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{ Monthly Archives } July 2005

How to Buy Academic Versions of Borland Software in the U.S.

I had to look this up for someone.

Call 1-800-422-6507. Programmer’s Paradise handles the academic license sales.

tar "Installer" available for IB

Another way to silently install IB on Linux.

Top Secret Information! Exclusive to this Weblog!

There’s a new StarTeam release (StarTeam 2005 release 2). It includes support for DB2, plus some new administrative features. Presumably bug fixes, too. Registered users can upgrade here.

I Always Wondered What Seppy Looked Like

The 24 Hours of Delphi broadcast is available for download or streaming.

Dell Peer Support Groups Shut Down

Hats off to CNet’s copy editor for this headline: Dell Falls Off the Cluetrain. Whatever complaints you may have with Borland’s management, know this: I believe they really do value the newsgroups and the peer support community.

D2005 NUnit Integration Bug and Workaround

A bug in D2005’s unit testing support and a workaround for it.

On Unicode in the VCL for Win32

It would certainly be possible to support Unicode in the VCL for Win32. The only real question is how. Oddly, most of the frequent requests for Unicode support never attempt to answer this, and it seems….

Hear Me Roar…

…or at least talk. I’ll be on the "24 Hours of Delphi" broadcast tomorrow.

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Understanding Service Oriented Architecture

There’s a lot of confusion about Service Oriented Architecture. Some people dismiss it as meaningless jargon because it is so frequently used synonymously with multi-tier or web services. In fact, however, the term encapsulates an important set of concepts…

CD Review: "SuR" by Kells

Ever wonder how folks in the Delphi newsgroups spend their spare time? Some readers of this weblog may have noticed that I like (and play) Irish music. So does Sergio Gonz

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