Story Category: Power User
VOTEWinWorld: Microsoft Office 95
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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 week ago in Delphi, Development, History, LifeHacker, Office, Office 95, Office Automation, Office Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 95
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skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.
jpluimers
This is a cool library which I missed when it was introduced while recovering from my extensive cancer treatments: [Wayback/Archive] skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia… … Read more
3 weeks ago in Delphi, Development, google, Power User, Software Development
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When Delphi cannot output the .exe file because it is locked
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Sometimes Delphi cannot output the .exe file because it is locked. In even rarer times, Delphi itself keeps the .exe file locked (this has done it for decades and I think this is caused by… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Development
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GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM
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Indeed: DOOM in Pascal. Not Delphi: Free Pascal. Repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM It is based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom: Crispy Doom is a limit-removing enhanced-resolution Doom source port based… … Read more
4 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Freepascal, ObjectPascal, pascal, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development
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Of interest – GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
jpluimers
Of interest – despite the known issues and LUKS workaround through WSL – mainly as the majority was written in Delphi: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible. Found… … Read more
5 months ago in Delphi, Development, Encryption, Power User, Software Development, Windows Development
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Run Windows 3.1 in True-Colour Full HD: GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
jpluimers
This is soooo cool: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available… … Read more
7 months ago in Assembly Language, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 3.11, x86
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Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard (on Windows systems)
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I unconsciously wanted a tool like this for a long time, and was glad I finally searched for it: A keyboard logging and presentation utility for presentations, screencasts, and to help you become a better… … Read more
9 months ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows Development
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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.
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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
10 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
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string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)
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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 year 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
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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
1 year ago in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, LifeHacker, Power User, science, Software Development
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Thinking about you today Paweł
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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
3 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. 😐”
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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
3 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
4 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
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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
4 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
4 years ago in *nix, Delphi, Development, monitoring, Power User, Software Development
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