Story Category: Development
VOTEWinWorld: Microsoft Office 95
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Just in case I ever need it for historic reasons: [Wayback/Archive] WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95 Because back in the days various Office products had localised VBA (at least German and French products had; I’m not… … Read more
4 days ago in Delphi, Development, History, LifeHacker, Office, Office 95, Office Automation, Office Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 95
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Delphi code by generative AI: arguably even worse than some oder development stacks
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For my links archive: [Wayback/Archive] What is the best AI at Delphi – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en] … There is simply not enough Delphi code around for AI training. It is easy to have good… … Read more
1 week ago in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Delphi, Development, llm, Software Development
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skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.
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This is a cool library which I missed when it was introduced while recovering from my extensive cancer treatments: [Wayback/Archive] skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia… … Read more
3 weeks ago in Delphi, Development, google, Power User, Software Development
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From 2023: It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com
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I forgot how I bumped into this, but a while ago I found this interesting 2023 post: [Wayback/Archive] It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com explaining naive (without time zone) and… … Read more
3 weeks ago in .NET, .net framework, .NET Standard, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Jon Skeet, Python, Scripting, Software Development
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Question got closed in May 2025 due to bureaucrazy: Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow
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The whole idea of “community questions” was to create collective topics or references about important material without gaining any “points”. Stack Exchange has left that concept in the dark by closing questions like this 2010… … Read more
1 month ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Pingback, Software Development, StackOverflow
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What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
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[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube Main takeaways for me: CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off there… … Read more
2 months ago in .NET, Assembly Language, C++, Delphi, Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development
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List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow
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Especially with the documentation for all versions of Delphi 2010 through the second-last version of Delphi have been killed from the docwiki (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days… … Read more
2 months ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Redux: Which Windows Resource Editor do you use?
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A long time I wrote about Which Windows Resource Editor do you use? containing a poll to choose between XN Resource Editor, IcoFX, ResEdit and Resource Hacker. In the meantime and betweentime more than 10… … Read more
2 months ago in .NET, 14, 16, 2100, Delphi, Development, Software Development, Windows Development
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When Delphi cannot output the .exe file because it is locked
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Sometimes Delphi cannot output the .exe file because it is locked. In even rarer times, Delphi itself keeps the .exe file locked (this has done it for decades and I think this is caused by… … Read more
2 months ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Development
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The spring (a twig) components – How to improve the use of Delphi Frames – Stack Overflow
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In [Wayback/Archive] components – How to improve the use of Delphi Frames – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Brian Frost for asking!) I referred to a blog post I wrote more than 15 years ago about registering… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Not just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide
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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
3 months ago in Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event
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TRURL – Free Pascal wiki: a class library for Object Pascal supporting the creation of virtual calculators with reverse Polish notation
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On my list of libraries to play around with: [Wayback/Archive] TRURL – Free Pascal wiki TRURL is a class library for Object Pascal supporting the creation of virtual calculators with reverse Polish notation (RPN). It comes… … Read more
4 months ago in Delphi, Development, Freepascal, object pascal, pascal, Software Development
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GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM
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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
4 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Freepascal, ObjectPascal, pascal, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development
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Delphi 10 and up install notes
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I try to keep an eye on older Delphi versions as, despite lacking features of newer versions, they do not suffer from issues (hi-dpi, language server, refactoring, stability). Some notes below. Tools to always install… … Read more
5 months ago in 23, Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Development, GetIt, java, Java Platform, Software Development, Web Development
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Of interest – GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
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Of interest – despite the known issues and LUKS workaround through WSL – mainly as the majority was written in Delphi: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible. Found… … Read more
5 months ago in Delphi, Development, Encryption, Power User, Software Development, Windows Development
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