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March 2010
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #148
Nick Hodges
– The Haitian Relief Auction is wrapping up, and there are still some good deals to be had. My favorite out there right now is the “Your name (and picture) in the RAD Studio Easter Egg”. The bidding has gone above $100, so the winning bidder will have ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #147
Nick Hodges
– Help Update 2 for RAD Studio 2010 is now available. Marco has released his new book: Delphi 2010 Handbook The RemObjects guys are constantly on the move. Their latest is a .Net scripting called RemObjects Script for .Net. It’s ...
February 2010
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #146
Nick Hodges
– Haiti Auction Update: The Haitian relief action continues. Anders told me this morning that we are up over $19,000 raised so far. As of this writing, you can get Danny Thorpe’s old security badge for a $57 bid. Danny has also autographed a bunch of items as ...
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Live Templates
Nick Hodges
– I’ve always said that by a country mile, the most under-appreciated, under-utilized, and under-exploited feature of the IDE is the Live Templates engine. If you haven’t explored Live Templates, you really should. The Delphi Wiki has a pretty nice write up on them, as well as a page ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #145
Nick Hodges
– Hey, Delphi at the Olympics! Cool that Marco spotted that. Sunday was the 15th Anniversary of the launch of Delphi. As I’ve probably said way too many times – I was there at the launch at the Moscone Center that fateful evening in 1995. It really ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #144
Nick Hodges
– The Haiti Auction continues apace. Thanks so much to all of you who have purchased items and helped to raise a lot of cash for the people of Haiti. Many of the items have been sold, but there are still many items out there to be bid ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #143
Nick Hodges
– The Haitian Relief Auctions are going like gangbusters. We even made the Santa Cruz Sentinel! (Way to go, Anders! And hey, I even got my name in the papers!) Many of the items end on Sunday evening here on the US west coast, so you only have ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #142
Nick Hodges
– The bidding is starting to pick up on our Haitian Relief auctions. Thanks very much to everyone who is generously bidding. I have now officially gone crazily out of control in adding XMLDoc comments to the TSmiley code. Seriously. Help Insight will now provide ...
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Haitian Relief Auctions are Live
Nick Hodges
– Okay – the Haitian Auctions are live! Three pages of historical goodness and fun, all for a good cause – with more to come, I believe. Note, that even though the auctions state: “90% of the final sale price will support Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (Small deduction may ...
January 2010
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Haitian Relief Auction: Sneak Peak
Nick Hodges
– Anders Ohlsson has posted a couple of “sneak peak” auctions to make sure that our system is working. http://shop.ebay.com/andersohlsson/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25 Bid early and bid often! Look for more opportunities next week.Share This | Email this page to a friend
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Buy Cool Old Borland Stuff, Support Haitian Relief
Nick Hodges
– As some of you may know, we are moving our offices to a new location here in Scotts Valley. This beautiful, big building we are currently in (and that was built and owned by Borland for many years) isn’t matching up to our needs anymore, and we are moving to ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #141
Nick Hodges
– Well, there certainly is a lot of folks using serial ports out there. ;-) Allen Bauer goes on quite a tirade about stack frames and stack alignment. We originally set 31 December 2009 as the last day you could ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #140
Nick Hodges
– Check out Channel E – a central location for Embarcardero’s online stuff: video, blogs, twitter, etc. Interested in finding out more about Delphi Prism? Long time Delphi developer Brian Long has written a White Paper which discusses using Delphi Prism and Mono. You ...
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The Best way to Get TSmiley, or…. A Subversion Primer
Nick Hodges
– Okay, the response to TSmiley has been amazing. At least ten of you have downloaded it. Unbelievable. I’ve even made a few updates to it. And I’ve checked those updates into the Subversion server on SourceForge. I’ll try to keep up with the ZIP file download, but seriously, you really ...
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #139
Nick Hodges
– Whoops – found this post with a few items hanging around from before the Christmas break – some of this stuff may be a little older…… Chris Hesik has posted an informal update to Delphi 2007 that will enable the debugger to work ...
