Uwe Raabe
Even years after switching from centralized version control to a decentralized one (or to be more precise: from Subversion to Mercurial) I still find myself stuffing different unrelated changes into one commit. Sometimes there are… … Read more
5 years ago in programming0
FPiette
In this blog post, I will show you how easy it is the have a Direct2D canvas for your Delphi form.What is a canvas? In Delphi VCL technology, a canvas is an abstraction encapsulating Windows API… … Read more
5 years ago in API, Delphi, Direct2D, programming, RAD Studio, vcl, windows0
Uwe Raabe
As some of you might have guessed already, I have been a bit busy with the current beta of the new Delphi 10.4 Sidney. Usually one is not allowed to talk about the beta, but… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
In the previous blog post we learned how to decorate a field of a class with attributes to adjust the Json serialization to our needs. This post is about serializing fields of type TObjectList<T> or… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, JSON, programming, Serialization0
Uwe Raabe
Serializing objects to Json as well as de-serializing them with the Delphi standard libraries has been subject to many discussions. While the majority suggests to use another library or a self implemented solution, there are… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, JSON, programming, Serialization0
Uwe Raabe
Seems Delphi 10.3.3 Rio adds some bogus entries for Android 64 into the dproj files when opening a project from a previous version. As this undermines the normalizing algorithm in Project Magician I added some… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
With the official release of Delphi 10.3.3 Rio comes a new version of Project Magician. This was necessary to support the new platforms introduced in the latest Rio updates. I also took the opportunity to… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, programming0
gabr42
CompareValue function is incredibly practical when you are writing comparers (functions that determine how some data structure is ordered). System.Math and System.StrUtils define a bunch of functions that can be used to compare integers, doubles,… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, programming, tips0
gabr42
Pop quiz! How can the following program …Writeln(True);Magic;Writeln(True);… output this:?TRUEFALSESimple!Read more »— Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license … Read more
6 years ago in definitely not best practices, Delphi, programming0
gabr42
Delphi never stops surprising me …Did you know that this is a valid syntax?case a of 0: Writeln(0); else Writeln(‘else’); Writeln(a);end;This code indeed compiles and works exactly as the following fragment.case a of 0: Writeln(0); … … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi, programming0
gabr42
Earlier this week a long-time customer asked me why FastMM allocates large memory blocks from the top of the memory and if that option could safely be turned off. Their reasoning was that such allocations… … Read more
6 years ago in benchmarking, memory management, programming, windows0
gabr42
While writing Design Patterns with Delphi, I spent quite some time researching existing literature on design patterns implementation in Delphi, design patterns in other languages, other types of patterns, design principles and so on …In… … Read more
6 years ago in Books, Delphi, Design Patterns, programming0
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Uwe Raabe
Even years after switching from centralized version control to a decentralized one (or to be more precise: from Subversion to Mercurial) I still find myself stuffing different unrelated changes into one commit. Sometimes there are… … Read more
5 years ago in programming
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