If you are using FireDAC and building your SQL queries manually you may be using more verbose code than is needed. FireDAC has a feature called Macros which allows you to do a variable substitution in your SQL query similar to parameter substitution but for raw SQL. However, in addition to macro substitution you can combine it with conditional substitutions which lets you do the real magic.
If you…
Celebrating Five Amazing Years with Embarcadero
July 19, 2018
This month I am celebrating my five-year anniversary with Embarcadero Technologies. It’s been an amazing adventure and I am looking forward to more. I saw a graphic similar to the following today and it reminded me how great it is to be doing what I am doing (plus I love…
Embarcadero launches Delphi Community Edition
July 19, 2018
The release of Delphi Community Edition is fantastic news for the Delphi language, the developer community, the partners, and the entire ecosystem. We hope it will help new developers (students, hobbyist, open source developers, and someone starting with mobile store…
A vulkan header generator for Delphi.
July 19, 2018
Author: Craig Chapman
What is darkVulkanGen?
A handful of months back, I began working on a game engine for Delphi named darkGlass.
see:
http://chapmanworld.com/darkglass/
https://github.com/chapmanworld/DarkGlass
At that time I’d intended to write the rendering part of the game engine using OpenGL, however, for a variety of reasons I decided to use Vulkan instead.
Vulkan is a modern graphics…