Firebird News: Survey to be closed soon
Our survey about what languages you use with Firebird will be closed in a few days. If you have not voted yet, do it now! Knowing what Firebird users are currently using may help in directing future...
View Articletwm’s blog: Note to self: Do not use double quotes around field names
Note to self:If MS Access adds double quotes to field names in queries, do not use them! It won’t complain about them (You’d wish it would), but it just won’t work.So if you see something like: SELECT...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: Two large news from engine development: 1. Android...
Two large news from engine development:1. Android games created using our engine now run happily in Android emulator :) You no longer have to spend your money to see your game on that beautiful 10-inch...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Last Minute Christmas Shopping Ideas
If you still have a few people on your Christmas gift list that you just don’t know what to do for, check out the RAD Offer page. You’ll save some serious money, and they will get the best development...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
If you are into serious software development, then this is a 75 minute PodCast you must listen to: Episode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later : Software Engineering Radio.AbstractJohannes Thönes talks...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: (BETA) After half a year of work, next Castle Game...
(BETA) After half a year of work, next Castle Game Engine version 5.1.0 is ready :) It is available on https://sourceforge.net/projects/castle-engine/files/castle_game_engine/ . This is a beta release,...
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: Cause for rlink32 Too many resources to handle
If you have many DFM files and RES files in your project you may run into the rlink32 error “Too many resources to handle”. Every DFM file is one resource and a RES file can contain multiple resources....
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 ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: DDevExtensions 2.82 and IDE Fix Pack 5.7 released
DDevExtensions 2.82 is a rather small update. It fixes the “Switch to the module’s project” incompatibility with XE6 and adds the option to disable the alpha-sort for the IDE’s class completion...
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 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...
View ArticleAndy's Blog and Tools: Tools used to develop IDE Fix Pack
I use and have used the following tools when I work on my IDE Fix Pack plugin.BDS 2006/2007, RAD Studio 2009-XE7 + DebuggerWinDbg.NET CLR Debugger, ildasm, Reflector/ILSpy for ErrorInsight patches in...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Mobile Push Notifications without a BaaS
Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 include support for mobile push (remote) notifications via a Parse and Kinvey BaaS providers. This makes it really easy to send push notifications to your users on...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
There is a nice Delphi memory thread at G+ initiated by Tommi Prami for which I added some links to the memory managers:FastMM (No signs of the Version 5)ScaleMM– Interesting (two versions)SynScaleMM–...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: We proudly present a new official release of Castle...
We proudly present a new official release of Castle Game Engine 5.1.1 and view3dscene 3.15.0!See http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/news.php?id=2014-12-30 for links and full release announcement.The...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: We proudly present a new official release of Castle...
We proudly present a new official release of Castle Game Engine 5.1.1 http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/engine.php . Castle Game Engine is a modern cross-platform open-source 3D/2D engine for...
View ArticleFirebird News: Rails activerecord-fb-adapter v0.9.1 released
This version fixes connection config and use Rails.root if defined to determine db path #46
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
In Delphi XE7, Embarcadero introduced a new Parallel Computing Library.Programmers – human as they are – see this as a silver bullet, thinking using such a library will take away all your performance...
View Articletwm’s blog: Showing all parameters passed to a batch file
Sometimes you just want to know how a program gets called by another program or by Windows. In that case this little batch file might come in handy: @echo off rem This batch file shows its full...
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