There’s an exclusive club in Sweden that holds but a few precious members. They consist of the people at the computer/projector table, who have done the Oasis conference Saturday mass twice. The Oasis conference stays two years at every location. And the highlight of the conference is always the big mass on Saturday. The powerpoint [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
July 28, 2007
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July 25, 2007
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Behold, I Make All Things New
I wouldn’t be true to form unless I wrote a new program this year as well for the Oasis conference. The upside of writing new software all the time is that you get to stay on the bleeding edge of features. Anything you could possibly want in a program is just a few lines of [...]
July 21, 2007
22:43
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I Spot an Oasis on the Horizon
Currently writing this from my mom’s place in Skövde. I’ve relocated my base of operations here temporarily, because Oasis, the big annual conference, is due in a few days. I’m nervous. I’ve planned the whole thing from Skärhamn this year so I really haven’t talked to my team yet so far, and I’m worrying about [...]
July 20, 2007
17:14
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Delphi WTF
Yeah, like TObject is some kind of special, custom object that you can’t find. I want Visual Studio.
July 19, 2007
18:38
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Deep, Dark Confessions
I have a dark secret. It’s one of those secrets you pray that people really won’t find out about; that you hide in dark closets and only bring out late at night when (supposedly) everyone is asleep. Whenever I engage in this dark, mysterious secret of mine, I worry if the neighbors can hear me [...]
July 17, 2007
09:24
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Telephone Courtesies
These are some practical guidelines for telephone courtesy that you should know about. They seem to work very well. Some come from our company, some from myself. Answering machines have a purpose. They are there to answer when I either can’t or won’t. Calling five times in a row and every time getting the answering [...]
July 13, 2007
21:15
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Great Mysteries
I find myself from time to time putting on headphones, and then I forget to turn on music. And then I realize that I’ve spent the last 30 minutes in bed, surfing the net, with big clunky headphones on, in the deepest silence. This is a great mystery.
July 12, 2007
14:29
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Delphi Builds Suck
Well, I never throught I’d write a post with that title. I’m trying to script builds of Delphi programs in PowerShell. We now have an excellent script for interfacing with Vault and getting latest versions of source code from that. It’s sweet. But building Delphi programs from the command line remains a mystery. There simply [...]
July 2, 2007
19:50
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Europe Playing Second Strings
There was a very good quote in the last issue of Der Spiegel: Die Europäer haben oft geklagt über die amerikanische Dominanz, das selbstbewusste, manchmal auch einfach nur arrogante Auftreten der Vereinigten Staaten, aber insgeheim waren sie häufig ganz froh, in der zweiten Reihe zu sitzen. The Europeans often complain about the United States being [...]