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Monday, 31. December 2012
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The ACM A.M. Turing Award - my thoughts for next year’s selection
Sip from the Firehose
– On June 15 and 16 of 2012 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing (June 23, 1912) in San Francisco (http://turing100.acm.org/final_program/tcc_final_program.pdf) with 33 living ACM A.M. Turing Award winners! It was especially great to see Nicklaus Wirth on the "Programming ...
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Embarcadero Blog Posts - translated from Russian….
Sip from the Firehose
– To read some of the wonderful Russian language FireMonkey and programming blog posts by our Embarcadero Russia R&D and Sales team membeers, you can use the Google translation facility. Here are some of the recent blog posts you can read in English using Google translate: Part 1. The development ...
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My Year in Cities, 2012
Marco's Tech Blog
– Keeping up with a tradition of this blog (dating back to 2006, the most recent was 2011, of course), here is my 2012 seen through the cities I've been to, for work or vacation (but mostly for work). The rule is: Places I've visited in 2012 for at least one night (daily trips don't count), in ...
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Vole For Delphi on Code2012
Marco's Tech Blog
– There is an interesting developer poll, made from tweets with the hastag #code2012. It was started by @deadprogram, of The Hybrid Group. Given the background of the proponents if seems geared towards Ruby and JVM languages, but it should be open, a reason to encourage all Delphi developers to vote ...
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Thirteen features of DWScript
DelphiTools
– After having survived the Mayan apocalypse and just before the year ends, and the US economy falls from the fiscal cliff into the pit of recession, here is a quick look at thirteen features of DWScript, so you don’t come into 2013 unaware 1. Supercharged memory management ARC is trendy, but ...