Happy New Year 2011

See you around in 2011 – with some luck maybe even in person.

[Picture of the living room wall taken by my trusty Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 and heavily processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.]

Gp* Holiday Update

As always, all units are available on the Google Code.

DSiWin32 1.60

• When compiled with D2007 or newer, unit FileCtrl is not included.
• Call UniqueString before calling CreateProcessW.
• [Tommi Prami] Added types missing in Delphi 7.
• Added function DSiDisableStandby that will try to disable standby and hibernate on Windows XP SP 2 and newer.
• Define TStartupInfoW in Delphi 7 and earlier.
• DSiAddApplicationToFirewallExceptionList[Advanced|XP] got a new parameter
  TDSiFwResolveConflict (default rcDuplicate) where the caller can specify
  behaviour if the rule with the same name already exists.
  [rcDuplicate = add new rule with the same name, rcOverwrite = remove all rules
  with the same name and then add the new rule, rcSkip = leave existing rules
  intact and don't add the new rule]
• Implemented DSiFindApplicationInFirewallExceptionList[Advanced|XP].
• Bug fix in DSiAddApplicationToFirewallExceptionListAdvanced: setting rule.ServiceName to '' caused fwPolicy2.Rules.Add(rule) to raise exception.

You’ve got mail!

It was only three days ago that I released the new OTL and already I’ve got a gift – and it came from the other side of the world, from a place so far ago that Google Maps doesn’t know how to calculate directions to guide me there, from Australia!

No, I’m not kidding about the Google Maps.

Inside were books, books and more books. Chris, thanks a lot!

Out with the old … in with the two

OmniThreadLibrary 1.05 was a great success …

… but all good things must come to an end. Don’t worry, I’m not ending the project. It’s just that there’s a new player in town. Ladies and gentlemen, in the left corner I give you …

… OmniThreadLibrary 2.0! Get it while its hot!

OmniThreadLibrary 2.0 TODO

Only few things to do before the alpha release:

• Parallel.Pipeline must support cancellation;
• Parallel.ForEach would benefit from task-local state (maybe will be implemented after the 2.0 release);
• Cleanup various small TODOs;
• Add project files for Delphi XE;
• Retest everything.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation

Thanks to the great people of DevJET software there may something (finally) happen on the very much neglected documentation front. They have donated a Documentation Insight license to the OmniThreadLibrary and I intend to use it to add documentation here and there while I’m working on the project.

A big Thank You to the DevJET!

The next part of the puzzle is how to export XmlDoc documentation into some useful form. I know Delphi XE can do html+javascript export but I don’t believe that it’s included in the Professional release which I have (but correct me if I’m wrong). It would be even better if it could be converted into the Wiki format used by the Google Code. Can you help me with suggestions?