Re: [DUG] Web development

2011-06-06 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi Guys, For most apps that we here in NZ would deal with, PHP works fast enough. Two things can affect this: 1. Use a PHP accelerator that caches the compiled PHP - so you still have the convenience of a scripting language, with the speed of a compiled one. Having used Delphi to

Re: [DUG] FW: Web development

2011-06-06 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 10:47 on 7/06/2011 Colin wrote Forget IE7, I believe 1 in 10 people surfing the net still use IE 6 (though I think a lot of them are in China)... For our company, 6% of users hitting our site use IE 6... can't ignore even 6%! In New Zealand many large organisations at

Re: [DUG] FW: Web development

2011-06-06 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 12:53 on 7/06/2011 Paul wrote I was in Villa, Vanuatu visiting with the Red Cross there once and was introduced in a Duty Free shop (should have perhaps been called an 'ethics free shop') to a pack for $50 USD which identified itself as being from mainland China which had

Re: [DUG] PHP setup (was Web development)

2011-06-06 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI All, Aptana has it's own development $tudio, but also has free plugins for Eclipse. Both allow debugging for PHP. PHPclipse also works fine, but you need to find html, css and js plugins. kr Gary At 14:30 on 7/06/2011 you wrote Hi Robert I have been following the thread with

Re: [DUG] Delphi 4 PHP - stored proc

2011-03-02 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Rohit, Developing PHP in Eclipse with PHPeclipse, with JS and CSS addons against a Firebird DB backend is a breeze - even have extensive Web Services interfaces humming. Somehow I've never found the Delphi Form development paradigm worked in browser environment. cheers Gary

[DUG] ChCh Update

2011-02-28 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, Just a quick note to pass on a message from Peter Hyde - somehow his email to the List got clobbered ... He and is family are fine, but unfortunately the shock lead his dog's demise. House fine, but like John B., everything got put on the floor!! He is running an online community site

[DUG] Christchurch Members

2011-02-24 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, It is with great concern that we wait to hear of the wellbeing of our friends and colleagues in Christchurch. I know that John Bird and family are OK, albeit sleeping in the car and on friends couches. When convenient any news would be welcomed. And of course our love and concern is

Re: [DUG] DBEdit

2010-04-24 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Bob, If you are connected to a dataset with DBEdit as the data aware control, try refreshing the underlying dataset. Otherwise not quite sure what a TEdit refresh would achieve as it takes an input from the user. cheers Gary At 11:18 on 25/04/2010 you wrote To :

Re: [DUG] Virtual Machines

2010-02-04 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Rohit, I now run all my development environments (individually ) inside a VM, and use them remotely from a variety of machines on my LAN, and also remotely from wherever. Works a treat. kind regards Gary At 11:28 on 5/02/2010 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From:

Re: [DUG] Thank God it's Friday ...

2010-01-31 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 12:37 on 1/02/2010 you wrote Fair enough, although I didn't see any other responses. That's what you get for being at the beach on Friday! So, Gary, what are the answers you had for questions two and three? Answer 1 Weigh balls 1, 2, 3 against 4, 5, 6. If they balance,

[DUG] Thank God it's Friday ...

2010-01-28 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, This is usually for the Off topic List but I just checked and many are not registered on that list So here goes ... here are some questions from a well known company ... but don't cheat and search online ...try and think them through. Question 1 You have eight balls all of the

[DUG] For all you database geeks

2010-01-25 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, For those who remember where Interbase ( and Firebird ) came from ... a preview of a talk about the future of database (well his anyway) by Jim Starkey - with a photo to boot of the Wolf ( a first to my memory). http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/starkeytalk.html kr Gary Ref#:

Re: [DUG] Google(HTC) Phone

2010-01-22 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 16:40 on 23/01/2010 Paul wrote HOpefully it is centralised like you say Gary, But ... Some XML DTD will evolve no doubt for that g. Some XML DTD will evolve no doubt for that g / We live in a world that is like the jungle, it's survival of the fittest. The last

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary

2010-01-21 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all At 11:52 on 22/01/2010 Leigh wrote What can I do? We addressed this issue many years ago around the time of Delphi 3, then there were a number of Delphi 1 programmers ( 16bit remember ) who were being kept in the 16bit world ( Delphi 1 )supporting large corporate apps

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary

2010-01-20 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, Currently 212 confirmed members on the Delphi List. The Mailman Listserver automatically removes subscribers if their emails bounce 5 times, so the figure is reasonably accurate. cheers Gary List Admin Oh, for me: yes, yes, yes(PHP),php/js Ref#: 41006

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary

2010-01-20 Thread Gary T. Benner
Of Gary T. Benner Sent: Thursday, 21 January 2010 8:58 a.m. To: g...@benner.co.nz Cc: delphi@delphi.org.nz Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary HI all, Currently 212 confirmed members on the Delphi List. The Mailman Listserver automatically removes subscribers

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary

2010-01-20 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi all, At 10:38 on 21/01/2010 David wrote I suspect in many cases just one person from each workplace (or none as others have commented!) has replied so the replies are more a count of what workplaces are doing rather than of individuals. We fall into that category (also I don't think

Re: [DUG] MSSQL with D2007

2010-01-19 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, In working with John on this one I did some research on available resources for this task, and there seems to be a deafening lack of material available online. As opposed to other Delphi related topics. Is this due to (a) this is not something that is straight forward ( ie

Re: [DUG] Google Phone

2010-01-18 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi all, For those interested in all things Google ... check out Google Barcamp. http://groups.google.co.nz/group/nz-google-barcamp ..All things Google from Google Apps, GIS, search appliances, Wave, privacy, Android, SEO, Blogger, interoparbility, and anything else .. cheers Gary

Re: [DUG] Google(HTC) Phone

2010-01-17 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 09:54 on 18/01/2010 Jolyon wrote I was nearly tempted by the installment plan but fortunately (for me) the Vodafone rep was able to demonstrate the device as she herself had one. As a result I quickly changed my mind. The on-screen keyboard (it has no physical keyboard at

Re: [DUG] Google Phone

2010-01-17 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 11:16 on 18/01/2010 Leigh wrote These phones sells more than a net book which is around NZ$500. I would consider these phones another rip off. Smaller does not imply less ... or cheaper to build ... more often than not more expensive. cheers Gary Ref#: 41006

Re: [DUG] Joining the group

2010-01-17 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Willie, Go to www.delphi.org.nz and follow the instructions to join the lists ( not the website!! ) FYI the URL you get directed is: http://mailman.123.net.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi cheers Gary At 15:13 on 18/01/2010 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Willie

Re: [DUG] Budget/Turbo editions of Delphi

2009-09-21 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, As a Delphi teacher for some many years I found the Turbos irrelevant, as components are a fundamental part of good OO programming, and it was impossible to teach Delphi properly without new components being able to be created and installed in the IDE. Personally I'd like to

[DUG] Certified IT Professionals: ( was ..A change in upgrade policy ...)

2009-09-20 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI Guys, This thread needed a new Subject line ( actually it needed it sometime ago ... so please remember that if you alter the topic being discussed, PLEASE change the subject line, and delete any unnecessary copy from the previous message. Anyway, Todd's comment reminded me of this next

Re: [DUG] Certified IT Professionals:

2009-09-20 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi Guys, Before you spread your guts on the table guys, check it out. The people running NZCS have really got it together, and have created an incredibly dynamic group now. Long gone are the bearded types with obscure and arcane interests, outcasts from the long dismembered

Re: [DUG] Has Windows finished??

2009-09-14 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Jeremy, The requirement is essentially to know when the resources of the computer are available enough to use ... so just decide what level the system idle resource should be ( make it configurable perhaps ), put some hysteresis in there ( maybe 3 seconds ) and you're away. Just keep

Re: [DUG] Exporting to excel autoformat

2009-09-14 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Stephen, Surround the data in double quotes when exporting. This forces Excel to treat it as text. kr Gary At 12:53 on 15/09/2009 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Ayers, Stephen, stephen.ay...@nz.fujitsu.com Content Type: text/plain Attached: Hi We have an

Re: [DUG] CodeRage 4 videos are up

2009-09-13 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, I can download most as long as I only do one at a time ... However about three keep coming up with an error Sorry, you don't have access to this submission. I'll hassle DavidI about that. kr Gary At 02:50 on 13/09/2009 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From:

Re: [DUG] How to create a highlighted presentation

2009-07-15 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] John, A simple tutorial to help understand what's going on. Web applications have three levels of functionality: 1. Content - produced form the web server as HTML,images etc, and this may be static ( ie form a file ) or generated from your script code ( PHP,ASP etc) or Delphi ISAPI

[DUG] Open Office automation

2009-07-14 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, Does anyone have any experience with creating an automation interface to Open Office? Links, sample code, all appreciated. kind regards Gary Ref#: 41006 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin:

Re: [DUG] Open Office automation

2009-07-14 Thread Gary T. Benner
...@gmail.com Content Type: text/plain Attached: Gary T. Benner wrote: HI all, Does anyone have any experience with creating an automation interface to Open Office? I'd be interested too. You can use COM automation for Open Office in Windows, or there is uno_bridge for Delphi, which should

[DUG] delphi is fast-very fast

2009-07-01 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, Not yet Friday, but here's an interesting post re the relative speeds of Delphi to other languages such as C#, C++, Java, and PHP. http://compaspascal.blogspot.com/2009/06/delphi-is-fast-very-fast.html Here's a taste... Delphi is fast, very fast Jesper Hald and others recently did a

Re: [DUG] delphi is fast-very fast

2009-07-01 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, Careful they didn't do C or C++ A quick wipe of the glasses to remove the smudges from a long day at the 'board, and wow, you be right! Interesting that PHP was 1000-2500 times slower than Delphi though don't you think? kr Gary Ref#: 41006

Re: [DUG] delphi is fast-very fast

2009-07-01 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, As with anything, it's horses for courses. Compiled web apps are a pain to update compared to scripted ones, and with accelerators not that much different in performance. I've yet to see a web app with such demands as this benchmark test, and given most are limited by disk /

Re: [DUG] delphi is fast-very fast

2009-07-01 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, I think I'll wait till Friday next time kr Gary At 09:50 on 2/07/2009 Leigh wrote Frankly speaking, I am not impressed. ;-) Ref#: 41006 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin:

Re: [DUG] delphi is fast-very fast

2009-07-01 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, Just a quick note that if you use a PHP accelerator, this caches the compiled PHP code ( NOT content!! ) on that server, and increases perceived performance by 4 - 10 times. That single fact plus the convenience of updating parts of the site had me leave ISAPI apps long ago.

[DUG] Little but urgent job

2009-06-18 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, Looking for someone with a spare couple of hours who has experience with Indy and SSL to sort out an issue that I haven't the time to do myself today. Please email me off list. cheers gary Ref#: 41006 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group -

Re: [DUG] Embarcadero article

2009-06-15 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] At 21:05 on 15/06/2009 Paul wrote Project X is a rather suspicious title in that regard :-) Insightful as ever Paul! kr Gary Ref#: 41006 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin:

Re: [DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome!

2009-06-01 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI All, At 08:50 on 2/06/2009 Nick wrote I do the same here as well, running D2007 in a VM. Makes backing up far easier and means I can run linux as my host machine. Same here - running all my development environments with singular config on a separate VM ( vmware ), all on a Centos 5

Re: [DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome!

2009-05-29 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, I've been running my Delphi within a VM ( XP ) for quite some time now with similar results re speed. regards Gary At 18:35 on 29/05/2009 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Trevor, trev...@ihug.co.nz Content Type: text/plain Attached: Hi all, I may be

Re: [DUG] What is the most useful delphi component you are using?

2009-05-14 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, TComponent and all it's derivatives of course! cheers Gary At 11:35 on 14/05/2009 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Leigh Wanstead, lei...@softtech.co.nz Content Type: text/plain Attached: Good morning, What do you think? I love TStringList ;-) And I found

Re: [DUG] [Off topic] Senior developer

2009-05-12 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 15:19 on 13/05/2009 Richard wrote Unfortunately the only way you can become a senior developer is by providing this user group with a copy of your birth certificate. Only after the group agrees that you are at least 70 years old can you start using the distinguished title of

[DUG] Borland No More

2009-05-10 Thread Gary T. Benner
Hi all, In case you all hadn't heard: http://blogs.embarcadero.com/davidi/2009/05/06/39621 cheers gary Ref#: 41006 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi

Re: [DUG] Future of us Delphi programmer in New Zealand?

2009-04-08 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi all, For those who did not know, TNSTAAF means There's no such thing as a free lunch. kr Gary At 15:30 on 9/04/2009 Paul wrote Having all their data and their life being 'in the cloud' where you 'don't need to worry' is just plain psychologically unsatisfying and unsettling.

Re: [DUG] Website presentation

2009-04-05 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI John At 09:35 on 6/04/2009 you wrote What I was referring to is the 'nice' rounded boxes, like at http://www.memoriestodvdonline.com/, where: This topic is best covered by the css tutorials at www.sitepoint.com. You will need to have a graphics tool such as photoshop, fireworks,

Re: [DUG] Internationalization/Delphi 2009

2009-04-02 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Richard, In David I`s talk in Auckland he spoke about the ease with which you can now internationalise your application with Delphi 2009. You can easily export your Application`s Strings Resource, and in conjunction with a distributable tool for translators that uses this, the

Re: [DUG] Fwd: David I in Special Auckland Delphi Code Camp - Register Now!

2009-03-18 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, Also up at the Delphi User Group Website ... www.delphi.org.nz cheers Gary List Admin At 09:15 on 19/03/2009 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Sean Cross, sean.cr...@catalystrisk.co.nz Content Type: text/html Attached: The registration link wasn't visible in

[DUG] Newsletter from David I (if you didn't already receive it directly)

2009-01-27 Thread Gary T. Benner
Hi all, All of David I's newsletters are available at: http://www.delphi.org.nz/ kidn regards Gary = From: David I, davidi_...@codegear.com CodeGear/Embarcadero Developer Network Newsletter - January 2009 --

Re: [DUG] Integrating MS C# and Delphi

2009-01-25 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Bob, 1. Can you provide some more details of what you mean by control. 2. Are the Delphi and the C# applications to run on the same PC, the same subnet or over the Internet? 3. Do you manage the source code for both applications? ie can you recompile both? kind regards Gary

Re: [DUG] Controlling PC Hardware Ports

2008-10-10 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Colin, You can use a standard serial port component ( eg. Turbopower, free on Sourceforge ) and use that to toggle the serial port RTS/CTS line. cheers Gary At 15:37 on 10/10/2008 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Colin/Mina, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Type: text/html

[DUG] OO Programming - of architects and engineers

2008-07-30 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 18:33 on 30/07/2008 Todd wrote Well I would say a Software Architect must be an order of magnitude higher than a Software Engineer, given the lowly status of engineering in NZ. Having worked in an office of Professional Engineers Architects, they would both relunctantly

Re: [DUG] OO Programming - of architects and engineers

2008-07-30 Thread Gary T. Benner
, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Type: text/plain Attached: Gary == Gary T Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Like funeral directors, who need no formal qualifications, Gary anyone can buy a copy of Delphi, VS, or whatever, and call Gary themselves a software developer, software engineer

Re: [DUG] OO Programming

2008-07-29 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Alister, Horses for courses. Many programmers on this List work on just one or two large projects, in which case it is a no-brainer to use OO. On the other hand, many others are involved with many smaller projects, in which case the RAD approach wins out. Somewhere along the way

Re: [DUG] OO Programming

2008-07-29 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi all At 09:24 on 30/07/2008 David wrote Also, ModelMaker is an invaluable tool to help visualise OO code and how the various parts fit together. I, like, the Russians in the early days of the space race, still use a pencil! g cheers gary Ref#: 41006

Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi all, Just got this in the Firebird Yahoo Groups List. When I get a snap ( as in the card game ) I start to wonder. What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below ) Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi in just maintenance? Are

Re: [DUG] Faking a serial port

2008-07-23 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Simon, And if you are using laptop or other device limited with comm ports, you can get USB - Comport adapters cheaper than you can develop such an app. kr gary At 14:31 on 24/07/2008 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Neven MacEwan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Type:

Re: [DUG] This is perplexing !

2008-07-14 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Jeremy, Just as an exercise, can you quickly create a test app with a copy of the MDI unit ( converted back to SDI) , and see if the error still persists? Then still ina test app move to MDi again. Eliminating all other issues (that may be caused) with the main application you have

Re: [DUG] This is perplexing !

2008-07-14 Thread Gary T. Benner
TWebBrowser.I get the same !!!nbsp; Something tells me, there MUST be something to do with MDI child thats an issue..AGH !Jeremy Original Message Subject: RE: Re: [DUG] This is perplexing ! From: Gary T. Benner lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; Date: Tue, July 15, 2008 11:59 am

[DUG] test

2008-07-08 Thread Gary T. Benner
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[DUG] test

2008-06-24 Thread Gary T. Benner
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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test only

2008-06-24 Thread Gary T. Benner
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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test

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[DUG] test

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[DUG] List Server Back Up

2008-06-24 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, Well you will have now realised that the Delphi List is back up. Our apologies for the outage, but a fried server, including the backup disks, has presented some problems, none the least a decent bill from Computer Forensics. Sorry about the multiple tests earlier, but they had all

Re: [DUG] List Server Back Up

2008-06-24 Thread Gary T. Benner
, fantastic! One of the very few places that is allowed to pull a hard drive to bits, and put it back together and still be under warranty. Gary T. Benner wrote: HI all, Well you will have now realised that the Delphi List is back up. Our apologies for the outage, but a fried server, including

RE: RE: [DUG] DBX4 drivers for firebird

2008-05-19 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, It is with some faint hope that common sense from Embarcadero will override some of the petty thinking that has allowed the divorce of IB and FB to continue so long. Surely by now they can see the advantages that MySQL AB have gained from a dual licencing business model. Too

[DUG] Special Live, Online Event - chat with CodeGear and Embarcadero CEO(s)

2008-05-18 Thread Gary T. Benner
Hi guys, I think this is happening 5am Friday our time - could be interesting ... anyone got the tools to record this and play back later? cheers Gary CodeGear Developer Network (CDN) - Special Live, Online Event - chat with CodeGear and Embarcadero CEO(s) - Thursday, May 22nd, 10:00am PT

RE: Re: [DUG] Developers not upgrading

2008-05-11 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi all, I'd like to add another dimension to this conversation ... after talking to today to a client who told me that he had developers leaving as they saw their career path with C#, and not Delphi. I talked about the migration path with Delphi so they could be doing both Pascal and

RE: RE: [DUG] So Embacadero has purchased CodeGear....

2008-05-07 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI All, Just in case you got confused like me, it is Embarcadero. Frankly, I'm not too fussed about who it is at the moment - but I will be in 6 - 12 months time no doubt. It is what they do with Codegear / Delphi that is the question. Borland has always had an inverse relationship

[DUG] ADMIN: Delphi List Issues

2008-04-22 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, As mentioned earlier we have a continuing battle with (generally larger) ISP's and Network Operators who use broad brush techniques to combat the ever increasing amount of spam. Email List Servers are a target as they broadcast email to many people, and when these guys

[DUG] Anyone in the Hawkes Bay Area needing work?

2007-12-09 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI all, If there is anyone in the Hawkes Bay are needing work, please get back to me ( off list please ). kr Gary Ref#: 41006 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin:

[DUG] List Archive .. was ... Good component packs

2007-10-02 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, At 21:11 on 2/10/2007 David Brennan wrote Is there a searchable DUG archive still? This question has been asked a few times before so you might be able to find some good answers there. Links to the List Archive are at the User Group website ... www.delphi.org.nz. The List Mail

RE: [DUG] Copy WideString to the clipboard

2007-09-09 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi Csaba, Check out this Unicode editor that has it all ... http://www.soft-gems.net:8080/browse/~raw,r=116/library/UniCodeEditor/Source/UniCodeEditor.pas cheers Gary At 04:32 on 10/09/2007 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Csaba Gajo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Type:

RE: Re: [DUG] Annoying Colin Fraser auto responder

2007-07-02 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, Yup, have put his subscription on vacation where I presume he is. kr Gary At 12:37 on 3/07/2007 Richard wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Richard Vowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Heinz wrote: Hi guys Am I the only one continually getting these pointless auto

RE: Re: [DUG] Graphical User Interface Design

2007-06-28 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI All, At 10:57 on 29/06/2007 Jeremy wrote The only drawback with them is that they are Aussies! Hey, that's not nice. g Looks like they got really upset at that last comment and took their website offline . http://www.clevericons.com.au/ returns server not found. kr gary

RE: [DUG] Proxies unit

2007-06-26 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI Rohit, Check out: http://dn.codegear.com/article/27717 cheers gary At 16:07 on 27/06/2007 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Rohit Gupta, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Type: text/html Attached: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Using D7, I have a

RE: Re: [DUG] Vista Summary Link

2007-04-20 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, I've linked some of these articles on the DUG website: http://www.delphi.org.nz cheers Gary At 13:04 on 20/04/2007 you wrote To : delphi@delphi.org.nz CC : From: Alister Christie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Type: text/plain Attached: There is a bunch of stuff - try for

[DUG]: The List

2003-11-16 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message [Reply] HI all, I mentioned last week that the new list server would be commissioned over the weekend. Unfortunately due to personal committments, that did not happen. It will happen tonight. What you

[DUG]: Delphi Developer Required

2003-11-16 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message HI all, Since there's so much discussion on pronounciation etc, there must be heaps of you with not enough work g. I've been approached by a contact who is looking for a couple of experienced Delphi developers, with good User Interface and

[DUG]: List Management

2003-11-10 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Hi all, Well at last we have the new List Server in action, and tested. Before I move the three active Borland Developer Lists over (DELPHI, OFFTOPIC, INTERBASE) I just wanted to check with y'all that this arrangement is

[DUG]: Delphi Testing Tools

2003-10-26 Thread GARY T BENNER
Hi all, I note that the Turbopower QA Suite has not been made Open Source, and their website indicates it is not available anymore. What other such tools are out there, and / or has someone else taken over the product? Looking for Memory leak testing, stress testing etc. regards Gary

[DUG]: test-please ignore

2003-07-29 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Gary Benner -Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lecturer in Information Technology- Waiariki Institute of Technology Ref#: 41006

[DUG]: test - please ignore

2003-07-29 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Gary Benner -Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lecturer in Information Technology- Waiariki Institute of Technology Ref#: 41006

[DUG]: test - please ignore (DUG)

2003-07-29 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Gary Benner -Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lecturer in Information Technology- Waiariki Institute of Technology Ref#: 41006

[DUG]: What's up with the DUG? - The good news

2003-07-27 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Hi all, Just to let you all know that our new Linux based Mailman system is now installed and being tested. Watch this space. Gary Steve List Admins.

[DUG]: list admin test - please ignore

2003-03-23 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Gary Benner - Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corporate Software New Zealand Limited Auckland - Tauranga 123 Internet Ltd - Web Hosting and

[DUG]: List Admin test - Please Ignore

2003-03-21 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Gary Benner - Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corporate Software New Zealand Limited Auckland - Tauranga 123 Internet Ltd - Web Hosting and

[DUG]: Employment opportunity

2003-01-19 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message Hi all, From Saturday's Herald: Cook Executive Recruitment Limited Object Oriented Programmer Delphi, C++, .NET Reference #1917 Ph 09 309 3886

[DUG]: TurboPower announces withdrawal from retail business - Open SourceInitiative

2003-01-07 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message HI all, Interesting decision? Looks like they're closing up this shop - well their owners (see end of press release) are. Turbopower have been a consistently good supplier of addons to Borland tools since the original

RE: Re: [DUG]: TurboPower announces withdrawal from retailbusiness-Open Source Ini

2003-01-07 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message [Reply] At 17:07 on 8/01/2003 you wrote Steve Yep http://www.aristocrat.com.au/ I note that one of their games is called "Peacock Flutter". More and more

[DUG]: Thank you

2002-11-20 Thread Gary T. Benner
Title: myOffice Email Message HI All, For the record: regards Gary To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC : From: Sergei Stenkov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Type: text/html Attached:

[DUG]: Delphi Vacancy

2002-09-23 Thread Gary T. Benner
HI All, Hot of the wires: regards Gary I'm looking for a fulltime person to become "product champion" for a warehouse management package. They would take ownership of the product providing direction,

RE: Re: [DUG]: Wazzat? Borland newsletter thingy

2002-09-17 Thread Gary T. Benner
Hi all, At 20:25 on 17/09/2002 you wrote It was real. Damned stupid email address tho. That address was unusable in my system - hence whay they have it that way. The Buk email delivery service does not want to get replies. kr Gary

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