Embarcadero has released a new InterBase ADO.NET driver for Visual Studio. The new driver, made available as a Nuget package and listed in the Visual Studio marketplace, will offer Visual Studio 2019 IDE integration and full support for ADO.NET and the Entity Framework.
The InterBase NuGet Package
The newly released NuGet package for Visual Studio includes a brand new ADO.NET driver for…
Working with OpenAI's GPT-3
May 6, 2021
The webinar was a huge hit. Planning future follow up webinars on the topic.
Blog post: OpenAI’s Introduction to the API with sign-up for the waiting listAcademic Paper: Language Models are Few-Shot LearnersDocumentation: OpenAI APIPersonally curated YouTube…
OK, so you’ve written something brilliant, The Next Big Thing. You’re taking a modern approach. You’ve read up – or watched – our series on Fluent UI and maybe even applied a few visual things like the neo-skeuomorphism we learned about at the Desktop First…
RAD Studio 10.4.2 General Patch and Delphi Compiler Patch
April 30, 2021
Embarcadero has just released two patches for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 10.4.2. The patches address a few critical issues in the most recent releases and are available to active update subscription customers in the GetIt Package manager. A matching alert shows up in the IDE Welcome page.
The patches are delivered as deferred installation packages, which means they are installed after you…
New Delphi’s Object Pascal Style Guide
April 29, 2021
Embarcadero has just published on the docwiki site an updated version of the language style guide. The document has been updated to cover modern Delphi language features and some changes to the coding style
Over the last few months I drove an effort to publish a new Object…
You may know C or C++ from college and want to develop apps, games and AI applications, but are unsure if what you learned suffices to help you reach your goal. How can you shift from “classroom” C++ to Modern C++?
Today, coding in any programming language is an indispensable skill, and the internet has many resources, ranging from how to code from scratch to how to build high-end…
About a month ago we published a short blog post about the importance of our partner ecosystem and interviewed DevExpress. Our partners not only build much needed functional capabilities for RAD Studio developers, but also deliver exciting innovation. One partner that…
Connecting Databases with FireDAC through SSH
April 22, 2021
A customer recently inquired whether FireDAC could be used to connect to a database via an SSH tunnel. Of course, the short answer is yes. But first, let’s define an SSH tunnel and how it can be easily accomplished with Delphi and FireDAC.
SSH Tunnels
Secure Shell…
TCoffeeAndCode - Spring Central Time Series
April 14, 2021
We are continuing the popular TCoffeeAndCode series. We kick off the Spring Time series for the Central Time zone with our 2 hour Q&A conversations. If you aren’t familiar with TCoffeeAndCode, it is a weekly “coffee shop” conversation with developers about topics important to developers. You can register for the whole series now, and then join the conversations that interest…