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April 2011
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This week’s additions to http://links.malcolmgroves.com
Malcolm Groves
– GeSHi Documentation 1.0.8.2 PHP-based syntax highlighter for multiple languages Google APIs & Developer Products – January 2011 Peridoic Table-style overview of Google APIs Phidgets Inc. – Unique and Easy to Use USB Interfaces USB modules for Sensing and Control that come with an ...
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SQL and No-SQL, two sides of the same coin.
Malcolm Groves
– This is an interesting, if a bit dry, look at the connection between different database models and how ultimately the whole SQL vs. No-SQL discussion is a little silly, as they are essentially two aspects of the same thing. The first section sounds like it is a business model discussion, but bear ...
January 2011
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Review : Masterminds of Programming by Federico Biancuzzi
Malcolm Groves
– Over my last few flights I’ve been reading Masterminds of Programming by Federico Biancuzzi. It’s a collection of interviews with the creators of a whole bunch of different programming languages, and is quite full of advice and insight, even for those of us who’ll never design a language. I ...
December 2010
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VersionInsight in RAD Studio XE – Part 4 : Blame/Annotations
Malcolm Groves
– I’ve recorded a few videos giving an overview of the VersionInsight capabilities in RAD Studio XE (Delphi XE and C++Builder XE, to be specific). Part 4 covers VersionInsight’s support for Blame or Annotations, the ability to see the details of the last time a particular line of code was changed. ...
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VersionInsight in RAD Studio XE – Part 3 : Rename Support
Malcolm Groves
– I’ve recorded a few videos giving an overview of the VersionInsight capabilities in RAD Studio XE (Delphi XE and C++Builder XE, to be specific). Part 3 covers VersionInsight’s ability to track when you rename a file in the IDE, and ensure that the version control repository recognises that as a ...
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VersionInsight in RAD Studio XE – Part 2 : Checkout from a Repository
Malcolm Groves
– In Part 2 of my video series on VersionInsight, the version control integration in Delphi XE and C++Builder XE, I show how to open a project from an existing repository. The example I use is hosted on code.google.com, but it applies equally to sourceforge or even a local repository. This is ...
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VersionInsight in RAD Studio XE – Part 1
Malcolm Groves
– I’ve recorded a few videos giving an overview of the VersionInsight capabilities in RAD Studio XE (Delphi XE and C++Builder XE, to be specific). Part 1 covers a brief introduction to what VersionInsight is, shows how to add a project to a repository for the first time, then demos a few of the IDE ...
November 2010
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Resources for Unicode in Delphi
Malcolm Groves
– I’ve had a few people ask me lately about resources for getting up to speed on Unicode in Delphi. I’ve sent the same set of links a few times, so I thought I should also share them here: Pawel shared some links back mid-last year, inlcuding a three parter that Nick wrote on the topic. Cary Jensen ...
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Virtual Reality in Delphi with Forum8
Malcolm Groves
– I spent the morning at Forum8’s Design Festival in Tokyo a couple of days ago. Forum8 build Virtual Reality solutions, mostly it seems for construction, automotive and railway design, traffic and emergency simulation. A couple of hundred of their customers were at the event, sharing the ...
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Mirror world of Internet disputes : China and the US
Malcolm Groves
– I was in Beijing last week, and one of the news items that caught my eye was about an ongoing spat between two Chinese software giants: Tencent and Qihoo 360. They’d started shoving each other, gradually escalating until punches were thrown, and finally the Minister of Industry and Information ...
September 2010
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SourceInsight, Delphi and C++Builder XE SVN integration, is open source
Malcolm Groves
– As has been mentioned a few times during the RAD Studio launch events, we’re releasing the Subversion implementation of the Delphi and C++Builder XE SourceInsight API to open source, both to allow people to extend it, but also to serve as an example on how to implement the API for other version ...
July 2010
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Debugging Initialization and Finalization sections
Malcolm Groves
– There was a discussion on the ADUG list recently about Initialization sections. During the discussion I mentioned a technique for stepping through all the Initialization and Finalization sections in your project. Afterward, I got a few emails from people saying they had not heard of ...
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JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook free for 24 hours (or less now, I guess)
Malcolm Groves
– You may have thought that Spain won the world cup, but according to sitepoint.com, it was the JQuery: Novice to Ninja ebook. Go here to grab it quickly, as the 24 hours started some time back and I’m not sure when it expires.
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Free MapReduce and Hadoop lectures from UC Berkeley. Good launching point for exploring Hadoop.
Malcolm Groves
– I’ve been watching two lectures from UC Berkeley’s CS61A course, on MapReduce in general and (in the second lecture) Hadoop specifically. If you’re looking for a good, deep kick-starter on both the concepts and the implementation, I’d recommend them. They’re a little dry (hey, they are university CS ...
June 2010
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C++Builder Developer’s - CB2010 Special Issue free
Malcolm Groves
– The C++Builder Developer’s Journal have made their latest issue free and open to everyone to download. It focuses on more recent features that maybe people haven’t had time to play with, and includes articles on Datasnap 2010 by Bob Swart, Unicode migration by Josh Kelley, changing the ...
