Apparently many developers of Web sites and especially Web applications (IntraWeb, ASP.NET, PHP etc) are still not aware of existing tools to trace/debug the communication flow between Web browsers and Web server.
Often, certain errors such as missing images, non working JS files etc, pop up (i.e. customer calls and says “your Web app is totally broken”), and its very hard to determine whats happening. You could now add logging capabilities to your Web application and try to find out whats happening. That’s not a bad idea, but often it would help more to see what’s really sent over the wire, which resources fail to load etc.
Disclaimer: Even though Delphi 2009 has just been announced, this is still a beta blog, as we didn’t get the “golden build” yet.
There are a couple of beta bloggers who already mentioned that the installation process’ speed has been dramatically improved with Delphi 2009. I just wanted to confirm that, so that you guys, desperately waiting for the new Delphi version, can really be sure they did their homework Read full article »
Experiencing 100% CPU periodically? Installed an HP printer recently?
Talking about printer drivers is certainly somewhat off-topic on development blog, but as every developer uses a printer I thought this article to be possibly helpful …
To disable the “loading animation” which has been introduced with IntraWeb 9.0, and which shows up when the user clicked a button and is waiting for the page to re-load you usually just need to set an option in your application’s ServerController. Read full article »
I recently relocated my blog and switched to WordPress as blogging engine. I must say, I’m really happy about this new blogging engine. It has thousands of plugins, virtually one plugin per possible requirement. Counterize II is a powerful hit-tracking plugin. Read full article »
Times are changing. In July CodeGear was finally sold from Borland to Embarcadero. From Agust 1st 2008 I will no longer represent Atozed Software. Read full article »
Welcome to my new blog location, where I’m now using WordPress as blogging-engine. As far as I can tell WP works really nice. Fast, lots of available plugins, easy integration with feed aggregators. Read full article »
Yesterday’s press release of CodeGear being sold to Embarcadero was a bit vague about the company name. It left the door wide open for speculations that “CodeGear” as brand or division name might just disappear - which caused some worries in the Delphi community. Greg Keller, VP Product Management of Embarcadero just commented on this. Read full article »
The so called “Delphi-Tage 2008″ which is a community driven conference in Germany, will be held on June 13th - 14th 2008 in Günzburg. Read full article »