While working on 10.2 updates, we started delving into some performance issues of the Delphi RTL, that were effecting other libraries like JSON processing, streaming, string processing, DataSnap and RAD Server web services, and more. In many cases, addressing these issues required adding new methods to existing classes, or adding new global functions, something we can do only in interface breaking…
As you probably remember, I previously posted a 10.3 pre-release blog post on managed records in the Delphi language.
We had a great beta program for RAD Studio 10.3 and received a lot of very valuable feedback from partners and customers. Based on the feedback we…
In the coming 10.3 release of RAD Studio, we are adding support for Microsoft Per Monitor v2 mode available in recent releases of Windows 10.
Supporting multiple monitors with different resolutions in Windows applications, including VCL ones, is often fairly complex. One…
Beside inline variable declarations, Delphi 10.3 is going to offer another new Object Pascal language extension, custom managed records
Beside inline variable declaration, as explained in my recent blog post, the coming 10.3 version of Delphi will have another relevant…
The coming 10.3 version of Delphi introduces a very handy feature to the language, local inline variables with local scope and type inference.
The Delphi language in 10.3 has a fairly core change in the way it allows far more flexibility in the declaration of local…
With the coming 10.3 release, RAD Studio R&D and PM teams are making Delphi’s new directions in memory management official.
A few years back, when Embarcadero started building new Delphi compilers for platforms other than Windows there was a lot of discussion how…
What is AppAnalytics?
A few years ago, Embarcadero introduced the AppAnalytics technology, a simple and effective way to add in-app analytics to VCL and FMX applications using ready-to-use components and a paid SaaS offering for the AppAnalytics backend.
Since introducing…
Last week a (large) customer sent me an email indicating he was experiencing issues when compiling the same project on different machines. Turned out the difference was in the source code files format and the root cause was a unit saved as UTF-8 but without a BOM. The…
Delphi User Group Meeting, London
A couple of weeks ago I was in London for personal reasons and teamed up with the UK Developers Group to attend their monthly meeting and talk about Delphi. I offered an introductory talk, some in depth on RAD Server compared to other web…
Blogs on Embarcadero Community: Multi Tier Development and Enterprise SKU
September 25, 2018
I haven’t blogged much here in September, because I wrote two blog posts on the Embarcadero community site (given they were more official blog posts — I generally blog on my personal blogs and the content is surfaced on the Embarcadero community):
Build Flexible…
