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Getting the environment variables of an external x86 process

The Road to Delphi (Rodrigo) — Sat, 26 May 2012 23:19:08 +0200

To locate the Environment Variables of a process you must access the PEB (Process Enviroment Block) of the application and follow this secuence to resolve the address of this buffer. PEB -> ProcessParameters(RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS) -> Environment (Pointer) This is the definition of the ...

Quick Developer Survey and chance to win an iTunes Gift Card

Delphi Insider (Tim) — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:00:04 +0200

Our AppWave product team is running a survey of software developers. Thought I would share the link in case you want to share your thoughts and have a chance to win an iTunes gift card. -------------------- Software Developer Survey We are conducting a survey, and your response would be ...

ERPLY adds PayPal and FireMonkey UI to Retail Point of Sale

Michael Swindell (Michael Swindell) — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:48:21 +0200

ERPLY announced yesterday that they’ve added Point of Sale Paypal support to one of the most popular and widely used POS systems in Retail - it’s built with Delphi XE2. ERPLY also has a great new FireMonkey native UI. ERPLY w/Paypal in action in Retail: Share This | Email this page to ...

DROIDDevCon - Call4Papers

Daniele Teti's programming blog (Daniele Teti) — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:34:33 +0200

DROIDDevCon is the first conference in italy completly focused on Android OS development. This post is the official opening for the call4papers! Dear potential DROIDDevCon speaker, I’m building the agenda for first DROIDDevCon that will be held October 24th in Verona (Italy). The call for ...

InterBase Links/Info

Brian Long (Brian) — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:06:24 +0200

This week’s instalment of the UK-based Developer Direct webinar series is called From Data to Business Information with RAD Studio XE2, which focused on InterBase, the multi-platform database that runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. The following is a set of links and general information picked ...

What Databases Can you Integrate / Embed Directly With Your Delphi Application

About Delphi Programming — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:20 +0200

in Delphi Picks :: An embedded database is a database that does not run in a separate process, but instead is directly linked (embedded or integrated) into the application requiring access to the stored data. An embedded database is hidden from the application's end-user and requires little or no ...

Reflection for Mac

The Hacker's Corner (Anders Ohlsson) — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:58:14 +0200

Just bought this brilliant piece of software - http://www.reflectionapp.com/ Now I can demo iPhone/iPad apps on the Mac without cables. It works over AirPlay with no software needed on the iPhone/iPad. Works with iPhone 4S and iPad 2+. I’ve already made sure that Camtasia can screen record the ...

New Refactorings and More in Castalia 2012.2

TwoDesk Delphi Blog (jacob) — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:49:15 +0200

Castalia 2012.2 is now available, with two new refactorings and some important bugfixes. First, this newest version of Castalia has two new refactorings: Rename Field and Rename Property. These are for renaming the fields and properties of classes. As expected, they work across multiple units and ...

Buffered Image for SmartMS

DelphiTools (Eric) — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:10:39 +0200

Here is a small class to facilitate working with off-screen dynamic images in Smart MS: w3BufferedImage.zip (1kb) It’ll be in the next Smart update, but you can already use it, it was introduced as part of WarTrail, as a way to optimize graphic elements that are complex and don’t change ...

Links used in today’s "Mac Development for Windows Developers" workshop

Sip from the Firehose (David Intersimone) — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:00:36 +0200

Thank you to all the developers who joined us today for the technical workshop, "Mac Development for Windows Developers from a single codebase". The workshop covered Mac development for Windows developers using RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2. The complete slide deck, resources, ...

Migrating from DataSnap to Data Abstract

RemObjects Blogs (Jim McKeeth) — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:43:57 +0200

Customers frequently ask us how to migrate from their legacy system to take full advantage of the advanced features in Data Abstract. Eugeny just finished a wiki article covering the ever popular move from DataSnap to Data Abstract. There is even a test case with source code to download. So pull out ...

Delphi Developer Days 2012 Frankfurt and Rome

Marco's Tech Blog (marcocantu) — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:41:45 +0200

Last week Cary Jensen and I hosted the 5th and 6th stops of Delphi Developer Days 2012 around Europe. Frankfurt First we were in Frankfurt, in a hotel not from from the central station (HauptBanhof) we used also in past years. We had a really great crowd, in fact the event was sold out and ...

Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development - course books and videos

Sip from the Firehose (David Intersimone) — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:09:57 +0200

The first three lessons in the "Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development" e-Learning series are now available for download. Included for each lesson is a Course Book for Delphi and C++ developers and video replays of the Delphi and the C++ sessions. The course books and video replay links ...

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Pipeline

The Delphi Geek (gabr) — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:03:50 +0200

A chapter on Parallel.Pipeline is now available online. --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

Cromis.IPC and Cromis.IMC updated

From Zero To One (Iztok Kacin) — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:10:18 +0200

Small but very important updates were added to Cromis.IPC and Cromis.IMC units. Now both units have the same syntax and use the same usage pattern. And both units share the same data packet format. Cromis.IPC also uses Connect now, to connect to the server side. This saves some time, if you send ...