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Monday, 3. March 2014
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Delphi Blogs of the (Last) Week #7
Marco's Tech Blog
– While I was looking to the mobile world, Delphi and C++Builder events kept happening and blog posts kept flowing: CodeRage 8 for C++ took place last week, replays will be coming soon Among the notable videos of the week, check Jim's YouTube video on using a barcode scanner ...
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March 2014 news about “DelphiMVCFramework”
Daniele Teti's programming blog
– In the last months DMVCFramework has been used in many projects. Some fixes and some new features has been added. Tomorrow will start the 4th training from the Jan 1st 2014 on DMVCFramework… WOW! The best selling training is “Developing Web Client applications using AngularJS and ...
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Delphi Predefined Conditionals on iOS: IOS, MACOS, MACOS32, POSIX and POSIX32 (via: Conditional compilation (Delphi) – RAD Studio)
The Wiert Corner
– Just a reminder to Self after reading Predefined Conditions in Conditional compilation (Delphi) – RAD Studio. On iOS, these conditional symbols are defined: IOS MACOS MACOS32 POSIX POSIX32 For the (x86 based) iOS simulator, CPU386 and CPUX86 are defined. For iOS physical devices, CPUARM is ...
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HTTP Redirection in DWSWebServer
DelphiTools
– Here is a small snippet to illustrate how you can perform a conditional HTTP 301 redirection in DWScript, and can serve as an illustration on serving “special” HTTP responses. This is useful when a website is moved from one domain to another, but the server is not, ie. if both old and ...
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Delphi types that cannot be used for TypeInfo
The Wiert Corner
– When writing the Spring4D unit tests for GetTypeSize to include as many TTypeKind values, I came across a few types that either did not compile, or were not supported by TypeInfo. I listed them below as I could not find them in the documentation. I included a test named ...
Sunday, 2. March 2014
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Flappy Bird Clone Source Code For Delphi XE5 Firemonkey On Android And IOS
Sip from the Firehose
– FMXExpress posted an article with links to the source code for a Flappy Bird clone for Delphi XE5 that runs on iOS and Android. There are links to three source code projects: Flappy Firemonkey Prototype Source Code For Delphi XE5 Flappy Firemonkey 3D Prototype Source Code For Delphi XE5 Firemonkey ...
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Java student builds 3D Othello game on FireMonkey in 3 days
Stephen Ball
– In the week before Mobile World Congress, Daniel Messias joining us in the UK office on work placement. Daniel is a 17 year old student who has been programming some Java for a couple of years and is looking to study computing at University. It was great while he was with us that he transitioned ...
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Announcing Elements: Oxygene 7 and RemObjects C#
RemObjects Blogs
– Dear readers, we’ve shipped some pretty significant releases this past weekend that i wanted to take a moment to talk to and update you about. First, and probably most interesting to our existing users, we shipped version 7 of Oxygene. This is a pretty significant new release of our Oxygene ...
Saturday, 1. March 2014
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Persistent form with F11 to fullscreen
Behind the connection
– This article shows how to create a persistent form having the ability to go real full screen. A persistent form is one which remember his size and position. Real full screen means the form use all the available screen area without having border nor title bar. The form goes to full screen using the ...
Friday, 28. February 2014
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RAD Studio XE5, C++, iOS etc … in Slovenia
The Delphi Geek
– This Tuesday (March 4th) Embarcadero and Marand are organizing a RAD Studio XE5 presentation in Ljubljana. We’ll be showing great features that were implemented in RAD Studio in the past few years – from 64-bit Windows compilation, Unicode support and styling to multiplatform development, ...
Thursday, 27. February 2014
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My Views on Mobile World Congress 2014 (or Nokia is doing Android)
Marco's Tech Blog
– I've spent the last few days in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, the world largest gathering of vendors mobile devices and services. My focus, of course, is that of a development tool product manager... so don't expect a review of the devices announced. A Huge Conference The ...
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BackgroundWorkers in DWScript
DelphiTools
– An utility that was added to the DWScript sample WebServer during the 4 TeraPixel Mandelbrot experiment is the BackgroundWorkers API. This is a rather low-level threading facility that can work well with Global Queues to handle background tasks or serializing tasks. BackgroundWorkers static class ...
Tuesday, 25. February 2014
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The OS X 10.9.2 (Mavericks) fix for the SSL issue is out; Apple’s #gotofail weekend – Ashkan Soltani.
The Wiert Corner
– As a follow up of When using Apple Hardware, be prepared for security updates. iOS already there, OS X and others will follow. #gotofail: This is a must read: Apple’s #gotofail weekend – Ashkan Soltani, and cortesi – Exploiting CVE-2014-1266 with mitmproxy. especially since the OS X Mavericks ...
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Automate Word document print using Delphi
Behind the connection
– Automating Microsoft office Word from Delphi is really easy. I already blogged on the subject. This time, I will show you how to select a specific printer in your Delphi application and instruct Word to use that printer. Using Delphi, create a new VCL forms application and drop a TComboBox, a ...
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Link clearance: history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePacal / …
The Wiert Corner
– This post lists a lot of links related to the history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePascal / etc. No mentioning of Pascal should start without Niklaus Wirth. At the time of writing he is still alive, hopefully he still is a the time of publication. Link clearance. Quote on ...
