What is a LIBERAL? According to Wikipedia: Liberalism is a Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), […]
First, I love Delphi (20 years use) and FireMonkey (5 years use – Android). My thoughts are criticisms, not a rejection. Embarcadero is prolific in their forward thinking that when a new version comes out, all hope of fixing serious flaws in the previous version stops. Case in point was the Tokyo version. Believe it […]
First, I love Delphi (20 years use) and FireMonkey (5 years use – Android). My thoughts are criticisms, not a rejection. Delphi VCL TComboBox handles no ItemIndex (-1) selected beautifully. FireMonkey not so easily. In fact if you handle things wrong, you can create an access violation which is bad news. I first encountered this […]
First, I love Delphi (20 years use) and FireMonkey (5 years use – Android). My thoughts are criticisms, not a rejection. FireMonkey has been around for about 10 years and you would think something simple as fixing “easy” problems could occur. However, with each iteration I guess they expect us to “get use” to those […]
Okay, you have built your website and you have had a falling out with your web host. You have thoughts of changing web host but you are frozen with fear that the move will not go well. Scary thing indeed no matter what the experts say. You could pay someone big bucks to take care […]
First, I love Delphi (20 years use) and FireMonkey (5 years use – Android). My thoughts are criticisms, not a rejection. Leave it to FireMonkey for making an experienced Delphi developer’s day frustrating. When you change tabs on a TTabControl, chances are you want to place focus on a component on the current tab. Well, […]
It is my minority opinion that the current state of finding resources to fill vacancies is in many ways a total failure. It use to be that job recruiters took great pride in finding qualified candidates for highly skilled jobs. For example, my skill set is pretty unique which is outlined in detail on my […]
Building a website is like writing a book and having no idea what you are going to write about. Someone rich has nothing to worry about because they have someone else write the website content. Someone that is not rich has to write it and hope they get good FREE advice. The problem with “free” […]