Delphi

November 12, 2017

There are quite a few Delphi open source projects on GitHub that can really save you some time. I searched for Delphi on GitHub and then sorted by the Most Starred projects and came up with this Top 10 list. There is some really good stuff here including Awesome Delphi (which is another top list), Delphi IDE color theming projects, an MVC web framework, a REST API client,Open Source Computer…

CodeRage XII: Amazon S3 and Cloud API

November 12, 2017

Author: Pawe Gowacki CodeRage XII was great! Plenty of contents and great fun. It was not the first time I have been doing a session on using Delphi Cloud API to integrate with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). This year I thought it would be cool to go a little bit…

9 FireMonkey Component Suites To Get You Up And Running Fast In Delphi 10.2 Tokyo

November 11, 2017

Delphi 10.2 Tokyo ships with a massive amount of FireMonkey components for cross platform development on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. However, there is always room for more custom components to be built to get your app done that much faster. Additionally, once you start…

Six Easy Ways To Embed JavaScript Engines In Your Delphi 10.2 Tokyo Apps

November 11, 2017

JavaScript is a useful scripting language which you can incorporate within your Delphi 10.2 Tokyo apps in a number of ways. There are open source, commercial component sets, and libraries which quickly allow you to do this in Delphi. These include JSEngine, ScriptGate, paxCompiler, v8delphiwrapper, BESEN, and ChakraCore headers. Some of the reasons why you might want to use Delphi and JavaScript…

Two New Free VCL Styles for CodeRage from DelphiStyles.com

By Sarina DuPont

November 7, 2017

DelphiStyles.com sells stunning VCL and FireMonkey multi-device styles. In time for CodeRage, they have released two new free VCL Windows styles which can be downloaded via the GetIt Package Manager in 10.2 Tokyo. The two new free styles are “Glossy 2” and…

My CodeRage Sessions next week

By Sarina DuPont

November 3, 2017

CodeRage is next week. Have you signed up yet? Register Now I will be presenting two different sessions: Session 1: RAD Studio Product Address Speaker: Sarina DuPont, Marco Cantu, David Millington When: Tue, 7-Nov from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Level: All (General information…

Project modernization plan

October 31, 2017

Author: Bogdan Polak BSC DataSet and User Interface In the last blog post, I discussed how badly for the project is dividing one transaction between multiple events. This scenario is very common in most of the VCL projects and with time it causes huge difficulties with maintaining and upgrading it. This time I’d like to start explaining how to improve this state, and I’m going to build…

Learning JavaScript

October 29, 2017

Author: Pawe Gowacki My favorite programming language is Object Pascal. Period. However it is not the only programming language in the world. Probably my very first was Basic on ZX Spectrum, then came Turbo Pascal on DOS and quickly changed to Delphi and Object Pascal. Over…

What is my IP address?

October 20, 2017

Author: Pawe Gowacki There are many situation when it would handy to know the IP address of a device where our app is running. Maybe you want to identify who is running your app? By IP address it is also possible to calculate the approximate location of a device. If you…

Easily Make Asynchronous REST Calls In Delphi 10.2.1 Tokyo On Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows 10