What’s in a Word … ?

[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] In an exchange with David Heffernan both on SO and in the comments here on Te Waka, I had cause to climb in my own personal “Wayback Machine” and further investigate an apparent change in compiler behaviour between Delphi 2007 and 2009. This change was first identified as the result of some code of mine that stopped working in Delphi 2009. The instinctive reaction is “It must be some Unicode issue”, but it turned out that the “problem” was actually a fix to a compiler bug!

Lazarus 1.0 : First[-ish] Impressions

[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] It has been a looong time since I last looked at Lazarus. So long in fact that I don’t remember exactly when it was. Whenever it was I don’t think I ever actually managed to even get it up and running at that point. Certainly I don’t remember much about it if I ever did. But with the timely Lazarus 1.0 announcement last week, I have gone back to have another look. And this is what I found.

XE3 EULA: The Facts vs The Spin

[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] I wasn’t going to say anything further on this as it has been pretty much covered in the forums and on other blogs, but when a duly annointed “MVP” suggests that I should publish a post explaining that the news about the proposed changes in the EULA were FUD, then it behoves me to put some stark, plain facts on the table.

XE3 Released. Available to Download Now for SA Subscribers

[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] I just got an email from Embarcadero announcing the availability of XE3 for download from the Maintenance Portal. Both a 51 MB web installer and a 3.1 GB ISO are available. I don’t have any public links, and presumably anyone on SA will have received their notifications directly already. But for anyone not on SA, the public links will presumably be posted or announced shortly.

SA Increased Unexpectedly ? Check your T’s and C’s

[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Two days ago I received a renewal quote for my XE2 Professional SA. The quote included an increase that I wasn’t expecting, having not been made aware of the clause in the SA T’s and C’s that allows for an annual increase of up to 5%, regardless of the fact that the cost for a new SA subscriber taking out the same agreement on the same day is not charged the increase. Or at least any price rise hasn’t yet made it to the on-line store.