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A couple of weeks ago I got a MacBook. The MacBook can be bought with a DVI-plug so that you can hook it up to your TV or bigger monitor.

We all know that Apple delivers great content in iTunes so that you can watch HD movies on your Mac and with the correct cables also on a TV. I use a Windows system right now to play movies… Continue reading

I was surfing the AppStore today and found that two well-known people from the Delphi Community publish iPhone Applications.

One is Jacob Thurman who also develops Castalia, an amazing IDE plugin for the Galileo-IDE.

The second is Daniel Magin. You may know Daniel from many conferences and other developer events. His sessions are legendary for the way he names the classes and objects in his examples. The class TEumel is… Continue reading

I just got an email from ModelMaker Tools that ModelMaker 10 has been released. With my interest in MDA, ModelMaker is a tool I simply cannot miss in my toolbox in order to create UML class diagrams.

Reading through the new feature list it is being said that the new syntax for the Delphi 2009 language constructs is being supported, i.e. Anonymous Methods and Generics. Furthermore, a lot of… Continue reading

Due to recent blog postings about TMS Software and their Ribbon Toolbar Component set I do feel the need to state a few things about a fellow CodeGear Technology Partner.

I met Bruno Fierens in 2006 at EKON. I was a student back then and amazingly he took my criticism about his components very seriously. I was not even a paying customer back then, still he made amends to his Continue reading

Two weeks ago, at EKON, Hadi Hariri (www.hadihariri.com) introduced me to a Visual Studio plugin called “JetBrains ReSharper”. I never could associate anything with the name, so he offered to give me a quick demo of the feature set.  As I am a happy customer of Castalia in the CodeGear Delphi IDE (www.twodesk.com) and really appreciate the time it saves me to write code, I missed quite a Continue reading