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Wednesday, 15. May 2013
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XE4 in Ljubljana
The Delphi Geek
– If you live in Slovenia and if you are programming in Delphi or C++Builder, make sure to reserve some time for the next Wednesday (22nd) for the RAD Studio XE4 presentation in Ljubljana. Most of the presentation will focus on the iOS development with RAD Studio XE4. More details here: Marand. --- ...
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dwsLinq update: INTO
TURBU Tech
– I just checked in an update to dwsLinq that covers a big step in its progress: the INTO clause. This is not quite the same thing as INTO in C#’s version of LINQ. INTO there basically acts as a naming operator, taking a query expression and giving it a name so that you can use it as a sub- ...
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Book Review: “ZeroMQ” (PACKT Publishing)
Daniele Teti's programming blog
– Introduction Some days ago I was contacted by a representative from PACKT Publishing asking me to write a review for their last book about the ZeroMQ library. In 2009 I was looking for a fast, very fast, messaging system for a complex project and I meet ZeroMQ. At that time there was the 1.x ...
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Delphi for iOS in Zagreb, Croatia
Pawel Glowacki
– I’m just back from Croatia. I have been demonstrating live Delphi for iOS programming for about 50 Delphi and C++ programmers gathered in the new business centre in Zagreb. The weather was excellent as well as the atmosphere during the presentation. I really like to visit Croatia as people ...
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Don’t pass interfaces between application architectures over a DLL boundary
The Wiert Corner
– It is unwise to pass objects allocated in one framework over a DLL boundary to a different framework. In the case of Using C dll in delphi return nothing, someone tries to pass an Interface to some memory in the C side over to Delphi. Unless that interface is COM based, don’t do that! In a ...
Tuesday, 14. May 2013
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Delphi XE4 IDE videos by José León
Marco's Tech Blog
– José León has been posting some in depth videos about the changes in the Delphi IDE to support iOS development (and not only that) in XE4. The complete series is on his blog at joseleon.es. Specifically the first three videos were published in April, while there have been 6 more already in May. ...
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Be-Delphi Event 3.0
Behind the connection
– Be-Delphi Event 3.0 on November 21st in Edegem, Belgium. Stay tuned for more info... Follow me on Twitter Follow me on LinkedIn Follow me on Google+ Visit my website: http://www.overbyte.be
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iOS app dev with Delphi XE4 and FireMonkey 3 is a quantum leap beyond XE2…
Sip from the Firehose
– During my recent product launch travels and during several of the Friday Developer Direct sessions, developers have asked me several interesting questions: 1) Is FireMonkey for iOS in XE4 the same as the FireMonkey iOS that was part of XE2, 2) Do we cross compile Delphi code to Objective-C code and ...
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My Delphi STOMP Client is now compatibile with iOS
Daniele Teti's programming blog
– Thank you to Marco Mottadelli, one of the active contributors to my Delphi STOMP Client open source project. Now the STOMP client is compatibile with: Delphi Win32/Win64 Delphi for iOS FreePascal It use INDY or Synapse as a TCP library, obviously on iOS you have to use INDY. Project is on google ...
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A few notes on Delphi, WSDL and SOAP: passing nil values, Document/Literal versus RPC Encoded
The Wiert Corner
– I had some notes on Delphi WSDL and SOAP peculiarities somewhere, but I misplaced them. Luckily, I found some links that explain most of my notes well: Passing nil values for simple types As of Delphi 2007 you can do this by using TXS… types as mjn summarized in delphi – Blank value in ...
Monday, 13. May 2013
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C++Builder XE4 use case: (I need to) Build a Multi-Device, Multi-Tier Master/Detail database application
Sip from the Firehose
– We need to move our C++ based customers and orders client/server application to a multi-tier architecture to separate the database from the business logic and then build several C++ applications that can run on Windows 32, Windows 64 and Mac OSX. The back end SQL database may be Oracle, MySQL, ...
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How to get the latest FireDAC update 8.0.3.3291
Delphi Insider
– A new update to FireDAC was recently released (version 8.0.3.3291 in May 2013). Here's how to get it depending on what you currently own. Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE4 Enterprise, Ultimate or Architect Edition users If you own Delphi, C++Builder or RAD Studio version XE4 - Enterprise, ...
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Immutable strings… in Delphi?
DelphiTools
– One of the “novelties” of the NextGen Delphi compiler is immutable strings, which I find quite puzzling, for lack of a better word, given that Delphi already had reference-counted copy-on-write strings, and the NextGen compiler uses reference-counted strings. I always considered that ...
Sunday, 12. May 2013
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Internet Explorer Automation Part 3
Behind the connection
– Today I will present an Internet Explorer automation which will query Blogger stats page automatically. IE automation is required because Blogger website makes heavy use of JavaScript to dynamically construct the stats page. Downloading the webpage with a HTTP component won’t work because the ...
Saturday, 11. May 2013
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Work in progress: dwsLinq extension for DWS
TURBU Tech
– I’ve always enjoyed the concept behind LINQ: write SQL-esque queries directly in your code, with the compiler able to provide syntactical and type checks, and automatically generate the correct code to do what you wanted. Unfortunately, there’s nothing like that available for Delphi. ...
