Delphi has a little built-in tool that handles internationalization. But it´s really basic. You also got a couple of commercial localization tools that support Delphi applications: Multilizer (http://www2.multilizer.com/) and Sisulizer (http://www.sisulizer.com/), and an open-source tool based on GetText: http://dxgettext.po.dk/

This is the site of a disbanded rock band. The site went online in 1995 and its last update was on 1998. It has the old school look-and-feel but I'm afraid its contents are in Spanish. http://www.dant.com/brujos/index.php3[^]

Amen! Or should I say: AbstractPraiseManager.getInstance().getAffirmationRegistry().findAffirmationClass().instanceNew().prepareToAmenize().doIt();

C and C++ are not fading away. The are being widely used for the problems they were designed to solve. Before, they were used for ANY kind if problem, so it gives the impression that they are losing ground when in fact whats happening is that the world finally recognized that is pointless to do a web-app for an intranet using pointers and hand-crafted memory management.

It´s not a programming tool, it takes a while to learn your preferences, but it has saved me lots of time of Start Menu wandering...Launchy http://www.launchy.net/[^]

The gap between those that "get it" and those that not is, in most cases, determined by personal interests and education. And no, this situation is not unique for programming.

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I just used Illustrator once, it got the job done, but at first glance it had some details that I could not understand why after so many versions were still there...the scrollbars were not proportional, the scroll range seemed like "anything that makes the workarea fit" and the ruler and the grid did not align to each other X|

I wouldn't insult him, because you can't be sure he isn't waiting you to insult him, so he can go to tell your boss that you are being nasty to him. He is a rat, you shouldn't assume he is going to play fair. In your situation, I'll tell my boss about the situation. You are there to work, not to tolerate some dorks!

Shouldn´t the PixelFormat be PixelFormat32bppARGB instead of PixelFormat32bppRGB?

I don´t know, the language is going through all this transformations...now it´s neither a low-level DIY language like C++ nor a little abstract language like SmallTalk... Anyway, I´m still amazed about the suppossed complexity of the typical problem that the typical IT guy working in an enterprise has to solve that it requires so much language complexity...:~

You wait until you are alone with him and then you punch him in a kidney. When he complains, you dismiss his complain saying it´s just a man´s joke. Works like a champ! :laugh:

nope, your sample is "1337 codez", my sample is "enterprise-ready code"

In the eighties, the "dude, OO is soooo easy" decade string s2 = reverse(s1); In the nineties, the "dude, this cannot be THIS easy" decade string s2 = s1.Clone(); s2.Reverse(); In the current, "best practices and patterns" decade StringClonator clonator = new StringClonator(); string s2 = clonator.Clone(s1); StringIterator begin = s2.Begin(); StringIterator end = s2.End(); StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(s2.size()); ReversingStrategy reverser = ReversingStrategyFactory.GetInstance.NewReversingStrategy(); reverser.Reverse(s2, begin, end, buffer); s2.AssignBuffer(buffer.InnerBuffer());

At the communication level the problem is not patterns per se, the problem is that people talk lots about them (for example in design meetings) just to seem clever. How many times have you heard a "clever" guy talking about how he is going to use this or that pattern when there is not even a well defined problem to solve. At the programming level the problems are two: 1-People overuse them because of the false belief that if you design with patterns you are a better architect. Not all programming problems are that complex and not all complex programming problems are better solved with patterns. 2-People misuse them because they want to design with patterns before they have learnt to design using plain OO. So, for example, you get systems whose architecture is based mostly on Singletons... Of course there are great programmers using them in great ways. I´m just enumerating the problems I´ve found with their usage.

Don´t worry, in a couple of months he will be promoted, so be kind to your future boss! :laugh:

Yes, but even then 95% of this code was written by someone else, not me, and I don´t believe than anyone is going to check who is the author of the code, because they take me as the "owner" of it X| Well, I suppose I should take the advice and leave this situation behind. Cheers Gabriel

I´m looking for a new job but the idea of living my current job depresses me in a bizarre way. I worked really hard in this place for a couple of years, working my ass off to make some existent spaghetti-awful apps work (I did manteinance of very poorly written apps). The apps now are working fine, but my succesor, who is the butt-licker of the boss, do he hates me (because I never let him mistreat me) and I know that by the day I leave, he is going to talk shit about my job and blame me for the faults and lack of program structure that predates me(my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good and who was there to surf the web and get a paycheck) Ahhhh...sh********************tt :mad:

I work as a developer in a small software company. The software we produce has a high deffect rate. I want to talk my boss into doing code reviews but the problems that I´m facing are that I don´t find my boss and the other senior developers mature enough to do a real code review instead of a "mine is biggers than yours" code review (they use to talk thrash about other programmer´s code, just because it´s not programmed their way) and that the company promotes individualism insted of team playing (and a code review could be used not to find bugs but to diminish someone else code so they can stand out) So, I do want to get a better software but I´m afraid I could start a monster... Any idea?

As it´s already been said: it´s not whether math is hard to you or not, it´s what do you want to do with your career! If you want to be a computer scientist working in research, maths are a must, if you want to work developing software were performance matters, algorithm theory is must, but if you want to develop business software, web sites, etc, you can get by without most of it. I was in your position ten years ago. I made the wrong choice, :(( I studied Systems Engineering instead of Computer Science, because the former was less science-oriented. Now I work at a firm that produces a CAD application. I can not even dream of doing some of the work my coworkers do. I am confined to mantain/develop the front end (which is pretty complex, but nowhere as interesting as what my coworkers do) And even then my job is way more interesting than the rest of the positions I can apply to! (Because a full-blown OO desktop app with multiple synchronized views, undo-redo, etc. is more interesting than the typical business app with data forms) Cheers!

Yes! Tomorrow I´m going to talk to my boss and tell him that I wasn´t the one that introduced the bug, that he can verify that on SourceSafe. I first doubted, but I figured out that why should I pay for someone´s else error when that someone else neither cared for the team nor for the product... Cheers Gabriel