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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
On my way back from France, I noted the printed edition of Coding in Delphi has become available through CreateSpace (which is Amazon’s self publishing mechanism):Coding in Delphi is a new programming...
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Firebird News: pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.0 is released with experimental...
pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.0 is released with experimental Firebird 3.0 SRP auth support See the previous discussion on Firebird-devel list. Here is the Firebird 3.0 example that works for me
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Firebird News: IBSurgeon FirstAID 3.7 is released
IBSurgeon is glad to announce the new version of Firebird and InterBase database recovery tool: FirstAID 3.7. FirstAID 3.7 introduces new approaches in the database recovery and many new features:...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: CodeRage C++
Tomorrow is the start of CodeRage 8 C++, which is a lot like regular CodeRage, but with an emphasis on C++Builder. This time there is a lot of coverage on the new iOS support, as well as the new REST...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
This post lists a lot of links related to the history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePascal / etc.No mentioning of Pascal should start without Niklaus Wirth. At the time of writing...
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Firebird News: FB TraceManager V3.5.0 has been released
Upscene Productions is excited to officially release FB TraceManager V3.5.0! Full Firebird 3 Alpha 2 support across the entire product (Trace API, header page monitoring, database statistics,...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
As a follow up of When using Apple Hardware, be prepared for security updates. iOS already there, OS X and others will follow. #gotofail:This is a must read: Apple’s #gotofail weekend – Ashkan Soltani,...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Automate Word document print using Delphi
Automating Microsoft office Word from Delphi is really easy. I already blogged on the subject. This time, I will show you how to select a specific printer in your Delphi application and instruct Word...
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Firebird News: The Mystery of the RDB$DB_KEY in Firebird
Probably rdb$db_key is the best kept Firebird secret, because it gives the user some extra power to access records in raw mode.
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Firebird News: Firebird-delphi group
A few years ago Helen Borrie set up a firebird-delphi group and then somehow managed not to list it on our support pages – so it has no members and no traffic. Yahoo is going to delete it on March 6...
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DelphiTools.info: BackgroundWorkers in DWScript
An utility that was added to the DWScript sample WebServer during the 4 TeraPixel Mandelbrot experiment is the BackgroundWorkers API. This is a rather low-level threading facility that can work well...
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Firebird News: Firebird and Unicode databases
The first encounter with unicode databases and collations on Firebird may be confusing, as it was for me and it may take some time to grasp the concepts and settings. This article describes the...
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Firebird News: Firebird 2.5.2 updated in Ubuntu ppa includes icu fix from Debian
I have synced Firebird 2.5.2 package with version in Debian including icu 5.2 loading fix for all supported releases. The icu loading issue is fixed in Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 Firebird 2.5 package ps:...
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Delphi Haven: Loading the apps icon into a TImage on Android
Working with Delphi for Android, I wanted to load my app’s icon into a TImage. Here’s the code I came up with: uses AndroidApi.JniBridge, AndroidApi.Jni.App, AndroidApi.Jni.GraphicsContentViewText,...
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Delphi Haven: Loading the app’s icon into a TImage on Windows
Last time I showed how to load the icon of an FMX for Android app into a TImage. In practice, a lot of the debugging of a Delphi mobile app is likely to be with a Win32 ‘mobile preview’ build though…...
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Firebird News: Database .NET 10.7 released
Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool, With it you can Browse objects, Design tables, Edit rows, Export data and Run queries with a consistent...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Persistent form with F11 to fullscreen
This article shows how to create a persistent form having the ability to go real full screen. A persistent form is one which remember his size and position. Real full screen means the form use all the...
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Castle Game Engine news: We have a new font loading and rendering method :)...
We have a new font loading and rendering method :)We now use the FreeType library (and FreeType FPC unit) for loading fonts, which allows us to load at runtime a ttf font, and use it with any size, and...
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Castle Game Engine news: Android and OpenGLES renderer (Android, iOS)...
Android and OpenGLES renderer (Android, iOS) improvements :)1. Android supports now Application.ProcessMessages method. This means that you can use modal functions, that inside run the message loop and...
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Castle Game Engine news: Screen effects, including Screen Space Ambient...
Screen effects, including Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, work on OpenGLES now too :)- All screen effects predefined in view3dscene, including the ones using depth textures, work.-...
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