here now if I hadn’t had access to those free copies of Delphi when I was a kid.
and this one:
It came with a promotional copy of Borland Delphi… and unlike other “promotional” software often distributed on the cover disks of popular computer publications at that time, this one had absolutely no restrictions and was fully functional.
From a really nice article by Simon Stuart.
Who thought that he was ever at the Basic side of things (:
And of course it ends with correct Delph-ee pronunciation to be right: the community at large has spoken.
Given this week went very different than I anticipated, here is a much shorter story than I hoped for. I’ll focus on the early days, you can read on the later and current days here on my blog.
For me, my Delphi life has been pretty straight forward. It started with the early days and Turbo Pascal leading to Delphi.
Posted in BBS, Castalia, Delphi, Development, FidoNet, History, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/29
When people tell you that ASCII is not an Internet Standard but an RFC. They are wrong. They used to be right though. Until 2015-01-12, when IETF declared the RFC 20 to be an Internet Standard: status-change-rfc20-ascii-format-to-standard-00.
So after more than 45 years (like many good things, the ASCII RFC is from 1969), it is not just an American Standard but an Internet Standard (:
Thanks Lauren Weinstein for sharing and Kristian Köhntopp for pointing to the reclassification.
–jeroen
via: ASCII – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/29
Unit testing has been here for a long time, and so has Unit Testing in Delphi. Below a summary of historic links together with some notes on how the state of affairs changed over the years.
I’ll start with one of the first large Delphi Unit Testing articles was a paper by Charlie Calvert summarizing the state of the art on Delphi Unit Testing in 2004. It is present in the wayback machine as DUnit Talk and on his elvenware.com site.
Note that the elvenwere.com site is sometimes slow or hard to reach. Since his evangelist days at Borland/CodeGear, Charlie has moved through a few evangelist jobs at Falafel and Microsoft and finally went back to his old profession: being a great teacher – this time at Bellevue College – often using script based languages and cloud computing, with less focus on his web-presence.
Many of his IT books (during his writing period, he wrote both as Charles Calvert and Charlie Calvert) are still relevant though.
Posted in Agile, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Dependency Injection, Design Patterns, Development, Event, FreePascal, History, Inversion of Control / IoC, Pascal, Software Development | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/18
Interesting talks about Apple Macintosh (now Mac) LC475, 800K floppies, System 7.6/7.7, SCSI, AppleTalk, Serial, Ethernet, hardware upgrades, etc.
New computer time. Well not exactly “new”. I needed to read/write some old….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24
Cool:
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For the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 freaks out there: WDC, who still produce the chips, have made their Programming the 65816 Including the 6502, 65C02 and 65802 available for free again (see link below). It’s the standard reference for the new version of these CPUs. Yes, this will be on the test. Ping +Alan Cox HT to BDD on 6502.org
–jeroen
For the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 freaks out there: WDC, who still produce the….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/01
Via Best C# Article of October 2014 Nicolas Dorier – NBitcoin I learned that dthorpe (yes, that is indeed Danny Thorpe many people know him from the Delphi, C# and Google world) is active as Contributors to NicolasDorier/NBitcoin and on quite some Bitcoin related repositories.
When we met last summer, he was visiting the Bitcoin 2014 conference in Amsterdam. It is really good to see his activity, and I really hope his Opex.io venture (see his LinkedIn profile) will take off, as his ideas are sound.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Bitcoin, C#, Cryptocurrency, Delphi, Development, History, Power User, Software Development, Windows Azure | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/28
A while ago, Alan Cox started a nice thread about finding an USB way to read old (like 5.25 inch and 3 inch) floppies.
That resulted in a nice comment thread revealing this info:
Now hopefully some people also post some links to USB PCMCIA memory card readers (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/17
Some great links posted last week by mos6502 about soldering your own 6502 based computer.
The videos are of Ben Heck building an Apple I replica. But others did similar builing of NINA65, Loom 6502 and others.
I wish I had soldering skills like that, but I’m more of a programmer (that started on a 6502).
Great viewing those links and videos.
–jeroen
via: Do you remember the Apple I auction results that went through the media….
Here are Ben Heck’s videos: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/14
Delphi and 3rd party tools keep some of the settings in your %AppData% directory. Much more convenient than the registry as they are easier to read and modify when needed (also easier to damage <g>). We’ll start with an overview where various versions of Delphi store their configuration files, then show how the Favourites on the Welcome Page are stored, then end with an overview of BDS, Company Names and Product Names. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 8, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, History, Software Development | 4 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 