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Monday, 5. September 2016
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Delphi Bootcamp live streams (will edit this over time).
The Wiert Corner
– Delphi Boot Camp with 100% off Delphi Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUMUHh7Wpw Introduction to Delphi: The IDE and Your First App (FireMonkey app) Filed under: Delphi, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Development, Software Development
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Brisbane Meeting – September 2016
Australian Delphi User Group Members
– Wednesday September 7th at 5:30pm to 9pm. We have 2 presentations on the night: Mathias Burbach (ADUG Committee member) will give a remote presentation on DUnit & DUnitX Implementing unit tests & integration tests with DUnit & DUnitX. We will compare the two testing frameworks that ...
Friday, 2. September 2016
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No runtime type information on interface properties
Delphi and stuff
– You might have tried to decorate an interface property in Delphi with a custom attribute like in this question on StackOverflow. Unfortunately, that won't work, as I explained in my answer. No runtime type information is generated for interface properties so your attribute will have no effect, even ...
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System architecture and QA in management
Compas Pascal
– As IT becomes a bigger part of everyone's business, so does system architecture and QA. Whenever we see a big IT project that fails, the cause of the failure often comes from having management that does not pay enough attention to system architecture and QA. I think all readers of this blog have ...
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Windows Anniversary Update Article and Webinar
Marco's Tech Blog
– I published an article on this topic in the Embarcadero community and there is a Webinar scheduled for later this month. The article is titled "Windows 10 Anniversary Update and RAD Studio" and you can read it at http://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16424-windows-10-anniversary-update- ...
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Fun: Delphi Does Bohemian Rhapsody
Zarko Gajic
– Who said programming is not fun? How about your favorite programming language doing (a part of) Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody? Here goes: program BohemianRhapsody; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} uses System.SysUtils, System.Generics.Collections; type ELandSlideException = Exception; TSex = (Male, ...
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Welcome to the revolution(s)
Coding with the enemy
– The following is a rough transcript of my toastmasters speech 7: "Do your research"DownloadsPowerpointPdfSpeechThe Luddites were a protest group that primarily operated between 1811 and 1816. They were primarily workers in the garment industry. They started riots and destroyed machinery. ...
Thursday, 1. September 2016
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6 Reasons Why Teams Adopt TestRail as JIRA Test Management Add-on
blog.gurock.com
– Every week many teams switch from the various available JIRA add-ons to TestRail, our fully-featured modern test management tool in combination with our own native JIRA test management add-on integration. And every week we get useful feedback from customers on why they made the switch. As we get ...
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Delphi: Alt+Down Arrow is the keyboard shortcut for ellipsis buttons
The Wiert Corner
– Thanks Primož Gabrijelčič for reminding me on Stack Overflow that Alt + Down opens the dialogs behind ellipsis buttons in the Delphi IDE. It’s the CUA and Windows short-cut to open drop-down lists (comboboxes) and for opening drop-down list for a property in the object inspector, but I never ...
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Friday Sept 2, 2016: SDN Event
Dr.Bob's Delphi Notes
– See http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016 for more information about the SDN Event on Friday, September 2 2016, in Driebergen-Zeist, The Nethelands, featuring sessions from Brian Long, Bruno Fierens and Bob Swart.
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Speaking at the SDN Event
Brian Long
– All the preparations are nigh on complete and this evening I shall be on a short aeroplane ride to Holland (or The Netherlands, if you prefer) to present a couple of Delphi talks at one of the SDN’s big SDN Events – full agenda here. I’ll be in good company as also speaking on the Delphi track will ...
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DevExpress : tCx and tDx equivalents
Felix Colibri
– DevExpress : equivalence table between tDx and tCx components : simple tDx to tCx equivalent list to help migrating old tDx applications to the current tCx version
Wednesday, 31. August 2016
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Workaround for Printing from Delphi (or the Delphi IDE): three strikes and you get “Printer is not currently printing.” – yes I mentioned “Delphi 8!”
The Wiert Corner
– Recently when printing the 3rd time and up, you get this error in many Delphi programs and the Delphi IDE: Printer is not currently printing. In the past this only occurred when you used a TPrinter and forgot to call BeginDoc. But now it always occurs after reusing the same TPrinter instance for the ...
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UCL as a Delphi package name suffix – remember before the KSDev days?
The Wiert Corner
– A while ago, I noticed the UCL as a suffix in a few 3rd party Delphi package names. It was from a version close to the very first FireMonkey release. FireMonkey is based on the OpenGL based VGScene (and in part DirectX based DXScene) which was bought form KSDev in 2011. Contrary to VGScene and ...
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MVP Spotlight: Holger Flick
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– I wanted to spotlight a recent return to the Delphi community as an MVP: Dr. Holger Flick. He’s started blogging again and hasn’t slowed down producing good quality technical content. Like many of us, Holger started programming with Turbo Pascal and GW Basic. For him it was at the age of ...
