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Delphi XE8 things I learned from the first week of G+ reading
It has CHM help. Yay! The best new feature in XE8 can be seen by pressing F1. Oh, how did I miss a…. GetIt is cool. Not NuGet level yet, but a good start. Is there any way to change the default GetIt...
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Android NDK Beginner’s Guide – Free Learning | PACKT Books
For Delphi and Android developers that want a deeper insight in the NDAK: only free today https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning Android NDK Beginner’s Guide Get deep insight into the...
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A future Delphi won’t download start page content from the Embarcadero site
The “Official statement” of Embarcadero about their recent hacks are in the form of comments on public messages mentioning the hacks, some asking to take discussions offline. They forgot to comment on...
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Anders Live | Build 2016 | Channel 9 – on Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and...
Anders Live – Build 2016 – Channel 9 Stage C907 – Speakers: Anders Hejlsberg, Seth Juarez Anders explaining about being a pragmatist ever since he started working on the Turbo Pascal predecessor in...
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Visual Studio 2015 Frequently Asked Questions – install size
Visual Studio is a pretty big product and will take over 30GB of disk space after installation Source: Visual Studio Frequently Asked Questions LOL. It’s about half the size of recent Delphi versions....
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Positive: Delphi 10.1 Berlin is out; negative all Embarcadero HTTPS sites...
The good news: Delphi 10.1 Berlin is out and released in Berlin (note: you might want to rename Delphi 10 Seattle into Delphi 10.0 Seattle). Some links: Bug fix list. What’s New – RAD Studio. From the...
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RubyMania has reached Delphi – Times helper method implementation for...
The below fragment is one of the favourite kinds of examples in the Ruby world: 5.times { |i| print i, " " } It uses the times method on Integer and prints: 0 1 2 3 4 There are many implementations of...
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Internal version numbers for conditional defines etc
Thanks Daniel Jackson for posting (the DocWiki hasn’t been update yet): Version Conditional: VER310 Product Version: 24 Package Version: 240 IDE Version: 18.0 Compiler Version: 31 Source: I had...
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Hacking is Important — Medium
“We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!” Source: Hacking is Important — Medium On hacking vs processes, being disruptive and how people think. Short stories about Borland, Apple, FaceBook and others....
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Anyone that installed D10.1 had the new installation dialogs that Embarcadero...
Conclusion: Web Installer = new installer, but forgets some Active X parts ISO Installer = old installer, but works fine –jeroen Source: Anyone that installed D10.1 had the new installation dialogs...
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The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey • The Register
Verily, they did make support for the Internet of Things. As always, brilliant writing. For instance: “But there was also the Youth Faction, who were indeed very young, some being barely in their...
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Delphi XE8 does not adhere the `$(PROJECTNAME)` in a “Unit Output Directory”,...
The background here was a quick project at a client where many .dproj files were in the same directory, but they suffered from conditional define differences. Which meant that even if they were all...
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SmartBear AQTime links
Since they’re hard to find on-line, and sometimes I need them when not having access to my collective browser or email history: http://downloads.smartbear.com/AQALicenseManager.exe...
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`Known IDE Packages` in Delphi prompted by a comment +Jeroen Wiert Pluimers made
Known IDE Packages in DelphiPrompted by a comment +Jeroen Wiert Pluimers ‘s Google+ post I had a look at what is actually listed in… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+ Source: Known IDE Packages in...
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How to: Set a Thread Name in Native Code
This is what the Delphi TThread.NameThreadForDebugging is based on: // // Usage: SetThreadName (-1, "MainThread"); // #include <windows.h> const DWORD MS_VC_EXCEPTION=0x406D1388; #pragma...
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Embarcadero closing down their Spanish office
Embarcadero closes down their spanish R&D office putting some 80 people on the street and diminishing the total Delphi R&D team. Former Chief Scientist Allen Bauer commented: The Spain office...
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Built-in Delphi XE6, XE7 and XE8 Fast Reports have issue “F2051 Unit...
I’ve seen this compiler error in Delphi XE8 and others in Delphi XE6 and XE7 using a project depending on the built-in FastReports: F2051 Unit fs_iinterpreter was compiled with a different version of...
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case insensitive files systems and git – Lesson Learned – I Can’t Get My Git...
via: Lesson Learned – I Can’t Get My Git Repo Clean! | DrupalEasy One file kept getting added to the git modified list: service/src/main/MySOAPdefinition.pas. It was part of a repository that had been...
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Im memoriam: Gwan Tan, friend, Delphi, Firebird, EKON and Delphi-Tage supporter
Overlijdensbericht Swie Gwan Tan Eindhovens Dagblad; 20160711 Last friday, my good friend Swie Gwan Tan suddenly passed away. Like most good friends, we didn’t see each other often enough, but when we...
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Delphi keeping EXE locked; some links
For my own reference when coping with “[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2039 Could not create output file” which happens with a lot of Delphi versions: Deleting EXE works: I was wondering if anyone saw any of the...
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