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CAD with C++Builder, episode#1

Author: Seva Leonov Learning tasks and motivation When teaching programming skills, especially with C++, one of the main issue is the selection of right examples and tasks. C++ is not that easy both in syntax, and concepts, and sostudents are demotivated just by the number of pages in the book. The true motive when studying a complicated discipline is the seeing the progress not in just…
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Delphi Tokyo Release 1 or 10.2.1 is Now Available

You can read more about the release and its rationale in the PM article published in the community: https://community.embarcadero.com/article/16556-rad-studio-10-2-1-released-today For the actual release information docWiki page, including how to obtain the…
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"Serverless Architectures on AWS" summer reading

Author: Pawe Gowacki Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released “Expert Delphi”, but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at.
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More 2017 FireDAC Webinars

To follow up with our recent FireDAC in Depth with Cary Jensen we have a series of FireDAC webinars to help you learn more about everyone’s favorite database access framework. Each webinar is offered at 8 AM, 1 PM and 8 PM US Central Time to provide access in all timezones. 25-Jul (Tue) FireDAC Introduction An introduction to the multi-platform, multi-database, full…
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Viewing Salesforce Data in RAD Studio Data Explorer

How to view Salesforce data in RAD Studio Data Explorer using the Enterprise Connectors for Salesforce. With the Enterprise Connectors for Salesforce, you gain access to live Salesforce data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures…
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Connecting to Chrome OS via ADB

This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS You need to put your Chromebook in Developer Mode First. Enabling ADB Debugging https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/index.html#setup First you have to allow ADB through the firewall. Go to crosh ([CTRL][ALT][T]) and drop to shell. You may need to setup a password via VT-2 first. I set one up when I first did this, but now reading things I…
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Enabling Developer Mode on Chrome OS

This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS Chromebook Developer Mode You need to put your Chromebook in Developer mode, which wipes the local storage, so you are better off doing it sooner rather than later. Also keep in mind it may void your…
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Changing a FireMonkey style at runtime

There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your applicationshowing how to have a FMX application with multiple style books, and a combo box listing the styles. When the app is running, a user can select one of the style in the combo box and the…
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Targeting Chrome OS with Delphi via Android and Linux

Google’s Chrome OS is based on their Chrome Browser and runs on Chromebooks, which are hybrids of a tablet and a laptop. They are designed with the assumption that the majority of what we do nowadays is done through the browser. Google announced a while ago that they would begin adding support for the Google Play Store to Chrome OS, allowing you to run Android apps on a Chromebook. The…
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