Part two of the Delphi and pagination article , this time with TCollections
In my previous article, I wrote about a method to paginate data shown in a ListView.
Now, I want to extend its reach by replacing TDataSets by TCollections.
Via Leonardo’s Delphi and FreePascal blog
This is one of those things I needed for ages, but didn’t bothered to implement
because I thought it could require an unnecessary amount of work, and allways
opted for a less perfectionist method.I’m talking about a method to retrieve data in Pages, then browse it in a ListView
transparently for the user.
Transcripts of the presentations from the 2008 Firebird Conference in Bergamo, Italy, are now available for free download. Registration required first.
The Firebird Team is pleased to release the first Beta of Firebird 2.5, feature-complete and ready to field-test. Kits are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux. So – please test it well and report your experiences (good or bad) to the firebird-devel list.
Do make a point of studying the release notes (available on-line and also in the download kits). Note also that there are a few known issues, particularly for those of you who are going to hammer this hard.
Another happy Firebird and Python user and programmer
For more than a year I’m employed by a company called Smantics Kommunikationsmanagement GmbH as a Python developer. The company offers multiple services related to communcation and its management in our modern world. Most of the time I’m working on the server part of a software stack called Visual Library.
The heart of the Visual Library software stack is a Python driven web application server. It’s built on top of CherryPy framework and driven by a Firebird database. The server utilizes a cornucopia of open source third party packages as well as commercial and proprietary software. The most noticable Python packages are lxml for XML and XSL(T), reportlab for PDF creation, Cython for optimization / library bindings and PyLucene for full text search.
The aquisition was funded by Firebird Foundation. Firebird 2.1.3 will include cloud database features merged from NimbusDB, that was being developed by Jim Starkey.
In the other side, Jim will not join the project, and plans to spend the money buying a bigger boat and sail around the world for the next 5 years.
Signals shows that Firebird will be officially supported in the next version of Delphi. That’s what Anders Ohlsson says, as published in Marco Cantu blog:
He said that in the next version of Delphi they are looking forward to supporting (among other features) Firebird, touch-based UI (multi-platform touch engine), 64bit, and cloud computing.
From Firebirdsql.org:
Firebird 2.1.2 is Released
The Firebird team is pleased to announce the sub-release Firebird 2.1.2 for production. Kits for Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel and PowerPC are making their way to the mirror sites today. Enjoy!
N.B. The Classic package for MacOSX PPC will be delayed slightly.
