Today’s CoolApps selection is SyncBackPro, from 2BrightSparks. This utility is a remarkable tool that allows users to back up and synchronize their data across multiple operating systems. Even cooler, it supports a huge number of popular cloud-based storage platforms. It’s a fantastic example of Delphi in action and is a tremendously helpful utility.
SyncBack was first released in…
Creating and connecting to MSSQL Database on Azure with Delphi / C++Builder
January 20, 2020
I have been asked multiple times recently about connecting to a Azure databases with Delphi and C++Builder. So….I decided to make a video! Which even shows how to use the data directly at design time in the RAD Studio IDE.
The video follows the the 3 phases.
Creating…
An issue debugging on iOS devices containing an A12 chip has been resolved
We’ve just released a patch for Delphi and C++Builder 10.3.3 which resolves the following issues:
RSP-26709 Debugger ‘freezes’ on iPhone 11 Pro
RSP-25732 Can’t debug on iOS Device
Both…
InterBase is, and continues to be, one of the hidden gems of the relational database world.
From its inception in the early 1980s, through mainstream adoption and evolution under Borland, InterBase looks back at a track-record that spand decades; at times defining the…
RAD Server Academy Course - lecture 7 extract - Returning JSON using JSONValue and JSONWriter.
January 15, 2020
I’ve uploaded an extract of me RAD Server Embarcadero Academy course Lecture 7 – Returning JSON using JSONValue and JSONWriter. This video clips will give you an example of one of the lectures that are included in the Delphi and C++ courses.
The clips (on my YouTube…
I recently blogged about a number of RAD Server topics, including using TEMSDataSetResource, (the component that enables a TDataSet to be expose as a RESTful resource, and manage all the List, Get, Put, Post, Delete methods – very cool!), how to set named parameters for…
Embarcadero just released a patch for RAD Studio 10.3.3 for a problem caused by a regression in our copy of the Indy library and related to Indy servers on the Windows platform as they load SSL certificates. The issue was reported on Quality Portal as RSP-27144.
The patch…
One of our MVPs, Ryan Potts, is the originator and maintainer of the Delphi track on Exercism – a site dedicated making it easy for people to learn different programming languages. He was interviewed by the Exercism team previously, but I thought it would be interesting to…
Today’s CoolApps selection is Tears of Ra, by Konstantinos Onoufriadis. It is an Egyptian-themed slot machine app that is a lot of fun to play and explore. Tears of Ra was written and developed with Delphi and is available now on Android.
I asked Konstantinos why he…
Developing client applications using RESTful master-detail data with TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter
December 24, 2019
This is part 3 in my series of developing an REST server and client application and will focus around using the TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter.
In my last two posts, we have created a REST server with a fully documented API using YAML , and exposed 3 datasets with master…
