Story Category: Software Development
VOTEBe careful when using the System.Threading unit in versions earlier than Delphi 11 (it ditches Windows XP compatibility, for a reason)
jpluimers
A while ago, I got reminded of a few occurrences of Delphi apps hanging after a little less than 2 months of being active. It does not happen that often, as usually Patch Tuesday requires… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Get it at a discount while it is hot: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook by Dalija Prasnikar and Neven Prasnikar Jr.
jpluimers
Get the new [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook at a discount while it is hot: Use Coupon Code: DTSPATT10 at checkout to get a $10 discount. This promotional offer is valid through June 14. by: Dalija Prasnikar Neven… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Software Development, UTF-8, Windows-1252
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On Windows, keep the lifetime of relative pathnames as short as possible because of thread-safety issues
jpluimers
Subtitle: GetFullPathName thread-unsafety because of SetCurrentDirectory isn’t, so derived functions (like Delphi GetDir/ChDir/TPath.GetFullPath, or .NET System.IO.Path.GetFullPath) are not thread-safe either (via The Old New Thing) A while ago I got a big reminder because of [Wayback]… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Windows Development
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A while ago @LarsFosdal praised Bruneau Babet for trying to offset the lack of Idera/EMBT customer communication and quality control: Lars Fosdal is right
jpluimers
Earlier this year, [Wayback/Archive] Lars Fosdal posted a long thread about Embarcadero/IDERA software quality and one special person trying to offset the lack. It is important not just because of his opinion, but also because Lars posts… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.
jpluimers
The [Wayback/Archive] Embarcadero/IDERA Documentation Wiki has been mostly down since March 3rd, 2022 (not the main page, but almost all other pages are). I modified [Wayback/Archive] Docwiki https – EmbarcaderoMonitoring to show the actual status of a… … Read more
3 years ago in *nix, Bookmarklet, Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Uptimerobot, Web Browsers
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DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
From my Windows XP days (which are long gone), but historically relevant the answer to [Wayback] DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow by [Wayback] Remy Lebeau: The TEncoding.ASCII property… … Read more
3 years ago in ASCII, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Power User, Software Development, XP-embedded
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When floating point code suddenly becomes orders magnitudes slower (via C++ – Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x? – Stack Overflow)
jpluimers
When working with converging algorithms, sometimes floating code can become very slow. That is: orders of magnitude slower than you would expect. A very interesting answer to [Wayback] c++ – Why does changing 0.1f to… … Read more
3 years ago in .NET, algorithms, ARM, Assembly Language, C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development, x64, x86
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Some uptime monitoring tools that are still free and understand more than http/https
jpluimers
Since uptimerobot has slowly moving free features, part of my family uses it to monitor uptime of their personal stuff, and I don’t want to pay for the free monitoring I do on Embarcadero infrastructure… … Read more
3 years ago in *nix, Delphi, Development, monitoring, Power User, Software Development
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Delphi SetRoundMode: gets sets part of the 8087 control word (related: GetRoundMode and TFPURoundingMode)
jpluimers
I thought I had written about this a long time ago, as Math.SetRoundMode (and now System.Math.SetRoundMode) has been introduced since at least Delphi 2007. There are also related GetRoundMode and TFPURoundingMode. Delphi 2009 also introduced… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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When MySQL characterset ‘utf’ does not allow you to enter some Unicode code points
jpluimers
Contrary to what many believe is that MySQL utf8 is not always full blown UTF-8 support, but actually utf8mb3, which has been deprecated for a while now. Only utf8mb4 will give you full blown UTF-8 support…. … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Database Development, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Event, MYSQL, Software Development, UTF-8, UTF8
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10 Easy Top-Notch Tips Every Software Developer Should Know
Emad Bin Abid
Over time, software development has experienced significant changes in design as well as implementation methods. As the market evolved, the software industry, particularly those previously specializing in Windows software development, also had to adapt to… … Read more
3 years ago in agile, Code, programming, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tech Partner, tips
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Delphi design-time packages: “%1 is not a valid Win32 application”
jpluimers
For my link archive, as I hardly see this (it happens in many Delphi versions and always has to do with missing/wrong DLLs), so always forget how to solve it. Basically it is the same… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi MVVM links
jpluimers
After I did conference presentations and wrote a magazine article and in 2013 about Delphi MVVM using DSharp, I saw a 3 articles in 2018, then I went through a big rollercoaster involving rectum cancer… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Spring4D
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Delphi: workaround doing math with generic types preventing “E2015 Operator not applicable to this operand type” with TValue (as there is no way to constraint the generic type to be floating point or ordinal)
jpluimers
A while ago on Facebook (it’s a private group, so you cannot see the posts unless you both have a Facebook account and are member of the group), [Archive.is] Niels Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (coming from a C++… … Read more
3 years ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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On TStrings (and TStringList) sorting: what the default Sort behaviour is and how to change sorting order
jpluimers
Because I need this eventually, here the full quote of my answer in [Wayback] sorting – How can I get TStringList to sort differently in Delphi – Stack Overflow (The default Sort behaviour is to… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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