Firebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.6 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.6 Pro ” For more information, see here. The Free Lite Editions will be...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: We're proud to announce the release of Castle Game...
We're proud to announce the release of Castle Game Engine version 5.0.0 :) Major new features are Android and iOS support (through new OpenGLES 2.0 renderer), much more flexible API for rendering 2D...
View ArticleFirebird News: Database .NET 11.2 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 ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
IP geolocation is hard, and very dependent on where you are in the world. Providers giving different or confusing results are not exceptional.See the struggle at Dan Sohad – Google+ – Hi! I working in...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
One of those StackOverflow gems: permissions – Delphi – setting Full Control on Registry Key – Stack Overflow.–jeroenFiled under: Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 7, Delphi XE,...
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: IDE Fix Pack 5.5 (2009-XE5) released
With the IDE Fix Pack 5.5 release the end of 2010, XE2, XE3 and XE4 support is reached. This will be the last IDE Fix Pack for those four versions.This version fixes a long standing bug that was...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
There is an interesting G+ discussion thread about generic Dictionaries in Delphi.It covers the stock TObjectDictionary in the Generic.Collections unit, Spring4D, performance characteristics like O(1),...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: BlueTooth Remote Control Car
How to use BlueTooth is one of the most common requests with Delphi. During our Devices and Gadgets webinar David I. showed how to browse paired BlueTooth devices and connect to them.But wait, there’s...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I learned something new today (thanks Vin Colgin) the Delphi Design-Time Component Name is Limited to 63 characters.Uwe Raabe found out that this an Object Inspector thing due to this constant in...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Apart from the mandatory Joel on Software article about Unicode and Character sets, these two articles are of great value too:Encodings Before ASCII From a Mechanical Perspective.Character Encodings...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Where is StringToJString and StrToNSStr in XE6?
The useful helper routines StringToJString and StrToNSStr (and other associated ones) moved between XE5 and XE6. In XE6 you can find them in the units Androidapi.Helpers and Macapi.Helpers...
View ArticlePARMAJA: Temporary Off work.
For who using my source codes, or my projects. I am in offline mode for programming, there is many reasons, like I am sick (“cervical radiculopathy), my country (Syria) have troubles, not main power...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: Photo of our game "Darkest Before the Dawn" running...
Photo of our game "Darkest Before the Dawn" running on iPad, thanks to Jan Adamec ! See http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/darkest_before_dawn.php for current Android and standalone versions. iOS...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: A Look at Improved Inlining in Delphi XE6
First noticed by dewresearch, Delphi XE6 introduced a new optimization for inlined functions that return a floating-point value. Here is an exploration of what was improved… and what was not improved....
View ArticleFirebird News: Sparx Systems – Enterprise Architect 11 uses Firebird
Sparx Systems now has a fully intergrated Firebird backend Database for its Enterprise Architect application
View ArticleFirebird News: Ruby Firebird Extension Library – Fb bumped to version 0.7.1...
Version 0.7.1 is on RubyGems now. With following changes and bug fixes: Fix naive rounding logic affecting negative scaled values. Update for current rubygems, add license MIT like ar adapter , add...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: Launching other activities from Delphi...
Following on from my recent post about adding Android app splash screens in Delphi XE5 and Delphi XE6 I’ve now spent some time writing up details on how to launch various Android system activities....
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: My CodeRage session files
At the time of writing my two sessions for CodeRage 8 are being broadcast around the Arpanet.I’ve got two session this year, both related to Delphi mobile development, and both concerning how to reach...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: Delphi XE6 32bits and Scimark
In a Google+ comment to my recent article about inlining in XE6, Leif Uneus posted results from Scimark. It appears that XE6 is about 30% slower than previous versions at least from XE5 to XE for...
View ArticleThe road to Delphi: Patching the dock title bar using the Delphi Detours Library
This is the first of a series of articles about how use the Delphi Detours Library . On this entry I will show you how you can patch the title bar of the dock windows used by the RAD Studio IDE (or a...
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