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DelphiTools.info: Publishing pictures from an HTML5 app
This is a belated followup to the L-System Fiddle series from last year (more like a forgotten article), which ended with a Pascal-based HTML5 app being used to generate fractals and publish them to...
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Firebird News: ANN: FB TraceManager V3.0 has been released!
Upscene Productions is excited to officially release a new major version of FB TraceManager: FB TraceManager V3.0 is available! New on-the-fly aggregated analysis capabilities on trace events...
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Firebird News: YiiFirebird 1.0 is marked as stable we need more volunteers...
It seems that now the YiiFirebird extension is stable enough (please let me know it is not so) for merge in YiiFramework master repo. Now, the next step is to create the automated tests for this...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus book for sale in Brazil
Hello, I still have some unsold copies of the official Lazarus book in english in Brazil, which I would like to sell. The price is R$125 with free shipping for the whole country. Payment via bank...
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Firebird News: German court case confirms validity of the LGPL on Firebird...
Buhl Data Service GmbH, the developer of the WISO Mein Büro2009 software has agreed to pay €15,000 (approximately £13,000) to adhoc dataservice GmbH for using its LGPL-licensed FreeadhocUDF open source...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Multithreading and PostMessage performance
Windows messaging system is very useful for doing asynchronous programming, including multithreading. But what about performance? In asynchronous operation, including multithreading, a developer...
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Firebird News: Important #debian security fix is uploaded to sid related to...
Important Debian security fix is uploaded to sid http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firebird2.5/news/20130318T154817Z.html You can check Firebird 2.5/2.1 packages security status for this bug...
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The road to Delphi: Getting Memory Device Info using Object Pascal (Delphi /...
If you need to know what type of RAM is installed in your system or how is the manufacturer of your memory device, you can try reading the SPD (Serial presence detect) info directly (but not all the...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
When porting some communications code that used records as properties from Delphi 2006 to Delphi XE2, I came across a tightened compiler error “E2197 Constant object cannot be passed as var...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Lazarus 1.0.8 release available for download
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.8.This is a bug fix release, built with the new fpc 2.6.2. Theprevious release 1.0.6 was built with 2.6.0. Here is the list of changes...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
I recently had an error like this when building with packages:[DCC Error] E2201 Need imported data reference ($G) to access 'VarCopyProc' from unit 'SynCommons'It was a bit hard to find good...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Sometimes, Delphi XE2 gets confused after converting an old Delphi project because the Unit scope names are not correct. When creating a new Delphi XE2 application, the Unit scope names are as...
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Firebird News: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus...
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.8. This is a bug fix release, built with the current fpc 2.6.2. The previous release 1.0.6 was built with 2.6.0. Here is the list of...
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The road to Delphi: Vcl Styles Utils updated to fix QC #114040, #114032 (XE2...
I just commit in the Vcl Styles Project two new fixes to patch the QC 114040 and QC 114032 (these issues exist in Delphi XE2 and XE3), both reports are related to the Highlight colors used to draw the...
View ArticleTPersistent: California Tops
Just thought I would shout out to all my readers in California who ranked #1 amongst all the US states for visitors to TPersistent, and was the major cause for the US pushing Brazil out of the top spot...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
While porting a library from Delphi 2006 to Delphi XE2.The really cool thing is that the Windows Event Log contains details of what I did wrong (:2277 (08E5) (RC2277): MQRC_CD_ERROROops, typo on the...
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DelphiTools.info: What client-side platforms do you develop for?
What client-side platforms do you develop for? With Delphi/FreePascal or with other tools.This is a small poll to gauge the audience of this website, check all applicable, but please limit yourself to...
View ArticleLazarus Team Anouncements: Open position for web page admin
HelloThere has been discussion about improving the main page http://www.lazarus.freepascal.orgover the years. It cannot be improved with patches like other parts of Lazarus and its documentation can,...
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Firebird News: Security Updates for Firebird 2.5.2 and Firebird 2.1.5 are...
The Firebird Project releases important security updates addressing a remote stack buffer overflow discovered in the Firebird Server during March, 2013. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated...
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The road to Delphi: Introducing TSMBIOS
A few weeks ago I started a new project called TSMBIOS, this is a library which allows access the SMBIOS using the Object Pascal language (Delphi or Free Pascal).What is the SMBIOS?SMBIOS stands for...
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