01 Sep 2008

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This Week’s Poll, Delphi at Tech Ed and 2009 Ship Date

01 Sep 2008 in Delphi | Permalink

Since I’m preparing a series of posts about (and eventual publication of) Smoketest, my own testing framework, I thought I’d test the water with this weeks poll and see what – if anything – people are already using as far as unit testing goes.

Also I thought I’d briefly mention that I am at Microsoft Tech Ed ’08 (NZ) this week, and it was good to see that the NZ CodeGear reseller, Developer’s Inc were handling a steady stream of traffic at their stand where Delphi 2009 was on display (in the form of data sheets :) ).

I asked when Delphi 2009 was expected to ship and was told that it had been released to manufacturing and was on target to start shipping on 20th September – I forgot to ask whether that was an NZ date or worldwide.

Not quite from the horses mouth, but pretty darn close.

:)

Class Helpers – Ruling from the Appellate Court

01 Sep 2008 in Delphi | 11 comments

My previous post on class helpers provoked a passionate response from some quarters who believed that they could be used “safely”.  More worrying was an apparent belief that their use was actually endorsed by CodeGear – tacitly or otherwise.  A rather odd view given the advice from CodeGear themselves is to not use them.

No-one actually described a safe usage scenario though and those scenarios that were described all contained immediately apparent flaws of their own.  However, I have realised that there is, if not a safe way then at least a responsible one, to create class helpers.

Using them is still not entirely safe however.

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