Story Category: Power User
VOTEstring – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)
jpluimers
Quite a while ago [Wayback/Archive] string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow asked by [Wayback/Archive] User Jeff was answered by [Wayback/Archive] Andreas Rejbrand: The simplest approach is function GetAlphaSubstr(const Str:… … Read more
1 month ago in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Encryption, Event, html, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, TLS, Web Development
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Field Tested Systems
jpluimers
Besides a cool portable spectrometer and software (written in Delphi), [WayBack] Field Tested Systems also has a really nice poster showing the spectrogram fingerprints of all the elements: Via Delphi: 2 things to check when FMX/VCL… … Read more
6 months ago in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, LifeHacker, Power User, science, Software Development
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Thinking about you today Paweł
jpluimers
Today it is 5 years ago that Paweł passed away. For me it is hard to believe that I’m still around and this post feels like yesterday: R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly… … Read more
2 years ago in About, borland, Delphi, Development, Health, History, Personal, Power User, Software Development
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A year ago on Telegram: “Do I need to use GarbageCollectAtoms in Delphi? I used it in delphi 7, but I dont know what is benefit. 😐”
jpluimers
Last week I found out that I had some Windows ATOM issues before, but this beats them easily was still a draft in stead if in the blog queue. I got reminded to it by… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.
jpluimers
The [Wayback/Archive] Embarcadero/IDERA Documentation Wiki has been mostly down since March 3rd, 2022 (not the main page, but almost all other pages are). I modified [Wayback/Archive] Docwiki https – EmbarcaderoMonitoring to show the actual status of a… … Read more
3 years ago in *nix, Bookmarklet, Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Uptimerobot, Web Browsers
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DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From my Windows XP days (which are long gone), but historically relevant the answer to [Wayback] DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow by [Wayback] Remy Lebeau: The TEncoding.ASCII property… … Read more
3 years ago in ASCII, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Power User, Software Development, XP-embedded
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Some uptime monitoring tools that are still free and understand more than http/https
jpluimers
Since uptimerobot has slowly moving free features, part of my family uses it to monitor uptime of their personal stuff, and I don’t want to pay for the free monitoring I do on Embarcadero infrastructure… … Read more
3 years ago in *nix, Delphi, Development, monitoring, Power User, Software Development
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Infusion pump and PCA (patient-controlled analgesia) calculation
jpluimers
This is a great PCA calculator: [Archive.is] CADD calculator 0.5BETA END USER Google Docs – Google Sheets Via: [WayBack] Verpleegkundige wiskunde met de PCA pomp. Of: hoe Bram’s PCA-calculator het licht zag. – Ars GeriatriCare… … Read more
3 years ago in Development, excel, google, GoogleDocs, GoogleSheets, Office, Office Automation, Office VBA, Power User, Scripting, Software Development
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Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow)
jpluimers
Editing [WayBack] What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow for more historic correctness and adding links prompted me to archive some older material and search for some more, basically because while historically very… … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, CP/M, Delphi, Development, Event, History, MS-DOS, pascal, Power User, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Z80
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Automatically closing ABBY Finereader 5.0 windows after scanning is completed
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Both my Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 and ix100 scanners can be used from Windows to automatically scan to PDF. PDF conversion is done through the included ABBYY FineReader 5.0 software. However, on each scan, it keeps… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Fujitsu ScanSnap, Hardware, ix100, ix500, Power User, Scanners, Software Development, Windows Development
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Using Delphi for jiggling the mouse – twm’s blog
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To prevent a screen-saver from kicking in [WayBack] jiggling the mouse – twm’s blog: My solution then is this procedure: procedure JiggleMouse; var Inpt: TInput; begin Inpt.Itype := INPUT_MOUSE; Inpt.mi.dx := 0; Inpt.mi.dy := 0;… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows
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Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s blog
jpluimers
Thomas basically did all the research on the forwarding needed for ELC (formerly Belise/Elise), then showed the PuTTY equivalent to ssh user@remote -L5567:192.168.1.200:5567: [WayBack] Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s… … Read more
4 years ago in *nix, Communications Development, Delphi, Development, Internet protocol suite, Licensing, Power User, Software Development, SSH, ssh/sshd
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Need to look at monospaced programmers fonts again
jpluimers
At the time of looking, FiraCode would not work in Delphi but would in Visual Studio. Reminder for me to look at it again: [WayBack] GitHub – tonsky/FiraCode: Monospaced font with programming ligatures. A cool… … Read more
4 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Font, Power User, Programmers Font, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools, Visual Studio Code
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“cushion treemap” delphi – Google Search
jpluimers
For my link archive below a few links from “cushion treemap” delphi – Google Search. The reason: I like Sequoiaview a lot, but it has a few issues (of which I wrote in SequoiaView Homepage) and lacks… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Everything by VoidTools, Power User, Software Development, windows
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Does anyone knows a existing implementation of bcrypt or scrypt for delphi?
jpluimers
For my link archive: [WayBack] Does anyone knows a existing implementation of bcrypt or scrypt for delphi? – Fabian S. Biehn – Google+: [WayBack] GitHub – JackTrapper/scrypt-for-delphi: Scrypt implementation for Delphi [WayBack] Git… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Encryption, Power User, Security, Software Development
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