Story Category: Development
VOTESpring4D – Shared, Weak references
jpluimers
In addition to Shared/IShared, there is also Weak/IWeakReference in Spring.pas; these blog post explain more about them: Shared/IShared (search for {$REGION ‘Shared smart pointer’} at the current repository): [WayBack] Delphi sorcery: Smart pointers in Delphi Weak/IWeakReference (search for… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi unit aliases: multiple ones can point to the same unit
jpluimers
A while ago, I had to figure out how to get some GExperts stuff cross-compile to older Delphi versions, because of UITypes usage that is not available in Delphi XE and lower (but much of… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, GExperts, Software Development
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Don’t use the TPL as it still has rough edges in unsuspected places
jpluimers
A few posts on why not to use the TPL and be very careful with regular RTL threading code: [WayBack] Ondrej Kelle – Google+ [WayBack] Delphi To Go: Don’t lose time with a known Delphi… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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TMonitor versus Critical sections revisited: when possible, use SRWL over TMonitor, then TCritical section
jpluimers
Via [WayBack] TMonitor vrs Critical sections revisited. Back then (https://www.delphitools.info/2013/06/06/tmonitor-vs-trtlcriticalsection/), it was found that critic… – Kiriakos Vlahos – Google+ as he re-did the measurements that DelphiTools did before Delphi XE5 came out: Slim Reader/Writer Lock… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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In the series “avoid Variants when coding in Delphi”: the comparison operator
jpluimers
For Variant types, the = comparison operator in Delphi maps to the VarCompareValue in the Variants unit. That function fails to handle various comparisons and for some it knows it can handle raises a VarInvalidOp through… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s blog
jpluimers
Thomas basically did all the research on the forwarding needed for ELC (formerly Belise/Elise), then showed the PuTTY equivalent to ssh user@remote -L5567:192.168.1.200:5567: [WayBack] Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s… … Read more
4 years ago in *nix, Communications Development, Delphi, Development, Internet protocol suite, Licensing, Power User, Software Development, SSH, ssh/sshd
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Delphi: Download multiple files in multiple parts at the same time, support resuming, gzip-encoded files, cookies, logging to websites using POST and so on
jpluimers
If I ever need to download multiple files in multiple parts at the same time, support resuming, gzip-encoded files, cookies, logging to websites using POST and so on, then I need to look at [WayBack]… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Indy, Software Development
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Delphi What’s new history and a docwiki URL trick
jpluimers
One of the great things about the Delphi docwiki structure is that the naming system is very consistent. The consistency helps you quickly finding the What’s new for any version, just by getting the latest… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Bogus W1036 ?
jpluimers
Reminder to self for checking if this still fails: [WayBack] Bogus W1036 ? Documentation: … “If you do not explicitly initialize a global variab… – Stefan Glienke – Google+ Documentation: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Variables_(Delphi) “If you do not… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Why Rubber Ducking is good
jpluimers
I like it when people find out that Rubber Ducking is a good thing. Read the story at [WayBack] … I’ve read about ‘rubber ducking’ and thought of it as a good thing, but I… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Yes Delphi does some type inference on generic method calls
jpluimers
Delphi does indeed so some type inference as Primoz found out below. It has been doing this for a long time, improved over time, but has a long road ahead. One odd thing is that… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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GitHub – adaloveless/commonx: Delphi/Object Pascal Classes and Tools for just about everything and everyone.
jpluimers
Warning: I posted this without doing a proper copyright check on the linked github repository, and it looks like this library heavily copies code from copyrighted materials. So better not use them, for one because… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug. Need to check out how they differ in looking up the method name for tracing.
jpluimers
On my todo list, as Synops is updated more often than JCL: [WayBack] The logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug: According to this StackOverflow answer, one of its features… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
Since GetIt is hardly, if at all documented, but has quite a few of problems, I will likely need to use this another time: [WayBack] delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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delphi – How do I build an array of const? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
As I one day likely need to pas a dynamically created array of const from scratch (which behind the scenes actually is an array of TVarRec, where each element is, TVarRec which is a variant record that… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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