Delphi Haven: Updated FMX style for Android 4.4 (KitKat) available
Just a quick post to say I see Embarcadero have released an updated Android platform style for Android 4.4 (KitKat) – for more info see Sarina DuPont’s blog post here, and to download the actual style...
View ArticleBehind the connection: 3D animation with FireMonkey
Paul Toth, a well known Delphi Developer rewrote his CubeMan3D with FireMonkey, making it a cross platform application. The application shows an animated man made of 3D cubes. The man walk in place and...
View ArticleThe road to Delphi: VCL Styles for NSIS
The VCL Styles Utils project, now includes a plugin (dll) to skin the installers created by NSIS (2.46 and 3.0). The current size of the plugin is about 1.6 mb, but when is included (and compressed)...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.2.1 is out
New version 0.2.1 is released in the unstable area and here is the ChangeLog: Make extension compatible with PostgreSQL 9.2 Fix some regressions Implement basic connection caching Fix implicit cast...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: wp-1390588576541.jpg
Being away from a computer sometimes means you forget about events.So before I forget: happy 30th birthday Mac!For me, real programming started 31 years ago on an Apple II at high school, soon followed...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Learning from Digifort
You’ve probably seen Éric Fleming Bonilha videos showing off his Digifort mobile applications developed with Delphi XE5. The videos don’t mention it, but the back end server and client applications are...
View Articletwm’s blog: Insufficient Storage Available and Unfortunately android keyboard...
Yesterday, all of a sudden my smartphone (a Samsung Galaxy Note N7000) started to misbehave. The first thing I noticed was that the battery was down to 15% rather early in the day. I didn't think much...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Coding style matters
Coding Style, AKA Programming Style refers to the way you layout your source code. In many languages, source code layout is simply ignored by the compiler. You can write as you like. It is very...
View ArticleFirebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.4 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.4 Pro ” For more information, see here. The Free Lite Editions will be...
View ArticleFirebird News: node-firebird-libfbclient v0.0.10 updated for #nodejs v0.10.x
Node C++ Module for Firebird is updated in git repository and is already pushed to npm It can be compiled now with node v10.x with node-gyp instead of waf git clone it npm install...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird ActiveRecord gem is updated to version 0.8.4 with a...
Firebird ActiveRecord gem is updated to version 0.8.4 with a few fixes: Standardize on “gem build activerecord-fb-adapter.gemspec” rather than Rakefile to build new gems. Allow for the presence of both...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Every Android API for Delphi
Delphi XE5′s support for Android includes many of the most common Android APIs either wrapped in nice cross platform libraries and component or accessible directly via the JNI wrappers. The rest can be...
View ArticleFirebird News: DDEX 3.0.1
DDEX provider for Firebird has just been released. More info http://blog.cincura.net/233441-ddex-provider-3-0-1-for-firebird-released/.
View ArticleFirebird News: LibreOffice 4.2 released with New Preview Feature : Firebird...
New feature preview feature in LibreOffice 4.2 : Firebird SQL connector for LibreOffice Base ( contributed by Andrzej Hunt). When creating a new Database, select Firebird Embedded in the drop down...
View Articletwm’s blog: Specifying a date in dbase
One of the recurring confusions with databases is how to specify a date value in SQL statements. In the case of dbase, it’s not just SQL but also the builtin language.There you specify a date...
View ArticleDelphi Haven: CCR Exif v1.5.3 + Android app based on it in Google Play
Recently I have committed some updates to CCR Exif (my open source image metadata parsing library) that get it working with Delphi XE5, and in particular, Delphi for Android. In the main, that wasn’t...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Connecting to the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 from Delphi XE5
My first thought when I see cool technology is to figure out how to connect to it with Delphi. So the day I got the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 quadricopter I started working on Delphi interface. By the time...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Connecting Delphi to my Brain with the Emotiv EPOC
The Emotiv EPOC might seem more Sci-Fi than practical technology. It is designed to pick up on brain waves through its 14 brain wave sensors (plus 2 reference receivers) and convert them into a usable...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
With a more decent internet connection during our trip, it is time to catch up on some recent news.The first that caught my eye was that the Chromecast API now is open to all developers.Developer...
View ArticleFrom Zero To One: True multi-touch support for Delphi XE5
Recently I had a project where I had to somehow get the touch points for Android and IOS. I needed coordinates of all touch points at any time, with the correct event and movements. After a short...
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