How often do you think about the people upstream and downstream from you in the software development lifecycle? The following is some lighthearted advice in the area of soft skills for software developers.
When you write code you get bugs [insert test driven development argument here]. It takes time to test and fix those bugs, but realistically you can never be sure the code is bug free.
Visually Designing Apps In Delphi Deliver Up To 5X Productivity Gains Over WPF And Electron
January 28, 2021
Building a functional, intuitive and visually appealing user interface is vital to the success of an app. It also involving a time-consuming design and coding effort that can be further exacerbated without the tools that enable visual design. Using a WISYWIG (What You See Is…
Developer Michal Mutl has a powerful network scanner software and network discovery tool available for Windows and it is built in Delphi. According to the site it “is a free multi-threaded ICMP, Port, IP, NetBIOS, ActiveDirectory and SNMP scanner with many advanced…
Upgraded XML Mapper Is A Robust XML Handling Tool For RAD Studio Developers
January 27, 2021
XML Mapper is an updated version of the XML Mapper that ships with RAD Studio. With the XML Mapper, you can define the mappings between generic XML documents and the data packets that client datasets utilize.
XML Mapper can define mappings in 3 ways:
From an existing XML scheme to a client dataset that you defineFrom an existing data packet to a new XML scheme you defineBetween an existing…
Join Delphi MVP Ian Barker as he shows how to get the modern Windows 10 look and feel using RAD Studio’s themes and some *very* cost-effective third-party controls. Get that truly modern WOW factor kickstarted with minimal effort – Ian will show you…
Learn How To Build Powerful Web Applications In Delphi With IntraWeb And TMS WEB Core
January 27, 2021
TMS Web Core and IntraWeb are favorite web development tools of Delphi developers the world over. Join this special webinar and learn the intricacies and specifics of these two popular and powerful web frameworks and why you should add them to your web development tool belt.
How do Delphi, WPF .NET Framework, and Electron perform compared to each other, and what’s the best way to make an objective comparison? Embarcadero commissioned a whitepaper to investigate the differences between Delphi, WPF .NET Framework, and Electron for building Windows desktop applications. The benchmark application – a Windows 10 Calculator clone – was recreated in each framework…
7 Tips For Learning To Build Powerful Windows GUI Apps Using Python And Delphi
January 26, 2021
Python4Delphi is the library that provides the integration between Python and Delphi. It is effectively a bidirectional bridge that allows Delphi to execute Python code and call Python libraries and allows Python to call modules written in Delphi in otherwise interact with…
Create Enterprise-Grade Grid Based Desktop Applications 10x Faster With X-Files Components
January 26, 2021
Delphi VCL community is wide enough that you can find thousands of different components in the market. And these components increase your productivity, which leads to really awesome desktop projects.
X-DBGrid Component package is a popular and most used component set…
Quickly Learn How To Fetch A Table Using FireDAC In This IFDPhysCommand Delphi Sample
January 26, 2021
The sample uses theIFDPhysCommandinterace tofetch rowsfrom the current command cursor in theDatStable. To this end, the samplecreates a commandinterface to:
PrepareaSELECTcommand.Definethe structure of theDatStable.Openthe command interface.Fetchthe table.Print the fetched rows
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