Category Archives: Programming

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Beware the msvcrt.dll

Posted on 2008-06-28 by Oliver

As noted previously, the msvcrt.dll got the state of a system library and is thus included in systems from XP up. On earlier systems you will have to have a particular service pack level or get the redistributable package with … Continue reading →

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Version numbers of DDKBUILD.CMD and DDKWizard

Posted on 2008-06-27 by Oliver

I have just finished moving all previous DDKBUILD.CMD and DDKWizard versions under version control – subversion, to be more precise. This means there will be a change of the way how the version number is represented. Currently we have the … Continue reading →

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I am told that size doesn’t matter (anymore)!

Posted on 2008-06-25 by Oliver

Chris Wimmer, a fellow programmer, told me in a chat today, that the size of applications doesn’t matter. But I’ll let you decide. However, the program which he wrote is worthwhile regardless of its size. Even more so the library … Continue reading →

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A quick reply

Posted on 2008-06-24 by Oliver

The assertion that I rushed to my decision as it was raised couldn’t be further from the truth. First of all it hasn’t been the first time for me to think about this step and secondly I had several sleepless … Continue reading →

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Giving up on the Delphi community

Posted on 2008-06-24 by Oliver

Hi, after some sleepless nights and thinking a lot about the pros and cons, I decided to leave the Delphi community. It isn’t clear to me, whether it is the Delphi community that changed so much, or whether it is … Continue reading →

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DLOAD_ERROR_HANDLER not specified

Posted on 2008-06-20 by Oliver

If you’re using the Windows 2008 Server WDK in order to develop usermode code, you’ll have stumbled over this error message referencing DLOAD_ERROR_HANDLER: Warning: DLOAD_ERROR_HANDLER not specified in $(MAKEDIR) I am not yet sure whether you have to give a … Continue reading →

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Version-controlled edit via Bash script (Debian)

Posted on 2008-06-03 by Oliver

As I am currently setting up a new server, I thought it would be a good idea to keep most of the configuration files (e.g. /etc) under version control. RCS comes in handy to achieve just that, but laziness requires … Continue reading →

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Die (ehemals) Net(te) Community

Posted on 2008-05-13 by Oliver

Peter Herzog, Betreiber von Spotlight.de, hat heute bekanntgegeben, daß er Spotlight als Projekt einstellt. Worte des Bedauerns, aber kein Wort darüber was mit den Benutzerdaten passieren soll. Aber was soll es denn auch – spätestens seit er als Forenbetreiber beschloß, … Continue reading →

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“Shoot the messenger”?

Posted on 2008-05-12 by Oliver

In einem Blogbeitrag (Englisch) habe ich meine Meinung sowie die Fakten zum Thema “Unicode und Delphi” dargelegt und beschrieben, warum ich die Umstellung der Bedeutung von PChar auf PWideChar ablehne. Da sich eine rege Diskussion angebahnt hat und es so … Continue reading →

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Borland sells CodeGear

Posted on 2008-05-07 by Oliver

Today the news of the purchase of CodeGear by Embarcadero Technologies transpired. I am wondering what this brings us (the developers), given the interesting past of Borland. First it was “Borland” with products like “Borland Pascal” (and “Turbo Pascal”) and … Continue reading →

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Little adventure with SourceForge’s CVS

Posted on 2008-04-21 by Oliver

In the scope of WinDirStat I had to take the little hurdle of branching in the past. Now, supposedly I could have simply opened a support request to the staff, but then I thought of it again, since I had … Continue reading →

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Is ignorance bliss?

Posted on 2008-04-19 by Oliver

Wow, look at that Quality Central article. Now look at the reply. Now look closer at the affected version and the date when it was reported. It’s unbelievable, but now – after working a while with Borland C++ Builder 6 … Continue reading →

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Busy just like me :)

Posted on 2008-04-08 by Oliver

… the guys from OSR have put up the fixed DDKBUILD versions now. Consequently I have mirrored the DDKBUILD.BAT version 6.12 on the DDKWizard website. // Oliver

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Why is it, we developers tend to …

Posted on 2008-04-06 by Oliver

… waste system resources all the time? Did you notice that, although computers are nominally a few hundred times faster than 15 years ago, software still tends to run sluggish and is overloaded with features? How comes we’re so careless … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard manual revised

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Oliver

Although the manual is still perfectly valid for version 1.2.0a of DDKWizard and covers also older versions, I took the time to completely revise it. This means that it contains some updated information, some additional information and some corrections. If … Continue reading →

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Sounds like a fairly interesting idea …

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Oliver

Have a look at RunEl and don’t miss out when Chris presents the implementation of his newest idea. An UAC implementation which works on XP and Vista but is more user-friendly. // Oliver PS: I understand it’s still April, but … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.1 released

Posted on 2008-03-21 by Oliver

One issue was reported by Vladimir Zinin in the article about DDKBUILD on OSR Online already back in October 2007. However, since I hadn’t actually built any x64 code with the newer 6001.* WDK, and since Vladimir had mentioned that … Continue reading →

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Interesting, the WDK documentation now separate

Posted on 2008-02-24 by Oliver

While many of us who are involved in driver development to some degree have already downloaded a few of those updated WDK documentation packages, I didn’t actually know that it’s now even separate when shipped with the WDK. Installing the … Continue reading →

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Interesting MSDN Magazine article

Posted on 2008-01-27 by Oliver

Folow link!

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DDKBUILD 7.0 final released

Posted on 2008-01-20 by Oliver

I am pleased to announce the release of DDKBUILD.CMD 7.0 final. User input has helped a lot to define the feature set and refine the features once introduced. It has been almost two years since the first public beta, so … Continue reading →

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