It appears that I am able to write posts again. YAY! Expect to see more here. And it looks as if the comments were restored as well. Thank you, Embarcadero!...

I've been posting technical articles and source code on this blog for many years now, but I've never formerly specified a license for the material I've posted. Obviously, I wouldn't post it if I didn't want people to use what I've written, but I understand that my good intentions are not enough to provide the legal confidence some projects will require to include the code I've demonstrated in their work. Therefore, I've updated the About page to include formal licensing terms. In particular, ...

There are two new comment spam filters on this blog server. Please email me with details (myfirstname_mylastname at acm dot org) if your legitimate comment is blocked. Thanks!...

The TeamB blog server runs WordPress, and is configured to hold comments for moderation (meaning that the rest of the world won't see them until I approve them), unless you have posted an approved comment in the past. So feel free to comment on whatever topic you'd like to speak on in the comments section of this post. If your comment isn't spam, I'll approve it, and you won't have to wait for your comments to be approved on any future posts. Have fun!...

...in 15 minutes. Here's a simple, quick, and free tutorial. It doesn't say so, but I'm pretty sure this tutorial is only useful for folks in the northern hemisphere....

As the title says, you'll be unable to comment on this blog right now, as the comment feature isn't working on this server. The appropriate people have been informed, but it's not fixed yet. Thanks to everyone who has informed me of the problem; I do appreciate hearing when something doesn't work....

I just learned that Nick Hodges is in the hospital following an emergency appendectomy. Hope he's feeling better soon! Update: Nick is out of the hospital and doing fine....

Every now and again someone will ask why they're seeing a certain exception in their Delphi code in the Borland newsgroups, and I'll frequently ask for a call stack so that I can give them a more accurate answer. I'm surprised at how often the response is, "How do I do that?" since to me the call stack is probably the debugging tool I use most frequently. So I've written a short introduction to the call stack. If you already use the call stack yourself you can probably skip this one....

If so, you should turn off Active Scripting (yes, this will break a lot of web sites) or upgrade due to an unpatched security hole, confirmed by Microsoft, with exploits in the wild on more than 200 sites. You might also want to consider keeping an eye on your credit card statements. Update: The official patch is out today, only two weeks after it was unofficially patched by non-MS researchers. The update also includes the "Eolas patch," so people who wondered when that would be mandatory can st...

Nothing to do with programming here, but a couple articles I found worth a minute of my time: Kudos to Ars Technica for this headline: MPAA speaker finds "choir" unreceptive Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register I didn't think my opinion of The Register's journalistic credibility could go any lower, but it just did....