Category: Delphi

Hi all! Remember me? I’m the guy that pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth back in May! I have been THOROUGHLY enjoying my new job at b5media. And there’s been soooooo much to do at b5 that I’ve...

OK folks, the long awaited update has been released from beta testing. You can get it yourself right here: http://dn.codegear.com/article/36406 There are some good fixes in this.  The big one for most folks will be the input filter fix.  For many the UTF-8 cleanup will be a god send.  Deployment tweaks are...

Long time readers of mine my might have had a suspicion.  You see when I have something big that I can’t talk about, I get severe writers block.  I can’t talk about what I want to talk about so I go from...

This code does not look like it was mine originally, but I found it in a stray file on my hard drive.  I decided I didn’t want to lose it.   It takes a picture of any component you pass in and...

I read in the Newsgroups today that there is a new patent that’s been filed that affects what Borland can do with Object Pascal.  According to this patent application, Mirkazemi; Aram; (Lindisfame, AU) ; Besharati; Shahram; (Kingston Beach, AU) would have...

Marco caught an interesting story in InfoWorld, today. As EWeek says: Borland Software’s CodeGear development tools unit has changed leadership, naming Jim Douglas, a veteran of the high-tech industry, to the position of chief executive officer. Jim Douglas will be replacing former...

I have a number of sites that on which I want to use the VCL for PHP library components with Delphi for PHP creations.  I don’t want to waste uneeded space for a bazillion copies of the VCL.  As far as that goes, I don’t want to have...

Here you go: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189419  Anyone care to do a check out and file compare to see what changes there are?...

I knew 9 years of IB/FB experience would come in handy. wp-db is the mini database abstraction layer for WordPress. It allows you to run WordPress on various database. Right now MySQL is pretty much it, but some folks have been...

I was doing some coding today and couldn’t find some routines I’ve used often in the past.  Since I had to search for them, obeying my rule, they get posted here.  Maybe they can be of use to others.  These are...