[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] A quick post to let everyone know that Allen Bauer kindly answered my direct question in the Embarcadero forums asking for clarification of what “64-bit implementation” means in the XE “Pulsar” slide of the new Delphi roadmap.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] It’s tempting (not to mention completely understandable) to selectively choose the positive comments and not at all surprising that there are no negative comments to be found among the list quoted. But you should be careful to avoid potentially embarrassing credibility gaps.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] News is starting to come out about the upcoming release of Delphi, RAD Studio XE. So what can we expect?
[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] Answer: When it is merely the container for an interface. After a long series of observation and opinion pieces, I thought it about time I posted something a little more technical, so here we go.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Simon Kissel – of CrossKylix fame and Alternative Roadmap infamy – apparently recently re-appeared in the Delphi forums. I say apparently because Embarcadero or TeamB have seemingly been doing their best to maintain his status as a non-person. Can this be A Good Thing™? I don’t think so.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] I hadn’t posted on this news before as I expected there to be a veritable deluge of opinion flooding the Delphi blog-o-sphere and didn’t see any point adding to that noise, but there has been a curious silence on the matter, so here is my two-penneth after all. Nick Hodges is no longer employed by Embarcadero.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Today is a special day indeed, marking as it does my first contribution to the blog of the product I work on, announcing a technical overview of the forthcoming new version of Flow, the middleware, EDI and integration solution developed using Delphi by us at Flow Software, here in New Zealand.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] The usually exhaustively complete Raymond Chen over-looked a crucial factor in his most recent posting on his excellent Old New Thing Blog regarding SHAutoComplete. In his post he discusses a technique for disabling auto-complete in a common dialog, but along the way discusses why calling SHAutoComplete twice cannot be used to remove flags previously applied. As I say, Raymond normally is very precise and exhaustive in his coverage, often pre-empting “nit pickers” by calling out in advance anything and everything wrong with a question or with approaches that are implied in the question (or in his answer). In this case, I would have expected him to draw particular attention to the warning in the MSDN docs for SHAutoComplete: “SHAutoComplete should not be called more than once with the same HWND. Doing so results in a memory leak.” But far from it – he actually advocates calling SHAutoComplete a second time to modify flags if needed! Sadly, comments are currently disabled on The Old New Thing due to an extraordinarily lengthy upgrade process being carried out on the underlying blogging system, so I was unable to draw attention to this (and no doubt earn myself a Nit Picker “badge” in the process), but in this case I think it’s worth Read More…
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] OK, so perhaps not exactly what they said but they have said that C# (as well as C and PHP) are not to be taught as part of A-Level Computer Science any more, and they have recommended using Pascal/Delphi (from a list of other languages including Java, Python and VisualBASIC). Full details available here, courtesy of The Register.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Another commercial Delphi component vendor has apparently decided to pursue a direction that no longer involves supporting at least some of their Delphi components on a commercial basis. Fortunately in this case they have decided to open source their products. So, if you are using the Luxena DBExpress drivers for Informix, these and related supporting code can now be obtained from the Google Code links, below.
