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Firebird News: Adminer (Database management in single PHP file) with Alpha...
Steve Krämer contributed Firebird Adminer driver I’m proud to release a first version of my Firebird-Driver for Adminer. Thought, it’s a pre-alpha version. But it’s a first tool for all of those who...
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Firebird News: NodeJS C++ client node-firebird-libfbclient v.0.0.13 updated...
Firebird C++ NodeJS module is updated with 64bit fixes: Please use version if you are on 64bit os : npm install -g firebird-libfbclient
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
When developing mail sending software, you don’t want all your test mails to proliferate in the world.Luckily there are some SMTP servers and services that allow incoming mail, but don’t forward...
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Firebird News: Nodejs Firebird driver version 0.4.0 is released with initial...
node-firebird 0.4.0 released with initial support for Service Manager . For the moment only Backup Service is implemented Firebird.attach(options, function(err, svc) { if (err) return; svc.backup( {...
View Articletwm’s blog: Updated dzEditorLineEndsFix
I have just updated dzEditorLineEndsFix to address a small problem: The tool can be too fast so the file is already gone when Delphi tries to access it. It now waits 200 ms after detecting the file...
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Firebird News: FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.4 is available for download
FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.4 is available for download Here is the changelog http://pythonhosted.org//fdb/changelog.html#version-1-4-4
View Articletwm’s blog: Accessing the clipboard in a Firemonkey application
It just took me quite a while to find this information so I’ll put it here for future reference.A Firemonkey application can not just access the clipboard, it needs to ask the platform whether it...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus Release Candidate 2 of 1.4
The Lazarus team would like to announce the second release candidate for the upcoming Version 1.4.We would like to invite all users to test this release candidate.Please read below why everybody really...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Odd that the RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap on the Embarcadero site got published by Brian Alexakis which is relatively unknown in the Delphi community.I wish that ARC for Windows and Linux x86/x64 were on...
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Markus Joos started a nice G+ thread on anonymous method formatting which ended up into a discussion of functional programming and a peek into what Spring4D 1.3 can offer.Note you might need to be part...
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Firebird News: Confirmed date for the next Firebird Developers Day
The 12th edition of the Firebird Developers Day will take place in Piracicaba,SP – Brazil, in 08-Aug-2015, at Espaço Beira Rio (same place as last year). The conference site with all the details will...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
When the suggestions from Out-of-Memory in RAD XE7 and -noparser from Tried to patch BDS.exe fails to, then this suggestion by Brian Hamilton on G+ might work:From a post in the EMB forum, a work...
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Firebird News: Nodejs Firebird driver version 0.5.1 is released with support...
node-firebird 0.5.1 released with the following functions implemented for Service Manager: backup restore fixproperties serverinfo database validation commit transaction rollback transaction recover...
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Firebird News: Firebird 3 API demo usage with Pascal
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes (on the Firebird Development list): “I just built an example of Firebird 3 API usage with FreePascal. As said earlier, working with input/output buffers directly in...
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Castle Game Engine news: We're proud to present another game done using...
We're proud to present another game done using Castle Game Engine:) This is an isometric RTS (real-time strategy) with some twists (command lines cannot cross). Available to download, for free, on...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: 20 Years as a Delphi Developer
This is the talk I gave at the TDUG meeting, in February, now on youtube.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Stuff I found out myself:OpenSSL does not like to have a period (dot) at the end of a S/MIME message (like many .EML files have as SMTP basically requires a period to terminate an email message.Indy...
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Embarcadero Employee Blogs: testing my blog
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I missed EKON 16 as both they and we moved outside the regular conference season.So I missed this session: EKON 16: MSBuild // Speaker Deck that has these GitHub source examples:...
View ArticleSmart Mobile StudioSmart Mobile Studio: Smart Graphics
In this first installment we have taken a quick look at related concepts that you are bound to meet when programming graphics. Concepts like double buffering, sprites, alpha blending are universal and...
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while true do;: DelphiPodcastIT episode 2 Interview about DelphiMVCFramework
DelphiPodcastIT and DelphiMVCFrameworkIn the 2nd episode of DelphiPodcastIT (Delphi podcast in italian language by Marco Breveglieri) there is a my interview about the past, the present and the future...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Brian Alexakis and Virtual Reality
In this episode I talk with Brian Alexakis about his role and what exactly it means to be a Knowledge Marketer. We also talk about the similarities between FireMonkey and some web development tools,...
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Žarko Gajić: 64-bit Delphi Applications Using TWebBrowser to Display PDF...
I have an application using TWebBrowser component to allow viewing of Adobe PDF documents within the application. This approach is really pretty simple: when a user of the application has Adobe Reader...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: FireDAC In-Memory DataSet: TFDMemTable
More information and resources on TFDMemTable from the FireDAC Skill Sprint.Here are the slides for now, the replay will be available soon.FireDAC Skill Sprint: In-Memory DataSet – TFDMemTable from Jim...
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Firebird News: BenchmarkSQL for Firebird
Roman Simakov announced BenchmarkSQL for Firebird I’ve ported BenchmarkSQL for Firebird. It’s TPC-C test working via JDBC and support PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 and now Firebird....
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Castle Game Engine news: 1. GPU texture memory profiler was added to the...
1. GPU texture memory profiler was added to the engine. This allows to easily see which textures are loaded to GPU and eat texture memory. Optimizing this is especially important on mobile devices...
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Firebird News: Standard deviation and variance contributed by Hajime Nakagami
Improve your favourite Open Source RDBMS with github pull requests and patches . Here’s a contribution to Firebird core standard deviation and variance buff.ly/1Ek2m0h
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DelphiTools.info: String Lookup: Hash, Sorted or Unsorted ?
When looking up a string, what is the fastest strategy? A hash map, a sorted list or an unsorted list? Of course it depends on how many strings you have, but where are the cutoff points? Here is a...
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Firebird News: GSOC 2015 Finish Firebird Libreoffice driver integration
There is a medium difficulty task for a c++ programmer in current GSOC 2015 The Firebird driver for LibreOffice was started, and is mostly functional, in a previous GSoC, but it needs finishing and...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Thanks to the answers for .net – What is a dependency property? – Stack Overflow, I came across this really nice WPF Tutorial | Dependency Properties.It has one of the best explanations on Dependency...
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DelphiTools.info: Long strings: Hash vs Sorted vs Unsorted
Hash, IndexOf, Lookup, Performance, Search, Sorted, StringAs a followup to the previous String Lookup: Hash, Sorted or Unsorted here is a look at what happens for longer strings. When the string you’re...
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Firebird News: Nodejs Firebird driver version 0.6.0 is released with critical...
node-firebird 0.6.0 released with critical problem with Transactions fixed
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Firebird News: Time to try Firebird for Android
In a private email exchange to Alex Peshkov, he allowed be to publish his “cloud” link, containing a test version of Firebird 3 for Android. Archives with tools for accessing databases in embedded mode...
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DelphiTools.info: DWScript moving to BitBucket
With the closing of Google Code, I will be moving my projects, a priori to BitBucket. The new URL is https://bitbucket.org/egrange/dwscript If you have Issues in the Google Code Issue Tracker that...
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Firebird News: Firebird 2015 Tour: SQL Optimization
We invite all Firebird developers and administrators to 1-day seminars in the frames of Firebird 2015 Tour. Firebird 2015 Tour is devoted to the SQL performance optimization: SQL plans, queries and...
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DelphiTools.info: Migrating from Google Code to BitBucket
Here is a quick guide on migrating a project code from Google Code (SVN) to BitBucket (git) using TortoiseGIT, so with a GUI, and with no cryptic command line in sight. Migrating Wiki/Issues is a bit...
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Firebird News: CMake iOS build for Firebird 3
Egor Pugin announced on Firebird-Devel list : With new CMake 3.2.1 it is possible to successfully build Firebird for iOS platform using CMake. Updated instructions for iOS build available at...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: FireDAC: Local SQL
Here are the additional resources for the FireDAC: Local SQL Skill Sprint from this morning. The TFDLocalSQL provides a powerful engine allowing you to run local SQL queries against any TDataSet...
View ArticleAustralian Delphi User Group Members: Preview of Brian Longs Android topic at...
There’s less than 2 days left to register for the ADUG Autumn Symposium 2015.As a special teaser before the event here’s a quick demo of some of speaker Brian Long’s demos that extend FireMonkey on...
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Firebird News: We recommend flynn.io (a alternative oss PaaS to heroku) that...
With fdb version 1.4.4 we recommend flynn.io open source platform as a service (PaaS) Here is is how it works now with django-firebird and heroku buildpacks
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Firebird News: Meteor watching cameras powered by the Raspberry Pi and Firebird
Cool project : Meteor watching cameras powered by the Raspberry Pi, bought to you by Cambridge Science Centre! http://www.cambridgesciencecentre.org/MeteorPi/ News via twitter
View Articletwm’s blog: When const doesnt mean const
Consider this code: procedure SplitAt(const _Input: string; _Position: integer; out _Head, _Tail: string); begin _Head := Copy(1, _Position-1); _Tail := Copy(_Position); end; It’s meant to split a...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: New! Support for many texture compression methods on...
New! Support for many texture compression methods on GPU, in particular for GPU compression formats popular on Android devices. And improvements to handle GPU compressed textures throughout the whole...
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Firebird News: New Statistical Functions to be added covar_samp, covar_pop, corr
Hajime Nakagami contributed new Statistical functions : covar_samp(), covar_pop(), corr() You can find a few examples in the pull request. ps:Now is merged
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Firebird News: PyFirebirdsql Version 0.9.7 is released with Firebird 3 Wire...
PyFirebirdsql Version 0.9.7 is released with Firebird 3 Wire Protocol changes – null indicator fixes for Firebird 3 – PyCrypto dependency added for Firebird 3 One example is in test basic api file
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Firebird News: New SQL standard feature : Scrollable cursors
Dmitry Yemanov added documentation for the new feature : Scrollable cursors in PSQL, DSQL with additional API support Function: Allow to navigate through the open cursor in any direction rather than...
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Firebird News: Firebird Perl extension DBD-Firebird version 1.19 is released
Revision history for Perl extension DBD::Firebird for 1.19: Fix $VERSION in Firebird.pm [mapopa] Fix typo in ISC_PASSWORD spelling [stefbv70] Positive logic and early return [Tux] Allow...
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Firebird News: Roadmap for a Distributed Firebird
Roadmap for a distributed Firebird? was posted on firebird-devel list By Jim Starkey. Goal: Morph Firebird into a high performance, distributed, fully redundant database.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Paul Thornton posted a nice question on G+ two weeks ago:Interfaces are great, but they can be a pain to debug. Forgetting one weak link can lead to Access Violation hell. I seem to remember a utility...
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Firebird News: Cool stuff in firebird 2.5.4 : Ability to validate tables and...
Vlad Khorsun contributed New feature CORE-4707 in firebird 2.5.4: Ability to validate tables and indices online See also: /doc/README.online_validation /doc/README.services_extension
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