SyncThing as an alternative to BitTorrentSync (btsync)
A while ago I blogged about using BitTorrentSync as a privacy conscious alternative to the more popular cloud services like Google Drive or DropBox. BitTorrent recently released btsync version 2 which,...
View ArticleRunning SyncThing as a Windows service
Yesterday I blogged about SyncThing as an alternative to BitTorrentSync. Today a business partner asked me whether it is possible to run SyncThing as a service. The answer is definitely yes, but it...
View ArticleAndy’s Blog and Tools added to DelphiPipe
I had forgotten one important blog: Andy’s Blog and Tools. No longer.
View ArticleExperimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-04-11 released
The latest version is the first version that supports Delphi XE8. There is nothing really new about the formatter code. But the new release can be installed even if you don’t have the official GExperts...
View ArticleInput validation in dzLib
In a recent Google+ post Andrea Raimondi was mentioning the JVCL’s JvValidators components and asked whether we use/know them or not. Daniela Osterhagen mentioned that she preferred the input...
View ArticleSplitting and joining tar archives
This is just a note to myself about splitting a tar archive into multiple smaller files on the fly and joining them again. It’s based on this answer to this question on stackoverflow. # create archives...
View ArticleExperimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-05-30 released
In this version the formatter now uses unicode strings for all Delphi versions that support them. The previous versions converted native Delphi strings to AnsiString before formatting and converted the...
View ArticleYahoo pipes is shutting down – DelphiPipe will die
Yahoo just announced that they will be shutting down Yahoo Pipes on 2015-08-30. Unfortunately that means that DelphiPipe will also die, because I don’t have the resources to move it to anywhere else....
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Fixing “An Update Subscription … is required …
When the Delphi XE8 update1 was released it was also about the time for our company to renew my Delphi subscription. Unfortunately our accounting department fouled up paying the bill so for a short...
View ArticleGExperts code formatter is now Unicode aware
After getting my Delphi XE8 installation to work again I have released a new experimental GExperts version. It is the first where the code formatter should be fully Unicode aware (for Delphi IDEs...
View ArticleUnicode is hard – harder than I assumed
In my last post I announced that the GExperts code formatter is now Unicode aware. Little did I know. Mohamed Kamel sent me a source file with Arabic strings which still got converted to question...
View ArticleGExperts code formatter is now a little bit more Unicode aware
A new release of my experimental GExperts version is available. I fixed yet another issue with Unicode / UTF-8. It works now with some Arabic strings which got converted to question marks before. The...
View ArticleDelphi Custom Container Pack updated for Delphi XE8
I just updated the Custom Container Pack sources to support Delphi XE8. It was mostly a matter of creating the packages for the “new” version. I also added XE8 to the compilerversion.inc file. It now...
View ArticleCreating application icons from multiple PNGs
Note to self: Icons for Windows applications with multiple resolutions can be created by combining multiple png images using the convert tool that comes with ImageMagcic: convert 16.png 32.png 48.png...
View ArticleIf PHP files get downloaded rather than executed on Ubuntu
you probably didn’t install libapache2-mod-php5: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
View ArticledzEditorLineEndsFix 1.0.2 released
I just released dzEditorLineEndsFix 1.0.2 on SourceForge. It now creates its own subdirectory under TEMP where its puts the unique subdirectories for the various copies of the .ttr file rather than...
View ArticleUsing the %TEMP% directory
Sometimes you need to temporarily create a file or even a directory to put some files into. Windows (and most other operating systems, even MS DOS) reserves a special directory for this purpose and...
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Rebooting a Linux server unattended
Just so I can look it up when I need it again: /sbin/shutdown -r now is the command that when run as root will reboot a Linux server. It can simply be added as a scheduled command in WebMin:
View ArticleExperimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-09-06 released
The latest version is the first version that supports Delphi 10 Seattle. There is nothing really new about the formatter code. Achim Kalwa submitted a patch that solves yet another Unicode issue, this...
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Remove the ad banner on the Delphi 10 Seattle welcome page
I don’t know what Embarcadero thinks they can accomplish by showing their customers an annoying ad banner for the product they have already bought, but I don’t like that and this post helped me to get...
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