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Firebird News: Database .NET 8.2 released with many new features
Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool. You can Browse objects, Design tables, Edit rows, Export data and Run queries with a consistent interface....
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Last quarter, 11 issues of Micro Cornucopia appeared on BitSavers including the final May 1990 issue.This month, another 7 issues appeared, most of which cover a form of Pascal in one or more of the...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
A few interesting links for my archive:fcl-passrc – Free Pascal wiki. (some classes for parsing Free Pascal, which is a lot like Delphi)Syntax sample. (Delphi 2009 grammar)Looking for a Complete Delphi...
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DelphiTools.info: COM connector spring cleanup
DWScript COM Connector has just received a spring cleanup, as it had grown a bit mouldy over the last years. The COM Connector optionally gives scripts direct access to ActiveX and COM objects.As part...
View Articletwm’s blog: setfacl woes
Ever since I switched my Linux server to using ACLs (access control lists) for advanced access rights management I have struggled with rights being set too restrictive on new directories and files. Now...
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DelphiTools.info: DWScript showcase: AquaSoft SlideShow
Answering the call for showcases, Steffen Binas prepared a very nice set of screenshots for AquaSoft‘s Slide Show impressive product, which went far beyond the minimal requirement, so I’m posting a...
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The road to Delphi: How distinguish when Windows was installed in Legacy BIOS...
As part of the TSMBIOS project, I needed a method to distinguish when Windows was installed in Legacy BIOS or UEFI mode. The solution was provided by the GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariable function.The...
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The road to Delphi: Added Linux support to the TSMBIOS Project
Great news for the Free Pascal developers, I just added Linux support to the TSMBIOS project.Note : The TSMBIOS read the SMBIOS info using the /dev/mem device file which provides access to system...
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The road to Delphi: Delphi XE3 Vcl Styles Additions
Alexey Sharagin from Embarcadero just wrote a blog article titled Tuning VCL Styles for Forms and Controls, which shows some features related to the VCL Styles introduced in Delphi XE3.
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The road to Delphi: How customize the fonts of a TActionMainMenuBar and...
This week I received two emails from different Delphi developers asking about : How customize the fonts of a TActionMainMenuBar and TPopupActionBar with the Vcl Styles Enabled? Also a question about...
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The road to Delphi: Exploring Delphi XE3 – Accesing Windows Sensors from VCL...
Delphi XE3 includes support for sensors in OSX and Windows, the classes and types necessaries to access such devices are defined as abstract classes in the System.Sensors unit and implemented in the...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
For my research queue:I should look at the below ConnectionStrings to access dBase with ADO from Delphi, If I ever need to do that.Thanks Cromulent for asking, Nelson for editing and Pieter for...
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Firebird News: Firebird Python driver FDB release 1.1 is out
FDB release 1.1 is out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb New Features: - Context Manager for transactions. Bugs Fixed: - http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/PYFB-30
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Firebird News: isql documentation update
The manual for isql has been hugely updated, tidied up and is now online at http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/isql.html for the html and at...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
A small duh moment when I found this out myself the hard way: when repeatedly drawing anti-aliased text, it will alter the background on each draw.So you cannot do that. Not in Delphi, not in .NET, not...
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Firebird News: PHP 5.5 beta3 is released and pdo_firebird.dll is re-added to...
The PHP development team announces the release of the 3rd beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 2. PHP 5.5.0beta3 is shipped with some bug fixes and improvements. Here is an...
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The road to Delphi: Added support to TSMBIOS for SMBIOS 2.8 spec.
A few weeks ago (3 Apr 2013) a new update to the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Reference Specification was introduced by the DMTF. So the TSMBIOS project was updated to support the SMBIOS 2.8. The...
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Delphi Code Monkey: Programming For Non-Programmers : No Silver Bullets, No...
Programmers tend to be fond of these aphorisms:There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL) -- Robert HeinleinThere Are No Silver Bullets -- Fred BrooksBut leaving aside our cynicism for a...
View Articletwm’s blog: Storing gnugettext translations as resources
I always wondered why the assemble tool in dxgettext appends the translation files directly to the executable rather than using the existing mechanism of resources. This is no longer necessary. I have...
View Articlewhile true do;: #3 “dorm, the Delphi ORM” bullettin
A veeery log time after the last dorm bullettin. But, as usual, I was been very busy on some projects (not only dorm) and the time goes by… However, dorm has been extended, polished and improved over...
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