Despite all the push for web and mobile development, which are certainly growing a lot, Windows desktop development is far from death. In fact, at the recent Build 2018 conference Microsoft reported that over the last year the developers using Visual Studio for building desktop applications has doubled. On our side, we know the the majority of the RAD Studio customers are still maintaining a lot…
As you have probably seen, Embarcadero has released a few patches for 10.2.3. I wrote about them at http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2018-april-10-2-3-patches-recap.html and there was a new one for iOS covered by Sarina at…
You might have seen my blog has had a few issues recently. It is a very old application written in Delphi and running on a totally outdated Linux VM, hosted by a newer and more robust server. But the reality is, it is fairly fragile. First it had a kernel crash, caused by a…
I have already blogged specifically about the 10.2.3 release, the patcheswe delivered for it, and linked to the collection of related articles in the community site athttps://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/tags/tag/10-2-3. In particular, the launch webinar reply is available at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/10-2-3-webinar-replay. Not much else to add, if not that it…
The replay launch webinar done by the PM team earlier in April is available on YouTube and it is linked athttps://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/10-2-3-webinar-replay. You can also browse the community for all of the 10.2.3 related blog posts…
Embarcadero has released a couple of small and focused patches for the recent RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 10.2.3 update.
The first is an Android Push Notification Patch available ashttps://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30831.This patch resolves an issue with…
I already blogged about RAD Server changes and RTL fixes in the Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio 10.2.3 update. Another area that has received attention is the database support in general, and FireDAC in particular. Below is a list with some of the most notable improvements, with the Quality Portal entry, if available.
FireDAC Improvements
FireDAC work was mostly focused at better handling of…
As listed in the “What’s New in 10.2.3” DocWiki page,http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/10.2_Tokyo_-_Release_3, among the changes, new features, and fixesin the latest update of 10.2 Tokyo.
One of the added features isMIME…
The RAD Server (formerly EMS) platform is evolving to be a better backend for JavaScript applications, including of course those built with Ext JS. In the 10.2.2 release we improved support for returning JSON data based on the result of database queries, as covered…
The last few months have been really a bit hectic, and I failed to find the time for my regular “notable Delphi blog posts” summary. I’ve also done very few blog posts in general. Here is one, with key entries only (or I’d be way too long).
Embarcadero Updates
Exciting RAD Studio Developments in 2018 by Sarina…
