Delphi Code Monkey: ARC is awesome: My comments on Allen Bauer 's blog
Allen is a pretty talented guy, and he has a long history and deep insights into the history of Delphi. I can confirm (from outside the Embarcadero/CodeGear fold) that everything he says is exactly...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Niklaus Wirth developed the Pascal Programming Language in the early 1970s.This summer, 40 years ago, he published an important report in that era: “The Programming Language Pascal (Revised Report)...
View ArticleTPersistent: SyncEdit How UseFul is It?
Today I ran across yet another limitation of SyncEdit. Incredible you say? Check out the following sample code:procedure CreatePackage(anInvoiceItem :ThcInvoiceItem; aClient :ThcClient); begin if...
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Delphi Haven: Dont expect the Parent property to be set inside an FMX...
So… I’m working on a little custom FireMonkey control. As in the VCL, if you want to handle drawing a custom control yourself, you need to override its Paint method. In my case the override was looking...
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Delphi Haven: Programmatically shutting down, restarting, sleeping or logging...
Browsing StackOverflow, I came across a question asking how to programmatically shut down the computer in Delphi when targeting OS X. Mysteriously, the question has been met with four downvotes as I...
View ArticleTPersistent: hcOPF now supports XE4
I just updated the sourceforge repo with VCL projects for XE4 with the exception of HengenOPFJVValidators (I don’t have JVCL installed at the moment). Simply define an environment variable “hcOPF” to...
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Delphi Code Monkey: An Unusual Open Source Project for Delphi, by Me.
You might not know that second to Delphi, my favorite programming language is Python. Also, my favorite version control system, Mercurial, is written in Python, and I keep all my Delphi projects in...
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Firebird News: Android port of the Firebird Jdbc driver (Jaybird) 2.2.3 is...
New version for Android Jaybird is released This is a port of the Firebird Jdbc driver (Jaybird) You can check what is new in Jaybird 2.2.3 from the official announcement page ps: You can download...
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Firebird News: SQLAlchemy 0.8.2 released with Firebird related fixes
SQLAlchemy release 0.8.2 is now available. 0.8.2 includes several dozen bug fixes and new features, including refinement of some of the new features introduced in 0.8. Here are the Firebird related...
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Delphi Haven: The little things
Honestly, for how many versions now has the following got through? unit FMX.Types; //... type TGradientPoint = class(TCollectionItem) private FColor: TAlphaColor; FOffset: Single; function GetColor:...
View Articletwm’s blog: GExperts Formatter features you didnt know about
I am sure you did not know about these features (I had forgotten about them myself):You can save your own custom configuration asFormatterSettings-<YourName>.iniinto the GExperts installation...
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Firebird News: GSOC 2013: LibreOffice Firebird SQL Connector Integration Status
You can follow the GSOC 2013 LibreOffice Firebird connector blog with it’s initial post and follow up Also on LibreOffice devel list there is a LibreOffice Firebird integration thread. The git log is...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Inprise Reprise
I was reminded recently that Delphi was Borland Delphi first, then Inprise Delphi briefly, then back to Borland Delphi, and then more recently, CodeGear Delphi, and then after the Borland/Codegear...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Upgrade from ANY version to XE4
Users of ANY earlier version of RAD Studio, Delphi, C++ Builder or Borland Developer Studio can upgrade to XE4. From now until 31 July 2013. RAD Studio XE4 gives you the tools you need to create...
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Firebird News: Firebird Node.js Example with AngularJS
For the moment only the code , soon we will have also a blogpost about it This is a complete demonstration of express.io, passport, passport.socketio, firebird sql and angular.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Sometimes a generic answer to a specific answer gives people a lot more insight into what they actually want to accomplish than a specific answer.Plus that the knowledge does not only apply to VCL in...
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DelphiTools.info: DWScript news roundup July 2013
Here is a summary of DWScript changes since the last update. Language enhancement are centered around several additions for enumeration elements and sets, as well as a standard Map() method for arrays....
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Firebird News: Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.2 is releasead
Files are uploaded to Sourceforge files area Update the information is on the driver page http://firebirdsql.org/en/odbc-driver
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TPersistent: Help me Danny
Maybe I am daft, but ever since HTML help was introduced with the Galileo IDE, I can’t find much in the way of help. I often configure later versions of Delphi to invoke the D7 help so I can find what...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Just found out that the kind people at BitSavers added some scanned USCD Pascal documentation in PDF format:The 1981 Softech Microsystems UCSD p-System and UCSD Pascal version IV_internal Architecture...
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