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How to debug Delphi JSON export stack-overflows: watch the fields and their circular references

jpluimers jpluimers Unlike Delphi RTL XML support which is property based, the JSON support is field based. By default, JSON uses all fields (no matter their protection level, so anything from strict private to published  is taken into… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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If you control both caller and callee: do not “override” functions by introducing a function with the same name

jpluimers jpluimers Every now and then I see people “overriding” a function by introducing a function with the same name. Often this raises a lot of confusion, because the override will only work if you have the… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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Indy10, TIdSMTP, how to get protocol log?

jpluimers jpluimers Indy is great, but not well documented so: [WayBack] Indy10, TIdSMTP, how to get protocol log? I try to get log from SMTP communication, like this (copy from wiki): {code} S: 220 smtp.example.com ESMTP P…… … Read more 4 years ago in Communications Development, Delphi, Development, Indy, Internet protocol suite, SMTP, Software Development 0

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Spinettaro’s Blog: Delphi Flux application architecture

jpluimers jpluimers On my list of things to try: [WayBack] Spinettaro’s Blog: Delphi Flux application architecture. It is about a Delphi implementation of the Facebook Flux application architecture. Related: [WayBack] GitHub – spinettaro/delphi-flux-seed: Contribute to spinettaro/delphi-flux-seed development by… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development, Systems Architecture, typescript 0

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System.SyncObjs.TLightweightSemaphore.Create: the AInitialCount parameter

jpluimers jpluimers Multi-threading is hard, knowing your primitives is important, but Embarcadero documentation is always far from complete, leading to [WayBack] System.SyncObjs.TLightweightSemaphore.Create: Please simply explain to me the parameters of this constructor, especially first, AInitialCount… – Jacek… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Software Development 0

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In Delphi, avoid having a TComponent descendant implement interfaces, unless you are prepared to handle your refcounting

jpluimers jpluimers Every now and then I see code, where a class descending from TComponent implements some interfaces, only interface references are used to the instances, and the expected behaviour is that the instances will free themselves when… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi TRegExOption: Where is description of roNotEmpty option? What does this option do? – Jacek Laskowski – Google+

jpluimers jpluimers I really dislike using regular expressions, mainly because every time I bump into code using them either: I cannot decipher them any more It is used for things not suites for (like parsing JSON or… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, RegEx, Software Development 0

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code: Ensure a job for life ;-) by Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products

jpluimers jpluimers A great reference on how not to code still is How To Write Unmaintainable Code Ensure a job for life 😉 Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products I am still amazed when browsing through code, how many… … Read more 4 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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delphi “tproc” with “array of const” – Google Search

jpluimers jpluimers Reminder to self: remember which of the open source libraries have: a generic TProc<T> alike with an const values: array of const T parameter a generic TProc<T> alike with a const value: T parameter Google returned none that stuck:… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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.NET: interfaces that inherit from multiple base interfaces

jpluimers jpluimers For my link archive: [WayBack] .net – interface inheriting multiple interfaces: how is this handled by a C# compiler? – Stack Overflow. [WayBack] New Delphi language feature: Multiple inheritance for interfaces in Delphi for .NET…. … Read more 4 years ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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I’m using Delphi XE 10.2: empty documentation tab means you need to update to either the documentation Hotfix or 10.2.3

jpluimers jpluimers If you see the Documentation tab like below you need to either: install the[WayBack] 10.2.2 Welcome Page and Documentation Hotfix – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community update to 10.2.3 manually fix the html/CSS width fiddling… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (Godzilla), Development, Software Development 0

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Delphi Compiler Intrinsics can help you collapse generated code for generics a lot

jpluimers jpluimers On my reading list [WayBack] Delphi Corner Weblog: The current state of generics in Delphi because it explains in more detail why Delphi compiler generic type based intrinsics introduced some 5 years ago, but never been… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0