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I just added some minor enhancements to my Delphi Ide Explorer expert: For TShortCut properties it now also displays the text representation for the shortcut. For TShortCutList properties (TAction.SecondaryHotkeys) it now displays “<no shortcut>” if… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, DelphiIdeExplorer0
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Since everybody an it’s brother is talking about the new chat engine from openapi I had to try it myself, and lo and behold it is amazing. I asked it about various topics and the… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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There are several plugins for WordPress that allow to automatically create a new Mastodon toot (what a stupid name!) for each blog post. I’m using “Mastodon Autopost“. Unfortunately this plugin seems to be outdated and… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog, mastodon0
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I never really liked Twitter, but I created an account there to be able to Announce new posts on my blog Allow some feedback to my blog without enabling the comments Now I joined Mastodon… … Read more
2 years ago in mastodon0
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I have just finished fixing all known bugs in the GExperts code formatter that were related to Generics. On top of that I fixed a few others. I am sure there are still more though,… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Prompted by a post on Delphi Praxis, I just added a new feature to the Expert Manager expert in GExperts (lots of experts here 😉 ): It can now change the order in which the… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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I think we as Germans still cannot really appreciate the effect he had on our country. I also think the war against Ukraine would not have happened if he had been in charge for a… … Read more
2 years ago in none0
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As a follow up to my notes on installing Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 (on 20.04 it worked as in 18.04) now two additional steps are necessary for Ubuntu 22.04. Those steps must be… … Read more
2 years ago in linux0
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So I don’t forget: Microsoft seems to love changing the place where they hide useful configuration options. One that I always turn on is “Underline access keys when available” and in Windows 10 it is… … Read more
2 years ago in windows, Windows 100
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Those people who selected the default colors for the Linux ls command must have much better eyes than I. E.g. I think that dark blue text on black background is very difficult to read, but… … Read more
2 years ago in linux0
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After making the source code of dzDebugVisualizer available I got interested in Debug Visualizers in general and had a look at how they are supported in Delphi 11. I wrote a visualizer for TColor, based… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, dzDebugVisualizer0
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Several years ago I wrote a Delphi IDE plugin to extend the functionality of the “Evaluate and Modify” dialog as well as the Watches window called dzDebugVisualizer and even released an update for it. Back… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, dzDebugVisualizer0
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I just released dzBdsLauncher 1.0.9. If started with a .bdsproj file, it will now not just assume that a .dpr file must exist but will check for it and if it does not exist, will… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0
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One of my computer’s hard disk didn’t survive a recent power failure so I had to set up its Thunderbird client again (a backup didn’t work, don’t ask). My internal IMAP server uses a self… … Read more
2 years ago in linux, thunderbird0
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Linux (and other Unixes) store user information in a file called passwd and the associated passwords in another file called shadow, both located in /etc. Both files are text files and use a : as… … Read more
3 years ago in linux0