So many great entries for the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge! There were 170 entries covering a wide range of project types. Everything from games and multimedia to line-of-business and consumer software. Both on VCL on the desktop and FireMonkey on mobile platforms. It is so easy to get wrapped up in our view of what Delphi is useful for, we sometimes miss its amazing flexibility. I recommend…
These are exciting times! As vaccines advance and lockdowns ease, we are ready to get back to business. Like many of you, we never stopped. The hard work of our teams culminated in the release of 10.4.2 while advancing our many initiatives, as our collaboration with partners…
Giuliano D’Oronzo has been programming with Delphi since 2017. His (Prime) application was one of the showcase entries of the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge and we have also asked him further about his Delphi skills. Get more information about his board game at Prime.
Oripov Murod has been programming with Delphi since 2006. His application (DovtaLab2020) was submitted as an entry for the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge and we interviewed him to know more about his application and experiences with Delphi. You can download his application over at DovtaLab2020.
When did you start using RAD Studio/Delphi and have long have you been using it?
I started…
Do you want to add live exchange rates features to your applications ? You can easily get exchange rates in our C++ Builder and Delphi applications by using exchangerates API from the exchangeratesapi.io that is free for 1000 requests monthly. It is very easy to setup…
ISOCpp.org ran a C++ developer survey “lite” for the past week. You can find the PDF survey results on the site at https://isocpp.org/blog/2021/04/results-summary-2021-annual-cpp-developer-survey-lite
More than 1800 C++ developers responded to the survey. Here…
Are you using websockets in your applications yet? Do you need to know what websockets can do for your apps? Read on to get up to speed on everything you need to know about using websockets with Delphi along with a run-down on some of the available component sets which take all the hard work out of making the magic happen.
What are websockets?
There are two sides to a websocket…
This really wonderful Delphi app makes truly creative use of the integration of museum visitors with exhibits. Written by Oz Software of Spain, vCoolture makes a trip to the museum into an adventure where visitors using the app not only hear the descriptions offered by…
No doubt, the VCL FileDialogs offer a multitude of configuration options that cover most standard use cases. But sometimes this might not be enough and you want to create a specialized custom dialog with a different layout, additional controls (e.g. for import/export…
We are continuing the popular TCoffeeAndCode series. We kick off the Spring Time series for the Central Time zone with our 2 hour Q&A conversations. If you aren’t familiar with TCoffeeAndCode, it is a weekly “coffee shop” conversation with developers about topics important to developers. You can register for the whole series now, and then join the conversations that interest…
Automate Access To Current And Historical Currency Exchange Rates Via API
April 14, 2021
Currency exchange rates is an interesting financial dataset similar to stock quotes and cryptocurrency datasets. For building solutions like software or a POS system for a currency exchange business it is a necessary dataset and there are APIs online that give you easy…
A lambda expression defines an anonymous function or a closure at the point where it is used. You can think of a lambda expression as an unnamed function (that’s why it’s called “anonymous”). Lambda expressions make code cleaner and more concise, and allow you to see…
