Reinvent The Wheel

Round is nice, but we can do better!

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February 28, 2012
by Simon J Stuart
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Designing Apps to properly accommodate the iOS,Android and Windows Phone markets

My well-known “anti-Apple” bias… I want to be completely transparent about this… it is no great secret that I have a very strong anti-Apple bias (for reasons not of interest to this article). My bias plays no part in this … Continue reading

Lua4Delphi

February 5, 2012
by Simon J Stuart
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Lua4Delphi Released!

UPDATE 1 (6th Feb 2012) All known bugs have been fixed Packages have been added (to both LKSL and Lua4Delphi) for Delphi 2010 and XE A functional FireMonkey demo has been added to Lua4Delphi (requires XE2, for obvious reasons) Now … Continue reading

February 3, 2012
by Simon J Stuart
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Lua4Delphi – Broken the Interface

I realize that not everyone is on Google+ (where I have been posting regular updates on Lua4Delphi), so you might not be aware that I have had to break the Interface on Lua4Delphi in order to make it support Lua … Continue reading

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January 17, 2012
by Simon J Stuart
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TKinect changing name, new controller support!

Stabbed in the back by Microsoft In a recent experiment, I discovered that Microsoft have deliberately capped the minimum depth range of the Xbox Kinect controller (when running it on a Windows 7 PC using the official Beta 2 Kinect … Continue reading

December 11, 2011
by Simon J Stuart
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Lua4Delphi – Non-stop development…

Immediately after posting this, I shall be incommunicado for at least the next several days. I am going into seclusion to work around-the-clock on Lua4Delphi, and nothing but Lua4Delphi. The next time I post, Lua4Delphi will be ready for release … Continue reading

December 10, 2011
by Simon J Stuart
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LaKraven Studios Standard Library [LKSL] – Smart Types

The one thing that annoys me most when producing the numerous open source libraries and tools I’m developing is the constant replication of code, in an attempt to keep each project separate from the others. The number of times I’ve … Continue reading

December 9, 2011
by Simon J Stuart
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TKinect (v2) SVN update

For all those interested, there has been a substancial update to TKinect (v2) on the SVN today. Carl Kenner (www.glovepie.org) has very kindly gone through TKinect (v2) with a fine-toothed comb, has discovered the cause of the various issues we’ve … Continue reading

FireMonkey on CrossFireX

December 4, 2011
by Simon J Stuart
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FireMonkey problems on CrossFireX

I don’t know how many of you out there are testing/running FireMonkey applications (HD or 3D) on a CrossFireX graphics setup, but if you have I’m interested to know if you’re experiencing the same issues I have. When running any … Continue reading

RAD Twitter

November 17, 2011
by Simon J Stuart
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TTwitter getting an update

UPDATE – The update is available via TTwitter’s SVN repository, and now includes the precompiled Demo application for testing. There’s no denying that TTwitter has been immensely popular. Indeed, it is the single most downloaded item from my repository (with … Continue reading

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October 29, 2011
by Simon J Stuart
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Emotiv EPOC SDK (EDK) for Delphi… released

I have just released the translated Emotiv EPOC SDK (EDK) headers for Delphi, along with a simple demo showing how you can make use of some of its features! You can find the download at the Emotiv EPOC SDK for … Continue reading