Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Today, on the 25th anniversary of “the web“, be sure to read Tim Berners-Lee‘s guest post Official Google Blog: On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open.
Then – after watching his below video message – please help to keep the web free and open.
–jeroen
Greeting from Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on the Web’s 25th anniversary on Vimeo on Vimeo
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Jean-Luc Aufranc. is a great guy with lots of knowledge in the embedded world (read his resume).
I’ve been interested in Raspberry Pi experiments for a while now, so I was glad that today he pointed me to this very nice kit:
$120 Raspberry Pi Bundle with LCD Display, Expansion Boards, Cables, and Accessories
You can get it through DealExtreme, which I will do soon.
(I just saw how a guy is using a massive amount of Raspberry Pi and custom ASICs to mine for BitCoins)
–jeroen
via Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
For my own link archive: CodeRage 8 replays – Embarcadero Technologies – YouTube.
Lots of nice sessions, including these REST sessions:
About the REST support in Delphi: make sure you take a look at the REST Debugger application, as you get full source code for it and is an excellent starting point to see how the REST components work together (it is written using the FireMonkey UI framework so it runs on a Mac as well as on Windows).
David I explains more about the REST Debugger here: Sip from the Firehose : Using the REST Debugger will help you prototype your Delphi and C++ REST apps.
Jim McKeeth has a really nice video about it as well on XE5 REST Debugger Supercharged | The Podcast at Delphi.org which describes how to use Delphi the Delphi REST tools to use KimonoLabs to scrape data from web sites:
kimono : Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds.
–jeroen.
RestDemo folder with many examples that connect to many social things (Twitter, FaceBook, DropBox, etc).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Edit 20250102: added various “[Wayback/Archive]” archival links, VMware information, amended TUWA location, and added alternative csboot.zip download location on the Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine download is broken and the original gone)
A really long time ago, I posted in [Wayback/Archive] history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers indicating there was a [Wayback/Archive] Hard Disk Image of MS-DOS 6.22 with Pascal for Computer Studies. In fact, that is an IMG file of a DOS hard disk. And this posts shows how to use it with VMware Fusion on Mac OS X. The is a hard disk image contains:
Edit 20250102: does not work under VMware Fusion when you run Apple Silicon. Not figured out a performant alternative yet. Will try figuring out later.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/11
As an almost chemist, I like 11 (:
20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute..
–jeroen
via: Arjen Lentz – Google+.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/11
Edit 20250107: added various [Wayback/Archive] archived links (dated as close to the blog post as possible) because of link-rot; marked some keywords as code; found the current .NET DiscUtils repository at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – DiscUtils/DiscUtils: Utility libraries to interact with discs, filesystem formats and more where you also can download it.
.NET DiscUtils is an interesting open source .NET library for accessing and manipulating virtual disk images. Since it is entirely written in C# (without the need for P/Invoke), you should even be able to run this on non-Windows machines using mono. Later on, you will see the 0.11.0 build fails this, but it gives good hope it eventually will.
Virtual disk formats supported are DMG, ISO, RAW (IMG/IMA/VFD/FLP/BIF), VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, and [Wayback/Archive] XVA, regular disks like Physical, iSCSI and NFS.
There are two ways of getting the .NET DiscUtils tools to run:
This post describes the second way, and requires PowerShell to be installed on your system (which probably is, as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 include it). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10
Image and video art came through SORTING – A visualization of the most famous sorting algorithms and 15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes – YouTube.
Both via This is why I Code – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10
So I won’t forget.
On-line parsers:
On-line generators:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10
Briljant! Fix je Facebook met Social Fixer – Lifehacking.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10
Every once in a while you have multiple threads or processes wanting to write a short message to the same log file. Append then will give you an I/O error 32 (ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION), but the below small routine will sleep a bit while retrying a couple of times.
It uses these Delphi aspects around the $I or $IOCHECKS compiler directive:
Note there are a few tables of codes you can get back through IOResult as basically you can get many GetLastError results in IOResult as well: Read the rest of this entry »
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