Delphi is still in Top 20… barely
Delphi is still in Top 20… but barely. It is the last one. It may fall any time. Too sad….
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How difficult is to write a solid software protection (licensing) scheme?
Extracting unique identification numbers from hardware and using them for software protection scheme I had customers that are purchasing a single software license but using it on multiple computers so I wanted to prevent them from doing so. The solution I have found was to generate a license key that is unique for each computer.
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Delphi developers are now charged for bug fixes [via Update Subscription]
Starting this year Embarcadero has a new plan to milk money from its customers. With the new ‘Update Subscription’ plan, Embarcadero wants to charge 30% from original purchase price, each year, each customer that wants access to product bug fixes (that were not supposed to be there anyway). Eve more, there is no warranty that
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More nasty bugs related to Delphi packages
The problem My Delphi XE started to act strange lately. I have unit Unit2.pas that uses ‘FormatBytes’ declared in Unit1.pas. When I try to compile Unit2 Delphi says that it cannot find FormatBytes. But FormatBytes is there, in Unit1 !! Unit1 belongs to Package1 and Unit2 to Package2 (Package2 depends on Package1). Even more
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Those sundried-brain old school PHP programmers
It’s truly a shame that in these modern days, some developers still cling to coding in Notepad. Many of them are so far from grasping advanced concepts such as IDEs. RAD? Well, they’ve never heard of it. Framework? “Why use a framework… I can do all that code by hand,” one of them said. Just
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We all know DotNet sucks
We all know DotNet sucks. But how bad it sucks? James S. Gibbons put this to the test. And the results are impressive. DotNet is ‘coding horrors’ came to life. I cannot image the person that really chooses to use in interpreted language like DotNet. Details Related article: How difficult is to write a solid
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