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New program: Meany - the average calculator

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I've just released v0.1.0 of Meany , a mathematical averages calculator. Why? Well I recently added a bunch of averaging functions to the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets Collection . When trying to find data to test the functions I ended up using average calculators on five or six web pages. Some pages calculated just one type of mean, while another did a collection of different means or modes etc., but no one site did it all. This app lets you use all the new averaging functions in the collection in one place. Here's the UI: Click the button for the function you want. Enter a list of data in the  Values memo control. For a weighted average enter the required weights (one per value). For power means you also need to enter a power. Then click calculate. Data can be entered as whole numbers, decimal numbers or in scientific format. Numbers can be separated by spaces, new lines or a list separator character. You must use the correct decimal point and list separator for your current l...
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Code Snippet Collection v2.2.2 released

v2.2.2 of the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets Collection has just been released. This version adds lots of new mathematical function, mainly related to statistics and number bases. For details see this post on the CodeSnip blog .
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System Information Unit 5.31.0 released

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Happy New Year from West Wales, or Blwyddyn Newydd Dda as they say around these parts. I've just released what may be the last version of the System Information Unit that is updated with the latest releases of Windows. There may  be a new major version one day, and there could  be a couple of methods added to one or more classes, but this is probably (never say never 😉) the last update of the Windows version detection code. This release has updates that detect the various release, pre-release, dev, beta etc etc builds of Windows 10 and 11. It also detects Windows Server 2025. 🠊 Get version 5.31.0 from the GitHub release page . System Information Unit FMX Demo Program
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Almost there - BDiff v1.0.0-rc.1 released

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It's only taken 21 years, but we're approaching the release of v1.0 of the BDiff/BPatch utilities . I don't want to rush it though (😉) so I've just put out a release candidate. There are various tweaks since beta 2, but the headline is that the programs are now available in 64 bit versions in addition to 32 bit. I'd been putting this off because I expected trouble, but everything happily re-compiled with the Delphi 64 bit Windows compiler and just worked. No changes required. Phew. If you want to read about the other tweaks then take a look at the change log . Not sure what these utilities do, then read the man pages: BDiff / BPatch . ✅ You can get RC1 from the GitHub release page .
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CodeSnip v4.24.0 released

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CodeSnip  v4.24.0 has just been released. There's no main feature in this release. It's a bit of a mish-mash of numerous minor bug fixes and tweaks that have been implemented since the previous release. I'm not going into detail about the numerous small changes here: check out the  change log  if you're interested. Do you need this release? Well, its not going to knock your socks off, but there are a couple of bug fixes, so installing it wouldn't do any harm. ✅ Get v4.24.0 from its  GitHub releases page .
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v2.2.0 of the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets Collection released

Release v2.2.0 of this collection of Pascal code snippets has just been uploaded to GitHub. The collection can be viewed using CodeSnip . For details see the more detailed CodeSnip blog post .
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System Information Unit v5.30.0 release (but why?)

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In my native Yorkshire (in England) we have a saying that "there's nowt so funny as folk" ( trans: "there's nothing so peculiar as people" ). Well, in my post on 1st October, when v5.29.0 was released, I made it very clear that I was getting utterly sick of keeping the OS detection code up to date and was going to do just one final release at the year end. And then, a matter of days later, v5.30.0 dropped, and it's not the last release. So what's going on? Nowt so funny as folk. I was looking over the code and poking round the registry and thought there were a few more methods that really could be added to the OS detection code. Since I'm a bit under the weather at the moment and can't be bothered doing anything else, I entertained myself by adding those missing methods. They are all class methods of TPJOSInfo  (follow the links for documentation): BuildBranch DigitalProductID And then I started wondering if there was a way, that didn't ...
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