Code Crunching

Since Sebastian Gingter (a moderator of the Delphi-PRAXiS) is not on the Delphi-Feeds list, and he just uploads(!) his papers right now, I am giving you a pointer over to his blog. His papers are on WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) and Patterns (MVVM), in German, too.

Entries:

• WMI
• MVVM

My conference sessions are all done, so the papers are ready for download. Go to my Conference Papers page and download them as you like. They are German only this time.

Just a few minutes ago, Daniel Magin has published his BlackFish WebConsole. Go, download it, check it out and use BlackFish SQL now. The WebConsole is available for free!

Today an interesting question came up in the Delphi-PRAXiS. One of our users asked how to parse parameters sent to a NT service application. The good old trusted version of normal VCL applications does not work:

for I := 1 to ParamCount do
  Foo(ParamStr(I));

So a quick dive into the Delphi 2007 source code revealed an interesting property of the TService class, called Param.

for I := 1 to ParamCount do
  Foo(Param[I]);

So if you ever want to run parameterized services, that is the way to get them ;-)

Well, I just hope that the EKON has a good start today and all of you, there already HAV FUN! The first two days are centered on Workshops mostly on basic OOPP/Delphi concepts. EKON Spring itself is centered around Delphi concepts, rather than all things surrounding development with Delphi.

My Session are on Wednesday Logging with SmartInspect and on Thursday Application Localizing using my new tool.

Tomorrow I will take off here and come to Frankfurt - I am looking forward to see you all there!

At the EKON Spring, I'll present a new solution for multi-language VCL applications. It allows you to translate all forms and resource strings in an external application, comes with a command line tool for updating strings. Every language resource can be deployed seperatly, the application can be deployed without any additional resources at all - in the original developer language.

In a second step, I'll probably will not show that at the EKON Spring yet, you can save translations of forms and resource units for later projects to use.

Stay tuned for more, I'll present that here after the EKON for download ;-)

Best of all, there will be a fully usable version for free.

Munich, Germany - Street at Night, ursprünglich hochgeladen von dwischnewski

Well, so I start picking up the habit of posting a photo I made every once in a while. Sorry ;-)

This one was taken last Sunday and has an exposure time of about 80 seconds using my trusted EOS 400 and a new lens I bought second hand. I was just playing around with it and just love this picture. It made my desktop about 5 mintues later.

Taken from my balocony pointing at the street in a mild night, just about 0°C - mild for the season, anyway.

Finally, we have announced the official date of the upcoming Delphi Days 2008, the 4th time the German speaking community will meet for sessions, talks, and get-togethers. This year we will meet in Günzburg, southern Germany to better accomodate Delphi developers coming from Austria and Switzerland as well.

While planing is still in progress, please, tell us what you would like to see, hear, and do at the next Delphi Days. Your suggestions are welcomed and needed to make it a memorizable event, once again. This year, we want to go back to the roots and more emphasize on the community idea of the whole event.

Let's meet in Günzburg on June 14th!