I was thinking about how I would do a gender based analysis of our customer database without surveying our customers. The Embarcadero Community profile does not ask whether you are male or female. At the recent Evans Data Developer Relations Conference, there was a presentation about the number of developers in the world (currently around 19 million going up to 25 million in 2020). Evans Data puts…
Visual Arduino programming for kids and professionals using Visuino by Mitov Software - powered by Embarcadero Delphi
April 12, 2016
I am often by parents how they can get their kids interested in technology and programming in a fun and educational way. When I was a kid growing up I played with erector sets, built my own crystal radio, used my Edmund Scientific kit to create microscopes and…
With the introduction of the Parallel Programming Library (PPL) and Embarcadero C++Builder support for C++11 lambda functions on the Win32, Win64, iOS and Android platforms, you can now use the two in combination in your applications. Below you will find C++Builder example…
Elite Developers – Show us your Cool Apps!Join our club of elite developers by showcasing your app and enter to win a $500 gift card!
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Submit a title for your cool app
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From time to time I get asked how developers can customize their IDE experience. There are many ways to set options that affect the IDE, registry settings you can change and external 3rd party tools you can use. Here are a few ideas about what you can do to take control of…
Some cool new FireMonkey components, ksComponents (Kernow Software FMX components), created by Graham Murt, are available on GitHub. You’ll find the source code for TksListView, TksFormTransition, TksTableView,TksSlideMenu, TksSegmentButtons and TksChatView. Readme…
Using FireDAC Unidirectional property for fast, low memory selection set processing
December 29, 2015
I often do large Oracle database queries using FireDAC to analyze registration data about our products and customers. Most of the time I am only processing through millions of rows to create a report or chart. One of the FDQuery properties that I forget to set True is the TDFQuery’s “Unidirectional” sub-property found under the FetchOptions (TFDFetchOptions) property. By…
How to use custom Info.plist XML to support iOS 9's new App Transport Security feature
September 24, 2015
Apple introduced the new “Apple Transport Security” feature in iOS9 to restrict apps that use HTTP protocol requests behind the scenes. To allow your app to use HTTP, Apple provides Info.plist settings. This new feature will have an impact on the execution of…
Several developers reporting an issue where the C++Builder IDE code editor structure window was blank after they upgraded their Windows machine to Windows 10. The issue is reproducible on these scenarios:
The user has a machine with a Windows version lower than Windows 10…
Pawel Glowacki asked about vibrating smartphones using Delphi code for iOS and Android. Thierry Laborde and Williamm Wittwer of Embarcadero France provided the following Delphi and FireMonkey sample code:
unit Umain;
interface
uses
System.SysUtils, System.Types, System.UITypes, System.Classes, System.Variants,
FMX.Types, FMX.Controls, FMX.Forms, FMX.Graphics, FMX.Dialogs,
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