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While official Embarcadero materials emphasize only FireMonkey technology in light of creating MacOSX applications, it is yet very possible to create Cocoa applications w/ native MacOSX look and feel without using FireMonkey at all: Embarcadero have performed all the necessary job of translating Objective-C Cocoa headers to Delphi; compiler and debugger environment is working fine for non-FireMonkey applications.

So, in order to create 100% native Cocoa applications in Delphi XE2 you will have to master the following:

guarddog is still missing in Ubuntu… This article will outline required steps to install guarddog in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10/Precise 12.04 and get it working.

To get guarddog installed in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 you need the following packages:

There are some debates about declining use of XML and rising use of JSON. Some people love XML, some people love JSON. I love SAX: assuming SAX serializer/deserializers exist, anything can be treated as XML.

For example, you can write XSLT stylesheets transforming JSON: JSON SAX deserializer was already created by me in my previous article "How to Convert JSON to XML using ANTLR" and JSON SAX serializer is fairly easy to write. Once you have all that, you can transform JSON using XSLT:

In the previous article I have shown how to convert JSON to XML using XSLT 2.0 capabilities.

The problem w/ implementing parsers in XSLT, is conversion from flat structure to tree structure. XSLT was simply NOT created for such kind of conversions. For example, JSON to XML transformation is using XML Pipeline of mode1, mode2, mode3 to build a tree structure from a sequence of tokens generated by regexp in mode0.

Canonical has a very ugly habit of removing from repositories applications that you use and love, but they think these are not "canonical".

For example:

In my previous article I have shown how to preprocess XSLT using custom SAX ContentHandler that transforms XSLT source code on-the-fly.

The reason SAX transformation was chosen instead of simpler XSLT transformation is because SAX transformations preserve line and column information: if you will make an error in a preprocessed XSLT, XSLT processor will report exact line and column position of the error; if XSLT preprocessing was implemented in XSLT, line and column information would be distorted.

It is very often when you enable OpenID module in Drupal and try to login with OpenID, you receive Page not found, whilst everything works quite fine at localhost.

Next version of Ubuntu will include a new font, named "Ubuntu font", that will be used as default user interface font: