twm’s blog: Converting from Subversion to Mercurial
Here, I will be posting notes on converting Subversion repositories to Mercurial.NOTE: This is work in progress. I will probably come back and change things as well as adding.Some links on using...
View ArticleŽarko Gajić: FireMonkey / Mobile (Android, iOS) QR Code Generation Using...
The DelphiZXingQRCode unit, ported from ZXing by Debenu, allows to easily add QR Code generation to your Delphi VCL applications.While the DelphiZXingQRCode was designed to support VCL applications...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird 3.0 alpha2
The second alpha of Firebird 3.0 is about to be released. Find more information at http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/HEAD/tree/firebird/tags/T3_0_0_Alpha2/doc/WhatsNew
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
One more for the weekend (:I wrote about Some links on the Delphi compiler and the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project about a year and a half ago which caused a short discussion on the embarcadero...
View ArticleAndreano Lanusse | Technology and Software Development: Delphi XE5 Update 2...
Another update for available for Delphi XE5 and C++Builder XE5, the Update 2 is has lots of bug fixes covering several areas, specially on FireMonkey for Android, iOS, Windows and Mac.The Update is...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Compiling to native code begets better performance
Todays with Mobile platforms such as IOS and Android, developers are faced with writing application targeted to several platforms. Of course developers want to do that with minimal effort. This is why...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Thanks Uncle Bob Martin for posting this.I’ve been trying (with increasing success: it takes time to get this all right) to practice XP (through various name changes) as much and wide as possible since...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
So I won’t forget to read these:Paul Foster – Google+ – XE5 – Fun with external Java libraries So, having been…Above but as a PDF version, thanks Fun with external Java libraries on XE5 by Paul Foster...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Why your comment does not appear on my blog
It seems I have to clarify why some comments does not appear on my blog. My blog is a place where I publish my personal views. It is not in anyway a public forum. To be published on my blog, a comment...
View ArticleDelphi Haven: Removing a FMX controls size restrictions
One rather annoying aspect of FMX’s evolution has been a restriction on control sizes. The most notorious case is probably TGroupBox, which in XE4′s iOS support was bizarrely matched to Safari’s...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: FireDAC is the Recommended Database Access Library
I got a great call the other morning. A Delphi developer from a few versions back was considering upgrading to XE5, but he wanted to know if FireDAC was recommended for database access, or if he would...
View ArticleDelphi Haven: Inspecting platform styles redux
Back when XE3 was current I blogged about retrieving the default FMX styles for Windows and OS X, a process less transparent than in XE2 when the standard styles were distributed as *.style files. Roll...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: Launching fractals.dwscript.net
Happy new Year to all! The fractals.dwscript.net is now launched to host the results of the recent Mandelbrot TeraPixel experiment. It’s a small website to centralizes browser, documentations, links...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: Development: Android and iOS, new game release...
Hello everyone in 2014 :) First of all, I would like to present a small game I did during a weekend "gamejam" at the end of November 2013: Darkest Before the DawnThe game is free to download for...
View ArticleFirebird News: ADO.NET provider for Firebird 4.1.0.0 is ready
ADO.NET provider for Firebird 4.1.0.0 is ready
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I forgot who pointed me at this, but recently I came across a reference to the Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass paper by Niklaus Wirth (by many known as the “father” of Pascal, though he has done...
View ArticleBehind the connection: What programming languages have you used this year?
There is a website which maintain a voting system about which language has been used in 2013. The presentation is very nice. Of course, you should vote for your favourite language (I hope it is...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Zombie Apocalypse Survival Toolkit Part 37: The Self...
The following is an example of my weird sense of humor. If you don't get it, or you aren't interested in Gedankenexperiment, my regular Delphi-themed blog content will resume tomorrow. Imagine you...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: Catching up on happenings in the Delphi...
When I’m head-down in a ‘long hours’ contract I tend to miss quite a bit of Delphi-oriented news. Once in a while I look up and I find a whole host of interesting posts around the blog-world and this...
View ArticleDelphi Haven: Improved XE5 mobile previews part 2
Last time around I blogged about how to extract the default XE5 mobile styles into *.style files – in a nutshell, you need to create an app that extracts the desired style resource to a file, then open...
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