Delphi and C++Builder Expertise
Like many people I sometimes run out of disk space, and recently macOS kept giving disk space warnings as I installed software on a VM. Yet I was puzzled how the VM could possibly use so much space. I wanted to shrink the disk space my VM was using, and ChatGPT s instructions were wrong. Here [ ] The post Reclaiming macOS disk space from Parallels appeared first on Parnassus .
Welcome back: we re discussing how to write an AI coding / copilot service named The Owl. This is the post I have been most looking forward to writing, because it describes a logical but semi-crazy sequence of incremental streamed parsing layers. At the end of Part 1, we had a Python server that streamed text [ ] The post Building a Copilot #2: Parsing & Converting On The Fly appeared first on…
Hi folks. Today I’d like to start blogging about a personal project I’ve been working on for many months: building a copilot, an AI coding assistant. The goal is an assistant that initially targets Delphi, but could be expanded to many other languages. It’s tentatively named The Owl. Today we ll go on a journey through: [ ] The post Building a Copilot: #1 Servers, Streaming & Fundamentals appeared…
In some exciting news, I’m pleased to announce that Parnassus Bookmarks and Navigator have recently been acquired by Embarcadero. Both plugins will be made available as part of RAD Studio in an upcoming release. I’m very happy to have the two plugins now part of Delphi and C++Builder. They were written to provide features I [ ] The post Bookmarks and Navigator acquired by Embarcadero appeared…
A week ago, we released RAD Studio 10.3. Since then, I ve had many people asking when Bookmarks and Navigator are going to be updated for it! The answer is soon. I had hoped this weekend, but there were a few obstacles. I am working on this. All plugins currently build for Rio. The work currently [ ] The post Coming soon: Bookmarks and Navigator for 10.3 Rio appeared first on Parnassus .
I m very pleased to release and . What s new? New in Navigator 1.4 New minimap rendering. Navigator has had a minimap since the very beginning, and a great deal of attention was paid to how it rendered. The minimap is antialiased and renders the text itself. However, this often meant lines of code were quite faint / blurred [ ] The post Bookmarks and Navigator for 10.2 Tokyo plus new features!…
I m busy. Really busy. And I have an amazing new plugin I want to finish and have not had the time to work on since June last year. Would you like to help? I m looking for a Delphi developer to take on in a contract/consulting role to help finish the plugin tentatively titled Parnassus Debugger. You [ ] The post Would you like to help write the next Parnassus plugin? appeared first on Parnassus .
It s been a long time since there s been a Parnassus update, and you may be wondering why. One part is that I have a new and amazing job and work over forty hours a week, some days until midnight, and yes, that has had an impact on writing plugins and other now spare-time activities. However, there [ ] The post Navigator and Bookmarks for RAD Studio 10.2 are coming appeared first on Parnassus .
I m very pleased to announce that I recently joined Embarcadero as C++ Product Manager. You can read more details on my Embarcadero blog post, but I ll be looking after C++Builder as well as some other areas, including IDE user experience. Parnassus and the IDE plugins I make have not been acquired, and remain independent. Working [ ] The post Joining Embarcadero as C++ Product Manager appeared…
I ve just released a small update to Parnassus Bookmarks, version 1.5.1.0. This fixes a bug where, when you changed the add bookmark or add caret (stack) bookmark shortcut, you would often end up having both shortcuts add a normal bookmark. Oddly enough, the controlling factor was if the Shift key was pressed any shortcut [ ] The post Bookmarks bugfix changing shortcuts appeared first on Parnassus…