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VOTEAsk Delphi
jpluimers
LOL, Ionica taught me about a [Wayback/Archive] Ask Delphi “oracle”. So I could not resist: Ask Delphi: Is Delphi a programming language? Delphi speculates: “It’s expected” https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+Delphi+a+programming+language%3F Don’t take the ethics of this “oracle” too… – Details…
1 month ago in Awareness, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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State machines in Delphi and .NET
jpluimers
Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant: A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET. Since then… – Details…
2 months ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Diagram, Event, java, Java Platform, Software Development, UML
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Enabling GitHub pages to a HTML or markdown GitHub project is dead easy: Delphi deadlockempire is now hosted on github.io
jpluimers
A while ago I wrote about Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain. Doing the full “host on your custom domain” route was a… – Details…
3 months ago in .NET, About, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Personal, Software Development, Web Development
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Thinking about you today Paweł
jpluimers
Today it is 5 years ago that Paweł passed away. For me it is hard to believe that I’m still around and this post feels like yesterday: R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly… – Details…
4 months ago in About, borland, Delphi, Development, Health, History, Personal, Power User, Software Development
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Reminder to self: write a more extensive blog post on Delphi style guides and code style in general
jpluimers
A while ago, Uwe Raabe reminded me about the Delphi Style Guide which is on-line at the Embarcadero document wiki: He reminded me to write a bit more about Delphi Style Guides, as there are… – Details…
4 months ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow
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… – Details…
5 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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A year ago on Telegram: “Do I need to use GarbageCollectAtoms in Delphi? I used it in delphi 7, but I dont know what is benefit. 😐”
jpluimers
Last week I found out that I had some Windows ATOM issues before, but this beats them easily was still a draft in stead if in the blog queue. I got reminded to it by… – Details…
5 months ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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The Delphi and Turbo Pascal tools page by Duncan Murdoch has moved domain from www8.pair.com to murdoch-sutherland.com
jpluimers
For a very long time (about 2 decades) Duncan Murdoch had his home page at www8.pair.com/dmurdoch which somewhere in 2021 has moved to I figured that out thanks to some help from [Wayback/Archive] Pair Networks (@pairnetworks)… – Details…
9 months ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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How To Come Up With The Best Software Ideas
Muminjon
Ideas are the lifeblood of any software company. No matter how good your developers are, they can’t create unique products without a strong foundation of software ideas to work from before you whip out your… – Details…
10 months ago in Code, how to come up with software ideas, programming, RAD Studio, Software Development, software ideas, software inspiration
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The Best Native App Builder Whitepaper You’ll Never Forget
Qasim Shahzad
There is a fascinating conversation between Neo and the Oracle in The Matrix Reloaded movie. Neo asks the oracle that if she already knows, how can he make a choice? She cleverly replies because you… – Details…
10 months ago in .net framework, Best App Builder Without Coding, Best Free App Builder, C++, Code, database, Delphi, Electron, IDE, Ip Security, Native App Builder, RAD Studio, Reverse Engineering, Software Development, Standing Memory Usage, Windows Application Development, Windows Presentation Foundation
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Be careful when using the System.Threading unit in versions earlier than Delphi 11 (it ditches Windows XP compatibility, for a reason)
jpluimers
A while ago, I got reminded of a few occurrences of Delphi apps hanging after a little less than 2 months of being active. It does not happen that often, as usually Patch Tuesday requires… – Details…
10 months ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Get it at a discount while it is hot: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook by Dalija Prasnikar and Neven Prasnikar Jr.
jpluimers
Get the new [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook at a discount while it is hot: Use Coupon Code: DTSPATT10 at checkout to get a $10 discount. This promotional offer is valid through June 14. by: Dalija Prasnikar Neven… – Details…
10 months ago in Delphi, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Software Development, UTF-8, Windows-1252
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On Windows, keep the lifetime of relative pathnames as short as possible because of thread-safety issues
jpluimers
Subtitle: GetFullPathName thread-unsafety because of SetCurrentDirectory isn’t, so derived functions (like Delphi GetDir/ChDir/TPath.GetFullPath, or .NET System.IO.Path.GetFullPath) are not thread-safe either (via The Old New Thing) A while ago I got a big reminder because of [Wayback]… – Details…
11 months ago in Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Windows Development
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A while ago @LarsFosdal praised Bruneau Babet for trying to offset the lack of Idera/EMBT customer communication and quality control: Lars Fosdal is right
jpluimers
Earlier this year, [Wayback/Archive] Lars Fosdal posted a long thread about Embarcadero/IDERA software quality and one special person trying to offset the lack. It is important not just because of his opinion, but also because Lars posts… – Details…
11 months ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.
jpluimers
The [Wayback/Archive] Embarcadero/IDERA Documentation Wiki has been mostly down since March 3rd, 2022 (not the main page, but almost all other pages are). I modified [Wayback/Archive] Docwiki https – EmbarcaderoMonitoring to show the actual status of a… – Details…
1 year ago in *nix, Bookmarklet, Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Uptimerobot, Web Browsers
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