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Archive for November, 2007

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #44

30 Nov

Here’s a nice case study from Euclid Technologies. They used Delphi 2007 to beat their competition to Vista.  You can’t do that with any other development tool.
Let me give you a tip:  If you post a comment on my blog here with some generic comment like "Very good site. Thank you!!!" or "Thanks for the [...]

The Tool Palette: New vs. Old

27 Nov

Yesterday on my Q&A session for the Delphi Product Address at CodeRage II, folks mentioned to old tool palette and how they miss it.  Quite frankly, I totally don’t get this.  In my view, the new tool palette is something like 723 times better than the old one.  Finding components is very, very fast.  Arranging [...]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #43

21 Nov

As some folks have noticed, CodeGear turned one this past week.  Hard to believe that it’s been a year — things around here have moved pretty fast.  Alan Zeichick was kind enough to take note of it in his blog this week.  Alan points to Marco’s post, and it was Marco’s post that brought my [...]

Delphi Success Stories

21 Nov

Want to get a little love for your product, application, or development team?  Want to help out the Delphi community? Are you doing something and find yourself saying "I could have never done that without Delphi!"?
I’m looking for some Delphi Success Stories.  What is a Delphi Success Story you ask?  A Delphi Success Story is [...]

D-Robots and Delphi Robot Rage at CodeRage

20 Nov

Here’s another reason to attend the FREE CodeRage next week.  Longtime Delphi community member Jim McKeeth has a cool event going during CodeRage — D-Robots and Delphi Robot Rage.
You can show off your Delphi skills and have some fun in the rough-and-tumble world of robot applications!  Submit early and you might get some practice rounds [...]

CodeRage II is now free

19 Nov

Christine Ellis, the tireless coordinator of CodeRage II, has posted this on the newsgroups:
We’ve had tons of customers register for CodeRage II (http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage07) already. And we’ve also listened to your feedback over the past few weeks. We’ve heard from our loyal customers that they want to take part even though they might still be evaluating [...]

Cool Stuff with Delphi #13

16 Nov

Jeff Duntemann pointed to MozBackup, a cool little utility that backs up your Mozilla configuration.  Nice little utility.  But I read about it, and before I even look at it, I just know that it is written in Delphi.  And peer into it, and lo and behold, I’m correct. 
Anyway, worth a look.
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

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More Help Update Info

16 Nov

In addition to being available via the IDE update mechanism, the Help Update can also be downloaded from the registered users page here:
http://www.codegear.com/downloads/regusers/radstudio
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The Help Update and Doc-o-matic

15 Nov

By now, you all should have been notified by the IDE that you have an update available to the documentation for Delphi 2007, C++Builder 2007, and RAD Studio 2007. If you haven’t been notified, you can go to the Start menu and ask the product to "Check for Updates". In it you should see, among [...]

Delphi Hour Update

15 Nov

Folks, it’s a bit crazy around here this week with both the world-wide sales team and the R&D team from St. Petersburg visiting here. Therefore, we won’t have a Delphi Hour today. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US, so we’ll all be off, an then the following week is CodeRage II. 
So, we’ll be [...]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #42

13 Nov

Jeff Atwood asks an interesting question:  Is it time for 64-bit on the Desktop?  Actually, he also poses two interesting questions. The other one: Will the shift to 64-bit be the last "bitness shift" in our lifetime?  I mean, 2^64 is a seriously large amount of address space.  Seriously large.  My belief is that 64-bit [...]

Did you know…

09 Nov

…that you can incrementally search for a property name in the Object Inspector?
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #41

08 Nov

Anyone seen page 18 of the SD Times from November 1, 2007?
I made a small donation to the Wikipedia Foundation.  Not much, but something.   I use Wikipedia all the time, so I felt like I had to give back something.  Worth considering.
The good folks at TheUnknownOnes have made all their cool stuff open source.  Definitely [...]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #40

05 Nov

What a fascinating idea:  Using CAPTCHA in blogs, etc., to help translate inaccurate OCR scans of older books.  The harnessing of collective knowledge like this is really cool.  Of course, these types of things should always be used for good, and for not some nefarious, spam-helping scam.
Richard Foersom pointed this out in the newsgroups:  there [...]

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