NHS’ Moment of Truth
It seems there are still people in NHS who are reluctant to lie (at least because they are scared of the legal repercussions) and they still have the twisted view to stick to the...
Tagged: London (UK)
A Welcoming U-Turn
I do not know what you think of the government in relation to the management of the pandemic but I suspect you agree that Boris Johnson has consistently demonstrated a refined high-level skill in...
Impromptu: For the Fallen
New Year, new hopes, new paths… But some things must stay with us as they are too much to digest; to remind us of the grave and catastrophic injustice and loss our choices during...
COVID Tests: Sweet Little Lies…
As we are reaching the end of the second lockdown in England, I can’t help but sympathise with the prime minister, all the ministers and the lead scientists who manage the pandemic. They managed...
When Boris learnt about peer reviews
Yesterday, we learnt that Pfizer is moving fast with the coronavirus vaccination and they see 90% effectiveness. It is not clear exactly what this news means as the company has not released any data...
New Book: Delphi Quick Syntax Reference
The book offers a quick introduction to the Delphi language. In essence, it is a guide to get newcomers started in an easy and comprehensive way. To the experienced Delphi developers, it works as...
COVID-19 Numerology
I have previously argued about the unconvincing and unsettling approach of politicians and scientists to the pandemic (here). This time I am looking at the reported numbers around COVID-19 because the evaluation of the...
Who is responsible for the mess we are going through?
Who is responsible for the mess we are going through? In my view the scientists, of course. Let me clarify. I hold the scientists (not science) who advise politicians responsible for the impact the...
Chasing Memory Leaks with Deleaker for Delphi
Introduction Memory management is one of the most important topics in software development. There are many schools of thought around the topic and all share a common denominator: memory management is crucial for stable...
Microservices in Delphi – Part 1
Introduction The last ten months have been very interesting for me when it comes to coding. I have discovered the world of microservices and, from the first moment, it caught my eye. I...
doyenist: my personal project grows to business
Hi there, It’s been a while I’ve been working on doyenist, a solution to track student attendance via a mobile application. I have now decided to focus on this project on full time basis...
New Book: Introducing Delphi ORM
I would like to share with you that my new book has reached the production stage and will be available in September by Apress. The book is about Object Relational Mapping in Delphi and explores...
Deploying a WebBroker Apache Module on CentOS 7
This article assumes you can add CentOS 7 as target platform in a Delphi project. If you want to know how to do this, please check this post. Introduction All the videos and tutorials...
Delphi and CentOS 7
Introduction In recent years, Embarcadero expanded Delphi to cover the Linux platform as target platform for projects. In this step, two distributions of Linux are supported: RedHat and Ubuntu. There are more than...
Moving Atlassian Bitbucket Server to a new computer
I run my own instance of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and I, recently, had to move Bitbucket to a new computer. Actually, I moved from a macOS based machine to a Windows 10 computer. Unfortunately,...
