$STRINGCHECKS Gone in Delphi XE
Delphi 2009 was the first Delphi version to produce Unicode applications. When it was released I ranted about the needless strings checks that it did. Those were a bit of a hack to allow C++Builder...
View ArticleNo Yes/No/Cancel, Please
Sometimes it’s the little features that make a software product much more usable. For as long as I can remember, closing Delphi, recompiling the application, or opening another project while your app...
View ArticleSSD Remaining Drive Life
One (potential) disadvantage of solid state drives versus traditional hard disk drives is that the memory cells in SSDs are subject to physical wear. Before a cell can be written to, it needs to be...
View ArticleNever Defragment an SSD
When a traditional hard disk with spinning platters and moving heads needs to read a (very large) file, it can do so much faster if the file is stored in an unbroken sequence of blocks on the drive. If...
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