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Žarko Gajić: Full Text TXT Search In Delphi (+FireDac +SQLite). Sample...
Finally, the sample project for my full text search implementation in Delphi is ready. The idea involves providing a user of my application the ability to do full text (Google like) searches on a set...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: An App With View
Not a Merchant Ivory production, but Part 3 in the Oxygene for Java camera app for Android series. So far we have seen that we can work directly with the Android platform manifest and layout files and...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: MonkeyMixer updated for Delphi XE5
Delphi MVP and my friend Simon Stuart just updated his MonkeyMixer utility for XE5 (in addition to XE2, XE3 and XE4).Once installed (and you’ll need to close the IDE before installing, by the way)...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: David I Plumbs New Shallows
I catch a lot of flak for being “negative” from certain quarters, but whether you agree with me or disagree with me, one thing I am not is sneaky. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of a certain...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Debugging Against a Remote Android Emulator
The Android emulator is impossibly slow when running inside a virtual machine. It is possible to debug against a remote emulator via SSH. Here are the steps to connect from a Windows guest OS to an OS...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus 1.1.99 pre release available for download
The Lazarus team would like to announce that it has started the release preparations for Lazarus 1.2.The release process will consist of several steps which you can find...
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Australian Delphi User Group Members: Dont be a bloody idiot
Here in Australia we like our public health campaigns graphic and blunt. This is what our cigarette packaging looks like and we have a long running TV campaign based around the slogan of “if you drink...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Delphi XE5 Mobile REST Client Demo Source
With the release of Delphi XE5 I’ve made the source of the Mobile REST Client Demo available. This is a really super simple demo of the Mobile REST Client in XE5. It is designed to show up how you can...
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TPersistent: AnyDAC Acquisition Concerns Apparently Justified
I just stumbled upon this on DelphiFeeds. Apparently when I posted my concerns about the AnyDAC acquisition back in February I wasn’t too far off the mark.It appears that one “product” or “add on” is...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Fair Comparisons
There is an old saying about comparing “apples and apples” or more accurately in this case, “Androids and Androids”. A commenter has already pointed out that an Embarcadero blog post referencing the...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: First Impressions Of XE5 for Android
I thought I should at least take a look at the amazing Android support in XE5 so I decided to work through the tutorial that was brought to my attention recently. The first order of business of course,...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Crash Bang Wallop, What a Picture!
The fourth and final part in the not-as-short-as-I-thought-it-would be series on building a camera app for Android using Oxygene. In this penultimate instalment we will add the capability to actually...
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Australian Delphi User Group Members: How to call Java code from an XE5...
Hidden away on Google+ is this excellent walkthrough by Paul Foster on how to call Java methods from an XE5 Android application. There’s also a teaser from Brian Long in the comments of that Google+...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: Delphi supports iOS 7
Good to see prompt Delphi support for iOS 7, as reported by Embo’s Sarina DuPont. It’s out and available for download from the registered users site a mere 1 day after iOS 7 was released.Documentation...
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It's a blong, blong, blong road...: Where has all the colour gone?
Once upon a time there was colour and interest a-plenty in development tool splash screens. Well, this was certainly the case with Delphi and C++Builder anyway.And then corporate America took over and...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: How to Call Java Code from an Oxygene Android Application
Lachlan just posted a link to a post on Google+ (also available as a PDF) demonstrating how to call Java from Delphi XE5. I was shocked at both the amount and the nature of the code involved. It is...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Delphi XE5 Android Device Compatibility
Unlike iOS, there are are a huge variety of Android devices. Delphi XE5 supports the large majority of those devices. The official page for Android Devices Supported for Application Development spells...
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Žarko Gajić: Full Text Search Functionality in Delphi Applications...
Ah … real world problems require some proof-of-concept almost-finished implementation solutions. This time I’m into figuring out what would be the best way to introduce full text search in one of my...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: Android resources
For those Pascal programmers looking at building Android applications, be it with Delphi XE5 or with Oxygene for Java (I work with both!), here are a few Android-related resources that may come in...
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Firebird News: GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 14
New GSOC update for the previous week with current status of the firebird-sdbc driver : Progress this week: - Some dbexception cleanup. - Fixed ColumnLocate::findColumn implementations (for all db...
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