Many businesses today are looking to identify opportunities to increase efficiency in their business processes and expand opportunity by using apps on mobile devices. While this is positive, organizations must manage the initiative correctly to minimize risk of failure, as getting it wrong can cost much more than just the initial budget allocated for the project; in both time and money, it can…
In this Part 2 post, we will discuss modifying the default generated CRUD (CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE) procedure implementations from the RAD Server Package Wizard, to show one possible way to implement Get, GetItem, Post, PutItem and DeleteItem REST Endpoints.
In the Part…
In this RAD Server CRUD Procedures – Part 1 post, we will discuss the the default generated CRUD procedure implementations from the RAD Server Package Wizard.
In the RAD Server CRUD Procedures – Part 2 post, we will discuss modifying the default generated CRUD…
Low code app development is increasingly popular today, and for good reason: it speaks to the demand for software paired with the difficulty of creating it. In many ways, Delphi led the low code revolution: RAD, where you build software by connecting components in a visual designer, is low code. The key with many low code solutions is extensibility: low code which cannot be extended to a…
Idera Developer Tools Family Grows
Idera Developer Tools continue to grow with the recent acquisition of apilayer (www.apilayer.com), which provides a variety of high performance api offerings ranging from geolocation to currency rates. We have aggressive ambitions to…
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…
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 set up and get data in JSON format, which means we can easily use the REST framework to connect this data.
If…
I’ve been demonstrating complete, industry-ready RAD Server solutions. The Field Services Industry template, for example, includes REST endpoints to which the Field Service Admin and Field Service App connect. It stores its databases on the backend with…
Stephen Ball is a Chartered IT Professional and Embarcadero MVP who has led development teams for over 15 years within the UK, Europe and beyond, working with a range of blue-chip companies. He originally spent six years at Embarcadero as Senior Technical Pre-Sales Engineer…
Object Relational Mapping is the idea of being able to write queries using the object-oriented paradigm in your preferred programming language. So this means we are trying to utilize our language to talk with the database instead of using SQL.
Why utilize ORM?
It abstracts away the database system, so switching is easy.Your queries can be efficient than writing them with SQL.With ORM, you…
