As you can read in details athttps://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/2018-spirit-of-delphi-award-winnerat the last CodeRage conference Embarcadero resumed the old tradition of giving recognition to an active member of the Delphi developers community, picking contributors in various areas. The blog post above by Jim McKeethhas the entire history of the prize and…
PacktPub has been adding Delphi programming books and videos lately, and they have a big sale going on right now with them all availablefor just $5 each. I’ve not read or reviewed all of these, but I know most of the authors, and many are MVPs.
Mastering…
If you’ve been a member of the Delphi community for a while you are no doubt aware of the Spirit of Delphi Award.
The Spirit of Delphiwas introduced in 1998
It was announced as part of the annual developers conference (called ICON98 as it was during the…
In RAD Studio 10.3 we’ve made an interesting very low-level change that affects both Delphi and C++. This is a change in the how method parameters are passed when a method is invoked.
For the vast majority of customers, this issue won’t affect you — or if it does, you will see the effect in terms of bugs that no longer occur.
However, you may be interested in what we changed, why, and…
We have just released ahotfixfor RAD Studio 10.3, which addresses a number of issues in the C++compiler and RTL. This is an important hotfix if you rely on compiler version numbers (for example, for version-specific behaviour in your code, especially useful…
Author: Rebekah D
If you completed any of the String exercises from the past day, you probably already have a handle on what functions are and how they are used. You should skip this lesson and work on a challenge of your choice.
Prerequisites:
You should…
Author: Rebekah D
In this installment of the #CodingResolutions series, let’s take a look at Strings and how to manipulate them. While today still has a fair amount of reading, we’ll finish off by playing with a sample application that demonstrates String validation.
Prerequisites:
You should already have downloaded and installed either the RAD Studio 30 Day FREE Trial…
Author: Rebekah D
So far in the #CodingResolutions series, we’ve worked a lot in the visual design framework to demonstrate how easy it is to create low-code apps. It’s instant gratification to see our apps come to life! However, there’s a lot more to…
Author: Rebekah D
Welcome back to the #CodingResolutions series! In this post, we’re going to make sure we have our developer environment set up for Android Development, and then create our first Android app in either C++ or…
2019 #CodingResolutions: Your First Windows App (In C++ or Delphi)
January 10, 2019
Author: Rebekah D
Skipping Past “Hello, World!”
Ready to create your first app? Most introduction to programming classes will start with the quintessential “Hello World!” program that outputs that greeting phrase to the console and it looks like this:
While generations of programmers have gotten a thrill from seeing these words, that’s not a very exciting program, is it?
