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chuacw

Tue, 19 May 2009 @ 11:36 PM

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The 9-month counselling course I'm taking is making me realize how I'm addicted to control in the things I do. Software development, troubleshooting (among other bad behaviour), is all a form of addiction that I may be suffering from....

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Notes on how to handle Ctrl+Click in the RAD Studio IDE

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The OTA provides a way for an IOTACodeInsightManager100 to handle GotoDefinition. Before Denali, the IDE would use the Syntax Highlight information for...
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How to make Windows Terminal the default terminal on Windows 10/2022

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Open up regedit, and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths Create a new key named cmd.exe and set its default value...
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Why use an Assertion Function in TypeScript

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Recently, I was working on a developing a server that responds to JSON RPC calls using TypeScript. Many of the methods in the RPC server follows this template...
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Delphi RTL for TypeScript

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Since early 2019, when I've started working on TypeScript, I've missed some routines from the Delphi RTL. While TypeScript, which transpiles to...
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How to force a configuration variable to be false/true

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require("dotenv").config(); const FORCEUPDATE = String(process.env.UPDATESILENCE_FORCEUPDATE) == "true" The dotenv module makes the...
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Tip of the day for Grafana

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💡Regular expressions in Grafana for silencing alerts have to match the entire value of the field for it to work. A partial match wouldn’t work....
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Notes of a discussion over usage of PowerShell vs Bash

Posted over 3 years ago

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For me, I’ll choose the best tool to use, and in this case, for me, it is PowerShell. I’ve used bash over many years, and PowerShell only less...
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A self-contained TypeScript library demo

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In case I forget, I've created a self-contained TypeScript library demo on my Github repo. It's a simple TypeScript project, and very minimal....
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Calling functions dynamically in TypeScript and JavaScript

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TypeScript functions to determine if a Javascript method exists, and call it via its name, together with the arguments. function functionExists ( funcName...
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Setting up a TypeScript project and debugging it in VSCode

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One of the things I keep forgetting is how to set up a TypeScript project and debugging it in VSCode. This blog post will remind me how to do so. In a...