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Firebird News: Report of the 10th FDD is now on-line
The report (with pictures) of the 10th edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day Conference is now on-line (in English and Portuguese).
View ArticleTPersistent: Delphi Packaging and Pricing a Mystery
If you already upgraded to XE4, but didn’t buy the mobile pack, it appears that EMBT penalizes you if you then want to upgrade to the mobile pack. According to this pricing page, the mobile pack AddOn...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Delphi XE5 to develop Android applications
Delphi XE5 is about to be announced. I have the chance to use a preview version for several weeks now. I’m very impressed! Using Delphi XE5 I was able to write my first Android application and deploy...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Are Embarcadero Really Interested in New Users ?
In replying to a comment on his blog post about the pricing of the mobile add-on pack (XE4 – no news on XE5 as yet that I am aware of), Larry Hengen appears to be one of those people still under the...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Sneak Peek of Delphi XE5: Android DataSnap
Quick demo of a DataSnap client on Android with a preview of Delphi XE5. Shows how easy it is to visually bind your data with design time preview, and how easy it is to move your mobile database client...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus team members present at Dutch Pascon
Blaise Pascal Magazine in collaboration with Barnsten offer a unique Developer Conference packed with in-depth sessions on various technical aspects of Delphi and Object Pascal presented by a panel of...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: 20130822-Embarcadero-MVP
It has been in the queue for a really long time. In fact, all started when chatting with Anders Ohlsson during the inception of the Embarcadero MVP program.But then the paper work (you know, the thing...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Sharing Code Across Platforms in Oxygene
There seems to be a perception among some people that Delphi is in the unique position of allowing developers to share and re-use code across the various platforms that it’s compiler can now (and will...
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DelphiTools.info: DWS WebServer Guide – part 1 – Getting Started
A pre-compiled server executable is available from google code (739 kB), built from current trunk version. Below is a quick start guide to playing with that server, I hope to later find time for more...
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The road to Delphi: Delphi Dev. Shell Tools New features
I just added a set of new features to the Delphi Dev. Shell Tools like support for Lazarus, a new owner draw panel to the shell menu that shows information about the selected Delphi project file (.dpr,...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: An Exclusive Club and Reassuringly Expensive
In the comments to a previous post there cropped up the complaint that people asking for a realistic Starter Edition are just looking for a cheaper edition of Delphi for themselves. Maybe some of us...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I like this Delphi program very much: it is one of the database tools with the widest support of back-ends, and friendliest user interface I know.Oh, and it is by a great Dutch company too: UpScene...
View Articletwm’s blog: How to waste hours with computer problems
I just wasted several hours with yet another computer problem.Some Background: We are using a Ubuntu based server which runs Samba as a file server for Windows computers. It also is a local name server...
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TPersistent: XE5 World Tour Smaller than XE4?
I just checked out the World Tour for XE5, and despite the buzz about iOS development with Android support just around the corner, it appears as if the XE5 tour has fewer stops than the XE4 tour.EMBT...
View ArticleLazarus-Dev: Threads with Lazarus
It seems every time I use threads in a program I make, I need to lookup again how threads work. So if you're like me perhaps this will help you.Here's a more complete tutorial to read.Threads are a...
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TPersistent: Second Impression of Lazarus/FPC
I finally had a few hours to work on hcOPF support for FreePascal which I had started some time ago. I downloaded the Lazarus 1.0.10 installer and ran it in my development VM. Then I continued...
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Firebird News: IBSurgeon FBDataGuard 2.8: Update of monitoring and database...
FBDataGuard, a server-side tool to monitor Firebird databases and prevent corruptions, was just updated to the version 2.8. This version contains stability improvements and minor bug fixes, improved...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus 1.0.12 release available for download
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.12.This is a bug fix release, built with fpc 2.6.2. The previous releases 1.0.8 and 1.0.10 were built with fpc 2.6.2 too, while release...
View Articletwm’s blog: jiggling the mouse
Did you ever want to prevent the screen saver to start because your program is displaying something and you didn’t want to force the user to move the mouse every now and then?Until Windows XP it was...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Exploding Some Delphi Pricing Myths
More than one commenter to recent posts has trotted out the same tired old myths that, in their view, prevent [insert current owner of Delphi here] from being able to compete fairly on the pricing...
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