Today i found a absolut crazy article in the net. so i decided to create my first “IT Joke and Truth” series.

ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings

ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) like to get money also for sold ringtones, cause if your phone is ringing it is a public concert!!!!! how cool is that i prefer more about concerts with a good pa and real persons. are they crazy? a ringing phone is a concert? i think about watching a dvd on my iphone or notebook, yeaaaahhh i am a cinema

the next generation is not like in woodstock having fun drinking and dancing and listening to the music, (no no no (!!!)) the next generation is sitting in a small room, listening to a small stupid speaker the newest sound and telling us, WHAT A GREAT CONCERT!!!

more details can be found here: ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings

You can find also the offical document ASCAP againts AT&T here.

found on Eff.Org

regards with LOL

daniel magin

Think LOL

Time is running, did you know Embarcadero is offering a great deal?

You update your existing Delphi 2007,2006,… Version to Delphi 2009 and Embarcadero is updateing your update for free to a RadStudio 2009 Version. So you get not only Delphi! RadStudio includes also Delphi Prism (The .net Dev Tool) and C++Builder and much more stuff.

This offer is finished at 26. Juni, so time is running.

Click here for more details

regards

daniel magin

Think Delphi!

You remeber on Delphi Live! 2009 the Touch Presentation from Chris Benson?
Now Microsoft announced yesterday in a blog the MultiTouch Pack for Windows 7.

Link to Microsoft blog

also a intresting Link to Microsoft Surface Globe a complete new written application using the Virtual Earth 3D Engine and developed from the ground for touch.

regards

daniel magin

Think Touch 

today i was searching some lost document, i try to find it over the current date.
after the open windows search i open the enhanced stuff and over the dialog a create the search for all files of today. what did i see?

yes, datum (that’s german and means in english date) := ‘28.05.2009′ LOL

but microsoft did forget the “;” where can i report the bug?

regards

daniel magin

Think Delphi

I created a new Delphi Prism Project on my new Windows 2008 64-bit machine. The developing process direct on this machine incl. Delphi Prism (last version) incl. in the backend a Interbase 2009 server. The asp.net application is communicating over dbxpress the .net stuff in delphi prism and interbase driver in a nice and easy to develope way.

The Application is running fine during development process with Delphi Prism. After deploying in IIS7 and Windows 2008 64-bit i get the message dbxint.dll not found. After hours of searching i was absolute shure the dll’s are in the correct place.

Ok after checking if all drivers and assemblies are in system path the error message did not gone away. so i found also a similar old bug report in qc here.

I found out the application is running on a 32bit OS fine, but i don’t like to deinstall my complete server and to install agin a 32 bit version of windows 2008. that’s not the way i like to go.

so i was checking the new features how can i tell IIS7 to work with a 32 and 64bit .net framework parallel. again some hours of reading the new configuration stuff i found out YES IT CAN!

In IIS7 (not in earlier versions) you can create manual in a special configuration file by hand exact this stuff. first you have to open C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config the file:  applicationHost.config

Search for <applicationPools>

you see in this sections all your IIS Web Pools.

Now we are Creating two diffrent Pools one for asp.net with 64 and one with 32 bit support, with adding this lines in this section:

 <add name=”MyASPNET32bit” autoStart=”true” enable32BitAppOnWin64=”true” />
 <add name=”MyASPNET64bit” autoStart=”true” enable32BitAppOnWin64=”false” />

after closing you can find in your IIS7 Administaion Tool both Pools. After changing the pool to MyASPNET32bit  to my Delphi Prism Application with asp.net and dbxpress, all runs fine.

I think something in dbx stuff in .net must have some PInvoke stuff in 32bit or not correct signed or what ever. there is the problem, where the 64.bit stuff will not except. but this is a simple workaraound and i hope the bug will fixed soon.

have fun and regards

daniel magin

Think Delphi

EDIT: SEE IN COMMENTS A EASY WAY TO DO IT FROM SEBASTIAN GINGTER

CodeGear have published on the server the new Updates 3 and 4 for Delphi 2009.

A complete list with all bugfixes can be found here

Delphi 2009 Update 3 Bug Fix List

Delphi 2009 Update 4 Bug Fix List

Updates can be found here

regards
Daniel Magin

Think Delphi

On email and telphone support more and more customers ask me how (legal?) to register a InterBase Server also as a Bakup Server?

Yes with the same Serial number you can install a second server!

It is legal! In OperationsGudie (see Doc folder in interbase root folder OpGuide.pdf) Chapter 2 Page 2 see the note:

“You can use the same serial number to install and register Server Edition software on a second computer for backup purposes as long the second computer is not uses concurrently with the primary server.“

you see InterBase is making the life easy.

regards
daniel magin

Think InterBase

On 16. June 2009 you can join for free a InterBase 2009 Webinar powered by Embarcadero and Better Office. On this day the seminar is presented in English and German on two diffrent time slots.

Registration and more Events you can found at: http://www.codegear-events.eu/

Session in English – Interbase 2009 – The Vault

Start at 17:00 (GMT) – 18:00 (CET) (about 1-1.5 hours)
For the US Friends: Start at 09:00 (PST) – 10:00 (MST) – 11:00 (CST) – 12:00 (EST)  

InterBase 2009 now comes with the new encryption technology! Daniel Magin is presenting in live demonstrations the new DES and AES encryption to encrypt a database and/or individual columns in a database table, providing ultimate security for data and communications between servers and clients. What are the new topics for Administrators and Developers? Learn about this and much more!

Session in German – InterBase 2009 – Der Tresor

Start um 09:00 (GMT) – 10:00 (CET / Deutsche Zeit) Dauer: 1-1.5 Stunden

InterBase 2009 wurde in der neuen Version um die Verschlüsselungs-Technologie erweitert. Diese neue Technologie zeigt Ihnen Daniel Magin wie gewohnt an Live-Beispielen. Außerdem werden Sie lernen, wie Sie mit der DES- und AES-Verschlüsselung der Datenbank und/oder individuellen Feldern sowie ganzen Tabellen Ihre Datenbank vor unbefugten Zugriffen schützen. Was sind die neuen Themen für Administratoren und Entwickler? Auch die Antwort auf diese Frage finden Sie hier!

regards Daniel Magin

Think InterBase

Ok this message is only important for people understanding german language. There are great english podcasts, but it’s time now to start the first german podcast. Olaf Monien, Holger Flick and I, the DHO team (Daniel,Holger,Olaf) just started the first german video podcast around delphi.

DelphiPodcast.de

in this part we are discussing about the great Delphi Live! 2009 Conference.

so have fun and i hope you like it!

regards

daniel magin

first of all, the complete DelphiLive Conference was a great conference!!! all the sessions was intresting and also we as speakers have a lot of fun to present to such interested customers the knowledge. yes it was a realy perfect sessions. for me also it was good to see again many speakers from ex Borland moved to Embarcadero and to see how much new stuff was created.

See videos part 1 and part 2 from Delphi.org

there was many other cool session, but the best session und stuff was created by Chris Benson and his Team. First of all thanks,thanks,thanks,thanks,thanks,thanks,thanks for this great stuff.

It was showing the technics from Touch applications. The best was adding Touch Gestures to fishfact demo. Moving the records by sliding like iPhone gestures over the picture. That’s Delphi!!! from Version 1 demo to 2009+x with gestures! This is why trust Delphi. You can bring evrytime your old sourcecode to the next version!

I was dream a long time about it. Before Microsoft and Apple was think about it, there are many sides showing really cool stuff anout it. For example this video show what can happens in furture or to generate with gestures and multi touch applications. PRESS THIS LINK
This company work since 2006 on such projects look at this side to get also more. LINK

But now back to the stuff from Chris and his team. In Delphi you get on the objects cool new properties in the Objectinspector to controll basic gestures and also to create gestures how ever you like. i recorded also with my small canon digicam some parts of the session and you see we are not so far away from the future stuff above.

Here are some cutted parts of the complete session (the person presenting this stuff is Chris Benson):

Also many thanks to Massoud and his team (Frank Stepan,…) for the great organization of this Conference.

so let’s dream for the next version and you see what you are missed if you was not on DelphiLive 2009

regards

Daniel Magin

Think Delphi!