By Vincent Parrett on
Monday, 12 July 2010
It's been a long time in the making, but FinalBuilder is almost here. FinalBuilder 7 has been in private beta testing for a few weeks, and today we are opening the beta to existing customers.
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By Vincent Parrett on
Friday, 4 June 2010
FinalBuilder's IDE is message driven. When you select an action in an actionlist for example, the actionlist view publishes a message to which other parts of the IDE can subscribe. The publish/subscribe mechanism used in the IDE has gone through a few revisions over the years, in the quest for the perfect publish/subscribe mechanism...
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By Ben Hughes on
5/05/2010 11:37 AM
Distributed verison control systems are gaining in usage and popularity, but many organisations still use traditional centralised VCSs like Subversion and Visual Source Safe. Recently I've been using a hybrid setup and getting many of the benefits of a DVCS without needing to move the whole team to a new VCS platform.
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By Vincent Parrett on
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Using interfaces and reference counting in Delphi works great in the most part. Its a feature I use a lot, I'm a big fan of using interfaces to tightly control what parts of a class a consumer has access to. But, there is one big achillies heel with reference counting in Delphi, you cannot keep circular references, at least not easily, without causing memory leaks.
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By Brent on
19/02/2010
In late 2008, we started a large campaign which introduced our first flash ads. Yesterday, I stopped all of our flash based ad campaigns... forever.
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By Vincent Parrett on
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
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By Brent on
22/01/2009
Nelson Wolf recently published a blog post about FinalBuilder to introduce the new action he's created for verifying that all required variables exist during run-time (a handy action!).
Within the post, he also had some interesting comments about FinalBuilder. ;-)
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By Brent on
9/01/2009
One of the funnier stackoverflow Q&As I've seen asked for advice on 'dealing' with those who break the build.
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By Brent on
8/12/2008
If you're a FinalBuilder expert available for contracting, let us know.
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By Brent on
3/12/2008
The Accentient Blog provided an interesting post recently comparing Team Foundation Build and FinalBuilder. It was great to see them offer an unbiased insight in to the distinctive advantages of each of these tools and it's worth a read if you're using or planning to use one or both.
We've had plenty to say over the years about the relationship between FinalBuilder and TFS/MSBuild/Team Foundation Build.
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By Brent on
28/11/2008
If you want to automate the deployment of ClickOnce apps in FinalBuilder, Dennis van der Stelt has posted an excellent tutorial on bloggingabout.net.
Check it out and if you have any questions, contact us for help. 
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By Brent on
5/09/2008
"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare" - Wikipedia
But what about a working build script?
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By Brent on
3/09/2008
This post looks at the pervasiveness of Continuous Integration among FinalBuilder users. This is the 3rd post in a series discussing insights uncovered in the 2008 FinalBuilder survey.
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By Brent on
27/08/2008
This is the 2nd post in a series that discusses insights uncovered in the 2008 FinalBuilder survey. This post focuses on the most popular version control systems among FinalBuilder customers.
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By Brent on
25/08/2008
This is the first in a series of posts discussing insights uncovered in the 2008 FinalBuilder survey.
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By Angus Gratton on
Thursday, June 05, 2008
A quick example of the new Python script support in FinalBuilder.
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By Angus Gratton on
Friday, May 16, 2008
According to Google Analytics, a number of people found the FinalBuilder web site in Google search results for the query 'hate "Team Foundation Server"'. I didn't know so many people felt that way!
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By Angus Gratton on
Thursday, April 24, 2008
FinalBuilder is written in a combination of Delphi and C#. This is a blog post about a Delphi RTL threading issue that I recently ran into and had to work around.
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By Angus Gratton on
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Brent was watching me fly through some FinalBuilder operations the other day and he suggested I write a blog post about the best keyboard shortcuts to use.
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By Angus Gratton on
Friday, April 04, 2008
A quick outline of the new Output Monitors feature in FinalBuilder 6, with a sample project - checking if a file is open on a remote machine. Makes use of the excellent SysInternals tools.
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