Marco Tech Blog

December, 2007

Blog posts archive for the given month, sorted by date. See the link for entire blog archive above.


Handbook Note 50/113: Delphi is the VCL Blog Post

Note 50 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 51/113: FlowPanel and GridPanel Components

Note 51 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Here Comes Another Bubble

An hilarious video about the current web 2.0 hype. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 52/113: Explicit* Properties

Note 52 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 53/113

Note 53 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Jim Douglas SDA Asia Magazine Interview

SDA Asia Magazine has publsihed a very interesting interview with CodeGear's CEO Jim Douglas (and JBuilder's Ravi Kumar). Here is a summary and my comments. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 54/113: Donate to FastMM4

Note 54 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 55/113: FastMM4 Delphi Help Page

Note 55 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Conferences: SDEvent, EKON Spring Edition

I'll be speaking (on Delphi development) in the Netherlands on Friday and in Germany in February. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 56/113: Ray Lischner Windows Allocator

Note 56 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 57/113: ProcessExplorer

Note 57 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 58/113: SetMinimumBlockAlignment and SSE

Note 58 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 59/113: Calling Base Class Constuctor

Note 59 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Steve Martin (Microsoft) at SDEvent on SOA

At the SDEvent conference in the Netherlands I attended an interesting keynote given by Steve Martin of Microsoft on SOA. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 60/113: Exceptions in Constructors

Note 60 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 61/113: Memory Overwrites and Access Violations

Note 61 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

December 2007 Update for Delphi

CodeGear has released an update for Delphi 2007 and RAD Studio 2007. Remember there is also a Help Update. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 62/113: IsPointerToObject

Note 62 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Puzzled by the First Delphi Puzzle

Jacob Thurman, of Castalia fame, has launched a Delphi Puzzles web site. Very interesting idea. The first puzzle that was posted, though, seems to be incorrect... -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 63/113: Juanco Anez

Note 63 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 64/113: DUnit and FastMM Troubles in Delphi 2007

Note 64 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 65/113: Windows Vista User Interface

Note 65 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 66/113: Vista Versioning

Note 66 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 67/113: Interposer Classes

Note 67 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

My Year in Cities, 2007

A summary of my 2007 trips, including conferences and user group events I spoke at, training classes I gave, and vacation. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 68/113: Calibri Font

Note 68 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Firebird: Project of the Month on SourceForge

The Firebird database, the open source databases most commonly used by Delphi developers, is the December 2007 project of the month on SourceForge. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 69/113: A Tale of Two TMargin Types

Note 69 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.