Story Category: Best practices
VOTEWorld Backup Day
Bruce McGee
“Better safe than sorry” I recently learned that March 31st is World Backup Day. If I were a cynical person, I might assume that this is just a fake holiday invented by Big Storage to… … Read more
1 year ago in Backups, Best practices, Disaster Recovery
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Developing Mobile Apps For Multiple Platforms: What Are The Best Practices?
Wajeeha Raja
With the increasing use of smartphones, mobile apps are a primary source of social outreach, outward engagement, communication – personal and business – and even shopping. It’s hard to imagine a scenario now where mobile… … Read more
2 years ago in android, Best practices, Delphi, developing multi platform apps, IDE, ios, mobile apps, programming, RAD Studio
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Don’t Ignore Compiler Warnings. Unless…
Bruce McGee
One of the advantages of using a modern compiler is that it can generate hints and warnings that suggest improvements or highlight potential bugs in your code. Well worth paying attention to. This post was… … Read more
2 years ago in Best practices, Delphi
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Using configuration records and operators to reduce number of overloaded methods
gabr42
When writing libraries you sometimes want to provide users (that is, programmers) with a flexible API. If a specific part of your library can be used in different ways, you may want to provide multiple… … Read more
5 years ago in Best practices, compiler, Delphi, language, operators, programming
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FieldByName, FindField: too convenient to be honest
Francesca Gaillard
I don’t know about you, but I can’t count anymore the number of times I’ve seen this code pattern (in code snippets online as well as in production code): while not ADataSet.Eof do begin […]… … Read more
13 years ago in Best practices, Coding standard, Delphi, FieldByName, Optimization, Quality
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