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Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Displaying a modal dialog on the Android

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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After clicking a button, displaying a modal dialog on the Android is easy, by using the classes android.app.AlertDialog and its helper, android.app.AlertDialog...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

NCS looking for Delphi engineer in Singapore for 6 month contract

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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NCS Pte Ltd , one of the giants in IT in Singapore, is looking for a Delphi engineer for a 6 month contract. If you're a software developer who knows Delphi...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Undocumented Delphi 8 predefined conditional symbols

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the following predefined conditional symbols. Symbol Description CIL Indicates the machine code model, roughly corresponding...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Remounting Android rootfs

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
- 3 Comments
Making the rootfs and /system writeable mount -o rw,remount -t rootfs rootfs / mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system Making the rootfs...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Blog to .Text using Web Services

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw

The following is the complete Delphi code and instruction to blog to .Text (v0.95) using Web Services. New Application. Import WSDL from http://weblogs...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Android 2.2.2 System Update available!

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw

I just got my Android 2.2.2 System Update notification and updated my Nexus One to Android 2.2.2 today! Here's how the update process looked like in...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

C# vs Delphi: Instantiating an object using generics

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
- 6 Comments
Why wait for C# 2.0 or .NET 2.0 when you can have the power of generics in Delphi today?...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

QualysGuard scanning

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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While checking out if my system had any vulnerabilities, I used Qualys' Free Scan, which utilizes their QualysGuard tool to scan my system. Here's...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Look where I passed by today!

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
- 1 Comments
I'm currently in San Jose, and I have been commuting between San Jose and Cupertino for the past 3 weeks...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Fidonet Nodelist 1991

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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Stumbled across a piece of history while surfing the web - Fidonet Nodelist 1991. In 1991, I was Fidonet 6:600/321. Strangely, I was under the impression...
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Hacking Work #3: Adding custom functions to ArcSight FlexConnectors, Android and Toastmasters

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
- 1 Comments
Recently, I downloaded the game MouseTrap to my Android phone. While playing the game, it provided an opportunity for itself to solve the puzzle for you...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

My RSS Reader - Handling Indy's HTTP 304 Not Modified

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
- 1 Comments
While working on “ My RSS Reader ”, I came across a peculiar Indy behaviour. In retrieving feeds from URLs, I used Indy's TIdHTTP component...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

An experiment to bring ink recognition technology to Delphi 7

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
- 6 Comments
Thus begins an experiment to bring ink recognition technology to Delphi 7. First, download the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Borland QualityCentral: What you should do about Delphi bugs

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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If you develop simple software using Delphi, you'll find that Delphi is a wonderful tool that satisfies all or most of your needs. When you begin to develop...
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Implementing a rel="nofollow" HyperLink serverside control with the Borland Delphi 2005 IDE

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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Following the various blogs on Google , Simon Willison's , and Six Apart Professional Network , Robert Love's , Scott Watermasysk's , among others, I have...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Can the genius who wrote TextBox.AppendText own up?

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
- 3 Comments
Who's the genius who wrote TextBox.AppendText? TextBox is supposed to support up to 2GB or 4GB of text, depending on whether it's a single line or multi...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Delphi 7 Service Pack released...

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
- 1 Comments
In a week, Delphi 7 Service Pack 1, or General Update 1, or whatever it would be called, would be released... Well, at least, that's what I think anyway...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Introduction to the Movie Reviews Content Management System

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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Now that the Movies Reviews CMS database schema is up, I will concentrate on explaining the designs of the schema, and how it fitted the requirements of...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Making a Delphi app terminal services aware...

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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To make a Delphi application terminal services aware const IMAGE_DLLCHARACTERISTICS_TERMINAL_SERVER_AWARE = $8000; Use the $SETPEOPTFLAGS directive: {...
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Iterating IOTAEnvironmentOptions

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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The following code in the unit of a package demonstrates how to iterate the names of the environment options in the Delphi IDE procedure Register; var...
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Constructing instances of a descendant class in C#, Delphi and Java

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Lutz Roeder originally wrote Digger in C# many years ago. In 2004, I ported it first to Delphi.NET , and then to Delphi for Win32 . In February 2009, I...
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Android Screen timeout

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
- 1 Comments
Notes on Android internals Settings, Sound & Display, Display settings, Screen timeout is implemented in packages\apps\Settings\src\com\android\settings...
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Readme of "Delphi 7 Service Pack" is out!

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
- 2 Comments
The readme file of “Delphi 7 Service Pack” seems to be out! The Delphi 7 update is known as “Delphi 7.1 Update”. Malcolm Groves...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Movies CMS: Selecting an appropriate movie

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
- 2 Comments
So, the Movies CMS now looks like this. (To see a better view, click on it, or open it in another window). The list of movies above are generated dynamically...
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My RSS Reader update

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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Today is the National Day for Singapore. Yup, it's 9 th Aug 2004. Singapore has been independent since 1965. Check out more history about Singapore here...