Anonymous
“In their book Design Patterns, Gamma et al (a.k.a. the gang of four) lay the foundation for a new way of approaching software design. […] In this article we will first look at the language… … Read more
17 years ago in TDM0
Anonymous
One of the key reasons that computers have conquered the world is that they have been following Moore’s Law with faster, smaller and cheaper CPUs (and similar “laws” and improvements of memory, hard disks, graphics… … Read more
17 years ago in TDM, Win320
Anonymous
I think that the best TDM article title I’ve had is Slimming the Fat off Your Apps. It was published in November 1998 and we’re still in the Delphi 4 era (but as always many… … Read more
17 years ago in TDM, Win320
Anonymous
Delphi 4, released in the summer of 1998, was one of the most notorious Delphi releases ever. The initial release contained a large number of serious bugs, and it later became clear that the release… … Read more
17 years ago in hack, TDM, Win320
Anonymous
“Consider yourself an Delphi expert? Here is a test question for you: Can you name the 8 methods of TObject that are part of the process of constructing and destroying objects in Object Pascal” That… … Read more
17 years ago in TDM0
Anonymous
Inspired by the apparent popularity if my YAST article, a few months later, in July 1996, I published my second Delphi Magazine article – called Hooking HeapCheck. While the article is mainly irrelevant to 32-bit… … Read more
17 years ago in hack, TDM0
Anonymous
“Have you ever had any really hard-to-find bugs in your code? If not, you can skip this article, otherwise you’d better keep on reading!” The above quote was the enticing introduction to my first full-feature… … Read more
17 years ago in TDM0
Anonymous
As you probably know The Delphi Magazine is no longer in publication. As their web-site indicates the articles and source code repository will only be online for a short while longer, but it is still… … Read more
17 years ago in Blog, TDM0
Anonymous
We have finally come to an end in the long running series of of The Delphi Language Chapter teasers from Jon Shemitz’ .NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers book. All the chapter excerpts that I have posted… … Read more
17 years ago in DN4DP0
Anonymous
This post continues the series of The Delphi Language Chapter teasers from Jon Shemitz’ .NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers book. Last time we looked at .NET and Win32 constructors. This is the final post in this… … Read more
17 years ago in DN4DP0
Anonymous
This post continues the series of The Delphi Language Chapter teasers from Jon Shemitz’ .NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers book. Last time we looked at class references. This posts covers .NET vs Win32 constructors. Note that… … Read more
17 years ago in DN4DP0
Anonymous
This post continues the series of The Delphi Language Chapter teasers from Jon Shemitz’ .NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers book. Last time we looked at differences in abstract class behavior. Here we look at class references…. … Read more
17 years ago in DN4DP0
Anonymous
This post continues the series of The Delphi Language Chapter teasers from Jon Shemitz’ .NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers book. Last time we looked at initialization and finalization sections. This post covers some minor differences in… … Read more
17 years ago in DN4DP0
Anonymous
This post continues the series of The Delphi Language Chapter teasers from Jon Shemitz’ .NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers book. Last time we looked at the .NET and Win32 casting issues. Here we quickly covers some… … Read more
17 years ago in DN4DP0
Anonymous
The Russian Delphi programmer Sergey Antonov (or Антонов Сергей – aka. 0xffff) is a real hacker in the positive sense. He approached me with some intriguing assembly code that implements the equivalent of the C# yield statement!… … Read more
17 years ago in hack, Win320