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Wednesday, 10. January 2018
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Melbourne Meeting – January 2018
Australian Delphi User Group Members
– Monday 15th January at 6 for 6:15pm start. We will have three presentations on different types of inter-process communication. Brian Watson will talk about MailSlots. Tony Bryer will talk about named pipes, semaphores and mutexes. John McDonald will talk about sockets.… Continue reading ...
Tuesday, 9. January 2018
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Announcing TestRail 5.4.1 Platform Release with Improved User Admin Features and Fixes
blog.gurock.com
– We’ve had a number of requests from our customers for improvements to the way in which users are administrated. In the past, it’s been difficult for administrators of large installations to manage all of their users and groups. So, we decided to make it easier for them with a few ...
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Some FastMM scenarios require NeverUninstall because the System unit finalizes things innitialised in other units
The Wiert Corner
– You always have to be careful with Delphi finalization sections cleaning up things that might have not created inside the corresponding initialization section. This is especially true for the System unit. That one actually contains this little piece of code that is being called after FinalizeUnits ...
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Some of my New Year’s #CodingResolutions
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– The joke goes that, when asked, the software developer responds that their New Year’s Resolution is “7680×4320” or 8K. Joking aside, tradition has it that at the turn of the year we evaluate our lives and look for areas of improvement. Here are a few of my software development ...
Sunday, 7. January 2018
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Animation problems in Delphi Tokyo 10.2 update 2? Check bug RSP-19525
The Wiert Corner
– If you run into animation problems in Delphi Tokyo 10.2 update 2, then read [WayBack] … In particular I cannot use the use the animation to change the tab in a TabControl… – Raffaele Miola – Google+. It is likely that RSP-19525 (10.2 Tokyo Release 2 breaks Animation under ...
Saturday, 6. January 2018
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chakracore-delphi
Delphi and stuff
– With the initial release coming up soon, here are a few teaser screenshots of chakracore-delphi, a new opensource library with Delphi and Free Pascal bindings and classes for Microsoft's ChakraCore Javascript engine: FPC 3.0.4 and Lazarus 1.8 build (win64): FPC 3.0.4 and Lazarus 1.8 build ...
Friday, 5. January 2018
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Three Steps to Better Measurement
blog.gurock.com
– A few years ago I was working at a software company that was releasing a new product for the iPad. Our initial release of the product went to a small customer and was used lightly by a couple of people. They were happy, and the product was doing most of what it should. We considered the release a ...
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I've Been Telling the Wrong Stories to Prospective Customers
Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi
– This post has nothing to do with Delphi other than it's the software development tool I use. In November of last year I finally purchased Microsoft Office 365. A couple days later I received a promotional email introducing me to Microsoft Virtual Academy (https://mva.microsoft.com/). I visited ...
Thursday, 4. January 2018
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Record helpers can do wonders for code clarity.
The Wiert Corner
– [WayBack] Record helpers can do wonders for code clarity…. – Lars Fosdal – Google+ Record helpers can help any type including enumerated types so you can add functions to enumerations. –jeroenFiled under: Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development
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Delphi inner scoping is undefined. Please Embarcadero/Idera, come up with a formal language definition for Delphi
The Wiert Corner
– [WayBack] Hi there, this is pure curiosity only; but this compiler behaviour seems odd to me. What do you think?… – Agustin Ortu – Google+ The problems start when you prefix the outer class which you have to when using inner consts ([WayBack] Oh nice. Feel free to QP. Fails at least in ...
Wednesday, 3. January 2018
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Crosscompiling with Lazarus 1.8 on Linux Mint 18.3
The Programming Works
– Suppose you installed Lazarus 1.8 on Linux Mint 18.3 as described before and want to build Windows binaries (well we don’t like Windows, but the users do ). I’ve found the useful piece of information about crosscompiling here and started to adopt it to my 32-bit Linux system. The first ...
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Where and Why we Automate
blog.gurock.com
– I see more test automation projects that start and then are later abandoned, than started and subsequently celebrated for what they contribute to a software project. This generally starts with a complaint that it takes the QA group too long to perform regression testing. Managers demand test ...
Monday, 1. January 2018
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LAUNCHED https://uberpdf.org/
The Wiert Corner
– It is a lot (~300 megabyte compressed download!), but worth it. Here are the links: [WayBack] ÜberPDF Org ÜberBuild with ÜberPDF-SDK (either will work on all systems): [WayBack] UberPdfSdk-1000-0000.tar.gz (best for Unix Like systems – 299,311,992 bytes) sha256sum UberPdfSdk-1000-0000.tar.gz ...
Sunday, 31. December 2017
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Delphi FMX TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile calls TImageTypeChecker.GetType that returns ONLY predefined image types
The Wiert Corner
– Bugs happen: [WayBack] Did I miss something ? I’ve tried to add a custom image loader for FMX … TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile calls TImageTypeChecker.GetType that returns ONLY predefined image types ! (gif, bmp, png, tiff, jpg) … – Paul TOTH – Google+ I’m not ...
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My Year in Cities 2017
Marco's Tech Blog
– This is my end-of-the-year blog post listing places I've visited in 2017 for at least one night (plus some relevant daily trips, marked with an asterisk), in chronological order. At times, the reason for the trip is listed: Torino (Italy)* Trento (Italy)* Sydney (Australia) Brisbane ...
