BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Always appreciate the little things given to you. Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  Next          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Non-Technical View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Michael Bennett Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:54 pm    Post subject: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Well, here's another reason why I love Delphi. ~.pas files. No, seriously. I'll explain. It was around 1:30am a.k.a. 11th hour programming, and I'm banging away at the keyboard coding. Just finished implementing a class for a small DLL that's due by tommorrow, no biggie. Before I can start testing it, my notebook running XP Pro has made a decision that my life isn't full of excitement as it should be. So it proceeds to spice things up: -------------------------------------- BSOD SAVRT.SYS STOP 0x0000008E AT ADDRESS F0484AF8 BASE F046C000 DATESTAMP 3FA3986D --------------------------------------- 15 minutes later and after some random screaming about NAV2003, my notebook was back up and running. Unfortunately, when I went back into Delphi 7 and attempted to resume my work, a dialog box popped up informing me that "one or more lines are too long and will be truncated" Huh? So I clicked ok. Apparently... my entire file was truncated into one... darn... long line of blocks. I don't do legos, and I don't type blocks either. ....and I have no source code. Joy. It's 1:50 now. If only I could chuck those blocks at someone. Before I decided to seek 'final redemption', I checked my directory and noticed that the ~.pas file had a timestamp on it that appeared to be around 5-10 minutes before my notebook bombed on me. So I removed the ~ character, replaced the corrupted .pas file, and I'm back on track. Peace will remain...for now. Is there a lesson in all of this? Yup, one that I almost learned the hard way. save and save often!!!! -J. Michael Bennett Jr. Back to top DS Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 9:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Michael Bennett wrote: Quote: 15 minutes later and after some random screaming about NAV2003, my notebook was back up and running. Sorry if I'm being somewhat OT here, but... Company I work for also sells some hardware, usually with Windows & stuff preinstalled, mostly to our SW customers (isn't it wonderfull to have single entity to blame to whatever your problem with is?) and I must say that NAV screwed things up one more than one occasion. I wholeheartedly recommend Panda Antivirus. Unobtrusive, doesn't slow down the machine, cheap, and always up-to-date. IMHO, of course. LP, Dejan Back to top DS Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 9:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. DS wrote: <some crap> And I really do need to install a spell checker. LP, Dejan Back to top Alain Quesnel Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 9:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Ever heard of auto-save and "Run (F9) often"? -- Alain Quesnel [email]alainsansspam (AT) logiquel (DOT) com[/email] www.logiquel.com "Charles McAllister" <charles (AT) avimark (DOT) net> wrote Quote: "Michael Bennett" <mikemkii (AT) nospam (DOT) forme.hotmail.com.ok> wrote in message news:40ae6c8b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Is there a lesson in all of this? Yup, one that I almost learned the hard way. save and save often!!!! I'm not kidding. I press Ctrl+S a few hundred times a day :) Back to top David Clegg Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 10:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Michael Bennett wrote: Quote: Is there a lesson in all of this? Yup, one that I almost learned the hard way. save and save often!!!! Auto-Save option in IDE (Workaround includes details of OTAPI add-in written by Ray Lischner) http://qc.borland.com/wc/wc.exe/details?ReportID=1178 -- Cheers, David Clegg dclegg_at_ebetonline_dot_com Vote 1 http://cc.borland.com/codecentral/ccweb.exe/listing?id=21489 Now supports Google Groups searching with Dyna-extend(tm) technology! Quality Central. The best way to bug Borland about bugs. http://qc.borland.com "I'm just trying to get into heaven. I'm not running for Jesus." - Homer Simpson Back to top Charles McAllister Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 10:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. "Michael Bennett" <mikemkii (AT) nospam (DOT) forme.hotmail.com.ok> wrote Quote: Is there a lesson in all of this? Yup, one that I almost learned the hard way. save and save often!!!! I'm not kidding. I press Ctrl+S a few hundred times a day Back to top Craig van Nieuwkerk Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 10:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Quote: Ever heard of auto-save and "Run (F9) often"? Yes. I should add that i'm not complaining, and I knew there was an expert to auto-save. Its just that subconsciously I've grown accustomed to doing it manually :) Me too, I save after making almost any small change. After all these years it is just automatic and I dont even think about it. Back to top Wayne Niddery [TeamB] Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 11:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Michael Bennett wrote: Quote: Is there a lesson in all of this? Yup, one that I almost learned the hard way. save and save often!!!! And use version control. While the ~pas file saved you in this case, it can also be that you save too many times - the ~pas file now contains stuff you wish you hadn't saved and you need to get prior stuff back. I've heard so many times that single developers don't need version control, that it only makes sense for teams, and I say every time they are wrong. -- Wayne Niddery - Logic Fundamentals, Inc. (www.logicfundamentals.com) RADBooks: http://www.logicfundamentals.com/RADBooks.html "True peace is not the absence of tension, but the presence of justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr. Back to top Charles McAllister Guest Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 11:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. "Alain Quesnel" <alainsansspam (AT) logiquel (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Ever heard of auto-save and "Run (F9) often"? Yes. I should add that i'm not complaining, and I knew there was an expert to auto-save. Its just that subconsciously I've grown accustomed to doing it manually :) Back to top Alexander Tereshchenko Guest Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 2:19 am    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Quote: SAVRT.SYS Ah! Symantec Antivirus Real Time protection... Well, actually all real-time virus protections are crap (officially confirmed by QA labs in company where I work), but Symantec's is the special crap. For example recent version of their Corporate Antivirus bluescreened Windows2000 and WindowsXP if you will type one specific russian character (ш) exactly at position number 6 on the first line of some .txt file. Pure bliss! ------------------------------------------ Alexander Tereshchenko [email]alex (AT) knives-out (DOT) org[/email] http://www.knives-out.org/ Back to top Iman L Crawford Guest Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:24 am    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. "Michael Bennett" <mikemkii (AT) nospam (DOT) forme.hotmail.com.ok> wrote in news:40ae6c8b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com: Quote: Is there a lesson in all of this? Yup, one that I almost learned the hard way. save and save often!!!! JBuilder has multiple save points for files. You can do diff's on all of them from within the IDE. -- Iman "Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." Back to top Hannes Danzl[NDD] Guest Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:58 am    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. NAV is pita. it slows down the system (especially smaller ones), locks up, creates UI freezes, ... all things that are gone after changing to another product ... -- Hannes Danzl [NexusDB Developer] Newsgroup archive at http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm Back to top Hannes Danzl[NDD] Guest Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:59 am    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. same here. is completely unconconscious ... -- Hannes Danzl [NexusDB Developer] Newsgroup archive at http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm "Charles McAllister" <charles (AT) avimark (DOT) net> wrote Quote: "Michael Bennett" <mikemkii (AT) nospam (DOT) forme.hotmail.com.ok> wrote in message news:40ae6c8b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Is there a lesson in all of this? Yup, one that I almost learned the hard way. save and save often!!!! I'm not kidding. I press Ctrl+S a few hundred times a day :) Back to top Hannes Danzl[NDD] Guest Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 4:01 am    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. i was using a tool some years agon on win3.11 that saved always saved a history file for delphi 1. i can't remember what it was called though... saved me quite a few times... -- Hannes Danzl [NexusDB Developer] Newsgroup archive at http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm Back to top Michael Bennett Guest Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: Always appreciate the little things given to you. Wayne Niddery [TeamB] wrote: Quote: And use version control. While the ~pas file saved you in this case, it can also be that you save too many times - the ~pas file now contains stuff you wish you hadn't saved and you need to get prior stuff back. Yup, we already do. I'm using Visual Source Safe, along with VssConneXion for version control at my place of employment. I checked out the project so I can work on it at home. Unfortunately our server isn't set up yet for me to check-out/check-in files from outside the office. -J. 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