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VOTEDelphi Tip of the Day – Export to CSV
Michael Riley
This weekend I had a bunch of data inside a FireDAC FDMemtable and I wanted to play around with that data in Excel. So, the first thing I did was review which data formats Excel… … Read more
5 years ago in csv, dataset, firedac, tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – First Chance Exception
Michael Riley
I’m in the process of upgrading a very old Delphi program that I wrote with my Turbo Pascal, top-down, structured-programming, mindset. One of the major updates I want is for the data to be in… … Read more
5 years ago in datamodule, tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Object Inspector Search
Michael Riley
I was watching an excellent video on how to use the batch move capabilities within Delphi to import text data into a database and had one of those “What the heck just happened” moments. The… … Read more
5 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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Delphi – SQLite Sample Projects
Michael Riley
I’ve been exploring SQLite within Delphi. There are several sample SQLite applications that come with Delphi if you selected to install the samples during setup. I’ve put together the list of SQLite samples that are… … Read more
5 years ago in SQLite
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Delphi Tip of the Day – OnShow SetFocus or Form1.ActiveControl
Michael Riley
I’m creating a simple database program to explore how SQLite works within Delphi. I want to be able to switch between three databases: Album, Test, and World. So I added a TComboBox and populated the… … Read more
5 years ago in Source Code, tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Autosave Project Desktop
Michael Riley
I am not a full-time Delphi guy. So, when I’m learning Delphi by reading OPC (other people’s code) I want to make the best of my time. I was studying some code from Cary Jensen… … Read more
5 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Revisited: Database Application Design
Michael Riley
I have been creating database applications for over 30 years. Unfortunately, I have never been able to create a single database application in Delphi. That’s a very sad fact. One that I’m not very proud… … Read more
5 years ago in database-application, delphi-revisited, delphi25th
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When You Don’t Know, What You Don’t Know
Michael Riley
I’ve been in a rut for about the past six months. Not just a Delphi programming rut but a “life rut”. What’s worse, I knew I was in a rut and thought I was trying… … Read more
5 years ago in fmxexpress, github, kanban
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Who’s up First?
Michael Riley
I’m working on updating my old flagship product and I ran into an issue where a file kept getting deleted on startup. I could not for the life of me figure out where this was… … Read more
6 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Rounding (Again!)
Michael Riley
It’s been over 7 years since I dove into the mystical world of rounding numbers within Delphi. It’s amazing how much code actually gets written in support of the main stuff an application does. I… … Read more
6 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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Stop saying "I don’t have time" – Say "It’s not a priority"
Michael Riley
That little switch from saying “I don’t have time”, to saying “It’s not a priority” is a HUGE game changer. I learned about this from a co-worker last week. She didn’t invent it… she heard… … Read more
6 years ago in smarter-not-harder
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Delphi Tip of the Day – TODO or not TODO
Michael Riley
I tend to be a scatter-brain when it comes to Delphi.Really? Tend to be? “No Gunny. You are a scatter-brain when it comes to Delphi.” I can hear all of you who know me saying… … Read more
6 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Makes Updating Old Code Very Easy (Hidden Gem)
Michael Riley
When my computer hard drive crashed in October 2018 I was really upset. The hard drive was completely shot and unrecoverable. I lost all of the code I had been working on… ARRRGH! The last… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, delphi-nugget, pure-dumb-luck, smarter-not-harder
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Say what you mean and mean what you say!
Michael Riley
How often are you or your words misinterpreted? Do you even know? Would someone tell you? Or would you go on with life thinking everything is just honky dory. Only to find out later things… … Read more
6 years ago in toastmasters
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Forward Declarations. Solving the Chicken or the Egg Problem.
Michael Riley
Today’s Delphi Tip of the Day is about resolving “which came first, the chicken or the egg”. Because Delphi is a strongly typed language you can’t refer to something until it’s been defined. However, there… … Read more
6 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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