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Expert Delphi Webinars with Paweł Glowacki

Paweł Glowacki’s book Expert Delphi and he is hosting a couple webinars where he will share some of the best parts. Expert Delphi – Part 1 Tue, September 12, 2017 at8 AM, 1 PM, 8 PM CDT Join Paweł for the tour through the first part of his recently published “Expert Delphi” book. In this demo oriented session, we are going to focus on how to become developer…
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Why I Keep Choosing Delphi

Early on I learned Turbo Pascal, which was a huge step up from the Basic and Batch Fileprogramming I cut mywhitening on. When Delphi came along I thought it was brilliant and fell in love immediately. I had no interest in learning other programming languages or…
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Thought Controlled Drone in Tokyo

While I was in Tokyo for the Tokyo launch I worked with the Embarcadero office there to make a new BCI demo video. This is using the Emotiv EPOC wireless EEG headset to read cognitive thought patterns, which are transmitted wirelessly to the laptop and the Delphi powered application. It responds by sending the commands to the Parrot AR.Drone based on the thought patterns. I developed components…
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More 2017 FireDAC Webinars

To follow up with our recent FireDAC in Depth with Cary Jensen we have a series of FireDAC webinars to help you learn more about everyone’s favorite database access framework. Each webinar is offered at 8 AM, 1 PM and 8 PM US Central Time to provide access in all…
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Connecting to Chrome OS via ADB

This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS You need to put your Chromebook in Developer Mode First. Enabling ADB Debugging https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/index.html#setup First you have to allow ADB through the firewall. Go to crosh ([CTRL][ALT][T]) and drop to shell. You may need to setup a password via VT-2 first. I set one up when I first did this, but now reading things I…
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Enabling Developer Mode on Chrome OS

This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS Chromebook Developer Mode You need to put your Chromebook in Developer mode, which wipes the local storage, so you are better off doing it sooner rather than later. Also keep in mind it may void your…
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Targeting Chrome OS with Delphi via Android and Linux

Google’s Chrome OS is based on their Chrome Browser and runs on Chromebooks, which are hybrids of a tablet and a laptop. They are designed with the assumption that the majority of what we do nowadays is done through the browser. Google announced a while ago that they…
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May Cool App Winner: Ofertas do Dia

The cool app Winner for May comes from Brazil. It isOfertas do Dia, or “Daily Offers” for us English speakers. This cool mobile app runs on iOS, Android and Windows Desktop. It collects all the daily offers from the bigger brazilian online stores and provides them in a clear easy to use app! So every day you can access everything from various sites just in one touch. You can…
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