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The Long and Winding Road To Today's Delphi - Happy 29th Birthday !

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February 14, 2024
The Long and Winding Road To Delphi’s 29th Birthday This blog post contains a quick look at 29+ years of development, innovation, community and fun with Delphi. It Started with Pascal In order to get to today’s 29th year of Delphi, we have to start back in 1970 with the creation of the Pascal programming language by Niklaus Wirth (1984 ACM Turing Award Laureate) and his team at…
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A case when FreeAndNil is your enemy

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February 16, 2010
Author: Allen It seems that my previous post about FreeAndNil sparked a little controversy. Some of you jumped right on board and flat agreed with my assertion. Others took a very defensive approach. Still others, kept an “arms-length” view. Actually, the whole…
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A "Nullable" Post

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September 18, 2008
Author: Barry K21557 [This blog post is by Allen Bauer, but during the blog engine migration was attributed to the wrong author.] Solving problems can be fun and challenging. What is really challenging is solving a problem using only the tools at hand. During the development…
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Multicast events using generics

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August 15, 2008
Author: Allen Ever since before Delphi 1, the (then Delphi only) RAD Studio IDE has been full of home-grown multicast event class types. I usually refer to these as an “event bus.” This is from my hardware days when I designed microcontroller based security/access control equipment. A CPU has an “address bus” and a “data bus” which can have one sender and any…
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