I have found a plug-in for WP which provides a special internal theme for iPod/iPhone – WPTouch. If you have one of those devices, could you perform a quick test to see if my blog is displayed properly. Please let me know if you see any issues with it.
Visual Studio 2008 just making its way into development environment, but Microsoft is already talking about Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0. Read here Update: More information is now available at Channel 9
One of my projects is to maintain application which creates export files off the Crystal Reports reports. There is a little post about my experience migrating to CR 2008. Just a little background I am using Crystal Reports since 1997. As you can see it has been a long time. It was and is the primary platform for me to create and maintain reports. Just to be fair, it is not the only platform I am using. Over the years as a developer (Delphi/C#/ASP) I have tried many different reporting solutions: PRT, text, Crystal Reports 6 through 2008, ReportBuilder, RAVE, MS Reporting Services, ad-hoc reports using Windows canvas, HTML, etc. It is always fun. But for some time I am advocating use Read more
As a programmer you often want to share some piece of nice code by placing it in your post on the blog. You can just wrap it in <code> or <pre> tags and play with CSS to make it more readable. But it is not enough usually. Many of us are accustomed to have code highlighting for better readability. I have seen and tried a dosen of solutions myself: simple “code-to-html” like CHIP, some simple JavaScript solutions like Code Prettifier or mature like GeSHi. There are server and client side solutions, ASP, PHP or JS based. You can choose one best for you. As a WordPress user, you may also be interested in easy integration via WP plug-in (GoSHi wrapper). I have used the following Read more
I was going through my night reading and have noticed a small sparkle in RedmondDeveloper from Sept, 15.Well, not just a sparkle but more – 2 half-page article (page 12, 13 and comments at page 18) talking about a release of Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 – “Embarcadero Unveils First update of CodeGear Tools” by Michael Desmond. A small buzz is always a good thing.
DS Plug-in System with support for Delphi 2009 has been released. To read more about the package please visit following link. IMPORTANT! This version is not backward compatible and has been modified to support Unicode. If you are not interested in support for Delphi 2009. You could continue using prior version. If you have existing plug-in, it has to be modified before it can be used with the new version. Follow next steps to perform unit conversion: Open unit with the Plug-in. Ignore error, if change in event signature is detected. Look for “procedure ds_GetPluginInfo” and replace procedure declaration as procedure ds_GetPluginInfo(var aPluginID, aSubSystemID, aDescription, aClassName: string); stdcall; and implementation as procedure ds_GetPluginInfo(var aPluginID, aSubSystemID, aDescription, aClassName: string); If you have Read more
If you are using CodeGear products (not necessarily just Delphi), and are not afraid to advertise it 😉 , show your affiliation by using official or 3rd party CodeGear product “built with, built for” icons/logos. Official versions – I do not think you can use those directly at the moment since a name of Borland is still present, but it can be easily edited out. “no-Borland” editions From my collection. Per confirmation from CG team, Icons/Logos officially allowed to be used while following general guidelines.