Story Category: Conferences
VOTELaurensvanrun/Delphi-Promises: Delphi implementation of promises for asynchronous programming.
jpluimers
On my research list after making this short note April 2024: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Laurensvanrun/Delphi-Promises: Delphi implementation of promises for asynchronous programming. My first impression is that this might be on the same level of… … Read more
2 weeks ago in 8, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event, ITDevCon, Software Development
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Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) and some EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows tricks
jpluimers
Earlier this months I wrote Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) promising I would rewrite the Delphi code into C# and… … Read more
2 weeks ago in __Unfinished, .NET, 46843, 51505, 600, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development
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Going Native – Malicious Native Applications
jpluimers
On the reading list wondering which tool chains can deliver NtAPI based development: [Wayback/Archive] Going Native – Malicious Native Applications Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @MrPc69257431 on Thread Reader App with first tweet at https://x.com/MrPc69257431/status/1864855379651498292 Note… … Read more
1 month ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development
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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
jpluimers
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 months 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
jpluimers
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
5 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)
jpluimers
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
6 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
9 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
10 months ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development
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The Global Delphi Summit: June 13+14 in “Amsterdam” (actually the H20 venue in Purmerend)
jpluimers
Cool event – for me even relatively close (about 60 minutes driving) – [Wayback/Archive] The Global Delphi Summit taking place this year on June 13 and 14. The speaker line-up is great as are their… … Read more
1 year ago in Conferences, Delphi, Delphi Summit, Development, Event, Software 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
2 years 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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Fall 2022: news and updates
Andrea Magni
Workshop in Denmark On September 13th and 14th I had the pleasure to be the speaker at DAPUG workshop in Denmark. Topics included my open source libraries MARS (REST library) and FMXER (FMX visual framework)…. … Read more
3 years ago in Conferences, Delphi, English, events, Uncategorized
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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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