twm’s blog: AutoComplete for TEdits
I am sure you know about the useful controls TJvDirectoryEdit and TJvFilenameEdit from the JVCL. They come in handy whenever you need an edit field that should allow autocomplete for file or directory...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
A bit more than a year ago, I wrote about Delphi: you should avoid the `with` statement as it makes your code less future proof. That caused some nice comments on the blog, and some more on LinkedIn...
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Firebird News: News about Firebird 3 release
Here are some news about the next FB 3 releases time-frame, coming direct from Dmitry Yemanov: We’re approaching Beta 1 (hopefully to be released in July), with one more Beta to follow and then RC...
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The road to Delphi: Delphi IDE Colorizer Open Beta
A few months ago I started to work on a new project called Delphi IDE Colorizer. In the past weeks a beta version was tested for a dozen of Delphi developers on a closed beta. Now it’s time to move...
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Firebird News: A few Firebird fixes are commited in LibreOffice git
A few more Firebird fixes are commited in LibreOffice git Fdo#79493 Refresh Tables option fails with Firebird https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79493 Fdo#73352 firebird don’t claim to...
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Firebird News: Firebird SQL syntax for VIM
If you like Vim here is the Syntax Highlighter for Firebird SQL dialect (First version)
View Articletwm’s blog: Avoiding long timeouts when connecting to Mercurial repositories...
As described in a previous post I initially had some problems connecting to Mercurial repositories on SourceForge that went away without me changing anything. In that post I give the following entry...
View Articletwm’s blog: Adding remote repositories to your mercurial.ini
Among a lot of other things you can add names for remote repositories to your mercurial.ini so you can access them without having to type that long path. This can be quite convenient e.g. [path]...
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twm’s blog: Delphi7Help4BDS revisited
Today I updated the Delphi 7 Help for BDS Expert (Delphi7Help4BDS) I wrote back then when Delphi 2005 came out and Borland managed to turn the online help into a mess (again).It now supports Delphi...
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Firebird News: Hopper v1.5.1 – stored routine debugger – now available!
Upscene Productions announces a new release of: “Hopper – a Stored Code Debugger” Hopper is a Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, available for Firebird, InterBase and MySQL. For more information and...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus 1.2.4 Release
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.4.This release was built with fpc 2.6.4.The previous release 1.2.2 was built with 2.6.4 too, the release 1.2.0was built with fpc 2.6.2....
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Firebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.7 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.7 Pro ” For more information, see here. The Free Lite Editions will be...
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Firebird News: Fireserver Project is coming
Fireserver is a project of a custom linux server distro that includes Firebird as default database server, and can be used freely by any company who want to simplify their customer’s servers...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Meet Me in Philly at the CodeCamp
I’m joining Nick Hodges in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania for the Philly.NET Code Camp 2014 Refactored. I’ll be showing off the latest version of Appmethod, including the Free Forever C++ for Android...
View Articletwm’s blog: Weak references or why you should enable ReportMemoryLeaksOnShutdown
I was enhancing my dzMdbViewer tool with a view that shows the table structure rather than the data of the table, when I out of curiosity added ReportMemoryLeaksOnShutdown := True; to the source code....
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The road to Delphi: DITE and DIC now supports Appmethod 1.14
I just updated the Delphi IDE Theme Editor and the Delphi IDE Colorizer to support Appmethod 1.14Check out the next screenshots
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Free Pascal Answers: Free Pascal has been choosen as a project of the month...
Free pascal has been choose as project of the month in sourceforge, and they interviewed it’s founder Florian Klaempfl http://sourceforge.net/blog/april-2014-project-of-the-month-free-pascal/
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Firebird News: A few changes and fixes to libfq
There are a few changes to libfq (A Postgresql like api and wrapper for Firebird api)
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Firebird News: ANN: CopyCat LiveMirror 1.2
Microtec is pleased to announce a new release of our database mirroring and backup tool : CopyCat LiveMirror version 1.2 ! LiveMirror makes it trivial to setup a one-way replication setup between two...
View Articletwm’s blog: Setting the caret in a TMemo
Once in a while you want to set the caret position (aka cursor position) in a TMemo to a given line and character in that line. If you google for it you will find lots of hits that tell you to do the...
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