http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:00:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US After nearly 9 years at Borland / CodeGear its finally time to sign off. I have loved my time here and I count many of my colleagues as friends not just co-workers. With so much time and energy that I have invested at CodeGear it will be with a tinge of ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2008/02/01/35529 Last year I had approx 40-50 blogs subscribed to in my RSS reader, since then I have been ruthlessly cutting them down. I am now subscribed to 18 (the Codegear main feed just counts as 1) One of the feeds that I have kept is Jeff Atwood's Code Horror, if you are not ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2007/06/05/35528 While I was typing my last post, I was also chatting with John K on IM, he sent me this link http://www.macrumors.com/2007/02/12/more-multitouch-from-jeff-han/ man this is cool, really cool, reminds me of some scenes in Minority Report.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2007/02/15/31829 Last time I went to India I had a great time, I promised pictures I know, I managed to lose most of them when I recently had to rebuild my machine, but good news, I am coming to India again soon, and I will definitely post them up this time (yeah ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2007/02/15/31828 I have been putting this off because it meant I needed to install a HTML editor on this new laptop, and frankly I wanted to spend a bit of time researching what was the best one to use....but who am I kidding I am never going to make time for ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2007/01/29/31574 When you have 2 daughters both almost teenagers, you will probably find that your life is crazy busy, and most of the time not with your own projects / hobbies etc, mostly with driving your kids and their friends here there and everywhere. I am off to India on Sunday, ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2006/12/01/30107 Lets face it, we as Delphi developers have been pretty spoilt, for more than 11 years we have had the RTL and the VCL. We now take for granted that we have a high level wrapper around both the Windows API and the Windows Common Controls libraries. For most of ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2006/11/10/29270 While catching up on some RSS feeds during my vacation I noticed Jeff Attwood linked to this post by Jonathon Edwards. FWIW I agree with a large portion of this post, I totally agree with Jonathon that the time is ripe for a “revolution” of programming tools and idea's.  Share ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2006/06/27/25605 “How do I programmatically get the Starteam Server list that the Starteam Client Displays ?“ I have been asked this a couple times now, so I thought that I would blog the answer. The Starteam configuration details are stored in a file called starteam-servers.xml in your profile's application data directory ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2006/06/21/25438 Earlier this week I was in Tokyo for the Asia Pacific "DevCo" Kick-off. What a blast we had, a lot of it was work of course, learning about our new roles, what was expected, where we are at in the spin-out process etc. Nigel briefed us via video conference as ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/timjarvis/2006/06/10/25255