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Something I think would worth to mention somewhere on the CG web-site. Did you know that aside from Zarco’s awesome Delphi place hosted on about.com there is actually “Delphi in pictures” recorded by 3DBuzz – great way introduce someone to Delphi. Do not miss it. Even though it is recorded back in 2006, it is Read more
In the light of yesterday’s chat with CG/Embarcadero team (replay), another reference caught my attention. Brad White posted in CG’s public newsgroup a link to Dr. Dobb’s interview with Michael Swindell and Nick Hodges talking about Delphi for PHP, Delphi and Embarcadero Technology’s recent acquisition of CodeGear. In reality this Read more
If you are wondering about the original article discussed earlier disappeared from Microsoft web-site, there was some info here. In addition to Marco’s comments earlier, there is some more here. Update (May 30, 2008): Marco posted today that article is back online. It is now available as PDF and XPS here.
Marco has commented on the article by one of the Microsoft folks about the failure of the Vista launch. After few minutes looking for the guy, I think I found the author for the article – Mark Russinovich, “Technical Fellow” and his Springboard series. There is my take on it. Read more
When you dealing with dynamic SQL or unknown table structure, SQL meta data could help recover the missing information. There are two main system tables which give you such information: dbo.sysobjects dbo.syscolumns Example below shows how to gather column list for specified table. DECLARE @TABLENAME varchar(256), @COLUMNS varchar(4000) SET @TABLENAME Read more
I am continuing putting some common examples of operations for Microsoft SQL Server. In addition to some of the Date related code snippets published before, there are few more today: — Last 90 days: select DATEADD(day, -90, GETDATE()) — Get Date portion of DateTime value select DATEADD(d, 0, DATEDIFF(d, 0, Read more
Borland has published revenues for CodeGear in Q1. As a matter of fact we could compare ALM and CG part. Three Months Ended Three Months Ended March 31, 2008 March 31, 2007 Enterprise CodeGear || Enterprise CodeGear ALM DPG IDE || ALM DPG IDE || Licenses Read more