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Run the Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator and type:

powercfg –h off

which freed up over 32Gb on my new PC’s C drive.

Paraphrasing from the Optimale Systemer AS website, Smart Mobile Studio brings the power of pascal to the browser and RAD to javascript.  While in beta, the promise is appealing for old-time Delphi developers.

ExtensionMethod.Net has over 300 C#  extension methods (over 100 are on the string class).  For an overview on extension methods visit this MSDN page or see my old post.

Firebird is a fantastic open source database–not sure why it is not more popular. 

And it has a cool logo:

To be safe one should add (and change) a query parameter after their Silverlight application to prevent the file from being cached.

The HTML would look something like:

<param name="source" value="ClientBin/MySilverlightApplication.xap?revision=2012011801"/>

And the revision needs to be changed after every new build that is published.

For a great accumulation of helpful WP7 tips, check out http://wp7dev.wikispaces.com/.

Wikipedia credits Skype as being written in Delphi.  For a good list of other applications written in Delphi, visit delphi.wikia.com.  Plus Embarcadero has  a dizzying showcase here.  The list of software built with Delphi includes Ad-Aware (which I recommend/install on all relatives machines), Beyond Compare (used at work), Adobe Captivate, FinalBuilder, Help and Manual, Macromedia Homesite, TOAD, Total Commander, and many more.

It looks like Silverlight and WinRT have a lot of API in common.  The WinRT Genome Project from Programmer Payback has a nice Venn diagram of the overlaps; and a link to a complete Silverlight 5 vs. WinRT comparison by namespace.

While I usually like to detach, copy/rename, then reattach development databases, for online databases I often need to refer to these SQL commands:

BACKUP DATABASE MY_DATABASE TO DISK=‘C:\SQLBACKUPS\MY_DATABASE_BACKUP20111117a.BACKUP’

RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK=‘C:\SQLBACKUPS\MY_DATABASE_BACKUP20111117a.BACKUP’

RESTORE DATABASE MY_DATABASE_NEW FROM DISK=‘C:\SQLBACKUPS\MY_DATABASE_BACKUP20111117a.BACKUP’
WITH
  MOVE ‘MY_DATABASE_Data’ TO ‘C:\PRODUCTION_DATA\MY_DATABASE.MDF’,
  MOVE ‘MY_DATABASE_Log’ TO ‘C:\PRODUCTION_DATA\MY_DATABASE.LDF’

The Delphi IDE Fix Pack from Andy Hausladen in truly incredible.  At work we have a very large Delphi project (core application has about 3.9 million lines of code) and using the Delphi IDE was painfully slow—doing a ‘Find Declaration’ would lock the IDE for minutes.  After installing the IDE Fix Pack the IDE is now useable (and the same ‘Find Declaration’ now it works within a few seconds).  Kudos to Andy Hausladen for a wonderful piece of software!