July 15, 2008
I found a happy little email in my inbox this morning. It was a note from Handango informing me that my application to become a Handango Developer partner has been approved. Woohoo!
Ya, you know, that application I submitted more than THREE YEARS AGO when I was at Borland experimenting with writing .NET CF apps for my smartphone […]
Tags: .NET, Borland, Delphi, Handango, Programming, smartphone
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February 21, 2008
Charlie Calvert writes about dynamic method invocation that has been implemented in the .NET DLR and is working its way into getting proper support by the full VS.NET tool set. Dynamic method invocation is late binding to the extreme - the lookup is performed at runtime, every time the function call executes. The compiler has […]
Tags: .NET, Delphi, DLR, IDispatch, Variant, Win32
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February 14, 2008
Erwin Jurschitza dropped us a note to let us know that Zeno.org, the German-language online library, has recently implemented mediaRSS feeds for several of its photo collections, such as this van Gogh collection. It looks great in PicLens! (I had no idea van Gogh was so prolific!)
Erwin also mentioned that the entire zeno.org site is implemented in […]
Tags: browser plugin, Delphi, mediaRSS, PicLens
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January 31, 2008
Ken Henderson, SQL expert and author of numerous SQL and Delphi books, passed away this past Sunday.
From NewsOK.com online edition of The Oklahoman newspaper:
HENDERSON, Kenneth W., 41, died Sunday. Services 1 p.m. Wednesday (Walker, Shawnee).
I presume the latter refers to Walker Funeral Services in Shawnee, OK.
Thanks to Allen Bauer for sending me a link to […]
Tags: deaths, Delphi, ken henderson, SQL
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October 21, 2007
A recent post to the borland.public.delphi.non-tech newsgroup asserts that as a compiler guy, I shouldn’t be wasting my time doing anything else. This is my reply.
m. Th. wrote:
First of all, Danny, I’m very glad to see you here… …but let’s start a little ’short story’ (dunno if you remember them) ;-)…
Danny Thorpe wrote:
Yes, I’m […]
Tags: Borland, Delphi, rant
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