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  • How I found RAD

    In a pleasantly provoking post Jeffrey warns us against the dangers of RAD. What RAD stands for in his eyes is not to clear. Jeff's post makes clear it is a sliding definition. I cannot state things better than Jeff's final comment . But as the RAD acronym has a long history in my career, with many a...
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  • Setting up a simple internet server (pt2) : it's all about AD

    Author: Peter Van Ooijen
    In a previous post I had blogged on getting the machine up and running. In this post I will take a closer look at Active Directory which proved even more central than I had expected. Again this is nothing deep. IT pro guys are probably laughing their heads off reading this. But hey you guys: you're speaking a different language than us developers. Again these are just some things I wish I had known in advance and were hidden to...

  • Vista under pressure

    Vista is addicting. But is very disk-hungry as well. I managed to swamp my first disk. Remarkable is how well Vista keeps behaving with less than 3Mb of free disk space. It turns sluggish and generates frightening warnings : But two minutes later disk and Vista were well again. Very very adaptive. Except...

  • DotNed user group meeting

    Hey Dutchies: coming Thursday, February 23, the user group DotNed will meet. Hosted by Macaw with a presentation on Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0. Last time I went it was great, I'm hoping for something likewise. It's free. Signup here . See you there.

  • Vista: it's all about a nice UI

    Perhaps somebody will recognize this posts subtitle as the title of Julien Ceyssial's blog . He used to be one of the first generation of dnj bloggers but hasn't posted for very very long. But his subtitle is still in my head. On one hand I completely disagree with the statement. IT should be about correct...

  • Things you cannot do with (Virtual PC for) the Mac (?)

    Mac users can be pretty religious about their OS. Which is nice but in the end you cannot do everything with a Mac. When you're a student and are dependent on the websites and slideshows your teachers have in store for you; you just need Powerpoint and IE on Windows. There is a way to get the best of...

  • Splitting the Delphi heritage

    This was found in a comment on Eric's post on open source and IDE's which refelected on Delphi for sale . There is an online petition asking Mark ShuttleWorth to buy Delphi and release it as free software. Nice. But....... In my goodbye to Delphi post I mentioned some things hindering the further evolution...
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  • Delphi for sale

    Although I already said goodbye to Delphi, I still follow what's happening. The latest news is that Borland is going to split its activities. They are going to concentrate on ALM (application Lifecycle Management) tools. Their developer tools, or IDE division, is for sale ! No buyer has been identified...
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  • Installing Vista build 5270 on a (tiny) Tablet PC

    Vista is coming. To us developers Vista is about new API's, to users Vista is about a new UI. As a developer you have to take a good look at that as well; that's how people will (want to) work with the software you make. The feel of Vista is different; I could try to list all the small and bigger differences...
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  • COM variant arrays and .NET

    Many a COM server exchanges data with its clients using so called variant arrays. These can contain anything you can imagine. Creating a variant array from a COM client can be a hassle. The Delphi VCL framework has the VarArrayCreate function to help you. Creating a variant array from a .NET COM client...
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