delphi – Is it wise to create composite controls? – Stack Overflow
Reminder to self to one day create a conference session on Delphi and composite controls: [Wayback/Archive] delphi – Is it wise to create composite controls? – Stack Overflow. Too few, even die-hard,...
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No, the Delphi IfThen functions do perform do lazy evaluation
Ever since introduction of the IfThen functions introduced in Delphi Delphi 2007 in both the Math and StrUtils units (see WayBack radstudio2007 HUpdate4 EN delphivclwin32.pdf ¹), I have been telling...
View ArticleWayback Machine search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009...
A long time ago, I wrote about Google Search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs. Well, not long after Embarcadero totally messed up their DocWiki installation, ditched all...
View ArticleGitHub – paolo-rossi/delphi-neon: JSON Serialization library for Delphi
Like many of the post Delphi 2007 Delphi RTL features, replacements are so much better in functionality and stability. One of those replacement examples is [Wayback/Archive] GitHub –...
View ArticleDelphi/C# reencode textfiles: some links as I thought I published sources,...
A long time ago (likely around 2009) I remember writing some code to re-encode text files in both Delphi and C#. Somehow I thought I had published both, but I could only find parts of the C# code back...
View ArticleSome notes on Delphi Debugger Visualizers
Ever since Chris Hesik spoke on “RAD Studio 2010 what’s new in the IDE debugger”, wanted to write a blog post about it. Still haven’t found time to do that in depth, but it’s important to at least jot...
View ArticleWhen you bump into Mojibake in your development, don’t use table-based...
A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Unicode weirdness – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]. This sketched a mojibake problem where PDF to text converted files had odd looking character sequences. The...
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Know your TypeScript/JavaScript operators… or why having little ceremony...
Take this cool example I extended from [Wayback/Archive] Thomas on Twitter: “#Typescript quizz What will be the value of result1 and result2 ?” which lacked alt-badge, so I [Wayback/Archive] responded...
View ArticleOnline tools to test JSONPath Queries (plus a small list of Amazon top level...
I wanted to parse some JSON being sent back during an XMLHttpRequest (what a wrongly named call is that!) of which I grabbed the content using the web development tools of my Chromium based browser....
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RADProgrammer Style Guide · radprogrammer/radteam Wiki
I missed the below repository as when it got introduced early 2021 I was very much coping with recovering from a truckload of procedures curing my rectum cancer and its metastases. Anyway,...
View Articledelphi – How to have both VCL and FMX in one application? – Stack Overflow
From a long while back, but I forgot to add it as a blog post. The answer to [Wayback/Archive] delphi – How to have both VCL and FMX in one application? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Gad D...
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Delphi documentation: GetIt Local files – Google Docs
This [Wayback/Archive] GetIt Local files – Google Docs is so much better than the [WayBack/Archive] DocWiki documentation for at least these reasons: it is one coherent document it is complete and does...
View ArticleDelphicon 2023 – Day 2 – YouTube
Forgot to schedule this post: [Wayback/Archive] Delphicon 2023 – Day 2 – YouTube –jeroen
View Articlemsxml – Error when loading valid Windows-1252 document “System error:...
Yes, I know that Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 SP1 have been end-of-life for a long time, but in the wild they are still being used so here is for posterity: [Wayback/Archive] msxml – Error when loading...
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WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95
Just in case I ever need it for historic reasons: [Wayback/Archive] WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95 Because back in the days various Office products had localised VBA (at least German and French products...
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Delphi code by generative AI: arguably even worse than some oder development...
For my links archive: [Wayback/Archive] What is the best AI at Delphi – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en] … There is simply not enough Delphi code around for AI training. It is easy to have good coverage for...
View Articleskia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for...
This is a cool library which I missed when it was introduced while recovering from my extensive cancer treatments: [Wayback/Archive] skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics...
View ArticleFrom 2023: It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated –...
I forgot how I bumped into this, but a while ago I found this interesting 2023 post: [Wayback/Archive] It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com explaining naive...
View ArticleQuestion got closed in May 2025 due to bureaucrazy: Sites for beginning...
The whole idea of “community questions” was to create collective topics or references about important material without gaining any “points”. Stack Exchange has left that concept in the dark by closing...
View ArticleWhat Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO...
[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube Main takeaways for me: CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off there are...
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