Two weeks ago I was contributing to a bigger Delphi migration webinar run by my colleague Stephen Ball the demonstration of actual steps of live migration of BDE-based source code to FireDAC.
Migration of existing VCL projects to the latest version of Delphi is the hot topic in Delphi community. Many migration tasks can be automated. Today at the Developer Conference in Tel Aviv Embarcadero MVP Oren Aviram is demonstrating "Software Modernization Made Easy" with his powerful...
Two weeks ago I was contributing to a bigger Delphi migration webinar run by my colleague Stephen Ball the demonstration of actual steps of live migration of BDE-based source code to FireDAC.
Migration of existing VCL projects to the latest version of Delphi is the hot topic in Delphi community. Many migration tasks can be automated. Today at the Developer Conference in Tel Aviv Embarcadero MVP Oren Aviram is demonstrating "Software Modernization Made Easy" with his powerful...
The introduction of object-oriented (OO) programming languages provoked an unfortunate schism in the world of software development. Relational databases dominated the database world and Entity Relationship (ER) modeling quickly dominated database design. This determined the target data structure for programmers when they wrote applications. However, OO languages embodied distinctly different views of data.
This mismatch might have been brushed under the carpet if object databases had ever gaine...
I generally don't make resolutions, especially at the end of a year. I'm more of a "make small changes, every day, that will make a big difference over a year" type person. For blogs and communities, resolution making is a tradition and we all know that the holiday season is about traditions. So, dear data modelers, here are the resolutions I'd hope we'd all make for 2016. You wouldn't need to do all of them. Just pick the ones you need to do. Make some of your own, then a plan to ma...
I was with a client for lunch one day and we asked the server "What do you have on tap?" She was gone quite a long time, but came back and said "Beer." It turned out she was right. But her answer was not that helpful.
One of the odd parts of every new project I have to deal with is getting everyone to understand that the question "Can you help us with a data model" results in me asking. "What do you mean by data model?" That's right, I have to ask team members what a data...
Just in case you've been head-down into your data models for too long, in the US the Friday after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday. Traditionally this is a day for massive sales and steep discounts to ensure that Americans start their holiday shopping with gusto. Over the years, Black Friday has been creeping earlier and earlier in the week and now starts on Thursday for some of the most desperate shoppers. These originally were brick and mortar store sales, but these days Black Friday ...