Gloria's Blog

Quake in my country

2008-05-13T23:05:00.005+08:00

I have something to share, finally. Don't know if anyone still visit my blog.Perhaps you have already heard the news about China earthquake. And I want to share with you a bit more. Hope you can pray for the victims, and do donation for them.WenChuan is the famous for being the home to the panda reserve and breeding centre. It was the epicentre of the earthquake and registered 7.9 on the moment

CodeGear Developer Day on March 20

2007-03-19T09:56:00.000+08:00

Sorry for late post.Tomorrow is CodeGear Developer Day in HongKong.And I will be there for the morning session.Details can be found on http://www.borlandpresents.com/edm/devday07/hk.html

Lovelorn...

2007-01-11T21:11:00.000+08:00

BDS 2006 Product Seminar in Hong Kong

2006-09-19T00:45:00.000+08:00

I can only say, better late than never.It will be on coming Friday (Sept-22) and about the following items:* The Roadmap of Delphi* BDS 2006* Modern Driven Development* Multi-Tier Database Development* Demostration* Introduction of Turbo Product <------ main pt for me ;-)The details can be found here.

Turbo Delphi

2006-08-09T00:45:00.000+08:00

Happy to know Borland plans to launch Turbo Delphi in the coming third quarter. This Turbo product line is to "... offer low-cost, language-specific rapid application development capabilities for students, hobbylist developers, occupational developers as well as individual professionals."I believe this is what most Delphi developers want Borland to do so for many years. When I tell some

Great news for Delphi

2006-06-15T22:35:00.000+08:00

Today read Nick's blog and know that he is hired to be Delphi product manager. I am very glad for this as Nick is a perfect person for the post. Congratulations, Nick!Few days ago my boss was being challenged by a potential customer on Borland selling Delphiout. The customer asked about any contingency plans will be provided what if the new company stops supporting some exisiting Delphi libraries

Good news

2006-06-06T17:35:00.000+08:00

Wooo hooooo!!!!! My boss tells me I will have BDS 2006 Enterprise very soon.

Working with chinese programmers

2006-04-19T17:40:00.000+08:00

My *mission impossible* project becomes possible :DWorking with Chinese programmers in past 6 months.... and really shocked by them. No matter coding styles, debug methods, working attitudes.....For example, I hate them putting comma at the beginning: Procedure A(Sender: TObject); begin Procedure_B(Param_1

Gloria @ Paris

2006-02-13T03:26:00.000+08:00

I love Paris, buildings, cultures, museums.... all are wonderful and impressive! And I find the Parisians are very friendly and helpful :)Bonjour...Merci...Où est le metro?Combien? :P

Paris, I am coming

2006-02-08T23:07:00.000+08:00

My Paris trip is finally confirmed and start now :-)Now waiting for the plane Singapore Airport to Paris CDG...A little bit excited, many many worries... and much tired... hahaaSomeone tells me I will meet many pickpockets in metro, many *big-noses* and full of dog xxxx on the street ... but still hope my trip will be romantic..hahaa... although I am alone.

Welcome, 2006!

2006-01-02T23:26:00.000+08:00

Happy new year!Had a break from my "mission impossible" project on Dec31 night, I went to Lixon's home for the small New Year's Eve party :) Just prepared a bottle of champagne to count down.... but my friends and I quite enjoyed! And we played UNO card game for the whole night. CRAZY and HAPPY!!I love UNO very very much.... especially played with Wills and Lixon (they always love to play Draw2

Merry X'mas!!

2005-12-27T00:14:00.000+08:00

Merry X'mas!! I wish all you have a sweet and happy Christmas holidays!!These months I was busy with a "mission impossible" project... *_* besides development, I had worked with a team of china programmers, prepared design specifications and many many meetings. Lots of things want to share with you, especially the funny experience about working with china developers. But there are still some

11pm

2005-11-04T23:11:00.000+08:00

why I am still at office??

D2005 Midas.dll

2005-10-21T03:00:00.000+08:00

From distribucon.com, I find Delphi2005 Midas.dll which is (well.. it claims *should be*) backwards compatible with Delphi 5-7. Here is the list of bugs fixed;QC#2019: nested CDS Edit/Post twice, master ApplyUpdates, Delta incorrectQC#2083: MIDAS cannot read tables with fieldnames > 31 bytesQC#2580: AggValueAsVariant causes Access Violation (fix included)QC#3431: ScktSrvr.exe locks up on

Google Talk

2005-08-25T13:25:00.000+08:00

I'm on Google Talk now :)Google has launched a instant messenger service named Google Talk. It provides the instant messenging and voice over IP service, has a nice UI and easy to use.If you want to try it but has no Gmail account, I can send you a Gmail invite.

Happy and unhappy

2005-08-22T17:50:00.000+08:00

One baby boy in Mother's choice hostel will leave me this week and go to his new home.My feeling is complicated as I took care him almost a year.... happy for this little boy will have his own parents and family life very soon which he has missed in the past, happy that he will no longer yelling "Papa" or "Mama" to seek for holding and bugging in front of amahs and voluntary helpers :'-) ... but

24 hours of Delphi

2005-07-13T11:55:00.000+08:00

A 24 non-stop radio live program will take place on this afternoon 3pm (i.e US - Pacific Time 00:00 Jul13 ). This must be a very cool event that many Delphi experts will share their techniques and tips in the air and everyone around the world can join and ask experts questions in the chatroom .Check the latest schedule on here and get ready for it (only 3 hours away!!!)

Can package with localization feature?

2005-06-27T13:13:00.000+08:00

I am trying to add multi-language support feature into my package but meet difficulties. In the package, some components are to send command to the host server and handle its responses code. Based on received code, the components return out the corresponding message. With localization feature, the components need able to return the translated messages based on workstation locale or application

Gmail-lite - check gmail with your PDA and mobile

2005-06-24T14:02:00.000+08:00

Today I find a freeware called Gmail-lite , for checking Gmail with PDA or cell phone. It may not be a prefect tool today (as still a beta software, same as Gmail), but it is worth to introduce to all you because it is developed by a Hong Kong PhD Student, Mr Gan, Ying-hung. Mr Gan shared this tool as he believed "sharing" is one important spirit on the internet, not for any money.I believe, on

Holidays in Bangkok and Pattaya

2005-06-02T00:05:00.000+08:00

Just back from Thailand for a week vacation :)It is my second time to visit Bangkok and Pattaya but still lot of funs, like yummy seafood, Thai massage and excellent hotels. And Bangkok taxi drivers are very nice and taught me some Thai phrases like:Sa wat dee Cup (Hello for male speaker)Sa wat dee Ka (Hello for female speaker)La Gong (Goodbye)Chai (Yes)Mei (No)The most terms I spoke are quite

Goodbye, my lovely BB!

2005-05-25T00:52:00.000+08:00

Today I am going to Bangkok and Pattaya again for a short trip. But not very excited...rather moody... as I cannot play with my lovely BB girl Alexa anymore. Alexa is 10-month old, one of the babies I take care in Mother's Choice. She will go to a new family with new daddy and mama today. Alexa, I will remember you and how you say hello to me with your small index finger :) Wish you healthy,

Happy Birthday to Me

2005-05-10T10:05:00.000+08:00

Updated on 2005.5.13My colleagues prepared a very nice and yummy birthday cake on my birthday.... is my favourite: chocolate cake :) .Thanks all of them!!And also Happy birthday to my boss John!

9pm...

2005-05-06T21:09:00.000+08:00

Still in front of my pc at office ... investigating the prefermance difference on TFmtBcdField against TFloatField in memory usage Help me ~~~~By the way, anyone knows how to handle special characters (e.g. &, <... ) in XML if using TXMLDocument? Converting by self? of TXMLDocument can help us to convert them into & and <lt; ? I have posted this question on newsgroups (both official

ClientDataSet cannot update fields with null value (II)

2005-04-25T15:40:00.000+08:00

Before continue the second bug report, I want to share some information about TClientDataSet.From A ClientDataSet in Every Database Application by Cary Jensen, ClientDataSet has 2 data stores. One is delta. It represents the change log that all changes made to Data. Specifically, for each record that was inserted or deleted from Data, there resides a corresponding record in Delta. For modified

ClientDataSet cannot update fields with null value (I)

2005-04-18T20:16:00.000+08:00

The second bug report has been kept in my In-Tray over 4 months but I found no way to fix it. Users complain that the custom dataSet (derived from TClientDataSet) is failed to update fields with null value.For example, a record with below fields and values:[ID].....[NAME]...[AGE].S100... PETER ....10Now I modify the record by clear Name and Age:cds.FindField('NAME').value := ''; cds.FindField('