Marco Tech Blog

February, 2008

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


Microsoft Offer to buy Yahoo

Microsoft made a public offer for Yahoo, for 44.6 billion dollars. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 89/113: dbExpress for ADO.NET

Note 89 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 90/113: On the Internal dbExpress Architecture

Note 90 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Moving My Main Site and Newsgroup

Due to last week failure of my web farm server, I got a new machine and I'm moving sites and services to it. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 91/113: No Enumerator for TDBXReader

Note 91 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Debugging .Net Source Code in CodeGear RAD Studio

Thanks to the brand new NetMassDownloader utility, I've been able to access to the .NET framework source code and debug it in the Delphi .NET personality of CodeGear RAD Studio IDE. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 92/113: Stand-Alone Database Explorer

Note 92 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 93/113: InstallAware is Written in Delphi

Note 93 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 94/113: InstallAware Introductory Video

Note 94 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

The .NET Source Code License (and How to Print It)

Having downloaded to the .NET framework source code, I had a chance to look at its license. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 95/113: InstallAware Refactor Paths Tool

Note 95 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Delphi Mentor (was Support)

The beta period of my online consulting service has terminated, and it is being launched with a new name: Delphi Mentor. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 96/113: InstallAware UI Customization

Note 96 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Delphi Birthday and Survey

Delphi turns 13 and the best present you can give it is fill the survey. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 97/113: Installer Scripts

Note 97 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 98/113: InstallAware and dbExpress

Note 98 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 99/113: SOAP and REST

Note 99 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 100/113: WSDL Importer

Note 100 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Algarve, Portugal, for Training and Vacation

I've spend the week in Algarve, for a combined business trip and family vacation. -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 101/113: libxml2

Note 101 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 102/113: G Framework

Note 102 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 103/113: DFM Backward Compatibility

Note 103 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

EKON 2008 Spring Edition

I'm in Frankfurt, Germany, at the combined EKON Spring - BASTA! Spring conference, talking about Delphi -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 104/113: Using the Variants Unit

Note 104 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Handbook Note 105/113: Migrating dbExpress Applications

Note 105 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook -- Read blog post.

Q4 2007: CodeGear Revenues Up, Earnings Secret, BORL falls

CodeGear has apparently had a very positive final quarter in 2007, but information about earnings is not in the official statement. -- Read blog post.