The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
As I wrote before, I’m with the Delphi with haters camp, and this is why:Using the with statement in Delphi makes your code less future proof.The below code example is just one of many. I show it...
View ArticleThe road to Delphi: Getting Processor Info using Object Pascal (Delphi / FPC)...
The SMBIOS expose the info about the installed processors in the table type 4. Check the next snippet that shows how obtain such data using the TSMBIOS (remember, if you are using FPC, you can use...
View ArticleDaniel Magin's Logfile: Delphi for iOS How to write a GPS Application
New Video about Delphi for iOS:Here you can see how easy to write with Delphi for iOS a GPS Application:have fun and enjoy for the Delphi iOS release
View ArticleDaniel Magin's Logfile: 20% Promo Delphi Enterprise and RAD Studio
This week is also one of the best times to get Delphi or a Delphi upgrade, because there is an "early bird" 20% off promotion running on Delphi Enterprise and RADStudio editions when purchased with an...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: Delphi XE3 inside a Windows 7...
I was amazed that this is still usable:Delphi XE3 inside aWindows 7 VMware Fusion 4 VM at 2560×1600 on a15 inch Retina MacBook Pro at 2880×1800You can even run VMware Fusion 4 full screen at 2880×1800,...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
There are a couple of very interesting libraries and ideas every Delphi developer should take a look at.The list is far from complete, but should give you a good overview on what more recent Delphi...
View ArticleDaniel Magin's Logfile: Apple Instruments and Delphi for iOS Movie
DeveloperExperts created a new Video about how to Analyze Delphi iOS Applications with Apple Instruments. Here you can see a complete Introduction about this.Idea and Script was created by Olaf Monien...
View ArticleFirebird News: SOCI 3.2.0 released with many Firebird changes
Mateusz Loskot wrote : On behalf of the whole SOCI team I extremely pleased to announce this new release of SOCI 3.2.0 version.
View ArticleFirebird News: Avanced Data Generator 3, beta 3 released
Upscene Productions announces a new release of: “Advanced Data Generator 3, beta 3″ This beta release includes a beta for the Firebird, MySQL and InterBase Edition. A fast test-data generator tool that...
View ArticleŽarko Gajić: Quick Tip: Locate / ScrollIntoView Focused Node In Virtual Tree...
I’m a huge fan of one big gem in the Delphi third party controls arena: Virtual Tree View. Whatever issue I had to solve in my applications harvesting the power of the TVirtualStringTree, the component...
View ArticleFirebird News: The Firebird Book (Second Edition) released : printed and ebooks
The Firebird Book (Second Edition) is now available as a print on demand book (at createspace) in three parts, Volume 1: Firebird Fundamentals https://www.createspace.com/4203352 Volume 2: Developing...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: DWScript happenings
This is a belated news update, with only the highlights:Language Newscombined property/fields declaration is now supported (same syntax as Oxygene)dynamic arrays now support a Remove method, which has...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Just found this great answer by vcldeveloper to autoscroll a readonly logging memo in Delphi which works from Delphi 1 and up (:For such a simple task, you don’t need to buy a commercial component! All...
View ArticleFirebird News: Updated Jaybird – JDBC driver Roadmap
Mark Rotteveel wrote on Firebird-Java group : I updated the Jaybird roadmap to outline the basic plans for Jaybird 2.3. You can find it on...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Inter Process Communication Using Pipes
A pipe is a communication channel between two ends. It is mostly used to communicate between processes running within a computer. As such it is an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism. The...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Subclassing a window
Subclassing a window What is it? Subclassing a window is the process of intercepting all calls to the window procedure of a given window. When you subclass a window, you can get hand on every message...
View ArticleFirebird News: IBObjects 4.9.14 Build 55 is released
Jason announced the new release : I neglected to report that I put a new release in the download area for those still using IBO 4.9.14. I back ported a number of the recent fixes that have gone into...
View ArticleFirebird News: Django1.5.x Firebird driver with Python 3.x support ready for...
Maximiliano Robaina wrote about Python3 fixes for the Firebird Django driver : I just pushed up a new commit into django-firebird github repository [1] with several python 3 fixes. If anybody can test...
View ArticleFirebird News: FBLib (Firebird Pascal Library) repository has moved to Github
For years the FBLib (Firebird database library for Free Pascal, Delphi and Kylix) has lived in the 3rdParty directory tree of tiOPF. We are cleaning up the tiOPF repository, and so I have now moved the...
View ArticleFirebird News: New version of FenixSQL 0.92 is released
Alessandro Batisti announced new version of FenixSQL (simple multiplatform admin tool for Firebird developed with Firebird Library and released under GPL License and produced with Lazarus ide) Code and...
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