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Why FireMonkey is so fundamentally wrong in every aspect of it’s being

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
A short time ago I had a harsh twitter argument with Nick Hodges (@NickHodges) about the FireMonkey framework in Delphi XE4

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 8: A little bit more evaluation

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
After a little break I'm back again with the next findings in my little pet project. First of all I wanted to check out

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 7: The evaluation begins: Installations

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
After I picked the evaluation candidates I first tried a test-setup on a development VM at home. Download For this I

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 6: The evaluation candidates

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
In this post I want to introduce the evaluation candidates for the bug tracker and the continuous integration software I'm

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 5: Additional tools, server and hosting

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
In this post I'm going to mention all the other necessary stuff for a project like mine. Preamble: Actually, it is a

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 4: Build server requirements

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
Okay, after the short delay I want to continue with my pre-thoughts for the tooling evaluation for my pet project. I already

Some delay with my pet project

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
Just a short update about my pet project and the evaluation posts: I'm a little bit late with my project. The reason is

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 3: Bug tracker requirements

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
In my last blog post I explained why I want to automate as much as possible. For this I want a build server. The next thing

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 2: Automate everything

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
This post is the second part in the series about my pet project, and this is about automating stuff. As I already

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 1: Basic tools

Posted on by Sebastian P.R. Gingter
For my new pet project I want to use good and efficient tooling. Since I want to create a tool for me and other .NET