The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Barry Kelly (Twitter, HN, SO, G+, Blog) was one of the Delphi compiler engineers.He wrote a great number of insightful blog posts, some of which are in chronological order:Entropy Overload: Fun with...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: We proudly present new game: "Mountains Of Fire",...
We proudly present new game: "Mountains Of Fire", http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/mountains_of_fire.php . The game was developed by Michalis during a weekend gamejam (...
View ArticleFirebird News: pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.4 is released
pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.4 is released with following changes: - Fixed Cursor.rowcount. - Cursor.callproc() return out parameters. - Cursor.execute() return cursor instance itself. You can consult the...
View ArticleTim Anderson's ITWriting: Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7 (Delphi, C++Builder): is...
Embarcadero has released version 7 of its XE programming suite. The main products included are Delphi and C++ Builder, RAD development tools that share the same underlying libraries and visual...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: Operator precedence changes
Here is a summary of recent DWScript changes, the major one is a change in operator precedence to something similar to Delphi and FreePascal. Other changes are related to sets and bug fixes. The...
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: System.ByteStrings support for XE7
The unit System.ByteStrings reintroduces the following String types for the mobile compilers:ShortStringAnsiStringAnsiCharPAnsiCharPPAnsiCharUTF8StringPUTF8StringRawByteStringPRawByteStringUsage:Add...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Delphi XE7 has been released
As Embarcadero mentioned a few hours back, Delphi XE7, and C++ Builder XE7, known collectively as "RAD Studio XE7", have been released.After I get it installed, I'll be posting some thoughts on...
View ArticleTPersistent: Delphi Dead Code Elimination
Delphi’s compiler tool chain may automatically eliminate some dead code, but with an older or “mature” product there are bound to be lots of units that are no longer used but are still present as part...
View ArticleFirebird News: Database developer tool Database Workbench 5 now available
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the next major version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 5 “ There have been numerous improvements to...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: Michalis is working on something cool for 2D...
Michalis is working on something cool for 2D animations in Castle Game Engine. See the latest view3dscene screenshots, can you guess what new animation format are we going to support? :)2014-08-05
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: http://youtu.be/liNwT96HUqI First video showing...
http://youtu.be/liNwT96HUqI First video showing Spine 2D animations smoothly working in Castle Game Engine :)Spine 2D animations rendered using Castle Game Engine (view3dscene)
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: Weekend news: 1. Spine (...
Weekend news: 1. Spine ( http://esotericsoftware.com/ ) support in Castle Game Engine is now official, 2. introducing named animations support, 3. scene manager fine-tuned for 2D games :)Read more for...
View ArticleFirebird News: Report of the 11th Firebird Developers Day
The report of the 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day Conference is now available either in English and Portuguese, and contains several pictures from the conference day.
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: IDE Fix Pack, DDevExtensions and DFMCheck for XE7
I’ve re-released the IDE Fix Pack 5.7, DDevExtensions 2.82 and DFMCheck 1.5 versions with support for XE7. The only change is that X7 is now supported (and one compiler patch was removed from IDE Fix...
View Articletwm’s blog: Experimental GExperts Version 1.37-2014-09-04 released
The latest version is the first version that supports Delphi XE7.There is nothing really new about the formatter code. But the new release can be installed even if you don’t have the official GExperts...
View ArticleFirebird News: Firebird FreeBSD port is updated to 2.5.3 version
FreeBSD port is updated to Firebird 2.5.3 . Please consult the release notes ps: Unicode patch is not needed anymore (Fix included in 2.5.3 release)
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: The BDE is Finally, Properly (Almost) Dead
As of the XE7 release of Delphi/RAD Studio, the long deprecated BDE is finally dead. And almost properly this time. From the “What’s New in XE7” page: BDE, our oldest database solution, has reached the...
View ArticleFirebird News: .NET Provider pulse on github
Github model for contributions really works : here is the project pulse for last month. There are quite a few pull requests closed and merged for .NET Provider
View Articletwm’s blog: Autosave on compile in Delphi?
Did you know that the Delphi IDE automatically saves all files when you compile a project? I didn’t.In order to activate it, go to the Tools/Options dialog and there on the “Environment Options” page....
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: IDE Fix Pack 5.71 for XE7 bug fix release
During the search for all function parameter name mangling changes in XE7, I disabled many IDE Fix Pack patches and forgot to enable them before I released version 5.7 for XE7. So here is version 5.71...
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