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Better smart-linking through class construction
Singletons, global services, and initialization. Most Delphi folks (myself included) don’t really think about the impact of these things on how much code is being linked into their application. How many of you have your own stable of utility functions scattered throughout some number of units? You rely on these things everyday and would tend [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on May 29th, 2009 under CodeGear, ednfront | 13 Comments »Yes, Virginia, there is a Delphi MacOSX and Linux project…
I guess the proverbial cat is now out of the bag. As was shown in the Delphi/C++Builder roadmap at Delphi Live!, Project X has been under way for a while now. So now you know some of the reason why things have been rather quiet here since I could not really talk about what I’m [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on May 20th, 2009 under CodeGear | 28 Comments »Delphi Live! Here I Come
As always, I’m just now completing the slides and demos for my Delphi Live! talk. That is about par for the course… So bright and early tomorrow morning, I’ll be driving past my normal exit and heading on over the Santa Cruz Mountains to downtown San Jose. Hopefully traffic will allow me to get there [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on May 13th, 2009 under CodeGear | Comment now »Product Leadership Team, Research, Weaver, Delphi Live! - Oh my!
First of all I must apologize profusely for the dearth of posts here over the last few months. OK, "dearth" in this case would unfortunately, be an overstatement since the last thing I posted here was right after the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. While I do have explanations for this silence, I don’t view them [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on May 1st, 2009 under CodeGear | 5 Comments »That which is old is new again
Last week at PDC, I was able to make it to the repeat session of Anders Hejlsberg’s talk on the future of C#. A talk by Anders is always interesting and enjoyable. He showed some really interesting things; but the most intriguing thing was the new "dynamic" keyword. Anders demonstrated several interesting uses for this [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on November 7th, 2008 under CodeGear | 4 Comments »PDC - In a few bullet points
Last week I was at PDC 2008 in Los Angeles. It really felt like a huge BorCon. The "geek quotient" was very high :-). There were several high-level themes that permeated the whole conference:
Windows Azure - "The Cloud." Cloud computing with high-level tooling and initial support for managed code. Will eventually support native code. Meh [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on November 3rd, 2008 under CodeGear | 1 Comment »At PDC
Just a quick little note that I’m at the PDC conference. I’ll be at the multicore/concurrent programming pre-con session. If that’s where you’ll be as well, be sure to say hi.
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Value Capture vs. Variable Capture
Anonymous methods (aka. Closures) capture the variables from the outer scope that are referenced within the body of the method itself. This is the intended behavior as it serves to extend the lifetime of the variable to match that of the anonymous method itself. This should not be confused with capturing the value of a [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on October 15th, 2008 under CodeGear | 1 Comment »CodeRage III - PDC - Delphi Programming
Be sure to mark your calendar for the upcoming CodeRage virtual conference. Apparently the abstract submissions are coming in fast and furious, so if you would like to present, make sure you contact Anders Ohlsson.
There are several folks in the Delphi community planning on taking advantage of the whole Open Space or UnSessions thing at [...]
Some newsworthy items
In case you’ve missed it, while at the SDN conference in the Netherlands, Nick Hodges has dropped some information about Delphi Prism, the next release of Delphi on the .NET platform hosted inside the Visual Studio Shell. Dr. Bob, Marco Cantu and Tim Anderson, have all commented on it. I guess this isn’t an "official" [...]
Posted by Allen Bauer on October 6th, 2008 under CodeGear | 5 Comments »