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{ Monthly Archives } March 2008

Macro Tip: Don’t Be Afraid to Make Mistakes

Joe White is blogging about Delphi IDE macros, so I’ll throw in a useful tip: When recording a macro, it’s OK to make a mistake. Just type Ctrl+Z (Undo) or hit Backspace and retype what you were doing; the correction becomes part of the macro, and it’s a lot easier than re-recording the macro from [...]

Buy Delphi, Get Marco Cantù’s Handbook Free

You asked for it; you got it. Buy D2007 and get the PDF version of Cantù’s Handbook free.
Update: "This offer expires March 31, 2008."
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Grammar Mistake of the Year (So Far)

From the index of the user manual to Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9:
possessives.  See apostrophe’s
(Why is this funny?)
I know. I’m amused easily.
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Solution to Crossword No. 1

The solution to Crossword No. 1 is below the break.
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Crossword No. 1

Remember, Googling the clues is cheating.
Unfortunately, I have to post this as an image since WordPress’s editor screws with my CSS.
I’ll post the solution on Monday.

Across
1. Article
4. Someone who works with you, but not for you
8. Memory
9. Camera part
10. AOL service
11. Fishy comment?
12. Division
14. Character encoding
18. Java [...]

Columbus Snow

I promised someone on the newsgroups that I’d post some photos of the snow in Columbus from the week before last. We got 20 inches in 24 hours.

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InterBase for Mac Now Supports Tiger, Leopard

The developer edition of InterBase for Mac have been updated to support Tiger and Leopard.
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Updating an ASP.NET MVC App to Preview 2

There’s a whole lot of ground not covered in the official update instructions.
The MVC Web UI helpers are now in the framework. But they’ve changed quite a bit. So you must:

Remove the assembly from your project.
UpdateFrom is no longer an extension method. It’s now a static method in System.Web.Mvc.BindingHelperExtensions. So you have to change anywhere [...]

Dynamic Creation of IntraWeb Components, Part 2

I recently wrote about limitations in creating IntraWeb components dynamically when using the template processor component. It looks like the Arcana template processor, recently released as open source, may allow this. Worth investigating, anyway.
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The Bleeding Edge Gets Painful

The March 2008 ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 is incompatible with AJAX and Dynamic Data. Ouch!
AJAX and dynamic data features cannot be mixed in the same Web site or application as the new ASP.NET MVC. You should use separate Web sites or applications.
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