Delphi Bistro

Last Friday, while I was getting ready to setup a profiling session for the weekend I ran into a problem. My profiling tool – ProDelphi - would not run.  A rather generic error message  would display instead. Continue reading “ProDelphi profiler will not run anymore”

I finally got around to browse the Linux Journal Magazine (September 2009) that this month features cross platform development,  and noticed the word Lazarus at the top of the cover page.  Yes, it is an article about the Delphi like IDE. The article is written by Mattias Gaertner, a member of the Lazarus project. Continue reading “Lazarus article on Linux Journal”

About five months ago I was called in to look into an localization issue affecting one of our software products. The software in case is a Windows Service written in Delphi. This service is used to collect live data from a series of networked devices and store such data into a RDBMS. As usual my colleagues were very quick to blame the issue on Delphi. Continue reading “Delphi Services and Localization Issue”

This past Thursday (February 5th) I made a presentation about how to install Lazarus on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) for the Pacific Northwest Delphi User Group. Continue reading “Cross-platform Pascal using Lazarus”

I just learned of a Delphi contract available in the Akron (OH) area. Continue reading “Delphi Contract available in the Akron (OH) area”

Here is the second installment of the Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index or Fletch PSM Index for short. Continue reading “The Fletch PSM Index for Oct. 19 2008″

While preparing my “Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index” for the week I ran in to a posting for a Clipper Support Analyst.

Wow! Clipper is still around. That brings back memories, Clipper, FoxPro, Turbo Pascal, Quick C, DOS, 640k/704k RAM, Novell…(I’m dating myself)

Have you run into other bizarre or unexpected things out there? Would you mind sharing with us?

In a couple of posts Jim McKeeth has pointed out that the Delphi language has been climbing in the TIOBE Index. He has also called the community to action in order to make sure that whenever we referenced Delphi on a post to do so using “Delphi programming”. That way these references can be properly accounted for in such index. Continue reading “The Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index”

The time has come and I feel that I need to move on to my next job. For a while I have been trying to locate my next Delphi job with little success. Continue reading “The time has come and I need to move on…”

I have been working around multi threaded services for quite a while now. And as you may know, multi threading services are very hard to debug. When debugging multi threaded applications one must collect run-time information without disturbing the threads and introducing delays that would ultimately cripple the service or render the debug effort meaningless. Clearly, I needed to have the program send real-time messages. Continue reading “My Event logger – a poor man’s debugger”