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2007-01

Blog Stats and Google Analytics

I've kept using Google Analytics to have an idea of the traffic on my blog... but I recently figured out it is flawed (for blogs).
posted by marcocantu @ 2:40PM on January 3, 14:40

Dr. Dobb's Article on CodeGear

On December 27th, Dr. Dobb's online published an interesting article on CodeGear.
posted by marcocantu @ 2:13AM on January 4, 02:13

My Year in Cities, 2006

I've seen a few blog posts with this theme... and found it interesting.
posted by marcocantu @ 0:39AM on January 8, 00:39

Microsoft Brakes 20-Years-Old CUA (by Alan Zeichick)

A very interesting article on SD Times points out that Microsoft is turning his back to the UI specification that was key for its success and that of the Windows platform.
posted by marcocantu @ 3:20AM on January 9, 03:20

CodeGear, PHP, and Ruby

I noticed a flurry of posts in different CodeGear blogs regarding the two popular web scripting languages.
posted by marcocantu @ 0:53AM on January 10, 00:53

Five Things

Five things you might not know about me... and probably don't care knowing!
posted by marcocantu @ 2:37AM on January 11, 02:37

Tooling Up With CodeGear (by Alan Zeichick)

An interesting point of view about what's going up in CodeGear these days.
posted by marcocantu @ 0:35AM on January 13, 00:35

Farewell, Jon

Jon Shemitz announced he is taking a job outside of the Delphi world, and not doing .NET either.
posted by marcocantu @ 0:58AM on January 13, 00:58

MSBuild in Next Delphi

Nick Hodges has some interesting news about the next version of Delphi.
posted by marcocantu @ 1:02PM on January 17, 13:02

From BDE to dbExpress (by Ethea)

Some friends of mine have released an interesting set of components and some guidelines for moving very old projects to a newer architecture.
posted by marcocantu @ 10:34AM on January 19, 10:34

Give It a Rest (by Larry O'Brien) and Search APIs

An interesting article on SOAP vs. REST, plus some comments on the Search API landscape.
posted by marcocantu @ 12:15AM on January 23, 12:15

Dollars and Euros: Here comes the IT Dollar

US software company have a strange concept of the currency. If Borland often used a 1:1 ratio, Microsoft is reaching new heights with Vista.
posted by marcocantu @ 12:02AM on January 24, 12:02

XML-Based Scripting: GXI

I'm developing and using for many web sites, including this one, an XML-based scripting language. Here are some thoughts.
posted by marcocantu @ 1:06AM on January 26, 01:06

XML Scripting Example

As requested by a few readers, here are some examples of the XML scripting language called GXI I'm working with.
posted by marcocantu @ 2:35AM on January 30, 02:35

Delphi Tutorials for Beginners

Nick recommends my Essential Delphi among other tutorials. Here is the status of the project.
posted by marcocantu @ 2:45AM on January 30, 02:45

CodeGear moves to InstallAware

CodeGear will change the installer technology used for its own products and distributed along with them.
posted by marcocantu @ 0:15AM on January 31, 00:15