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Other IDE versions may be affected. I will update this blog post if I figure it out.Here’s what I think is happening:1. Something about environment variable handling has changed.2. The PLATFORM environment variable during an… … Read more
6 years ago 0
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Various people, including myself are having problems with GetIt returning license errors instead of installing the thing it should install. Even on free items like the Jedi JVCL library, you can get this error:It’s not… … Read more
6 years ago 0
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I am one of those codgers old enough to remember Delphi 6 personal, and the Turbo Delphi era (the next free edition name for delphi), and Delphi Starter, and each time the pattern is the… … Read more
6 years ago 0
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You would think that Microsoft, and Apple, having some of the highest paid software engineers in the world, would generally deliver higher quality software, that makes its users happy.You will notice I didn’t say Best… … Read more
7 years ago 0
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The Concise Delphi Coding Standard (2018)1. Use the Delphi Source Code Formatter on New Units before you Check them In. When you touch a function keep its formatting style the same, or reformat the whole… … Read more
7 years ago 0
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I was recently commenting on Facebook and asked what could the community do to help Delphi get more popular again. My answer? Uh Nothing. A real change would start with the product actually getting a… … Read more
7 years ago 0
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The luminaries who signed the original Manifesto for Agile Software Development in the 1990s have come back more recently, including Dave Thomas who said that “Agile is dead” in 2015, as part of his reflection… … Read more
7 years ago 0
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I was having some problems with my Thinkpad laptop hanging. It didn’t blue-screen. It just stopped updating the screen, and did not reboot. It seemed either that the entire video layer had hung, or that… … Read more
7 years ago 0
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A few quick bits of opinion, and a question for my readers:1. Be it resolved that third party tool companies that offer fantastic support are an essential part of any small shop (that uses Delphi… … Read more
8 years ago 0
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Just wanted to give a shout out to an Excellent Delphi Dude, Nick Hodges, who has recently made available a bundle of his three recent and very well done Delphi books, in a single bundle.I… … Read more
8 years ago 0
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I recommend everyone watch Martin Fowler’s 2014 talk, which was given to its original audience without a title, and the title was then explained and introduced at the end.It’s called Not Just Code Monkeys.Watch it… … Read more
8 years ago 0
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Just a friendly periodic reminder that I currently know about more empty delphi job positions than I know of available experienced Delphi talent. You need work? Remote or Local? You live in Canada or USA?… … Read more
8 years ago 0
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I spent most of 2016 not writing Delphi code. Yeah, I fixed the odd bug here and there, but mostly I was focusing on C#, ASP.Net core, and lots of other stuff. Starting January… … Read more
8 years ago 0
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I recently switched back to Windows 7, for work purposes, for a couple of weeks. Here’s what I’ve learned, and why I’m switching back to Windows 10, but only inside a VM:1. Suspend and resume,… … Read more
8 years ago 0
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In Delphi 10.1, without all the latest updates, if you get Delphi startup crashes, you can get around them in some cases, by removing optional parts of Delphi that are taking delphi down. One… … Read more
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