Wednesday, 23. August 2017
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Writing a Simple DSL Compiler with Delphi [0. Introduction]
The Delphi Geek
– Part 0: IntroductionSome time ago I was listening to the Hanselminutes podcast where a guy described how he wrote a simple interpreter in Go language (YOU should write an interpreter with Thorsten Ball). I was not really interested in writing an interpreter - I did that a long time ago - but a ...
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RAD Studio 10.2.1 HotFix for iOS AdHoc Deployment
Marco's Tech Blog
– We released a hotfix to address a regression (reported as https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-18813) in RAD Studio Tokyo Release 1 related with AdHoc deployment for iOS. The fix available for download is at: https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30797 The fix (which is a single ...
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Continuous Regression Testing
blog.gurock.com
– Despite all effort to move quality upstream, most organizations I work with have a regression testing process. This process is expensive and slow, so they do it less often; ‘batching’ a large number of changes into a sprint, a release, or a project. With more time between releases, the uncertainty ...
Friday, 18. August 2017
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How to Buy My Books
Delphi-losophy
– First, I want to thank all of you that have bought one or more or my books. I’m very grateful. Second, I wanted to post to make sure that everyone knows that I have three books out and how you can buy them. Book Buy in Paperback Buy in Digital Form Buy on Amazon for $39.99 ...
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Constantly Curious – an Interview with Katrina Clokie
blog.gurock.com
– Congratulations on the release of your new book! Given your already prolific blogging output, conference appearances, Testing Trapeze editor role and – I assume – fairly demanding work commitments, it’s difficult not to wonder… How and where do you find the time for ...
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Delphi VersionInfo errors
VSoft Technologies
– Over the last year or so, we have seen more and more "bug reports" about compiling Delphi projects with FinalBuilder, in particular, reporting issues with compiling version info resources when using Delphi 10.1 (Berlin) and Delphi 10.2 (Tokyo). This only happens if you tell the Delphi action in ...
Thursday, 17. August 2017
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The Testers Career Path
blog.gurock.com
– This is a guest posting by Justin Rohrman. Justin has been a professional software tester in various capacities since 2005. In his current role, Justin is a consulting software tester and writer working with Excelon Development. Outside of work, he is currently serving on the Association For ...
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When Do I Stop Testing?
blog.gurock.com
– Most of the software projects I have worked on come along with either a specification or a set of acceptance criteria. To the product owner, this is a list of what to build. To me, it also looks like a list of test ideas. A tester can take each point in the specification, or each line item in the ...
Wednesday, 16. August 2017
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Strategies for Cross-Platform Code Sharing with Elements
RemObjects Blogs
– Customers ask me for advise for how to best structure their "cross-platform" projects with Elements, all the time. So with this post, I'd like to summarize some experiences and best practices from cross-platform and multi-platform projects I have worked on myself over the past year or two. Not all ...
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Workaround for FMX Memory Leaks on Windows in 10.2.1
Marco's Tech Blog
– Many of our customers today write FireMonkey Windows applications. We recently got some customer reports on FMX memory leaks on Windows using RAD Studio 10.2 Release 1 (or Tokyo Release 1). The issue is reported at https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-18774 and ...
Tuesday, 15. August 2017
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Debugger Callstack Resolver released
Andy's Blog
– Debugger Callstack Resolver is a Delphi IDE plugin that I wrote in 2011 to make the IDE’s CPU View more readable. It colors different instructions, resolves absolute and memory address jump and call targets and shows their function name if available. It also uses the *.jdbg to show more information ...
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Some links on Belise/Elise licensing server (yes, AppWave is dead or at least: should be)
The Wiert Corner
– Some links on the Embarcadero License Center server (formerly known as Belise and Elise) from my contributions to these G+ threads: Anyone here ever start out using Workstation licenses then switch to eitherNetworked Named User or Networked Concurrent ?… [WayBack] Does anyone know what is happening ...
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Why I Keep Choosing Delphi
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– Early on I learned Turbo Pascal, which was a huge step up from the Basic and Batch File programming I cut my teeth on. When Delphi came along I thought it was brilliant and fell in love immediately. I had no interest in learning other programming languages or tools. Delphi did it all, and that was ...
Monday, 14. August 2017
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Perth Delphi Meeting – 15 August 2017
Australian Delphi User Group Members
– This Tuesday 15th August 2017 at 6pm, first presentation 6:15pm Artifactory 8/16 Guthrie St, Osborne Park WA 6017 Food – $1.50 pizza slice. $1.50 drinks Four topics and loads of pizza at Artifactory – where the best mad scientists hang out Scott van der Linden – Thread ...
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Creators Update BPL Loading Issue and Tokyo Release 1
Marco's Tech Blog
– As mentioned in the release notes of Tokyo 10.2.1, the latest release of RAD Studio addresses the issues caused by Windows 10 Creators Update and related with DLL and BPL loading. The issue is caused by a change (a bug!) in the DLL loading algorithm of the operating system, an issue that Microsoft ...
