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Australian Delphi User Group Members: Delphi for Android preview going on...
Wearing my TIndex hat I’m reporting live from the Sydney preview event for RAD Studio. Expecting to see some Android demos soon TIndex reporting on Google+
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The Dutch stop of the RAD Studio In Action LIVE! tour is on September 7th.The venue location is via Holiday Inn Leiden Hotels: Haagse Schouwweg 10, 2332 KG Leiden, The Netherlands.It is close to the...
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Firebird News: Perl driver DBD-Firebird 1.12 is released
New version for Firebird Perl driver Changes for version 1.12 Do not package MYMETA Make embedded tests actually run when the libs are there (RT#81621) Produce sensible POD for DBD::FirebirdEmbedded...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus Windows Installer: Testers for new...
The Lazarus installer for Windows (only Version 1.1 / revision 42510 or up) has now the ability to create secondary installations. This allows to have different versions installed, which do not...
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Firebird News: Firebird 2013 Tour
Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird 2013 Tour – series of seminars around the world, devoted to Firebird, with members of Firebird Project as speakers. The first seminar will be in Siegburg...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: RAD Studio in Auckland / Android in a VM / Touchy Feely
Well, not really RAD Studio as such, more like Mobile Studio (whether as part of RAD Studio Ent+ or the Mobile Add-On) since everything shown was oriented around the Android support and emphasising the...
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Firebird News: Editline is updated in Firebird 3.0 isql console client with...
Editline is used in Firebird isql console client , the last version is already imported in firebird 3.0 https://github.com/asfernandes/firebird/tree/master/extern/editline So it brings UTF-8 support at...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Delphi XE5 Mobile REST Client Demo
Short demo of the new TRESTClient on a mobile Android application with Delphi XE5. It consumes a JSON REST service and uses the TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter to adapt it into a TClientDataSet. The...
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DelphiTools.info: Updated DWSWebServer precompiled binary
The DWS Web Server pre-compiled binary has been updated, it is now packaged in an InnoSetup installer, comes with SQLite 3.8.0.1 and other changes (see below). The installer is still rather simple, but...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Delphi and Oxygene – A Cost of Ownership Comparison
In a comment on my previous post, David Michael made some observations about the cost of Oxygene being comparable to Delphi. This surprised me, so I did some checking. The results surprised even me....
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Delphi introduced the .groupproj files to support MSBUILD.I couldn’t find an XSD for it, but need to do some fiddling with those files, so I created one. It’s not very detailed, I think it gets most of...
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While working on my Delphi: First try on an XSD for .groupproj files, I bumped into an error `Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in this schema`.I added a targetNamespace attribute to the...
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Firebird News: GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 12
New GSOC update for the previous week: Current status of the firebird-sdbc driver is: - (Var)Char, Numeric and Date/Time types all supported. (No support for blob/clob/array/etc. yet.) - Data Editing...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Tips for Solving Bugs
Ars Technica has compiled some tips for solving bugs quicker from a question on Programmers Stack Exchange. Here are the highlights:Break out the notebook – keep a log of your progress and...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Too bad the Sourceforge does not do stats pages any more, so you it is a lot harder to correlate project activity with potential release dates any more.But: about 3 weeks ago, the XE5 branch was added...
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DelphiTools.info: Using IOCP for Worker Threads
Implementing an efficient worker thread pool in Windows can be achieved through the use of IOCP, which is the barbaric acronym for (just as barbaric) Input/Output Completion Port API introduced by...
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Cape Cod Gunny found the PDF of the Delphi 7 Developer’s Guide (1100+ pages of good reading): Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: The One Manual Every Delphi Programmer Should Have!.There are in fact quite a...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
You will see a few Delphi XE5 pre-release related updates here soon. That is part of the Delphi XE5 beta blogging permission I have been given so I can show new Delphi XE5 features. Those updates are...
View ArticleTPersistent: Developers Shouldn’t run Around with their heads cut off
Developers shouldn’t run around with their heads cut off but in my experience they most certainly will at some point, trying to fix bugs, if they don’t write their programs to be headless. A good way...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Delphi XE5 Launch immanent! World tour on now!
I attended the Delphi XE5 Launch event in Toronto yesterday. The big news as everybody knows already is that the cross-platform framework Firemonkey (which is going to be marketed as FM now, it...
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