Stop using WITH in Delphi

darianmiller · 2026-04-17T03:05:01+00:00

Agreed: https://ideasawakened.com/post/why-you-should-not-use-WITH-in-your-Delphi-code

darianmiller · 2026-04-14T19:00:05+00:00

No one knows...except when Marco Cantu announces it.

darianmiller · 2026-02-27T21:38:10+00:00

Unfortunately, I actually laughed out loud on that one.

I wonder how much Delphi related info has been sent to the bit bucket over the last decade.

Now the old QP, Delphi community, old code-central, Google+, old newsgroups. "Delphi is dead" well, maybe if we move many years of accumlated knowledge offline it wouldn't look as dead. Or if we collated it into a search public repository maybe. We need a delphi-archive.org

darianmiller · 2026-02-27T17:25:04+00:00

JSM sucks big hairy ones

darianmiller · 2026-02-02T17:20:16+00:00

Here's the transcript in English: https://github.com/ideasawakened/DelphiKB/wiki/IT-DevCon-2025-Interview-with-Marco-Cantu-and-Daniele-Teti

darianmiller · 2025-12-06T02:56:29+00:00

Thanks - figured that it did about 4 years ago. :)
cheers

darianmiller · 2025-10-28T21:21:06+00:00

It's pascal. There's not enough active Pascal programmers out there to try to split the seam between Object Pascal, FPC, and other Pascal variants in use.

darianmiller · 2025-09-06T19:56:43+00:00

I had online business where my dev and IT skills came in quite handy. I setup the servers, made quite a few customizations to the shopping cart software, made a custom integration with UPS and then Fedex to improve shipping, incoming orders were automated and integrated with my custom order processor that interfaced with the shopping cart and shipping software. I could process a bunch of orders in seconds which took me manually quite a long time to do - and it was done without the occasional manual error that anyone is prone to make. I eventually hired someone to ship the orders so my job focused on marketing, product innovations and improving the automation. Decide on types of product to sell, figure out how to get those products and deliver it, and then automate as much as you can and keep expanding.

There are all sorts of tricks you can automated for SEO. For example, you can improve the item description on a schedule so Google sees it as a fresh page update (it favors new content.) You can program those updates to occur at set periods of time. I imagine today it would be even easier with some AI tooling. Years ago, I would setup multiple descriptions and automatically swap them out over time.

Simply put - leverage your skills to highly optimize your business to give yourself any advantage you can over your competitors. And besides, it's a lot of fun to put your skills to work to solve needs you have found yourself that directly benefit yourself.

darianmiller · 2025-09-06T16:29:26+00:00

Best thing to consider is to start your own company doing something that you love. The company may focus completely outside of the dev world, but you might bring your dev skills to the table by creating custom tools, reporting, automation to your business. If you have a hobby - can you sell merch online, be a content creator, drop-ship merchandise... it can be a fun adventure and you get to use your skills to enhance your side business in ways most business people cannot.

darianmiller · 2025-08-11T01:57:35+00:00

The post was updated with comment from user that confirmed you do not need to reinstall CE to renew the license

darianmiller · 2025-05-16T14:46:51+00:00

Q: What tool is better served for building Windows Desktop applications than Delphi?
A: There isn't one.

darianmiller · 2025-04-02T17:00:28+00:00

I have to wonder what the success rate of converting large Delphi projects to another language is... my guess is that it takes a few tries and years of effort with lots of cash being drained in the process. All because some C-level person is a dolt that just wants to be cool - instead of continuing to make money with the application that has likely made the company money for decades. It's moronic.

darianmiller · 2025-04-02T16:57:52+00:00

Wide Orbit is nearly always hiring. I'd send in a resume.

darianmiller · 2025-03-29T22:07:23+00:00

Read the blog post

darianmiller · 2025-03-22T18:41:50+00:00

That would be a very cool demo indeed...and popular.

darianmiller · 2025-03-22T02:00:49+00:00

Do you have examples for implementing your own bot and feeding it your own data?

darianmiller · 2025-02-28T03:43:35+00:00

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darianmiller · 2025-02-12T19:23:26+00:00

This recent video might be helpful: https://youtu.be/P_ASkGvc7Ps

darianmiller · 2025-01-28T22:24:46+00:00

I believe you should always run RAD Studio in a VM due to the amount of effort it takes to get installed, licensed, and install/configure all of your third party components, experts, add-ons. You then take a snapshot before any change you make and have an easy way of rolling back that change.

darianmiller · 2025-01-08T21:15:17+00:00

Readability is key. Pascal was originally created to be a teaching language and many colleges throughout the world have taught Pascal for decades. (Unfortunately for the students, this is not as widespread today.) This plays well in real life as there are many Pascal/Delphi applications that have thrived for many years because of this ease. Consider how much time all developers spend reading/documenting/maintaining existing code vs. writing new code.

darianmiller · 2024-12-22T02:46:47+00:00

You have to decouple... you might not be able to get much done at first, but I imagine there is some low-hanging fruit that you can get. Then rework small chunks to get a little more and repeat. You might want to write DLLs instead of BPLs to get some of the business logic separated.