DelphiTools, SamplingProfiler and General Delphi News
A month ago I started experimenting with various VPS hosting solutions for this website. Well I now consider myself settled for the time being.
Here are a few of my findings for those that were interested. Nothing Delphi-related there.
Or in other words, before getting to the gory details, DWScript now works when compiled with {$HIGHCHARUNICODE ON} on a machine with Cyrillic code-page 1251.
DWScript was converted years ago to Unicode, and been working just fine.
But there was a leftover bug from that crossing of the Styx.
MapFileStats v1.4 is now available, this version provides a lot more details about where the bytes in your executables come from. It also features improved visualization and performance.
A new version 1.8.1 is available from the SamplingProfiler page.
This minor updates fixes the displayed source code for samples gathered on a generic method (“Show Source Location” option) and other minor fixes.
My small MapFileStats utility has been updated to 1.3 (last public release was four years ago…).
The utility provides simple statistics about compiled size, to help you figure out what went into your executable.
This version add as few minor features and improves detection of project file, which could result in missing DFM size.
I’ve now enabled CloudFlare as CDN, is it all it’s hyped up to be? Here is a small unscientific poll to give your feeling on how or if it affected the perceived speed of this website.
This is just a quick notice to let you know that I’ve recently moved this site to a new host (currently pulseheberg), and may move it to other hosts. My previous hosting was running out, and I’m taking this as an opportunity to experiment with various VPS offerings (Linux or Windows), change registrar, tweak DNS, etc.
Hopefully nothing will go wrong and it’ll be transparent, but if not, please let me know.
As posted on Google+, Smart Mobile Studio is now free for educational purposes.
The Pascal Programming for Schools website had already been updated sometime ago with samples and tutorials about getting started with Smart, and is a significant online resource for teaching Pascal in general, not just Smart.
I’ve closed the mini-pool, below are the results, obtained after 500 respondents, as well as some other stats not obviously evident from the poll results (as it was a multi-choice poll).*
They’re of course only relevant as the measurement to the audience of this site.
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The built-in time-stepping support for the upcoming release of