With the launch of RAD Studio 12, RAD Server not only fully integrates the encoding Sqids library, but you can also use it in any other project through the new TSqidsEncoding class available in the System.NetEncoding.Sqids namespace.
Sqids is a small open-source library that can produce short, unique, random-looking IDs from numbers. The best way to think about it is like a…
Hello developers. I hope you are keeping safe and well. Our next session in our Winter Webinars series was extremely popular. During the session I showed how to use RAD Studio 12 to create multi-platform apps to target Android devices. I took viewers through the steps…
Hello everyone. I hope you’re all keeping safe and well. We’ve had a huge amount of interest in RAD Studio 12 Athens our latest release of the Delphi and C++ IDE from Embarcadero. Thanks for your feedback which is overwhelmingly positive, and also for letting us…
On Thursday 9 November we held the launch webinar for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 12. We had an unprecedented number of attendees, to the point of doing a rerun on Nov 30th. This QA represents questions raised in both. If you were unable to attend take a look at our replay here.
We got hundreds of questions in the Q&A log. It is amazing seeing the interest and feedback and we reply in…
ZXing.Delphi (Zebra Crossing)
In the same way I did for RAD Studio 11 here, I successfully compiled a small demo app using the ZXing library for Delphi – but now using RAD Studio 12. This demo app was built with the most recent version of ZXing (3.97) and has been…
I first met Philippe Kahn and Turbo Pascal 40 years ago this month
November 6, 2023
In 1983, I was working for Softsel Computer Products (Softsel) in the product evaluation, support and training group. Softsel had a booth at the Fall 1983 COMDEX (Computer Dealer Expo) conference (November 28 to December 2) in the Las Vegas Convention Center. I sat at a pod…
Command-line Compilation Of Delphi Projects: Real-life Examples
November 6, 2023
Delphi app command-line compilation allows developers to compile a project in the background regime without the necessity to run IDE software. This approach is very useful for automating the compilation process, especially in those cases when you need to compile a lot of projects and/or libraries. Command-line compilation is conducted by means of the MSBuild command. The parameters of this command…
This content is based on a pre-release version of the software and has been written with specific permission by Embarcadero. No feature is committed until the product GA release
You kick off a new project. You are excited! You are coding all the features thinking:
“How…
Back in 2019, David I wrote a fantastic guide to RAD Server that has been very popular in helping developers develop new, and migrate older systems towards a RESTful architecture. There have been a number of updates to RAD Server since the guide was originally launched…
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