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VOTELong live Delphi!
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Something great has happened on this day, 25 years ago.It was the sign of Aquarius. People were listening to Creep. And the AppBuilder was released.You don’t know AppBuilder? Sure you do! It was developed and —… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, delphi25th
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Sales! Sales! Sales!
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Parallel Programming with OmniThreadLibrarye-book: 50% offprinted book: 25% off (use coupon BLACKFRIDAY25)Delphi High Performancee-book: 72% offHands-on Design Patterns with Delphie-book: 80% off— Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 … … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi; programming; books
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CompareValue for booleans
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CompareValue function is incredibly practical when you are writing comparers (functions that determine how some data structure is ordered). System.Math and System.StrUtils define a bunch of functions that can be used to compare integers, doubles,… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, programming, tips
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Visit “What’s new in Rio 10.3.2” in Ljubljana
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On September 26th I’ll talk about RAD Studio Rio in Ljubljana. We’ll discuss 10.3 a bit and 10.3.1/10.3.2 updates in more detail. We’ll also look into the future to see what 10.4 might bring.This will… … Read more
5 years ago in cbuilder, Delphi, presentations, RAD Studio
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When True is not
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Pop quiz! How can the following program …Writeln(True);Magic;Writeln(True);… output this:?TRUEFALSESimple!Read more »— Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license … Read more
5 years ago in definitely not best practices, Delphi, programming
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The case of a missing begin/end
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Delphi never stops surprising me …Did you know that this is a valid syntax?case a of 0: Writeln(0); else Writeln(‘else’); Writeln(a);end;This code indeed compiles and works exactly as the following fragment.case a of 0: Writeln(0); … … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, programming
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Delphi Day 2019 sessions
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Slides and code for my Delphi Day 2019 sessions are now online.— Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Delphi Day, presentations, programming
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FastMM4 large memory allocation–benchmarking VirtualAlloc
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Earlier this week a long-time customer asked me why FastMM allocates large memory blocks from the top of the memory and if that option could safely be turned off. Their reasoning was that such allocations… … Read more
6 years ago in benchmarking, memory management, programming, windows
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Deep Dive into Design Patterns
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While writing Design Patterns with Delphi, I spent quite some time researching existing literature on design patterns implementation in Delphi, design patterns in other languages, other types of patterns, design principles and so on …In… … Read more
6 years ago in Books, Delphi, Design Patterns, programming
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