My session on Intermediate SQL as part of DataRage is scheduled for today - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 – 3:30pm – 4:15pm PDT. It is categorized as Interbase, but is really just a general SQL session. The rest of my sessions are categorized as Delphi, but are also general.
I’ve put up a SQL resources page with more resources coming soon. I’ll have enhanced “interactive” versions of my session up there eventually as well.
My Delayed Exception Handling session is up next for CodeRage III. You can get the code now and follow along.
Found some great instructions on how to get MediaWiki and WordPress to share login credentials. I manually hacked something like that a long time ago, and it was a pain because everytime there was an update I had to re-hack it. Jon Davis‘ solution is a plugin so it should work with new versions.
I was on Carbonite.com and clicked their McAfee Secure Badge to see what McAfee was reporting on them and got the following FAIL. Inspires confidence in McAfee’s ability to secure anything, especially online.
I posted my first PodCast for The PodCast at Delphi.org this morning. So far the feedback has been really positive. I am really excited about doing a podcast on Delphi, I just hope I get faster at making the episodes as I go. This episode is 18 and a half minutes long, and it took me over 10 hours to produce.
Be sure to Digg my podcast.
Well more of an evil Genius, but a musical none the less. Check out Dr. Horrible from the mind of Joss Wheaton. It is free online for a limited time, be sure to check it out.
A while back my manager asked me if the order of the enums in a Delphi case statement changed performance: i.e. Enums in order being faster then those not. I was pretty sure it didn’t, but thought it was worth checking out. Time for a test application and some disassembly . . .
One of my favorite tools for software development beyond Delphi is Beyond Compare. It is the best tool for comparing and merging files, directories, etc. It is also written in Delphi.
They happen to have a Beta for version 3 available now. Beyond a whole slew of new features for comparing and merging source files, they are also now running natively on Linux. I sent them an email about the Linux support and they are using Kylix along with some GUI wrappers of their own to make development smoother.
They have a full list of the cool features in version 3, along with upgrade information. One of the really cool features I am looking forward to is the 3-way text merge. I also really like the image comparison plug-in they offer.
I have found it is an indispensable tool when I am moving files between one computer to another. If the process fails part way through do to network issues or whatever, Beyond Compare effectively lets me resume where I left off. Additionally, I can quickly see if some of the files are out of date or corrupted. A great way to trouble shoot system differences in testing software.
Seems to be a theme here. . . .
