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VOTEThe 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
6 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
6 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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Design Patterns with Delphi (book)
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Hurrah, hurray, my third book is here! It’s called Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi and (just like my first book) I wrote it for Packt Publishing. (The second book was self-published and I expect the… … Read more
6 years ago in Books, Delphi, Design Patterns, programming
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OmniThreadLibrary 3.07.7
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New OmniThreadLibrary is out! Get it while it’s hot!Version 3.07.7 is mostly a bugfix release. It fixes a stupid mistake introduced in version 3.07.6 plus some other minor bugs.You can get it now on git,… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, multithreading, OmniThreadLibrary, Open Source
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RAD Studio 10.3 Rio in Slovenia
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On December, 6th I’ll be showing all that is new and shiny in 10.3 Rio to anyone that happens to pass by!Join me in Ljubljana at 9:30 in the “standard” venue … just don’t forget… … Read more
6 years ago in cbuilder, Delphi, presentations, RAD Studio
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OmniThreadLibrary 3.07.6
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Hear, hear, new OmniThreadLibrary is here!Version 3.07.6 brings official support for Delphi 10.3 Rio, few changes and bugfixes.You can get it now on git, download the ZIP archive, install it with Delphinus or with GetIt.For… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, multithreading, OmniThreadLibrary, Open Source
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For..to..step in Delphi!
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Today I was porting some legacy code and noticed a weird warning:Weird warning, I thought. Obviously the loop variable can be passed as a var parameter as the code compiles. Why a warning and not… … Read more
6 years ago in definitely not best practices, Delphi, programming
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Using configuration records and operators to reduce number of overloaded methods
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When writing libraries you sometimes want to provide users (that is, programmers) with a flexible API. If a specific part of your library can be used in different ways, you may want to provide multiple… … Read more
6 years ago in Best practices, compiler, Delphi, language, operators, programming
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