http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz Blog O Sparky archive Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:59:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US I've decided to embark on my first international travel adventure.  I am currently sitting in a nice little office in my girlfriends apartment in Lanxi, Zhejiang province, China.  She has been here since April of 2006 teaching English at the Number 1 Middle School in Lanxi and I've decided to visit ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2006/09/04/27308 So, after 5 years of mostly full time school and work, I've finally graduated with my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC).  There were good classes, bad classes, and classes that inspired.  Interestingly enough, the key factor of a great class wasn't necessarily ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2006/06/27/25638 Applications can be deployed on a multitude of systems, some of which may have functionality installed that does not exist on others.  In the case of the Windows operating system, new API functions generally appear for each new version and it can be quite nice to take advantage of the ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2006/02/17/23407 I've been here a while (going on 10 years now) and can remember a number of times when romanticism about such events occurring could be heard in the halls or seen in the twinkling of any eye.  Now that the time is nigh, I can't say I'm surprised as it seems a very reasonable thing ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2006/02/08/23060 In the shipping version of Delphi2006 you can type the word 'var' in the code editor and hit TAB.  This allows the user to fill out a template for a variable declaration.  This variable then gets declared in the containing methods var block without having to navigate all over the ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2006/01/20/22839 Not only am I having writers block for this blog, but the entry I just wrote got wiped out.  grrr.   :P  You shall now get the very short version. Summary:      Importing/using Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets in BDS 2006 Steps: Download source from code central:  http://codecentral.borland.com/item.aspx?id=23903  unzip  build ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2006/01/18/22791 If you've ever used C or C++ you know about macros and their [ab]uses. Macros can be used in a number of ways, one of which is to substitute a string of text for a single identifier as in: #define MAX_TYPEVECSIZE (sizeof(typeVec[0]) * vecLength) you may also declare them ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2005/12/19/22610 Every once in a while I'll come across a message from a developer who wasn't aware of a particular feature or keyboard shortcut that might ease some of their development pain.  Following is a short list of convenient editor keyboard shortcuts for the default keybinding that is shipped with Delphi 2006.  This ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2005/12/15/22523 Soooooooo...  Whilst I was hacking apa^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H modifying the sync edit code to get it ready for live templates I was wondering in what other ways this functionality could be used to 'make things better.'  I asked around and ended up with Steve Trefethen and Allen Bauer in my office (if ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2005/12/09/22423 In this blog we'll step through creating a simple template to make a more type safe descendant of TBucketList. This will go over the basics of code template creation which are: Naming the template and specifying the target language. Adding jump points for navigation and renaming synchronization. Adding jump ... http://blogs.codegear.com/adammarkowitz/2005/12/05/22340