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July 2007
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Professional Development on a MacBook Pro
David Glassborow
– Like a number of people in the Delphi Community ( Steve Trefethen, Dan Miser ), and the development community as a whole, I now do all my development on a MacBook Pro. I changed to an Apple machine six months ago, for a number of reasons: I needed a new laptop, and the MacBook Pro hardware is so ...
February 2007
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Weblog moved to Typo
David Glassborow
– What I’ve moved my blog away from Blogger.com and on to a Typo installation hosted ourselves. Typo is a weblog application that runs on top of Ruby On Rails, the latest posterchild of the open source community. I chose a rails based blog because I’ve been doing work with rails recently, ...
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Comments on my Weblog, Firebug
David Glassborow
– I’ve been having a lot of problems with comments on this blog taking forever to post, being silently rejected, etc. After lots of messing around, I found it to be a combination of a) A theme that doesn’t handle problems with comments being locked and b) the built in anti spam protection ...
January 2007
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Useful Delphi code
David Glassborow
– Just realised I haven’t written a blog post for 2.5 months, and I’ve just got back from a lunchtime surfing session, so I’m not really in the mood for real work. I thought I’d post some of my basic Delphi library code I use time and again in the hope it is of some use to ...
October 2006
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ATOM / RSS and Comments
David Glassborow
– After all the effort of changing Weblogs, I’ve realised that Typo ‘out of the box’ does not support comments added to its syndication streams. I’ve hacked around in the code and managed to get something working. Rails XML helpers make this stuff pretty easy. Weirdly there ...
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Devco Wish List
David Glassborow
– This is my wishlist for Delphi when the new company running it is planning the next version. My requests are not large things (except maybe the last one), and are in order of priority. Summary: Language construct: return . operators on basic types Include all source code (midas, dbExpress) Ruby ...
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Moving blog
David Glassborow
– I've moved my blog onto my company's server. It is now at http://blogs.conceptfirst.com. Atom (just articles): http://blogs.conceptfirst.com/xml/atom10/feed.xml Atom (with comments): http://blogs.conceptfirst.com/xml/atom10/comments/feed.xml And now the summer is over, I promise to post more ...
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GIS
David Glassborow
– I’m writing this posting for two reasons. Firstly my company is currently engaged in a project with a client about getting more of their data onto their intranet based mapping tool, so I’ve spent the last 3 days researching and getting back up to speed on the industry. Secondly my ...
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Introduction
David Glassborow
– Why Blog Because: There are lots of technical details about delphi I’ve explored that may be useful to other developers. I’ve learnt loads from the Delphi community and I’d like to return the favour There are lots of design ‘discussions’ (i.e. arguments) i’ve ...
May 2006
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GIS
David Glassborow
– Im writing this posting for two reasons. Firstly my company is currently engaged in a project with a client about getting more of their data onto their intranet based mapping tool, so Ive spent the last 3 days researching and getting back up to speed on the industry. Secondly my brother has just ...
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Class RTTI
David Glassborow
– This post follows up my previous one about RTTI in Delphi, inspired by Hallvards 2 posts here and here, and covers some advanced RTTI features in Delphi that I havent seen mentioned anywhere else. $METHODINFO While playing around with Websnap in Delphi, trying to extend some of the objects ...
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Interface RTTI
David Glassborow
– Reading an article and its follow up by Hallvard about RTTI inspired me to put together a couple of posts about two related areas of RTTI in Delphi. In particular one of the comments on Hallvards blog about using this RTTI to call objects in some late bound fashion. This post and the next cover ...
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Class RTTI
David Glassborow
– This post follows up my previous one about RTTI in Delphi, inspired by Hallvard’s 2 posts here and here, and covers some advanced RTTI features in Delphi that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else. $METHODINFO While playing around with Websnap in Delphi, trying to extend some of the ...
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Interface RTTI
David Glassborow
– Reading an article and its follow up by Hallvard about RTTI inspired me to put together a couple of posts about two related areas of RTTI in Delphi. In particular one of the comments on Hallvard’s blog about using this RTTI to call objects in some late bound fashion. This post and the next ...
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Class Helpers - good or bad ?
David Glassborow
– One of the things I love about the latest versions of Delphi is the compiler changes, originally made for .Net, that are being rolled back into Win32 code. I like finally having procedures in records, and I love class helpers. Class Helpers Helper classes were introduced in Delphi 8 as a way of ...
