http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg This is the blog of David Clegg, CDN developer and confessed Delphi Junkie Thu, 03 May 2012 01:39:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Thanks to a totally unsolicited email from EDN community member Whiler, I am pleased to announce that EDN Mobile now supports the French locale. I now invite other community members to provide localizations in any of the supported languages. As of Android 4.0.3, this list is available here. The localization process ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2012/05/02/103 If any of you have been following Anders' blog (and if you haven't, you should), you'll know he's been doing a lot with the iOS support that Delphi XE2 offers. He is currently working on getting an app approved in the Apple AppStore that will bring a lot ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2012/04/26/100 As you are probably aware, last week New Zealand's second largest city, Christchurch, was hit by a devastating earthquake. One that looks to be the countries largest natural disaster ever. There have been many various ways for people around the world to help out, but there was one that I ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2011/02/27/81 Yesterday I discovered a potential resource leak when using the dbExpress Ado.NET provider, which can cause connections to be created and never freed. This leak was discovered when I implemented and started consuming a helper method which allows me to easily determine whether a data reader contains a specified column. class ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2010/03/11/76 In the process of setting up my development environment on a new laptop, I was looking for a way to migrate my IIS7 configurations from the old laptop, so I didn't have to manually configure the many web applications and virtual directories required in my day to day development duties. ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2009/04/16/68 Between the 23rd and 28th of March, Upscene productions are having a Secret Super Sale on their Database Workbench Pro product, during which time they will be offering a staggering 75% discount! I am a very satisfied DBW customer, and have been using it with the Interbase module for quite a ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2009/03/17/60 As you may be aware, CodeCentral now has support for Gravatar avatars. In honour of the pending Summer Olympics, I think it would be fitting to have a little competition. In this event (feel free to draw your own parallels with an actual Olympic event, because I'm too lazy to ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2008/08/06/59 Today I was converting an ECO III application originally written in Borland Developer Studio 2006, to an ECO IV application using RAD Studio 2007, when I stumbled across an interesting problem. The application talks to an InterBase database, and was using the Borland Data Provider components for its database connectivity. ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2008/03/18/53 I discovered an interesting memory leak in one of my Delphi.NET services the other day, with the leak occurring in a manner I hadn't encountered previously before. I narrowed the source of the leak down to the database polling threads, which all contained pretty much the same logic. They would ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2008/02/12/44 In the borland.public.delphi.language.delphi.dotnet newsgroup today, I noticed a post from someone enquiring how to create a Windows service using Delphi for .NET. While there are plenty of references about this subject on the internet, such as the "Writing a Useful Windows Service in .NET in Five Minutes" blog entry that ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg/2008/01/23/41