In the United States today, March 14th is π day (3rd month, 14th day, or 3/14). Traditions involve eating pie, the pastry, and calculating Pi, the irrational mathematical constant.
Animation of the act of unrolling a circle’s circumference, illustrating the ratioπ. Edited by John Reid [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikipedia
In Delphi, Pi is included as an intrinsic function. If you…
This guide covers streamlining GetIt packages during and upgrade and installation for a smoother upgrade experience.
When upgrading between major versions, the Settings Migration Tool simplifies keeping your settings. It is also great for migrating a subset of your…
The official PAServer, RAD Server, and InterBase Docker images are all updated to work with 11.2. The 10.x images used Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver) while the updated 11.3 images use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). You can find the images on Docker Hub, or the…
Are you a developer or creative looking for an exciting new challenge that will not only push the boundaries of technology but also possibly win you up to $500 in prizes? If so, the Delphi Digital Fan Art and AI Art Contest is precisely what you’re looking for.
The goal of this contest is to create digital art around Embarcadero Delphi. Participants may use Greek mythology images such…
I created a Bash script a while back for setting up Ubuntu for Delphi development, and update it for each new release. The script automatically installs all the required packages, along with PAServer. I recently updated it again due to an LLDB debugging issue.
Here are the slides, links, and additional resources from Building Microservices with Boss and Horse. This session was a collaboration with Vinicius Sanchez of Hashload.
Hashload is an open-source community on GitHub founded by Brazilian developers that works with many…
Are you excited to take part in the Enterprise Article Showcase Challenge by Embarcadero? Here is your chance to make some money and share your valuable experience at the same time! For this contest we would like contestants to submit a 1000+ word article that shares their experience with RAD Studio – Delphi, C++Builder, RAD Server, and/or InterBase – in an enterprise setting. We know…
Join Embarcadero for this short two day virtual conference on Enterprise development with your favorite development tools. December 20th and 21st from 10 AM to 5 PM CST each day, all free. Topics include multithreaded algorithms, SQL databases, custom VCL styles…
I always enjoy coming down to Brazil for their annual Embarcadero Developer Conference. Unfortunately travel restrictions moved the event virtual for the last couple years, but it was back to an in person event this year. Previous in person events had around 400 attendees…
Legacy projects represent code that continues to provide value long after being written. You want to maintain these legacy projects, adding new features as needed, and be sure they continue to work on new platforms now and in the future.
That’s where this webinar comes in. Evaluate the risks of redesigning vs. rewriting your legacy project. Learn the best approaches to refactoring while…
