HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

deeaceofbase

54 karma · joined May 8, 2026

submissionscomments
deeaceofbase··on Porting from Delphi to JavaScript, will unalive your blog from Delphi RSS Sites
Embarcadero is fearful when Delphi's rotten web implementations frustrate developers and developers are easily porting to free JS tools. The Delphi Moat has greatly shrunk.

Embarcadero is on a marketing spree to convince developers Delphi and C++ Builder is a “secret weapon”, and winning developers use Delphi to gain competitive advantages.

One wonders what kind of advantages are there, except buy-this, buy-that and end up in dozens of useless subscriptions?

deeaceofbase··on Is dbase dead? Customers cannot activate nor contact support
dBase LLC’s website recently disappeared for several weeks. It eventually came back - but customers continue to report licensing and support problems.

Ironically, dBase is an offline database system whose copy-protection periodically calls home to online license servers. When those servers are unavailable, paying customers—not pirates—are locked out.

A database company should be showcasing its own technology.

Should dBase make a fork for WordPress to use dBase files?

deeaceofbase··on DBase is back, sort-of... Error: database not found
dBase LLC’s website is now on-line. The admins hosting the dBase LLC website should use their own software - install their IIS dBase extensions.