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When MySQL characterset ‘utf’ does not allow you to enter some Unicode code points

jpluimers jpluimers Contrary to what many believe is that MySQL utf8 is not always full blown UTF-8 support, but actually utf8mb3, which has been deprecated for a while now. Only utf8mb4 will give you full blown UTF-8 support…. … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Database Development, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Event, MYSQL, Software Development, UTF-8, UTF8 0

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Dumping Nuxt for Astro

Brad Brad Coming from Vue the idea of Nuxt was great. I could statically render my site so search engines could find it. It would load fast and I could use components on repetitive parts of the… … Read more 4 years ago in Development 0

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HSL Colors

Brad Brad Has anyone ever been able to read hex colors (#ADD8E6)? I had used them because that’s what everyone else was doing. But now, after switching to HSL the things I…Continue readingHSL Colors … Read more 4 years ago in Development 0

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Delphi MVVM links

jpluimers jpluimers After I did conference presentations and wrote a magazine article and in 2013 about Delphi MVVM using DSharp, I saw a 3 articles in 2018, then I went through a big rollercoaster involving rectum cancer… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Spring4D 0

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Delphi: workaround doing math with generic types preventing “E2015 Operator not applicable to this operand type” with TValue (as there is no way to constraint the generic type to be floating point or ordinal)

jpluimers jpluimers A while ago on Facebook (it’s a private group, so you cannot see the posts unless you both have a Facebook account and are member of the group), [Archive.is] Niels Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (coming from a C++… … Read more 4 years ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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On TStrings (and TStringList) sorting: what the default Sort behaviour is and how to change sorting order

jpluimers jpluimers Because I need this eventually, here the full quote of my answer in [Wayback] sorting – How can I get TStringList to sort differently in Delphi – Stack Overflow (The default Sort behaviour is to… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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parsing – delphi – strip out all non standard text characers from string – Stack Overflow

jpluimers jpluimers From a while back a totally non-optimised code example by me (intentionally limiting to AnsiStr as it was about filtering ASCII, and UniCode has way many code points for the Latin script). // For those… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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Interesting situation now UWP isn’t panacea any more: for Windows development, native is back to center stage

jpluimers jpluimers Summary: UWP (Universal Windows Platform) is dying, long live native Windows development. Source: [Wayback/Archive] Native Windows is Back to Center Stage With the downplay of UWP, native development is again the primary Windows development model,… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Windows Development 0

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Infusion pump and PCA (patient-controlled analgesia) calculation

jpluimers 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 4 years ago in Development, excel, google, GoogleDocs, GoogleSheets, Office, Office Automation, Office VBA, Power User, Scripting, Software Development 0

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Word for Mac 2011: create macro or shortcut to ‘Insert Picture – Microsoft Community

jpluimers jpluimers As it combines VBA and AppleScript, I might need the script from this in the future [WayBack] Word for Mac 2011: create macro or shortcut to ‘Insert Picture – Microsoft Community. –jeroen … Read more 4 years ago in Development, Office, Office 2011 for Mac, Office Automation, Office VBA, Scripting, Software Development 0

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The Charlie Calvert “Here’s to Good Friends and New Adventures” article

jpluimers jpluimers Since this contains a list of contains from back then (20+ years ago!), I save it for future reference: [WayBack] Here’s to Good Friends and New Adventures I would like to make a very short… … Read more 4 years ago in Borland C++, C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal 0