Didn’t see this one on DelphiFeeds yet:
Help Test RAD Studio XE3 Support in GExperts 1.37 Beta 1 | GExperts.
Now please Thomas, can you create an experimental build too?
–jeroen
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Help Test RAD Studio XE3 Support in GExperts 1.37 Beta 1 | GExperts
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/04
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Many more event videos available at Channel 9 (was: PDC10 – view Microsoft PDC 2010 sessions on your PC)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/28
Dang; I thought this had long left the posting queue, but somehow it ended in the drafts (:
Since then, many more event videos made it to Channel 9, including Build 2011, and TechDays 2012.
Anyway, here it is:
Microsoft’s PDC 2010 was held at the end of October 2010 in Redmond, WA, USA.
For the people that could not attend, it is very nice to view the sessions using the PDC10 player (it seems still people didn’t learn and start stripping the century parts from years again!).
Even if you are not using Visual Studio, .NET Azure or other Microsoft Technologies, there are a lot of interesting sessions showing the directions that Microsoft is taking.
Comparing that to what you do today is always a good thing to do: it helps you reflect, an important part of your personal development.
A few things I found interesting (in no particular order):
- Asynchrony support in C# 5 and VB.NET 11 based on the Task Parallel Library
- The choice to favour HTML 5 over SilverLight, even though Internet Explorer 9 and Microsoft’s HTML 5 authoring/development tools are far from ready
- Azure reporting: is reporting the next big thing on clouds?
- Offline versus online in the cloud world
- NuPack – does it bring package management to the same level as Ruby or *nix?
- XNA for XBox, Windows and Windows Phone
Enjoy!
–jeroen
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Is Embarcadero going to use a way around WinRT sideloading only being available on Windows 8 Enterprise SKUs?
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27
One of the Enterprise SKU of Windows 8 is that it allows side-loading of WinRT apps. It gives you the opportunity to load internally developed Metro-style applications that use WinRT on Windows 8 without a developers license installed on that Windows 8 machine.
This feature was described on many sources, including:
- Introducing Windows 8 Enterprise and Enhanced Software Assurance for Today’s Modern Workforce.
- The Windows 8 Enterprise SKU: Windows To Go and new Software Assurance benefits | Ars Technica.
- What’s in the new Windows 8 Enterprise SKU | ZDNet.
But since many apps (including Delphi written apps as they cannot link to the Visual C++ Run-Time DLL) don’t directly run on WinRT, there is a clear demand of enabling this side-loading feature for non-Enterprise SKUs of Windows 8:
The last link describes a way to circumvent this, and I think that is what Embarcadero is aiming at to enable Delphi XE3 Metropolis style applications to run on WinRT:
- Sideloading for Delphi on Windows 8? – DelphiTools.info.
- Windows 8 sideloading and Embarcadero’s Metropolis fake-WinRT framework « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting.
Note I updated my Delphi WinRT link clearance post with the last two links.
–jeroen
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Link clearance on the recent Delphi XE3 and WinRT stir
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/25
Just for my own record, a link clearance of WinRT in relation to Delphi.
I amended this a couple of time already, will try to do so over time: Read the rest of this entry »
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Jazzy icons for Metropolis UI Applications that you can create with Delphi XE3
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/24
Now for some lighter Delphi XE3 related stuff:
These icons seem to go very well with the Metropolis UI Applications that you can create (and convert from VCL!) with Delphi XE3 (see the XE3 video at 0:30).
–jeroen
via:
- Jazz up your apps with these free windows metro icons | Professional Icons. Quality Design..
- Welcome to the RAD Studio XE3 Preview | Products.
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iOS, Delphi XE3 and XE2
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/23
I hope I read these mobile and iOS parts of the XE3 and beyond : A look at mobile post by John Ray “JT” Thomas correctly: Read the rest of this entry »
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Recommended reading: “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” – Programmer 97-things
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/21
Every so often, I come across a pearl that I hand’t read before. This time I was looking for the source of “nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution”, and somehow came across the book 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.
It is full of interesting concepts phrased in easy to read chapters on important things like “Code in the Languae of the Domain“, “Don’t Repeat Yourself” and many (95 <g>) others.
For a small introduction, read the PDF presentation extract, and the 97 things website.
–jeroen
via: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Programmer 97-things.
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Great session on how to prevent SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/15
A few weeks ago, Bill Karwin did a must watch webinar on the prevention SQL Injection titled “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies“.
Bill Karwin (twitter, new blog, old blog, Amazon) is famous for much work in the SQL database community, including InterBase/Firebird, mySQL, Oracle and many more.
He also:
- was product manager of InterBase (its screaming multi-generational database architecture – invented in the 80s by Jim Starkey, based on immutability now far more widespread and called MultiVersion Concurrency Control – still baffles many people)
- worked on Firebird
- is author of the book The Pragmatic Bookshelf | SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programmings, available on Amazon.
- is autohor of IBPerl
- is frequent answerer on many SQL related forums and QA sites, for instance Bill on StackOverflow
Anyway, his webinar is awesome. Be sure to get the slides, watch the replay, and read the questions follow up.
Watching it you’ll get a better understanding of defending against SQL injection.
A few very valuable points he made: Read the rest of this entry »
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Delphi/Fortran memory allocation difference: row/column major order makes a big difference. StackOverflow answer.
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/14
Last week I posted an in depth answer on StackOverflow.com about the memory allocation difference in Delphi and Fortran, or more accurately in two different kinds of languages.
You have:
- column major order (not only used in Fortran and other science centric languages, but also in the shading languages GLSL and HLSL that can be used in FireMonkey)
- row major order (used in most other languages, for instance Delphi, C, etc)
A very important aspect is the order of for optimized loops. For column major order, the optimum is inside out (as the inner arrays/records are in consecutive memory locations), but for row major order, it is the exact inverse.
One of the consequences is that in Fortran it is a very fast operation to pass an array of inner fields as parameter to a method.
This is what I wrote: Read the rest of this entry »
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Correlation of Delphi Release/Update dates and activity on SourceForge project “RAD Studio Demo Code”
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/07
Now that the there are RadStudio XE3 demos available at SourceForge.net Repository – [radstudiodemos] Index of /branches/RadStudio_XE3, and a post on a Delphi Event in New Zeeland rumours of an eminent Delphi/RAD Studio XE3 version start to raise.
It is fun to watch the activity stats on the SourceForge project RAD Studio Demo Code and correlate them to the Delphi release and update dates.
I made PNG images of two graphs. Click on them to enlarge, or click on the links to get to the statistics pages.
Note that when the span is wide enough, activity gets summed to the start of the month (first picture).
Project statistics graphs
| Project Statistics: RAD Studio Demo Code – from 2009-10-01 until 2012-10-01. |
Project Statistics: RAD Studio Demo Code – from 2012-07-15 until 2012-08-15. |
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Correlation
The real fun is the correlation with the Delphi Release Dates – Delphi Programming and the Delphi update dates from the Delphi Registered User Downloads.:
| Year-Month | Date | Delphi/ RAD Studio version |
Release/Update |
| 2009-12 | 2009-12-14 | 2010 | Update 4/5 |
| 2010-08 | 2010-08-30 | XE | Release |
| 2011-07;2011-08 | 2011-09-02 | XE2 | Release |
| 2011-11 | 2011-11-01 | XE2 | Update 2 |
| 2012-04 | 2012-05-18 | XE2 | Update 4 + Hotfix |
| 2012-07 | 2012-??-?? | XE3? | Release? |
–jeroen
via: RAD Studio Demo Code | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 