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Double-dabble and conversions from base-10 and base-2 number systems

Many of you probably use this trick all the time, but I haven’t heard of this magic double-dabble short cut before today. I wanted to quickly write it down so that I don’t forget it. Base-10 is ob...

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New book available: Code Faster In Delphi by Alister Christie

It’s great to see books still being published targeting Delphi developers. The latest one is from a well known Delphi developer, Alister Christie and it’s called Code Faster In Delphi, which is ava...

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About binary compatibility on new versions of Delphi

The latest Delphi version 10.4.1 was released yesterday and there’s always a few questions about third party components and version upgrades so I thought I’d put up a quick post in response. Every...

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RAD Studio 10.4.1 Sydney Released - and Delphi is better than ever!

I was really pumped with RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney was released in May. I have been rediscovering my love for Delphi lately and the 10.4 release sounded like it was going to be amazing. I stated back ...

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Unit Testing FizzBuzz in Delphi

In the last article, a simple solution to the common FizzBuzz software developer interview screening test was discussed. For the majority of employers, the simple solution provided will likely be a...

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Developer interview questions: FizzBuzz in Delphi

A lot of time, effort, and money is invested into hiring developers so businesses typically go out of their way to ensure they have a qualified candidate. As I’ve experienced a few times over the y...

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RAD Studio 10.4.1 hopefully coming soon

RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney was a large release and I was certainly excited to get my hands on it. Unfortunately, the release process was a bit messy and some initial cleanup was required (see my previo...

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Utility class for activating external VCL Style files in Delphi

The VCL Styles feature in Delphi has seen major improvements as of late, including High DPI and 4K monitors in RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney. It seems like a rather niche feature for many Delphi developer...

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Delphi Tip: Move the instruction pointer during debugging

What is an instruction pointer? This execution pointer holds the address of the next line of instruction. It seems to be defined in the Intel x86 world as instruction pointer, but may be better kn...

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TMonitor event stack fix by a true Delphi MVP

I recently blogged about Revisiting TThreadedQueue and TMonitor in Delphi and it spawned some discussions including a thread on the English-language Delphi-PRAXiS forums where a few users participa...