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WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95

jpluimers jpluimers Just in case I ever need it for historic reasons: [Wayback/Archive] WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95 Because back in the days various Office products had localised VBA (at least German and French products had; I’m not… … Read more 1 month ago in Delphi, Development, History, LifeHacker, Office, Office 95, Office Automation, Office Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 95 0

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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.

jpluimers jpluimers I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before: the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which… … Read more 11 months ago in .NET, 1, 7, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Development, ekon, Event, History, LaTeX, LifeHacker, Mathematics, pascal, Perl, PL/I (a.k.a. PL/1), Power User, science, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Typesetting 0

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Field Tested Systems

jpluimers 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 2 years ago in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, LifeHacker, Power User, science, Software Development 0