Working Day Survey

January 21, 2010 in Delphi | 8 comments

Prompted by a recent question/survey thread on the NZ DUG mailing list, I’ve posted a new poll (see panel, left) seeking to gain a picture of the working day of Delphi software development professionals.  The nature of the questions mean it’s an unavoidably wordy poll, but I’ve tried to keep it as manageable as possible whilst also providing some useful insight into what we are doing and with what tools.

I’ve already completed the poll with my answers reflecting my working day here at Flow.

The results could be interesting and the more people contribute the more useful it will be, so tell all your Delphi friends. :)

Wringing Yet More Speed from MIDAS.DLL

November 12, 2009 in Delphi | 6 comments

Cameron Hart at Flow Software has just blogged about a change he identified in MIDAS.DLL to significantly improve the performance (and capacity) of client data sets when handling large volumes of records and BLOB fields.  Basically he seems to have taken the work previously done by Andreas Hausladen and applied it to BLOB’s.

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Learning Experiences – Moving The Execution Point Pre-Delphi 2010

October 18, 2009 in Delphi | 9 comments

Thanks to commenters I have already learned two useful things as a result of yesterday’s post, both things which I cannot fathom how I did not already know.  But here’s something I learned for myself as a result of a comment made by Malcolm Groves at the Auckland Delphi 2010 launch day recently.

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Great Things in Delphi 2010

October 17, 2009 in Delphi | 11 comments

Perhaps apart from attributes and the significant changes in the area of RTTI in Delphi 2010, there really isn’t much in the way of “HEADLINE NEWS” in this release. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t lots to appreciate, some of it dangerously subtle.

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Absolute (for) Beginners

October 15, 2009 in Delphi | 24 comments

I casually suggested the use of the “absolute” keyword in response to a question on the NZ DUG mailing list today.  I thought nothing of it but someone mentioned that it had been years since he’d seen anyone use it, so I thought maybe it was worth bringing to wider attention.

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On the Qt and all very Hush, Hush…

October 14, 2009 in Delphi | 21 comments

A commenter on my blog suggested that Cross Platform could be a big win for Delphi, making it “the first” to achieve this.  This I think says a lot about the awareness and expectation of (some) of the people asking for cross platform, because far from being first Delphi would be way behind the curve in this area.

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Let’s do the Time Warp again…

October 13, 2009 in Delphi | 32 comments

Approximately 2 years ago I was present at a Delphi launch event here in Auckland.  At that time the hot news was the release of Delphi 2007.  But more significant than that (great) release was the recent publication after much SOX hoo-ing and haa-ing of a Delphi RoadMap. Read the rest of this entry »

Commitment Issues

October 6, 2009 in Delphi | 3 comments

No, not a relationship blog and no, not a rant about the relationship between Embarcadero and the Delphi community.  This is a strictly and purely technical post about what “Committed” means in terms of Windows memory, and in particular a key aspect of how that applies to threaded applications.

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The Turbo’s… Success or Failure?

October 2, 2009 in Delphi | 23 comments

In recent discussions about the merits (and/or otherwise) of a free/cheap/cheaper edition of Delphi, it was suggested that the Turbo editions were either a run-away and disastrous success that stole sales from Delphi or that they were a complete flop, leading to the conclusion that there was no demand for an entry level edition of Delphi.

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Delphi Unicode = Wide-ANSI

September 26, 2009 in Delphi | 22 comments

Be careful what you wish for. A lot of people were overjoyed to hear that Unicode support was coming to Delphi. Some were skeptical of the chosen implementation approach however, it all seemed just a little bit too easy. I was one, and sadly it seems I was right.
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