{"id":1840,"date":"2008-07-05T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2008-07-05T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T13:57:39","slug":"speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> thought\"A<\/a> Mark’s posting about the new Adobe Acrobat 9<\/a> was the<\/em> hilarious. If you’re into more snark, try the Adobe Acrobat 9 installation guide<\/a> as done by the MicroPledge site.\n<\/p>\n

After the unpacking, the install process itself took 10 minutes. I could only thank Adobe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s engineers, presuming they were filling up my hard drive with yummy icons, tasty DLLs, and amazing 3D JavaScript add-ons. No matter \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the 210 MB it required was there to be used.\n<\/p>\n

I was doing some Delphi coding earlier this week and was reminded of the fact that the Borland<\/strike> Inprise<\/strike> Borland<\/strike> Codegear<\/strike>… OK, let me try that again. I was doing some Delphi coding earlier this week and I had noticed (before) that the former Borland tools were bought up by Embarcadero Technologies<\/a>. I could say this nicely, but lets keep it friendly for now1<\/sup>: at least the designer of Delphi (and earlier Pascal compilers) ended up designing the C# language and .Net Framework (see also The Borland Conspiracy Theory<\/a>). I only wished that the Pascal language designers had done away with the silly ‘assignment’ syntax (:=): you know, with this emerging emoticons craze<\/a> on these Internets I could say it slightly resembles a guy growing a thick beard. Oh wait, this just came through my earpiece: the emoticons craze is so early 90s.\n<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup> Though, programming in Delphi taught me to write solid leak-free code, I guess. Oh the joys of freeing up objects yourself<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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