Archiving Delphi documentation
[WayBack] How can I search for Delphi documentation? – Stack Overflow explains how I’ve been searching Delphi documentation for almost a decade. I love how Google Search filters can be used, and even...
View ArticleSome Indy SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy links
Some links on Indy SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy especially for the [WayBack] SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto method that was introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.2. [WayBack] Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Support for...
View ArticleG+ thread: Do i need to create one TFormatSettings instance for every thread?
A very interesting thread at [WayBack] Do i need to create one TFormatSettings instance for each thread that needs it? If i want the same settings (for all threads), th… – Dany Marmur – Google+ It’s...
View ArticleDelphi Rio “new overall direction of removing ARC”
Finally: “new overall direction of removing ARC” Via [WayBack] Delphi Rio – New IDE Configuration with Search Box – New compiler dialog – Improve code completion – Inline variables – Rafael Dipold –...
View ArticleDelphi: uninstalling the ancient CollabNet 1.7.5 version
Somehow the integration team at Embarcadero still hasn’t discovered there are newer CollabNet SVN Client versions than 1.7.5 which has been shipped since Delphi XE3 until Delphi XE6. The newer version...
View ArticleFinding your program with an “Access Denied” (Error code 5) after lunch break…
Via: [WayBack] I just returned from lunch break and found my program faulted with an “Access Denied” (Error code 5) error in a call to Mouse.GetCoursorPos and was wond… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) –...
View ArticleWhy I wish QC had been archived in full…
A quick search later and it seems I’m bumping into [WayBack] http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=125403 (the version I’m bugfixing is built using XE6). The workaround listed (in my case blanking...
View ArticleSome Delphi versions miss some of the Indy files
Depending on your Delphi versions, you will likely miss Indy files: Delphi < XE miss the ones mentioned at [WayBack] QualityCentral: 68314 Closed Missing Parts of Indy Source Delphi > XE8 miss...
View ArticleGoogle is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019; DelphiPraxis might start English...
From [WayBack1/WayBack2] Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019. “sunsetting” – clarification: “no fucks were given about current users” Edit: Sticky while the shock facto… – Lars Fosdal – Google+...
View ArticleDelphi: create implementations in the same order as the interface section and...
An interesting question at [WayBack] Previously i have not been big on IDE plugins.So i’m blatantly asking for pointers on the following, i.e. is there already such beasts? Or maybe i’m i… – Dany...
View ArticleValidating a nested XML element with an empty namespace using XSD – Stack...
In a quest for making Delphi Group Project XML files (with extension .groupproj) validate with XSD, I had to find out about [WayBack] Validating a nested XML element with an empty namespace using XSD –...
View ArticleDelphi: updating a (potentially non-existing) item in a generic TDictionary:...
“Documented” in Delphi 2010, [Archive.is] Generics.Collections.TDictionary.ExtractPair – RAD Studio VCL Reference, and functioning bug-free since Delphi XE2, but still hardly documented, [Archive.is]...
View ArticleReminder to self: make a start for an XSD that validates Delphi dproj files
Below are a few interesting things from this thread [WayBack] Any idea why Delphi (At least since Seattle) does this to Dproj filesand… – Tommi Prami – Google+. It’s likely that the WordPress system...
View ArticleReminder to self: check if David Nottage published source code the Firebase...
I need to check the outcome of this comment at [WayBack] Google analytics is no more avaliable for analytic Apps and send to firebase when you want to track a new App. How to do with firebase...
View ArticleDelphi 10.1 Berlin Update 1 exit error · GitHub
Reminder to self: check this when it re-occurs [WayBack] Delphi 10.1 Berlin Update 1 exit error · GitHub. there is an Invalid pointer operation. inside System.TObject.FreeInstance with a stack trace...
View ArticleAndreas on Twitter:
Cool: I never knew the Delphi debugger’s expression understood more than just expressions: compiler directives too! [WayBack] @AndyHTech on Twitter: The debugger’s expression evaluator can’t access an...
View ArticleSolution for Delphi – post-build event with multiple if/copy combinations...
My solution in [WayBack] delphi – post-build event with multiple if/copy combinations only execute if first file does not exist – Stack Overflow is an addendum to my 2014 post Delphi...
View ArticleReminder to Self: check if NameOf has been implemented yet
It’s been a wish for a very very long time: to get the name of an identifier as a string in Delphi: [WayBack] How to get current method’s name in Delphi 7? – Stack Overflow [WayBack] How To Get the...
View ArticleDelphi sorcery: Loop wars – measuring performance
Interesting read: [WayBack] Delphi sorcery: Loop wars – measuring performance. It is on optimisation of for…in constructs. More comments at [WayBack] Since there was this offtopic argument going on...
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Delphi 10.3 Rio got released; I’ll wait a while hoping to see more positive...
The first messages on G+ saw about Delphi 10.3 Rio are these: [WayBack] Delphi 10.3 is online. – Ralf Stocker – Google+ [WayBack] The platform selection in Delphi Rio seems to be down. – Gert Scholten...
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