This week, Delphi is turning 25, and as part of the celebrations, members of the community have been encouraged to share their stories about Delphi, what they love and how it has helped their careers.
Delphi was originally launched on the 14th of February 1995, while I was still at 6th form College. It kind of passed me by, to be honest. At the time, I was just purchasing (well my parents did) my…
Creating PDF Reports in RAD Server
Reporting is a critical aspect of any enterprise application, but the data and the programming components to create reports are not always available on all platforms?
It took a little trial and error to work out the best path to create…
Embarcadero has just published a long and detailed guide covering the deployment of RAD Server to Docker. It is available at:
https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30910
The guide introducing some key concepts and than covers in details (providing information about all options and…
An issue withthread-local storage that could cause AVs on some Win64 machines has been resolved
We’ve just released a patch for C++Builder 10.3.3 that resolves:
RSP-27180 64-bit builds crash with threadsCreating and using a thread (eg std::thread) could result in an access violation on some machines.
This was caused by an error setting up the Win64 32-byte shadow space inside the…
Cinque motivi per utilizzare InterBase nel 2020 ed oltre [ in italiano ]
January 27, 2020
Italian translation of Five Reasons to use InterBase in 2020 and Beyond
InterBase è e continua a essere una delle gemme nascoste nel mondo dei database relazionali.
Dalla sua apparizione nei primi anni ’80, attraverso l’adozione generalizzata e…
Over the past few months, we have seen a significant increase in interest and adoption of RAD Server, Embarcadero’s REST-based Web Service solution. We think this is due to the many additional features we’ve added to RAD Server in recent releases to further simplify…
In my previous post I focused on InterBase 2020 and outlined five good reasons why InterBase should be your next database engine. In this post I want to look at five awesome additions to Delphi that help you write lean, modern and fully compliant Windows 10 applications.
To the average non-technical computer user, Windows 10 might seem as just another Windows version. I still hear both…
Creating and connecting to MSSQL Database on Azure with Delphi / C++Builder
January 20, 2020
I have been asked multiple times recently about connecting to a Azure databases with Delphi and C++Builder. So….I decided to make a video! Which even shows how to use the data directly at design time in the RAD Studio IDE.
The video follows the the 3…
InterBase is, and continues to be, one of the hidden gems of the relational database world.
From its inception in the early 1980s, through mainstream adoption and evolution under Borland, InterBase looks back at a track-record that spand decades; at times defining the…
I recently blogged about a number of RAD Server topics, including using TEMSDataSetResource, (the component that enables a TDataSet to be expose as a RESTful resource, and manage all the List, Get, Put, Post, Delete methods – very cool!), how to set named parameters for the TEMSDataSetResource documentation (where multiple keys are passed in e.g. with Master Detail relationships (reviewed…
