http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer Various items, tidbits, and ramblings related to Delphi Programming. Hosted by Allen Bauer, Embarcadero Chief Scientist. Fri, 29 May 2009 16:20:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2009/05/29/38888 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2009/05/20/38885 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2009/05/13/38883 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2009/05/01/38882 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2008/11/07/38879 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2008/11/03/38878 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.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2008/10/26/38877 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2008/10/15/38876 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2008/10/10/38875 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. ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/abauer/2008/10/06/38874