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Twitter / @uɾıʇɹɐW: ROFLOL The United Kingdom …

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/03

Brilliant!

Twitter / @uɾıʇɹɐW: ROFLOL The United Kingdom ….

–jeroen

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BEKIJK DE FILM, en steun hiermee de strijd tegen kanker!

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/02

BEKIJK DE FILM, en steun hiermee de strijd tegen kanker!.

–jeroen

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31 Days – A Month of Style Tips and Tricks

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/01

Boy, did I really miss all these Tips and Tricks last month?

–jeroen

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Fox News’ guess on where Egypt is…

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/31

Brilliant: Brent Martin’s photos – A lot of Americans can’t even find their own country on a map. So I’m not surprised Fox News has no idea about Egypt! | Plixi.

–jeroen

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#vodafone #3G #UMTS transparent http proxy #fail: it breaks the #hyves on-line mail system

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/11/05

When connecting through Vodafone 3G/UMTS, it leads all http traffic through a transparent proxy.

In The Netherlands, hyves is a pretty popular social network (especially for maintaining the family and friends part of your networks).
Vodafone 3G/UMTS breaks the email functionality of hyves.

The Vodafone transparent proxy loads http://1.2.3.4/bmi-int-js/bmi.js, and I bitten by this proxy before, so it was pretty easy to find the cause.
There is no work around (apart from RDP-ing into a remote machine and doing all the browsing from there).

I’ll blog about what Vodafone does in a future blog post, because they do a couple of things that I think are pretty rude.
But more on that later.

Most important thing to know that if something doesn’t work that normally works, and the only difference is that you are connected through Vodafone 3G/UMTS, then it is probably their transparent HTTP proxy breaking it.

–jeroen

notes:

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Twitter / Danny Thorpe: New programmers are drawn …

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/21

Brilliant and so true:

New programmers are drawn to multithreading like moths to flame, with similar results.

Edit: And this is just one example on how tiny little details can impact threading so much.

–jeroen

via Twitter / Danny Thorpe: New programmers are drawn ….

Posted in .NET, Agile, CommandLine, Debugging, Delphi, Development, Opinions, Software Development | 10 Comments »

.NET/C#: stupid code of the day – Cosmos.Debug.VSDebugEngine

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/13

I wasn’t the first one to notice this one, but is hilereous:

bool enabled = fEnable == 0 ? false : true;

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Embarcadero moving GoToWebinar/GoToMeeting this month from Live Meeting

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/11

One of the annoying issues with LiveMeeting is that it has no way to set the audio level under which it should mute.
In other words: the auto-muting logic of LiveMeeting cannot be influenced, so you get strange audio articats.

So I’m glad that DavidI announced during CodeRage that Embarcadero will be moving to http://www.gotomeeting.com/fec/webinar later this month.

–jeroen

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co-worker question: what is better, extension methods or helper classes?

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/29

Recently, a co-worker at a client asked me “What is better: extension methods of helper classses?”.

This question is relevant not only in the .NET and Delphi worlds.

My answer was simple, consisting of these 3 points: Read the rest of this entry »

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Humans are the weakest link: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Was Cracked, but now you can remove rights management for HDCP sources

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/18

The human factor is always the weakest link in any rights management: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Has Been Cracked.

–jeroen

Via: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Has Been Cracked | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

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