I just got a bug report for the latest version of TPerlRegEx. A user from China was getting these errors trying to compile TPerlRegEx: [DCC Warning] PerlRegEx.pas(265): W1063 Widening given AnsiChar constant (#$B7) to WideChar lost information [DCC Error] PerlRegEx.pas(265): E2030 Duplicate case label Needless to say, TPerlRegEx compiled just fine for me on my […]
If your portable software installations get confused when your USB stick gets a different drive letter, tell Windows which drive letter you want your USB stick to use. You can also change the drive letters of hard disk partitions to easily synchronize application settings between multiple PCs.
CodeGear published a “Delphi and Unicode” white paper. It’s an excerpt from the upcoming Delphi 2009 Handbook. I did the technical review of that book’s section on Unicode.
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I’ve come down with a pretty bad cold, so you won’t get a conference report or photo collection of the ESWC 2008 from me.
If you’re staying at the conference hotel when attending the ESWC 2008, you have two options to stay connected to the rest of the world in your hotel room.
Simple rules for developers migrating from Delphi 2007 to 2009 who haven’t worried about string performance in the past, and don’t want to start to worry about it now.
Benchmark results of running isolated code a million times in a tight loop are meaningless, for a variety of reasons.
Detailed explanation of the reasons behind and impact of the new “string format checking” compiler option in Delphi 2009. Delphi programmers should turn it off, but C++Builder programmers should turn it on.
I just finished making the final arrangements for our trip to Berlin to attend the 8th annual European Software Conference. If you’re involved in the micro-isv industry and Europe doesn’t require interplanetary travel for you, you should definitely attend. We’ll be staying at the Maritim proArte, which is the hotel where the conference is held.
The “A” functions in the Win32 API are wrappers around the “W” counterparts, with added code page conversions. The Delphi 2009 RTL and VCL use the “W” calls, resulting in a slight performance increase compared with Delphi 2007.
Benefits of the creative commons licenses are the attribution requirement, nice graphics, and a human-readable deed. You can explicitly waive the Share Alike condition in whichever cases you want to, say, weaken the open source requirement similar to the LGPL.