My second book “Delphi in all its glory” (ISBN:9798387412141) was released on time (March 2023) as promised. You can find the book on your local Amazon (Amazon.com, Amazon.de). The source code for the example used in the book can be found on GitHub. Use the comments section below if you have any comments about the …
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I wanted to keep track of my Delphi upgrades over the years. Hope people will learn from this. I tried also to keep track of the Delphi jobs in Germany over the years. They seem to be decreasing. Trying to upgrade to Delphi 2010 Unless support for Unicode is badly needed, staying with Delphi 7 …
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 …
When company does not want to spend money for training… they spend more money for fixing Read More »
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 …
Formatting tricks for StackOverflow and GitHib – Reinventing the text editor Read More »
I worked in a large project that had lots of frames and lots of dynamically created controls. When the software was running was difficult to figure out which control is which and were is created. So, I wrote this tiny piece of code that tells you which control is under the mouse. I was showing …
We all created at one point some small utility to do some dirty job for us. It started as a 100 liner then became bigger and bigger. And then we decided to publish it. Let the whole world enjoy it. And this is when disaster hit: the users started to ask more and more features …
One function to rule them all – Saving the whole GUI one single procedure call Read More »
Some of my programs need to run as single instance. This means that if an instance of my program is already running and the user is trying to start another instance, the second instance should not run. However, before closing the second instance, I want to pass the command line parameters from that second instance …
