Issue #53 of the Pascal Newsletter has been published. This issue has three
articles with topics including code profiling with non-breaking breakpoints, YAPI and setting a component's
default event handler. We'd like to thank all the authors who contributed articles or prizes for this
issue.
Useful tools that reside in the system tray. Functions in this preview
release include: WhoAmI, delete recent docs older than a specific age or with no target, change screen
resolution, toggle screen saver on / off, change wallpaper, change wallpaper display option, ping and
synchronise clock. Please send feature suggestions and bug reports via our contact page.
TfrmPopup is a base form for creating popup forms that slide into view
near the Windows System Tray. Popup forms can be transparent and now have a padding between themselves
and the edges of the screen.
The 'Taming the Lizard With Delphi' tutorial has been updated with a
simplified section about installing the Mozilla ActiveX Control and a workaround for problems
importing the control in Delphi 7 and Delphi 2005.
TconDesktop is a class for manipulating various Windows desktop settings.
It can enable or disable Active desktop, read or change the current Wallpaper settings, read all the
screen resolutions supported, read or change the current screen resolution and read the locations of
the current user and common desktop folders.
Services are destined to play a greater part in Borland's future as the
company assists customers around Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
Software Development Magazine Announces Finalists for the 15th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
19-Jan-05
Finalists for the 15th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence
Awards have been chosen. The evaluation process will take place now through early March. Winners will be
honored at a gala ceremony on the evening of March 16th 2005 in Santa Clara, California at SD WEST 2005
and in the June 2005 issue of Software Development.
Borland has made its first corporate purchase in two years, acquiring software
process consulting specialist TeraQuest Metrics Inc. Borland plans to integrate TeraQuest's expertise,
encapsulated in templates for activities such as change management, project planning and requirements
gathering, into its ALM tools, processes and services.
At the BorCon 2004 closing session, one of the new BDN applications launched
was a community calendar, code named EventCentral. Any BDN member can use EventCentral to post events of
interest to Borland customers anywhere around the world. Events must be approved by a sysop to be publicly
visible.
http://www.DelphiGamer.com recently relauched and will soon be known as
"Pascal Game Development" or PGD for short. To coincide with the relaunch, a themed game programming
competition has been announced.
The Java Tools Community may not be a party where no one came, but it appears
to be a party where guests showed up, but nobody talked and not much happened.
Read the chat log and listen to the live chat with Ramesh on the easy,
flexible, and powerful way to develop .NET data remoting applications in Delphi 2005.
Borland today announced that its fourth quarter and year end 2004
teleconference and simultaneous Webcast is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time, on Tuesday
1st February 2005.
Firebird developers are due to do an alpha release of version 2.0 of the
open source database later this month and have completed work on SMP support, which is due to be
released in late spring.
