Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/24
When the Coen brothers were asked about their creative process, Joel Coen said, “We do a lot of napping.” Maurice Sendak: “I love napping. Working and reading…”
Source on the how and why: [WayBack] How to take a nap
Via: [WayBack] Want to increase your creativity and productivity? Take a nap! Here’s how… – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/24
Learned a new thing today: you can change the line styles in PlantUML to these:
This in addition to the colour I already knew about. The order of these does not matter:
@startuml ' Make a dashed line, alternative syntax for ..> (*) -[dashed]-> "Write outline" ' Make line bold and use color name "Write outline" -[bold,#green]-> "Find example" ' Only change the color with hexadecimal RGB code "Find example" -[#ff00ff]-> "Write blog" ' Order of line style and color can be reversed "Write blog" -[#6666ff,dashed]-> "Publish" ' Use dotted line style "Publish" -[dotted]-> (*) @enduml
Source: [WayBack] PlantUML Pleasantness: Change Line Style And Color – Messages from mrhaki
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/22
How cool!
I wish they had lslasted longer than almost a decade.
https://twitter.com/kgagne/status/1142476543995908097
Happy 40th birthday to Infocom, founded today in 1979!!
#Infocom #TextAdventures #OTD
Zork And The Z-Machine: Bringing The Mainframe To 8-bit Home Computers
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Infocom, one of my most favorite game companies, I’m reminding everyone I spent half a year scanning thousands of pages from Steve Meretzky’s file cabinet and got almost the entire paper history of Infocom up:
https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet
This is everything Steve had: Company internal memos, his design documents for all the games he wrote for them (and some he didn’t) as well as clippings, contextual writings and letters related to everything Infocom. It’s one of the most complete histories out there.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8491492
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/22
Check out @GeePawHill’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/1104760241034530817?s=09
Great thread.
We start every session by remembering the first rule of code review club: “You are not the code you wrote.”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/21
An interesting set of apps behind the various control panel links from [WayBack] Stop user access to control panel. Even though from 2013, many still work.
I edited most because:
control /name - Microsoft.AutoPlay but the – should have been between the name and the command.code format so it was hard to see what you have to runAdd Hardware – Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools –control admintools
Advanced System Properties ?
Advanced tab System –PropertiesAdvanced.exe
Computer Name – tabsysdm.cplorSystemPropertiesComputerName.exe
Prevention tab –SystemPropertiesDataExecutionPrevention.exe
Hardware tab –SystemPropertiesHardware.exe
System Protection tab –SystemPropertiesProtection.exe
Remote tab –SystemPropertiesRemote.exe
AutoPlay –control /name Microsoft.AutoPlay
Backup and Restore Center –control /name Microsoft.BackupAndRestoreCenter
Backup Status and Configuration –sdclt.exe
BitLocker Drive Encryption –control /name Microsoft.BitLockerDriveEncryption
Bluetooth Devices –bthprops.cpl
Date And Time –timedate.cplorcontrol date/time
Display Settings –desk.cpl
Default Programs –control /name Microsoft.DefaultPrograms
Device Manager –devmgmt.msc
Disk Manager –diskmgmt.msc
Ease of Access Center –access.cplorUtilman.exe
Game Controllers –joy.cpl
Indexing Options –control /name Microsoft.IndexingOptions
Internet Options –inetcpl.cpl
Keyboard Properties –control keyboard
Mouse Properties –main.cplorcontrol mouse
Network and Sharing Center –control /name Microsoft.NetworkandSharingCenter
Network Connections –ncpa.cplorcontrol netconnections
Offline Files –control /name Microsoft.OfflineFiles
Parental Controls –control /name Microsoft.ParentalControls
Pen and Input – DevicesTabletPC.cpl
People Near Me –collab.cplorp2phost.exe
Phone and Modem Options –telephon.cplorcontrol telephony
Power Options –powercfg.cpl
Printers –control printers
Problem Reports and Solutions –wercon.exe
Programs and Features –appwiz.cpl
Regional and Language Options –intl.cplorcontrol international
Scanners and Cameras –sticpl.cpl
Secure Online Key Backup –control /name Microsoft.SecureKeyBackup
Security Center –wscui.cpl
Sound –mmsys.cpl
Speech Recognition Options –control /name Microsoft.SpeechRecognitionOptions
Sync Center –mobsync.exe
System –control /name Microsoft.System
Tablet PC Settings –control /name Microsoft.TabletPCSettings
Task Scheduler –control schedtasks
Text to Speech –sapi.cplorcontrol speech
User Accounts –nusrmgr.cplorNetplwiz.exeorcontrol userpasswords
User Accounts (advanced) –control userpasswords2
Volume Mixer –SndVol.exe
Welcome Center –control.exe /name Microsoft.WelcomeCenter
Windows Defender –MsAsCui.exe
Windows Firewall –Firewall.cplorFirewallControlPanel.exe
Windows Firewall Settings –FirewallSettings.exe
Windows Sidebar Properties –control.exe /name Microsoft.WindowsSidebarProperties
Windows SideShow –control.exe /name Microsoft.WindowsSideshow
Windows Update –control.exe /name Microsoft.WindowsUpdate
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/21
I like PlantUML a lot as it is an easy way to create even simple diagrams using plain text, for instance a simple Sequence Diagram like below.
Sometimes, you want to add comments because the way you build the diagram needs explanation that is not needed in the diagram itself. You can:
[Archive.is] Is it possible to comment out lines of diagram syntax? – PlantUML Q&A:
You can use quote like in the following example
@startuml
' This is a comment on a single line
Bob->Alice : hello
/' You quote by using slash-and-quote
to split your comments on several
lines '/
@enduml
[Archive.is] Sequence Diagram syntax and features
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/21
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/21
[WayBack] Stugge kabel probleem – Netwerken – GoT: talkpoeder is het geheim om stugge kabels door een bochtig stelsel PVC pijpen te trekken.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/20
Interesting observation on [WayBack] How do you use the CLI version of GetIt Package Manager. I always get a “no items were found.” response. As usual, the EMBT wiki is total rubbish and do… – Graeme Geldenhuys – Google+.
What you need for GetItCmd, is to run rsvars.bat for your Delphi version first, which is exactly what [WayBack] Run-Dependend-rsvars-From-Path.bat – which I wrote a while ago – does.
I did not even know that there was a CLI equivalent of [WayBack] GetIt – RAD Studio , but it is there, totally undocumented: GetItCmd apart from two filename references on the French and German docwiki:
Apart from that, I could only find these links:
Another odd thing: rsvars.bat is also not documented, and has just one reference in the docwiki: [WayBack] Using CMake with C++ Builder – RAD Studio.
The use of rsvars.bat is simple: it sets the below environment variables (some older versions set less variables, like missing PLATFORM or PlatformSDK) for use with the IDE (bds32.exe), msbuild and GetIt.
BDS BDSINCLUDE BDSCOMMONDIR FrameworkDir FrameworkVersion FrameworkSDKDir PATH LANGDIR PLATFORM PlatformSDK
(some of these are set to empty to they at least exist)
Later on, Marco Cantu reacted
The command line version of GetIt is not stable, so it was never “promoted” to being a feature. It was a tentative feature, we likely removed the English doc, but translations remained — so having that documentation is kind of an error. We ship is as we use it, with a specific command that works and is safe. In other words, use it as your own risk, as it is not an official feature.
So apparently, the only way that GetIt works, is through a specific command in GetItCmd. From an architectural point of view that gives me a “lets get this tick on the feature matrix done no matter what the architectural consequences are” feeling.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/20
I needed a solution inside a batch file for git similar to [WayBack] How to test if an executable exists in the %PATH% from a windows batch file? – Stack Overflow which became this:
where /q git || echo Cound not find git on the PATH %PATH%. && goto :eof
I could have expanded this to find the install location, but for now this is sufficient.
When it is needed, I should read [WayBack] Programmatically (not manually) finding the path where Git is installed on a Windows system – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 