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August 2010
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Time to get the Delphi community back
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– I’ve been a long time lurker and enjoyer of reddit. I find that the content post to proggit is much much better than that posted to similar services. One element of programming.reddit that has always made me quite sad is the apparent lack of fresh Delphi content submitted. I recently started ...
June 2010
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New Goodies in Delphi Prism 2011
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– As the announcements have recently proclaimed: Delphi Prism 2011 is out now and the Software Assurance emails went out particularly quickly after the announcements (great work team embarcadero!). I thought I might share what I’ve found to be new and cool in the Delphi 2011 Release. Visual ...
March 2010
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Converting C headers is hard – yajl for Delphi
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– Introduction I have been toying with the idea of trying to convert the yajl parser bindings to Delphi in order to build a wrapper on top of the original C dll. yajl (Yet Another JSON Library) is a small fast SAX style JSON parser written and open sourced in C over at lloyd’s yajl GitHub page. ...
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Delphi Prism and the Microsoft Rx Framework
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– It’s very easy to overlook the fact that Delphi Prism fully supports .NET 3.5 and parts of .NET 4 and with it, the amazing range of Frameworks and Libraries that the .NET eco-system contains. One such framework that I’ve been waiting to get working with is the Microsoft Reactive ...
November 2009
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An Improved Cirrus Caching Aspect
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– In my original introduction to Cirrus framework I drew up a basic method result caching attribute for Delphi Prism. This weekend I thought I'd give it another go and try to create a more general purpose Caching Aspect that integrates with a well known Cache library. I decided to use ...
October 2009
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Time to bury this “Is Delphi Dying” nonsense
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– Every 3-6 months or, more frequently it seems, someone has the urge to post some attention grabbing headline such as "Is Delphi Dying" or "Is Delphi a Dead language?" (yes, even unintentionally negative headlines hurt). It recently even despicably overflowed on StackOverflow. Enough is enough, I ...
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Dynamically generating code with Delphi Prism
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– In my last post I covered dynamically compiling code with Delphi Prism and this time I'm going to introduce dynamically creating code which could then be written out to a source file or compiled from in memory. You might want to generate code dynamically for a wide variety of reasons, ...
September 2009
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Dynamically compiling code with Delphi Prism
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– Delphi Prism and the .NET Framework are both extremely powerful tools and bring a lot of flexibility that Delphi for Win32 cannot necessarily provide, particularly when it comes to reflection and code generation. I recently started a project where I wanted to be able to compile a string with Delphi ...
August 2009
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Malware specifically targeting Delphi
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– The F-Secure blog has details of a Malware variant that they've found that solely targets installed Delphi versions 4 -7. F-Secure currently detect this as: Virus.Win32.Induc.a. The malware saves a clean copy of SysConsts.dcu and then adds a call to its own init function at the entrypoint of the ...
July 2009
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The Delphi Community: From the Outside
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– Someone on Twitter recently pointed me to LangPop.com - which claims to gather together data to give you an estimated rating of how popular certain Programming languages are. I know that most people have seen the TIOBE Programming Community index at some point which uses similar data mining methods ...
June 2009
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Delphi Prism and the Cirrus Framework
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– The May 2009 Release of Delphi Prism introduced the Cirrus layer that provides Delphi Prism developers access to a library for Aspect Oriented Programming natively for the first time. The AOP Wikipedia article has a much more detailed explaination than I could provide but for those who don't want to ...
May 2009
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Turbo Delphi: A Hidden gem in DelphiLive?
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– I enjoyed the Twitter live-coverage and exciting revelations of DelphiLive! particularly from JimMcKeeth and marcocantu but also many others. Despite the surprise revelations of Project X etc a particular slide caught my eye amongst the many others: Did you see it? ..ISVs, VARs, Consultants and ...
April 2009
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Diary of a C# to Delphi Prism conversion
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– I have in the past written up a few tips for converting a Delphi.NET project to Delphi Prism but this time I thought it might be useful for me to write up my experiences on converting this C# Project to Delphi Prism by initially using the C#ToPas Tool from RemObjects. ...
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My Developer / Utility Toolbox
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– Most Developers will already have come accross many of these tools but just as every plumber has a favoured brand of wrench or electrician has a favoured model of multi-meter we all have a favourite set of productivity enhancing utilities. Here are a few of the tools which I find ...
March 2009
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Design Decisions - A REST Library
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– Since Jim has posted Episode 24 of the Podcast at Delphi.org and explained that we're making an open source Twitter client I thought I would write a quick post about some of the design decisions which we're already facing. In Particular about the decisions around the internal class that will ...
