http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer Various items, tidbits, and ramblings related to Delphi. Hosted by Allen Bauer, CodeGear Chief Scientist. Thu, 08 May 2008 19:02:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Sure, the latest news of Embarcadero Technologies signing an definitive agreement to acquire the CodeGear portion of Borland's business is a recent development. However, looking back on my years here at Borland, I have to chuckle a little bit. I remember sitting with other Delphi team members many years ago ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/05/08/38861 Needless to say, it's been a crazy day here at CodeGear. I'm sure the same can be said of the fine folks at Embarcadero. Rather than saying the same things you can read about in all the various outlets and blogs, I figured I'd give folks my impression of how ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/05/07/38860 Just in case you've not heard the "Good News", you should read it here... go ahead, I'll wait.   Well? Is that not some interesting news? If you've been wondering why this blog has been somewhat quiet lately, it's been due not only to being "heads-down" on Tiburón, but also ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/05/07/38859 I did the most unconscionable thing a few weeks ago. Something I've resisted for a very long time. I bought a Mac. For the first time. Ever. I'm not against Macs or Apple in general (I own an iPod and a Zune), in fact I find them very quaint and ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/03/18/38858 The Delphi Parallel Library (DPL) tends to occupy a lot of my otherwise idle "thought" time. DPL has been redesigned in my head more times than I can count.  The good news is that it is conceptually beginning to actually take some shape and is finding a direction.  As I've ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/02/22/38857 Here's a quick recap of all the DPL (Delphi Parallel Library) related posts over the last few months: A Critical[Section] Difference: Windows XP vs. Windows VistaBreaking the rulesSimmering Unicode, bring DPL to a boil (Part 2)Simmering Unicode, bring DPL to a boilPlacing your code in the forge - Refining a ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/02/19/38856 No, this isn't one of those comparisons!  This is just something somewhat interesting about the difference in the implementation of a critical section in Windows XP vs. Windows Vista.  It seems that Windows Vista is much more resilient in how it handle's the misuse of a critical section.  One such ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/02/06/38855 Ok, I just made that up.  But that is the crux of the 1 million seat licensing deal just closed with the Russian Federal Agency of Education.  Infoworld also has an article about the deal right here.  A whole new generation of Delphi developers are now in the making!Share This ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/02/01/38854   I use the TStrings.ReadFromFile/WriteToFile methods all the time to read/write text files and manipulate them.  Does this mean all these files are now Unicode and I can't read/write the files in the old format? I've gotten this specific question a few times recently, so I figured I'd address it ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/01/28/38853 Many of you have done it.  We here have done it.  It is just so danged convenient and satisfying.  Sure, it is not regarded as a "safe" thing to do.  Without the proper precautions, you can easily get into some serious trouble.  But, hey, the C/C++ programmers do it all ... http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/01/24/38852