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We are proud to announce the release of TMS Smart Setup 2.0 — a major new version that takes Smart Setup beyond its original scope and transforms it into a universal build and installation platform for the entire Delph...

It promises to be a busy fall again for Delphi developers. Lots and lots to learn about the upcoming Delphi versions. About everywhere in Europe you can come to learn & meet up with colleagues and your component & tool providers such as TMS softw...

Admittedly, I borrowed and abused the title of the previous blog "Tiles everywhere" a bit for this blog, telling about the activity in the Delphi community everywhere around the world. On June 8 and 9, Piacenza Italy is the place to be for Italian De...

Yesterday, Microsoft showed a preview of the new HTML5/JS based tile UI that is presumably going to be integrated in Windows 8: Somehow this is not surprising, except for the fact Microsoft chose for HTML5/JS as underlying technology. At Microsoft t...

When creating web applications, there are these days roughly 3 different browsers to target: the mouse driven desktop browser, a tablet browser with touch UI such as the iPad or a mobile phone browser such as the iPhone with a small screen and also ...

When Office 2007 was just released, there was a lot of debate whether Microsoft should have really replaced the docking toolbars by the all new ribbon interface or rather left the user the choice between the classic familiar docking toolbars and the ...

Last week, Delphi Developer Days 2011 was in Frankfurt, Germany. The Delphi Developer Days is synonym for 2 days of intense training on a wide range of subjects related to Delphi programming. Delphi veterans and the world's most well-known Delphi sp...

A couple of days ago, via an email contact with a customer, we learned about the DHS project. The DHS project stands for Digital Home Server. This is best understood as a framework to create a media and application server for the living room. Medi...

When writing documentation for your projects, components etc..., source code snippets are indispensable to clarify things. Sadly, when performing a "Copy to clipboard" from the Delphi IDE code editor, this is copied to the Windows clipboard as plain ...

Internet Explorer 9 introduces a new feature: pinned sites that offer better integration with the Windows 7 desktop. Basically this comes down to the capability to add a website to the Windows 7 taskbar and it can be controlled from the website wh...

It has been a long time I have attended such a vibrant Delphi event as ITDevCon organised November 18 & 19 in Verona, Italy. Two days long, three parallel tracks in the three rooms named TObject, TComponent, TForm were offered covering technical to d...