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Wednesday, 17. July 2013
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Movie #94 - Begin instead of Initialization
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this 4 minute video we look at the initialization and finalization sections of Delphi units, and how you can use begin instead of initialization - which may cause you some grief in some instances. Watch the video. In the video I also mention CnPack, which has some highly useful utilities.
Tuesday, 16. July 2013
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Join me for "RAD in Action Webinar: Get to More Devices Faster with FireMonkey"
Pawel Glowacki
– I’m super excited! Just finished the recording of my "RAD in Action Webinar: Get to More Devices Faster with FireMonkey". Cannot wait until tomorrow to play it loud! Wednesday, July 17, 2013 06:00 San Francisco / 14:00 London / 15:00 Milan 11:00 San Francisco / 19:00 London / 20:00 Milan ...
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NetworkServer – an easily configurable RemObjects SDK server component
RemObjects Blogs
– Introduction In the previous article I’ve described how to create a RemObjects SDK server and set up the needed server components and tie them together. The main purpose of the RemObjects SDK and Data Abstract frameworks is to simplify the development of distributed applications, yet some of ...
Monday, 15. July 2013
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Migrating My Code Repository
Marco's Tech Blog
– I've migrated my code repository as the older service I was using was discontinued. The new one has the same URL: http://code.marcocantu.com but given the physical structure is different, the internal URLs to specific projects and the SVN HTTP URLs are all ...
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Jim McKeeth, world renowned Delphi expert, joins Embarcadero Technologies
Sip from the Firehose
– In his new position as Developer Relations Lead Evangelist/Engineer, Jim will be a key part of Embarcadero’s evangelism team and developer community outreach. Jim will write about application development, visit with developers, create videos, and participate in online and live events. Jim ...
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What I have learned from development of Super Heli Land
Pascal Game Development
– Originally published on my blog
Sunday, 14. July 2013
3
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Raize Components Seeking FireMonkey Feedback
Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi
– I purchased Raize Components about a year ago after watching a CodeRage demo. I have just barely scratched the surface of how to use this set of components. I'm in the middle of porting an old 640 X 480 D5 application. My original goal was to do this using D2010 but I didn't make enough ...
Saturday, 13. July 2013
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Delphi Developers’ plan for mobile, desktop and n-tier development
Andreano Lanusse
– Early this year I did a developer survey through my blog. I got over 1500 answers and I safely can say 87% use Delphi as their primarily development tools, the other 13% split between C#, C/C++, PHP and other languages. Mobile Development On the mobile development arena I asked about their company ...
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Add DBDemos to ElevatdDB Manager on Windows 7
Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi
– It turns out that Windows 7 has issues with BDE Administrator. I found this out when I tried to migrated the DBDemos database to ElevateDB Manager. (ElevateDB Manager is to ElevateDB as SQL Management Studio is to SQL Server)I got this very strange error...PDOXUSRS.NET errorWhat the hell is ...
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Missed CodeRage Mobile? Watch it on demand!
Delphi Insider
– If you weren't able to make it to last month's CodeRage Mobile online developer conference, now you can watch all the sessions on demand. If you're creating mobile apps with Delphi or RAD Studio XE4 or if you're interested in mobile development but haven't started yet, you'll want to check out ...
Friday, 12. July 2013
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ElevateDB Will Soon Support Mac OSX
Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi
– I'm very excited about a recent tidbit of information I learned regarding ElevateDB. How I came about this piece of info is kind of interesting.I recently upgraded to XE4 Enterprise from D2010 Professional. I have about 7 minutes total FireMonkey experience. My number one goal for 2013 is ...
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TMS iOS showcase demo app
TMS Software Blog
– In the past couple of weeks, we have done extensive work on TMS iCL, the native iOS Delphi RAD controls set and TMS Cloud Pack for iOS, the components that offer seamless access to various cloud services. As a proof of concept, we wanted to create a showcase application for iPad that demonstrates ...
3
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Tweeting from Delphi for iOS apps
Idle Musings of a Delphi Junkie
– Victory Fernandes (Twitter user @victoryjorge) has a great blog post demonstrating how easy it is to use the TMSCloudPack set of components to add Twitter integration into your Delphi for iOS applications. Nice work, Victory (and TMS, for providing such a simple to use API)! As a Twitter junkie ...
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Take the Delphi Developers Survey 2013
Marco's Tech Blog
– The yearly Delphi (and C++Builder) survey is now online. Let us know what you want, what we should improve, what we are doing good. The survey (which takes about 20 minutes to complete) is available at www.surveymonkey.com/s/7DQ8KPS. Like in past years, this is intended to get ...
Thursday, 11. July 2013
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FMX TForm do NOT use ShowModal
Daniel Magin's Weblog
– Working on a big Delphi Firemonkey iOS Project i found out calling TForm Method ShowModal create such cross effects for incalculable situations. Working with UITableViewController for example the created SubForms the bouncing effects are not working anymore correct. So if you create and show a form ...