Last week we had a very good meeting at the danish users group with almost 30 attendees.A lot of new people were there, and certainly some people I've known for 20 odd years.  As always with our one day meetings we had an agenda with speakers from within the group. On the agenda this time I was up first showing and telling how to use App Tethering, in a system that actually could be used in a real life scenario, so in stead of the usual "Hello World" kind of application I built a complete ...

После летнего перерыва компания Embarcadero продолжает проводить бесплатные вебинары для разработчиков. Если вдруг вы не получили информационное письмо, посмотреть программу следующих вебинаров и зарегистрироваться на  следующие можно здесь: https://www.facebook.com/EmbarcaderoRu/posts/1120611958022094  В среду, 7 сентября было рассказано о применении библиотеки параллельных вычислений, которая входит в RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin. В наши дни использование всех процессоров и их ядер ...

Because it has a new feature. Mason Wheeler noticed that TObject.InstanceSize returns 8 (bytes). It turns out that this is new in Delphi 2009; in previous releases, TObject.InstanceSize returned 4. But when you look at the definition of TObject in System.pas, you don't see any fields declared at all. Four out of the eight bytes are consumed by the VMT; this has been true since the first version of Delphi. You can read more about that in this chapter from Delphi In A Nutshell, which is old,...