Software engineering is made to put rules to developers and programmers to write code in a better way to make it readable, re-usable, easy to modify, to add, to upgrade, and to maintain. Here are some practices that we should to avoid, instead we have to use software engineering principles to ensure a better code…
In 1997 and after the second year at Sudan university, I have tried many computer languages and database tools, such as C++, DBase III+, DBase IV, clipper, foxpro, and MS Access, and finally I found Visual Basic, it was VB 3 at that time. I start writing small applications and tutorials using VB. In one…
Free pascal has been choose as project of the month in sourceforge, and they interviewed it’s founder Florian Klaempfl http://sourceforge.net/blog/april-2014-project-of-the-month-free-pascal/
I have found these days a new auto-completion feature that already exist in Lazarus, it is variables auto-completion. Previously I was only using procedure header / method auto-completion, by typing method header inside class definition part then clicking Ctrl-Shift-C to get implementation part of the procedure/method. Now someone in Lazarus forum told us that auto…
Linux service application is a type of applications that has no text output in screen, and it runs in background when Linux is working, and it can run in log off mode, also it starts when operating system starts. To write these type of applications using Lazarus do the following: 1. Create new project, select…
Before the university I have studied BASIC language using my MSX 64 K Bytes Ram, 2.8 Z80 Computer. On that time cassette tapes were the only available storage media that I have. On this computer I have learned the basic of programming, dealing with data, input and output, and finally I was able to write…
These are many new improvements of Object Pascal programming language in Free Pascal compiler. I don’t know how much new are they, but at least they are new since Delphi 7 language. I haven’t used any of these features before (until now) because I wasn’t know about them. 1. For .. in loop: This can…
FreePascal answers blog review for 2012 Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 13,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
A new and promising web development framework has been born for Free Pascal/ Lazarus developers. It supports REST, JSON, and you can download it from here: http://brookframework.org/
TurboBird is a free and open source FireBird database administration tool that is written using FreePascal/Lazarus Download page (Available for Linux, Windows, and Mac) Development Source code in GitHub
If you are using Free Pascal / Lazarus to develop applications that needs to access FireBird database, or you need to run applications that has been written using FreePascal/Lazarus and Firebird database, make sure you have installed Firebird client library. If you have installed FireBird database engine (server) in the same machine, that means you…
This is a very easy task in FreePascal/Lazarus. Drop TIBConnection component from SQLdb page in a form or data module. Drop a button, and write this code in button’s OnClick event: This will create an empty FireBird database in the location you have specified in DatabaseName property, with UTF8 character set. Later you can create…
I have noticed today that Pascal language rating index has been raised in Tiobe programming language index this month. It becomes number 14 which is very close to Delphi/Object Pascal in number 12. May be this has a relation to Lazarus version 1 release.
This book is written for programmers whom want to learn Object Pascal Language. Also it is suitable as a first programming book for new students and non-programmers. It illustrates programming techniques as general in addition to Object Pascal Language. License: License of this book is Creative Commons. Chapters: Language Basics Structured Programming GUI Object Oriented…
Lazarus team has announced the release of version 1.0 officially. You can download it from one of these links: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/ ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
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