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When floating point code suddenly becomes orders magnitudes slower (via C++ – Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x? – Stack Overflow)

jpluimers jpluimers When working with converging algorithms, sometimes floating code can become very slow. That is: orders of magnitude slower than you would expect. A very interesting answer to [Wayback] c++ – Why does changing 0.1f to… – Details… 2 days ago in .NET, algorithms, ARM, Assembly Language, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development, x64, x86 0

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Some uptime monitoring tools that are still free and understand more than http/https

jpluimers 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… – Details… 1 week ago in *nix, Delphi, Development, monitoring, Power User, Software Development 0

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Delphi SetRoundMode: gets sets part of the 8087 control word (related: GetRoundMode and TFPURoundingMode)

jpluimers jpluimers I thought I had written about this a long time ago, as Math.SetRoundMode (and now System.Math.SetRoundMode) has been introduced since at least Delphi 2007. There are also related GetRoundMode and TFPURoundingMode. Delphi 2009 also introduced… – Details… 2 weeks ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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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…. – Details… 3 weeks ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Database Development, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Event, MYSQL, Software Development, UTF-8, UTF8 0

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10 Easy Top-Notch Tips Every Software Developer Should Know

Emad Bin Abid Emad Bin Abid Over time, software development has experienced significant changes in design as well as implementation methods. As the market evolved, the software industry, particularly those previously specializing in Windows software development, also had to adapt to… – Details… 3 weeks ago in agile, Code, programming, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tech Partner, tips 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++… – Details… 1 month 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… – Details… 2 months 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… – Details… 2 months 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,… – Details… 2 months 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… – Details… 3 months 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 – Details… 3 months ago in Development, Office, Office 2011 for Mac, Office Automation, Office VBA, Scripting, Software Development 0