Story Category: Thoughts on Software
VOTEDelphi 2011: What components to use?
Wings of Wind
We’re heading to Delphi 2011 (which will bring Delphi on Macs and Linux) and after this we’ll have yet another hurdle which is 64-bit compiling. With so many convoluted paths (ok, ok, the team will… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, IDE, RTL, Thoughts on Software, vcl
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Delphi 2011 and beyond: The Libraries Ahead
Wings of Wind
There is enough speculation about what library / libraries we’ll encounter in the next version(s) of Delphi. We know that the next version code-named Fullcrum (don’t click here and here – AFAIK the links aren’t… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, News, Roadmap, Thoughts on Software, vcl
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New Patterns in Software Development
Wings of Wind
Today we’ll have a slightly different post, delaying a little bit our other favorite themes, speaking about “new” (note the quotes) patterns in today’s software landscape. Well, one can write an entire book on this… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Firebird, human factors, News, People, Thoughts on Software
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Dangerous Cross-Roads
Wings of Wind
Nobody can harm me, except myself. St. John Chrysostom, speaking about his executioners While preparing the FileSuite for release (already a beta is available for download) we will dig(g) once again in the dark areas… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, human factors, News, People, RAD Studio 2010 Reviews, RTL, Thoughts on Software
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Community pulse: Delphi’s Killer Feature
Wings of Wind
The usual “off-line” comment: Guys, we’re preparing FileSuite 2. Many interesting things inside – many bugs fixed, folder constraints more scripting commands and, of course, Shell Events. On of the main themes of this release… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Design, Feature Requests, Polls, Thoughts on Software
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FileSuite, Delphi Core and the Cross-Platform Quest
Wings of Wind
Well, we have a new release of FileSuite featuring a fine-grained multi-threaded file engine which can execute any (oh, well…) custom action, exe file or script on a file or host event (yes, you can… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, FileSuite, human factors, News, RAD Studio 2010 Reviews, RTL, Thoughts on Software, vcl
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How the Humans Think
Wings of Wind
Happy new year to everyone! 🙂 To everyone? Well, yes, I suppose so because we don’t require any password to read this post 🙂 New year? Well, yes. Dude, have a look at the calendar…. … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Design, FileSuite, human factors, News, Thoughts on Software
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The Death of a Programmer
Wings of Wind
The one who runs from his soul’s reality is a liar. St. Valeriu Gafencu In this night we celebrate the Nativity of Christ. The only new happening on Earth from the beginning of existence. And… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, People, Thoughts on Software
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Going remote… with a FREE gift!
Wings of Wind
Hi guys, thanks a lot for the feedback (both private and public) on FileWatcher. Believe us, we are hard at work on it and we’ll try to post here our “findings”. 😉 …but now let… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Design, FileSuite, Thoughts on Software
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A Better Time Machine
Wings of Wind
Well, here we are. Finally we released the FileWatcher. If was a very interesting experience about, if the time permits, we’ll blog further. But what’s most important in this experiment was that we were determined… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Design, FileSuite, News, Thoughts on Software
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What one can found behind a mask?
Wings of Wind
What if we’ll add the “x” feature? This is the question. (adapted from) Steven C. McConnell Well, first of all let’s see what we see 🙂 Masks.MatchesMask Function Indicates whether a file name conforms to… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Design, Feature Requests, human factors, Thoughts on Software
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Return of the JEDI
Wings of Wind
Don’t sign my doom because is unfair. But support the next Patriarch which will come after me, if he’s chosen accordingly with the rules. The schism is the worst thing. St. John Chrysostom Our biggest… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, human factors, People, Thoughts on Software
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Giving a heading light
Wings of Wind
We ended the first technology preview stage of our new tool – FileWatcher (we spoke about it here) and we’re heading to a release. There are significant improvements and additional features to that early version… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Polls, Roadmap, RTL, Thoughts on Software, vcl
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Why we didn’t convert to .Net. And perhaps we never will…
Wings of Wind
First of all, let me tell you that I don’t care about Delphi as a product by itself. But I do care about our users. In fact, I was a very convinced assembly guy at… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, human factors, RAD Studio 2010 Reviews, Roadmap, Thoughts on Software
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The Anti-Case campaign
Wings of Wind
Some time ago, Nick and Malcolm drew our attention on a site which promote an anti-if campaign. Well, I don’t know how much that campaign is interesting for us, because, sincerely, I don’t see any… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Feature Requests, Polls, Roadmap, Thoughts on Software
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