Beware of software components licensed as CC BY SA. The Share Alike license is viral, similar to the GPL. Think twice before putting yourself in a position where you have to release the full source code to your product.
More details on the new RawByteString type in Delphi 2009.
Delphi and C++Builder 2009 will not ship, but be available for pre-order on August 25th. The prices listed are upgrade prices.
Introducing the new RawByteString type in Delphi 2009.
In Delphi 2009, UTF8String is no longer a mere alias to AnsiString. It is now a real UTF-8 string, that tells the compiler to encode literals as UTF-8 and compile time, and convert assignments from other string variables at runtime.
Tips for preparing your applications to migrate to Delphi 2009 and Unicode.
Due to default security settings in Windows XP and Vista, downloaded CHM files will not display correctly until you save them to a local hard disk, and unblock them.
As promised in my previous post, today I’ll discuss the business reasons for publishing, or not publishing, a free version of a software product. I’m specifically talking about a version with reduced functionality that yours to keep forever at no charge. I’m not talking about a free trial version of the full product, which is […]
EditPad was mentioned in an article about “sneaky marketing”. While some companies go too far in peddling their wares, free stuff is never free without a reason.
When the 250 GB hard disk in my development system started to get a little cramped, I decided to add a second disk instead of replace the one I have. One disk would hold the operating system and applications, and the second one my data. I’ve already been storing the OS and data in separate […]
I just received an email from Damien Guard to let me know he has updated his Envy Code R font. That’s one of my three favorite programming fonts. He reduced the font’s line height. It will now fit about the same number of lines on the screen at a given font size as the other […]
I just installed a plugin on my blogs to remove the “nofollow” attribute that WordPress adds to all comments. I delete all spam comments anyway. I want to reward people who take the time to write useful comments with properly functioning links.