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TMS Day in Meerbusch

Thursday I had the great honor to join the Delphi gurus Bruno Fierens and Holger Flick in their sessions at the TMS Day in Meerbusch. They also played a nice video from my son Leon. We explained to work with … Continue reading

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New YouTube Channel

Together with my son we have set up a new YouTube channel. In this channel we will explain some interesting Delphi stuff. As you can image we started with the legendary hello world program. The first video is in German … Continue reading

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Foren-Tage

Yesterday I returned from the Foren-Tage. It has been a wonderful event with an amazing trip on a ship around the Port of Hamburg. The trip has been sponsored by TMS Software. Many thanks for that! On the conference on … Continue reading

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TMS Day Meerbusch Nov 23, 2017

I’m happy to announce that TMS Software organizes a new training day on Thursday November 23rd in Meerbusch, NRW, Germany. The sessions will be spent on Google Maps integration, TMS VCL & FNC components brought by ir. Bruno Fierens, TMS … Continue reading

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TMS Passkit at German Code Rage 2017

This year I will hold a presentation at the German Code Rage 2017. You can join it on Thursday, 22th at 1 pm. I will talk about the new TMS PassKit component. With TMS PassKit, wallet PassKit files can be … Continue reading

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Converted dfm to Text Format

Today Stefan Glienke mentioned at Google+ that there are some libraries which still use the binary format for dfm files. This is an issue since it is nearly impossible to recognize the changes in your vcs. I do remember old … Continue reading

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Free Capacities

Hi all, I currently have free capacities. I’m looking for remote contract work. I’m a specialist in all Delphi versions, particularly components, SQL databases, ORM and multi-threading. — Thanks, Roman

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Supports

This week I had to maintain some legacy code that uses many interfaces and supports in order to find out if a specific interface is supported: type IMyInterface = interface(IInterface) [‘{F500EEDD-032E-4D15-A8C0-EFF673C2AF01}’] procedure DoSomething; end; procedure MyProcedure(const AIntf: IInterface); implementation uses … Continue reading

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FreeAndNil

There are a lot of articles about the use and abuse of FreeAndNil but there is one point I really don’t like about FreeAndNil: It is not type-safe. Let’s have a look at the implementation: { FreeAndNil frees the given … Continue reading

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VirtualTreeView Version 6.6.0

I just updated the TurboPack version of the VirtualTreeView to the version 6.6.0 and asked Embarcadero to update GetIt.

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