Archive for the ‘Delphi’ Category
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
via: RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/26
When developing mail sending software, you don’t want all your test mails to proliferate in the world.
Luckily there are some SMTP servers and services that allow incoming mail, but don’t forward them:
I got two of them from the interesting Stack Overflow question How to Debug/Monitor SMTP Communications? and later I also found about development smtp server for windows.
Note that I also like smtp-cli that Tripp Lilley suggested in his answer: though not a server, it is a nice command-line tool for testing SMTP servers (for instance to see if you got the above servers/services configured right on your client side, or if you have configured your own SMTP server correctly).
The cross platform monitoring tools tcpdump and wireshark (formerly etherreal) are great tools, they are usually way too deep for most of the SMTP problems I encountered. But when the going gets tough they are invaluable, especially Wireshark as it has a great feature Following TCP streams.
I wish there were similar servers and services for POP3, that would have helped a lot with a Delphi Indy project I developed a while ago (:
–jeroen
Posted in Communications Development, Delphi, Development, Internet protocol suite, SMTP, Software Development | 6 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21
This is the way a wiki should work:
List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow.
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 2015/02/15
Talking about Delphi 2007 stuff:
I needed to generate a bunch of groupproj files for Delphi 2007 (I wrote about legacy yesterday), but found out that my GenerateGroupProjConsoleProject was generating too good XML.
So here is the change-set:
Allow generating Delphi 2007 .groupproj files (uses a string search/replace hack as Delphi 2007 uses xmlns=”” which you cannot set manually through the normal IXMLNode ways especially not with ADOM).
TODO: verify if/how the GroupProj.xsd can be adopted to this not so nice XML that Delphi 2007 uses.
–jeroen
via jeroenp / BeSharp.net / commit / f7c23ffe4cb1 — Bitbucket.
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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 »
Posted in BBS, Castalia, Delphi, Development, FidoNet, History, Software Development | 2 Comments »
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
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
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+.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, QC, Software Development | 3 Comments »
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