Story Category: Conferences
VOTENot just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide
jpluimers
The video is from a while back, but very relevant and shows in Delphi what I have been advocating to software developers for a very long time: when timestamping use UTC when storing the timestamp… … Read more
1 month ago in Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event
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GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM
jpluimers
Indeed: DOOM in Pascal. Not Delphi: Free Pascal. Repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM It is based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom: Crispy Doom is a limit-removing enhanced-resolution Doom source port based… … Read more
2 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Freepascal, ObjectPascal, pascal, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development
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Back to conferences!
Andrea Magni
I am happy to revive my blog to share some (good) news! After a quite long period I focused on “less public” work (as developer and consultant), I am trying to get back to developer… … Read more
2 months ago in Conferences, Delphi, Embarcadero, English, Eventi, events
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TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow. Besides me referring to my blog post Delphi – Frames as visual Components – don’t… … Read more
3 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
Every once in a while I discover an answer I have not yet put on my blog, especially as related answer are always interesting. This is one that didn’t make it until now: [Wayback/Archive] Exceptions… … Read more
3 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi, Windows Development
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Finding most recent forks of gists and github repositories
jpluimers
A while ago I found out that gist.github.com/lynatan/673e574faa8343fa01d7a91e75065c54 which I mentioned before in Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation and I wanted to find it back find the… … Read more
4 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, gist, github, ITDevCon, Software Development, Source Code Management
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Laurensvanrun/Delphi-Promises: Delphi implementation of promises for asynchronous programming.
jpluimers
On my research list after making this short note April 2024: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Laurensvanrun/Delphi-Promises: Delphi implementation of promises for asynchronous programming. My first impression is that this might be on the same level of… … Read more
5 months ago in 8, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event, ITDevCon, Software Development
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Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) and some EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows tricks
jpluimers
Earlier this months I wrote Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) promising I would rewrite the Delphi code into C# and… … Read more
5 months ago in __Unfinished, .NET, 46843, 51505, 600, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development
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Going Native – Malicious Native Applications
jpluimers
On the reading list wondering which tool chains can deliver NtAPI based development: [Wayback/Archive] Going Native – Malicious Native Applications Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @MrPc69257431 on Thread Reader App with first tweet at https://x.com/MrPc69257431/status/1864855379651498292 Note… … Read more
6 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development
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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
jpluimers
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before: the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which… … Read more
8 months ago in .NET, 1, 7, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Development, ekon, Event, History, LaTeX, LifeHacker, Mathematics, pascal, Perl, PL/I (a.k.a. PL/1), Power User, science, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Typesetting
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If you sunset things, at least remove references: Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio
jpluimers
The sad thing about sunsetting useful resources is that usually a proper cleanup is not being performaned. Take for instance QC: it died 7 years ago (Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down… … Read more
10 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)
jpluimers
Quite a while ago [Wayback/Archive] string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow asked by [Wayback/Archive] User Jeff was answered by [Wayback/Archive] Andreas Rejbrand: The simplest approach is function GetAlphaSubstr(const Str:… … Read more
11 months ago in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Encryption, Event, html, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, TLS, Web Development
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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)
jpluimers
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If not then in Delphi you can manually call… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, MSBUILD, Software Development
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delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From a long time go and a project that got cancelled, but maybe in the future I will need a similar thing again: back in the days not all raw key codes were readily documented… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development
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The Global Delphi Summit: June 13+14 in “Amsterdam” (actually the H20 venue in Purmerend)
jpluimers
Cool event – for me even relatively close (about 60 minutes driving) – [Wayback/Archive] The Global Delphi Summit taking place this year on June 13 and 14. The speaker line-up is great as are their… … Read more
1 year ago in Conferences, Delphi, Delphi Summit, Development, Event, Software Development
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