Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #69
21 May
- Gotta like this stuff — Embarcadero Change Manager wins the Editor’s Choice award from SQL Server Magazine. The Embarcadero lineup of products is pretty sweet if you are a database developer.
- I’m surprised that cell phone repeaters like this aren’t more popular. It seems to me that something like this would be very useful — but not necessaril for cell phone customers themselves. If I were an apartment building or an office building, I’d be putting these around my building to make cell phone reception better. I can imagine that looking down and seeing a solid four or five bars on your cell phone would help induce a rental decision. I’m also surprised that I can’t buy these things at cell phone stores. I’m a Sprint customer, and of course, if you go into the Sprint store, always get a sold signal, even though across the street you don’t. I asked about this, and they said that they had a repeater in the ceiling. My question to them was why they don’t sell them. Heck, why don’t they give them away to owners of buildings, malls, etc.?
- Nice multi-lingual website built with Delphi for PHP. If you haven’t given a look at all the new things you can do with Delphi for PHP 2.0, then you should.
- Joe White has a nice article on why you have to be careful when trying to compare interfaces and interface references: "Interfaces and reference equality: beware". It gives some interesting insight into exactly what an interface is referring to.
Hi Nick,
I remember reading somewhere that you were working on the Delphi.Net roadmap.
Can you tell us approximately when it will became public?
Thanks
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 amI suspect one could modify these to create cellphone dead zones, too. Set it up so it sends its "Listen to me, I am your local cell station" signal, but of course never allow it to connect to the outside world.
Incidentally, what’s "buy cellphone"?
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 amPedro –
I can’t tell you exactly when, no. There are a lot of moving parts right now. It shouldn’t be too much longer.
Nick
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 amI’m not too sure I’d like a cell phone repeater in my house - likewise I probably wouldn’t buy a house next to a cell phone tower, although I do have wifi in my home - does this make me a hypocrite?
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pmWhen will Delphi for PHP implement a clientdataset and provider model so that data changes are buffered from the database?
May 24th, 2008 at 9:16 am