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fixing a Mac home `brew update` that has permission errors (after that I...
I had this occurring on my system: RetinaMBPro1TB:~ jeroenp$ brew update error: unable to unlink old 'Library/ENV/pkgconfig/10.11/libcurl.pc' (Permission denied) error: unable to unlink old...
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When the x86 Server JVM.DLL cannot be found
Searching for the below error message didn’t reveal useful results. Error: missing `server' JVM at `C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_111\bin\server\jvm.dll'. Please install or use the JRE or JDK...
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Applications that scale badely on High-DPI Displays: How to Stop the Madness...
Many applications still scale badly on High-DPI displays: dialogs way too small, icons you need a microscope for, etc. SSMS in High-DPI Displays: How to Stop the Madness – SQLServerCentral explains a...
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On List growth strategies and memory managers
Interesting for anybody working on list growth strategies. In this case with some Delphi background information and in depth coverage of FastMM memory (re)allocation strategies. Stefan Glienke (of...
View ArticleArgumate — program languages “What if …”
Quoted in full because even 2.5 years later, it’s just too funny: Python: What if everything was a dict? Java: What if everything was an object? JavaScript: What if everything was a dict *and* an...
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“Network Graph of Programming Language Influence – White Background” Posters...
Via [WayBack] Graph of programming languages influence poster – nice gift idea for programmers… – This is why I Code – Google+: A network graph with more than a thousand programming languages connected...
View ArticleThe ##Netherlands saw a big I.T. project meant to deliver a new citizen regis…
Interesting: https://github.com/MinBZK/OperatieBRP [WayBack] The Netherlands saw a big I.T. project meant to deliver a new citizen registry system fail. So they did one thing right. All the source code...
View ArticleLet’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad
Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more...
View Articlepaulcbetts/refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET
This is so cool: [WayBack] paulcbetts/refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET. It’s inspired by Square’s [WayBack] Retrofit library which does the same for Java. They...
View ArticleDesign Patterns & Refactoring
Design Patterns and Refactoring articles and guides. Design Patterns video tutorials for newbies. Simple descriptions and full source code examples in Java, C++, C#, PHP and Delphi. Source: [WayBack]...
View ArticleMore on new .NET path handling – Jeremy Kuhne’s Blog
When it was at the age natural people are allowed to drive in the USA, the .NET framework behaved far less brain dead handling various (especially long or strange) paths: [WayBack] More on new .NET...
View ArticleNot all XSD mappings to programming language constructs are possible
This post is a reminder to myself that not all mappings from XSD to programming languages are possible. There are many impossible cases, so this is just a general reminder. A Delphi specific case for...
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Men’s Java is not JavaScript Annoyed Programmer/Developer T-Shirt
Though the shirt is not available on Amazon [WayBack] any more, still – after 25 years – so many recruiters still get it wrong. Not just recruiters, so: [WayBack] Why is JavaScript called JavaScript,...
View ArticleAndroid passwords: store as transient as possible using arrays in stead of...
Sometimes you cannot avoid handling passwords in your application. When you do, keep them around as short as possible store them in data types that are not garbage collected wipe the storage as soon as...
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Still unsolved since 2015 NetBeans: Bug 251538 – Your Installer is Creating...
Lovely. Having a bug reported to you in 2015, and acknowledged, that makes software crash and not fixing it. For NetBeans (still one of the major IDEs) and related stuff like GlassFish, this is too...
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GitHub – metasfresh/metasfresh: We do Open Source ERP – Fast, Flexible & Free...
For my link archive: [WayBack] GitHub – metasfresh/metasfresh: We do Open Source ERP – Fast, Flexible & Free Software to scale your Business. It’s mainly written in JavaScript and Java with a...
View ArticleType safe versus interpreted languages: which ones are safer?
An interesting thread by Kristian Köhntopp last year: [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Python: >>> print(1+2+” = “+2+1) Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line 1, in...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Shell: tools, languages and “safe mode”
After publishing Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users – shell in the browser that works in all locations I’ve been so far, the Google Cloud Shell got extended quite a bit. There is now...
View ArticleState machines in Delphi and .NET
Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant: A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET. Since then the world has...
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Thread by @aakashg0 on Thread Reader App: the Twitter tweet ranking algorithm
Interesting read: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @aakashg0 on Thread Reader App with this takeaway: If you take away anything, remember this – the models take in 3 inputs: • Likes, retweets, replies:...
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