Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/28
Stefan Glienke started some interesting demographics polls on the G+ Delphi community.
Demographics are about group members that actually voted. Which might rule out Delphi programmers not writing English well.
Despite that, I think it actually tells a lot, especially when you read the comments as well.
And it made DavidI provide some background on the geographic distribution: Where in the world are programmers using Delphi? – Blogs.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/22
General XE8 news:
Components/tools/libraries updated to XE8:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/21
Especially when using Delphi 2007 on Windows x64 system (8.x, 7, Vista, 2012 Server, 2008 Server, …), the Delphi specific .Targets files used by msbuild are simply installed to the wrong location.
A better warning for this is in my BeSharp.net repository: Run-Dependend-rsvars-From-Path.bat thanks to David Millington who wrote this:
If you copy
- Borland.Common.Targets
- Borland.Cpp.Targets
- Borland.Delphi.Targets
- Borland.Group.Targets
from
- %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
to
- %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727
then building via the command line works.
The rsvars.bat file is correct.
Note that my batch file checks for all target file sets:
set requiredTargets=Borland.Common.Targets Borland.Cpp.Targets Borland.Delphi.Targets Borland.Group.Targets
set requiredTargets=CodeGear.Common.Targets CodeGear.Cpp.Targets CodeGear.Delphi.Targets CodeGear.Deployment.Targets CodeGear.Group.Targets CodeGear.Idl.Targets CodeGear.Profiles.Targets if %bdsVersion%==8 set requiredTargets=CodeGear.Common.Targets CodeGear.Cpp.Targets CodeGear.Delphi.Targets CodeGear.Group.Targets CodeGear.Idl.Targets if %bdsVersion%==13 set requiredTargets=CodeGear.Common.Targets CodeGear.Cpp.Targets CodeGear.Delphi.Targets CodeGear.Deployment.Targets CodeGear.Group.Targets CodeGear.Profiles.Targets
–jeroen
via [WayBack] QualityCentral: Project compiles fine under IDE, but not using MSBuild.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, QC, Software Development | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/15
{$IF defined(MSWINDOWS) and not defined(NEXTGEN)} – XE8 first impressions Installed RadStudio XE8 (Pro) last night and these are….EConversionError ‘Internal: Type tkPointer is not currently supported’: it seems in the DataSnap XE 8 transfer of TList class crashed, the problem….Components and tools that work with XE8:
Appmethod
--jeroen
Posted in Castalia, Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | Tagged: 1, Delphi, UniDAC, XE8 | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/14
A few people asked, so below is a picture of just a piece of my books closet.
From left to right:
This is only the front-left portion of one shelve. Most shelves are two deep and about 4 times as wide as what you see here (:
I have floppies somewhere in my archive too. Need to dig them up some day.
–jeroen
via:
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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.
On the Spring4D side, Stefan and Honza have added XE8 support, so a new release of that can be near.
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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 2015/04/01
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
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 (;
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.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 