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VOTEWatching “Why is C# Evolving This Way?” strengthened my realisation that the Delphi 12 language by now is light years behind C# 12
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Though after C# 4 (covariance and contravariance) and C# 5 (async/await) the evolvement of C# might have seemed to slow down a bit, the big picture hasn’t as shown in the [Wayback/Archive] Why is C#… – Details…
4 days ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Happy birthday Turbo Pascal! Some marketing and Borland Conference videos
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Some of you might remember [WayBack] Borland – Wikipedia, that today in 1983 shipped the first version of Turbo Pascal [Wikipedia]. It was of great influence, leading to other Turbo languages, Delphi, and – through… – Details…
3 weeks ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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Memories of the Twitter Fail Whale that got discontinued 10 years ago (HT @YiyingLu, @failwhale).
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From 2008 to fall 2013, Twitter used the Fail Whale, a 2006 artwork by Yiying Lu originally titled “Lifting A Dreamer”, to indicate problems on their site. Now that it is about a year after… – Details…
1 month ago in Delphi, Development, History, SocialMedia, Software Development, twitter
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Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?”
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For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter From the languages that I have been using most: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on… – Details…
4 months ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development
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Ask Delphi
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LOL, Ionica taught me about a [Wayback/Archive] Ask Delphi “oracle”. So I could not resist: Ask Delphi: Is Delphi a programming language? Delphi speculates: “It’s expected” https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+Delphi+a+programming+language%3F Don’t take the ethics of this “oracle” too… – Details…
10 months ago in Awareness, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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State machines in Delphi and .NET
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Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant: A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET. Since then… – Details…
10 months ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Diagram, Event, java, Java Platform, Software Development, UML
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Enabling GitHub pages to a HTML or markdown GitHub project is dead easy: Delphi deadlockempire is now hosted on github.io
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A while ago I wrote about Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain. Doing the full “host on your custom domain” route was a… – Details…
11 months ago in .NET, About, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Personal, Software Development, Web Development
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Thinking about you today Paweł
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Today it is 5 years ago that Paweł passed away. For me it is hard to believe that I’m still around and this post feels like yesterday: R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly… – Details…
12 months ago in About, borland, Delphi, Development, Health, History, Personal, Power User, Software Development
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Reminder to self: write a more extensive blog post on Delphi style guides and code style in general
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A while ago, Uwe Raabe reminded me about the Delphi Style Guide which is on-line at the Embarcadero document wiki: He reminded me to write a bit more about Delphi Style Guides, as there are… – Details…
1 year ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow
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A long time ago, I posted one of the answers to [Wayback/Archive] Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow So for my link archive, these are the… – Details…
1 year ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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A year ago on Telegram: “Do I need to use GarbageCollectAtoms in Delphi? I used it in delphi 7, but I dont know what is benefit. 😐”
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Last week I found out that I had some Windows ATOM issues before, but this beats them easily was still a draft in stead if in the blog queue. I got reminded to it by… – Details…
1 year ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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The Delphi and Turbo Pascal tools page by Duncan Murdoch has moved domain from www8.pair.com to murdoch-sutherland.com
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For a very long time (about 2 decades) Duncan Murdoch had his home page at www8.pair.com/dmurdoch which somewhere in 2021 has moved to I figured that out thanks to some help from [Wayback/Archive] Pair Networks (@pairnetworks)… – Details…
1 year ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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Be careful when using the System.Threading unit in versions earlier than Delphi 11 (it ditches Windows XP compatibility, for a reason)
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A while ago, I got reminded of a few occurrences of Delphi apps hanging after a little less than 2 months of being active. It does not happen that often, as usually Patch Tuesday requires… – Details…
2 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Get it at a discount while it is hot: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook by Dalija Prasnikar and Neven Prasnikar Jr.
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Get the new [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook at a discount while it is hot: Use Coupon Code: DTSPATT10 at checkout to get a $10 discount. This promotional offer is valid through June 14. by: Dalija Prasnikar Neven… – Details…
2 years ago in Delphi, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Software Development, UTF-8, Windows-1252
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On Windows, keep the lifetime of relative pathnames as short as possible because of thread-safety issues
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Subtitle: GetFullPathName thread-unsafety because of SetCurrentDirectory isn’t, so derived functions (like Delphi GetDir/ChDir/TPath.GetFullPath, or .NET System.IO.Path.GetFullPath) are not thread-safe either (via The Old New Thing) A while ago I got a big reminder because of [Wayback]… – Details…
2 years ago in Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Windows Development
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