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VOTEKinda wishing I could keep using Delphi
Joe
I’ve been reading the recent debate about a “Delphi Community Edition”. Most of it seems pretty abstract: “I think it would help the Delphi community if…” That’s all well and good, but I thought I’d… – Details…
13 years ago in Delphi, programming
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Upcoming Omaha developer-ish conferences: BarCamp and HDC
Joe
BarCamp Omaha is October 2-3 (Friday evening to Saturday). I’ve never been to a BarCamp, but it promises to be intriguing — the session schedule is planned on a whiteboard Saturday morning, and anyone who… – Details…
13 years ago in .NET, barcamp, Delphi, hdc, programming
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Geek quote of the day: Git and Home Depot
Joe
Git is intimidating. It’s a distributed revision-control system, so it’d work online or off, and it’s got tons of cool toys (like git-bisect to automatically figure out which commit introduced a bug). But good luck… – Details…
13 years ago in .NET, Delphi, funny, git, mercurial, programming
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Fixing MenuStrip, part 2: Visible vs. Available, and a repro case
Joe
Not all MenuStrips will exhibit the scrolling bug. In a nutshell: if you ever hide any menu items, you’re living dangerously. Visible and Available First, an aside on how you go about hiding menu items…. – Details…
13 years ago in .NET, Delphi, fixing-menustrip, menustrip, programming
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Fixing MenuStrip, part 1: Introduction and screenshots
Joe
In .NET 2.0, Microsoft added MenuStrip and ContextMenuStrip controls to replace the old MainMenu and ContextMenu. The new ones support images next to menu items, edit boxes inside menus, etc. Fairly cool. However, they’ve got… – Details…
14 years ago in .NET, Delphi, fixing-menustrip, menustrip, programming
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More SmartInspect license WTF
Joe
Still reading the SmartInspect license agreement. Now, it’s normal for a license agreement to, in effect, say “We don’t promise the software actually works”. It’s frightening when you think about it, but it’s become standard… – Details…
14 years ago in .NET, Delphi, eula, Life, programming, smartinspect
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SmartInspect and the End Usufructuary License Agreement
Joe
We just purchased a couple of licenses for Gurock Software’s SmartInspect. I’ve gotten as far as the license agreement. Their license agreement aspires to dizzying new heights in legalese. Take this sentence, from the third… – Details…
14 years ago in .NET, Delphi, eula, Life, programming, smartinspect
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DGrok 0.8.1: multithreading, default options, GPL
Joe
Version 0.8.1 of the DGrok Delphi parser and tools are now available for download. Download DGrok 0.8.1 here. What is DGrok? DGrok is a set of tools for parsing Delphi source code and telling you… – Details…
14 years ago in Delphi, dgrok, programming
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What does it mean when CodeGear “announces” Delphi 2009?
Joe
Just wondering. What exactly is CodeGear “announcing” today? And how is it different from what they’ve been doing for months now? They’re not announcing what the product will be; they’ve already done that. Sure, they’re… – Details…
14 years ago in Delphi, delphi 2009, programming
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Low-lock multithreading
Joe
I ran across a great article about how to do multithreading without (or with very few) locks. If you’ve done concurrency, you already know about locks. You probably also know they’re expensive, and you’ve probably… – Details…
14 years ago in .NET, Delphi, programming
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