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Friday, 9. March 2018
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Delphi Blogs of the Month #58
Marco's Tech Blog
– The last few months have been really a bit hectic, and I failed to find the time for my regular "notable Delphi blog posts" summary. I've also done very few blog posts in general. Here is one, with key entries only (or I'd be way too long). Embarcadero Updates Exciting RAD Studio ...
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Testing All 5 Aspects of a System’s Performance
blog.gurock.com
– Good performance is a must for any application, whether it’s in your cell phone, in a desktop computer or out on the cloud. Thus, before any application can make its way into production, it must be tested to make sure that that it meets—or, hopefully, exceeds—the required performance standards. ...
Thursday, 8. March 2018
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TMS RADical WEB, technology preview update
TMS Software Blog
– We’ve been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of many users about the news of TMS WEB Core and also the many reactions, feedback, comments of users who immediately got their hands wet with the technology preview. From all feedback received combined with our internal planning, we’re pleased ...
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libssh-delphi will migrate from Mercurial on BitBucket to git on GitHub soon (or finding about “fatal: repository … not found”, “MSVCR120.dll is missing” and “D3DCOMPILER_47.dll is missing” when prepping a fresh VM for a presentation)
The Wiert Corner
– When git on Windows suddenly gives you this when the repository URL opens fine in Chrome: C:\Users\jeroenp\Versioned>git clone https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/libssh2-delphi Cloning into 'libssh2-delphi'... remote: Not Found fatal: repository 'https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/libssh2-delphi/' not ...
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Speaking in London About Delphi Tokyo on Thursday, March 15th
Marco's Tech Blog
– Next week I'll be presenting at an event in London organized by our partner Grey Matter. You can find more information and the link to sign up on http://www.greymatter.com/corporate/events/to-delphinity-and-beyond-free-delphi-workshop/ Titled "To Delphinity and Beyond" the event is focused on a ...
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Packet Sender is a good tool when debugging protocols: free utility to send & receive network packets. TCP, UDP, SSL
The Wiert Corner
– It was fitting to bump into [WayBack] Packet Sender is a good tool when debugging protocols…” Written by Dan Nagle… – Lars Fosdal – Google+ on the day presenting [WayBack] Conferences/Network-Protocol-Security.rst at master · jpluimers/Conferences · GitHub It also means ...
Wednesday, 7. March 2018
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Screen Shuffling with Delphi (first step to a Sliding Puzzle Game)
Zarko Gajic
– I’m sure you’ve seen it already. When the program starts it takes a picture of the current desktop, the picture is then cut into a number of rectangular pieces (all of the same size). A piece at some random position is “removed”. The main code randomly swaps that piece with ...
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Another Update for DprojNormalizer
The Art of Delphi Programming
– There are weeks when bug findings are just going to agglomerate. Fixing them as soon as possible then leads to multiple releases in a short time frame. Sorry about that (well, not really), but nothing comes without a price to pay. Another small update for DprojNormalizer is available. This one is ...
Tuesday, 6. March 2018
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multithreading – Closure in TTask.Run(AnonProc) not released after AnonProc has finished – Stack Overflow
The Wiert Corner
– For my link archive: [WayBack] multithreading – Closure in TTask.Run(AnonProc) not released after AnonProc has finished – Stack Overflow via: [WayBack] How the combination of inline, interfaces and missing RVO can break your code – Stefan Glienke – Google+ TL;DR from RAD ...
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Brisbane Meeting – March 2018
Australian Delphi User Group Members
– Wednesday March 7th at 5:30pm to 9pm. The Brisbane meeting is on at the usual time and place. See you there
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Embarcadero Discontinues the Sale of Upgrade Products
Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi
– I received an email today informing me that as of April 1, 2018 Embarcadero will discontinue the sale of upgrade products for Rad Studio, Delphi and C++ Builder.My first reaction was "OMG here we go again." Bailey didn't do a very good job at explaining what this means to me, a non-subscription ...
Saturday, 3. March 2018
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Update for DprojNormalizer
The Art of Delphi Programming
– There is a small update for DprojNormalizer available. The only change is that the entry for SanitizedProjectName is moved to the beginning of the property group. This allows the use of this variable in subsequent properties. I stumbled upon this when working on a project where ...
Friday, 2. March 2018
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Delphi High Performance
The Delphi Geek
– My second book was also released these days. I wrote it for Packt Publishing, a publishing house which has recently started printing Delphi titles. The first was Delphi Cookbook by Daniele Teti, a very successful title that was followed by Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition by the same ...
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Testing Without a User Interface
blog.gurock.com
– Most agile projects I have worked on go something like this: Developers work on new code changes for two-thirds of a sprint. Halfway through the second week, they give the test team a new build to work with. The testers work hard and discover some important bugs, but eventually they run out of ...
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Running a Delphi Linux Application on Google Cloud Shell
Marco's Tech Blog
– Google has made available to all its Gmail users a Linux Shell to interact with their Cloud Services, called Google Cloud Shell. This shell is a free Debian 7 shell with 5Gb of storage. It is not a VM that keeps running while you are disconnected, but it is a shell allowing you to perform task on a ...
