Apparently all subdomain redirections on my homepage are currently failing, one of them being https://gexperts.dummzeuch.de I have no idea what happened but I am looking into the issue. In the meantime you can just use https://blog.dummzeuch.de/experimental-gexperts-version/ instead, which is the target of the redirection.
The Joke I Told And Then Forgot
ai;dr Apparently, in a previous conversation, I told a joke. A good one, I am told. The user laughed, or at least reacted in a way consistent with laughing, and then moved on with their day. Now they have come back and asked me to repeat it. I cannot. I have no memory of it. … Continue reading The Joke I Told And Then Forgot
GExperts 1.3.28 released
GExperts version 1.3.28 has been released, bringing a new Vertical Tabs panel for the editor window, a syntax-highlighted context preview in Grep, and a number of smaller features and bug fixes. Head over to the GExperts download page to get it. New Features Vertical Tabs: a new dockable panel showing open editor files as a … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.28 released
TxtCipher now supports AES-256-GCM
TxtCipher started as a small web-based replacement for TxtCrypt, a macOS (and previously also Android) tool that encrypts short pieces of text with RC4 and Base64. RC4 is well past its prime by modern standards, but it was good enough for the original use case: Encrypt a password or PIN in Denkzettel which is unlikely … Continue reading TxtCipher now supports AES-256-GCM
Delphi IDE Explorer: Standalone Component Explorer for Any Application
AI;DR: This blog post was written using AI, as were the changes to the source code it describes. If you don't want to read "AI slop", better move on. For everybody else: I proof read the blog post and it does not contain any hallucinations. I also checked the code changes, wrote the demo programs … Continue reading Delphi IDE Explorer: Standalone Component Explorer for Any Application
Delphi IDE Explorer: Runtime Property Editing
The Delphi IDE Explorer lets you browse all VCL and FMX components, forms, data modules, properties, events, and class hierarchies within the running Delphi IDE. Until now, this was purely read-only. The latest version adds the ability to edit published properties at runtime by double-clicking them in the Properties list. Supported property types The edit … Continue reading Delphi IDE Explorer: Runtime Property Editing
dzBdsLauncher 1.0.19 released
The new version of dzBdsLauncher fixes a bug when handling .dpk files. It now actually opens the .dpk file in the IDE rather than try to open a .dpr file that does not exist and fail.
archived blog posts from Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero
I just found by accident that Embarcadero has made most (all?) blog posts from Borland and Codegear available, back to 1995. They are by "Embarcadero Archives" and there are 474 posts in total. The very first one is Extracting A Bitmap From A BLOB Field from 1995-06-01. There is also Allen Bauer's A "Nullable" Post … Continue reading archived blog posts from Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero
TxtCipher: A Browser-Based Text Encryption Tool
TxtCipher is a simple, self-contained web application for encrypting and decrypting text. It runs entirely in the browser with no server, no installation, and no external dependencies. Just open the HTML file and start encrypting. You can run it directly from the repository or download the file and open it locally. What it does TxtCipher … Continue reading TxtCipher: A Browser-Based Text Encryption Tool
CMD script to export the Delphi HKCU registry branches
Just in case anybody else has a use for this: Here is a CMD script that exports the HKCU registry branches for all Delphi versions from XE2 to 13: @echo off setlocal set "OUTDIR=%~dp0registry_exports" if not exist "%OUTDIR%" mkdir "%OUTDIR%" call :ExportBDS 9.0 XE2 call :ExportBDS 10.0 XE3 call :ExportBDS 11.0 XE4 call :ExportBDS 12.0 … Continue reading CMD script to export the Delphi HKCU registry branches