Monthly Archives: October 2006

DelphiFeeds.com: Some interesting statistics

I love stats so I analyzed the DelphiFeeds.com database and AWStats results. Here are some fun quick stats about DelphiFeeds.com from the last 12 months:

Monthly visits: 50.000 - 60.000
Estimated readers: 2.000
Crawled blogs: 55
Crawled postings: 2795
Crawled newsgroups1): 2
Crawled news postings: 7086

Top five blogs by postings:

About Delphi Programming (279 postings)
Nick’s Delphi Blog (Nick’s old blog, 234 postings)
BDN […]

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MyLife Organized todo and GTD software

I have been looking for software to use the Getting Things Done time management techniques with my O2 Xda mini S (I think it’s O2’s equivalent to the QTek 9100) and finally found a rather good one: MyLife Organized. There’s a MyLife Pocket PC and Windows Desktop application to manage tasks, projects and deadlines and […]

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Porting Delphi applications to Vista

If you read DelphiFeeds.com or some of the existing Delphi blogs regularly, you already know the following article. If you haven’t seen it yet and use Delphi, this article is highly recommended:
Creating Windows Vista Ready Applications with Delphi
The article describes some code changes to make Delphi applications take advantage of the new Windows Vista features […]

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How do you rate on the Joel Test?

Joel Spolsky laid out the Joel Test back in 2000 as a highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team as he calls it himself. Being a MicroISV, I didn’t expect us to rate that high on the test as some of the “rules” are obviously more appropriate for bigger teams. […]

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