Gloria's Blog

Quake in my country

2008-05-13T23:05:00.005+08:00

I have something to share, finally. Don't know if anyone still visit my blog.Perhaps you have already heard the news about China earthquake. And I want to share with you a bit more. Hope you can pray for the victims, and do donation for them.WenChuan is the famous for being the home to the panda reserve and breeding centre. It was the epicentre of the earthquake and registered 7.9 on the moment

CodeGear Developer Day on March 20

2007-03-19T09:56:00.000+08:00

Sorry for late post.Tomorrow is CodeGear Developer Day in HongKong.And I will be there for the morning session.Details can be found on http://www.borlandpresents.com/edm/devday07/hk.html

Lovelorn...

2007-01-11T21:11:00.000+08:00

BDS 2006 Product Seminar in Hong Kong

2006-09-19T00:45:00.000+08:00

I can only say, better late than never.It will be on coming Friday (Sept-22) and about the following items:* The Roadmap of Delphi* BDS 2006* Modern Driven Development* Multi-Tier Database Development* Demostration* Introduction of Turbo Product <------ main pt for me ;-)The details can be found here.

Turbo Delphi

2006-08-09T00:45:00.000+08:00

Happy to know Borland plans to launch Turbo Delphi in the coming third quarter. This Turbo product line is to "... offer low-cost, language-specific rapid application development capabilities for students, hobbylist developers, occupational developers as well as individual professionals."I believe this is what most Delphi developers want Borland to do so for many years. When I tell some

Great news for Delphi

2006-06-15T22:35:00.000+08:00

Today read Nick's blog and know that he is hired to be Delphi product manager. I am very glad for this as Nick is a perfect person for the post. Congratulations, Nick!Few days ago my boss was being challenged by a potential customer on Borland selling Delphiout. The customer asked about any contingency plans will be provided what if the new company stops supporting some exisiting Delphi libraries

Good news

2006-06-06T17:35:00.000+08:00

Wooo hooooo!!!!! My boss tells me I will have BDS 2006 Enterprise very soon.

Working with chinese programmers

2006-04-19T17:40:00.000+08:00

My *mission impossible* project becomes possible :DWorking with Chinese programmers in past 6 months.... and really shocked by them. No matter coding styles, debug methods, working attitudes.....For example, I hate them putting comma at the beginning: Procedure A(Sender: TObject); begin Procedure_B(Param_1

Gloria @ Paris

2006-02-13T03:26:00.000+08:00

I love Paris, buildings, cultures, museums.... all are wonderful and impressive! And I find the Parisians are very friendly and helpful :)Bonjour...Merci...Où est le metro?Combien? :P

Paris, I am coming

2006-02-08T23:07:00.000+08:00

My Paris trip is finally confirmed and start now :-)Now waiting for the plane Singapore Airport to Paris CDG...A little bit excited, many many worries... and much tired... hahaaSomeone tells me I will meet many pickpockets in metro, many *big-noses* and full of dog xxxx on the street ... but still hope my trip will be romantic..hahaa... although I am alone.

Welcome, 2006!

2006-01-02T23:26:00.000+08:00

Happy new year!Had a break from my "mission impossible" project on Dec31 night, I went to Lixon's home for the small New Year's Eve party :) Just prepared a bottle of champagne to count down.... but my friends and I quite enjoyed! And we played UNO card game for the whole night. CRAZY and HAPPY!!I love UNO very very much.... especially played with Wills and Lixon (they always love to play Draw2

Merry X'mas!!

2005-12-27T00:14:00.000+08:00

Merry X'mas!! I wish all you have a sweet and happy Christmas holidays!!These months I was busy with a "mission impossible" project... *_* besides development, I had worked with a team of china programmers, prepared design specifications and many many meetings. Lots of things want to share with you, especially the funny experience about working with china developers. But there are still some

11pm

2005-11-04T23:11:00.000+08:00

why I am still at office??

D2005 Midas.dll

2005-10-21T03:00:00.000+08:00

From distribucon.com, I find Delphi2005 Midas.dll which is (well.. it claims *should be*) backwards compatible with Delphi 5-7. Here is the list of bugs fixed;QC#2019: nested CDS Edit/Post twice, master ApplyUpdates, Delta incorrectQC#2083: MIDAS cannot read tables with fieldnames > 31 bytesQC#2580: AggValueAsVariant causes Access Violation (fix included)QC#3431: ScktSrvr.exe locks up on

Google Talk

2005-08-25T13:25:00.000+08:00

I'm on Google Talk now :)Google has launched a instant messenger service named Google Talk. It provides the instant messenging and voice over IP service, has a nice UI and easy to use.If you want to try it but has no Gmail account, I can send you a Gmail invite.

Happy and unhappy

2005-08-22T17:50:00.000+08:00

One baby boy in Mother's choice hostel will leave me this week and go to his new home.My feeling is complicated as I took care him almost a year.... happy for this little boy will have his own parents and family life very soon which he has missed in the past, happy that he will no longer yelling "Papa" or "Mama" to seek for holding and bugging in front of amahs and voluntary helpers :'-) ... but

24 hours of Delphi

2005-07-13T11:55:00.000+08:00

A 24 non-stop radio live program will take place on this afternoon 3pm (i.e US - Pacific Time 00:00 Jul13 ). This must be a very cool event that many Delphi experts will share their techniques and tips in the air and everyone around the world can join and ask experts questions in the chatroom .Check the latest schedule on here and get ready for it (only 3 hours away!!!)

Can package with localization feature?

2005-06-27T13:13:00.000+08:00

I am trying to add multi-language support feature into my package but meet difficulties. In the package, some components are to send command to the host server and handle its responses code. Based on received code, the components return out the corresponding message. With localization feature, the components need able to return the translated messages based on workstation locale or application

Gmail-lite - check gmail with your PDA and mobile

2005-06-24T14:02:00.000+08:00

Today I find a freeware called Gmail-lite , for checking Gmail with PDA or cell phone. It may not be a prefect tool today (as still a beta software, same as Gmail), but it is worth to introduce to all you because it is developed by a Hong Kong PhD Student, Mr Gan, Ying-hung. Mr Gan shared this tool as he believed "sharing" is one important spirit on the internet, not for any money.I believe, on

Holidays in Bangkok and Pattaya

2005-06-02T00:05:00.000+08:00

Just back from Thailand for a week vacation :)It is my second time to visit Bangkok and Pattaya but still lot of funs, like yummy seafood, Thai massage and excellent hotels. And Bangkok taxi drivers are very nice and taught me some Thai phrases like:Sa wat dee Cup (Hello for male speaker)Sa wat dee Ka (Hello for female speaker)La Gong (Goodbye)Chai (Yes)Mei (No)The most terms I spoke are quite

Goodbye, my lovely BB!

2005-05-25T00:52:00.000+08:00

Today I am going to Bangkok and Pattaya again for a short trip. But not very excited...rather moody... as I cannot play with my lovely BB girl Alexa anymore. Alexa is 10-month old, one of the babies I take care in Mother's Choice. She will go to a new family with new daddy and mama today. Alexa, I will remember you and how you say hello to me with your small index finger :) Wish you healthy,

Happy Birthday to Me

2005-05-10T10:05:00.000+08:00

Updated on 2005.5.13My colleagues prepared a very nice and yummy birthday cake on my birthday.... is my favourite: chocolate cake :) .Thanks all of them!!And also Happy birthday to my boss John!

9pm...

2005-05-06T21:09:00.000+08:00

Still in front of my pc at office ... investigating the prefermance difference on TFmtBcdField against TFloatField in memory usage Help me ~~~~By the way, anyone knows how to handle special characters (e.g. &, <... ) in XML if using TXMLDocument? Converting by self? of TXMLDocument can help us to convert them into & and

ClientDataSet cannot update fields with null value (II)

2005-04-25T15:40:00.000+08:00

Before continue the second bug report, I want to share some information about TClientDataSet.From A ClientDataSet in Every Database Application by Cary Jensen, ClientDataSet has 2 data stores. One is delta. It represents the change log that all changes made to Data. Specifically, for each record that was inserted or deleted from Data, there resides a corresponding record in Delta. For modified

ClientDataSet cannot update fields with null value (I)

2005-04-18T20:16:00.000+08:00

The second bug report has been kept in my In-Tray over 4 months but I found no way to fix it. Users complain that the custom dataSet (derived from TClientDataSet) is failed to update fields with null value.For example, a record with below fields and values:[ID].....[NAME]...[AGE].S100... PETER ....10Now I modify the record by clear Name and Age:cds.FindField('NAME').value := ''; cds.FindField('

Custom Edit Box

2005-04-15T19:56:00.000+08:00

April is full of troubles :(I received two bug reports for the custom components but I still have no solution. Today I share one of them.It is about a custom edit box. My teammates have developed an edit box that can show the format during editing the text. e.g. A user inputs 12345 with format "#,###.0000", the custom edit box has to show ',' behind '1' when typing '4' (i.e. 1,234.0000), show ','

Bug found in Solitaire

2005-03-23T12:01:00.000+08:00

I find an interesting post when read Nick's blog today. Can you find the bug out? (I have spent 30 seconds... is too slow?)

New Delphi marketing manager

2005-03-21T02:04:00.000+08:00

Welcome Michael Slinn, the new Delphi marketing manager, to the Delphi community. Delphi is an excecllent product, but not every one knows it and so it needs marketing. I hope Michael will have some great ideas how to push Delphi to the higher awareness among developers in coming days.

Programming is not an easy job

2005-03-18T10:16:00.000+08:00

Reading the posts on The Daily WTF, you would know how poor we are.The Meteorological Station In HellThe Hotel (reservation system) From Hell

Cake of this month: Brownie

2005-03-17T00:12:00.000+08:00

The name brownie comes from the deep-brown color of the cookie. It is a a chocolate bar cookie but its origins is uncertain. It was probably created by accident, the result of a forgetful cook neglecting to add baking powder to chocolate cake batter. Sears, Roebuck catalog in 1897 published the first known recipe for the brownies, and it quickly became very popular.

I don't know BYTE

2005-03-16T02:17:00.000+08:00

These days I have to develop a custom socket component but I have a lot of ???, especially on byte handling. I do know know why I am very weak on this aspect even my boss John and my friend Martin kindly spent hours to teach me. Perhaps female is usually weak on it? (I am the only one female developer in my team)Or I am too young? (my boss always complain this) Or because I am just MIS graduates?

Cheese Ball

2005-03-16T01:12:00.000+08:00

Want some cheese balls ?Update on March 20 Cheese balls recipe Part A Rice Flour 110g Tapioca Flour 15g Parmesan Cheese 45g Salt 0.5 teaspoon Part B Melted Butter 3 tablespoons An EggPart C Milk 70ml 1. Mix (A) in a large bowl. 2. Add (B) and mix it. 3. Add (C) and stir it. If the mixture is not wet enough, you can add little bit more milk. 4. Preheat the over at 200 degrees 5. Shape the mixture

Foot massage

2005-03-08T19:50:00.000+08:00

I have to dress formally with heeled shoes in work days. ( suits + programming = ??). Very tired ar!! So I went to have foot massage (someone calls foot reflexology) with friends in China last weekend. It was so relaxing!! My feet seemed to be re-newed. :)Foot massage is very common in Asia and more and more popular around the world. When I visited Thailand, US..., some saloons/ beauty shops

Suddenly...

2005-02-27T00:18:00.000+08:00

I got a call in this evening which made me very upset. My mom told me that Lee, the husband of my elder female cousin, died of a sudden blood cancer. Lee and his family knew he was suffered from cancer just only a month ago. All of us included Lee did not know his day had been numbered from that day. These weeks Lee tried his best to fight with cancer. Tried different medicine, met different

Delphi's Birthday on St. Valentine's day

2005-02-14T11:23:00.000+08:00

Today is the St. Valentine's Day and the 10th anniversary of Delphi (so romantic!). Nine versions of Delphi has been released in the past 10 years and we can find out there is a great improvement from one to one. Here is some information I searched about each Delphi version :)Before 1995 - Borland (Inprise) released Turbo Pascal compiler. It became a popluar standard for programming on the PC

Chinese Lunar new year

2005-02-08T00:21:00.000+08:00

Feb 9 is the first day of our Chinese Lunar new year, Year of the Rooster.It is the most important and happiest festival in the year because all of us are going to congratulate each other on having passed through another year, a time to finish out the old, and to welcome in the new year. Besides, the single people will also get "Lai See" from the elder relatives (just like christmas gifts). "Lai

20 more Gmail invites

2005-02-07T09:51:00.000+08:00

Leave your name and email here if want it :)

Melting Chocolate Cake Recipe

2005-01-26T02:17:00.000+08:00

Due to busy at work, I have not turned on my oven for months until last week (making brownie). I got some emails asking for my melting chocolate cake recipe. It is not difficult to make one. If you are also interested, you can follow the below recipe.Ingredients:125g. Bittersweet Chocolate125g. Butter, Room Temperature2 Eggs, 2 Yolks,30g. Sugar40g Flour, SiftedSteps:Melt the chocolate & butter in

New delphi blog

2005-01-24T13:39:00.000+08:00

Welcome Albert to the Delphi blogsphere! I know him from the Gmail invite but he knows me and my blog from other delphi developers' introduction in their blogs ^.^ Albert, happy to meet you! And I'm still a MISS..... and a very green developer :P

Gmail invites

2005-01-04T13:53:00.000+08:00

I've got 3 gmail invitation to give out. If you want one, leave your e-mail here. (First come first serve)

After seminar

2004-11-30T23:41:00.000+08:00

I'd say Delphi 2005 is a tremendous improvement over the prior versions. It has many new useful features for both individual and team developers, includes:- Provides a multiple-language development environment, much better than D8 (Delphi , C# for Win32 and dotnet platform, and ASP.Net) - Refractoring (Variable declaration, renaming, method extraction)- Help and error insights(I love this change

Delphi2005 posterII

2004-11-28T01:35:00.000+08:00

This is the launch poster from China, saying: "Getting Delphi 2005, you can be a software superman". From Daniel Polistchuck's blog I know Borland has also given Super-D T shirt to the attendants in the Brazil launch. Seems superman has been become the Delphi2005 logo.If you are the user group in China, we can join the launch events at Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai. Gordon Li will be there as

Delphi 2005 launch poster

2004-11-28T00:23:00.000+08:00

The most impressive Words

2004-11-27T13:05:00.000+08:00

The Bristish Council carried out a research over 100 *non-Engish-speaking* countries for the 70 most impressive words. The result indicated that the most-liked English word was"mother". It is really the most beautiful word. Some interesting words in the list are "umbrella"(49th), "oi"(61st) and "hiccup"(63rd) but "Father" cannot be found. Does it mean our fathers are less important/impressive

Delphi2005 Launch @ HK

2004-11-27T10:57:00.000+08:00

Delphi2005 has been/will be "visited" different places around the world like US, Canada, Benelus, Japan, Singapore..... and here, Hong Kong. Gordon Li, Borland CTO for Greater China, will come to here to show us what new cool features in Delphi2005. So don't miss this chance arrrrh! The following is the product launch event detail:Date: 30th November, 04 (TUE)Time: 2:30pm-5:30pm Venue: Pacific

I'm a rookie programmer

2004-11-24T02:48:00.000+08:00

Go to a new working environment from this month, meet new people, adapt to new culture, do new tasks, learn new programming methods... November is a tough days. At the first week, I felt I was a completely rookie in front of the delphi programs. I spent days to *read* a piece of source codes but still not understood what it was. It was a very terrible feeling. In the last company I always spent

I "Love" IT

2004-11-22T02:13:00.000+08:00

Get this cartoon MTV from a friend. A IT man sings about his work (mostly same as us too). It is in Chinese but not difficult to understand. Is it truely made by IBM?

Saying sorry...

2004-11-15T15:06:00.000+08:00

Have you visited Sorryeverybody.com yet? Americans are sending in their pictures with words, apologizing to the world for Bush being re-elected. And it's already an international news as I know it from Hongkong TV report.

Internship Program in NY

2004-10-26T20:02:00.000+08:00

If you can speak and write English pretty well, and if you now study in college/university with good grades, and if you are in North America, and if you want to have a great experience in software industry, then don't miss this chance.

Changing nappies

2004-10-25T01:41:00.000+08:00

A baby named Ari was wee-wee on me today while changing nappies. Arrrrh~~~ I could do nothing but waiting him to finish it. Ari looked at me for seconds, then smiled. >_< He seemed to tell me he enjoyed?! I hate changing nappies.

Creative hairstyling

2004-10-24T14:47:00.000+08:00

Hairstyling TV ad from Japan

Is it true?

2004-10-23T20:37:00.000+08:00

Don't kick me!

New search tool

2004-10-21T10:11:00.000+08:00

Google has released a new tool "Google Desktop Search" for us to find files and emails in our computers, just in the same way we use Google to search web stuff but now is more personal and useful. It also shows the matched web sites what we have visited before. I love this feature very much as I often want to go back to a web page I have looked few days ago while I have already forget where it is.

Yummmmmmy

2004-10-20T01:59:00.000+08:00

Beside shopping, I had 5 meals every day in the trip because there were too much delicious food in Thailand. *WARNING: DO NOT FOLLOW ME AS THIS WILL CAUSE A DRAMATIC INCREASE ON YOUR WEIGHT*And more...

When back home from the trip...

2004-10-20T01:50:00.000+08:00

all bags were full. So don't look down ladies' ability, especially in buying things. Hohooooo

Thailand Trip

2004-10-19T02:21:00.000+08:00

Visiting Bangkok and Pattaya for a short trip last week. Thailand is a nice and clean place, good for relaxation and do shopping. I was crazy in the shopping malls like Siam Center, Discovery Center, World Trade Center, Emporium, JakuJak weekend market.... luckily everything was not expensive. This is the one of Thai handmade wood craft I bought, a kick-boxing model (US $5 only).

Mother's Choice II

2004-10-11T16:57:00.000+08:00

Very tired ~~~Yesterday I needed to take care 5 three-month old babies..... really not an easy task! All needed hugs (so I cannot put up my hands anymore today >.< ) Keep going on, my arms will be very muscular. What would you do if mike bottles and pacifiers cannot stop babies crying? giving toy or dolls? I tried but no use. Finally I asked the crying babies to stop with a strange voice like

Borland CTO's Blog

2004-10-08T15:21:00.000+08:00

Patrick Kerpan joins the blogsphere too!He is the chief technology officer (CTO) for Borland and responsible for the company's technology strategy, overseeing the Borland team of chief scientists. Don't miss it, Borland fans!

Developers Vs Managers

2004-10-04T01:05:00.000+08:00

Do you feel that developers and managers are always mutually exclusive? This is definitely not a new topic, has been discussed in delphi.non-technical for many times (just similar to the pronounciation of Delphi). John M. Jacobson has also shared his opinion in his blog recently. My Java tutor has a similar explanation: in bosses' view, developers are a cost department while sales are a profit

Beer Server G3?!

2004-10-01T23:31:00.000+08:00

iMac Beer Server :P

Interview with Corbin Dunn about the Diamondback IDE

2004-10-01T22:08:00.000+08:00

delphi-source.de from Germany did another interview about Diamonback. The interviewee is Corbin Dunn. Corbin is one of the youngest developers in Borland while his contribution is not the least. If you can read Chinese, you can visit delphidevelopers.com to know more about him (besides his treehouse, do you know he is a pilot too?). In the interview, Corbin talked about Delphi 8 and 9 IDE.

Changes

2004-09-30T02:27:00.000+08:00

I hate changes. Changings make me feel unsecured and anxious. But being a developer, I have to face it every day. No matter the development tools, programming languages or even the platform, all keep on changing and changing. Well, to be a good developer, he/she should love changes. How comes I am a programmer? (it's the 5th time I ask myself with the same question)

Thank you very much :)

2004-09-27T01:57:00.000+08:00

I have to praise our God! And thank you very much for all your prayers.My grandma is back from hospital. It's really really wonderful, isn't it? Praise the Lord! :-)

Visited Mother's Choice centre

2004-09-21T19:11:00.000+08:00

Yesterday I went to Mother's Choice centre in a British style building. It is a place to promotes loving, nurturing care for babies and children needing permanent homes and single girls and their families facing crisis pregnancies. Huh! I'm *not* seeking its help (When I told my friends, they all looked at my belly with doubtful eyes. So bad!). On the contrary, I will be its volunteer in coming

iPod

2004-09-21T14:12:00.000+08:00

I have joined the iPod community finally! I bought the 4th generation 20GB iPod at the Boardway shop. Yoooo! its design is pretty good and memory is awesome. It *eats* all my songs collection (totally around 800) at once without any rejection. And there are many relevant accessories like iPod skin, speakers, carrying cases and bags.... I become an iPod-addict.

Interview with Danny Thorpe over Delphi 9

2004-09-13T18:01:00.000+08:00

delphi-source.de from Germany interviewed Danny Thorpe about Diamonback. Huhaaa... besides D9, two other things also raise my interest. The first one is Danny in the photo looks very cool and gracious. The other thing is he said Borland would not bring some updates out for Kylix in too furthermore future.

BonCon pics

2004-09-13T14:18:00.000+08:00

Marco is a very nice person! He gives us a chance goto San Jose and enjoy the BorCon Opening Keynote and John Kaster's presentation of DiamondBack.Wawooooo! We can even see the speaker's slides, just looks like sitting in the session room.

BorCon starts soon

2004-09-11T13:36:00.000+08:00

Looking for the participants' shares in each session. Some are already ready in San Jose now. I will keep a close watch @.@ on their blogs.Dr.Bob's BorCon 2004 Report Jim McKeeth from BSDGNick Hodges' blogSerge Dosyukov's BorCon 2004 blogand...Robert Love's blogmore...Craig Stuntz's BlogJoe White's blog

Quiz for programmer

2004-09-09T17:50:00.000+08:00

Last week I took a little quiz somewhere to prove my programming ability. Most questions were tricky and puzzling, and maths related. May be the organizer thinks a skillful/ proficient developer must be good at maths and speculation. Hmm... I should be marked as the incapable and unqualified one. Here are some I met in the quiz: Q1. People takes 8 hours to fill up a bucket. But now people need 10

Day of horror

2004-09-06T18:31:00.000+08:00

An eye for an eye should never apply to children!! Sept 1st was originally a fresh and exciting day for students. Why were they made the targets?It is absolutely unfair for the children suffering in this way. Our prayers are with the families of the dead hostages... May God gives the children and their families the strength to get over this terrible memories.

Fired due to blogging?!

2004-09-03T02:45:00.000+08:00

From Abauer's blog I knew that a girl was fired as two posts (and corresponding comments) on her blog. Originally, blog is similar to online daily, allows us to share personal thoughts and feelings. And it should be a place for all of you to speak without any censorship. If we need worry the posts whether being inspected by others, who enjoys blogging then? Today I learn a new word, slashdotted (

Happy Birthday, Internet!

2004-09-02T14:46:00.000+08:00

Internet is 35 year old today!

Borland Chatroom

2004-09-01T19:06:00.000+08:00

Hey, I find there is a nice chatroom for Borland Community, developed by Kylix.

my GMail

2004-08-28T00:09:00.000+08:00

Yeah! I get my Gmail account today gloria.hk@gmail.com:D Very happy for having it...thanks Peter for his invitation!Here are good stuff and resources I find out for my cool email.Gmail AgentGmail Helper (official)GTrayGoogle CommunityGooglegmails.comGmailForums

God hears our prayers

2004-08-22T21:36:00.000+08:00

I want to tell you, God really hears our prayers.These weeks I was very tried physically and mentally as needed to take care my grandma every day after work. As I mentioned before, her condition was bad. Last week doctor told me she had the cerebrovascular accident again. SHOCKED!!! Looking at my weak, silent grandma, I felt she was leaving me. I cried day and night, in the bed, on the bus, in

Common words uttered in programming

2004-08-12T11:49:00.000+08:00

I love visiting Delphi non-technical newsgroup as there are many good topics on programming and non-programming. Today I find one: Most common two-word phrase uttered while programming by Spartacus. It's true that developers usually shout out similar words when getting bugs/ compiling errors. Here are some: That's weird Uh-oh It worked yesterday Come on It's hardware

Top 10 programming languages for Aug 2004 by TIOBE

2004-08-12T00:29:00.000+08:00

1. Java2. C3. C++4. PHP5. VB6. Perl7. Delphi8. Python9. SQL10. JavaScript

Sleep positions

2004-08-09T14:37:00.000+08:00

Which one you are?

DiamondBack

2004-08-08T14:36:00.000+08:00

Boncon 2004 will firstly show Delphi9, named DianomdBack. DianomdBack, from dictionary, is a kind of snake. How do you feel about this special codename? Hope it can be my first development tool in dotnet (with a shame that haven't tried to develop app on dotnet yet). If you want to see and learn more about DiamondBack, just join BorCon 2004. For the BonCon session details for DiamondBack, please

unhappy + worry + depressed

2004-08-04T17:33:00.000+08:00

Last month my dad was sent to hospital due to bleeding nose. The doctor finds something strange in his nose. My dad is a heavy smoker and so we fear it might be related to cancer. This morning my lovely grandma is sent to hospital from the elderly hostel as her blood pressure is too high. Her doctor tells us she may have a cerebrovascular accident.I am completely exhausted now for them >.<

Delphi Informant 2004 Readers Choice Awards

2004-08-04T12:16:00.000+08:00

It's a pity that no Best Book category this year as there are few new Delphi books avaliable in the market (except Xavier Pacheco's book). More details about the winners is in delphizine.com

Steve Jobs has cancer surgery

2004-08-03T02:34:00.000+08:00

Steve Jobs is one of the guys I admire mostly in the technolohy world. According to the REUTERS, he just underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer. The surgery was successful and he needed not any radiation treatments luckily.May God bless him and I wish he'll recover soon.

Coding Style

2004-07-31T11:09:00.000+08:00

Recently Nick has posted some weird codes found in the projects he now maintains. It's good idea for us to share different coding style, no matter it is excellent or stupid.Today I find a piece of codes as the follow: if radOption.ItemIndex = 0 then begin if edtName.Text <> '' then begin DOTask1; end; end else begin DoTask2; end;The begin..end blocks are very common in our

Delphi 8 for .NET Cookie

2004-07-28T00:50:00.000+08:00

Anders places a piece of cookie got from the Delphi 8 for .Net launch party in BorCon 2003 on eBay. Well.... Do you want have a bite of this special cookie?maybe I make cookies for Delphi 9 in the next time and place them on eBay ;)

White Lover & Black Lover

2004-07-23T01:55:00.000+08:00

White Lover ("Shiroi Koibito" in Japanese) refers to the white chocolate cookies, white chocolate sandwiched between two cookies. It is a must-buy item when people visit Hokkaido in Japan. Well... this time I make my Black Lover. Arrr.... my Black Lover will be better in the next time ;-)

The best developer tool is....

2004-07-23T01:07:00.000+08:00

Delphi 8!!The complete winner list of the Best of TechEd Europe 2004

Delphi CPU window

2004-07-21T15:34:00.000+08:00

Sometimes the CPU window pops up when running delphi project in the IDE . I always ignore it because I can't understand the symbols (is assembler, right?) on it. In Google I find few hints about the usage. Deepak Shenoy's blog demonstrates how we can avoid the infinite loop with CPU window when debugging projects. Thanks, Deepak!

Sudan: Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur

2004-07-20T14:53:00.000+08:00

According to a recent press release by Amnesty International, there is a mass rape for ethnic cleansing in Darfur. Sudanese girls and women even the pregnants are the victims."Five to six men would rape us, one after the other, for hours during six days, every night. My husband could not forgive me after this, he disowned me." Sudanese refugee woman interviewed by Amnesty International."I was

My favorite snack

2004-07-16T16:11:00.000+08:00

Besides keyboard and mouse, chocolate is an impt thing for me to do programming. When in the times of stress or pain (especially headaches), I usually have some chocolates. It's very helpful! Some researches also find out chocolate helps our brain to release more endorphins and so we feel release and experience pleasure.It is one of my favorite snack, DARS 45% dark chocolate. You must love it at

More games

2004-07-16T13:37:00.000+08:00

No need to work this afternoon due to typhoon :)Here are other games for killing timeTetrisTetris IIMoon PatrolPacman

Debug COM+

2004-07-15T01:54:00.000+08:00

I hate doing any about COM+ debugging in my work because when I started my 1st multi-tier app, my colleagues told me there was no way to debug it which like delphi project. So I can only set "Raise Exception.create(XXX)" to trace out the bugs. This method is very very time-consuming and no fun. But now I know I'm being cheated by them!!To debug a COM+ component, there are only few steps:1. Go to

Game II

2004-07-13T23:05:00.000+08:00

More fun! BedRock Bodsleddin Blowout

2004 Borland Conference

2004-07-12T03:02:00.000+08:00

Have you registered for the 2004 Borland Conference yet? Anyone joined it last year or before? In the schedule list, there are many cool sessions in this year. For Delphi, I have interests in the following session:2004 Overview of Delphi for the Microsoft .NET Framework by John Kaster 2012 ECO Boot Camp by Malcolm Groves 3010 Test-driven Programming by Charlie Calvert 3132 Multi-tier/

Gravity Game

2004-07-11T02:23:00.000+08:00

Let's have a fun time

Top 10 popular programming languages

2004-07-08T10:26:00.000+08:00

1. C2. Java3. C++4. VB5. PHP6. Perl7. Python8. Delphi9. SQL10. C# Well, we can say Delphi is a mainstream programming language, right?This index will be updated each month and you can get more detail in TIOBE.

Who will be fired?

2004-07-07T01:41:00.000+08:00

Here is a question:In a development team there are 4 programmers, Sam, Paul, Janet and Wil.Sam is a smart but lazy guy, never works overtime even deadline comes, while Paul is smart and energic. Janet is a silly in programming though she works hard. Wil has no intelligence in programming too but he is lazier than Janet and Paul.If you are the boss and now you have to fire one of them due to some

Version Control

2004-07-05T01:17:00.000+08:00

My friend Choi has trouble with keeping his source code version recently, as his files are often replaced with older version(s) by other colleagues in different office. So I sacrifice my TV time tonight to try Team Coherence which is a version control system by QSC. I have no experience in using any version control systems in software development before, as usually I have to develop a whole one (

Design Pattern

2004-07-02T00:31:00.000+08:00

Last year my supervisor introduced a book called "Design Pattern" to me and told me it was a great book for us in developing object-oriented softwares. He also kindly gave me his book. Up to now, however, I just read the first chapter :P as it is not an easy book for me, a junior developer. Can any one tells me, is it really a book not for the young? What is the best way to understand this

UI design

2004-06-30T14:52:00.000+08:00

Interface deisgn is a essential factor for a good program.Users usually resist softwares with unpleasant interface, no matter how wonderful its functions are.But not many programmers/ developers can be strong in both coding and UI design. Some programmers I know are good at coding, but the interfaces of their programs are really terrible.Today I find a book in Amazon called User Interface Design

Hot Hot Hot

2004-06-29T20:03:00.000+08:00

Too hot today, 37oC....When go out for lunch, I feel I'm in a stream boilerWhy there is a scorching sun in HongKong sky :(