Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/17
Thanks to the answers for .net – What is a dependency property? – Stack Overflow, I came across this really nice WPF Tutorial | Dependency Properties.
It has one of the best explanations on Dependency Properties I’ve ever seen, and it is available online for free (:
And yes, this post is also tagged Delphi, as DSharp provides http://delphisorcery.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Source/Core/DSharp.Core.DependencyProperty.pas.
So Dependency Properties are not just .NET any more (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/12
You can’t keep track of the whole world, so every now and then I bump into something and think “boy I wish I had known about this years ago”.
The OData (Open Data Protocol) standard by Microsoft is such a thing. It allows to communicate data over the internet in a RESTful way using either JSON or AtomPub based XML, standardized by OASIS who has it’s roots in the SGML world (SGML is one of the predecessors of XML).
There is a rich Ecosystem of implementations in many platforms (including .NET, Delphi, Java, PHP, JavaScript, etc) with public reachable Example Services to test with (not surprising there is a NorthWind service).
Here are a few links of stuff I want to dig deeper into it to grasp it better: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/11
I missed EKON 16 as both they and we moved outside the regular conference season.
So I missed this session: EKON 16: MSBuild // Speaker Deck that has these GitHub source examples: gingters/EKON16_MSBuild.
Thanks Sebastian Gingter for pointing me at this!
msbuild is used by both Visual Studio and Delphi for building projects, and this session gave me some good ideas to improve the Continuous Integration projects I already had into place.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/10
Stuff I found out myself:
Some links I found useful: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/09
Some links I found useful:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05
When the suggestions from Out-of-Memory in RAD XE7 and -noparser from Tried to patch BDS.exe fails to, then this suggestion by Brian Hamilton on G+ might work:
From a post in the EMB forum, a work around for XE7 is
I follow the hint of Thomas Grusche renaming the following files:
- Borland.Studio.Delphi.dll
- Borland.Studio.Refactoring.dll
- refactoride210.bpl
This makes the XE7 IDE usable again.
Just the refactoring feature aren’t available anymore.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05
If you are running OpenSSL as a regular user, or cannot perform “RunAs Administrator”, and you get this error message:
unable to write 'random state'
then make sure you have set your environment variables correctly before running OpenSSL:
RANDFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\.rnd
A full batch file front-end for OpenSSL.exe is this one:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/04
Interesting answers to Visual Studio: Find unused code? – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/03
Markus Joos started a nice G+ thread on anonymous method formatting which ended up into a discussion of functional programming and a peek into what Spring4D 1.3 can offer.
Note you might need to be part of the G+ Delphi Developers Community to read the thread.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, Software Development, Spring4D | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/03
Odd that the RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap on the Embarcadero site got published by Brian Alexakis which is relatively unknown in the Delphi community.
I wish that ARC for Windows and Linux x86/x64 were on the list: the first since it makes it so much easier to solve ARC problems in libraries, the second since Kylix had a Linux x86 compiler and an RTL (yes, Kylix didn’t have Unicode nor Generics, but maybe the Linux and OS X targets might be too far apart).
I like that there is a roadmap for 2015. And glad with what is on it: 4K support (hopefully also done for the IDE), C++ LLVM compiler, IDE large memory (though I wonder how they do that), native HTTP (hopefully WinHTTP for SOAP and REST).
In the mean time, Kris Houser has indicated XE8 is in beta. Which is good know as well.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 