The ability of a framework to support developer productivity is a measure of its ability to speed up the time it takes to bring an application to market, and its influence on long-term labor costs. Developer productivity, therefore, directly affects the sustainability and profitability of a business.
One core Productivity metric is Development Time, or in other words the total number of hours…
Code for Psychopaths, Report Issues for Friends
January 28, 2021
How often do you think about the people upstream and downstream from you in the software development lifecycle? The following is some lighthearted advice in the area of soft skills for software developers.
When you write code you get bugs [insert test driven…
Visually Designing Apps In Delphi Deliver Up To 5X Productivity Gains Over WPF And Electron
January 28, 2021
Building a functional, intuitive and visually appealing user interface is vital to the success of an app. It also involving a time-consuming design and coding effort that can be further exacerbated without the tools that enable visual design. Using a WISYWIG (What You See Is…
Delphi Offers Massive Productivity Boost Over WPF And Electron
January 27, 2021
How do Delphi, WPF .NET Framework, and Electron perform compared to each other, and what’s the best way to make an objective comparison? Embarcadero commissioned a whitepaper to investigate the differences between Delphi, WPF .NET Framework, and Electron for building Windows desktop applications. The benchmark application – a Windows 10 Calculator clone – was recreated in each framework…
Cross-Platform to Windows, macOS, Linux with Firepower - Replay
January 22, 2021
In this webinar, Embarcadero Delphi MVP Ian Barker writes and deploys an app that targets Windows, macOS, and Linux from one set of code using just Delphi 10.4 and the FirePower components from Woll2Woll software. Roy Woll (from Woll2Woll) will be taking part in a live Q…
Fast Inverse Square Root in Delphi's Object Pascal
January 9, 2021
Does Delphi make you a better programmer? Is Object Pascal code more readable?
There is an algorithm with a mystery constant that rose to fame in John Carmack’s Quake III Arena C code for quickly estimating the inverse square root of a 32-bit floating-point…
Boost C++Builder Compile Speed with TwineCompile - Deep Dive Webinar
December 1, 2020
TwineCompile is an advanced compile system that uses multi-threading technology and caching techniques to make your C++Builder compiles 50x faster! This IDE Plugin is included free with an active Update Subscription for all C++Builder and RAD Studio customers via the GetIt Package Manager. Install TwineCompile today from GetIt, before the webinar, so you can easily follow along as Jonathan demos…
Using Python4Delphi with C++Builder (webinar)
November 24, 2020
David I. has a fantastic blog post on using Python4Delphi with C++Builder. This was inspired by our previous webinars on the topic. and is the result of his collaboration with Kiriakos (AKA PyScripter), the maintainer of Python4Delphi, who also made some changes in the…
Installing Component Packages Manually
November 12, 2020
Sometimes you need to install components manually. Maybe the installer wasn’t updated for your version of Delphi, or it is an open-source library without an installer. Whatever the reason, here is a short guide in addition to what is found in the DocWiki on the…
The All-New DelphiFeeds.com
November 3, 2020
DelphiFeeds.com was launched by the Gurock brothers back in about 2005. Since then Gurock’s TestRail product really took off, and they were so busy they no longer had time to maintain DelphiFeeds. It continued collecting feeds and sharing headlines but was no longer adding updated feed sources. In the interim, we’ve seen new sites like BeginEnd.net and most recently DelphiMagazine.com…