I am a big fan of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg - although I have been there only once and that was years ago, but I still follow them on YouTube and I regularly watch Gerrits Tagebuch (Hey Gerrit, your last post was in April, that's 5 months ago. Just saying ... 😉 Btw. I … Continue reading Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is looking for a Delphi developer
Author: dummzeuch
OSDN seems to be up again
After several weeks (or was it even months) of being dead, OSDN just "magically" was resurrected. At least the web page now works again, albeit rather slowly, (but it never was fast to start with). Somebody must have woken up there. I'll keep moving my projects back to SourceForge anyway (nearly finshed that already). I … Continue reading OSDN seems to be up again
OSDN is dead
A in 2018 the reliabiltiy of SourceForge seemed to be way down and getting worse. Back then, I moved several of my open source projects to OSDN which used an older version of the SourceForge software and was hosted in Japan. They have served me quite well over the years, but unfortunately they have been … Continue reading OSDN is dead
Pre-sets for the GExperts stand alone Grep tool
When running stand alone, GExperts Grep Results can not be opened in the IDE. Instead an external text editor is used. This editor and the required parameters to open the file and set the cursor at the desired line and column must be configured in the File → Options menu. I have now added buttons with the … Continue reading Pre-sets for the GExperts stand alone Grep tool
while TStream_TryRead() do
It has always irked me that in C you can write: [c] while (0<(BytesRead=Read(...))) { // .. } [/c] But in Delphi you have to use the much less readable [delphi] BytesRead := Stream.Read(Buffer, BufSize); while BytesRead > 0 do begin // .. BytesRead := Stream.Read(Buffer, BufSize); end; [/delphi] Today I had enough and wrote … Continue reading while TStream_TryRead() do
A few things I recently learned about PuTTY (the ssh client)
I have been playing around with PuTTY (Yes, I know, a grown man playing with putty evokes some rather odd pictures. I'm talking about the ssh client tool here though). recently and discovered a few things I didn't know. You can specify the user name to connect with I already knew that there is a … Continue reading A few things I recently learned about PuTTY (the ssh client)
Testing zlib compression in Delphi
Delphi has for a while contained two classes that simplify stream compression: TZCompressionStream TZDecompressionStream I had not used them before and when I tried to use them now to compress and decompress some binary data that is stored as part of a large file, I got some inexplicable results. So I wrote this little test … Continue reading Testing zlib compression in Delphi
Warning: Windows Update KB5028166 breaks NT Domains
Just in case we are not the only ones still using Samba with an NT domain: Windows Update KB5028166 which will automatically be installed on Windows 10 today, breaks compatibility with that domain type. After the installation, a login with a domain account no longer works. Removing that update fixes the issue, but of course … Continue reading Warning: Windows Update KB5028166 breaks NT Domains
Some JPEG XL information
This is mostly for me so I can look it up again later: JPEG XL is a new (for appropriate definitions of "new") picture compression algorithm (and much more). One very interesting option is to losslessly recode JPEG files to JXL and back. There is a reference implementation with sources and binary releases on GitHub … Continue reading Some JPEG XL information
Interface unit for the 7zip DLL
Note to self: mORMot2 contains an interface unit for the 7zip DLL: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2/blob/master/src/lib/mormot.lib.win7zip.pas