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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 ...
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A "Random Thought" Not To Be Missed!
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– I seldom pass up a chance to read the Random Thoughts posts by Nick Hodges whenever they happen to pop up on Delphi Feeds. Random Thoughts on Passing Scene No. 77 was a beauty! In there is an innocuous looking link to an eWeek article "Nice article on Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 in eWeek" ... ...
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Add a bit of Face to XanaNews
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– C'mon take a little break from all that Tiburon chatter and [possibly] learn something totally irrelevant, unquestionably frivolous and undeniably trivial. Most people are aware of X-Face, a black-and-white 48x48 image, compressed into readable text and sent along with the headers of an e-mail ...
July 2008
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Out With The Old ...
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– Embarcadero Technologies Closes Acquisition of CodeGear Embarcadero Technologies is the new owner of CodeGear. No fireworks, no fanfare, at least nothing I've been invited to, just business as usual. There are, on the other hand, a lot of customers and employees expecting to see new and exciting ...
June 2008
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Code Template - Property with Getter & Setter
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– I was fiddling with a code template I'd written [or more likely, "borrowed" from somewhere] which I've been using for completing Read-Write and Read-Only properties. Originally it was set up with two points ... one for the property variable ["ident"] and one for it's type ["type"]. When setting ...
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Essential Reading ... Essential Pascal
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– Back from a extremely busy [which fortunately, has the advantageous effect of making it seemingly short] 28 day stint at sea, I was pleased to see that my copy of Essential Pascal by Marco Cantù had arrived. In the fog of work, which had virtually hidden the real world from memory, I had actually ...
April 2008
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Hey, Newbie ... Buy This Book!
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– Marco Cantù has announced that his online book Essential Pascal is available in its 4th edition. This time though, is the first publication on paper [here] on Lulu.com You can also buy the electronic version (a PDF) at the same place if you want to lug a laptop around to read it. Get the book. ...
March 2008
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Delphi Help-Booster
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– If you are using Delphi 2006 [Turbos excluded] or Delphi 2007 and haven't seen/used Delphi-PRAXiS Help-Booster by Daniel R. Wolf, you're missing out on the fastest access to the Delphi help files there is. From the Help-Booster page: Anyone who ever worked with the Help-System of Delphi ...
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February 2008 Help Update - CDS 2007
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– Don't miss Nick's Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #58 where he mentions that the February Help Update for CodeGear Developer Studio 2007 and Delphi 2007 for Win32 has been released. If you're looking for a bit of information on the installation process Dr. Bob has already posted Help Update 2 ...
January 2008
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Win32 Object Persistence Frameworks
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– Persistence of Win32 Objects, specifically in trivial desktop applications, has been a bit of a pet project for me. As the question does come up from time to time in the News Groups, I thought I'd put together a page where anyone interested can find links to the ones that are out there. There is ...
November 2007
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Delphi Challenges - Summary Post on 3DBuzz
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– For those of you not quite in the loop, LizRiley [aka Liz The Brit] has been running Code Challenges for Delphi enthusiasts over on Delphi General - 3D Buzz for quite some time now. Today she has summarized the challenges to-date in a single post Delphi Challenges - Summary Post on 3D Buzz . For ...
September 2007
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Delphi Contests and Code Challenges
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– I was reading How I became a Delphi developer on "Thoughts and other things..." a blog by Andreas Hausladen. In his blog post Andy explains that it was something he found interesting in a Delphi Handbook that hooked him on Delphi. It's really quite similar to the events that got me interested in ...
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Marco Cantù Releases the D2007 Handbook !!!
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– The waiting is finally over! Marco released the long awaited Delphi 2007 Handbook on Lulu today. Needless to say I ordered my copy before letting you know :) ... relax there are enough for every-one. Lulu is print on demand. This release has additional benefits for me. I've had the Delphi for ...
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An Old Friend in Shiny New Interface
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– Many years ago I was a Sokoban fanatic. For one reason or another I stopped using it and it never seemed to get installed on newer machines. Left, long forgotten in binary limbo, on some hard-drive that is long in the scrap heap, I haven't even thought of it in years. I probably still have it on ...
