The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
For my own link archive: CodeRage 8 replays – Embarcadero Technologies – YouTube.Lots of nice sessions, including these REST sessions:Marco Cantu on REST.Olaf Monien on REST.About the REST support in...
View ArticleFirebird News: Free Pascal 2.6.4 has been released
Free Pascal 2.6.4 is a point release from the 2.6.0 fixes branch. Some highlights are: Packages: Lots and lots fixes and improvements for fcl-db web and json packages synchronized. improvements to the...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Very interesting helper function:function TDataSetExtensions.Select<TResult>: IEnumerable<TResult>–jeroenvia: Reddit: Delphi sorcery: Spring4D roadmap : delphi.Filed under: Delphi, Delphi...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
An interesting discussion about the Delphi ARC compilers and Free versus DisposeOf is at Ondrej Pokorny – Google+ – Just realized: For me the most dangerous thing in ARC is….Filed under: Delphi, Delphi...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Yet another example of somehow who got bitten hard by using the with statement (I decided to give with its own category on my blog).This time it got shared by Paul Foster on G+ and comes down to...
View ArticleFirebird News: Spanish blog about Firebird after one year exceeded 116,000...
Author tells his story on the blog first birthday: When I launched, one year ago I did not knew if it would be read, if anyone is interested in what I had planned to write, but I thought it needed a...
View ArticleFirebird News: A tutorial introduction to Sqitch change management on Firebird
This tutorial explains how to create a sqitch – enabled Firebird project, use a VCS for deployment planning, and work with other developers to make sure changes remain in sync and in the proper order....
View ArticleFirebird News: ER/Studio Data Architect® 9.6.1 does have officially full...
What is new in ER/Studio Data Architect Version 9.6.1 New DBMS Platform Support – Firebird Firebird 2.x: Officially supports Firebird 2.1 and 2.5. Firebird 1.5: Officially supports Firebird 1.5.
View Articletwm’s blog: I bought a Kindle
I had decided to never buy a Kindle because I take issue with Amazon controlling it, not myself. Also, I hate it that all Kindle e-books from Amazon are encumbered by DRM.Nevertheless, as the price...
View ArticleDr.Bob's Delphi Notes: Delphi Developer Days 2014: May and June
Mark your calendar or agenda: Delphi Developer Days 2014, featuring Cary Jensen and yours truly Bob Swart, are coming your way in May and June 2014. We start by visiting two cities in the USA:...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Reminder to self: some great ideas to hunt for memory leaks while your application is running: differencing allocation dumps, DDDebug Memory Profiler, etc.TURBU Tech » Blog Archive » Wanted: live leak...
View ArticleFirebird News: Using EXCEL to read Firebird databases
Sometimes you can be very useful if the content of some tables are migrated to Firebird Excel. Possibly most applications your users know how to use Excel then be easy for them and easy to make your...
View ArticleFirebird News: DBD-Firebird version 1.17 is released
Firebird Perl driver version 1.17 is released with the following changes * a bit more verbose ok() calls in 90-event-ithreads.t * disable threaded event tests under AUTOMATED_TESTING * Makefile.PL:...
View ArticleBehind the connection: On the fly form
This article explain how to create a form on the fly. Such a form is created by code, without using the designer. You will surely ask why you would do that! Granted the Delphi form designer is very...
View ArticleFirebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.5 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.5 Pro ” For more information, see here. The Free Lite Editions will be...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Today, Version 4.4.5 of Database Workbench got released.It mainly is a bugfix release (15 out of 18 issues were bugfixes, of the rest, 2 are feature requests, 1 enhancement): List of items...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Wow, did I really wrote that 18 years ago?Yes I did, and I was quoted in the (back then famous) FAQPAS3.TXT from (now Professor Emeritus) Timo Salmi: The third set of frequently (and not so frequently)...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Jus finished watching this very interesting talk from the last FOSDEM 2014 conference: [FOSDEM 2014] Visualizing Delphi with Moose – YouTube.It is based on MOOSE (an open-source platform for software...
View ArticleFirebird News: New FlameRobin snapshot uploaded to Debian unstable compiled...
New Flamerobin snapshot uploaded to Debian unstable with the following changes * use xz compression for snapshot source tarball * New upstream snapshot add support for more Firebird 3.0 reserved...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird updated Roadmap for 3.0
Rodmap is updated with the following schedule: Alpha 2 has been released in January 2014; The next testing release (Beta 1) is expected in Q2 2014. Unstable v3.0 builds can be downloaded from the...
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