In keeping with our Build your own Summer Camp theme, today we are focusing on C++Builder. Before I jump into C++ learning resources, a reminder for the TCoffeeAndCode Live Stream and Danny Wind’s Introduction to REST WebServices.
Monday we had a quick intro to installing C++Builder 10.4.2 CE. The following 13 video playlist walks you through some C++ Fundamentals:
Once…
Exploring ARM on the Desktop
June 26, 2021
In the next TCoffeeAndCode session at noon CDT on June 30th, we are taking a look at Delphi 10.4.2 on the new desktop Arm based Apple M1 CPU with both MacOS and Windows 10, with a little look at the recently announced Windows 11. I’ll be updating this post with more…
Data ETL: Adding Custom LiveBindings To Your Apps
May 31, 2021
In the recent Data ETL focused TCoffeeAndCode episode there was some excellent discussion around the use of FireDAC to extract and manipulate data in various ways. In this article, you’ll get through what Data ETL is, what is LiveBindings, using Live Bindings with an IDE…
OK, so you’ve written something brilliant, The Next Big Thing. You’re taking a modern approach. You’ve read up – or watched – our series on Fluent UI and maybe even applied a few visual things like the neo-skeuomorphism we learned about at the Desktop First conference.
Perhaps you’ve applied some VCL themes to your app and integrated the ability to detect Windows 10 dark…
50 Years of Pascal and Delphi is In Power
March 26, 2021
It’s 50 years of the Pascal language and Delphi is its heir, empowering Pascal developers in today’s complex scenarios, despite being ignored by the Pascal language inventor
Niklaus Wirth published the paper “The programming language Pascal” in March 1971…
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…
Winners of the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge
March 10, 2021
So many great entries for the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge! There were 170 entries covering a wide range of project types. Everything from games and multimedia to line-of-business and consumer software. Both on VCL on the desktop and FireMonkey on mobile platforms. It is so easy to get wrapped up in our view of what Delphi is useful for, we sometimes miss its amazing flexibility. I recommend…
26 Years... of Delphi
February 15, 2021
Today is Delphi 26th anniversary. A very long time… Many things have changed, some more than others. Here’s my 26 picks!
On February 14th 1995, Borland introduced a new tool for developers, one that sparked a lot of enthusiasm and over 26 years has been used to…
Join TCoffee and Code Week - 1st to 5th Feb
January 22, 2021
Join us for “TCoffee and Code”
Join us every day between the 1st & 5th of February for TCoffeeAndCode as we have a virtual coffee break at 11am GMT each day.
With Covid still keeping many developers away from the office and the rest of their teams, we decided…
Data Security in InterBase
September 13, 2019
Security is the first question I get when speaking with developers around InterBase. Ensuring that you can keep your users data secure and compliant is a necessity in the Cybersecurity world. Whether you have sensitive health data or even just names and phone numbers, you need to be able to reassure consumers that their data is safe and secure from hackers and data breaches.
How InterBase works to…