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Delphi Compiler Speed

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee Since it was released in 1995, one of Delphi’s defining features has been its lightning-fast compiler. And now Embarcadero is telling us that the compiler is even faster in Delphi 10.4.2 and faster still in… – Details… 9 months ago in compiler, Delphi 0

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Delphi Executable File Size

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee A friend asked if I had noticed that the size of executables generated by the latest version of Delphi (Delphi 11 Alexandria), seemed smaller than in the previous version. Interesting.I hadn’t heard anyone talk about… – Details… 10 months ago in compiler, Delphi 0

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So You Want to Install the BDE…

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee I’m surprised how often the BDE still comes up in different Delphi programming discussions. People asking how to install it in recent versions of Delphi and even some who say they’re using it for new… – Details… 12 months ago in BDE, database, Delphi 0

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Curated List of Delphi Books

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there are lots of modern, up to date books published about Delphi and Pascal with more being written all the time. Image: National Library of Greece… – Details… 1 year ago in Books, Delphi 0

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FireMonkey 3D – Sun, Earth and Moon

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee Following up on an earlier post, Simple FireMonkey 3D, I’m going to make a simplified model of the solar system to explore multiple 3D objects interacting with each other in a scene. I’ll also play around… – Details… 1 year ago in 3d, Delphi, FireMonkey 0

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Firemonkey Particles

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee We see images with connected points used a lot in diagrams, illustrations, advertising and just cool abstract art. They visually represent networks of related things and ideas or connectivity. The web, for example. It’s effective… – Details… 1 year ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, Particles 0

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Quick and Dirty FireMonkey Donut Gauge

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee Someone was asking where they could find gauge style chart components for FireMonkey like the ones you might see on a dashboard. They even helpfully posted some pictures.At least one of these looks like it… – Details… 2 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey 0

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Simple FireMonkey 3D

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee Creating 3D software is undeniably cool, but it might be intimidating, what with all of the math and unfamiliar concepts. And the math… Fortunately, FireMonkey does a lot of the heavy lifting for us. You can… – Details… 2 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey 0

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Improve the Delphi Documentation

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee I know it’s sometimes popular to reflexively say that Delphi’s help sucks. And it’s not like Borland and Embarcadero haven’t given us some cause, but the documentation really has gotten much better over the years…. – Details… 2 years ago in Delphi, Documentation 0

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FireMonkey 3D Enterprise Application

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee You might remember me writing that the FireMonkey framework isn’t a full-blown gaming engine and that it’s better suited to enterprise applications. (rimshot)This is a follow up to my May the Fourth and Revenge of the… – Details… 2 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, Star Trek 0

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Revenge of the Fifth

Bruce McGee Bruce McGee You didn’t think I’d go through the trouble of making a Star Wars Day post and miss out on the obvious follow-up pun, did you? The demo project (available here) is pretty much the same… – Details… 2 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, Star Wars 0