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VOTEYour Flutter App Is Big
Brad
Once your Flutter app reaches a certain size you may start to get this error when building for Android Cannot fit requested classes in a single dex file (# methods:…Continue readingYour Flutter App Is Big … Read more
4 years ago in Development, flutter
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msbuild verbosity levels
jpluimers
Passing verbosity levels to msbuild on the one hand can help to quickly locate issues that go otherwise unnoticed, but also make your output so large that it is hard to search through. Some build… … Read more
4 years ago in continuous integration, Delphi, Development, MSBUILD, Software Development
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Delphi: got “EOleException with message ‘Microsoft MSXML is not installed’” in a console or test project?
jpluimers
Did you ever get this run-time error in a console or test project? EOleException with message ‘Microsoft MSXML is not installed’ It means that CoInitialize or CoInitializeEx needs to be called in the thread that… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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Flutter and Sentry
Brad
I’ve been using Sentry with Flutter for a while, perhaps since the first Flutter support was added. The recent 4.0 upgrade has been one if the best upgrades in a…Continue readingFlutter and Sentry … Read more
4 years ago in Development, flutter
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Friendly Flutter
Brad
Being new, Flutter changes a lot. It’s nice to see these messages that help developers upgrade. To often old projects get left behind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Warning ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Your Flutter application is…Continue readingFriendly Flutter … Read more
4 years ago in Development, flutter
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Delphi: Any idea why Delphi (At least since Seattle) does this to Dproj files: nodes change places – Tommi Prami – Google+
jpluimers
From a while back, but still so very relevant: [WayBack] Any idea why Delphi (At least since Seattle) does this to Dproj files: <DeployClass …> nodes change places – Tommi Prami – Google+. Luckily most of… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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When your Delphi IDE suddenly skips unsaved changes during compilation(TL;DR: watch early signs your IDE is hosed, then restart without saving)
jpluimers
A while ago, I observed that when compiling, my Delphi IDE would not take into account unsaved changes any more. This ws in a time when I was tracking down some hard to reproduce problems… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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Delphi object instance lifetime demo; do not use AfterConstruction as a poor-mans way to work around non-virtual constructor or undetermined Create hierarchy calls
jpluimers
I think using AfterConstruction is a poor man’s solution that you should only use in exceptional cases, as it is: called only after the last constructor in the chain is called. called outside of the… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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delphi – Invalid floating point operation calling Trunc() – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
I bumped into [WayBack] delphi – Invalid floating point operation calling Trunc() – Stack Overflow, while searching for what might have tests like these fail: TValueRecordTests.Int64_Through_Value_Container_via_Currency_Intermediate_Is_Identity_Operation(9223372036854775807) = 9223372036854775807 EInvalidOp with message ‘Invalid floating point operation’… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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A DUnit Folder Iterator Extension – The Art of Delphi Programming
jpluimers
Reminder to self: experiment with [WayBack] A DUnit Folder Iterator Extension – The Art of Delphi Programming. This could be extended to virtual folders, allowing many integration tests to be run depending on some configuration… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DUnit, Event, Software Development, Unit Testing
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Delphi use of FS segment: structured exception handling
jpluimers
A while ago, I had to trace through a lot of code in the CPU pane to track down some memory allocation related issues. I wondered what the use of the FS segment was about,… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi, Windows Development
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GExperts grep search: skipping searching certain files, irrespective of their directory
jpluimers
Especially when including [WayBack] form files (dfm now, but in the past also nfm and xfm) in your search, you might want to exclude one or more of them, for instance when they do not… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, GExperts, Software Development
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Debouncing and Throttling Explained Through Examples | CSS-Tricks
jpluimers
TL;DR of https://css-tricks.com/debouncing-throttling-explained-examples/: debounce: Grouping a sudden burst of events (like keystrokes) into a single one. throttle: Guaranteeing a constant flow of executions every X milliseconds. Like checking every 200ms your scroll position to trigger a CSS animation…. … Read more
4 years ago in algorithms, Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development
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MESSAGE directive Delphi
jpluimers
I totally forgot to queue this, after putting in a draft in 2010. Luckily, nothing has changed since then: the [WayBack] MESSAGE directive Delphi which allows you to emit hint, warning, error (multiple) and fatal… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Short Delphi tip: ensuring RTTI for classes is included
jpluimers
When using RTTI in Delphi, you really want the RTTI to be available. The compiler includes RTTI for classes, as soon as it found that a class is touched by code that will be executed…. … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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