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Icons8 and Delphi GUIs

Author: Pawe Gowacki Designing graphical users is a combination of different skills. Probably the artistic angle is the most important, but user experience comes close. In Delphi Rapid Application Development paradigm there is hardly the prototyping phase. Your…
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Delphi on Raspberry Pi

[Part 1] [Part 2] Part 1 The Raspberry Pi is an example of a single board computer. These low-cost hobby or project computers are a prime staple of the Internet of Things. More powerful than an Arduino, but not a full desktop. They often have limited or specialized hardware, but their small size and low cost make them ideal for embedded application development. Delphi supports both ARM and…
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Build Healthcare Apps with Delphi and FireMonkey (FMX)

Today Healthcare is one of the hottest areas for Technology innovation. It is globally a $6B opportunity based on startup funding trends, which is a lot, but there is also a $3 Trillion industry to transform! Delphi has a particularly strong presence in Healthcare.
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FireDAC and Microsoft Azure SQL Database

I’ve started to get requests to use FireDAC with Cloud Databases, like SQL Azure. The question whether or not to put your business data in the cloud is getting easier and easier these days and a lot of that is thanks to Microsoft’s investment in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft’sstrategy to create an infrastructure, like Microsoft Azure SQL Database, that can manage…
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RxLib and Tokyo Compatibility

Author: Jhonny Although in the pagehttp://www.micrel.cz/RxLib/says that they are not the official page of theRxLib, anyone needing this library of components to be able to update their version Delphi … they hope that they add support for Delphi Tokyo. As…
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FireMonkey and VCL Style Packs from DelphiStyles.com

Their FireMonkey Style Packs provide custom themes for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, plus Linux (via their FMX for Linux support). They also include style templates for the Bitmap Style Designer with multi-resolution graphics. Below are screenshots of some of their…
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Keep Threading in Mind

In my interview with Martin he talked a lot about the importance of performance, which is one of the reasons he uses Delphi for his real-time lighting control systems. He said something along the lines that if you are not programming with threading in mind then you are never going to get good performance. That is good advice. Even cell phones have quad-core processors in them these…
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