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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 ...
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Delphi3000 Malware Problems
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– Just a short post to warn Delphi community members that when I tried to visit long standing community code site Delphi3000.com I received a warning from Google Chrome that the site apparently contains a significant load of Malware: [caption id="attachment_206" align="aligncenter" width="300" ...
February 2009
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Delphi can do MQTT too!
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– I have recently released my MQTT Client for Delphi, which can now be found and downloaded here . TMQTTClient is a non-visual Delphi Client Library for the IBM Websphere MQ Transport Telemetry protocol. It allows you to connect to a Message Broker that uses MQTT such as the Really Small Message ...
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The Delphi Channel: Coding Delphi for Fun
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– I am a great fan of the Microsoft Coding 4 Fun blog and feel that there should be something similar for Delphi Progammers. I am trying to get something similar started as a way of boosting the relevance, appeal and attraction of Delphi to novice, hobbyist or student programmers. Why? The aim ...
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The Turbo Delphi Product Family: An Open Letter.
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– To whom it may concern at Codegear, A Recent posting over at The Doric Temple titled "how do I make the case for delphi (as a target business development environment)" has prompted me to wonder why Codegear has slightly neglected the Turbo family which to my knowledge hasn't been updated since it's ...
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New Language Features in Delphi Prism
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– Continuing my look at Delphi Prism, in my previous post I took a (very short) look at some of the compatibility changes required to port my Delphi.NET Twitter Library to Delphi Prism, I mentioned that I now needed to learn about some of the new language features provided by Prism. Ever ...
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Migrating a Project to Delphi Prism from Delphi.NET
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– As we know, now that the future of Delphi.NET is Delphi Prism (based on the RemObjects Oxygene compiler) we have to migrate our Delphi.NET projects to be compatible with the Prism compiler. The Easiest way to get started is to look at the free Oxidizer tool provided on the RemObjects Wiki. ...
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A New Beginning for Delphi
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– Delphi programming is currently being rejuvenated on so many different levels. I was pleased to see that in the November 2008 TIOBE Index of Programming Languages Delphi shot up to 8th place (only .020% behind c#). I believe that this is partially on the excellent efforts of my good friend Jim ...
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Delphi Man to the rescue
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– As part of my efforts to try to help Jim Mckeeth's push to get Delphi Programming the recognition that it deserves I recently dug out a copy of my orginal Borland Branded "Delphi Man" Super Hero. If you haven't already got him then I would encourage you to print and ...
