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A New Embarcadero Blogs Site

marcocantu marcocantu Embarcadero has a new blogging platform, replacing the use of a section of the Idera community. I’ll use it along with my historical blog site. … Read more 5 years ago 0


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Book review on Torry.net

Holger Flick Holger Flick I noticed that the well-known, traditional Delphi page Torry.net published a book review of Hands-on with Delphi I on its pages. Torry has been a part of the Delphi community since the very early days… … Read more 5 years ago in book, Delphi, English, Hands-on, MVP, Review 0




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Hands-on with Delphi book 2 sent to publisher

Holger Flick Holger Flick I have just uploaded the book to my publisher and it will be released next week. Stay tuned for more information about the content on this very blog! If you are still looking for a… … Read more 5 years ago in Books, Delphi, English, FNC Maps, Google Maps, Hands-on, Mapping, MVP, Reporting, TMS Web Core, XData 0








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Spring4D – Shared, Weak references

jpluimers jpluimers In addition to Shared/IShared, there is also Weak/IWeakReference in Spring.pas; these blog post explain more about them: Shared/IShared (search for {$REGION ‘Shared smart pointer’} at the current repository): [WayBack] Delphi sorcery: Smart pointers in Delphi Weak/IWeakReference (search for… … Read more 5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0






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Delphi unit aliases: multiple ones can point to the same unit

jpluimers jpluimers A while ago, I had to figure out how to get some GExperts stuff cross-compile to older Delphi versions, because of UITypes usage that is not available in Delphi XE and lower (but much of… … Read more 5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, GExperts, Software Development 0


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Delphi’s TZipFile working on a stream

dummzeuch dummzeuch Recent versions of Delphi (for a suitable definition of “recent”) come with a TZipFile class implemented in the unit System.Zip. This class has the really neat feature that it can not only read the contents… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi 0




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TMonitor versus Critical sections revisited: when possible, use SRWL over TMonitor, then TCritical section

jpluimers jpluimers Via [WayBack] TMonitor vrs Critical sections revisited. Back then (https://www.delphitools.info/2013/06/06/tmonitor-vs-trtlcriticalsection/), it was found that critic… – Kiriakos Vlahos – Google+ as he re-did the measurements that DelphiTools did before Delphi XE5 came out: Slim Reader/Writer Lock… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0


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In the series “avoid Variants when coding in Delphi”: the comparison operator

jpluimers jpluimers For Variant types, the = comparison operator in Delphi maps to the VarCompareValue in the Variants unit. That function fails to handle various comparisons and for some it knows it can handle raises a VarInvalidOp through… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0