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Question got closed in May 2025 due to bureaucrazy: Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

The whole idea of “community questions” was to create collective topics or references about important material without gaining any “points”.

Stack Exchange has left that concept in the dark by closing questions like this 2010 one that still contains relevant links: [Wayback/Archive] Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow

The next step by their moderators is to delete the question, which will lose the valuable material forever.

Stack Exchange also dislikes humour.

And Embarcadero keeps deleting useful sites.

So for posterity, here is the question plus answers in full, amended with archived versions of each link when still available (I used † to mark the dead ones):

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Pingback, Software Development, Stackoverflow | 1 Comment »

Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User https://t.co/VPEaaiOGId” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/24

Some good slide material (and even better further down this post) from [Wayback/Archive] Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User”:

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, Google, GoogleSearch, Pingback, Software Development, Source Code Management, Stackoverflow | Leave a Comment »

The toxic reactions to “What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10

The toxic reactions to [Wayback/Archive] What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow were surely inviting to never ever try and help improving StackOverflow again.

Lesson learned: Stack Overflow won’t ever be the welcoming environment it was 15 years ago and the toxicity will make it slowly become obsolete.

Hopefully the smaller Stack Exchange sites will take a long while to go in that direction.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “The @StackOverflow toxicity: you start a discussion on meta to get better guidance for the community at large. – 13 downvotes & counting – a bunch of comments of which the majority is not helpful – no answers Deleting 429663. Never trying to help improving the situation again.”

--jeroen

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Open source StackOverflow/StackExchange like project codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10

Cool project for a community driven open source site (written mostly in Ruby): [Wayback/Archive] codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software

Rails-based version of our core software, powering codidact.com. Currently under active development towards MVP.

There are more related repositories under [Wayback/Archive] Codidact.

The project is explained at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact – Helping each other learn.

The many communities are at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact, including:

Via [Wayback/Archive] User Quasímodo – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, HTML, Pingback, Ruby, Software Development, Stackoverflow, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Converting an html dl (delimited list) on a page to a table from the Chrome console

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/14

A while ago, I wanted to convert the dl delimited list html element on a web page into a regular table so I could more easily reorder the data into cells.

So I ran the below bit of code in the Chrome Console after first putting the mentioned table with id here_table in the place where I wanted the table to be included:


<table id="here_table"></table>

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var arr = $("#delimitedList").children().map(function () {
return $(this).html();
}).get();
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 2) {
$('#here_table').append('<tr><td>' + arr[i] + '</td><td>' + arr[i + 1] + '</td></tr>');
}

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convertDlToTable.js

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For this script to work, you need jQuery, so yesterday I wrote Better, Stronger, Safer jQuerify Bookmarklet | Learning jQuery.

The code is based on [Wayback/Archive.is] Rebuild each definition list () as a table using JQuery – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive.is] easy!) with an important adoption instead of calling text() to get the textual dt and dd information, it uses html() so the original innerHTML is being preserved.

Some similar JavaScript pieces of code are at [Wayback/Archive.is] Turning HTML into a nested JavaScript array with jQuery – Stack Overflow.

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, Pingback, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Stackoverflow, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/19

Via [WayBack] Your cut and paste skills are in demand ##IL – Christoph Puppe – Google+:

–jeroen

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Stack Exchange – stackoverflow OpenID

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/06

If you want to log into any stackoverflow/superuser/serverfault/stackexchange related network using their OpenID, then read the following from [WayBack] Stack Exchange:

Your Stack Exchange account, or StackID, is a reusable form of public identity that can be used to log in to any website that supports OpenID.

To log in to sites in the Stack Exchange network:

  • click the “Log In with Stack Exchange” button

To log in to websites that support OpenID:

  • enter the URL https://openid.stackexchange.com

–jeroen

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Where does my git question go? – Programmers Meta Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/20

StackOverflow / StackExchange is growing too large:

You’ve got a question about git. Its not uncommon, lots of people have questions about git. But where should the question be asked?

Source: Where does my git question go? – Programmers Meta Stack Exchange

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Opinions, Pingback, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Stackoverflow | Leave a Comment »

A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak – Meta Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/27

I wish many other companies would disclose post mortem information like this: [WayBack] A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak – Meta Stack Overflow

via: [WayBack] Interesting and very appropriate top commenthttp://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/340960/a-post-mortem-on-the-recent-developer-story-information-leak – This is why I Code – Google+

–jeroen

 

 

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Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim – Stack Overflow Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/24

Apparently, this is not just a joke, but a real problem:

This morning, a popular Stack Overflow question hit a major milestone:

There is an in depth analysis at [WayBack] Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim – Stack Overflow Blog

Via: [WayBack] Fabian S. Biehn – Google+

–jeroen

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