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Friday, 3 September 2010

More Goodies in Delphi XE and C++Builder XE

Filed under: Programming — Jan Goyvaerts @ 10:58

Delphi XE and C++Builder XE include lots of goodies: regex support in the RTL, subversion integration, Beyond Compare differ, AQTime profiler, and CodeSite logger.

Thursday, 2 September 2010

RAD Studio XE Now Shipping with 4 Programming Languages

Filed under: Programming — Jan Goyvaerts @ 10:58

RAD Studio is now shipping. It includes Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE, and RadPHP XE.

Saturday, 14 August 2010

Delphi XE is Coming

Filed under: Programming — Jan Goyvaerts @ 16:07

The successor of Delphi 2010 will be called Delphi XE rather than Delphi 2011. Embarcadero has also published a new roadmap for Delphi.

Friday, 13 August 2010

Which Browsers to Support in 2010

Filed under: Cyberspace, Just Great Software — Jan Goyvaerts @ 11:37

Our web logs revealed that MSIE, Firefox, and Chrome are used by our customers. Firefox and Chrome users mostly have the latest version, but a significant number of IE users are still using versions 6 and 7.

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

New Site Design to Fit Modern Monitors and Browsers

Filed under: Just Great Software — Jan Goyvaerts @ 11:22

Updated design for just-great-software.com to fit 2010 screen resolutions and 2010 browsers.

Sunday, 14 February 2010

DataHand for Programmers

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 16:56

The DataHand’s use of modes for cursor navigation, function keys, numbers and punctuation make it more comfortable for programming, not less.

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Make Backups on External Hard Disks

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 19:43

In addition to the SSD and HDD inside your computer, you need external disks for daily backups and off-site backups.

Monday, 8 February 2010

Organizing Your Data Between an SSD and HDD

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 19:43

SSD drives are fast but expensive. HDD drives are cheap but relatively slow. To get the best of both worlds, you need a strategy for organizing your data between both.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Hot-Plug Hard Disks Like They’re USB Sticks with AHCI

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 12:04

With Vista or Windows 7 and a motherboard that supports AHCI, you can plug and unplug SATA hard disks as if they’re USB drives while getting the full speed benefits of the SATA interface.

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

A Flashy New PC

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 12:04

Replacing my computer’s boot drive with an SSD flash drive boosted its performance to the point where it’s like I have an entirely new system. I upgraded from XP to Windows 7 too.