Monday, 25. September 2017
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Looking for more examples of Unicode/Ansi oddities in Delphi 2009+
The Wiert Corner
– At the end of April 2014, Roman Yankovsky started a nice discussion on Google+ trying to get upvotes for QualityCentral Report #: 124402: Compiler bug when comparing chars. His report basically comes down to that when using Ansi character literals like #255, the compiler treats them as single-byte ...
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Make your Delphi applications pop with Font Awesome!
Random thoughts on coding
– Yes you heard right, Font Awesome? You can use their icons to make your desktop applications pop. Nowadays I use it to make my websites look nicer and without having to worry about finding icons for my apps and edit them and so on. Font Awesome is one the smartest things you can use to make your ...
Wednesday, 20. September 2017
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Dependency Analysis – Pascal Today
The Wiert Corner
– Tools and steps for analysing Delphi or FreePascal code: Dependency Analysis – Pascal Today [WayBack] Used tools: Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner [WayBack] Gephi – The Open Graph Viz Platform [WayBack] yEd – Graph Editor [WayBack] yEd is a free desktop application to quickly create, ...
Tuesday, 19. September 2017
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Bugfix for DprojNormalizer available
The Art of Delphi Programming
– There is a new version V2.1.0 for DprojNormalizer available, which targets a problem when using option sets and/or build events. Thanks to Peter Sonderegger for bringing this to my attention. Be aware that this version may change the sorting of your dproj files triggering a version control change. ...
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Delphi and Linux
The Delphi Geek
– I'd just like to remind my Slovenian readers that on 28th this month I'll be having a presentation about RAD Studio and Linux in Ljubljana.As the presentation will be given in Slovenian language, the rest of my post containing the description of the presentation is written in that language, ...
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delphi – Is AtomicCmpExchange reliable on all platforms? – Stack Overflow
The Wiert Corner
– TL;DR: yes it is. Answer by Allen Bauer at delphi – Is AtomicCmpExchange reliable on all platforms? – Stack Overflow [WayBack] –jeroenFiled under: Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Checking KeyPress is not the place to do your input validation
The Wiert Corner
– I have seen too many projects over the years trying to do input validation by checking KeyPress. This is not limited to Delphi projects (C#, VB and other projects suffer from this just as much). Most of these projects suffer from these:: Much of the KeyPress logic logic in the UI byusing half-baked ...
Monday, 18. September 2017
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Delphi and RAD Studio Roadmap Update Publsihed
Marco's Tech Blog
– The article with the new roadmap slides is available at: https://community.embarcadero.com/article/16563-rad-studio-roadmap-september-2017 The roadmap is updated with the 10.2.1 actual release and the specific 10.2.2 plans, along with the focus areas for 10.3 next year.
Thursday, 14. September 2017
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Visiting Delphi Conference in Poland Next Week
Marco's Tech Blog
– On September 21st and 22nd (next Thursday and Friday) I'll be attending and giving sessions at a Delphi conference in Poland. The conference is organized by the local Embarcadero partner, BSC Polska. You can find more information at the "Zlot Programistow Delphi" web site, ...
Wednesday, 13. September 2017
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GetIt Content Update, September 2017
Marco's Tech Blog
– We keep adding a lot of open source libraries, trial components, and now also demos and database connectors to the GetIt package manager. As I wrote a couple of months back, we added also a lot of new categories to simplify navigating among the 241 packages listed today. What was added over ...
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Agile is Dead. Long Live Agility and Pragmatism.
Delphi Code Monkey
– In the 1990s the original luminaries who signed the Manifesto for Agile Software Development have come back and reflected on what went well, and what didn't go well, in the movement they started.As often happens, practices which had an intent, a purpose, a meaning, and an effectiveness, can lose ...
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Cool Advanced Troubleshooting Technique - WinDbg
Delphi Code Monkey
– I was having some problems with my Thinkpad laptop hanging. It didn't blue-screen. It just stopped updating the screen, and did not reboot. It seemed either that the entire video layer had hung, or that the kernel itself had hung (such as waiting on a spinlock forever), or that a critical subsystem ...
Tuesday, 12. September 2017
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Formatted emails (HTML email) from TAdvRichEditor
TMS Software Blog
– Our TAdvRichEditor UI control has everything on-board to generate HTML from its rich document content, including exporting images that are possibly used in the document. Although generating this HTML can be easily done via the TAdvRichEditorHTMLIO non-visual component connected to the ...
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Delphi code of the day…
The Wiert Corner
– I was debugging an issue where a Delphi SOAP implementation was shoe-horned into an Indy server and came across the [WayBack] TWebRequest.UpdateMethodType Method. The further you get down the if/then/else tree, the more often the indexed property Method is accessed, same for the ...
Friday, 8. September 2017
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12 Years of Blogging
Marco's Tech Blog
– Today marks the 12th year of my blog, blog.marcocantu.com (now also mirrored on community.embarcadero.com). It is easy for me to remember, as I started the blog on my birthday! And this is my blog post number 1422. Lots of things happened in this 12 years, but I'm still mostly focused on Delphi, ...
