http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy A blog about Delphi, Dotnet and Software Development. Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:13:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Recently, I was exploring writing an ADO SQL logging tool (sorta like BDE monitor) - more details on that later - which would show SQL statements on the screen as they ran. All was well until I figured I needed to be able to see my SQL logging form even ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2006/08/21/26864 Borland is selling off its IDEs. That means Delphi, C++ Builder, JBuilder and other IDE tools are being sold to another company or investor. (who hasn't yet been identified, so will the real buyer-of-IDE please stand up.) There's tons of messages everywhere in the Borland Blogosphere. Marco Cantu has ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2006/02/10/23202 I had written an article about how to provide feedback during a SOAP call using a progress bar in Delphi. That article seems to be offline, temporarily. You can now also access this article at: http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/articles/SoapDownloadProgress.aspx http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2006/02/05/22984 Download the code for this white paper (dlprogress.zip, 12 KB) AbstractThis paper talks about how you can show a download "progress" bar (like many download utilities do) when using SOAP to transfer data. I've used Delphi 7 in this article, and made some code changes to the source code, so ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2006/02/04/22983 If you need to test your Web Service for performance, you can use the Web Application Stress Test (WAST) tool. It's a Microsoft tool, free of cost. You can learn more about how to use it in my paper on optimizing web applications. But that paper only talks about ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2005/11/18/22147 It's here, finally. From Danny's post on Borland's Delphi Roadmap, the whole "strategy" thing is a lot clearer. So we have a future, for both the Win32 and .NET side of things. What we have is: Dexter in 2005 Language improvents: (e.g. operator overloading) Speed: IDE ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2005/09/28/21369 Why do people write like this? Choice phrases: "clichés, outlook and a realistic suggestions" But, flourishing outsourced development engages more than defining a product spec. "remember: the more an outsourcer comprehends the milieu, the better prepared it will be..." Overall the entire article is as clear as ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2005/09/15/21166 I just visited Dan Miser's Blog and found a link to Microsoft Research Downloads. I knew they did some research out there, but this stuff is just awesome! They have Allegiance- a multiplayer space-combat game, source code to attach to WiFi Networks using a single WiFi card, and even a ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2005/09/01/20978 It's time for a new job! I'm now at Flovate Technologies, as Chief Executive Officer, India. That's a fancy title all right. But wait till you hear about my computer! (This is geeky) I get a Dual Xeon 3 Ghz monster, with a 22" main and a 15" secondary monitor. ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2005/07/07/20178 In my Advanced Web Services article, I had demonstrated how you could do Datapacket compression by compressing the ENTIRE packet before it was sent from the server, and decompressing it at the client end. (Applies to encryption also) Now I'd said you could do this the other way around too ... http://blogs.teamb.com/deepakshenoy/2005/07/01/20070