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A Busy Summer!

It was a busy summer. There has been so much happening lately that it is difficult to decide where to start. Earlier this year we launched the milestone RAD Studio 10.2 (aka Tokyo). This August we released Update 10.2.1 that provided a number of highly anticipated quality and feature updates. So, what happened with the BIG September release? As stated before, we are no longer looking for the next…
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Get Started with RAD Studio 10.2.1 using Sample Projects

Guided Tour The Guided Tour is a step-by-step bubble pop-up tour that shows you how to build your first multi-device FireMonkey application using the FireUI Designer. Following the steps in the tour is a good starting point for anyone new to the FireMonkey framework. You can access the Guided Tour from the Welcome Page. Mobile Snippets We provide a number of FireMonkey mobile…
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Using Delphi Parse API with Any Parse Server Hosting

The Parse web site (owned by Facebook) was retired earlier this year. This was a fairly popular BaaS (backend as a service) provider for mobile applications, but something you could use also from desktop apps. Delphi (and also C++Builder, btw) has included ready-to-use components for interfacing Parse APIs for quite some time. It was very easy to set up an account on the system and create an app.
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Sencha aquired by Embarcadero (Idera)

Author: Pawe Gowacki It was in the bus on Monday, on the last day of my summer vacation. Catching up with news on my phone that was switched off for the last two weeks. A thrilling news! IDERA acquires web application development provider Sencha Probably in the short term…
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Why I Keep Choosing Delphi

Early on I learned Turbo Pascal, which was a huge step up from the Basic and Batch Fileprogramming I cut mywhitening on. When Delphi came along I thought it was brilliant and fell in love immediately. I had no interest in learning other programming languages or…
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Thought Controlled Drone in Tokyo

While I was in Tokyo for the Tokyo launch I worked with the Embarcadero office there to make a new BCI demo video. This is using the Emotiv EPOC wireless EEG headset to read cognitive thought patterns, which are transmitted wirelessly to the laptop and the Delphi powered application. It responds by sending the commands to the Parrot AR.Drone based on the thought patterns. I developed components…
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