Yesterday, I received the following call stack in my email. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but when I did I realized that I had made an important error in my code which is probably a fairly common mistake in the Delphi world. Here’s the report…
If you’re under the impression that your situation doesn’t require a full SCM solution, or you can do without a requirement managements system, consider the way you worked before you learned about version control, and compare it to what you do today.
Interesting comment from Danny Thorpe.
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Edward Felton offers a summary of events at the work in progress session at Crypto 2004, and concludes:
Where does this leave us? MD5 is fatally wounded; its use will be phased out. SHA-1 is still alive but the vultures are circling. A gradual transition away from SHA-1 will now start. The first stage will be [...]
This article contains a list of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that describe the fixes and updates that are contained in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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Last year I was unable to find decent coffee within walking distance of the San Jose Convention Center. Since BorCon is there again this year, I thought I’d do some advance research into the matter.
This place looks decent, but at just under three miles from the convention center, it’s a bit of a hike.
Other than [...]
Someone on the borland.public.delphi.non-technical group asked if .NET generics were like C++ templates. The answer is, "No, not at all." This article does a good job of explaining the differences.
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This update, for IB 6.5 and 7.1 on Windows and Linux, corrects a potential security issue that was identified in Borland Quality Central submission 8498.
Update: I have received some more detailed information about this update which I’d like to pass along. As I suspected, QC submission 8498 was a Linux-only bug, so I wondered what [...]
According to the BorCon InterBase track information, the next InterBase release will be version 7.5. Here’s what the BorCon site says:
Learn about the upcoming InterBase 7.5 release, its feature set, and benefits to customers. Topics include new administrative techniques, security, SQL support, engine capabilities, deployment flexibiltiy, and defects repaired in this release.
Starting with InterBase [...]
We’ve been told for some time that there will be new features in the Win32 compiler in the next release of Delphi; here’s the first "official" word I’ve seen:
In the next release of Delphi, the compiler will support a new kind of for loop, dubbed the "for..in" loop. A "for..in" loop works just like a [...]
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