Peter Turner

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Faithful Catholic - Father of 3, Husband of 1

Delphi and PHP programmer from Southern Wisconsin.

Fairly proud Herzing, UW Madison and UW Rock County Alum

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Aug 10	comment	How is Delphi XE2 going to work across platforms? Did you see how the XCode thing works? Does Delphi spit out code instead of binaries when you set your target as OSX?
Aug 9	comment	How is Delphi XE2 going to work across platforms? @Warren P, that may be, but you never know which things they're NDA about. I've read lots of good leaks and rumors on StackOverflow from actual embarcadero devs. Also, the "Delphi World Tour" is going on and I can't assume they're going to make us all sign NDA's. I just want to know if it's all hype.
Aug 3	comment	My Dad is impatient with the pace of my learning to program. What do I do? What are you using as a C++ compiler?
Aug 3	comment	How is Delphi XE2 going to work across platforms? As much as I'd like to believe you ;-) Answering a question with "Believe me" isn't particularly satisfactory! Try doing that on Skeptics.SE sometime.
Aug 3	accepted	Is integer used too much as a data type?
Aug 2	comment	How is Delphi XE2 going to work across platforms? @grandmasterB, hopefully that'll be more apparent with the "World Tour", but the first link I used (saw on Delphipages today) mentions "Firemonkey" which is the first and only thing I've heard about it. How do you know it's going to be native. That FireMonkey sounds like a virtual machine, but I don't want to go starting rumors.
Aug 2	asked	How is Delphi XE2 going to work across platforms?
Jul 29	accepted	Is the HL7 membership model normal?
Jul 29	comment	Is the HL7 membership model normal? 6 months (and a few thousand dollars) later. Now I'm implementing the 5010 standard in my company's product, whoopee. What's the deal with those crazy loops?
Jul 25	answered	Would you purchase hardware with your own money to use at work to do your job better?
Jul 25	comment	Is integer used too much as a data type? @nikie, is it just like `type int System.Int32` or something to that effect? Could it be changed that easily in a future version of the framework?
Jul 25	comment	Is integer used too much as a data type? In C# (or .net in general) would long and ulong become 128 bits on a 128-bit machine? Because in Delphi, the `Integer` datatype is 32 bits on a 32-bit machine and apparently will be 64 bits on a 64-bit machine.
Jul 25	comment	Is integer used too much as a data type? @Anna Understanding how Delphi datatypes work would make for a most excellent answer. I'm reasonably sure that C programmers could comprehend and answer this question though.
Jul 25	comment	Best starting point for writing small desktop programs for Windows? +1 For delphi, at least there is finally an inexpensive starter edition at least. I think it's the same as professional, except you can't use it to print more than 1000 dollars.
Jul 25	asked	Is integer used too much as a data type?
Jul 20	revised	Handling deleted users - separate or same table? Edited because I like this answer.
Jul 19	accepted	When did developers start making normalized relational databases?
Jul 19	comment	When did developers start making normalized relational databases? I appreciate the reality of your answer and the perspective. One of the two founding developers of our application got his education in the Soviet Union.
Jul 19	comment	When did developers start making normalized relational databases? @devoured, we've actually benefited from DB platform independence (in a very small way) because of the blissful ignorance, it wasn't until very recently that you could count on foreign keys actually doing the same thing on MySQL and SQLServer and it was futile to try. Now, however, it is a pain in the butt because I don't want to continue down that course any more.
Jul 18	comment	When did developers start making normalized relational databases? This answer fits the timeframe. We hopped on SQL really quick, but missed the boat on normalization.