Flotsam and Jetsam #66

By Nick at October 12, 2012 08:42
Filed Under: Flotsam and Jetsam

I’ve talked about my Ooma. I love it – I has cut my phone bill from $50 a month to $5 a month. It works great, and I get unlimited calling in the US, and $0.01 a minute to Canada. (That’s important to me, as my wife is from Saskatoon and calls her family there.) In fact, the phone bill is $0, and the $5 is just taxes. It is paying for itself in four months. And right now, you can save $40 on the unit, meaning it will pay for itself even faster. And if you buy from this link, I get a commission. It’s a win for everyone.
Blog Sightings: There’s been a bunch of activity on the Embarcadero Blog site:

There have been a few blog sightings from folks we haven’t heard from in a while, including Darren Kosinski, Michael Swindell, Stephen Blas, and Jim Tierney. There’s some good information there, and it’s fun to see those guys blogging again. I was particularly interested in Jim’s stuff about Live Bindings.
if you read Russian -- Sergey Roschin and Yaroslav Brovin both are blogging about FireMonkey 2. There are some English posts in there, too.
DavidI is doing 31 RAD Studio XE3 videos in 31 days.

The Embarcadero MVP program is “official” now in that there is a web page and everything. I’m honored to be included among the list of amazing, skilled, and knowledgeable folks. Know someone who should be on the list? You can nominate them.
One of the cool new features in Delphi Xe3 is helpers for intrinsic types. The most noticeable one is TStringHelper which lets you do things like MyStringVar.Length and MyStringVar.ToUpper. However, I find it curious that they didn’t include a “standard” helper for integers. I supposed it is because there are so many different integer types, but I seems that they could solve that through some form of inheritance, right? I don’t know. I just know that I’d like to be able to go MyIntegerVar.ToString.
Here’s a blog post after my own heart: Why you should use Delphi’s Unit Testing – DUNIT. In fact, there is a bunch of great stuff on the India Delphi User Group blog.
Is it just me, or is it weird that Send To|Clipboard as Name isn’t a default behavior for a file in Windows Explorer? I must use that twenty times a day. I have to add a plug-in to have that feature.

Comments (2)

10/12/2012 9:55:36 PM #

To copy the full path of a file or folder in Win7's Windows Explorer, press and hold the <shift> key, and right-click the file or folder. In the popup menu that appears, select "Copy as path". I believe this worked in Vista, too. Or you could grab a free copy of my WP Descriptive Name Explorer which has a button on the toolbar to do this. http://www.knowisinc.com/wpdname.html

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