Category Archives: Software

Why Linux?

Posted on December 10, 2012 by hsauro
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I have been told many times of the virtues of Linux and decided after some requests to port our simulation back end (roadRunner, http://code.google.com/p/roadrunnerlib/) to Linux. Well two months later and we’re still trying to port the code. Quite apart … Continue reading →

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Why is C++ so popular?

Posted on November 20, 2012 by hsauro
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I’ve never quite understand the attraction of C++ given its (growing) complexity and the many ways to get into trouble. Here is another reason, its verbosity. The following is a fragment of code from an open source library which will … Continue reading →

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Clipping Rectangles in FireMonkey

Posted on September 30, 2012 by hsauro
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In experimenting with FireMonkey I came across what I thought was a non-obvious trick related to creating clipping rectangles in FireMonkey. In VCL we had the CreateRectRgn from the Windows API that allowed us to create areas when drawing commands would not … Continue reading →

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Default Compartments in SBML

Posted on September 6, 2012 by hsauro
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A reoccurring problem that I’ve had with SBML since day one is how to deal with a default compartment. Take for example a visual design tool such as JDesigner. At start up it creates an implicit compartment represented by the empty canvas. … Continue reading →

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Delphi XE3 Released

Posted on September 4, 2012 by hsauro
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This week Embarcadero (Borland in the old days) released the latest version of their flagship product, Delphi XE3. One of the major issues in the earlier version, XE2, was the problem of fuzzy fonts when displaying text, particularly in the TMemo component. This made it almost … Continue reading →

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HTML5 from Embarcadero

Posted on August 21, 2012 by hsauro
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For those who are interested I snagged a screen-shot of the new HTML5 development kit that will be released this quarter by Embarcadero. I obtained the screen-shot from the XE3 preview video. It looks interesting, I can see an application … Continue reading →

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Rounded TPanel in Delphi

Posted on August 14, 2012 by hsauro
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I came across this rather nice bit code submitted by Andreas Rejbrand on stackoverflow, thought I’d repeat it here. For those not familiar with Delphi, Delphi has really great support for component development, better than any other programming platform I’ve used. … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Software Development

Posted on June 10, 2012 by hsauro
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We maintain a piece of software called roadRunner which is a backend simulator used in a variety of software tools. It was originally written in C# by Bergmann and Sauro but this year we decided to rewrite it in C/C++ … Continue reading →

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Update 4 for XE2 Released

Posted on February 28, 2012 by hsauro
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For those interested in cross platform Delphi XE2 development, the company has just released update 4. This has improvements and bug fixes to the new cross platform Firemonkey framework. The list of bug fixes can be found at: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/42090 Note … Continue reading →

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Lightweight XML Parser

Posted on November 11, 2011 by hsauro
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To those of you who read and write basic XML, the thought of using the DOM or some other monstrosity may make you think twice about using XML. No more excuses as I just came across a post by Dennis … Continue reading →

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