GUIDs are like profanity: A useful item to have in your grammar when you need it, but not what you want for your public discourse.
Places where GUIDs are useful include:
Surrogate key values
Win32 Delphi interfaces
COM registration
Some places where GUIDs are completely, utterly unfit include:
Directory names
URLs
Product registration codes
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Today I see that QuickTime had nearly twice as many security vulnerabilities this year as every other media player in the 2007 SANS top 20, combined!
The version of dUnit which ships with Delphi 2007 is somewhat old. DUnit 9.3.0 contains many new features and fixes:
Code like this:
TForm1 = class(TForm)
Button1: TButton;
procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
private
FFoo: integer;
FBar: procedure of object;
procedure Proc1;
procedure Proc2;
end;
…is perfectly legal (compiles and runs just fine), but seems (only sometimes) to badly confuse the D2007 editor’s parser. The workaround is to declare a type separately and use that:
TMyProc [...]
My company is in the Microsoft Partner Program. Overall, it’s a good deal. It gets us cheap software, co-marketing help, etc. But since the e-mails from the program have approximately 0.00% developer content, I’ve elected not to receive any of them. But today I got one anyway:
Our records show that your current MSPP communications preferences [...]
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