This is a straightforward article that describes how you can step into a NuGet package while debugging your project. I’m assuming that you have access to the source code for the package. Debugging options First, you need to allow Visual Studio to debug other people’s code. Choose Options from the Tools menu…

Collaborative coding as a remote team — Originally published on the Saratoga website. For over a year now, my team and I have been dabbling in so-called “mob programming”. Initially, we had been pair programming for a long time and found that this style of programming worked well for us. Then the team started growing. It was…

Application Insights is a feature of Azure that provides performance monitoring, trace logging and even Google Analytics-style usage tracking for your applications. It is part of the Azure Monitor service, Microsoft’s solution for observability of your cloud ecosystem. In this article, I will describe the steps for introducing Application Insights…

When my team and I deal with a hairy piece of logic, we often find it useful to write unit tests for the relevant code. This helps us define and document our expectations, lifts the burden of manual testing, and gives us peace of mind that new code changes won’t…

This article is about setting up things so that you can code, compile and debug Free Pascal from Visual Studio Code. This can be useful if you’re doing non-GUI work and you don’t want to rely on the full-blown Lazarus IDE. It also allows Windows users to write and test…

Travis CI is a website that allows you to implement many such features for free and links to repositories on GitHub. As an experiment, I used it to build and deploy my JavaScript application to an S3 bucket on AWS. S3 (which stands for “Simple Storage Service”) is Amazon’s service…

In an earlier article, I explored running my Azure Pipelines builds on a custom build agent using a Windows VM in the AWS cloud. Today, I will attempt a similar thing, but this time using a Linux VM in the Oracle Cloud. …

This article describes steps for setting up Lazarus with mORMot so that you can start using this wonderful, diverse framework in your Free Pascal projects. You can find the Delphi version here. Getting Lazarus Find and download the binaries for your preferred installation of Lazarus here on the Free Pascal wiki. …

This article describes steps for setting up Delphi with mORMot and, as with most of my articles, exists largely as a reminder for my future self. You can find the Lazarus/Free Pascal version here. Getting Delphi The first step is to install Delphi. In my case, this means going to the Free…