Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/04
A few people recently discovered the beauty of record helpers:
Record helpers can help any value type (which includes enumerated types) so you can add functions to enumerations.
Class helpers can help class types.
There are no interface helpers and likely won’t be there for a long while.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/02
Sometimes your Atom installation gets so unstable that the quickest solution is a reinstall. For that you need to get a list of user-installed packages, then re-install them.
On Windows your Atom Package Manager apm is here (but not in the path), where the first is version specific and the latter the most recent version:
%LOCALAPPDAT%\atom\app-1.18.0\resources\cli\apm.cmd
%LOCALAPPDATA%\atom\bin\apm.cmd
On Mac OS X, it is here and in the path:
/usr/local/bin/apm
/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/.bin/apm
Save your packages:
apm list --installed --bare > package-list.txt
Install packages:
apm install --packages-file package-list.txt
For my own memory, the settings folders:
%USERPROFILE%\.atom~/.atom–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/02
Still on my research list (because: way too many other things to do and initially Google Home wasn’t available outside the USA*): [WayBack] Actions on Google | Actions on Google | Google Developers: Actions on Google lets developers build experiences for the Google Assistant.
via: [WayBack] Get started now. This turns your Google Assistant into a Concierge with many contacts and colleagues who can help you to get things done… – Sebastian Mauer – Google+
–jeroen
* [WayBack] Country availability – Google Store Help via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/01
It is a lot (~300 megabyte compressed download!), but worth it.
Here are the links:
sha256sum UberPdfSdk-1000-0000.tar.gz 215aed6e5b99bd4a923a2916708163df7bffc47e36508d51dac34cd9a4a74337sha256sum UberPdfSdk-1000-0000.zip 608a90fd6b8f352b4d1f9f59d0d1853a957179e7272ce9a58db78bb52ef6b6e3And the quote from [WayBack] LAUNCHED https://uberpdf.org/ … – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
LAUNCHED https://uberpdf.org/
…
337 MB of source and utils in 2,308 Files, 910 Folders before you build (not counting 3rd party source UberBuild downloads).
It’s a start, with much to come.It will get easier now that UberBuild is clean.
I will be updating the docs and website in the next few days.
Special thanks …
I already see room for improvement (such as a setup screen for extra compilers such as Delphi and Free Pascal to keep folks out of shell scripts and from hunting for help in the documentation).
…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/01
For my research list (thanks Mariusz Fik @Fisiu):
Actually: this was more of a reminder checking out if someone else by now has made OpenSuSE Tumbleweed builds for ODROID (:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
This is what DevOps is all about: [WayBack] jessie frazelle on Twitter: “Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.”
I had seen the tweet before, but forgot to save it. Jonas Bandi reminded me of it at [WayBack] Weekend Reader: End of Year Edition – reality-loop.
Jessie is doing great work. For instance, she developed and published contained.af, and nobody captured the flag yet: [WayBack] jessie frazelle on Twitter: «A year ago I made contained.af and it’s launched over 128,000 containers & no one has retrieved the flag».
The game runs in a container, gives you console access and has a bunch of questions. Still need to dig deeper in it, as it is a fascinating set-up. If you like to try it:
Wishing you a year where nobody captures your flags (:
–jeroen
via [WayBack] I just published my “Weekend Reader: End of Year Edition” – Jonas Bandi – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
Bugs happen: [WayBack] Did I miss something ? I’ve tried to add a custom image loader for FMX … TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile calls TImageTypeChecker.GetType that returns ONLY predefined image types ! (gif, bmp, png, tiff, jpg) … – Paul TOTH – Google+
I’m not so much surprised by bugs, but what scares the heck out of me is that since about halfway October 2017, there are 900+ Reported issues with status Unresolved (i.e. no change to the issue after it got reported).
Before switching to half-year product release cycles, the yearly ones had an issue triage cut-off date of about 3-6 months.
Now back on yearly cycles, I don’t expect that to be much different.
Expecting a new release in the halfway March 2018 till beginning May 2018 time frame, and assuming the past being a good indication of the future, the window of processing issues is closing soon.
I really hope I am wrong and wish 2018 turns out to he a great Delphi year.
–jeroen
Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
Via: [WayBack] It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. „Dinner for one“ am 31.12 … 12 mal… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
In case you are still interested (I think it is an hilarious sketch):
–jeroen
Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).
[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/29
Cool data, in large parts suitable for statistical processing: [WayBack] KNMI – Daggegevens van het weer in Nederland
Thanks to Helga van Leur:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/29
For shrinking VM disk images, it’s important to consolidate NTFS free space towards the end of the this.
I’ve tried many tools, starting with defrag C: /X (which tries, but doesn’t give good results) and found out these steps give the best results:
Consolidate free space script on the drive.If shrinking still fails then:
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where you cannot find much information about “$badclus:$bad:$data” but appear to be clusters marked as bad on NTFS level using something like chkdsk /B.ntfsfix which ships with GParted live boot:
ntfsfix -b /dev/sda1Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
Going to un-mark the bad clusters ($BadClus)... OK
NTFS partition /dev/sda1 was processed successfully.chkdsk D: /Bdiskmgmt.mscIf you still cannot shrink, then try [WayBack] http://ftp.raxco.com/pub/download/pd14.0/pd14.0_pro.exe PerfectDisk by Raxco free trial.
Note:
MyDefrag (formerly named JkDefrag) is not maintained any more but the 4.3.1 version in the WayBack machine still works very well as the underlying defragmentation APIs in Windows haven’t changed.
References:
For FAT32:
For GParted / ntfsfix:
ntfsfix)
TuxBoot as per instructions at [WayBack] GParted Live on USBsafe boot options that uses VGA mode. Not nice, but very effectivesudo ntfsresize --info --force --no-progress-bar /path-to-your-ntfs-partitionntfsfix above to try and fix it.PerfectDisk via:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 