Archive for July, 2004

The "As Designed" red herring

One of the best books I’ve read recently is The Design of Everyday Things. I think every single software developer on the planet should read it at least once. It will make you a better programmer, although it isn’t particularly about designing software. I was reminded to post something about it by an energetic discussion […]

Posted by John Kaster on July 31st, 2004 under IT Industry | Comment now »

The CodeCentral shuffle

We’ve been having some reliability problems on the CodeCentral server box that have been causing downtime. (See this post for background.) I kept trying to make time to move CodeCentral to another box, but since it was very intermittent I hadn’t made it a high priority. That is, until today, when the server fell and […]

Posted by John Kaster on July 22nd, 2004 under CodeGear products, CDN | 4 Comments »

ClientDataSetGrid is finally updated!

After years of extreme patience from users of the ClientDataSetGrid component, I’ve finally updated it to the latest version. You can get it here from CodeCentral. New features in this version include: Support for VisualCLX Support for Delphi versions up to 7.x rewrote the arrow drawing routine to be more configurable and included the index […]

Posted by John Kaster on July 20th, 2004 under CodeGear products | 2 Comments »

Please post your feature requests and bug reports for BDN to QualityCentral

I haven’t posted an announcement on the Borland Developer Network yet, but I just wanted to let you all know that there is now a Borland Developer Network project area in QualityCentral where you can post feature requests and issues relating to the Borland Developer Network web site and subsystems. We’re in the middle of […]

Posted by John Kaster on July 13th, 2004 under CDN | 1 Comment »

Some minor BDN improvements are coming

The server box hosting CodeCentral is having an intermittent (hardware) drive problem, so that’s why the server’s been imitating a roller-coaster recently. We’ll be ordering a new server this month, and I’ll install CodeCentral on that server, so we can then work on fixing the old server and using it for some other beta project […]

Posted by John Kaster on July 9th, 2004 under CDN | 4 Comments »

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