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    1 hour ago, Dalija Prasnikar said:

    I wonder who has such landline these days. Our telecom switched to VoIP long ago. So I have a land network connection, but we no longer have classic telephone line.

    For phones, there are VoIP solutions, but not really common, so most of us use 4G/5G mobile phones. Even our company phones are mobile based.

    Fiber or Cable for land network connections, with 5G mobile internet on the rise.

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    Well, my "you" was the general "anyone". And the argument stands: why would anyone chose not to use the massive tooling that already exists for Blazor? Embt would end up in another trying to catch up situation like they did with .net.

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    Due to the supply chain disturbances, we had a 5 month delivery wait for servers and parts for a while, so I can relate to delays.

     

    The problems here are:

    - Lack of proper communication. "No news. Next update at ..." is better than silence!

    - Insufficient contingency planning? 

    - Insufficient backup and recovery plans?

    - No plan B? There are many capable cloud hosting services that doesn't take forever to spin up a pack of servers.

     

     The cost might be high, sure - but so is the cost of losing the trust of your customers.

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    External code = good.

    External binaries = not so much...

     

    I am not saying it is a must, but it makes conversations easier to follow if they have dialog instead of many screenfuls of code.

    I am really fond of gists, since you can see the changes, fork them, etc. - and you don't need to log into GitHub to be able to see them.

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    @gioma I have both D11 and D12 installed. With the Parnassus plugins in both.

     

    You cannot share visual source code between the two versions. If you open your projects in D12 and save the changes, the forms (as well as other visual design components) can have added properties, which will not work with D11.  This is not news. It has always been like this between major versions. 

     

    That the GetIt servers are down is a problem for everybody, and not something this user forum can solve.

  20. Posted

    LOL at the comments from @Ian Barker on the Delphi Community Discord - General Chat 😄
     

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    Yes it was not a single point of failure but a cascade effect caused by a failure, mitigation, which then spiked demand in a concentrated way, which then unleashed the Kraken, Cthulhu, Satan's little helpers, COVID-19++, and the ghost of Christmas Past.
     

    It's a bit like when you put your finger over a hole in a water pipe to stop it leaking and then it sprays everywhere like a coke bottle stuffed full of mentos.
     

    When you have millions of hits from the IDE trying to refresh the GetIt packages (for example) and a tiny bit of network left limping along amidst the flames of Valhalla stuff goes sideways really fast.
     

    Not a good week to be the developer advocate, to be fair, but a lot better than being one of the network ops people who, I suspect, have nothing left in their blood but pure caffeine and pizza crusts.

     

     

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