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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
A while ago, I needed routines to work with absolute and relative paths.These links were very useful:The Delphi TPath.IsDriveRooted function (I think it was introduced in Delphi 2010) serves as a...
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Firebird News: Firebird’s ADO.NET provider (sources) has a new home
So from today on, the sources for ADO.NET provider for Firebird are available in Git repository.
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Firebird News: ADO.NET provider for Firebird 3.1.0.0 is ready
The version 3.1.0.0 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for your download! More info.
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Lesson 6 of the Embarcadero Mobile Development Summer School was titled Powerful multi-tier applications with DataSnap.Download of the video will be at streaming.embarcadero.com/summerschool2013.The...
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Firebird News: Firebird 3.0 Alpha 1 release is available for testing
Firebird Project announces the first Alpha release of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing. This Alpha release arrives with an...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Sum(Programming Languages) > 0
A Zero-sum game is a situation where for one contestant to win or gain, the other contestants must lose or have a loss. Thus for contestant A to have a +5 then contestant B must have a -5, resulting in...
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Firebird News: Using Jaybird with Firebird 3.0 alpha 1
Mark Rotteveel wrote on Firebird Java list : I have started a page on the Jaybird wiki on using Jaybird with Firebird 3.0 alpha 1:...
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Firebird News: Advanced Data Generator 3.1 released
Upscene Productions announces the release of: “Advanced Data Generator 3.1″ A fast test-data generator tool that comes with a library of real-life data, can generate data to your database, SQL script...
View ArticleTPersistent: You Clumsy GIT
I recently ran into an issue when refactoring a project, in which the compiler was reporting an error that a method had insufficient arguments. Using Ctrl + clicking to drill through the code clearly...
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Firebird News: Donations collected in the 10th FDD
The 10th Brazilian Firebird Developers Day donations is now published. The money was donated by the attendees and sent to the Firebird Foundation. The total amount collected was R$ 4.101,24. Thanks...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I was called by a client that didn’t want to do maintenance on an old Delphi application, but wanted to get dir of an I/O Error 131:I/O Error 131: ERROR_NEGATIVE_SEEKMessageText: An attempt was made to...
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StackOverflow user opcOde wrote something interesting:Writing device drivers in delphi is hard to impossible.Here is an attempt to write drivers in delphi.It is funny to see the link pointing to the...
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Firebird News: GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 08 and...
New GSOC update for the previous week It’s now possible to select the driver to use for embedded databases within Base thanks to the new selector
View ArticleDr.Bob's Delphi Notes: Enabling Developer Options on Android 4.2
As an Android developer (using Oxygene for Java for HTC Wildfire and HTC Desire devices - using Android 2.2 and 2,3), I've recently bought a new phone: a Sony Xperia Z.
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Peter Leslie Morris asked if Delphi already incorporates the `yield` keyword that C# had introduced in C# 2.Delphi doesn’t, but for the people interested what it does in C#:Basically `yield` is...
View ArticleBehind the connection: RAD Studio Mobile Roadmap updated
Embarcadero updated his RAD Studio Mobile Roadmap. This concern Delphi and C++ Builder for Android and iOS. What is in development: - Integrated C++ and Delphi Native ARM toolchains for iOS and Android...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: XE5 News: Coming in September, With Android Support
The word is out. XE5 will be coming this September, as described in the announcement of a tour of Russia to promote the new release. Translation: Dear developers! Traditionally, in September we are...
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Just found out this the hard way, glad I found it soon which prevented me from doing like Ondrej Kelle – Google+ – Wasted a few hours with this….:Debugging 64 bit Delphi applications with Delphi XE2 on...
View ArticleTPersistent: The Dangers of With
I have known about the dangers of using the with statement for a long time now. Today, I encountered a new one. I was refactoring code in a datamodule used to iterate over a dataset and insert each...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Learning Cocoa with Oxygene and Objective-C
When XE4 came out and the full extent of the bait and switch perpetrated by Embarcadero became clear, I decided that my money was better spent with RemObjects and their Oxygene product. But it has only...
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