The Podcast at Delphi.org: How to Get Answers to Your Questions
I love helping people out with technical challenges. I don’t always have as much time as I would like to dive into the details of their code though. Occasionally I get requests for help that are...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Following up on yesterdays Delphi: using IInterface to restore cursor at end of mehod (prelude to a memento that executes any code at end of method) here is the memento I meant.They are based on...
View ArticleDr.Bob's Delphi Notes: Delphi XE6 Development Essentials
I have finally completed the first edition of my Delphi XE6 Development Essentials courseware manual in PDF format, which has been sent to all my customers of Delphi and RAD Studio (with out without...
View ArticleDr.Bob's Delphi Notes: Delphi XE6 XML, SOAP & Web Services Development
Today, I'm pleased to announced the immediate availability of my Delphi XE6 XML, SOAP & Web Services Development courseware manual in PDF format.
View ArticleThe road to Delphi: Fix to conflict between the Delphi Dev. Shell Tools and...
I just detect a conflict with the AVG Antivirus 2014 Shell extension . This cause which the Delphi Dev. Shell Tools menu is not show. To fix this issue you must disable and enable the AVG Antivirus...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Delayed POST Response
Way back in September last year, Mason Wheeler blogged about his first experiences with developing for Android using Oxygene. I said at the time that I would look into reproducing his efforts and...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: DWScript happenings and new logo
Long time, no post here, but not no happenings on the DWScript front Behold a “cleaned up old logo” for DWScript, which will replace the old one until a better one is made The DWS source saw mostly bug...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
A long while ago, DelphiBasics.info (they are hosted on Google Sites) posted a very interesting via: uExecFromMem unit. It was only a code snippet, not much usage info.One of the things you can do with...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: In this case, both Self and...
In the With Statement series:Lars Fosdal– Code RantsThe dreaded with…Debugging today, I found another gotcha.In this case, both Self and DisconnectedClient has a property named ClientIdentifier.Note...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
In the past, I used the XN Resource Editor, but it hasn’t been maintained for a while.Which resource editor do you use?Take Our PollBased on a few links I found, I will be trying these:IcoFX – The...
View ArticleFirebird News: Active Record Firebird Adapter for #Rails updated to version...
Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.9 is updated with a few cleanups and fixes: Changed quotes behavior for dialect 1 (an ancient Firebird dialect)
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Making a Noise About on a Thread
I’m working on an Android app at the moment, and for a bit of fun I decided to add a startup sound to brighten the day of every user that launches it. Which gives me another opportunity to present some...
View Articletwm’s blog: Windows 7 Blue Screen Of Death with error 0x8B
If you ever had to change the motherboard of your computer and wanted to keep the Windows installation on it, you might have encountered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death with an unhelpful error code.In...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: What About Blackberry?
One of the most common questions we get when we talk about new features in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio is “What about Blackberry?” which is almost as common as similar questions about Windows...
View Articletwm’s blog: Using a bar code scanner? Watch out for your keyboard layout!
We are using a bar code scanner to scan the serial numbers of all hard disk drives we buy. This is supposed to make it easier and less error prone to put them into an Excel list for tracking their...
View ArticleTPersistent: Compiling the JWA and JWSCL
Recently I decided to try to incorporate Windows Job Objects into a project to artificially limit the amount of memory available to an application so I could test it’s behaviour under such...
View ArticleDaniel Magin's Logfile: Windows update disable Delphi 2007 .. 2010
With a new windows update Delphi 2007 to Delphi 2010 did not start anymore.you get a error delphi can not create ...Temp\EditorLineEnds.ttrmost important information by...
View ArticleFirebird News: FDD in the news
Firebird Developers Day is in today (15/Aug) editions of the “Jornal de Piracicaba” and “A Tribuna Piracicabana” newspapers.
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: EditorLineEnds.ttr IDEFixPack users are not affected
With the latest Windows updates (KB2982791, KB2970228) Delphi 8-2010 can’t be started twice without a reboot because the IDE wants to create the file %TEMP%\EditorLineEnds.ttr that is now locked by the...
View Articletwm’s blog: Sabotaged by Windows Update
Microsoft released a Windows Update this week that caused quite a problem for Delphi developers still using Delphi 2006 to 2010. When starting a second instance of the IDE they now get the error Cannot...
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