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Castle Game Engine news: 1. GPU texture memory profiler was added to the...
1. GPU texture memory profiler was added to the engine. This allows to easily see which textures are loaded to GPU and eat texture memory. Optimizing this is especially important on mobile devices...
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Firebird News: Standard deviation and variance contributed by Hajime Nakagami
Improve your favourite Open Source RDBMS with github pull requests and patches . Here’s a contribution to Firebird core standard deviation and variance buff.ly/1Ek2m0h
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DelphiTools.info: String Lookup: Hash, Sorted or Unsorted ?
When looking up a string, what is the fastest strategy? A hash map, a sorted list or an unsorted list? Of course it depends on how many strings you have, but where are the cutoff points? Here is a...
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Firebird News: GSOC 2015 Finish Firebird Libreoffice driver integration
There is a medium difficulty task for a c++ programmer in current GSOC 2015 The Firebird driver for LibreOffice was started, and is mostly functional, in a previous GSoC, but it needs finishing and...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Thanks to the answers for .net – What is a dependency property? – Stack Overflow, I came across this really nice WPF Tutorial | Dependency Properties.It has one of the best explanations on Dependency...
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DelphiTools.info: Long strings: Hash vs Sorted vs Unsorted
Hash, IndexOf, Lookup, Performance, Search, Sorted, StringAs a followup to the previous String Lookup: Hash, Sorted or Unsorted here is a look at what happens for longer strings. When the string you’re...
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Firebird News: Nodejs Firebird driver version 0.6.0 is released with critical...
node-firebird 0.6.0 released with critical problem with Transactions fixed
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Firebird News: Time to try Firebird for Android
In a private email exchange to Alex Peshkov, he allowed be to publish his “cloud” link, containing a test version of Firebird 3 for Android. Archives with tools for accessing databases in embedded mode...
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DelphiTools.info: DWScript moving to BitBucket
With the closing of Google Code, I will be moving my projects, a priori to BitBucket. The new URL is https://bitbucket.org/egrange/dwscript If you have Issues in the Google Code Issue Tracker that...
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Firebird News: Firebird 2015 Tour: SQL Optimization
We invite all Firebird developers and administrators to 1-day seminars in the frames of Firebird 2015 Tour. Firebird 2015 Tour is devoted to the SQL performance optimization: SQL plans, queries and...
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DelphiTools.info: Migrating from Google Code to BitBucket
Here is a quick guide on migrating a project code from Google Code (SVN) to BitBucket (git) using TortoiseGIT, so with a GUI, and with no cryptic command line in sight. Migrating Wiki/Issues is a bit...
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Firebird News: CMake iOS build for Firebird 3
Egor Pugin announced on Firebird-Devel list : With new CMake 3.2.1 it is possible to successfully build Firebird for iOS platform using CMake. Updated instructions for iOS build available at...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: FireDAC: Local SQL
Here are the additional resources for the FireDAC: Local SQL Skill Sprint from this morning. The TFDLocalSQL provides a powerful engine allowing you to run local SQL queries against any TDataSet...
View ArticleAustralian Delphi User Group Members: Preview of Brian Longs Android topic at...
There’s less than 2 days left to register for the ADUG Autumn Symposium 2015.As a special teaser before the event here’s a quick demo of some of speaker Brian Long’s demos that extend FireMonkey on...
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Firebird News: We recommend flynn.io (a alternative oss PaaS to heroku) that...
With fdb version 1.4.4 we recommend flynn.io open source platform as a service (PaaS) Here is is how it works now with django-firebird and heroku buildpacks
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Firebird News: Meteor watching cameras powered by the Raspberry Pi and Firebird
Cool project : Meteor watching cameras powered by the Raspberry Pi, bought to you by Cambridge Science Centre! http://www.cambridgesciencecentre.org/MeteorPi/ News via twitter
View Articletwm’s blog: When const doesnt mean const
Consider this code: procedure SplitAt(const _Input: string; _Position: integer; out _Head, _Tail: string); begin _Head := Copy(1, _Position-1); _Tail := Copy(_Position); end; It’s meant to split a...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: New! Support for many texture compression methods on...
New! Support for many texture compression methods on GPU, in particular for GPU compression formats popular on Android devices. And improvements to handle GPU compressed textures throughout the whole...
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Firebird News: New Statistical Functions to be added covar_samp, covar_pop, corr
Hajime Nakagami contributed new Statistical functions : covar_samp(), covar_pop(), corr() You can find a few examples in the pull request. ps:Now is merged
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Firebird News: PyFirebirdsql Version 0.9.7 is released with Firebird 3 Wire...
PyFirebirdsql Version 0.9.7 is released with Firebird 3 Wire Protocol changes – null indicator fixes for Firebird 3 – PyCrypto dependency added for Firebird 3 One example is in test basic api file
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