Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

This is another demo that shows some features of the upcoming new Delphi version – codename “Highlander”. This time I show basically two things: 1: Working with Xaml, i.e. how to use WPF/.NET 3.0; 2: Mixed Pascal and C# project groups Read the rest of this entry »

Today I got the permission from Nick to blog about Highlander – the new upcoming Delphi version! Read the rest of this entry »

Many people are still wondering why to use .NET at all, because they can do all their business fine with Delphi for Win32. This article demos a Reference Analyzer, written in Highlander and meant to be a real world tool. The purpose is to list all .NET assemblies, that an other assembly (dll or executable) depends on. Read the rest of this entry »

Using “Knoppicillin” a variant of Knoppix, which is a Linux distribution, which runs off CD/DVD, I was able to recover my Windows XP from a boot failure within minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

2.5 inch hard drives are now available at 250 GB! Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll be holding two free C++ Builder seminars covering DUnit (Unit Testing). Read the rest of this entry »

This article is in fact more ranting about these insane region codes that you know from DVD movies, and more “modern” from Video On Demand systems. I will show a few lines of Delphi code to make up a simple HTTP proxy that may help getting around this nonsense “Region is blocked” message I recently came across. Read the rest of this entry »