Marco's Tech World

DevCo Tech Blogs: Exceptions, Code Completion, VCL

Over the last wweek there have been a few interesting technical posts in DevCo blogs... by Allen, Steve, and Nick.

posted by marcocantu @ 6:46PM on November 4, 18:46

Kylix from Inside (by Michael Swindell)

In a set of newsgroup posts, DevCo Product Manager Michael Swindell tells us a lot about the internals of the Kylix project.

posted by marcocantu @ 12:09AM on November 6, 12:09

The Register: Borland delaying results, closing DT

Borland has dalayed quarterly results by 5 days. The reason was not given and The Register speculates...

posted by marcocantu @ 11:04AM on November 8, 11:04

My Tips: Indy and GMail

A practical Delphi tip: how to send email to/from GMail using Indy.

posted by marcocantu @ 12:42AM on November 8, 12:42

Tim Jarvis on Unmanaged Exports (and Mixed Mode ,

In his blog, Tim Jarvis shows how to call the cryptographic classes of the .NET library from a Delphi Win32 application.

posted by marcocantu @ 1:23PM on November 10, 13:23

Delphi 2006 CF: Take Three

Once again, Borland fails to promote the full Delphi 2006 CF support.

posted by marcocantu @ 1:48PM on November 10, 13:48

CF Post: Some Clarifications

I got a lot of complaints because I my last post on CF. So let me try to explain myself better.

posted by marcocantu @ 10:52AM on November 13, 10:52

Debates about Delphi for .NET and VCL.NET

A talk on moving from Delphi to .NET at Microsoft TechEd conference are spawned some online discussion.

posted by marcocantu @ 0:14AM on November 15, 00:14

New CodeGear Company

News is spreading. Borland DTG Group (DevCo) becomes CodeGear and remains owned by Borland.

posted by marcocantu @ 0:28AM on November 15, 00:28

CodeGear, more info

A few more blog entires, with limited new information.

posted by marcocantu @ 10:32AM on November 15, 10:32

Welcome CodeGear!

A new company for Delphi means a lot for the future of the product, and of development tools in general.

posted by marcocantu @ 4:56PM on November 16, 16:56

Delphi Seaches on Google Coop

I was finializing my work on a custom Google search engine for Delphi... when I saw another one was announced. Anyway, mine has been online for some time now, even if hidden...

posted by marcocantu @ 6:39PM on November 16, 18:39

Ten Years of Torry's

The Torry's Delphi Pages, one of the best site for Delphi components, turn 10.

posted by marcocantu @ 10:39AM on November 20, 10:39

My Ramblings on Delphi and the Web

The rise of AJAX can mean a lot of positive things for Delphi on the web. Here is a (rather long) post with my ramblings... discussing different scenarios and options.

posted by marcocantu @ 0:57AM on November 21, 00:57

Google Gadgets... Written in Delphi

Google Gadgets are small areas on web pages hosted by Google Personalized home page, whcih can use AJAX and a Delphi/Kylix backend.

posted by marcocantu @ 1:37PM on November 23, 13:37

MySQL, InterBase, FireBird, SQL Server: Prices and

Yesterday I hosted an InterBase 2007 seminar, today I read a very odd description of MySQL... so here are my thoughts on database licensing and prices.

posted by marcocantu @ 1:00PM on November 24, 13:00

Delphi Certification Study Guides

I'm mentioned in the Delphi Certification Study Guides... but I don't really get the value of the Certifications for programmers and found a few amusing errors.

posted by marcocantu @ 1:51AM on November 29, 01:51