Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/30
There is a nice Delphi memory thread at G+ initiated by Tommi Prami for which I added some links to the memory managers:
- FastMM (No signs of the Version 5)
- ScaleMM – Interesting (two versions)
- SynScaleMM – Fork of the previous
- SapMM – Just found out about this, but tries to tackle multithreading issue.
More interesting comments (most people seem to favour FastMM, as they can get very good performance out of it even in multi-threaded environments) at There have not been much of the Talk of MemoryManagers lately….
Note there is also TBBMM based on TBB, but it seems unmaintained.
Barry Kelly’s memory manager is based on Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC.
–jeroen
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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 2014/12/26
Convenient: original.jpg (4600×986) with these phone sizes in increasing order of physical dimensions:
- 4.7 inch Moto X
- 4.7 inch LG Nexus 4
- 4.7 inch iPhone 6
- 4.95 inch LG Nexus 5
- 5.2 inch 2014 Moto X
- 5.5 inch LG G3
- 5 inch HTC One M8
- 5.2 inch Sony Xperia Z3
- 5.5 inch OnePlus One
- 5.7 inch Samsung Note 3
- 5.9 inch Moto Nexus 6
- 5.5 inch iPhone 6 Plus
–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
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
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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:
- Using a TextBox means the user can still copy the text to the clipboard.
- Using a Red foreground draws enough attention (it’s was an app with a really busy user interface).
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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