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| location | Ulverston, United Kingdom | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | Mar 30 at 9:52 | |
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Twitter @davidheff
Answers that I frequently refer to:
- How does accepting an answer work?
- How to return text from Native (C++) code
- How can I allow a form to accept file dropping without handling Windows messages?
- TLabel and TGroupbox Captions Flicker on Resize
- How do I make my GUI behave well when Windows font scaling is greater than 100%
- Buffered files (for faster disk access)
- TProgressBar never fills up all the way - seems to be updating too fast?
- Why should I not use "if Assigned()" before using or freeing things?
- Control enumerators to turn recursive parent/child walking into simple for/in loops
- List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated
- Undefined Behavior and Sequence Points
- Reduce exe file
- How can I make a form that is not disabled when another form is shown modally?
- How can I stop my application showing on the taskbar?
- Simply code hooking
- Consumer thread / blocking queue
Other useful resources:
- Rob Kennedy's What is the exact value of a floating-point variable?
- Launching an interactive process from Windows Service in Windows Vista and later
- Teach Your Apps To Play Nicely With Windows Vista User Account Control
- Window Features
- Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example
- Raymond Chen's epic series on modality
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Mar 30 |
answered | Memory concerns while plotting escape from DLL Hell in Delphi |
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Mar 30 |
answered | Restrictions Calling DLLs Across Technologies? |
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Mar 29 |
awarded | Excavator |
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Mar 29 |
revised |
What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? Correct spelling |
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Mar 29 |
suggested | suggested edit on What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? |
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Mar 26 |
awarded | Editor |
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Mar 26 |
revised |
Choosing between words with different spellings for function names British English is better than English English |
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Mar 26 |
suggested | suggested edit on Choosing between words with different spellings for function names |
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Nov 11 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Mar 26 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Jan 17 |
comment |
Linux Programmer moving to Windows Which IDE do you use on Linux? |
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Nov 30 |
comment |
Converting Fortran 77 code to C# What does the subroutine do? Where did it come from? |
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Nov 18 |
comment |
What modern alternatives to Numerical Recipes exist? @Stewart I have a license to use the code in my commercial project. You just need to write to them and request permission to use a small number of recipes. |
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Nov 17 |
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What modern alternatives to Numerical Recipes exist? Who cares what the code is like? Wrap it up nicely and never look at it. |
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Nov 11 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Oct 11 |
comment |
is there any point learning win32 in 2011? Win32 is still useful knowledge. WPF is useful to know too. Learning either would benefit you. |
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Sep 16 |
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Schemes to resolve deadlocks this is just wishful thinking, stop writing code that deadlocks is the real solution |
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Aug 24 |
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Why is DRY important? If you can't answer this yourself, you need to get some more real world experience of development and maintenence. |
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Aug 9 |
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Good design: How much hackyness is acceptable? Only you can judge it, but factor into the decision correctness. Even though A is hackier, you may well be extremely confident of its correctness? With option B, all that re-writing opens up serious scope for regression. Do you have time to test properly if you take that route? |
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Aug 7 |
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What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? +1 for the ironic use of "real programmers"! |
