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Tuesday, 3. April 2018
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Object Pascal: Redefining Classes
TMS Software Blog
– The redefinition of classes is a practical method to minimize the collision of names between classes, even using short identifiers. Introduction The Object Pascal language has a very useful feature which, I believe, is not widely used by developers. I do not know if there is a specific ...
Monday, 2. April 2018
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First steps with Lazarus Qt5 interface
Delphi and stuff
– Steps for building and installing Qt5 for Lazarus Using a quick test project with partial code shown here: unit1.pas I'm using Qt 5.6.2 because that's the version with which Lazarus qt5 interface has been tested. You can experiment with later versions, too. Windows 32-bitUsing MinGW$(LazarusDir): ...
Sunday, 1. April 2018
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2018 ADUG Symposium
Australian Delphi User Group Members
– 2018 Symposium Event Update The Australian Delphi Users Group are hosting the 2018 ADUG Symposium in May Perth – Wednesday 23rd May 2018 Melbourne – Friday 25th May 2018 Click here for Full Details and Registration An early bird discount is available, so get in quick to secure your ...
Friday, 30. March 2018
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Testers Diary – Reprioritizing Testing, Part 2
blog.gurock.com
– Last year, I spent a lot of time working on projects that expanded my skills outside of testing. This year, I’m hoping to focus my time on developing testing skills. I came to this decision after reflecting on some problems that I ran into during my annual review. I described the first annual goal ...
Thursday, 29. March 2018
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Movie #131 - Writing Your Own Text Driver
LearnDelphi.TV
– Did you know you can write your own text driver so that Writeln can output to anywhere you want, not just to a file or screen - didn't know - then watch an learn.
Wednesday, 28. March 2018
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3 Tips to Become a Technical Tester
blog.gurock.com
– There seems to be demand for technical skill everywhere I go. Conferences that used to draw talks on how testing is influenced by the social sciences and philosophy are slowly getting stacked with talks on how to work as part of a developer pair. Companies that used to have test specialists to ...
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Two Small RAD Studio 10.2.3 Patches
Marco's Tech Blog
– Embarcadero has releases a couple of small and focused patches for the recent RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 10.2.3 update. The first is an Android Push Notification Patch available as https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30831. This patch resolves an issue with push notifications on Android due ...
Tuesday, 27. March 2018
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Database and FireDAC Enhancements in RAD Studio 10.2.3
Marco's Tech Blog
– I already blogged about RAD Server changes and RTL fixes in the Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio 10.2.3 update. Another area that has received attention is the database support in general, and FireDAC in particular. Below is a list with some of the most notable improvements, with the Quality ...
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A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak – Meta Stack Overflow
The Wiert Corner
– I wish many other companies would disclose post mortem information like this: [WayBack] A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak – Meta Stack Overflow via: [WayBack] Interesting and very appropriate top commenthttp://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/340960/a-post-mortem-on- ...
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Four Humble Ideas for Embarcadero
Delphi-losophy
– I hereby humbly offer the following four suggestions to improve the Delphi product and community. Acquire the Assets of DevJet Have you guys seen the stuff done by DevJet? This is some seriously excellent work. They have two main projects — Documentation Insight and Code Insight Plus — ...
Sunday, 25. March 2018
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Library and site updates…
From Zero To One
– After being quiet for quite some time (but extremely busy), I am now posting updates about what is new in the “Cromis Library” and on the page itself. Page updates In the past I already worked with TRAC, a great open source project management tool written in Python. I fiddled with it a ...
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Developers Environment: Part 1 – Network Attached Storage
From Zero To One
– Disclaimer Please note that this series of articles is not based on any scientific fact sheet and I do not claim that my view of things is the correct one. Also I am not coercing anyone into anything. I am merely sharing my view on setting up a development environment. You are invited to disagree ...
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True multi-touch support for Delphi XE5
From Zero To One
– Recently I had a project where I had to somehow get the touch points for Android and IOS. I needed coordinates of all touch points at any time, with the correct event and movements. After a short research it turned out that Delphi XE5 has no such support. The internals of FMX framework does support ...
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Patch free Multi-touch iOS support for XE5
From Zero To One
– In my last post I wrote about the Multi-touch support for Android and iOS under Delphi XE5. The article received more attention then I anticipated, so I was surprised as it seems that this is something that people need. I was happy with the Android support but far from content on the iOS. Patching ...
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Multi-touch: touched control and relative coordinates
From Zero To One
– This, I hope, should be the last article on multi-touch support for mobile devices. All that was missing in my implementation was support for detecting the control that was touched and getting relative coordinates inside that control along side with screen coordinates that I was already exposing. ...
