A customer recently inquired whether FireDAC could be used to connect to a database via an SSH tunnel. Of course, the short answer is yes. But first, let’s define an SSH tunnel and how it can be easily accomplished with Delphi and FireDAC.
SSH Tunnels
Secure Shell (ssh) is a standard tool that comes with most “network” operating systems, such as Windows. Linux, UNIX, macOS, and…
The AI Vision API from Google Cloud provides powerful pre-trained machine learning models that you can easily use in your desktop and mobile applications via REST or RPC API method calls. Assume you want your app to detect objects, locations, activities, animal species, and…
What can the Google Audio Transcription API do for our applications?
Google’s Audio Transcription API allows your program to use all the power of Google’s huge computing resources to accurately transcribe speech found in audio files into text.
As…
Since 1998, Ziad Allaghi has been developing programs with Delphi. Ziad’s (System of Student Registration) application is a showcase entry for the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge and we talked to him about his knowledge creating programs with Delphi. You can find more…
DigitalOcean offers a set of APIs that we can access to manage their products from our application. You can create applications that act like DigitalOcean’s Droplets Control Panel. You can access DigitalOcean’s API documentation here…
Giuliano D’Oronzo has been programming with Delphi since 2017. His (Prime) application was one of the showcase entries of the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge and we have also asked him further about his Delphi skills. Get more information about his board game at Prime.
Oripov Murod has been programming with Delphi since 2006. His application (DovtaLab2020) was submitted as an entry for the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge and we interviewed him to know more about his application and experiences with Delphi. You can download his application…
Do you want to add live exchange rates features to your applications? You can easily get live exchange rates in our C++ Builder and Delphi applications by using ExchangeRates API from theexchangeratesapi.iothat is free for 250 requests monthly. It is very easy to…
ISOCpp.org ran a C++ developer survey “lite” for the past week. You can find the PDF survey results on the site at https://isocpp.org/blog/2021/04/results-summary-2021-annual-cpp-developer-survey-lite
More than 1800 C++ developers responded to the survey. Here…
Do you currently use websockets in your applications? Do you want to learn more about what websockets can do for your apps? Continue reading to learn everything you need to know about using websockets with Delphi, as well as a rundown of some of the available component sets…
