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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/09
A while ago I wrote about Delphi XE7 is out with version 21.0.17017.3725; Spring4D is almost ready, now I can repeat parts of it for XE8.
The download links for Delphi XE8, C++Builder XE8 and RAD Studio XE8 are there: ftpd and altd. A whopping 7,217,184,768 bytes (compare that to XE7 update 1 at 5,649,917,952 bytes: almost 30% increase) that has been seeded a few days ago with the version time stamped at the end of last month (like xe7), here is the version number: 22.0.19027.8951.
Before installing, note that in addition to the below documentation links:
Be sure to have at least 70 gigabytes of free disk space before you attempt to install.
This in addition to the almost 7 GiB ISO file (:
The download is fast as altd is on akamai: the 7 GiB downloaded in about 16 minutes. Google can do the math.
XE8 doc links
Spring4D
On the Spring4D side, Stefan and Honza have added XE8 support, so a new release of that can be near.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | 9 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/09
mos6502 wrote a really nice post on G+ with this quote:
“This is currently the oldest publicly available piece of source written by Bill Gates.”
A must read if you ever used Microsoft BASIC on a 6502 machine.
Lots of link to various sources of the Microsoft BASIC (it was developed on a PDP-10 that could even run the outputed 6502 assembly!)
–jeroen
via: We’ve already had some posts on the BASIC programming language for the 6502,….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/08
On the research list because of this v1.5.1.90 feature:
{% for variable in Variables %}
{% if variable.Name == 'MyAwesomeBuildVariable' and variable.Value != '' %}
My Awesome Build Variable: {{ variable.Value }}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
Just to see if it can help solving this issue I am having:
Wish: expansion of both $$ and %% in the same string.
To circumvent this error (where %TargetVersion%=XE2):
Could not expand query ‘$Agent.Delphi.%TargetVersion%.Path$’. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/07
During any software life cycle, you will want to phase out some code, and most likely want to mark code to be phased out in the future.
So here are two examples on how to do that in C# and in Delphi that just shows the effects of obsoleting/deprecating code.
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Posted in .NET, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | 6 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/02
I’m going to experiment with this. Most likely the quality of the code samples will be the biggest factor in like/dislike result.
Visual Studio – Google+.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio and tools | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/01
A lot of the stuff on the Embarcadero docwiki hurts. For instance most of the REST stuff (I’m not calling it documentation) is just generated scaffolding. Like REST.Json.TJson.
But the TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter has some amazing documenation. About TComponent that is:
TComponent is the common ancestor of all component classes.
TComponent is the base class for all components. Components are persistent objects that have the following capabilities:
IDE integration. The ability to appear on an IDE palette and be manipulated in a Form Designer.
Ownership. The ability to manage other components. If component A owns component B, then A is responsible for destroying B when A is destroyed.
Streaming and filing. Enhancements of the persistence features inherited from TPersistent.
…
To assist the doc team: this is a query for all pages containing “TComponent is the common ancestor of all component classes.”. Feel free to [WayBack] QC or QP it.
–jeroen
via: REST.Response.Adapter.TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter – RAD Studio API Documentation.
Posted in Delphi, Development, Fun, QC, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/30
For anyone keeping up with Pascal history, these uploads are new:
–jeroen
via: Index of /pdf/pascalNews.
Posted in Apple Pascal, BitSavers.org, DEC Pascal, Delphi, Development, History, IBM Pascal, Pascal, Software Development, Standard Pascal, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/28
Look ma: no mouse! DanielRapp/doppler. Detecting motion with your built-in computer speakers and microphone using the Doppler effect.
Cool!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/28
New Delphi related RSS feed: Delphi Pipe “A collection of Delphi related RSS streams” which works perfectly fine in Feedly.
You can get the source through http://pipes.yahoo.com/delphipipe/thepipe
The source is sooo simple, that I now definitely need to make some time to really do some Yahoo Pipes research:
Since Delphi Feeds doesn’t list my blog any more and generally isn’t very fast in responding to requests for adding or removing feeds, I have created my own aggregated feed: Delphi Pipe. It’s done with Yahoo Pipes and currently contains the following feeds (most important first ;-) ):
Oh and thanks Thomas Mueller for listing my feed second (;
Bug him on G+ to get added.
Later he showed how easy it is to convert your G+ stream to an RSS feed: Using Google+ as input for Yahoo Pipes.
Then how to read a CSV file (which is hosted on his site) as input to the RSS generation.
–jeroen
via: Delphi Pipe » twm’s blog.
Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 8 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/26
Next time I run into .NET and native threading issues:
Main UI threads often have a correlation between managed and native thread IDs.
But for other threads, you cannot be really sure.
Some background articles on this:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 