Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/10
Last week there was an interesting question on Deep Object Comparison Delphi at Stack Overflow.
Two nice answers:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/09
If you are creating x64 applications using Delphi XE2, have Update 2 installed, and are (potentially) allocating more than 4Gb of memory (QC report 100726), then you need the Unofficial fix for QC#100726, or use the latest version of FastMM (see below).
If you use Delphi XE2 (original release) or Update 1, then you don’t have problems in this scenario.
Thanks to FastMM author Pierre le Riche for providing this fix so quickly.
Note that the latest 4.x release of FastMM is now FastMM 4.99 and contains the same fix.
–jeroen
Via: Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Unofficial fix for QC#100726 ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/03
I uploaded the EKON15 conference download materials to http://bo.codeplex.com.
The changeset you are after is http://bo.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/70872
It contains most of the materials for the Delphi Tage and the Delphi Live conferences too, though I will upload the missing pieces soon.
With the [WayBack] demise of codeplex, these links now have moved to
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/02
Yesterday, Update 2 for Delphi XE2 / C++ Builder XE2 / RAD Studio XE2 became available for download.
A few notes from my experience upgrading from a full RAD Studio XE2 Update 1 install (from ISO):
There are a ton of changes (154 changes files in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0\source directory tree alone) including some of the things I came across that now have been fixed:
–jeroen
Via: Update 2 for Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2 and RAD Studio XE2 now available – DelphiFeeds.com.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/01
Delphi Tricks (from Chris Hesik, see link below) to show which units are compiled into an app:
–jeroen
Via: debugging – How can I find all the units in my Delphi app? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/25
Op dinsdag 6 en woensdag 7 december 2011, organiseren Barnsten en better office benelux een 2 daagse Delphi XE2 Workshop in Hoofddorp.
Het aantal plaatsen is beperkt, aanmelden kan via de Barnsten.com site.
Het doel van deze workshop is ervaren Delphi ontwikkelaars snel productief te laten werken met Delphi XE2. De workshop is modulair opgezet: inschrijving is per dag mogelijk.
De workshop sluit aan op de workshop die vorige week door Barnsten en The Delphi Company is georganiseerd: er zit nauwelijks overlap in de onderwerpen.
Dag 1 heeft de focus op nieuwe features voor Windows gebruikers.
Dag 2 gaat compleet over cross platform FireMonkey (Windows, Mac en iOS: iPad/iPhone/iPod-touch). Neem hier je eigen
Nodig voor dag 1 en dag 2:
Nodig voor dag 2:
In samenwerking met better-office organiseert Barnsten een Hands-On workshop voor de gevorderde Delphi
ontwikkelaar. Het doel van deze workshop is u, als ervaren Delphi ontwikkelaar, snel productief te laten werken met
Delphi XE2. De workshop is modulair opgezet zodat u zich per dag kunt inschrijven.
De Hands-On Workshop vindt plaats op 7 en 8 december 2011 en wordt gehouden in Hoofddorp. Kijk voor de
beschrijving onder het kopje Product info en voor de dagindeling onder het kopje Specificaties.
Zie ook deze twee online installatie instructies:
–jeroen
via: Delphi XE2 Hands-On Workshop met better office – Barnsten.com.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/24
If you are attending the EKON 15 conference and want to prepare your laptops for some hands on experience, please follow the guidelines below.
I’m looking forward meeting a lot of interesting people, and having a great conference!
And if you are not attending, the below guidelines will help you get started doing cross platform FireMonkey development in Delphi :)
Installation instructions
See also these two online instructions:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/14
Right after the Subversion SVN 1.7 release earlier this week, 3rd party providers announced new versions of their products too.
These are the updates of the ones I use most often:
Two major improvements for me:
Please also read Uwe Schuster‘s (the guy that implemented the version control integration for SVN and Git in the Delphi IDE) blog post on a few things you need to watch when upgrading to Tortoise SVN 1.7.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/12
When running on Windows, changing the current user is called impersionation.
There are various ways to do this in Windows, including
On the iSeries, there is only one way, as everything goes through the same API: use QSYGETPH (Get Profile Handle) to verify a username/password combination and obtain a handle to the authentication token, then use QWTSETP (Set Profile Handle) to change the user currently signed on, as for instance mentioned by Colin Williams directing to the CHGCURUSR tool on FreeRpgTools.com and an article on Swapping AS/400 User Profiles by Shannon O’Donnel that comes with source code.
On the iSeries, when you are done, you should use QSYRLSPH (Release Profile Handle) when done impersonating, and you need to get the handle from the original user profile if you want to return to it.
The IBM documentation contains a small sample with QSYGETPH, QWTSETP and QSYSRLSPH that sets and restores the profile handle (edit 20120214: it got moved to http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fapis%2Fapiexushand.htm)
Note that on both Windows ans iSeries, impersonation within a process/thread will make it run in the new context, but the process still keeps the identity of the user that started the process.
If you want to change that, then on both you need to start a new process from the impersonated thread.
In Windows, you can combine the impersionation and the creation of a new process by using the CreateProcessWithLogonW function (as mentioned at the Old New Thing by Raymond Chan). I’ve yet to find an equivalent on the iSeries.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/11
EKON 15 – first day has many English sessions
From 26 till 28 of October, I’ll be speaking at the 15th EKON conference at the Renaissance Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany.
I just sat next to the conference organizer, and he proudly announced that well known and long time Delphi guru Cary Jensen will be presenting the keynote on the evolution of Delphi from Delphi 1 to XE2.
I still have the disks marked “Wasabi” and “Mango” from the early 90s (and funny that Microsoft is using the same name for a 7.5 product, where Delphi 1 was a real revolution).
Next to the German sessions, there will be English sessions as well: Cary also does his other sessions that day (on cross platform development, windows services, and RESTful webservices).
Being a German conference, most of the other sessions will be in German, but it is good that the English ones are all in one day: you get a one-day visit to conference as a non-German speaker, get a discount and visit the beautiful city of Dusseldorf (especially the Altstadt is recommended).
Contact me for more information on discounts: there are both discounts for the English day and the full the whole conference.
On the EKON 15 site there is a nice conference planner and session overview.
Last but not least, on friday after the conference, Edwin van der Kraan and I will present a full day Delphi XE2 workshop covering x64, new VCL and of course FireMonkey cross platform development (so bring your Mac and iOS devices with you!).
15. EKON Konferenz – Delphi XE2 und mehr…
Vom 26. bis zum 28. Oktober findet die 15. Entwickler Konferenz (EKON) im Renaissance Hotel in Düsseldorf statt. Ich werde als Speaker ebenfalls vor Ort sein.
Als ich gerade mit dem Organisator der Konferenz zusammen saß, verkündete er mir stolz, dass Cary Jensen, bekannter und langjähriger Delphi-Guru, auf der EKON 15 eine Keynote zu Delphis Evolution von Delphi 1 zu XE2 halten wird.
Ich bin immer noch im Besitz von Disketten aus den frühen 90er Jahren, die mit „Wasabi“ und „Mango“ beschriftet sind (witzig dabei ist, dass Microsoft den gleichen Namen für ein 7.5-Produkt nutzt, während es bei Delphi 1.0 eine richtige Revolution gab).
Neben den deutschen Sessions werden auf der EKON auch Sessions auf English angeboten: Cary wird unter anderem auch über Cross-Plattform-Entwicklung, Windows Services und RESTful Web Services sprechen.
Zwar werden die meisten Sessions auf Deutsch gehalten, jedoch gibt es diesmal eine Besonderheit bei den englischen Sessions: Diese finden an einem Tag statt!
Somit können auch die Nicht-Deutschsprachigen für ermäßigten Eintritt an den Sessions auf Englisch teilnehmen und ganz nebenbei die schöne Innenstadt Düsseldorfs erkunden
(besonders die Altstadt ist sehr empfehlenswert).
Zu guter Letzt präsentieren Edwin van der Kraan und ich am Freitag einen ganztägigen XE2 Power Workshop zu x64, New VCL und natürlich zur FireMonkey Cross-Plattform-Entwicklung (bringen Sie also Ihre Macs und iOS-Geräte mit!).
Bei weiteren Fragen, Interesse und Infos über die Ermäßigungen können Sie mich gerne kontaktieren (Ermäßigte Preise gibt es sowohl für den English-Day als auch für die Gesamtkonferenz). Auf der Website finden Sie eine übersichtlichen Zeitplaner, die Sessions im Überblick und alle weiter Informationen zur Entwickler Konferenz.
–jeroen
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