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Delphi: reminder to self on differencing memory allocation dumps
Reminder to self: some great ideas to hunt for memory leaks while your application is running: differencing allocation dumps, DDDebug Memory Profiler, etc. TURBU Tech » Blog Archive » Wanted: live leak...
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Database Workbench v4 – version: 4.4.5. got released (via: News @ Upscene...
Today, Version 4.4.5 of Database Workbench got released. It mainly is a bugfix release (15 out of 18 issues were bugfixes, of the rest, 2 are feature requests, 1 enhancement): List of items...
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Turbo Pascal: My 1996 answer to Q: How can I reverse a TP .EXE or .TPU back...
Wow, did I really wrote that 18 years ago? Yes I did, and I was quoted in the (back then famous) FAQPAS3.TXT from (now Professor Emeritus) Timo Salmi: The third set of frequently (and not so...
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[FOSDEM 2014] Visualizing Delphi with Moose – YouTube
Jus finished watching this very interesting talk from the last FOSDEM 2014 conference: [FOSDEM 2014] Visualizing Delphi with Moose – YouTube. It is based on MOOSE (an open-source platform for software...
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Delphi: make sure you show the `ExceptAddr` and `ClassName` if you display in...
When handling `Application.OnException` add the `ExceptAddr` to in Delphi the menu `Search` -> `Goto address` has a chance of working, and the `ClassName` so you know what happened. You might want...
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Optimizing Delphi build speeds (via; Vin Colgin – Google+; IDE FixPack;...
An interesting thread by Vin Colgin – Google+ – IDE FixPack 5.4.1 shows 36.5% increase in BUILD speed under…. The post and discussion covers these topics: using IDE FixPack to increase performance...
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Delphi: TRttiContext.GetType versus TRttiContext.GetTypes is not about...
I’m so glad I just bumped into the below quote of at Delphi sorcery: CodeRage 6 feedback and DSharp news: He put an entire class into the implementation part of a unit registering it to the container...
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Delphi `TParser` links
I needed to modify some code that had been amended from the Delphi TParser class (which parses DFM files, but can be amended to other sources as well), so here are some links I found during my...
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Charset Detector :: Summary
In case I ever need it: Charset Detector :: Summary. It is emperical (you cannot 100% reliably find out what character set / encoding a file is), but has a good score. A similar problem is detecting...
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Delphi; Finally! #Spring4D is released in version 1.0 – no joke! …
Stefan Glienke made the announcement earlier today: Finally! #Spring4D is released in version 1.0 – no joke! You can get it directly from bitbucket using git (master) or download the zip from the 1.0...
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Getting Microsoft Product Keys back from the registry (via StackOverflow and...
Every once in a while, someone hoses their computer far enough that it has to be reinstalled, but the original Microsoft product keys are misplaced, and some creepy anti-virus tool disallows the...
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Appmethod registry keys for trying to build Spring4D
I’m researching the Spring4D build engine to compile and install the packages and sources for the first Appmethod release. These are the registry settings that I’ve found:...
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Cool post from Marc’s Blog: Delphi XE2′s hidden hints and warnings options
A while ago, I had to disable a couple of warnings from legacy code so I could first perform the Unicode conversion, then make time to eliminate the actual warning cause. This post was much helpful...
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how can I embed an mp4 video into a Firemonkey app (via: David M Williams –...
Last week, David M Williams posted a nice question on how can I embed an mp4 video into a Firemonkey app. The resolution – using the Deployment Manager and TPath – was remarkably simple based on my...
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Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed | ZDNet
The fixed OpenSSL 1.01g is already available in source and for many platforms. When do they become available anyone using OpenSSL 1.01 or 1.02 must deploy the patched version as fast as possible. You...
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Spring4D now has projects for Appmethod, but it cannot support Appmethod in...
Recently I pushed two sets ofchanges for Spring4D with packages and test projects that support Appmethod. The test projects are configured to use Firemonkey (conditional define FMX) as that is what...
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Obtaining a sub-interface from an interface (via: Stack Overflow: Delphi)
Eric Grange (author of DWS) asked for some interface magic: delphi – Obtaining a sub-interface from an interface – Stack Overflow. –jeroenFiled under: Delphi, Development, Software Development
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The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one –...
Interesting read: The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs. In other words: any language that merges null behaviour in...
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Big Ball of Mud | Jeroen on software
Just bumped into this Big Ball of Mud article by (another) Jeroen on software (this Jeroen is Jeroen De Dauw). It is a very nice article with annotations on the (very old, but still very prevalent Big...
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DDDebug Memory Profiler heading towards 1.0 (via: Stefan Meisner – Google+)
Just in case his blog is not yet on DelphiFeeds, there is this interesting post by Stefan Meisner – Google+ – DDDebug Memory Profiler heading towards 1.0 Version. A license is only EUR 79! –jeroenFiled...
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