I imagine that most every Delphi developer has clicked Project > Clean in the IDE at some point and wondered what it actually accomplished. The help text says “removes generated files from the p...

Here is something I do many times a week within RAD Studio. I want to see what changed in a file that I am editing, so I right-click the file in the Project Manager, then click Show in Explorer, w...

There is a strong possibility that most Delphi developers keep one or two (or more) console windows open while working in the IDE. Build scripts, git, a quick PowerShell one-liner, whatever tool yo...

Where is Delphi on this machine? It is a question with more answers than it may appear. On any given Windows box, the registry hive may be under \Software\Borland\Delphi, \Software\Borland\BDS, \So...

You commit a build script. Dave runs it on his machine. It fails - his Delphi is in D:\Delphi13, not C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0. You fix it for Dave. Six months later, Delphi 14...

Anyone who has maintained technical documentation over time has run into the problem of link rot. After carefully crafting a links section pointing to a relevant blog post or reference page, six m...

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular database solutions in the world. A few years back, I published a blog post full of PostgreSQL links and general information which includes links for the vario...