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September 2006
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Travelers bug - I'm in China!
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– I've decided to embark on my first international travel adventure. I am currently sitting in a nice little office in my girlfriends apartment in Lanxi, Zhejiang province, China. She has been here since April of 2006 teaching English at the Number 1 Middle School in Lanxi and I've ...
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Travelers bug
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– I've decided to embark on my first international travel adventure. I am currently sitting in a nice little office in my girlfriends apartment in Lanxi, Zhejiang province, China. She has been here since April of 2006 teaching English at the Number 1 Middle School in Lanxi and I've ...
June 2006
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Graduation
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– So, after 5 years of mostly full time school and work, I've finally graduated with my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). There were good classes, bad classes, and classes that inspired. Interestingly enough, the key factor of a great class ...
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Graduation
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– So, after 5 years of mostly full time school and work, I've finally graduated with my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). There were good classes, bad classes, and classes that inspired. Interestingly enough, the key factor of a great class ...
February 2006
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How to do late binding to dll exports (Delphi2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– Applications can be deployed on a multitude of systems, some of which may have functionality installed that does not exist on others. In the case of the Windows operating system, new API functions generally appear for each new version and it can be quite nice to take advantage of the ...
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How to do late binding to dll exports (Delphi2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– Applications can be deployed on a multitude of systems, some of which may have functionality installed that does not exist on others. In the case of the Windows operating system, new API functions generally appear for each new version and it can be quite nice to take advantage of the ...
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Sojourn of Delphi
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– I've been here a while (going on 10 years now) and can remember a number of times when romanticism about such events occurring could be heard in the halls or seen in the twinkling of any eye. Now that the time is nigh, I can't say I'm surprised as it seems a ...
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Sojourn of Delphi
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– I've been here a while (going on 10 years now) and can remember a number of times when romanticism about such events occurring could be heard in the halls or seen in the twinkling of any eye. Now that the time is nigh, I can't say I'm surprised as it seems a ...
January 2006
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Live Template Script Examples - var declaration with initialization and clipboard contents (Delphi2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– In the shipping version of Delphi2006 you can type the word 'var' in the code editor and hit TAB. This allows the user to fill out a template for a variable declaration. This variable then gets declared in the containing methods var block without having to navigate all over the ...
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Code Template Script Examples - var declaration with initialization and clipboard contents (Delphi2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– In the shipping version of Delphi2006 you can type the word 'var' in the code editor and hit . This allows the user to fill out a template for a variable declaration. This variable then gets declared in the containing methods var block without having to navigate all over the place. I find this ...
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Importing VS 2005 Code Snippets (Delphi2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– Not only am I having writers block for this blog, but the entry I just wrote got wiped out. grrr. :P You shall now get the very short version. Summary: Importing/using Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets in BDS 2006 Steps: Download source from code central: ...
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Importing VS 2005 Code Snippets in BDS 2006
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– Not only am I having writers block for this blog, but the entry I just wrote got wiped out. grrr. :P You shall now get the very short version. Summary: Importing/using Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets in BDS 2006 Steps: Download source from ...
December 2005
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Displaying macros in Code Completion (C++Builder2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– If you've ever used C or C++ you know about macros and their [ab]uses. Macros can be used in a number of ways, one of which is to substitute a string of text for a single identifier as in: #define MAX_TYPEVECSIZE (sizeof(typeVec[0]) * vecLength) you may also declare them as a parameterized macro ...
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Displaying macros in Code Completion (C++Builder2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– If you've ever used C or C++ you know about macros and their [ab]uses. Macros can be used in a number of ways, one of which is to substitute a string of text for a single identifier as in: #define MAX_TYPEVECSIZE (sizeof(typeVec[0]) * vecLength) you may also declare them as a parameterized macro ...
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Convenient editor shortcuts (Delphi2006)
Adam Sparky Markowitz
– Every once in a while I'll come across a message from a developer who wasn't aware of a particular feature or keyboard shortcut that might ease some of their development pain. Following is a short list of convenient editor keyboard shortcuts for the default keybinding that is shipped with Delphi ...
