Firebird News: Firebird Transaction Simulator
The transaction simulator uses either scripts or random commands to simulate the Firebird database versioning system and the result of the simulator are checked with Firebird’s outputs. Read committed...
View ArticleFirebird News: Last chance to subscribe to FDD
Sorry, this is mostly for Brazilians… Sexta-feira é o último dia para se inscrever antecipadamente para o Firebird Developers Day. Todas as informações podem ser obtidas no site do evento:...
View ArticleFirebird News: Screencast – Trace failed SQL statements with the Firebird...
New Screencast with FB TraceManager from Thomas Steinmaurer
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: DWScript Programming enters TIOBE
As a followup to the TIOBE & Pascal micro saga, thanks to David Champion, DWScript programming is now a (very) small part of the TIOBE TPCI stats, and Oxygene became its own language at position...
View ArticleDaniel Magin's Logfile: FMX TForm do NOT use ShowModal
Working on a big Delphi Firemonkey iOS Project i found out calling TForm Method ShowModal create such cross effects for incalculable situations. Working with UITableViewController for example the...
View ArticleAndreano Lanusse | Technology and Software Development: Delphi Developers...
Early this year I did a developer survey through my blog. I got over 1500 answers and I safely can say 87% use Delphi as their primarily development tools, the other 13% split between C#, C/C++, PHP...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird, Angularjs, Node and Socket.IO – Part 1
John Tomaselli wrote on his blog about his main stack: I’m going to post my latest project I’m working on and will go back to publish some older works that might be of interest to the community. About...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird .Net Provider is moving to Git/Github
Jiri Cincura wrote about his issues with SourceForge and SVN also his idea to move to a better system : git/github: Maybe you remember the thread “Releasing more often???“. Yeah and nothing happened....
View ArticleFirebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.0 free Lite Editions released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular Windows-based multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.0 Lite ” For more information, see here. Database Workbench...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: New theme
Time for a summer facelift! This website is getting new responsive theme which is more mobile-device friendly and will hopefully load slightly faster. Truth be told, I was also getting tired of seeing...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
2 more issues got on-line both close to a 100 pages each:Micro_Cornucopia_#29_Apr86.pdf.Micro_Cornucopia_#32_Oct86.pdf.So the only issues missing are #28, #30 and #31.–jeroenvia: More Old Micro...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird Embedded on MacOSX article is Updated
Paul Beach wrote on his blog : Based on a document written by Fulvio, a while ago, I finally spent time writing a make file that will automatically create an embedded version of Firebird that will run...
View ArticleTPersistent: Sorting things out with the TDebugInspector
If you have ever used the Debug Inspector you might have noticed it can be rather challenging to find a property, or method in a larger class that is a distant descendant of TObject. Data, Methods and...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird Driver and Embedded version merged into LibreOffice...
Changes to libreoffice and firebird driver can be seen in the git log And here is announcement : Firebird has now been integrated into LibreOffice master! It now builds on Mac and Windows in addition...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: Mobile performance – a look back
How fast are mobile CPUs these days? Well, they are pretty fast processors. While some still consider that x86 is ten times faster than ARM, that is just not the case anymore these days, the difference...
View ArticleThe road to Delphi: Listing the running user applications under osx using Delphi
The NSWorkspace class provides a set of methods and properties which allow open and manipulate files, applications and others useful tasks. One of these properties can be used to list the running...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I bumped into the below answer that I gave a while (what is 4 years in a developer’s life ) on StackOverflow.It is about Delphi Design Patterns. Sepcifically the Factory Pattern, and explains how...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Creating an AVI file from bitmaps using Delphi
It is quite easy to create an AVI file from a number of individual bitmaps. The AVI file maybe compressed on the fly using any installed codec. An example application would be creating a video from...
View ArticleDelphi Haven: How to have a blue FMX TPanel, redux
Back in the XE2 timeframe, I published a short post about giving a TPanel a custom colour. While the solution still works in XE4, give or take an extra unit in the uses clause or use of the...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Bitsavers published 2 new Logitech PDFs:Logitech_Logimouse_C7_Firmware_Rev_3.0_Jan86.pdfLogitech_Mouse_Programmers_Toolkit_Nov86.pdfWho didn’t have a Logitech mouse back then?I had the C7, various...
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