Thursday, April 29, 2004
Psst! Wanna buy a House?
If anyone is in the market for a nice property on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, do I have a deal for you! I'll even throw in a free set of steak knives. :-)
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Dumb Newsgroup Questions
As I foray deeper into the wonderful world of C# and the .NET Framework, I find myself hanging out in the Microsoft newsgroups more and more. Now is it just me, or is the standard of questions asked there generally lower? Here are a couple I encountered today :-
When I click on any of the Toolbar Buttons, application is terminating after executing the code in toolbar buttons. Can anyone tell me why is this happening and help me to solve this?
and
Any could help my find how to create the code for the following algorythm:
In1: 10000000
In2: 00000000000
the algorythm runs and this is the output:
01A6DC6B07262F69
However, I did like the response to this one...
int i, j, k;
j=in1=10000000?10000000:0;
k=in2=00000000000?00000000000:0;
for(i=0; i
}
Console.WriteLine("01A6DC6B07262F69");
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Where vs Joins
Interesting article comparing using WHERE and JOIN statements to select from multiple SQL RDBMS tables.
Friday, April 23, 2004
Program like Elvis used to
This would make for one seriously cool development setup. API reference on monitor 1, IDE on 2 & 3, newsreader on 4...
Macros.. a little slow on the uptake
I've been using IDEs (mainly Delphi) for nearly 6 years, but I've only recently discovered the joys of keystroke macros. For the uninitiated, they provide the mechanism to save a series of keystrokes which can then be repeatedly played back. Very nice. I first started using them in VS.NET 2003 to assist with the creating of properties from cut'n'pasted member declarations, and since then have never looked back. Here are some common keyboard shortcuts to assist with using them:
Delphi 5 (Default Key Mapping)
Ctrl+Shift+R - Start/stop recording macro
Ctrl+Shift+P - Play back macro
Visual Studio.NET 2003 (Default Key Mapping)
Ctrl+Shift+R - Start/stop recording macro
Ctrl+Shift+P - Play back macro
Alt+F8 - Macros Explorer
Alt+F11 - Macros IDE
Visual Studio also gives the ability to save custom macros, which is a very handy feature. There is a Quality Central request for it to be implemented in the Delphi IDE here.
The pressure is on
Anders Ohlsson has added me to his blog roll. So the pressure is now on to keep it updated and interesting.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
My HTML not up to scratch
It seems that my HTML skills (or lack thereof) are not up to scratch. I need to figure out how to format my blog entries so that the ATOM and RSS feeds seperate the title from the rest of the text. :-
D9 Gossip
Danny Thorpe posted some juicy gossip hinting at some features being worked on for the next Delphi release.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Page 23
"Most Delphi application development can be done with little or no awareness of the Windows operating system humming beneath the VCL." - Delphi Component Design by Danny Thorpe
The meme says:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions
(watch how it is spreading on the blogsphere here or here.)
via Anders Ohlsson's weblog.
