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VOTESpecifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog
jpluimers
Reminder to self: check my own build configurations as there is a difference for Delphi 2007 and Delphi >= 2009: [WayBack] Specifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog. Thomas… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi Exception handling code review reminders
jpluimers
I bumped into [WayBack]When an exception is nil in the exception handler – twm’s blog for some legacy code a while ago. Some code review reminders: raise Exception( is always wrong: no exception instance is created Exception.Create( without… … Read more
5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Chr equivalent for Unicode in Delphi 7 – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From a long time ago: [WayBack] chr equivalent for Unicode in Delphi 7 – Stack Overflow answered by David Heffernan: Q I need to initialize a Widestring in Delphi 7 but I can’t use chrfunction which is ANSI var ws… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, delphi 7, Development, History, Software Development
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Dynamically instantiating instances in Delphi without knowing their full type is hard
jpluimers
For my reading list: [WayBack] So am working on a particular .NET project and came across NewtonSoft JSON.NET Serializer, it allows you serialize Collections such as a generic list an… – Ugochukwu Mmaduekwe – Google+:… … Read more
5 years ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi AMQP links
jpluimers
Some links I found about Delphi and AMQP. AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol – Wikipedia [WayBack] OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Version 1.0, Part 0: Overview [WayBack] OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Version… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Don’t mix objects and interfaces
jpluimers
Worth repeating Dalija Prasnikar, because I bumped into sources of people not getting this concept: [WayBack]: Don’t mix objects and interfaces. You should not, but sometimes it is hard not to. The rules in his article… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Thread.Destroy deadlocks in finalization of COM+ dll’s…
jpluimers
Reminder to self that this is still broken: [WayBack] Thread.Destroy deadlocks in finalization of COM+ dll’s This serious bug still exists in Delphi 10.2 after 12 years being reported! http://qc.embarcade… – 丽丽乌克 – Google+ Original… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Some links on hooking anonymous methods to Delphi events
jpluimers
On my reading list are these: [WayBack] Is there a way in Delphi to assign an anonymous method to a button event? – Stack Overflow [WayBack] delphi – VCL events with anonymous methods – what… … Read more
5 years ago in Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Are there any static code analysis tools for Delphi/Pascal? – Stack Overflow
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Still interesting question: [WayBack] Are there any static code analysis tools for Delphi/Pascal? – Stack Overflow The basic problem here is that there is no formal language definition for the Delphi or Object Pascal language…. … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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SysUtils.pas Why parameters of these anonymous not const? TProc = …
jpluimers
At [WayBack] SysUtils.pas Why parameters of these anonymous not const? TProc = reference to procedure (Arg1: T1; Arg2: T2); TProc = reference … – Jacek Laskowski – Google+, Hallvard Vasbotn made this nail on the… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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FTP errors caused by bad Wifi Adaptor
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I was unable to update my website due to this Filezilla error The data connection could not be established: ETIMEDOUT – Connection attempt timed out All my research pointed to it being a server error,… … Read more
5 years ago in Development
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Need to look at monospaced programmers fonts again
jpluimers
At the time of looking, FiraCode would not work in Delphi but would in Visual Studio. Reminder for me to look at it again: [WayBack] GitHub – tonsky/FiraCode: Monospaced font with programming ligatures. A cool… … Read more
5 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Font, Power User, Programmers Font, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools, Visual Studio Code
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Why the compiler generates a `”E2018 Record, object or class type required”` on typed types…
jpluimers
From [WayBack] Why would the compiler generate a “E2018 Record, object or class type required” helper when I use a ToUpperInvariant (or any TStringsHelper call) on t… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+: Why would… … Read more
5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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GitHub – NickRing/Delphi-Shortcut-Finder: Shows/find keyboard short-cuts have be assigned, that may be conflicting.
jpluimers
Reminder to self to eventually try to merge this into GExperts: [WayBack] GitHub – NickRing/Delphi-Shortcut-Finder: Shows/find keyboard short-cuts have be assigned, that may be conflicting. And a reminder to ensure if I ever bump into XE7… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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delphi – always pass SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS to SafeLoadLibrary
jpluimers
The below is based on [WayBack] delphi – Is there any way to catch the error if loading a dll cannot find a dependency? – Stack Overflow which I got via: [WayBack] Error regarding rtl240.bpl not found… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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