[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes] 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.
[Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes] I’ve been staggered at the response to my recent post calling for a “Community Edition” (and a “Standard Edition”) of Delphi. Even more staggering though was that some people still don’t “get it”, thinking that a free or cut-price version of Delphi will somehow be the financial ruin of Embarcadero.
