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VOTEOld programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
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I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before: the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which… … Read more
3 days ago in .NET, 1, 7, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Development, ekon, Event, History, LaTeX, LifeHacker, Mathematics, pascal, Perl, PL/I (a.k.a. PL/1), Power User, science, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Typesetting
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If you sunset things, at least remove references: Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio
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The sad thing about sunsetting useful resources is that usually a proper cleanup is not being performaned. Take for instance QC: it died 7 years ago (Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down… … Read more
2 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)
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Quite a while ago [Wayback/Archive] string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow asked by [Wayback/Archive] User Jeff was answered by [Wayback/Archive] Andreas Rejbrand: The simplest approach is function GetAlphaSubstr(const Str:… … Read more
3 months ago in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Encryption, Event, html, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, TLS, Web Development
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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)
jpluimers
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If not then in Delphi you can manually call… … Read more
6 months ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, MSBUILD, Software Development
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delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From a long time go and a project that got cancelled, but maybe in the future I will need a similar thing again: back in the days not all raw key codes were readily documented… … Read more
7 months ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development
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Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?”
jpluimers
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter From the languages that I have been using most: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development
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State machines in Delphi and .NET
jpluimers
Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant: A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET. Since then… … Read more
2 years ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Diagram, Event, java, Java Platform, Software Development, UML
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Enabling GitHub pages to a HTML or markdown GitHub project is dead easy: Delphi deadlockempire is now hosted on github.io
jpluimers
A while ago I wrote about Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain. Doing the full “host on your custom domain” route was a… … Read more
2 years ago in .NET, About, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Personal, Software Development, Web Development
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Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
A long time ago, I posted one of the answers to [Wayback/Archive] Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow So for my link archive, these are the… … Read more
2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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When MySQL characterset ‘utf’ does not allow you to enter some Unicode code points
jpluimers
Contrary to what many believe is that MySQL utf8 is not always full blown UTF-8 support, but actually utf8mb3, which has been deprecated for a while now. Only utf8mb4 will give you full blown UTF-8 support…. … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Database Development, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Event, MYSQL, Software Development, UTF-8, UTF8
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Delphi: workaround doing math with generic types preventing “E2015 Operator not applicable to this operand type” with TValue (as there is no way to constraint the generic type to be floating point or ordinal)
jpluimers
A while ago on Facebook (it’s a private group, so you cannot see the posts unless you both have a Facebook account and are member of the group), [Archive.is] Niels Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (coming from a C++… … Read more
3 years ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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DUnit with FastMM: Detecting memory leaks in individual tests.
jpluimers
Steps: Add the conditional define FASTMM to your project Ensure you have $(BDS)\source\DUnit\src in your search path in your project (as otherwise Delphi will pick the pre-built TestFramework.dcu file which was compiled without the FASTMM conditional… … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DUnit, Event, FastMM, Software Development, TestInsight
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“Unexpected Memory Leak” after “MyTestApplication.exe: Memory Leak Detected”
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Sometimes after a regular FastMM memory leak test report you get a dialog like this: ————————— Unexpected Memory Leak ————————— An unexpected memory leak has occurred. The unexpected small block leaks are: 61 – 68… … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, FastMM, Software Development
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console – When is System.IsConsole true in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
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Some highlights from [WayBack] console – When is System.IsConsole true in Delphi? – Stack Overflow: Project/Options/Linking/Generate console application and {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} are two separate things. – [WayBack] Andreas Rejbrand. The -cc commandline parameter for dcc32.exe (which could… … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Some links for detecting memory leaks from individual DUnit test methods
jpluimers
[WayBack] DUnit: Xtreme Unit Testing for Delphi / SVN / [r44] /trunk/readme-fastmm.txt You have to build your DUnit GUI-testrunner with the FASTMM and ManualLeakReportingControl directive. This will enable the memoryleak items (Take a look in… … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DUnit, Event, FastMM, Software Development
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