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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

Analysis of source code has become quite a “business” topic in the last few years. Due to that a lot of software tools have been released to help the developer to analyse the source code. In the Delphi World there is the well-known product called Code Healer by Sock Software (http://www.socksoftware.com/codehealer.php). However, a product called NDepend has come to my attention which offers a way to really dive into your code!

You can use Continue reading

For the first time, there will be two EKONs in Germany in one year. EKON Spring will be next week in Frankfurt. “The Road To Delphi” is the tagline of the conference and I am in the process of putting the finishing touches to my talks. I will be talking about Webservices and ECO in the VCL world. Two exciting topics. I am looking forward to it as I will Continue reading

The ECO team released a new beta version of ECO which will install into VS 2005, 2008 and RAD Studio 2007. Interestingly, there seem to be some nice new wizard features being developed right now. As you can see in the figure below, you can select the server-type you want to include into your project group/solution.

There are templates for a server that is run in a console window, a Continue reading