Sunday, March 3, 2013

Create Your Own Magical Delphi Tour

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There is no time like the present to create your own "Magical Delphi Tour". I'm currently working on upgrading a software prog...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Raize Components 6.1.2 Now Available

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Raize Software is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Raize Components 6.1.2. The primary focus of version 6.1.2 is supp...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

ISV Conference 2013 - September 27-29 - Reno, NV

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I just learned about the ISV Conference being held September 27th, 28th & 29th in Reno, NV. The last time I went to anything that was re...
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Monday, October 8, 2012

EvelateDB 2.11 Just Released - Supports XE3

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ElevateDB 2.11 is now available for download. If you're an existing customer, then you should be receiving an email shortly with downloa...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Making Sense of the Whole Delphi WinRT Thing

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I'm not one of the "Low-Level" "Deep-Inside" Delphi smart guys. I'm just an average software developer who uses ...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Priceless: Behind the Code with Anders Hejlsberg

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I just watched this interview with Anders Hejlsberg for the first time. This is truly an amazing interview. It's rather long, about 1 ho...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Raize Components Makes Id/Value Pair Logic A Breeze

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I have known about Raize Components for a long time. The buzz I've always heard was something like this... " Oh yeah, Raize is good...
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Saturday, July 7, 2012

How to deal with Programmer's Block

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Eventually, we all go through a bout of Programmer's Block. What is Programmer's Block? It's very similar to Writer's Block ...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Restoring Quick Config on a TMS AdvStringGrid

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I recently purchased the TMS Component Pack mainly because of the grid capabilities TMS offers over Delphi's native grid. So I started p...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Rounding the Currency type like they taught us in school

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I started using Delphi's Currency type for it's accuracy only to discover it doesn't round the way I would have expected it to r...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Plan Ahead When It Comes To FireMonkey & iOS

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I don't intend to move to XE2 or XE(next) anytime soon, I have my hands full just porting over my old applications from D5 to D2010. How...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Keeping Screen Resolution in Mind

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I'm redoing an old Delph 5 app that forced a screen resolution of 640 x 480 on the users. At the time this application was deveopled tha...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Print to File Options Supported by ReportBuilder

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Wow, I'm really impressed with the out of the box, Print to File options that come with ReportBuilder. All you do is set the AllowPrint...

A Simple Way to Learn About Methods and Properties

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I've decided this time around with Delphi, I'm going to do things as best as I possibly can. A long time ago I met Jeff Duntemann ( ...
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How to get the DBDemos Database into ElevatdDB

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There are several Delphi tutorials out there that use the DBDemos database that ships with Delphi. I tend to learn much better if I actuall...
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Rethinking the Use of Stored Procedures

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I was absent from Delphi programming for about 7 years. During that time I worked 50-60 hours a week on c...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Reporting Tool Survey

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Here is an unsophisticated poll to see which Delphi reporting toll is used. Please only vote once. (Participation in this poll requires a ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Composite Reporting With Mixed Orientation

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I have spent the last two weeks researching different reporting tools for Delphi. I currently own Delphi 2010 Professional which comes with...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Wisdom: Rekindle That Enthusiasm

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Happy New Year! I was thinking about my software the other day. I have a piece of software I created over 20 years ago and it still sells...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

ElevateDB: Function isDate()

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I am without a doubt spoiled by some of Microsoft SQL Server's built in functions. One such built in function that I have used many time...