It has been a while, again, but I’m back with a collection of relevant and notable links of the recent weeks. All of these are interesting reads and worth checking in case you have missed them.
Official Embarcadero Updates
Idera Adds Web App Text Editing through Froala…
We were able to investigate some very specific CodeInsight bugs (with reproducible cases) over the last few months, and we were able to work on several fixes to the Code Completion and other areas. One critical case involved a developer overloading a generic method. While…
One of the great things about Delphi is not only is it written in Delphi (mostly), but it ships with the VCL, RTL, & FMX source code. You can use this source code in lots of different ways, which I’ll cover in a bit, but sometimes it is a matter of finding the source…
Move, integrate, and analyze data with ease utilizing FireDAC Enterprise Connectors, powered by CData. These components allow you to integrate 80+ Enterprise applications, simplifying connectivity into a standard model using SQL. Everything from Salesforce & eBay to Google Sheets & Twilio. In this webinar learn how to leverage your SQL skills and the powerful FireDAC framework to access…
Let’s say for example that you want to create a heart rate monitor app. You’ll need information about the heart rate GATT profile to connect to andcollect data from the bluetooth enabled HR monitor device.
GATT profilesare high level…
Get Kids Coding with IoT
Across all industries, coding is quickly becoming a crucial skill for the 21st-century workplace. Finding ways to teach kids how to program without becoming bored can be a challenge for parents. That’s where the Internet of Things (IoT) comes…
Microsoft’s June 4 announcement about its acquisition of Github for $7.5 billion has created great interest in the developer community. Hacker News showed mixed reactions, as did Reddit. Twitter has some contentious threads. Motherboard reports that Gitlab, an open source competitor, had an uptick of 50,000 projects migrated in a week. (Fitting an open source company, you…
The Internet of Things or IoT is an extremely popular field in technology right now. With all the new tech that fills so many different consumer demands, the wide variety of choices for programming languages are getting some serious attention and I decided to give a nod to…
Anyone who loves playing with deck of cards knows solitaire. And no matter how advanced the technology is, it will always be played. That is why I’m thrilled to see BVS Solitaire Collection by BVS Development as our May 2018 cool app winner. It is an award-winning…
Author: Landerson Gomes
In this post I discuss how to customize the URLs generated by the Datasnap REST server.
Challenge
A major challenge in building APIs when using Datasnap is to generate URLs so that documentation, understanding, and versioning is easy.
I’ve always been particularly bothered by the “datasnap / rest / TServeMethodName” automatically generated by Datasnap…
