Last year while i was the administrator of a one of popular turkish it community we’ve made a programming contest which was cancelled for a reason of no contestants. The subject of contest was to make a blogging program including two parts. First part was the client side part which contestants need to made a blog administration interface. Second part was the web part which contestants need to made a web interface.

The idea of this subject was this : Making administration panels is a so hard process. So why don’t we make administration section with a more object oriented language like Delphi?

While contest some people made critics including that we were wanting a program which we were planning to sell it!

This critics made me sick. Then i wrote a program similar to contest. I wrote a “Delphi Component Index” site which can be still accessable via www.componentbeacon.com

I made web site with PHP and client side with Delphi. Site uses mySQL.

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Sometimes you can encounter errors like below while starting your Delphi IDE :

Unable to open key "SOFTWARE\\Borland\\BDS\\3.0\\Personalities" for read
or
Unable to open key "SOFTWARE\\Borland\\BDS\\4.0\\Personalities" for read

This error can occur by any of these :

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