Friday, 25. May 2018
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Privacy and Confidentiality: What’s the Difference?
blog.gurock.com
– The words “confidentiality” and “privacy” are often confused or perceived to be equivalent terms, but they actually represent completely different concepts. The precise definitions for these troublesome words often depend on context. They also can have very specific meanings ...
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Desktop Development on Windows and Delphi VCL Library
Marco's Tech Blog
– Despite all the push for web and mobile development, which are certainly growing a lot, Windows desktop development is far from death. In fact, at the recent Build 2018 conference Microsoft reported that over the last year the developers using Visual Studio for building desktop applications has ...
Thursday, 24. May 2018
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Fixing the WSDLImp command-line Delphi WSDL importer to parse WSDL files including XSD files using xsd:group at the top level
The Wiert Corner
– I finally found out the cause of the Delphi WSDL Importer generating wrong .pas files when the WSDL file includes an XSD file that uses an xsd:group (see below) at the top-level. The resulting access violation was caused by forgetting a nil check for a Context (at the top-level it is nil because ...
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Getting the new MMX from Raabe Software to work when installing it as separate Administrative user
The Wiert Corner
– I have a policy to install software with a separate Administrative user, but develop with a normal non-Administrative user. For some software, this creates problems, either because it cannot cope while running as a non-UAC user, or because they write their configuration (either on disk or in the ...
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Indy repo URLs and nightly builds
The Wiert Corner
– For my link archive: Password embedded Indy SVN repository URLs Based on [WayBack] Indy Subversion Source Access Base https://Indy-Public-RO:@svn.atozed.com:444/svn Most important ones: https://Indy-Public-RO:@svn.atozed.com:444/svn/Indy10/ https://Indy-Public-RO:@svn.atozed.com:444/svn/Indy9/ ...
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TZDB 1.8.2018c available
Yet Another Programming Blog
– Just a short announcement — after quite a few years (4 to be exact) of inactivity, Michael Taylor has graciously evicted some bugs from the TZDB code base and also upgraded the IANA database to 2018c version (released 22nd January 2018). These days, you can find the project in its source code ...
Wednesday, 23. May 2018
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MMX – speed up your Delphi development, now maintained by Raabe Software
The Wiert Corner
– New home [WayBack] MMX – speed up your Delphi development Old home [WayBack] ModelMaker Tools Thanks a lot to Gerrit Beuze for al the efforts and insights while he created and maintained MMX for such a long time Thanks a lot to Uwe Raabe for taking over the maintenance and providing the binaries for ...
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Delphi – when compiling consts doesn’t work…
The Wiert Corner
– Delphi has a lot of loose ends. With the extension of the language, it gets more and more. Or as Stefan Glienke formulated it: It should all compile but it does not because currently what is a real const and what is a variable treated as const by the compiler is a f…ing mess and thus some ...
Tuesday, 22. May 2018
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Test-Driven Development: A Love Story?
blog.gurock.com
– “Love” is a strong word. I’m not sure I really love test-driven development (TDD). But I do love solving problems by programming and crafting simple, elegant code. Some things detract from this love: Delivering defects—how embarrassing! Pulling my hair out because I can’t understand how your (or ...
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Delphi WSDL importer compiler defines
The Wiert Corner
– As a follow-up on Delphi WSDL default importer settings, you can use these compiler defines to increase output. Output that the built-in Wizard will never show you (that is also the reason you will not see any errors like access violations in the IDE). TL;DR Always use the command-line WSDL ...
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Delphi Are you familiar with “forgotten” hints? Here is a very rough example how to get rid of them…
The Wiert Corner
– Thanks for [WayBack] Are you familiar with “forgotten” hints? Here is a very rough example how to make them disappear without restarting the IDE… – Attila Kovacs – Google+ The code is centered around enumerating all windows of class TDesignerHintWindow and closing them. ...
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Bringing the blog back to life…
Yet Another Programming Blog
– Well, it has been years (apparently no less than four!). Since my last post a lot has changed for me in particular, and, in tech at large. So why hasn’t Alex been blogging one might not ask, and be forgiven. Well, let me explain and rant a little bit: First, I have no more connection to the ...
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Is there any way to record a keyboard macro in the IDE?
The Wiert Corner
– Yes there is, but it only does code editor commands. It’s been there since at least 1998 (read Delphi 4), probably all 32-bit versions and maybe even the 16-bit Delphi 1 version. via: [WayBack] Is there any way to record a keyboard macro in the IDE? [WayBack] Interpreting Delphi IDE Keyboard ...
Monday, 21. May 2018
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Movie #134 - Console Text Color
LearnDelphi.TV
– If you are writing console applications it can be useful to change the color of the text, watch to find out how..
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Strings as “data buffers”
Yet Another Programming Blog
– I bet most of the Delphi developers used or are still using strings to hold and operate on binary data. I’ve done it, and some of my older projects still contain such code. The basic idea is to use strings as byte buffers to hold and to use string routines to perform operations on those ...
