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Hello. This article is part of a series where we speak with professional software developers, ask them what it’s like to write code for a living, and perhaps gain a few insights into the software development industry along the way. Our guest today is a Delphi and C++ Builder developer who has an amazingly impressive set of pictures of him smiling nonchalantly on the slopes of some absolutely stunning volcanoes at various locations dotted around the world. Stephane Jordi, also…

Practically every developer, even a newcomer in programming, can create and destroy objects correctly. A classic construction that is used in the majority of programs looks the following way: MyObject:= TMyClass.Create(); try {some code…} finally MyObject.Free; end; MyObject:= TMyClass.Create(); try   {some code…} finally   MyObject.Free; end; Yet, some time ago, there were a lot of discussions where to place object creation: before an exception handler or within the try-finally-end construction. Of course, now, it is not difficult to find an answer…

I’ve built a C++Builder app that pulls development related news and posts from more than 50 developer focused RSS news feeds. From time to time, I’ll highlight some of the articles that piqued my interest. Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code–Kate GregoryIncludes explanations of 30 guidelines along with plenty of examples, the occasional diagram, and stories that put them into context. Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter, who edit the ISO C++ Core Guidelines GitHub…

Delphi is one of the programming world’s legendary languages, a cornerstone of the history of software development. New languages have come to the fore as new platforms and frameworks have emerged, but Delphi has stood its ground as development trends came and went because of its reliability and efficacy as a development path.  What’s more, over time Delphi has not only not faded into the annals of history, it has evolved and expanded its capabilities, features and libraries on pace…

Hello C++ Developers, LearnCPlusPlus.org is packed full of great articles on new modern C++ topics for professionals and beginners. In this article, we point you toward some recent great posts about how to open old project files like *.mak and *.bpr files, how to create a DLL in FMX projects, and 64bits VCL Component. Do you want to set the runtime process priority of your applications in runtime? For the Artificial Intelligence field, we explain the simplest basic activation function that…

With the downplay of UWP, native development is again the primary Windows development model, after 20 years (given we had .NET in between). Native is what Delphi does at its best, so this is great news for us. Over the last couple of weeks there have been  several announcements from Microsoft that partially reverse past directions in terms of Windows development. In short, Microsoft is downplaying (if not fully deprecating) the Universal Windows Platform model. Here are some relevant links:…

What would it be like to create tools that integrate Delphi with Python? How much fun would it be to allow Delphi to execute Python code and call Python libraries, and allow Python to call modules in Delphi and interact with Delphi code, objects, interfaces and records? Two-directional integration is a great boon to Delphi developers, and the open-source Python4Delphi (P4D) library by Kiriakos Vlahos, author of the popular PyScripter Python IDE, does precisely that. Through Python4Delphi, Delphi developers can…