We continued our webinar with a look at how ridiculously fast and easy it is to create cross-platform apps with RAD Studio and connect to a variety of databases. One of the great strengths of RAD Studio, and particularly Delphi and C++ Builder is how it can use components like FireDAC to connect to almost any database system there is available. In the webinar I looked at the range of built-in…
Sqids: Integration with RAD Server and standalone library
December 19, 2023
With the launch of RAD Studio 12, RAD Server not only fully integrates the encoding Sqids library, but you can also use it in any other project through the new TSqidsEncoding class available in the System.NetEncoding.Sqids namespace.
Sqids is a small open-source library…
Announcing the new updated RAD Server Technical Guide
September 29, 2023
Back in 2019, David I wrote a fantastic guide to RAD Server that has been very popular in helping developers develop new, and migrate older systems towards a RESTful architecture. There have been a number of updates to RAD Server since the guide was originally launched…
If you have watched any of Embarcadero’s online content, attended a RAD Studio webinar, or been to one of the in-person events you will most likely know the wonderful Jim McKeeth. Jim has been the Chief Developer Advocate and Engineer for Embarcadero since July 13th, 2013, just short of ten years. Today, however, the big news is that Jim is leaving Embarcadero and moving on to a new role as…
If you want to deploy RAD Server on a Linux environment (on-premise or cloud-based) it is mandatory to deploy an instance of InterBase as well because it is the database used by RAD Server to store all its internal data.
This is quite straightforward in most cases, and you…
Official Docker Containers Updated for 11.2
January 24, 2023
The official PAServer, RAD Server, and InterBase Docker images are all updated to work with 11.2. The 10.x images used Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver) while the updated 11.3 images use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). You can find the images on Docker Hub, or the…