Toolbar2000 and SpTBX for Delphi XE2
Because I’m an user of the Toolbar2000 and the SpTBX components for Delphi I had to update them in order to upgrade my projects to Delphi XE2. Without the changes I made it wasn’t possible to use and compile my projects. So I had to sit down a lil’ bit of time and here it is.
Delphi XE: TTimeZone is not threadsafe
This is only a very short post, but perhaps it can help some people out there :) When you want to use the abstract class TTimeZone respectively its derived class TLocalTimeZone then be aware of that it is NOT threadsafe – the two mentioned classes are defined in the unit DateUtils since Delphi XE and are really helpful.
Preinstalled software on new notebooks
I don’t know what other people think about that problem but I’m getting really angry right now, so I decided to write this post… Today I received a new notebook which I’m setting up at the moment. It’s from a popular producer with two letters in its name – but this problem is widely spread and applies to many producers. The notebook itself looks quite good and robust, it’s fast an the display is bright, the OS is Windows 7 64-bit. Well I should be totally happy because it’s an good machine, but…
Enumerations as class type in a generic class/record
Last night I had a really strange compiler error when I tried to translate my new array record. You have to know that I have rewritten the complete record and added generic support to it. Here is a lil’ bit of the code which you need to unterstand why I got this error.
New Theme, New Logo, Old Blog ;) – UPDATE
Hey everybody,
today I searched for a new theme for my blog because I haven’t felt very pleasant with the old one. Now it looks more modern and a lil’ bit that style I have in my head. But before I will create my own style I want to finish my own CMS so I can have a live demo for this system too – but that’s a lot of work until I reach this aim.
Update: Editor Theme for Delphi IDE (Version 7-XE2)
Some days ago Embarcadero published the new version of the Delphi IDE, called XE2. Rolf Warnecke has already ported the theme to this version and here it is :)
Today I recieved the new version of the my favorite IDE called Delphi XE. Some time ago I created a kind of theme for the its editor so it looks a lil’ bit nicer (for me ;) ). Now I updated the theme so it supports the new version too. You can find my old (german) post below.
How to test web applications without having all mobile devices?
Last week I worked on my jQuery plugin apOverlay which will be a part for my apWindow plugin hat gets published in the next two or three weeks. In all modern browsers there are no problems at all – ha, that’s wrong! This is only the half the truth because this statement counts only in normal browser, not completely on mobile devices and its default browsers. But how to test if the implementation is correct? No one wants to buy each phone, PDA, tablet… Well, there is the way to look for simulators but that’s not so easy sometimes :)
Let’s talk English…
Deutsch
So, ab sofort erscheinen alle wichtigen Beiträge in meinem Post auf englisch, da ich somit eine wesentlich größere Anzahl an Lesern ansprechen kann. Ich will doch hoffen, dass die Qualität der Posts nicht darunter leiden wird ;)
Ebenso habe ich schon vor ein paar Tagen das Design der Website umgestellt und ein paar Anpassungen daran vorgenommen, wobei ich sagen muss, dass ich immer noch nicht zufrieden bin damit – mal sehen, was die nächsten paar Wochen bringen…
English
Well, in future I will write all my posts in english so that I can reach more readers. I hope that because of this change my posts won’t suffer quality ;)
Furthermore some days ago I changed the theme of my blog to Oulipo and modified some things. But I am not that glad about it – let’s see what the future brings…