Kyley wrote:
My large pas files are 151,000 lines of code.
Sheesh! That is humongous. What the hell is it?
The Accredo database engine is 21,500 lines and I thought that was
getting a bit on the big size for one pas file.
Cheers,
Paul.
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NZ
Kyley wrote:
Its code generated.. :) I never touch it at all... I have an
application I wrote that builds my database, stored
procedures, and source code for all the objects etc etc..
don't need to try and condense it at all :)
Ah, right. Metaprogamming - the one true way. Data is code.
I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives should be able to
improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to no seek-times and
manage to read thousands of small files at high speed.
I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon (like OCZ Z-Drive,
or PhotoFast
What I have done is no different than if you use a DFM or a modelmaker or
UML code generating type app. I am not metaprogramming at all.. (well not
much ) The main reason the files are humongoues, is because delphi does not
support Generics :D not my version anyway.. By using the code generator I
I have one of those $500 Asus EEE computers that runs windows XP on 256MB of
ram, and a 4GB SSD.. takes 25seconds to boot up.. way faster than any other
laptop.. still has 120mb free ram and 1gb of disk space.. I plug a USB hdd
into it and its great. battery life is awesome
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009
except you'd go blind if you had to do any real dev work on because of
the small screen. I now plug an external 24 inch screen into my laptop
for a similar reason (fewer headaches). The laptop does have a 17 inch
screen but at 1920x1200 things are a bit small. I remember when I was
first
id never work on that little thing.. dvd player.. I have a Quad Core with 2
22 montiors running 1600x1050
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Alister Christie
alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote:
except you'd go blind if you had to do any real dev work on because of
the small screen. I now plug an
If money is not an issue, I think two 30 inch lcd monitors is the way to go
;-)
I only got one at home to look at my photos. It is amazing. I used a spyder
to adjusted the color. I am programming c at home using gcc which is great
to look at everything on that 30inch lcd monitor.
Have a nice day
I'd like to plug 2 monitors into my laptop, but not supported - a 30
inch screen would be good to - but a bit expensive at the moment, plus
it requires dual dvi (as far as I understand). I think I'll get a
desktop for my next dev machine for just this reason.
Alister Christie
Computers for
raises a good point. as a software developer, how much do you invest in
yourself on a yearly basis for hardware and software costs to run a
business? if you charge by the hour etc. or run a business.. there must be
some kind of budget you allocate from the income stream to upkeep your
hardware
If you want two monitors on a laptop, look at
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/
Personally I don't think I will go back to using a desktop any time soon. My
combination of 24 monitor and 17 laptop works fine. Big screen for dev,
small screen for email, word etc,
Regards
I agree Kyley, you do need to re-invest in your Hardwarebetter you have
it than the taxman take your $$but there is one thing that you need to
keep in mind.
Whilst your software runs at an amazing pace on your PC, the customer may
not have such a speedy machine and your software may run
As for 2 monitors, I tried that a few years back, but I have to say it
just annoyed me, so I have go back to a big single monitor. I guess
its about what works for me and I know others will say its mad, bit
honestly it doenst bother me having 1 monitor.
Well I would say its time to try
For testing on slower PCs, here's one thought of mine.
I use VirtualPC for doing a lot of testing. While I accept it's
difficult to quantify how much slower a VPC is rather than my desktop,
it is most definitely slower. Plus you have the ability to control the
memory available to the VPC.
Well here at my day job I unfortunately dont have that opportunity. My
manager just sees it as excess and is more worried about what other people
would think because he is scare other managers would think he is favouring
his team with the IT budget.thats the problem when your manager is not
or
thats a good idea Conor. Didnt think of that :-)
Jeremy
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Conor Boyd conor.b...@trimble.co.nzwrote:
For testing on slower PCs, here's one thought of mine.
I use VirtualPC for doing a lot of testing. While I accept it's difficult
to quantify how much slower
Ditto for the same reasons.
MMTaskBar or UltraMon. Essential for multiple monitors.
-Original Message-
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Phil Scadden
As for 2 monitors, I tried that a few years back, but I have to say it
just
I think with 2 30 inch screens you'd get neck strain. I've heard of
people having a 30 inch screen and two smaller screens rotated either
side (so that their width matches the height of the big screen) - which
means that you don't have a gap directly in front of you.
I have a 26 inch screen
The 2 * 30 inch screens sounded too much to me too although obviously if it
works for someone then go for it!
With screens I find it is a bell curve, more is most definitely best, but
only up to a point, then the extra space actually becomes distracting. With
my 24 screen at work (screen #2,
its gone very quite all of a suddenhas everyone with dual monitors had
to go have a lie-down to rest their necks ? :-D
Jeremy
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, David Brennan
dugda...@dbsolutions.co.nzwrote:
The 2 * 30 inch screens sounded too much to me too although obviously if it
Quite the opposite.
We're all being so productive with our dual monitors that we've been too
busy to contribute any more. :-P
C.
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009
sorry . did your you've got mail wave file wake you up? hehehe
:-D
Jeremy
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Conor Boyd conor.b...@trimble.co.nzwrote:
Quite the opposite.
We're all being so productive with our dual monitors that we've been too
busy to contribute any more. :-P
C.
I was watching a video on 2/3rds of the left monitor. Checking mail on the
other 3rd and doing delphi on the left monitor.. Very.. productive.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com wrote:
sorry . did your you've got mail wave file wake you up? hehehe
:-D
Cleaning up the office and came across a few items folks might want.
These are all original, still shrink wrapped, unused New User editions.
C++Builder 2007 Enterprise Edition
Rad Studio 2007 Architect Edition - (Delphi and C++)
Delphi and C++Builder 2009 Architect Edition - (Does not have
2 minor 2nd-hand SSD points:
- Joel says : boot time went from 2 minutes to 30 seconds, but *compile*
time didn't change (probably cpu bound) :
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/27.html
- Linus says : Get Intel SSD's, and ignore throughput figures (though
250MB/s reads...) as random
well.. my cheap ass little asus eee certainly boots windows XP with its 4gb
SSD much faster than my fathers Quad Core...
Also, our old dos DBF database software reindexes faster on that little SSD
than many of our desktop computers with big grunty cpus and decent HDD's ..
so.. i guess it does
I would like to offer some suggestion. Write less code ;-)
Regards
Leigh
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From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz
[mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]on Behalf Of Kurt
Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 4:40 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG]
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