Google has made available to all Gmail users a Linux Shell called Google Cloud Shell for interacting with their Cloud Services. This shell is a free Debian 7 shell with a storage capacity of 5GB. It is not a VM that continues to run while you are disconnected, but rather a shell that allows you to perform tasks on a Linux box. When your session ends and you reconnect, a new machine is created for…
C++Builder supports Boost, a common and useful C++ library. Through the GetIt package manager, you can install a build of v1.55 for our Clang compilers, or if you are using the classic compiler, an older version of Boost, v1.39.
Theversion available on GetIt for…
As more small and home businesses continue to enter the marketplace, point of sale (POS) technologies have become a critical part of modern economy. I’m excited to report that one of the real innovators in this market, BeePOS, is the winner of Embarcadero’s Cool App contest for January. The industry buzz around this company has been tremendous (obligatory bee reference, check!), and we’re…
On Monday this week David, Craig, and Jim discuss some of their favorite programming books, both focusing on Delphi and C++ specific ones, and general programming topics.
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Last week, Embarcadero released a patch for Tokyo 10.2.2, focused on Android and RTL improvements. What happened is that Windows would not always ask for execution with admin account (on systems with active User Account Control) and could end up copying the replacement files…
A new component has been released to create a great design app.
February 15, 2018
Author: Sang Hyun Oh
http://fmxdesign.comhas released a component that allows you to develop Delphi FMX apps with great design.
This components support the FireMonkey platforms which are Android, IOS, OSX, and Windows.
Component productsare in three groups.
Rapid Design UX for Good Design Apps, Rapid Design Chart for easy chart creation and
And a free component…
I’ve run into this a few times, where a REST Service returns results in pages, so you have to make multiple passes to get all the data. One thing I love about the RAD REST Client Library is the ability to store all the data in the FDMemTable where you can work on it.
Today is Delphi’s 23rd birthday. The product was launched on Valentine day in 1995 in San Francisco (andI had the luck to be there, as I covered in the past). 23 years is a lot of time for people. It is a incredibly long time for technologies. It is hard to find…
Author: Craig Chapman
I decided to write an app to celebrate Delphi’s 23rd birthday and valentines day.
Happy Birthday my beloved Delphi!
(Best Viewed Full Screen, Source and binary downloads below).
http://chapmanworld.com/wp-content/uploads/Downloads/PresentApp/20180214/PresentApp.mp4
The binaries provided here are Debug builds, and should be considered an Alpha version.
I intend to put…
