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Delphi: Community Edition (A Proposal)
Te Waka o Delphi
– The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax. Of cabbages, and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. And why the cheapest version of Delphi costs a new user as much as a pretty reasonable second-hand car. Why even ...
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Why should you always use FreeAndNil instead of Free.
EurekaLog Blog
– The subject is actually speaks for itself. I want to discuss the idea of using FreeAndNil everywhere instead of Free. Give proper arguments to this idea and consider, how EL fits here too.
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Time to bury this “Is Delphi Dying” nonsense
Jamie's Blog
– 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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My Developer / Utility Toolbox
Jamie's Blog
– 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 ...
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Delphi MacOSX and Linux project…
The Oracle at Delphi
– I guess the proverbial cat is now out of the bag. As was shown in the Delphi/C++Builder roadmap at Delphi Live!, Project X has been under way for a while now. So now you know some of the reason why things have been rather quiet here since I could not ...
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Catching memory leaks
EurekaLog Blog
– Before return to discussion of other ways to catch "bad" pointers - I wanted to talk about memory leaks and tools for its diagnostics. As we'll see later, this topic is very close related to our previous talk.
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Delphi Live! 2009 #2: Roadmap
Marco's Tech Blog
– Yesterday at Delphi Live! 2009 CodeGear announced an incredible amount of new features for coming versions of Delphi. As mentioned on this blog yesterday, I've been twittering from my Delphi Tweet Of The Day account, rather than my gegular one taht's also tied to Facebook and all. I'll resume ...
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Absolute (for) Beginners
Te Waka o Delphi
– I casually suggested the use of the “absolute” keyword in response to a question on the NZ DUG mailing list today. I thought nothing of it but someone mentioned that it had been years since he’d seen anyone use it, so I thought maybe it was worth bringing to wider attention. ...
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A New Role for Nick
Nick Hodges
– There have been some changes around here and as a result, I have a new job within Embarcadero. I am now an R&D; Manager on the RAD Studio team, working more closely with the development team to ensure that we deliver a feature rich, stable, high-quality product. I’ll be writing ...
