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Tuesday, 24. July 2018
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RAD Server: Beyond the Basics Webinar Tomorrow
Marco's Tech Blog
– Over the last few months and the 10.2.x updates, RAD Server has been extended with several new features. But the technology also has several other advanced features we rarely discuss, because the typical one hour webinars we do are often only enough to cover the basic introduction. In this webinar, ...
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Starting your Delphi VCL app meanwhile your mouse is moving, no accelerators are shown (Menu, button, focus rect missing… etc.) same when clicking a button to open a new form
The Wiert Corner
– Problem (D2007 and up) If you are starting your Delphi VCL app meanwhile your mouse is moving, no accelerators are shown (Menu, button, focus rect missing… etc.) Something similar happens when you click on a button which opens a new form, somehow UI State becomes a state which is wrong. ...
Monday, 23. July 2018
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Delphi starter is back as "Delphi Community". Good news for all Delphi users.
Delphi Code Monkey
– I am one of those codgers old enough to remember Delphi 6 personal, and the Turbo Delphi era (the next free edition name for delphi), and Delphi Starter, and each time the pattern is the same:1. Announce it.2. Hope it works.3. Wander away and lose interest.Let's hope that DOES NOT happen this ...
Friday, 20. July 2018
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Unit Testing, TDD, and BDD, Oh My. Your Guide to Different Unit Testing Techniques
blog.gurock.com
– Have you ever wondered about the differences between unit testing and TDD? Or TDD and Test-First? Or even the relationship of all of this to the agile methodologies? Are these kinds of tests manual or automated? And, for goodness’ sake, what is it with all the “DD”-ending ...
Thursday, 19. July 2018
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Celebrating Five Amazing Years with Embarcadero
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– This month I am celebrating my five-year anniversary with Embarcadero Technologies. It’s been an amazing adventure and I am looking forward to more. I saw a graphic similar to the following today and it reminded me how great it is to be doing what I am doing (plus I love Venn diagrams). I ...
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Delphi Free for Some - Lazarus Free for Everyone!
Delphi and stuff
– Embarcadero has announced the Community Edition releases for Delphi and C++Builder. Sounds like a reason to celebrate. But reading the "fine print" is rather sobering, as the license agreement practically excludes anyone but some students and hobbyists, perhaps: "The Community Edition license ...
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Delphi Community Edition available: good move for Embarcadero, but be careful how much revenue you make
The Wiert Corner
– On [WayBack] Delphi Community Edition available: – Uwe Raabe – Google+, the links to the [WayBack] EULA, [WayBack] FAQ and [WayBack] Feature Matrix were shared. In summary (read the G+ thread for more), the Delphi Community Edition is a web-installer of version 10.2.3 feature equivalent ...
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Embarcadero launches Delphi Community Edition
Marco's Tech Blog
– The release of Delphi Community Edition is fantastic news for the Delphi language, the developer community, the partners, and the entire ecosystem. We hope it will help new developers (students, hobbyist, open source developers, and someone starting with mobile store publishing, among others) adopt ...
Wednesday, 18. July 2018
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Beyond Functional Testing: 7 Other Types of Testing You Should Do
blog.gurock.com
– When you first start working with software, the idea of testing it seems pretty straight-forward. You build something- let’s say a feature. You then stop, run your software and make sure the feature behaves the way that you want it to. For example, did the “alphabetize this list” ...
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ColorButton unit with TColorButton saved for posterity as http://delphi.about.com got hi-jacked.
The Wiert Corner
– Hopefully my blog will last longer than the original delphi.about.org articles. Last year, I noticed yet another path into bit rot: [WayBack] The title reads “Source Code for the TColorButton Delphi Component”… I must be going blind because I can’t find it – Thomas ...
Tuesday, 17. July 2018
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Loop wars - measuring performance
Delphi sorcery
– Today on Google+ there was some off topic discussion going on and the claim was being made that for-in loops are slower than for-to loops and some benchmark was being posted to back that argument.Because I like to measure and investigate things I looked into that. I was running the following ...
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From the bragging “Did you know the IDE starts almost twice as fast in 10.2.2 as it did in 10.1?”
The Wiert Corner
– An interesting discussion sprouted from the bragging [WayBack] Did you know the IDE starts almost twice as fast in 10.2.2 as it did in 10.1? https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/new-in-10-2-2-welcome-page-… – David Millington – Google+. I do not care very much about IDE ...
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Enabling GetIt Install Logs for RAD Studio Installation
Marco's Tech Blog
– At times, RAD Studio GetIt-based web installer stops with some fairly vague error message. These can be due to connectivity issues, odd file system configurations, lack of disk space, an existing partial install, and other causes. But some of the error messages like "operation error" don't explain ...
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GExperts “Set Component Properties”
The Wiert Corner
– I totally forgot about [Archive.is] GExperts Help: Set Component Properties The main reason is that I hardly use any live connections in Delphi applications any more for mainly two reasons: timing issues (varying from taking way too long to open something, via order what needs to be opened ...
Monday, 16. July 2018
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RAD Server 10.2.3 Performance Patch
Marco's Tech Blog
– Embarcadero has just released a performance patch for the RAD Studio 10.2.3 version of RAD Server, our REST-based web service hosting architecture. Getting The RAD Server Optimization Patch This patch is available at http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30838 and it includes a new set of binary ...
