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Delphi 23 and Delphi 10.2.3

Today is Delphi’s 23rd birthday. The product was launched on Valentine day in 1995 in San Francisco (andI had the luck to be there, as I covered in the past). 23 years is a lot of time for people. It is a incredibly long time for technologies. It is hard to find a language, framework and IDE from 23 years ago you can use to build todays’s and tomorrow’s software. Of course…
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Modernize Your Apps

Modernization continues to be one of the most important topics for many of our customers. Delphi has been around for some time and there are plenty of great “legacy” apps going back all the way to Delphi 7. While it is a testament to the quality of our development…
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LIVE! 13-Feb-2018 Delphi Web Frameworks

Join Craig, David, and Jim as they discuss Delphi Web Frameworks LIVE! 13-Feb-2018 at 12 AM CST [other timezones] Planning to discuss some of the following . . . Ext JS UniGUI MARS-Curiosity Smart Mobile Studio Kitto WebHub Elevate Web Builder RAD Server Web…
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Exciting RAD Studio Developments in 2018

We have many exciting new features and product enhancements planned for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio in 2018. In our September 2017 roadmap, we covered many of the new plans and features planned for 2017 and 2018. We are pleased to share details for Release 3 of 10.2 Tokyo (i.e. 10.2.3), targeted for the first quarter of 2018. For this release, we have three key themes. First, it…
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Lockless Multi-Threading in Delphi

Author: Craig Chapman In this video, I demonstrate a technique for communicating between threads in a Delphi application, without using typical locking mechanisms such as critical sections. Best Viewed in Full Screen (Recorded…
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The Ultimate Developer Keyboard?

Author: Craig Chapman I never really thought of my keyboard as an important accessory, but rather, as that essential item that you buy for the cheapest price possible and be done with. I mean, a keyboard is a keyboard right? Well, I discovered that your choice of keyboard…
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Single Board Computers and Delphi Discussion LIVE!

Craig and Jim discussed Single Board Computers (SBC) and Delphi in this Live Episode of The Podcast at Delphi.org If you are wanting to target these boards from Delphi remember if it is an ARM processor you will want to run Android, and if it is an x86 then you will want to run Windows or Linux. Here are some links to some of the single board computers we discussed: MinnowBoard by…
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My New RTTI in Delphi Class on Embarcadero Academy

As you might remember, I’m helping building the Delphi curricula on the Embarcadero Academy web site. My focus so far has been on the Delphi language, while other tackle VCL and other areas, or other languages and tools. Last week I completed my set of classes on the…