Ok, so I have completed the how to use video of the DBX4 to BDE (Paradox) components.

The video is here.

Enjoy! Please feed back if you have problems that I can address - I use the components as well.

I recently migrated my components from Delphi 6 to Delphi 2007 and in the process found a few things that changed which (courtesy of Rohit's list) I am posting here:

1. The compiler version of Delphi is VER190
2. TButtonSet has changed names to TNavButtonSet in DBCtrls
3. kiRangeEnd go shifted out from DBTables to DBCommonTypes

So, I'm just about to start on building Software Assurance Plus - a portal for Software Assurance customers who purchase their SA through us and want to see more value from it. I'm intending that resellers that add back to the system can have their customers added into the portal, I'm also thinking of sharing it with one particular Australian reseller if he is interested. Developers that contribute material (primarily in the form of recording training videos at this stage, but other ideas come later) I'm also look at adding bonus points for - record a video, see 10 or something like that. Some material will be free of charge as it will necessarily be more marketing oriented - how to do things in ECO for example .

I have platform considerations and language considerations - I really have only two choices, PHP or Ruby/Rails and I'll need to host it in the US as the bandwidth consumed will be high - plans for PHP and MySQL sites run to less than $US10 per month for about 3500Gb at the moment, with plenty of disc space - and streaming out video content doesn't take much processor power. I am also considering burning the videos to disc and sending them out each quarter to people, especially those on low bandwidth or traffic caps (like me, latter that is!).

Thoughts? You can contact me in email at richard at developers inc.

It turns out that DHL doesn't believe there is a "North Shore City" in New Zealand - that this location is in Australia. Apart from the customer having a proper postcode, New Zealand as the address and a +64 phone number (to confirm the address no less).

Hilarious element of the day

I just found out you can do this:

insert into testtable(id,testdata) values(gen_id(gen_nextid,1), 'blah');

Interesting!