Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

CodeGear announced a free virtual conference, which you should not miss! No shoes required Read the rest of this entry »

If you are using ECO with Delphi, then you might have wondered why all classes are in one huge file. To have every class in it’s own unit file, there is an option though. It seems though that there are quite some important reasons why this option is OFF by default. Read the rest of this entry »

OMEA Professional is a free (soon to be Open Source) “information system”, which aggregates Newsgroups, Blogs/RSS feeds, emails, contacts. Its definitely not just a fancy news reader, its a different concept. Downside: not written in Delphi Read the rest of this entry »

Google Maps is a huge map database / GIS. They have digitized map data and satelite images of the whole world in an amazing quality. I got several support questions how to access the Google API from IntraWeb, so I thougt it was a good idea to provide a demo that shows how to display Google maps in IntraWeb applications. Source is attached. Read the rest of this entry »

My 22 months old Sony Vaio S3XP laptop, which I used for daily work is for sale. If you are interested, then feel free to place a bid via eBay. Read the rest of this entry »

I just found that there is a “Setup Explorer” tool for MSI installation packages. “Orca” is a command line tool provided by Microsoft. It is not as powerful as the tool for InnoSetup I mentioned earlier, but better than nothing. Read the rest of this entry »