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May 2013
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Changing Your Delphi License Serial Number
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– Having installed and activated Delphi XE4 using the license available to me from my employer I decided that, despite the very nasty taste left in my mouth, I would pay the $49 required for the XE4 “hot-fix” release, albeit only in order to remain with the valid update window now imposed ...
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It’s a Good Time for NZ Delphi Users to Cross-Grade
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– Having lost our Delphi reseller in NZ last year, and with the Kiwi dollar riding high against the US dollar, now is a good time to make purchases from online stores operating in US currency. RemObjects has such a store and they also have a cross-grade offer for Delphi customers wishing to move over ...
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iOS “Support” Prior to XE4 ?
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– Some people have taken issue with my chagrin at the way in which iOS support has been mis-handled in Delphi, implying or in some cases directly stating, that iOS was only ever in beta before and so I had no right to expect “real” product to be delivered at no extra cost. I take issue ...
April 2013
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Qualified Enum Reference That Fails to Compile in XE4 (and rightly so)
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– Running through some of my code last night, putting them through the new XE4 compiler, threw up a real oddity: Some code that used to compile just fine, which no longer compiles in XE4 and which should not have compiled before! It’s an odd one, because the code previously compiled – and ...
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Adding Insult to Injury
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– Having just installed Delphi XE4 “Professional”, provided as part of my employer’s current SA, the initial “Welcome” to the new version, and seemingly the “baked in” Start Here landing page invites me to set-up Delphi for iOS development: And this for a ...
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DPROJ Woes
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– I spent the best part of half a day last week trying to get to the bottom of a very strange issue on a project I was working on. I had just created a new unit in the project and had reached a point where I needed to add that unit to the uses list [...]
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XE4 Pricing Revealed
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– Chris Rolliston just posted a link to a video (from Russia) where-in the pricing for XE4 is revealed. All $ amounts mentioned in this article are US $ prices. Your local price may vary depending on how much exchange rate gouging is added on top of the gouging already built in. In a nutshell, Delphi ...
February 2013
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Hint: Using a Wrong to Make a Wrong Wrong Right
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– Yesterday I found myself having to write some code that would never be used in order to co-erce the compiler into not complaining that something would not be used when in fact it was. Something I have learned over the years is that hints and warnings are useful guides to code quality. That being the ...
January 2013
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It’s Not All About Money
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– Marco Cantu just blogged about the price of Delphi and his conclusion that it is reasonably and comparably priced. Whilst it might be encouraging that he is looking at these things in his new role, his methodology and reasoning leaves a lot to be desired. Someone in the comments to his post made the ...
December 2012
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Verity Delivers Another Sermon from the Book of Kahn
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– Verity Stob has always been good value, and the Sons of Kahn Series has attained worshipful status. And we have been bless with another instalment.
November 2012
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Of Threads, Stacks and RAM – Part 2
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– In the previous post in this series, we saw that the number of threads that a given process could support was determined by a number of factors, of which the stack size reserved for each thread was key. We also saw how we could change the stack size used by our application and how this [...]
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Of Threads, Stacks and RAM – Part 1
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– Roberto Schneiders recently drew my attention to the first post on his new blog (which I can recommend as a good read ), presenting the results of some performance testing of DataSnap that he had been involved with which proved to be very interesting (if initially somewhat disappointing). But my ...
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What’s in a Name(space) ?
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– The ever evolving DWScript project continues to advance the Pascal language at an impressive pace. Just today it was announced that this scripting version of Pascal now has “namespace” support. When I first read the details of the implementation, my initial reaction was that it ...
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Price Rise for Delphi Pro in 2013
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– This morning I received yet another email from Embarcadero enjoining me to purchase Delphi XE3, using the same email address that is already associated with the EDN account I used to activate the Delphi XE3 I already own. Some people apparently find this to be perfectly normal and (presumably) ...
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Suggestions for Marco … ?
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– I have elevated this comment from David I in a previous post, to the status of a post in it’s own right, in order that it might elicit the suggestions from readers/commenters that David seeks. I have adjusted the opening wording to make more sense in the context of a post, but give full credit ...
