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VOTEReminder 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…
1 week 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…
3 weeks 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…
2 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…
5 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…
6 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…
6 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…
6 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…
6 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…
7 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…
7 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…
9 months ago in *nix, Bookmarklet, Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Uptimerobot, Web Browsers
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DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From my Windows XP days (which are long gone), but historically relevant the answer to [Wayback] DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow by [Wayback] Remy Lebeau: The TEncoding.ASCII property… – Details…
10 months ago in ASCII, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Power User, Software Development, XP-embedded
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When floating point code suddenly becomes orders magnitudes slower (via C++ – Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x? – Stack Overflow)
jpluimers
When working with converging algorithms, sometimes floating code can become very slow. That is: orders of magnitude slower than you would expect. A very interesting answer to [Wayback] c++ – Why does changing 0.1f to… – Details…
11 months ago in .NET, algorithms, ARM, Assembly Language, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development, x64, x86
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Some uptime monitoring tools that are still free and understand more than http/https
jpluimers
Since uptimerobot has slowly moving free features, part of my family uses it to monitor uptime of their personal stuff, and I don’t want to pay for the free monitoring I do on Embarcadero infrastructure… – Details…
11 months ago in *nix, Delphi, Development, monitoring, Power User, Software Development
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Delphi SetRoundMode: gets sets part of the 8087 control word (related: GetRoundMode and TFPURoundingMode)
jpluimers
I thought I had written about this a long time ago, as Math.SetRoundMode (and now System.Math.SetRoundMode) has been introduced since at least Delphi 2007. There are also related GetRoundMode and TFPURoundingMode. Delphi 2009 also introduced… – Details…
11 months ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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