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Archive for May, 2007

The Delphi Hour: Okay, here is what we’ll do:

31 May

Okay, we will not be daunted: We’ll chat in the Delphi Room at http://chat.codegear.com and the stream can be heard at: mms://video.codegear.com/stream1 and we’ll try to get started at 2:15  
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The Delphi Hour Today

31 May

You can join the chat on the Delphi Hour today at http://eventchat.codegear.com/chat?action=codegearlogin&room=event1 That link will also bring up the stream for listening/watching. Note that you’ll need to be logged into the CodeGear Developer Network to get into the chatroom.
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New Blogger — Dee Elling

31 May

Dee Elling, our new Docs Manager, is blogging. Here is her RSS feed.
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Cool Stuff with Delphi #5

30 May

“Samurize is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.  IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of all, Samurize is 100% free!“
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The Return of the Delphi Hour!

29 May

Hey, it’s about time: We finally have the return of the Delphi Hour at a new day and a new time: Thursdays at 2:00pm Pacific Time.This Thursday, May 31, we’ll be having a special two hour edition, where Anders and I will go over the Delphi 2007 roadshow materials. We’ll have slides and demos and [...]

Cool Stuff with Delphi #4 — NetMeter

29 May

NetMeter — Utility to monitor bandwith usage on a single PC.
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Cool Stuff with Delphi #3 — OfficerBlue

23 May

An internet security tool — OfficerBlue
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Two Minute Tutorial #4 — Form Positioner

22 May

Here’s a little look at the Form Positioner in the VCL Designer. How many of you knew you could size that little thing? 
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Cool Stuff with Delphi #2 — Better Media Players

22 May

KMPlayer:
http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/
http://www.codecs.com/KMPlayer_download.htm
Zoom Player
http://www.inmatrix.com/
Added: Being a MediaMonkey customer, I’m pleased to see that this fine MediaPlayer tool is also written in Delphi.
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New Theming Support and the XPMan unit

21 May

Commentor Bryan raises a good point in the comments of the Theming article below: If you are using the XPMan unit in your existing applications, you don’t need to anymore with Delphi 2007. Instead, remove the XPMan unit from your app entirely, and simply check the theming option in the Project [...]

Two Minute Tutorial # 3 — Theming Support in VCL apps

18 May

Check out how easy it is to add theming support to your VCL applications. One note:  By default, new applications will be themed.  Existing applications will not be themed unless you actively select the option for the project in the IDE.
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Cool Stuff with Delphi #1 — Mandala Painter

18 May

This is just one example of the many cool things you can do with Delphi.
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The Rapid Pace of New Development Technology

17 May

Regular readers of this blog know that I have a hard time not commenting on just about everything Jeff Atwood blogs about on his Coding Horror blog.  I have that blog in a folder called “Must Read Feeds” in FeedDemon, and I jump when I see he’s posted a new entry.  Usually it’s something terribly [...]

Blake Watson Reviews Delphi 2007 for Win32

11 May

“With D2007, I haven’t had the faintest urge to fire up D7.”
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My World Clock Application

07 May

As part of my job, I have to communicate with people all over the world.  Naturally, I have to be able to know what time it is in those disparate places, and so I tool the recommendation of a co-worker and started using WorkTime from PawPrint.  It’s interface is a little goofy, but it does [...]

Two Minute Tutorial #2 - Customizing the IDE

04 May

How to make your Delphi 2007 for Win32 IDE look and work more like the Delphi 7 IDE.
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Interesting Comment Spam

04 May

I’m having an interesting thing occur on my blog. Someone is manually entering comment spam into my blog.  The post that is getting the most is the Thirty Camtasia in Thirty Days page, far and away the most viewed page on the site.  (Two more just came in while I was typing). Now, if you [...]

Two Minute Tutorial #1 — Incremental Search

03 May

I’m going Camtasia crazy today…. I’ve decided to start a new series of demos called “Two Minute Tutorials”.  These will be short (less than two minutes.  Camtasia demos that show off stuff about Delphi that you might not have known about or that you should know about. The first one is on Incremental Search. [...]

Installing a Component into Delphi 2007

03 May

Inspired by Steve Trefethen’s excellent blog post, “How to Install Components in the Delphi IDE,” I created a simple demo of installing a component in the IDE.
 
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