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Delphi 2007 – (bad) Review

Delphi 2007 – Same Old Stuff Under a New Hat? We all love Delphi. It’s smart, easy to understand, fast, and user-friendly. But what truly makes Delphi so appealing? Is it the IDE, or is it the language itself?…

Those sundried-brain old school PHP programmers

It’s truly a shame that in these modern days, some developers still cling to coding in Notepad. Many of them are so far from grasping advanced concepts such as IDEs. RAD? Well, they’ve never heard of it. Framework? “Why…

More nasty bugs related to Delphi packages

The problem My Delphi XE started to act strange lately. I have unit Unit2.pas that uses ‘FormatBytes’ declared in Unit1.pas. When I try to compile Unit2 Delphi says that it cannot find FormatBytes. But FormatBytes is there, in…

Delphi developers are now charged for bug fixes [via Update Subscription]

Starting this year Embarcadero has a new plan to milk money from its customers. With the new ‘Update Subscription’ plan, Embarcadero wants to charge 30% from original purchase price, each year, each customer that wants access to product bug…

How difficult is to write a solid software protection (licensing) scheme?

Extracting unique identification numbers from hardware and using them for software protection scheme I had customers that are purchasing a single software license but using it on multiple computers so I wanted to prevent them from doing so. The…

Is (Embarcadero) Delphi’s code optimized for speed? No? Here is how to optimize string speed

The short answer is a big NO! No the long answer: Today I needed a function that will wrap a string (a contiguous block of characters with no spaces) after 80 characters. Not only that I have found SysUtils.WrapText…

Delphi is still in Top 20… barely

Delphi is still in Top 20… but barely. It is the last one. It may fall any time. Too sad….

The best and most reliable 3GB hard drive

I need a 3GB internal harddrive. Looking through statistic data from BackBlaze, it seems that Seagate is the worst solution because of it HUGE failure rate. Yes the prices are good for this drive but you don’t want a…

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