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February 2012
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From Pro to Starter – A Bit of a Shift
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– So, I finally made the jump from D2010 to Delphi EX2. I moved to the Starter edition which might seem a bit odd – but it’s not, I assure you. Only two or three weeks ago Delphi was, primarily due to a decrease in time that I can spend with it, doomed as an active member of my list of hobbies and I ...
January 2012
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TMS Aurelius - A Quick Peek
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– The Latin name Aurelius means Golden. Has TMS Software created the “Golden” Object Relational Mapping [ORM] Framework? Like any tool, it depends on your perspective and needs ... and for me, it sure looks like they have. Let me explain ... I’m pretty sure that I’ve kissed every frog that ...
April 2011
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WinProcs and WinTypes – Not Dead Yet
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– ... or so it would seem. Discontinued with the release of D2 but still haunting unit uses clauses everywhere. I just recently tracked down and fixed an error in a module that was compiling fine but causing the Code Completion and Code Parameters IDE features to fail once it had. I tracked the ...
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tiOPF Tip – Wiring Up A Simple Look-Up Table
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– I have a requirement for several simple database centric look-up tables in one of my projects. They are no more complex than name-value pairs [EA-Each, CT-Carton, ... ] that get stored in the database and are fully editable by the users. I needed to find a way around the tiOPF [the OPF of choice] ...
December 2010
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A Simple Fix For My Broken WUBI
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– I updated my Wubi Ubuntu 10.04 install a couple of days ago ... and it broke. That was really annoying. It was also, from my perspective, a bit of a kick in the bum for Ubuntu WUBI. It breaks kinda easy it seems, and from the number of posts I’ve read, it’s not the first time. Over the last ...
November 2009
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The Decorator Design Pattern in Delphi
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– The decorator pattern, as defined in the book, with one glaring exception, is pretty easy to get a handle on and really isn’t going to take a lot of work from me in way of text here. The Decorator Pattern ... is a design pattern that allows new/additional behaviour to be added to an existing ...
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The Observer Design Pattern in Delphi – Pull
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– As mentioned in the previous article The Observer Design Pattern in Delphi – Push I intended to do a “Pull” article to show, what I think is, a significant “feature” of this pattern and one that I thought was underplayed in the Head First Design Patterns book that I’m learning from. I wrote code ...
October 2009
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The “Death of Delphi” Rumour Proven Untrue
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– Hot News ... jamiei, a Delphi Developer, Web Developer and General Geek, has come forward and provided the community with irrefutable proof [it’s on the internet, it must be true] clearly dispelling all rumoured answers to the questions, is Delphi Dead or even is Delphi Dying ? ...
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The Observer Design Pattern in Delphi – Push
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– A summary and [my rendition of] the Delphi code taken from the second chapter of the book, Head First Design Patterns from O’Reilly. As I mentioned in the first post in this series, I’m studying Design Patterns using the Head First Design Patterns book from O’Reilly. As part of this learning ...
September 2009
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The Strategy Design Pattern in Delphi
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– A summary and [my rendition of] the Delphi code taken from the first chapter of the book, Head First Design Patterns from O’Reilly. As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m studying Design Patterns using the Head First Design Patterns book from O’Reilly. As part of this learning process I’m working ...
December 2008
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Happy Holidays to All !!
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– Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! For the geek in you : 01010111 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01001101 01100101 01110010 ...
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Design Patterns in Delphi – Resources
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– As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m studying Design Patterns using the Head First Design Patterns book from O’Reilly. As part of this learning process I’m working through the existing examples written in Java and recreating them in Delphi. This is the first of many posts, hopefully, that are ...
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The Answer To [almost] Every Question
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– This is priceless and I’ve got to share it: It’s definitely one of those … Doh! Why didn’t I think of that items. It’s an absolutely obvious solutions to a situation that every-one that has ever been in a newsgroup or forum has run into at one point or another. Best of all … you know you’re ...
November 2008
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Busy, Busy, Busy … But I’m Back
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– Wow! I can’t believe that I haven’t posted anything in more than two months – where did the time go? It’s not like I don’t have fodder for new posts, the news items are many and varied over the last couple of months and that’s the stuff happening outside my world. I won’t bother even touching any ...
August 2008
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SmartInspect 3 ... Test Drive
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– The other day I listened to Episode 2 - Nick Hodges, a "podcast" from Delphi.org by Jim McKeeth. One of the event sponsors was Gurock Software who donated a copy of their product Smart Inspect 3, a tracing and debugging application, "... going to one lucky listener". Well, sort of, bit of a trick to ...
