Downloads are down
Seems that the last update of the Download Monitor plugin I’m using in my WordPress broke down quite ugly. All the downloads were lost. I will try to put them up and running ASAP.
Read More »String results and the weird stuff
There is an interesting particularity to the Delphi compiler. It relates to Strings and Dynamic Arrays. Consider the following two routines: What is the difference between these two routines? Nothing except the syntax. In both cases Result is…
Read More »Cool security
This is not a Delphi post, it’s a post about stupidity! I have my laptop protected by a boot password. The cool thing is that if you press CTRL+ALT+DEL at the time when you have to enter the…
Read More »Delphi 2009 Language features
Check out this link — pretty much details all the new language features added in Delphi 2009. A big thanks goes to Marco Cantu for preparing this document.
Read More »Thread.Synchronize
A general mistake many Delphi developers are making is accessing GUI classes from other threads directly (in a multi-threaded application). It’s a mistake I was doing for a long time. Eventually I started using SendMessage to synchronize with…
Read More »FastMove: Optimizing System.Move
This post describes a technique that can be used to optimize some RTL functions at run-time. At the end of the post there’s a unit; add it to your uses list (preferably as the first one) and the…
Read More »Abstract methods (or “why not”)
I always considered the implementation of abstract methods in Delphi to be a hack, mostly because there is no way (or is there?) to treat this: “[DCC Warning] W1020 Constructing instance of a class containing abstract method.” warning…
Read More »Overridden method should match case of ancestor
I’ve been following CodeRage III these days and presenter mentioned that in Delphi 7 (and above), when overriding virtual methods, the same case should be used for both functions. Consider this example: In this case indeed the compiler…
Read More »Lock keyword (templates)
This is a follow-up on the post about the “Lock keyword” emulation in Delphi. Just created 2 templates that you can use in your Delphi code to speed-up writing: [download#34] [download#35] Drop them into X:\Program Files\CodeGear\RAD Studio\6.0\ObjRepos\Code_Templates\Delphi directory…
Read More »Strings in Delphi (continued)
It seems the more you look, the more you find. There are a few interesting points in how strings are handled in Delphi; I’ve talked before about the particularities of String type in Delphi, so I’ll not touch…
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