Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21
Steps:
You can use example search shortcuts from Forcing Chrome to use google.com as search engine.
If you forget the first step, then often your search still will go a localised place (except when you are in the USA).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21
I missed this earlier this year, but while switching phones found out: Google Now is not available for most devices any more.
So I’ am looking for a replacement that has:
This I totally missed:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/20
The Delphi IDE manages the .dpr and .dproj files for, trying to keep them in sync.
Some information is duplicated between the two, especially files referenced by relative paths: those files are contained in your project.
This means you cannot do something like this in your .dpr file:
{$IFDEF DEBUG}
Debug in '..\..\..\..\Shared\Debug.pas';
{$ELSE}
Debug in '..\Debug.pas'
{$ENDIF}
There is no equivalent for this in the .dproj and it will confuse the IDE which file now actually is or is not inside your project.
Better to leave the file outside of your project, then modify the RELEASE/DEBUG search paths to have the correct one.
Even better is to have just one Debug.pas file containing the changes.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/20
[WayBack] About Blocks – bl.ocks.org is so cool:
Bl.ocks (pronounced “Blocks”) is a simple viewer for sharing code examples hosted on GitHub Gist.
…
The main source for your example is in
index.html. This file can contain relative links to other files in your Gist, such as images, scripts or stylesheets. And of course you can use absolute links, such as CDN-hosted D3, jQuery or Leaflet. To explain your example, add aREADME.mdwritten in Markdown. (You can omit theindex.htmlif you just want to write, too.)
[WayBack] Code-only-Blocks are cool too:
When your Gist is missing an
index.htmlfile, will hide the example iframe but continue to display everything else.
Just compare these:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/20
Lovely: people that perform incomplete Firebird deployments…
This means the firebird.msg file on the client is either not found or is a different version than the server.
Source: [WayBack] Can’t format message nn:mmm — message text not found
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/20
The problem is that with PSD2 it takes just one party to allow access to two sides of the hatchway: their side of their transactions and your side if the transactions you are involved in. So if you want privacy, you cannot protect against this.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/19
Since I tend to forget this: [WayBack] Spring4D How to correctly assign NULL to a Nullable type? this is correct? fDateTime = Null; or this? fDateTime := nil; – Jacek Laskowski – Google+
The preferred way is fDateTime := nil.
This is possible because of [WayBack] Delphi sorcery: How to create an operator overload that only accepts nil using a reference type (in this case interface) so no non-nil pointers can be passed:
type
Nullable<T> = record
strict private type
Null = interface end;
public
class operator Implicit(const value: Null): Nullable<T>;
end;
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/19
[Archive.is] Vincent D. Warmerdam (also known as koaning; D is for Damian) put Start-up or Pokémon? Big-data or Pokémon? into practice a while back:
my linkedin profile: “I tyically ask recruiters to point out which of these are pokemon”
Source: [WayBack] “my linkedin profile : ProgrammerHumor”
He’s a very interesting person to follow:
I also discovered https://bl.ocks.org because of Vincent. More on that later.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/19
In A few observations on Python while I made my first steps into it, I mentioned the standard threading idiom in Python by wrapping the thread in a function. This has the drawback of having to catch and handle any exceptions in that function.
The higher level [WayBack] threading module has a [WayBack] Thread class with a [WayBack] run() method does not handle exceptions either.
For investigation of threading issues, it’s very convenient to know about the exceptions in a thread and their context.
So I’ve made a small base class that automagically logs any exceptions during a run:
import threading
from log import Log
class ExceptionLoggingThread(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self):
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self.logger = Log().getLogger()
self.logger.debug("ExceptionLoggingThread().")
def run_logic(self):
self.logger.debug("Thread started.")
def run(self):
try:
self.run_logic()
except:
self.logger.exception('Exception in `run`')
raise
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/19
Do not forget the early bird sales ends soon for the Spring4D European Conference 2018 – Bergamo Italy, right before Easter 2019.
Both the original author and the current maintainer will be there, and it will be a great place to socialize with fellow Spring4D users.
Buy tickets: [WayBack] Spring4D Conference
Via:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 