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From being a junior developer all the way to Development Manager position, I was always interested in new technologies. Passionate speaker, IT junky, developer, architect, team lead, and development manager - many hats, one goal - making software better and closer to people’s needs. For the most part I am using my blog as a scratch pad, writing small articles on things which I came across, was asked about more then once, and which would otherwise require additional research again and again.
Tag Archives: delphi
Assert is your friend… not an end-user’s
As a long time Delphi and C# programmer one become used to some features of the language and may not go deep into “philosophical” thinking about such features. This often happen with Asserts… What is Assert or Assertion? By its … Continue reading
Posted in Delphi, Fun stuff with C#
Tagged .net 3.5, assert, c#, debug.assert, delphi, trace.assert
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Delphi, methods and default values. Convenience or contract enforcement?
Delphi, methods and default values. Being somewhat unique in methods declaration for the classes, Delphi requires you to have proper method parameters declaration, but: You do not have to have any default values for the parameters being propagated into implementation section for the … Continue reading
Posted in Delphi, Technology
Tagged c#, default parameter, default value, delphi, dry principle
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Was: Delphi in the workgroup
In his post today, Marshall Fryman discsusses problems with shared development environment or workgroup development. Yes, it could be a complex problem which is rarelly addressed. Note. Even though we are talking about Delphi here, it is really could be applied to any … Continue reading
Posted in Delphi
Tagged delphi, development infrastructure, Product Management, virtualization, workgroup environment
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Delphi 2009 beta: Installation improvements
Over the span of few weeks I have had “hot” conversation in public NG about speed of installation and that R&D team should do something about it. Good news For people who worried about future experience with installation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Delphi
Tagged delphi, delphi 2009, installation, installaware, installer, tiburón
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From Inprise to Tiburón. Fall and rise of development tools.
First, if you were looking for information about Hyndai’s sporty compact, it is not about it. CodeGear joined Embarcadero and finally is free to do what they suppose to do for many years now – develop the software for developers and … Continue reading
Tiburón: Why Unicode IS important
There is a hot discussion brewing in public about importance of the Unicode support in upcoming version of Delphi (Tiburón). There are people who do not see it as something to spend time on in current Delphi situation and some … Continue reading
So it began: Tiburón in the news – July 25, 2008
Now we finally can talk about a new version of RAD Studio – Tiburón. Did you miss some of the posts? Check the list below for most comprehensive list of posts about upcomming Tiburon release. by David I Tiburon’s LoadFromFile and SaveToFile … Continue reading
