This is my first ever blog post in having been on the Internet now for 17 years. I’ve been encouraged to create a development blog to share things that I learn. I’ve found so much great information on the Internet from blogs that I’ve finally decided to commit to keeping one up. I do this for two reasons:<\/p>\n
Let’s start with some information about who I am.
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\nMy name is Bryan Mayland and I am a programmer for a small software shop in Tampa named Leonine Development Services, Inc. I’ve been coding professionally now for 15 years or so, from back in the 16-bit windows days. My primary language of choice is Delphi for the win32 target, but I have a pretty strong background in C\/C++, can get around pretty well in Intel x86 assembler and C#.NET, and a rudimentary understanding of PHP and LUA.<\/p>\n
What the hell is Delphi?<\/strong> Coming from a 16-bit straight C background, Delphi was a godsend. The programs compiled and linked ultra fast, you could throw together a decent GUI in a heartbeat, and the resultant native code was pretty quick too. Of course, it was also a 16-bit “joy” when a unit would compile to more than 64k and the compiler would choke. Same story for when some dufus declares a bunch of initialized constant shortstrings and you get the dreaded “Data Segment too Large” error. Delphi 1’s .data segment was shared with the stack segment, so the trick there was to lower the size of the stack to fit your data, but not so small that you’d run out of stack space while the program was running.<\/p>\n Suffice it to say, the Delphi of today has come a long way since then, and it is even more impressive when you look under the hood. That is why I’ve started this blog, to share insights as to what is under the hood in everything from Adultery to Zoology.<\/p>\n I googled your name and all I found was personal listings on Craigslist<\/strong> So there’s my start. I think I’ve gotten past all the boring backstory and now I start recording actual important things in this blog. I’ll start it with this: This is my first ever blog post in having been on the Internet now for 17 years. I’ve been encouraged to create a development blog to share things that I learn. I’ve found so much great information on the Internet from blogs that I’ve finally decided to commit to keeping one up. I do this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbry.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDelphi is a product created back around 1995 to compete with Visual Basic by Borland (which did a corporate makeover and became Inprise, which spun back off their development tools division as Borland, which became CodeGear, which was bought by Embarcadero). Delphi 1 was a 16-bit Object Pascal compiler with Rapid Application Development (RAD) features. This meant you could design your GUI in a GUI in the same way you could in Visual Basic except the end result would not be a completely shitty interpreted app whose array indexes start at 1. Seriously, everyone knows the universal first number is 0.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFor some reason those keep bubbling up to the top, but the guys who call are always nice so I don’t mind. I have done more noteworthy things, I assure you.<\/p>\n\n
\nScrew you, John Lam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"