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The Podcast at Delphi.org: SysCheck for XE5 Compatibility
Want to know if your Android device is compatible with XE5? Well you can check out the compatibility lists, or download SysCheck by Christopher Moeller.When you run it the first line tells you if you...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Honourable Intentions
This is it. The home straight. The final part of my series on writing a camera app using Oxygene for Android. In this concluding part I shall look at making my application a well behaved Android...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Apkudo Kudos and Non-Functional Quality
Jim McKeeth recently blogged about the results of submitting an “empty” FireMonkey app to the apkudo online Android testing service. Jim reports that an “empty” FireMonkey app failed on only 13 devices...
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Firebird News: Firebird Code Factory 13.9 released
SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Code Factory 13.9, a powerful Windows GUI utility for querying Firebird databases and managing the data. New version comes with keyboard interactive...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Android Fragmentation
Fragmentation is the term used to describe all the variations available on the Android platform. Android has many manufacturers and models, unlike iOS where there is only one manufacturer, and they...
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Firebird News: Implementing support for Firebird in Sqitch
Ștefan Suciu announced his work on Implementing support for Firebird in Sqitch : I’m workingto implement support for Firebird (in the firebird branch) in Sqitch – a database change management...
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Australian Delphi User Group Members: The XE5 Android device compatibility...
According to Wikipedia there are 11868 different types of Android device in use today. Embarcadero is never going to have the resources to test against more than a tiny fraction. The only practical way...
View Articletwm’s blog: Thunderbird and plain text e-mails
One of the things that have irked me with Thunderbird from the beginning was its insistence of defaulting to HTML e-mails. E-mail for me is about the text, not about formatting and even less about...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: TMS Pack for FireMonkey now supports XE5 and Android
Very exciting to see an update from TMS for their TMS Pack for FireMonkey with support for XE5 and Android (as well as iOS, OS X and Windows). Their pack includes a great diverse collection of controls...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Parallels 9 and VM’s on External Drives
Not a Delphi or even Pascal related post on this occasion, but an experience that may interest any developer running Windows in a VM on a Mac. I have been using Parallels desktop virtualisation...
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TPersistent: Latest EMBT Offer
I just received an email offer from EMBT tpo upgrade to XE5 for Android development with a generous 10% off. The email contained a “Shop online at https://store.embarcadero.com and use coupon code...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Delphi XE5 Android Wallpaper
This great Delphi XE5 Android wallpaper came from one of our partners in the Czech Republic.It is 1920 by 1080 and 510 KB as a JPEG or a whopping 10 MB as a PNG. Thanks Dave and Richard!
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Firebird News: Firebird seminar in Siegburg, Germany- November 22, 2013
Reminder from Alexey Kovyazin As you probably know, November 22, 2013 in in Siegburg (Germany) there will be Firebird seminar, devoted to all aspects of transactions, from the basic idea to the...
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Firebird News: 3 questions about transactions every Firebird developer should...
Many developers think that transactions are straightforward and easy thing to understand and use, so probably there is no reason to devote 1 day seminar to discover transactions mechanism in Firebird...
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Firebird News: It is time for Firebird on Android and IOS ?
With the release of Delphi XE5, with support for iOS and Android it also brings InterBase versions of these two O.S-es, people started to question whether we can expect a version of Firebird for mobile...
View Articletwm’s blog: A web server as a shell script in a single line
I just found this via Heise online:Web server in one line of bashI tried it and it works! while true; do { echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; cat index.html; } | nc -l 8080; done You can replace index.html...
View Articletwm’s blog: Concatenating pdf files the easy way
I just had the need to concatenate several pdf files to a single one. Since my desktop computer is running Windows, I first tried to download and use some freeware utility. After the first one did not...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Blackberry is Still Ahead of Microsoft
When talking about Delphi XE5′s support for Android and iOS, someone usually asks if we plan to support Windows Phone, but never asks (that I’ve heard) if we plan to support Blackberry. In the news we...
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It's a blong, blong, blong road...: Nostalgia. Is it just a thing of the past?
I was put onto this treasure trove of old scanned manuals the other day: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland. It contains a huge directory hierarchy of PDF scans of old product...
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DelphiTools.info: Boosting Work Classes with a mini Object Pool
Work and processing classes are typically short-lived, created to perform one form of processing or another then freed. They can be simple collections, handle I/O of one kind of another, perform...
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