Story Category: Development
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
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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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For my link archive: Counting the leading zeroes and ones in a binary number with C#
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From a while back, but still interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Counting the leading zeroes in a binary number with C# [Wayback/Archive] c# – Getting the number of leading 1 bits – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Barry Kelly… … Read more
3 weeks ago in .NET, AArch64/arm64, algorithms, ARM, Assembly Language, C++, csharp, Delphi, Development, dotnet, dotnetcore, Software Development, x64, x86
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Delphi and SonarQube: great open source additions in the last few years.
jpluimers
In the past, I mentioned that the open source SonarQube by SonarSource was on my “research list” in a few blog posts* as I am a fan of static code analysis **, and now it… … Read more
3 weeks ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, SonarQube, Static Code Analysis, Unit Testing, vscode Visual Studio Code
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Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too)
jpluimers
In the past, the Google Hangouts desktop app on Windows would integrate with the system “tray” (actually the notification area) and show you missed chats and calls. The [Wayback/Archive] Google Chat desktop app does not…. … Read more
4 weeks ago in .NET, 37, C++, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development
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Going Native – Malicious Native Applications
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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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Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard (on Windows systems)
jpluimers
I unconsciously wanted a tool like this for a long time, and was glad I finally searched for it: A keyboard logging and presentation utility for presentations, screencasts, and to help you become a better… … Read more
1 month ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows Development
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Just released: the 2025 Annotated Edition of Mastering Delphi 5 by Marco Cantù
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This just in: [Wayback/Archive] downloads.marcocantu.com/delphi5annotated.pdf It has close to 200 annotations in some 300 pages plus a new preface, which is also at [Wayback/Archive] Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition This brings the book current,… … Read more
2 months ago in Delphi, Delphi 5, Development, Software Development
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Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark
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On my list of tools to experiment with: [Wayback/Archive] Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark This got released while I was recovering from cancer procedures, to I totally missed it. Interesting… … Read more
3 months ago in C++, Delphi, Development, Profiling-Performance-Measurement, Software Development
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Delphi Discord servers
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Besides the Delphi Praxis servers (the [Wayback/Archive] German one has existed for what seems eternity, the [Wayback/Archive] English one took over the Google Plus Delphi group – see Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019;… … Read more
3 months ago in chat, Delphi, Development, Discord, SocialMedia, Software 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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“Incompatible parameter lists” when using Types.T*DynArray? – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
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Reminder to self: Delphi 11.3 (Alexandria update 3), mid-product added a compiler changing kind of deprecating using types of this form (including ones defined in the System, System.Types and other RTL/VCL units): Overview of “deprecated”… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, Delphi 11.0 Alexandria (Olympus), Development, Software Development
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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
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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Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being able to write to it
jpluimers
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “My Ubiquity setup stopped working (again). This happens way to often in my opinion. I have setup a monitoring environment to debug the issues… … Read more
9 months ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN
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