The Podcast at Delphi.org: Indispensable Delphi Libraries
What are your indispensable Delphi libraries? The 3rd party libraries you just can’t imagine starting a new project without? I know mine have changed over the years and we have an interesting new crop...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Today, Niklaus Wirth, “father” of The Pascal Programming Language turned 80.Happy birthday!–jeroenFiled under: Delphi, Development, Pascal, Software Development, Standard Pascal
View ArticleBehind the connection: In memory message logging
Message logging is a common activity used for either keeping track of what happens in an application or for debugging purpose. Recently, I was developing a real time communication system which...
View ArticleFrom Zero To One: Multi-touch: touched control and relative coordinates
This, I hope, should be the last article on multi-touch support for mobile devices. All that was missing in my implementation was support for detecting the control that was touched and getting relative...
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Firebird News: Survey for the next Brazilian FDD
Sorry, only for Brazilians: Os brasileiros que tiverem real interesse em participar da próxima edição do FDD podem responder a pesquisa que está online até o dia 21/Fevereiro, apontando suas...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
About a year ago, I wrote about Delphi: you should avoid the `with` statement as it makes your code less future proof. Then I already tweeted I would follow up. Time to do it now (:Besides my first...
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Firebird News: IBPhoenix Replicator 4.2 is released
New release of IBPhoenix Replicator is capable to replicate data from Firebird, Interbase and Oracle into any of these DBMS and into ODBC data sources as well....
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Delphi Code Monkey: Interrupting Programmers (comic)
What happens to the "velocity" of a team that gets interrupted? It's not hard to figure out.Minimizing interruptions maximizes the work by a non-blocked programmer. Of course, a blocked programmer...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
These XanaNews settings are here:Tools — Options — Posting Settings — Maximum Line Length=72alsoText Format=NNTP–jeroenvia Re: xananews – dumb question….Filed under: Delphi, Development, Software...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: Delphi Component Design
Delphi Component DesignFrom long ago, but still very valid, as I recently had another question like “what design patterns does Delphi use?”.The Delphi usage of patterns to make the VCL and your...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
There are (soon probably “were”) a few very interesting Q&A threads on Stack Overflow in the “Hidden Secrets of” series on Delphi related topics.I sort of can get (but don’t agree: there is a very...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Hidden features in the Delphi Object Pascal language
A list of hidden features in Delphi Object Pascal that are great, obscure, best avoided or remarkable.This was copied from Stack Overflow’s question of the same name which is closed and flagged for...
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Firebird News: We have Firebird 3.0 Alpha 2 building for MacOSX
Thanks to assistance from Alex, we now have Firebird 3.0 building on MacOSX 10.8 with XCode 4.6.3 Regards Paul You can ask on firebird-devel list for the new builds
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Firebird News: Libreoffice new release 4.2.1 with small fix for Firebird driver
Libreoffice new release with small fix for firebird sql driver fdo#74160 firebird XParameters::setString truncate to 65535 characters [Lionel Elie Mamane] You can check release note here...
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Firebird News: Сhecking Firebird source code errors using PVS-Studio
Here you can find result of checking Firebird with PVS-Studio (in russian). http://habrahabr.ru/company/pvs-studio/blog/213423/ via linkedin firebird group ps:PVS-Studio is a static analyzer that...
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Firebird News: Freedom ERP uses Firebird
Freedom is an Open Source ERP developed in Brazil, using Java (allowing it to run in several Operating Systems) and Firebird as the database engine.
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: The Delphi Object Pascal Language
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;The other day I noticed Github has a language choice for Pascal, but not Delphi. It turns out originally they had...
View ArticleBehind the connection: HowTo: Create a DCR file for your Delphi component
When you create a component for Delphi, you need a bitmap to represent your component in the component palette. This bitmap must be saved as a DCR file and linked into the component package. DCR stands...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Coding in Delphi
Coding in Delphi is a new programming book by Nick Hodges that covers a variety of powerful Delphi programming features and techniques including Generics, Interfaces, Exception, Handling, Anonymous...
View ArticleAndreano Lanusse | Technology and Software Development:...
CopyReaderToClientDataSet copies the contents of a TDBXReader into a TClientDataSet instance. It returns the same TClientDataSet instance that was passed to this method.CopyReaderToClientDataSet is...
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