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February 2009
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Pointers to Pointers
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– When you first learn about pointers, it takes a little while to get that aha moment. They're a bit like recursion and closures in that respect. Then, just when you think you've got it, get shown pointers to pointers. You understand the concept, but can't really figure out where they'd be useful. So ...
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My definition of good code
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– Following on from my post regarding JclExprEval of the Jedi Code Library, Barry Kelly, left me a comment that in fact the unit had been documented, and he gave me a link to it. I don't think I'm going to even bother downloading it. I can't really see what the documentation can give me that looking ...
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What did you learn today?
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– Do you ever wonder how accountants manage to get out of bed every day and go to work? Apart from the occasional, new tax law, their profession has basically stayed the same for hundreds of years. An accountant is basically doing the same thing today, that he did yesterday. I think we're in a ...
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Faith Restored..
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– ..in mankind that is. Well at least in developer-kind. After Friday's travails with that awful code, I was beginning to think it was impossible to pick up someone else's code and run with it. Well, today I was messing around with expression parsing and evaluation, and asked a question on stack ...
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See what I mean?
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– I recently posted about the difference between developers and good developers. The point I made is being confirmed to me on a little application I've been asked to have a look at. The application in question is written in Delphi, by someone in the organisation who is not a developer. I knew this ...
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Twitter. I just don't get it.
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– ..and I have really tried. Everybody seems to be twittering and everybody seems to be raving about Twitter. I just can't get excited about it. Maybe I'm getting old. I think of Twitter as the online equivalent of SMS, and since I've probably only ever sent five SMS's in my life, no wonder I don't ...
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You ask a question, you get an answer!
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– I recently asked, who or what are Embarcadero's target customer. I think Embarcadero have answered. Look at this press-release. Embarcadero All Access. So, it's the Enterprise then. Maybe Embarcadero know something I don't. Maybe they'll target the medium to small businesses with some other scheme ...
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Wood from the trees!
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– When I first picked up Delphi 1, I was amazed. I could kick up a decent application in no time. Prior to Delphi 1, we designed user interfaces on 80x25 squared paper. Delphi was that big a leap! I found it really easy. I was a Turbo Pascal programmer before Delphi, so the syntax was familiar. The ...
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Who's your target customer?
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– Right, before I write this post, a little disclaimer. I have nothing against Nick Hodges, I've never met him, but he sounds like a really nice guy, and someone who I'd have a lot in common with. The reason I say this, is I've noticed that quite a few of my posts have been about something he's either ...
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Should we really learn C?
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– I'm referring to something Joel Spolsky keeps telling Jeff Atwood (both of Stackoverflow) Joel says that even if you are not going to be programming in C, learning it will stand you in good stead. As much as I hate C (hate is perhaps too strong a word), I kind of agree with him. I was thinking about ...
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When did we all get so lazy?
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– There seems to be a movement towards writing less code. I see it all the time. You have C and C# evangelists who can't stand Pascal because they can do in two key strokes, what Pascal does in nine ({ and } as opposed to begin and end;) This one's a personal preference issue. Personally I find ...
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How do I make the case for Delphi?
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– At work we use Delphi. We have for several years, and it has never failed us. The last few years we have had major problems finding good Delphi developers, so the developers we have hired have either been bad Delphi developers (who have since moved on), or .NET developers who have been persuaded to ...
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Born Again Delphi?
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– I've just read an extremely interesting (and long) article about the future of Delphi. The catalyst for the article was Nick Hodges post on the future of Delphi. Some interesting things on the wish list for the new Delphi. Compiler Speed For most of my professional life I have used Delphi, and ...
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The Nick Hodges Podcast
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– I have just listened to latest podcast over at the Startup Success Podcast, with our very own Nick Hodges as the guest. I have to say it was rather disappointing. I guess for someone who laps up every mention of Delphi on the web (does the web sometimes seem very small to you?), these kind of things ...
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Some are more equal than others!
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– I've been trying to evaluate some scripting solutions for a Delphi application I'm working on. One of the things we do a lot of is repetitive calculations. So we wrote a small test example to try this out. It's a very contrived example, but it should give us an idea of how fast these solutions are. ...
