Since development of any proper software takes quite some time, taking into account Return On Investment, time and money spent on acquiring software development...

Effective in 24 hours, I'm banning those who refreshes too often. Such as every minute. I'm not a journalist, a reporter, or a publisher. There's no way I'm writing a post every minute. Hence, it's illogical for people to check my blogs every minute. Yet these people do exists....

I met up with Borland's Malcolm Groves at Penny Black, Boat Quay for a beer, coffee and a chat on Tuesday, when he was in Singapore. By this time, he's...

Borland has released Update 2 for Delphi 2005! Get it here ! ... via Anders' blog

Instead of http://chuacw.hn.org/chuacw [ deprecated ], this site will now be http://chuacw.ath.cx/blogs/chuacw/default.aspx [ recommended ;o)]. Please...

Borland has officially released Delphi 8 General Update 3 , which has been in public beta since Dec 2004. The update was officially released on 4 Mar 2005...

The next Singapore Delphi User Group meeting is tentatively planned on 24-27 May. This will coincide with a planned conference on that date. Whether you...

One of the original problems I've had with the blog engine behind this site (.Text, aka DotText) is that it's not localized. Previously, I described a...

Is Borland preparing the VCL for Unicode?...

Over the past few weeks, I've been working with a customer, in order to implement a high availability (HA) solution. In the past, I do not bother with...

How Singapore set up it's military forces in the beginning. The Singapore Armed Forces: How it began. How SAF began....

A friend posed the following question: he wants to connect a USB device to the serial port of a PC. Thus, he needs a USB to Serial converter. In other...

Other than doing software development, I am involved in providing consulting services to companies and businesses. Some of the stuff I do include systems...

Here's how to import a web service using the Delphi 2005 Code DOM. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin\wsdl" /l:Borland.Delphi.DelphiCodeProvider...

Recently, I noticed that this site is referring to one of the images on my site, without viewing my site. That is to say, one of the forum contributors...

Dan Miser recently wrote an article on " Naming threads ", and I came across it today. As I read the article, I remembered having wrote an article and...

I recently wrote a function to obtain the CLR Framework path . But then, I realized a few things: It's inefficient. The name of the Common Object Runtime...

The following function iterates through all the assemblies in the current application domain, and extracts the directory of the assembly which ends with...

Following the various blogs on Google , Simon Willison's , and Six Apart Professional Network , Robert Love's , Scott Watermasysk's , among others, I have...

Thirty of the top consultants and trainers in the worldwide .NET community have come together to help raise money for an organization that is doing amazing...

Since the release of .Text by Scott Watermasysk, there has been deployment of various versions of .Text throughout the world. The following is a list of...

I've been working on upgrading .Text to 0.96 for more than 14 hours. The most problematic issues were migrating/upgrading the SQL database. I started the...

I recently updated my .Text blogging engine to support FreeTextBox 3. The modifications were taken from Mark Pitman's article FireFox, FreeTextBox 2 and...

“My RSS Reader” was built from the ground up to be easily extended. One of the ways in which this can be seen is to look into the SyndicationFeedImpl.pas...

I'm very excited these few days. It's the plague of the bright, new, shiny, object syndrome as described by Danny Thorpe, Chief Scientist, Borland. My...