How to compile libpomelo as a Windows DLL
This is a tutorial on how to compile libpomelo as a Windows DLL (libpomelo is a C language client SDK for Pomelo). › Continue reading
Delphi XE7 and iOS error “Unable to mount developer image (e800000e)”
Stumbled across this error during Delphi XE7 iOS deployment:
I’ve found two solutions:How to compile libpomelo for iOS
This is a tutorial on how to compile libpomelo for iOS (libpomelo is a C language client SDK for Pomelo) on Mac OS X 10.9.5 with Xcode 6.0.1. › Continue reading
VerySimpleXML 2.0 – a lightweight, cross-platform, one-unit XML reader/writer for Delphi 2010 – 10.1 Berlin
There are lot of possibilities if you’re in need to parse or write XML files:
- use TXMLDocument (the MS XML wrapper)
- or use a xml component like OmniXML, NativeXml, ADOM, SAX, libxml2, DIXml, fcl-XML, Fast XMLParser, SimpleXML, OXml, or VerySimpleXML 1.0
Now here comes another one: the updated VerySimpleXML 2.0 – a lightweight, cross-platform, one-unit XML reader/writer for Delphi 2010 – 10.1 Berlin targeting at Win32, Win64, iOS, MacOSX and Android. Use it for well-formed XML files (like configuration files, interprocess communication protocols, etc.). › Continue reading
Monitoring with OMD (with Nagios Core) on Debian 7 Wheezy
As Centreon (my favourite monitoring tool with nagios core) still does not support PHP 5.4+ and my boxes are now on Debian 7 (with PHP 5.4) and I didn’t want to downgrade to PHP 5.3 (for various reasons), I’ve searched for an alternative frontend for nagios. Well, I’ve found a lot but only to mention a few here: Nagios XI (free for small environments => max. 7 hosts, oh come on, with vms on the run, really way too few), Adagios (looks nice and clean) and finally OMD which got me with its easy setup on debian 7.
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Exception while using TStreamReader with TZipFile
If you’re using the TStreamReader with a TZDecompressionStream – the stream output by TZipFile.Read(const FileName: string; out Stream: TStream; out LocalHeader: TZipHeader) – you’re likely to experience the exception: EZDecompressionError with the message 'Invalid ZStream operation!'.
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Porting to XE5 and the “W1030 Invalid compiler directive: ‘true'” warning
If you port your application to Delphi XE5 and you receive this warning
[dcc32 Warning] W1030 Invalid compiler directive: 'true'
There is already a standard code style
As François Piette (a very honourable Embarcadero MVP) recently wrote, coding style matters. He states “… this is mostly a matter of personal preferences as long as the style is constant…” but I totally disagree in this very important topic: there shouldn’t be any “personal preferences” in writing code. › Continue reading
VerySimpleXML – a lightweight Delphi XML reader and writer
There are lot of possibilities if you’re in need to parse or write XML files:
- use TXMLDocument (the MSXML wrapper)
- or use xml components like OmniXML, NativeXml, ADOM, SAX, libxml2, DIXml, fcl-XML, Fast XMLParser, SimpleXML
Now here comes another one: VerySimpleXML – a lightweight, one-unit XML reader/writer in under 500 600 lines of code. Use it for small well-formed XML files (like configuration files, etc.). › Continue reading
Solving circular unit references with class helpers
Sooner or later you run into the circular unit reference problem when using a single unit for each class. There are some solutions (move the common used structs into a separate unit, use type casting, redesign your obvious bad class design, etc.) – this is a solution using class helpers. › Continue reading
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