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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 by jpluimers on 2015/03/24
Paul Thornton posted a nice question on G+ two weeks ago:
Interfaces are great, but they can be a pain to debug. Forgetting one weak link can lead to Access Violation hell. I seem to remember a utility that would let you visualise the links between interfaced objects, but can’t remember what it was called. Anybody know?
Do you have any clever interface debugging tips or tricks?
Mixing object and interface references leads to complex situations, especially when some classes make refcounting go away (not limited to UI components) so refactoring is a good idea, it at all possible:
Refactor them away :-)
When the mix of interface reference counting and TObject gets so complex, that the source code is no longer obvious, maintenance costs sometimes become too high and another solution might be better.
+Lars Dybdahl Totally agree and it is even worse when reference counting is disabled (like adding an interface reference to an UI component).
There is not much tooling, this thread only mentioned RefCountTracer and FastMM:
There is this: https://github.com/AquaSoftGmbH/RefCountTracer
It helps you find memoryleaks, but also could show you if a refcount goes below 0.
This link was very useful. It also points to a good FastMM tutorial.
Which reminded me I totally forgot to post that tutorial on my blog so here it is:
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »
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 2015/03/03
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 2015/02/21
This is the way a wiki should work:
Thanks Simon Stuart for asking, and many others (especially Johan) for providing the info.
Note the version that is missing (;
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/14
Normal people would give Valentine presents today.
But 20 years ago, Borland thought it was a nice idea to release Delphi. Then a revolutionary new tool and lots of scepticism. Now – after 20 years – still going strong, despite all kinds of funny things that management at Borland, InPrise, etc did and the wild ride the market had.
Happy birthday Delphi!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/13
After a hectic week bringing back memories from a long time ago, I remembered the really early Delphi days.
Long before [WayBack] QC2747, back when it was still called AppBuilder, several people – including me – made the wish for an undo/redo functionality on the Delphi compuserve board.
Back then, the argument was that the designer needed to be restructured to do that. Now that it has – to accommodate FMX – and it is time, especially for the vast majority of Delphi users primarily using the designers to get work done.
So my wish, after 20+ years of Delphi use:
Please bring multi-level undo/redo functionality in the Delphi designer (form, datamodule, etc).
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, QC, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/10
Interesting, I never knew that [WayBack] Process Monitor has had an API to send messages to, but it has had this ability for almost 5 years: [Archive.is] See the I/O You Caused by Getting Your Diagnostic Tracing into Process Monitor | Wintellect.
I did know about [WayBack] OutputDebugString and the DBWIN protocols, but this was new.
The ZIP file for Process Monitor is offline (but you can find it by searching for ProcMonDebugOutput.zip), and contains .h files and a .NET example.
Thanks [WayBack] Oliver Giesen for the [WayBack] Delphi translation!
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Interface unit for sending debug messages to SysInternals ProcessMonitor « bl.OGware.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/03
Cool: this makes it way easier to do repeated Delphi installs for testing purposes:
Setup.exe /s LANGUAGE=English EN=TRUE DE=TRUE KEY1=XXXX KEY2=XXXXXX KEY3=XXXXXX KEY4=XXXX
There are many more parameters in Delphi sorcery: Unattended Delphi installation – how?, but the above is already a good start.
Thanks Stefan Glienke for having shared this!
–jeroen
via: Delphi sorcery: Unattended Delphi installation – how?.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/02
Because of Delphi sorcery: New dynamic array type in Spring4D 1.2, I updated this article from 2009: Delphi operator overloading: table of operators, names, and some notes on usage and ‘glitches’.
When I wrote the original article in 2009 the in operator wasn’t documented to be overloadable.
It is overloadable, and newer documentation includes it: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Operator_Overloading_%28Delphi%29.
In addition I clarified a few things better (like not needing to return Boolean for comparison and set operators) and fixed a few typos and links.
The glitches are still there, so I’ve kept those.
–jeroen
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