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Bruce McGee
What goes up must come down. Spinnin’ wheel got to go ’round. — Blood, Sweat & Tears A colleague asked me why I hadn’t written any new blog posts in a while. He’s not wrong. I… … Read more
6 months ago
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[Yukon Beta Blog] THashset
Bruce McGee
A HashSet is a high-performance, unordered collection of unique elements. Delphi 12 introduces THashSet and TObjectHashSet classes in System.Generics.Collections. Of course, Delphi has had other options for this kind of thing. TStrin… … Read more
1 year ago
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[Yukon Beta Blog] Graphing Unit Dependencies
Bruce McGee
“A picture is worth a thousand words lines of code” Obligatory disclaimer: “This blog post is based on a pre-release version of the RAD Studio software and it has been written with specific permission by… … Read more
1 year ago
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World Backup Day
Bruce McGee
“Better safe than sorry” I recently learned that March 31st is World Backup Day. If I were a cynical person, I might assume that this is just a fake holiday invented by Big Storage to… … Read more
2 years ago in Backups, Best practices, Disaster Recovery
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Don’t Ignore Compiler Warnings. Unless…
Bruce McGee
One of the advantages of using a modern compiler is that it can generate hints and warnings that suggest improvements or highlight potential bugs in your code. Well worth paying attention to. This post was… … Read more
3 years ago in Best practices, Delphi
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Delphi Compiler Speed
Bruce McGee
Since it was released in 1995, one of Delphi’s defining features has been its lightning-fast compiler. And now Embarcadero is telling us that the compiler is even faster in Delphi 10.4.2 and faster still in… … Read more
3 years ago in compiler, Delphi
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Delphi Executable File Size
Bruce McGee
A friend asked if I had noticed that the size of executables generated by the latest version of Delphi (Delphi 11 Alexandria), seemed smaller than in the previous version. Interesting.I hadn’t heard anyone talk about… … Read more
3 years ago in compiler, Delphi
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Curated List of Delphi Books
Bruce McGee
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there are lots of modern, up to date books published about Delphi and Pascal with more being written all the time. Image: National Library of Greece… … Read more
4 years ago in Books, Delphi
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FireMonkey 3D – Sun, Earth and Moon
Bruce McGee
Following up on an earlier post, Simple FireMonkey 3D, I’m going to make a simplified model of the solar system to explore multiple 3D objects interacting with each other in a scene. I’ll also play around… … Read more
4 years ago in 3d, Delphi, FireMonkey
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Firemonkey Particles
Bruce McGee
We see images with connected points used a lot in diagrams, illustrations, advertising and just cool abstract art. They visually represent networks of related things and ideas or connectivity. The web, for example. It’s effective… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, Particles
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Quick and Dirty FireMonkey Donut Gauge
Bruce McGee
Someone was asking where they could find gauge style chart components for FireMonkey like the ones you might see on a dashboard. They even helpfully posted some pictures.At least one of these looks like it… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey
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Simple FireMonkey 3D
Bruce McGee
Creating 3D software is undeniably cool, but it might be intimidating, what with all of the math and unfamiliar concepts. And the math… Fortunately, FireMonkey does a lot of the heavy lifting for us. You can… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey
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Learning New Things – C++ for Absolute Beginners
Bruce McGee
I have a bit of a preoccupation with new Delphi programming books and have blogged about them a bunch of times. The keen-eyed among you will notice that this is not a Delphi book, but… … Read more
4 years ago in Books, C++
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Improve the Delphi Documentation
Bruce McGee
I know it’s sometimes popular to reflexively say that Delphi’s help sucks. And it’s not like Borland and Embarcadero haven’t given us some cause, but the documentation really has gotten much better over the years…. … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Documentation
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