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E2029 identifier expected

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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When you use the Delphi for .NET compiler, and you get this message: “E2029 identifier expected but 'xxx' found ” error message, what you need...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Ramblings on Demeanor on Delphi 8

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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Random ramblings on Demeanor and software licensing article links...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Naming threads

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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Dan Miser recently wrote an article on " Naming threads ", and I came across it today. As I read the article, I remembered having wrote an article and...
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Things not to do while coding in Delphi (or any other language)

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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Nick started blogging about headshakers in his blog . I have my own anecdotes of stories to share, so I'll start with one. When I was working on the Vehicle...
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A custom built Terraform File System Provider

Posted over 7 years ago

by chuacw
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While working on building blockchain node infrastructure, one of the tools I used is Terraform . The built-in providers in Terraform didn't allow me...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Safe mode, Samsung Galaxy Note 4

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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If you want to access Safe Mode, power down your phone completely — hold the power button, then select Power off from the menu. Once the phone is...
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Marrying up counselling and technical support #1

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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One of the challenges of my job is that customers often do not provide enough data regarding their problems. What they do is describe their problem, and...
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Why VCL for .NET?

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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Why did Borland create VCL for .NET, and when should you use it instead of .NET's own Windows Forms framework?...
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C#, Delphi for .NET, Delphi Win32, Java and now Android...

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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Years ago, I took Lutz Roeder's C# implementation of Digger and translated it into Delphi for Win32 and Delphi.NET at the same time, and designed a...
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Further notes on writing a Java decompiler - Import statements

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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My simple Java decompiler is up and running, as seen below. It is now able to display field names, and displays the fully qualified type name as well....
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Twitter4J 2.2.6 Authentication on Android

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Here's a quick primer on how I did my Twitter authentication on Android. In a button event, invoke the OAuthLogin() method, where it is defined as...
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Java Decompiler - Work in progress

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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The Java Decompiler is a work in progress. Imports is partially done now. Currently, I'm picking up all the class names from the fields, and adding...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Learning PowerShell

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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I recently had to learn PowerShell, and as a hacker with experience in software development in many languages, I picked it up pretty quickly. Here's...
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Ban 66.235.202.61 from your .Text blog

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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If you're using Scott Watermasysk's .Text blog, please be advised to ban IP 66.235.202.61 from your .Text blog. I've just received a feedback for all of...
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Notes on decompiling Java - 2

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Anders Hejlsberg discusses Generics in C#, Java and C++ . Differences between generics in C# and Java on Stackoverflow. Java: Understanding generics, type...
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Yet another ASP.NET bug?!

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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Why do I keep stumbling into more and more ASP.NET bugs? Consider the following code. What it attempts to do is to expire all the cookies. Simple right...
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Gathering a team of Delphi developers in Singapore

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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I'm building a team of Delphi developers in Singapore. If you can develop software in Delphi, and you can either work full time on a short term project...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

RAD Studio plugin: WelcomePage Favourites Editor

Posted over 3 years ago

by chuacw
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The WelcomePage Favourites Editor is an integrated plugin that you can add to the WelcomePage. After installation of the WelcomePage Favourites Editor...
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Twitter's account up...

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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My twitter account is up . My first twit? Selling off my iPod 4G 16GB :o)
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Notes on RSS design

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/skipHoursDays#skipdays RSS Readers and Bandwidth consumption
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Delphi 7.1 Pet Peeve

Posted over 22 years ago

by chuacw
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UPDATE: According to Allen and Hallvard, that would be considered a breaking interface change, and is considered a BIG no-no. Read more about breaking...
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How to flash firmware to Linksys WRT1900AC

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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Connect TTL to USB cable to PC. Start up putty and connect by serial to the COM port powered by Prolific @ 115 kbps. Power up WRT1900AC. Press spacebar...
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When I called you last night from Glasgow...

Posted over 6 years ago

by chuacw
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One of the more useful techniques I've developed over the years is detecting what module the caller for a method came from. In an application with...
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BdpConnection.ConnectionOptions

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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Ever used a DBWebImage together with Microsoft SQL, and Borland Data Providers? If you do, you may run right into a slight problem. The problem is that...
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Fixing / removing the green line in video playback in VLC

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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VLC recently had this green line at the bottom of every video I played. It seemed that this was a bug that was accidentally added to the product, however...