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I've been mostly living under a rock for a number of months... I just came out and installed my brand new copy of 10.3.1 and quickly went to lunch while it installed. I came back and noticed the familiar Java update pending notice and started quickly clicking to get it updated before jumping into some dev work. I then noticed the Updated License Terms screen and the "This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non commercial) desktop and laptop use." disclaimer. Has this topic been beat to death yet? : ) Links please! Seriously though - for commercial Delphi android development, does Embarcadero cover our commercial license with whatever bundled license they have, or do we need to go direct to Oracle?

I don't buy that argument. People are using the software now. And software is never finished. There is always more to be done. So if you wait until it is done, then you never document it. My personal experience, and very strongly felt, is that writing documentation is a key part of finalising and debugging specification. So many times have I experienced this. Only when you write the documentation do you realise some of the issues that users will face. Deal with them before releasing and you don't have to spend as much time in back compat hell. My view is that writing documentation in a timely fashion actually saves time and resources in the long run.

Sometimes your program needs to block the screen saver from automatically kicking in. My use case was that the program was recording data and whenever the screen saver was active, the data was lost (No idea why, it probably had something to do with the way HID is implemented in Windows.) So I was looking for a way to fix that without forcing the user to turn off the screen saver. The methods that used to work under Windows XP no longer work in Windows 7 and later (I don’t care about Vista), so I googled and found this question on StackOverflow. The Windows API functions PowerCreateRequest + PowerSetRequest mentioned in the highest voted answer looked promising. Unfortunately they don’t seem bo be available in Delphi read on in my blog post

If you have documentation you cannot just yolo refactor code every release and break something...

This is the dictionary definition of a race

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CORRECT. The "time for docu work" was BEFORE THE FEATURE WAS RELEASED.