The Delphi Geek

Due to potential privacy concerns with DeepSeek servers (we’re unsure if the data sent over the paid API is kept private), I looked into som...

As I’m writing this, a new Chatterbox release is available on GitHub . As with the initial release, you can either download the source and r...

An interesting AI has just appeared on my radar - DeepSeek. It exposes a "normal" chat model deepseek-chat and a "reasoning...

Recently I had to convert a multi-line string into a single-line string value for storage (ignore the 'why' of it; let's just bl...

While working on  Chatterbox  I ran into number of problems, most of them caused by my limited knowledge of device-independent programming w...

It's the time of the year to be merry and have fun, so no code today! I've decided to ask our future AI overlords about the meaning ...

t’s great that Embarcadero has added an AI Chat window to RAD Studio, but let’s be honest—the implementation is lacking. As one participant ...

While preparing for my  Delphi and AI workshop , I decided to keep a log of all my interactions with AI helpers in a file for later analysis...

Recently, I led a workshop in Slovenia where we explored the current state of AI in relation to Delphi programming. (A note to participants:...

This is an invitation to the workshop in Ljubljana next week. As the session will be in Slovenian language, so is this invitation ... Odkar ...

Next Wednesday, 10th, I'll be talking about Delphi and Pyhon in Ljubljana. As usual for Slovenian workshops, the talk will be in Sloveni...

Next week I'll present all about the new RAD Studio 12 in Ljubljana. As usual, the presentation will be in Slovenian language and so wil...

It is so nice when you see how a small idea grows into a nice, rounded project! Years age I wrote a unit that allowed you to write SQL state...

The second edition of my book Delphi High Performance is now released! Get all 452 pages of Delphi goodness with  two new chapters  and all ...

It is so interesting to publish a book for the second time. In a way it is similar to reviewing and fixing old code--you go from "well ...

Dear fellow readers, I'd like to invite you to International Pascal Congress which will happen from 3rd to 7th July this year in beauti...

For the last Delphi meeting in Slovenia this year we have organized a small workshop about Design Patterns. As usual, it is intended for Slo...

For the last Delphi meeting in Slovenia this year we have organized a small workshop about Design Patterns. As usual, it is intended for Slo...

After two long-distance years we are finally moving back to normality, starting with a Slovenian RAD Studio meeting next Wednesday in Ljublj...

Just a short notice for Slovenian readers - In case you missed it, next week you'll be able to join a Slovenian webinar about Delphi 11....

While the TLightweightMREW  is quite handy, it is not perfect. There's a weird assymmetry in it. On all operating systems that Delphi ca...

In order to convince you that a readers-writer lock is not a stupid idea, I should finally show some numbers. In this article I'll prese...

In the previous installment I introduced the idea of a readers-writer lock . Today I'll look into readers-writer lock implementations (...

One of the pleasant surprises in Delphi 10.4.1 was the addition of a new readers-writer lock implementation TLightweightMREW. While it was p...

New OmniThreadLibrary is out! Get it while it’s hot! Version 3.07.8 is mostly a bugfix release. It fixes few small bugs and enables support...

Delphi 10.4 has just been released (turn here for a great overview) and has some nice enhancements even for us, die-hard Windows developers...

Something great has happened on this day, 25 years ago. It was the sign of Aquarius. People were listening to Creep. And the AppBuilder ...

Parallel Programming with OmniThreadLibrary e -book: 50% off printed book: 25% off (use coupon BLACKFRIDAY25) Delphi High Performan...

The ITDevCon X - the tenth edition! - has just ended and boy was it a blast! (As usual, I should say.) This was my seventh ITDevCon co...

CompareValue function is incredibly practical when you are writing comparers (functions that determine how some data structure is ordered)....

On September 26 th I’ll talk about RAD Studio Rio in Ljubljana. We’ll discuss 10.3 a bit and 10.3.1/10.3.2 updates in more detail. We’ll al...