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VOTEWhat Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
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[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube Main takeaways for me: CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off there… … Read more
3 days ago in .NET, Assembly Language, C++, Delphi, Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development
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List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow
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Especially with the documentation for all versions of Delphi 2010 through the second-last version of Delphi have been killed from the docwiki (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days… … Read more
3 weeks ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Redux: Which Windows Resource Editor do you use?
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A long time I wrote about Which Windows Resource Editor do you use? containing a poll to choose between XN Resource Editor, IcoFX, ResEdit and Resource Hacker. In the meantime and betweentime more than 10… … Read more
3 weeks ago in .NET, 14, 16, 2100, Delphi, Development, Software Development, Windows Development
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When Delphi cannot output the .exe file because it is locked
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Sometimes Delphi cannot output the .exe file because it is locked. In even rarer times, Delphi itself keeps the .exe file locked (this has done it for decades and I think this is caused by… … Read more
3 weeks ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Development
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The spring (a twig) components – How to improve the use of Delphi Frames – Stack Overflow
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In [Wayback/Archive] components – How to improve the use of Delphi Frames – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Brian Frost for asking!) I referred to a blog post I wrote more than 15 years ago about registering… … Read more
4 weeks ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Not just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide
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The video is from a while back, but very relevant and shows in Delphi what I have been advocating to software developers for a very long time: when timestamping use UTC when storing the timestamp… … Read more
1 month ago in Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event
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TRURL – Free Pascal wiki: a class library for Object Pascal supporting the creation of virtual calculators with reverse Polish notation
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On my list of libraries to play around with: [Wayback/Archive] TRURL – Free Pascal wiki TRURL is a class library for Object Pascal supporting the creation of virtual calculators with reverse Polish notation (RPN). It comes… … Read more
2 months ago in Delphi, Development, Freepascal, object pascal, pascal, Software Development
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GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM
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Indeed: DOOM in Pascal. Not Delphi: Free Pascal. Repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM It is based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom: Crispy Doom is a limit-removing enhanced-resolution Doom source port based… … Read more
2 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Freepascal, ObjectPascal, pascal, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development
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Delphi 10 and up install notes
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I try to keep an eye on older Delphi versions as, despite lacking features of newer versions, they do not suffer from issues (hi-dpi, language server, refactoring, stability). Some notes below. Tools to always install… … Read more
3 months ago in 23, Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Development, GetIt, java, Java Platform, Software Development, Web Development
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Of interest – GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
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Of interest – despite the known issues and LUKS workaround through WSL – mainly as the majority was written in Delphi: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible. Found… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, Development, Encryption, Power User, Software Development, Windows Development
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TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
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From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow. Besides me referring to my blog post Delphi – Frames as visual Components – don’t… … Read more
3 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow
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Every once in a while I discover an answer I have not yet put on my blog, especially as related answer are always interesting. This is one that didn’t make it until now: [Wayback/Archive] Exceptions… … Read more
4 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi, Windows Development
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Reminder: see if I can implement megabool in Delphi (or at lest trilean)
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Now that I re-wrote my 2012 talk on Class Operators and Helpers and presented it in Delphi at the ITDevCon2024 ([Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon | Home – Rome, 2024), see [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jpluimers/ITDevCon2024: Temporary ITDevCon2024 repository… … Read more
4 months ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn
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Oops, I thought this had been published a long time ago, but oh well: it is never too late to publish reflections on a C# programming language improvement. After recovering from my rectum cancer treatments… … Read more
5 months ago in .NET, 1509, 35690, 36566, 44201, About, C# 10, C++, Cancer, Delphi, Development, java, Java Platform, MSBUILD, pascal, Personal, Rectum cancer, region, Rider from JetBrains, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Visual Studio and tools, vscode Visual Studio Code
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Anyone any idea on the contributions of Embarcadero to the LLVM project?
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With the huge dependency of Delphi on the LLVM project – basically none of their cross-platform support falls apart without LLVL – I wonder how much Embarcadero and their. mother company Idera contributed back to… … Read more
5 months ago in C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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