[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Running through some of my code last night, putting them through the new XE4 compiler, threw up a real oddity: Some code that used to compile just fine, which no longer compiles in XE4 and which should not have compiled before!
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Having just installed Delphi XE4 “Professional”, provided as part of my employer’s current SA, the initial “Welcome” to the new version, and seemingly the “baked in” Start Here landing page invites me to set-up Delphi for iOS development:
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] I spent the best part of half a day last week trying to get to the bottom of a very strange issue on a project I was working on. I had just created a new unit in the project and had reached a point where I needed to add that unit to the uses list of an existing unit in the same project. It was at that point that things started to go awry.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Chris Rolliston just posted a link to a video (from Russia) where-in the pricing for XE4 is revealed. All $ amounts mentioned in this article are US $ prices. Your local price may vary depending on how much exchange rate gouging is added on top of the gouging already built in.
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] Yesterday I found myself having to write some code that would never be used in order to co-erce the compiler into not complaining that something would not be used when in fact it was.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Marco Cantu just blogged about the price of Delphi and his conclusion that it is reasonably and comparably priced. Whilst it might be encouraging that he is looking at these things in his new role, his methodology and reasoning leaves a lot to be desired.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Verity Stob has always been good value, and the Sons of Kahn Series has attained worshipful status. And we have been bless with another instalment.
[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] In the previous post in this series, we saw that the number of threads that a given process could support was determined by a number of factors, of which the stack size reserved for each thread was key. We also saw how we could change the stack size used by our application and how this could increase the number of threads that our process could support. But if you thought it seemed a bit crude to have to set a single stack size for all the threads in a process (including the main thread), then you would be right, and we can do something about this.
[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] Roberto Schneiders recently drew my attention to the first post on his new blog (which I can recommend as a good read 🙂 ), presenting the results of some performance testing of DataSnap that he had been involved with which proved to be very interesting (if initially somewhat disappointing). But my post isn’t about that, at least not directly.
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] The ever evolving DWScript project continues to advance the Pascal language at an impressive pace. Just today it was announced that this scripting version of Pascal now has “namespace” support.
