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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
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dzMdbViewer is a small tool I wrote, when I was stuck without a MS Access installation but needed to have a look into a .MDB file (and later .ACCDB file, if the Access Database Engine… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, dzMdbViewer0
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The new GExperts version still supports all Delphi versions back to Delphi 6 (with the notable exception of Delphi 8) and even the Delphi 11 version is no longer in Beta state. There are even… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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I added the ActivityPub plugin to my WordPress installation a while ago and was wondering why it didn’t seem to work. Today I discovered an ActivtyPub warning on the Site Health Status page saying …… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog0
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Note to self: Setting a form’s bounds can move the form to a different monitor. If that monitor has a different DPI than the one the form was originally on, this will cause a WM_DPICHANGED… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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I have just updated my last blog post regarding another effect of the Screen object caching the monitor configuration: Displaying a hint (via standard Delphi VCL functionality) causes an access violation. The solution is again… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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I’m posting this here So I can look it up later in case I forget it again: Some Delphi versions (I know about Delphi 2007 and earlier, not sure when it was fixed) have got… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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4 years ago I wrote a helper class TdzSpeedBitBtn which turns a TBitBtn into a TSpeedButton that can have the focus. That helper class has also been used in GExperts (in the Uses Clause Manager… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, dzLib, GExperts0
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So I can look it up later: When a drive that is part of a zfs pool fails and has already been physicall replaced in the server. zpool status looks like this: Logically replacing that… … Read more
2 years ago in linux, zfs0
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I always thought that it is not possible to rename an executable that is currently running. Turns out I was wrong (happened before). It works fine for many executables, but not for all of them…. … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, dxgettext0
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I had to update the PHP version of my website and this broke the Suffusion theme I was using for the WordPress installation. Unfortunately Suffusion hasn’t been supported by its author for a few years… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog0