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VOTELots of Little Bits
Cobus Kruger
My last post, Inducing The Great Divide, got quite a reaction. I didn’t really expect the approach to be particularly controversial, but it turns out it was. Lot’s of people asked for more source code… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 2010, drunken-philosophy, Opinion Piece, ribbon
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Inducing The Great Divide
Cobus Kruger
One of the most important principles in building complex software systems, is detaching the business logic from the screens that allow users to view and edit information. You’ll notice I said “most important” and not… … Read more
15 years ago in Architecture, business-objects, Delphi, rtti
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Getting Data From Anywhere, part 2
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My last post underwhelmed everyone a little and I understand why. After all, using events or anonymous methods for this kind of thing is standard fare and it doesn’t even do the job that I… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, enumerators, rtti, the-beatles
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Getting Data From Anywhere, part 1
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Delphi 2006 introduced enumerators – a way to iterate any kind of collection with the for-in loop. And the VCL is chock-full of enumerators: TStrings has one, so do TComponent, TWinControl, TList, TObjectList and the… … Read more
15 years ago in anonymous methods, Delphi, enumerators, events, the-beatles
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Better than you’ve been told…
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Strangely, the Delphi 2010 hype machine have slowed down somewhat as we got closer to release date. But I just had my first full day with the new IDE and it’s good. The installer, I… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 2010, Review
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Delphi’s broken bookmarks
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Delphi 2009’s blue chip features were Unicode support, generics and anonymous methods. Most developers expected Unicode support to be the one to introduce the bulk of the migration headaches. But as with most Delphi versions,… … Read more
15 years ago in bookmarks, Delphi, getbookmark, tdataset, virtual treeview
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Debunking the Delphi 7 Myths
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In my last post on why you really should upgrade from Delphi 7, I seem to have upset a number of people. Some were very angry, some were moderate. Some were eloquent. Most of them… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 7, drunken-philosophy, Opinion Piece, reasons-to-upgrade
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Why you really should upgrade from Delphi 7
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 7 is probably the most popular version of Delphi that has ever shipped. So much so that several developers staunchly stand by their favourite of many years and refuse to move up. But Delphi… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 7, drunken-philosophy, Opinion Piece, reasons-to-upgrade
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Hellishly Horrible Hack #1: Changing an object’s functionality without recompiling
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Yup, you read that right. This one comes with a big disclaimer. It’s been tested and works but don’t read on if you are squeamish. The set-up is like this: We have an application that… … Read more
15 years ago in copy, Delphi, hack, Horrible Hacks, managed-types, move, object, object-variables, virtual-method-table, vmt
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Translating flags in API calls, part 2
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As promised, this is part 2 of my article on translating flags in API calls. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, please do so now. Sometimes, you get API calls that make real hefty… … Read more
15 years ago in api-import, Delphi, enum, enumerated-type, set
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