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Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard (on Windows systems)

jpluimers 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 4 days ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Software Development, windows, Windows Development 0

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Just released: the 2025 Annotated Edition of Mastering Delphi 5 by Marco Cantù

jpluimers jpluimers This just in: [Wayback/Archive] downloads.marcocantu.com/delphi5annotated.pdf It has close to 200 annotations in some 300 pages plus a new preface, which is also at [Wayback/Archive] Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition This brings the book current,… … Read more 1 week ago in Delphi, Delphi 5, Development, Software Development 0

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Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark

jpluimers jpluimers On my list of tools to experiment with: [Wayback/Archive] Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark This got released while I was recovering from cancer procedures, to I totally missed it. Interesting… … Read more 1 month ago in C++, Delphi, Development, Profiling-Performance-Measurement, Software Development 0

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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 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 2 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 0

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“Incompatible parameter lists” when using Types.T*DynArray? – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]

jpluimers jpluimers Reminder to self: Delphi 11.3 (Alexandria update 3), mid-product added a compiler changing kind of deprecating using types of this form (including ones defined in the System, System.Types and other RTL/VCL units): Overview of “deprecated”… … Read more 2 months ago in Delphi, Delphi 11.0 Alexandria (Olympus), Development, Software Development 0

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If you sunset things, at least remove references: Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio

jpluimers jpluimers The sad thing about sunsetting useful resources is that usually a proper cleanup is not being performaned. Take for instance QC: it died 7 years ago (Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down… … Read more 4 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)

jpluimers jpluimers Quite a while ago [Wayback/Archive] string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow asked by [Wayback/Archive] User Jeff was answered by [Wayback/Archive] Andreas Rejbrand: The simplest approach is function GetAlphaSubstr(const Str:… … Read more 5 months ago in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Encryption, Event, html, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, TLS, Web Development 0

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Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being able to write to it

jpluimers 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 8 months ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN 0

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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 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 8 months ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, MSBUILD, Software Development 0

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Delphi has had a more type safe FreeAndNil or a while now, but in order to do so it lies to you

jpluimers jpluimers During my year+ of cancer treatments, Embarcadero did a tiny thing that makes [Wayback/Archive]FreeAndNil safer to use. In order to do so, the method now lies to you by taking a const [ref] parameter which… … Read more 8 months ago in Delphi, Delphi 10.4 Sydney (Denali), Delphi 11.0 Alexandria (Olympus), Development, Software Development 0

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Reminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX instructions

jpluimers jpluimers This is from a long time ago [Wayback/Archive] Does Delphi support all MMX/SSE instructions? – Stack Overflow: Delphi 2007 supports the MMX and SSE instruction sets. Certainly, Delphi 2010 and XE support up to the… … Read more 8 months ago in Assembly Language, Delphi, Development, Software Development, x64, x86 0

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delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow

jpluimers 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 9 months ago in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development 0

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Field Tested Systems

jpluimers jpluimers Besides a cool portable spectrometer and software (written in Delphi), [WayBack] Field Tested Systems also has a really nice poster showing the spectrogram fingerprints of all the elements: Via Delphi: 2 things to check when FMX/VCL… … Read more 9 months ago in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, LifeHacker, Power User, science, Software Development 0

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webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.

jpluimers jpluimers This is cool and works well (including the portable version) :[Wayback/Archive] webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite. Most code is C++ with bits using the QML language of the Qt cross… … Read more 11 months ago in C++, Delphi, Development, Kylix, kylix_rd, Qt, Software Development 0