Unfortunately, both TThreadedQueue and TMonitor have a tainted history in Delphi. The original release of TThreadedQueue looked promising, with Mason Wheeler even classifying the new feature in Del...

I haven’t heard of too many Delphi developers that insist on naming all threads created in an application, but I think it is good practice. Call me overly pedantic if you must, but the practice cer...

While today’s programmers are typically excited about new browser-based technology, the old school Component Object Model (COM) in Windows is still leveraged by a very large portion of business sof...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...