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Saturday, 24. April 2010
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How Android beats Windows 7 laptops
Compas Pascal
– Here is a list of why it makes sense to use an Android phone instead of a Windows 7 laptop for many tasks: * The laptop does not have built-in GPS, so location information cannot be used to assist tasks by searching locally, looking up addresses, providing context-dependent functionality etc. * ...
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Component Development / Tips & Tricks -Replay
Virtual Delphi Users Group
– I had several problems recording the Component Development / Tips & Ticks Session. I would have liked to edit this, but every time I tried the quality was reduced or the file size increased. So here is the original raw recording with all the rough edges expected in a live presentation. ...
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Virtual Delphi Users Group
Rob's Technology Corner
– On April 20th, 2010 SLCDUG conducted an experiment on a virtual meeting. The results were much better than expected. This concept worked! I have work to do to improve the overall experience. We had several minor problems, but overall we can improve.One thing I ...
Friday, 23. April 2010
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Delphi Development Best Practices #2 – Source Control
Nick Hodges
– Okay, so for this first installment, I’ll be illustrating one of my core principles for developing applications: All my code of any importance at all goes under source control. All of it. I’m all by myself – why should I use source control? We ask about source control use on the annual ...
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Delphi Prism 2011 Video and Article
Marco's Tech Blog
– An article on SDTimes ("Delphi IDE retooled for Visual Studio 2010") and a YouTube video (see below) shed some light on the next version of Delphi Prism for Visual Studio 2010. In the article we learn that Delphi Prism 2011 for Visual Studio 2010 is set for release on May 15, 2010 (am I the only ...
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Delphi Prism in Visual Studio 2010 preview video
Delphi Insider
– Here's a preview video of Delphi Prism in Visual Studio 2010 that we created as part of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 launch activities.In this video, David Intersimone demonstrates how to use Delphi Prism and Visual Studio 2010 to build Windows Forms, ASP.NET, multi-tier, AOP, LINQ, WCF and ...
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Help us Test our new Public Chat Room
RemObjects Blogs
– We’re currently experimenting with a public chat room for RemObjects personnel and customers. This channel is accessible through any Jabber/XMPP client (such as Google Talk, Pidgin, Psi, iChat, Adium, and many more) that lets you join chat rooms. To join, connect to your own jabber server, and ...
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Welcome
Virtual Delphi Users Group
– After a successful first meeting experiment on April 20th, 2010. This website has been setup to be the central point of broadcast storage and notices of meetings. Features: Call for Papers Link – If your interested in presenting to a world-wide audience of Delphi Developers let us know! If ...
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Implementing QuickSort Sorting Algorithm in Delphi
About Delphi Programming
– in Delphi :: One of the common problems in programming is to sort an array of values in some order (ascending or descending). While there are many "standard" sorting algorithms, QuickSort is one of the fastest. Quicksort sorts by employing a divide and conquer strategy to divide a list into two sub- ...
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Embarcadero Delphi Evenings.... at Delphi Developer Days
Marco's Tech Blog
– Anders Ohlsson and David I will host three "Embarcadero Delphi Evenings" at the locations of our Delphi Developer Days events in the US (Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles). In particular, you can read on the Developer Network about and register for: Embarcadero Delphi Evening with ...
Thursday, 22. April 2010
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Random News #1
Arvid's Blog
– Hi, beside my post about OpenSSL updates, there has been no or little time to update this blog in the past month. There are some interesting OpenSource projects I had been involved. Regarding my voluntary work with the Indy Project I am glad to announce that I was invited to join the Indy Mercury ...
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Setting up a custom title bar – reprise
Delphi Haven
– As a follow up to my last post, I’ve written a small demo that (rather pointlessly of course) enables custom drawing in the main form’s title bar only to reinstate the standard elements. It does this across changes to the form’s BorderIcons, BorderStyle, Caption and Icon ...
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Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM
The Wiert Corner
– I usually pick a fresh VM for installing an RTM build, but if you have loads of stuff on your (physical) machine, upgrading RC to RTM can be a real time saver. Stack Overflow has a nice question Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM answered by Danny Thorpe (yes, two links: blog / wikipedia). The ...
Wednesday, 21. April 2010
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In LINQ, Don’t Use Count() When You Mean Any()
Craig Stuntz's Weblog
– If you have a list, array, or query in a C#/LINQ application and need to check and see if the list is empty, the correct way to do this is to use the Any() extension method: if (q.Any()) { Similarly, you can check to see if any elements in the list meet a certain condition: if (q.Any(i => ...
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Adding non-data fields to a client dataset
TURBU Tech
– A lot of the UI design for the TURBU editor is based on data-aware controls bound to client datasets. I was trying to build a new form this morning that required me to filter one of the datasets. Problem is, that would break other things that expected it not to be filtered. Well, that’s not ...
