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TGpInt64List.Move was totally broken. Great thanks go to 'Intra' for noticing it. Fixed now.

The recent discussion in comments to my latest articles ( Fun with enumerators - Walking the (integer) list , On bad examples and smelly cod...

I've received lots of criticism on my latest article on enumerators . For the convenience of my readers, here are some excerpts. Remov...

Do you hate such code? idx := 0 ; while idx < il.Count do if ShouldBeRemoved(il[idx]) then il.Delete(idx) ...

GpHugeFile 5.05 Delphi 2007 changed the implementation of CreateFmtHelp so that it clears the Win32 'last error'. Therefore, it wa...

The greatest (in my view), and one of the oldest of the Delphi IDE expert suites is GExperts. It was created by Gerals Nunn (in 1997, if I ...

Sometimes you're hunting down a problem that occurs very rarely. When it does, an exception is triggered. If you're debugging, Delph...

Just in case you're not following Julian's blog, I'd like to bring your attention to his new series on red-black trees . Red-bla...

When you get into really serious Windows development, you may well need to create NT service applications. Borland's input is half-hear...

Every serious Windows programmer who has developed at least one multi-threaded application knows about thread synchronisation. You know wha...

'Time, I'll tell you about time. Time is the simplest thing.' - Time Is The Simplest Thing, The Delphi Magazine #65, January 2...

Fredrik Loftheim made an interesting observation to my previous article on TWinControl.Controls enumerator - namely that the enumerator fa...

I'm still having fun with enumerators . The latest I wrote is a filtering enumerator for TWinControl.Controls[] that allows me to write ...

I had to live with the problem. Until the day when it occurred to me that I could very probably find the solution to my problem on the inte...

Instead of fixing the ScktComp unit it is probably better to create a derived class, override the Read method, paste code from ScktComp and...

Delphi is a good language and Delphi IDE is a good development environment and together they make a good pair, but admit it - Delphi languag...

Like some other authors ( Hallvard Vassbotn , Bob Swart ) I'll be republishing articles I wrote for The Delphi Magazine. [Chris, thanks ...

One of the most annoying bugs in Delphi 2007 must be the disappearing Welcome Page. Sometimes, when you do Close All, IDE decides that Welco...

You already know that I love all things enumeratorish . Just recently I found a great example that combines three kinds of Delphi magic to a...

The Oracle at Delphi (aka Allen Bauer) has posted some information on Unicode support in the next Delphi (codenamed Tiburon). Firstly, let...