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Saturday, 5. May 2018
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Using the Aorus GTX 1080 Gaming Box with an XPS 15 9560
Coding with the enemy
– TLDR: Everything is twice as fastI recently purchased an Aorus GTX 1080 Gaming Box (see review) for my 9560 (i7, 1 TB SSD, 32 GB ram). I have been playing with an testing it for a few days and am pretty happy with my purchase.Initial impressionsInitial impressions are mostly ...
Friday, 4. May 2018
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My Blog is Having Serious Hiccups, Let's Plan a Move
Marco's Tech Blog
– You might have seen my blog has had a few issues recently. It is a very old application written in Delphi and running on a totally outdated Linux VM, hosted by a newer and more robust server. But the reality is, it is fairly fragile. First it had a kernel crash, caused by a bad out-of-memory issue, ...
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6 Good Habits for Effective Penetration Testers
blog.gurock.com
– Being a penetration tester is fun, but it can be quite challenging. In some ways, it’s kind of like playing a sport. With both types of endeavors, you start off not being very good, and then you spend a lot of time and effort trying to get better. You make mistakes, learn from them (hopefully) and ...
Thursday, 3. May 2018
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It's the Little Things.
RemObjects Blogs
– The other day I was working on a new feature in Fire, and as I was testing it, I saw this: !> Message: Null Reference Exception for expression: self.@_searchField I had actually noticed this feature in the commit log a few days earlier, but it didn't strike me until I saw it in action, ...
Wednesday, 2. May 2018
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MVE and MVP: Defining the Difference
blog.gurock.com
– The promise of agile approaches is that we deliver something often. We deliver so we can obtain feedback and discuss what remains with our customer (or Product Owner). And, so we can assess our process and teamwork along the way. (See Feedback & Feedforward for Continuous Improvement for more ...
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Delphi .dproj file changed or not changed? Normalize it! | The Art of Delphi Programming
The Wiert Corner
– Cool tool that integrates into the Delphi IDE: [WayBack] Dproj changed or not changed? Normalize it! | The Art of Delphi Programming Via: [WayBack] Introducing DprojNormalizer: http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/2017/01/18/dproj-changed-or-not-changed/ – Uwe Raabe – Google+ Note there is also ...
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delphi – How to get rid of exception 80000003? – Stack Overflow
The Wiert Corner
– The [WayBack] delphi – How to get rid of exception 80000003? – Stack Overflow got me on the right track: When I run my program (admittedly, it was built in debug mode), I get an error “External exception 80000003”. According to Win32 Exception/Access Violation Errors it means ...
Tuesday, 1. May 2018
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Delphi: There is a FastMM4 fork with AVX support and multi-threaded enhancements (faster locking) – how will it impact floating point heavy applications (as Delphi uses SSE instructions for floating point)
The Wiert Corner
– Interesting fork of FastMM4 for which I now think I understand why it is not merged into the regular FastMM4 repository: [WayBack] GitHub – maximmasiutin/FastMM4-AVX: FastMM4 fork with AVX support and multi-threaded enhancements (faster locking). The fork does two things: it has multi- ...
Sunday, 29. April 2018
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Overview of what's coming on the TMS RADical Web Day, May 24th in Germany
TMS Software Blog
– Here is an overview of what is waiting for you on the first TMS RADical Web Day on May 24th in Germany! You will experience first-hand from the experts of TMS software all details, inner-workings, examples, architecture, roadmap, binding to server, etc... for exciting new ways to create modern web ...
Saturday, 28. April 2018
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What do you, me, Warren Buffet, and his pilot have in common?
Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi
– Success. Each one of us; you, me, Buffett, his pilot all want success. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we each hunger for success. So, what separates the exceptionally successful people from the rest of us?Check out this story about Warren Buffet and his long-time pilot then you decide.Mike Flint ...
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Another Bug
Delphi and stuff
– So you've put in the time and effort to refactor your code and data for parallel execution and are eager to see some parallel action. Unfortunately, you might be disappointed; in some cases your tasks might get serialized, performed sequentially in a single thread. With the overhead you've just ...
Thursday, 26. April 2018
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A Look at the Software Tester Career Path
blog.gurock.com
– Let’s face it. As much as companies talk about high-minded mission, values, and cultures, employment carries a natural “what’s in it for me” component. This isn’t to say that people don’t appreciate these considerations. It’s just that the consideration ...
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Delphi Blogs of the Month #59
Marco's Tech Blog
– I have already blogged specifically about the 10.2.3 release, the patches we delivered for it, and linked to the collection of related articles in the community site at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/tags/tag/10-2-3. In particular, the launch webinar reply is available at ...
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When updates on a SELECT timeout with FireDAC, MSSQL 2016 and a ~8k varbinary field in the table
The Wiert Corner
– A change of FetchOptions.CursorKind from ckAutomatic to ckDynamic does the trick. did fix this issue: I stumbled about a problem regarding FireDAC and MSSQL 2016. The table has four fields, one being of type varbinary(max). When I omit this blob field from the SELECT, I can update any field without ...
Wednesday, 25. April 2018
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On my research list for Delphi use – FlowFinity and DreamFactory
The Wiert Corner
– For my research list: [WayBack] Has anyone any experience with DreamFactory, which installs a REST server on different platforms? https://www.dreamfactory.com – John Kouraklis – Google+ FlowFinity DreamFactory –jeroen
