Talk about Technologies, Software Architecture and Management

Web-design: Through the thorns to the stars – II

Are you a web-site developer with some knowledge of NOTEPAD and FTP client and you just put something nice together and ready to place it on the web? Not too fast!!! Read this first.  Today I want to mention a few resources which might be useful to know when you are making your web-site public. Protect and Manage – this is a biggest idea behind .HTACCESS file. If you do not have someone doing this for you, then you need to make sure that all access points to your web-site, errors pages and folder protection from robots and crawlers are in place and this is when HTACCESS became handy. Visit JavaScriptKit for most complete and descriptive guide on how to write and manage it. Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Diving at Maui – Photos

Diving and taking pictures… by amateur… it did not go as planned… Please learn from someone else mistakes: Try using something more than “for tourists” camera sold in nearby store – 100 dim generic camera is not sensitive enough for 50ft+ dive. There is just not enough light. Hey, we want some memory about the process… not ready to spent 2000+ on equipment? Then it would work. When using film based camera – process it right away at the location of the visit. Do not try to do that at home! California, Florida and some other coastal areas might be fine – there is higher chance that local photo shop will process it correctly, otherwise… you get what you get… Happens to me… now I need Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

CodeRage is up and kicking and it is free

Did you know that CodeGear CodeRage is going right now? Did you know it is free to listen and free to communicate with others? Details: http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage07/sessions Schedule : http://video.codegear.com/coderage/ragewithus.exe/schedule Registration : http://video.codegear.com/coderage/ragewithus.exe/register Chat room: http://chat.codegear.com/ Go, register and listen to sessions for next 5 days

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Questions from the past – Invisible Modal Window

Delphi 2005 and older does suffer from one annoying problem – once in the while your modal dialog will be stuck behind of window it suppose to be modal to. It is very “funny” when someone trying to click on main application window and it does not get focus (most likely you are using Windows XP). Magic wand? yes! Alt+TAB to switch off the application and then Alt+TAB to come back and reactivate it. Ah! you have modal dialog sitting behind, which off cause require you to click a button and keeping everything else waiting. Try to explain this to some of your customers… sometimes you might see very funny faces. Inconvenience? yes. Is there a way around it? yes. Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Questions from the past : Introduction

Delphi 7 will live forever… yes, even today many companies are using Delphi 7. If you are lucky you might have Delphi 2005. Rarely you would see later versions. Why? Borland did some things in the past which CodeGear is trying to undo today and hopefully will succeed in that. In the mean time, over and over I receive a questions about “old” things. And QualityCentral might do just a trick for you. Yes, it has been fixed in latest versions, but not in the version you most likely are using in your everyday work. This posts are about such inconveniences and solutions for them.

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Windows Mobile 6 on Dell Axim 51v

I am a proud owner of Dell Axim 51v. I think it is a great device still. As I mentioned in one of the earliest post, Dell Axim line was abandoned by Dell and therefore we are on our own. And being behind the whole planet and still using WM5, I started to look how to put WM6 on my device. Long story short, I have found it… and where? Russia!!! There are dedicated people who are oppose to idea Axim being dead and not worth effort to support. It is called Football edition of Windows Mobile 6 for Axim 51v. See a discussion here and download referenced here or google for “football wm6 axim 51”. At his point there is A03 RTM Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago