There were a few glitches with WordPress during the transfer, but they should hopefully have been solved, if not, feel free to post about them here!

The old site has been resurrected there too, as the wiki engine lost most of the images added during the last years… I’ll be looking into setting up something to replace both with a more functional content manager.

The reason behind this dust being shaken is that I’ll likely be initiating a GLScene for Android project (for Java / Dalvik).

Anyway, I’ve added support for printable versions of the articles here, thanks to Lester Chan’s WP-Print, a wee bit of CSS & php tweaking is all it took. Hopefully the dead-tree lovers that asked for it should be satisfied, as well as those few that manually tried to append a “/print” to the url

What’s more, a quick hexadecimal examination of dcc32.exe yelded that this MSIL codegen looks like it can be forced by using an undocumented command-line compiler switch: -af

The resulting exe won’t run because it’s a mismatch of Win32 headers and MSIL bytecode… What do you think?
Did CodeGear plan supporting unmanaged code in managed executables or managed code in native executables?

Update: here is a screenshot of the switch in action.

How familiar are you with code profiling and/or Delphi code optimization? Can you tell apart instrumenting and sampling profilers merely by their respective heisenbugs, or is that profiler business sounding like a TV series from the last century?

The support forums are now also hosted here, no OpenID support for them just yet, but I’ll enable it as soon as it’s out of beta. For bug reports and features/suggestions, the forums are the place to post (easier to track things).

There will likely be a new SamplingProfiler release in the next days, which will add support for CPU-usage-based sampling, ie. profiling only takes place when the CPU usage goes above above a treshold (either at the system or the process level).

Use it to know which units contribute the most to an executable’s size, which DFMs are the largest, which units you have dependencies on but barely use in your executable, or merely to know exactly what gets into your executable.

You can integrate it into the Delphi IDE via the Tools menu, see the MapFileStats page for more details or to the download page and see for yourself!

Update: download, screenshots & links back online, but comments seem to be lost forever…
Update 2: did some tweaking with the help of YSlow, site should be loading faster now.
Update 3: was able to access the old database, restored the lost comment.

http://delphitools.info/forums/

I don’t have any previous experience with freeforums.org as a host, but I don’t expect the traffic to be huge, so it’ll probably be good enough.
Forums are now hosted locally.
Another channel through which you can reach me would be via posting in the CodeGear newsgroups.