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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/21
If you are still on Atom, try to see if other cross platform open source editors suit your needs.
Myself, I have moved to Visual Studio Code quite some time ago as, though based on Electron – the core of Atom, it is way faster and much better supported than Atom.
The official announcement is at [Wayback/Archive] Sunsetting Atom | The GitHub Blog.
Various sites reported it in different phrasings:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/08
Preparing for another PowerShell article, I found this blast from the past, as somehow this missed the publishing schedule back in 2014!
After struggling with [Wayback] PowerShell ISE for a while ([Wayback] it started as a proof of concept and wasn’t meant to be an IDE you know) reading [Wayback] Powershell Studio vs Primal Forms Free CE vs PowerShellPlus Pro (also free) – Spiceworks, I’ve started using the free [Wayback] PowerGUI IDE for PowerShell by Dell.
The [Wayback] free PowerGUI used to be maintained by Quest, and after [Wayback] the acquisition of Quest by Dell in 2012, it is still free and is now at Product Support – PowerGUI Pro.
It is great (even got [Wayback] full support for PowerShell 3.0) and you can get it at the [Wayback] PowerGUI Downloads.
Notes:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/29
After years with “missed schedule” posts on (paid!) wordpress.com based sites, WordPress has documented that the scheduler officially does not support more than 100 posts:
[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.
In practice this is not fully true, so lets explain that a little.
Imagine the list of scheduled posts as a list of posts to be posted anywhere from the near future (lets call that tail) until far in the future (for now head).
As long as you schedule posts in head to tail order, then there is no problem. You can schedule 100s of posts (usually I’ve between 700 and 1200 posts scheduled that way).
The problems appear when:
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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 2017/12/22
A kind of repeat of a 6 year old post, as by now this has much more information: [WayBack] hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User.
It is a continuation for another drive of my 2011 post hard drive – When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?.
Basically I was unlucky receiving a brand new drive that appeared exceptionally slow and doing some ticking.
So I ran these on it:
–jeroen
Sorry for the “missed schedule”, but WordPress.com is acting up again:
Since I ran this machine on Windows and I didn’t have time to run locally, these are the tools I used:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/17
In an era where we’ve become dependent on 24/7 communications and availability of the internet, but even more so on archives of information that appeared, became fake and then denied, the Internet Archive (including the WayBack machine) was down for a few hours because of a PGE power outage in San Francisco.
(Posted late because, well the WordPress.com “missed schedule” bug is back)
So this is a reminder to sponsor the Internet Acrhive. Because we can.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/25
At the end of April 2014, Roman Yankovsky started a nice [Wayback] discussion on Google+ trying to get upvotes for [Wayback] QualityCentral Report #: 124402: Compiler bug when comparing chars.
His report basically comes down to that when using Ansi character literals like #255, the compiler treats them as single-byte encoded characters in the current code page of your Windows context, translates them to Unicode, then processes them.
The QC report has been dismissed as “Test Case Error” (within 15 minutes of stating “need more info”) by one of the compiler engineers, directing to the [Wayback] UsingCharacterLiterals section of Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code where – heaven forbid – they suggest to replace #128 with the Euro-Sign literal.
I disagree, as the issue happens without any hint or warning whatsoever, and causes code that compiles fine in Delphi <= 2007 to fail in subtle ways on Delphi >= 2009.
The compiler should issue a hint or warning when you potentially can screw up. It doesn’t. Not here.
Quite a few knowledgeable Delphi people got involved in the discussion:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31
[WayBack] cov.fefe.de – The Isoblog.
(it was Scheduled for 09:00 UTC, but after all these years, WordPress.com at random still suffers from the “missed schedule” bug)
Brilliant move. Der Spiegel never had a chance, and even Der Postillion is in awe. (Context).
Yes, cov.fefe.de is the same content as blog.fefe.de.
Via: [WayBack] #covfefe punkt de http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/1833-cov-fefe-de/ – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Background:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/06
(I just found out this post was marked “missed schedule” since April 6, 2014. It’s a [WayBack] known WordPress bug that on wordpress.com still raises it’s head every now and then. Sorry for that.)
The introduction of AppMethod wasn’t only introducing a new product based on the Object Pascal language and Firemonkey framework, it also shows which direction Embarcadero is taking with their community sites all hosted on community.embarcadero.com some of which replace parts of the EDN (Embarcadero Developer Network) sites.
These already saw the light:
Here is my initial impression on them. So below, phrasings like “it is” phrase how I feel about them.
Whereas most of the EDN sites look cluttered (some of which just look like a big landing page), the new sites look much cleaner. Less fuzz, more aimed towards their goal.
This is only part of the story. EDN has two credentials: a username and an email address. At the EDN sites, you can use either one. But not all community sites support that. I hope this means “not all community sites support that yet”.
So far, the Answers, Articles and Forums sections (which are hosted on the main site) understand authentication using either the username or email.
The Quality part
I have mixed feelings about this. On the plus side, PHP is used by many people, Embarcadero has a PHP based HTML5 Builder product (initially called Delphi for PHP, then RadPHP; well Delphi was almost called AppBuilder so that is still positive). On the negative side, even big PHP users like WordPress do horrible things with it (don’t get me started on their scheduling engine, or on breaking posts that contain source code).
Answers does not have a predecessor within. It is a bit like a StackExchange site targeted at one product, but unlike StackOverflow, it feels more welcoming to new users. I hope that stays so, and that some people with capabilities like John Skeet will join it, and not the typical StackOverflow moderators that think they can judge questions that are clearly out of their field of expertise.
I’m not yet sure how to maintain this in
The forums server doesn’t keep articles forever: depending on the forum, the retention duration can be as little as a couple of months or less.
It means that valuable information gets lost as nobody puts this in the WayBack machine and the WayBack machine is not indexed by Google anyway.
Currently there are the categories Tutorials, Technical Articles and Support.
Quality is the future direction of QC. It is based on JIRA (from Atlassian). Whereas QC was developed in-house (initially bound to the then internal RAID) a long time before publicly accessible quality systems became widespread, JIRA is an external system.
QC is dated^w dead. Though [WayBack] it has a – for its age modern – WSDL API, the web interface is horrible as of nowadays standards, and even the [WayBack] Windows and [WayBack] Java clients mentioned on the [WayBack] QC home page are not a pleasant use (personally I still use the QC Plus client though it is not publicly available any more).
Embarcadero has used JIRA internally since at least 2009 (and presumably converted their internal RAID bug database to JIRA), so they have experience using it.
I love JIRA as it is the central piece in a lot of agile environments, has all its functionality on a web-based fashion backed with a publicly documented REST based API so you can hook up native tools with ease and is in use by many closed and open source projects. There are options to host it yourself, or in the cloud or mix and match.
So I do welcome JIRA. But there are a few things that Embarcadero needs to fix:
–jeroen
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