Windows 11 is coming. It’s a fact – and it’s the gorgeous visual tweaking of the Windows desktop, start menu, taskbar, and even the rendering of things like your application’s window borders and “non-client area”. It’s Microsoft’s new glorious shooting star launching itself at the unwary peoples of the world from out of the clouds… and it’s going to wipe out the dinosaurs.
I know the best way to traumatize a software developer who has been using Windows Tools for Developers for some time. You just show them this image:
The BDE Administration Manager. So many ‘happy’ hours trying to resolve “PDOXUSERS.NET is in use” messages and…
In the recent Data ETL focused TCoffeeAndCode episode there was some excellent discussion around the use of FireDAC to extract and manipulate data in various ways. In this article, you’ll get through what Data ETL is, what is LiveBindings, using Live Bindings with an IDE…
HeidiSQL is a wildly successful open source database management tool. Apart from being extremely useful in the management of MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases, it is also open-source and that source code is written in Delphi. Furthermore, if we integrate it with IDE Software like RADStudio, it will be more powerful. Moving on, we’ve already given a brief overview of it before…
Modern versions of Microsoft Windows are arguably a lot more pleasing to look at. Gone are the days of apps being gray slabs and chunky buttons. When Microsoft adopted the Fluent UI interface, along with it came a richer color palette, a cleaner, leaner look, and…
OK, so you’ve written something brilliant, The Next Big Thing. You’re taking a modern approach. You’ve read up – or watched – our series on Fluent UI and maybe even applied a few visual things like the neo-skeuomorphism we learned about at the Desktop First…
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…
Do you currently use websockets in your applications? Do you want to learn more about what websockets can do for your apps? Continue reading to learn everything you need to know about using websockets with Delphi, as well as a rundown of some of the available component sets…
How To Make An Epic Dashboard Visualization For Windows, Mobile And The Web The Easy Way
April 12, 2021
Dashboards, graphical visualization of data, seem to be everywhere, especially in these pandemic times where daily and weekly trends take on a very personal significance. In this article, we are going to look at a beautiful dashboard that you can very easily customize to…
