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Petra Wins Embarcadero Cool App for December

Any developer knows how time-consuming it can be to come up with good graphics for multi-platform development. There are so many different device pixel densities that require different images. That’s why I’m excited to announce Embarcadero’s December Cool App winner…
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Join us for a LIVE Video Episode of the Podcast at Delphi.org

Tomorrow will be a live episode of the Podcast at Delphi.org You can join us live on YouTube with your questions and comments, or catch the replay posted here. Stay tuned tomorrow for details on how to join. Tuesday, January 16, 2018 10:00 am PST UTC-8 hours 12:00 noon CST UTC-6 hours 01:00 pm EST UTC-5 hours 07:00 pm CET UTC+1 hour 18:00:00 GMT UTC This is our first time with this new…
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Webinar: To Build a FHIR Data Federation Service

HealthcareCase Study with Apex Data Solutions To Build a FHIR Data Federation Service Rethinking User Experience Delivery in Healthcare Thursday, 22-Feb-18 at 8 AM, 12 PM and 8 PM Central Time [Register Now] “The trouble with him was that he was not able…
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Get Ready for the New Programmers!

U.S. News an World Report just ranked SoftwareDeveloper as the best job for 2018. They use data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics to rank jobsbased on pay, job security, mental engagement, stress, room to advance,satisfaction, and work-life…
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Law of the Instrument and Curse of the Programmer

If you aren’t familiar with the Law of the Instrument, otherwise known asMaslow’s hammer/gavel, or the golden hammer it is often expressed as If your only tool is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail. My understanding is that the law of the instrument means you are limited by instruments or tools you know how to use. For example, if you have a screw, some wood, and a hammer, then…
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Some of my New Year’s #CodingResolutions

The jokegoes that, when asked, the software developer responds that their New Year’s Resolution is “7680×4320” or 8K. Joking aside, tradition has it that at the turn of the year we evaluate our lives and look for areas of improvement. Here are a few of my…
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Farewell Paweł Głowacki

As I am sure many of you have heard by now, Paweł Głowacki, ourTechnical Lead for Developer Tools in EMEA passed away. You may know him online from all his training, blogging, webinars and his recently published book. He spent over 7 years working as a senior…
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Merry Christmas from Embarcadero Technologies

I wanted to create a holiday card for all of you, and I decided to create it in code was the best way. I used Sketch App to design the card and then converted it to Delphi code with Petra. You can download the code Gist. It is a FireMonkey TControl that you can either install into your IDE or instantiate in code. You can instantiate it in one line of code in your Show event handler: procedure…
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