A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and says, "Can I join you?"

While installing Solaris 10 x86 64 on VMware, I encountered the error message "cpu is too fast" or something similar. The solution, is to edit...

In a battle to get Google AdWords to refund me about US$3-US$10, I am using social media to assist me. I have posted to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook...

The VCL Persistence Framework comprised of a set of components, property and component editors. The initial concept for this project started on 7 Jul 2004...

Some time ago, I mentioned that I took up a counselling course . Tonight, we begin the study of ethics, and discussed about it, which reminded me something...

One of the ways to gather feedback is to solicit opinions from concerned parties in a gathering of a relaxed environment, possibly with feedback forms...

I recently wrote 2 Windows scripts that very quickly pulls all Android apps from the Android phone, and install them back to the Android phone, for disaster...

Testing for inheritance in Java and in Delphi: Java Delphi if (o instanceof T1) if o is T1 then

I've recently found out that the way phone numbers are dialed, they're complicated, if you take into account the way it is dialed in various countries...

Opera 7.54 has a bug when polling for RSS feeds. Users, please upgrade to Opera 8.

In Delphi, when I want to set a boolean variable depending on the result of a comparison, I normally do something like, Result := Value <> 0; or...

The following code demonstrates how to show a progress dialog while starting up an Android activity. The progress dialog is shown near the end of the creation...

Update of the High Performance Chat Server...

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....

Over the past few weeks, I found the screen timeout feature of the Android a source of frustration. Why did it offer 2 minutes, and then suddenly, 10 minutes...

After about 35 months at Borland / CodeGear, its finally time to sign off. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to serve, and provide support to you all...

I wanted to get the blog URL of each posting, so that I can implement social media sharing buttons on each and every post. After some research, here's...

If you have either C#Builder (BDS 1.0), or Delphi 8 (BDS 2.0), you might find that you cannot easily embed “ non-standard ” resource items...

Sigh... I missed an opportunity to meet Lucy Hsu, ex-country manager of CodeGear Taiwan. I had only realized Lucy is located in Taiwan when I arrived at...

One of the nicer features in Delphi 7 was the Web Deploy feature for those who developed ActiveX libraries. I've recently completed a prototype of Web...

To remove the Android status bar, execute the following statements in the onCreate method before making a call to setContentView(R.layout.main); int flag...

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...

cs_Referrals and cs_Urls need to have [DatabaseName].Owner in front of it... The SQL reads like so: DELETE FROM cs_Referrals WHERE UrlID IN ( SELECT UrlID...

If you've encountered unresolved external linking errors while compiling old BCB (eg, BCB6) projects in BCB2006, such as [Linker Error] Error: Unresolved...

I've been trying hard to track down a problem in the VC++ runtime mktime() function. I have an application that, given min date: 1 Jan 1970 and max...