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Friday, 27. March 2009
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Catch 22
The Doric Temple
– I’ve just read Marco Cantu’s comments about a few of my posts. (I’m honoured Marco!). The crux of Marco’s comments is that Delphi developers fall in to two distinct camps. Those who want Unicode and those who don’t. Therefore Codegear had to make a choice on whether to make it easy for camp 1 or ...
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On Strings and Unicode in Delphi 2009
Marco's Tech Blog
– There have been a few posts about strings in Delphi 2009: Breaking existing code (on The Doric Temple). The main point here is that CodeGear shoudl have left string as AnsiString, PChar as PAnsiChar to make existing code exactly identical to the past... and introduce Unicode ...
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New Podcast Episode
RemObjects Blogs
– The latest episode of the Podcast@Delphi.org is up, featuring once again yours truly, as well as @jamiei, @skamradt and of course @JimMcKeeth. This time, we're talking about a new project Jim is starting at Delphi.org, where the podcast will follow a group of developers as they create a community- ...
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DelphiLive! The Delphi Developer Conference – Schedule Now Online
Olaf Monien
– It took a bit longer than expected, but the detailed schedule of DelphiLive! is now online: http://delphilive.com/conferences/delphi_live/delphilive09_schedule.html The registration form also has a package offer, which includes 4 days conference and accommodation at the conference hotel (San Jose ...
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24 - Delphi Projects
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– In this episode I talk with Jamie Ingilby, Steven Kamradt and marc hoffman. Our first project is a Twitter client written in Delphi. We introduce the Delphi Projects series with our first project a Delphi Twitter client. This episode is the start of a series of podcasts. I thought it would be ...
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Constructing the Database Connection String Dynamically at Run Time for your Delphi application
About Delphi Programming
– DB Course :: When creating database applications that are to be run on various machines, the connection to the data source should not be hard-coded in the executable. This...
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Off topic: Will the Apple I-Phone become the next economy through micro-transactions?
Michael Rozlog
– Ever since I was a young individual, we have been fortunate to have a major “new” economy almost every decade. If we think about it, in the 80’s we had the PC revolution with almost every company in the world making a personal computer. Heck, I even had a Timex Sinclair 1000 with a massive 2 k of ...
