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From the wishful thinking department, I would love to be able tovar Src: TSomeClass; MyObject : TBoundObject<Boolean>;begin MyObject.Bind(Src, CompilerMagic(TSomeClass.SomeBooleanProperty));end;instead ofvar Src: TSomeClass; MyObject : T… … Read more
13 years ago in bind, Delphi, generics, Wishlist0
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Does anybody still remember WinForms? If you think WinForms is old outdated technology, and WPF is the new and cozy, you might want to go on Youtube and look at the Windows 8 previews. Microsoft… … Read more
13 years ago 0
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I wish this was a solution post, but it is a frustration post. I trying to figure out how I can use Ord() to convert an enumerated type to integer or cast an integer to… … Read more
13 years ago in Delphi, Enumerated types, generics0
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The term “spaghetti code” is usually attributed to pre-OOP code, but there is a lot of OOP code out there that is definitely entangled and a mess. I have seen quite some of it in… … Read more
13 years ago 0
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There have been several articles over the last couple of weeks about the usefulness of .net for startups. I will mention three: * Did the Microsoft stack kill MySpace? * Why we don’t hire .net… … Read more
13 years ago in dotnet, innovation0
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In the recent iPad 2 announcement by Apple, Steve Jobs revealed, that Apple now earns most money on post-PC products like iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV etc. This tendency does not need to continue for… … Read more
13 years ago in apple0
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Many iPhone and Android fans don’t believe that Nokia and Microsoft have much chance to succeed. While everybody agrees that they wouldn’t have a chance without good partners, few seem to agree that they can… … Read more
13 years ago in google, microsoft, nokia0
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Yet Another Language Popularity Contest – Web site dataists had an article in december about the popularity of programming languages, using data from StackOverflow and GitHub to measure popularity. Delphi scored high on StackOverflow, but… … Read more
13 years ago in Delphi, popularity0
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Looking back on this video with Anders Hejlsberg, about the future of C#, from march 2009, or this blog post about the upcoming bloat explosion, seems quite awkward with the current explosion of iOS and… … Read more
13 years ago in android, dotnet, google, microsoft0
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If you combine a few news articles, things get interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/29/apple-ipad-cannibalising-pc-sales “Gartner forecasts that worldwide PC shipments for 2011 will reach 409m units” = 1.1 million per day. It is… … Read more
13 years ago in android, google, windows0
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This impressive demo of a web application deserves more publicity. I am quite sure that this is not the last GUI toolkit that interfaces with generic web browsers. … Read more
13 years ago in gtk, html0
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Microsoft is usually very good at presenting new products years ahead of the actual launch – but there continues to be a very remarkable absence of a single strategy for support of Windows applications or… … Read more
13 years ago in apple, google, microsoft0
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This post presents a different way to look at the TIOBE index. Of the top 20 languages, I exclude non-generic languages, like SQL or MATLAB. The next is to group the languages by performance characteristics:… … Read more
14 years ago in apple, dotnet, java, languages, microsoft, tiobe0
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Nokia is losing market share fast, which is being discussed in many places. Nokia’s CEO Anssi Vanjoki also expressed his view on this topic. The number of mistakes, that Nokia currently does, is huge, let’s… … Read more
14 years ago in nokia0
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It is old knowledge that if progress bars go faster at the end, the user is happy. In other words, if the progress bar is modified so that it doesn’t show the perfect progress percentage,… … Read more
14 years ago in apple0