Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/29
Ever got your mind into a headache state because of time zone calculations?
Then EveryTimeZone.com is for you: the best visualization of time zones I’ve ever seen.
Makes it easy to schedule meetings, or be on-time for a webinar organized anywhere in the world.
Or to say “happy new year” just in time for your friends a few continents apart.
–jeroen
via: Time Zones.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/27
Wow. Just wow. DOSBOX in a web browser.
Read this: Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott.
Then play with this: dreamlayers/em-dosbox or the integrated version here: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/26
Convenient: original.jpg (4600×986) with these phone sizes in increasing order of physical dimensions:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/26
Over the last month or so, my Google Nexus 4 smartphone turned itself off when it should have had plenty of battery capacity left.
Just in case this happens to me more frequently…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/25
On my research list:
I knew about the TrueCrypt file system for Windows, but it looks like encfs provides something similar for *nix.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24
Hotspots van flitsers in 2013.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24
Cool:
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For the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 freaks out there: WDC, who still produce the chips, have made their Programming the 65816 Including the 6502, 65C02 and 65802 available for free again (see link below). It’s the standard reference for the new version of these CPUs. Yes, this will be on the test. Ping +Alan Cox HT to BDD on 6502.org
–jeroen
For the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 freaks out there: WDC, who still produce the….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24
Once every while you still do WinForms work, and bump into something you hadn’t bumped into before.
This time it was trying to set ForeColor = Color.Red on a ReadOnly TextBox for displaying error messages:
When setting a TextBox from ReadOnly = false to true sets the BackColor from SystemColors.Window (usually white) to SystemColors.Control (usually light grey), and leaves the ForeColor to SystemColors.WindowText (usually black).
Setting ForeColor = Color.Red (funny there is a plural in SystemColors but not in Color) it doesn’t display it as such:
To my surprise, the TextBox had ReadOnly text (you could copy, but not modify it), which showed with a a grey (SystemColors.Control) BackColor and a black (SystemColors.WindowText) ForeColor: the defaults for a ReadOnly TextBox, not using my ForeColor = Color.Red;
I vaguely remembered there was some odd way of solving this, but since I hadn’t written a blog article about it back then (somewhere around .NET 1.x or 2.0 I didn’t have a blog yet), I was glad that Cheetah posted this answer on StackOverflow: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/23
If you are into serious software development, then this is a 75 minute PodCast you must listen to: Episode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later : Software Engineering Radio.
Abstract
Johannes Thönes talks with Erich Gamma, Ralph Johnson and Richard Helm from the Gang of Four about the 20th anniversary of their book Design Patterns. They discuss the following topics: the definition of a design pattern and each guest’s favorite design pattern; the origins of the book in architecture workshops; the writing of the book together with the community; the rock-star feeling at the release of the book at OOPSLA conference; the influence of the book on the industry; the evolution of the Observer pattern; and new patterns since the book was released. The interview closes with each guest talking about their current projects.
What I liked
Of course I enjoyed the history of the Gang of Four (and am still sad that John Vlissides passed away).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/23
Found back an awesome post from about 16 months back: Am I really a developer or just a good googler? – Scott Hanselman.
I admin that I’m both, not only for development, but also for life hacking and a lot of other stuff I do.
There is so much information, that you can’t know or remember everything.
In fact one of the reasons I started my own blog, contribute to sites like StackOverflow, newsgroups, and speak/visit at events (conferences, user groups, etc) is that I don’t know everything and the interaction helps me learn more.
One of the cool things, is when Googling for some information, I stumble upon one of my own blog entries or other online contributions (:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 