The road to Delphi: VCL Styles Utils Major Update (Dialogs, ProgressBar,...
A Major updated was made to the VCL Styles Utils project. This version include several fixes and new features.Vcl.Styles.Hooks The Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit is the most updated part of this new release....
View ArticleFirebird News: ANN: Firebird PHP Generator 14.10 released
SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird PHP Generator 14.10, a frontend to generate feature-rich CRUD web applications for your Firebird database. The software comes in both Freeware and...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: The kind of text that the...
Vin Colgin posted on G+:The kind of text that the Delphi IDE often removes in a .dpr file.FastMM4 and lines in the *.dprI’ve got an old problem, in which the IDE will take the lines required out of the...
View ArticleFirebird News: IBO 5.5.5 Build 2152 Released
Jason Wharton wrote on ibolist: I have released a new version of IB Objects. The primary objective of this release is to provide support for RAD Studio XE7. There have been some bugs fixed as well....
View ArticleFirebird News: pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.5 is released
pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.5 is released with Firebird Wire Protocol 11 support
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
An interesting statement by Steve Maughan:Looking at how many High DPI awareness or lack of is the developers Y2K of our time.Looking at the trouble Windows and Windows applications in general have...
View Articletwm’s blog: When CloseHandle does not close the handle
Today I spent several hours hunting down a problem with opening a COM port. Basically the program opens a COM port, writes some bytes to it, reads an answer and closes it again. This determines whether...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Two interesting links today about Delphi and Batch files.Using batch files to streamline your build process. This is a really long post explaining a system of batch files to facilitate continuous...
View ArticleFirebird News: GoLang driver supports Firebird wire protocol 11
GoLang firebird driver suports firebird wire protocol 11 (implemented in firebird 2.1) News via nakagami blog
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The last couple of weeks I taught two sessions at both ITDevCon 2014 in Milano, Italy and EKON 2014 in Köln, Germany.The EKON materials are slightly more up to date and elaborate (sessions there were...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: New features of our build tool...
New features of our build tool http://sourceforge.net/p/castle-engine/wiki/Build%20tool/ for Windows programs: we now automatically include an icon and create version information and manifest in the...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
While researching the manifest problem I will post about next week, I made a short list of free Windows Resource Editors:ResEdit Resource Editor – free resource editor for Win32.Resource Editor |...
View ArticleŽarko Gajić: Displaying Long Non-Breakable Text (File Path) In MessageDlg...
Introduced way back in Delphi 2009 the TTaskDialog (defined in Dialogs.pas) implements task dialogs. Task dialogs first appeared in Windows Vista and are used in later Windows versions. In essence, a...
View Articletwm’s blog: Setting a default language with dxgettext
By default, if no translation for a language is available, dxgettext will not do any translation but use the strings as they are in the source code. Sometimes this is not desirable. e.g.Your customer...
View ArticleFirebird News: Do you want Bitnami to add Firebird support?
Bitnami is a library of popular server applications and development environments that can be installed with one click, either in your laptop, in a virtual machine or hosted in the cloud. We take care...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
One of the things a lot of Delphi users want is to be able to automagically remove unused units from their uses lists and projects.The short answer is: you can’t.The long answer starts with: you can’t...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
One of the things with Delphi and version control systems is that you’d rather have as few binary files in version control as possible.One of the binary files in virtually every Delphi project is the...
View ArticleFirebird News: Latest QA Tester/Developer’s Reports
You can read Developers reports from previous months (until September/October) Pavel Zotov, 2014-10 Philippe Makowski, 2014-10 Alexander Potapchenko, 2014-10 Alex Peshkov,2014-10 Jiri Cincura,2014-10...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
A while ago, I wrote a via PowerShell script to show the component packages (BPL) files for all installed Delphi (actually: BDS) versions for a couple of reasons:I was creating installation...
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