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Delphi XE2: spontaneous Product or License Validation Error | General
Every once in a while an AV in Delphi manifests itself in a very odd way. Usually it is refactoring, code completion or any of the ‘insight’ features doing odd things. This time, it got me into a...
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IBM Pascal Compiler Aug81 pdf (via: Bitsavers’ Index of /pdf/ibm/pc/dos)
Wow, I didn’t know that IBM had their own DOS based Pascal compiler for the PC in 1981, but they did, and BitSavers just uploaded their manual IBM_Pascal_Compiler_Aug81.pdf Edit: document moved from...
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Run batch file from Delphi IDE (via: Stack Overflow)
In pre-Galileo versions of Delphi it was easy to run a .BAT or .CMD file as a main project file: just press F9. Thanks to iManBiglary for posting how to do this in modern Delphi versions. Paraphrased:...
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Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than. Well basically anything. About 30k was the size our complete IDE in the 80s century. (Thanks @pstalenh and @rand) –jeroen Filed under: Delphi, Development,...
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Are Delphi programmers more happy than other programmers? (via: Sentiment...
Interesting graph here: Evented Github Adventure – Sentiment Analysis of Github Commits. It seems that Delphi programmers have a much better happy/sad word rate than other programmers. –jeroen Filed...
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Crap: the outsourcing party of the client wrote C-code like this in 2005, and...
I was involved in a big project migrating a complex stack from Windows XP to Windows 7 x86, and got scared this !@#$ out of me. The stack communicated to WebSphere MQ on AS/400 from Windows, and on the...
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Delphi XE4: installer batch file for “experimental GExperts + code formatter...
Slightly more than a month ago, Thomas Müller release the experimental GExperts + code formatter for Delphi XE4. Since there is no official GExperts for Delphi XE4 build yet, his installation...
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Delphi XE4 is out (via: Installing the Platform Assistant on a Mac – RAD Studio)
Over the last couple of days, I was asking myself “wow, the docwiki has been updated for the Delphi XE4 update 1 version of the Mac edition of the Platform Assistant, how long until the official update...
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Delphi XE2: Update 4 is not the final update… Be sure to check out HotFix 1
When at clients, I often see Delphi XE2 only updated until Delphi XE2 Update 4 (sometimes not even Update 3 is installed, which means you can run into Strange Format result in Delphi XE2 when using...
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Vintage Dave is working on a new multithreaded memory manager for Delphi that...
The comment thread at via The Oracle at Delphi » Give in to the ARC side is very interesting. So soon after writing a StackOverflow answer on Delphi Memory Managers yesterday, this one by David M (aka...
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CodeRage Mobile day 2 QA
I had a bit of trouble getting into CodeRage Mobile: somehow the confirmation email never reached the pluimers.com servers. After retrying today, @EmbarcaderoTech sent a GotoMeeting link that worked....
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DIPP allows you to remove conditional directives from Delphi source code (via...
Cool to know that DIPP is able to strip directives from Delphi source code: The freeware program DIPP from Delphi Inspiration can remove conditionals....
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Some great Delphi XE4 iOS push notification demos by Luis Felipe González...
On the blog from Embarcadero MVP Luis Felipe González Torres are some great Delphi XE4 iOS demos. However, the blog is Spanish (that’s probably why he is not on DelphiFeeds), so if you do not...
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2D transformations as answer to “delphi – Change orientation of a shape”–...
Sometimes a generic answer to a specific answer gives people a lot more insight into what they actually want to accomplish than a specific answer. Plus that the knowledge does not only apply to VCL in...
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UCSD Pascal – memories from the past….
Just found out that the kind people at BitSavers added some scanned USCD Pascal documentation in PDF format: The 1981 Softech Microsystems UCSD p-System and UCSD Pascal version IV_internal Architecture...
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Delphi virtual constructors: example of the “Factory” design pattern (via:...
I bumped into the below answer that I gave a while (what is 4 years in a developer’s life ) on StackOverflow. It is about Delphi Design Patterns. Sepcifically the Factory Pattern, and explains how...
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Reminder to Self: Messagepack / BSON / ProtocolBuffers
Need to find/create a Delphi compatible version of Messagepack or BSON. –jeroen via Serializing and deserializing (packing/unpacking) to a file and/or memorystream with MessagePack in C# ». Filed...
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Embarcadero SummerSchool 2013 Lesson 4 Q&A
Replay video’s can be viewed through streaming.embarcadero.com (where you can also find the other series, downloads, etc). The SummerSchool 2013 replay videos are at...
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Delphi: do not do “if (not DirectoryExists(path)) then ForceDirectories(path))”
During code reviews, I often see people do things like this: if (not DirectoryExists(Path)) then ForceDirectories(Path)) or this: if (not TDirectory.Exists(Path)) then...
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Conversion between absolute and relative paths in Delphi – Stack Overflow
A while ago, I needed routines to work with absolute and relative paths on Windows. These links were very useful: The Delphi TPath.IsDriveRooted function (I think it was introduced in Delphi 2010)...
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