http://www.micro-isv.asia Jan Goyvaerts shares his opinions on the Micro-ISV industry and takes us behind the scenes of Just Great Software, his own Micro-ISV in Asia. Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:16:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When a traditional hard disk with spinning platters and moving heads needs to read a (very large) file, it can do so much faster if the file is stored in an unbroken sequence of blocks on the drive. If different pieces of the file are spread around the drive, ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/12/never-defragment-an-ssd/ One (potential) disadvantage of solid state drives versus traditional hard disk drives is that the memory cells in SSDs are subject to physical wear. Before a cell can be written to, it needs to be erased. That can be done only so many times before the cell stops ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/12/ssd-remaining-drive-life/ Sometimes it's the little features that make a software product much more usable. For as long as I can remember, closing Delphi, recompiling the application, or opening another project while your app was still running has always made Delphi ask: "Debug session in progress. Terminate?" You could click ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/11/no-yes-no-cancel-please/ Delphi 2009 was the first Delphi version to produce Unicode applications. When it was released I ranted about the needless strings checks that it did. Those were a bit of a hack to allow C++Builder developers to port their applications to Unicode more easily by fixing up at ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/09/stringchecks-gone-in-delphi-xe/