http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:49:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US After about 35 months at Borland / CodeGear,  its finally time to sign off. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to serve, and provide support to you all. Its been a great time, and I'll see you around the neighbourhood. ;o) Cheers, Chee Wee, Chua...Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2008/04/09/38610 Just came across today Tim Paterson's blog on DOS. See who Tim Paterson is.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2008/02/05/38609 Once upon a time, the install.htm does not contain any information on how users can install Delphi, C++Builder, Borland Developer Studio (BDS), if they do not have a serial number, and install the product with a network license. This is as recent as BDS 2006. That is because, the network license ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2008/01/10/38608 From the non-tech newsgroup, SDev posted an image of the following. Looks like either Microsoft is using Delphi, or someone's PC had an icon cache corruption. Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2007/09/21/38606 I watched a funny show the other day: Idiocracy. It was about this average soldier, Army librarian Joe Bauers, played by Luke Wilson, who was involved in a hibernation experiment. Unfortunately, the person in charge of the experiment was busted for committing crimes, and the experiment was forgotten. 500 years later, the ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2007/08/31/38605 Recently, there seem to be some customers who reported losing serial numbers for CodeGear products. Fortunately, we have a Developer Network functionality which allows customers to view the serial numbers for the products they've licensed. For such customers, they need to visit the Developer Network site (http://members.codegear.com/), key in ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2007/07/20/37611 It seems that there are quite a few customers out there who do not know that you can obtain official CodeGear Support assistance for free, if you have an installation / registration issue with CodeGear products, subject to certain terms and conditions. You can easily check the status of your ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2007/04/05/33732 I've just noticed a newsgroup posting by the CodeGear VP of Products & Strategy, Michael Swindell. The VCL for PHP documentation is live! I hope this is the way our documentation will go in the future. To quote Michael, 'This new version is done more in the "Delphi way" and ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2007/03/28/33534 Support for Vista - see image below. 'Nuff said. Tool Palette filtering - It's now a Pos(Filter, Lowercase(ItemName)). So if you type Box, you get TListBox, TComboBox, TGroupBox, and any component that contains the lowercase word box. IDE startup and shutdown speed - On a Pentium D, 3GHz, ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2007/03/23/33442 So, when you first install the CodeGear product that you have purchased, you're required to register it. In my opinion, registration serves as a form of software protection for both the customer and the vendor, protecting both parties. Software protection has a long history since the 80s, involving dongles, disks with ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/chewy/2007/02/21/32043