Wednesday, 24. April 2019
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Getting rid of bugs: mark them as “new feature” – as cancelling a THTTPClient.BeginGet() does not work as intended
The Wiert Corner
– I have seen this happen before, but it seems to be a habit on the Quality Portal: getting rid of bugs by marking them as [WayBack] I’m using THTTPClient.BeginGet() to create an async get request to a webservice that holds a connection open until it has data to return (sort of like a… ...
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Action Required for Jira Cloud Plug-In Update
blog.gurock.com
– Atlassian has announced an end to cookie-based authentication and basic authentication with passwords for Jira Cloud. Action is required by April 29 if you are using Jira Cloud: You must change the existing password-based Jira integration authentication to the new API token-based authentication by ...
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Video: Developing a Database-driven Web Application with Delphi Rio and TMS Web Core
TMS Software Blog
– Delphi is the number one tool for developing Desktop applications on and for Windows. There is little opposition to this statement. A couple of years ago, the compiler for 64-Bit Windows was also released. Having the VCL at your mercy and extensive database connectivity included in the product, ...
Tuesday, 23. April 2019
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ImageEn 8.5.0 now localized into 13 languages, plus improved brush painting and new FolderTree and FileListBox components
NAF Delphi Blog
– ImageEn v8.5.0 has now been released.This update is free if you purchased a license or extension after 21 April 2018. Download via: http://www.imageen.com/support/downloadrequest.htmlOther users can extend at: http://www.imageen.com/order/index.html#ExtensionsMore Info: ...
Monday, 22. April 2019
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Announcing TestRail 5.7 with Enterprise Features, new API Endpoints and Edit Result Permissions
blog.gurock.com
– We’re pleased to announce that TestRail 5.7 is now available and has been released to all users of our cloud infrastructure. With this release, we’re also proud to present our new TestRail Enterprise product tier, with premium support, a faster API, and features geared towards ...
Friday, 19. April 2019
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Dipping my toes into the lands of F# and functional programming
Yet Another Programming Blog
– Mid-2018, after quite some time spent in C# and Azure lands I decided it was time for a change. The next job, I said to myself, is going to have at least one new tech element to it. So, early in 2019 I joined a new company called Jet.com. [You can find some amazing blog posts written by my ...
Thursday, 18. April 2019
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Web Portal: Improvements to Management of Multi-User Accounts
RemObjects Blogs
– We don't often talk about our website, remobjects.com, here on this blog, but next to our actual products, it is of course a cruicial part of the user experience for you, our customers.Today I want to highlight a bunch of enhancements we have made to our customer portal over the past few weeks to ...
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Where do you place your unit uses?
The Wiert Corner
– Over the years, I have had the question of where to put uses list entries a lot. Last year, there was one again from a very experienced developer: [WayBack] Where do you place your unit uses? Over the years, I’ve come to preferring to place my uses in the Interface section only, even if its ...
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QA for Voice Applications with TestRail and Bespoken
blog.gurock.com
– TestRail, the leading test management suite, joins Bespoken to bring together the best in testing and automation for voice applications. This is an exciting new space, one that will benefit greatly from the proven tools provided by TestRail used in conjunction with Bespoken’s voice apps innovative ...
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Books, books, books
The Delphi Geek
– Dear reader,You probably know that I write books. A big part of making a book, however, is not just writing it, but letting all the potential readers out there know that the book exists. I'm doing a lot there - and so is my publisher - but still we can't reach all the potential readers ...
Wednesday, 17. April 2019
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Just found out about the SysUtils.FindCmdLineSwitch Function
The Wiert Corner
– I learn new things every day. So today I learned about [WayBack] SysUtils.FindCmdLineSwitch Function, which was introduced in Delphi 4, but I was still messing with ParamCount/ParamStr loops. It as not changed over time. The above docs are Delphi 2007, and these are some of the newer: [WayBack] ...
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Debugging RTL/VCL Code with CodeSite – Dave’s Development Blog
The Wiert Corner
– This is so cool! [WayBack] Debugging RTL/VCL Code with CodeSite – Dave’s Development Blog. It comes down to performing CodeSite.Send(...) calls as evaluation expressions in non-breaking breakpoints. Ensure you have the CodeSite.Logging unit in your uses lists and you’re good to go. ...
Tuesday, 16. April 2019
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Delphi annoyance: in debug mode, no breakpoints are being adhered to, no blue bullets
The Wiert Corner
– For all Delphi Galileo versions (the BDS based Delphi versions: 8 until now), I have bumped into this annoyance: Over time, while working on an application, running it in DEBUG mode in the debugger, wil not fire any breakpoints and all blue bullets (meaning the lines have code generated) are gone. ...
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New features in TMS Analytics & Physics 2.8
TMS Software Blog
– The previous version 2.7 of TMS Analytics & Physics library introduced the capability of converting formula and units of measurements to the TeX format. The TeX representation allows then drawing formula in natural math form, using some external tools, such as MathJax. The new version 2.8 provides ...
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delphi – IfThen(Assigned(Widget), Widget.Description, ‘No Widget’) doesn’t crash. Should it? – Stack Overflow
The Wiert Corner
– Very interesting question [WayBack] delphi – IfThen(Assigned(Widget), Widget.Description, ‘No Widget’) doesn’t crash. Should it? – Stack Overflow. Three important things here: depending on inlining and kind of arguments, function calls can evaluate their arguments one ...
