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There’s an old Yiddish joke that most of us are familiar with: A man came to a tailor, and asked to buy a new suit. The tailor brought it to him, As he stood before the… … Read more
3 months ago 0
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This post is going to be a bit of a rant, but hopefully a useful one. Mobile development would benefit greatly from a stable, simple, future proof multi-platform IDE and framework and tools of… … Read more
8 months ago 0
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Dear Santa,I have been a very good Delphi Developer this year, and I would like the following Delphi related items in my Festive Non Denominational Holiday Hoisery. 1. I would like Delphi to be able to… … Read more
2 years ago 0
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You might thing that because of a post where I rant about Git’s glitchiness that I hate git. I’m actually a pretty happy Git user, except when Git is having one of its moods. I have… … Read more
2 years ago 0
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So the future is here, Windows 11, and Delphi 11. Do you think the “everybody moved to 10 everything” and “everybody moved to 11 everything” all the same time is a coincidence?Here’s how it actually… … Read more
4 years ago 0
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Would you have guessed what “Bonus KSVC 7” is, if you saw it in getit. No? Neither would I.It turns out that if you are looking for Raize Components they’re now called Bonus KSVC, and… … Read more
4 years ago 0
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I can hear you saying it.” You’re wrong, Delphi Code Monkey, Git is a version control system.”.Hear me out.Git is not a version control system, it’s a directed acyclical graph management system that happens to… … Read more
4 years ago 0
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Probably this is old news but I didn’t see the news whenever it hit, and so I’m posting this here in hopes that other people who hadn’t realized that EDN/CodeCentral is no longer where you… … Read more
5 years ago 0
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I wrote this blog post as I ran into a Delphi coder who was using some non-verson-control tool like Zip or DropBox to store their code. Now I’m not saying you shouldn’t ever store code… … Read more
5 years ago 0
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Once upon a time I was a Jedi JVCL developer. I contributed JvCsvDataSet, to the Jedi JVCL project.Unfortunately, I believe it has several internal design flaws and needs a total rewrite, and also may be… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi0
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I have previously posted about fun adventures running insider preview builds of Windows 10, with Delphi. Now, I no longer run insider preview builds because the problems are just not worth it.However, as Microsoft… … Read more
5 years ago 0
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Bitbucket, instead of giving me free Mercurial hosting forever has decided to kill my Mercurial repos, of which I have hundreds.I converted two little ones today and wanted to make a quick post because I… … Read more
6 years ago 0
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I am a long time follower and reader of Joel Spolsky. Way way back in 2000, he penned what has become a seminal blog post.Things You Should Never Do, Part 1It should be required reading… … Read more
6 years ago 0
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Just wanted to point out these open source projects written by Jason Southwell, who in addition to being a well known Delphi developer out there is also my boss! Hi!Anyways, I use these libraries where… … Read more
6 years ago 0
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So, out there in the world of developers, Delphi and others, there are many schools of professionalism, around:Version Control PracticesContinuous Integration PracticesRelease Management and Change ControlsLet’s imagine there’s a dial from 0 to 1… … Read more
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