After my first big game The Last Oricru has been successfully released on Steam/XBOX S/PS5 I’m rushing into new project. Working name is Revive & Prosper and I’m blogging about it here.

With Centos 7 come replacement of MySQL with MariaDB.

I was already curious into it and quite happy once it come to new server with Centos.

It’s very easy to use, but I has trouble to raise max_connections to my usual number (I use 10.000 as I connect to DB from many connections).

Here is the solution.

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Recently I was creating for somebody empty virtual image based on my actual image. I want to make sure the image will get compressed as much as possible. But I delete there about 1,5 GB of my data.

To make sure the VM will be compressed I needed to fill all empty space with 0.

I found this tool to do that: http://frippery.org/uml/index.html , but it was little bit tricky.

Here is step by step how to proceed:

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Recently I was doing an application that needs to access contacts at the iOS and Android.

I found those two pieces of code

1) http://www.fmxexpress.com/access-ios-contacts-with-firemonkey-in-delphi-xe5/

2) http://www.fmxexpress.com/access-android-contacts-manager-with-firemonkey-in-delphi-xe5/

that works.

But you need different unit for each platform and the names of fields are also little but different.

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Just nice page to show the iPhone’s Screens – http://www.iphoneresolution.com/