RAD Studio 12.3 brings several improvements to RAD Server that address common pain points and add new functionality. Let’s take a look at what’s new.
Consistent Date/Time Formats Across Requests
One issue that’s now resolved is the inconsistency in date/time formats between GET and LIST requests. RAD Studio 12.3 introduces roFDDateTimeFormat, a boolean variable flag in the…
A Fresh Start With RAD Studio available on GetIt
If you’re starting with RAD Studio, we’ve got something special for you. Our new guide, Getting Started with RAD Studio – A Guide for Developers New to Delphi and CBuilder is now available in GetIt for…
We’re excited to announce the release of our comprehensive White Paper – WebStencils and HTMX: Fast Modern Web Development with RAD Studio. This guide is designed to help developers create efficient, dynamic, and maintainable web applications using WebStencils…
Deploying and debugging RAD Studio applications has never been easier. With our new Docker image and our revamped run.sh script, this process is now streamlined and more user-friendly. This post introduces our optimized PAServer Docker solution, highlighting significant improvements, including a whopping 64% reduction in image size.
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What is PAServer?
PAServer (Platform…
There are over 472 million websites powered by WordPress. What most of them have in common is that they don’t benefit from the power of the web because WordPress is limited by its PHP structure. If you want to take your WordPress page or blog to the next level, then…
In Part 1 of this series, we explored a simple demonstration of a web application running with Delphi code inside a WebBroker application, and using HTMX as a kind of middle-man.
In this article we are going to further improve the demo, by making it look modern and…
If you ever wanted to create a server-based web application, then HTMX is a solution that offers great flexibility for development, allowing RAD Studio developers to deliver the business logic while still allowing designers to make the web application look great using CSS. Without having to write a single line of JavaScript code, you can build a full web application, with the entire logic in a web…
With the launch of RAD Studio 12, RAD Server not only fully integrates the encoding Sqids library, but you can also use it in any other project through the new TSqidsEncoding class available in the System.NetEncoding.Sqids namespace.
Sqids is a small open-source library…
Back in 2019, David I wrote a fantastic guide to RAD Server that has been very popular in helping developers develop new, and migrate older systems towards a RESTful architecture. There have been a number of updates to RAD Server since the guide was originally launched…
If you want to deploy RAD Server on a Linux environment (on-premise or cloud-based) it is mandatory to deploy an instance of InterBase as well because it is the database used by RAD Server to store all its internal data.
This is quite straightforward in most cases, and you can even do it using Docker if you want, but what if you need to deploy RAD Server and your own InterBase instance on just…
