Delphi Code Monkey: Quotes and Sayings for Software Developers
I saw this today at Forbes.com:“ They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. ”— Francis BaconI think the above is a particularly good way of explaining why I feel very happy to be a...
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Daniel Magin's Logfile: Delphi / VMWare Fusion / OSX Mavericks / Samsung...
First let me say what a horror installation.Second Delphi has nothing to do with this problem.What's going up:I use a new Samsung Galaxy S4 for developing Android Applications from Delphi. I use a...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Blowing Smoke…
To alleviate the grind of polishing and sanitising my code (and, let’s be honest, just plain ‘fixing’ it in some cases) ready for release, I have re-kindled my participation on Stack Overflow. In a...
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jed-software.com: XE Plus Pack Release 14
Release 14 is now available to all existing XE Plus Pack users. Release 14 also brings support for Delphi XE5.The reason why the XE5 release was delayed was that the addition on iOS 7 support and a...
View ArticleDr.Bob's Delphi Notes: Personal question about Chinese characters...
When sending messages from Android to iPhone (or vice versa) using Whatsapp or Facebook, sometimes the special "smiley" characters on one end are replaced by chinese/japanese characters on the other...
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: IDE Fix Pack 5.4 for 2009-XE5 released
The new IDE Fix Pack 5.4 supports XE5, fixes some bugs in IDE Fix Pack patches and adds new Win32 and Win64 compiler optimizations.Download IDE Fix Pack:NameIDE VersionFileSizeDownloadsAddedIDE Fix...
View Articletwm’s blog: All registered users deleted and blocked
I just deleted over 700 “users” who registered to my blog. Most, I am sure, were just spam bots, I am sorry if some of you were real people.Registering is now blocked as is commenting. I got tired of...
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Firebird News: Jaybird 2.3 will become Jaybird 3.0
Mark Rotteveel announced : As Jaybird 2.3 is going to be a big change from Jaybird 2.2, I have decided to renumber the version to Jaybird 3.0. Changes planned for Jaybird 2.3 are now planned for...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: OFFICIAL*1: Delphi is the Worlds Least Efficient Compiler!
That is, according to Embarcadero’s “Chief Evangelist”. I don’t know how else to interpret his claim that the Delphi compiler produces 5MB+ of executable code per line of written code*2. Of course,...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: ADB WINLOG 1.0.1 – RELEASED!
Are you doing Android development ? Whether you are using Delphi or some other Android development tool a key tool in the Android developer’s toolbox is the logcat command, part of the Android SDK. But...
View Articletwm’s blog: More on BitTorrent Sync
Following up on my post on BitTorrent Sync here is some more information and use cases.There is at least one alternative to BitTorrent Sync that is open source: Seafile is a cloud service. I have only...
View Articlewhile true do;: ITDevCon 2013 - Some Numbers
Next week, in Verona (Italy) there will be the 5th edition of the biggest European Delphi Conference. This year has been extraordinary for the Delphi community. 2 new versions of Delphi and 2 new...
View Articlewhile true do;: DelphiMVCFramework is now Open Source!
Yes, just after 1 year of development, and a couple of big projects developed with it, the DelphiMVCFramework has been published as OpenSource. The project is on google code svn...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Extending Smoketest (Part 1) – An Inspector Calls
In the soon to be released Smoketest framework it is sometimes useful to create new test types to supplement the tests built-in to the framework. In this and the next post I will walk through the...
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DelphiTools.info: Multi-Threaded String Building in Delphi
After looking at String concatenation and String Building in Delphi, and as a conclusion, it’s time to have a brief look at what happens in multi-threaded settings, such as in a server pushing JSON,...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Hello Google Glass from Delphi XE5
Google’s new Glass platform is a very revolutionary Android device, but the question I really wanted to know is if I could develop for it with Delphi XE5. Turns out the answer is Yes.There are actually...
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DelphiTools.info: Source Code for the String Concatenation/Building Benchmark
By popular request, here is the source code used for the previous String benchmarks StringConcatBench.zip, essentially to test alternative memory managers. The source is nothing complicated as you will...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Stops on My North America Tour
I just got back from Brazil and Costa Rica, which was great. Now I am headed out to different cities in North America (Yes, technical Costa Rica is in North America, but all these cities are north of...
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Žarko Gajić: Graphical Hints Image in Virtual Treeview Node Hint (Extending...
In a Delphi application, the THintWindow class implements the small pop-up window that appears over a control at run time, when the control has its ShowHint property set to True (and has a value...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.2
The Lazarus team would like to announce the first Release Candidate for the upcoming Version 1.2.We would like to invite all users to test this Release Candidate.Please read below why everybody really...
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