The release of Delphi Community Edition is fantastic news for the Delphi language, the developer community, the partners, and the entire ecosystem. We hope it will help new developers (students, hobbyist, open source developers, and someone starting with mobile store publishing, among others) adopt Delphi for their Windows, Mac and mobile development.
This new version is a big leap forward from…
Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition: Part 4 - Designing User Interfaces
July 18, 2018
Last time we have talked about the importance of app architecture and layers of code. David went one step further and started to build user interface for our calculator apps. This week I’m going to catch up and we will discuss designing user interfaces (UI) for our…
Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition: Part 3 - Architecture and Layers of Code
July 18, 2018
This is Part 3 of our five part “Learn to Program” series. In Part 2, we created “DelphiSuperCalculator” project and learned how to build, run and debug it.
Layers
Before rushing into writing code it is a good thing to step back first and think about the overall…
Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition: Part 2 - Building and Debugging
July 17, 2018
In the first post we covered the installation of Delphi Community Edition. The best way to learn something is to start using it to build something useful, but not too complicated. Today we will start creating a “calculator” application that we will use as a vehicle to…
Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition: Part 1 - Introduction and Installation
July 17, 2018
This blog post is the beginning of the “Learn to Program in Delphi” series. We are expecting that you have some previous experience in programming, but not in Delphi. In this five part series we are going to take you through the process of building a simple…
At times, RAD Studio GetIt-based web installer stops with some fairly vague error message. These can be due to connectivity issues, odd file system configurations, lack of disk space, an existing partial install, and other causes. But some of the error messages like…
Embarcadero has just released a performance patch for the RAD Studio 10.2.3 version of RAD Server, our REST-based web service hosting architecture.
Getting The RAD Server Optimization Patch
This patch is available at http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30838 and it includes a…
IBLite is the local version of the InterBase database you can embed in your mobile and desktop applications. RAD Studio has full deployment support, so you can easily deploy the required file with your app, both for debug and for store deployment (see image below).
It has been a while, again, but I’m back with a collection of relevant and notable links of the recent weeks. All of these are interesting reads and worth checking in case you have missed them.
Official Embarcadero Updates
Idera Adds Web App Text Editing through Froala…
We were able to investigate some very specific CodeInsight bugs (with reproducible cases) over the last few months, and we were able to work on several fixes to the Code Completion and other areas. One critical case involved a developer overloading a generic method. While…
