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Asking Questions to Get Answers

Asking development and troubleshooting questions is a mix of art and science. Sites like Stack Overflow and other developer community forums will often reject questions that do not meet their standards. Even when you are sending a support request to our premium update subscription supportyou can save a lot of time by providing all the necessary information in your first message. There are a…
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Delphi Xlib headers

Author: Craig Chapman Back in November for CodeRage-12, I demonstrated a partial translation of the Xlib headers for X11. At that time I explained that I’d not completed the headers, but would notify on my blog when I had. Well, I’ve just done a major update to those…
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Speaking in London About Delphi Tokyo on Thursday, March 15th

Next week I’ll be presenting at an event in London organized by our partner Grey Matter. You can find more information and the link to sign up onhttp://www.greymatter.com/corporate/events/to-delphinity-and-beyond-free-delphi-workshop/ Titled “To Delphinity and Beyond” the event is focused on a general update of where the product is today and where it is heading in the…
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Delphi PodCast – Favorite Coding Books

Author: Craig Chapman As many of you may already be aware, I am now a regular guest on Jim McKeeth’s Delphi podcast along side David Millington. The pod-casts recently became video streamed, and have adopted a more structured “Themed Episode” format. Catch us Live on…
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Running a Delphi Linux Application on Google Cloud Shell

Google has made available to all Gmail users a Linux Shell called Google Cloud Shell for interacting with their Cloud Services. This shell is a free Debian 7 shell with a storage capacity of 5GB. It is not a VM that continues to run while you are disconnected, but rather a shell that allows you to perform tasks on a Linux box. When your session ends and you reconnect, a new machine is created for…
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