Story Category: Software Development
VOTERemote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s blog
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Thomas basically did all the research on the forwarding needed for ELC (formerly Belise/Elise), then showed the PuTTY equivalent to ssh user@remote -L5567:192.168.1.200:5567: [WayBack] Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s… … Read more
4 years ago in *nix, Communications Development, Delphi, Development, Internet protocol suite, Licensing, Power User, Software Development, SSH, ssh/sshd
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Delphi: Download multiple files in multiple parts at the same time, support resuming, gzip-encoded files, cookies, logging to websites using POST and so on
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If I ever need to download multiple files in multiple parts at the same time, support resuming, gzip-encoded files, cookies, logging to websites using POST and so on, then I need to look at [WayBack]… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Indy, Software Development
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Delphi What’s new history and a docwiki URL trick
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One of the great things about the Delphi docwiki structure is that the naming system is very consistent. The consistency helps you quickly finding the What’s new for any version, just by getting the latest… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Bogus W1036 ?
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Reminder to self for checking if this still fails: [WayBack] Bogus W1036 ? Documentation: … “If you do not explicitly initialize a global variab… – Stefan Glienke – Google+ Documentation: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Variables_(Delphi) “If you do not… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Why Rubber Ducking is good
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I like it when people find out that Rubber Ducking is a good thing. Read the story at [WayBack] … I’ve read about ‘rubber ducking’ and thought of it as a good thing, but I… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Yes Delphi does some type inference on generic method calls
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Delphi does indeed so some type inference as Primoz found out below. It has been doing this for a long time, improved over time, but has a long road ahead. One odd thing is that… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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GitHub – adaloveless/commonx: Delphi/Object Pascal Classes and Tools for just about everything and everyone.
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Warning: I posted this without doing a proper copyright check on the linked github repository, and it looks like this library heavily copies code from copyrighted materials. So better not use them, for one because… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug. Need to check out how they differ in looking up the method name for tracing.
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On my todo list, as Synops is updated more often than JCL: [WayBack] The logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug: According to this StackOverflow answer, one of its features… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow
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Since GetIt is hardly, if at all documented, but has quite a few of problems, I will likely need to use this another time: [WayBack] delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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delphi – How do I build an array of const? – Stack Overflow
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As I one day likely need to pas a dynamically created array of const from scratch (which behind the scenes actually is an array of TVarRec, where each element is, TVarRec which is a variant record that… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Specifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog
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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
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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
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Chr equivalent for Unicode in Delphi 7 – Stack Overflow
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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
4 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
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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
4 years ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi AMQP links
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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
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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