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Firebird News: Node-Firebird group is created for discussions about...
To get help about the Node-Firebird client a new group is created
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Seven Days using the Surface RT: The Good, the Bad, the...
I'll cut to the chase right away. I'm typing this blog post on the Surface RT's Type cover, the one with real keys that move when you touch them and a small trackpad device built in, which is as nice a...
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Delphi Haven: My FMX TClipboard and TMacPreferencesIniFile implementations...
A bit belatedly, but my FireMonkey TClipboard and TMacPreferencesIniFile implementations are now compiling with XE4 (thanks goes to Ken Schafer for prodding me in the case of the former). See my post...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: 53 – Subject 33 & Android Game Development
Taking with Jason McMillen & Paul Nicholls of Pascal Game Development talking about Subject 33 and Android game development. Subject 33 is being developed with RemObjects Software’s Oxygene for...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Also on the Tablet Show
As an interesting turn of events I was interviewed on The Tablet Show a couple weeks ago. The Tablet Show is all about developing for tablet devices, and is by the same people who make .NET Rocks. The...
View Articletwm’s blog: using and ab-using ifdef
I am currently trying to update an open source project from Delphi 2007 to XE2 and found some code which supposedly already works for XE2. But it is ab-using ifdef in several ways so I thought I’d blog...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Why Some Mobile Apps are So Slow
If you haven’t read the lengthy article on Why Mobile Web Apps are So Slow I recommend you check it out. It appears well researched, citing lots of tests, sources, benchmarks and authorities. In...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Need to find/create a Delphi compatible version of Messagepack or BSON.–jeroenvia Serializing and deserializing (packing/unpacking) to a file and/or memorystream with MessagePack in C# ».Filed under:...
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Firebird News: Mysql2Firebird update : MySQL Workbench support added
Mysql2Firebird is updated with support for MySQL Workbench exported SQL syntax. Changelog: Expanded parsing to look for MySQL Workbench exported SQL syntax. Added table name prefix on foreign keys to...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Replay video’s can be viewed through streaming.embarcadero.com (where you can also find the other series, downloads, etc).The SummerSchool 2013 replay videos are at...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Directions to iPhone, Windows & OS X
I was thinking about the Delphi Mobile Roadmap and got the idea of making some Highway signs to illustrate that theme. Mostly for fun.Feel free to share this image with others who may be looking for...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
During code reviews, I often see people do things like this: if (not DirectoryExists(Path)) then ForceDirectories(Path)) or this: if (not TDirectory.Exists(Path)) then...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Using RTTI to convert record to/from string
Delphi RTTI can be easily used to convert a record (Or a class by the way) to a string representation without taking care of how the record is changed during software maintenance. RTTI has a set of...
View Articletwm’s blog: tdbf updates help required
I got developer access to the tdbf sourceforge project and made the packages compile with all Delphi versions I have got:Delphi 6Delphi 7Delphi 2005Delphi 2006Delphi 2007Delphi 2009Delphi 2010Delphi...
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Firebird News: Jaybird 2.2.4 snapshot with basic Java 8 / JDBC 4.2 support
Mark Rotteveel wrote about new Firebird JDBC driver snapshot: I just created a snapshot version of Jaybird 2.2.4 with basic Java 8 / JDBC 4.2 support. It is available for download from:...
View ArticleTPersistent: Nick Advocates Open Source Unit Testing
If you aren’t subscribed to the delphi feeds or Nick Hodges blog you may not have noticed his recent post proposing that EMBT open source their unit tests. If not, do yourself a favour and subscribe…I...
View Articlewhile true do;: ITDevCON 2013 - Call 4 Paper
Dear potential ITDevCon speaker, I’m building the agenda for next ITDevCon that will be held next November in Verona (Italy), the same location of the past year. This will be the 5th edition ( we’re...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Breakpoint not honored while debugging a DLL
Using Delphi, it is very easy to debug a DLL having it called from a host application. This host application can be written using Delphi or any other language. To debug your DLL in the context for a...
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Firebird News: GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 07 and...
New GSOC update for the previous week : Plenty of mountains conquered this week, also some useful work done … Also default dialect is now 3 for the Firebird SDBC driver...
View Articletwm’s blog: dBASE: When an empty string field does not match
Filtering the current table on a field in dBASE is done like this:set filter to [condition]So if you want all records where ANUMBER > 10 you just type this command:set filter to ANUMBER > 10It’s...
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