General software development related posts.
A few years back, I wrote a back end json service for a Delphi application using PHP. The advantage of using PHP was that it could be hosted anywhere that PHP and MySQL / MariaDB were available, opening up the possibility of using cheap shared hosting. This particular application however, required access to google API’s … Read more
Track down leaking memory, windows handles critical sections, and many other leaking resources, in your Delphi and Visual Studio C++/C# applications with Deleaker! Supporting 32 & 64 bit applications and both native and managed code, Deleaker tracks allocations and disposal of resources at run time, provided an aggregated view of leaks with complete call stack! … Read more
Introduction Over the years, I don’t think I can count the number of times that I’ve wanted to send window messages to some other application. It can be useful for automating the target application, or even as a primitive form of Inter-process communication. Each time, I have to decide how I’m going to get the … Read more
REST Services using Delphi: REST Services using C++ Builder: Source code for both Delphi and C++ Builder: RADServerSample
Here’s a little Déjà vu for regular readers of my blog. One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.” This seemed like a fun challenge, so I thought I’d write … Read more
One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.” This seemed like a fun challenge, so I thought I’d write a helper class to solve it.. The Problem. Ultimately, what … Read more
I decided to write an app to celebrate Delphi’s 23rd birthday and valentines day.Happy Birthday my beloved Delphi! (Best Viewed Full Screen, Source and binary downloads below). The binaries provided here are Debug builds, and should be considered an Alpha version.I intend to put release builds on the app stores as time permits. Present App … Read more
In this video, I demonstrate a technique for communicating between threads in a Delphi application, without using typical locking mechanisms such as critical sections. Best Viewed in Full Screen (Recorded 1080p). Download the source
In this video, an overview of a reporting system fed from a Delphi application.Best Viewed full-screen.
Best viewed fullscreen (recorded 1080p).Source below. Source Code: ThreadMethodSample