Coding with Delphi is Marvelous

Yes... it is !!!. Ok... you may ask why I have made this entry on my blog... but I just needed to do it... it is my blog and only William reads it ;-)...  There is nothing you can't code with Delphi... ;-)... Delphi is the Beast... Delphi is the BEST.... and... yes... Metallica is going to publish a new album on 2008... Great.. really great...

The Vista Firewall disaster

Well, this is not a Delphi related post, but it is something I need to say. All Vista compatible firewall I have tested suck. Have I been rude ?.. Ok... sorry.. All Vista compatible firewalls really suck.

You may think that I say that easilly, but not... that is not the case. I have been testing following trial versions of Vista compatible Firewalls:

Comodo, Agnitum Outpost Firewall 2008, Jetico Personal Firewall, Lock'n'Stop, ZoneAlarm, Norton Internet Security 2008.

In all cases except with Jetico and Lock'n'Stop the resources and speed penalties are really high, or they simply don't work, or worst, they hang the system. Agnitum Firewall once installed doesn't lets the system to be rebooted, Jetico Simply freezes the whole system, Lock'n'stop just blocks the system randomly, Zonealarm.. oh.. zonealarm... it decreases my system speed in about 25%. Disaster.. really disaster. But do you know what really annoys me ? That no firewall except Zonealarm and Jetico lets you disable the hashing of an application. I am connected permanently to the internet during my coding. My applications usually access SQL Servers around my LAN. Each time I compile my application and execute it , its SHA checksum changes so all firewalls bug me that the application has changed and ask me what to do... How can the coders of the firewalls not add this easy feature to implement to disable this checsum check on certain applications. Incredible.

Just a silly post, you don't need to read it !

Ok. I just warned you at the title. You don`t need to read this. It is just a silly post I fancied to write. I am sitting in front of my laptop, late at night and after reading for an hour all those great delphi blogs from Allen Bauer, Nick Hodges, Steve Trefethen, etc ... I fealed a mix of jealousy and got some motivation to write something at my blog. Yes, I know ! I promised some time ago that I would write about this and that, and didn't did it. That's myself, good intention but less effords ;-).

I see the cursor blinking at the screen, and I don't know what to write about, althought I have the need to press the keys of my keyboard. I have never had a laptop before, and I really like the sensation that this keyboard gives to my fingers when I press the keys. Some weeks ago, at weekend, I had the need to recommence the developing of my new website www.albertresearch.com. I turned on my laptop, plugged in my headphones, put some music on and started to code. It was amazing !. New ideas came in, "I could do this, and make that", and time passed so fast, that I did not noticed that I where coding for 4 hours. I had to stop, because my kids wanted my attention... sometimes I feel really bad because developing absorbs me too much. I am coding my web with Delphi using ASP. NET.  I have coded some commercial web's in the past using flat html, flash only (great mistake, but at those times it was lets say fashion) and recently in ASP .NET. I found ASP. NET  amazing. Coding such a complex think as a web page is (at least for me), using my favourite IDE and my favourite programming language !!!. Not with those cryptic languages loaded up with symbols. I found the codebehind feature an amazing thing. As I am self-taught coder, and I have never had lessons for coding in ASP.NET it was a bit hard to understand at the very begining, but now I am on the ball and getting the whole idea a bit. Let me underline the word bit as I am a novice ASP.NET coder. ;-)

Ondia ! (in Catalan means like "Oh God!") It is very late. I got to sleep. Tomorrow I have to wake up early and go to work. So that was all about it... My best wishes to all of you for this year.