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VOTEAaron Swartz
Barry Kelly
Aaron’s death has had a larger effect on me than most things I read about on the web. This death is a little closer than most, and very sad. I had a number of email… … Read more
11 years ago
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Moving On
Barry Kelly
An update: I’ve left Embarcadero Technologies. There’s a lot of reasons. I was in the same position for more than six years, but I didn’t necessarily want to be pigeonholed as a compiler guy. I… … Read more
12 years ago
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Motorcycling in the Spanish Pyrenees, and sport-touring tips
Barry Kelly
I’ve just come back from an excellent holiday: a motorbike trip from London to southern Spain, via Llívia and Andorra. The highlight of the trip was the roads in the Spanish Pyrenees. Many almost abandoned… … Read more
12 years ago
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Delphi XE2 compiler performance
Barry Kelly
Delphi XE2 introduced namespaces across the runtime library. This stressed unit name lookup inside the compiler, and led to some severe performance regressions in certain cases. So during the runup to the XE2 release, I… … Read more
13 years ago
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An ugly alternative to interface to object casting
Barry Kelly
I was answering a question on Stack Overflow, but the user didn’t have the latest version of Delphi. My answer included converting an interface to an object instance, which is made possible with the as… … Read more
13 years ago
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Scrolling: Chrome vs Firefox
Barry Kelly
I was using the Chrome browser on my laptop the other day (some browser compat problem). I don’t normally use it; Firefox is my preferred browser. I couldn’t help but notice how peculiarly laggy it… … Read more
13 years ago
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CrashPlan manual installation approach on Nexenta
Barry Kelly
I wrote an earlier post about installing CrashPlan on Nexenta. However, it seems that CrashPlan have changed their Linux installer’s modus operandi, and it tries to install a (Linux) JRE of its own. Of course,… … Read more
13 years ago
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Non-Delphi: Postmodernism, Transformers: ROTF and Baudrillard
Barry Kelly
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth–it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. (Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation) I’ve just watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and… … Read more
14 years ago
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Virtual method interception
Barry Kelly
Delphi XE has a new type in Rtti.pas called TVirtualMethodInterceptor. It was originally designed for use in DataSnap authentication scenarios (though I don’t think it’s currently being used there), but of course, making it only… … Read more
14 years ago
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Memory leaks, log analysis and Unix command-line tools
Barry Kelly
I had cause recently to tackle a fairly tricky memory leak bug in the Delphi compiler as hosted by the IDE. The test case for the bug was complicated: compiling and running a large portion… … Read more
14 years ago
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Android: Momentum and Apps
Barry Kelly
I’m liking the current momentum behind Android. I’m sure Apple will come out with their new phone soon, and the pendulum will swing a bit, but it’s definitely a two horse race, and Apple isn’t… … Read more
14 years ago
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Locations vs Values: using RTTI to work with value types
Barry Kelly
Delphi’s Rtti unit is designed in substantial part around TValue, a kind of hold-all record that should be capable of containing almost any Delphi value, along with type information for that value. However, this means… … Read more
14 years ago
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Programming font for VS2010
Barry Kelly
So, Visual Studio 2010 shipped. Now I have a problem: what font to use? My old standby, Dina, is a bitmap font so it doesn’t work with the WPF text editor in VS2010. Some things… … Read more
14 years ago
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JEDI newsgroup change
Barry Kelly
I got word that the JEDI newsgroup changed after the old forums.talkto.net server died. The new server is at: news.delphi-jedi.org That’s nntp on standard port 119. Please update your favorite news reader to this new… … Read more
14 years ago
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