Hello fellow developers. The hugely important Stack Overflow site is currently running their annual survey of developer tools. Delphi is listed among the choices. It would be really helpful if you could visit the survey and let Stack Overflow know that you’re a RAD Studio with Delphi user. Whether you use one of the paid editions or the recently announced version 11 Community Edition it all…
If you have watched any of Embarcadero’s online content, attended a RAD Studio webinar, or been to one of the in-person events you will most likely know the wonderful Jim McKeeth. Jim has been the Chief Developer Advocate and Engineer for Embarcadero since July 13th…
When you develop Windows software you come across the need for some kinds of applications need to be run for 24 hours or, in fact, continually while the computer is running. Usually, the computers in question are network servers or monitoring applications on desktop…
When I was very young and first learned about Pi they told me 3.14 was a good approximation, but it was an irrational number that went on forever, and people with computers were able to calculate many digits. I had a computer (Commodore Vic 20) and wanted to see how many digits of Pi I could calculate. This is when I discovered floating point number precision limitations, which foiled my first…
This year is definitely starting to look like the year of the AI uprising and it’s only a question of time before it makes it into IDE software of all types. The ball really started rolling with a dramatic investment by Microsoft of at least $10 billion in OpenAI, the…
Software testing is one of the pillars of the software development life cycle, or SDLC (Plan – Design – Implement – Test – Deploy – Maintain). The goal behind the SDLC is to help developers build software cost-efficiently and minimize the…
Update: I revisited the calculation of Pi with even more digits.
In the United States today, March 14th is π day (3rd month, 14th day, or 3/14). Traditions involve eating pie, the pastry, and calculating Pi, the irrational mathematical constant.
Animation of the act of unrolling a circle’s circumference, illustrating the ratioπ. Edited by John Reid [CC BY-SA 3.0] via…
This is the final entry in the Enterprise Article challenge. We’ve had some great submissions from all kinds of developers who are using RAD Studio with Delphi and C++ Builder for Windows app development as well as a whole host of cross-platform apps for Android and…
This Excellent Cross-Platform Delphi App Has 6500+ Mobile App Store Downloads
March 6, 2023
During webinars I like to demonstrate how powerful RAD Studio with Delphi is for creating cross platform apps and how absolutely easy it is to do. I often make the point that I don’t want to work too hard which is why I like RAD Studio with Delphi – it does all…
Why Update Subscription Matters, And Why March is a Great Time to Renew Your Licenses!
March 4, 2023
RAD Studio gets better and better with every release. With a big developer team adding new capabilities, fixing bugs and addressing literally hundreds of customer requests daily, each version update of RAD Studio represents a leap forward not just for the IDE and toolset, but for your business as well.
Assuming, of course, you’re on update subscription.
A Landmark Release
RAD Studio 11…
