It's a blong, blong, blong road...: More on FireDAC
I’ve yet to pull down and start playing with FireDAC, but it was featured in an Embarcadero event in London yesterday (Thursday). Some points with it were clarified by DavidI, which I thought were...
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See Different: Goodbye Pascal
At 1993, I've started to learn Pascal. It was the first programming language that I actually enjoyed using, and programming was really fun.I started with TP 5.5, later on with TP 7.0 that I bought...
View ArticleTPersistent: Have your PIE and eat it too!
If you consider yourself a developer with principles, then consider this; the use of TDataSet descendants violates the principle of Encapsulation that is foundational to OOP.Why? Well the moment you...
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Delphi Haven: Im speechless
Back last July, I blogged about terrible example code posted by Stephen Ball, an Embarcadero ‘Product Evangelist’. Ultimately, the critique of Ball’s code was really just a lead-off for pointing out...
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Delphi Haven: How to survive without image lists in a FireMonkey project
In the VCL, toolbar icons (glyphs) are set up using the TImageList component. In FireMonkey however, TImageList does not exist, and even TToolBar itself is half the component it is in the VCL – rather...
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Delphi Haven: Review: Getting Started with Lazarus IDE by Roderick Person
Recently I came across a new Lazarus book, Getting Started with Lazarus IDE, by Roderick Person (that’s not a typo by the way – there is no definite article in the title). This is a small book (only a...
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From Zero To One: Example of Cromis Library usage
What good is a Library of code if you have no use for it, or if the use is so clumsy you don’t want to use it. Almost all the code in Cromis Library was written out of my personal need to solve some...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Few people know about a Delphi language feature that has been present since Delphi 1: prepending the type definition with a type keyword to make the type getting a new identity.Each time I use it, I...
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Firebird News: Daily Firebird builds and tests results
You can watch the for Daily Firebird builds and tests suite results created on a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS http://ci.ibphoenix.fr/ There are results for G++ compiler warnings Also the console output can be...
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Firebird News: Firebird security fixes pushed to Fedora and EPEL 5,6
An important security fix for Firebird is pushed to Fedora and EPEL Please update your servers
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Firebird News: Security Updates available for Mageia 2 and Cauldron
New Firebird packages that fix security bug #9322 in Mageia are available for Mageia 2 and Cauldron
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Firebird News: Custom conventions in Entity Framework 6 helping Firebird –...
Few days ago I wrote a post “Custom conventions in Entity Framework 6 helping Firebird“.Arthur Vickers from Entity Framework team had a good question whether it works also for columns and tables that...
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The road to Delphi: Added new vcl style hook to the Vcl Styles Utils to fix...
I just added a new vcl style hook (TListViewStyleHookFix) for the TListView component in the Vcl Styles Utils project to fix the QC #108678, #108875 (XE2 and XE3)The issue reported in both reports, is...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Every once in a while I manage to check “Automatically close on successful compile” during compilation, the compiler progress disappears, and I loose my clue if compilation ended or not.This is how to...
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From Zero To One: Improved Sliced Array implementation
If you don’t know what sliced array is, I suggest that you first read the previous post, where I presented the sliced array. There I presented the data structure that is similar to classical dynamic...
View ArticleDr.Bob's Delphi Notes: Monday March 18 - SDN Event featuring Marco Cantu,...
On Monday, March 18th, 2013, the SDN organised another event in Zeist (The Netherlands) including a full Delphi track with 5 sessions (2 from Marco Cantu, 2 by Bruno Fierens and one from your truly Bob...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Variant Records are a feature that has been in the Pascal language since Standard Pascal.A cool page for historic perspective is R3R: Pascal Features in Popular Compilers, hopefully someone will update...
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Australian Delphi User Group Members: The ADUG Autumn Symposium is less than...
Time really is running out to register for the number one event on the Australian Delphi Calendar. Registrations will close at 11pm, this coming Tuesday 19th March with the event itself held in...
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Firebird News: Hopper v1.2.0 – stored procedure/trigger debugger – released
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...
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Firebird News: Firebird Foundation will have Annual General Meeting at March...
Firebird Foundation, the non-profit organization which finances Firebird development, will have Annual General Meeting (AGM) at March 20, 2013. The AGM addresses the issues that are required to...
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