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Warning: I posted this without doing a proper copyright check on the linked github repository, and it looks like this library heavily copies code from copyrighted materials. So better not use them, for one because… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug. Need to check out how they differ in looking up the method name for tracing.
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On my todo list, as Synops is updated more often than JCL: [WayBack] The logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug: According to this StackOverflow answer, one of its features… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow
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Since GetIt is hardly, if at all documented, but has quite a few of problems, I will likely need to use this another time: [WayBack] delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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delphi – How do I build an array of const? – Stack Overflow
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As I one day likely need to pas a dynamically created array of const from scratch (which behind the scenes actually is an array of TVarRec, where each element is, TVarRec which is a variant record that… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Specifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog
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Reminder to self: check my own build configurations as there is a difference for Delphi 2007 and Delphi >= 2009: [WayBack] Specifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog. Thomas… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi Exception handling code review reminders
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I bumped into [WayBack]When an exception is nil in the exception handler – twm’s blog for some legacy code a while ago. Some code review reminders: raise Exception( is always wrong: no exception instance is created Exception.Create( without… … Read more
5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Chr equivalent for Unicode in Delphi 7 – Stack Overflow
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From a long time ago: [WayBack] chr equivalent for Unicode in Delphi 7 – Stack Overflow answered by David Heffernan: Q I need to initialize a Widestring in Delphi 7 but I can’t use chrfunction which is ANSI var ws… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, delphi 7, Development, History, Software Development
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Dynamically instantiating instances in Delphi without knowing their full type is hard
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For my reading list: [WayBack] So am working on a particular .NET project and came across NewtonSoft JSON.NET Serializer, it allows you serialize Collections such as a generic list an… – Ugochukwu Mmaduekwe – Google+:… … Read more
5 years ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi AMQP links
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Some links I found about Delphi and AMQP. AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol – Wikipedia [WayBack] OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Version 1.0, Part 0: Overview [WayBack] OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Version… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Don’t mix objects and interfaces
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Worth repeating Dalija Prasnikar, because I bumped into sources of people not getting this concept: [WayBack]: Don’t mix objects and interfaces. You should not, but sometimes it is hard not to. The rules in his article… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Thread.Destroy deadlocks in finalization of COM+ dll’s…
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Reminder to self that this is still broken: [WayBack] Thread.Destroy deadlocks in finalization of COM+ dll’s This serious bug still exists in Delphi 10.2 after 12 years being reported! http://qc.embarcade… – 丽丽乌克 – Google+ Original… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Some links on hooking anonymous methods to Delphi events
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On my reading list are these: [WayBack] Is there a way in Delphi to assign an anonymous method to a button event? – Stack Overflow [WayBack] delphi – VCL events with anonymous methods – what… … Read more
5 years ago in Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Are there any static code analysis tools for Delphi/Pascal? – Stack Overflow
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Still interesting question: [WayBack] Are there any static code analysis tools for Delphi/Pascal? – Stack Overflow The basic problem here is that there is no formal language definition for the Delphi or Object Pascal language…. … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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SysUtils.pas Why parameters of these anonymous not const? TProc = …
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At [WayBack] SysUtils.pas Why parameters of these anonymous not const? TProc = reference to procedure (Arg1: T1; Arg2: T2); TProc = reference … – Jacek Laskowski – Google+, Hallvard Vasbotn made this nail on the… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Need to look at monospaced programmers fonts again
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At the time of looking, FiraCode would not work in Delphi but would in Visual Studio. Reminder for me to look at it again: [WayBack] GitHub – tonsky/FiraCode: Monospaced font with programming ligatures. A cool… … Read more
5 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Font, Power User, Programmers Font, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools, Visual Studio Code
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