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Posts Tagged ‘Delphi’

I’m Speaking at EKON 17; early bird ends on Friday October 4th 2013: save EUR 100 and get a free Android tablet.

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/03

Early bird ends October 4th: get an Android tablet for free and save EUR 100!

Early bird ends October 4th: get an Android tablet for free and save EUR 100!

EKON17 (from November 4-6 in Cologne, Germany) will be a fun event this year: lots of nice sessions and workshops, a lovely city (not just the Dom Cathedral), and a great group of speakers.

Since there are so many speakers that are able to speak English, it is interesting for non-German attendees as too, especially the post-conference workshop from Nick Hodges.

I’ll be speaking too (more on that below) and will be there all 3 days (plus the evening before and morning after to aid people with their Delphi related questions).

Among the speakers, these will do their sessions in English:

Posted in Conferences, Delphi, Delphi XE5, Development, EKON, Event, Software Development | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

Prepping for Delphi XE5 beta blogging; PasCon / RAD Studio In Action discount

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/04

You will see a few Delphi XE5 pre-release related updates here soon. That is part of the Delphi XE5 beta blogging permission I have been given so I can show new Delphi XE5 features. Those updates are from a pre-release version of Delphi XE5 and will be replaced with a final update when Delphi XE5 is being released.

For more information about Delphi XE5 and the Android support, please visit http://embt.co/RADAndroid.

Though not as fast as I hoped (I’ve slept most of the past days), I’m already preparing my Mercurial repositories at https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp, and preparing for the PasCon / RAD Studio In Action in Leiden, The Netherlands next saturday so stay tuned.

About this event: there are a few seats left, and a last-minute discount recently launched. Book your tickets through the on-line links for EUR 35 excluding VAT (normallu EUR 49 excluding VAT): Read the rest of this entry »

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Embarcadero SummerSchool 2013 Lesson 4 Q&A

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/25

Replay video’s can be viewed through streaming.embarcadero.com (where you can also find the other series, downloads, etc).

The SummerSchool 2013 replay videos are at streaming.embarcadero.com/summerschool2013.

The Q&A from today’s session on “Accessing local storage” demonstrating iOS specifics in Delphi XE4: Read the rest of this entry »

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Map WebDAV Drive tool: works in Windows 8 and Windows 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/15

Wow, I wish I had found this tool a lot earlier: Map WebDAV Drive.

–jeroen

via: windows – Mapping a Network Drive with Delphi WITHOUT WNetAddConnection2 – Stack Overflow.

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Jim Tierney published some great Delphi XE3 LiveBinding posts

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/03

Jim Tierney isn’t on DelphiFeeds yet, so below are a few links to his great Delphi XE3 LiveBindings posts.

Jim is one of the people that developed LiveBindings. In addition to that, he explains things very well.

He did some great posts on LiveBindings after Delphi XE2 got launched (he also did two great presentations on Delphi Live 2011 and CodeRage 6 – they got repeated on the last 24 hours of Delphi).

Now he is publishing a series of posts on LiveBindings in Delphi XE3.

These posts are recommended reading, more are probably on their way:

–jeroen

via: Jim Tierney

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Three XE3 hotfixes at the Delphi Registered User Downloads page

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28

There are three RAD Studio / Delphi XE3 hotfixes on the Delphi Registered User Downloads page.

Hotfix 3 is for the Professional edition only.

The others are for all editions.

RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 3: Hotfix 3 for RAD Studio XE3.

This Hotfix addresses an issue in using SQLite driver on the Professional edition.

Available only to registered users of Professional edition of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE

1MB; Download

RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 2: Hotfix 2 for RAD Studio XE3.

This Hotfix addresses a regression with using the GestureManager in a FireMonkey application.

Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE

60MBDownload

RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 1: Hotfix 1 for RAD Studio XE3.

This Hotfix addresses an issue with ShowMessage in a FireMonkey application on certain locales on Mac OS X.

Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE

12.1MBDownload

–jeroen

via: Delphi Registered User Downloads.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

Delphi: path names both in .dpr and .dproj, why? (refactoring – How to reorganize the folder structure of my units in Delphi? – Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/27

Cool: learned something new here:

About the path names of files being in the .dproj as well as in the .dpr:

@Jeroen – Looks like msbuild might need those entries, otherwise they’re possibly redundant, AFAICT… In any case, there is not much editing involved, just delete ‘dccreference’ entries and then a ‘save all’ in the IDE regenerates them. – Sertac Akyuz

–jeroen

via: refactoring – How to reorganize the folder structure of my units in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , | 14 Comments »

remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24

Remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide on bitsavers.org in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/8086.

Intel MCS-86 is/was the 16-bit range of x86 processors.

I used it in BASM (not only in Delphi 1 and up, it started in Turbo Pascal 6), and before that in MASM, NASM, and TASM.

–jeroen

Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, History, Software Development, x86 | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

My Delphi conferences this fall: DelphiTage.de, ITDevCon.it, no EKON (entwickler-konferenz.de)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19

Nicolette and me on the Antarctic peninsulaWhile scheduling this year’s projects, it was clear that it would become impossible to have the summer holiday in the summer (last year was also outside, as we fulfilled Nicolette’s dream: visit the Antarctic region).

So we moved this year’s holiday to early November, hoping that would be outside the Fall conference season.

Alas, EKON (Entwickler-Konferenz.de), this year in Düsseldorf, Germany, moved themselves to November, so this will be the first EKON ever that I won’t attend (out of 3 or 4 people that never missed one). Sorry guys I will miss the great speakers, sessions and workshops (:

I am going to speak on two other European Delphi conferences though:

I’m really looking forward meeting the attendees, speakers and organizations there. Conferences are always a lot of fun and a great way for me of learning new things.

--jeroen

via:

Posted in About, Antarctic, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi-Tage.de, Development, EKON, Event, ITDevCon, Personal, Software Development, Travel | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Crap: VersionInfo handling broken as of Delphi XE2

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/11

Today I found out the hard way that you really need a build integration system for managing VersionInfo in Delphi applications: as of Delphi XE2 it is broken in the IDE.

See these links:

This is the only workable workaround so far:

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments »