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Wednesday, 23. May 2018
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MMX – speed up your Delphi development, now maintained by Raabe Software
The Wiert Corner
– New home [WayBack] MMX – speed up your Delphi development Old home [WayBack] ModelMaker Tools Thanks a lot to Gerrit Beuze for al the efforts and insights while he created and maintained MMX for such a long time Thanks a lot to Uwe Raabe for taking over the maintenance and providing the binaries for ...
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Delphi – when compiling consts doesn’t work…
The Wiert Corner
– Delphi has a lot of loose ends. With the extension of the language, it gets more and more. Or as Stefan Glienke formulated it: It should all compile but it does not because currently what is a real const and what is a variable treated as const by the compiler is a f…ing mess and thus some ...
Tuesday, 22. May 2018
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Test-Driven Development: A Love Story?
blog.gurock.com
– “Love” is a strong word. I’m not sure I really love test-driven development (TDD). But I do love solving problems by programming and crafting simple, elegant code. Some things detract from this love: Delivering defects—how embarrassing! Pulling my hair out because I can’t understand how your (or ...
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Delphi WSDL importer compiler defines
The Wiert Corner
– As a follow-up on Delphi WSDL default importer settings, you can use these compiler defines to increase output. Output that the built-in Wizard will never show you (that is also the reason you will not see any errors like access violations in the IDE). TL;DR Always use the command-line WSDL ...
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Delphi Are you familiar with “forgotten” hints? Here is a very rough example how to get rid of them…
The Wiert Corner
– Thanks for [WayBack] Are you familiar with “forgotten” hints? Here is a very rough example how to make them disappear without restarting the IDE… – Attila Kovacs – Google+ The code is centered around enumerating all windows of class TDesignerHintWindow and closing them. ...
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Bringing the blog back to life…
Yet Another Programming Blog
– Well, it has been years (apparently no less than four!). Since my last post a lot has changed for me in particular, and, in tech at large. So why hasn’t Alex been blogging one might not ask, and be forgiven. Well, let me explain and rant a little bit: First, I have no more connection to the ...
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Is there any way to record a keyboard macro in the IDE?
The Wiert Corner
– Yes there is, but it only does code editor commands. It’s been there since at least 1998 (read Delphi 4), probably all 32-bit versions and maybe even the 16-bit Delphi 1 version. via: [WayBack] Is there any way to record a keyboard macro in the IDE? [WayBack] Interpreting Delphi IDE Keyboard ...
Monday, 21. May 2018
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Movie #134 - Console Text Color
LearnDelphi.TV
– If you are writing console applications it can be useful to change the color of the text, watch to find out how..
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Strings as “data buffers”
Yet Another Programming Blog
– I bet most of the Delphi developers used or are still using strings to hold and operate on binary data. I’ve done it, and some of my older projects still contain such code. The basic idea is to use strings as byte buffers to hold and to use string routines to perform operations on those ...
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The only new feature in MMX
The Art of Delphi Programming
– The move of MMX turned out to be very welcomed in the Delphi community. Over 3000 downloads during the first 48 hours are just overwhelming and unfortunately led to some interim drop outs of the web server. Apologies for that. I will talk to the web hoster about this and see if we can get this a bit ...
Sunday, 20. May 2018
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Don't Just Code in Delphi, Think in Delphi
Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi
– I have always struggled with fully understanding the object oriented nature of Delphi. I still struggle with it today. For example, I have tried to read Nick Hodge's book "Coding in Delphi" three times and can't get past page 23. I'm currently on page 96 of Pawel Glowaki's book "Expert Delphi" ...
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Introducing MultiBuilder
The Delphi Geek
– When I'm working on OmniThreadLibrary, I have to keep backwards compatibility in mind. And man, is that hard! OmniThreadLibrary supports every Delphi from 2007 onward and that means lots of IFDEFs and some ugly hacks.Typically I develop new stuff on Berlin or Tokyo and then occasionally start a ...
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One of my favourite ways of multi-threading on Windows
Delphi and stuff
– Having blogged about a few bugs in multi-threading libraries recently, I want to show an easy and convenient alternative. It's minimalistic but it works. On Windows, the I/O completion port offers a way to use a thread pool for your multi-threaded application. Designed primarily for efficient ...
Friday, 18. May 2018
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A New Home for ModelMaker Code Explorer™
The Art of Delphi Programming
– I am very pleased to announce that as of today I am going to take over the award winning ModelMaker Code Explorer from ModeMaker Tools BV. For over two decades ModelMaker Code Explorer is still an indispensable add-on to the Delphi IDE for numerous developers. Speaking for myself, a Delphi ...
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Half a century of BASIC
RemObjects Blogs
– BASIC turned 53 earlier this month, and it got me thinking: For many computer users of a certain age, BASIC was the first foray into programming - and using it was a veritable rite of passage for the first generation of personal computer owners. Is there still a place today for a programming ...
