Delphi breakpoints

Breakpoints A breakpoint tells the debugger to pause the program’s execution at the location (line of code) where the breakpoint is. We can set source breakpoints in the Code Editor before we run the program, but also while the program is already running. The places where we can place breakpoints are marked by a blue

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“Cheap companies making cheap mainboards” or “Why I hate laptops”

I have encountered quite a few computers where you could hear the CPU/GPU “accelerating” in the sound card. I never owned such a cheap board. Lucky me. Mainboard for enthusiasts are much better than those in the laptops and “large-scale” PC sales.The round up (https://www.techspot.com/review/2907-amd-x870-motherboards/) shows impressive values for all modern enthusiast mother boards.Again, today

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Romania

I left Romania, country where I was born, about 20 years ago. I decided to take a look on how it evolved since I left and I am happy to see that things are progressing quite well.   Statistics Romania is very less populated, with a population density way under the EU average. The birth

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Open source software licenses are complicated

Here is a summary (extracted from Wikipedia) of the most popular software open source license. License Latest ver Linking Distribution Modification Patent grant Private use Sublicensing TM grant Apache License 2.0 Permissive Permissive Permissive Yes Yes Permissive No BSD License 3.0 Permissive Permissive Permissive[ Manually Yes Permissive Manually Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Public Domain Public

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When company does not want to spend money for training… they spend more money for fixing

Two weeks ago, a buggy project landed in my hands, to repair. The bug report was really unclear – it was just stated a piece of code that was supposed to upload some Json files to the Azure cloud was not working on some PCs. The code was something like this – well actually was

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Formatting tricks for StackOverflow and GitHib – Reinventing the text editor

Back in the early 90’s people invented a program called rich text editor. In it you could format text to be bold, italic. Paragraphs were also available. Then years went by, the rich editors got better and better until they culminated with really powerful and eye candy editors like MS Word. In parallel Linux came

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