Category Archives: Delphi

Won’t Heed Hints? Get Errors!

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

One of my pet peeves, as you may already know, is leaving memory leaks in “final” code. Another one is leaving compiler Hints and Warnings. When doing a fresh build, there should be no Hints and no Warnings. Period. No … Continue reading →

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A New Job

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

Friday was my last day at WideOrbit. I’m leaving a bunch of good people whom I’ve got to know and appreciate over the last 5+ years. So, I’m a little bit sad but at the same time very excited to … Continue reading →

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CodeCamp 2010 = Awesome!

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

I spent the day on the Foothill College campus in Los Altos for the 2010 edition of the Silicon Valley Code Camp. And I plan to return tomorrow! We had a wonderful weather, lots of food-for-thought and abundance of pizzas. And best … Continue reading →

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Implicit vs Explicit Call to inherited

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

When overriding a method, you have the choice to call the ancestor method implicitly with the inherited keyword alone or with also the method name and its parameters if any. Does it make a difference? Why choose one or the … Continue reading →

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Using Richedit 4.1 with D2010

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

Why Starting with Windows Vista, the OS offers a lot of features and improvements to the embedded Speech capabilities that are directly available for free to the Delphi developer, as I have shown in my CodeRage and DelphiLive sessions. But … Continue reading →

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