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Firebird News: Firebird for #Python driver FDB 1.4.1 released with fixes and...
FDB release 1.4.1 is out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb This release fixes some issues found over last year and adds few enhancements. Check out the changelog at...
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twm’s blog: Comparing INI files
INI files are a simple but powerful means of storing a program’s configuration. They have existed since the 16 bit Windows times, where they were stored in the Windows directory, later on they were...
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Firebird News: FireServer site is online!
The official site for the FireServer Project is now on-line! You can find basic information about the project. There are no ISO downloads available yet. We expect to have the first ISO until the end of...
View Articletwm’s blog: Comparing Variants
I hate Variants, did I say that before? They just make everything more complex than necessary.Did you ever try to compare two variants? E.g. you have got one that contains an empty string (”) and...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Integrate Cloud Services with the REST/JSON Client
As part of the free Developer Skill Sprint on REST & JSON here are my slides and sample source code. Appmethod, RAD Studio, Delphi& C++Builder XE6 ship with the Desktop sample RESTDemos sample...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Joseph G. Mitzen posted a very interesting (and elaborate <g>) comment on a post from me in 2009: Delphi – for … in on enumerated data types « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.The...
View Articletwm’s blog: GORM experimental release
GORM is an editor for .po files that was originally written by Lars Dybdahl and to which I have been contributing quite a few features in recent years. Since Lars is too busy to do a release and...
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Castle Game Engine news: We introduce a "build tool" for our engine, to make...
We introduce a "build tool" for our engine, to make it easy to compile and package your games. The build tool, called "castle-engine", reads a CastleEngineManifest.xml file in your project, and can...
View ArticleSmart Mobile StudioSmart Mobile Studio: Smart Mobile Studio 1.1 RC (build...
We are very proud to present the release candidate for Smart Mobile Studio version 1.1 (build number v1.1.0.400). If you would like to give this groundbreaking product a test drive before we...
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The road to Delphi: DIC now supports VCL Styles
I just released a major update to the Delphi IDE Colorizer. So now you can style the non client area of the floating forms of the IDE and also use the elements of the VCL Styles on the RAD Studio...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Custom Classes.dex
By creating a custom Classes.dex you can get access to 3rd party Java JAR APIs from your application. For my Integrate More Android with a JNI Call to your Android App Developer Skill Sprint I created...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Skill Sprint: Android Voice – Speech Recognition...
For my Developer Skill Sprint I was originally scheduled to show how to do a Google Glass Voice Trigger. That is pretty cool because it allows you to launch a Google Glass app with your voice, but I...
View Articletwm’s blog: Adding fields to a TDataset in code
The Delphi IDE allows you to add fields to a TDataset (descendant e.g. TTable, TQuery, TAdoTable etc.) by right clicking on the component and selecting “Add Field” or “New Field”. For a particular...
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The road to Delphi: VCL Styles for NSIS
Important UpdateThe new location of this project is https://code.google.com/p/vcl-styles-plugins/The VCL Styles Utils project, now includes a plugin (dll) to skin the installers created by NSIS (2.46...
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Firebird News: Final part of the story with 1.7 Terabyte Firebird SQL database
Tuning 1.7 Terabyte FirebirdSQL database (part 3) For those who did not read the first 2 parts: Firebird Performance Degradation (part 1) More details about 1.7Tb database (part 2)
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Firebird News: Deadline for submiting papers to international conference
Today, 15/July, is the deadline to submit talks proposals for the Firebird International Conference, to happen in Prague, in the end of October. More information here.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I used to forget about the difference between Variant and OleVariant, and used them like this:Use OleVariants for OLE, and Variants for non OLE.There is no need to manually clear them.Luckily I was...
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: Cause for rlink32 Too many resources to handle
If you have many DFM files and RES files in your project you may run into the rlink32 error “Too many resources to handle”. Every DFM file is one resource and a RES file can contain multiple resources....
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I’m not a real expert on LCID (the values like 1033 (aka 0×409 or $409) and 1043 (aka 0×413 or $413), but here are a few notes on stuff that I wrote a while ago to obtain shell32.dll resource strings...
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Firebird News: Jaybird 3.0 snapshot available for testing
Mark Rotteveel published a snapshot of Jaybird 3.0 for testing purposes. This is a very early snapshot, a lot of work still needs to be done before Jaybird 3.0 will be release-ready. We’d appreciate...
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