Thinking about you today Paweł
Today it is 5 years ago that Paweł passed away. For me it is hard to believe that I’m still around and this post feels like yesterday: R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly missed, not just in the...
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Enabling GitHub pages to a HTML or markdown GitHub project is dead easy:...
A while ago I wrote about Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain. Doing the full “host on your custom domain” route was a big tougher than I hoped...
View ArticleState machines in Delphi and .NET
Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant: A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET. Since then the world has...
View ArticleAsk Delphi
LOL, Ionica taught me about a [Wayback/Archive] Ask Delphi “oracle”. So I could not resist: Ask Delphi: Is Delphi a programming language? Delphi speculates: “It’s expected”...
View ArticleBruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite...
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter From the languages that I have been using most:...
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Memories of the Twitter Fail Whale that got discontinued 10 years ago (HT...
From 2008 to fall 2013, Twitter used the Fail Whale, a 2006 artwork by Yiying Lu originally titled “Lifting A Dreamer”, to indicate problems on their site. Now that it is about a year after Musk burned...
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Happy birthday Turbo Pascal! Some marketing and Borland Conference videos
Some of you might remember [WayBack] Borland – Wikipedia, that today in 1983 shipped the first version of Turbo Pascal [Wikipedia]. It was of great influence, leading to other Turbo languages, Delphi,...
View ArticleWatching “Why is C# Evolving This Way?” strengthened my realisation that the...
Though after C# 4 (covariance and contravariance) and C# 5 (async/await) the evolvement of C# might have seemed to slow down a bit, the big picture hasn’t as shown in the [Wayback/Archive] Why is C#...
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In memory of Matthias Eißing (Embarcadero, formerly...
Earlier today, I got the sad news that my friend Matthias Eißing suddenly passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Valentines day will never be the same. Rest in Peace dear Matthias Eißing....
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Oh boy, VB.NET and JavaScript both have a `with` keyword too!
Last year, within a week, I saw two tweets of languages that, like Pascal, have a with statement as well: [Archive.is] Shawn Wildermuth on Twitter: “JavaScript’s Forgotten Keyword (with)” [Archive.is]...
View ArticleThe Global Delphi Summit: June 13+14 in “Amsterdam” (actually the H20 venue...
Cool event – for me even relatively close (about 60 minutes driving) – [Wayback/Archive] The Global Delphi Summit taking place this year on June 13 and 14. The speaker line-up is great as are their...
View Articlewebcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam...
This is cool and works well (including the portable version) :[Wayback/Archive] webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite. Most code is C++ with bits using the...
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Field Tested Systems
Besides a cool portable spectrometer and software (written in Delphi), [WayBack] Field Tested Systems also has a really nice poster showing the spectrogram fingerprints of all the elements: Via Delphi:...
View Articledelphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in...
From a long time go and a project that got cancelled, but maybe in the future I will need a similar thing again: back in the days not all raw key codes were readily documented or converted correctly...
View ArticleReminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX...
This is from a long time ago [Wayback/Archive] Does Delphi support all MMX/SSE instructions? – Stack Overflow: Delphi 2007 supports the MMX and SSE instruction sets. Certainly, Delphi 2010 and XE...
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Delphi has had a more type safe FreeAndNil or a while now, but in order to do...
During my year+ of cancer treatments, Embarcadero did a tiny thing that makes [Wayback/Archive]FreeAndNil safer to use. In order to do so, the method now lies to you by taking a const [ref] parameter...
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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds...
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If...
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Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being...
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com MCH2022 on Twitter: “My Ubiquity setup stopped working (again). This happens way to often in my opinion. I have setup a monitoring environment to debug...
View Articlestring – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow...
Quite a while ago [Wayback/Archive] string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow asked by [Wayback/Archive] User Jeff was answered by [Wayback/Archive] Andreas Rejbrand:...
View ArticleIf you sunset things, at least remove references: Finding information (IDE...
The sad thing about sunsetting useful resources is that usually a proper cleanup is not being performaned. Take for instance QC: it died 7 years ago (Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of...
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