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remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference...
Remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide on bitsavers.org in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/8086. Intel MCS-86 is/was the 16-bit range of x86 processors. I...
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Upscene Productions: Database Workbench 4.3.1 free Lite Editions released
Database Workbench is my tool of choice for doing database work: it supports many backends in a consistent manner, and behaves a lot like Delphi (like running and debugging stored procedures)....
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Delphi: path names both in .dpr and .dproj, why? (refactoring – How to...
Cool: learned something new here: About the path names of files being in the .dproj as well as in the .dpr: @Jeroen – Looks like msbuild might need those entries, otherwise they’re possibly redundant,...
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Three XE3 hotfixes at the Delphi Registered User Downloads page
There are three RAD Studio / Delphi XE3 hotfixes on the Delphi Registered User Downloads page. Hotfix 3 is for the Professional edition only. The others are for all editions. RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 3:...
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Jim Tierney published some great Delphi XE3 LiveBinding posts
Jim Tierney isn’t on DelphiFeeds yet, so below are a few links to his great Delphi XE3 LiveBindings posts. Jim is one of the people that developed LiveBindings. In addition to that, he explains things...
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Twitter / alexnolannet: New utility: PDX Viewer Plus does not require drivers...
Nice!: New utility: PDX Viewer Plus 1.00 beta. A simple Paradox Database Viewer that does not require drivers or an install. –jeroen via: Twitter / alexnolannet: New utility: PDX Viewer Plus …. Filed...
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.NET/C# duh moment of the day: “A char can be implicitly converted to ushort,...
A while ago I had a “duh” moment while calling a method that had many overloads, and one of the overloads was using int, not the char I’d expect. The result was that a default value for that char was...
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C#: any c# – .NET Enumeration allows comma in the last field – Stack Overflow
Thanks Nick Craver for answering this on StackOverflow. Array initializers can be specified in field declarations (§17.4), local variable declarations (§15.5.1), and array creation expressions...
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x64 debugging on Windows: usually not directly by the IDE, but trough a debug...
While developing x64 applications, most Windows development tools are actually running in x86 mode, and use an intermediate x64 layer to debug the x64 process even for local debugging. For Visual...
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Delphi and C# compiler oddities
When developing in multiple languages, it sometimes is funny to see how they differ in compiler oddities. Below are a few on const examples. Basically, in C# you cannot go from a char const to a string...
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Delphi Code Monkey: Why Delphi developers should learn Objective-C and XCode
I’ve requested the feed of Delphi Code Monkey by Warren Postma to be added to DelphiFeeds. In the mean time, read this post, it is awesome: Delphi Code Monkey: Why Delphi developers should learn...
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New BitSavers.org PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland...
The PDF Archive at bitsavers.org has recently put online these raster image PDF scans from Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994) and Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993) Remnants of the past,...
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Interesting: Project “W” game “Phase 2″ and multi-platform version on the...
On my interest list: game written in Delphi and now being ported to FreePascal under Lazarus for multi-platform reasons: Agenda for 2013 | www.SaschaWillems.de. –jeroen Filed under: Delphi,...
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New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers (including the Final May 1990 issue)
Back in the days I started programming, Micro Cornucopia was a wonderful magazine, so I’m glad that BitSavers scanned a few more issues and put them online today, a week after some great PDF scans:...
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Gloegg@Bonn: Delphi and Sleepsort
If Gloegg@Bonn has posted a few nice Delphi entries over the last couple of years, so he should be added to DelphiFeeds. His last one was a very funny post on the Delphi implementation of Sleep sort....
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Impossible: Property using Generics in Delphi....
Just in case you wonder about Property using Generics in Delphi, they are not possible. Thanks David for mentioning it, Hallvard for mentioning it even earlier and Rudy for confirming it. These are...
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Immensely insightful answer on “syntax – Is C++ context-free or...
Thanks Warren Postma for this Google Plus mention: both the question and answer are incredibly insightful. And indeed: the code from the answer is not possible in with Generics Delphi (: –jeroen via:...
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Allen Bauer on: delphi – What’s the difference between CreateWnd and...
One of the really nice contributions on StackOverflow by Allen Bauer is almost 3 years ago. It is about these three Delphi VCL methods introduced by TWinControl to make control development easier:...
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Cool: your own queries on Stack Exchange Data Explorer (StackOverflow: My...
This is way cool, and has been there for a long time, and I completely missed it until recently (: On the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, you can write your own queries for any of the StackExchange sites...
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A couple of notes on NMQ_MQ_LIB
A couple of notes on NMQ_MQ_LIB and the WebSphere MQ aka MQSeries client libraries: NMQ_MQ_LIB specifies the MQ DLL to use Depending in your interface, the NMQ_MQ_LIB can be an environment variable,...
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