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{ Monthly Archives } August 2005

Eight Hours of InterBase on BDN Radio

Was 24 hours of Delphi not enough for you? Get ready for eight hours of live, in-depth technical sessions on InterBase.

2005 08 31 InterBase Comments (1)

ibWebAdmin Turns 1.0

ibWebAdmin, a free, web-based administration tool which supports InterBase 7, reached version 1.0 a couple weeks ago. Congratuations!

2005 08 30 InterBase Comments (0)

Want to Start Your Own Software Company?

Paul Graham, who knows a thing or two about starting software companies, is holding a free, one-day startup school for hackers.

2005 08 29 General Software Development Comments (3)

One Reason to Seal a Class

Here’s one example of why it makes sense to seal a class. It seems to be a comment on performance, but in fact the issue is much larger….

2005 08 26 .NET
General Software Development Comments (2)

Thread-safe Format

The Format function isn’t thread-safe unless you use the overload which takes a FormatSettings argument (because the FormatSettings-less version uses global variables). I use it to compose error messages in a thread I’m writing, and I want to use the same FormatSettings as the user would normally see in a GUI app. So here’s what I did.

2005 08 25 Delphi Comments (5)

Delphi 2005 and 64-bit .NET

Turns out Delphi 2005 already supports 64-bit .NET. Danny Thorpe posted this to the Borland newsgroups:

2005 08 22 .NET
Delphi Comments (4)

Creating an IB 7.5.1 Install Image

Here’s a tip from Quinn Wildman:

2005 08 11 InterBase Comments (0)

Hollywood Vista Veto

Are there any developers who have veto power over features in Windows Vista? I’m not sure, but that power is available to movie studios. Maybe that’s why it’s taking so long.

2005 08 09 General Software Development Comments (0)

Google "Excerpts" Not In Result Page

Did you know that the "excerpts" in Google’s search results might not have ever appeared on the web site linked in the search results?

2005 08 08 General Software Development Comments (0)

Delphi Basics

This site has been around for some time and others have linked to it, but I haven’t, yet, and it’s too jaw-droppingly good to ignore.

2005 08 02 .NET
Delphi Comments (1)

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