By Vincent Parrett on
Friday, 3 September 2010
Delphi XE includes Regular Expression support, something that has been requested many times over the years. In this blog post I'll show some basic usage of regular expressions in delphi.
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By Vincent Parrett on
Monday, 12 July 2010
It's been a long time in the making, but FinalBuilder is almost here. FinalBuilder 7 has been in private beta testing for a few weeks, and today we are opening the beta to existing customers.
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By Vincent Parrett on
Friday, 4 June 2010
FinalBuilder's IDE is message driven. When you select an action in an actionlist for example, the actionlist view publishes a message to which other parts of the IDE can subscribe. The publish/subscribe mechanism used in the IDE has gone through a few revisions over the years, in the quest for the perfect publish/subscribe mechanism...
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By Ben Hughes on
5/05/2010 11:37 AM
Distributed verison control systems are gaining in usage and popularity, but many organisations still use traditional centralised VCSs like Subversion and Visual Source Safe. Recently I've been using a hybrid setup and getting many of the benefits of a DVCS without needing to move the whole team to a new VCS platform.
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By Vincent Parrett on
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Using interfaces and reference counting in Delphi works great in the most part. Its a feature I use a lot, I'm a big fan of using interfaces to tightly control what parts of a class a consumer has access to. But, there is one big achillies heel with reference counting in Delphi, you cannot keep circular references, at least not easily, without causing memory leaks.
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By Brent on
19/02/2010
In late 2008, we started a large campaign which introduced our first flash ads. Yesterday, I stopped all of our flash based ad campaigns... forever.
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By Vincent Parrett on
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
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By Brent on
22/01/2009
Nelson Wolf recently published a blog post about FinalBuilder to introduce the new action he's created for verifying that all required variables exist during run-time (a handy action!).
Within the post, he also had some interesting comments about FinalBuilder. ;-)
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By Brent on
9/01/2009
One of the funnier stackoverflow Q&As I've seen asked for advice on 'dealing' with those who break the build.
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By Brent on
8/12/2008
If you're a FinalBuilder expert available for contracting, let us know.
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