Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/20
I’ve let this boil for a while before reacting on the let go by Embarcadero of Nick Hodges from his R&D Manager position.
Reacting as a non-native English person is a tad difficult, as it is tough to express the fine aspects of the implications well.
So I’m posting this in both the Delphi and Opinions category; reactions are more than welcome. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/30
It seems quite a few “web 2.0” apps too have the same glitch: they throw away user input when the first page finishes loading.
This is especially noticeable on slow connections (UMTS, DSL that is a long distance from the phone company, EDGE, GPRS, etc): the connection speeds that a lot of developers don’t seem to test on.
So, the sequence of events goes like this:
Or more general:
when you start typing in a Web 2.0 app which is still loading, almost all the times you loose your input.
And since there is usually no visual clue when the Web 2.0 app has finished loading, you have to wait until you feel comfortable not loosing your input.
Bad!
Examples that get this wrong:
Please add your own in the comments…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/19
Funny how two completely different products have very similar symbols:
Activia Symbol
Lactacyd Femina Symbol
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/17
My favourite pointing device: xkcd: Appropriate Term.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/16
When you want to support long pathnames on Windows, you need to watch for the MAX_PATH limitation.
Some tools, like RoboCopy (developed in C++), Beyond Compare (developed in Delphi) and others get it right.
Getting it right does not depend in your development environment: it is all about calling the right API’s with the right parameters.
Let me take a tool – in this case DropBox, though other tools suffer from the same problem – and investigate how they should do it.
Even though DropBox is cross platform, the Windows version of DropBox limits itself to synchronizing files having less than 260 characters in their path.
This is a big drawback: it is so 20th century having a limitation like this. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/07
For a good laugh: read the Modern computer languages are a bit like people in some ways thread in the CodeProject lounge.
–jeroen
Via: The Lounge – CodeProject.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/28
Recently, facebook started to complain that my email is not valid any more:
Please update your email address
Our systems have detected that valid.email@example.com is no longer a valid email. Facebook requires all users to maintain an active contact email. Please enter and confirm a new contact email below:
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Note I changed my facebook email address in the quote above and log below, but the unchanged one is valid, and accepts mail. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/25
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/17
Where broadcasting fails.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/16
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