http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:34:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US ECO Example: Backup Utility - by Wayne Niddery Abstract: Created as an ECO learning vehicle for myself, it acts as a practical example demonstrating various abilities of ECO and that, even for such a modest project, ECO is an advantage and should never be considered “overkill”. As part ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2006/09/10/27447 My ECO example article is now posted - click on Articles in the column at left or (better) see it on BDN here: http://bdn.borland.com/article/33669 http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2006/09/07/27408 Obviously this is big news and a big concern to customers of Delphi, JBuilder and Interbase. Many have posted their views in the newsgroups (borland.public.delphi.non-technical) and as one would be expect, there are many ranging from complete doom to high optimism. Until an actual buyer is confirmed and the details of the ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2006/02/13/23306 There's currently a discussion in the aspdotnet.general newsgroup regarding popups. Specifically some are requesting that popup message dialogs (i.e. VCL-like MessageDlg) be made easy to do in ASP.Net apps.   That got me thinking about the whole issue of using popups - even in traditional GUI applications. Below is a ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2005/05/03/4145 Someone in the newsgroups recently asked:   If ASP.NET can and does cache data, why not cache the page as  an object with all it's glory?  And when the page is refreshed,  refresh the native underlying HTTP object, blending it into the  cached instance. The answer (copied from my reply there):  Scalability. ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2005/04/01/3641 I have amended this post somewhat to reflect my changing view and due to clarifications made by Borland on their site, so it is not your imagination if you thought I said something a bit different before.... Borland has finally announced information for the 2005 conference. Call for papers is here. As ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2005/03/18/3206 There has been a discussion taking place in the Delphi non-tech newsgroup on the merits of refactoring with a few participants suggesting that refactoring is only needed if one designs or writes poor code in the first place - i.e. that refactoring is only useful for fixing bad code, not ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2005/02/14/2659 Falafel's conference in Toronto wrapped up today. It was excellent - of course it couldn't be anything but, with Lino, Danny, and Allen presenting (Steve had to bow out this time). They of course covered Delphi 2005 features in the compiler and IDE for both .Net and Win32, ASP.Net, Security, and ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2004/11/30/1993 Well, I fell down on the job a little here with regard to the Conference, I was going to post more. One of the sessions I attended was on color modeling. I first read about this only a few months ago and have gradually been warming up to it ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2004/10/06/1547 "According to a post on the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, the state of New Jersey has issued a temporary restraining order allowing a former customer of Web hosting and Internet service provider Network Access Corporation (nac.net) to take non-portable IP space with it as it leaves for ... http://blogs.teamb.com/wayneniddery/2004/06/30/698