Joe
BarCamp Omaha is October 2-3 (Friday evening to Saturday). I’ve never been to a BarCamp, but it promises to be intriguing — the session schedule is planned on a whiteboard Saturday morning, and anyone who… … Read more
15 years ago in .NET, barcamp, Delphi, hdc, programming0
Robert Cram
Undiscovered thingsA few days ago, Jolyon Smith warned Delphi users to Mind the Gap(s). The warning is about how assigning specific ordinal values to enum members defeats the RTTI system. He writes:This is what I… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Variants0
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 2006 introduced enumerators – a way to iterate any kind of collection with the for-in loop. And the VCL is chock-full of enumerators: TStrings has one, so do TComponent, TWinControl, TList, TObjectList and the… … Read more
15 years ago in anonymous methods, Delphi, enumerators, events, the-beatles0
Sean
I recently compared the performance of virtual machines with the real hardware. The figures were suprisingly good.Shortly after that, disaster struck. My laptop wouldn’t turn on. It took Dell 2 weeks to fix, replacing the… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, virtual box, virtual machines, vmware0
Cobus Kruger
Strangely, the Delphi 2010 hype machine have slowed down somewhat as we got closer to release date. But I just had my first full day with the new IDE and it’s good. The installer, I… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 2010, Review0
Bob Swart
On Tuesday, August 25 2009, Embarcadero launched the 2010-editions of Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism and RAD Studio. … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi0
tier777
In the best case scenario it takes me at least ten clicks, 5 of which are redundant, and quite a bit of lucky guessing, to get from the “immediate purchase” link in the Delphi 2010… … Read more
15 years ago in annoyance, Delphi, delphi2010, marketing, rant, Rants, shop, upgrade0
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 2009’s blue chip features were Unicode support, generics and anonymous methods. Most developers expected Unicode support to be the one to introduce the bulk of the migration headaches. But as with most Delphi versions,… … Read more
15 years ago in bookmarks, Delphi, getbookmark, tdataset, virtual treeview0
Roland Beenhakker
The first Delphi 2010 sneak peek video’s showed up on the Internet. The first sneak peek shows some new IDE features like IDE insight, an everywhere context sensitive IDE navigation system. Anders Ohlsson has a… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
Has anyone noticed that Delphi 2007 cannot append to a text file over 2GB in size? I freely admit that I had a problem in my code that created log files that large in the… … Read more
15 years ago in Coding, Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
In my ever expanding need for dealing with the outside world, I’ve discovered a quirky little thing about Indy 10. When using the TIdPOP3 component with Gmail, you have to manually call DisconnectNotifyPeer or delete… … Read more
15 years ago in Coding, Delphi, Indy0
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Robert Cram
Undiscovered thingsA few days ago, Jolyon Smith warned Delphi users to Mind the Gap(s). The warning is about how assigning specific ordinal values to enum members defeats the RTTI system. He writes:This is what I… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Variants
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