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Tuesday, 31. March 2009
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EurekaLog’s anti-freeze feature
EurekaLog Blog
– As you know, EurekaLog is a great tool to catch exceptions in your application. Though there are some cases which you want to consider as "bugs", but there is no exception to catch it! For example, consider your application is deadlocking. How about endless cycle which loads CPU core up to 100%? ...
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Interfaces in Delphi Programming 101 - Defining an Interface; Implementing an Interface
About Delphi Programming
– in Delphi OOP ::In Delphi, keyword "interface" has two distinct meanings. In Delphi unit definition interface section is used to declare any public sections of code that appear in a...
Monday, 30. March 2009
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Twitter Feed for DelphiLive! online
Olaf Monien
– There is now a Twitter feed for all news, live tweets and possibly even Delphi product announcements as they happen in San Jose. Follow feed : www.twitter.com/delphilive2009
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URIs Should Be Persistent
Craig Stuntz's Weblog
– When you are creating a new URI for a site you are building, give it a lot of thought. You should aim to design a URI which can last forever. Of course, this is not news. Jakob Nielsen said it 10 years ago. But in the intervening 10 years, we've ...
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How familiar are you with code profiling?
DelphiTools
– SamplingProfiler was initially released in the Delphi ASM newsgroup, and I’m curious about the audience of this website, so I’ve setup a small poll. How familiar are you with code profiling and/or Delphi code optimization? Can you tell apart instrumenting and sampling profilers merely by ...
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Spending time with Fluent NHibernate (Part 2): Our first Relationship
Hadi's Delphi Blog
– In the first part of this series, we saw the basics of what Fluent NHibernate is about. In this second part, we're going to look into relationships and some of the mappings that FNH produces for us, as well as overriding certain mappings. Relationships Let's say we have a new ...
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Convert a Drive Letter ("C") to a Drive Number (3)
About Delphi Programming
– in Delphi TIPS :: I have an application that needs to "export" a set of files into a specified folder on a drive. Files can come from variuos sources: hard...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #103
Nick Hodges
– Still a few spots left for the Delphi Developer Days in Washington at the end of March. The Schedule of Events for the DelphiLive conference is now online. Looks like a great lineup! My personal view is that if you aren’t there, you ...
Sunday, 29. March 2009
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Who's the real target of Microsoft's "Lauren" commercials?
RemObjects Blogs
– By now, pretty much everyone has watched Lauren find her perfect $699 HP laptop. If you haven't, go take a look now. i'll wait. This commercial has everyone on the internets talking. the Windows community is happy that Microsoft is "finally sticking it to Apple". The Apple community is, well no ...
Saturday, 28. March 2009
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ASP.NET MVC or WebForms: Is there a real choice?
Hadi's Delphi Blog
– I've been playing with ASP.NET from the first preview that was released and it's also very similar to a technology I used to use back in 1998, called WebBroker (part of Delphi). Point being, I'm pretty comfortable with the MVC approach. I also have had the opportunity to do talks and workshops on ...
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OpenSSL v0.9.8k for Indy
Arvid's Blog
– Hi, I’ve created an updated pre-compiled version of the OpenSSL libraries to be used with Delphi. They are - as always - available at the Fulgan Mirror. Be sure to update your installation! Regards, Arvid
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Design Decisions - A REST Library
Jamie's Blog
– Since Jim has posted Episode 24 of the Podcast at Delphi.org and explained that we're making an open source Twitter client I thought I would write a quick post about some of the design decisions which we're already facing. In Particular about the decisions around the internal class that will ...
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When did the internet become so essential?
The Doric Temple
– Next week I’m going into hospital for a knee operation. I’m not worried about the pain, or the months of rehabilitation afterwards. I’m worried about how I’m going to live five days without an internet connection. I’d gladly exchange painkillers for a wifi connection. When we get the occasional ...
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 ...
