Archive for June, 2005

The cook, your feedback, and the food quality

Recently, someone (Brion Webster maybe? Dennis ) said in a newsgroup that software has the most relaxed relationship with respect to it’s quality, and if other products has so much defects and the manufacturer denied to fix errors without additional costs to the consumer, it’ll be returned. Imagine your mother / wife / husband / neighbour  [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 30th, 2005 under General | 7 Comments »

Retroweaver

In my quest to look for an answer to the blog entry I posted recently, I found Retroweaver. I’m very surprised that no one in Borland has mentioned Retroweaver, either in the JBuilder blogs or in the newsgroups. Retroweaver is a tool that converts Java 1.5 class files into Java 1.4 class files. Enough said. [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 28th, 2005 under JBuilder | Comment now »

The Old New Thing

One of the blogs I’m always watching for entries is Microsoft’s Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing. Raymond occasionally explains why Windows work the way it works. In addition, he gives insight into why the developers for Windows bend itself backwards, so as to accomodate it’s users. For example, in this blog entry on “Why does [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 25th, 2005 under General | 3 Comments »

It’s not obvious what the question is

As I work in Tech Support, sometimes, I get support cases with questions that I need to clarify due to ambiguity. Just last night,  I was reading and reviewing Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to refresh my memory on how to be more effective. I was [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 22nd, 2005 under General, JBuilder | 5 Comments »

A testament on the strength of Delphi

A newsgroup posting on how Delphi can be used to keep large companies honest.

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 20th, 2005 under Delphi | Comment now »

A couple of pictures

3 pictures of Chad Hower, Hadi Hariri (ATozed Software) and me when they came to Singapore.

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 18th, 2005 under General | 2 Comments »

Enterprise-wide deployment / installation of Delphi 2005

The installation program of Delphi 2005, built using Microsoft’s Installer technologies, is ready to go primetime, at least, in my opinion. With Brindha’s (she’s one of the integration engineers in Borland) help recently, I was able to create a script that can install Delphi 2005 silently, or with a final popup dialog giving the status [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 15th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Documentation for Productivity Experts published

My first article for the development of Productivity Experts (Ref: More power to Productivity Experts! and Experts) has been published in the June/July issue of SDA Asia Magazine. I first wrote this article before I joined Borland. I have further articles planned for the magazine, but I’ve to find some private time in my schedule in [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 10th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

It’s not enough to know technical stuff

I’ve been working at Borland for nearly 4 weeks now. These past 3 weeks, I’ve discovered that it’s not enough to know just technical stuff. For example, a customer rang in the other day, wanting to learn on how to get started on programming in Delphi 2005. He asked if there were any PDF files for [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 8th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

An introduction to who I am…

Hi everyone, My name’s Chee Wee, but for simplicity’s sake, just call me chewy. It’s easier that way for everyone. Many of you know me as an ardent Delphi supporter. Indeed, I’ve been maintaining a personal Delphi blog for quite some time already. I wrote some of the demos shipped in Delphi 2005, Delphi 8 [...]

Posted by Chee Wee, Chua on June 2nd, 2005 under Uncategorized | 14 Comments »

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