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New Delphi’s Object Pascal Style Guide

Embarcadero has just published on the docwiki site an updated version of the language style guide. The document has been updated to cover modern Delphi language features and some changes to the coding style Over the last few months I drove an effort to publish a new Object Pascal style guide for today’s Delphi language. From the preface: “This document is an updated version of the…
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50 Years of Pascal and Delphi is In Power

It’s 50 years of the Pascal language and Delphi is its heir, empowering Pascal developers in today’s complex scenarios, despite being ignored by the Pascal language inventor Niklaus Wirth published the paper “The programming language Pascal” in March 1971…
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Additional Considerations and Links on RAD Studio 10.4.2

I’ve collected a few additional blog posts with information about new features in the latest version of Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio, which is receiving very positive external customers feedback. Last month Embarcadero made available RAD Studio, C++Builder and…
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Two New VCL Controls Coming in RAD Studio 10.4.2

Among the new features in the coming release of Delphi, C++ Builder, and RAD Studio 10.4.2 Embarcadero will include two brand new VCL controls, a virtualized list control and a numeric input box. Warning: This blog post covers an unreleased product, which is subject to…
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26 Years... of Delphi

Today is Delphi 26th anniversary. A very long time… Many things have changed, some more than others. Here’s my 26 picks! On February 14th 1995, Borland introduced a new tool for developers, one that sparked a lot of enthusiasm and over 26 years has been used to…
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Using Apilayer REST APIs from Delphi

As you might have seen online, Idera (Embarcadero parent company) recently acquired apilayer, a company offering a number of REST API micro-services, ranging from IP address geolocation to email and phone number checks, from financial information to weather and flight…
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New FireUI App Preview on Play Store

When FireMonkey introduced the FireUI Preview a few releases back, the application was available in the Google and Apple stores, to simplify the deployment to a device. The same app is also a demo available as source code, but that requires a few configuration steps to be…