Daniel Rail

I recently encountered a problem with a webservice integration.  The company that has the webservice did have the WSDL turned on when I first imported their webservice into my Delphi project.  So eventually all my code was written using the WSDL URL.  And, then something happened that… [More]

When I created a DLL in Delphi XE2 and then added a FireMonkey form to it, I realised that I wanted a VCL form instead. But after removing the FireMonkey form, I was unable to add a VCL form to my DLL project. For those that haven’t yet created a DLL in Delphi XE2, you get the option of adding a V… [More]

Announcing the release of Filopto 9.0 – A Practice Management System for Optical Stores, Optometrists and Ophthalmologists. There are many improvements in this release.  Most notably is that the layout of the EMR is now customizable.  Improvements have been made to the invoice screen to m… [More]

I had a chance to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview.  I like it very much.  I can see the possibilities for the Metro style UI for business apps, especially the live tiles.  The process life cycle for a Metro UI app is different and needs some getting used to as a developer, bu… [More]

It’s been almost 2 weeks since updating my HTC HD7 to Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”. I love the improvements to the calendar.  It’s now possible to have more than one calendar and it now has a task list, which you can also sync with Windows Live.  The improvements to the people hub are very … [More]

There are bug fixes in this version.

We’ve just released version 8.5.4.349.  It includes some new features, improvements and bug fixes.  One of the major improvements has been done in the Insurance A/R, it is now faster and also uses a grid that a user can search in the displayed A/R.

We are in the planning stages for implementing all of the missing features for the meaningful use guidelines for the US.  We do know what they are.  But, we do not know who is going to do the certification and how the certification is going to be performed.  We should have F… [More]

Filopto version 8.5.4.343 has been released.  It has a some bug fixes, some new features and some enhancements.  The main areas that have seen some changes are claims processing, contact lens prescriptions and the EMR.

It would be nice that both would be released simultaneously.  But, unfortunately that wont happen.  It seems that the cros-platform support will be released first, hopefully the 64-bit version. I do like the idea that I would be able to compile my application so that it can run on the Mac… [More]