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Last Tuesday, 24th October I did some sessions at EKON 21, one of which was on Creative Debugging Techniques. During the session there was a section where I was trying to demonstrate an idea or… … Read more
7 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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My development machine in my main week day job does not have some custom hardware that a nearby test machine does. It doesn’t make sense to load up the development environment onto the test machine… … Read more
7 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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Long ago there was an issue with the RAD Studio IDE (Delphi and C++Builder both). It meant that when changing certain project options or switching build configurations, the (XML format) project file would get saved… … Read more
7 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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Quite some while back I answered a question on Stack Overflow, which explained how to build a Delphi project from the command line and also how to deploy it. The context of the question was… … Read more
7 years ago in android, Delphi0
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I’m delighted to say that later this month I’ll be over in Cologne speaking at EKON 21, which runs from 23rd to 25th October, 2017 and is being held in Cologne in Germany. I’m doing… … Read more
7 years ago in Delphi0
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During CodeRage XI I had a couple of Lightning Talks broadcast on a subject I’ve been intending to write up for quite a long time, but haven’t quite managed to achieve: how to emit debug… … Read more
8 years ago in android, CPlusPlus, Delphi, iphone, Mac, windows0
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A couple of years ago (exactly!) I posted on this blog about an article I’d written on accessing NFC tags from Delphi Android applications. At the time this was quite an involved exercise, requiring custom… … Read more
8 years ago in android, Delphi0
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All the preparations are nigh on complete and this evening I shall be on a short aeroplane ride to Holland (or The Netherlands, if you prefer) to present a couple of Delphi talks at one… … Read more
8 years ago in android, Delphi0
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Over the years since Delphi 3 various people have written about aspects of Code Templates and Live Templates, but not particularly recently. I find Code Templates fabulously helpful and Live Templates add some real power… … Read more
8 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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My blog editor of choice is proving to be a little quisquous at the moment.Historically I have used Windows LiveWriter, part of Windows Essentials (whose development stopped in 2012, but was still available here (web… … Read more
9 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi, windows0
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I’ve been rather quiet on here lately. But I’ve kept my eyes open on what things have been appearing on the ARPANET relating to Delphi. I kept a list of things that piqued my interest…. … Read more
9 years ago in Delphi0
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Well, well, well, it turns out I’ve been working for myself for two decades now! I left Borland in January 1995, thinking I could manage maybe about 5 years if I was lucky and did… … Read more
10 years ago in Delphi0
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