Tag Archives: delphi

Assert is your friend… not an end-user’s

Posted on Jan 15, 2009 by Serguei Dosyukov

As a long time Delphi and C# programmer one become used to some features of the language and may not go deep into “philosophical” thinking about such features. This often happen with Asserts… What is Assert or Assertion? By its … Continue reading →

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Delphi, methods and default values. Convenience or contract enforcement?

Posted on Aug 28, 2008 by Serguei Dosyukov

Delphi, methods and default values. Being somewhat unique in methods declaration for the classes, Delphi requires you to have proper method parameters declaration, but: You do not have to have any default values for the parameters being propagated into implementation section for the … Continue reading →

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Was: Delphi in the workgroup

Posted on Aug 12, 2008 by Serguei Dosyukov

In his post today, Marshall Fryman discsusses problems with shared development environment or workgroup development. Yes, it could be a complex problem which is rarelly addressed. Note. Even though we are talking about Delphi here, it is really could be applied to any … Continue reading →

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Delphi 2009 beta: Installation improvements

Posted on Aug 12, 2008 by Serguei Dosyukov

Over the span of few weeks I have had “hot” conversation in public NG about speed of installation and that R&D team should do something about it. Good news For people who worried about future experience with installation of the … Continue reading →

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From Inprise to Tiburón. Fall and rise of development tools.

Posted on Jul 24, 2008 by Serguei Dosyukov

First, if you were looking for information about Hyndai’s sporty compact, it is not about it. CodeGear joined Embarcadero and finally is free to do what they suppose to do for many years now – develop the software for developers and … Continue reading →

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Tiburón: Why Unicode IS important

Posted on Jul 21, 2008 by Serguei Dosyukov

There is a hot discussion brewing in public about importance of the Unicode support in upcoming version of Delphi (Tiburón). There are people who do not see it as something to spend time on in current Delphi situation and some … Continue reading →

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So it began: Tiburón in the news – July 25, 2008

Posted on Jul 21, 2008 by Serguei Dosyukov

Now we finally can talk about a new version of RAD Studio – Tiburón. Did you miss some of the posts? Check the list below for most comprehensive list of posts about upcomming Tiburon release. by David I Tiburon’s LoadFromFile and SaveToFile … Continue reading →

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