Jamie's Blog

Most Developers will already have come accross many of these tools but just as every plumber has a favoured brand of wrench or electrician has a favoured model of multi-meter we all have a favourite set of productivity enhancing utilities. Here are a few of the tools which I find tremendously useful or find developing [...]

Since Jim has posted Episode 24 of the Podcast at Delphi.org and explained that we’re making an open source Twitter client I thought I would write a quick post about some of the design decisions which we’re already facing. In Particular about the decisions around the internal class that will handle communication with the Twitter [...]

Just a short post to warn Delphi community members that when I tried to visit long standing community code site  Delphi3000.com I received a warning from Google Chrome that the site apparently contains a significant load of Malware: The more advanced description of what Google claims to have found can be viewed on their Advisory [...]

I have recently released my MQTT Client for Delphi, which can now be found and downloaded here . TMQTTClient is a non-visual Delphi Client Library for the IBM Websphere MQ Transport Telemetry protocol. It allows you to connect to a Message Broker that uses MQTT such as the Really Small Message Broker (RSMB) which is freely available for [...]

I encountered a strange bug with a Google Maps API application which loaded a set of points and other information from a static XML File.  The Application would work beautifully for every browser except for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Surprise! Surprise!) where it would simply fail to load any data. After a bit of Googling I [...]

I am a great fan of the Microsoft Coding 4 Fun blog and feel that there should be something similar for Delphi Progammers. I am trying to get something similar started as a way of boosting the relevance, appeal and attraction of Delphi to novice, hobbyist or student programmers.  Why?  The aim of it would [...]

To whom it may concern at Codegear, A Recent posting over at The Doric Temple titled “how do I make the case for delphi (as a target business development environment)” has prompted me to wonder why Codegear has slightly neglected the Turbo family which to my knowledge hasn’t been updated since it’s initial release on the [...]

Having spent a good many years in Oxford I can safely say that whilst I was aware of the Oxford Geek Nights I never actually found the time to visit one, something that I had long regretted. OGN #10 was my exception. I turned up to the Jericho Tavern nice and early because I had [...]

Continuing my look at Delphi Prism, in my previous post I took a (very short) look at some of the compatibility changes required to port my Delphi.NET  Twitter Library to Delphi Prism, I mentioned that I now needed to learn about some of the new language features provided by Prism. Ever since the release of [...]

As we know, now that the future of Delphi.NET is Delphi Prism (based on the RemObjects Oxygene compiler) we have to migrate our Delphi.NET projects to be compatible with the Prism compiler. The Easiest way to get started is to look at the free Oxidizer tool provided on the RemObjects Wiki. The tool helps with [...]