Just in time for Christmas, we’re making good on our promise to bring you a new white paper – Developing the BEST Developer Framework through Benchmarking. This paper examines three frameworks – Delphi, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with .NET Framework, and Electron – using a 23-metric weighted evaluation to determine which offers the best developer productivity…
Realistic Developer Tool Comparison Methodology and Metrics (Part 1)
December 3, 2020
Today’s proliferation of tools to enhance software development is a cause for celebration. Many amazing people work daily to build and distribute utilities, plug-ins, and IDEs that make our development easier! However, the other side of the proliferation coin describes a…
Structured Programming in Delphi – DelphiCon 2020
November 16, 2020
Have you heard of functional programming but are vague on the details? Are you ready to expand beyond the object-oriented mindset? Tomorrow, Nick Hodges, author of Coding in Delphi, will teach us how to harness functional programming techniques to craft beautiful…
Delphi at the University - DelphiCon 2020
November 11, 2020
Are you a teacher, educator, or parent of a child interested in programming? Are you looking for a simple but powerful language and student-friendly integrated development environment? With it’s combination of full-language features, simple syntax, and visual drag-and-drop development, Delphi rocks its competition. Still unsure? Let Victory Fernandes, a former mathematics and computer…
Leveraging High DPI with Ray Konopka - DelphiCon 2020
November 11, 2020
Have you ever accessed a website on your mobile device and found that it was formatted for desktop and nearly unreadable on a 5″ screen? Similar problems occur for users running high-DPI screens. As 4K screens proliferate and the consumer pressure for 8K grows…
Newcomer's Perspective - FireDAC and SQLite
October 27, 2020
FireDAC is Embarcadero’s library for universal data access – connection to just about any database protocol you can find. It abstracts the protocol-level details and presents a common interface so developers can build their applications to be database agnostic…
Buster's Introduction
October 19, 2020
Hello, world. I’m Buster (Adam Leone), a new member of the Embarcadero team as a software development intern. I’m primarily working with Jim McKeeth and will be focused on refreshing my stale college-era programming skills, learning the range of Embarcadero tools, and pivoting my military project management experience into the tech world. Expect to see me periodically blogging about…