Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/27
Thanks Jason Cipriani – CNET:
To take a screenshot on the Nexus 4, press and hold down the power and volume down buttons at the exact same time. After a few seconds you’ll feel a vibration on your device and you’ll see the screenshot minimize into the notification tray. Pulling down the notification tray will in turn allow you to quickly share the picture.
–jeroen
via: via How to take a screenshot on the Nexus 4 | How To – CNET.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/27
As I wrote before, I’m with the [WayBack] Delphi with haters camp, and this is why:
Using the [WayBack] with statement in Delphi makes your code less future proof.
Originally, the
withstatement in Pascal was argumented in part of allowing compiler optimisations:PASCAL User Manual and Report – Kathleen Jensen, Niklaus Wirth – Google Books
The with clause effectively opens the scope containing field identifiers of the specified record variable, so that the field identifiers may occur as variable identifiers. (Thereby providing an opportunity for the compiler to optimize the qualified statement.)
Screenshots of this 1975 book are below the fold.
The Delphi (actually even before that Turbo Pascal compiler) has no measurable difference between
withand non-withcode.The debugger however, still does not support with, and there are other drawbacks of which one is below.
The below code example is just one of many. I show it because I recently bumped into doing some long overdue code porting to Delphi XE3.
Since I’ve been bitten by using with a couple of times before, it didn’t take me long to find the cause.
Example code where FIConData is of type NOTIFYICONDATAW that used to compile fine:
with FIconData do
begin
cbSize := SizeOf(FIconData);
Wnd := Self.Handle;
uID := $DEDB;
uFlags := NIF_MESSAGE or NIF_ICON or NIF_TIP;
hIcon := Application.Icon.Handle;
uCallbackMessage := WM_CAS400NTIcon;
StrCopy(szTip, PChar(Caption));
end;
Well, as of Compiler Version 20, it doesn’t compile any more. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/26
While porting a library from Delphi 2006 to Delphi XE2.
The really cool thing is that the Windows Event Log contains details of what I did wrong (:
Tell the systems administrator.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/25
Why Internet Explorer does not use these two for showing shortcuts:
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/22
WordPress just posted a nice article on SEO for people that still don’t get that SEO is basically following common sense.
The most important bullets from the article:
SEO DOs and DON’Ts
Do:
- Regularly publish original content.
- Use a few precise categories and tags.
- Write for human ears.
- Build your traffic in smart, organic ways.
- Choose simple, meaningful post slugs.
- Create a descriptive tagline.
- Include keywords selectively.
Don’t:
- Start duplicate sites.
- “Stuff” your site with irrelevant, broad categories, tags, or buzzwords.
- Write with search engines in mind.
- Purchase or exchange meaningless “backlinks.”
- Buy into SEO fads.
- Worry too much about SEO at the expense of writing good content!
Two things I didn’t know about: WordPress generates two sitemaps for each site: both a regular XML sitemap, as well as an XML based news-sitemap.
–jeroen
via: All About SEO on WordPress.com — Blog — WordPress.com.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/22
Als je een mail krijgt als onderstaande, dan weet je dat er iemand niet heeft opgelet bij het maken en controleren van de e-mail templates:
from: noreply@agentschapnl.nl
Geachte ${naam},
Uw mededeling WBSO/RDA 2012 voor is ontvangen op 22-03-2013 18:11.
Alleen als er sprake is van een correctie op de afgegeven WBSO verklaringen en/of RDA beschikkingen ontvangt u hiervan schriftelijk bericht.In uw ingediende mededeling kunt u zien of er sprake is van een correctie.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Agentschap NL(Deze e-mail is automatisch gegenereerd en kan niet worden beantwoord.)
–jeroen
via Bevestiging Mededeling WBSO RDA 2012 – jeroen.pluimers.com@gmail.com – Gmail.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/22
After installing the WebSphere MQ 7.x client software, you must reboot.
Otherwise the directory where mqic.dll resides doesn’t get added to the system path.
I was bitten by this with an unattended installation at a client where they forgot to have the system to reboot.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/21
Cool: Google understands which flights I have booked: my flights – Google Search.
Now hopefully Lufthansa will strike only for one day, and not cancel my Amsterdam->Munich flight on saturday.
Lufthansa ® – Cancelled Flights.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/21
Sometimes, Delphi XE2 gets confused after converting an old Delphi project because the Unit scope names are not correct. When creating a new Delphi XE2 application, the Unit scope names are as follows:
This means that if you don’t prepend a unit with a Unit scope prefix, Delphi will automatically try the list above. The thing is: when importing a Delphi project from an old Delphi version, the Unit scope names are somehow “guessed”, and not always complete:
This means it cannot resolve the right name for the VCL units like Controls or Forms, and you get a nice compiler error: But with the default, it cannot resolve the Windows and other units in the Winapi scope. So the list I normally use is one of these:
(Yes, some apps still store Paradox data locally and use the BDE)
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/21
Interesting questions that come up:
– did they rush this because of the media attention the last couple of days?
– will it follow the Google Reader after a few years of use?
–jeroen
via: Google Keep – Android Apps on Google Play.
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