jpluimers
For my link archive, as I will likely need this one day: [WayBack] GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a… … Read more
4 years ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development0
jpluimers
If a part of a method requires implicit setup/tear-down code (for instance when using managed types like arrays, strings, etc), especially in rarely taken execution paths, then consider putting that code in a separate method…. … Read more
4 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development0
Ondrej Kelle
Just a quick follow-up for those of you who showed interest. My proof-of-concept with FastText has been a success. The C# class library has been integrated with a product and staged for a future release…. … Read more
6 years ago in .NET, fasttext, nlp0
Sean
SQLite has become one of the most pervasive embedded databases around. It’s built into Android, iOS and OSX and is a part of many applications. It has also become the recommended client side database for… … Read more
11 years ago in .NET, C++, database, SQLite, sqlite.net0
Bob Swart
The release of “XE3” reduced the number of editions for Embarcadero Prism to just one: the Professional edition, which means Embarcadero Prism is from now on no more than RemObjects’ Oxygene, and in fact a… … Read more
11 years ago in .NET0
Sean
Links, slides and sample code from my .net Unit Testing 101 presentation.NUnit – unit testing library TestDriven.net – Visual Studio integrationLightspeed ORM Free or full version is needed to run the sample codePragmatic unit testing… … Read more
14 years ago in .NET, C++, nunit unittesting0
Sean
Advance warning: This post is only of use to people using Lightspeed or suffering from insomnia. The problemFor my current c# project, I am using Mindscape’s Lightspeed O/R framework. Lightspeed is a mighty fine product… … Read more
14 years ago in .NET, lightspeed0
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
15 years ago in .NET, barcamp, Delphi, hdc, programming0
Joe
Git is intimidating. It’s a distributed revision-control system, so it’d work online or off, and it’s got tons of cool toys (like git-bisect to automatically figure out which commit introduced a bug). But good luck… … Read more
15 years ago in .NET, Delphi, funny, git, mercurial, programming0
Joe
Not all MenuStrips will exhibit the scrolling bug. In a nutshell: if you ever hide any menu items, you’re living dangerously. Visible and Available First, an aside on how you go about hiding menu items…. … Read more
15 years ago in .NET, Delphi, fixing-menustrip, menustrip, programming0
Joe
In .NET 2.0, Microsoft added MenuStrip and ContextMenuStrip controls to replace the old MainMenu and ContextMenu. The new ones support images next to menu items, edit boxes inside menus, etc. Fairly cool. However, they’ve got… … Read more
15 years ago in .NET, Delphi, fixing-menustrip, menustrip, programming0
Joe
Still reading the SmartInspect license agreement. Now, it’s normal for a license agreement to, in effect, say “We don’t promise the software actually works”. It’s frightening when you think about it, but it’s become standard… … Read more
15 years ago in .NET, Delphi, eula, Life, programming, smartinspect0
Joe
We just purchased a couple of licenses for Gurock Software’s SmartInspect. I’ve gotten as far as the license agreement. Their license agreement aspires to dizzying new heights in legalese. Take this sentence, from the third… … Read more
15 years ago in .NET, Delphi, eula, Life, programming, smartinspect0
Joe
I ran across a great article about how to do multithreading without (or with very few) locks. If you’ve done concurrency, you already know about locks. You probably also know they’re expensive, and you’ve probably… … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Delphi, programming0
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jpluimers
At the time of looking, FiraCode would not work in Delphi but would in Visual Studio. Reminder for me to look at it again: [WayBack] GitHub – tonsky/FiraCode: Monospaced font with programming ligatures. A cool… … Read more
4 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Font, Power User, Programmers Font, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools, Visual Studio Code
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