TZDB 1.8.2014b
A new version of TZDB has been release (1.8.2014b). This version fixes a few issues around the Windows TZ aliases provided by CLDR project. Obviously the database has been updated to the most recent version (2014b). The biggest…
Read More »TZDB 1.8 — 13 November 2012 Database (2012j)
A new version of TZDB has been release (1.8.121113). This version adds some very small changes. The biggest update is the bundled database version. Grab the latest version here, and view the latest changes here. TZDB is an open…
Read More »Strings as “data buffers”
I bet most of the Delphi developers used or are still using strings to hold and operate on binary data. I’ve done it, and some of my older projects still contain such code. The basic idea is to…
Read More »Delphi anonymous methods are …
… too fat. Surely writing code like this gets frustrating very fast. I want my lambdas!! In other news, there is a working version of Collections 2.0 in the SVN. Most of the changes were sitting on my…
Read More »Get over the FreeAndNil thing already!
‘Nuff Said!
Read More »Ping 2012!
Yes, I am still here. 2011 was a very challenging year for me: in January 2011 I have been offered a very tempting position a company and I have accepted it. It’s a very small “services” company but…
Read More »TZDB 1.7 with 27 June Database
After a few months of inactivity I give you the latest update to TZDB featuring the last published TZ database. This realease also fixes a bug in the importer that could not properly read only hour based offsets…
Read More »Variant Invoke and RTTI
I was “spring cleaning” my temporary project directory on my hard drive today and I found a half-finished implementation of a dynamic dispatch for objects based on new RTTI (Delphi 2010+). I spent some time and fixed the…
Read More »TZDB 1.7 database 14 March
I have finally managed to get some free time on my hands and released the latest update to TZDB containing the latest DB (from 14 March). As usual, no code changes, just data updates. For those unaware: TZDB…
Read More »I just joined “twitter-dom” as “pavkam“. Not sure on what I’m gonna post but at least I’ll give it a try 🙂
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