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Delphi Code Monkey: Windows 8 user interface is useless on tablets. And...
As a case in point for how useless Windows 8 is on a tablet, consider the common source of confusion since version 3.5 of Windows NT, when a printer queue is paused. First users don't think about...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
The comment thread at via The Oracle at Delphi » Give in to the ARC side is very interesting.So soon after writing a StackOverflow answer on Delphi Memory Managers yesterday, this one by David M (aka...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I had a bit of trouble getting into CodeRage Mobile: somehow the confirmation email never reached the pluimers.com servers. After retrying today, @EmbarcaderoTech sent a GotoMeeting link that...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Cool to know that DIPP is able to strip directives from Delphi source code:The freeware program DIPP from Delphi Inspiration can remove...
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Firebird News: The Firebird Book Second Edition now on Amazon
You can now buy all 3 volumes from printed second edition from Amazon (If you are in Eu choose Amazon.uk/de) http://www.firebird-books.net/
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Žarko Gajić: SQLite: Referential Integrity With Full Text Search Virtual...
As a second step in my goal to implement full text search functionality in my Delphi application I had to create a sample SQLite database supporting FTS queries. Full text search models in databases...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
On the blog from Embarcadero MVP Luis Felipe González Torres are some great Delphi XE4 iOS demos.However, the blog is Spanish (that’s probably why he is not on DelphiFeeds), so if you do not understand...
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TPersistent: CouponCode.Free
I attended CodeRage Mobile and was just sent a coupon code for 15% off for doing so. I thought I would find out how much an upgrade would cost me so I clicked on the buy link, added items to my basket...
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DelphiTools.info: DWScript Just-In-Time compiler
For a couple months now, a JIT compiler has been available in the DWScript SVN for 32bits code. The JIT is meant to be transparent, that is, execution, debugging facilities and memory layouts are...
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Daniel Magin's Logfile: FireDAC Update 2 available
Embarcadero released a new Version of FireDac for XE4 usersdirect download Link to Files you find here: LINKChange Log:============================================================v 8.0.5.3365...
View ArticleTPersistent: Real World Marketing Lessons for ISVs
Marketing is about motivating people to buy your product or service. It is deeply routed in human psychology, and to do a proper job requires a lot of knowledge and skill. I have never had any respect...
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DelphiTools.info: Pascal app hits FireFox OS
A couple days ago, a Pascal game compiled with SmartMobileStudio was accepted on the FireFox MarketPlace as a packaged app. It had only been tested on the FireFox OS desktop simulator, how would it...
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Pascal y Lazarus: La librería IBDAC
En nuestra empresa buscábamos una librería rápida y confiable para conectar nuestros sistemas a Firebird, y luego de hacer pruebas con las librerías nativas de Lazarus y varias otras librerías...
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Firebird News: Firebird Python driver FDB 1.4 is released with new features
FDB release 1.4 is out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb Here is the changelog and the list of bugs fixed New Features: * fdb.schema submodule extended with support for user privileges. Improvements: *...
View ArticleDaniel Magin's Logfile: FMX XE4 Update 1 Form Event onActivate Problem...
After installing XE4 Update 1 a small problem added on the Firemonkey Form Event onActivate.The Event onActivate is not fired correctly anymore. See also my QC Report and also a other QC Report on the...
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Firebird News: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus...
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.10. This is a bug fix release, built with the current fpc 2.6.2. Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:...
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Firebird News: Firebird V3.0 Alpha 1 – The code has been tagged in Subversion
URL to build from is: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/firebird/code/firebird/tags/T3_0_0_Alpha1/. Roadmap was also updated http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/roadmap/ For testing you can use the pre alpha...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Build 2013 : Quo Vadis, Microsoft
After it became obvious to the Powers that Be at Microsoft that Windows 8 was bombing spectacularly, they went back to the drawing board, and said, "what do we need to add to windows to make it a...
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The road to Delphi: Getting System information in OSX and iOS using Delphi...
This is the continuation of the Getting System information in OSX and iOS using Delphi (XE2, XE3, XE4) Part 1 article.Inside of the Posix.SysSysctl unit (which is the translation for the sysctl.h file)...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Delayed loading of a DLL
The delayed directive can be used when declaring a function exported from a DLL so that the DLL is not loaded before the function is called. This is very useful because you may first check if the...
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