Tuesday, 17. September 2019
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Doubling Down - Fixing Min/Max() for Doubles
TPersistent.com
– Today I discovered that the built-in overload for Min() and Max() double in the Math unit do not always work as expected. If you search on how to compare floating point types there are many StackOverflow answers, none of which have been adopted over the years by the built-in library. I have come ...
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Tester’s Diary: Mapping Out Testing on a Journey to DevOps
blog.gurock.com
– This is a guest post by Carol Brands. Every journey starts with a single step, and my team has finally made the first step on our path to DevOps. In an earlier post, I talked about some of the challenges we had as we planned our move toward a DevOps development style. Here, I’ll talk about our ...
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GExperts: Copy Component Names
The Wiert Corner
– Sometimes your toolbox can already things you forgot it could: [Archive.is] GExperts Help. Via: frame redirect www.gexperts.org/tour/copycomponentnames.html [WayBack] you know what would be a really good Delphi IDE function? to copy to the clipboard all the object names highlighted on a form by a ...
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Delphi: when calling TThread.Synchronize, ensure the synchronised method handles exceptions
The Wiert Corner
– Since about a decade, TThread has a few overloaded [WayBack] Synchronize methods which all allow some specified synchronised method to run in the context of the main thread: [WayBack] TThread.Synchronize Method (TThreadMethod) [WayBack] TThread.Synchronize Method (TThreadProcedure) [WayBack] ...
Monday, 16. September 2019
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Joint Windows 10 Webinar with Microsoft and Embarcadero
Marco's Tech Blog
– Embarcadero has been focusing a recent series of webinar on Windows 10 and the RAD Studio features (mainly in VCL) specifically focused on the latest version of Windows. This week we are going to have a special event, presented by Microsoft and Embarcadero, and offering a overview of Microsoft plans ...
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Perth Meeting – Sep 2019
Australian Delphi User Group Members
– Tuesday 17th September 2019 at 6pm for 6:15pm start Delphi presentations and amazing pizza Who TFramed Delphi Rabbit ? Frank Reynolds Did Windows APIs – WinAPI, COM & ShellAPI, WinRT Open Mic / BYO Questions 6pm start, first presentation at 6:15pm Artifactory, Osborne Park Unit 8 / 16 ...
Saturday, 14. September 2019
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Azure DevOps – Now You Too Can Use My Template(s)
Te Waka o Delphi
– Learn how you too can use my Delphi build template in your own Azure DevOps pipelines, and a sneak preview of something special coming soon...
Friday, 13. September 2019
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Adding a New Attribute to hcOPF
TPersistent.com
– In order to support a client using SQL Server with replication I needed to add GUID support to hcOPF. This post is a chronicle of my efforts. If you’re unfamiliar with ThcAttribute you can breathe a sigh of relief. It’s analagous to a barebones TField implementation which contains two ...
Thursday, 12. September 2019
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Increased RAD level for ORM development with TMS Aurelius
TMS Software Blog
– The new released version 4.8 of TMS Aurelius, brings RAD with ORM to a new level! New design-time components There are now three new components available for design-time: TAureliusManager, TAureliusDBSchema and TAureliusModelEvents. They are just wrappers around existing classes, but they make it ...
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Visit “What’s new in Rio 10.3.2” in Ljubljana
The Delphi Geek
– On September 26th I’ll talk about RAD Studio Rio in Ljubljana. We’ll discuss 10.3 a bit and 10.3.1/10.3.2 updates in more detail. We’ll also look into the future to see what 10.4 might bring.This will also be a good opportunity to see my latest book, Design patterns with Delphi, or get your own copy ...
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Leading in Times of Organizational Uncertainty
blog.gurock.com
– This is a guest post by Peter G. Walen Change is probably the only thing we can count on when working in tech areas. For teams to continue to function effectively and deliver value, leaders must get in front of the organizational change management curve and actively engage the uncertainty their ...
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Delphi / Stefan Glienke: I looked into IntroSort … and the Microsoft implementation … Here is my current implementation
The Wiert Corner
– For my link archive: [WayBack] Delphi / Stefan Glienke: I looked into IntroSort … and the Microsoft implementation … Here is my current implementation [WayBack] Delphi IntroSort by Stefan Glienke –jeroen https://bitbucket.org/snippets/sglienke/64LG6b/introsort
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C# (and presumably Delphi): why parameterless record constructors are absent
The Wiert Corner
– For my link archive. Full text at: [WayBack] … why the Delphi language does not allow parameterless constructors… – David Heffernan – Google+ Abstract: +Stefan Glienke deleted his post about parameterless record constructors, presumably due to all the off topic comments. ...
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Site Upgrades and Problems
Te Waka o Delphi
– Some teething troubles with the recent site upgrades. Please bear with me and let me know if you come across any other problems.
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Azure DevOps and Delphi – Template for Builds + Running Tests and Capturing Results
Te Waka o Delphi
– A more complete build script, re-usable in the form of a template, that caters for different Delphi versions, combined with a demonstration of running unit tests and capturing results for reporting and analysis in Azure DevOps Pipelines.
