Te Waka o Pascal: Delphi for Android Supports Android!
Jim McKeeth is getting all excited about being able to develop for Google Glass using Delphi XE5. I’m pleased for him, I really am. It must be a huge relief that Delphi for Android can actually target...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Extending Smoketest (Part 2) – Great(er) Expectations
In my previous post on Smoketest I showed how you can extend the inspections framework to work with complex types in your code. As promised, I shall now show how you can do much the same thing to...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Creation Stories
In the beginning there was The Word a HWND. But not all gifts of creation can be relied upon, as I just learned. Or rather, remembered. As regular readers will know, I am currently polishing up my...
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It's a blong, blong, blong road...: Delphi and Android services
Since Delphi’s introduction of Android support with the release of XE5, there have been many questions posted hither and thither regarding whether and how you can build service applications with it....
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DelphiTools.info: Memory Managers and String Building
[This is a guest post, written by Primož Gabrijelčič, www.thedelphigeek.com] One thing interested me since I started reading Eric’s series on string concatenation performance – how would different...
View ArticleSalt Lake City Delphi Users Group: November 2013 SLCDUG Users Group Meeting
Delphi Users Group MeetingTopic: XE5 - Mobile DevelopmentDate: 11/18/2013 Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMLocation: Taylorsville Library4870 South 2700 WestSalt Lake City, Utah 84118Presented by: David...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Installing and Running Android Apps From Command-Line
Delphi automatically installs and runs your app for you, but sometimes it is nice to do manually from the command-line. Here are the commands you need. These all assume adb (Android Debug Bridge) is on...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Setting The Record Straight
Commenter Alexander complained that my blog had become “really, but REALLY boring” recently. I was surprised because I thought I had been posting a lot of interesting, technical material lately and I...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: A True Work of ART
For the past two years Google have been working on something for Android that could herald a sea change on the platform. ART. Essentially, ART is a new runtime which incorporates AOT (Ahead Of Time)...
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Firebird News: Firebird 2.5.2 Update 1 for all Ubuntu releases is uploaded...
Here you can find the latest stable release Firebird 2.5.2 Update 1 for all supported Ubuntu releases. Follow the Firebird 2.5.x guide for usage and installation. What is changed is added the security...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: More Complete Supported Android Devies List
The Delphi Wiki has a much more exhaustive Supported Android Devices list. It also includes the new Nexus 5 (running Kit Kat), Google Glass and Droid Razr M, to name a few. At the bottom of the list...
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Delphi Code Monkey: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I frequently run across questions like this one on Stackoverflow. The person is asking how they might avoid hand-coding complex INSERT statements, using TADOQuery. My comment in this question...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Delphi uses Excel to create a chart in a PDF document
Microsoft Excel exposes all his features thru a COM interface which can easily be used from a Delphi application. In this article, I use that feature to create a 3D pie chart from data available within...
View Articletwm’s blog: Delphi 2005/2006 on Windows 8.1
After getting Delphi 2007 to work again I tried to do the same for Delphi 2005 and 2006.Both versions require the dotNET framework 1.1 which is officially no longer supported on Windows 8 (and 8.1)....
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twm’s blog: Delphi 2007 on Windows 8.1
When I updated to Windows 8.1 my Delphi 2007 installation broke. I could no longer open projects in the IDE and my command line compilation scripts also stopped working. It turned out that some files...
View Articletwm’s blog: Delphi 6 on Windows 8.1
After getting Delphi 2005/2006 and 2007 working again the last stumbling block was Delphi 6.It used to work fine on Windows 8 but after the update to Windows 8.1 it always started the registration...
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The road to Delphi: The VCL Styles Utils Project now supports dialogs and...
Two missing parts of the standard VCL Styles is the lack of the capacity to theme the popup menus and the standard Windows dialogs. I started to work a year ago in the dialogs area, but due to my...
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DelphiTools.info: SamplingProfiler 1.8.1
A new version 1.8.1 is available from the SamplingProfiler page. This minor updates fixes the displayed source code for samples gathered on a generic method (“Show Source Location” option) and other...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: My CodeRage session files
At the time of writing my two sessions for CodeRage 8 are being broadcast around the Arpanet.I’ve got two session this year, both related to Delphi mobile development, and both concerning how to reach...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: CodeRage 8 video replays are up
For anyone that’s been waiting for the replay videos from CodeRage to go up and has been getting impatient as the suggested 2 week window has come and gone, relief is now available as the replay videos...
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