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Delphi and the misplaced breakpoints case.

· February 25, 2006 at 14:41:13
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Debugging a Delphi applications using breakpoints within the IDE is so cool, specially if you are used to write web applications in PHP (or whatever language you prefer) without an IDE with debugging capabilities. But, what happens when your IDE behaves creative and spontaneous? In a world where you write, test, and manage releases using several platforms, Delphi should know better.

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Playing with the CueCat barcode scanner.

· February 23, 2006 at 13:35:13
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My CueCat barcode scanner is broken, my computer is misconfigured or I just forgot to read the proper documentation. I spend three days just to find out the NUM LOCK key was causing the CueCat to be misunderstood by Windows. Poor little kitty, nobody understands what it says.

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Mensajes de error para perder clientes: reporte de un caso y consejos.

· January 22, 2006 at 16:56:58
· Filed under Desarrollo de software, En español, Usabilidad web
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Cuando el trato directo es substituido por un sitio web, es como si el personal de primer contacto fuera substituido por programadores web. Describimos el caso de un formulario de registro mal implementado con mensajes de error que parecen diseñados para ser anticlientes. Al final exponemos algunos consejos útiles para crear formularios web y mensajes de error amigables con los clientes.

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