http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg This is the blog of David Clegg, CDN developer and confessed Delphi Junkie Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:30:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Today I was converting an ECO III application originally written in Borland Developer Studio 2006, to an ECO IV application using RAD Studio 2007, when I stumbled across an interesting problem. The application talks to an InterBase database, and was using the Borland Data Provider components for its database connectivity. ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2008/03/18/53 I discovered an interesting memory leak in one of my Delphi.NET services the other day, with the leak occurring in a manner I hadn't encountered previously before. I narrowed the source of the leak down to the database polling threads, which all contained pretty much the same logic. They would ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2008/02/12/44 In the borland.public.delphi.language.delphi.dotnet newsgroup today, I noticed a post from someone enquiring how to create a Windows service using Delphi for .NET. While there are plenty of references about this subject on the internet, such as the "Writing a Useful Windows Service in .NET in Five Minutes" blog entry that ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2008/01/23/41 A mate of mine sent me a link to this video showing Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft, and I felt it was too funny not to share.  My favourite moment was when Bill rang up Bono from U2 to convince him that Bill should replace The Edge in the ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2008/01/07/40 As promised in my initial Movember blog post, here is the final photo showing how I fared in my Movember quest And here is the one of my fellow Team Delphi team mate, Stuart Clennett Thank you to everybody who generously donated to this worthwhile cause. ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2007/12/03/39 Now I don't mean that CodeRage II will be a free for all, with topics such as 'Migrating to Visual Basic 6' and 'Writing an Object Persistence Framework in COBOL.NET', but that free CodeRage admission is now available to everyone. If you haven't RSVP'ed to this party yet, I'd strongly ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2007/11/19/34 Well, I've reached the halfway point in my quest to increase awareness for mens health issues, so thought I'd provide a quick update as to my progress so far. Here is a photo which captures the current state of my furry little lip dweller. I would also like to take the ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2007/11/15/33 I often feel a lot of different emotions when using ECO, including happiness, smugness (knowing all the other suckers are coding the hard way) and frustration (usually due to inexperience :-)). But today it invoked another emotion... laughter. I was attempting to use the IOclPsService to execute an OCL statement when I ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2007/11/08/25 One of my pet peeves as a developer are exception messages that mask the true reason behind a particular exception. I was reminded of this just now after finally discovering the cause of a bug which I've been trying to stomp on for the last hour. I've been writing some classes ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2007/11/07/22 During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I'll be growin a Mo. That's right I'm bringing the Mo back because I'm passionate about men's health and the fight against prostate cancer. Why? Every year in New Zealand 2,656 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 600 die of ... http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2007/11/01/20