Pimp your WebSite with an Halloween Bat
Time for some Halloween silliness: here is a quick & dirty JavaScript to pimp your website, blog or whatever with a randomly moving vampire bat animation.
Or a dozen. Or a whole flock.
Efficient String Building in Delphi
As a followup to the String Concatenation article, let’s take a look at a less trivial case: what if instead of concatenating a couple strings, you want to concatenate a few hundred?
Sounds like a task at which TStringBuilder should excel, but one should never assume, and always measure.
Efficient String Concatenation in Delphi
You may all know about String concatenation in Delphi, but do you know about the implicit String variables the compiler may create for you?
Along with the implicit variables come implicit exception frames, and a whole lot of hidden stack juggling, which can quickly become hidden complexity bottlenecks.
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MapFileStats v1.3 update
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.
The built-in time-stepping support for the upcoming release of