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{ Monthly Archives } November 2006

Integrating DUnit and FinalBuilder

I’ve just added unit test execution to our automated builds. Nothing too hard, there, but there are a couple of things I had to look up [...]

2006 11 30 Delphi
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Bulk Checkout

StarTeam 2005 introduced a bco (Bulk CheckOut) utility which is useful when you need to check out a large number of files at once; it’s 2-3 times faster than the non-"bulk" version. I’m not sure why they made it a separate utility, but the command-line syntax is very similar. I was able to shave a full minute off of our automated build process by substituting a call to this tool in lieu of the regular FinalBuilder StarTeam checkout action.

2006 11 17 General Software Development Comments (0)

CodeGear Spins Off

A lot of people have offered their uninformed opinions about this. Since I am also uninformed, I’ll spare you mine. Mostly I want to say "good luck" to all my friends who are working incredibly hard to make CodeGear a developer-centered company.

2006 11 15 Delphi
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The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy

Here’s an interesting post from Mark C. Chu-Carroll on one area where C and C++ compilers don’t do so well….

2006 11 03 General Software Development Comments (0)

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005

If you use Visual Studio 2005 you might want to read this article about a serious security problem in the WMI Object Broker ActiveX control installed by VS.NET 2005

2006 11 02 General Software Development Comments (0)

C++/CLI and Compact Framework (or the lack thereof)

Here’s something I didn’t know: C++/CLI provides no support for Compact Framework.

2006 11 02 General Software Development Comments (0)

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