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Reset your Windows password without any third party tools

There are some tasks that come up infrequently, but when they occur you want a reliable solution. Losing your Windows password on an old virtual machine, laptop, or desktop happens on rare occasion...

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Delphi JavaScript execution - ditch TWebBrowser for ChakraCore

I assume a large portion of the Delphi developer community has leveraged TWebBrowser to some degree over the years - I know I have used it many times. So, when I started a new project and wanted to...

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Community Edition upgrade offer - up to 55% savings

If you are using the Community Edition of RAD Studio, then you may be interested in this offer with up to 55% of savings. Note: I am not associated with Embarcadero sales, nor do I get a commissio...

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Writing Cross Framework code in Delphi

Sharing Delphi code between your FMX and VCL applications is pretty easy for non-visual functionality, with the exception of zero-based strings (and ARC on mobile platforms which is being rolled ba...

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Code count badges for your GitHub repositories

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” Ok, I got that out of the way. If you don’t know that popular reference, I suggest you watch...

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Christmas discounts from Delphi related third party vendors (2019)

As a follow-up to the Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts post, there are some discounts showing up for the Christmas season that we’ll gather in this blog post. As before, the post will be upd...

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libcurl and Delphi

libcurl is a hugely popular tool, available on most platforms and supports many internet protocols. I’ve mainly used it for HTTP GET/POST tasks but there’s built-in support for FTP, IMAP, POP3, SMT...

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Black Friday discounts from Delphi related third party vendors (2019)

There are some discounts appearing for the upcoming shopping weekend. Below are a few and this blog post will be updated if more are discovered. Aquafold has a special 20% Cyber Monday sal...

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Subversion isn't dead - get a 1GB repo free forever

Many people think the battle was won long ago and that GIT is the undisputed victor in the version control war. I imagine that everyone will agree that GitHub, GitLab, AWS CodeCommit, and Azure Dev...

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Update 3 for RAD Studio 10.3 Rio has been released!

This is likely the last update for 10.3 Rio before we get a new major release sometime in 2020. That is, besides hotfixes/patches of course - and there’s already a patch available for fixing a pr...