Marshall Fryman
I’m currently exploring different integrations that can be done between Google App Script and Git. This is part of a bigger attempt to integrate Git data into my project management system. I’ll post more on… … Read more
2 years ago 0
Marshall Fryman
If you’ve been following along on my Excel VBA App Script journey (Part 1, Part 2), I’m converting my old Excel VBA scripts to Google App Scripts. I’m specifically focused on Excel to Sheets at… … Read more
2 years ago 0
Marshall Fryman
If you’ve been following along, I’m in the process of moving a library of Excel VBA scripts over to Google App Script (specifically Sheets). I’ve now successfully converted one of my key functions from VBA… … Read more
2 years ago 0
Marshall Fryman
As a long time (unfortunately read “old”) user of Office products, I’ve done a lot of work in VBA to make the products more functional. I’ve been using Google Sheets sporadically as well, but never… … Read more
2 years ago 0
Marshall Fryman
Has anyone noticed that Delphi 2007 cannot append to a text file over 2GB in size? I freely admit that I had a problem in my code that created log files that large in the… … Read more
15 years ago in Coding, Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
In my ever expanding need for dealing with the outside world, I’ve discovered a quirky little thing about Indy 10. When using the TIdPOP3 component with Gmail, you have to manually call DisconnectNotifyPeer or delete… … Read more
15 years ago in Coding, Delphi, Indy0
Marshall Fryman
RAID is a method that takes independent drives and lets a system group them together for security (redundancy or parity), speed enhancements, storage space increases or all three. One of the long-time stalwarts of the… … Read more
16 years ago in Coding, Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
Nokia has announced that the new Qt library (4.5) will be available under the LGPL license (March 2009). Hopefully, this will mean that Embarcadero will revive Linux support with it’s upcoming 64-bit, compile-to-many-targets compiler rewrite…. … Read more
16 years ago in Coding, Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
In yet another stunning victory for Microsoft’s cross-compatibility, their RTF system is incompatible between their own products. Let me begin by explaining that I have a Delphi app that uses a mail merge system to… … Read more
16 years ago in Coding, Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
A few weeks ago I started down the path of discovering how to GeoCode addresses for Delphi. This is related to a project we had where we wanted to show a map of a given… … Read more
16 years ago in Coding, Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
Serge Dosyukov recently posted about the speed of the Delphi installer. While I agree that it’s annoying to have to wait for the initial installation, I find that one of the largest failures in most… … Read more
16 years ago in Coding, Delphi0
Marshall Fryman
I’m back to work on the HTTPS Post issue with DHL’s ShipIt XML API. The problem I’m having is when I use Indy to post the xml via an HTTPS post, the response is that… … Read more
16 years ago in Coding, Delphi, Indy0
Marshall Fryman
If anyone has ever tried to get the OpenSSL libraries to work with Indy, you may have experienced a lot of pain with the process. I’m in the process of trying to develop an application… … Read more
16 years ago 0
Marshall Fryman
For everyone who isn’t hiding under a rock, Embarcadero has agreed to acquire CodeGear from Borland. I’m sure all of us who have been annoyed with Borland for the last 5 years are relieved that… … Read more
17 years ago 0
Marshall Fryman
Adding to my previous post on detecting virtual environments, here’s the code for detecting Virtual PC. Note that it’s a conversion from CodeProject, the original author is here. I also didn’t write the conversion, I’m… … Read more
17 years ago 0