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Not just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide

jpluimers 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 0

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Laurensvanrun/Delphi-Promises: Delphi implementation of promises for asynchronous programming.

jpluimers 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 0

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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 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 0

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Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow

jpluimers jpluimers A long time ago, I posted one of the answers to [Wayback/Archive] Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow So for my link archive, these are the… … Read more 3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi 0

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So that was Lucky 13 for me…

tier777 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, events 0