Author: Rebekah D
There is an interesting post on Medium aiming to inspire students why to learn C++. Its main point is that learning C++ teaches fundamental computer science concepts: memory management, compile-time vs run-time, polymorphism implementation, iterators and containers, and more. Unfortunately, it phrases itself in an exclusionary manner. While C++ is not the only…
Author: Rebekah D
There is an interesting post on Medium aiming to inspire students why to learn C++. Its main point is that learning C++ teaches fundamental computer science concepts: memory management, compile-time vs run-time, polymorphism implementation, iterators and…
Last week, we ran a popular webinar Fast Builds and Integrating Libraries: Using CMake and Ninja for C++ Builder 10.2.3. The replay is now available on Youtube.
In it, I demonstrated twoitems building with C++Builder and our CMake support: a real-world FireMonkey…
While most of the Delphi conferences in Europe happen in the fall (September and October are generally fairly crowded months), there are also a few regular events in the late spring timeframe.
Delphi Day, Italy, June 7th
The Delphi Day in Italy is a conference I helped organized for many years and that generally attracts a crowd of about ahundred Delphi professional developers. This year it…
Despite all the push for web and mobile development, which are certainly growing a lot, Windows desktop development is far from death. In fact, at the recent Build 2018 conference Microsoft reported that over the last year the developers using Visual Studio for building…
Author: Craig Chapman
My regular readers may be aware that over the past two or three months, I’ve been working on building a new video game engine for Delphi. I’ve also had many other demands on my time, which has meant that I’ve not posted in a while. Today however…
Solution Name: RAD Server Field Service Application – Delphi
Industry: Field Service
Solution Overview: The RAD Server Field Service Industry Template provides an end-to-end field service application template for routing appointments, managing parts, and user administration. It is made up of a REST server module, a desktop client, and a cross platform mobile…
As you have probably seen, Embarcadero has released a few patches for 10.2.3. I wrote about them at http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2018-april-10-2-3-patches-recap.html and there was a new one for iOS covered by Sarina at…
Author: Shinji Chikugi
I found an interesting C++ libraly.That is “LINQ for C++”.
What’s “LINQ”?
LINQ (Integrated Language Query) is a function of C#. LINQ issues a query to the container and gets the result.
For details, please refer to…
Programming languages are exciting for developers, and C++, one of the more technically challenging and also perhaps the most widely used compiled language, is one of the most exciting. As Theodore Roosevelt is misquoted (*), ‘the more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future,’ so let’s dive into a bit of C++ history and how it’s shaped our coding…
