At my office we are building and supporting software for an insurance company. We have chosen for an architecture where there is one request record. This is connected to one or more variance records, which are in turn connected to the type of insurance. There is also a connection to a number of employees connected […]
Read moreCustom Components in Turbo Delphi
Suppose you have downloaded Turbo Delphi and you have created some custom components you wish to use in your application. Borland (or DevCon) states that the Explorer Edition does not allow for custom components to be installed. You need the Professional edition for this, which costs money (under $500, they say). But what if you have, […]
Read moreSo far, so good
I did my 100% shot of medicine yesterday and so far I haven’t had any trouble with any side effects. Hopefully is stays this way and I hope I can soon start blogging about more technical stuff again ;-).
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Just a quick update on my situation. I have been taking Rebif (medicine) for the last 7 weeks now. First I started with a 20% dose and had no side effects, then after two weeks I increased the dose to 50%. More than doubled, but still no side effects. Tonight I am going to increase […]
Read moreNew blog software
Microsoft has released a beta of their blogging software. Windows Live Writer. It has a nice and clean look and feel to it. Of course it was desiigned to work with Windows Live Spaces, but it also works with other blogging software, such as WordPress (the one this blog uses). It's nice to use and […]
Read moreFree Delphi (soon)
Borland really wants to help the developer i.e. the home developer with a free IDE. This way people can learn how to use a programming language, such as Delphi or Delphi.NET. On their site (www.turboexplorer.com) they count down the days until the release of these packages. Only drawback in using this IDE is that you […]
Read moreBeen a while…
It's been quite some time since my last blog post (more than 2 months). The reason for this delay is the problems I am currently experiencing from an 'MS attack'. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis about 2 months back. I went to the doctor's office because my hands were feeling really numb. They have […]
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Since a couple of days my blog is the target of a spammer in the comments. A quick search on the internet pointed me to Nio's Weblog where I could find the Anti Spam Image plugin for WordPress. So, from now on, when you want to post a comment on one of the items here, […]
Read moreDefaults
Oracle 9i and up provide you with a new keyword: DEFAULT. This means you can get to the default values of a column when doing an insert or update. I have tried some things with this on my 10G XE database and I have come up with the following script to test it all (a […]
Read moreCascading Delete
An option that has been around for a long time in the Oracle Database is ‘ON DELETE CASCADE’ on a foreign key. I almost never use this option, because the front-end takes care of this. But, since there are going to be more types of front-ends to the same database it’s a good idea to […]
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