We are very pleased to announce that our very own Marco Cantú has been given the Niklaus Wirth Award by The International Pascal Congress hosted by The University of Salamanca in Spain.
The citation from the jury finishes with the sentence “Marco Cantù is one of the most brilliant, original, and distinguished figures of Pascal Community”. I don’t think we could have said it better…
We’re very lucky here at Embarcadero to have a whole team of extremely talented MVPs and Tech Partners who both champion our products as enthusiastic highly skilled users but also contribute towards the power of RAD Studio with Delphi and C++ with tools, components…
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…
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, 2013, just short of ten years. Today, however, the big news is that Jim is leaving Embarcadero and moving on to a new role as…
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…
Getting Big with Pi in Delphi
April 7, 2023
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…
Is Powerful AI Really Going To Steal Our Jobs?
April 4, 2023
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 company behind the admirably powerful ChatGPT, Dall-E and similar advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning…
Software Testing Fundamentals & a Must-Have Book
March 29, 2023
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…
Calculating Pi in Delphi for Pi Day 2023
March 14, 2023
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…
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 iOS too. I am so grateful to you all for taking part. All the authors of the published articles will be contacted shortly, and…