Avoiding Feature Creep: or On the Up-Sides and Down-Sides of Having an Evolving Language I feel the need to say something here, inspired by recent language feature discussions and suggestions, both on our public Chrome newsgroups but also in the betas. I know that many of you,
Using Ubuntu like host OS Hi finally take the trip and after a lot of troubles with D2007 Updates and XP i prefer to use a Virtual machine running XP on a Ubuntu Box. That way will guarantee
Something is Happening It’s been a while since i talked about it, but having recently received the DVD and had the chance for a re-watch, i need to recommend David Lynch’s latest masterpiece INLAND
Photo of the Week #3 [](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594140086558&image=538605070)“Shake” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=72057594140086558&image=538605070)
The Fine Art of Software Delivery I’ve just wasted four hours of my life i will not get back. What did i do you, you ask? Easy: i tried to upgrade my Delphi 2007 test VM to the
Cool Mac Tools, Part Deux Many years ago, when i seriously started collecting DVDs, i wrote an application where, being the anal-retentive guy i am, i could maintain all my DVDs and, eventually, CDs and books. I don’
Photo of the Week #2 [](http://www.dwarfland.com/?set=paris&image=A5A65366-877E-4066-945D-F98640C892DC)“Dudes on a Bridge” – see it on [dwarfland.com](http:
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Adventures in Mac World - Part 2 In my previous blog post, we took a quick first look at developing Mac a application using Chrome and Mono. Since that post was written, a lot of things have happened. We’ve
Photo of the Week #1 Figuring a bit of non-tech content would do this blog some good, i’ve decided to start a weekly post series, titled “Photo of the Week” (how original, indeed ;). Once a week, i’
Cool Writing Tool I came across a cool writing tool today that i fell instantly in love with – WriteRoom by Jesse Grosjean. At heart, WriteRoom is a very simplistic text editor for plain and rich text
Partial Methods Next to the big two new features shipping in Version 2.0.3 of Chrome ‘Joyride’ that we’ve already talked about in previous posts, there’s also one small but powerful new
Shine that Silver Light On Me Getting back to some more Windows/Microsoft features after our brief excursion into Mac territory (no worries, we will get back there too, and soon), we’re shipping full Silverlight support in Chrome
Adventures in Mac World - Part 1 I needed to get myself a new laptop, and after much deliberation decided to treat myself to a Mac, for a variety of reasons, not the least of it being that i was
Creating a DataSnap Server Using RemObjects SDK I have just published a step by step tutorial that covers the creation of a DataSnap server using RemObjects SDK Vinci and Delphi 2006. It’s in my personal blog, so it’s
<a href="http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Chrome">Mixing Ruby and Chrome</a> Huw Collingbourne, author of bitwise magazine but also Co-Founder of SapphireSteel Software just published an article showing how he integrated a Ruby back-end written in their excellent Ruby In Steel product with a
New ROadmap online now ‘Tis the time of the year, and just to match up with our .21 release of’ Vinci’ coming up this Saturday, we’ve published an updated version of our ROadmap. Those of you
36 Ways to get your Message Bounced when ..... … you send an email to registered customers. Last week, we sent emails to everybody on our mailing list announcing the availability of our latest and greatest and we were very unhappy to see
Does a .NET Development Tool Need a WinForms Designer? The answer might seem obvious, but apparently CodeGear has a different view, as Delphi product Manager Nick Hodges just announced that the upcoming and long awaited Delphi ‘Highlander’ for .NET 2.0 will
Sneak Peek: Chrome Language Guide: Sequences and Queries We’ve just published a first preview chapter of what will eventually become the Chrome Language Guide, a comprehensive text covering the Chrome language in all its aspects, from basic language structure to
And They're Off... I know, i know. We weren’t supposed to ship until the 30th, but it turned out we made such good progress and were so happy with the last rounds of testing results
New "Chrome Cookbook" Blog Series by Barry Carr Barry Carr has started a nice blog series based on the Cookbooks paradigm, providing how-to code snippets for commonly needed tasks in three languages, including D, OCaml, F# and Chrome. You can follow
Chrome Game Development Dominique Louis of pascalgamedevelopment.com has been posting a series of interesting tutorials showing how to use Chrome to develop DirectX based games using Microsoft’s XNA technology. In his latest installment, he
Going from Windows only to anywhere with RemObjects. My current challenge is to migrate a RemObjects SDK server working in Win32 Delphi/VCL to Linux. I am analyzing the technology to use. A few months ago I had only one option:
Nice to meet you Hi! My name is Donald and I am the CTO of a company that produces software for the retail sector. From 1983, the year when I first touched a computer, I have never