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November 2007
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Upgrading OS X to Leopard
David Glassborow
– Having just returned from two holidays: Colorado with a motorbike (lovely people, stunning scenery) and Firenze with my lovely girlfriend (lovely people, stunning architecture and art) I decided to update my OS X partition to the new shiny leopard. Here are a couple of notes of how I got on, which ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Rules of Thumb to Make a Project Work
David Glassborow
– I am currently coming to the end of a large project for one of our clients, where I have been acting in the Business Analyst and Technical Lead roles. It has been a fun and successful project, and I wanted to pass along some of the lessons I've learnt (again) about how to make Technical Analysis ...
June 2007
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Feedburner and Apache Redirects
David Glassborow
– Looking at the load this blog is causing, virtually all of it's requests are for the syndication feeds so I decided to off-load the network bandwidth to Feed Burner ( recently acquired by Google). Feedburner basically checks your site every 30 minutes (you can also manually request an update) and ...
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SQL Server 2000 Spatial ?
David Glassborow
– SQL Server 2000 has always been one of my favourite bits of software. I have written various software that runs on top of MSDE and always been really pleased with it. Having spent a great deal of time recently working with Oracle 10, I have really noticed how much easier administration is with SQL ...
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 ...
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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 making ...
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 other Delphi developers. Do ...
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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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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 ...
