Story Category: Development
VOTEOld 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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“Incompatible parameter lists” when using Types.T*DynArray? – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
jpluimers
Reminder to self: Delphi 11.3 (Alexandria update 3), mid-product added a compiler changing kind of deprecating using types of this form (including ones defined in the System, System.Types and other RTL/VCL units): Overview of “deprecated”… … Read more
8 months ago in Delphi, Delphi 11.0 Alexandria (Olympus), Development, Software Development
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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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Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being able to write to it
jpluimers
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “My Ubiquity setup stopped working (again). This happens way to often in my opinion. I have setup a monitoring environment to debug the issues… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN
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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 has had a more type safe FreeAndNil or a while now, but in order to do so it lies to you
jpluimers
During my year+ of cancer treatments, Embarcadero did a tiny thing that makes [Wayback/Archive]FreeAndNil safer to use. In order to do so, the method now lies to you by taking a const [ref] parameter which… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi, Delphi 10.4 Sydney (Denali), Delphi 11.0 Alexandria (Olympus), Development, Software Development
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Reminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX instructions
jpluimers
This is from a long time ago [Wayback/Archive] Does Delphi support all MMX/SSE instructions? – Stack Overflow: Delphi 2007 supports the MMX and SSE instruction sets. Certainly, Delphi 2010 and XE support up to the… … Read more
1 year ago in Assembly Language, Delphi, Development, Software Development, x64, x86
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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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Field Tested Systems
jpluimers
Besides a cool portable spectrometer and software (written in Delphi), [WayBack] Field Tested Systems also has a really nice poster showing the spectrogram fingerprints of all the elements: Via Delphi: 2 things to check when FMX/VCL… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, LifeHacker, Power User, science, Software Development
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webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
jpluimers
This is cool and works well (including the portable version) :[Wayback/Archive] webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite. Most code is C++ with bits using the QML language of the Qt cross… … Read more
1 year ago in C++, Delphi, Development, Kylix, kylix_rd, Qt, Software 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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Oh boy, VB.NET and JavaScript both have a `with` keyword too!
jpluimers
Last year, within a week, I saw two tweets of languages that, like Pascal, have a with statement as well: [Archive.is] Shawn Wildermuth 💻☕🎸🎥🎮 on Twitter: “JavaScript’s Forgotten Keyword (with)” [Archive.is] John Kaster #BlackLivesMatter on… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Go (golang), JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, VB.NET, With statement
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In memory of Matthias Eißing (Embarcadero, formerly Borland/Inprise/Borland/CodeGear)
jpluimers
Earlier today, I got the sad news that my friend Matthias Eißing suddenly passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Valentines day will never be the same. Rest in Peace dear Matthias Eißing…. … Read more
2 years ago in About, borland, Delphi, Development, History, Personal, Software Development
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Watching “Why is C# Evolving This Way?” strengthened my realisation that the Delphi 12 language by now is light years behind C# 12
jpluimers
Though after C# 4 (covariance and contravariance) and C# 5 (async/await) the evolvement of C# might have seemed to slow down a bit, the big picture hasn’t as shown in the [Wayback/Archive] Why is C#… … Read more
2 years ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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