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March 2010
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Intercepting RO/.NET HttpServer requests
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– With the Spring 2010 release, RemObjects SDK for .NET lets you intercept any configurable path on any of the non-super http Server channels and do something completely different with the http request. This feature was added to support REST in Data Abstract, but can also easily be used to host custom ...
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What’s New and Cooking…
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– The past week has been a busy one, here at RemObjects. On Tuesday, we shipped our new “Spring 2010” releases, updating our entire product suite. We also started work on three major new projects that will significantly shape Data Abstract over the coming year. Let’s start with a ...
February 2010
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Photo(s) of the Week #28
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– It’s been a while since i last posted photos. Has, in fact, been a while since i last got around to doing some decent shooting. I mostly blame Xcode. You see, when i started up serious photography in 2006, computing as my main hobby of choice had started failing me. Computer work, and ...
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RemObjects Script for .NET
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– A while ago, I started planning a new Data Abstract feature: we wanted to support scripting in the .NET parts of the product, for validating business rules on both the client and the server, and for writing server logic, like we already have in Data Abstract for Delphi. There were several options we ...
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New Expression Types in Delphi Prism
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– It seems the sneak peek at “for expressions” in my previous post caused quite a bit of stir, so i figured i would spend a few minutes talking about the new expression types in general. As you probably know, if you ever stopped to think about Pascal grammar, the most basic component that ...
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New Syntax for Extension Methods in Delphi Prism
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– Ever since Extension Methods have been introduced in .NET 3.5, we’ve been pondering on a proper syntax to allow developers to define their own. C# uses an awkward syntax where it uses the this keyword (C#’s equivalent of self) as name of the first parameter. But that felt wrong. For one, ...
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Using Cocoa Bindings for binding DADataTable to NSTableView.
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– As you might know, Cocoa offers several ways for populating NSTableView with data. The first approach is to use the NSTableViewDataSource protocol, which we are applying widely in our samples. The second approach I want to cover today, is using Cocoa Bindings. What is Cocoa Bindings? Cocoa Bindings ...
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Using LDAP for User Authentication
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– We at RemObjects Software have been using LDAP for centralizing the authentication for all our different projects, like our issue tracker, internal websites, calendar and jabber and it’s been working very well. However for .NET there’s only one library that can be used on both Mono & ...
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Everything is Relative
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– Today i want to talk a bit about “Relativity”, a new feature we’re shipping with Data Abstract this month (and which is actually available as “tech preview”in the current Winter 2009 releases). “Relativity” is, simply put, a standalone server application ...
January 2010
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Left Outer Joins in DA LINQ.
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– In terms of improving DA LINQ, I’m happy to announce that i have just committed improved support for the LEFT OUTER JOIN in the next release of the Data Abstract for .NET. We can compose Left Outer join query by using DefaultIfEmpty standard query operator. See the sample below: var query = ...
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Visualizing Data with Core-Plot
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– Core Plot is an open source graphing framework for Cocoa developers that makes it really easy to add graphs to your applications for the Mac and iPhone. Over the past half year, i’ve had the chance to use Core Plot in several of the internal applications i have been working on and have been ...
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.NET 4.0 BigInteger support
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– The February release of Delphi Prism will include support for the new .NET 4.0 “BigInteger” type for all integer constants. BigInteger is a new class that let’s it’s users define an arbitrarily large integer. Using this new type for integer constants is simple in Delphi ...
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Reusing C# in Your Prism Projects
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– One of the (few) concerns we hear from people looking to get started with Delphi Prism is that most of the code samples and snippets that are available on the net are written in C#. Because .NET is fully language agnostic, reusing existing libraries and assemblies written in C# (or any other ...
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Dev Diary – an Introduction to Shimmer
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– In the Mac world, there’s a great little library called Sparkle. It uses RSS feeds to facilitate the distribution of software updates, with a minimum of code required in the application. Our illustrious CEO, marc, has been talking about it for a while, and we use it internally in several of ...
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Using NSPredicateEditor with DADataTable
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– Today I want to talk about NSPredicateEditor and how to use it with a DADataTable. What is NSPredicateEditor… Cocoa’s NSPredicateEditor class provides an excellent way to compose predicates at runtime. The main benefit is that the user needs to know nothing about predicates and their ...
