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Delphi hinting directives: deprecated, experimental, library and platform
I’ve been experimenting with the Delphi hinting directives lately to make it easier to migrate some libraries to newer versions of Delphi and newer platforms. Hinting directives (deprecated,...
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Delphi: RandomizeIfNeeded
Calling Randomize too often can make your Random numbers even less random. Sometimes having the Randomize call in a unit initialization section is not practical. Hence this little method that I think I...
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Files in your Delphi settings directory; How to relocate the Favourites on...
Delphi and 3rd party tools keep some of the settings in your %AppData% directory. Much more convenient than the registry as they are easier to read and modify when needed (also easier to damage...
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The Delphi MESSAGE directive: don’t forget quotes!
The Delphi MESSAGE directive is a very powerful one, you can generate compiler hints, warnings and errors with it, even fatal ones that abort compilation. The compiler will return error codes H1054...
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Delphi fun code: How to make a water effect on TImage or anything? (via:...
Every once in a while you see a question with some great code in the answers. This is such a time: image – How to make a water effect on TImage or anything? – Stack Overflow. –jeroenFiled under:...
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Barry Kelly on “Implementing Closures” in Delphi (via: Google Groups)
It is always nice to see one of the compiler engineers write down how something was implemented. In this case, Barry Kelly explains in comp.compilers on Implementing Closures in Delphi 2009. The post...
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Barry Kelly on how the Delphi Compiler used to be compiled (via: Google Groups)
not 100% accurate any more (now that the compiler gets more and more LLVM), but still accurate for most of the x86/x64 parts: Barry Kelly explaining how the Delphi compiler is built. Some more of his...
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Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
Interesting: A Dark Pattern is a type of user interface that appears to have been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A log: ClientDataSets and FDMemTables Compared (Cary Jensen)
Session: ClientDataSets and FDMemTables Compared ClientDataSets are in-memory tables that have been in RAD Studio since Delphi 3, but there’s a new kid in town, the FireDAC FDMemTable. This...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: NestedDataSets in ClientDataSets (Cary Jensen)
Session: NestedDataSets in ClientDataSets A column of a ClientDataSet can contain a dataset, a tabular structure containing one or more columns and zero or more records. This presentation continues...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: Working with PDF and Office Documents using VCL and...
Session: Working with PDF and Office Documents using VCL and FireMonkey In this session, we take a deep look into the all-new multi-format document processing toolset for Delphi from Gnostice. We take...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: InterBase Keynote (Stephen Ball)
Session: InterBase Keynote If you need to manage distributed data over multiple locations then don’t miss the product address for InterBase! The next generation of InterBase is coming soon and will be...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: Bluetooth Classic and LE Programming with VCL and FMX (Diego...
Session: Bluetooth Classic and LE Programming with VCL and FMX Level: Intermediate Diego Navarro – Embarcadero Q&A: Audience Question Q:...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: Understanding Distributed Version Control (Robert Love)
Session: Understanding Distributed Version Control This session helps developers who have been working with a Centralized Version Control System such as SVN to understand and use Distributed Version...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: Android Push Notifications (Jeff Lefebvre)
Downloads: CodeRage 9 Files! This year I presented Push notifications with Android. Here are the files mentioned in the session! Here is the android project: CodeRage Delphi Here is the TGCMReceiver...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: Advanced RTTI in Object Pascal (Ray Konopka)
Session: Advanced RTTI in Object Pascal Runtime Type Information RTTI has always been a core feature of Delphi. But until recently, it was complex and limited. Now, RTTI is significantly more powerful,...
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CodeRage 9 Q&A: Creating Beautiful Animations in your Desktop and Mobile...
Session: Creating Beautiful Animations in your Desktop and Mobile Applications The session demonstrates how to create beautiful timeline-based animations in Object Pascal using the Mitov Software’s...
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Why I dislike GoToWebinar by Citrix: 0 stars out of 5.
Last week, I viewed to webinars. A smaller one Geek Fest – Automating the ForgeRock Platform Installation about Ansible installation of Unix machines, and the first 70% of the last day ofCodeRage 9 |...
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Delphi, C#, VB.NET and SQL all have escapes to use reserved words as identifiers
Normally you would not want to use a reserved word as an identifier. But sometimes it can be very convenient, for instance for a code generator that wraps remoting calls or does ORM. Both Delphi and C#...
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Delphi; Reminder to self: “Parallel Programming Library” in XE7 is the end...
Like any long term project (Spring4D took about 5 years to release version 1.0 and still needs a lot of mobile polising) the “Delphi Parallel Library” took a long time to complete. It got incorporated...
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