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Git Forensics in GitKraken: Reading What Your Teammate Actually Did
A teammate new to GitHub leaves four classic Git mistakes on the remote -- a commit straight to main, a branch off the wrong branch, a ladder of merges, and every commit twice -- and we read each one off GitKraken's commit graph before fixing it, including the trap that brings the mess back after you cleaned it up.
- GitKraken
- Git
- GitHub
- Pull Requests
- Rebase
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Your pull request was green this morning. Then a teammate's PR landed on main first, and now yours carries the little warning every team developer knows: this branch has conflicts that must be resolved. In a Next.js codebase, that usually…
- GitKraken
- Git
- Merge Conflicts
- Next.js
- React
WebStencils and SQLite in Delphi: A Database the Server Creates Itself
In the previous post, our first WebStencils page rendered a list of objects that we created in code. That was fine for learning the syntax, but no real page looks like that. Real pages show data from a database, and that is what we will do…
- Delphi
- WebStencils
- WebBroker
- FireDAC
- SQLite
WebStencils in Delphi: Your First Server-Rendered HTML Page
In the previous post, we built a small REST server with WebBroker and nothing else from outside the Delphi box. It answers JSON, which is exactly what a JavaScript front end or a mobile app wants. However, quite a few web applications do…
- Delphi
- WebStencils
- WebBroker
- HTML
A WebBroker REST Server in Delphi in Five Steps: Nothing to Install
In my last post, we built a complete REST server with TMS XData in three small source files. I stand by every line of it. However, TMS XData is a commercial product, and not every team has a license -- or wants a third-party dependency for…
- Delphi
- WebBroker
- REST
- CORS
A TMS XData Server in Delphi in Five Steps: No Form, No Wizard
Customers tell me all the time that building a TMS XData server takes so many steps. I hear it in trainings, I read it in emails, and I understand where it comes from. Most introductions start with File, New, a wizard, and a data module…
- Delphi
- TMS XData
- TMS Sparkle
- REST
- CORS
RAD Studio 13.2 Gives Delphi a Modern Linux Compiler
Every so often a release note contains a number that makes you stop and read it twice. For me, in RAD Studio 13.2, that number was 3.3. That is the LLVM version the Delphi Linux Intel 64-bit compiler had been built on until last week.…
- Delphi
- Linux
- LLVM
- RAD Studio
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