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February 2010
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ProDelphi profiler will not run anymore
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– Last Friday, while I was getting ready to setup a profiling session for the weekend I ran into a problem. My profiling tool – ProDelphi - would not run. A rather generic error message would display instead. The following message was being displayed every time I tried to run the program : ...
August 2009
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Lazarus article on Linux Journal
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– I finally got around to browse the Linux Journal Magazine (September 2009) that this month features cross platform development, and noticed the word Lazarus at the top of the cover page. Yes, it is an article about the Delphi like IDE. The article is written by Mattias Gaertner, a member of the ...
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Delphi Services and Localization Issue
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– About five months ago I was called in to look into an localization issue affecting one of our software products. The software in case is a Windows Service written in Delphi. This service is used to collect live data from a series of networked devices and store such data into a RDBMS. As usual my ...
February 2009
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Cross-platform Pascal using Lazarus
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– This past Thursday (February 5th) I made a presentation about how to install Lazarus on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) for the Pacific Northwest Delphi User Group. For the presentation I created a Virtual Machine for both Windows and Ubuntu to demo the installation and I was asked to share it with the ...
November 2008
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Delphi Contract available in the Akron (OH) area
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– I just learned of a Delphi contract available in the Akron (OH) area. Here is what I know: - 6 + months duration - SQL/Stored procedures - Solid knowledge of Delphi - Action Manager, data grids, exceptions, OO stuff etc. - pay rate 40-50/hr. For more details drop Dan Chester a line. He can be ...
October 2008
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The Fletch PSM Index for Oct. 19 2008
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– Here is the second installment of the Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index or Fletch PSM Index for short. DISCLAIMER - I do not claim that this index is an exact science and the results should be taken as, maybe, a relative indicator not as an absolute true. Also, because I am still working ...
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Wow! Clipper is still around
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– While preparing my “Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index” for the week I ran in to a posting for a Clipper Support Analyst. Wow! Clipper is still around. That brings back memories, Clipper, FoxPro, Turbo Pascal, Quick C, DOS, 640k/704k RAM, Novell…(I’m dating myself) Have you ...
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The Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index
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– In a couple of posts Jim McKeeth has pointed out that the Delphi language has been climbing in the TIOBE Index. He has also called the community to action in order to make sure that whenever we referenced Delph on a post to do so using “Delphi programming”. That way these references can be properly ...
September 2008
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The time has come and I need to move on…
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– The time has come and I feel that I need to move on to my next job. For a while I have been trying to locate my next Delphi job with little success. I have been trying to get something close to home because my family and I live in the Seattle area - perhaps that is the problem. All I can find ...
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My Event logger – a poor man’s debugger
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– I have been working around multi threaded services for quite a while now. And as you may know, multi threading services are very hard to debug. When debugging multi threaded applications one must collect run-time information without disturbing the threads and introducing delays that would ultimately ...
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Delphi job in LA (USA)
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– Yesterday I learned about this Delphi Job offered in the Los Angeles area.(http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/sof/841116892.html).
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Cool! I just got my SA e-mail. Delphi 2009 here I go.
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– Cool. I just got my SA e-mail with the download information and most important, the access key to get my Delphi 2009 adventure started. I’m such a geek! LOL!
August 2008
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Delphi 2009 release on Monday August 25?
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– An article published on eWeek.com states that “Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 will be available on Aug. 25 with North American pricing beginning at $399 per license for Professional editions, $1,299 for Enterprise editions and $2,299 for Architect editions.“ The eWeek’s article ...
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Still looking at the map.
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– On my last post about the Delphi road map I got very interesting comments. Those comments made me think about what is really needed to take Delphi back to the place it deserves as a development tool. In my opinion CodeGear needs to focus on the Tool instead of the language. Improvements such as ...
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The Delphi road map – are we on the right road?
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– Last Friday I watched a presentation by David I and Andreano Lanusse on the upcoming Tiburon. I did not get really excited whit any of the features discussed.These additions – VCL enhancements, DataSnap, Generics, Unicode support, ribbon control and etc. – are useful but not earth shattering. The ...
