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Delphi Code Monkey: Windows as a Legacy System
I have been seeing charts like this one all over the place, but I think this one is telling. It's from a presentation by a firm called KPCB.First there's this technology cycles graphic:Finally, here's...
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Firebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.1, free Lite Editions released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the release of the free Lite editions of the popular Windows-based development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.1 Lite ” For more information, see here. Database...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Hands Off My Application! (Another DPR Trick)
In a comment on my previous post, David Heffernan noted that the IDE messes around with other parts of the application DPR in addition to the uses list. He is right. Another area that the IDE likes to...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: VCL Threading – Indeterminate Lifetimes
Sometimes when you launch a thread you don’t know when it will complete whatever processing it is tasked with. Sometimes you do. Sometimes it may never complete and will require that you expressly...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Things I Learned from Delphi CodeRage 8
Mostly from CodeRage 8, but some is from my time working for Embarcadero. I believe I’ve presented at every CodeRage, but this is my first time on the other side. It is also the biggest CodeRage by a...
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DelphiTools.info: Time-stepping for Games and Simulations
The built-in time-stepping support for the upcoming release of SmartMS got an overhaul in the form of a now frame-rate oriented Game View component, and a simulation-oriented TMetronome time-stepper....
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Delphi Code Monkey: TurboPascal PCODE compiler implemented in JavaScript
Anybody who doubts the sincerity of my last post (the PC desktop is headed inexorably towards a legacy technology status) and who also is into Nostalgia, should check this out.It's a mostly-complete...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Wireless Android Debugging with Delphi xE5
Previously I blogged about how to connect to an emulator on a remote (or the host) machine. That also works for hardware connected to remote machines. But sometimes you want to work with hardware that...
View Articletwm’s blog: headless server fun
A new Ubuntu based server I have set up recently had a power failure which unexpectedly resulted in the box not booting again. There were actually two problems:fsck failed on the data mount because one...
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Delphi Haven: New Delphi blog Dave Nottages Delphi Worlds
I’ve just realised Dave Nottage (TeamB, and now MVP) has a blog, currently focusing on Delphi for iOS – hopefully it will get syndicated by DelphiFeeds.com soon, but until then, check it out directly.
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Delphi Haven: StackOverflown
So… I was finally broken: I created a StackOverflow account. Annoyingly, a certain individual in particular is waaaayy too fast in answering most Delphi questions (genuine expertise + quick on the...
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Firebird News: Update of .NET Provider for OLEDB. Support of schemas...
We continue to develop our .NET Provider for OLEDB. In the new build (#1434), we have implemented the methods to obtain database metadata: OleDbConnection.GetOleDbSchemaTable OleDbConnection.GetSchema...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Embarcadero MVP list updates
Embarcadero has released a new list of MVPs. I'm very happy to be on that list, because Delphi has been my favorite language, and favorite IDE since it was first released. To prevent misunderstandings...
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Firebird News: Converging and Cyclic Cascades with Firebird
With the impending implementation of Firebird as a backend for LibreOffice Base, to replace HSQLDB, I re-ran the tests of converging and cyclic cascades that were previously carried out for other...
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Firebird News: LibreOffice Embedded Firebird/HSQLDB performance comparison
Here are the test results between Firebird and HSQLDB
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Firebird News: go-fb: A #golang package for the Firebird database updated
Firebird package for Go is updated . Does not currently conform to database/sql/driver interfaces. There are quite a few changes in the master branch and the author (Brent Rowlan) is quite happy with...
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Firebird News: eHealth system demo up and running (powered by Firebird)
Nigel Weeks created a demo for an assignment (for his Paramedic Practice degree) for a small fictional town’s health clinic, some appointment rooms, and some remote health professionals that are...
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DelphiTools.info: MapFileStats v1.3 update
My small MapFileStats utility has been updated to 1.3 (last public release was four years ago…). The utility provides simple statistics about compiled size, to help you figure out what went into your...
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Delphi Haven: TAndroidPreferencesIniFile fix
Just a small note to say, if anyone has downloaded my Android SharedPreferences wrapper (more info here), I’ve just put up a small fix for the ReadBool method, so you might want to update from the...
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Firebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.2 released, 15% autumn discount
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.2 Pro ” For more information, see here. Take advantage of our 15% autumn...
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