STOMP is a publish/subscribe messaging protocol that allows for very lightweight communications between almost any mixture of programming languages, operating system platforms, and “message brokers”. This article goes into detail about what STOMP is, why you would want to use it, some quick-start hints to get you up and running, and a fully working example of using STOMP in your IDE Software…
Giuseppe Massimo Pinto has been programming for about four years now. His application (Metrodrummer 2) was one of the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge entries and we asked for his insights on programming with Delphi. Download Metrodrummer 2 to experience the…
All the cool cats are coming to a party in this hilarious mobile game. Watch out though, some are coming to have fun, but just like a real party, some will try to ruin it! Your task is to let the GOOD cats IN and keep the BAD cats OUT. No party poopers allowed!. The…
With Football Playview coaches and players can view animated plays, drills and practice plans on their phone or tablet. Football plays, drills and practice plans can be created with the companion desktop Football Playbook program from Jes-soft, which is free to try and available at http://www.jes-soft.com/football/index.html. The playbook program is compatible with Windows all recent versions of…
Mehrdad Esmaeili started programming with Turbo Pascal 7. He has an application (ParsLogo) as showcase entry for Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge and we had a conversation with him to know all about his Delphi experiences. Go on over to ParsLogo to download the…
AoA Flight Assistant is here to solve a specific problem. I’m sure one thing most of us agree on is that flying is a complicated and risky job. If you’ve ever flown in one of those huge passenger planes, I’m positive, like me, you’ve been amazed…
Partner Collaboration to Drive Innovation (Interview with TMS Software)
April 22, 2021
About a month ago we published a short blog post about the importance of our partner ecosystem and interviewed DevExpress. Our partners not only build much needed functional capabilities for RAD Studio developers, but also deliver exciting innovation. One partner that is particularly active on the innovation front is TMS Software. They not only provide valuable suites of components for both…
A customer recently inquired whether FireDAC could be used to connect to a database via an SSH tunnel. Of course, the short answer is yes. But first, let’s define an SSH tunnel and how it can be easily accomplished with Delphi and FireDAC.
SSH Tunnels
Secure Shell…
The AI Vision API from Google Cloud provides powerful pre-trained machine learning models that you can easily use in your desktop and mobile applications via REST or RPC API method calls. Assume you want your app to detect objects, locations, activities, animal species, and…
What can the Google Audio Transcription API do for our applications?
Google’s Audio Transcription API allows your program to use all the power of Google’s huge computing resources to accurately transcribe speech found in audio files into text.
As Google’s documentation says:
Transcribe your content in real time or from stored filesDeliver a better user experience in…
