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Valentine’s Day is here, and there is extra love in the air today. It is not only about hearts and chocolate, but also about something that makes developers smile. Delphi is celebrating its 31st birthday!For 31 years, Delphi has i...

I've been working with Delphi and databases for years already (actually I'm this close to say "for "decades" - in plural). In database programming we all typically do the same: create SQL statements, execute it in the database and retrieve results ...

Today, I was sitting together with the organizers behind the Be-Delphi conference as TMS software is platinum sponsor. I was pleasantly surprised to hear the event was fully booked and a waiting list was used for the past weeks. While discussing the...

On Thursday Sept 8, TMS software will be present at the CodeWay Tour in Paris where Delphi XE2 will be shown and on Saturday Sept 10, TMS software will be present at the Delphi Tage in Köln for the yearly celebration of the German Delphi c...

In the past couple of weeks, I bought a Windows Phone 7 device for the purpose of doing some development on this platform (and of course also for my geek curiosity). I also bought an Android tablet for the purpose of testing our mobile web controls (...

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...

The TMS software Facebook page and followers of TMS software via Twitter are both approaching 400 users. As a thank you for new user #400 signing up, we want to give a FREE TMS Grid Pack. What can you find on our Facebook/Twitter account? We're sha...

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...

If there is one thing I do a lot is playing "find the differences" with xls and xlsx files. I do it when reverse engineering a feature: If I want to find some undocumented byte that changes some feature, I save the file in Excel with and without the...

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 ...