WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter
Reminder to self: check out WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter and the state it is in now. via: [WayBack] Hi, I’ve created a C to Delphi converter.Because it’s been so useful to me...
View Articlemultithreading – Closure in TTask.Run(AnonProc) not released after AnonProc...
For my link archive: [WayBack] multithreading – Closure in TTask.Run(AnonProc) not released after AnonProc has finished – Stack Overflow via: [WayBack] How the combination of inline, interfaces and...
View ArticlePacket Sender is a good tool when debugging protocols: free utility to send &...
It was fitting to bump into [WayBack] Packet Sender is a good tool when debugging protocols…” Written by Dan Nagle… – Lars Fosdal – Google+ on the day presenting [WayBack]...
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libssh-delphi will migrate from Mercurial on BitBucket to git on GitHub soon...
When git on Windows suddenly gives you this when the repository URL opens fine in Chrome: C:\Users\jeroenp\Versioned>git clone https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/libssh2-delphi Cloning into...
View Article15 months later: what happened to Delphi Language Enhancements?
This is a reminder to myself to see what Idera has accomplished in 15 months on the suggested [WayBack] Delphi Language Enhancements after it bought Embarcadero some 30 months ago on credit and 21...
View ArticleDelphi: do not mix interfaces and classes part X
A very interesting discussion on what the mixing of interfaces and classes can get you into: [WayBack] I’ve got an interface with generics which accepts classes:IMyGeneric = interface…..end;What I want...
View ArticleUpdate for DprojNormalizer | The Art of Delphi Programming
Important small [WayBack] Update for DprojNormalizer | The Art of Delphi Programming: it fixes usage of SanitizedProjectName in all other properties. It is now at [WayBack] Version 2.2.1. via:...
View ArticleA Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak – Meta Stack...
I wish many other companies would disclose post mortem information like this: [WayBack] A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak – Meta Stack Overflow via: [WayBack] Interesting and...
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Efficient and easy-to-use JSON and BSON library – grijjy blog
Cool library for Delphi: [WayBack] Efficient and easy-to-use JSON and BSON library – grijjy blog On my list of stuff to use when I’m in need for JSON or BSON. –jeroen via: [WayBack] Looking for an...
View ArticleWizard to change Delphi Icon so it used the Projects’ Icon
Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+ wrote this: [WayBack] Just an inspiration from attila kovacs (too many guys with this name on G+ to…: A Delphi Wizard that adds a menu item so the Delphi Icon will...
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Do not use non-ASCII characters as identifiers – not all your tools support...
For a very long time I’ve discouraged people from using non-ASCII characters in identifiers. It still holds. In the past, transliterations messed things up. Even with increased support for Unicode,...
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Disable the Delphi clipboard history; originally by Attila Kovacs at...
Delphi Clipboard History [WayBack] Castalia had a Clipboard History for Delphi since a long time and since the acquisition of it around Delphi XE8, that was [Archive.is] integrated into the IDE for...
View ArticleImprove Android and iOS debug compilation speed – grijjy blog – Set the Debug...
If you develop mobile apps with Delphi, you know it: compiling for Android and iOS is sloooooooooooooow, especially for debug builds. This little tip makes compiling Debug builds much faster…… Set the...
View ArticleDelphi attributes cannot use `const x: array of string` as argument
[WayBack] I want to annotate some of my enumerated types with human facing names. So I want to write: type[Names(‘Explicit time domain’, ‘Implicit time domain’,… – David Heffernan – Google+ This does...
View ArticleDavid Heffernan was on a bug reporting spree. Compiler unit tests could have...
For my archive, most bugs around UInt64 handling, lots of them in the Windows x64 compiler, all by David Heffernan: [WayBack] Who can guess what value is returned by StrToFloat(‘߀’) if the PUREPASCAL...
View ArticleWhy you should try to avoid using Variant operations in Delphi
[WayBack] Delphi “WAT?!” of the day: var v1, v2: Variant; begin v1 := True; v2 := True… shows some interesting code. The [WayBack] Variant Types (Delphi) – RAD Studio: Variant Type Conversions (and the...
View ArticleTTemporaryFileStream – via DELPHI AREA » How to have a temporary stream, with...
I needed a TTemporaryFileStream and found it at [WayBack] DELPHI AREA » How to have a temporary stream, with no size limit. It taught me that CreateFileA and CreateFileW (the ANSI and Unicode versions...
View Article… / source / Native / Delphi / Library / Data / DataSetEnumeratorUnit.pas —...
Reminder to self that I one day need to write more about this enumerator: [WayBack] jeroenp / BeSharp.net / source / Native / Delphi / Library / Data / DataSetEnumeratorUnit.pas — Bitbucket It’s not...
View ArticleReminder to Self: `TProc` is incompatible with parameterless procedures on...
I knew that methods on interfaces were not compatible with the procedure of object (like [WayBack] TProc)or function of object construct, but they are also not compatible with the reference to...
View ArticleTip for the doc team: make TMonitor.Enter docs more clear on non-blocking...
Even when the Delphi team was large, the documentation was lacking, so with the reduced Delphi team size, I don’t have high expectations of the below to get fixed. But since much of the post Delphi 7...
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