Wings of Wind
The idea started with the advent of the new kind of viruses commonly called Compile-A-Virus which compiles itself in one of the system units of a certain programming language. Nowadays, the most famous one is… … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi, Design, FileSuite, News0
Bob Swart
The Delphi 2010 Survey is online, conducted by Embarcadero and the Product Management for the Delphi product. … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi0
tier777
Marco has already blogged about it and now here is my report from this year’s Entwicklerkonferenz, aka Delphi Live Germany in Darmstadt. First off, I was pleased to see that attendance was definitely better than… … Read more
16 years ago in Conference, Delphi, ekon, ekon13, Event, events0
Joe
I’ve been reading the recent debate about a “Delphi Community Edition”. Most of it seems pretty abstract: “I think it would help the Delphi community if…” That’s all well and good, but I thought I’d… … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Cobus Kruger
My last post underwhelmed everyone a little and I understand why. After all, using events or anonymous methods for this kind of thing is standard fare and it doesn’t even do the job that I… … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi, enumerators, rtti, the-beatles0
Joe
BarCamp Omaha is October 2-3 (Friday evening to Saturday). I’ve never been to a BarCamp, but it promises to be intriguing — the session schedule is planned on a whiteboard Saturday morning, and anyone who… … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, barcamp, Delphi, hdc, programming0
Robert Cram
Undiscovered thingsA few days ago, Jolyon Smith warned Delphi users to Mind the Gap(s). The warning is about how assigning specific ordinal values to enum members defeats the RTTI system. He writes:This is what I… … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi, Variants0
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 2006 introduced enumerators – a way to iterate any kind of collection with the for-in loop. And the VCL is chock-full of enumerators: TStrings has one, so do TComponent, TWinControl, TList, TObjectList and the… … Read more
16 years ago in anonymous methods, Delphi, enumerators, events, the-beatles0
Sean
I recently compared the performance of virtual machines with the real hardware. The figures were suprisingly good.Shortly after that, disaster struck. My laptop wouldn’t turn on. It took Dell 2 weeks to fix, replacing the… … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi, virtual box, virtual machines, vmware0
Cobus Kruger
Strangely, the Delphi 2010 hype machine have slowed down somewhat as we got closer to release date. But I just had my first full day with the new IDE and it’s good. The installer, I… … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi, delphi 2010, Review0
Bob Swart
On Tuesday, August 25 2009, Embarcadero launched the 2010-editions of Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism and RAD Studio. … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi0
tier777
In the best case scenario it takes me at least ten clicks, 5 of which are redundant, and quite a bit of lucky guessing, to get from the “immediate purchase” link in the Delphi 2010… … Read more
16 years ago in annoyance, Delphi, delphi2010, marketing, rant, Rants, shop, upgrade0
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 2009’s blue chip features were Unicode support, generics and anonymous methods. Most developers expected Unicode support to be the one to introduce the bulk of the migration headaches. But as with most Delphi versions,… … Read more
16 years ago in bookmarks, Delphi, getbookmark, tdataset, virtual treeview0
VOTE
Joe
I’ve been reading the recent debate about a “Delphi Community Edition”. Most of it seems pretty abstract: “I think it would help the Delphi community if…” That’s all well and good, but I thought I’d… … Read more
16 years ago in Delphi, programming
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