Barry Kelly (Twitter, [WayBack] HN, SO, G+, Blog) was one of the Delphi compiler engineers.
He wrote a great number of insightful blog posts, some of which are in chronological order: Read the rest of this entry »
Some great reads from Barry Kelly
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/02
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VMware Fusion: Alt+Print Screen on MacBook Pro
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/01
VMware Fusion only allows you to send a “Print Scrn” key to a VM, but that takes a screenshot of the whole screen.
Alt+Print Scrn gets you a screenshot of the current Window, which is what I use most often.
A few things you might have tried, but cannot use:
- Though a MacBook Air does not have F13 and F14, so you cannot map those keys.
- The native Mac keyboard screenshot shortcuts will not get your Print Scrn in the VM.
- You cannot use the BootCamp shortcuts either.
So have to map key combinations that you probably will not use under Windows.
Berknip uses these VMware Fusion keyboard mappings for it: Read the rest of this entry »
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software.opensuse.org: Install package isv:ownCloud:community / owncloud
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/31
On my research list: software.opensuse.org: Install package isv:ownCloud:community / owncloud.
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CGSociety – Building 3D with Ikea: “Those natural-looking photographs in the IKEA catalogues are amazing. I can’t believe they’re mostly CG. It’s incredible.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29
Wow. Just wow:
“Those natural-looking photographs in the IKEA catalogues are amazing. I can’t believe they’re mostly CG. It’s incredible.”
--jeroen
via CGSociety – Building 3D with Ikea.
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Developer Skill Sprints video links
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29
After Bill Meyer asked, Helge Larsen wrote:
The landing page for Developer Skill Sprints is here: https://www.embarcadero.com/landing-pages/skill-sprints
The videos is on Developer Skill sprints YouTube channel first: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwUPJvR9mZHhZTajVWsgaFPLtDA-t1Xwc
–jeroen
via: Anyone know what’s up with the links to the videos for the Developer Skill….
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Paletton and Kuler: very useful for creating colour palettes (via G+ Nick Butcher / Marie Schweiz)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29
Combile Paletton and Kuler and off you go!
Nick Butcher: Have found this site useful for creating colour palettes. Paletton – The Color Scheme Designer
Marie Schweiz: https://kuler.adobe.com and you can get the swatches :)
#Color
Thanks Nick Butcher and Marie Schweiz.
–jeroen
via: Have found this site useful for creating colour palettes..
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Delphi: So XOAuth2 SASL component that can do OAuth2 (via: Asbjørn Heid, G+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29
Thanks Asbjørn Heid for sharing this:
I made this! –
So this week I’ve been mostly trying to add some GMail integration to our app. Google now requires OAuth2 authentication when using IMAP, unless you turn off some scary-sounding security setting on your account.
While Indy‘s IMAP component supports SASL authentication, there was no XOAuth2 SASL component out of the box. Thanks to the new REST stuff in Delphi, the OAuth2 basics where there so just had to tie them together.
In case others might find it fruitful, I’ve shared my results here: https://github.com/lordcrc/IndySASLOAuth2
notes:
- XE5+
- might need latest Indy sources from their SVN server
- requires OpenSSL binaries for Indy
- OAuth2 is not compatible with OAuth.
–jeroen
via: So this week I’ve been mostly trying to add some GMail integration to our app.….
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Funny: Windows 7 BSOD and repair giving an “Unknown Bugcheck 50”
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29
Had a funny error on one of my Windows 7 development VMs today: “Unknown Bugcheck: Bugcheck 50”
I hadn’t used the VM for about 2 months, and left it in a suspended state. After resuming it got into a BSOD, booting would hang at the Windows logo, and a second boot would get into the Windows Startup Repair.
Startup Repair indicated it could not resolve the issue, offered a “Restore” (which I declined) then told me something like
Root cause found:
Unknown Bugcheck: Bugcheck 50. Parameters = 0xfffff880009aafb8, 0x0, 0xfffff8000347bc60, 0x0.
The solution was very simple: Read the rest of this entry »
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Git: how to resolve merge conflicts | softwarecave
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/28
Often the git command-line is easier to than merge a combination of changes, moves and deletions using SourceTree.
If you know how to read the git status output, and to act accordingly.
This tells you how: Git: how to resolve merge conflicts | softwarecave.
–jeroen
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Delphi: always watch the compiler Warnings
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/28
Quiz questions:
- Does the below unit test succeed or fail?
- Why?
procedure TestHResult.Test_EOleException;
var
OleException: EOleException;
IResult: LongInt; // == HResult
UResult: Cardinal; // == DWord
begin
IResult := $800A11FD;
UResult := $800A11FD;
try
OleException := EOleException.Create('message', $800A11FD, 'source', 'helpfile', -1);
raise OleException;
except
on E: EOleException do
begin
if E.ErrorCode = $800A11FD then
Exit;
Self.CheckEquals(E.ErrorCode, $800A11FD, 'E.ErrorCode should equal $800A11FD');
end; // E: EOleException
end;
end;
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