Saturday, 28. February 2015
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The Life of an Object Pascal Public Store App
Delphi Insider
– Gain the direct experience of creating and publishing an app on Play Store and App Store, with advertising tips, release timing issues, versioning differences, tips and suggestions from a real case study: Marco's son's Lego mini figures app.This is a video replay from the CodeRage 9 online developer ...
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Three Selected Delphi Week Videos
Marco's Tech Blog
– As I mentioned in yesterday's links collection, there is a YouTube channel with Delphi Week videos. Here are the three I prefer. for completely different reasons. Insights in Delphi's Future From Allen This long conversation with Allen Bauer has a lot of ideas, hints, and insights on where ...
Friday, 27. February 2015
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Two WiFi enabled kitchen devices I have to get and program...
Sip from the Firehose
– It's that time for me to buy some new WiFi enabled devices. I've been playing with medical/fitness gadgets for too long: heart rate monitors, oximeters, blood pressure cuffs and blood sugar monitors. It's time to move into the kitchen. Here are two WiFi enabled kitchen devices that I have to ...
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Beware of Format Injection
TURBU Tech
– So, first things first, I’ve moved on again. And it was quite a move, all the way across the country to the Philadelphia area, home of the Liberty Bell, the cheesesteak, and the baseball team with possibly the least imaginative name in the history of professional sports. (Original names ...
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A customer speaks out on TMS components ...
TMS Software Blog
– To our big surprise, we found out yesterday a customer gave his feedback in the Embarcadero thirdpartytools forum (nntp://embarcadero.public.thirdpartytools.general) when asked for experiences with our ORM and related products; The saying is, "a picture is worth a thousand words", but in this case, ...
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IDC Mobile OS Data for 2014: Stability
Marco's Tech Blog
– The mobile OS market has been very stable this year, after much turmoil, according to the IDC data. The data is here: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25450615. I've sen different comments, either highlighting Android 80% lead and the first year they shipped 1 billion ...
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Delphi Blogs of the Week (or Month) #26
Marco's Tech Blog
– It has really been a moth, and with all that was going on (including Delphi Week and trips) I ended up not blogging. Here is some not so new stuff, you might have missed, so it is worth underlining. News From Embarcadero Need to recompile your iOS apps for 64bit? Read ...
Thursday, 26. February 2015
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What is an embedded database?
Stephen Ball
– A common question for a developer is how to store data. While file formats like INI files. XML, CSV etc provide a simple way to store data, they are often not secure enough or provide enough features for most applications. This is when a data store is required. One such option is an embedded ...
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Buy Delphi, C++Builder or RAD Studio XE7, Get the Next Release Free
Delphi Insider
– If you haven't purchased or upgrade to Delphi, RAD Studio or C++Builder XE7 yet, there has never been a better time. If you buy or upgrade now, you get the next major release free. This is in addition to the Buy One, Get One offer and the Bonus Pack.Here's the info on it from the Embarcadero web ...
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Fake/Mock SMTP servers and services for use during development
The Wiert Corner
– When developing mail sending software, you don’t want all your test mails to proliferate in the world. Luckily there are some SMTP servers and services that allow incoming mail, but don’t forward them: Universal (cloud based service): Mailtrap – fake/dummy smtp server for ...
Tuesday, 24. February 2015
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Radically Better UI Design with FireUI
Delphi Insider
– Here's a copy of the latest RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE7 email. This one focuses on FireUI, one of the great new exclusive features in XE7 (and a reason to buy or upgrade).Radically Better UI Design with FireUI“The XE7 FireUI Multi-Device designer allows us to create a master view and ...
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Connecting to InterBase from Visual Studio
Stephen Ball
– I was recently asked how to connect to InterBase from Visual Studio, and while its not something I have done before, luckily I know a man who has. – Thanks to Gabe Goldfield for checking the example below with InterBase XE7 and Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. Connecting to InterBase from Visual ...
Monday, 23. February 2015
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Awesome new IDE plugin : Test Insight
Delphi Code Monkey
– This plugin is awesome: Test InsightGo download it now. It works with DUNIT, DUNIT2, and DUNIT/X.Do you know what this little image represents? It represents a whole new level of "flow state" for Delphi developers who want to practice TDD.You need this. You really need this. Unless you ...
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Enterprise Mobility Services: Working with SQL Databases using Delphi Object Pascal
Delphi Insider
– Accessing Enterprise Databases from the the EMS server and making the data easily available on mobile (and desktop) apps is one of the core tenets of EMS, and the combined use of FireDAC and special purpose data conduit components makes this task relatively easy.This is a video replay from the ...
Saturday, 21. February 2015
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Type less - how to use GExperts macro templates
Delphi sorcery
– With all these articles and presentations about the PPL you might have seen this often. Calling TThread.Queue (or TThread.Synchronize if you are doing it wrong ;)) to execute your VCL or FMX related code in the main thread.Are you still typing this code wasting precious time? Well then this article ...
