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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (v) revisited
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– Well that was judicious timing (for once)! Just as we decided to take the plunge and do away with ODBCExpress in favour of dbGo, I had an email from Pieter Myburgh at Korbitec. In it, he stated that the management had rejected the proposal to make ODBCExpress open-source and instead have "end-of- ...
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The curious case of dead Delphi
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– You don't have to look very far for people asking the question "Is Delphi Dead?". StackOverflow had a recent question on it, and Delphi developer JamieI recently created a website to answer the question succinctly.OK, so it was a darling of the 90s and these days it isn't as high profile as it used ...
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (v)
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– A new year and time to make a decision about how we are going to move our ten year old codebase from Delphi 6 up to Delphi 2009. If you've followed my other posts in this "road to Delphi 2009" thread then you'll know that I hit a stumbling block when migrating a third-party component, ODBCExpress. ...
December 2009
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The Register: Ten years of .NET - Did Microsoft deliver?
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– The always excellent Tim Anderson, writing for the always excellent The Register, has put together a nice article on the relative success and failure of .NET as a platform and as a Java-killer.I've made it clear in the past that I'm no fan of .NET and I don't see any clear benefit to our industry by ...
November 2009
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (iv)
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– So it has been a while since I last updated on my progress with the migration from Delphi 6 to Delphi 2009. There's a reason. I'm still on Delphi 6 and I've got nowhere fast with ODBCExpress!To be fair to its developer, Pieter Myburgh, it isn't his project anymore and he has been very good in ...
July 2009
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (iii)
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– Still calling this Part 1 (Act 3) as I'm not actively pushing anything forward until I've overcome the ODBCExpress hurdle. I've had some positive steps forward with this.I have been in regular contact with Pieter Myburg, its original author. Even though he is no longer actively developing it, he has ...
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (reprise)
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– So I haven't really got any further yet because I'm waiting to hear back from the author of ODBCExpress whether or not he will look to upgrade the packages for Delphi 2009. He's emailed to say he is "looking into it". From the newsgroup I can see I'm not the only one crossing my fingers.If he ...
June 2009
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1
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– OK, so I started with the easy stuff. Installing third-party components.Raize Components - CheckTMS Component Pack - CheckReportBuilder Enterprise/Server - CheckOK, these were easy because they were designed for Delphi 2009.ODBCExpress - Oh. Well, according to its lead developer Pieter Myburg on ...
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Bit the bullet: Delphi 2009!
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– So, I finally bit the bullet and purchased a Delphi upgrade, to D2009. The offer was too tempting and I have started to become frustrated with being left too far behind with Delphi 6.Thanks to one of the distributors in the UK, Grey Matter, we got the D2009 upgrade for 20% off. This was a promotion ...
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Upgrading a major project to Delphi 2009
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– Lars Dybdahl has posted an excellent summary of his experience converting older Delphi projects to Delphi 2009. Very relevant to me and many Delphi users, I'm sure:Compas Pascal: Upgrading a major project to Delphi 2009: "g"
December 2008
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CodeRage 3
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– CodeRage 3 seems to have gone pretty well judging by those who were involved with it. I'm pleased, it's good that CodeGear/Embarcadero does this because it shows that they're focusing their mind on the developers (and possibly trying to showcase for potential new customers). There will always be an ...
August 2008
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Delphi 2009 Sneak Peek Videos
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– I've just watched Nick Hodges go through some of the VCL enhancements for Delphi 2009, and two things struck me. Firstly, I can't understand why the PasswordChar feature on TEdit was being demonstrated; I was running Delphi 6 side-by-side with the video, and was changing this property with the ...
June 2008
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Code: Speed vs Aesthetics
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– In our drive to produce the fastest, most optimised code out there, sometimes we can leave ourselves with a sprawl of code that no one else is going to be able to follow - or quite possibly you may not be able to follow a few months down the line, even though you wrote it! I'm not talking about ...
January 2008
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Real-world tools #6: Raize Components
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– Despite the claims that I don't like to have reams of different component packs installed in Delphi, there is often a case that a particular component set just has that killer component that demands its use. I've been aware of Raize Components for years but never made the leap of using them because ...
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Real-world tools #5: IP*Works! SSL
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– It's been a while and for that I apologise, although perhaps many of you are grateful that it's taken 2 months for me to post. Usual stuff, I know you're all up against the same things. Deadlines, massive development schedules, testing, meetings... you know, real-world stuff. I wanted to get back ...
