Nick Hodges

Archive for July, 2008

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #74

31 Jul

Doh!  Fixed it to be #74
Tiburon is so feature rich that Marco needs a whole book to describe them all.
I just opened up my old Websnap components project in Tiburon and compiled it.  It compiled just fine, and spun out about a dozen warnings. All had to do with sets of characters.  I used the […]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #73

28 Jul

Delphi’s Anonymous Methods gets a nice mention in programming.reddit.com.  Feel free to bump that article up!  And don’t hesitate to read the interesting comments from our compiler engineer, Barry Kelly. (And by the way, the picture on Barry’s Blog needs updating — he’s far more hirsute now.  )
Want to be Embarcadero’s WebMaster?
Check out TStringBuilder.  […]

Built with Delphi for PHP

28 Jul

http://www.willesdenherald.com/competition/rules.php
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Software Industry Conference 2008

26 Jul

Last week I attended the 2008 Software Industry Conference.  SIC is the conference for shareware developers and other Independent Software Vendors.  David I attended last year, and this year I went.  We go because there are lots of Delphi developers there, and because lots of Delphi developers are ISVs.  We want to support our customers […]

New Screenshot

25 Jul

In the interest of full disclosure, I just wanted you guys to know that the screenshot below has been updated, and should look better.
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Tiburon Screenshot

24 Jul

UPDATED: This is a new shot, different from the one first posted.
Here’s the screenshot we are using for the Tiburon Data Sheet:

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My email address

24 Jul

In about a week, my old email address — nick.hodges@borland.com — will no longer work.  So if that is the address you have for me, please use nick.hodges@codegear.com instead.  Eventually I’ll have an Embarcadero email address, but the codegear.com address should continue to work for a long time to come.
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New Language Construct for Exit

22 Jul

In Tiburon, the following two functions do exactly the same thing:

function DoSomething(aInteger: integer): string;
begin
if aInteger < 0 then
begin
Exit(‘Negative’);
end;
Result := ‘Positive’;
end;

function DoSomething(aInteger: integer): string;
begin
if aInteger < 0 then
begin
Result := ‘Negative’;
Exit;
end;
[…]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #72

22 Jul

We have a Seppy sighting! And a Chris Hesik sighting!
And Chris Bensen has been pretty furiously Tiburon blogging, too.
Dee Elling, our Documentation Manager, has got a new site out:  http://docs.codegear.com
Steve Shaughnessy has some insight into how the new DataSnap framework works.
"We are happy to see that Delphi will finally be 100% Unicodified soon, […]

Don’t Get Caught with Boxes

17 Jul

If you are a "non-Unicode Kind of Person" like I was just a few short months ago, one of the things that you’ll likely want to do if you want to get into the full features of Tiburon is get your system ready to handle the variety of non-Arabic alphabet fonts that are out there.  […]

Here Comes Tiburon

15 Jul

I haven’t blogged in a while  — yikes!  I see now that it’s been over a month.  It is definitely time for a post!
One of the reasons that I’ve been away is that things are starting to pick up with our next release, code-named Tiburon. 
Probably the biggest feature — and the one that you’ve […]

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