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May 2013
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XE4 for iOS in Slovenia
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– I just came home from the XE4/iOS presentation in Ljubljana and if I had to summarize the participant response it would be: “A very nice product, we’ll probably buy it when the Android is supported too.” This (and a relatively small attendance) clearly shows that iOS is just not that popular in ...
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XE4 in Ljubljana
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– If you live in Slovenia and if you are programming in Delphi or C++Builder, make sure to reserve some time for the next Wednesday (22nd) for the RAD Studio XE4 presentation in Ljubljana. Most of the presentation will focus on the iOS development with RAD Studio XE4. More details here: Marand. --- ...
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Results of the “Webinars” Survey
The Delphi Geek
– For Mason (and everybody else who might be interested), here are condensed results of the OmniThreadLibrary Webinars Survey. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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OmniThreadLibrary Webinars
The Delphi Geek
– Results of the OmniThreadLibrary Webinars Survey are now in. 77 people cared enough to answer (thanks!) and from them the Random.org site selected the winner who will get a free copy of the Parallel Programming with OmniThreadLibrary book – Mr. Nigel Hughes. Congratulations to the winner! ...
April 2013
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Programación Paralela con OmniThreadLibrary
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– After a long wait, Programación Paralela con OmniThreadLibrary has been synchronized with the english version of the book. The book has now 209 pages and is considered to be 60% complete. --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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OmniThreadLibrary Webinars
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– In association with De Novo Software (www.denovosoftware.com) I am preparing a series of webinars about the multithreading and OmniThreadLibrary. Currently proposed topics are: 1. High-level multithreaded programming with the OmniThreadLibrary This two part webinar will focus on high-level ...
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ThreadSafe Lock Manager: [3] Test
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– After you have designed and written some code, you should always test it. This is especially important for the multithreaded code which rarely works on the first (or the second, or third) try. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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ThreadSafe Lock Manager: [2] Code
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– After explaining the design, I’ll continue my trip into the depths of the lock manager by exploring the actual code. Let’s take a look at the public parts first. [This code is implemented in the OtlSync unit, which is part of the OmniThreadLibrary distribution. You’ll have to fetch the OTL from the ...
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ThreadSafe Lock Manager: [1] Design
The Delphi Geek
– Few weeks ago I ran into a problem. I needed a thread-synchronizing code that would work similar to a critical section, but would allow me to lock “anything”. If I could limit myself to objects, I could live with TMonitor.Enter/Exit, but I specifically wanted to limit access to some string keys. [In ...
March 2013
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Using Generics to Manipulate Enumerable Types
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– I’d like to present a short class written by my colleague at work. Why? Because I just love how it uses the generics syntax to simplify some operations on enumerable types. Like me, he hated the hoops one must jump through to convert an instance of an enumerable type to a string, to check if an ...
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Numbers I Should Keep In Mind
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– Name Nanoseconds L1 cache reference 0.5 Branch mispredict 5.0 L2 cache reference 7.0 Mutex lock/unlock 100.0 Main memory reference 100.0 ...
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Embarcadero Academy: The Power of XE3
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– Next Wednesday (March 13th) we have organized a presentation for all users that are afraid to upgrade and are staying (for example) with Delphi 7. In “The Power of XE3” session I’ll go through all* new features added to the Delphi and C++ Builder since Delphi 7 days. We’ll discuss language changes, ...
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Developer Wanted
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– The following text is a job offer for a Slovenian developer and is therefore written in Slovenian language. Iščemo Delphi razvijalca za izpeljavo večmesečnega projekta. Zahteve: zna (ali se je pripravljen naučiti) osnovega dela z zbirnikom. Projekt je dvodelen, prva faza vsebuje predelavo ...
February 2013
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When Does “Execute on Destroy” Fail
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– Yesterday I wrote a post about executing some code automatically when a method ends. Today I’ll show you why this approach must be used with care.Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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OmniThreadLibrary on Google+
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– OmniThreadLibrary now has its own Google+ community so you are welcome to visit it and ask questions, report bugs, discuss possible OmniThreadLibrary improvements and so on … --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
