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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I observe an increase of people not asking questions on Stack Overflow any more…Today, two interesting questions caught my eye.The first one was by Martijn Coppoolse about Is it possible to figure out...
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jed-software.com: FireMonkey TArc and Retina, not the best of friends
Last week I noticed a post on www.fmxexpress.com that showed a different UI for a progress bar. So instead of starting work on something I should have, I turned the code into a component and added the...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Though fully justified text is most often in print, and not much in user interfaces any more, this might come in useful one day (it is based on the GDI functions TextOut and SetTextJustification):David...
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Firebird News: A new version, IBX for Lazarus 1.1 is now available
Tony announced new version, IBX for Lazarus 1.1 is now available from http://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx See announcement in the 3rd party Lazarus forum for the change log. Performance increased with...
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Firebird News: Firebird 2.5.3 sub-release is available
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.3 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series. This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements,...
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Firebird News: IB Objects and Lazarus
This post makes me realize I have done very little to make public the work I have done with IB Objects over the past years. For everyone’s knowledge, IB Objects has been available on Lazarus for years...
View Articlewhile true do;: ITDevCon 2014, Call4Papers
Dear potential ITDevCon speaker, As every year, I’m building the agenda for next ITDevCon that will be held next october 23th, 24th in Milan (Italy), in a new location. This will be the 6th edition (...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Found out where the StackOverflow Pascal has its origins: What happened to comments in syntax highlighter? – Meta Stack Overflow.Like any syntax highlighter, it is not perfect (only a Delphi compiler...
View ArticleTPersistent: Every Team needs a Goaltender
It’s been my experience that just like in sports where you have a goal tender, every development team needs a gate keeper or goal tender for their VCS to ensure nothing gets in that they don’t want....
View ArticleTPersistent: A Hint About Warnings
Compiler Hints and Warnings are an important indicator of the quality of the code you are compiling. It dismays me that I have often seen a ton of compiler warnings on commercial components suites...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Mobile Summer School Lesson 5: App Tethering Round-Up
I substituted for David I. yesterday for Developer Direct Mobile Summer School on Lesson 5: Connecting Mobile and Desktop together using App Tethering. The Summer School landing page and David’s blog...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
A while ago, some of the TODO comments in my source code disappeared from the TODO list.I wondered why, so I found this question: How set up todo list categories in Delphi 2010?.The Delphi TODO item...
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Firebird News: Flamerobin binary snapshot 0.9.3-ff8df8e for Linux x86-64 only
New Flamerobin snapshot for Linux x86-64 is released this one was built and static linked with WxWidgets 3.0.1 and boost 1.55 to use it from console type : cd Downloads tar -xJvf...
View Articletwm’s blog: Displaying a multi line error message without wasting space
I have got a form that usually displays outputs from various sources, each of which has a frame for its own purpose. Now, if an error occurs with any of theses sources, I want to display that error...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Late binding sometimes is your friend:Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") Wscript.Echo "Version: "& objWord.Version Wscript.Echo "Build: "& objWord.Build objWord.QuitThe accompanying...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Mobile Summer School 6: REST & BaaS
Here are the slides and downloads from my mobile summer school session on REST & BAAS. If you just want the slides they are on Slide Share. I’ll post the video and more details here later.For more...
View ArticleTPersistent: Using Object Pointers in a DataSet TField
I have seen code where an object pointer is stored in each row of a TDataSet, and referenced by code. So skipping the question of the validity of such code, how do you support X86 and X64 bit code,...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Come on Baby Light My Fire
These are exciting times in the mobile development space, especially for followers of RemObjects work. Whilst the likes of Xamarin and Embarcadero pursue their cross-platform abstractions, with varying...
View Articletwm’s blog: Delphiversions.inc
In the olden days[tm] there was a project for maintaining a Delphiversions.inc file which created human readable conditional defines from the VERxx conditional defines of the Delphi compilers. Since it...
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Firebird News: FDD will receive people from 14 different states
Brazil is a really big country, and the 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day conference will receive attendees from 14 different states. There are people travelling more than 2.000km to come!...
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