Archive for the ‘Delphi’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/14
Marketing blast of the past via David Millington – Google+.
I got most of the Delphi versions from D2-D6 on PC Plus magazine cover CDs, an English magazine also published in Australia. I wouldn’t be here now if I hadn’t had access to those free copies of Delphi when I was a kid.
and this one:
It came with a promotional copy of Borland Delphi… and unlike other “promotional” software often distributed on the cover disks of popular computer publications at that time, this one had absolutely no restrictions and was fully functional.
From a really nice article by Simon Stuart.
Who thought that he was ever at the Basic side of things (:
And of course it ends with correct Delph-ee pronunciation to be right: the community at large has spoken.
Given this week went very different than I anticipated, here is a much shorter story than I hoped for. I’ll focus on the early days, you can read on the later and current days here on my blog.
My own early Delphi life
For me, my Delphi life has been pretty straight forward. It started with the early days and Turbo Pascal leading to Delphi.
Read the rest of this entry »
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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
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, Software Development | 2 Comments »
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
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/10
Russel Weetch last week posted a few pictures of Kylix related T-Shirts (wow, I had forgotten that Kylix was released back in 2000!) about Living la vida Linux.
To which I commented:
Kylix was great. But too late and aimed at a Linux desktop market that never took off. Who’d imagine then that a semi-open system based on Linux and JVM would power most of the mobile world and a closed system based on BSD would generate a huge part of the paying app world?
–jeroen
via Sorting out my T-shirt shelves and there, amongst my old surfing ones, I found….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/10
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/09
With the common-place of High DPI it is surprising the IDE hasn’t gotten more love in this respect.
The VCL can do it (Dalija Prasnikar knows an awful lot about Delphi High DPI), but the IDE can’t yet (it is *****^H^H^H^H^H very irritating that you need to login to see quality portal reports though apart from Google not being able to index them: the main reason I don’t file bug reports any more – QC is no alternative as it it is more or less defunct – but I digress).
With Delphi turning 20 years old this week, hopefully Embarcadero comes out with official steps to make recent versions of Delphi XE* High DPI aware.
Right now there is only some hearsay it might work: Does anyone have idea about how to make Delphi IDE (XE7) support High DPI…
–jeroen
PS:
High DPI awareness is must have feature for XE8.
Not only for Delphi IDE, but also for VCL and FMX frameworks.
via Dalija Prasnikar – Google+.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/05
On my research list, by the maker of DeHL: Eduka+ | YAPB.
Would be cool to make a mobile version of that some day.
–jeroen
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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/29
Unit testing has been here for a long time, and so has Unit Testing in Delphi. Below a summary of historic links together with some notes on how the state of affairs changed over the years.
Charlie Calvert
I’ll start with one of the first large Delphi Unit Testing articles was a paper by Charlie Calvert summarizing the state of the art on Delphi Unit Testing in 2004. It is present in the wayback machine as DUnit Talk and on his elvenware.com site.
Note that the elvenwere.com site is sometimes slow or hard to reach. Since his evangelist days at Borland/CodeGear, Charlie has moved through a few evangelist jobs at Falafel and Microsoft and finally went back to his old profession: being a great teacher – this time at Bellevue College – often using script based languages and cloud computing, with less focus on his web-presence.
Many of his IT books (during his writing period, he wrote both as Charles Calvert and Charlie Calvert) are still relevant though.
Posted in Agile, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Dependency Injection, Design Patterns, Development, Event, FreePascal, History, Inversion of Control / IoC, Pascal, Software Development | 3 Comments »
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