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Tuesday, 31. January 2012
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Rethinking the Delphi code editor
TwoDesk Delphi Blog
– When you chose to use Delphi, you picked a great language with an absolutely perfect, flawless, IDE that couldn’t possibly be improved. Right? Wait, what’s that you’re saying? It’s NOT perfect? It CAN be improved? Ok, I admit, that was a lousy attention-getter to open with, ...
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OmniThreadLibrary Documentation–an Outline
The Delphi Geek
– That’s how it’s going to look. If you feel I have left something out, now is the time to raise your voice. Introduction Introduction to Multithreading Introduction to OmniThreadLibrary Tasks vs. Threads Locking (vs.) Messaging TOmniValue High-level ...
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Delphi DataSnap REST server and jQueryMobile web client tutorial available
Pawel Glowacki
– I have just put together a little EDN article about using jQueryMobile JavaScript library in your Delphi XE2 "DataSnap REST Application" projects. The idea was to demonstrate how to call server-side functions implemented in native Delphi code from the JavaScript client embedded in a web page using ...
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Visiting Alabama
Marco's Tech Blog
– I've been on a trip to the US last week, and quite busy, so I didn't post to the blog for quite long. Trying to catch up now, but first a short summary of the trip. Last week I was for 5 days consulting in Birmingham, Alabama, at OneDomain. Very nice and successful company, fully focused on ...
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Okay, So When Should You Call Create?
Nick Hodges
– Okay, I want you all to notice that in my previous post about the use of Create, I was pretty careful not to say “Never call Create”. And near the start I said “For the most part”. So let’s be clear – just as I didn’t say “Never ever call FreeAndNil”, I’m not saying “Never call Create”. ...
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Store RTF As a Resource - Load Resource RTF Into a TRichEdit
About Delphi Programming
– in Resources :: If your application needs external pre-made files like sounds and other raw data, beside distributing separate files for your application's use, you can add the raw data to your application as a resource. Here's how to store and load RTF (rich text document) data as a resource in ...
Monday, 30. January 2012
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Visualizing wave interference with FireMonkey
The Hacker's Corner
– My article "Visualizing wave interference using FireMonkey" on EDN. Share This | Email this page to a friend
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Firemonkey: Promise and Limitation
Delphi Code Monkey
– Firemonkey is amazing, when considered as a platform with a future. As a product, as it ships, it's a strange mix of odd capabilities, and unusual gaps.For example, it's cool that everything in Firemonkey HD (formerly 2D) can be rotated and scaled. The scaling is practically useful, more than the ...
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Embarcadero Prism XE2 January 2012 release
Delphi Insider
– The January 2012 release of Embarcadero Prism (aka Embarcadero Prism XE2 Update 4) is now available to registered users of Prism XE2 and RAD Studio XE2.Download the new version from the registered user site at: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/42013 If you don't have Embarcadero Prism yet, ...
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Fixing TThreadedQueue…? (Or in other words: TMonitor… again!)
Delphi Haven
– Probably out of masochism or something, I’ve been looking at TMonitor again. For anyone who doesn’t recall the earlier episodes, TMonitor is the ‘new’ (and rather low-level) threading device introduced in D2009. Alas, but it proved buggy as hell, as well as slow. Given the ...
Sunday, 29. January 2012
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Handling some XE2 issues Part #1
Uwe's Delphi blog
– I am using XE2 since it is available to me, but the stuff I am doing at home is different from the stuff at work and also different from the stuff my co-worker is doing. We have switched to XE2 almost two weeks ago and thatswhy we discover some more XE2 issues now. Here are some of the issues we ...
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A Sign of Maturity
The Delphi Geek
– No IDE is mature until it has a TSmiley component. --Anonymous This week I got a sudden urge to write TSmiley component for Smart Mobile Studio IDE. After all, what is a development environment without a smiley? My TSmiley is not an enterprise-y ...
Saturday, 28. January 2012
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Flotsam and Jetsam #54
Nick Hodges
– I like FireMonkey. Actually, I confess that I don’t know much at all about FireMonkey, but I like that it exists. I don’t use it, but I like that it is there, broadening the appeal of Delphi and generally advancing the cause of the tool we all love so well. So I was ...
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GpDelphiUnits update
The Delphi Geek
– Although I’m regularly pushing updates into Google Code repository, updates to my web pages and, incidentally, to my blog are dragging behind. Here is the last year worth of changes: Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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Life is Too Short To Call Create
Nick Hodges
– Introduction Okay, so the whole FreeAndNil thing has been going on for a while. Some folks are understandably sick of it, but I’m not. I think it is an important discussion that actually reveals a much deeper issue – sort of like how a fight with your spouse over the toothpaste tube is ...
