Choosing a programming language to learn and utilize is an extremely personal choice and not one that developers take lightly. C++ has a long history as a popular language used to create Operating Systems, drivers, gaming engines and so much more. It expanded the C language by adding classes, inheritance and abstraction to its core, making it my favorite language to use.
C++ is the first language…
Secrets Of FireDac: Last Inserted Auto Generated Id And Enterprise Connectors
August 30, 2018
A common pattern when inserting data into a database table which has an auto increment field set on it is to use an SQL query to select the last inserted ID of the newly created record. Once you use your TFDQuery to run your INSERT query you can run this second query to get…
C++ has a long history, beginning in 1979, with Cpre, which added classes to C. By 1980, it was C with Classes. And then in December of 1983, the term C++ was first used, suggested by Rick Mascitti. That’s thirty-five years ago this year! Read more in this fascinating…
2018 has been a very exciting year so far for Embarcadero. In our roadmap, you can find the key features that we’ve planned for calendar year 2018/2019. Before we get to the details of our updated roadmap, we wanted to recap what we’ve delivered so far:
Back in March, we…
Start building visually stunning multi-device applications right away with these great tools accessible from the IDE’s Welcome Page.
TIP: If you accidentally close the Welcome Page, you can reopen it by going to View > Welcome Page.
This article covers the…
Secrets Of FireDAC: Dynamic Where Clause Using Conditional Substitution Macros
July 19, 2018
If you are using FireDAC and building your SQL queries manually you may be using more verbose code than is needed. FireDAC has a feature called Macros which allows you to do a variable substitution in your SQL query similar to parameter substitution but for raw SQL. However…
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Get started programming with our Community Editions!
Community Edition is our full-featured and free IDE to build applications for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS from a single codebase using the robust and easy-to-learn Delphi language. It’s the…
Today is a very exciting day for our community. For many years, we’ve gotten requests from Delphi and C++Builder users that they’d love to see a Community Edition of Delphi and C++Builder.
For the first time ever, we are launching a full featured Community Edition. It…
Let’s say for example that you want to create a heart rate monitor app. You’ll need information about the heart rate GATT profile to connect to and collect data from the bluetooth enabled HR monitor device.
GATT profiles are high level definitions that define how to…
The Internet of Things or IoT is an extremely popular field in technology right now. With all the new tech that fills so many different consumer demands, the wide variety of choices for programming languages are getting some serious attention and I decided to give a nod to…
