Why setlength is evil™ There has been a lot of discussion on our private Chrome beta newsgroups lately about the pros and cons of providing a Run Time Library (RTL) with Chrome in addition to what’s
Subversion We just finished switching from Microsoft Visual Source Safe to Subversion and wow! what a difference! The TortoiseSVN interface for Subversion integrates right into Windows Explorer. There is also AnkhSVN for Visual Studio
Chrome has a way of getting into your head... and affecting the rest of your life. example: my cat, Krohm… now i’ll have to explain what his name means for YEARS…
More Chrome on Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=49330 Well sort of. I dropped in a bit too late to really join the discussion and actually talk about Chrome, unfortunately, but at least you
Comparing Chrome and Delphi 2005 Namespace Support A lot of people (me included) complained about the support (or lack of support) for namespaces in Delphi for .NET when Delphi 8 was initially released. Namespaces essentially boiled down to a fancy
The Whole Enchilada Dear Consant Readers, In the spirit of keeping you up to date on what’s brewing in the RemObjects Labs, a new article is now available on CodeFez that will introduce you to
Another Shade of Yellow, Sunset Yellow Looks like the planets are aligning for a proper Summer again, this year: tickets for the first Sisters gig in Tilburg, netherlands are up for sale now, and more gigs are on the
Class Contracts - Why When and Where? I was involved in some discussion about Assertions in general (and Class Contracts in particular) on the borland.public.delphi.non-tech newsgroup today, kindled by introduction of Class Contracts into the Pascal language
Multipass Chrome A problem I met before I started working on Chrome was circular references. A circular reference in Pascal happens when both units use the other one in its interface section. **unit **File1; **Inteface
Chrome command line compiler beta for .Net and Mono We just released the free command line compiler beta of RemObjects Chrome. Take a look at the announcement.
the web, unfurled Blogging is pretty cool, but recently Richard from Developer Express introduced to another interesting (and very similar) concept: Furling. It’s a pretty neat idea. I encourage anyone out there reading this to
Automated Testing My company is about to dive into the world of automated testing. The first guinea-pig for automation is a project I happen to be managing. Unfortunately, the team and I have very little
Got Customers? I just got yet another “last issue” of the JDJ, which is touted as “The World’s #1 Java Resource”. This is my third “last issue” since I started mysteriously receiving the magazine
Determining Parameters on a Stored Procedure at Runtime with ADO.NET I thought I’d blog this just in case anyone else was in the same situation. I tried Googling for it, but didn’t know what to search for in order to return
Finally excited about Pascal again! http://www.chromesville.com/zoomimage.asp?id=581F23BC-71B8-4605-996B-CCDAEF35E329 http://www.chromesville.com/page.asp?id=67367BE6-F1DB-4F6F-81C8-66E4DCC213F9 http://www.chromesville.com/zoomimage.asp?id=6DDB70C6-A01B-469A-93C5-BAA78C1CBA88 http://articles.nexusdb.com/articles/?id={02672E81-4D62-42E2-95F3-1DE892D4862B} Wow!
Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector After reading an MSDN article titled Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now, I decided to check out Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector. I must say, this is an excellent tool. At
Hero This weekend I went to see Hero. From the website: “Hero is the story of the soon-to-be First Emperor of China who is on the brink of conquering a war-torn land during the
Welcome to Chromesville If you haven’t already done so, be sure to head over to the freshly launched chromesville.com for an abundance of new and exciting infos on Chrome, our upcoming Pascal language compiler
A Space Full of Names As you can imagine, these past few weeks we have been very busy here, readying Chrome for public announcement (and possibly beta release) next month. Apart from the code side of things, a
Look! All Shiney! Ok, so now that the information is out there (if you know where to look), i figured it might be a nice service to the Constant Readers here to to repost the screenshot
Going Meta, Going Modular I’m reviewing the design of a small project which I have recently inherited. Despite the project’s size, the problems are large numerous: The clients are fat, the middle-tier is thin, there
Some Suppliers are not Worth Having It seems that recently, discussion keeps coming up about the phrase "The customer is always right", and it has been brought up that "some customers aren’t worth having"
Speed I am not a very patient person. It’s something I work on — trying to be more patient with others. Having such young siblings helps. Still; when driving, I like to go fast
The Pragmatic Programmer I just finished reading The Pragmatic Programmer (links on my Furl) and have nothing but good things to say about it. This is more than just a programming book: The Pragmatic Philosophy described
XML Class Tuesday of next week I will be giving a two hour introductory class on XML. I’ve used XML a lot over the years, but have never actually bothered to “learn” XML because