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VOTEDecrease Your Build Time
Erik van Bilsen
Delphi is known for its fast build speeds, at least for Win32 apps. But when you compile your same FireMonkey app for other platforms, the build time increases dramatically and can be up to 15… – Details…
2 weeks ago in Optimization, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Deployment Manager now Open Source
Erik van Bilsen
The Grijjy Deployment Manager (DeployMan) is a tool to simplify the deployment of files and folders for iOS and Android apps written in Delphi. It is especially useful if you need to deploy a lot… – Details…
2 months ago in Delphi, deployment, Uncategorized
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Introduction to Shader Programming
Erik van Bilsen
In this post, I will show you how to take full advantage of the GPU by creating custom shaders. Shaders are used in two places in the FireMonkey framework: for creating materials that you can… – Details…
3 months ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, GPU, Shaders, Uncategorized
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An XML DOM with just 8 bytes per node
Erik van Bilsen
I present a small XML library that parses or creates XML documents with an extremely light-weight DOM that uses just 8 bytes per node. This post shows some of the interesting algorithms that make this… – Details…
6 months ago in Delphi, Libraries, Optimization, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized, XML
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Custom Managed Records for Smart Pointers
Erik van Bilsen
In this 3rd part in (what turns out to be) a series about Custom Managed Records, we take a look at how they can be used to create smart pointers. About Smart Pointers But first… – Details…
8 months ago in Custom Managed Records, Foundation, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Automate Restorable Operations with Custom Managed Records
Erik van Bilsen
There are those common try..finally blocks that you write over and over again. For example entering and leaving a critical section to protect resources from multiple threads, or calling BeginUpdate and EndUpdate to efficiently bulk-update… – Details…
9 months ago in Custom Managed Records, Foundation, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Wrapping C(++) APIs with Custom Managed Records
Erik van Bilsen
Delphi 10.4 introduced Custom Managed Records. In this post we show how you can use this new language feature to wrap third party C(++) APIs in an easy to use model. We also compare this… – Details…
9 months ago in C++, Delphi, Libraries, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Boost Mac performance with Metal and Delphi 10.4
Erik van Bilsen
Is your Mac app a little unresponsive or does it feel sluggish? Does your MacBook laptop turn into a lap-heater when running your app? Then the new Metal support in Delphi 10.4 may be just… – Details…
11 months ago in Delphi, macos, Metal, Optimization, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Mapping Delphi Types to Indices at Compile Time
Erik van Bilsen
Say what now? In this post I will show you how you can use generics and class variables to generate unique incrementing indices for any Delphi type. For example, the Integer type could map to… – Details…
12 months ago in Delphi, generics, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Tricks, Types, Uncategorized
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