Story Category: .NET
VOTEDelphi “array of const” to “varargs” – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
Just in case I ever think “oh, I might try want to go the Variadic function arguments way in Delphi” again, I must remember “maybe not a good idea” and re-read these posts: [Wayback/Archive] Variadic… … Read more
7 days ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Freepascal, pascal, Software Development
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From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube
jpluimers
Nice historic perspective: [Wayback/Archive] From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube Via [Wayback/Archive] Zack Urlocker on Twitter: “Great interview with @ahejlsberg on the evolution of… … Read more
2 weeks ago in .NET, Borland Pascal, C++, Delphi, Development, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MS-DOS, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, typescript, Windows 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
jpluimers
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
1 month 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#
jpluimers
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
1 month ago in .NET, AArch64/arm64, algorithms, ARM, Assembly Language, C++, csharp, Delphi, Development, dotnet, dotnetcore, Software Development, x64, x86
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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
2 months ago in .NET, 37, C++, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, PowerShell, Scripting, Software 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
2 months 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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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
4 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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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
10 months ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN
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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)
jpluimers
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If not then in Delphi you can manually call… … Read more
10 months ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, MSBUILD, Software Development
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delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From a long time go and a project that got cancelled, but maybe in the future I will need a similar thing again: back in the days not all raw key codes were readily documented… … Read more
11 months ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development
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Oh boy, VB.NET and JavaScript both have a `with` keyword too!
jpluimers
Last year, within a week, I saw two tweets of languages that, like Pascal, have a with statement as well: [Archive.is] Shawn Wildermuth 💻☕🎸🎥🎮 on Twitter: “JavaScript’s Forgotten Keyword (with)” [Archive.is] John Kaster #BlackLivesMatter on… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Go (golang), JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, VB.NET, With statement
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Watching “Why is C# Evolving This Way?” strengthened my realisation that the Delphi 12 language by now is light years behind C# 12
jpluimers
Though after C# 4 (covariance and contravariance) and C# 5 (async/await) the evolvement of C# might have seemed to slow down a bit, the big picture hasn’t as shown in the [Wayback/Archive] Why is C#… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Happy birthday Turbo Pascal! Some marketing and Borland Conference videos
jpluimers
Some of you might remember [WayBack] Borland – Wikipedia, that today in 1983 shipped the first version of Turbo Pascal [Wikipedia]. It was of great influence, leading to other Turbo languages, Delphi, and – through… … Read more
1 year ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?”
jpluimers
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter From the languages that I have been using most: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on… … Read more
2 years ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development
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State machines in Delphi and .NET
jpluimers
Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant: A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET. Since then… … Read more
2 years ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Diagram, Event, java, Java Platform, Software Development, UML
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