Tips on migrating Delphi 4, 5, 6, 7 to Delphi 8...

I judge my blog to be fairly powerful in that it is attracting all kinds of Delphi developers, so I'm gonna put out a survey now, that someone raised in...

In Delphi 8 Control Panel Applet Mystery , I wrote about how I tried porting the Control Panel applet from Delphi 7 and some problems associated with it...

I've migrated a category from elsewhere. The migrated category is the Movies CMS , which should have it's place properly here, not elsewhere. Take a read...

A mystery concerning the development of a Control Panel module in Delphi 8, and the lack of initialization code starting up....

There are two new undocumented procedure directives in the Delphi 8 compiler. Presumably, these are in preparation for Delphi 9, which is coming at the...

In Part 1 of this article, I discussed about the UNSAFECODE directive, and promised to discuss this language feature in Part 2 of the article. Well, if you're waiting for this article, wait no more! Here it is!...

Dan beat me to it , so I won't be blogging about it.

The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the following predefined conditional symbols. Symbol Description CIL Indicates the machine code model, roughly corresponding...

The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the FINITEFLOAT directive. Type SWITCH Syntax {$FINITEFLOAT ON} or {$FINITEFLOAT OFF} Default {$FINITEFLOAT ON} Scope...

The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the UNSAFECODE directive. Type SWITCH Syntax {$UNSAFECODE ON} or {$UNSAFECODE OFF} Default {$UNSAFECODE OFF} Scope Local...

Before Delphi 8, the following code does not compile. In Delphi 8, the following code compiles. Something to take note of if you're backporting Delphi...

Think before you speak!...

Well, who's Blake Stone and Charles “Chuck” Jazdzewski anyway? Blake Stone was the CTO at Borland, and the JBuilder architect. Chuck Jazdzewski...

The AUTOBOX article is updated to include newly discovered information....

The next Delphi meetup for Singapore is scheduled to be held on 27 May. If you're interested, please provide your name, contact (email or phone). The Delphi...

The process of logging into the Movies CMS system is discussed in this article....

The method in which I enabled scheduled publishing to occur in .Text is described in this article, together with source code in Delphi 7....

The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the AUTOBOX directive. In the spirit of the Delphi Language Guide, I have presented information for the AUTOBOX directive...

In “ That Which We Dare Not Name ”, Borland Chief Scientist, Danny Thorpe discussed Borland's internal concern over information disclosed in...

The dynamic configuration of the Movies CMS website is discussed in this article....

In order to refer to a particular class operator, prefix the operator name with the identifier escape character (&), eg, TFooBar.&&op_Addition...

I have implemented scheduled publishing. And I was just testing the scheduled publishing. If you have accidentally seen a post which is dated in the future...

The readme file of “Delphi 7 Service Pack” seems to be out! The Delphi 7 update is known as “Delphi 7.1 Update”. Malcolm Groves...

Records in Delphi 8 has been extended. In previous versions of Delphi, records can only be defined thus, recordTypeName = [packed] record fieldList1: type1;...