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List of “Plain Text Offenders”; hopefully someone publishes a list of https...
This Plain Text Offenders site lists email screenshots of organisations sending back plain-text passwords they kept on file (According to Robert Love, Idera/Embarcadero should be on the list as well)....
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Why I care about QC and the Delphi community.
QC now forwards to QP and it is no longer possible to see your older open QC posts. Since the RAD Studio IDE still appear to report issues to QC – how can we now keep track of our submitted issues?...
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QC does this logon call to...
I drafted this in 2014 and given the recent QC news: I was quite shocked to see that the Embarcadero QC client logs in over HTTP, not over HTTPS, especially since it passes the password in plain text....
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QC overview
I wish I made WayBack copies when I drafted this QC post last year: Reported (5): ??? (not sure how to query; they do appear in the “All” query below) Open (28):...
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Keep consistent formatting – via: The Oracle at Delphi: Code is the language,...
When this developer finally went to commit his/her changes, they had also reformatted most of the codebase into his/her preferred coding style/format. This was even for files for which no other changes...
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Bug fixes from both sides for “Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi...
It looks like Microsoft and Embarcadero solved their ends for [WayBack] Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well… : [WayBack] Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16215 for...
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When someone writes UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings to the same file in binary...
A while ago, I had to fix some stuff in an application that would write – using a binary mechanism – UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings (part of it XML in various flavours) to the same byte stream without...
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Bug: Initialisation of Delphi Record containing a dynamic array with...
Bug: Initialisation of Delphi Record containing a dynamic array with ‘Implicit’ class operator – Stack Overflow [WayBack] Filed as [RSP-16084] Compiler produces wrong code: Initialisation of Delphi...
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MarcoDelphiBooks on GitHub
Just in case I need any of them: now in chronological order. MarcoDelphiBooks – http://www.marcocantu.com ObjectPascalHandbook MasteringDelphi3 MasteringDelphi4 MasteringDelphi5 MasteringDelphi6...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INzECItF6ew Delphi, where are you?
Edit: in the mean time, the author took his video off-line. The G+ thread however is still interesting. From a while ago: [WayBack] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INzECItF6ew Delphi, where are you? –...
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BorCon 97, 20 years ago, Star Wars, 40 years ago
Marco Cantu (right) and Jeroen Pluimers (left) in 1997 The BorCon 97 opening – today 20 years ago – was so much fun: the a Star Wars like opening crawl about a tiny company fighting the – then regarded...
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A slightly optimized TDateTime functions (YearOf, MonthOf, DayOf) …
Besides the optimised versions of these functions, I learned the most from these comments: The DivMod should be faster. Should really be a single division. The CPU instruction will give you both div...
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Anyone knows if Raize subscription before the Raize acquisition is still valid?
It’s from a while ago, so I wonder if this is still true: I just got my Embarcadero update to RC6 that includes #10Seattle support. –jeroen Source: Can I say that I’m a bit disappointed by the way...
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Sending various HTTP request kinds using curl
I’ve been using cURL but always had a feeling not to its potential basically because the cURL man page [WayBack] is both massive and lacks concrete useful practical examples. For instance, I knew about...
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There is a way to convert ‘array of const’ (open array) to TValue: Asbjørn...
Brilliant solution by Asbjørn Heid: So the solution I came up with is to use the observation that the “array of const” is “array of TVarRec”, and that “array of TVarRec” is passed as as two arguments:...
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Microsoft Research’s manual memory management for .NET: exactly one owner...
A very interesting piece of research, in which I see a very familiar concept of single owners and I new concept of them providing shields for accessing the manually managed memory. I do miss mentions...
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Delphi call stack from exception…
Lars Fosdal: MADExcept and Eurekalog are good products (and there is a JVCL tool as well). If you run your app in the IDE, you get the stack there – but for now, you need to acquire a third party...
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On List growth strategies and memory managers
Interesting for anybody working on list growth strategies. In this case with some Delphi background information and in depth coverage of FastMM memory (re)allocation strategies. Stefan Glienke (of...
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If you ever wonder why you get no (or incomplete) RTTI from a control that you…
Thanks Stefan Glienke for posting this a while ago: If you ever wonder why you get no (or incomplete) RTTI from a control that you inherited from a DevExpress one – then look into cxVer.inc where it...
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Always a good idea to run firewalled
I just tried to quit Delphi when Refactor Rename screwed up again: —jeroenFiled under: Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development
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