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Musings from March – Inc Denmark and Poland

This month has seen an ever-changing global situation with the outbreak of the coronavirus. The first time that I can remember I had to radically change / cancel a live event due to circumstances out of our control. At the start of March we were keeping an eye on the news to see how the spread of the coronavirus had impacted Denmark. With only 2 cases in Denmark, the advice at the time was that…
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RAD Server: Mapping Web Properties to Folders

In my Embarcadero Academy RAD Server courses, “Using Delphi and RAD Server to Rapidly Design, Build, Debug, and Deploy Services-Based Solutions” and “Using C++Builder and RAD Server to Rapidly Design, Build, Debug, and Deploy Services-Based Solutions“, i show Delphi…
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Despite Rumors Delphi is Alive and has Frequent Releases

You might have seen that over recent days the TIOBE index website has published their March 2020 status focusing on Delphi’s demise — after it went one position down since last year — and a few other web sites have mentioned it.  TIOBE analysis includes some factually…
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SimplyGest - Embarcadero Cool Apps Selection

Today’s Cool Apps selection is SimplyGest, from SimplyGest Software. SimplyGest is a commercial management program that allows users to manage and track all aspects of their business. It’s highly modular and can easily be tailored to the needs of all manner of business…
Delphi

The Trouble of Measuring Programming Language Popularity

TIOBE is one of many programming language popularity indexes. Their methodology involves doing a search across various search engines with the name of a programming language followed by the word programming. So they look for “Delphi Programming” as an exact phrase…
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Windows Development: A Delphi Developers Perspective

Windows Development: A Delphi Developers Perspective As a software developer with over 30 years in the industry, 25 of those years invested in Microsoft Windows, the choice of development tools have been paramount. For us developers, the right tools can literally make or…