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I am a big fan of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg – although I have been there only once and that was years ago, but I still follow them on YouTube and I regularly watch… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi0
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After several weeks (or was it even months) of being dead, OSDN just “magically” was resurrected. At least the web page now works again, albeit rather slowly, (but it never was fast to start with)…. … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi0
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A in 2018 the reliabiltiy of SourceForge seemed to be way down and getting worse. Back then, I moved several of my open source projects to OSDN which used an older version of the SourceForge… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi0
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When running stand alone, GExperts Grep Results can not be opened in the IDE. Instead an external text editor is used. This editor and the required parameters to open the file and set the cursor… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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It has always irked me that in C you can write: But in Delphi you have to use the much less readable Today I had enough and wrote these simple helper functions: With these you… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi0
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I have been playing around with PuTTY (Yes, I know, a grown man playing with putty evokes some rather odd pictures. I’m talking about the ssh client tool here though). recently and discovered a few… … Read more
1 year ago in linux, windows0
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Delphi has for a while contained two classes that simplify stream compression: TZCompressionStream TZDecompressionStream I had not used them before and when I tried to use them now to compress and decompress some binary data… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi0
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Just in case we are not the only ones still using Samba with an NT domain: Windows Update KB5028166 which will automatically be installed on Windows 10 today, breaks compatibility with that domain type. After… … Read more
1 year ago in windows, Windows 100
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This is mostly for me so I can look it up again later: JPEG XL is a new (for appropriate definitions of “new”) picture compression algorithm (and much more). One very interesting option is to… … Read more
1 year ago in none0
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Note to self: mORMot2 contains an interface unit for the 7zip DLL: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2/blob/master/src/lib/mormot.lib.win7zip.pas … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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Just in case anybody was using Twitter to follow my blog: As of today, the API I was using to post to Twitter is no longer available. So my blog posts won’t be shared there… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog0
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I have been using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress plugin by Alex Mills for several years. Today I wanted to look up something on the plugin’s homepage and was wondering why there are so many spam… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog0
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I had some bad experience with the hosted SVN repositories of my open source projects (first with SourceForge, now with OSDN) so I decided to sync all of them to a local, read only copy… … Read more
2 years ago in SCM, subversion0
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I have just released version 0.0.6 of my Denkzettel Companion tool. It is available from OSDN. This version fixes several bugs regarding the file format. I didn’t realize that Denkzettel uses UTF-8 encoding and also… … Read more
2 years ago in Denkzettel0
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I’m currently trying to reverse engineer a tool that consists of a frontend with a really dreadful GUI and a command line program as backend, which is called by that frontend and does the actual… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0